The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

GEILS V. GEILS.

This case came before their Lordships upon appeal from
the decision of the Court of Arches.

Upon the case being called on,
Lord BROUGHAM, on the part of their Lordships, desired
all parties except those connected with the case to with-
draw; he did so because the facts of the case were of so in.
delicate a nature that the public morals required that they
should not be put forth before the world.
Strangers then withdrew, and the argument on the case
occupied their Lordships in private the whole morning.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND).
His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND sat in
Ins Court in Lincoln's-Inn to-day and took motions, but no
case of any public interest came before his Honour during
the morning.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
The February general Quarter Sessions for the county of
Middlesex commenced this morning, before the Assistant-
Judge and a full bench of magistrates, when the number of
prisoners for trial was 90, of whem 83 were charged with
felony.
The Learned ASSISTANT-JUDGE charged the grand'
saidu in
the usual form, and, in allusion to jnepltehcartimoomtal ,
Of te
was with exceedineret he
criminals whose natures appeared on the calendar, no less
33 were children, in the true sense of the word—their ages
erceh t han9o
varying from seven to fifteen 3'd e
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ma na
sk e t
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a counterpane, jria
ill Williams
valuemswas
lOi .d, indicted
p p y
It appeared from the 2d " t
evidence of two constables of the D
Esq., of Hyde Parkighaerdens.
division of police, that on the night of ins t., about
ten o'clock, the prisoner
seen
ancdo muipnognout
beingof Alr.
challenged Pages
stables carrying a large
as.. to what it contained, he immediately
bundle,w as
• t o custody at a low
by
yreowneit odfowthnorn
,and succeeded for the time in effecting his
escape, but was eventually taken in
lodging-house in St. Giles s. Upon examining the bundle
it was found to contain the articles charged in the indictment,
which the prisoner, with a daring and adroitness showing
him to be an experienced hand, managed to take from some
of the rooms up stairs, which were unoccupied, Mr. Page's
family being out of town at the time.
The prisoner, who cross-examined the witnesses for the
prosecution with a lawyer-like tact, was found Guilty, and
sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour.
ther.
Matthew Mtophy was indicted for stealing a watch,
property of Jean Rodrigues, who geve his evidence through
the medium of a Portuguese interpreter, and stated that be
was at a public-house in Wapping, called the Jolly Sailors,
when the prisoner came next to him, and managed to abstract
his watch from his waistcoat pocket.
To the evident surprise of the prisoner himself, he was
Acquitted.

y Anne Nicholson was indicted for stealing a purse,
containing 9s. 6i1., the property of Thomas Carpenter.
The robbery was one of the ordinary street robberies by
females, and a verdict of Guilty was returned.
The Learned ASSISTANT-JUDGE, in passing sentence, re-
marked upon the great increase latterly of this species of
robbery, and sentenced the prisoner to six months imprison-
ment.

SURREY SESSIONS.—(THIS DAY.)
BURG LARY.— William Adams and Henry Parker were in-
dicted for I,rTaking into tliti ilwelling-house of James August,
at Beddingtou, near Croydon, and stealing therefrom a waist-
coat, swine cheese, and other property.
It appeared from the evidence of the different wiluesses
that on Sunday night, the 31st ultimo, the house of the pro-
secutor was entered, and the property stolen therefrom. On

