The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-12 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION--HO USE.
On Saturday a man of respectable appearance was
brought up, charged with having used a power of attorney
for the sale and transfer of 2,2.501. in the stock of the New
Four per Cent. Annuities, standing in the names of Robert
Wainwright, of Gray's Inn, Edward Smith Foss, of Essex-
street, Strand, and Edward Foss, of Bernard-street, Rus-
sell-square, with intent to defraud the Governor and Com-
pany of the Bank of England.—Rernanded.

MARLBORO UGH- S TREE T.
Mr. Foxall, surveyor of St. George's, Hanover-square,
appeared before Mr. DYER to object, under a particular
clause in the Building Act, to a contemplated projection to
be built against the premises of the Royal Institution,
Albemarle-street. Mr. Foxall said he had been informed
it was the intention of the Managers of the Institution to
beautify their building in Albemarle-street, and for that
purpose they had employed Mr. Vulliamy to make a drax-
ing for them. Mr. Vulliamy proposed to erect a cornice,
and to support that cornice by fourteen pilasters, which
would project about eighteen inches beyond the line of
frontage. Now, the clause in the Building Act, upon which
he founded his objection to the pilaste ', expressly stated
that nothing in the way of ornament, but what was abso-
lutely necessary for the security of the cornice, was to be
allowed to be erected. The pilasters, he contended, were
not necessary to the security of the cornice, and, therefore,
he was bound to requite them not to be erected.
Mr. Daniel, on behalf of the Institution, contended that
-the pilasters were necessary to the security of the cornice.
Mr. DYER. having been told that Mr. Vulliamy was not
at present in town, decided upon a short postponement, in
order to obtain the opinion of-that gentleman with re:ard
to his plan of the embellishments.

MIDDLESEX COUNTY COURT.

KINGSGATE-STREET.

DANIEL O'DALY V. MURPHY O'GORMAN.

MISCHIEF OF HAVING Two SHIRTS.—The manner in
which the " finest pisantry" herd together was most beauti-
fully exemplified in this case. Mrs. Murphy O'Gorman
appeared for her husband, " in regard (as she said) of Murphy
having that same day to attend a matein in ,the trades ; Big
Mister Daniel having made another call for the'rint, and
the boys not being just able to get the likes iv it."
Daniel O'Daly sued for 55., the amount of his " other
shirt,"and thus stated his case :—" Yer wartchip, its mee-
silf took up me lodgin wid this Mother Murphy O'Gorman,
rni when I wint to bid, it turn'd out that there was three
wemin in the same—

A Juryman—What ! three women in one bed! and pray
where did you sleep ? Daniel—Och, sure and just across
the feet iv it—(Laughter)—and I hands over the bun'le to
Mother Murphy O'Gorman, and ses I, " You'll take the
care of it."—" Sure and won't I do the likes ?" ses she—
" Mighty good," ses I ; and so she tuck the bun'le, and I
wint to slape. Well, my Lord, I wakes me in the mornin,
and I ses, " Where's the bun'le iv me, Mother Murphy ?"
—" Bad luck to ye, and what bun'le do ye mane ?" ses she.
—"
Ounly me hone shirt," ses I, " that's kiiered round wid
the handkerchief."—" Nivir seed the likes iv it," ses she.
—"
06, Mother Murphy," ses I, " and how can ye say
so? when did'nt ye take me own shirt from me own hand,
in reghard of the other women slapein in the bed?'—" Not
a bit in it," says she.—" Devil and you didn't," ses I; then
may the very nixt howly wafer father O'ltooney sells me,
choke me, if mesclf donut have me—' fluff' iv ye; so be aff
wid ye."

Mr. Sergeant HEATH—Pray were you drunk or sober
when you went to bed ? Daniel—Sure and your honour
know's Lest.—(Laughter.)
Mr. HEATH—Were you sober? Daniel—l can't say
mesilf I was sober.

Mr. HEATH—Were you quite drunk? Daniel—No, I
was not " thrunk."

Mr. HEATH—Then pray then tell us what state you
were in ? Daniel—Faith then, I was just then not too
thrunk—and not too sober nayther.—(Laughter.) I was
only jest right, as Misther Feargus O'Connor sed when he
went back to ould Ireland.

Mr. HEATH—What have you to say to this, Mrs.
Murphy Gorman ?
" Its a mighty fine jontleman that you are, and
pritty cnnuff to be a Lord Chafe Jestice, said Mrs.
Gorman, at the same time dropping a lowly curtsey ; " and
its you that'll hear the likes iv nth': out, and belave all th t
I shall toll on the oath of iv me, nothin but the braudc
trute.—(Laughter.) He (plaintiff) com'd to my house
late, and quite thrunk, and he ses Is it rneself that can
have a bed 1' Sure, me darlint,' ses I, the bed up stairs
is by no manes to the full iv it—in reghard iv ounly three
being in it'—and so, me Lord, as I'm an honest Christian
'oman, he tint up stairs wid himself, afther he'd paid me the
thrifle for the lodgin, and I see no more iv him, not till he
ax'd me for the shirr't."

