The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-22 00:00:00

our agriculttual labourers "1" but, so far from de iring to. avoid,
shallwe - take an early opportunity of meeting our Contempo-
rary on that point. We cannot, however, flatter ourselves
with the hope that, upon the principles by which this question
of the Corn-laws should be settled, our Contemporary and
ourselves can ever be brought to 'agree. What he calls
" empty eloquence," we think good sense excellently ex-
pressed ; and while we would encourage those, whom neither
danger nor distance deters front attempts to add to the com•
forts and conveniences of life, our Contemporary seems to
exclaim with horror—

PRICES OF CAN ALS, DOCK STOCKS,

ASzIEiR.ANCE COMPANIES,&c. &c. &c.

LO? DON, FRIDAY, JAN. 18.
Number Dividend Pete
of - .., • • CANALS
i,,r per
Shares. Annum, Paid. Shire
1,766 7 per cent. Ashto Ad Oldham Average. 071. 18s. eh. 135
482 41, Ashby, .e-Is-touch Average 11111. Th. 73
1,260 /3.713ir estolte 1001.311.
1,005 5:7. Lreeknock and Abergavenny 1501. sh. 90
8,0011-lesh. 9I 6s. Birmingham, 1-16th share M. & 71/. 218
4. 000 • Ditto and Liverpool Junct...l.N eh. 100 pd Z
600 NI. Bridgewater and Taunton ....100/. sh. all pd 64
400 4!. Cheliner and 111ackwater, , li 0/. sh. 101
500 ..44/. Crwentry ....f;0/.311. 739
!"515 -4444% Croydon
`*boui 4O . D
s„ uiliey . IOU th. 1,
600 114. Derby 1001.:h. 135
L),001) 4rr cent. i/anune and Mayne 4ll. 13s. 4:1.4,41 zo
3,5751 3/. Ellomwre and Chester Average 132/,11. 81
231 62,, Erowash. !001.40. 775
1,297 - ;NI. Forth and Clyde 2,-aye 4.W/. 6s. eh. 500
1,600 121. 113:old Jil4,-ty4r. 14401. eh. 203
2,8491 11, (.rand i.1040U 100/ ,I, y 4
11,500 Grand S imy - .. "'Pt sh. t.,0
0.01:01. It. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan ll3l. I 3
3 896
600 10/.125. 9,c1. (11;.morgansh ire, Average cost 1721. 13•:, le tat
749 I!;/. Gran Clam 150/,••,ii. 2413
6,233 2/, os. Fl,,l)ersfield Avenge 57/. 6s. vi. sir. :36
100 Kensington '0,4,4h all pd. In
5-328 1/. 53. Kennet i• nd Avon, Average 391. 18s. 10k1.81. 28
2,W.4.? 301. Leeds and Liverpool 'o'4. ,h- 740
5151 LI% Leicceter ' 40/. sh. 5221
1,897 6/., Os. Leicester an-i Northampton-. Aver 4:.3/. Os. 90
2.404) . 10/. Monmouthshire 100/.sh. 20,
150 10/, Melton Mowbray ' `.,01.rb. 200
500 25/. Mersey and Irwell 'Olll, sh„ 560
3.01-0 !/. 10s. Macclesfield 1001. sh. all i-.d. 51
2417 171. N c•:.t h 100/.sh. 325
2,400 si. Peak k °rest Avli.ge about 78/. sh. 104
1,118 US. Regent's (or London) Aver. 331.16 g. Bd. rh. ;6
5,669 6/. per cent. nechdale average 851. eh. 108
500 SI. ti'f.ropshirc 0251. sh. 137
800 9/, 10s. Somerset Ccal 1501.,h. Ima
3,601/. 46 per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 121. 10s. sh, 111
700 401. Stafford and Worcester 140/. sh. 710
500 9/. Shrewsbury 125/. oh. r.BO
300 9.', Stourbridge .......... - 14541.8 h. 14541.8 h. 330
3,647 21. Os. Stratford-on-Avon ...Average 791. 9s.lsd. sh. 40
533 13/. Swvneea 1001. th. 250
3,762 11. 15s. Severn and Wye and Railway...Av 351. sh. 39
•60 1 sh. !.121. 10s. Trent and !Mersey, I share 100/. sh 600
8.149
1 0410 s
* . h 16/. Warwick alit Birmingham 100/.sh. 281
lonolsh.
930 15s. Warwick and Naotcm l'.)0/. sh. 90a
6,000 4/. 05, NVorcester and Birmingham...Av.7B/.88. sh. 71 -
5.000 255. Wilts and Perks .. Average 671. 10s. Bd. sh. 23
SOO 31. VV yrley and Essington 1251. sh 75
126 Wisbeach
1:05 li. Wey and Arun llol.xll. 221
DOCKS.
1:06518h } 3p. c Commercial .
~•!001. sh. 56
East and West India Stock 1161
3,239,31011. 553. p.c t. London --Stock 62
Ditty ilonds lOl

