The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-15 00:00:00

music of " Pestal," together with the. above anecdote,
and he requested his friend Mr. Jeffries to write a
song to accompany it.
Mr. Charles Jeffries said, he received by post the
MS. of the music referred to by the preceding wit-
ness. He published an edition of "Pestal" in January,
1846, and the words somewhat resembled the " Pri-
soner's Dream." He preceded it by the anecdote
which he received from Mr. Glover. The plaintiffs'
words as much resembled those of the " Prisoner's
Dream" as his own.

Mr. Charles Purday, brother of the defendant,
gave evidence to the same effect as the previous wit-
nesses with respect to the difference between the
plaintiffs' and the defendant's compositions.
Mr. Wiliam Grantham, a musical composer, pro-
duced a MS. of the accompaniments which he had
prepared for the defendant's edition of " Pestal," and
stated that when he wrote it he had not seen the
plaintiffs' copy.
Mr. E. J. Gill stated that he was the author of the
song attached to defendant's edition of " Festal." He
had not copied it from Mr. Locler's edition.
Mr. Henry Oakey, and other witnesses, were then
called, and they agreed in stating that there was no
greater similarity between the productions of the two
parties than would arise from their taking the same
melody as the groundwork of their compositions.
This concluded the case for the defendant.

Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD replied at some length.
Mr. Justice CRESSWELL having summed up,
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, 40s.
damages, and stated that they found the similarity
between the two compositions was not accidental but
designed, and that the defendant's was a colourable
imitation.

A verdict was,then entered for the plaintiffs, with
leave reserved by the Learned Judge for the defend-
ant to move the full court to enter the verdict for
the defendant upon certain points of law that arose in
the course of the trial.

ADMIRALTY COURT, Nov. 13.
The Learned Judge sat to-day, and disposed of
ordinary business only.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
On Saturday the Lord Mayor received from Mr.
Hodgson, the Superintendent of the City Police, the
following letter, which was written by Assistant-
Inspector Scott, and transmitted by the Lord Mayor
to the Sanitary Commissioners. It is worth atten-
tion at the present moment :
" Moor-lane Station, Nov. 8.
" Sir,—l respectfully beg to submit the following
report for your information, in consequence of ill-
ness and death in the neighbourhood of Barbican,
Bridgewater-square, &c., supposed to be caused by
exhalations emanating from a burial ground situated
in Golden-lane, part of which is within the City,
belonging to a man named Bamford, who has it on
a lease. I sent police-constable 125 (Eadc), who is
on the beat, to the burial ground on Sunday last,
when he saw 11 graves open, about 28 feet deep ;
one of them contained nine coffins on each other.
The graves are merely covered over with planks,
until they are quite full, leaving them about a yard
from the surface when the ground is covered in.
They are frequently left open, as described, for a
week or ten clays; the ground is therefore seldom
free from an effluvium of decomposed matter. On
my rounds at night I have witnessed the obnoxious
smell arising from the rear of the graveyard in Sun-
court, which is almost suffocating. I am also
informed by:police-constable 125 (Eade), that a
shopkeeper, named Bouverie, 10, Golden-lane, op-
posite the burial ground, states, that during the
last three or four years he has kept the house
32 persons have died there; and at certain times
he has absolutely been compelled to fumigate his shop,
the smell from the graveyard and sewers being so
offensive. A publican, named Duffy, in Golden-
lane, is very seldom without a medical man in his
house, attending his family. A person, named Par-
rock, 12, Brackley-street, is compelled to leave his
busivess (although a good one) through illness.
The courts leading from Golden. court, Crown-
court, Collins'-court, Sun-court, Hotwater-court,
Turk's:Head-court, and Willis's-court, are thronged
by very poor persons, and are much affected
by the stench. The houses in those courts
are small and thickly inhabited, nine or ten
persons living in a room, which causes the fever
to rage rapidly. A metropolitan police-constable in-
formed police-constable 123 (Eade) that six persons
are now lying dead and a great number lying very ill
in the localisy of Golden-lane, between the burial
ground alluded to and another burial ground called
St. Thomas's, those grounds being only 300 yards
apart in Golden-lane. I further beg to call your at-
tention to the undermentioned names, persons who
have died within the last three weeks in the imme-
diate neighbOurhood of Golden-lane ; also to the
names of persons (as far as it is practicable for the
police-constable on the beat to obtain) who at the
present time are labouring under illness—it is pre-
sumed fever. [Here follows the list of twelve persons
who have died and of twenty-five sick persons, and
their addresses, which can be authenticated by the
constables on the beat, 125 Eade, 163 Goodear, and
119 Speck.]
" I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
" CHARLES SCOTT, Assistant-Inspector.
" I have endeavoured to gather the above parti-
culars as quietly as possible, and have no doubt that
much more important information could be obtained
if a public inquiry were made, and that it would be
found that this report very much underrates the
magnitude of the evil."

