The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-18 00:00:00

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)

WATSON V. PITT.—DELIVERY OF NOTICES. -
This was an appeal from the decision of Mr.
Smith, who had retained the name of Francis Pitt
upon the list of voters.
The facts of the case were stated as follows :—A
person on behalf of the objector to Mr. Pitt's vote
went to his house between nine and ten o'clock at
night, on the 25th of August, for the purpose of
serving him with a notice of objection. He knocked
at the door several times, but as no one answered, 'he
placed the notice inside the house. The revising bar-
rister decided that it was not a sufficient delivery of
notice under the 17th section of the Act. Mr. Pitt
was called upon to substantiate his vote.
Mr. Groves appeared for the appellant, and Mr.
Sergeant Byles for the respondent.
After some discussion on both sides,
The CHIEF JUSTICE said the revising barristers,
when they referred cases to the decision of the Court,
ought to state the particulars fully and explicitly, in
order that all delay and expense in requiring addi-
tional particulars might be avoided. In drawing up
the statement of a case, they ought to see that all the
facts were consistent. The Act stated that a notice
should be delivered at the " place of abode" of the
person objected to, and in the present instance it was
stated by the barrister that it was delivered at his
house. That was not sufficient, because it might be
his house and yet not his place of abode. He also
omitted to state whether or not the party serving the
notice called more than once. If only once the
Court would hardly deem that sufficient, under
the circumstances of the case, to justify them in
deciding that the delivery was a sufficient one. It
appeared to him, therefore, that the case ought to be
remitted, in order that the particulars might he more
fully stated. He expressed his regret that the parties
would be subjected to delay and expense, and he
trusted that revising barristers would take more care
to state every fact which was necessary to enable the
Court to judge of the correctness of their decisions.
The statement of particulars was then ordered to
be remitted.
PRIOR AND OTHERS, APPELLANTS, V. WAREING,
RESPONDENT.
This was an appeal from the decision of the re-
vising barrister for the borough of Lyme Regis.
It appeared that the appellants, who are four in
number, entered into an agreement with a Mr. Att-
wood, to become the joint occupying tenants from
year to year of Springfield House, Lyme, and it was
alleged with the exclusive object only of qualifying
them to vote. It appeared also that they made
occasional visits to Lyme for the purpose
of bringing them under the category of occupants.
The question, therefore, was whether the appellants
had a proper qualification under the Act ? The
revising barrister decided that they had not, and
and expunged their names from the list of voters.
Mr. Sergeant Byles appeared fol. the appellants,
Mr. Sergeant Kinglake for the respondents.
The COURT, after hearing the case at some length,
were of opinion that they could not entertain this
appeal because the circumstances were different with
repect to each occupant, and the barrister, by amalga-
mating them together, had done something which the
Act did not empower him to do. They considered
that it was not a consolidated appeal, properly speak-
ing, within the meaning of the Act.
The appeal was then dismissed.

AN ACCOMPLISHED SWINDLER.
A short time ago, a Jew, named Isaac Jacobs,
came with his wile and sister to Newcastle, and took
up his residence in Blenheim-street. His person and
address'were respectable, and to all appearance he was
in comfortable circumstances. He was followed by a
public
lic
to
large quantity of goods, which arrived by railway,
and consisted of fancy leather, ladies' boots, shoes,
and slippers, the whole of whichauetid
Charlton,oth.sposed of them.
nee
ers ,forconsigned
Messrs. Taylor and Anderson,
sale, and they, of course, speedily.
odds writlat
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Isaac
that
a fto
Jr the
amount
A few days afttr the sale, Mr.
shetiff's
cos,
officer, Newcastle, received
ghaaidasotbtatihneedai
sum of 4001.
who, it appeareda,
Myers,onon. another Jew
time sgao
and dealer in
lferaotmher,Soinl.
Ldpurchase of the goods of Mr.lyerjs:tchoebs made the
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that he intended to go with t e
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an
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on their being packed up andhsenmt to
to a place accord-
hisdirect.iolni,
he gave
ingam to his
but Air ers, on a cheque for the
bank a da apresenting it to the
y or two
terwards, ascertained that the
balance of Jacobs'
account there was only seventeen
shillings. It was in
s the interim that Jacobs set
eft. for Newcastle. Wall, the sheriff's officer, of
course went to execute the warrant intrusted to him,
but found, to his mortification, that all chance of ad-
mission had been precluded by the wary occupant.
Days and weeks passed away ; the officer in the mean-
time using his be skill to effect his purpose, but

