The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-03 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

On Saturday, Thomas Wilson Lilly and Thomas Lilly
attended before Mr. Alderman Kelly, on their own re-
cognisances, to answer any matters that should be
alleged against them.
Mr. Wontner attended for the defendants, and Mr.
Bodkin for the prosecution.
Mr. Bodkin said duffers was the cant name given to
a class of persons who got a living by getting up articles
valuable in appearance but inferior in workmanship and
material; and who, by puffing, obtained from jewellers,
pawnbroket:; And other persons, considerably more than
the value of the artit;lsa. The defendants were persons
of this class, and he should show that they had offered
two spuriaus pins at the shop of Mr. Simmonds, a
jeweller on Holborn-hill, and because ht., detained them
to make inquiries about the parties they had the teme-
rity to waylay him in the street, abuse Lim, follow
him to his shop, and collect a mob about his house.
Mr. Wontner asked what specific charge he meant
to make.
Mr. Bodkin said he should ask that the prisoners be
held to bail to appear at the Sessions, to answer a
charge of riot at the house of the complainant, or of
being common cheats, or of conspiracy to fraud, or such
other charge as the circumstances would appear to war-
rant. He proceeded to proceed to examine witnesses.
Mr. Simmonds, of Holborn-hill, stated Thomas
Wilson Lilly (the uncle) came into his shop on the
21st ult., and asked him to buy a union pin for 3/. 10s.
He said he gave 5/. for them at Lincoln. He asked the
uncle if the stones were genuine, and if the setting was
in good gold. The defendant replied they were. Having
read a warning in the Pawnbrokers' Gazette, he charged
defendant with going about to defraud people. Defendant
called him a liar. Witness said he should detain the
articles till he had made inquiry in the trade, and
defendant left the shop. Witness afterwards went
out, and was beset by the uncle and the other
defendant, his nephew, who talked of punching
his head, collected a mob round him, insisted that
the articles should be returned, and said if he could not
afford to buy them it was no reason why he should rob
the public. He was obliged to give him into custody.
Witness had had the pins assayed. The stones were
crystals, cut in half, and then cemented together again
after the interior had been stained with a transparent
colouring matter, so as to give them the appearance of
rubies, emeralds, amethysts, &c. From being com-
posed of two halves they were called doublets. Being
really stones, and not glass, the file, which was the test
which jewellers applied to precious stones, was no test
here. The connecting chain of the pins was well gilt,
and every other link was of gond goid. The jewellers-
gold fit to receive the hall mark contained one-fourth
alloy, but these pins gave an assay of six grains of pure
gold in the connecting chain, and the alloy and fine
gold were in nearly equal proportion, while, as to the
rest, the proportion was two parts of alloy to one of fine
gold.

Mr. Wontner thought that, taken together, there
was as much fine gold in the articles as jewellers cus-
tomarily give.

Mr. Simmonds said if the stones had been genuine
and the gold good, the pins would have been worth 51.
Their actual worth was only 16s.
Throe working jewellers examined them, and none
gave a higher value.

Mr. Simmonds further produced a ring, which he
bought of the uncle in December, 1839. He repre-
sented it to be an East India gold ring, with a stone set
in it which cost 51. He said he was a tailor in distress.
Witness told him he could only give him the value of it
if it were broken up. He took 30s. for it. The gold
proved to be spurious, and the stone was a doublet. It
was made up to deceive. If it had been genuine, it
would have been worth 50s. A great many rings re-
sembling this are brought from India. They are rudely
made, but they are valuable from the goodness of the
stone and the fineness of the gold.
Cross-examined by Mr. Wontner—He believed the
defendant to be the man, but would not swear positively.
George Simmonds said he lived with his father in
Holbor❑ in 1838, and he recognized the nephew as
having cheated his fatlitr out of 10s. He sold him
a Princess Charlotte bronze metal, with an edge of
silver soldered on it, as a silver gilt medal. The de-
fendant received 10s. It was worth only is.
Mr, Hatton, of Alfred-place, jeweller, recognized