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the following morning the prisoner Parker sold the wa:Ntcoatfa 3
a man named Wright, a beer-shop keeper at Croy( ton, Ill' '3'
afterwards pledged it. The prisoners on being app reheade
Is
denied all knowledge of the robbery, but Adams al terwar
said that both of them went on the Sunday nigh tto
gust's house, being familiarly acquainted with him, but "Tot
4;rie him at home, he (Adams) broke a square of gl3l6iii
nu,..
en, and took away the property, not for ,
the back a lark. Adams further add 'eclo,—!.l.
sake of stealing, but
he gave the waistcoat It; Parker for the purl 10se of
selling it.
It appeared in evidence that both prisoners held reap.. actable
and responsible situations at Croydon, and were on fa niliar
terms with August, who had on the same Sunday night
been drinking together at a public-house at Beddii von,
where they separated at nine o'clock. August said th. at on
t b e th p i-
r his arrival home he heard a noise of some persons leaviu g: the
house, therefore it was allesed that it could
no
som were
e, but some other personS, as they known toe Da at
Croydon at the time.
a out
waistcoat ft
In defence, Adams said that he received the
- and sal Led
a man at \ right's beer-shop on Monday mornina; . tutt
Parker, who was with him, to dispose of it. nt. de
they were at August's house on Sunday n.l.ght. He
that statement not knowing what he said.
far hone sty
Both prisoners received excellent characters
Ile daued t
and general good conduct.
The CHAIRMAN briefly summed up, and the ju :flea
a verdict of Acquittal for both prisoners.
Wiliam Pollard, a farm labourer, aged 33, was 6°42.
for feloniously stealing at Cranley one live sheep, OA
perty of Thomas Killick.
Thomas Killick, the son of the prosecutor, said th at a'b°,llt
seven o'clock in the evening of the Ist inst. he cou ptedlei
sheep belonging to his father, and found the number (70)1.'
safe in the fold. On the following morning, about eight;
o'clock, he again counted them, and missed one. He the
looked about the fold, and in a ditch, at the lc aver pull
found the skin, entrails, and head of the missin g sheeP•
There were footsteps of hobnailed boots, and near the slnet
the marks of corded trousers. The whole of the a heel, were
marked with pitch, and the akin corresponded with t be others"
William Henry Biddleton, superintendent of t be Oodal-
ming police, said that on the morning of the 4th k latent, Its
went to the prisoner's house, at Cranley, near Mr
ered
farm, and searched it. He there found an old frock, cov
with blood, a chopper with mutton fat on it, and a sack with
small pieces of fat sticking to it. He then went ; sip stairs,
and on ascending perceived a curious screw on • ale top of
the eighth step. He procured a screw driver, a act, having
extracted the screw, discovered a secret cupbOart 1, iin which
a portion of a sheep had been deposited. His att cation was
afterwards called to a well at the rear of the hot tee, and on
looking into it perceived lumps of fat floating on the surface
of the water. He procured grapnel, and succeed( :r1 in pull-
ing out the carcase of an ewe sheep, exceptinf VT 0 ribs,
which had been cut out, and the head and skin. '1 lit carcase
corresponded with the skin in every particular. :Ha then
took the prisoner into custody, and found the trate len Ihe had
on, and his boots, to correspond with the marks f Lee; r where
the skin was found.
Mr. Whitburn, a farmer, residing near tie proses tor, said
that he saw the prisoner, at 10 o'clock of the morale ig of the
4th instant, carry a large bag to the well at thr s r car of his
house, from which he took several pieces of r nu tton, and
throw it into the well. He afterwards gave in' ;Or] nation to
last witness.
William Street, a labourer, said that on the . al; gist of the
let instant. he saw the prisoner, in company vrith three
others, proceed towards High Hillocks (the al rosccutor'S
farm) with a sack under his arm.
The prisoner, who was undefended, said that. he knell'
nothing about the sheep, it must have been placed there b 7
other parties. He declared that he was innoce; at.
The CHAIRMAN summed up at some length, and the kir)",
witlicut the least hesitation, returned a verdict of 4.iuilty.
The CHAIRMAN sentenced him to be trans' acids for the
term of fifteen years.
Mr. Biddleton received a high compliment fr ens the Bench
for the activity he had displayed in furtherir g die ends 01
justice.

BRAINTREE CHURCH-RAS CE CASE

JUTGMENT OF LORD DENMA 15r.

GOSLING V. VELEY.
In the Court of Queen's Bench yesterday, Lord Denman
delivered the judgment of the Court in this ci we, which Jul
excited considerable interest. The Noble and Learned Lor"
reviewed at great length all the authorities ii t similar caged;
and went over the whole of the facts with 1 great care algi

