The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-10 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD CO UR T.
(Before Mr. Sergeant AR &BIN).
William Russell was indicted fa feloniously breaking
and cnterirg the dwelling-house of Mr. William Maunder,
and stealing therefrom scventeea silver spoons, a quantity
of jewellery, and wearing apparel, of the value of 501.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
There was another indictment against the prisoner for
feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling. house of
PauWhilip Wyman, on the 27th of Dec-mber, and steal-
ing therefrom, wearing apparel, ald other articles, of the
value of 201.
The COVRT intimated that it would be unnecessary to
proceed upon that indictment.
Mr. Sergeant ARABIN then sentenced the prisoner to
transported for the term of 15 years.
A number of other cases were tried, but they wore des-
titute of interest, and, the Sessions having terminated, the
Court adjqurned to Monday the sth of April.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

SHERIFFS' COURT, fil.trwri 9.
(Mole Mr. Under-Sheriff Britenif.L.)
MILLER V. LORD.

This was an actic;a7erf:ls;:i•inPrisonment. The da-
terges were laid at 1,0001.
Mr. JAMES stated the case for th. 3 plaintiff, who was a
private gentleman, residing in Chadwa-street, Islington.
The defendant was a surgeon, in extens've practice, in
Trinidad-place, in the same neighbourhood. On the Bth
of last December, a body calling itself the Protestant As-
sociation bold a meeting in ti.e Parochial School Rooms,
of Islington, over whi.di the Ri v. Mr. Thelwell, one of
the clergymen of rho parish, preiled, and the plaintiff bc-
i a rate payer and parishioner, considered himself en-
titled to attend at and address the meeting, ac, being held
in a balding the property of the pariddoners, it was to be
considered a public assembly. The Rev. Chairman, how-
ever, refused to hear Mr. Miller, and on his persisting to
address the meeting, the defendant, who was a member of
the Association, gave bim in charge to the police, who con-
veyed him to Rosamon-street Serion-house, where he was
detained in custody for nearly two hours.
George Ridge said he was at the meeting on the night
in question, and obseiv..d the plaintiff attempt to addim
the Chairman from a seat on which he stood, and saw him
given into custody by Mr. Lord. Witness fdlowed him
t) the station-house, and endeavoured to bail him, but not
having his leeeos for re..t and t ixes about trios the police
refused to accept him. The plaintiff was about 60 3e ws
f age, and had bre.) under medial treatment. To tile
best of witness's be'ief Mr. Allier was confined in the e
11,
as he could not see him in the receiving-room of the sta-
tior.-house.

o.her evidence having been adduced,
The Le irned UNDF.a-SuEuirr, in summing up, obierve3
that although the Jury had t 3 a certain degtee a duty t 3
perform in al\ arding such damages as would be a fair and
rcaionable compensation under the present circumstance.,
yet they should not be carried away so far in protecting
pubic Übeity as to give exorbitant damages.
The Jury, aftlr a short consultation, returned a verdict
for the plaintiff—costs, 403. ; damages, 251.

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EVENING EDITION.

