The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-21 00:00:00

KINGSTON PETTY SESSIONS.

Mr. Green, a saddler at Kingston, attekded to
answer an information charging him with having un-
lawfully slaughtered a horse without having been licensed,
and without giving due notice to the inspector of the
houses of horse slaughterers of his intention to kill the

Mr. Guy attended in 'behalf of the defendant, and
the case was one of a novel character.

Charles Dobbs deposed that he was in the employ
of a gentleman named Edwards, at Sarbiton, and his
master, having a favourite horse that was past labour,
he was sent to Mr. Green to ask him to come and kill
it. Mr. Green accordingly came to his master's and
lolled the animal. .

Mr. Walter, the person appointed to inspect the
houses for slaughtering horses in this district, said that
this was his case.

Mr. Guy submitted to the bench that there was n o
case at all, and said that he was altogether at a loss to
know what offence was charged against his &lent. It
appeared that a geWieman desiring to have his hors©
killed upon his own premises, which any gentleinan had
a right to do if he pleased, had sent for Mr. Green to
destroy the animal, and he had done so, and ha must
contend with confidence to the bunch, that in so doing
he had not committed any offence whatever against
the law.

Sir It. FREDERICK said he agreed with Mr. Guy. If
any gentleman thought proper to have his horse killed
upon his own premises, he did not see that the inspec-
tor had any thing to do with it.
The Inspector said he contended that notice ought to
be given to him before the horse was killed.
Sir lt. FREDERICK—Do you moan to say that if I
wished one of my horses to be killed, that I am bound
to give you notice ? The Inspector—No, but the party
who is employed to kill the animal ought to give me
notice.

The BENCH, after a brief consideration of the matter,
decided that no case bad been made out, and dismissed
the information.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

INDEPENDENT AND WEST MIDDLESEX ASSU-
RANCE OFFlCE.—Yesterday Sir PETER LAURIE came
to the Justice-room while Alderman Pram was officiating,
and stated that he had a communication to make which
he considered to be one of considerable public import-
ance, and he was glad to see in the Chair on the occa-
sion a Magistrate to whom the public were already
under great obligations for the exposure of the scheme
called the British and Australasian Bank, No. 55,
Moorgzttc-street, the two principal parties concerned
with which were at present in the Queen's Bench prison.
Alderman PIRIE lamented that he had not succeeded
in obtaining for the poor people who had given them
money for the letters of credit at the British and Aus-
tralasian Bank any part of the property they had
risked. He regretted to learn that there were many
other speculations by which persons with limited means
had suffered considerably, and he should feel much gra-
tification in contributing, as much as lay in his power,
to the detectieu and exposure of the inquities of the im-
postors who thrived by them.
Sir P. LAURIE stated that he had to call the atten-
tion of Alderman Pirie to a Company, which, for the
extent of the robberies committed by the few individuals
who established it, exceeded any thing within his me-
mory. He had received the following note from the
Editor of a Scotch paper, and he had inquired into the
particulars, and found them to be by no means exagge-
rated :

" Scotch Reformers' Gazelle Office, Glasgow,
" January 16, 1841. •

" The Editor of the Scotch Reformers' Gazette pre-
sents his respectful compliments to his distinguished
countryman Sir Peter Laurie, and begs to call the at•
tention of Sir Peter to an article in the paper, trans-
mitted by this post, respecting the Middlesex Assur-
ance swindlers, who have just absconded with about
200,0001. of their victims' money !
" The Middlesex are part of the same gang who had
the unparalleled audacity to advertise the name of his
Grace the Duke of Wellington, as patron of a Loan
Company and Gcaerul Deposit Bank, formerly exposed
at the Mansion-house.
" The Duke wrote to the Editor of the Gazette, au-
thorising him to expose the gang, which was done effee-
tuall) in this quarter ; but the Press, in too many
places, continued to publish the specious advertisements
of the swindlers, and even to puff them ; and hence the
swindlers succeeded in pillaging the public to the above
enormous extent."

The article alluded to, which contained an account of
the flight of the Directors of the Company from their
premises, No. 27, Baker-street, Portman-square, which
were left without an atom of furniture or property of
any kind, stated that the course of proceeding was
most ingenious. When the Scotch paper attacked
the gang they brought actions against the proprietors
for damages to an enormous amount, took care to let
the public know that they were appealing to the law for
redress, and became more and more confident in the
tone of their addresies by advertisement, so that they
made the very fact of the accusation against them instru-
mental to the attainment of their great object of plun-
dering all ranks of the people. It was not supposed to
be possible that an Association established in so re-
spectable a part of the metropolis, constantly appearing
before the public in expensive advertisements, and
taking its own part in the most awful mari-
ner in the Courts of Law when any one
dared to asperse its motives, could have bean set on
foot by the mere exertions of a couple of
gentlemen's servants and a couple of bankrupts
in desperate circumstances, and carried on in the open
day, for the mere purposes of plunder. The fact, Sir
Peter said, now stared the unfortunate annuitants in
the face. One of them had put into his hands the fol-
lowing memorandum, which Mr. Knowles, a partner in
the Company, had given to her, upon receiving from
her the sum of 4951., on which she had been paid at the
rate agreed upon, until the bubble burst :-
4. Independent and West Middlesex Assurance Office
for Fire, Lives, and Annuities, 27, Baker-street,
Portman-square (opposite the Bazaar.)
London, 7th of May, 1839.
hands a
" Mrs. Wallis has this day deposited in my