The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-20 00:00:00

BAIL COURT.—Nor. 18.

On the sitting of the Court this morning Sir John Dod-
son, as her Majesty's Advocate-General ; Mr. R. Benson,
as Recorder of Salisbury ; Mr. George Long, as Recorder
of Coventry ; and Messrs. C. Temple and Creswell Cres-
well, as her Majesty's Counsel learned in the law, severally
took the oaths of allegiance.
OTMO, KING OF GREECE V. WRIGHT.
Sir WILLIAM FOLLETT applied to the Court to make a
rule absolute in this case, calling upon the plaintiff to give
the defendant security for his costs.
The ATTORNEY-GENET AL showed cause against the rule.
He said that be had the honour of appearing as Counsel,
though not as Attorney-General, for his Majesty Otho,
King of Greece, to oppose a novel, unnecessary, and, in
his opinion, very improper application for a rule, calling
upon his Majesty to give security for the defendant's costs
in this case before proceeding further in the action. It was
stated in the affidavits on which the rule nisi had been ob-
tained, that the action was brought to recover damages for
the breach of an agreement entered into between an agent
of the plaintiff and the defendant for the establishment of a
national bank in Greece, with mutual, commercial, and.
other privileges and advantages, for the breach of which
agreement the plaintiff laid his damages at 20,000/.
Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE said he would postpone his de-
cision relative to the costs until he had had an opportunity
of consulting with the other Judges upon the subject.

SHERIFF'S COURT, Nor. 18.

BREACII OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE-DELVR6 V. HOBLER

This was an action in which judgment was suffered by
default, brought to recover compensation for a breach of
promise of marriage. A. special jury, among whom were
Sir W. Poland and several Middlesex Magistrates, was
empannelled on the execution of the writ of inquiry for the
assessment of damages, which were laid at 2,0001.

The facts of the case, which occupied the Court from
twelve to near eight o'clock, were briefly these :—The
plaintiff, Mr. W. Delves, was the son of a gentleman of
fortune residing near Tonbridge Wells, and the defendant,
Miss Mary Ann Hobler, was the daughter of Mr. Francis
Hobler, the clerk to the Lord Mayor. The parties met at
church at Islington about three years ago, but did not be-
come attached until the present year, when the plaintiff re-
turned from Demerara. He visited at the house of Mr. Hob-
ler, in Queen's-row, Islington, and in September last arrange-
ments were made respecting the marriage. Miss Hobler
was entitled to 2,5001. in the Three per Cents., and to
3001. on mortgage. The money the plaintiff wished to
be laid out on freehold and leasehold property, but Mr.
Hobler objected to its removal from the funds. Ile also
objected to the plaintiff, knowing nothing of him. One of
his friends waited on him, but could afford no satisfactory
explanation. The match was broken off, and the defen-
dant, in a letter to the plaintiff, expressed her affection for
him, and said she was sacredly Isis. She besought him to
satisfy her parent of his respectability. The plaintiff had
betrayed a violent temper, and designated Mr. Hobler,
senior, as a " perfect brute." Two letters written by Miss
Hoblet were read, in which she gave expression to her
great attachment for the plaintiff. The witnesses called
on the part of the plaintiff spoke of him as a very gentle-
manly man. about thirty-two years of age, and the defen-
dant not quite so old.
The Witnesses examined on the part of the defendant
proved that the plaintiff had taken the benefit of the Act in
1831, and had again petitioned in 1834 : that he was of a
most violent temper, and had during his passage to Deme-
rara conducted himself in a strange manner. One of the
sailors said he was " preaching all the day and drunk at
night." He had a brother transported, and had quarrelled
with his father. His brother-in-law, a Mr. Butler, de-
scribed the violence of his temper. .

Mr. Sergeant BOP4PAB described the plaintiff as a mere
adventurer—one who had followed a young lady from
church, and importuned her, when he discovered she had
a fortune. He concealed his affairs from Mr. Hobler, and,
had he-married, would have disgraced the family. The
jury, he was sure, would give the smallest possible amount
of damages.
Mr. ANDREWS, in reply, contended that a false case had
been set up—that family circumstances bad been dragged
forward ; but he appealed to the jury for fair compensation
for the damage the plaintiff had sustained.
The UNDER-SHERIFF informed the jury (who had stated
that their minds were made up) that the defendint had
admitted the breach of her promise, and their province was
to assess the damages sustained. The jury, in a few mi-
nutes, assessectthe'datnages at one farthing.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

G UILDHALL.

