The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-24 00:00:00

LONDON, FUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1841.

DEVONPORT, PLYMOUTH, AND
EXETER.
COACH and RAILWAY FARES INCLUDED.
Devonport and Plymouth—lnside, £:2 17s.—Outside, £1 13s.
Exeter 000 ••• • 2 2 1 5
Offices—Ball Inn, Aldgate ; Belle Sauvage, Ludgate-hill ;
and Nelson's Office, 53, Piccadilly.

INTERESTING EXCURSION TO
SHEERNESS and the SHIPS of WAR at the
NORE, by special Permission of the Right Hon. the Lords
of the Admiralty, and for the BENEFIT of the INFANT, un-
expectedly born on board the Star steamer, on the 19th of
July, who, with her parents, will be present. That most ele-
gant, spacious, and best-sailing Gravesend steam-vessel, The
Star, Captain Josiah Hollingham, will leave the Royal Terrace
Pier, Gravesend, at Twelve o'clock, on Thursday, Aug. 26th,
1841, and proceed to Sheerness, with written permission to in-
spect the Camperdown, 120 guns ( Admiral Sir Edward Digby,
Commander) ; the Trafalgar, 120 guns, and all the other
vessels of war.
The Band will consist of 12 Professional Gentlemen.

BRITSCHKA LANDAU, light and airy
having all the advantages of a Britschka or Barouche'
and working about half their draught to horses, TO BE SOLD.
May be seen at 43, Crawford-street, Bryanston-square.

THE MARKETS.
COAL MARKET.
Ships arrived since last market day, 91.
tr. d.l s. d.
Adair's
Ord's Redhugh l4 61Walls End Hetton '2o 9
Original Windsor's Pontop 1 i 6 Walls End Lambton .....
Tanfleld Moor 20 0, Walls End Stewart's
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Walls E:4l flewicse and Co. 19 6, Walls End Adelaide 2O 3
Walls EndClennell s6 0 Walls End Brown's Deanery 18 6
Walls End Heaton l9 3 Walls End South Durham 19 C
'Walls End Hilda.
Walls End Hotspur
Walls End Killingworth ~. 19 0 Walls End West detton
Walls End Newmarch l7 9 Blythe l4 2
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Sheffield
Winchester
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COUNTRY CORN MARKETS.

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Lincolnshire
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---- Poland -s. -s. to .cis. fine Nu.
--- Vriezland and Small -5. -s. to 20s. fine 23t,
- b.ealing
Sholling
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Rapeseed ...... -1.08. 34/.os. ;AI. Os. per Last
NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE.
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Beans, Small aqs. 40s -s. -s. IT,
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- Gray . . 365. 38s -3. -I.
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ANTI-CORN-LA W CONFERENCE.

