The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-11 00:00:00

BAIL COURT, Mari 10.

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Mr. Justice COLERIDGE sat at Nisi Prins, and was engaged
the whGle morning in tr)ing an uninteresting case of disputed
account.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

These sessions commenced this morning, before the Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor, Recorder, Alderman Carroll and the
Sheriffs.

As soon as the Grand Jury had been sworn, the
RECORDER delivered his charge to the following effect :
The cases comprehended in the calendar did not present any
matter requiring particular comment from the Court. lie
should, however, make a few remarks on one case. lie would
first, however, lemind them, as one of the gentlemen of the
Grand Jury had intimated a wish to be absent on a particular
day, that the law required Grand Juries. to come to
a decision by a majority of the number, and it was
not absolutely necessary that the whole of the gentlemen
be present at the same time, he hoped that the privilege would,
not be taken advantage of unless urgent necessity re-
quired it. The case which he would draw their
attention to, was one in which two wives were
charged, as appeared from the depositions, with having re-
ceived stolen goods, well knowing that the articles were
stolen. The law, he regretted to say, in cases of this de-
scription, was nut so define' eas he thought it might he. in a ease
of a similar description Air. n
--aren Gurney said, that generally
speaking, the law did not impute to the wife offences when
they were committed at the instigation of the husband; but if
she acted without the knowledge of her husband, then would
she be responsible as on her own account • but howeyer the ex-
tent of the e's liability, in cases Of stolen gesids; slid
not apiolr to Lim (the Recorder) te,l:se very clear. The ease
that he would draw their attention to in the present ipstanee, •
was that in which twe men had swell a rensiderable quantity
of linen ; and after they were in cnstody, the wife of each of
them had cnnvg)ed the property away, pet perhav wikh
view of turning it to their own progt, but for Piffese of
eli..eltering the husbands from a prosecution. 'ow it ap-
-saved to him that the conduct of these women had not
control of their husbands • it would there-
been under- tau . ! • , • • s, ,
late become the duty of the Grand Jury, 14.$ 411WAg, Ist she
evidence sufficient to find a true bill. -With these remarks he ,
would dismiss them to their duties. Souse of the other cases, •
though they were heavy, required no observation, as they were •
cases of fact, and involved no point of law.
Henry Allshorne, 20, was indicted for stealing a quan-
tity of saddles, value 601., the property of his employer,
Mr. Mist, a saddler, in Mot:A-fields, and James Edward
Allshorne, 49, the father of the first-mentioned prisoner,
was indicted for feloniously receiving the property,
knowing it to have been stolen.
A lengthened investigation took place, and, at the
lose of the evidence Mr. CHARNOCH took an objection,
that the charge of receiving was not made out, inasmuch
as the elder prisoner had never, except in one instance
' only, been in possession of the property itself, but merely
of the duplicates referring to it.
The RECOUP I 5 thought the objection valid, and di-
rected the Jury to acquit the Odor prisoner.
The Jury found Henry Allshorne Guilty..
The prisoner, -Henry Allshorne, was then indicted for
stealing one saddle, the property of his employer, and
the oilier prisoner with feloniously receiving the same
knowing it to have been stolen.
The facts of this case were the ganin as the last, with
the exception that Mr. Tollett proved that he purchased
a saddle of the elder prisoner for 1/., and he told him
that his son had made the saddle while he was out of
work, This saddle was identified by the prosecutor,
but upon hit; busing Cross-examined, he was unable to
state positively that it had Lust Roost sold, and the Court
directed an acquittal as regarded both prisoners. •
The prisoner, henry Allshorne, was then brought up
to receive judgment upon the indictment upon which he
had been found guilty, and the RECORDER sentenced
him to be impvisonod and Icept to hard labour for two
years ; and at the same time observed that but tut' it be-
lief entertained by the Court that he had been induced,
to commit the offence by his father, he would most cer-
tainly have been transported for the full term. The
Recorder at the same time observed that he had no hesi-
tation in saving that if the father had been convicted, he
should have felt it to be his duty to order him to be
transported. •
Joseph Osborn surrendered to take his trial upon an
indictment charging him with unlawfully.driving three
pigs, infected with a contagious disease, into Smithfield
market, whereby the safety of the other cattle in the
market was endangered.
Mr. PArxE appeared for the defence.
The prosecutor was a butcher, named Townsend, and
it appeared that he had purchased the pigs in question
of the defendant at Smithfield market, and when he got
them home he found they were in a very diseased state,
and one of them died soon afterwards and the other
two were destroyed. The witnesses caused some merri-
ment by their description of the character of the malady
..-ith which the pigs were attacked. One of them said
that they were " broken winded" and had the black
lever, and another said that they were " measely," and
they expressed their opinion that the disorder was de,
cidedly an " affectionate" one. There was no actual
proof in support of the allegation that the disease was
contagious, and upon this ground the defendant was
acquitted; - f
The RECORDER took occasion to observe that although
according to the form of the present indictment, the de-
fendant could not be convicted, yet it must be clearly
understood that if parties drove diseased animals into a
public market they committed a serious offence, and if
this indictment had been framed in a different manner
the,present defendant might have been subjected to both
tine and imprisonment,