On Saturday Mr. John Alto, a medical gentleman, was
brought before Sir Peter Laurie, charged with stealing a
brooch and a gold pin, value about 31. 10s., the property
of Mr. Hutchinson, a prisoner in the Fleet.
Mr. Nixon, a solicitor, stated the case. The prisoner
was called to attend Mrs. Hutchinson, who was lying dan-
gerously ill in the Fleet, and had taken an oppatunity to
steal a pin and a brooch. The servant detected him at
the time, but he walked away, and next morning when he
was questioned about it he denied the imputation, and
suggested that the servant herself was the thief. The
pledging of the pin, however, had now been traced to him.
It was pledged for 125., at Mr. Jones's; in the Circus by
the Surrey Theatre.
Margaret Gibson, the servant, deposed that on the 30th
of October, while she was attending her sick mistress in the
bed, she saw the prisoner rise from a table at which he was
sitting, and go to a window where two brooches and a
pin had been placed. She saw him take something, and,
going over to the place soon afterwards, she missed the
three articles. The prisoner looked confused when he saw
her go to the pin-cushion. She went into the next room
directly, and told Miss Hutchinson that the doctor had sto-
len the brooches, but when they went into the room the
doctor had left, and one of them was replaced.
Mr. Nixon said the pawnbroker had neglected to at-
tend with the property.
Sir PETER LA.URIE asked the prisoner what he had to
say to this serious charge ? He had never heard before of
a medical gentleman being accused of stealing from a

patient.
Mr. Atto said he did not take the brooch. He was ra-
ther intoxicated on the day mentioned, and he did not know
how the pin got into his possession. When he was ques-
tioned about the articles next morning he had not found the
pin, and when he discovered it subsequently in his coat
pocket he was ashamed to return it, as he was unable to
explain the circumstance.

Sir PETER LAURIE said he .apprehended there had been
a felonious taking, and it would be his duty to commit.
However, the evidence of the pawnbroker was necessary
to complete the case, and he must for the present be re-
manded.
The servant admitted the prisoner was rather tipsy at the
time. The prisoner was remanded.
Mr. Crawford, an umbrella-manufacturer in Cheapside,
complained that a man, whom he had given into custody for
attempting to pass a bad half-crown, had been liberated by
the officer. It was explained that, when the prisoner had
been locked up, the piece was found to be good. It was
pronounced to be so by Mr. Bult, the silversmith and
dealer in foreign coins in Cheapside, and the prisoner was
of course liberated. Mr. Crawford said, even if it were
good, he knew the man to be an offerer of base money, and
he ought to detained. He called
Wm. Gough, who said he had been a worker of silver
25 years, and he believed the piece to be bad. The stuff
called German silver was brought to such perfection now
that it was difficult to distinguish the genuine from the mock
metal by the appearance.
Sir PETER LAURIE remarked that the appearance of
money was all that people ordinarily could be guided by.
Mr. Powell, of the Mint, said the only unerring test of
good money was the weight, and this was true of gold as
well as silver coins. A counterfeit, if of the size of the ge-
nuine coin, was scarcely half its weight.
A pair of scales were procured, and the piece in dispute
proved to be good.
Mr. Powell said it had been used as a model for a mould
to cast spurious coin, and this gave it the doubtful appear-
ance it had ; but sometimes good money had been mistaken
for bad. About the year 1825 a Scotch bank, which had
hoarded a quantity of new shillings of the date of 1816,
sent them abroad. From their brightness they were sus-
pected, and one was sent up to the Mint from Annan, with

