The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-21 00:00:00

LAW IN TELLIGENCE.

MIDDLESEX COUNTY COURT.
SUSAN HARVEY V. RoISERT MAHONEY.—The plaintiff in
this case was a cook in a gentleman's family, residing in
Queen's-square, and the defendant was a milliner's trotter (one
who carries out caps in a huge wicker oil-skin'd basket) ; the
amount sued for was his., alleged to have been lent at dif-
ferent periods of time to the faithless Robert Mahoney.
Mr. Commissioner DUBols—What do you say to this de-
mand, Master Mahoney ? Defendant—Nawthin, your wurt-
ellip—nawthin.
CONIMISSIONER—Do you owe the money ? Did you ever bor-
row it ? Defendant—The devil a bit, yer wurtehip—l barry'd
nawthin at all at all.
Plaintiff—Oa, Mahoney ! well, I never ; how can you
say so?
Defendant—Sure and what's give to mc's mine, and what's
mine will niver be lint to me.
COMMISSIONER—Pray, was this a courtship affair. Defend.
ant—' Faith, not complately so. It's not mesilf that's after the
likes iv' her.
Plaintiff (simpering)—Well, Robert, if you'll pay rue back
the money, I'll say nothing about the courting, though it's your-
self well knows what you promised me.
Defendant—Faith, and it's mesilf knows too—and I sid I'd
make Misses Mahoney of you so soon as iver Dan got the re-
pa) e ; for thin we'll all iv us do as we like ?
CommissioNEß—Dan ! What Dan do you mean, sir? Why
don't you pay this poor girl? Defendant—And what Dan do
I mane now? Why sure, honey, it's mighty Dan O'Connell,
your masther. Och, meesilf now that won't pay one brass
copper ; and in regard of marrying, it's that same thing ice
done—mavournen.
Plaintiff—Oh, you good for nothing feller. I declare your
falsest, story-tellingest, shockingest willin as iver took in a
poor girl. Look at the wittles I gave you.
Defendant—And look, me jewel, at the promises I made you.
Plaintiff—And you never kept one of them, not one.
Defendant--Sure, and there you're out agin, me darlint ;
I've got all iv 'cm by me now.
Plaintiff—Did'nt I get you three bran span new second-hand
shirts ?
Defendant—That same thing ; and did'nt I wear them,
honey ?
Plaintiff—And did'nt I lend you the money to buy the new
hat ?
Defendant—And did'nt I take the money and get the hat ?
If you bother me all the day, you'll still find Bob Mahoney,
know what he's afther.
COMMISSIONER—Come, come, we must pot a stopper upon
this logic of your's. Swear the plaintiff, officer.
Sultan Ilarvey was sworn, and, among many other thingq,
stated that the defendant had borrowed the 13s. while he mu
courting her ; that he had promised to marry her, ,nd take her
to Ireland immediately. Dan had got the repale of the union ;
but that for this last six months he had totally deserted her,
and married another woman.
Under these circumstances, the jury ordered the immediati,
payment of the money. The poor victim of the blarney and
shuffling of Dan's admirer stated, that wi.ile waiting in the
body of the Court, some one had cut away her pocket, in
which was 13s. in silver. Mr. Commissioner Dubois caused
inquiries to be made, but of course the thief could not be dis-
covered. A few shillings were made up for her in the Court,

An attempt at murder was made in the Rue St.
Germain-des- Pres, in Paris, on Saturday. M. Petit, a dealer
is curiosities, being unwell with the prevailing epidemic, had
just closed his shop somewhat earlier than the usual hour, when
he heard a loud knocking at the door. He half opened the
door to see who it was and what was wanted, hut no sooner
had ho done so than a young man threw himself upon him,
forced him to the ground, and inflicted several blows with a
knife which he held in his hand. M. Petit, in endeavouring
to release himself from his bloodthirsty assailant, received a
desperate wound in the right hand, and the fellow then thrust
his hand into M. Petit's mouth, to prevent his calling out. His
groans were, however, fortunately heard by a grocer and a
lemonade-maker, who ran to his assistance. They had a vio-
lent struggle with the assassin. who, finding himself at length
overpowered by numbers, tcok flight at the back door and got
into the street. The cries of " assassin !" and " murder I"
tittered by the grocer and the lemonadier attracted the atten-
tion of the passers-by, who stopped the fugitive, and carried
brim before the Commissary of Police. In his examination lie
made a variety of contradictory statements. One of his stories
was, that he had known M. Petit for some time; that on n
certain occasion he had struck him a violent blow with an urn
hrelli, and that ho went to his shop to revenge himself of the
insult. M. Petit, who is not dangerously wounded, denied
this statement. He knew nothing of the prisoner, nor had he
ever seen him before. The prisoner then etid that he knew
nothing of M. Petit, and that he could not tell what induced
hint to commit the crime with which be was charged. The
name of the fellow is Diard, and he is not IS years of age.
Some false keys were found on his person.
COI, LEC FIVE WISDOM AND CONSISTENCY.—
On the fir.t day of this month, the House of Commons decided,
by a rn.jorty of 172 to 11, that the Sergeant-at-Arms attend-
ing the House do, from tittle to time, take into his custody any
stranger or strangers that he shall see, or be informed of to bc,
in the House or gallery, while the House, or any Committee
of the whole House, is sitting ; and that no person, so taken
into custody, he discharged out of custody without the specie.:
order of the House : and that no Member of this House do pre.
some to bring any stranger or stringers into the House or gal-
lery thereof, while the House is sitting. Now, ii the Sergeant-
at-Arms were asked whether he had any orders to take stran-
gers into custody in the gallery, he would tell us that he ha,
orders Nor to do it—and that his orders 're to see that strangers
ARE admitted on a Member's ticket. The heads of bath the
:nominal orders are thus broken at one blow.