EXTRAORD.INARY.IThe Cutter Fanny, when
on her passage from Port Macquarrie to Sidney, last trip,
iad a severe encounter with a tiger shark, who laid hold
.)i* her wizen boom, and held on for-some time with his
,3-eth, until he was frightened off by some of the men at-
racking him. Part of his teeth may yet be seen in the
boom by any per Son desirous of inspecting it.--,•Sydney
Paper.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION HOUSE.
A young man, named Thomas Ware, was Charged, ho-
fore Alderman Pirie, with having stolen a pocket-book,
containing two Bank of England notes, 'the one for 201.„
tho other for 10/., the property of Mr. Richard Thorton,
a merchant, of the Old Swan-stairs, in Thames-street.
Mr. Thorton stated, that on the 7th of April, he came
from Gravesend to London, in the Mercury steam-vessel,
in the Company of which he had 200 shares; Soon afte r
landing he missed his pocket-book, in which his name
and address were inscribed, and in which were a 20/. note,
No. 96,162, date 9th of January, 1841, and a 10/. note,
No. 36,852, date 11th of January, 1841. He subsequently
went into the boat and mentioned his loss, stating, at
the same time, that 10/, should be given as a reward liupon
the restoration of the book. He went again to the boat
to inquire whether the property had been found, but
could obtain no information about it. To the best of his
belief the prisoner was in the cabin at the time he offered.
the reward. He stopped the notes at the Bank, and after -
wards traced the 10/. note to Messrs. Whitbread, who* e
collecting clerk had taken it from a customer.
Wilkinson, the mate of the Mercury, stated that he re
collected Mr. Thornton's mention of the loss, and offer
of the 101. for its recovery, and that the prisoner was pre-
sent at the time.
A young woman, who was barmaid to Mrs. Duke, of
the Francis Rodney's Head, in the Westminster-road,
stated that the prisoner brought the 101. note produced,
which corresponded with that which the, pocket-book
had contained, to her mistress's house to be changed,
and that the note was accordingly changed. WitneSs
had known the prisoner for some time as a person in
the habit of frequenting the house.
The-prisoner was committed for trial.
A lad was brought up for having attempted to obtain
money for a forged check from Mr. Wilson, butcher
Mason's-alley, Basinghall-street.
Mr. Wilson stated that the prisoner said that he came
from Mr. Storr's, in Cheapside, and produced a note,
which asked, with Mr. Storr's compliments, for change.
A trick was suspected immediately, and it was found
that the boy, who was respectable, had been sent by a
person who met him in the street, and who, no doubt,
calculated from his appearance of simplicity, that ha
could be easily imposed upon to deliver the message.
The ALDERMAN discharged the prisoner, with the assu-
rance that he went from the bar without the slightest
stain upon his character. He mentioned that intimation
had been made to him that several tradespeople had been
imposed upon by persons who, in a hurry, brought to
them checks from tradesmen they knew, accompanied
with letters requesting cash, -as the time was beyond
banking hours. The deception succeeded, as the checks
belonged to old check books of the bankers to whom
they were addressed.
Daniel Fortester (the officer), begged to be allowed to
inform the Alderman, that a lad d lately been sen-
tenced to transportation for fifteen years, for having pre-
sented a forged cheek, and he had every reason to be-
lieve that the unfortunate young fellow was quite inno-
cent of epholnal knowledge.
Alderman PIRIE asked what had bet,orne of the boy ?
Daniel Forrester said that upon the representation
that the lad was believed to be the dupe of others, he
had been reeved from the vessel in which he was
about to sail far Botany Bay, by order of the Secretary
of State, until the necessary investigation should take
place. He (Daniel Forrester) was perfectly convinced
of the innocence of the convicted person.