" Nequiequam Deus abscidit
Prudens occano dissociabili
Terras, si tamen impire
Non tangenda rates transiliunt vada."— Times.

MONEY AND CITY NEWS.

CF 11011 TILE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.)
CHRONICLE.—The gloom which began to sho;v itself
on S..:turday in the English Stock Market has increased con-
siderably, and a marked fall in fact has taken place in Consols.
Various causes are assigned for this depression, but we believe
it is attributable chiefly to the state of political affairs in
France, a change of Ministry being considered inevitable there,
and the acceptance of office by M. Thiers as equally cer-
tain. This it is thought would lead to immediate inter-
vention in the affairs of Spain, which might p )ssibly, it
is argued, place this country in a different position as re-
gards other European nations, and hence the reaction
which has occurred in Consols, while the fact that con-
siderable purchases of Spanish stock have been effected,
and that market having improved, is in some degree a
confirmation of the correctness of the impression that
the English funds have been influenced by tl-e situa-
tion of the French Ministry. It is also stated, but on no
good grounds, that very unfavourable accounts have reached
London from India. An overland mail has arrived, bringing
advices of the 4th of December. from Bombay, but we under-
stand they merely mention that the arrangements for the cam-
paign were still going on. Others consider that the fall in
Consols has been occasioned by the quantity of bullion which has
been exported on account of purchases of corn; but this we
also consider unfounded, and certainly the fall would not have
been so sudden on this account. We think it will be found
as we have stated above, that it has been occasioned
entirely by the expectation that a great change will shortly
' take place in the policy of the Frenc Government. Consols
closed at 92 buyers for the account, and 921 to for
money ex. div. Exchequer Bills remain at 68s. to 70s. pm.
The market for Spanish securities, as we have already re-
marked, is decidedly better, and an improvement has taken
piece in it, the Active stock being lest marked at 18 to
Portuguese stocks were heavy in the early part of the day, but
improved afterwards, and closed firm. The Five per Cents.
were last marked at 35.4 to 1; and the Three per Cents., 22+
to ; Dutch are heavy in consequence of the fall in Consols.
The Five per Cents, left -off at 1011 to 1021; and the Two-
and-a. Half per Cents. at 54i to ;g-'. In the other Foreign Se-
curities there is no change.
The market for Shares has likewise undergone a change
for the worst, most of the different railway undertakings being
quoted lower. Birmingham (old) were last ma: ked at 77 to
79 prem. ; ditto (new), 23.12- to 24i prem. ; SJuthampton, 42
to 43 per share ; Great Western, 111- to 121 prein. ; Leeds
and Manchester, 19 to 1 prem. ; Birmingham and Derby,
10 to 9 dis. ; Brighton, 38 to 3s dis, ; Blackwall, 1 to
dis. ; and Gosport Junction, q- to 2+ prem.

2,209 21. IN. Bristol
6,3,324/. !V. p,:r ccmt. Ditto Notes, various amounts I i 3
1,152,75'2 5 1,-.r cztit. St. Katharine "ock 1071
5()0,V1,0 44 per cent. Ditto Bonds
20u.q)(:0 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds tor 10 years , 1004
1.500 ..... Deptford Pie! _
.._ `..J3l. sh. 201. pd 11

TIME S.—The reports in circulation respecting the un-
favourable tenor of the political intelligence from India,
brought by the overland despatch, caused a depression in the
funds, and Consols declined to 921 for Money, and 921,
rather buyers, for Account.

