The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-09 00:00:00

AUGUST 7.

The following appointments have been this morning
made by Mr. Justice Coleridge, of Revising Barristers
for the counties upon this circuit :—Berkshire, Messrs.
J. G. Phillimore and C. A. Wood ; Oxfordshire, Messrs.
J. W: Smith and Beadon ; Worcestershire East, Messrs.
Curwood and Selfe ; Worcestershire West, Messrs. Thomp.-
son and Chichester ; Staffordshire North, Messrs. Church-
hill and Peake ; Staffordshire South, Messrs. Bros and
Whitmore ; Shropshire North, Messrs. Seaker and E.
G. White ; Shropshire South, Messrs. Ellison and T.
J. Phillips ; Herefordshire, Mr. Corbett ; Monmouth-
shire, Mr. Kynnersley ; Gloucestershire East, Messr3.
Tyrwhitt and Keating ; Gloucestershire West, Messrs.
Kempson and G. K. Rickards.

CHESTER AND NORTH WALES CIRCUIT.
Chester, Aug. 6.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice ERSKINE.)
FRAUDULENT VOTING.

Charles Oldham, aged 48, was placed at the bar on a
charge of having wilfully given false answers to the
questions put to him when tendering his vote at the late
election for North Cheshire.

The Attorney-General and Mr. Trafford appeared for
the prosecution, and Mr. Townsend for the defence.
It appeared from the evidence that the defen-
dant was registered for freehold houses, Green Mount,
and that he voted for Egerton and Legh, Con-
servative candidates, at the last election, after answering
the questions which were demanded on behalf of the Hon.
E. J. Stanley, by Mr. Hibbert, the agent. In December,
1839, Oldham executed a deed of assignment, for the
benefit of his creditors, and shortly afterwards a fiat of
bankruptcy was issued against him, and assignees chosen.
He, however, still remained in possession of a public-
house, and collected the rents of the houses, which he
paid over to the assignees.

The Judge haying summed up the case, the Jury
found the defendant guilty, and he was sentenced to six
weeks' imprisonment.

TAE ELECTION RIOT AT 'NANTWICII.

Michael Byrne was found guilty of a riot and assault
aC:Natftwieh, on' the 13th of July, and sentenced to
twelve months' imprisonment.

TI-- ELECTION RIOT AT CONGLETON.

George Acton, Henry Lees, Edward Edwards, John
S'pinh,:Thomas Gregory, William Egerton, and James
Goldstraw, indicted for a riot and assault at the Congle-
ton election-booth, were found Guilty, and sentenced to
three months' imprisonment each ; Lees to the same
term, with hard labour, he having assaulted one of the
constables.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

A NEW MODE OF EXTORTING MONEY.-Mr. Ash-
urst, solicitor, of Cheapside, appeared before the LORD
MAYOR and Sir P. LAURIE, for the purpose of making a
representation of a new way of raising the wind. He was
apprehensive, he said, that he could not be supplied by
the Magistrates with an immediate remedy for the evil of
which lie had to complain Upon the part of his clients,
Messrs. Tarsey and Milgate, wholesale warehousemen in
the city. The publicity, however, which he knew would
be given to the particulars would in all pr9bability enable
others in trade to protect themselves as well as to punish
the aggressors.
The LORD MAYOR and Sir P. LAURIE said it would
give them very great satisfaction to render service to
their fellow-citizens in every possible way.
Mr. Ashurst then said that on Friday night a man,
whose name was unknown, walked into the counting-
house of his clients and asked whether any one of the
principals of the firm was within. The reply was that
Mr: Tarsey was to be seen, and the man was forthwith
introduced to that gentleman in his office. " Have I the
honour," said the visitor, " to aadreSs Mr. Tarsey ?"
Upon being informed in the affirmative he continued,
" Are you aware Mr: Tarsey. that you have made your-
self liable tr) heavy penalties by giving receipts in seve-
ral instances on unstamped paper ?" "'No," replied Mr.
Tarsey, " I am not aware of anything of the. kind."
The visitor, who had a large bundle of • papers in his
hand, then stated that Mr. Tarsey laboured under
a mistake, for in the mass of papers which met the eye, and
which consisted of unstamped receipts, were five of Mr.
Tarsey's, one of which purported to be the receipt of
Mr. Edward Roberts, a linendraper, for 201., which had
been: settled without a regularly sanctioned and legal re-
ceipt; and'as it would be probably more agreeable to the
firm to pay 10/. than 501. or 60/., to which the penalties
• of the infraction of the Act would amount, why the mat-
ter could be arranged. Mr. Tarsey said he would pay no
such money; but being anxious to get one of the receipts
into his hands. for the purpose of enabling him to expose..
Or pkoseeute, if necessary, he conse4tcd to accept the

