The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-15 00:00:00

FEM ALE undtr SENTENCE of DEATH in NEWGATE •

Yesterday an important investigation took
place at the Police Office in Lambeth-street, Whitechapel, be-
fore Mr. WYATT and Mr. HARDWICK'S, the Magistrates, re-
specting the case of an unhappy girl, aged only 18, named
Catherine Ferris, now in the condemned cells in Newgate, under
the awful sentence of Death. Mr. Wontner, the Governor, at-
tended, and took his seat on the Magisterial Bench.
The unfortunate girl, the subject of this inquiry, was ap-
prehended in June last by one of the officers belonging to,
the Lambeth.street establishment, with another female,
named Catherine Davis, for attacking a Mr. Marsh, a timber-
merchant, residing in the neighbourhood of Poplar, about
half-p,,st six o'clock in the evening of Saturday the 6th
of June, in Wentworth-street, Whitechapel, and stealing for..
cibly from his person upwards of 401. in cash. Marsh, the
prosecutor, in his evidence before the Magistrate, swore that he
was attacked first by two girls, one of whom was Davis., and
while they were in the act of rifling his pockets, the girl Ferris
joined them and made use of very shocking language. • The
Magistrates on that occasion desired him to look most atten-
tively upon the prisoners before he swore to the persons, which
he did, and persisted in declaring on his oath that Catherine
Ferris, and the girl Davis, were two out of the three that
robbed him of his money, although Forster, another officer,
from the information he had obtained, expressed his firm
belief that Ferris was perfectly innocent of
,the accusation.
Ferris and her companion were remanded two or three
times, anti on each occasion, the former vehemently pro-
tested' her innocence of being at all concerned in the robbery;
however, she was ultimately fully committed with Davis to
take her trial at the Old Batley. Sessions, and she was tried,
found guilty by the Jury, and received ie awful sentence of
Death. On the trial the prosecutor swore most distinctly to
the person of Ferris, who persisted in asseverating, up to the
moment of her doom being fixed, her entire innocence of the
crime. Alderman Brown, the then Sheriff, has ever since been
indefatigable in his endeavours to trace out whether or not Ferris
was guilty, and for that purpose persons have been engaged by
the worthy Sheriffin the furtherance of his laudable intent, and
it gives us great pleasure in stating that his praiseworthy object
has been attained—that is, in proving the innocence of the un-
fortunate girl, anti the apprehension of the real offenders, two
girls named Furze and Shute. One most extraordinary feature
in this girls case is, that Marsh, the prosecutor, soon eller she
had been sentenced to die, was seized with madness, and was
placed in Saint Luke's Lunatic Asylum, where he now re-
mains.
Mr. Wontner, the Governor of Newgate, now stated that .h.e
had waited upon the Magistrate, in order that two men, who
were now in attendance, might make affidavit to sonic im-
portant facts, that tended to prove the innocence of Catherine
Ferris, which would he the means of saving her from an igao.
minions end.
The Magistrates were of opinion that the affidavi s of the men
ought to be made before Mr. Peel, the Secretary of State, and,
not before them. They were most willing to join in such a.
praiseworthy work, but they considered they would be doing
wrong in taking any side evidence to avert the verdict of the
Jury.
Mr.. Worthier replied. that affidavits in such cases were
frequently received by. the Police Magistrates, and at other
offices in the metropolis.
The MaciiternAix asked ihat the men were to make efli.

davit to ?
Mr. \Vontner said the men were outside, and would relate
their stories, if they pleased to hear them. The men were
then called in, and the two girls, Furselind Shute, were placed
at the bar.
J. Bannister, one of the tumcocks of the East London Wa-
ter-works, then stated that he saw the prosecutor Marsh on the
evening in question standing opposite the City of Norwich
public-house, in Wentworth-street s the two prisoners now at
the bar, and Catherine Davis, wha is now in Newgate, were
pushing MIA about, which witness thought was .lone in a
lark ; but in a day or two afterwards he heard he had been
robbed by the girls, and that Catherine Ferris was appre-
hended as one of the robbers. Be was now ready to make affi-
davit that Ferris wag not on the spot, or in the street at the time
of the robbery.
The Magistrate asked Bannister if he thought he could iden-
tify the prosecutor if he were to see him ?
Bannister replied in the affirmative, and gave an exact de-
scription of his person.
A man named Leaver said he saw the prosecutor surrounded
by three girls on the evening of the robbery, and those were
two of the three girls at the bar, and the female named Davis,
now in Newgate, lie was ready to make affidavit that Cather-
ine Ferris was not concerned in the robbery.
It was ultimately agreed that Bannister and Leaver should
virit Marsh, the prosecidor, in the Lunatic Asylum, in order to
identify him, and in the mean time the two girls, Furze and
Shute, were ordered to be remanded till a future day, when this,
important and singular case will =largo further investigation,,

TII E LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

.artracts from the Morning Papers,Dec. 15, 1825.

[NEW TIMES.]

