The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-29 00:00:00

COURT OF REQUESTS.

KINGSGATE-STIZEET.—THURSDAY.
AN AMICABLE SETTLEMENT.—The Landlady of the
Hope public-house, in the New-road, summoned a rude ex-
cavator for 16s. 6d.
COMMISSIONER—What's it for ? Landlady—Beer and
gin.

Excavator—Ah ! but we've settled every thing hamicably.
CommrssioNaa—lndeed how does that happen ? Ex-
cavator—Because I don't owe it all.—(Laughter.)
But, my good fellow, how do you call it an amicable
settlement ? You say you don't owe the money.—But I
do owe it.—(Laughter.)
Then you acknowledge the debt ?—No, I doesn't.
Don't trifle Sir. What do you acknowledge ?—Yy, as I
said afore. I said ve'll settle all by a hamicable arrange-
ment.—( Laughter.)
-Now, just tell us what you mean ?—Won't I ? Now,
look'e year—l acknowledges as this ere 16s. 6d. was drunk ;
but how was it drunk, haye ? Vy, she comes in and drinks
half, as a matter o'course ; werry yell then, if so be as she'll
pay half, I a'int no objection to pay my half. You under-
stands me—if she goes and pays me Bs. 3d , vy, I a'int no
objection whotsumdever to pay her jest the same, and so by
that means we're quits.—(Laughter.)
Now, Sir, how much do you think you ought to pay ?
Ax that ere question of her, my Lord.—:Laughter.)
Plaintiff protested against any amicable arrangement. She
assured the Commissioner that the defendant had not only
drunk all that was charged to him, but that he wanted to
drink a great deal more.
COMMISSIONER—No doubt of it. Now, Mr. Jaios,
what have you to say ? Defendant—Vy, jest as TsP.'al afore.
COMMISSIONER—Well then, Sir, you must pay it in a
month.

Defendant—Werry yell ; and if' you cotches me in our
tunnel, vy (here he nodded) you may, but you'll do more
nor any on 'em—(Laughter)—mark that, my Lord !
Here the shaggy defendant adjourned to the public house
opposite, after an ineffectual attempt to induce the plaintiff
to take something "cold without" at, hie expense.
KINGSGATE-STREET.—FRIDAY.
MASTER SLENDER AND HIS Boos OF SONNETS.—A,
very sentimental, and withal, very consumptive looking
young gentleman, about twenty years of age, wearing a
round blue jacket, and his shirt collar turned down a ?a
Byron, was summoned before Mr. Commissioner Dutots,
by a bookbinder, named Harrison, for payment of the sum
of six shillings.
What do you say to this ? asked Mr. Dußois of the de-
fendant.
Defendant—Say, Sir, why I could write a whole volume
upon it.—(Laughter.) You must know, Sir, I have a
taste for poetry, and having some idea of setting up in that
line, I writ a great many fugitive pieces—sick as sonnets
and rich likes ; and as it was my intention to employ Mr.
Murray to publish 'em, I thought I'd have em' all bound
up together, so as to look decent and tidy.—(Laughter.)
Well, Sir, and gentlemen of the Jury, this here's the book,
and I mean to say the binding's a disgrace to my genus.
Mr. COMMISSIONER--nat's a great pity—just hand it
up. (The thing was done in blue morocco, and resembled
a large cyphering hook.) Will you allow me to read a
portion of the Contents to the Jury ?
Defend ant—With _inconceivable pleasure, -Sir. ----- -
The COMMISSIONER here read to the Court the follow-
ing portion of a sonnet to Mr. Graham's balloon :
" Great Gawky, wonder of the hupper skies,
Oh, how I loves to see yer body rise ;
There's lots of fear, although they tries to mask it,
As they hangs dangling in a wicker basket
For me, whene'rc I takes a hariel ride,
I means to book a place in the hinside—
And mounting huppards to the hupper
I shan't feel giddy l—cos 11l shet Lath hies !"
Although the whole Court was eonralsed with laughter,
Master Slender maintained the. most imperturbable gravity.
The Commissioner intimatA that there were odes to Da-
niel O'Connell—" Son...lets on my mother," and a few ten-
der epistles "to S-arah."
The worthy 'COMMISSIONER, on charging the Jury, ob-
served 611', the value of the binding could be estimated
alone by a bookbinder. The contents of the book was
mere rubbish ; but it did not follow that the bookbinder
was to charge an exorbitant price for what certainly ap-
peared to be a very indifferent binding.
The Jury decided that 45., with the payment of costs,
was amply sufficient.
CHEAP LODGINGS.—A very intelligent girl, named Mary
Morgan, was summoned for ls. 9d. lodging money, at 3d.
per night. The poor girl, who had evidently been well
educatediassured the Commissioner that she was not unwill-
ing to pay, but that she could not ; and as the value of the
lodging, there 18 persons all sleeping in one room !--they
were all huddled together like so many swine.
The plaintiff, who looked the very essence of' depravity
pressed for an immediate payment ; but the Jury conside-
rately allowed the poor girl a period of two months for pay-
ment of the debt.
On quitting the Court she respectfully and feelingly
thanked the Commissioner and the Jury.