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an ;application for officers to be sent thither, as th
was inundated with such money. • officer
P Sir PETER LAURIE SI:ld he would--a;b10 ed.
as to his duty in such cases, and the subject was-. ar°PP
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lIATTON GARDEN joseph
FORGERIES ON THE BANK OF ENGLAND.- --.‘
I once
Smith was re-examined on a charge of forgery'.
:f
atheir
was again crowded by persons' who had been robbed,i t be
money in giving change for what they suppose`• ,
,irges
Bank of England notes. The following additional eu
were taken : 1,,i0n
James Welch, servant to Mrs. Pope, of the Red qd
Inn, Kilburne, said that a month ago the prison! a'_,.,
another man took some refreshment at his mis tress's hotisitus
and obtained gold for a 51. note, which subsequentlY lc
paid to the brewers and pronounced a forgery;
is tbO
Mr. BENNETT—Are you quite sure the
positiver
person who produced the note ? Witness;---1 ain
of it.
Mr. Joshua Freeman, a gentleman of the Bank Gf Et:,g;
land, said that he received the note Iron the brewer wu..._
whom Mrs. Pope deals, and detected that it was tot gv"
twine. le,
Miss Sarah Sheppard stated that she lives with hcr uneb
prisoner
who keeps the Richmond Arms, Maida-hill, and that;s e
' knew the prisoner as a master workman on the Dirn/111;
ham railroad. Four weeks ago that day he (the accus
D;
paid the men under his superintendence their wages in
e,
uncle's house, when she gave him small cash fora o 61*
notes, one of which was then in Mr. Freeman's ha.
that it.
Mr. Freeman here exhibited the note, and proved
was forged.
Mr. BENNETT was of opinion that it would be better to
the accused for another week. about
'I he prisoner was accordingly tang
remanded. week. is
3. 5 years of age, and was dressed in a velvet shoo
Jacket, with pearl buttons and cord breeches.
ROBBERY THROUGH DISTRESS. Frederick Freeinail,
Aged 18, whose looks bespoke that he was in a starvieg,c4B:
dition, was charged with stealing from the shop.door er l'il:
Cohen, ironmonger, &c., of A desbur '-q eet Clerkenwe
a box containing a variety of ) )- r '
,„.t.v and
The • prisoner was seen to take up the propc, nd
walk quietly off with it. He was immediately follov'eu 8-in
given into custody, when be expressed much satisfaei°na-i
having a prospect of the protection from want I . 'lilt°
w Itc,
afforded.
Mr. BENNETT asked the prisoner if he wished to sal
anything ? Prisoner—l was perishing atthe time Sir' the
Mr. BENNETT—Was that the reason itted
M
you corm
had 00
robbery ? Prisoner—lt was, I assure, Sir.
home nd • , was ungry, and ll bt naked.
Mr.-a I3ENNETTh-,All that willu be considered by the PI
who try you. You are committed.

he A youth, named MARYLEBONE
James Hrt awell, was charged s wittli-
having obtained a great quantity of meat from Mr-
notes,
land, butcher, 69, Brewer-street, by means of forged
Warp
w purporting to have been ritten by Mr. am._ J. "
s
of Hampstad-road.
The prisoner denied having written the notes, and state('
that Mr. Carpenter's brother had sent him.
On Mr. Carpenter again looking at the notes Ile h,o,P-
-0
peered much astonished to find that they had reallY
written by his brother, who was, by the assistance of ttt,
prisoner, discovered in West-street, Smithfield,
to the office.
He acknowledged his guilt, and expressed his willing'
ness to make up the amount due to the prosecutor.
Mr. SHUTT said he could not permit him to do Of -
he had been guilty of both forgery and fraud. ,
The prisoner was
then committed for trial, and tble
Hartwell discharged. and brour.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Mr. Woolley, of Brompton, applied to Mr. CoNANI'i.
advice in the following matter :—Some time ago he ie
furnished cottage to a person who the
his soon contrived to ge'he
his debt 181. for rent. Ills tenant, intending to take
benefit of the Insolvent Act, had gone into the Guedetile.
Bench prison, without giving up possession of the halo
The tenant had not only moved himself into pris°"' The
had taken goods sufficient to furnish his room there. the
object of the present application was to ascertain lin'T -
goods were to be recovei e 1)0
Mr. CONANT asked th ed.
applicant if he suspeete-a he
tenant of an intention to commit felony by stealing I
goods. far rs