BO W-S TR EE 7.
' On Saturday a young man, named Charles Dibdin,
described as a law writer, was placed at the bar,
on a charge of being concerned in a burglary on
the premises of Messrs. Bullock, auctioneers, of 211,
High Holborn, and stealing plate, value 50/.
' Mr. Edward. Bullock stated that he was roused
at five o'clock yesterday morning by the police, who
said his premises had been broken open during the
night. On going over the house, he discovered that
an entry had been obtained by means of a skylight at
the back of the auction-room. The thieves cut out a
pane of glass from the office window, broke open a
chest, and took away the plate in question, which
belonged to his brother. He also found some plated
articles had been left by the thieves, who had, how-
ever, torn off the silver rims from several of them.
They must have obtained access to the roof of the
auction-room from a new building adjoining.
Weston, 189 F, proved that about two o'clock in
the morning he met the prisoner walking alone from
the direction of Holborn. The prisoner observing
that he was noticed by him, put on an air of noncha-
lance and commenced whistling. This induced him
to suspect the prisoner was after no good, and he fol-
lowed him to 24, Parker-street, Drury-lane, where
he entered and shut the door. He then returned to
his beat in Holborn, and there found the prosecutor's
door open ; and he and his sergeant having satisfied
themselves that a robbery had been committed, they
went to Parker-street, and took the prisoner into cus-
tody. On searching under the mattress in his room
they found a bunch of skeleton keys, chisels, and
other house-breaking implements, and in his pocket
was a key, which he stated opened his door, but
the landlady declared it belonged to no door in her
house.
The prisoner declared that he knew nothing of the
robbery, and that he got the keys from a young man
at a public-house in Compton-street.
He was remanded for a week, in order that further
inquiries might be made, as the plate had not been
discovered.
Mr. William Disney Oliver a barrister, in Plow-
den-buildings, Temple, was charged with driving a
street cab without a license. It appeared from the
evidence of Thomas Holland, driver of a Hansom's
cab, that at one o'clock that morning, Mr. Oliver,
who was inebriated, was passing along Picket-street,
Strand, and getting into his cab, took hold of the
reins, and drove off. A cabman ran up and stopped
him until Holland arrived, who asked whether he
wanted a cab, upon which the prisoner applied abusive
epithets to both of them, and was about to run off
when he was given into custody.
The prisoner denied having taken too much drink,
and said that being in a hurry to get to the West-
end he jumped into the cab, supposing that the
driver would come directly he saw the horse moving off.
Mr. HENRI said it was wrong of the complainant
to leave his cab unattended, but there was nothing in
his license to allow another person to drive in his
absence. He must, therefore, inflict a fine of 405., or
three weeks' imprisonment.
The fine was paid.
Thomas Siff a letter-carrier in the Hammersmith
district, was charged with stealing a letter contain-
ing half-a-sovereign, the property of the Postmaster-
General.
Mr. Peacock appeared for the prosecution.
The case was precisely similar in its main facts to
most of the Post•office robberies which have lately
occurred, and the prisoner, at the request of the soli-
citor to the Post-office, was remanded till Wednesday
next.