MANCHESTER, AUGUST 21.
[The following is the excellent speech of Hr. Thomp-
son, which we were compelled to leave out ,yesterday
for want of room]. • r•
Mr. G. THOMPSON haring been called upon to deliver
a valedictory address to the Conference, came forward
amidst loud and long-continued cheering. He said—Mr.
President, ministers of the Conference, and ladies and
gentlemen, in the whole course of my life I never felt a
stronger desire to acquit myself worthily than I do upon
this interesting and solemn occasion. I have to address
to you some remarks suited to the close of those impor-
tant and all-absorbing proceedings, in which you have
now for four days been engaged. But I, unhappily,
labour under a consciousness of inability equal to
the intensity of my desire. The hour for argument
and deliberation is past ; and it is my duty to re-
view the transactions in which you have been en-
gaged, and to express my opinion of the probable influ-
ence which those transactions will exert upon the issue of
the momentous struggle in which the friends of the poor
are engaged with th-e powerful monopolists of the boun-
ties of our Creator.—(Loud cheers.) Your assembly has
been one unprecedented in its character and unexampled
in its numbers.—(Hear, hear.) But these are not the
most gratifying characteristies of this Conference. The
sublime spectacle has, for the first time in the annals of
the world, been presented of seven hnndred ministers of
religion, of widely varying theological opinions, assem-
bling together not only without discord, contention, and
animosity, but with a degree of brotherly love, and the
most delicate courtesy and consideration, one towards an-
other. Your Conference has been distinguished by catho-
licity without compromise ; by a stern maintenance of the
cardinal principles of our Christian morality, without
the slightest abatement of your attachment to those pe-
culiarities by which, as sects and religious parties, you
are known.--Acheers.) The talent that has been exhi-
bited has °`" the highest order ; the principles you
have-prodlitheW have been di the loftiest -tifid.pnresrt--
kind. Sir, I consider the holding of this Conference to be
one of the most seasonable and happy events that could
possibly occur in the present trying crisis of our coun-
try's affairs.—(Hear, hear.) The conduct of the cause
in which you are now engaged, has hitherto been chiefly
in the hands of men engaged altogether in secular
affairs, or under the influence of cold and calculating
political economists, who have little to do with the
discussion or application of those great principles
which lie at the foundation of public morality
and national prosperity. Long and earnestly have the
friends of the poor desired to see the religious feeling
of the country enlisted in the cause to which you are
now, I rejoice to know, pledged. To bring about a
consummation so devoutly to be wished, some five weeks
ago it was resolved by a few humble individuals, without
name, or influence, or note, to issue a circular calling
upon ministers of religion of every denomination to
assemble iu this town, for the purpose of considering,
in the fear of God, the subject of the laws restricting
the supply pf food to the community. I can bear wit-
ness that that circular was penned with a trembling
hand, and issued with a faltering heart.—(Hear, hear.)
Not only were no extraordinary means employed to
give effect to the summons, but those usually re-
sorted to were, in this instance, almost wholly dispensed
with. Yet, I will not say in obedience to that call, but
rather say that, prompted by a feeling of humanity, in-
spired by the genius of the gospel, and touched with pity
for the miseries of those around them, a noble army of
seven hundred men—have left their homes and the altars
at which they minister, and have come up to the belp
of the Lord—to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
—(Hear, hear, and applause.) Oh, Sir, when those who
are now wretched and almost bereft f hope shall hear
in their calls of poverty of this your glorious meeting,
they will take courage, and look up, and believe that the
day of their deliverance draws nigh. Gentlemen of the
Corn-law League now present in this Conference, I con-
gratulate you from my inmost soul upon the position of that
cause in which you have so longmeritoriously struggled.
Sir, the bearings of this great question have in the most
able manner been unfolded during the progress of your
deliberations. The question has been linke by the most
obvious and indissoluble ties to all the interests of huma-
nity, and all the hopes of our country and the world. A
missionary has come to you from the other side of the
Allegheny mountains. Shall this ambassador of peace
and plenty return to tell the tenants of the western wilds
that the law which defaces our statute book is irrever-
sable. What is the language of the nations around us ?
The other day a friend to our cause and a friend to
mankind—the estimable Joseph Sturge—(Cheers)—un-
dertook a mission to his anti-slavery brethren of America,
not, however, without leaving behind him his munifi-
cent contributions to our cause, and his heart s
best wishes for our success.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.)
On touching the trans-Atlantic strand he was told by
the press of New York to return to the land from whence
he came ; and, before he undertook to counsel the peo-
ple of the United States to do justice to the manacled
slave of Virginia, to bring to a sense of justice those
who are grinding the faces of the poor at home, and by
their cruel laws making abject slaves of those ho other-
wise would be loyal, independent, and grateful labour-
ers in the promotion of their country's prosperity.—
(Cheers.) Such is the well-merited taunt of proud
