The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-26 00:00:00

EXCHEQUER COURT, Nor-. 25.
ATKINS V. CELL AND ANOTHER.
Mr. KELLY, on the part of the defendant, applied to the
Court to set aside the verdict given for plaintiff in this
cause. It was an action brought by the plaintiff, a com-
mercial traveller, to recover from the defendants, ware-
housemen, the balance of wages due for the unexpired
period of a year. Plaintiff at the trial put in certain let-
ters, from which, as well as from the other evidence in the
cause, it appeared that in the beginning of 1833 a corre-
spondence took place between the parties on the subject of
remuneration. The plaintiff, in answer to a communication
from the defendants, requesting him to state his terms, ex-
presses a wish to continue in their employment, suggesting
that a salary of 2001. a year would not be unreasonable.
The defendants, in reply, state their readiness to accede to
this offer, and plaintiff was paid for the four previous months,
at the rate of 2001. per annum. The question at the trial
was, whether this was not a qualified hiring, subject to a
custom of liability to discharge on a month's notice. The
Jury found against the defendants upon this point, and did
not recognise the custom. The ground upon which he
(Mr. Kelly) now moved was, that there was a variance be-
tween the contract as laid and the proof.
The COURT—Take a rule to show cause.

Mr. CONANT asked if he had procured the return of the
watch ? Mr. Walker had not.
Mr. CONANT asked the husband if he knew anything
concerning Mr. Walker's gold watch ? The husband said
did not, and he was quite willing it should be restored to
Mr. Walker, if his wife still had it.
The wife being close at hand, was sent for into the office.
She was a plain dark young woman, about six-and-twenty,
with that " wide-awake" expression of eye sn dangerous to
septuagessimal widowers,
When asked about the watch, she exhibited great, reluc-
tance to give it up, asserting that the complainant had told
her to keep it until he gave her another.
The Bench told her she was liable to a charge of felony,
and then she agreed to give it up.
The complainant Ivould be satisfied with , nominal da-
mages for the assalt, now lie had recovered the watch ; and
the Magistrates having inflicted a small fine, the warrant
was dismissed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
Yesterday a solicitor attended before the LORD MAYOR,
An obedience to a summons issued in consequence of a com-
plaint, made on 'Wednesday, On the part of a Clergyman,
who was some time ago robbed of a bill of exchange. in
which bill of exchange a forgery was, subsequently, com-
mitted.
Mr. Clarkson, tho barrister, attended for the Clergyman.
Mr. Clarkson, for the purposes of justice, should abstain
from mentioning the names of the parties implicated in the
robbery and forgery for the present, except to his Lord-
ship's private ear; but so audacious a case he had never in
his experience encountered. His client was a Clergyman
of the Church of England, the son of a person • of high
dignity at the bar, and, having occasion for the sum of 2001.
applied according to an address in the newspapers to one
of the fraternity of money-lenders in the neighbourhood of
the Haymarket. He was informed by the money-lender
that he should have the amount upon payment of five per
cont. upon the principal. The terms were agreed to, and.
on the day appointed for concluding the negotiation, the
money-lender produced a check upon the Bank of
for 2001., and at the same time a stamp
wit',
a the figures
200/. upon the corner of it, and stated thp:. the Clergyman
calk
was to write his name across. The -rgyinan having s' tated
yor tr.
that he wanted the mono f
--- -- -e-lve months, and not en-
tertaining the slightest "sr'.cion of the character of the
person with whom he 'as 'dealing, wrote his acceptance
across the etemp, 'and handed it to the money-lender who
stated that so
7.1 e little form was necessary about the check,
and bang;
a meeting at the Bank Coffee-house in an
l'n'':,. When the amount should be handed over. It was un-
necessary to say that the money-lender did not keep his
appointment—neither he, nor the money, nor the bill, had
been seen since by the Clergyman. At the end of two
months, however, the Clergyman received to his astonish-
ment a letter, demanding payment for his acceptance,
not for 200/., but for 5001.,. which was made payable at
the Bank of England, where the appearance of the bill Open Deposit Sums invested with National
Debt Commissioners.