COLOURED POPULATION OF
THE UNITED STATES.

axgotti• Of VIE atANAGE.MENT OF THE STATE COLONIZA-
71ON rtilsai FOE THR REMOVAL OF TUX FREE PEOPLE
or COLOUR.
Colonization ROonlF, Baltimore, Jan. 20, 1841..
To his Excellency William Grason, Governor of Maryland.
The report of the undersigned, Managers of the State
Colonization Fund, under the Act of 1831, ch. 281.
respectfully stories that dswing the last year they have
drawn from the Treasury the sum of $lO,OOO, being the
aTsAttitt limited by the Act of the Legislature of the last
Session: a part of which has been appropriated through
the agency of the Maryland State Colonization Society in
the payment of the expenses incurred in the transportation
of emigrants to Africa heretofore, and in maintaining th..'m
there, as authorised by the Act above-mentioned ; and a
part in the dissemination of information through the State,
as also authorised by the same Act. The number of ma-
numission& during during the past year has been 128,
making the whole number since the passage of the Act
2,300, During the past year no emigrants have been sent
from the State to Africa; the current of feeling among
the free coloured population having turned their attention
to the British West India Islands, and diverted it wholly
for the present for other quarters. The undersigned be-
lieve, from the event, of the last twelve months, that the
feeling is increasing among the free coloured people that
..,
this is not their appropriate home, and that sooner or later.
emigration to other lands will be to their haPPin" and
well-being. Hitherto they have remained i 0 ` Ine United
States with the belief that by preserving -here their num-
bers undiminished. they would ultimately obtain social
and political equality with the whites., . This has been the
abolition doctrine that has sprt;si among them, and by
which they have been inAiteuceci heretofore. It is be-
lieved now, how ever,.to hate lost its weight in a great
measure, and there Is a restlessness among the thinking
And prudent of the free coloured pele which indicat a
thorough change in their feelings op
with reference t re-
moval. That emigration to the British West Indies will leg
continue in favour, the undersigned cannot bell, vo, for the
persons wanted there are labourers for the sugar crops
—a species of toil to which the negroes from Maryland
are unaccu,tomed, and in which they must be brought
into competition with the emancipated slaves of the island,
whenever these last choose to return to the habits of labour
from which their ernaneipation has released them. The
undersigned mention this in no hostility to emigration of
the free coloured people to Trinidad and Guiana, but as indi-
eating a probable result which, under any circumstances, it
would be prudent to provide for, and which has been most
fully provided for in the establishment of the colony of
Maryland in Liheria, whose prosperity and success thus
far is believed to be without a parallel in the whole history
of ealonization. This colony is now capable of rece.ving
all the persons that may choose to emigrate to it ; and
when the restless feeling among the coloured population
already alluded to, becomes disappointed in the 'results of
the West India scheme, will furnish an alternative by
which it can be gratified, In a manner promotive, not only
of their heal interests, but of the best interests of the
people of Maryland from whom they will go forth.
In the year 1720 there were 8,043 free negroes in
Maryland; the late census shows that there are 17,980 in
the city of Baltimore alone, and 61,937 in the State of
Maryland, 'Not poi:Wrier), which is among us, but not
of tis,vvhieh has au interest in common with us—which is
debarred political and social rights, and which can antici-
pate no change for the better, may be well dissatisfied with
their position, and look abroad for a more congenial home.
It is she part of a eilie policy to provide one. This has
been boo a and, however the free coloured people may for
while vacillate in the selection of their permanent abiding
place, there is little doubt that they will ultimately prefer
removing to a place where the coloured man fibs all the
offices in the governmeht rather than to a place where
*j.; vernoval still leaves them under the predominant ic-
fluences cf a white population, in which the coloured man
is trusted with power not its his right, but as a favour.
The condition gf the coloured population is of great in-
terest, and the undersigned see nothing yet to induce them
to doubt the policy of the State in relation to it.
The undersigned transmit herewith a copy of the Ninth
Annual Report of the Beard of Managers of the Maryland
State Coloilisation Society, being the last they have issued,
which is fully explanatory of their plans and policy ; and
have the honour to be, most respectfully,
C, HOWARD.
W. R. STUART.
F. ANDERSON.