t. ord DENMAN addressing liim,-said he had been charged
ith a very dreadful offence, but he was glad to learn that
rcat provocation had ben given to him by the deceased, .
nd it might almost .be said that he had cornmittedabe act
n self del...trice. He bad alre my un,lergone an imprison-.
ment of four months, and taking this elreutrstanca into
consilcration, lie direct; d that he should pay a fine of one
shilling to the Queen and be then dischargel trona custody.
RTHERN CIRCUIT—YORK, MA NZ 9'
(Before Mr. Justice Mauna.)
THE QUEEN V. JOHN iincitas.
This was an indictment which had been found some time
ago at the Quarter Sessions at Hull, and had been removed
by certiorari. •
It appeared that in the later part of 1840 the defendant,
with his brother, Edward Hughes, appeared at Hull, having
previously visited several towns in the neighbourhood, and
called upon several innkeepers there to obtain their signatures
to a petition to Lord Melbourne and her Majesty's Govern-
ment, praying for the removal of certain alleged grievances to
which the licensed victuallers were subjected. Among Miters,
they called on Mr. James, innkeeper at Hull, and obtained his
signature They produced a circular from their father, Edward
Hughes, dated from Vine Cottage, Notting-hill, in which he
described himself as the general and parliamentary agent of
the general body of licensed victuallers. They produced also
a book in which were the names of a number of parties who
had contributed small sums to defray the expenses of getting
up and presenting the petition, and of other measures necessary
to give it effect, the contributions varying in amount according
to the good will and pleasure of the parties subscribing. Mr.
James subscribed two shillings. It appeared, however, that
there had been a short time before, in Hull, a meeting of de..
pntics from the licensed victuallers of several places, who were
members of a body called the " United Association of Licensed
Victuallers of the Towns of Enghind," and of which body a Mr.
Ilebble was secretary. His attention was called to the circum-
stance, and the reset was the present charge against those
parties who it was allegedhad assumed a character to which they
had no right, they having no authority to act as agents for any
body or association of licensed victuallers. A great numb• of
letters written apparently as eirculffs from the &her
were found in the possession of tEis defendant and his
brother, and among them three letters from Edward Hughes,
the elder, to themstives, in which he addressed theist
as " my dear Edward and John," and spoke of his being
about to open an establishment (it appeared to be as an auc-
tioneer), and said he would require many things before opal•
ing, for the procuring of which he would depend on their luck.
He referred to the meeting at Hull, which he feared would
spoil not only that town, but others ; advised them to cut
round the country places, and leave Hull for the last, working
back that way. They were further recommended not to by
out at night. To negative the claim of the defendant to act
as agent for any body of the licensed victuallers a good dt-at c t
' ealtlenne was given for the prosecution. Mr. Smith, Secre-
tary to the Licensed Victuallers' Protection Society, said the
defendant had no authority from the Protection Society to act
in any way for them, or fur the licensed victuallers in general.
Mr. Blake, Secretary to the Incorporated SocieW, gave simi-
lar evidence. The defendant, his brother, and tither, had, it
appeared, been advertised by this society as acting without an.
thority.
• This charge the Jury thought was supported by the evi-
dence adduced, and accordingly returned a verdict of Guidry.
A second Jury was then sworn to try a second indictment
against the same prisoner. but Mr. Alexander declining to give
any evidence on it, on the ground that the ends of justice were
sufficiently answe:ed by one conviction, a verdict of acquittal
was recorded.
Edward Hughes, the brother, was then put upon his trial
for a similar offence.
Proof was given of hi; having, under eireumstancea similar
to those mentioned in the last case, obtained 2s. from Ms'. Pen-
rose, innkeeper at Hull.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. Sentence deferred.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam C F. 12 6 Gibraltar ....... ....... 48

Ditto, at sight
.
Rotterdam '2 U. 12 6 Genoa
Antwerp l2 5 Milan
Hamburgh........ALß. 13 10i Venice ...
Altona... ....... 13 11 Naples

30 45
25 85

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D:tto, 3 months 25 75 .Lisbon... .. .
Marseilles... .
.4
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Frankfort on Maine.... 150 Bahia 27
Petersburgh, 3 U 5...... 371 Buenos Ayres —
Berlin...
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Trieste, ditto
Madrid
Cadiz
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Barcelona
Seville ' 35 Silver in liars 0 4 10k

IRISH MARKETS.
.)ÜBLIN MARKET NOTE for the WEEK ending MARCH&

From

Average.