Some interest appears to have been attached in the
French capital to the prosecution of Count Pozzo di Borgo,
the nephew of the Russian Ambassador at our Court. The
Count who was Colonel of the Legion of Hohenlohe, lately
in the service of France, was on Tuesday unanimously ac-
quitted by a Court-martial of having gone abroad without
the permission of the War Minister.
A Lincolnshire Magistrate was fined last wed:, for
selling coals by measure instead of weight.
WATER MARK ON PAPER.—Thtre is now in
circulation a quantity of foolscap paper, bearing the water-
mark of " 1837." The sheets ..e intermixed with others
of the year 1834, and have heen in use for some time by
persons connected with the Insolvent Debtors' Court. The
stamp on paper has sways been considered as prima fitcie
proof, and in may cases heard before the Learned Com-
missioners of that Court one or two persons have been
branded with perjury on the mere evidence of the water-
mark. In cases where it is suspected that the arrests were
friendly or collusive, nothin,, is more common than to require
a voucher for the debt, such as an acceptance. The insol-
vent and the detaining creditor have sworn to the advance
of the money on a certain day, and the hater iu corrobora-
tion frequently produces a receipt, bearing even date with
his evidence. The new stamps in the impression are marked
with figures, denoting the day and the month on which
they were issued. Persons have sworn to the advance,
perhaps two months antecedent to the issuing of the stamp,
as purported by the figures, and the Commissioners have
on that evidence alone, and notwithstanding the positive
testimony of two or three witnesses, dismissed the petitions,
and told the parties they deserved to be indicted for perjury.
Suppose a creditor.was to form a book of sheets bearing
the mark of 1837 and produce it in evidence before the
expiration of the present year, his statement would not be
believed, and a respectable man would have his character
for veracity destroyed through the carelessness of others,--
Morning Paper.
M. Engel hart, Professor at Dorpt, appears to have
been the first person to suggest, from geognostic appear-
ances observable in the mountains of Ural, that they con-
tained diamonds. From the indications he furnished, the
Russian Government directed measures to be taken in or-
der to ascertain that
fact ; they were not, however, at-
tended witi success. Count Polie, the proprietor of the
land, on which are established gold and platina works, was
more fortunate ; and the first Russian diamond was brought
to light by his unwearied perseverance at the period of M.
de Humboldt's voyage in Asiatic Russia. The number of
these precious stones found only amounted to 35 : and the
expense attending their discovery being immensely beyond
their intrinsic value, it is more interesting in a scientific
than profitable in a commercial point of view.—The Ha-
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turalist.

A meeting was held on Thursday evening at the
Blue Posts, Southampton-buildings, Holborn, for the pur-
pose of forming a Society, to be called " The Philanthropic
Association of Lawyers' Clerks." Mr. Pearman was called
to the chair. After somo discussion subscriptions were en-
tered into, thanks voted to the, chairman, and the meeting
adjourned to that day fortnight,
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