in vain. What was still more annoying was, that
Jacobs, though not visible during the ordinary days
of the week, turned out in dashing style on the
Sundays, and, with his wife and sister, enjoyed the
benefit of the country air in a dashing chariot. The
sheriff's officer, finding all his efforts useless, wrote
to Mr. Myers, who dispatched one of his agents to
aid Mr. Charlton. Jacobs, however, succeeded in
eluding their united efforts, and the other day got
safely off by the train to York. News of his escap.3
got wind, and the telegraph communicated his arri-
val at York, where he was traced to an hotel ; but
before another warrant could be procured for his de-
tention, he again got ahead of his pursuers by start-
ing for Manchester, and thence to Birmingham,
where his career received a check. It appears that
after selecting goods to a considerable amount, he
presented to a tradesman a valueless bill of exchange
for 2001. as payment, and this being detected, he was
immediately apprehended and taken before the ma-
gistrates. One or two parties also in Newcastle have
suffered from his tricks, but not to any considerable
amount.—Neweastle Advertiser.

SINGULAR 131P0:•TURE.
(From the Sherborne Journal.)
We wish to put the public upon their guard
against a new and strange species of imposture,
which we have recently discovered, and which, in all
probability, is followed to some extent in the metro-
polis and elsewhere, by using the name of some
provincial newspaper. An application was made
to our office a few weeks ago for a Journal con-
taining an advertisement, offering a reward of one
hundred pounds to any one who could give intelli -
gence of one Mary Gundry. No such advertisement
having appeared in our columns, an intimation to
that effect was conveyed to the applicant: but
immediately after the application was renewed from
another quarter, and subsequently a gentleman wrote
to make the same inquiry for Earl Poulett, who had
been addressed upon the subject by some person in
town. Having put ourselves in communication with
this last-named person, we received the following
letter, which will explain the imposition and the
designs of the party imposing :—" 52, Lower Marsh,
Lambeth.—Sir, I beg leave, in reply to your letter,
to inform you of a very clever imposition concerning
Mary Gundry, no doubt being carried on to a very
great extent in London. On the 3d of November, an
old woman came to me while standing at my door, and
inked me to seal a letter, directed to the Governor of
the Bank of England, which I did. She then showed
me an advertisement, as she stated, cut from the
Sherborne Journal, offering one hundred pounds re-
ward for one Mary Gundry—her grandfather, a very
rich farmer of Crewkerne, having left her money in
the Bank of England. She had another paper
recommending her to some lawyers, signed with the
same name as yourself, and quite like your hand-
writing. She obtained a little assistance from me.
I afterwards went to where she said she resided, and
found I was imposed on. She, no doubt, makes a
fine thing of it.—She is nearly 70 years of age, and
knows Dorsetshire well.—l remain, sir, your obedient
servant, WILLIAM DIBDIN."

EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES

OF A HONEYMOON.
Less than two years ago, a gentleman who dwelt
at no great distance from Glasgow became acquainted
with a young lady of pleasing manners and no small
share of personal attractions, and in due course be-
came her happy husband. One half of the honey-
moon had passed when they were invited to a party
at the house of a relative of the lady. At a compa-
ratively early period of the evening, the young hus-
band, sighing for his home, hinted to the young wife
that she had better prepare herself to depart. The
young wife wished to remain a little longer.
The gentleman not brooking contradiction, in •
sisted ; the lady, as little loving command,
became obstinate ; and the result was, the
lustre of the honeymoon was dimmed, and the
husband left for home in a la(fi; suffering the equally
indignant wife to follow at her leisure. But the
morning dawned, and no young and blooming wife
gladdened the dwelling of the now anxious husband.
Hurrying to the house where he had so lately left
her, he was astonished and pained to find that she
was gone, and that no one knew what had become
of her. Days and weeks passed away ; but every
inquiry that affectionate solicitude could devise
brought no tidings of the missing wife. Some
months after this, when hope was not quite dead, the
wifeless husband, in perusing the newspaper, had his
eye attracted by an advertisement, dated Perth. The
advertiser desired a situation as governess, and the
qualifications alleged, and the initials attached, being
those of his wife, left no doubt on the mind of the
husband that he had at last discovered his long-lost
treasure. Overjoyed, without losing any time he pro •
ceeded to Perth, accompanied by one or two friend:..
Intimation was at once sent to the lady that a gentle-
man who wanted a governess for his family desired an
interview at a particular place. Every moment he
expected her who lay rearest to his heart to enter, anti
proper arrangem..nts were made to carry her off by
love o: force to her wedded home. At length a lady
‘lid make her appearance, but, melancholy to relat.
the lady was a stranger. Some sort of excuses wert-,
of course, blundered out, and the disappointed party
trimdl-d back to St. .Mirrin. Time rolled on, weary
month after month was borne silently to the ocean
of the past, and still no i:itelligenee of the wife
who had so mysteriously stolen herself away. About
a fortnight since, the desolate husband was delighted
to be informed, on authority which he had no reason
to doubt, that his wife was now, and had been, living,
during the period of her voluntary widowhood, in
Campsie. That very night he and a friend found
themselves sitting in a public. house in the village.
Intelligence was sent to the fair runaway that she
was desired to be spoken with by a female friend.
She hastened to the house, where, unknown to her,
her husband anxiously expected her presence. On
entering the room, the first person she saw was—we
need not say whom. With a cry of affection which
makes one wonder she kept herself concealed so long,
she rushed into the arms of her husband. Mutual
inquiries and explanations took place, and confidence
and happiness were restored to both. The happy
husband pleaded with his wife that she should at once
proceed home with him, and more loving and pliant
than on a former occasion, she hastily dressed herself,
and accompanied him. The second honeymoon is
not yet expired, and from everything we can learn,
promises to last much longer and beam more brightly
than is usually enjoyed by the votaries of Hymen.—
Glasgow Examiner.