There is but one Subject that now occupies
public attention, and that. is. the sudden, and
striking distress of the monied world. It is a
gratifying consolation to us, that from the first
moment of alarm we have steadily opposed its
progress. It is still more gratifying, that the
suggestions which in. our earnestness to restore
confidence we have ventured to offer, have been
in Accordance with the general feeling of those
eminent persons whose judgment on such subjects
must 'be deemed decisive. On Monday we said,
" Atsuch:a moment we think the great body of
merchants :and bankers should make a common
effort to restore public credit." Atrd on Tues-
day, after--quoting the " laudable example set
at Plymouth, when, on the stoppage of Sir
W. Elford's Bank,. the Nobility, Gentry,
and Traders of the County, came forward
to declare.. their confidence in the other Ply-
mouth Bank,"' we said, " whatever practical
measure may be adopted to restore confidence,
we'are decidedly of Opinion,: that it should ori-
ginate without a moment's delay, in the great
body, of 'lVlerchants and. Traders of London."
Yesterday
.our hopes and wishes were fulfilled.
The Lord Mayor, with the concurrence of his
brother Magistrates, called toether a Meeting,
of which it is sufficient to say, that the bossiness
was opened by two of the City Members, and the
Resolutions were moved and. seconded by Mr.
Baring and Mr. Irving. The simple object of
such a.Meeting was to establish, on undoubted
atOority, afew propositions of which the mere
publicity must almost of necessity lead to a prac-
tical remedy, for the, existing evil. After the dis-
cussion at this Meeting, a report of which will
Jae found in another coluMn, no one will
doubt htit that the wealth and solid resources
orthelcountry are unbroken, and that, nationally
speaking, the sole evil at present existing is a
want of confidence. Confidence is essential to
credit, and credit is the main engine of our national
greatness. Why are we more powerh. than
nations far larger in territory, and far more
numerous in population than ourselves it is be.
cauSeour forces are doubled, tripled, quadrupled
by the mutual reliatice which we have On each
other. But if an incendiary creep into' the. com-
mercial world, and whisper a way credit, he is like
a traitor creeping in among a regiment and seduc-
ing the soldier from his reliance on his officer. If
confidence bet Ween Man and min be destroyed,
adieu-atonce to commercial, greatness.. Well and
truly was it observed by Mr. Baring at the meet-
ing of yesterday, that in a state' of ;Ilium like
the present, it is not. the rash and incautious' spe-
culator that suffers, it is the prudent and upright
and honourable .banker. Look at the facts (and
most important facts they were) that were elicited
in the course of yesterda'y's discussion. One
eminent house has stopped with a surplus (after
payipg every body 20 shillings in the pound),of
a hundred'and seventy thousand pounds on the
partnership books, besides large landed estates,and
100,0001, in the private property of the partners.
This is Sir Peter Pole's case. Another house-
stops, with 500,000/. in solid securities, and the
Janded,property of the chief partner. This is
Mr. Williams's case. A third stops, and is likely
soon to
.resume business; the, heel of the firm
has a large entailed estate of many thousands a
year ; and his -son, with an honourble feeling that
does him the. highest honour, declares he will
join in cutting off the entail rather than suffer
his father's creditors to be losers. Here then we
see that the want of confidence has been ihewn
towards persons in whom the utmost confidence
might and ought to 'have been placed, both on
account of their property and of their honour.—
We see that the panic which has seized so'many
persons has-been altogether blind and'indiscrimi-
hate. Indeed, how should it be otherwise, when
it 'was nurtured, we may say 'created, by the
grossest ignorance, or,else the blackest malignity,.

f MORNING
,POST.]

We mentioned in our last that further failures
in the Banking interest's were expected in the
City, and we regret to find that the anticipation
has been confirnied. At the usual hour for open-
ing business yesterday, it was announced that the
firms of Everett, Walker, Maltby, and Co., and
SykeS,Snaith, and 'Co., had been compelled to
suspend their payments ; and the alarm occa-
sioned by this information, caused Consols for
Account to open at 811 81, a fall of LI per Cent.
from the closing price of the preceding even-
ing. EVen this price may be considered ficti-
tious, for Money Stock Three per .Cent. was offer-
ed at 754, and the Three per Cent. Reduced
at 74 to 75 ; per Cent. at that period
were without purchasers at 80. As the day ad-
vanced:there were various rumours, all tending
to check the
,existing • panic ; one was, that
Messrs. Everett and Co. would immediately re-
sume their payments; but it proved unfounded.
The remit of the meeting held at the Mansion-
House also had the effect of advancing Consols
for Account to 82f,1, but at the termination
the Consols closed at 817} 2..EXchequer Bills
during the day were as .low as .38 discount,
but large purchasers advanced theta to 17 dis-
count. Towards the latter part of the market there
were ndquotations for them, but-the price was
regarded,steady at about %) to 25 discount.• One
of the Brokers of the Exchange,' connected, we
believe, with Messrs. Sykes and Co. was dedared
a defaulter, but as,he was not a very large spe-
culator, the mischief is not expected to. he exten-
sive: „Several of the houses in the• City had a
most trying run upon. them, but it was 'met with
activity and energy.—Money, however, continued
extremely scarce. In the Foreign Market
every thing was lower of- course, but it will
be sufficient when we say, that Foreign Securi-
ties of whatever description, if offered to any
extent, could, not have been disposed. of on
the Stock Exchange for want of purchasers.--
-Colombia Bonds were, offered at., one period as
low as 53, but subsequently advanced to 551,
and closed at 55. In Shares there was nothing

to notice. We Teirn, in addition to the above,
that one of the most respectable Banks in the
Midland Counties lis'lleen compelltiefo/suspend
its payments, and that such was. the agitation
created amongst the multitude, that the military
were obliged to be called out to preserve order.
The leading partner of the firm, however, is said
to have obtained of the Bank Directors a suffi-
cient sum to meet•the immediate exigencies ; and
as he left town immediately, it was expecsed the
Bank would resume its payments on his arrival.

