The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4 W 39.

seldom saw Mrs. Lewis sober. I have seen her drink
gin before breakfast—a glass every morning before
breakfast—and sometimes she was intoxicated between
e!even and twelve in the day. I have seen her smoke
cia:ars with Capt. Disney in the dining-room ; sometimes
sl:e was so tipsy as not to be able to go up stairs, and
Captain Disney helped her up stairs. I heard Mrs.
L wis asking about Mrs. Ponsford, and Miss Lewis
said Madame was gone to live with her husband again,
cud that Pocsford had forbid her (Miss Lewis) ever
entering her house again. I heard Mrs. Lewis some-
times speak well of Mrs. Ponford, and at other times
very badly—she called her a w---. Mrs. Lewis used
to go into the drawing-room among the lodgers when
intoxicated. She used to go to sleep there. Captain
Disney also insulted me while at Mrs. Lewis's. I told
these things in July last.
Thomas Latham—l am a carpenter. I was ex-
amined at the last trial. I accompanied the defendant
to Mrs. Lewis's house on the 19th of February, 1838,
with two other mon. The witness then detailed the
circumstances of the defendant going to Mrs. Ponsford's
bod-room. Mrs. Lewis gave him most horrible lan-
guage, not fit for a lady. Captain Barnes said he would
kick Mr. Ponsford down stairs. Captain Mills said he
was not Mr. Ponsford at all. Mrs. Ponsford was in-
clined to go with her husband, but Miss Lewis strongly
advised her not, and called him all sorts of bad names.
This being the evidence for the defence,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied.
Lord DENMAN summed up at great length, and the
Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff on all the issues
—Damages, One Farthing !

There was considerable contradiction in the swearing,
and the trial lasted t►ll past three.
The Jury found for the plaintiff to the full amount
c►aimlled.

INSOLVFNT DEBTOR'S COURT, DEC. 3.

D 1%, id Boast. a surgeon, &e., in Rockingham- place,
Neyv Kent-road; was opposed by Mr. NICHOLS, on the
pa: tof Mr. Cohen. He was supported by Messrs.
COO SE and WOODROFFE.

The insolvent had been twice a bankrupt—in 1829,
and 1837. His debts were about 3,0001. under the
first, and no dividend had been paid. His second bank-
ruptcy was in 1837, and his debts, with liabilities, were
5,6001. His present debts were 2,5511., of which up-
w,irds of 2,0301. were renewals and liabilities. The
insolvent w ,s sued by Messrs. Cohen, and two promis-
sory notes were given by a Mrs. Cox. He there passed
es Clark, which name he had assumed

The COURT, after a long examination, adjourned
the case for the insolvent to describe himself by the as-
sumed name, and to file certain documents.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION HOUSE.

The Loan MAYOR, upon taking the chair, said that
he had succeeded in making satisfactory arrangements
and regulations with respect to the omnibusses, which
are henceforward to drive off in a trot from their
places in the city, and not any more to linger in the
streets, to the great annoyance of the sbopkeers and the
He had received communications from the
proprietors of the omnibusses which travelled to and
from Paddington, informing him of their most ready ac-
quiscence in his proposition, and expressing the most
decided wish that violations of the rule should be
punished, and that incivility upon the part of the drivers
and conductors should likewise be subjected to exem-
plary penalties.
It was observed that in consequence of the regulation
there was no delay in the streets, as far as regared the
Paddington omnibusses ; but there appeared to be no
change with respect to the Kensington and Chelsea
' omnibusses, which pursued the same dull and torturing
course along Cheapside, Ludgate-hill, and Fleet-street,
which they have been long accustomed to adopt.
The Lord Mayor will no doubt take care that the
obligation to move on at more than a snail's pace will,
if it can be legally insisted upon, be applicable to all
vehicles.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord ABINGER and a
Special Jury.)
DAVIS V. BROWN.
This was an action brought against the Warden of
the Fleet Prison for
.the escape of a prisoner named
Morris, who was in his custody for the sum of 2,6271.
Sir F. PoLLocK and Mr. BALL were Counsel for
the plaintiff.
Mr. ERLE, Mr. PLATT, and Mr. BARSTOW appeared
for the defence.

