The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-11 00:00:00

EVINING EDITION.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

ROME CIRCU IT.--MAIDSTONE, TUESDAY.
The Commission of Assize for the county of Kent
was opened on Monday, at Maiestone, with the usual
female:es.
The Calendar coeteins the names of 116 prisoners, 100
vigil:lone are males there being only 16 females for trial.
itie a melancholy f iet that of this great number of pri-
geezers riot more thin five can be said to possess anything
like education, and a very great majority can neither read
nor write.
Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE sat on the Criminal side and
Lord ASINGHR at Nisi Peius. There were only sixteen
Civil cases for trial, mostly ejectments and notices of tres-
pass, and there is only one Special Jury case.
i Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE charged the Grand Jury as
foigiows, Viscount Marsham being Foreman :—lt gave him
great pleasure to see so numerous an assemblage of gen-
t riernen in attendance to perform the imteortant duties of
elrand Jurors. With respect to the Calendar, he re-
:Jetted to see that there were already considerably more
*n a hundred prisoners for trial, and that number would
eery probably be increased before the conclusion of
fee business of the assize. He regretted to see that
there were some serious charges in the Calendar, and
evitle respect to one of the cases he would make a
Farr observatices to the Jury. Three prisoners were com-
mitted upon a charge of murder, but, upon his looking over
the depesitions he did not think that charge could be sub-
, staatiated, and he had ascertained on inquiring that the
prisoners had been committed for murder by mistake, and
that it was intended that they should only be charged
eviela marrsiaughter, which, according to his opinion, was
the proper form of charge. With regard to the other caves
in she calendar he did not see that they required any
lens thenad observation from him, and he should therefore
tree spass no longer on their time.
Li eney James was indicted for stealing three hurdle-rods,
valete three-halfpence, the property of Sir Herbert Jenner.
Ale. eiCRITEN conducted the prosecution, Mr. HORNE
the, defehoe.
Who LEARNED COUNSEL for the prosecution stated that
Sir Herbert Jenner having suffered a good deal from peety
ikeeredatices, had thought it necessary to institute the
preiient proceeding.
Vobert Wigsby, bailiff to Sir Herbert, deposed that on
tee Ist of February he was upon some land at Chislehurst,
teeistrigiag to the prosecutor, and he saw the prisoner go
*sae a public path towards a place where there were seve-
! cal Inasetles of hurdle poles, and he observed him take three
leet Kite poles and run away with them.
Croeoesamined by Mr. HORNE—What did he do with
*law? Witness—l saw him throw them away over a
beige.
' Dlr. Hoexe—What may be the value of these poles, or
smies, ac I ehould call them? Witness (hesiteting)—
seleiet a penny or three halfpence.
.1% ?thee constable proved that he went after the pri-
=.ll-r, end found him at his own house, and told him that
be MSS ..thirged with felony. Ha appeared very much
serpriarei, and said he hoped they would not make such a
1 *cargo egeinet him, for such an innocent thing as taking
• aeeee two et- three twigs, which were of no use to him, but
estieele be had thrown away immediately after he took them.
111 r. Lloeere-1 believe you found them in the place where
he said he threw them away ? Witness—l did, Sir.
Tee Leila was re-called, and he said that he could not
r p iaitieely identify the twigs that were produced as being
I stst yreperty of his master.
!lee. Hortee then addressed the Jury, and said he re-
i get ted veet much that the prisoner should have been
beteleeht to the Assizes, or the face of the assembled
; et-mete, to answer fetch a trumpery charge as this. The
prrycrty alleged to be stolen appeared to be of so base and
r tiling and valueless a description, that it would hardly
feral the subject of larceny, and yet the prisoner had
Steen committed for trial, and had already undeagone up-
wards of six weeks imprisonment, upon the charge o
etraling it. f
i Mr. elaseice LITTLEDALE briefly charged the Jury, who
1 iensiediately returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

111 AN S4I ON -HO USE.

'The LORD .MAYOR said that he had received a letter
fro= Emers to Tennent, M. P., relative to a system of
rwincling •.vhich had been exposed in the newspapers about
a wed,. ago. as having been practised in Scotland, but
Wel:, it appeared, had been acted upon to a very great
eltent Irclmid. His Lc,rthhip thought that the publi-
vino of the letter would be serviceable to the public. It
orris a.; 10'.10

" 19. Pall-mall, March 9th, 1840.