EVENING EDITION.

the uncle ga having tried to cheat him out of 2/. 10s. by::
offering a spuricre-s ring, exactly like the E India ring;
produced, in the egill part of this year. He detectedl
it, shut the door, gave the defendant a sound lecturev
and filed the ring so as to ripoil it. It was worth 6s. 9d.•
Mr. Wontner, for the defecce, called a policeman
who had exhibited the rings and pins to several jevve
lers, who had considered them geouine articles. He
also urged that if persons in the trade were deceivsa as
to the real value of the articles, so might his clients be,
who had not offered them to persons ignorant of the
value, but to jewellers and pawnbrokers. Buyers
must exercise due caution, or the law would not helP

them.
Mr. Alderman KELLY thought he %vas. bound to hold
the defendants to bail as common cheats, going about
to defraud. The number of charges gave the case that

complexion.
The defendants were ordered to find bail.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

(FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY.)
(From the GLlqbe.)
The French papers are full of violent invective
against England and the other Three Powers, for IA"
ing signed a convention with Turkey to which France
is not a party ; but they omit to tell us that France bad"
positively, and upon full deliberation, refused to be
party to the very arrangement which that treaty is till 4
derstood to be intended to carry into effect. Whese,
fault, then, is it that France is not a party to the treaty •
Why, it is the fault of France herself—and of France
alone. At first sight it might be inferred frum the vie'
lence of the French papers, that France is gaing to de-
clare war against the four Powers ; but we never shall
believe that such a thing can be, till we see it LaPPee.,;l
and indeed a closer attention to the French papas
show that there is no likelihood of such an event. 0:
the French papers choose to assume that the teestY
something hostile to France, and will lead to an arttec
[ upon France ; bat that is a complete delusion. .1"e
treaty is not levelled against France—it is meant to ec''
complish purposes which even France herself profess°
to approve, and cannot lead to war with France,
up
less France herself chooses wantovly to make scar 4/2,,
account of it. We are convinced, therefore, that wiler
stir good neighbours at Paris come .to reflect a 106
more calmly on the matter, they will See that km-,
anger and alarms are without any just caua-e, and al
will return to their former state of tranquillity and goa,
humour ; and as nobody dreams of attacking tivero,thci
will leave off threatening to attack other posple.

(From the Courier.) -
Who has not seen the improvident and indeed veri
foolish Albert writhing under the fangs of the eteeraa'a
coloured " Bottle Imp r' A man who has wits egt''
the spectacle with any degree of interest, will fili,d.°°
sort of difficulty in splitting Herr Albert into as WI
pieces as the component parts of what is ludierokuP;
termed Queen Victoria's Cabinet, and then to eilti„,
template them under the gripe of O'Connell, the tOe'it
dicant hero of the Emerald Isle. We say that there
nothing in this sort of sport of the imagination, io,ll''t;^
much as upon a closer examination it will be found tPltd,
the picture is not exactly ideal. O'Connell, twistlll,'•
about at, his pleasure the half-dozen or dozen miserab'e
Herren Albed of the Melbourne Administration. neighs
be a good subject for that excellent artist who choose
to call himself by the letters H.B. ; and what is reebe;
there would be conveyed an indisputable trath in
picture.