offer of one of them for the sum of 21., which he ac-
cordingly paid, and was put in possession of the receipt.
The LORD MAYOR—And did he not give the fellow
into custody ?

Mr. Ashurst replied that Mr. Tarsey did not suppose
there were sufficient grounds for accusation, and allowed
the individual to escape for the time.
The Loan MAYOR—I hope that such an extortioner
Will niit'he peimitted to do these things with impunity.
He ought to have been brought before me at once. Here
is a clear case of extortion.

Sir PETER—Most decidedly. We should have very
little hesitation in dealing with such a person, and I hope
we shall see him here.

Mr. Tarsey urged him to give his name, but he said
" No, no ; you shall have no name."

The LORD- MAYOR—But it was very easy to call in a
policeman, and give the fellow and all his receipts into
custody.

Mr. Ashurst said it was ascertained that the same
person called with a similar story at the warehouse'of
Messrs. Leaf; Smith, and Jones, who refused to make any
purchaSe of the receipts which he said he possessed of
that firm, or to have anything at all to do with him ; and
it appeared that Mr. E. Roberts ought to hare handed
over the possession of all these papers to his trustees. He
(Mr. Ashurst), however, did not say that Mr. Edwards
Roberts joined the stranger in making a base use of the
documents. It was quite impossible to say by what
means he, who carried about with him the -papers for
such a purpose, obtained possession of them, and Mr.
Tarsey considered it to be better in the hands of Govern-
ment than in those of a gang of extortioners. In all pro-
bability the fellow would continue to take his rounds
amongst the London tradesmen until he should see the
account of the application first made.
The LORD MAYOR—Did he use any threats to the se-
cond house he endeavoured to impose upon ?
Mr. Ashurit said, that upon finding his proposition
unsuccessful at Messrs. Lea, Smith, and Jones, he assured
them that if they did not pay into the hands of Mr.
Monckton, of Surrey-street, a certain sum of money, the
case should be put into the hands of her Majesty's At-
totney-General, who would sue for all the penalties. He
Ashurst) had been informed that several advertise.
ments had appeared in the Times newspaper of late, on
the subject of unstamped receipts, calling the attention
of any person who may be possessed of any to the fact
that they could be turned to the advantage of the holders.
Sir P. LAURIE asked whether it was the custom:of;
the house which Mr. Ashurst repreit-mted to give receipts
of the kind described ? Mr. Tarsey said that his house
always gave receipts when accounts were closed, and it
was quite impossible for any but men in business to con-
jecture what great inconvenience resulted from the obli-
gation to give receipts for small sums in the infinity of
transactions which took place in an extensive business.
Sir P. LAURIE—Then you ought to have had these
papers back ? Mr. Tarsey—Most certainly. Mr. Ro-
berts ought to have given them up.
Sir P. LAURIE—I pay my coachman and groom, and
enter the sums in a book, which I dare say might be
used by a fellow of this description as unstamped re-
ceipts. -Mr. Ashurst—Exactly so. It is frequently the
case that the retail dealers would prefer memorandums
of this kind to numberless receipts. The Government
cannot be aware of the insignificance of the productive-
ness of such a source of revenue compared with the in-
convenience to which it subjects men of business.
The LORD MAYOR said it would give him great plea-
sure indeed to adjudicate in such a cage as Mr. Ashurst
had detailed. However, as the extortioner was not in
custody, all that could be done would be through the
medium of the public press to stop his progress, and he
trusted that some warehouseman, upon whom an attempt
to plunder might be made, would seize upon the impos-
tor, and all his papers and books, and introduce him to
to the Justice-room.

