The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-05 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 4.
SEDUCTION.-DINGLE V. BAKER.

This was an action brought by a father to receive
compensation for the loss he had sustained by the
withdrawal of the services of his daughter. The case
was tried at Devon during the last assizes, be-
fore the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas,
when the plaintiff was non suited, on the
ruling of the Learned Judge that, as the
daughter had left the residence of her father,
who was the keeper of a toll-gate, and placed herself
under the protection of the defendant of her free will,
that an action would not lie.

Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKE applied for a rule to set
the verdict aside or for a new trial, and urged
in support various points of law. He said that
the case was of the utmost importance, and
as the decision of the Judge caused great public
excitement, and came upon him by surprise, he
trusted the Court would accede to his application.
Lord DENMAN said he considered the Learned
Counsel entitled to a rule.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 4.
(Sittings in Banco.)
WITHAM V. LYNCH.

Sir FITZROY KBLLY moved to rescind an order of
Mr. Baron Platt, of the 16th of July last, charging the
suitors' fund in the Bank of England with the pay-
ment' of a judgment debt of 4,0071. 175., recovered
in the above action. The defendant was a superanu-
ated Master of the Court of Chancery, and entitled in
that capacity to a pension of 1,5001. per annum,
payable under the provisions of various Acts of Par-
liament, out of sums deposited in the Bank of Eng-
land, in the name of the Accountant-General of the
Court of Chancery. Mr. Baron Platt made the order,
charging the fund and the interest thereupon, with
the payment of this debt ; and the plaintiff had sub-
sequently commenced an action against the Bank of
England.

The Learned COUNSEL also moved, as a substantive,
part of the above motion, to stay proceedings, inas-
much as the action was commenced in direct violation
of an Act of Parliament, 1 and 2 Vic., which provided
that no action could be commenced on any such order
until after the expiration of six calendar months from
the date of the order.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON said that he did not think
that any action could lie, as the order amounted to a
charge to be enforced in equity.—Rule granted.

ADMIRAL7'Y COURT, 2Vov. 4.
:THE BORDERER.-SALVAOE.
The barque Borderer, of 400 tons, from Shields to
Aden, in charge of an acting-master, with a cargo of
coals, coming into the Downs, at about six o'clock in
the morning of the 2flth of December, got upon the
Goodwin Sands. The sloop Tartar, of 20 tons,
belonging to Broadstairs, prepared to render service
to vessels in distress, came to her assistance, and put
some men on board. The barque was soon got into
deep water, and anchored off the North Foreland.
For their services on this occasion the master and crew
of the Tartar claimed a salvage reward, alleging that
the sand upon which the barque struck was the
Goodwin Knoll of the North Sand Head, whereas the
owners of the barque asserted that it was the Burnt
Sand Head. Almost every other material point was
in dispute between the parties. The owners con-
tended that, if a case of salvage at all, it was one of the
slightest description, the vessel having come off with-
out any aid from the asserted salvors.
Having heard Dr. Phillimore and Dr. Robertson
for the salvors, and Dr. Harding and Dr. Twiss for
the owners,

