The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-02 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. IVALESBY and a full Bench of Magistrates.)
Yesterday George Lombardy and David Wheeler
were indicted for having unlawfully assaulted, and
rescued one George Bartlett from the custody of an
officer of the Clerkenwell County Court; and the
man Bartlett was joined with them as a defendant in
the count for the assault.

Mr. Huddleston prosecuted, and Mr. O'Brien ap-
peared for the defendants.
It appeared from the statement of witnesses,
that Bartlett had been summoned to attend at the
Clerken well County Court, but had not taken any
notice of the summons. The result was that: judg-
ment was signed against him. He, however, treated
the Court with contempt, whereupon a warrant of
commitment was issued by the Judge. This.warrant
was placed in the hands of the prosecutor for execu-
tion, and he accordingly proceeded to Bartlett's resi-
dence for that purpose, but on his arrival at the pre-
mises he met with an obstruction from Mrs. Bartlett.
The husband, nevertheless, now offered to pay the
debt and costs. The prosecutor informed him, that
as the warrant was issued against him for contempt
of Court, he could not receive the money, but must
take his person. In pursuance of his duty he then
laid hold of the husband, upon which the wife
screamed out loudly for help. This effort of the
female's lungs had the wished-for effect, for, in an in-
stant in rushed the other defendants, Lombardy and
Wheeler, by whom Bartlett's rescue was accomplished.
In his cross-examination the prosecutor stated that
he had had an execution in his possession against Bart-
lett's goods for five months, but that he had been
unable to make the levy in consequence of the house
having been during the whole period in a state of
barricade. He could not effect an entry upon the
premises, although he and others had been on the
watch every day. It had happened, too, that whilst
he and his assistants had been on the watch, Mrs.
Bartlett had upon more than one occasion thrown a
quantity of tainted water over them, whilst at other
times the violent opposition of the lady attracted con-
siderable crowds around the house.

Mr. O'BRIEN, on behalf of the defendants, submit-
ted that under the provisions of the 110th clause of
the New Small Debts Act the prosecutor was com-
mitting an illegal act when he was arresting Bartlett
after that person had tendered him the amount of the
debt and costs. The Learned Judge would find, on
looking at that clause, it ran thus: —" And be it
enacted, that any person imprisoned under this Act
who shall have paid or satisfied the debt or demand,
or the instalments thereof payable, and costs remain-
ing due at the time of the order of imprisonment
being made, together with the costs of obtaining such
order and all subsequent costs, shall be discharged
out of custody upon the certificate of such payment or
satisfaction signed by the clerk of the court, by leave
of the judge of the court in which the order of im-
prisonment was made." It was quite clear, he con-
tended, that the man Bartlett was, under the terms
of this clause, fully justified, seeing that he had made
a tender of the debt and costs, in resisting the arrest.
Mr. HUDDLESTON, on the other hand, argued that
the clause was applicable to warrants for non-pay-
ment, and not to warrants for commitment for con-
tempt. No doubt the payment of debt and costs
would exonerate a defendant from a judgment against
his goods or person, but a warrant for the committal
for contempt, he urged, was quite a distinct proceed.
ing, and could in no way be affected or satisfied by
payment. In fact, a contempt of court could not be
purged by payment, and the officer was, consequently,
incompetent to receive payment upon such terms.
The Learned JUDGE overruled the objection taken
by the Learned Counsel for the defendants.
The jury eventually returned a verdict of Guilty.
The Learned JUDGE then sentenced Bartlett, who
had been brought up in custody from the Queen's
Bench prison, to fourteen days' imprisonment in the
House of Correction, and Lombardy and Wheeler to
pay a fine of is each and to be discharged.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,
MAA SION-HOUSE.
Yesterday the LORD MAYOR said he considered it
likely to be useful to the public to state that he had
received letters from gentlemen with whom certain
foreign lottery speculators had thought proper to
correspond, with the view of getting up a taste for
that sort of speculation. The process appeared to his
Lordship to be quite sufficient to prevent experienced
people from running any hazard with their super-
fluous cash, but the metropolis swarmed with persons
who seemed to have been born to be preyed upon, as
the occurrences of every hour at police-offices incon-
testably proved ; and through the medium of the
press he thought a charitable hint might produce
much advantage to the most extensive list of the
gullible.
The following letter, containing documents, was
then read by his Lordship, as calculated to explain
the nature of the communications :
" Forfar, Sept. 24, 1847.