Republican, slave-holding America.—(Hear, hear.)
Take another instance. A Gallant Commodore whom
the people of Manchester have delighted to honour
in the hall in which we meet, undertook to school the
bearded Pacha of Egypt on the subject of his restrictive
policy. What was the answer of Mehemet Ali ?
" First, let England, the huge monopolist, abolish
her own Corn-laws."—(Deafening cheers.) And what,
Sir, is the withering rebuke which polished France
administers ?—(Flear, hear.) Speaking through one
one of her most popular organs, the National, she says,
" Britain i rase from your shield the lordly lion, and put
in its place a starving operative, supplicating in vain for the
bread of life."--(Renewed and long-continued cheering.)
A word now with regard to the purposes which have
been answered by this Convention, in addition to the
important developments to which I have already referred.
Who can calculate the good that has been done
by the gathering together of seven hundred men,
whose hearts have been made one in the cause
of humanity, and who have mutually animated
and informed each other ? Opinions have been
settled which before were unstable ; resolutions have
been formed which before were incipient and unex-
pressed. A Rosition has been taken previously doubtful
and undetermined. Men have committed themselves collec-
tively and irrevocably to a cause of which they were be-
fore isolated, unknown, and perhaps uninfluential friends
—a cause branded as secular and selfish by those who
are themselves the most worldly and exclusive of man-
kind, has received the solemn imprimatur of an assembly
composed altogether or men whose profession and
practice is religious. And in addition to the presence
of those who are here we have received pledges of con-
currence and co-operation from a still larger number—
(Hear, hear)—who have been prevented by accidental
circumstances from giving their personal attendance.
Again, Sir, the calling of this Conference has originated
throughout the country a discussion of the merits of
this question more general and more useful than any
that has before taken place. It has set all heads think-
ing, and all pens writing on the subject ; and above- all;
it has urged that class of the community' to' beitow at-.
tendon upon the subject who had previously considered
it either beyond the limit of their legitimate cognizance,
or inconsistent with their religious character.—(Hear,
hear.) This Conference has answered another high and
holy purpose. It has shown that there is an intimate
connection between the abolition of the laws that have
been brought under our notice, and the spread of that
religion whose ministers are here assembled. The elo-
quent speaker here, at great length, adduced the innu-
merable texts of Scripture which go to show that
the Creator, instead of allowing scantiness or re-
stricted food to men, expresses himself in every
page of the Bible as a Being who delights in over-
whelming them with plenty. Again resuming his sub-
ject, Mr. Thompson continued :—I have myself, in
perusing the vast number of letters that have passed
through my hands, as your Honorary Secre-
tary, been affected by the frequent assurances given by
ministers of the Gospel in agricultural districts that
they are firmly persuaded themselves, and that in their
views they are supported by the convictions of the
members of their congregations who are engaged in
agricultural pursuits, of the justice and necessity of a re-
peal of the present Corn-laws ; but they at the same
time lament their inability to give an open and avowed
assistance to the cause in which we are engaged, because
of the bondage in which they are held to the proprietors
of the soil, who exercise an arbitrary and despotic control
over the condition of the occupiers and tillers of the land.
The fact has been made abundantly apparent, that though
the consciences of hundreds of thousands of the agri-
cultural population are with us, their votes have been
directed against us in consequence of their abject de-
pendence upon those whose will can at any time dispos-
sess them of the means of their subsistence.—(Hear,
hear.) Sir, the fact must not be disguised. The farmers
of our country are under the relentless domination of
the titled and untitled lords of the soil, who not only
claim the fee-simple of the broad acres they possess,
but the votes of those who are their tenants at will.
Freedoin of election in the counties of England there
is none. The horned cattle in the stall are not in a
condition of more abject submission than are that
class known by the name of the " bold and independent
yeomanry of England."—(Hear and cheers.) Out of a
multitude of letters bearing upon this point, I will read
you one. The names that are mentioned, I must, for
reasons which will be obvious, conceal ; the writer is a
Minister, in connection with the Church of Scotland, of-
ficiating in a certain part of England.—(Hear.)
"I have received your circular, very kindly inviting
me to a meeting; of Ministers and others, to be held in
Manchester on Tuesday, the 17th current, to take into
consideration the laws respecting the monopoly in food ;
and, in answer, I beg respectfully to assure you
that you have my best wishes, and the best wishes of
congregation is
e
farmers, it would be mad-
ness in me, nay, it would completely destroy my useful-
thhoieuflsyands in
composedthis of farmers,
but as my
useful-
ness as a Minister, to take any open part in the repeal
of these laws or at your meeting. All I can do, there-
fore, is to send you my best wishes. Nor are you to, I
suppose from this, that the farmers here are against you.
intelligent, arc your decided friOntisa bit they dare not
Hundreds of them, and these, too, the last and most