•
[TIIL PUBLIC, LEDGER.]
It is not for want of timely, as well as repeat-
ed, warnings, that the present distress has come
on the Commercial World; but the voice of rea-
son was drowned in the din of the Stock Ex-
change ; and it is our duty to say this, that the
blamer may attach where it is really merited.
The reckless (we do not wish to use a harsher
though far more appropriate epithet), we say
the reckless spirit of adventure, which pre-
vailed during a great part of this year, is
now producing the effects that all considerate
persons anticipated, and which the most en 7
lightened men in the Cabinet attempted in vain
to deprecate. It is due to justice and truth to
make this,explicit declaration, as the responsibi-
lity might be otherwise shifted from those who
have originated the present distress, to such as
tried to avert it by early and solemn warnings.—
Moreover, if the case were not depicted in its
true colours, the same spirit of giddy adventure
would revive almost as soon as the present pres-
sure were removed, and once more consign the
hard earnings of the honest and unsuspecting to
the Harpies of the Share-market. To prevent
the recurrence of either the one or the other, and
to impress at the same time the necessity of a re-
turn to those fair and circumspect principles,
from, which the' commercial community has de-
parted too much of late, is the sole object-of the
present animadversions; and we shall be reward-
ed for our pains, if they but answer the end for
which they were written. It is on a bed of sick-
ness, brought on by intemperance, that the wild
votary of dissipation is accessible to the maxims
of wisdom, which he had before spurned, as too
old fashioned for a person of his dashing charac-
ter; and it is in the midst of commercial distress,
solely brought on by extravagant speculation,
that precepts, based upon the experience of the
best times, are sure to be listened to with due at-
tention.

[BRITISH PR ESSg
The Paris Papers of Monday, including, as
usual, the Etoile dated the following morning,
arrived yesterday. In the latter we find advices
from the Havannah, respecting the supplies of
food and ammtlnition lately thrown into the for-
tress of San Juan d'Ulloa, in anticipation of the
expeditions fitting out in the ports of Colombia
and Mexico. The intelligence from Greece is
by no means such as to induce us to despair
of the cause of independence, if the Greeks
remain true to themselves. It seems that the
Moreotes have hitherto offered no oppositiop
to Ibrahim Pacha, whom they have suffered
without resistance to traverse and ravage
their country from one coast to the other. His ;

force, however, it appears from an article which
we have given in another column, has neverthe-
less been reduced from fifteen thousand men to

less than seven. Since the capture of Navarino,
he has not succeeded in making-himself master of
one single military position. He had finally been
obliged to retire to Corona where he was await-
ing the reinforcements from Egypt. The last
accounts from Alexandria represent the much-
vaunted expedition which sailed from that port,
under the command of the Copitan Pacha, as
considerably inferior in every respect to the ex-
aggerated descriptions that have been given to it.
The number of troops,, it seems, does not exceed
4.000, and they are neither well equipped nor
well disciplined. One day of success, it is yet
probable, may save Greece. At the worst, ano-
ther campaign will be necessary for its subjuga-
tion. By the private correspondence from Madrid
we learn that some salutary measures are about
to be adopted by the Spanish Government, at
the instance of the Consultative Junta. One of
these is the division of the Peninsula into
departments like France. Under the Cortes
this division was made, and it was productive
of the most beneficial results. It tended
strongly to annihilate local jealousies, and
give energy to the proceedings of the Go-
vernment, which, under the present system,
are too frequently resisted, or, in effect, neutra-
lized by the provincial authorities. Another
good decision of the Consultative Junta regards
the everlasting subject of the purifications. They
recommend that all the Juntas of purification
should forthwith be suppressed, and the treat-
ment of each individual regulated entirely by the
King's pleasure. If the Duke del Infantado has
firmness to act upon these principles, he may ren-
der many and important services to his country.

[THE, TIM ES.]
The French Papers of Monday arrived last
night. The Journal des Debuts contains a part
of the representation made by the Hungarian
States to the Emperor of Austria, which called
forth from his Majesty the indignant and menacing
answer to which we alluded some days ago. We
have now the ground on which the Imperial Cen-
sor proceeded in his haughty lecture about the
obedience of the subject and the authority of the
sovereign. That obedience would seem to-be un-
touched, if we place any reliance on the assurances
of the Assembly; but it does not go the length of a
total surrender of national rights, or an absolute
abandonment of constitutional protection. They
address their King as his " Sacred, Imperial,
cc Royal, and Apostolic Majesty—their very
" Gracious Lord ;" but they at the same time
tell him, that their unlimited confidence in hiq
parternal sentiments has not led them to neglect
the maintenance of their ancient institutions.
Speaking, therefore, with the frankness which-
became them, they declare their alarms " at see-
cc ing that, in open defiance of the fundamental
" laws of the kingdom, and in contravention of ar-
" tides adopted in 1790 and 1791 (by which the
" wounds of the Constitution had been closed), they
" had been dePrived of tbe protection °tam laws