rn nuteness.
The Court held that the meeting at which- the rate oar
plained of was made was duly and regularly ci tired—that the
parishioners were bound by law to pay the ex pense of re-
pairing the church and every other expense net ;a wary for the
decent and proper celebration of the set th
•of e
church—that the proper way to do I* Was jr
imposing a money rate, and that that rate sh Dull be in
et;
in vestry assembled. In the case before the Cc met itapPeer .
that the meeting had been properly called; th at the prG1)051•
tion fur making a rate for the repair of the cl im•ch had been
duly put, and that an amendment was pi !op osed,
which
was supported by the majority of the rat :4:Ong, objacl
ing to the making of any compulsory rate, ( at the gran,.
that it was opposed to their conscientious sort gales and feel
ings; that thechairman refused to act upon tha it amendment'
which was carried by a large majority; at Kt that therefore, the majority left the meeting, and tl lee e being li;
other amendment proposed, the rate, as origintally proPnge
was agreed to. That was the course c proceedingi
and the Court was of opinion that it we is regular, 12,4
that the rate was properly and legally ms ide.
of 1.
majority of the meeting proposed an alt eration
amount of the rate, or moved any amc aidment Per"
nent and relevant to the object of the :meeting,tered
circumstances of the case would hafe. been albeside
be
na.
but as it was, as the amendment proposed vr:ar.whaily
the object for which the meeting was called,
contrary
did not propose any pertineut amendn tort, but on the
contrary left the church, the mutt must ksolc_uPgrie, .as
amendment, and the opposition which too.K P__
rcumstancea
if it had not been made at all. Under all ti L.`" bound to re-
of the case, the Court held that the parish way to do 50
pair the fabric of the church, that the protw'
and as the it.
was by money rate, and that in the case t nd they mot,
the rate had been properly and legally made,.
therefore, decide in favour of the defendant.
The Bishop of London sat on the bench, the right of
re the Court
Mr. Justice Patteson, during the delivering WO, judgment,
after which he left the Court.

INFORMATION UNDER TIIE METROPOL ITAN
INGS Acr.—A case of considerable import-anus came on yes-
terday in a Court of Referees, being, we believe, the first
held under the Metropolitan Buildings Act, I or a breach of
the provisions of this Act. The Court was h eld at the office
of the district surveyor, Bermondsey-square, Ur. Simmontise
the registrar, presiding. The information w. is promoted by
a Mr. Boulanger, a Frenchman, occupying 1 remises in the
rear of Bermondsey New-road, and there ca. crying on the
business of a japanner. A Mr. Sugden, a builder, having
thought fit to form a new street in the viciinity of hie pm.
mises, bad built several houses, leaving but ten feet appal
between them and Mr. Boulanger's property, whereas the
Act requires that no alley shall be constructed less than
twenty feet wide, and no street less than fifty.. Several wit'
nesses were examined, and these facts were sworn to in evi-
dence. The defence set up was, that the land was Priva.°
property, although it was admitted that. it had been a WA?!
way for a great number of years. The caTicial. referees gaol
they knew of no private interests, and that t be Metropolitan
Buildings Act was never intended to serve ?rivet° purpose*
but the interests of the public at large. After a very 1),...._"-
tracted discussion the proceedings were brought to a cia!
it being understood that the informant had :fully made out
his case, which will require the demolition of the house,' Orr
sufficient compensation to Mr. Boulanger. Theyofficial MON,
however, will be made in a few days.
CAUTION TO MANUFACTURERS:a .rather novel
ather t
system of fraud was brought to light at the Sou them District
Police Court, on Monday last. A woman mu ned Jean Po l'"
lock, who, along with others, receive 1* lbe. of yarn each dad
from their employers, Messrs. Gourlay amid Co., was fen°,
guilty of fraudulently retaining at least ills. es ‘ch day in,Llt
possession. Being obliged to return the particularvieig"a
received she effected both purposes by boiling the pirns, an
they being composed of soft wood, absc-rbtid the water, tbU
making the weight equal to that received. A woman nam A
Janet Fleming, belonging to Busby, acted as the reset,
sold the booty in Paisley. Pollock was se atenced to tbirtle
and Fleming to twenty, days' imprisonment.—Scotch
formers' Gazette.
OLD NICK, OR THE CHIMNEY SNYERF.—A short
time since, in a parish on the confines of Devon and Cern'
wall, an honest and thrifty farmer engaged. a sweep to cell
to his house, for the purpose of sweeping his chimneys an
flues - and as the worthy knight of the soot brush arrived lido!
in the evening, he was provided with a warm supper an
a
comfortably domiciled in the barn, in order to commence
his operations early on the following morning. Sooty hal
wrapped himself comfortably in the winreowing-sheet, and
stretched his weary limbs on some clean straw, and had
just resigned himself to the arms of Morpheus, when,had lot
man with a dark lantern, and another with a number of
sacks entered the barn, and speedily bei;an to fill the sack'
with the wheat, which was lying in the hem-pool just fit for
the market. The sweep lay snug In ItiS dormitory and
watched their operations, without saying tt word; when one
of the thieves remarked to his companion, that they should
get on much more expeditiously in tilling tiheir sacks, if the/
had got a third person to hold their candle. Sooty, wit
great simplicity, aroused himself from his rustic crib, and
exhibiting his ebony figure to the astonished robbers, coolly
raid to them, " I'll hold the candle foe you." The con-
science-stricken thieves in their excited i magmation
readily
conceiving the " gentleman in black," to be no less a person-
age than his satanic majesty himself, hurriedly threw down
the sacks, flew through the doorway like a flash of light.
ning, and in their terror and hurry to esc ape the clutches of
Old Nick, actually took their departure, 1 saving a horse and
cart behind them, which they had intended for the transit
of the corn, and poor sooty, the only actoy, left on the stage,
speedily alarmed the sleeping inmates of Mae farm-house, and
put them in pursuit of the marauders, but with what success
our reporter does not inform us Western ,Luminary.
FATAL ACCIDENT FROM THE FRONT.—On Sunday
night, about half-past eleven o'clock, as a woman named
Jeffries, living at No. 13, Camden-street, Kensington Gravel
Pits, was returning home, she fell with great force on her
back. She was assisted home by two policemen, but she
died shortly after her arrival, having ruptured a blood-veeed
by the fall.
A society is about to be formed in North Shields,
having for its object the prevention of the smoke nuisances
arising from steam-boats and manufactories.—Newcastle
Journal.

