The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-29 00:00:00

BARTHOLOMEW V CATER.

The plaintiff in this action was a constable in
the Metropolitan Police Force, and having resigned
that situation he
_refused to deliver up his uniform
as required by the regulations of the Com-
missioners. Upn this refusal he was taken into custody
by the defendant, a Police Inspector, upon a charge of
felony. The plaintiff was next morning brought before
the Magistrates at Bow-street, who dismissed the cons-
plaint. The plaintiff thereupon brought his action for
false imprisonment and obtained a verdict of 201. damages.
Mr. Humphrey for the defendant, obtained a rule.nisi,
last term, for a new trial, on the ground that the Judges
had excluded evidence of the statute under which the
defendant acted, because it had not been set out in the
pleas.
Mr. Sergeant Bompas with whom was Mr. Martin, now
showed cause against the rule, end their Lordships took
tine to consider judgment.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.

LIBERATION OF ME. VINCENT THE cIIARTIST.—Ow
Wednesday Arthur D‘ sou, bookseller, of No. 14G,
Kingsland-road, and R.chard Cameron, bracer and
stock-maker, of No. 12, amington-street, Clerkcnwell,
attended before Mr. Hall, for the purpose of putting in
bail for Henry Vincent, the Chartist, at present a pri-
soner in Oakhnm gaol.
Mr. HALL inquired of the parties whether they
were housekeepers, and had paid their rent and taxes?
Mr. Dyson slid he paid 30/. per annum rent, and bad
paid both rent and taxes.
Mr. Cameron said be paid 501. rent, and all was paid
up with the exception of the last quarter, which was
ready for his landlord when he called for it ; he bad
paid all his taxes.

Mr. HALL asked whether they had their receipts
with them ?

Both parties having answered in the negative,
Mr. HALL said that they were to be bound for Vin-
cent for the term of three years. It was necessary
that their receipts should be produced. Ho had no
doubt that all would be right, but it was his duty to
make proper inquiries into the matter.
It was then arranged that the parties should attend
again on Friday, when, it the documents produced were
satisfactory, their bail would be taken.

THE INDEPENDI&NT WEST MID
,DLESEX INSURANCE COMPANY.

Wednesday afternoon -a —gentleman named Smith
made application to Mr. Rawlinson, at "Marylebone,
under the following circumstances :

Applicant stated that he was the proprietor of the
house No. 27, Baker-street, Portman-square, sad that
he granted 4 running lease of seven, fourteen, and
twenty'•one years to a person named Hole, one of the
principals of the Independent West Middlesex Insur-
ance Company. The whole of the party connected
with the concern had recently, as his Worship must be
aware, absconded, and he was unable to obtain a return
of the lease in question. He was desirous of again let-
ting the premises, but was unable to do so front an ob-
jection which was eery naturally raised by persons to
the renting of a house of which other panics were in
possession of a lease. This was a serious loss to him,
and he wished to be informed what steps it would be
advisable for him to adopt. He had been to Mr.
Biggs, solicitor, No. 38, Southampton-buildings, who
had take❑ up the matter for the unfortunate annuitants,
and he had got possession of the house, but the lease
was what he wanted to get hold of.

Mr. RAWLINSON told the applicant that he could
render him no assistance in the matter, as he had, ac-
cording to his own showing, possession already. Had
the party to whom the premises were let deserted
them,- leaving rent due, he (the Magistrate) could
in due course of law have given him (applicant)
poa-
session. Admitting that the lease could be forth-
coming, he apprehended that, if it were of any value,
the creditors would be entitled to the benefit of it.

- Applicant added, that it was a heart-rending sight
to witness the persons who were now constantly making
inquiries at the premises respecting the " Company,"
by whom many of them had bacn deprived of nearly
every shilling they possessed. The whole amount
of which unsuspecting people had been defrauded by
the said " Insurance Company" could not, ho ima-
gined, be less than 200,0001. Sir Peter Laurie; with
whom be had had an interview, was taking up the matter
very strongly.

STORMING THE SANCTUARY.--The various
tumults in London, in which the passions of the fierce
democracy are alternately soothed or excited. by their
leader, and his appeals for justice on behalf of -the
oppressed, are depicted with great power and spirit in the
new Romance, " Longbeard, Lord of London." Out-
laws:el by the State, and excommunicated by the Church,
Longbeard makes a last appeal the people, in whose
cause he was sacrifieing,itilaself, but the giddy stay
dipped from under himytrnd he flies from presect peril
into the sanctuary of/.Bt. Mary le Bow, followed by his
betrothed and . a kw staunch adherents. Some fearful
and pathetic),aenes follow, conceived with much skill and
fine poetic fancy. The sanctuary is stormed by fire and
sword, but while their associates perish in the conflagra-
tion the lovers arc snatched from its horrors by an .un-
looked-for agency—but we must refer to the work itself,
which, besides the vivid picture it presents of ihe man
ners of the time, sustains the read,r's interest from the be-
ginning to the end.—Caledonian Mercury.
ADVANTAGES (?) OF EARLY RISING.--A
fair poacher, the industrious housekeeper of a person in
Barnard C wale, named Hodgson, was caught on Sunday'
last, at two o'clock in the morning, in the game preserves
of J. B. S. Merritt, Esq., of Rokeby, near Greta Bridge,
catching hares. She bad been abuJdantiy successful;
and, notwitbstandiung thp inclemency:of the weather the
had stripped off an under garment, and converted, it, into
a sack for her plunder f She was subsequently taktin be-
fore the magistrates, and ungallantly committed to the
House of Correction, Nerthallerton, for three months.—
Gateshead Observer.

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