The Sun.
London, England, 1831-06-08 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUINE 8,_1831_7

MEETING TO ADDRESS HIS NIAJESTY.

FAMINE IN IRELAND.

On Monday night, pursuant to adjournment, a
public meeting took place at the Rotunda, Black-
friars, for the purpose of fur:her discussing the pro-
priety of addressing his Majesty, to take into imme-
diate consideration the present alarming state cf
Ireland, as to the famine now raging in that country.
Ilibbert took the chair. _

Mr. KEENE, an Irish gentleman, after drawing a
frightful picture of the distress that now prevails in
his unhappy country, and of the essential service
,he rendered to England on the embattled field,
thought it would not be looking for too much to a'k
for Irishmen, the same boon and indulgence which
Cesar gave to the horses that accompanied him in
the field of battle.

Mr. CLEAVE followed on the same side, and in
corroboration of the appalling misery that now pre-
vails in Ireland, read extracts of a letter from, a friend
of his in Dublin, dated on last Saturday, which
stated that, from the accounts received on that morn-
ing from the provinces, a general riving of the pea-
santry might be hourly expected. The writer
further stated, that the Rev. Mr. Armstrong, who
created the disturbance at the meeting lately held
at Exeter-hall, was a curate of the Established
Church at Monastereven, in Ireland, and was an
agent of the Reformation Society, at 150/. a year.
Several other speakers addressed the meeting,
when the address to his Majesty was unanimously
agreed to.

CHELMSFORD PETTY SESSION, JUNE 3.

William Byfoot, an old pensioner, was charged
with disturbing a " love feast," and breaking the
windows at the house of one Mrs. Hannah Dawson,
a modern saint, vulgarly called a Ranter, living in
the parish of Mountnessing.
Mrs. Dawson, a simple-looking being, arrayed in
the habiliments of the " order," after several pre-
paratory sighs, evangelical capers, and vacant stares,
related the circumstances of the offence. Her
mental habitation was at Mountnessing, where one
Win. Archer—a gentleman who, by the bye, kept
bath the body and soul going, for he made cart-
wheels and sermons—lodged. Mary Wood, the
daughter-in-law of the defendant, another rosy
checked saintly personage, lodged there also, and
between this precious pair something of an earthly
anti-Malthusian flame arose. The defendant had
long sought to withdraw Mary Wood from this
abode of grace, and last night, " being instigated by
malt liquor, and not having the fear of the tread-mill
before his eyes," he went to the house and broke all
the windows, in order to let out the spark which
war within. The damage was laid at 30s.
Mary Wood corroborated, with a lisp, and a
blush, and a smile, the lodging, the love-making,
and the window-breaking story.

Defendant here exclaimed—" All I want is to
get the young woman away; he means her no good
he shan't have her."
William Archer said that the defendant followed;
him last night, whilst he was walking with Miss
Wood, and threatened to send him to Paradise on
the top of an oaken bludgeon ; be therefore prayed
sureties of the peace.
BENCH—YOU seem to be a dangerous fellow ?
Defendant—Yes, and I will be a dangerous fellow
for him, too. This aggrievance has laid in my
breast a long time.
BENCH—Then you must be sent to cool it on
Springfield-hill. You'd be committed if you can't
find fiureties ? Defendant—l'll find no insureties.
The defendant was then committed in default of
paying the damage and finding sureties.

MAYOR'S COURT.

THE OLD B OAR'S BEAD.

HOOPER AND SHARIAND V. THE CITY OF LONDON.