BIICTIIB.
of York-
On the sth inst., the wife of Themaa AIeUMW', l'El"
place, Portman-square, of a eon, still-born.
of Upper
On the sth inst., the wife of Mr. John William BtirrOws,
Albany-street, Regent's-park, of a daughter.
On the Gth inst., at Beddington, the lady ofJoalalob -
Laurence, Esq.,
of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 4th inst., at St. Mathew's, North Brixton, Charles Russell.
solicitor, Ryde, Isle of Wight, to Mien, second daughter of tbe late
Thomas Forst(•r, Esq.

DIED. nr the 99th
On the 17th ult., William Thoreton, Est., late argon
Begin-lent of Foot, aged 69. ~ aged 24.
On the let inst., at Bayswater, Alexander Gorden Roe',
On the 3d inst., in Old Cayendish-street, MIN Sarah Wright. __
On the 34 inst., at Chester, the Venerable UnWin Clarke, Di.*.
Archdeacon of Chester aad Canon of the Cathedral, a Icd 83.
On the 4th inst., at Kensington, Susanna, relict of the late Lleute•
nant General Charles Barton, aged 72. llot of the
On the 4th inst., at Sion-hill, Bath, Harriet Margaeot, re
late Major Dely, aged 69. wife
-a' liff,
On the 4th inst., at Denton Hall, Lincolnshire, LOY e .
of sir William Earle Welby, Bart., aged 75. 75.
On the 4th inst., at Wigton. Rectory, George Moody' En', aged
On the sth inst. at Earl's-court, Brompton, Jane, all,
taro T. W. Baldwin. . market.
On the sth inst., Mr. Alfred Fisher, Rose-street, NeWi:e.e--- 's
Lincoln
On the sth inst., Mr. William Pearce, of Clare-street,
Inn-fields, aged 43.
On the sth inst., at 'navies Inn, Mrs. Ann Luke, aged 61. ~,
sel, BOLIN.
On the 6th inst., at Philly Brook House, Leyton.
Henry Doxat, Esq., aged 46. (red 77.
On the 6th list., in Dorset-square, R. Feliowes, LL.D., A., ~.„111.
e wife of Car
On the 6th inst., at Well-street, fT,/cl..rey, the rev. George"
swi, r,•=ideut toltor nt the Itaf.:mey l'h,'u.:lc,,l ~''''''Lr9"
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of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex, Tlletiday, Fe!
bray 9, 1847.