cc in the exercise of their principal immunities,
" rights, and prerogatives, without any regard to
" the enormous sacrifices which they had made
" since that time ; that the Constitution had
46 been again attacked 3, that the respect due to
" the fundamental laws had been violated ; and
" that the whole edifice of their ancient privileges
44 had been shaken to its foundation." The States
then enumerate the articles which had been vio-
lated, and announce their grievancei with a fear-
lessness and an energy which the Austrian Go-
vernmentcannot easily withstand orsafelydespise.
The people of Switzerland are still engaged in
examinations and discussions respecting the alleged
assassination of one of their magistrates, M. Kel-,
-ler.—A letter from Madrid states, that the- Con-
sultative Junta has recommended that no more of ,
the Government officers be dismissed for their
conduct during the revolution, without being
heard in their own defence. It is lamentable
that such a'recommendation should be necessary
at any time, and more especially three years after
the events happened in which the parties are ac-
cused of being implicated.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.j
The Journal des Debats of Monday contains
part of a very important document, the Repre-
sentation of the Hungarian Diet with respect to
the invasions of their Constitutional Rights by the
Imperial Government of Austria. In this docu-
ment the Hungarian Nobles tell the Emperor
that they " speak to him with all the frankness of
children addressing themselves to their father."
Say,with the frankness rather of children on whom
their parents are dependent for support,and who
think it expedient when they dole out their money
to accompany it with a little homely advice. They
roundly charge his Imperial Majesty with having
contravened the fundamental laws of the king-
dom, confirmed by the diploma of hiss coronation
with having violated their principal rights, pri-
vileges, and immunities ; and, in short, with
having shaken the whole edifice of their an-
cient Constitution in its principal foundation."
It is a remark of Burke, that no men are so
tenacious of their rights and liberties, as the
masters of slaves', for liberty acquires a n6w value
with them, from the constant spectacle of the
misery produced by the want of it ; and accord-
ingly, in all times-the Austrian Government has
been exposed to many galling mortifications from
the Hungailen Aristocracy, while the happy and
often wealthy peasantry of Austria Proper, never
give the least trouble to it. We may easily con-
ceive what the danger is which besets the Aus-
trian Government in this quarter, supposing in
the only other country of Europe in which there
is a strong Aristocracy, we mean England (in
which, by the bye, the peasantry seem fast ap,
proaching to the condition of slaves, to make
the parallel more resemblant), that the
Government was not at present in the Aris-
tocracy, but in the King, as, in the times, of the
Stuart.s Were Hungary and the other Slave
States kept in check by the German States,
in which the power of the Crown is greater,
the Aristocracy would soon gain a complete as-
cendancy. We lately, in alluding to a corre-
spondence from Paris in The London Magazine,
noticed a comparison between the state of society
in Vienna and London. The resemblance has
struck many observers. In the Travels through
Germany, France, England, end Italy, in 1819\
and 1820, by Professor Molbech, of Copen.
hagen, an excellent woik, in Danish, pub-
lished in 1822, it is observed, speaking of
Austria :—" There prevails, unquestionably, a
good deal of Aristocracy, in Austria ; Nobility
still 'signifies something here; its splendour
and its political influence have not disappeared
as in France and other countries. But still the
tone in Vienna allows of no striking pride or
haughtiness on the part of the great. The
Court, which scarcely displays' its imperial
splendour once or twice in the year, is, upon
the whole, extremely simple ; and the Citi-
zen of Vienna, who is not deficient in respect
to rank, is not, however, slavish or degradingly
submissive. lie is as little disposed to allow him-
self to be trodden in the dirt, as to imagine that
the Prince and the Cobler are on the same foot-
ing. He entertains no exaggerated notions of the
magnatis.TheA ristocracy here cannot he compared
with the English ; for the Nobles have neither
such immense wealth nor such immense. influence.
Austria is essentially a much more Monarchical
State than England. The Nobility, indeed, play
an important part at the Diet, but the Emperor
is not a mere shadow in the Enipire ; but two
such popular Rulers as Joseph and Francis, have
been a good counterpoise against the Aristocracy."