show it, or they may lave the district. They must all do
as
the excuse both of minister and people, that as the
public cannot and will not protect them, therefore they
cannot reasonably be expected to secrifice all their own
private interests for its weal. In these circumstances we
dare not countenance you openly, but you have our best
wishes, and should you ever come this way agitating the
subject—and this, I think, I shall be inclined to do—
(Loud cheers)—we will do you all the good we can.
More, at present, we cannot do, with safely to ourselves
and familieS: Trusting, therefore, that you will take
courage, and be as successful in this as you were in the
slave agitation question.
I am, my dear Sir, yours very truly,
, Minister, in connection with the

Church of Scotland.
" Geo. Thompson, Esq."
—Yes; gentlemen, with your efficient aid, and the bless-
ing of the God you serve, we shall be as successful in
this as we were in that sacred cause to which reference
is here made.—(Loud cheers.) The yeomanry of Eng.
land must be emancipated from the thraldom of a tyran-
nical land-holding aristocracy.—(Very loud cheers.) I
said it remained to be seen what influence your Confer-
ence would exert upon those who sit in high places.
You have had your Parliament.—(Loud cheers.) It was
a glorious sight to witness, on the first day of your as-
sembling, more than the number of those who constitute
the Commons of Great Britain.—(Cheers.) Yes, this self-
eleeted Parliament of England's best and purest minds
—the representatives of weeping and famishing misery
—the friends of starving attenuated operatives—the pas-
tors of impoverished congregations. Would that the
destinies of this question had been committed to your
hands for final adjudication.—(Loud cheers.) I think
it might have been, with quite as good a chance of a
wise and equitable decision, as that with which it is
likely to meet in another place.—(Very loud cheering.)
I think the suffrages by which you have been re-
turned to this Parliament are quite as extensive and
independent as those of many honourable Members.
—(Laughter.') I-think the means which have been taken
to return you are quite as pure and unexceptionable as
those resorted to in many of the constituencies of the
empire.—(Laughter.) I think you are quite as re-
spectable in calling, and almost as wise in understanding,
as either the hereditary or elected law makers of the
land. And I think that you would have settled this
question upon principles quite as sound and as patriotic
as those who are likely to guide the decisions of either
House of Parliament.—(Loud cheers.) But though you
are denied any legislative power, of this be sure, that no
opinion which will be advanced elsewhere will have half
the weight with the community of that which you have
expressed in your deliberate and solemnly-attested
documents. And I will venture to say that the
Statesmen of the land, and those at their head,.
whether meditating upon the state of things
and the signs of the times at Brocket Hall
or Drayton Manor, will regard with an inten-
sity of interest which cannot be exaggerated the
transactions in which you have been engaged, and the
conclusions at which you have arrived.((Cheers.) God
grant that your decisions may produce their rightful
influence, and' turn the scale in favour of justice to a
starving population.—(Hear, hear, and applause.) One
word with regard to practical measures, and I have
done. From this time forth you must be the ministers
and missionaries of truth upon the great question which
has brought you together.—(Hear, hear.) You must
be constant, in season and out of season, in the work
of enlightening, purifying, and directing the minds
of all who are around you.(Hear, hear.) You must
be prepared to attend another Conference, and to that Con-
ference you must come accompanied by the laity.--(Hear,
hear.) Pastor and people must appear together.—
(Loud cheers.) The next circular that goes forth must
be, not with the authority of twenty-six ministers in
Manchester, but of seven hundred assembled in open
Conference in this town.(Renewed cheers.) And,
Sir, if twenty-six men, making their appeal to their
brethren, could convene such an aseembly as that which
we have witnessed, what may we not expect when seven
hundred shall send forth the rallying cry, and muster
the armies of Israel to this holy war ?—(Hear, hear,
hear.) Why, Sir, we may expect to see a gathering of
seven thousand men clothed in the panoply of justice,
who will not bow the knee to the Baal of a cruel mo-
nopoly, but fight until they vanquish the monster that is
preying on the vitals of the country.—(Loud cheers.)
There is another element of society, the purest and best,
which must be brought into action. Sir, we must enlist
in this cause of holy domestic charity the women of Great
Britain.(Tremendous cheers.) Seven hundred and fifty
thousand of the maids and matrons of this country car-
ried their petition to the footstool of a maiden Queen in
behalf of the manacled slaves of our colonies.—(Hear.)
Let this reverend assembly speak the word, and I believe
that double the number will lay a petition at the feet of
our beloved Monarch, now a wife and a mother.
He prayed that the Almighty would pour out his bles-
sing on every one who was, and had been, assembled in
that place. Like an American Indian, who at a large
meeting said he could not shake hands with all present,
he (the Chairman) would declare from the spot where
he stood, he shook hands with them all at once, and he
now declared the Conference dissolved.—(Applause.)

