The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-04 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMIN AL COURT.

SPECIAL COUSIIESSION. Saturday being the first
day of Michaelmas Term, the Judges of the different
Courts assembled at the Justice-hall, Old Bailey, for
the purpose of appointing the sittings of the Court
during the ensuing mayoralty. At half-past ten o'clock
the Right Hun. the. Lord Mayor, S'r Peter Laurie, and
the Common Sergeant, entered the Court, and were
followed by the following Judges, viz., Gurney, Parke,
Pattison, Catalan, Williams, Coleridge, Maule, and
Erskine. Proclamation having been made, the days
appointed were as fellows

1839. 1849.
Nov. 25 Monday
Monday May 17
Monday 1
Dec. 16' Monday June 15
1840. I Monday July 6
Monday Jan. 6 Monday Aug. 17
Monday
Monday ... March 2 Monday Oct 19
Monday April 6
The Court then adjourned to Monday, the 25th inst.

MIDDLESEX ADJOURNED SES-

SIONS.—Nov. 1.

EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAOE BY A CLERGYMAN.—
Daniel Tanner and the Rev. John Curtis were indicted
for assaulting Samuel Smith, on the 26th day of De-
cember, 1838.

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The case has stood on the paper for trial for several
sessions. During that time several attempts have been
made to settle it by arbitration, but without success.
Daniel Tanner not appearing, his recognizances were
ordered to be estreated.
The Reverend Gentleman, who is considerably ad-
vanced in years, was placed at the bar. The cirmarn-
stances of the case are of a very peculiar character.
Daniel Tanner is a gentleman farmer, residing at Lower-
place, in the Harrow-road. The Rev. J. Curtis is Vi-
car of Willesden. The prosecutor was a tenant of Mr.
Tanner, and kept a beer-shop in a small tenement. His
landlord put in a distress for rent, which the tenant
maintained was not due, and he accordingly resisted the
attempt to take possession, and finally ejected the man
and his wife, win were put in for that purpose. This
led to a series of outrages ; during one of which the
Reverend Gentleman and Mr. Tanner went to the
house, set upon prosecutor with oilier persons who
acted by their suggestion, beat him with sticks, hand-
cuffed him, and kept him so from Saturday night till
Monday morning without fire and light, the Sunday
being a bitter cold day, in that most inclement season.
The distress was never subsequently enforced, which
led to the inference that it was entirely illegal.
The Rev. Gentleman, in his defence, said that Mr.
Tanner called at his residence. While they were con-
versing together, the wife of the man who had been put
in possession of prosecutor's premises came running into
fa
ce,
from apartment with the blood streaming down her
from the effect of a blow from a brickbat, or something
of that kind, and bagged of them to come and try to
pacify the prosecutor and his wife. Unless they did so,
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acknowledged striking her, but it was only in self-defence.
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wthiatlt'osuotrtaonfy treatment, there would at once be an end
to the proud boast that his house was his castle.
The Jury almost instantly returned a verdict of
Guilty.
The Chairman said he bad, never heard of a more
outrageous proceeding, and sorry be was that a clergy-
man should be placed in such a predicament. He
should be bound over in his former recognizances to
appear in that court for judgment at their next sitting.
The prosecutor and his wife stood indicted by 'Fan-
ner, and he again by the wile, for assaults respectively

A MEMBER asked whether it would not be possible
to raise the prise of the tickets as the preparations
would amount to considerably greater expense then was
at first contemplated, on account of the additional flags
and decorations, and display of gas, &c.
The CHAIRMAN said the price having been once fixed
it would be impossible to make aey alteration, but it
would be of course optional with those who purchased
to pay whatever their liberality prompted above the set-
tled sum. He recollected perfectly that upon the lase
occasion the sum of five guineas was offered far a gen-
tleman's and lady's ticket, and that a more splendid as-
semblage was never witnessed ; at that time pounds and
pounds were paid over and above the regulated eharge ;
but it was observed that the late applicants were the
largest contributors, for when the difficulty of promering
admissions presented itself, the appetite for the sem-
ment increased in proportion, and the charity was
abundantly subscribed to, the very eclat of the enter-
tainment mixing itself up with the motives of compassion
and sympathy.—(Cheers.)
Mr. CARR, of Bishopsgate Ward (the Secretary
to the Committee) stated that amongst the names
of the Patrons and Patronesses who had pre-
sented themselves in the zealous hope of witnessing
a very profitable and magnificent entertainment, were
those of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, the
Duke of Hamilton, the Duke of Sutherland, the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Northampton, the
Earl of Scarborough, the Earl of Compton, Count
D'Orsay, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Dudley Coutts
Stewart, Lord Wharncliffc, Lord Gardner, Lord Charles
Fitzroy, Lord Cranstoun, Lord Panmure, the Hon.
John Wortley, the Hon. Col. Leicester Stanhope, the
Hon. Charles Wortley, Sir Francis Burdett, Bart„ Sir
James Macgregor, Earl Jermyn, Admiral Sir George
Norton, G.O B. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, the Duchess of Hamilton, the Duchess of Su-
therland, the Marchioness of Lansdowne, the Lady
Mayoress, Lady Emme ine Wortley, Lady Marianne
Compton, Lady Charles Fitzroy, Lady Gardner, Lady
Wharncliffe, the Hon. Mr.. Leicester Stanhope, Lady
Macgregor, &c. &c. &c..--(Loud cheers.)
Several of the members gave in accounts of the num-
ber of tickets they had already sold, and stated that they
found it quite unnecessary to use the language of solici-
tation on the subject, for the Polish Ball was scarcely
noticed in the press when they received applications.
The delnand was, in fact, becoming quite greedy.
Some notice was taken by the members of the letter
of a correspondent of the Times, who signed himself
" Britannicus," and asked whether there were not other
charities nearer home that called more imperatively for
the aid of our benevolence than the sufferings of a set
of foreigners entailed on themselves by their own con-
duct, and who had no connection with or claim upon the
country ? To this question they replied, that they
knew of no claim upon the sympathies of Englishmen
higher than that of men whose sufferings were the result
of a gallant defence of their freedom and their country,
and they declared that although this country contributed
a few thousands a year to the relief of as gallant a
band as ever endured exile in a holy cause, yet small
as the sum was, the shabby mode of distribution was
such as to make it as far as possible a source of vexation
and heart-burning rather than of effectual aid to those it
was intended to relieve. They considered it necessary
to impress upon the public the fact that whilst Russian
tyranny was every day driving forth additional sons of
misery to seek a refuge where they could, the new corners
were not entitled to a farthing from the funds allotted
to the Poles, whilst the approach of winter might well
induce the coldest charity to make a trifling addition to ,
the magnificent stipend of ninepence u-day given to the
solders of the most gallant European dation by the
richest people in the world.