The Sun.
London, England, 1838-07-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1838.

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• OXFORD CIRCUIT, JULY 21.
DOE DEM. DAVIES V. OATACRE AND OTHERS.
This was an action of ejectment, brought by the plaintiff, a
Captain Davies, who has been the greater part of his life in
service abroad, to recover ar: estate at Soughton, in this
county ; defendants being Colonel Gatacre and Mr. Wynne
Exton and his wife, the daughter of Robert Lloyd, of Spring-
field, Esq. It appeared that both parties claimed, under a
settlement made by a Mr. David Evans, in 1721, under which
one John Phillips, who died in 1781, was tenant for life, with re-
mainder in tail to his lawful heir male. John Phillips married
one Mary Encss in the parish Church of Llansillan, in the year
1759, and in the year 1760 Joseph Phillips, issue of that mar-
riage, was born. Previously to that marriage Jahn Phillips
and his wife had three children, the eldest of whom, Phillip
Phillips, was born in 1750, and it was alleged that an earlier
marriage had taken place in 1747, at the Fleet, between the
said John Phillips and Mary Eness. The plaintiff alleged
that Joseph was the only legitimate son ; the defendants de-
nying this, and relying on the Fleet marriage, maintain the
legitimacy of Phillip.
Verdict for the plaintiff, with liberty for the defendants to
move for a nonsuit on a point of law.

MIDLAND CIRCIIIT.—LixcoLN, JULY 24.
The Commission for this coucty was opened on Saturday.

QUILTEr. V. NEWCONIR.
This was an action against the proprietor of the Lincoln
and Stanford Mercury for a libel.
Mr. Qui'ter, the plaintiff, conducted his case in person.
From his own statement it would appear that he is an attor-
ney, and has resided in Lincoln for the last eighteen years ; he
had been its difficulties, but at last by integrity, and honest
industry, had succeeded in getting his head above water, and
he is now clerk to the mag,is.r,tes. The libel of which he
complained was a paragraph commenting upon the discharge
of certain prisorn•rs taken up as being disorderly, &c., during
the Lincoln Fair in April last, it being hinted he was the
cause of such discharge by the advice he gave the magistrates,
for which he was, in the matter charged as libellous, called a
noodle. The matter charged in the pleadings as libellous hav-
ing been put in and proved,
Mr. HILL addressed the jury for the defence. There had
been no intention on the part of his (Mr. Hill's) client to cast
a stigma upon the plaintiff, but as a public officer his actstsere
open to animadversion. It was the lot of all public men, whe-
ther they happened to be Ministers of State or clerks to the
magistrates.
The Learned Judge having summed up, the jury returned a
verdict for the plaintiff.

Damages—One farthing.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-DURII.I3I, JULY 23.

The Assizes for this county commenced here this morning
at ten o'clock. The calendar is light, ther,t, being but fourteen
persons for trial, the majority' charged with petty thefts. There
is one case of manslaughter, and one of child murder.
Twenty-two cases are entered for trial on the civil side.
Robot Forbester, aged 20 years, and of very youthful ap-
pearance, was indicted for the manslaughter of John Brown,
at Ryton, on the 22a of May last --Guilty.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

TUESDAY.

These sessions commenced this morning before Mr.
WALESLEY (who presided in the absence of Mr. Sergeant
Adams) and a full Bench of Migistrats. The calendar is
a very light one, there being only twenty-four prisoners
for trial.

Alice Trigg, a notorious begging letter impostor, was in-
dicted for fraudulently obtaining one sovereign from ElizTheth
Chaloner, under false pretences. The Chairman having
summed up the evidence the jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The Constable liorsford stated that the prisoner was a very
old offender, and the Chairman sentenced her to be trans-
ported beyond the seas for seven years. Several other cases
of no public interest were disposed of during the day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

A Polish Jew, named Josrph Alexander, was brought be-
fore the LORD MAYOR, charged by a German Jew, named
Abraham Frond, who has lately become a convert to Christia-
nity, with having used desperate threats.

The prosecutor stated that some time ago the prisoner
having robbed him of a watch, was tried at Horsemonger-
lane Sessions, and convicted and 'sentenced to six months im-
prisonment. As soon as the prisoner was discharged from
prison he sent word to witness, that if he (witness) ever came
to London he would be properly served out either as to his
life or his property. When witness came to town the prisoner
soon showed how well disposrd he was to keep his word, and
endeavoured to prevail upon the witness's vervant to run away
with his master's goods, assuring him at the same time that
care should be taken to put Mr. Freud effectually out of the
way. There were, witness declared, several Jews engaged in
a conspiracy against him, because he had excited their animo-
sity by turning to the true religion.
'The Lotto Mara—Then you believe in and subscribe to
the doctrines of Christianity.
The Prosecutor—Most certainly I do, and I know that I
am followed with the most active hatred by the unconverted
on that account. _

The Prisoner—You Lre a pretty convert indeed ! Why,
my Lord, he has been converted one hundred times, at the rate
of thirty shillings a time.
The prisoner was ordered to find bail.
The prosecutor was then charged by a scholmaster named
Simon Solomon Zampelberg, who stated that Frend had some
time ago, in Scotland, obtained goods from bins upon promise
to pay or to return them next day, neither of which he per.
formed. Frend said that the charge sprung from the hatred
felt by the Jews towards him in consequence of the radical
change in his religious feelings and professions.
Pamplett, the officer, had some doubt of the entire conver-
sion of Freud, as that person, to a certain extent, admitted
that he had had dealings of the kind with the complainant,
having stated in witness's hearing that if the complainant
accompanied him home he would settle the business and be
his friend.
The LORD MAYOR did not think himself justified in taking
notice of the charge as a Magistrate.