The commercial advices received, via Marseilles, by the
overland dispatch from India, state the trade in cotton piece
goods, yarns, and woollen goods, to have been dull in the lat-
ter place, accompanied with some depression in the price, the
season being generally more favourable at the date for woollens
in particular. The rates of exchange at Calcutta, after some
fluctuations, had settled at is. Hid. to 2s. per Company's
rupee, for bills on the Treasury at 30 days' sight, for private
bids at six months' sight, or ten months' date, with docu-
ments, at 2s. to 2s. 2d., without documents at 2s. 2-id. to
2s. 21(1.

Papers from Lima to the 14th of September, although not
of so late date as the private advices lately made public, con-
tain some public documents, which serve to throw light on
affairs in that quarter. They contain the copy of a decree of
Santa Cruz, dated the 11th of August, at Cuzco, in which, in
consequence of the defection of Orbegoso, the then President
cf North Peru, the deposition of that chief is decreed, and in
his place is named President provisionally, until the meeting
of the Legislature, the Grand Marshal Don Jose de la Riva
Aguero ; and for Vice-President, General Pedro Bermudez.
The same papers have a proclamation of General Ramon Her-
rera, Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the North, in which
he announces to his troops his intention to march upon Lima,
and drive out the Chilians. From a dispatch to one of the
Peruvian officers with the Chilian army, it appears that Gene-
ral Nieto, who was the first "to declare against Santa Cruz,
and was afterwards joined by Orbegoso, but who subsequently
fought against the Chilians because they insisted upon (leen-
ing Lima, and was defeated, has now signified his desire to
come to an arrangement with the Chilians and Gamarra, the
President of Peru, appointed by them, in order to unite their
respective forces against Santa Cruz, of whose resentment he
was most in dread.

POST.--Accounts of very late date were received horn
India to-day by the overland conveyance, via Marseilles, and
the are of considerable importance. They come down to
the.2lst of November from Calcutta, and the 6th ult. from
Bombay. The report previously obtained of the raising of
the siege of Herat is officially confirmed by this opportunity,
but it appears that the Governor-General is determined not-
withstanding to proceed with the measures be had contem-
plated for the remnetil of Dost Mahommed Khan from the
sovereignty of Cabul, and the re-establishment of Shah Shooja
00l Moolk in his former dominions. This determination can-
not, it is presumed, be carried into effect without some sacri-
fice on the part of the British. It seems highly probable,
from what had lately transpired at Madras, that there would be
war with the Burmese also. The Government, as we learn
through a private channel, were already making crrangements
with the owners- of steam-vessels for the conveyance of troops
to the Burmah coasts, the British Representative at Rangoon
haring been treated by the King with the most marked in-
dignity.

'Ph
is intelligence from her Majesty's eastern possessions,
coupled with the advices from Paris, which are thought to
hold out a prospect of the return to power of the Spanish in-
tervention party, has caused much heaviness in the public
funds. The agitation which continues to be kept up on the
subject of the Corn-laws, has, however, again contributed in
some deg: ee to produce such an effect in the markets.
The commercial accounts from Calcutta represent the
market there for printed cotton goods to have been brisk until
within the last ten days, when, owing to the discouraging ad-
vices from the interior, it had experienced a check: prices
were giving way again. The new crop of indigo was coming
in freely, but it was not expected that much would be done in
the article until after a sale of 250 chests of Bengal belonging
to the estate of Messrs. Alexander and Co., advertised for the
next day, should have taken place. The demand for raw silk
for the home market was still active. The sugar trade had
become less buoyant since the arrival of the September
mail. There was but little doing in opium. The Money
Market seems to have been very heavy till the beginning of
the month, as hen a decided change occurred. Advances to a
fair amouw., against shipments of indigo and silk, were ef-
fected at 2s. cid. to 2s. IZd. One advance to the extent of
four lass of rupees was reported at 23. lid., with the con-
signment, making the exchange virtually 23. 21d., and from
this time the exchange began to rise. The remittances
brought out by the August and September overland mails
amounted to about thirty lacs, the chief portion beiag in-
tended for operations to China, and for the execution of
French orders for Indigo, which staple, in consequence
of the failure of the crop, and the improvement in
the Europe market, was, however, held at prices above
the French limits. Bills on the Treasury at thirty
days' sight are quoted at Is. 111 d. to 2a. the rupee.
The Government had given its sanction to the proposed
increase of fifty per cent. in the capit it of the Bulk
of Bengal, making the gross capital 11,250,000 Company's
rupees. The Directors had, therefore, called upon the Pro-
prietors to carry the measure into immedicee effect. Of the
old capital, sixty lacs rtmained unemployed, and it was doubt-
ful to what use the Directors meant to apply the sum to be
raised in addition. The last published statement of the work-
ing of the Bank showed a divisible profit cf nine per cent. per
annum, and, as the period for the division (31st December)
was near at hand, and there would be an advantage to Pro-
prietors in subscribing for the new stock at par, the shares
had advanced to 3,150 rupees prem. ; sales were realised at
this rate, though the holders generally were reserving them.
selves until after the payment of the divid,nd and the issue of
the new stock. Discount on the security cc Government bills
was 4 per cent., and, on good private paper at three mouths,
8 per cent.

