The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-29 00:00:00

WINSHURST V. LUCESNE.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a ship-
builder and merchant, against the defendant, who was the
owner of the brig Cambria, to recover 71/. 15s. for repairs
done to the brig in 1834. The defendant had paid into
Court 44/. 155., so that the dispute between the parties
was only as to the sum of 27/. The Jury found a verdict
for the plaintiff—Damages 271.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Nor. 28.
IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.

An old man, in a state of decrepitude, upwards of eighty
years of age, named Richard Allen, applied upon his peti-
tion to be discharged. He was unopposed. The insolvent
was assisted into the box, and ordered to be sworn to the
schedule without a single interrogatory. His schedule con-
tains but one deht of M., out of which 6!. was for law
costs, and the residue, 51., for rent of a cottage at Ealing,
due to a female named Nicholls, which cottage he alleges
in the schedule he had rented forty-seven years, and only
owed her a balance of Si. He was taken in execution on
the 27th of August, and had since that period been an in-
mate of Whitecross-street Prison. His reason for not
filing his petition earlier was that he had hoped his detaining
creditor would have accepted 21. 10s., the sum offered for
his discharge by the governor (Mr. Barratt). That sum
had been expended in prosecuting his proceeding in this
Court. The schedule further showed the receipt of 2s. 6d.
a week from Ealing parish, and his insolvency had been
occasioned by his being past labour, and upwards of eighty
years of age. He had been an agricultural labourer. Mr.
Commissioner Law ordered the poor old man to be dis-
charged forthwith.
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He seemed unconscious of the proceedings.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

G UILDHALL.
Yesterday William Osborne, a lad, was brought before
Mr. Alderman CowAN for re-examination, touching the
dath of the boy William Hayes, who was drowned in the
Thames on Thursday afternoon. At the first examination
the prisoner stated that he invited the deceased to go with
him in the boat from Hungerford-stairs to Blackfriars,
where they were to take in a boy named Tom Savory;
that when off the coal-wharf next Blackfriars Bridge the
boat ran foul of a barge and overturned ; that Hayes sunk,
and that prisoner alarmed a coal-heaver, who dragged for
the body for an hour without success.
The father of the deceased now stated that particular
inquiry had been made at all the wharfs on each side of the
river, but he could not learn that any cry for help had been
heard on Thursday afternoon, nor that any coal-heaver had
dragged for the body or heard of any accident. He did not
suppose that the prisoner had wilfully caused the death of
his child ; but his concealment of the spot where it occurred
was suspicious.
Williams, the constable, had inquired at the houses where
the drags are kept, and was sure that the prisoner's state-
ment was entirely false.
Mr. Alderman COWAN asked the prisoner where he
went to after he left the wharf? The prisoner went home
to his mother in the York-road, Lambeth.
Mr. Alderman COWAN asked him if he told his mother
what had happened ? Prisoner said no ; he forgot it.
Mr. Alderman CowAN asked, with some astonishment,
if it were possible that he could so soon forget the shock-
ing death of a play-fellow ? The prisoner answered, yes.
His mother stepped forward, and said he was not right
in his mind.

Joseph Still, the Waterman who owned the boat, said
he knew the prisoner, and was aware he was not of sound
mind.

Mr. Alderman COWAN remanded the prisoner till to-
morrow, and directed the constable to take him to point
out the wharf where he landed.

BOTV-STREET.

Yesterday afternoon John Tull,; respectably-dressed
middle-aged man, was brought up in the custody of Fall,
the officer, charged with having feloniously embezzled
moneys to the amount of about 4001., the chief part the
property of J. Romilly, Esq., the Chancery Barrister, and
the remainder belonging to R. Romilly, Esq., the cousin of
that gentleman. Remanded till Wednesday.