Two young men, named George Thompson and Robert
Hill, the latter of whom is a mere boy, were brought up
charged upon suspicion of having been concerned with a
gang of thieves, whose practice it is to send the younger
branches of the profession into premises with bags, to be
used in secreting any portable property that might be
lying about.
Mr. Hobler, jun., who attended for the prosecution,
stated that on Friday the premises of Messrs. Caldecot, of
Cheapside, were robbed of some pieces of linen, no
doubt through the means of a boy and a bag ; and this
morning in walked Hill with a bag, while Thompson
remained outside evidently watching for the boy. The
shopmen were of course observing the movements of
both, and as they accounted in a very lame manner for
themselves, they were given into the custody of the po-
lice.—They were remanded till Monday.'

BOW-STREET.
THE POOR-LAWS.—Sir Edmund Head, assistant Poor-
law Commissioner, waited on Mr. Twyford, and drew his
attention to the case of Emma Watson, who some weeks
back was found in "Westminster, in a state of destitution,
and on being taken to the workhouse of St. Margaret's,
was refused admission and relief. In consequence of
what transpired at Bow-street on that occasion, the
Commissioners had considered it requisite to adopt such
rules and regulations as the law empowered them to do
for the future guidance of the Magistrates in such cases,
and a copy of which he now desired to lay before him.
The followed are the rules and regulations referred
to.

" Parish of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster.
To the Churchwardens, Overseers, Vestrymen, Go-
vernors, Directors, &c., of the parish of St. Mar-
garet and St. John—We, the Poor-law Commis-
sioners, under the power and authority •of an. Act
passed in the fifth year of the reign of his late Majesty
King William IV., intituled—' An Act for the amend-
ment and better administration of the laws relating to
'the poor of England and Wales,' do hereby order
and direct that any person in a state of destitution
who may apply for relief under circumstances of sudden
and urgent necessity, at any workhouse belonging to the
parishes of St. John and St. Margaret, Westminster,
shall immediately on such application be rolieVed by ad
mission into the workhouse, and by the supply of food,
clothes, medicine, or other articles of absolute necessity, as
the urgency of the case may require, until some lawful
order touching the relief of such person-be made by those
duly authorised, and we do hereby order and direct the
master, matron, and porter of the said workhouse to
admit any such persons so destitute as aforesaid into
the said workhouses, and so, for each of them respect-
ively, is empowered to supply, or procure to be supplied,
.such relief in food, clothes, medicine, &c., as aforesaid,
until such lawful order be given in respect to any such
person by those duly authorised in their .behalf.
Given under our hands and seal of office this Gth
day of August, 1841.
(Signed) " J. G. SHAW LEFEVRE."