Dr. LUSHINGTON, after condemning the practice of
masters of vessels employing acting-masters—persons
not elected by their owners—to conduct them through
a dangerous navigation, was of opinion that, as the
acting-master of the bark had suffered the salvors to
come on board and retained them, it was too late to
turn round and deny that they were salvors. Upon
the whole, he came to the conclusion that a certain
service had been performed, but that it was of a very
slight description, and he considered 601., with the
expenses, to be an ample remuneration for them.
Dr. Stonestreet, who was admitted on the 2d inst.
an advocate of the Arches' Court, was introduced in
the usual form, and admitted an advocate of this
Court.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HO USE.
Yesterday Joseph Green, Edward Thomas, and
Catherine Curtis, who have been in the habit of
robbing in concert in the streets of London, were
brought before the Lord Mayor by Joseph Heding-
ton and Michael Heydon, two of the most active of
the City police, charged, the woman with having
robbed a Mr. Allen of his watch, and the two men
with having aided and assisted in the robbery.
A little before six o'clock on Wednesday evening
the two officers saw the prisoners pass from High-
street in the Borough, over London-bridge, and,
having particularly observed their features under a
gas lamp, and guessed their business, followed them.
The movements of the prisoners were according to the
most approved plans of the fraternity. The woman
went in front of the men, and spoke to a gen-
tleman, who did not notice her. She then passed
on into King William-street, through Prince's-
street, and to the corner of Lothbury, where she ad-
dressed another gentleman, her companions drop-
ping, as in the first instance, behind with peculiar
tact. Having failed in this experiment, she joined
her companions for a short time, and then separated
from them. At last she spoke to a gentleman in
Cornhill, while Green waited at the corner of Ex-
change-buildings, and Thomas ran along Cornhill on
the side opposite to that on which she was engaged.
After some time occupied in this sort of manceuvering
the woman caught hold of a gentleman near Lime-
street, the two men having so placed themselves as
to be able to conceal whatever plunder she might
succeed in getting by her eager exertions. Suddenly
she dropped away from the person she bad laid hold
of, and one of the officers asked the gentleman
whether he had lost anything. He replied in the
negative ; but upon being requested to search his
pockets, said at once that his watch was gone. The
officers, who had marked_ every motion of the pri-
soners, finally succeeded* apprehending them all.
Green, upon being sei ,ke for the robbery, struck He-
clington on the cheek with 'the butt end of a whip
which he carried, and mad a desperate attempt to
escape. Upon his person were found a watch, gold
guard chain, and seal, a diamond ring, a mourning
ring, and a gold pin, a sovereign, ten shillings, and
1O 1. Upon Thomas, who was immediately after-
wards apprehended by Hayden, were found a bunch
of ten keys, a knife, and an empty purse. Suspecting
that the female prisoner, who had got away in the
confusion and struggle, would return to the Borough,
Haydon, the instant he placed the prisoner in the
custody of Hedington, ran in that direction, and over-
took her at the foot of London-bridge. Upon being
taken into custody, kkd told what for, she trembled
excessively, and, catching the officer by the hand,
pulled him towards the balustrades of Fishmongers'-
hall. She then put her hand into her pocket, and
kirselling out a silver watch, said, "Here it is, Sir,
is." That watch was the article she had stolen
,frote ntleman she had caught hold of near
lbw-street.
M-11. Allen, an officer of Excise, stated that a
woman walked up to him about seven o'clock on
Wednesday evening, and asked him some question
about a railroad, as ,ehe believed. Soon afterwards
Hedington came up and asked him whether he had
lost anything, and requested that he would search
his pockets. To his great surprise he at once ascer-
tained that his watch was gone, and that his watch-
guard was cut and banging about his neck. The
robbery must have been effected momentarily, and
with great skill, for he felt nothing at all of a pull or
a push.
The LORD MAYOR, having heard all the particulars
of the manner in which these ingenious thieves were
followed by the officers, said it was with no ordinary
satisfaction he found it to be incumbent upon him to
express himself strongly in approbation of the conduct
of Haydon and Hedington upon the present and
upon many former occasions. By the active instru-
mentality of these and some others of the City police
force, who had heads as well as hands to work with,
they had succeeded in bringing to justice several of
the ringleaders of the most desperate gangs of
thieves in the metropolis. He should take care, by
ordering the City Solicitor to prosecute in this in-
stance, to match the ingenuity of those who might be
selected for the defence of such delinquents ; and he
gave notice that, whenever he should find prisoners of
the "swell mob" amongst those brought before him,
he should take care to hand them over to the same
legal authority, to be dealt with as far as the law
could deal with them.
The prisoners were then committed for trial.
A man named Henry Kirby, in the employment of
Messrs. Thornton, Nicholls, and Pellatt, as assistant
to the steam•boat money-taker at the Old Shades
Pier, was summoned before the Lord Mayor for
having used language calculated to lead to a breach
of the peace.
Captain Evans, a retired officer of the Artillery, re-
siding in Upper Porchester-street, Cavendish-square,
stated, that as he was going down the sloping plat-
form of the pier, the defendant, who was dressed in a
sort of uniform, called out to him that he must not
pass without a ticket. Witness said he wanted to see
whether a friend of his was waiting for him, but the
defendant rudely refused to comply, and witness re-
turned, but not before he was assailed with foul lan-
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