(From the Standard.) • bt
The Irish Municipal Corporations Bill was last oigi ►
read a third time and passed in the House of Lords.
or any other Bill which shall give to the Romanist Po;
a triumph, however barren, will be of course %
cepted by the House of Commons. The trimri;
however, will not be a barren one. " Thee xecrlo
measure''—we use the very description of son2e ‘4•00
voted for it last night—will give to the Romanist fa'etil
legalised conventions in all the great towns of 'brio
land ; a fulcrum which they well know how
employ !or the dismemberment of the e10r",,,
As was well said by the Bishop of Exeter if
the solemn protest which concluded the melanebre
wait "It will not and it cannot come to good." the
will add that it ought not. The desertion 01 it
Protestants of Ireland merits punishment, and be
we may judge by the past, it will ers
punished as it deserves to be. There %so
proposed some amendments of more' or „boat
importance, all of which were carried 11`,` *
difficulty. One of the amendments exhibits gof
strong and very painful light the different degre'
interest taken in matters that concern individuals egeel
netted with party leaders, and matters that only
the humbler members of a party. A clause had, eos,
introduced into the Bill, empowering the Lord at'
tenant of Ireland to appoint the holding of sessirciple,
his discretion, This clause appears to be in Prf
unobjectionable. The Crown, we know-, has, sou: aof
sionally exercises, the power to appoint the iiisitt44o4
of
the Judges of the Courts in WestminsteS
even to send the Judges into the country by a ''''ebotO
Commission. It is a sufficient guard against the "4/sr•
of this power, that its exercise is questionable 10.
!lament, as of course the exercise of the power prop.:}3,
to be given to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland sce";z
necessarily be. Nevertheless, Lord Lyndhurst I. I
night proposed, and successfully proposed, to vritb„hro'g:
the power in question by omitting the clause coolFoos
it, basing his proposition ors the ground that the der of:
was sp.cially directed against the present RecorP'
Dublin.
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WRECKS ON THE RUNDLE STONE.- ear
week two vessels have struck on this dangerous reek ;,,,Lannezefe
of them has been lost. The first was the sc;looner of
of Yarmouth, Joseph Crisp, master, with 900 varters 0' abuse,
from Kiel, in Denmark, for Cork. She struck the rock', die
two hours before day-break, on Thursday the 16th ir;stZotote
weather being hazy at the time, and the wind On" good
After she had beaten violently for several minutes thea 01!
tide happily canted her &ear; and, being a strong a" tysisr,,
vessel, with her pumps in good order, she was, with tbejpief'
ance of one of our fishermen, brought soon after into t,"`sainge
It being found impossible to stop the leaks without unin, ots
Mr. Pearce, agent to Lloyd's, commenced that operant iri4o
Friday; and by great exertions the whole cargo was got., dr,'
the bonded warehouses, and the vessel removed to t" vas'
dock, by Monday. Although the damage sustained by °deed to.
sel is very serious, yet as the captain and the crew atten_
sped-
the pumps day and night, the grain has almost entirelY o,'coorir
injurv.—On Sunday morning before day-break, the sc7igoier
Emulous, Strout, master, belonging to M. Joseph ~1 gal
of Penzance, whilst on er passage from \%ales
struck the same shoal, and passed over it alums: imiu,,,erin'lnf
The damage sustained by her could not have been ''erJer, seta,
"
for though the pumps are said by the crew to have L. eTd
order, yet she continued afloat for nearly three hours, ahs
tually sunk off Whitsand Bay. The crew saved a ;.,AWsloth""
two or three other articles of ship stores, as well as theiT
-boon
in the boat, with which they got safe on board the s‘ “
were
Ocean, which was in company with them at the time, an,41,15"
landed at St. Ives soon afterwards Our Correspon {dent fi.
that he cannot help thinking that if the crew had
time occupied in getting out the stores and clothes to the rtio i „poi"
isni,,e-tant work of baling, they might have run the vesse avecV
the bea.e.', where at this season she might have beef',
Both vessel ,and cargo belonged to Mr. Bullocke,