" My Lord,—Knowing the ingenuity of some of
the citizens of London in " raising the wind," and
that too sometimes by not very legal means, I beg
to transmit to your Lordship the enclosed documents
for the sale of an Austrian estate, which have been
transmitted by post to me :
"I do not believe in the existence of any such scheme
for the sale of an estate in Austria by the specified
means, and even if it do exist, the proceedings are
illegal in this country ; but, notwithstanding, it is
calculated to induce the adventurious to throw away
their cash, which might be more usefully expended
upon the ordinary necessities of their own families,
and I therefore send the documents to you, in order
that, if your Lordship deem fit, the matter may be
inquired into, or the public warned of the imposition.
"I remain, my Lord, your Lordship's very humble
and obedient servant, " W. SMITH, M.D.
" To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of London."
"Frankfort-on-the-Maine, Sept. 1847.
" Sir,—l beg to submit to you a prospectus of the
plan for disposing of a magnificent mansion, a view
of which is enclosed herein.
" You are probably aware that the system of sales
by auction is not in vogue in Germany, and that
when a landowner wishes to dispose of a property,
the usual practice is to adopt a sale by shares.
"These sales can, however, only take place by
permi,sion of the proper authorities, and that permis-
sion is never accorded until after the most careful in-
vestigation on the part of the Government.
" Conceiving it possible that 3 oa might feel inclined
to subscribe for a few shares, I shall keep at your dis.
posal the five numbers and the gratis ticket' marked
on the enclosed certificate, and on receiving your
orders I will immediately send the originals.
" The payment can either be made at once by
Post-office orders, bank notes, or bankers' orders ;or
you may, at your option, remit, after the receipt of
the shares, to a house in London, whose address I will
furnish. Should the numbers marked on the certi-
ficate be already disposed of on receipt of your order,
you will be pleased to leave the choice of others
to me.
" Should you not feel disposed to take a share in
this speculation, may I trouble you to hand the pros-
pectus and enclosures to some of your friends.
"I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient
servant," &c.
The prospectus enclosed in the letter states that
three grand prizes are to be drawn :-1. The magni-
ficent freehold property, the estate Langiewnick, in
Austria, forming one of the most valuable properties
in the Austrian empire. 2. A money prize of 50,000
florins. 3. Various money prizes, of the amounts of
20,000-10,000-5,000-4,000, &c., florins.
The following is a copy of the scrip enclosed to
Mr. Smith :
"A grand sale by shares of the Seignorial Estate,
Langiewniek, in Austria, officially valued at 2,000
florins, takes place at Vienna on Nov. 13, 1847.
" Prices of the shares :
"One ordinary share, 11.; one green share, 21.
"By taking five ordinary shares, a green share is
added gratis.
" The following five ordinary shares, Nos. 2,436,
2,458, 2,483, 2,525, 2,556, together with the green
one, No. 804, or others, if these should be disposed
of, will be delivered to the bearer on returning this
scrip, • and the amount of Si. before the 12th of No-
vember, 1847, to —, banker.
" Frankfort-on-the-Maine, Sept. 1847."
There was also enclosed a plate of the mansion and
estate, which are to fall into the possession of some
very lucky person on the 13th of November next.
The view was captivating enough to induce a person
to risk a pound for such a glorious independence.
A gentleman present observed to his Lordship that
the very liberal manner in which the tickets were
transmitted for the purpose of picking up chance cus-
tomers brought to recollection the course pursued by
the provisional committee in a great number of the
humbug railroad companies. The gentlemen at the
head of the respectable concerns alluded to used to
send letters of allotment to parties who never applied
for shares, and afterwards wrote to them per the legal
gentleman of the establishment, upon the breaking
up, for a per centage to defray the expenses of the
experiments.
The LORD Me.yoa said, he knew nothing of the
persons who were concerned in getting up the lot-
tery in question, hut he knew that it was illegal to
have anything to do with speculations of the kind in
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William James, a dandily-dressed conductor, of
No. 2,373, threepenny omnibus, was summoned be-
fore the Lord Mayor by Mrs. Ann Sell, for the
following misconduct :
Airs. Sell got into the omnibus in Piccadilly, and
on getting out at the Poultry handed the conductor a
shilling. He told her that if she would go as far as
the European, opposite to th© Mansion-house, he