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYDS.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITII.—The Pomona, from Sligo,
sth ult., off Cape Race, by the Combatant, arrived at
Dover. Pearl, Tarragona to Valparaiso, June 29, off
Cape de Gatt, by the -Alexander, arrived at Falmouth.
Palestine, Sydney to London, June 3, lat. 27 S.; lon. 24;
Cheshire Witch, June 19, on the Equator; Northumber-
land, Madras to Calcutta, June 24, lat. 8 N., lon. 24 ;
Mary, of Leith, for Mauritius, June 29, lat. 12, lon. 26 ;
Corinthian, Gibraltar to Newfoundland, 18th ult., lat.
40, lon. 34 ; Switzerland, Gibraltar to Newfoundland,
20th ult., lat. 43, lon. 21 ; William Shand, Sierra Leone
to Cork, 23d ult., lat. 44, lon. 26; Monongahela, Liver-
pool to Philadelphia, 25th ult. lat. 44, lon. 25; Antelope,
Rio Grande to Hamburgh, 27 thult., lat. 46, lon. 23, by the
Thomas Fielden, arrived at Liverpool. Thistle, Water-
ford to Quebe, Ist inst., lat. 46, lon. 15, by the Emma,
arrived at Liverpool. Henry IVolley, Barbadoes to Ja-
maica, June 26; South America, Liverpool to New York;
Ontario, Liverpool to Wiscaset, June 30 , lat. 46, lon. 19;
Athens, Liverpool to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1:-:t
ult., lat. 48, lon. 15; Workington and Arethusa, sth ult.,
off Tuskar, by the Jamaica, arrived at Liverpool. Ocean,
Malta to Liverpool, 4th ult., lat. 49, lon. 8, by the
Thames, arrived at Southampton. Heywood, Liverpool
to Africa, Ist ult., lat. 11, lon. 47, by the Faith, arrived
at Torbay. Eliza, Bristol to New York, 27th ult., lat..
48, lon. 24, by the Marmaduke, arrived in Mumble
Roads. Thalia, Marseilles to Bourbon, Juno 17, lat. 10
N., lon. 21 W., by the 'William, arrived in the Clyde ;
Ann, Limerick to Miramichi, lath ult., off St. Paul's ;
William Reid, 20th ult., on the banks.of Newfoundland,
by the Harriet, arrived in the Clyde.

It is with regret we state that the continuance
of wet weather threatens to be injurious to the wheat
crop. We have this week seen many fields covered with
abundance, under the influence of mildew, to a Coneider-
able extent. The harvest is partially (very partially) be-
gun around this city. Peas, oats, wheat, and barley, in
small quantities, have been cut, but even next
week there can probably be no continuous work,
though the weather improve. The barley exhibits nearly
everywhere two growths, which must both retard and in-
jure the crop; otherwise very large and fine. The wheat
has scarcely in any part of Norfolk that we have seen at-
tained the rich golden hue that declares its perfect matu-
rity, and in most places it retains its transition colour in
the ear and the green in the stalk. We need not de-
scribe the consequence of " fickle harvest "=--btit at pre-
sent the rain, the cloudy atmosphere, and the absence of
solar heat, bear but too strong an analogy to the inaus-
picious season of 1816.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT DEVONPORT
I I)OCK.YARP.—WEDNESDAY, AUG. 4.—This.afternoon, as
a number of persons were examining the machinery in
the engine-room. Mrs. Hancock, .the wife of a superan-
nuated quarterman, incautiously stood too near the per •
pendicular revolving shaft, when the light portions of
her shawl were caught by the shaft (through the dried
oil on it), and the remainder of her clothing .beinc, soon
entangled by the same means, she was taken up by the
shaft, and flung round with frightful rapidity. One of
the engine-men, in his anxiety, unfortUnately turned off
the machinery from being worked by the power, and
this, of course, allowed the shaft to work with still
greater swiftness. - It was three minutes before the en-
gine was stopped. Both Mrs. Hanc;ek's thighs were
broken, one leg, and one arm. She was carried to the
surgery in the yard, and from-thence biome, where she
expired. Mrs. Quintral,, her sister-in-law, very nearly
shared her fate, in her endeavours to save Mrs. Hancock.
She was also taken up by the shaft, and flung round, but
escaped with a sew bruises. The machinery is used for
various purposes, such as drilling holes, grinding, turn-
ing, &c., and is very powerful. The shaft is about 20
feet high, and about six inches diameter, and ought to
have been long since protected by a guard of some kind.
BRIDGE OF BOATS.—At Lyons, among other
exhibitions for the celebration of the fetes of July, was
one by the corps of Pontonniers, quartered in•that town,
who threw a bridge of 38 boats across the Rhone in less
than an hour. The civil and military authorities passed
over this bridge, constructed entirely without nails, and
within lialf an hour the whole was dismotinted again'
and stowed away. A large] concourse of spectators wit-
nessed
this manoeuvre.

The King of Hanover has forwarded, throuh
Sir B. Watsen, 100/. towards the funds 9 Ithq Queen's
Free School in the parish of lew.