My L.:Art.—An advertisement has for some time past
4;4-axed :in Ai. Irish newspapers, to the effect that a gen-
'lernan C(l4:;,rvative principles, lately deceased, had left
o be i'tnt, at the discretion of trustees, to Pro-
ti-st-tnis. '4l Ireland, on their personal bond, in sums
•Fit7,it,e; fern ;01. to 3001., on application to the Rev. A.
-4 Angel-place, Pentonville. In consequence
anuocacement, numerous applications seem to have
:node to the t Reverend ' Gentleman ; and
lave, witi_in the last few days, received as many
ter from the North of Ireland as would pretty
4,41,%)- 0,-,;(,rb the entire sum, each written by
pis.:ty claiming to be duly qualified to be a
seipiens et the bounty of the deceased, and begging of me
nith,r to hand to the trustees a bank order inclosed, to
•: gray t':te eest of staraps, or, having already transmitted
:at autount directly, asking me to bear testimony to their
eharazte, and principles when called on for that purpose
the Roe. Mr. Johnston. In answer to these applica-
tion; fur loans, each appears to have received a letter
te tic on,, which I enclose," and which was as
Lendon, March, 1840, No. —, Goswell-road.
s:r:_Trie trustees of the Conservative Loan have
repel-reel faimurably on your application. You will there-
r,,,,,. yoti wish to avail yourself of the benefit thereof,
to me, prist paid, a bank note for 31., the
priest a :wind vamp in your case, which will be filled up
Neil; se,or:litez to law without any further expense to you.
Tie •tre compelled to adopt this measure, as many
finterar':7 i.eeti made at imposition by persona
itabett I,olities are in opposition to the kind inten-
ti•n; uF the deceased. No application will be re-
ri:ler tire of March, as the Attorn©y for the
+-irate vrlil here for Ireland on the 15tia, for the pur-
psise of paying the money and witnessing the signatures
o this -i,arOes approved
4 I .amain your most obedient servant,
" ANDREW JACKSON,
Agent to the Trustees."

(s:Wti

Mr. 'ferment's letter thus proceeds
W::113t. I ,!er all justice to the natural confidence which
lin induced many of my constituents to believe that
c h an -act of posthumous generosity was not improbable
by a C liseevative, I cannot but regret that a greater
tiaa-.bcc of t}'em had not taken the prudent precaution of
trat-.,rnitting the' stamp duty' though my hands ; and I
feel .1; my duty to call your Lordships' attention to the
subjict. hi ti.e hope that the publicity which it is in your
iy:s,or To effectually to give to the transaction, if it do not
leaf', to the detection of the swindlers, may at least operate
as an effectual caution to their dupes.
" I bay:: the honour to be your ,br,dient servant,
"J. EMERSON TENNENT."
•

LOAD Ma vow regretted very much that so many
pee ;,ers-iu3 had been plundered, and said that the mo-
tvet,t he first received intimation of the trick, he sent Da-
niel Forrester to the addresses given by the person who
called himself the Agent of the Trustees, but he could get
ti,iirgs of the agent. It was quite evident from the
scheme, that those who were concerned in imposing upon
the Scotch, according to the former communications he
bar) received, were the fellows who were endeavouring to
entrap the poor Irish, but in different names. lathe Scotch
plan. one of the names used was Charles B. Stuart, and
in :'cc I:ish those of Maxwell and Jackson were preferred.
His Lordship added that the swindlers of London appeared
be hard at work. He had received several letters from
e2e7cliants and shopkeepers, inclosing copies of long ad-
dreosee, in which large sums of money were offered upon
good bills. These addresses were directed from the Albany-
read;-hid those who intrusted the firm which proposed the
call:lug of bills with any securities, were sure of being
plunderql.
Mr. Hoblet- aid that he recognised in the printed ad-
Iresics the old and successful mode of imposition practised
by the notoriotta Coster, who had been committed for rob-
bery by Sir Peter Laurie, and soon after transported.

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