Mr. Charles Dickens (Boz), Mr. W. H. Ains-
worth, the author of Rockwood, and Mr. Fester, the author
of the Life of Cromwell, have been sojourning in this town
since Saturday last. On Sunday the literary trio attendel
Divine Service at the Collegiate Church, when the Rev. R.
Parkinson, B. D. F., C. C., preached a most admirable sermon
on the late hurricane.—Manchester Cow-hr.

Yesterday afternoon, on the arrival of the Poole
and Leamington coach at the Black Bear office, in Piccadilly,
the coachman alighted and incautiously .eft the horses unat-
tended. The animals, alarmed at some passing noise, started
off, and the wheels of the coach coming in contact with a
carrier's cart, upset it. The progress of the horses was soon
afterwards topped, without any ftu ther damage. The coach
was crowded with passengers, who were, of course, greatly
alarmed.

SHEEP STEALING.—Several depredations of this
description have lately taken place in the neighbourhood of
Saffron Waldon. On Friday night, the 4th instant, a sheep
was stolen from the premises of Mr. Downhall, of Chr;shall.—
Essex Herald.

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.--The " Animals'
Friend Society" has, we are glad to find, not been appealed
to in vain by the inhabitants of Birmingham and Worce3ter,
on behalf of the unfortunate barge asses. It prosecuted se-
veral barge men there, last week, for great cruelty to them,
and one of the fellows named Charles Clark (who was fined
11., by Mr. Miner, King's Norton) declared that he knew that
all the barge men who used CISSC3, ought to be fined for their
cruelty. William Frost and Thomas Eade were also fined at
Union-hall, at the instance of the Society, for ill-treatment
to an 143.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1839.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JAN. 21.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. ELLISON.
The object of this information, it will be recollected, was to
set aside a lease to the Ellison family of the tolls of the Foss
Dike navigation at Boston, on the ground that the Cor-
poration of Boston, :which had granted the lease, had not
a beneficial interest in the tolls, and that the whole amount
ought to be expended on the navigation
H;s HoNot R Oelivered judgment. and dismissed the informA•
tion with costs.

AR(.I-IES' COURT. JAN. 21.
GRANT V. GRANT.