The applicant replied that he would not go so fo•
that ; though the tenant might assert he intended to •ea
place the goods, yet it was quite certain he had I.o°l
them from the cottage without his (applicant's) leave. b
Mr. CONANT said, as the law at present stood,
it was a felony to remove goods from a furnished 081,
yet it was no felony to remove them from a furnished bo°
The only remedy he had was by a civil action. who
The appli cant said it would be absurd to attempt bo
cover his property by bringing an action against a man Writ
had already taken steps to pass through the insolYebr
Debtors' Court. it appeared to him a very strange o°lo
in the law, that he had no adequate means of protectiogoo
property. Could he not go and take possession of his b°
altbotig

in a summary way ? ;v
Mr. CoNANT said, as a Magistrate, he could g•
no advice on that point. Tire matter betwixt hi',ll,:op
his tenant was of the nature of a civil Contract, gnu "-ber
ever hard the situation of the landlord, there was no e"0.3%
than a civil remedy. The only advice he could give 0
for the applicant so make the best terms with his te:111
he could.
Mr. Woolley thanked the Magistrate and retired.

CHELTENHAM AND GREAT

ERN UNION RAILWAY.

The second half-yearly General Meeting of this "lye
pany was held at the Masonic Hall, Cheltenham,
3d inst. William Henry Hyett, Esq., in the chair. tb°,
The Report of the Directors stated that as 011
proprietors desired the operations of the Company
be limited, in the first instance, to the completi°7,de
some portion of the line which would yield "it
quate. and certain return for the capital r•pended I,ed
during the progress of the remainder, they' .recettle'ciLl-Ci.
the construction of that part betwcea anuhieet
rencester on the following grounds :—The main (,),,-j'cit**
of. the undertaking was to effect a Railway congtl-A- ;
tion between Gloucestershire, South Wales, and Pt
that on the opening of the Great Western' to S'lltlvel
and this line Lein, b completed to Cirencester, iline*:tele
continuous miles of that communication would be cai at
fished ; that as Cirencester is easily accessibe by ec-h-lertif
turnpike-roads from Stroud, Gloucester, and Clielteri,-B,at
the portion of the line between Cirencester and the ur're,
Western would carry all the London traffic while Ole bit
mainder of the line was in progress • and that' thougli ttini
part of the line would yield a much' less
ineerne than
other, when the whole should be completed, it ss:than
nevertheless, in the meantime, yield a greaier Profi`Oreat
any other portion which was not continuous with the

Western. -
That Mr. Brunel having been desired to revise hi est-r
tester
mates, and report the cost of the line between Circ°ove
nd Swindon, had reported that the cast, with all irOr-tho
•
ments suggested by further experience adopted on 10,
Great Western Railway, and which he strongl.s: ret(job
mends as productive of future economy, would be ;" be
That the Directors laid also causi.; ~1,49
tl-AC:tr3lll° this
ascertained on the-same portion of the lino, and thy; de
would yield a net annual income of 25,00 a, aft°r
ducting the costs of maintenance.
That an arrangment bad been under consideration ltil
offer,
the Great Western Directors, which had lcd to a" i‘eet•
sanctioned by their proprietors at a Special General cirew
ciwDeigisyiet
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That the Directors of this Company considere% od
rent would involve a serious sacrifice of incomeo•rbtlietcbt;
secured the option to the Company of accepting
log the offer till within six tnotitcts of the opening °,,ifito
blianbei,eatsraitinnet,igtlottkhneowsattihsafittcttohre to distant'proprietors, ily
might not be so well acquainted with the details of the7Ppor
cent. for their money 3 I Perf
That calls to the extent of syot:eatyhinrgel)rn' aotr':etaltsato°:o;rt o•
instalments, atlw o
tteare would be required for the completion of this Pd to-
railway, the whole of which would not be req"11,„; easy
ments, and that no further call would he fl
1p r
years and a half, and would be called for
c'eJessarl
for some months. bigll., i,
The meeting was numerously attended by a :r UllO
speetablel class of shareholders, who testified their
mous approbation and adoption of the report.

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