The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-23 00:00:00

shares in the mining concern, but Mrs. Gully had assured
him that the cash was not to be paid up till the steam en-
gines were in readiness to commence operations with.
Alderman P►RIE—How did you find the mine? Mr.
Buller—l found that it was altogether a nonentity, and
that myself and two others constiiuted the entire body of
the shareholder!. I was thus put to 40/. law expenses, so
that the loss I have sustained by the transaction amounts
to 90/.

Alderman PIRIE—Were you supplied with any certifi-
cates for shares ? Mr. Buller—None at all. There was
nothing done. The thing had no foundation at all.
Alderman PlRlE—Were no ofpcers appointed ? Mr.
Buller—None whatever, There were no Directors, nor
Secretary, nor Solicitor to the " el Trevenon Mine,"
as the mine was c died.

Mrs. Gully's solicitor asked several queitions, to which
Mr. Buller replied that he supposed acre was an action
pending against him in this matter ; that the amount for
which he had been arrested was, he hcii v4d, 72/, or 731.,
the halaace of what ho was to pay for the shares.
Alderman PIRIE—And were there no shares delivered to
you? Mr. Boller—Not one.
Mrs.. Gully's solicitor said that Mr. Buller had omi'ted
some important facts in his statement. Mrs. Gully was
the owner of the soil in Cornwall, in which the mine was
to be worked, and had consented to dispose of it for the
mining speculation, and Mr. Buller and his friends were
to raise the Company, by means of wh'eh it was to he
brought into operat;on. New, Mr. Boller we'l knew that
he had consented to airrn the deed. Mrs. Gully had acted
throughout irreproachably, and would, on a home day,
produce the documents necessary to show that Mr. Buller
was promilently intere-ted in the speculation of " Wheel
Trevenon," and that her conduct was legally and morally
correct.

Mr. Humphreys stalei that there was no Company at
all; that no shares had teen issued, and that of course
there could be no justification of the course adopted to-
wards his client.
Alderman —ls there any dced at all?

Mr. Buller—Not to my knor.lAge.
Mrs. Gully said that there certainly was a deed, but it
was in Cornwall. She declared sha had taken the mine of
the solicitor of the lord of the soil of the manor in which
it lay for so much dues, and she came to London to form
a Company, havirg been informed that there was great
probability that the working would turn out advan-
tageously. Mr. Buller entered into this speculation at
once, aid had consented to take twenty-five shares, and
she accordingly gavo him tho transfer for that number, on
which it was agreed that 4/. per share should be paid to
work the mine. She was Icrself to keep fifty shares, and
Mr. Buller's 501. was in part payment of those which had
been transferred to him.

Alderman PIRIE —How many shares wrre taken al-
together? Mrs. Gully—One hundred and twenty-five.
Tne party of sshom I took the mine is a man of great
affluence and high respectability. Here the lady ex-
hibited a book which contained resolutions said to be those
of meetings of the Company, which s►see;ings were not
attended by more than four or five persons, according to
her admission.

Alderman Plain said that the deed must be produced as
soon as possible, and other information must be supplied
to him on the subject, before the impression upon his mind
could be removed that the whole of the transaction was
discreditable.

The subject will be resumed before. the Alderman on
Thursday next.
A boy, named Charles Theaves, 14 years of age, who
has been frequently chargad with, and puni3hel fur, rob-
berie', was brought up for a very bold attempt to rob an
elderly lady.
The complainant stated that she had been purchasing
some toys for her grandelvliren, and carried them in n
hand-basket into an omnibus, upon the scat of which she
placed the basket. The prisoner, whom she mistook for
the conductor, got upon the box behind, and putting his
band in at the window, over the door, whipped out the
basket, and jumped down and ran away. The streets were
crowded at the time, and the officers were about the
place; and th) moment the complainant saw the ac: she
called out to stop the boy. A policeman and another per-
son immediateiy secured him, and took the basket in his
possession.

Alderman PIItIE.—Do you wish to say anything in this
business, prisoner? Prisoner—Why, no, I don't Eee that
it would be any use.

Committed to Bridewell for three months.

W OR S HIP. STREET.

Cuunen-RATas.—Yesterday Mr. Yardley, the vestry
clerk, and Mr. Stokes, a churchwarden, of St. Mary's,
Stoke Newington, attended before Mr. Bingham, to sus-
tain upwards of 90 summonses against householders of the
parish for non-payment of Chureli-rate:.
The majority of the defendants were substantial and re-
spectable tradesmen, who resisted the rate upon principle,
amongst whom were numerous members of the Society of
Friends, and a few of the recusants were Dissenting Minis-
ters of different denominations.
Mr. Beim, the solicitor, whom the Friends had collec-
tively retained to defend them, intimated to the Magis-
trate that it was his intention to lispute the validity of the
rate elsewhere, chiefly on the ground that a portion of the
fund raised was to be applied to the liquida'im of a debt
which ought to have been paid a y ear ago.
Mr. Yardley admitted that it was intended to make the
rate retrospective, and they had the authority of the Act
of Parliament for doing so.
Mr. Bingham, after referring to the Act, said he in-
clined to the opinion that Mr. Bevan's objection was un-
tenable, and be recommended that gentl,man to take time
to reconsider the point, or to take the opinion of Counsel
upon it. _ _

Mr. Bevan acceded to the Magistrate's suggestion, and
it was arranged that he should attend on that day fortnight
1 to communicate the course he intended to pursue,.
Mr. Cooper, a member of the Society of Friends, then
stepped forward, and complained of a mis-statement in a
report of the former proceedings, which had appeared in
several papers. It was error,e.msly stated that the Fliends,
although they refused to pay the rate in money, had
been in the habit of leaving out a piece of plate of suffi-
cient value to cover the amount. Such a statement was
entirely without foundation, and as is was calculated to
produce an impression that the Society of Friends had en-
tered into a sort of collusion with the parish author:ties,
he hoped it would be publicly contradicted. They re-
sisted the rate from a firm conviction that it was altogether
opposed to the principles laid down in the New Testament.
Mr. BINGHAM observed that the erroneaus statement
would no doubt be corrected.

A few orders were then made upon defendants who
pleaded poverty, and to whom time was allowed,
The proceedings were then adjourned until next Thurs-
day week.