It appeared from the statement of the Learned
Counsel, that the plaintiff was a furrier resident in

Cork. He was in the habit of coming to London to
nei.lke purchases of skins, which he got dressed in
Ireland at a cheap rate, and re-shipped them on con-
signment to a person named Alfred Morris, who having
dishonoured some bills, Davis came to town, and had
him arrested on the 13th of February, 1838. He was
taken to Sloman's spunging-house, from which he was

The following scene took place in the Justice Room
on Saturday, in the absence of our accredited reporter.
It is a correct version of what occurred.

removed by habeas corpus to the Flet•t on the
15th. When Davis commenced the present action,
he was called upon to give security for costs, but as he

Mr. Stockdale, who has been single-handed engaged
against the House of Commons and the Law Officers
of the Crown, shouldered his way towards the Civic
Chair.

had, in consequence of the default of Morris, failed in
business, he was unable to do so ; but his creditors had
given the required security in order to save themselves.
He would show the arrest and the escape, and it would

He had, it seemed, transmitted to his Lordship a
letter, of which the following is a copy :
Tile Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, &c. &c. (Public.)
MY LORD MAYOR—In these palmy days of ruthless,
reekles-, despotic, daring, and monstrous usurpation by
the self-styled Government and Commons Representa-
tives in a Reformed Parliament of the whole people
of this United Kingdom, in the contemplated marriage of
our Sovereign and Virgin Lady, the " KING," I read the
names of her Majesty's Privy Council, but do not per-
ceive in the list of Privy Councillors attending the Lord

Mayor.
:should your Lordship not have taken a Privy
Councillor's oaths, I can have nothing further to say
excep- that you ought to have taken them, but should
you have in due course, ex qtficio, been sworn and sum-
moned, I shall greatly regret the want of courtesy
evinced by your Lordship's non,...ttendance. It would
display no little disrespect to the metropolis over which
you preside by the voice of its free, princely, mercantile,
and trading interests, and the omission in privilege-
usurping hands might lead to question the undoubted
right of the Lord Mayor to a seat at the Privy Council
Board of the Crown of the United Kingdom.
Myself about forty years in the livery of this city, and
jealous of my rights for the sake of posterity, I feel
confident that you, with whom I never held previous
communication, except in a case of imperative and
glaring Fleet prison charity, will consider this worthy
public notice.
I have the honour to be, my Lord Mayor,
Your Lordship's respectful servant,
JOHN JOSEPH STOCKDALE,
Gloucester-gate, Regent's-park,
Nov. 28, 1839.
After the night charges, &c. were disposed of the
Lord Mayor held a brief and half private communica-
tion with Mr. Stockdale, as follows :
The
LORD MAYOR—You are Mr. Stockdale, I be-
lieve ?
Mr. Stockdale—l am, my Lord.
The LORD MAYOR.---I thought so, when I first saw
you come in.
Mr. Stockdale.— Your Lordship has great pene-
tration.

The LORD MAYOR.—I received a letter from you
a short time since.
Mr. Stockdale (bowing)—lt was not respecting that
I came.
The LORD MAYOR.-I will hear you on anything
else afterwards ; you thought me guilty of a dereliction
of duty ?
Mr. Stockdale.—Pardon me, my Lord, I could not
suppose such a thing.
The LORD MAYOR.—You would not have been
singular, several have spoken to me to that effect.
Mr. Stockdale.—l regret to hear it.
The LORD MAYOR.--I have consulted some of the
oldest Members of the Corporation, and they all say
that the Lord Mayor being of the Privy Council, is a
matter of mere form, and he is never summoned to at-

tend it.
Mr. Stockdale —lmpossible, my Lord.
The LORD MAYoa.—I have consulted a legal ad-
viser, too, and he is of the same opinion.
Mr. Stockdale. He would not be long of that
way of thinking if I had five minutes' conversation
with him.
Mr. Stockdale, we understood, made another ap-
plication to the Lord Mayor, which did not transpire.
but which we learn was rejected.

SPORTING EXCURSIONS IN THE ROCKY
MouNTAlNS.—Notwithstanding the various interesting
books lately published on America, there are still
many parts of that vast continent hitherto undescribed,
" and this is of them." The author of these two en-
tertaining volumes, Mr. Townshend, has broken into
ntirely new ground, and gives the most interesting
account of his travels from St. Louis across the Mis-
souri territory, over the Rocky Mountains, and away
down the Columbia River to the very Pacific itself,
which he even crosses to the Sandwich Islands, and
back again, retracing very nearly his steps to Phila-
delphia—a " Sporting Excursion," that throws
all others, we ever heard of, entirely into the
shade, in which we are let into the Transatlantic
mysteries of Buffalo hunting, bear and duck shooting.
deer stalking, and salmon and trout fishing, with vivid
descriptions of the various Indian tribes on that line.
Mr. Townshend is a naturalist and a right pleasant
narrator, to boot, of all the wonders he encounters
in so novel a journey—affording, entertainment and
instruction Equally to the general reader as to the
naturalist, and man of science and observation.