[MORNING HERALD.]
The general distress so long prevalent here is
day by day increased. Yesterday morning opened with the an-
nouncement of the suspension of payment of the banking house
of Messrs. Everett, Walker, Maltby, and Co., in .Mansion-
house-street, and also of its near neighbour, the house of Messrs.
Sikes, Snaith, and Co. Messrs. Everett, Walker, and Co.
were intimately connected with thirteen other banks, the names
of which are as under:—Chesterfield, J. Collier, Maltby, and
Co, ; Croydon, Piper and Co.; Dorking, Piper and Co. ;
Hastings, 'Smith and Co.;Hastings, Breeds and Co.;Mans-
field, Maltby and. Co. ; '
Qundle, Smith and Co. ; ' Reigate,
Piper and Co. ; Rotherham, Walkers and Co. ; Sheffield,
-Walkers and Ce.; Warminster, Everett and Co. ; Romsey, T.
Sharp and Son ; Sarum, Seward, Everett, and Co.—Of Messrs.
Sikes, Snaith, and Co. little is known : there was only one
country bank that drew on them—that of Watkins and Son, of
Daventry. We do not hear of any cause being assigned for the
failure, beyond the general distress of the times. The imme-
diate effect of thenews of these failures, added to those of Sir
Claude Scott and Co. (the West End branch bank of Williams
and Co.), and of Messrs. Whittaker the booksellers, caused an
immediate decline in Consols of full one per cent., but it was
difficult to make a'price for any Stock; even the most daring
speculators were compelled to suspend operations. In the
meantime the Money Stock Market was in a still worse situa-
tion, for Stock to a most enormous amount was brought on the
Market, but. money could not be procured to bity it. The
French Funds coming lower, and yesterday being the tirstday
of the advance of the rate of discount by the Bank Directors,
tended to increase the distress, and happy was the man who
could procure 'Money. Private transfers were made in Consols
as low as 75:1 and 76; and Exchequer Bills were at 36 and 40
shillingo diacount. It was then announced that a Meeting was
to be held at the Mansion-house of a number of first-rate Mer-
chants, specially summoned, at which the Lord Mayor was to
preside, in order to take into consideration the desperate state
of the commercial and monied interest; this circumstance,
added to the Bank having been more than ordinarily liberal in
the discounting of paper yesterday, slightly tended to enliven
the Market, and, after much struggling, Consols reached 82
for the current Account, whilst Exchequer Bills improved to
18s. dicount. The result of the proceedings of the Meeting was
not known at the close of the Market ; but all persons were
anxiously. inquiring as to its result, and numbers waited beyond
the usual hour of business to ascertain it, after which Consols
were currently done out of doorS for the 4 ccoupt at 0.24.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, DEc. 14. -
DE PONT V. DE TASTET.'
The LORD CHANCELLOR said,. that after taking much pains
with the consideration of this case, he was, of opinion that the
money in question must be paid into Court.

• CAUSES OF DELAY.
Three of the Counsel, Mr. HEALD, Mr. HourzE,*and Mr.
SCGDEX, claimed priority of Motions : each of them had one
which was appoint& to be taken the first thing on!this day,.
being seal-day. The dispute occasioned a conversation between
the Court and the Bar of no very interesting importance.
The LORD CHANCELLOR did not blame the Counsel, but
he found fault with the practice of allowing several matters to
be set down to be taken first on any particular day. His Lord-
ship also remarked the great. increase of motions latterly; and,
appealing to Mr. Hart to vouch it, said, that within his time,
two or three days in each term used to be enough to take mo-
tions, whereas now the Court could scarcely get through them
all, if it were to take nothing else.
One of the Counsel observed that a,practice had very much
prevailed of late years of contriving td dispose of causes Upon
motion.

LATHAM V. PARRY.

This case is to go to a higher tribunal, by means of a bill of
exceptions.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, DEC. 14.

PETO V. FAULKNER AND OTHERS, EXECUTORS OF JOHN

GOSLING, DECEASED'.
Mr. GIRDLESTONE moved that an-injunction which had
been granted in this ex-parte, should be dissolved. The in-
junction was granted upon a bill filed, in support of which
affidavits had been put in, stating that, the deceased Mr. Gos-
ling was indebted to the plaintiff in a sum of more than four
thousand pbOnds. This debt was incurred for the building of a
large inn in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel, called the
Kent and Essex Inn, which Mr. Peto, in his trade of a builder,
had erected for Mr.G . That person was lately dead, and left
the defendarit, Mrs. Faulkner, who had lived with him for se-
veral-years previous to his decease, and a Mr. Rose of Marl-
borough, another defbndant, the executers of his will. The
bill alleged that the defendants, without having proved the will;
had proceeded to act under it, and had sold some part of the
property of the deceased. • The plaintiff, therefore, under the
apprehension that if they were not prevented from further deal-1
ing with the property, he might be without the means of ob-
taining the payment of his debt, applied to the Court for an
injunction to restrain the defendants from disposing of any part
of the estate, real or personal, of which the deceased had died
possessed. The bill concluded with the usual prayer, that a
receiver might be appointed. The defendants Counsel now
contended that the injunction could not be allowed to stand,
on the ground-that the plaintifrhad not yet made out his claim
in such a manner as to entitle him•to any other than his corn. •
mon.law remedy; and he suggested moreover, .that the
.de-
fenanis, not having yet proved the will in the usual manner,
could`not be considered executors, so as to bring them. within
the jurisdiction of the Court. - •

