The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-10 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.-(THIS DAY.)

Mr. Alderman J. Johnson was employed the whole of
this morning in hearing complaints brought by the City
Police against a host of drivers of cabs, coaches, om-
nibusses, and other vehicles, for obstruction of the
highway in the City. Several of these defendants wore
charged with loitering near the footway, plying for fares,
and thus obstructing the road, contrary to the Act of
Parliament. Upon these cases Mr. Alderman Johnson
observed that it was the wish of the Court of Aldermen to
give the peiblic vehicles plying in the City greater accom-
mod.ztion than they possessed at present. Instructions had
ben given to the City Solicitor to prepare an Act of
P, r'iament for the purpose. But in the mean time the
existing law must be enforced, and the carriages must
not be allowed to obstruct the road, as they persisted
in doing in Fleet-street end other great thoroughfares,
sometimes for twenty minutes or half an hour at a
time. lie hoped the defendants would take his ad-
vice, and that the payment of costs would be a sufficient
caution for the present.
John Carroll, a carter, convicted of causing an oh•
struction in King William•street, on Thursday last, and
proved to have violently flogged another driver, who
did not appear to prosecute, was sent to prison for seven
days.
A number of drivers were fined in various sums for
obstruction, of different degrees of wilfulness or ob-

stisacy.
Mr. Barford, a baker, residing in Long-lame, Smith-
field, was summoned by the City inquest, before Mr.
Alderman White, fur using fraudulent scales in weigh-
ing bread for sale.
Mr. Summers and another Juror proved that on exa-
mining the scales, in which they found the defendant
weighing bread to a poor woman, they discovered a de-
ficiency of rather more than an ounce, which was con-
trived by a halfpenny and sonic other weight being at-
tached to the under part of that plate of the
scale in which the bread was weighed. As this
was the third time they had detected the defendant
they determined to bring the case before the Magistrate,
to the end that it should be tried at the Sessions. The
neighbourhood in which the defendant carried on busi-
ness was exceedingly poor, and from the extent of his
trade, which was calculated at twenty sacks of flour
weekly, the customers were defrauded by the contri-
vance in question to the amount of 2.1. 10s. per week.
Mr. Barford said that the charge was got up against
him for the purpose of serving a rival tradesman, who
was on the Jury.
A Juror said, that perhaps the Magistrate would
allow Mr. Barford to compromise the matter by giving
some donation to the poor of the ward.
Mr. Alderman WHITE did not suppose that Mr. Bar-
ford woula give such a donation, as that would be an
admission of guilt, which he denied. Besides, in his
( Mr. White's) opinion, the poor would be more bene-
fited by a public prosecution, followed by some punish-
ment, which would deter from the repetition of such
frauds, than from any donation.
Mr. Barford was then held to bail in his own recog-
nisances (401.) to appear at the Sessions.
IV. B. Itrra.rton, a middle aged man, having something
of the appearance of a horse dealer, was placed at the
bar under the following circumstances :7-7

William Harris, a Sergeant in the City-police stated
that yesterday morning he was informed that the pri-
soner and other parties had brought into the market
six beasts for sale under very suspicious circumstances.
In the course of the day he learned that Mr. Hill,
a salesman, had bought the beasts for Mr. Cotterell,
a butcher in Smithfield. Witness accordingly re-
quested Mr. Hill to send for him, when the prisoner
came to demand the money. This morning he met
the prisoner at Mr. Hill's, and not being satisfied with
the account the man gave of his possession of the
cattle, he took him before the Commissioner. The
prisoner then said that he had a farm near Rum-
ford, in the neighbourhood of which he was well-
known, and if a policeman were sent down with
him he would satisfy him that he was a
respectaße man, and that the cattle were his own pro-
perty. The Commissioner assented to this, but the
prisoner, on the way to the coach office, offered Harris
101. to let him go, and to say at the Police-office that
be found it all right. Upon this, Harris brought him
before the Magistrate, being satisfied that it would be
of no use to go to Rumford.
The Magistrate ordered the prisoner to be remanded,
and greatly commended the conduct of Harris. He
hoped the case would be published, as the publication
might lead to discover the owner of the cattle, which
are six black Scotch, not in a condition fit for
field market.

HORRID MURDER NEAR NORTH-

AMPTON.

NORTHAMPTON, FRIDAY, 11 P.M.—The village ( f
Yardley Hastings, near Northampton, has just been the
scene of an appalling murder. The unfortunate victim
was a tine athletic man of the name of Dunkley, who
had for some time past officiated as under gamekeeper
to the Mat quis of Northampton. He was missing OD
Tuesday last, and no tidings were heard of him until
yesterday, when his body was found in one of the riding,
in Newhay Wood, Yardley Hastings,in a mangled state.
This morning intelligence of the murder was conveyed
to Mr. Abbey, one of the Coroners for the county, and
at two o'clock this afternoon a jury was impanelled at
the Rose and Crown, in Yardley ; and after the usual
preliminaries had been attended to, the Jury retired to
view the body. His bead, from the united effects of
shots and blows, was dreadfully injured, and from the
various pools of blood seen near the spot where his
body was found, it Is presumed that his resistance
must have been both strenuous and long-continued.
In a ditch about 20 yards from where he was found
was a pool of blood, and near it was part of the stock
of deceased's gun. Midway between the ditch and the
body was another pool of blood, and close to this was
found the remainder of the stock. The lock was found
under the head of the deceased.
It is suspected that the deed was committed by some
night poachers, but as yet no clue is obtained to the
perpetrator of the crime.
The inquest is not yet terminated, and it is presumed
that the inquiry will be adjourned till Monday, to ob-
tain further evidence.