had excited surprise, us the acceptor was not known Accounts.
there. Mr. Parker, the solicitor, having been immediately £ i:
On Nov. 20, 1830 462 4,124
employed, called upon the attorney, in whose hands the bill
1831... 1,2:34 13,724
lay, for the purpose of being proceeded upon, and took a
leae 2,059 24,739
copy of it, from which it appeared that a piece of paper had 18:33 3,471 43,110
been pasted over the sum 2001., and immediately under was 1834:- 4,948 69,731
the sum of 500!., that it was dated August 26, 18.56, and 1835 ...... 6,492 9,590
ran thus :—" Two months after date pay to my order 5001., 1836
j.
8,328 126,269 value received ;" that it was signed by the money-lender in
If AGAINVI. 23
11'873.S
one of his names, and accepted by the Clergyman, and that 76, Welbeckstreet, Nov.
- TN E Secretary and Actuary.
6,
it was made payable at the Bank of England. GHOSTS. —The room into
which I was sh.owa. 'savoured strongly of ghosts. Indeed,
Inv companion he,
Mr. Clarkson said that the attorney who had been suns-
vas au
moned to attend before the Lord Mayor, was the person sio'n I previously told me that the old man-
in whose hands the bill of exchange hail been seen. He the Pe:norcd to be haunted, and that one or two of
more tin -ad damsels had actually been confronted by
did not mean to excite any prejudice against the attorney
of the holder of the bill, nor to impute to him any know- some etreeeased member of the Blount family. Lady
went had, however, declared that she •would dismiss
ledge of the nefarious nature of the transaction, but so
audacious a piece of villainy he had never witnessed. fr.enee her service any servant who should be so unfortunate
The summoned-attorney appeared in obedience to flee Jas to see a ghost, and since that time not one bad made its
Lord Mayor's summons. The bill bad been put into b appearance.—Jesse's Angler.
hands by a client of his, a most highly respectable. . MEETING AT CHATIIAM.—A public meeting was
who, he was convinced, would clearly show that, ), man, held at the Sun Inn, Chatham, on Monday, the 21st inst.,
"e was to form a Charch-rate Abolition Ass )ciation for the district
totally blameless in the transaction.
Mr. Clarkson asked whether the attorney hae the bill in of Chutham, Rochester, and Strood. Henry Prentis, Esq.,
his possession ?
was called to the Chair.
The attorney replied in the negative. His client had LISBON.—" Admiral Sir William Gage, command-
called on Tuesday, and taken it away with him. inn on this station, very nearly lost his life us he was pro-
The LORD MAYOR—Why is no' your client, the holde tending to his boat at the packet stairs, A National
of the bill, here to-day ?He is
that the complaint had Guard levelled his musket at him, which he fortunately
had been made.
warded off, when the assassin ran' away, as he observed
The Attorney—l 'sold him it was most necessary that ho the sailors were coming to the Admiral's assistance. An
should attend, foe English officer was attacked On Wednesday evening at Al-
'lsis own sake ; but he said he was obliged
to go to Woe,,, cantara by three ruffians, who made a murderous stab at
Isis
on business, and that he would attend
before "our Lordship, if it was requisite. him on the breast, but fortunately the officer warded the
Air. Clarkson—lt would be a confirmation of his respec-
blow sufficiently as t o
.protect his person from being cut.
el
tability, if he attended to-day. He knew that the bill was Having no sword by his side, he owes the preservation of
declared to be a forgery, and to have been feloniously oh-
his life to the speed with which he ran from his assailants.
tained. Why has he not a eared ?