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William-street, Sank of England, having devoted their whole lives
to this branch of Science, and their ►ong extensive practice have
enabled them to invent Spectacle Lenses upon a new construction,
which have gained universal approbation. Immediately they are
placed before imperfect vision, either by day or candle-light, that
milt and dn:lness which appear before the eyes is at once removed,
every object becomts clear and distinct, so that the most
aged imperfect sight becomes bright and brilliant, and IT,
brought to its youthful, natural, and original state, Their
Invisible Operative Voice Conductor for deaf persons Is not
the least perceptible nor more uncomfortable than having a piece of
wool in its plaae; they give immediate relief to old standing ex.
treme cases of deafness. Those valuable inventions have also stained
the Patronage of the Royal Family, and the unqualified approbation
of above four hundred of the principal members of the medical
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and 76, King William-street, Bank of England.

THE NEW AND IMPROVED EDITION OF
BURE.E'S PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE.—In addition to
the varied and interesting matter which has already ren-
dered " Burke's Peerage and Baronetage " so universally
popular, the new edition, about to be published, has been
enriched, we understand, with many novel subjects of
striking interest ; among which may be mentioned, the
introduction of several collateral branches of distin-
guished families never before published ; a complete
amount of all the crowned heads of Europe, under the
title of " The Royal Chronicler ;" and, finally, perfect
and most accurate lists'of the Knights of the different
Orders, the Knights, Bachelors, &c.

, -
BREACH OF PROMISE.—Among the rumours
floating here, it is said that the public will he highly
amused at the next assizes, by some singular disclosures
and the reading of the Wye epistles between a faithless
swain alid his it true love," in an action for a breach of
promise of marriage between a lady residing not far from
one of our celebrated watering places, and a worthy
" brother batch " of this city.—Exeter FlNiny Post.
The Leipsic Gazelle announces the death of
Galvini, the musical professor, at the age of 104. He
wos a son of the celebrated singer Galvini, who died at
Rome in 1825, having reached the patriarchal age of
138. He was attached to the chapel of rope Benedict
XIV., and lived nearly tkough the whole era of the
modern 4rt of music. 'He had sung the productions of
Carissimi and Paer, had listened to Corelli and Paga-
nini, Farinelli, and Rubini, and applauded at the operas
of Rossini, as he had done at those of Handel,
At Bow-street yesterday, Joneq, the father of the
boy who was committee
f9f thvee months for being found
in Iluekinghugi Palace, was charged with stealing some
lilac from one of the plantations in the enclosure of St.
James's Park on Sunday. One of the constables proved
seeing him come out of the plantation with the lilac, and
then took him into custody. In his clefenee he said he
was very sorry for wlnt he had done. Mr. Hall asked
him if he had- any money ? He said he had not. Mr.
Hall said I know you have a large family to support, and
that you are poor, and under all the circumstances yon
may be discharged, but mind you never do it again, The
old man promised he would not, Awl Wl;4 liberated.