Mr. HEArri--And did he intrust a shirt to your care ?
Mrs. Gorman—No, no, nor the ghost of a shirr't, as I'm
a stanin aforo your Lordship ; and its mesclf takes lave to
till yer we.rtchip, that me hone lad2,-in-house is as good,
and as chine, and as &cent as any that iver was like
it.—(Laughter )
Daniel O'Daly—Ocli, but ounly hear her, and she'd
talk a hole through the biggest iron poi in all Kilkenny.
Give me the shirr't or the .55., you bastely Connought ould
twestabou t.—( Lc ughter )
Both parties having sworn point blank to their several
statements, the Jury seemed to thing the " mental reserva-
tion system" was at work, and accordingly dismissed the
case, much to the annoyance of the ne:ghbourhood, as a
genuine fight was the result.

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cases of hardship ; but unless the evil should spread much
farther, interference, by mitigating the evils of over-specula-
tion,-would only prompt its repetition. —Scotsntaa.
MISS PARDOE'S " CITY OF THE S CILTAN.
These volumes are the work of one who set forth resolute to
see, and was not to be daunted by mischances or difficulties in
ti.e pursuit of what is curious and characteristic. We find her
bandying compliments with Beys and Pashas—presiding at
Mussulman dinners—nest.line among the cushions of the Tan-
dour, or partaking of the bath with the Fatimas of a Turkish
household, gathering up their prattle, and learning how to
manage a yashmac as well as the best of them—mingling, with-
out preiudwa, with Jews and Greeks, 'for i g Deavishes or
State Officers, and even visiting the Mosques of the " City of
the Sultan" at midnieht and in disguise. Her experiences are
curious and interesting, and arc most agreeably presented to
the publie.—eltheneeuin.
at EnICA N FOREST SCENE.—Throughout the
whole of this space, the trunks of the old forest trees, dimly
seen in the light of a clouded sky, were yet standing, but en-
tirely leafiest and dead, Sand presenting such an aspect of de-
solation as is painful to the mind, even when sunshine and the
iallinte maize at their roots invest them with a milder and
more cheerful character. Such prospects are common enough
in all new American clearings, where the husbandman is con-
tent to deprive the trees of life by girdling, and then leave
them to the assaults of the elements and the natural course of
decay ; and when a thousand trunks of the gigantic growth of
the west are thus seen rising together in the air, naked and
hoary with age, they impress the imagination with such gloom
as is engendered by the sight of ruined colonnades. As the
travellers entered upon the clearing there occurred one of those
casualties which so often increase awe of the looker-on in such
places. In one of the deepest lulls and hushes of the wind
when there was no apparent cause in operation to produce
such ;In effect, a tall and majestic trunk was seen to decline
frees the p.end ic ul ar, topple slowly through the air, and then
fall to the cam, with a crash like the shock of an earthquake.
The poet or the inor,:nzing philosopher may find food fur con-
templation in such a cat.,:strophe. lie may see in the lofty
and decaying trunks the hoary relics and representatives of ft
creneration of better and greater eil'irits than those who lead
the destinies of his ovvn—spirits left not more as monuments
of the past, than as models for the imitation nf the present :
he
may contrast their majestic serenity and rest, their silence and
immoveableness, with the turmoil of the greeeer growth
around, the uproar and collision produced by every gu6t, and
trace the resemblance to the scene where the storms of party,
rising among the sons, hustle so irriecentiv around the gray
fathers of a republic, whose presence should stay them ; and
finalir, he may behold in the trunks, as they yield at last to
decay and sink (lie by one to the earth; the fall of each rged
parent of his country—a fall, indeed, as of an oak of a thousand
generations, shocking the earth around, and prodecing for a
moment wonder, awe, grief, and then a long forgetttolness.—
Nich of the Woods
CAPTAIN MA R ItYAT.—Tne interest excited by
the appearance of the new wosk from the pen of this distin-
guished wiiter, who has been justly pronounced the Smollett
of his day, reminds us of the glorious times when Scott pro-
duced with ruck rapidity his splendid fictions. We heartily
coegratulate the public on the accession of this new and fertile
novelist in the track of the Northern W.z.:rd, and trust ho
wilt live to produce as many works as his predecessor in the
path of literary glory. tive
Notwithstanding last season was very destructive .
to bees, and the present spring having been fir a long
ntitnlec
swarmed
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cornmooly cold and unfavourable for early blossoms a d ge
titiou, Mr. Kay, Lailet's has a Live which
esterti.iy, the 7th current, au uneoeimonly strong cast, which,
we believe, is the first instance of the kind this year in this
want
part of the iiingdom.—Ed (courant. .