Another Englishman, who is in very embarrassed cireuna-
The Attorney—I urged him strongly to attend, but he stances, got most severely beaten by a set of ruffians, who
thought proper to go out of town. I ask Mr. Parker fell upon him as he was proceeding home on Thursday
whether I did not the moment he asked to see the bill show evening to his residence at Buenos Ayres. In fact such
it to him, and let him take a copy without hesitation ? is the bitter, exasperated state of popular feeling towards
Mr. Parker said that such was the fact. the English people, in consequence of our late intermed-
The Attorney—My client is a highly respectable man, dling with their domestic affairs, that lam perfectly pre-
and I am, sure is anxious to have the, matter cleared up. pared for a continuation for some time of this murderous
Mr. Clarkson—His anxiety is such that he does not and blood-thirsty system of revenge."
appear, although Mr. Parker informed both you and him It is gratifying to observe that the ladies do not
that the bill was a forgery. participate in the depreciation to which other market-
The Attorney_e don't recollect that Mr. Parker ever able commodities in general have of late been subject :
" On Saturday morning last, a husband conveyed his wife
said anything of the kind to me. I was engaged very much,
in other business when he called.
into the market-place of Halifax, for sale ; and though the
Mr. Parker—l did mention it to you. I distinctly told sum of five shillings has hitherto been the average price or
you it was a forgery. a wife thus exposed, yet so highly did the husband recoue-
The Attorney—I certainly never heard you say so. mend his rib to the multitude, that she was ultimately dis-
of for a sover.el,ien."
The Loan Melton—When you were informed that the posedFA ',MOUTH, NOV. 23.—His Majesty's packet
bill was a foraery you ought not to have let it out of your
'possession, and nothing should have kept your client away See/drake, Captain Passingham, has arrived this day with
but severe illness or some other extremity. the West Indian mails, having sailed from St. Thomas's on
Mr. Clarkson—lf he does not attend upon a summons I the 26th ult., and bringing on freight 40,000 dollars. The
shall apply for a Warrant against hint. Carron steamer brought up the mails from Jamaice. the day
no Loan MAYOR.—And I will grant it the moment the Slieldrake sailed ; having left Port Royal on the 19tis
yau apply- preceding. The islands generally arc described as being;
The summoned solicitor certainly should render all the very sickly, and deaths numerous. The It eynard packet
assistance in his power. He had pressed his client to attend arrived at Barbadoes, from Falmouth, on the 17th of Oct..
in such a manner, and still without success, that he could not 'What is called a " religious census" of the Legis-
answer for that gentleman's appearance upon the summons. later, of the United States of America appears in a receitt
e - •
Thc LORD MAYOR—Then a warrant shall be issued, number of the New York Observer. This calculation, the
accuracy of which we have no means of testing, goes to
show that, among the 291 Members of Congress, there ozn
only twenty-one, or one in fourteen, who make a prefeasieat
of Christianity.
The pack of harriers belonging to Thomas Dean.
Esq., of Cotley Farm, have this last week been all destroyed.
owing to many of them showing signs of hydrophobia,- ea
Skerborne Journal.

MONEY MARKET'.—Again do the Foreign Ex-
! changes present a manifestation of improvement, small in-
deed in extent, but important, as being the continuation of
the same gradual progress to a better relation with foreign
countries in monetar3Wairs, which has obtained during the
last fortnight:L.-Pi:or-ding Paper.
The diplomatic corps has received a brilliant ucces-
sion in the person of the Lady of the Dutch Minister,
Baron Dedtt. Her Excelleney has been one of the loveliest
ornaments of the many Courts of Europe in w'.iich her hus-
band Las represented the Sovereign of the Netherlands.
Baron Dade! came over to this country with tho present
King of Holland, and was brought up at an English Uni-
versity.
The Augsburg Gazdtc given the following, of the
14th inst., from Vienna --" l'Attjor-General the Count, de
Coudenhausen set out to-day for Goritz, with compliments
of condolence to the Duke of Angouleme, on the death of
Charles X., the Duke IraLlg officially announced this event.
The day after to-mo;Tow the Count de Lueliesi Palli will
return to Gratz. it is stated that the Duke and Duchess
of Angouleme, Ode Duke of Bordeaux, and his sister, will
return to resid.e in the Hradschin, at Prague."