DERBY LIBERAL OPERATIVE
ASSOCIATION.
On Tuesday evening a large and respectable meet-
ing or.. this Association was held at the Mechanics'
Lecture Hall. It was at first determined to hold the
meeting at the Old Assembly Room, but such was
the great interest • excited, that, although the tickets
could only be had from one person, who was appointed
to deliver them, and to take the names of the appli-
cants, by four o'clock on Tuesday 800 tickets had
teen called for ; consequently it was found necessary
to take a larger room for the meeting, and, we declare,
that 800 of the nation's hereditary Peers could not
have conducted themselves more orderly, nor have
gone through the business, for which they were called
together, in a more business-like manner. The unani-
mity and good feeling which was manifested by this
great and influential assembly of honest and unflinch-
ing Reformers, reflects the highest credit on the opera-
tives of Derby ; they are convinced that " union is
strength," and that by banding themselves together
for mutual intercourse, and for the purpose thereby of
gaining sound political knowledge upon every subject
that affects the well-being of the whole family of man
(but more especially with regard to that great and
important question, the repeal .of the " Monopoly-
laws," that is now agitating the kingdom from one
end to the other), they can more effectually assist by
their concentrated and united efforts, in furthering
those referms which confer the greatest happiness on
the greatest number. We will, however, let the As-
sociation speak for itself, and therefore give the
" Declaration," which was unanimously adopted at the
meeting, which, we are convinced, will satisfy
every true Reformer, and which shows that the Asso-
ciation is based on a sound foundation. Let all party
differences then be laid aside, and let all who call
themselves Reformers, enrol themselves as members of
the Derby Liberal perative Association. The Com-
mittee, and other officers for the year, were elected,
and the Declaration and Rules adopted. It is intended
immediately to take a room for the accommodation of
the members, which will.be open every evening (except
Sunday), and supplied with the best daily and weekly
papers, and periodicals, of which (also when and where
application may be made for tickets of admission) due
notice will be given.
The following declaration of the Association has just
appeared :
" The experience of the last few months must have
convinced the friends of liberty (if any further proofs
were wanting,) that the triumph of their common prin-
ciples can only be secured by united and energetic
efforts, greater union, and a better understanding
amongst the various classes of Reformers, (agreed as
they are in the end at which they all aim, though di-
vided in opinion, as to the means by which it may be
most speedily attained) would probably have placed
the country in a very different position from that which
it now occupies, viz, the immediate prospect of a Tory
Administration, in the midst of commercial distress,
;rightfully aggravated, if not wholly caused by laws
whiCh the leaders of that party stand pledged to support.
But union, energy, and perseverance, may redeem the
advantages we have lost. In the people resides all sub-
stantial power, and that power they can cause to be felt
by the Government, whether their voice be legally re-
cognized or not. Let the people, then, in every possible
way take their own interests under their own special
care., In proportion as sound political knowledge is dif-
fused through the great body of the people, the Legisla-
ture will be compelled to pursue those measures which
consult, not the interests of the few, but the well-being
of the many—the rights And interests of the whole.
" The deep conviction of these truths has given rise to
the Derby Liberal Operative Association. It is, there-
fore, the general purpose of this. Association to promote
banirino
to their exertions,
to bear upon one point, to give effect
gnginsgt itths
emirenniobinerms snonuipidrinpnciphlteicsaal
nkdnonwnlietnddgen,
energies
to attain by all legal and constitutional means, such re-
forms in Church and State, as may conduce to the great-
est happiness of the greatest number. And seeing
that it is only by securing the exercise of those
rights already established that we can hope to
obtain those still withheld, it will be one of
the immediate objects of this Society to watch over
the registry of the Municipal, Borough, and County
Electors, and the election of public officers; a duty which
involves the interests of all, and more especially demands
the attention of the non-electors who very justly look
upon the Liberal electors as their trustees, and the
parties on whom they must mainly rely in obtaining their
full political rights.
" Such are the principles on which we unite, and the
objects to which we stand pledged in the name of liberty,
as men and British citizens, always remembering., that
the condition on which God has given liberty to man,
is eternal vigilance, which condition if he break, servi-
tude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the
punishment of his guilt.' "—Derby. Reporter August
19, 1841.

THE REGISTRATION.--lt should not be for-
gotten that to-morrow, Aug. 25, will be the last
day for leaving with the overseers objections to county
electors. The Tories bestow much attention on those
matters ; and the friends of Reform should not suffer
themselves to be surpassed by their political adversaries.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME CIRCUIT—Croydon, August 23.
(Before Lord Chief Justice TINDAL and a Common Jury.)
SHILLIBEER r. THE GREENWICH RAILWAY COMPANY.
The plaintiff in this action sought to recover compensa-
tion for having been compelled, as the declaration stated,
to walk along the railway, and there not being suffi-
cient light and protection for the prevention of an-acci-
dent, that he had fallen upon the iron rails, and had
thereby injured himself severely.
The defendants pleaded, firstly, Not Guilty, and
secondly, that the plaintiff had been warned that it was
dangerous to walk along the railway, but that he had
persisted in doing it, and had brought the accident upon
himself.

