The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-17 00:00:00

MACLIN V. SIMMONDS.

The plaintiff in this case was an attorney, practising in the
Insolvent Debtors' Court, and the action was brought to reco-
ver damages for slanderous words spoken of him by defendant.
Mr. ALEXANDER, for the defendant, retracted the words
alleged to have been spoken, and the apology having been ac-
cepted by Mr. KELLY, for the plaintiff, a Juror was withdrawn.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
THIS DAY.

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OLD COURT.

Frederick Elliot, aged 25, was indicted for stealing eleven
snuff-boxes, a watch, a necklace, and other articles, the pro-
perty of Mary Ann Baxter.
Thr prosecutrix said the prisoner and she lived in a draper's
house. He paid his addresses to her, and she thought they
were to be married, She went and took a shop in the to-
bacco line is the Hackney-road. She had occasion to leave
homelone day, and left the prisonerin charge of the shop. On
her return she found that a trunk, containing the property
named in the indictment, had been taken away. The pri-
soner called in about three weeks after, and when she charged
him with robbing her, he said he was a base wretch to her,
and asked for forgiveness. She refused, and he went away.
Cross-examined by Mr. PHILLIPS—Did not give him in
charge, as she was not quite sure that he was guilty. On
the same day there was something said about writing to his
father for money.
Re-examined—That was for 201. she had lent him on a pre-
vious occasion.

Sergeant Waller, of the City Police, took the prisoner into
custody on the 26th May, in New-street, Fetter-lane. He
found a duplicate upon him for a fan and other things. Pri-
soner said he wished to see Miss Baxter, but witness took him
to the station.

N. Barnes, servant to Mr. Dextree, a pawnbroker, pro-
duced a fan and some other trifling articles, which were
pawned by the prisoner for one shilling.
The prosecutrix identified the articles as being part of those
in the trunk in question.
Se'reral persons gave the prisoner a good character for ho-
nesty.
The Jury found him Guilty.
There were other two indictments against the prisoner, but
Mr. CLARK SON did not think it necessary to give any evidence
upon them.
Dennis Denny, aged 14, was indicted for maliciously stab-
bing John Costello, a very young boy, with intent to do him
some grievous bodily harm.
The boys were standing about a ballad-singer; one dropped
a penny and the other claimed it, a dispute arose, and the pri-
soner, who had a knife in his hand, struck the other, and
wounded him in the body.
Mr. Baron GURNEY stopped the case, and the Jury, under
his direction, found the prisoner Not Guilty. The officer was
ordered to indict for the assault.

Amelia Fletcher, aged 13, was indicted for stealing a watch
and seal and other articles, the property of Mary Harding, and
seven sovereigns, the property of Ann Mellar.
The prisoner was servant with Mrs. Harding. On the 25th
of May she left, taking the watch from the bed-room, and the
money from the box (which she broke open) of Miss Mellon.
It appeared that the girl had been apprenticed to Mrs.
Harding about three years ago, and had upon two former oc-
casions run away with some trifling articles.
Verdict Guilty.
The prosecutrix recommended her to mercy, but the Judge
said the law was imperative : the punishment was transporta-
tion for life, he would, however, see whether anything could
be done for her.

SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
(FROM LLOYD'S.)

DEAL, JUNE 14.—Wind W. S. W.—Arrived and sailed for
the river, the Hector, Morgan, from Jamaica ; Ann, Coath,
from Plymouth ; and his Majesty's ship Hercules, from the
Westward, for the Nore. Arrived from the river and pro-
ceeded, the Secret, Gates, for Madeira ; Albion, Ball, for
Nantes ; Cherub, Black, for Newfoundland ; Jane Lockhart,
Calford, for Dominica ; Commodore, Carron, for Waterford;
Dublin Lass, Silk, for Dublin.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 16.—Arrived from the river and re-
mains the Favourite, —, from the South Seas; and the Ex-
mouth, —, from Madras.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 15.—Wind E.—Arrived the Flora,
Schrien, from New Orleans. Off port, the Colombo, M‘Kel-
ler, from Ceylon.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 15.—Wind E. to S S. E.—Arrived the
Briseis Packet, —, from the West Indies, sailed from St.
Thomas's 16th ult. Sailed the Calpe (steamer) for Oporto,
Lisbon, &c. ; Lilly, IlPDonald, for Trieste ; and the Transit,
(steamer), for London.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Our arrivals this morning are the French, Ostend, and
Dutch mails ; a Jamaica mail by the Briscis—sailed on the
10th May, from St. Thomas's the 16th ; and ship-letters from
St. Kitt's, New Brunswick, and Mauritius.
Jamaica papers, received to 10th May, state, under the head
of the meeting of the House of Assembly, that his Excellency
the Governor had been pleased to call the House together on
the 24th instant, for the despatch of public business ; but how
the Executive and the Members would meet, or how they would
part, were points which afforded a wide field for speculation.
The House, previous to the late prorogation, declared they
would not proceed to any business with Lord Sligo, until he
purged the breach of their privileges of which they complained.
Files of Bahama Papers, to a late date, give the following
from Nassau, 16th April :—" On Wednesday his Majesty's
sloop Gannet arrived in the offing, having in company a
schooner of large size, under the Portuguese flag, which
proved to be a slaver, with upwards of 300 slaves on board—
captured to the windward of St. Domingo. The Africans
were landed on the following day, and the master and crew
were brought on shore. The vessel was called the Creole.
Another vessel, a Portuguese slaver, the Vigilante, was also
taken into the Bahamas, and the crew sent to prison."
The Bahama Royal Gazette, of the 20th April, states that
the Legislature were to meet on the 22d of March. ,
Guiana Chronicles to the 29th April, have also been re-
ceived. They state that his Excellency, the Lieutenant-Go-
vernor, had favoured them with another Government notice—
a comparative table of exports of produce in British Guiana,
to prove the blessings of emancipation, and the successful
working of the apprenticeship system.