NIARYLEBONE.
On Monday Jonathan Hodge, a youth of about nineteen
years of age, was brought before Mr. RAwuNsox for re-exa-
mination, on a charge of robbing his employers, Messrs.
Lindsey and Grant, extensive silk mercers and hosiers, No.
48, Great Titehfield-street. of property to the amount of 1501.,
and John Wilson, a man of fashionable exterior, was charged
with receiving the same, knowing it to he stolen. The pri-
soner was remanded till yesterday, and Wilson being in the
meantime captured, both prisoners were at one o'clock placed
at the bar.

After evidence had been heard, Mr. RAwt.tssoN committed
Hodge (who said nothing) to Newgate for trial, remarking
that there was a strong suspicion against Wilson, but not suf-
ficient to commit him. He was, therefore, ordered to find
bail, himself in 801., and two sureties in 40/. each, for his
appearance at the Sessions. Subsequently he was ordered to
brought up again on Wednesday, and on the depositions
against Hodge being read over, eventually committed to
Newgate on the charge of receiving goods, knowing them to
be stolen.

HATTO.N-GARDEN.
Sarah Neville, Mary Jones (a woman of colour), Eliza-
beth Chapman, and Henry Austin, were finally examined,
charged by Lucy Jackson, a country girl, with having been
concerned in robbing her of a box containing a quantity of
wearing apparel, and 21. 14s. 6d.
The prisoners denied the charge, but they were fully com-
mitted for trial.

SOCIETY OF FRIENDS.—A correspondent, who
furnishes us with some biographical details of the late Isaac Goad and
Elijah Salthouse, members of the Society or Friends, of Ulverston, in
which he does full justice to their philanthropy and blameless life, states
the singular fact that Mr. Salthouse, with a single exception, has left
no male member of the society at Ulverston, and but six resident
females. This is somewhat remarkable, when it is recollected, that
here the first Quaker's meeting-house was erected by George Fox, at
Swarthmoor, where to this day the Friends meat for worship. Near
the meeting-house is Swarthmoor Hall, where George Fox resided up-
wards of two years after he had married Judge Fell's widow. The
chair that Francis Withers gave to the Rev. founder of the sect, and the
ebony bed-posts which he names in this journal, are still at the Friends'
meetinghouse, at Swarthmoor. His folio Bible, with the chain,- Wed
to be kept by the late Mr. Salthouse. Judging from present appearances,
in a few years not one of the Society will remain there to point to
the stranger the resting place of their fathers.—Lancaster Guardian.

NEWSPAPER BLUNDERS.—The blunders of the
Newspapers are sometimes amusing. A Mrs. Otway advertises a school
for tuition in fashionable dancing, adding that there is no entrance. An
auctioneer's placard announces a splendid nobleman's mansion to be dis-
posed of unfurnished with every convenience. The advertisement of
a suburb theatre announces to gentlemen and ladies that a consort will be
given every evening during the license. A wooden dog-kennel appears
on a wall in Lambeth, with chalked upon it, " Enquire within." A
coffin-maker in one of the leading streets of London, happening to have
apartments to let, has pasted his bills upon the coffins in his window,
announcing " Lodgings for Single Gentlemen." If brevity is the soul
of wit, what are we to think of the art of a correspondence in
which the two letters contained but two figures? The first
letter contained but a note of interrogation, implying, Is there any
news ? The answer contained but a cypher, None. This was clever;
but a cleverer contrivance still was that of the grocer who painted on
his window two large T's, one coloured Mack, and the other green. This
saved the trouble of telling the world at length, that he sold capital tea
of both kinds, black and green. An advertisement, offering a reward
for some:family documents, and mentioning at the end that it was not
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A dreadful accident happened on Tuesday, between
six ar•.d seven o'clock, to a boy eight years old, named John Williams,
residing at 13, Duke-street, NVestminster..road. While he was crossing
the New St. George's-road, with an infant in his arms, he was run over
by the Brighton Branch coach ; the wheels passed over his chest and he
was killed instantly. The coach was heavily laden with passengers. He
was taken to Mr. Foster, a surgeon, in Mount-street, and from thence to
Mr. Humphrey's, the Hercules public-house, to await the Coroner's
Inquest. The infant which the unfortunate boy had in his arms escaped
unhurt.

WomEN.—Women make their advances as time
makes his. At twenty, when the swain approaches to pay his devoirs,
they exclaim with a languid indifl'ennce, " Who is he!" At thirty,
with a prudent look to the ways and mrans, the question is—" What is
he!" At forty, much anxiety manifests itself to make the hymeneal
selection, and the query changes itself into—" Which is he!" But at
the ultima thule of fifty, the anxious expectant prepares to seize upon
any prey, and exclaims—" Where is he :"..Glasgow Courier.