This was a case of compensation under the
London Bridge Approaches' Act. The claimants
were the owners of the house No. 2, Great East
Cht ap, in days of old, the celebrated Old Boar's
Head, in which Falstaff and the Prince, and Poins
and Pistol caroused.
Tha claim made by Messrs. Hooper and Sharland
who are tea agents, amounted to 2,1861., of which
1,4861 were required for the lease, and 7001. for
the loss by removal. The fixtures had been agreed
upon at 132/. 15s. 6d.
The COMMON SERJEANT, for the city, called three
surveyors, Mr. Montague, Mr. Higgins, and Mr.
Smith, who valued the lease at the different rates of
4471., 4921., and 5061.
Sir J. SCARLETT, for the claimants—Now that
the world was employed in rubbing away the nest
of antiquity, he trusted that the city of London
would be included in the improvements, and that
the Courts of Compensation would undergo, what
they greatly wanted—a wholesome and thorough
cleansing. He trusted that the time was approach-
ing fast, when the city of London would not have
the power to determine in its own way, to have the
business transacted before its own Judge, by its own
Counsel, and in every respect to press upon the
claimants. He considered, that however dignified
might be the conduct of the Learned person who
presided, that person could not be looked upon as
an impartial Judge in deciding upon a question
affecting the interests of the corporation.—(A
laugh.) The Learned Counsel then stated that,
the house to which he would call the attention of
the Jury was once the Old Boar's Head, memorable
for being the place in which Shakspeare made his
immortal Fa/staf " the cause of wit in others,"
in which Hal and his companions had been in the
habit of perpetuating their orgies, and Mrs. Quickly
and Doll Tearsheet gave additional life to the scene.
The RECORDER—The exploits of the day you
speak of would, if they were committed in the pre-
sent day, give some work to the Recorder.
Sir JAMES SCARLETT said that the City Police
were now so powerful and so dexterously instructed,
that no Prince could do what Henry the Fifth had
done, according to dramatic authority. The Cor-
poration of London, whatever could be the reason
of it, did not appear to pay much regard to the
classical associations of that great depositary of wit
and humour, and merriment, the Boar's Head. He
deprecated the idea of throwing a slight upon the
question of private interests. It was a general ob-
servation that private interests were of necesity
absorbed in public interests; but he would say, and
he spoke it rafter long experience, that nothing was
calculated to do so much good as to impress a pro-
found respect for private property. The dictum
which estabiished the rule in favour of the disre-
gard for the property of individuals, was the argu-
ment of despotism, the casuistry of the tyrant, who
took what might be wanted. Nothing ought to be
'taken from a man but what might be compensated
for. Now in this case the claimants were serious
losers, by being obliged to leave the premises in
question. The trade which the claimants followed
required a lightsome premises. His claimants being
tea agents and colonial brokers, were constantly In
the habit of examining the article with which they
supplied the public.
The COMMON SERJEANT.—I should think that
the best way of judging of tea would be by the
palate, not by the eye.—(A laugh.)
Sir JAMES SCARLETT Said that a good light Was
in.dispensable. He then stated that the taking up
of the (had bodies in St. Michael's churchyard, a
few weeks ago, was productive of the greatest Poo-

Bible annoyance to his clients, us the tenants of th
trace were piled up on a spot close to his premises.
;10(1 corrupted the air, to the peril of the health 01
ledger.:. In some cave; the workmen were take'
ill, and in one case a death took place. The re-
moval would, in feet, the Learned Counsel cot,.
ended, cause the most distigreeable effects. There.
Nes r...n old Dutch saying, " Three removals
are as bad as a fire;" and his clients had found out
already that one removal was as bad as the third of
a fire.—(Laughter.)
Witnesses proved that the claimants received a
regular profit to the amount stated in the Learned
Counsel's speech, and that the exhumation of the
dead produced a most horrible nuisance.
The CoMMON SERJEANT said that his Learned
Friend had ingeniously turned the church-yard to
his advantage, if the Jury were to be hoaxed into a
belief that the removal of the dead bodies was any
ground of compensation. He ridiculed the notion
of demanding so enormous a sum for a eel of
lodgings, from which the occupiers might have de-
parted whenever they pleased.
The Jury settled the claim at 707/. 10s.—viz.
5041. for the lease, and 293/. /Os. for the loss by
removal.