LABLACHE.—We regret to learn that this
great artist is indisposed. Oa Saturady night he was to
have appeared in La Cenerentola, but the Barbiere was
,cbstituted, in which Pauline Garcia, Rubini, and
Taniburini acted. Nina, by Coppola, is in active re-
hearsal for Pauline, as it is also at the Opera Comique,
where a French version will be given, entitled Eva, for
the debut of Madame Manuel Garcia, sister-in-law 01
Pauline.

DIARY OF A NUN.—Among the many happy
fictions to which our day has given birth, none have
been more deservedly popular than those which have
taken the Diary form : witness Mrs Jameson's charm-
ing " Diary of an Ennuyee," and Mrs. Gore's equally
attractive " Diary of a Desennuyce," &c. But if the
forthcoming " Dairy of a Nun," do not eclipse them
all in public favour, then is there less " in a name" than
even the fair Capulet herself imagined. If report speak
true, the " Diary of a Nun," is a love story of the most
exciting and passionate nature ; its scene that home
and birthplace of love, Italy ; its persons of that class,
who have nothing else to do but love and be loved ; and
its writer of that sex and time of life to which love is as
natural and necessary as the air we breathe.
COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE
FOR DECEMBER.—By way of gilding refined gold, the
attractions of the " New Monthly" are this month
heightened by the portrait of Prince Albert of Saxe
Cobourg-Gotha. It is a very pleasing portrait, and a
very fair likeness. Having paid our devoirs to the
Prince, we must address the Potentate who regulates
and personally administers to the good things of the
Magazine in a literary point of view. The Editor's own
paper, " Foreign Morality," is an exceedingly well
written article, ending with an excellent story in illus-
tration of his own view of French morals at the present
day. " Madeline," by the Countess of Blessington,
is a tale full of interest. The Biographical no-
tice of Home, the Author of " Douglas," is re-
newed, and proves more attractive than before.
Of Mrs. Trollope's chapters of the " Widow Mar-
ried," what can we say beyond the assertion that
they are fully equal to those which we have already
described. " Nothing certain in Life," by Laman
Blanchard, disproves its own title, there is something
certain in life, and that is the fading a good article
where the writer's name is prefixed. More of " Peter
Priggius" than that he goes on well we need not say,
leaving him for Mrs. Gore's " Oddity of the 17th Cen-
tury"—a certain Madame Pilau, whose excentricities
are extremely well described. If to close the year well
be a comfort, that blessing is conferred on the Editor of
" The New Monthly Magazine."—Morning Herald.
We learn that the men are now working double
time on the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway, and
that it is expected about thirty-two miles, namely, from
13,omsgrove to Cheltenham, will be ready-to open in
February next.—Gloucester Journal.

EVENING EDITION.

FROM LAST N [GMT'S' GA ZETTit.. t Sperm has sold to a fair extent at the late ad-
voneed rates Linseed Oil has secured a fair sale ;
for immediate delivery at the rates quoted. For de-
livery in a few months hence the operations have been to a
fair extent at 23, 6d, and at this rate the crushers are not
anxious to make contracts. In Rape the purchases have
been on a more xtended scale, at the quotations. Olive
is held firmly, the accounts respecting the Olive crop being
unf Avourable, but there has not been much business doing.
East India Cocoa Nut bas sold steadily at 42s to 43s per
cwt. In Palm Oil few sales have been made; the stock
is small.
SPICES —Pepper has been only in limited request by
private contract, and for common sorts easier prices have
been accepted ; the better kinds, However, have main-
tained their former currency ; at auction 800 bags found
buyers, viz., fair and good light Sumatra at 3id to 31d,
and small clean half heavy Malabar at aid to 4d. White
has brought previous rates ; 120 bags at auction partly
sold at 7d. to 101 for low to good quality. Pimento is
held for late quotations, but the private sales have been
! limited, 537 bags at auction were taken in above its value,
fair mid at 3-ad per lb. Nutmegs are not much in request,
and 31 casks at auction were taken in at 4s 2d a 4s 33
for fair consumers. There are few sellers of Cassia
Lignea, and for small parcels buyers have been compelled
to pay rather higher rates. In the value of East and
West India Ginger there is no change. but te operations
are still on a small scale ; at auction 50 bags African sold
at 554. In Cinnamon small sales have been made on for-
mer terms. Cloves remain as last quoted.
TALLOW.-At the close of last week the market for
Russia Tallow suddenly became quiet, and prices declined
6d to Is per cwt, fine P. Y. C. sell'ng at 47s 9d ; since
their however there is again a brisk request for the artie
c place
with a decidedly firmer market. The merchants now
refuse to sell under 48a 3d to 48s 6d on the spot, and 48s
6d for delivery up to the end of the year.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 3, 1839.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Brevet Colonel Sir R Gardi-
ner, K.C. 8., to be Colonel, vice Gamble, deceased; Brevet
Lieutenant-Colonel W. Wylde to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice
Gardiner ; Second f•aptain E. J. Bridges to he Captain, vice
Wyide ; First Licut. W. s 1 Smith to be Second Captain, vice
Bridges ; Second Lieut. R. H. Crofton to be First Lieutenant,
vice Smith, Nov. 24.