The Learned Juona gave his decision in this case. It is a
suit for d:voree on the grout al ti adultery brought by letters of
rrquest ffore the Comm i•s kry Court of the Lord Bishop of \Vim
ell-,ster. I, is promwed Captain Alexander Grant. of
Bright;et. i:i the county of Suss .x. a.:a'tist M
The m ariage took place in NI (kits A;ie-ust. 1825,
according to the forms of ton Scotch Church, f filch Me.
Grant. is a tra-mher. The validity of the imirriaee is net. ,is-
puterl. Tie parties cohabited till 1838, the i sue b. ing six
chib'r n. Sme let•f,rs, addressed I. Mrs, Ciptain
Vincent, the alleged p iricees criminis; living been found
by that 1a.1.-y's huAmed, a sep4ration took place, and the pre-
sent proceedings were instituted. The parties went fi cm thi,-
country in 1835 or 1836 to the Eist in the Lird
Lowther, the property of Captain Grant. which at the
time was commanded by him. In May, 1837, they proceeded
from Macao, in China, ar,d returned by the same vessel to
England in November. Having stopped for some time at
the Norfolk Hotel, Captain- Grant took a house in Regency-
square, Brighton, and there resided with his family. It is
alleged that during the homeward voyage Captain Vincent,
who had been appointed to the command of the Lord
Lowther, paid marked attention to Mrs. Grant, and
that adultery was committed between the parties. The
Learned Judge proceeded to a lengthened enumeration
of all the facts in evidence, observing,
_in conclusion, that,
after the return of Captain Vincent from Brighton, Mrs.
Grant directed several letters to him at the Jerusalem Coffee-
house, which were deposited for him in one of the pigeon-
holes—the usual receptacle of letters for persa:.s frequenting
that house. Captain Grant, who, as well as Captain Vincent,
was engaged in the East Indian trade, happening to call in
there, looked into the pigeon-holes for his own letters and
then and there found the letters addressed to Captain Vincent
in his wife's- handwriting. He took the letters, and haring
consulted with his solicitor, proceeded with him and a friend
to Regency-square, Brighton, where his wife was stopping.
He shortly afterwards separated from her, and since that pe-
riod they have not cohabited. On arriving at his house he
accused his wife of adultery, and made a search for any other
letters which she might have received ; but certainly found
none. Mrs. Grant, on that occasion, at first positively denied
having written any letters to Captain Vincent save one, con-
gratulating him on his marriage, which she did with the sanc-
tion and concurrence of her husband ; but 'afterwards, on her
letters being produced, she admitted that they were in her
handwriting, but added that " though her mind had been con-
taminated, her body was pure." By this observation, though
she still denied that the act of adultery had taken place, she
showed what cleaning she affixed to the letters, and what she
intended to express by the.r contents. On her own statement
the Court could place no reliance. If, however, contamination
of mind is alone' proved, the husband was not entitled to the
sentence of divorce ; the surrender of the body having been
held to be necessary to obtain a divorce by the Learned Judge's
predecessor in the Chair, in the case of Hamerton v. Hamer-
ton. It would be necessary to advert to those letters. They
extend from the 23d of December, 1837, to the 18th of Janu-
ary, 1838. The first in point of date was written on the 23d
of December, the day but one after Captain Vincent had left
her house. It is written partly in English and partly in French.
The Learned Judge then read the whole of the letters, com-
menting on each after perusal. One of them ran thus—they
arc all in the same strain :

" Brighton, Dec. 29, 1837.
"My dearest Arthur—[in French]—l could not pass these
solemn days without expressing to you all the wishes of this
heart, so devoted to you in every thing which is most exalted
in love. I cannot contemplate without extreme emotion the
state in which I was when you bade me adieu [in English]
this very day week, I may say—fixed in her choice and faith-
ful, but in vain—see me neglected on the world's rude coast,
the dearest, companion of my voyage lost. 0, my dearest
Arthur [in French], when may I hope to see you again—if it
were possible in your journey only for half a day, like the
brilliant lightning which illuminates the uncertain steps of the
traveller. I render thanks to that Divine Providence so infi-
nite in all the profusion of its blessings upon my sweet family.
My husband is very good and attentive in all things which
any other but myself would appreciate ; but lam not worthy
_I have not the power (or I am powerless), you alone are
enabled to bring me to reason, but at present all my weak
nature is attached but in you alone. [ln English.] Adieu.
Believe me yours ever most affectionately, M. G. Pray do
excuse this in haste."

The Court was sorry to say that, after reading these letters
it could no longer entertain a doubt as to the commission of
adultery. There was no evidence particularly to show that
the act took place on the gist of December, or that Captain
Vincent went during the course of that night to the bed of
Mrs. Grant, or at what particular time and place the inter-
course was effected ; but the whole circumstances of the case
left no doubt on the mind of the Court as to the guilt of the
parties.
It had been said in argument that this was the first case
in which the Court was called up ,n to pronounce a sentence
of divorce merely upon a proof of adultery cffered by letters,
in which the fact was not expressly stated; but this was a
wrong description of the case, for the letters alone did not
establish the guilt of M C 3. Grant, but in conjunction with all
the facts and circumstances, they unquestionably did. The
case of Hamerton v. Hamerton, which had been alluded to,
was essentially different in two very material points—with re-
gard to the letters, which in that case came from the gentle-
man and not from the lady, and with regard to the situation
in which adultery might have been committed. Under all t! e
circumstances, the Court was bound, though i!s sentence
would condemn Mrs. Grant to infamy, and separate her from
her husband and her family, to pronounce that adultery had
been committed, and that a divorce must pass, as prayed for.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANS; UN-HOUSE.

