The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-11 00:00:00

GUILDHALL

atephen Hignins, a broker, residing at Soniers-
town, attiiiided before Mr. Alderman FAREBRoTtIER
on a summons, fur-refusing to produce an account of
the sum obtained by the sale of the goods of George
Cooling, under a distress for rent.
The wife.of the complainant stated the case. Her
husband rents a house in. New-court, Bartholomew-
close, under Mr. •Puclicridge, the watchmaker, on
Snow-hill, who put-in a distress for an arrear of
71. l W., on the 28th ult. She raised 31. lOs., and
paid it, in the hope that this would induce her land-
lord to withdraw the. broker; in plate of which,
however, the broker literally stripped bet' apartment
of every article ; and the lodger on the first floor
saved her property only by paying a sum of Bg.--
The goods, which had cost her 201., were removed,
and impounded at a salt) room.

Mr. Alderman FAREBROTHER remarked, that it
was the usual practice of brokers of this class to
carry off every vestige of fluiviture, without *re-
rence to' the smallness of
,the amount to be reco-
vered. He ‘suppola.. the defendant „would have
token the old woman herself, if she could have Veen
sold for any thing.—(A laugh.)
The defendant put in a statement of the sale of
the furniture (on the previous day, after the sum-
mons had been served on him), from which it ap-
peared there was a surplus of 4s. 2d. only to be paid
over to the complainant.
Alderman FAREBROTHER asked the complainant
if she had been invited to redeem the furniture at
the condemned price ?—She said she had not.
The defendant declared he had given her notice
through a lad, but he had not brought the lad with
him to prove the fact.
_ _

" Well," said the Alderman, " we will pass that
over for the present. What is your opinion about
the propriety of affixing a date to a levy ? Do you
think it necessary ? Broker—Yes, I think so.
Alderman—Do you think it would be illegal if
no date should be put to it ? Broker (hesitating)
—Yes.

Alderman—l have read the Act this morning, and
I have no doubt about it. There is no date on this
(pointing to the levy as ser►•ed on the complainant),
and therefore in your opinion► the distress is illegal ?
The broker looked confounded at this information,
and said his 'Worship understood the subject.
" This is a star lot."—(Sighing.)—[A technical
phrase with auctioneers when a lot has been num-
bered the same as that which precedes it, through
error.]

The Alderman read the form of the levy, which
was dated " the 28th day of -, 1829."
The broker said he had no interest in suppressing
the date; it was an immaterial mistake; the mean-
ing was conveyed, or at least there could be no
doubt about the date, as the complainant herself had
proved it.
The Alderman said this was an excessive and im-
proper distress. The poor woman had strained
every nerve to raise the money, had made no at-
tempt to run away, and her furniture, worth 20/. to
her, had been carried away and sold for little more
than 31. 10s. at one of the slaughter-house sale-
rooms. To cut the matter short, if he did not make
a proper recompense, he (the Alderman) would be
at the rick of bringing an action against him and
his coadjutors.
The broker had only received 31. for his services,
and he could not be expected to make a recompense
where he had done no Injustice.
After he had been tormented by the Alderman
for some time, the defendant offered to give the
woman a sovereign. The Alderman, however,
scoffed at this proposition, and the defendant, refus-
ing to raise his tender, the Alderman declared that
he would not go to rest that night without putting
the case of the poor woman in a train for prosecu-
tion.