Sr. MARYLEBONE BANK FOR SAVINGS.—The
following is the comparative statement of progress at speci-
fied periods

MARLBOROUGH-aJttEET.
Mr. Rossitter Lenton Walker, a gentleman of venerable
appearance, and rather deaf, whose face exhibited some
severe contusions, charged Mr. Booker, glass and china
tioaler, ilanway-yard, Oxford-street, with an assault.
One warm autumnal day Mr. Walker was walking down
Regent-street, when his attention was attracted to some
tobacco-boxes in a tobacconist's window Just previous to

this
.two females stop}
the same matters, and __
the subject from Mr. Walker, which remarks of course
paved the way to a more sociable situation. Mr. Walker
ventured to enquire of the elder of the two females Who
her young friend was, and was delighted at learning that
he was•a widow, had only one child, and was sweet two-
and-twenty. On the other band, the young lady, who had
'made an enquiry through the s,ene convenient channel, pro-
fessed to be no less pleased at hearing that her admirer was
a widower, had plenty of property, and was turned of
mature two-and-seventy. An acquaintance was speedily
formed, places appointed for future meetings, and all the
symptoms of a mutual attachment exhibited. Matters
went on in this manner for some time—he becoming daily
more and more delighted with his young widow, she more
and more devoted to her venerable admirer,
From a bundle of billet data on both sides two epistles
were handed to the Bench. The one from the ludy was—
" My deer Mister Walker, i now tak hup my pin with a
feeling of grattyt.ud for the intrest you tak in my be half to
make me happy, and i hop that thrice happy happy happy
day will arrive when the name of Mrs. Betsey Walker
will
sound more swederer. than the songs of ten thousand angels.
Oh, Mister Walker, when shall I call you my deer ? I
hop you had a pleasant voyage, and I feel very ankshus. I
reseaved that kind token of your love. and i
think it is a
neet present. But o Mister Walker the hours pass hervily
on, and sometimes I'm in sitch a taking i dent know what
I'm doing at times, therefore i hop you will not delay
coming home as soon as possble and ease my longing to see
you once more. I should have gone to mothers but I feal
poorly. Excuse the shortness, of my letter for iam very
unwell at your long absence.—Your ever attatched widow,
A
The gentleman's answer wasRLOTTE WESTLEY."
"At Mrs. Levrett's, 94, West-street, Brialton.
Sunday, Church time.
My dear Charlotte—my dearest—my only dear, agree-
ably to the intimation conveyed
leavethis
etoea appoint
u my letter to you I beg
y
o ct:7fa"ening, at the usual time and
how painful has been to
me
world. May the A_lmighty and all his good angels always
rar teo r
fromrull fe:de
bae t
only one most dear to me in the
bless and preserve you and your devoted friend,
pc
to
ROSSITER LENTON WALKER."
The complainant, on his return to town, .fle%v on the
wings of love to meet his widow ; and, as she Caine ac-
companied by some "relations," he adjourned to a tavern
in Hungerford Market, and insisted on " standing sam"
to
the whole party. While sitting in the tavern he had occa-
sion to pull out his gold watch, upon which his widow, in
a fit of fondness, snatched it out of his hands, and hid it
in' her bosom. He allowed her to keep it, believing
it
quite as safe in her keeping as in his, and he promised that
he would shortly make her a present of a seven-guinea
watch which he had his eye on. He took leave of his
charmer, having first made an appointment for the next
evening. While waiting at the place he was accosted by
a man, who told him his widow was unwell, and had sent
a request that he would come to her in Hanway--yard.
The complainant instantly proceeded to the house ; but Le
had hardly got into the passage before he was confronted
by the defendant, Who announced himself as the husband
of his "widow." The defendant, after charging him with
having established an improper connection with his wife,
pitched into him, -and gave him a severe beating. For this
assault he had taken out a warrant.
The MAGISTRATES inquired particularly if he had nny
reason to believe that the young woman was married at
any period of the. acquaintance?
Mr. Walker always believed she was a widow, and her
name Westley, though he now found out her real name
was Booker.