The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-22 00:00:00

iVIIDDLESEX COUNTY. COURT.

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Mrs. Emma Florice, a young married lady, of re-
markably attractive appearance, accompanied by a dark-
eyed sentimental looking young man, with his hair nicely
parted and hanging in ringlets down the sides of his
face, preser.ted herself before Mr. Commissioner Do-
nors, to demand compensation for a white chip bonnet,
alleged to have been spoled by Mrs. Wilson, a bonnet-
maker and cleaner.

" Before I left town," said the charming complainant,
in a silventoned voice, " I sent
.a bonnet, which I had
recently bought at Tremaine's, and paid three guineas
for, to Mrs. Wilson, to be cleaned: The bonnet I sent
was not quite so small as a Victoria, but much less than
an Adelaide, and one of the sweetest shapes in the world.
Wasn't it, Mr. Tracey ?" (appealing to her companion
with the love locks.)
Mr. Tracey—Oh ! it was immensely becoming.
Plaintiff—When I returned to town I found this
odious thing had been sent home as my bonnet.
Mr. Commissioner Dusoss—Pray, madam, how do
you know it is not your bonnet ? Plaintiff—Because
it makes me look a perfect fright, Don't it Mr.
Traccy ?
Mr. Tracey—Hag t. it does make a norrid sort of a
halteration.
Defendant—lt's the same bonnet I received from
you, and if there is any difference in the shape it is
because it has been pressed.
Plaintiff—l'm certain it's not the same bonnet, and
so 'Mr. Tracey said as soon as he saw it on. Now
look, gentlemen, and say if you ever saw such a fright
of a thing. Hold my bonnet and boa Mr. Tracey.
The fair plaintiff whipped off her own very becoming
bonnet and clapped on the renovated chip, and from a
pretty piquante lady-like creature, she was instantly
metamorphosed thereby into a sort of strolling gipsy or
Irish apple-woman.

" There, gentlemen ! Now I hope you are convinced
that the bonnet is not mine," said the plaintiff, throwing
off the bonnet indignantly, " my husband and Mr. Tra-
cey were with ma when I chose the bonnet at Tremaine's,
and it isn't likely they would have let me disfigure my-
self with such a dowdy affair as that."
" But you should recollect, madam," said the defen-
dant, " that you wore blond whiskers, and that makes a
great deal of difference in the look even of the same
bonnet."

Plaintiff—l can send for my husband to prove I b.ld
tulle bows only when I went to buy the bonnet, but he's
got a head, and so has a pin. You'll know best, Mr.
Tracey, what I had on. Had I tulle bows or blonde
whiskers ?
Mr. Tracey—Decidedly bows!

Mr. Commissionm- Dcao:s--We have a number of
these cases before us. Ladies send their bonnets to be
cleaned, and the process sometimes makes such an al-
teration that the owners are willing to swear thcy
have been changed„- and they then bring the cleaner
here.

Defendant—l have brought proof that the bonnet
is the same I received from the lady. 'White chip
always shrinks in cleaning, and, of course, the shape
is altered.
Mr. Commissioner DCTIOIS-4 do not think the
plaintiff can fairly doubt that the bonnet is not the same
after what she has heard.
" Well, its very provokirg," said the plaintiff; "
reckoned on this bonnet, with new trimming, to last me
the winter, and I'm sure my husband won't let me have
another. Do you think lie will, Mr. Tracey ?"
Mr. Tracey leaned forward, and whispered something
which occasioned the plaintiff's face to brighten up.
" Make the best job of the bonnet you can, Mrs,
Wilson," said the complainant, " and when it is done
send it home, and I'll pay you the expense."
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Saying which Mrs. Florice laid hold of Mr. Tracey's
arm, and left the court.

SURREY SESSIO:S.—(T-HIS DAY.)
(Befffe 11. HEDGER, Esq., Chairman.)
Mary Buckner was indictc d for stealing, on the 13th
inst., a sovereign, a crown, half-a-crown, and eight shil.
iings, the property of Wm. Grieves.
The prosecutor was induced to go home with the
prisoner en a Saturday night, after receiving his wages ;
he had some suspicions, and there being no lock on the
door, he took a gimlet out of his pocket and bored it
through the door and door post. In the morning he
was dosing, and the prisoner took his clothes from un-
der his pillow, took the money out of his pocket, opened
the window, and made off before he could dress him-
self. He gave notice to the police, and she was taken
on Monday evening, dressed out in new clothes, or
Or rigged out in heWr dudds, as he called it, no doubt
the produce of his money. In answer to the prisoner
he s lid he was not quite asleep, but neither was he so
wile awake as she was. He thought the gimlet would
have secured her, but he was mistaken, as the bird
flew by the window.
Verdict—Guilty.
The CHAIRMAN said she had been once convicted
there before, and had suffered six months' imprisonment,
and she had also been twice summarily convicted.
After so many warnings, which bad proved of no use,
she must leave the country. The sentence of the Court
was—That she be transported for seven years.
Sarah Trew was indicted for stealing a shawl, value
33., the property of Mrs. Taylor. The prisoner was
helping to carry the goods of a person into Mr. Taylor's
house, and took the shawl off the banisters.
The prisoner acknowledged the taking, but z.ttributed
it to deep distress, occasioned by her husband's desert-
ing her, and taking up with another woman.
Several witnesses spoke to the distress of the pri-
soner, and she was sentenced to seven days' solitary
confinement in Brixton House of Correction.
Charles Allen was indicted for stealing a coat value
21. 10s., the property of John Arnold.
The prosecutor said he left his coat in his chaise cart,
and it was taken away. The woman who saw the pri-
soner take the coat did not appear, although called upon
her suhpeona.—Acquitted.
The other cases cisposed of in the morning were of a
very trifling nature.