•
Magistrate had :t very ,t-nn, :Tpnr.
feet ; but they could not ;WI pisete
feelings might dictate, and must deal with it It, try
oilier ease brought before t horn. tr•oti-st o,;th,
Lowe.. Cr, would be coinpelled In pity ht!f s clown a
weck for an illegitiinate child, end it ;r :s 1•Ilt just
th.t a person in affluent theumirtershoidd pay
rn..re. Ile recollected a case which .•.; eer,d aigiard
at the Sessions, in which au attoritcy's crr4ric Lad
been ordered to pay 7s. each fa. tla-te.
illegitimate
children, and upon appeal to the Seee:on the orde
was confirmed.
After much discussion upon the subject, an order
was made for 7s. on -St. Dike'sr parish, subjete to
ulterior proceedings, in which Me. Sloane will agaia
be called on to take a part.
Mr. Smith, the senior churchwarden of Shoreditrh,
has taken a very warm interest in the fare of Airs.
Sloane and her child, who for =erne time past.have
been entirely dependent on hi. pariah, lie steed
his firm belief, from inquiries which are has institut-
ed, that tkere was no just ground for the imputes
tion which had been souelit to he fixed ;Toe the
character of Mrs. Sloane, and he has kindly contfia
buted from his own-private purse to-airds the ame-
lioration of her condition. Some (Ow charitable
individuals also have contributed small stuns, by
which she has been temporarily, at least,- relieved
from the deep distress in which she Fed been phing:ed.
Frederick Allen and James lie/fe were re-
examined before Mr. 13nouanTox, charged with
having been concerned in a desperate outrzgt com-
mitted on the preceding Saturday night, at the
King and Qeern public-hours, Norori-falgere. •
It appeared from-the statement of George Fair-
burn, a card-maker, a respectable-looking man, that
on Saturaerevening he went into the house with a
friend tuned. Smith. They, drank Jinx iglasao-e4of
wine tokether- at • the bat, and about nine osclook
Smittr Wint-7 *way, -saying that ha shonhisfeturn iti it
short time, but he did not return. After His 'lraparture, the prosecutor went to sit in what be deo
scribed as an " obscure plaice," somewhere behind
the bar, and in the same place were two or ;firer,
men and tw.o females. The prisoner sat
opposite to him, and the other prisoner was al
his side, and while sitting there they called for
some gin, and having drunk it, one of them
said to the prosecutor, " Well, as you are a per-
son that have got money. and can afford it, you ought
to pay for us, as we are out of work." lie con-
sented to do so, and accordingly paid a shilling; and
immediately afterwards the gas-light was put ot:t,
and he was seized with great violence and thrown
down, and something which felt like a pillow wag
held over his face to stifle his cries. le contrived
to get his mouth uncovered, however, arid cried
" Murder thieves I and watch !" They were
then in total darkness, and the landlord came to the
door with a candle in his baled, which one of the
party knocked out, exclaiming, " You ----, v 0
don't want you here." The landlord then weet
away, and the prosecutor did not observe that lie,
returned. The prosecutor, while on the grove
h rd his clothes cut open, and lost his purse, with t ars
sovereigns, a half sovereign, and some' silver, and
also three gold seals; but his watch-chain break-
ing in the struggle, his watch, which lie had held
firmly in his pocket, was preserved. When lights
were at length procured, and he regained his liberty,
the prisoner Allen was secured, but nothing found
upon him, and all the others had disappeared.
The state in which the prosecutor was found after
the robbery, as described by himself, was confirmed
by the evidence of two watchmen and other wit-
nesses, who had entered the house on hearing the
cries of " Watch I" and " Murder I"
The prosecutor, questioned by the Magistrate,
stated that ha received no assistance from the land-
lord; and the watchmen also, in answer to ques-
tions put by the Magistrate, stated that the landlord
did not give any directions for closing the doors or
stopping any of the company they found surrounding
the bar when they went in.
The landlord pleaded, that when he heard the
uproar in the room, he went with a light to see *hat
was the matter, but the prosecutor was so drunk
that he could not stand, and when at the bar was
-held up, or lie would have fallen and broken all the
glasses, and was extremely violent, and struck him
several blows.
A number of respectable persons came forward
and spoke very highly of the landlord's character.—
They stated that he had been only three months in
the house in question, but had been 2.5 years in the
business, and had reared a family of eleven children
in the most respectable manner. It was stated, how-
every that some domestic troubles which he had to
contend against oppressed his mind, and to this cause
theyteadschri bed the
he had
shown on
theof eontecragsyi
own li)iiicqhuietstwioans. ad-
Mr. BnoUGHTON said, that in consequence of the
c
scharacter which those respectable persons gave of
the landlord,h,e should not require him to enter into
r izin
as he had intended; but the case
must be mentioned to the licensing Magistrates.
The two prisoners were remanded, and orders
were given fur the apprehension, if possible, of the
other parties implicated in the outrage.

HATTON-GARDZN.
The young woman, Lydia Mary Atherton, who
has been in custody for the last fortnight on sus-
picion of stealing a 301. Bank of England note, be-
longing to her master, Mr. Gilbert, of Islington,
was brought up on Saturday for final examination.
No traces whatever of the note could be found,
although every possible means was tried, nor could
any direct evidence be adduced against the prisoner,
and she was discharged, the Magistrate, Mr. LAIN(,
observing that she was liable to be taken up again
if future circumstances warranted it.

UNION-HALL.
On Saturday Samuel Delany, the postman who
has been in custody since last Wednesday, charged
with inflicting a blow with the point of an umbrella
on Thomas Cuss, so as to cause his death, was
brought up to be discharged.
Mr, HONE, addresing the prisoner, alluded to the
report that prevailed relative to his having abscond-
ed with the wife of the deceased, who, it was not
to be wondered at, imbibed a spirit of hatred and
revenge towards the man that inflicted such a blow
on his domestic happinese. "Although it appears,"
said the Magistrate, "that you contradicted the ru-
mours that have gone abroad as to your having
taken the unfortunate man's wife under your pro-
tection, it has been since ascertained, with certainty,
that you and she were living with one another at
the very period her husband fell a sacrifice in the
quarrel he had with you. The very umbrella with
which you inflicted the wound which caused his
death, was afterwards given up to Curtis, the offi•
cer, by the adultress, who admitted that she re-
ceived it from you the same day on your return home
after the fatal rencontre. It does not, however,
appear that you were actuated by any malice to-
wards the deceased, by whom, it was proved to the
satisfaction of the Coroner's Jury, the first blow was
struck, and that he pursued you into the house
where, in a scuffle, he met with the accident which
terminated in his dissolution. I shall now diocharge
you out of custody," added the Magistrate, " and
f do think, that if you possess any feeling, the re-
sult of your improper connexion with another man's
wife, and which terminated so fatally, must, as i.
beforeobserved,embitter the remainder of your days."