Mr. SUODEN was heard in support of the injunction. He
said, that unless it were allowed to subsist, the'„plaintiff would
be deprived of the only chance he bad of getting- his money;
because the•delay would enable the defendants to do that which
it was the object of the injunction to prevent.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR thought the Court had no power
to pronounce the order prayed for. Until the defendants proved
the will, they could not be regarded as executors. They were,
11JweVer, under the authority of the PrerogatiVe Court, and
could eithi4 be restrained from asiy misconduct, or punished if
they should venture to commit it. The injunction from this
Court must therefore be discharged.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, D.E.C. 14.
nATHAWAY V. ;WII.LIAMSON.
This was an action brought to recover 641. Bs. the value of
certain newspapers, and the defence set ap was, that the de-
fendant was not personally responsible for the debt ; but that
'he was only liable in conjunction with his partner, a
Mr. Jones. The plaintiff had served a Morning Paper upon
the defendat4's house-of business in Packer's-yard, Basingliall-,
street, from Ist June, 1818, to September, 1825, and the-charge
for which amounted to 641.85. Jones had retired from his
partnership with the defendant in 1820, and from this period
the defendant had • 'offered to pay the plaintiff ' his de-
mand, referring him for his prior claims to a Mr. Adams,
who, he said, had undertaken to .settle the partnership ac-
counts: During the period from June, 1818, to the dissolution
of partnership between the defendant and Jones, the name of
Williamson and Jones had been printed over the doors of the
defendant's warehouses. It appeared in evidence that Jones,
even whilst in the firm, had had nothing to ao with the news-
papers in question, but that they weie supplied to the defen-
dant for his personal use, and that after reading them, he had
always sent them to one of his connections in Gloucestershire.—
Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 64/. Bs.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 14.
FRANCE V. LUCY.
This was an action to recover the amount of a bill of ex_.
chant;, of which the defendant was the drawer. The defendant
denied his liability, on the ground that he had had no notice of
the bill having been dishonoured. The bill was accepted by a
banker, as an accommodation- to defendant. He had at the
time funds in his banker's hands, but withdrew thetn • before
the bill hicame due, and it was in consequence dishonoured.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE held that, under such circurn-
stances, the defendant was not entitled to receive a notice of
non.paYinent—The verdict was for the plaintiff.

PULLEN V. HEARN.

_ -.—...,.
This was an action to recover compensation in damages for
injury suffered by plaintiff, who had been knocked down by
a coach driven by defendant's servant.—Mr. MOODY opened
the ca.se.

Mr. Sergeant SPANKIE stated it to the Jury. It appeared
from this statement, and the evidence of several witnesses, that
the plaintiff, who is a horse-keeper belonging to one of, the
Tring coaches, called the " Good Intent," was, in July last,
standing in the street at l3erkhamstead by his coach, which
was at that moment taking up a passenger. The defendant's
coach (the " Young Pilot"). drove rapidly by,' and so close to
the " Good Intent," as to knock the plaintiff down, by which
he was much injured.
Mr. Sergeant VAUGHAN (with whom was Mr. TALrounD)
addressed the jury for the defendant, and contended that it was
plaintiff's own fault, as he might have got out of the way if he
had been sober that day.
Several witnesses were called, who stated that the defendant's
coachman ivas driving at his proper side of the road, and at a
proper pace ; but that plaintiff was drunk, and fell up against
the coach as it came up. There was full room between him and
the coach, and he might have avoided the accident if he had
been sober.

The Jury, however, gave credit to the plaintiff's witnesses,
and found a verdict for him—Damages 10/.

FORTUNE HUNTER.—Some time ago a Gentle,
man of the sister Country being determined to get a wife whoie
pecuniary circumstances bore some proportion to his accom-
plishments, went to France upon the adventure. He laboured
hard in the matter for some time without success, and was
about to give it up, wben he met an old friend who asked
him to his house,. at Dieppe, informing him , at. the same
time, that although his lady was not ceremoniously his pro-
perty, she was his by all the rules of honour, and moved
in the most elevated society. • The invitation was accepted,
and the- hero of this story was surprised and delighted to find
the sister of a gallant Admiral- of the English navy at the
house. • Ile availed himself of the opportunity, was received
with warmth, pressed 'his suit, and was married after a very
short courtship. The couple livediu a state of the most anxious
hope for a few weeks but h bap-prima MLA the arrant
began to subside at the same time, and the moment of ex-
planation arrived at last. It then appeared that 10/. was all,
they had in the world ; but the lady, whose spirits were ex-
tremely vivacious, desired her husband to hope for .the best,
and wrote to her brother upon .the subject of their poverty.—
He consented, with a sigh. Her brother replied with all the
haste that might have been expected. *He rejoiced that his sis-
ter had united herself to so respectable a person, but added that
as his father had settled all his property. upon his legitimate
children, there was, unfortunately, nothing for her to expect :
that he hoped she had reformed her little wild tricks, and not
spent the 7001. which had been given to her by her father's re-
lations. This was a thunderbolt to the honour of the husband:
but he had by this time ascertained that it would be advisable
to be silent in the presence of his wife. They agreed to travel
over to this country. They stopped to dine at,Rochester, on
their Sway to London ; and after having, approached London a
few miles more, the husband wished for a ghtsis of brandy and
water, and the wife, desired him to put his hand in lier reticule,
and take out some silver. • ne did so; and silver he certainly
found, but it was silver spoons, which his amiable partner had
taken at ROchester, as a recompence for an overcharge which
she thought had been inflicted upon them by their landlord.
The unfortunate fortune-hunter now had the additional con,
viction that he had a thief for his wife. The Admiral, Upon,.
hearing of the facts, resolved to do a service to his new relation
and procured him a situation. in foreign service of considerable
emolument.—(lllqrn.ing Paper.) , •
As a characteristic of Sufeolk cheese, it is said
that a vessel once laden, one half with grindstones,'and the other
half with .the above commodity-, on arriving at its destination it
wss fotin.d.that the rats had consumed all the grindstones but j
left the cheese untou4bed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE•