regret to learn, is whollo uninsured.— i.::ornwall Gazette• ko
n
The London and Brighton Rai:way will °6en
)12ar
Hooley Lane, six miles from the Croydon Railway,
is
next. v,eftigea
CORN-LAWS AND POOR-L at s,
annual expenditure for the relief of the poor of G.,fie. '111"
Little Bolton, for the years 1835 and 1836, was 3,36' Ow;
amount expended for the same purpose during the quarto_tof
ing Lady-Day, 1840, was 2,2441. 15s. 3d. ; being at
v
of 8,9721. Is. annually. In the years 1835 and 163c;05e•
average price of wheat was 395. 4d. and 48s. Od• ;,
quently the rates were moderate. During last year tilevon
of wheat has been 705., nearly double what it was in rose'
hence the cost of relieving the indigent poor has incieefir
from 8411. 15s. a quarter, which it was in the years of
to 2,2441. 15s. 3d. a quarter, in theta times of sear
Bolton Free Press.
..,21101/sr,
WHITE SWALLOWS.—TWO young P—ore
perfectly white, were discovered last week in •` counts.
the back of the conservatory at Longner Hall,
,sere
Being caught arid placed in a cage near the spot, th•`.l jafer
speedily recognised by the old ones, who now feed t,,hehrhil'?: e'
nately with two black ones of the same brood, whic" go'
tioned themselves on a perch near the cage. Thep --"4.
these young birds is of the most delicate white,
crimson. Before they were fed by the parent birdS,' tbeY
readily took the flies offered them, and -appeared as "
would soon become domesticated.— SalopionJournal• hip
MELANCHOLY SUICIDE AT SEA. The 5 t
Mozambique, which arrived on the 22d
John's, New Brunswick, unfortunatel came withollt the him,
ter, Captain M'Leod, who, in a state of insanity. tt'revirie I°i!
self overboard, at six a.m., nn Saturday, the 27th
was with great difficulty recovered by the mate, and ."5
sti
then preserved by means of several hours' chafing, &clgio.l
strict watch was consequently kept over him day and ,""siscl..
On Monday, June 29, he appeared perfectly recoveren, v(ss'
after cleaning himself, went on deck, and whilst the mate rd,
taking the sun's altitude, he threw the ship's pryers ovelw-„, of
which was not known to the mate until communicated bY.;tell
and their
the'
the passengers some minutes afterwards, when he imrnenual Ana
put the ship about and fortunately succeeded in finder sfsj
picking them up, at which circumstance Captain e,. air
apparently much gratified, and was then quite sensible. woofs
versation with his passengers, mate, anti crew. On TY/after
June 30, at six A.m., he turned out, washed himsen s'eabni,
having slept well during the preceding night), saluted tbervaro
passengers, went on deck, and immediately jumped °ye
"
again, the ship at the time going 71 knots, and was neve
afterwards, as the watch on deck states he sank instantiP.ce
of
has left a wife, but no family, at St. John's, and was a Hall
Peterhead.
RETURN OF TILE GLASGOW SFINNERs•- tatief%
Wednesday morning last, bills were posted on the walls, 5 el',
that there would be a procession to escort the Glasgocr,vorai
ners, on their return from transportation, along the
streets to the " Hall of Science," Camp Field. Acenr(nore(l9,
between seven and eight o'clock in the evening, some
of men and boys assembled, with a banner, inscribed '&4l ta
and a band of music, and two open coaches, and Prod Road
the General Birch public-house, on the Ashton 01"
whence they returned in procession, the band playing and,
tba
course, as the factories throughout Ancoats were close', ' wero
hour the crowd was increased b a ber of mill-han"s get
women, and children. The carriagesnum containedlthe, the Grie3s3,ng.
spinners and some of the Chartists. The procession, ii"lsireetr
in numbers as it moved, passed along Great Ancoals
e Field!
Oldham-street, Market-street, and Deansgate, to Ca;hp re l
the band playing at intervals during the way. ,‘ ed
little cheering, and it was a very tame affair. The who "
Science" was crowded with the procession, and those e by. fie;
followed it.; and, atter the meeting had been harangue,`orelf
veral orators. it at ,ength separated, between eleven an", affair'
the le° o'clock. It would scum by the share they took in `thy' affair'
that the sutured transports are desirous to show that
of the Government has in their case been a little misrl*
Manche:ler Guardian.