Evidence was given, and the Lord Chief Justice hav-
ing addressed the Jury, they returned a verdict for the
plaintiff—damages 25/.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

An old man, named John Charles Thorn, was charged
by his wife with having refused to maintain her, and
also with having offended against the law in other re-
spects. The examination was the third, and the follow-
ing account contains the substance of the three, on this
very odd case :

Mrs. Thorn, who appeared to be a very mild but reso-
lute person, aged between CO and 70 years, said that her
husband had cruelly refused her maintenance, and she
was therefore determined to bring him to justice. They
had been 35 years married,and had lived together in one
place for 20 years, and a better or kinder fellow never
breathed until he took to drink, and then he never stopped.
The LORD MAYOR—Do you mean that he never re-
frained from drinking ? Mrs. Thorn—l do, please your
Lordship. For 22 years he has never been once sober.
--(Laughter.)_ _ _

Prisoner—Rollos, stay, stay. Please you, my Lord,
I never was so sorry for anything in my life as marrying
this here body. She as the impudence to complain
now that I refuse to support her when she never brought
me a mag in her life ; and, besides, the moment we were
married, she began to run sich a rig that old Harry
himself, God bless us, could'nt live with her, and how
could I ? Besides, she has a freehold that's quite
enough to keep the life in her, and I have got nothing,
God bless me.

The LORD MAYOR—Is it not better for you to come
together again at your your advanced years ? Mrs.
Thorn—No, no, my Lord ' • I tried him long enough.
Besides, he has another wife, and he manages to maintain
her like a good 'en, for it was only the other day I went
in to look arter him, and I sees 'um both together a feed-
ing upon the tail of a salmon and some cucumbers and a
pot of half-and-half.

- The LORD MAYOR—Do you mean to charge him se-
riously with bigamy ? Mrs. Thorn—Certainly I do,
and I'll stick to it. I've found out all about it.
Prisoner—Tut, tut, where are the witnesses ? You
can't move a step without witnesses. Besides, if I did
marry another, I thought you was no more.—(Laughter.)
Mrs. Thorn—No, no, John, you knowed very well I
was alive. I a'nt dead yet.
Prisoner—No, Lord help me, I see now you ain't.—
(A laugh.) My Lord she's been to me the most tor-
menting wife as man ever was plagued with. Her tongue
is for ever on the move, so that no man could stand it a
minute without drinking the first thing that came to his
hand. However, if she ain't unreasonable, I'll make her
an allowance. I'll give her five bob a week.
Mrs. Thorn—No, no, I can't depend upon you, John,
I've got you here now, and I'll keep you. You must go
to the Bailey, John.—(A laugh.)
The Loan MAYOR—Pray is the second wife a young
woman ? Mrs. Thorn— No, she a'nt younger than me ;
but it's my belief he's got a young wife too.
On the second examination, Mrs Thorn said that her
witnesses would be ready in a couple of days, and she
was determined to give John a taste of the Bailey, and
yesterday she. again appeared.
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, Mrs. Thorn, have you come
to any arrangement with this old man ? Mrs. Thorn—
No, my Lord, I'd much rather go on against him. I've
tried him long enough. Now I mean to have him for
the bigamy.
Thomas Wiggins, sexton at St. Mark's Church, Ken-
nington, deposed that he witnessed the mariage of the
prisoner to Maria Fraser on the 12th of October, 1840.
William Easter, clerk of St. Mark's Church, also stated
that he witnessed the marriage. He produced a copy
from the register.
The Prisoner—But she must prove that she was mar-
ried to me herself. Where is the proof of that I'd be
glad to know ?

The LORD MAyon—Why, you have spoken of her
all along as your wife.
Mrs. Thorn—Oh. I have the witnesses. One of them
is a clerk in the Bank. now on leave of absence, and
the other is a near relation of his own. I'll match him
with witnesses, I rather think. (A laugh.)
The Prisoner—Well, I hope your Lordship will order
her to give me my watch and other property, besides 71.
of mine which she has. You ain't going to let her rob
me and try me at the Old Bailey too ?
The Loan MAYOR—I shall not tell her to give up any
thing. You know you told her, when you married her,
that " with all your earthly goods you did her endow,"
and I shall not attempt to deprive her of them.
The prisoner—I know that, but I ain't the only one
that's gone astray about women. There's one thing I
can tell you. I'm heartily sorry I ever married her; for
she's been my plague now for 35 years.
Mrs. Thorn—Oh, then, I'll make you sorry that ever
you married any body else, John.—(Laughter.)
The prisoner was ordered to be• brought up again on
Thursday next, when he will be committed for trial.