MANSION-HOUSE.
,Aterdol
Moss AT BANKING-I-10173E5.—A boy was y-- , for
brought up before Mr. Alderman LUCAS, (Who presideobii,
a time during the absence of the Lord Mayur at the V' the
meeting), on a charge of having caused an obstruction tad
public highway: One of the City officers stated, that h
been in attendance before the Banking,house of Messrs. 113,
terman and Cq., in Nicholas-lane, for the purpose of ke•
ing the thoroughfare- clear.- A coach had arrived with a .01
siderable sum of money, and there was at that time a crielicit
of between two and three hundred p
keefsons assembled, , cja
caused a great obstruction before the door. The witness .1 it
sottio.' of his .brother, officers, exerted themselves to el',
clear; but they met with the n.-,st determined resistance:l,
The prisoner was one of the fellers, and was asked torero
On, but he refused, when he was taken into custody. l'lboy
persons came forward to state that they believed the the
was doing nothing, but going, about his business, whearoi,
officer interfered with him most improperly. It aPpeabi,,,i,
however, when the boy hinaself was questioned, that his Aid
ness was to carry a letter to the Post-office, and that he
stepped down Nichola4-lane, which 'was out of his way.
derman LUCAS expressed his approbation of the OfECer'S
duct, and after admonishing the boy, discharged him.
Police, he observed, were blamed for allowing such crowds 15
collect, lout when they were active in removing the idle, Per:o7.,,
ooffif acperpsarsetantterdest:eacttsaibmiliiltayr tcvreorwednseovferi:ifloeurin,dpe7sontnisngeontost:,,,th
e
forward, as in .the present case, .and make-complaints. 4.,.,
in
assembled round other houses. Of the' crowd assembled
this instance, not one perhapsin the Whole two or three hafci
tiredw ndohwaicli,
any
a bwuastincielssfoart thhoetihr:wtshet;
oain,ddinabrtyi tchlivesrisn'esisailos, she
others would if they were suffered to remain, climb uP the
office, not minding the rain.

GUILDHALL.
serape,
.HOII3E-STEALING—W. Payne, a hOrse-deater, r--orier,
Dartford, appeared before Sir CitAttrals Ft.covE,o3al been
account for the possession of a black cob, whie"),;,n stele"
traced into his hands. -The horse in question Lad jiey,
along with another, from the fields belonging te?11 "
and
coachmaker at Cheshunt, Herts, about six wee° afra' 053
it was discovered at Smithfield, in the preMiSeS h Or'
named Ellerson, and who, when apprehened, said
the office'
chased the animal of Mr. Payne, who was then in D'ed in bi,l
'Mr. Payne admitted having sold the horse, but he state„, wan,.
defence, that he had purchased the animal of a Y°ll'''cis
named Rust, with whose. father he had dealt for tholl3in, ror
pounds. Rust bought it about a fortnight ago, and .s°l(sbie su-
Mr. Payne produced' persons who tlndertook to
search
swerable for his appearance, and he was permitted tog`! fromof Rust. Yesterday, Mr. Payne: produced a certificatfover,
the keeper of Maidstone gaol, stating that Rust is a I'll:, bii
.with a man named Brown, and that the y had admitted I"yr.
(the keeper's) presence, that they sold the black COb
Payne on the 26th Nov.—Sir C. FLOWER decmcd this
nation sufficiently exculpatory on the part of PaYile,ll.dence
charged him. Mr. Key was directed to have all the sot
against Rust taken at Cheshunt, and a detainer lodged,tlgneing
him, in case he should escape the prosecutions alreadY 113"
over him.

MA RLItOROUGH STREET.
ef
PRIVATE LUNATIC ASYLUms.—Yesterday two personbt'te
the names of Carter and Gardiner, presented thernselvea, to be
Alr.Dtiroraßn,aflitliceiallviitawgilsiitcrhathe,eanrdesetnhteedf,oramned whichrrecineste" ibea
sworn
cont 3 _f
severe charges against a gentleman, who is the Proprietoriothe
Private Lunatic Asylum at —. The Magistrate re% to
affidavit with great attention, and referred to the Statutertbe
obtain information as to the power he possessed to adminisroc•
balt;and observed, that the horrible conduct complained o'
coming to the affidavit) was committed under the sanction ofa fiiede
male, who was keeper of the mad -house alluded to. Carter ttPe,,,
that such was the fact, and that he had been a servant at the I it;
blishment, and bad witnessed the treatment stateclin the ata'B ,„g
belled heard of the cruelties practised there prior to his engaPo-se
himself as servant, and he engaged himself m-erely for the, nrsPket!
of discovering the truth of the allegations.—Alr. fr""" etiset`
'Mr. Carter`how he came to hear of atrocities being P.--rriea
there ?'lfe replied, that a young woman whom he had tu,
had lived servant in the..establishment, at the head °J the
was -Mrs. --, and she (his wife) informed him (bog
major part of the'facts stated in his affidavit.---Mr'
tel.
interrogated Mr. Carter further, as to his witnessing the 'led
ties which were detailed in
,his affidavit. Mr. Carter greeds
that he,had, and said, that many of the patients, wil''selit
paid nine guineas a week for their board,-. Ste. "re --netatO
starved ; he had seen them pick up crumbs, and eat {' con-
parings. Mr. Gardiner, the other applicant, said that t I,lr,
duct of Mrs. -- was notoriousl cruel and unteclirg' of
Dyrx asked how many 'patients there under the care
,0
the said female ? Ile was informedthavitethere were thirty'
ladies and gentlemen.—Mr. DYER asked if there i7,i>rrtv
apothecary belonging to the establishment ? He WS • 'lOO
ed that there was not, and that the patients were more
,Td
of a supply of food titan of }nedicine.—Mr. DYER ask,- „f
Carter if he was fully prepared to substantiate the tru'L, v,taa
whenever the
thAelriiCagaristterrtirteeplrieeciduitrhedat, hweitwhastileand
eyidence•--4`ty
of every man, and more Particularly
DYER—If what'you have stated be true, it is the bounden doss
an immediate investigation-into the -charges; I shall tnrainitY
cause an inquiry to be instituted, and give you 8n .°PP„",,r yes
davit. In about a week I shall be reoafday
of proVing the truth of the statement contained m welt"
Wollltl .fr.
to atte'oha
amintition.—Mr. Carter and his friend promised
the time required.—Mr. DYER said that such pract
tpre
not be made too
.public, fbr humanity shuddered at to
narration of such atrocities. to ge.titBtterr3tien'tobwiter_e,:ar4,