On Saturday a man, named Wet. Reynolds, was brought
before the Lord Mayor, charged by Mr. Goldham, the clerk
of Billingsgate-market, with having stolen four large plaice.
Green, one of Mr. Goldham's men, stated that as he was or,
the look-out at an early hour, he saw the prisoner " cutting
along," amongst the vessels at Billingsgate, and he observed
that when the man came ashore, he appeared to be very
uneasy about the scat of his breeches. As fellows who in-
fested the market were in the haoit of thrusting stolen fish
into their lower garments, witness had no doubt that the pri
soner 1u:el a supply next to his skin. He accordingly got into
conversation with him, and made him sit down upon a brick,
when it was immediately seen that he had stolen goods about
him, for they were quite alive in his breeches.
The LORD MAYOR—What ! the fish were alive in his
breeches? Green—Yes, please your Lordship ; these here
four fine plaice,-as lies dead afore you, was alive this morning
about his body.
The Loan AIAYOR —Why, is it possible that he could have
had theta in his breeches? Green—Next his precious skin,
my Lord ; I draw'd 'em out myself. People that trades so
don't wear no shirts, so the fish slips in and out easy—
(Laughter.)
The Lotto MAYOR—And is there much robbery in this
way ? Green—Much 1 Plus, you, my Lord, there aint
nobleman's table in London that aint had fish upon it out of
the breeches of one of these rascals. and they always cribs
the best. They von't take none of your gut-splitters. After
all I have seed, I am ashamed to have a bit of fish put upon
my table. It's horrid blasphemy to think of a genteel lady
putting her knife into anything as comes out of sich a fel-
low's breeches.--( Laughter. )
The LORD MAYOR—But the thing 1-; quite incredible.
Mr. Goldham—lt is the fact, my Lord. The mud-larks,
as fish-stealers of this description are called, can, with the
quickness of Grimaldi, dispose of any article about their
persons. They call this mode of concealment putting on
their bustle, from the gr,at increase of size it gives them be-
hind.—( Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, as your man says., Mr. Goldham,
it is curious enough to think of the transfer of a fish from such
a place to a Nobleman's table.
Green—lts dreadful, please your Lordship, and these wil-
lains thinks nothing about it ; they laugh at it. I'd have sich
fellows hanged without judge or jury, for stowing away vet's
fit to be grubbed up by any baronight, or Duchess, in their
breeches. It was only the other day I runned after a fellow
as had a werry large bustle, and jilt as I come up to him, I'm
Ll, ssed if he didn't, of a sudden, let fly half a bushel of viting
out of it.

The Loan MAYOR—WeII, prisoner, what have you to say to
this extraordimry charge? Prisoner—Please you, my Lord,
I'm weiry deaf. I can scarce hear a word, God help me.
The LORD MAYOR (in a loud voice)—Where did you get the
fish that lies before you? Prisoner—Thank you, my Lord.
I'll take it home to my vife, and I'll cook it on some cheap
coals I bought, according to your Lordship's•advice.
The Loan MAYOR—Come,coma, this nonsense won't do.
_ _

I shall send you to 13ridewell. You are a common thief.
Prisoner—Please you, my Lord, I tried 'em over and over
agvn in my own parish, but the relieving officer vouldn't do
nothing for me, because your Lordship vaunt there to serve
him out.

Mr. Goldham—Now, Reynolds, you had better answer
the question. Whcro did you get this fish? The Lord
Mayor wishes to have it restored to the boat from which it
was stolen. .

Prisoner—Then, as I'm a living man, I can't tell nohow
how they got into my breeches. If I know'd they vos there
till your man pulled 'em out afore my two eyes, I hope I may
go blind of one of 'em.
The Loral MAYOR—Mr. Goldham, I hope you hive not
many persons like this to deal with ? Mr. Goldham—Too
many, my Lord. I trust you will convict this mar, under the
llumboat Act, for having the fish in his possession without
being able to account fur it.
Mr. Hobler—You can do 'that, my Lord ; and it will
be a judgment upon him, for ho hid his plunder in his
breeches.—_(A laugh.)
The Lotto MAVOR—Prisoner, I commit you for three
months. I think that will teach you not to put other people's
fish in your breeches. What do you think yourself? Priso-
ner—Vy, please you, my Lord, as the lawyers say, you
must ax that of the tenant in possession.—(Great laughter.)