The will of the late General Sir John Lambert,
G.C.8., K.S.W., and Knight Commander of Maximilian,
Joseph, Colonel of the 10th Regiment of Foot, was made
by him in 1844, to which is added three codicils; and on
the 9th of January, 1845, he executed a deed effecting
family arrangement respecting certain plantations in the
island of Jamaica, known as the Winchester estate and
Hopewell Hall Penn, from which he was entitled to an
annuity of I,OOOL and other charges thereon, derived
from the will and settlement of his mother. He bas
pecuniary legacies to his two sons, his three daughters,
,and to a niece, and the residue and bulk of his property
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TRANSPORTATION FROM GUERNSEY TO ENGLAND.
—ln reference to a paragraph on this subject, and which
from the peculiarity of the species of " transportation."
has pretty well gone the round of the papers. The
Guernsey Star (after quoting the paragraph) has the
following remarks :—" The Jersey News, in which the
paragraph first appeared, is so well known in the Chan-
nel Islands for its flights of imagination, that its state-
ments are seldom noticed by any of its local contempo-
writerihesa,vneolronsghofuollldowweed
innowregdeaprdarttof7hant tphaeperru,ledwidhiv,eltie,
not find one of its misrepresentations reproduced by the
English press. It is untrue that Bevis, who is a native
of Charmouth, was sentenced to be 'transported to Eng-
land.' Such a sentence is never passed by the Ccurt e f
this island. Bevis, who was convicted of many petty
robberies, was condemned to two months' imprisonment
(the alternate weeks solitary and on bread and water).
and to banishment from the island for three years. In.
this case, as in all others, the place of the convict's ba-
nishment is left to his own choice. He may go to Jer-
sey, France, America, England, or any other -
thecountry
Guernsey
only
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officers
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snahud ti, hmoErninteighelsalondf
thewill stauttrliot
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the Venerable William Dealtry,c 4-ILDT.R.DY..O—v-__The will of
November inst., by hi‘s, son-in-
anteribauw7Ho.ns.thTe
Esq., and the Rev. $. Venn
hB.D., the seereastarp tesshieonhaury secretary
jojvrt
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to
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the Prerogative Court of
,CrhouhricshwMif
p_ersonal property was val ye'dtfcer probate duty at COW.
left a 'ilk) interest in the landed
joint executors. Tlm
es-
tates, and at her decease then to their son, William
Dealtry, Esq., in fee. His books, pictures plate, and
furniture, and all money not invested, together with ar-
rears of glebe rent, tithe, rent charge, or other dues
coming to the estate from his several benefices, he leaves
to his wife absolutely, and the residue of his prorerty-
between his two surviving daughters. The will is dated
April 21, 1845. This respected dignitary died et
Brighton on the 15th of October, in his 72d year. 110
was appointed to the rectory of Clapham in 1813, value
1,275/.; Canon of Winchester in 1830; and Archdeaccm.
of Surrey in 1845.
The Animals' Friend Society, of 457, Strand, last;
Tuesday charged John Downs, servant
with
to Mr. Web,,
-
before Mr. Norton, at the Lambeth Court,. having
hich he called a " bby," awl
cruelly beaten a horse, w lo
with such
which, as is generally the or e horses, had
apparently been rendered unable or afraid to draw from
ill treatment. The case was proved by one of the,
• ' Ineers and by Mr. Tyler; and Mr. Nort society s o , oil
judiciously fined him 20:. and costs. The society also•
caused Thomas Willet; a cab driver, to be fined in costs.
by Mr. Cottingham, at the Southwark Court, few .. i
a a}st
previous for having cruelly kicked a horse.
SPRAT FISHING AT BIRNBECE..--We U d n erstana that the fish are very abwadaut this
season, and hi Cute
Condition.