On Frichv lost a man nornel Benjamin Ch
crimpleved on the Southampton Railroad, met with hi
tiii.om the calling in cf a large quantity of earth, near St.
`,George's Wevh.idge ; the poor f;‘llow was conveyed to
ache Queen's Hen i. Weyfririfze, end medical aid promptly pro-
resrcd, but the vital spark had fled before he reached the house.

On Saturday afternoon an inquest was held at the
*Chequers, Duke-street, St. James's, on view of the body of.
"Mr. Cornelius Leary, a newspaper agent, aged 36, who hung
hiranelf with a rope under the following' painful circumstances.
George Huggett, musical instrument maker, deposed that 1.,
lived at No. 13, Duke-street, the shop and parlour cf which
house were occupied by the deceased. That morning, about
seven o'clock, witness was alarmed by the deceased's wife,
who called witnes to assist her in cutting down the deceased,
who was suspended from the gas-pipe in the area by a rope.
\Witness immediately cut the rope. There were no signs of
iife, but the body was quite warm. There was a chair near
him, which he had kicked down. Mr. Dawes, a medical gen-
tlernal, -attended, but could draw no blood. By the Jury—
Witness is informed that the deceased was subject to the
ii ‘bit of intemperance. He was also afflicted with an asthma."
Mrs. Charlotte Leary, the deceased's widow, said that for tiv
last twelve months her unfortunate husband had been in ve..J
low spirits. During the winter he wan attacked with a v.:rr
serious illness, since which his mental depression had been
worse. By the Jury--" On Thursday he was present at the
Debates in the House of Commons. He went to bed imme-
diately on coming home, but never closed his eyes. He said
that he could have slept in the gallery of the house of Com-
mons, but would not for shame. He frequently suffered from
excessive drinking, and was afterwards seen exceedingly de-
pressed. Ile frequently complained that his business was too
much for him." Verdict--" Temporary Insanity."
DUEL L ING.--Mr. Lambert Mahon Turner, of
Galway, in mentioning the steps he had taken for preventing
a hostile meeting in that town, says i--" Galway has been
long renowned for shop-boys and attorneys' clerks desiring to
signalize themselves in affairs of honour with entlemen, re-
presenting themselves as younger sons of old families, and
often succeeding with officers and strangers. It is hoped that
such proceedings may he checked; as, among gentlemen now,
quarrels arc never known in this once-celebrated duelling
county." _ _

HUMAN BONES.—Many tons of human bones are
every year sent from London to the north, where they arc
crushed in mills, contrived for the purpose, and used as manure.
Yet, with all this clearance, the number of the dead increases
in such frighful disproportion to the space which we allot for
them, that the question has been started, whether a sexton
may not refuse to admit iron coffins into a burial-place ; be-
cause, by this means, the deceased take a fee simple in the
ground, which was only granted for a term of years. A curious
expedient has been found to answer at Shields and Sunder-
land. The ships which return to these ports with ballast were
at a loss where to discharge it, and had of late years beer
compelled to pay for the use of the ground on which the)
throw it out. The burial grounds were full : it was recol-
lccted that the ballast would be useful there, and according()
it has been laid upon one layer of dead to such a depth, that
graves fora second time are now dug in the new soil.—
Ar:hitectural Magazine.
We had several heavy rains last week, which seem
to have been particularly severe among the hills, as on Thurs-
day the Almond came down in a greater body of water than
was ever remembered. The Tay itself was little affected until
its confluence with the Almond, but being met by a stream
tide on Friday, it overflowed its banks in this neighbourhood,
and nearly covered both Inches, inundating several houses in
low situations. The swell in the river was fully more than in
the case of the last great inundation of 1814, but being free of
ice, its passage was not obstructed, and less damage to pro-
perty was caused. —Perth Courier.

Wednesday evening, as a man, named James Wil-
liams was at work on board the barge that supplies the steamers
with coals, he let go the warp to drop astern, when hii foot be-
came entangled in the ropes, and he was unfortunately dragged
overboard, and kept suspended with his head under water.
Every effort was made to save him, but he was not got out
until he had been in the water ton minutes. The deceased
has left a wife and four children in great distres3.—Grevesend
Journal.

DENVER MURDER.—Previous to the committal
of the three men who were apprehended at Doncaster, fresh
evidence was adduced, viz., the finding of a coat at Whittlesea,
belonging to one of the prisoners, which was left by him after
the murder, and which was stained with human blood. A lad
gave evidence to his seeing the prisoners burning shirts,
stained with blood, the morning after in the neighbourhood at
Whittlesea. These miscreants had been at work on the rail-
road in the neighbourhood of Paddington. A suspicion is
afloat that they were concerned in the horrible tragedy enacted
in that place; and it is certain that on the Saturday preceding
the murder at Denver they were seen offering to sell some sil-
ver spoons at Ely.—Doncaster Gazette.
In the Hull town council on Wednesday, on bring-
ing up the report of the gaol committee, a resolution was
carried for allowing the prisoners, on their liberation, a por-
tion of their earnings while in gaol.--Hull Observer.