UNION-HA LL.
nic'ai
. Two young gentlemen, rivals of Viirene) end Ileeve•4l,4 (153'
woritiloy
to flourish in the annals'of " Life in London," were 'llOO
brought up from the Surrey watch-house, charge] by a oche'
theacts pwarhtiicehs.
with having taken. !::..?.. plates ofF the coach, and varicui to
after being reprimanded. - , otit',
William Ilarris was charged with having stolen 0 'llOO
msuakternreedn
by their
eirHfaovniz itnhaeydesrveepraeradtiioctgruged
of wearing apparel and a counterpane, the property of 1, b 0
Swinges, of South Lambeth. His companion was rescue( ho,
Will not long escape, as the officers are on the alert afteirvor-.
They obtained admission by taking a ladder from a neig Ile of
ing hay-stack,'and succeeded in securing about two ban nf :jfr•
clothes. The prisoner stated that he left the eirrloY.°,,d li:
Stewart, of Forest-hill, on Saturday last, and reeeis-„,hic.,
wages.. He gave a confused strtemerit of the manner 'a I.
he passed his time since that period.-=Remanded one '''' '

rn Ling
. SINGULAR ESCAPE.--Soin.e boys -
;7,1f0 i-stre
noise, 'caused a horse. to take fright in Gull'•-y-cctri'h,.a:/otic,
Borough, yesterday evening, which was hell by
greate,vl ere
16 years- of age.. • The animal went:on with the
city for some:minutes ; a child, cnssing the,t4reet nor :idle 0'
started from, in endeavouring to escape, fell in the inur four
the road, and the horse cleared it• with a leap by three o,
erns
feet. _Providentially, no :accident . occurred--the; I'Or,v3s re
stopped by being turned up a yard to which.there
thoroughfare.

I,,,AnfißeKk;Ezio,
, •
Eiiiingworth,c°4lsAr,(l2l
-.wylain, 39s 6d—Walls Bud 1.1% 40s—ilarr3t°
Ships at market -5 Sqps 'ol

:BIRTHS. .
On Monday, the 12th inst., at Burton-lodge,
near I,ecjs, stlit
wife of Mr. Robert Busk, of a son. laugh"'
On Monday, the 12th inst., Mrs. H. Teape, of a

On Tuesday kilt, at Gosforth.Chtirch,
' :111ARR MTh
the Rev. John Collinson, A. 111., Rector of Gate,•hea4l,,,..„ of STr
William Hawks, 8.C.L., Rector of Gateshead l'ell, • Anna'
Robert Shafto Hawks, of Neweastle-upon-Tyne, t
eldest daughter of Joseph Croser, Esq., of that. town. 1 Nigt!t4
. On the 6U inst., at St. George's Bloomsbury, Sar°esielnof.''
ingale, of Museum-street, to Maryl Aim Smith, a St*
t sr,
Museum
-street,
Kent. ' tree., 14.
.
On the 14th. inst., at. St. Stephen's, Colenntr'S 1003
Charles Ebsworth,,to Eliza, youngest ,daughter of the
Riley, Esq., of Abbey-housL l' - I Y • ,e-n-o,( se •
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Brews
S}u7.Bnqd.a, yo.f
tthi_mat
place, DIED. p,- cottte
lver, Bucks, Dlrs.,Jane Kent,'
lltli inst , at her residence, 62P '. 'el i'' .
sister eche late ivatnat:iii,A ei,
London, cr. j 3,
On the Ist of October, at Quebec Ostate,, St- inearbc°
and of Lime-street,
malca, Thomas Quin, Esq.; of hir• Alajesty's late ,
Regiment, aged 36. •' le 0
hoo °a~•
On Friday, e 9th inst. in her 2-ttlt year, Maria. telepoP
Josephtßaker, E`sq., of York-buildings, New-road, lth '

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