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
JOHN VAUGHAN, pig-drover, Tratvsfynydd, Merioneth-
shire.

BANKRUPTS.

J \CQUES ALPHONSE CARSON and JULIE FRE-
DERICA FINCK, dressmakers, New Bond-street, to sur-
render Dec. 11, and Jan. 14, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Mardon, Newgate-street; Clark, New Broad-street-
court, official assignee.
GEORGE THEODORE BOLTON, wine merchant,
Manchester, Dec. 20, and Jan. 14, at two, at the Commis-
sioners' ROOMS, Manchester. Foster, Manchester ; Lake and
Waldron, lilasinghall-street, London.
JOSHUA BROADHEAD, clothier, Kirkburton, Yorkshire,
Dec. 12, and Jan. 14, at two, at the Pack Horse Inn, Hud-
dersfield. Stephensons, Holmfirth ; Battye, Fisher, and Sod-
low, Chancery-lane, London.
THOMAS WALLER, SAMUEL WALLER, THOMAS
WALLER, jun., WILLIAM WALLER, and RALPH
KNOWLES WALLER, cotton-spinners, Manchester, Dec.
17, and Jan, 14, at eleven, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Man-
chester. Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford-
row, London ; Clave and Thompson, Manchester.
JOHN LEWIS MARCHANT, tallow-chandler, Holborn,
Dec. 12, at one, and Jan. 14, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Gibson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Shearman,
Gray's. inn-square.
JONATHAN H RDING, jeweller, Myddleton- street,
Clerkenwell, Dec. 10, at two, and Jan. 14, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, effieial assignee ; Garry, Chan-
cery-lane.
JAMES GIDION JENKINS, scrivener, Sidmouth, Devon-
shire, Dec. 28, and Jan. 14, at twelve, at the New London
Inn, Exeter. Clipperton, Bedford-row, London; Brutton,
Exeter.
JOHN CLARK MATTHEW, corn merchant, Croydon,
Dec. 12, at half-past one, and Jan. 14, at two, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee ; Heathcoate and Hol-
man, Coleman-street.
JOHN JONES, tailor, Maddox-street, Regent street, Dec.
10, at half-past two, and Jan. 14, at one, at the Court of Bank-
rnptey. Abbott, official asssignee ; Oldknow, Cursitor-street,
Chancery-lane.
DAVID GLASGOW, engineer, Birmingham, Dec. 10, and
Jan. 14, at twelve, at the New Royal Hotel, Birmingham.
Rickards and Walker, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
JONAS WHITELEY, machine maker, Halifax, Dee. 13,
and Jan. 14, at ten, at the Magistrates' Office, Halifax. Em-
mett and Allen, Bloomsbury-square, London ; Alexander,
or Stocks and Macauley, Halifax.
EDWARD BOOTH. victualler, Birmingham, Dec. 10,
and. Jan. 14, at one, at the New Royal Hotel, Birmingham.
Chilton and Acland, Chancery-lane, London ; Suckling, Bir-

mingham.
WILLIAM TAYLOR and JOHN TAYLOR, silk ma-
nufacturers, ➢lacclesfield, Dec. 10, and Jan 14, at four, at
the Macclesfield Arms Inn and Hotel, 111acclefield. J. and
H. Lowe, Garey, and Sweeting, Southampton-buildings,
Chancery-lane, London ; Brocklehurst and Bagshaw, Mac-
clesfield.
SAMPSON BAGNALL, grocer, Cheadle, Staffordshire,
Dec. 17. and Jan. 14, at twelve, at the Royal Oak Inn, Chea
dle. Gough, East-street, Red Lion-square, London : Blagg,
Cheadle.