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Meet-, 4d. to rd.—A)uttou, sd. to 6d.—Veal, 4d to Cd
Pork, .11(1. to red) Butte', led. w lid per lb.
riuce OF BUTTER.
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SiR ANDREW AGNEW.—We are glad to find
that one of the Scotch Papers has at length bad courage
to attack this public nuisance. England is well rid of him
Since he was turned out of Parliament Mr. Plumptra
mounted his hobby for a while, but both the horse and his
reader have disappeared. We are not aware that one petition
has been presented in the course of the present Session for
what these middling half-cracked persons call the better
observance 0f th,.. Sabbath. The Scotsmanthus describes
Sir Andrew's last :—The proceedings of the Commission
of Assembly on Wednesday were very innocuous. They
passed a resolution, finding the Court of Session guilty
of "an ai:gravatel encroachment" on the jurisdio.
tion of the Church in the case of Mernoch, and
expressing high admiration of the parishioners. Tha
piors coxeorae, Sir Andrew Agnew. was also allowed
to sport his crude absurdities about Sabbath observance.
There are probably fifty thousand persons in Scotland,
male and female, who toe kept from church every Sunday,
as grooms, coachmen, butlers, cooks, &r., to the upper
and the more wealthy of the middle classes. The services
of each of these accommodate one person or family, and
no nn r,-. There arc also perhaps about a hundred men
ed as driven', guard!, and stable boys, in
''mconPnloy
e:oion with the Sunday mails, for all Scotland,
whose services arc useful or necessary to a quarter
of a million of persons. Sir Andrew Agnew
says not a word about the fifty thousand persons
whose religious instiuction is sacrificed to individual gra.
tilication, but he makes an immense outcry about the lain.
dred persons who are kept from church for the accommo..
dation of the whole country I To us this looks very like
what the Scripture calls straining at a gnat and swallowing
a camel. The running of the mails on Sunday gave no
offence to S.r Harry Moncrieff and Dr. Thomson, but it
rab e 3 the
assumeaAn gdnwe we
the
wealthy
thOyuc.tl.uaslasoeen
.t e privilege
io"tfhl *Perie:ecinrsialitblirin:gs to men of ten times his capacity what they
ought, rr ought not, to do on Sunday.
FLEET OF STEAM FRIGATES.—On Thurs.
day week the Clyde, the first of a line of steamers built
under contract with Government ;for the Royal Weil
Indian Steam Packet Company, was launched from the
building-yard of Messrs. Robert Duncan and Co., Gl"'
gow. °As she is by far the largest vessel ever built on the
tof eseest e
of
eacrE
construction
sllt.anr
duGicSa ii.logelns l a fornds , the Royal banks of the Clyde, a very great deal of anxiety was
manifested by thousands of our population as to the result
of the launch. The Clyde is, unquestionably, the largest
ti
is
nit h :in,: dfigr esi snt of
time
and finest steamer ever fitted out at this port,
land
bona
time far-famed fine taste for ste,rhe-sh fvoessaildwi
was
Duncan. The
of Messrs.. Duncan Land Cfo.
Mr.
christened by a daughter o
ivoi: sbs :el
euilrnst
:gcsoTt
frigate.over,an odsn.
considered
f,
erorabout mod Ther
rtbuhfyhtoe
el
ell owo,cBwill4irpnokdegi;
-1.1 on the quay ready
eigines, which are of, 51)0,,-hi
aY shcrt time the sailing
toof Ablee sis,ur st.
onC abi andredard, s
so the`
are
dimensions
capabilities of the Cil
this
eaqllualdedsigoed
to
are the dimension; of
kre-rake ; 37 feet and a few irides
213 fact keel an
Liam ; 225
peace, the service of mail packets,
fully armed
Mail
aoref
nsotcwa
_i .
pr,::ke.c7o-.Ceolffopuarnt eye. n
i_ frigates‘hey.
Perform,
to and among the
with the 10-aviest ordnanc^, to act as war frigates h
qu ilt,l by Government for that purpose. Thus the country
will be doubly served ; and while it pays to the Mail
Company 240,0001 per annumfor the t
i'. will defray, by the same ransport of mails,
payment,the annual charges
of the largest and most powerful steam-Beet in the world.
Those tessels are all of sin.ilar dimensions, having a ca-
pacity of about 8,500 tons each,
five hundred horse power.
with engines of about
The aggregate fleet will thus
consist of 21,000 ton'
Chronicle. s and 6000 horse power.—Glossioro

BOULOGNE THEATRE.—Two laughable and
amusing pieces have been lately produced, Indiana and
far forget what is
t.C.:,1;, ll.,;wefer, any Englishman can
due to himself or his country as to
On Thursday she was
any night tha' De'ahourde plays.
the parts she acted cut
taken ill during the representation,
played without Ladle.
attend the theatre on
ott and Lucie de Lammermoorran
and only confirm the cri-
tiquee have heard Damw.e wi.he season is expiring, and we
in our last l'aFer.commerce
the theatre should
at a stand, and confidteen
M. cannot be surprised t
Fontbonne must have felt
share the cormonf;he
sad effects of permitting any of
dun ing the last weekr,,.. t weeregnoutel7
that
tn is dull,
:_sdualtv, his best friends and patrons the
Thursday, and Saturday, there
i .the boxes. A letter by a frequenter
were not ...)
in another column expresses the general
of the tl eatre
None admired Delahourde more than our.
sentiments.
his performers t_o,uir
but there is a point beyond which even our com-
plaisance. roOpoerlsonessi i
selvcs,
cannut proceed. if the French, who patronise
the theatre, have no., more sclf.respect than they have
pi,,yed this week, we cannot admire their conduct. i ott..
logne Gazelle.

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