The Sun.
London, England, 1831-11-29 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson was summoned by Mrs.
Mary Jackson for committing a violent assault, and
running away with a baked leg of mutton.
The complainant is the first, and the defendant
is the second wife of Mr. Jackson, who was some
some time ago tried at the Old Bailey, convicted,
and sentenced to imprisonment for twelve months,
for the offence of bigamy. The second wife had
been the servant of the first, and Mr. Jackson threw
a sheep's (or rather a bull's) eye at her, in the ab-
sence of the legitimate claimant upon his affections,
whose years were beginning to wax of a religious
character. The virtue of the maid, however, was
proof against all his coaxing. At last she consented
to make him happy upon condition that she should
change situations with her mistress; and the cere-
mony which made them one was performed in the
very next church to that in which he had pledged
to another the vows he thus was cruel enough to
break.

After Mr. Jackson was discharged from the Pu•
nishment Hotel, he went again into the boom of
his family, but not into that of his first wife, who,
upon her part, scorned to become servant, the only
situation her husband said he had vacant for her.
She accordingly applied to the parish, and Mr.
Jackson was told that he must support her. Here
there was a conflict between passion and prudence,
but the latter prevailed. Mr. Jackson took back
his first espoused, to save expence, and soon after-
wards found that he had no occasion at all for the
second, who was thus thrown upon the wide world
for her bread. It happened that Mrs. Jackson the
first sent a leg of mutton to a baker's on Sunday
last, and Mrs. Jackson the second having got wind
of it, and feeling occasion for part, slipped in and
took possession of the joint. Just as she was leaving
the shop her rival appeared and made a grab at the
dish. Mrs. Jackson the second, however, although
she held the china with one hand, held the leg of
mutton with the other, and she gave Mrs. Jackson
the first such a judicious dab of the latter in the
mouth as was quite enough for her dinner that day.
The LORD MAYOR asked Mr. Jackson why he
did not support both wives? Mr. Jackson—l was
punished according to law, my Lord, and I am
bound to take advantage of the law, which took
such advantage of me.
The LORD MAYOR—But you have ruined this
poor woman's prospects, and are bound in honour
to give her some aid. Mr. Jackson—No, my Lord,
the law says nothing of the kind. I broke the law
at first. I now obey the law by taking home my
first wife. Besides, the other woman ought, by my
example, to take back her first husband.--(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—What ! was she married be-
fore ? Mr. Jackson—Oh dear, yes. If she won't
I never would have married her, for I thought her
offence nullified mine, for nobody couldn't be hurt
by our connexion; but our law was bad, and I
won't subject myself to no more werdites.
The LORD MAYOR— Well, you certainly are
right in your law now, and need not support this
woman, but common pity ought to operate upon you.
Mrs. Jackson the first—Please you, my Lord,
she's such a wizen that I cannot shear her. I'd a
given her part of the mutton if she had patience, but
she began for to abuse my husband in sich a way.
Mrs. Jackson the second—Abuse him ! Why you
was worse a thousand times in your language be-
sides, he on;y keeps the life in you until sich time
as you're fit for the surgeons, and then I'm blest if
he don't sell you, and good lurk to him.—(Loud
laughter.)
Mr. Jackson—lt's a lie. I might give her, but
I'm blowed if I'd sell her, as things goes now.
The LORD MAYOR—I think the best thing you
can do is to part in peace. Mr. Jackson is evi-
dently not worth fighting for, for his only motive
for living with his wife is to save the expence of
giving an allowance for her to the parish.
Mr. Jackson—Please you, my Lord, its the law.
' I suffered by the law, and those as breaks the law
ought for to get the benefit of the law as well as
►ne.—: Loud laughter.)

There being evidence that the two women were
at constant war with each other, the Lord Mayor
bound them both over in their own recognizances to
keep the peace according to law.