The Sun.
London, England, 1824-04-06 00:00:00

LONDON SESSIONS

THE SILK TRADE.----Yesterday, after the Lord
Mayor, accompanied by Mr. Arabin, in the absence of the
Becoeder, with Aldermen Wood, Thorpe, and others, had
b and list oefepreviously
prises
were
signed on the part of the manufacturers by Messrs. Newbery and
Sons, Mark Simpson, Wm. Gilbert, John Thorp, and Wm.
taken their seats, Mr. Adolphus, who had been previously
retained' by Mr. Scudamore, rose and presented a petition, with
a new list of prices for ratification, from the Operative Engine
agreed Silk Weaversoil byandboth.
their Employers,
petitione w
hich had
Underhill, Esqrs., and upon the part of the journeymen by
Wm. Charlton, James Lewis, Robert Sillers, Thomas Sawrey,
John Hart, Thomas Wilson, and Wm. Baker, Secretary._
Public notice having been previously given and no opposition
offered, his Lordship, with the rest of the Bench, agreeable to
the provisions of the Silk Act, immediately ratified the new list
of prices. •
Mr. Henry David Blythe, a respectable shipowner and sail-
maker, residing at Limehouse, was indicted for assaulting Mr.
J. Jones, an attorney, in Mincing-lane.
It appeared that a Capt. Bond having been arrested fnr debt
was bailed by Mr. Blythe, and the Captain omitting to put in
fresh bail at the ensuing Term, Mr. B. received notice that he
would be looked to for the amount of his bond, unless the Cap-
tain was immediately surrendered, or bail put in. Mr. Blythe
determined on the former course, seized the Captain, and was
bringing bins along, when he requested to have a few minutes
conversation with his attorneys, Messrs. Jones and Howard.
As their- office was nearly in the route, Mr. B. assented ; but
when they arrived there Mr.. Jones expressed a doubt whether
the defendant was in a situation to surrender the Captain, and
said he would hear Mr. B. harmless if he would let the Captain
go; and the latter declined to
.proceed a step farther with his
captor. After an hour's altere::tion Mr. Jones desired parties
to quit his premises, as his avocations were interrup'xd by the
dispute. The Captain hesitated (to use Mr. Jones's phrase),
but Mr. Blythe's hesitation on the same point was not hone
with the like forbearance. Mr. Jones " very politely" insisted
on his going, took him " mildly" by the collar, and pushed
him into an outer office. This Mr. B. resented with a blot,
and he was immediately given in charge to the street-keeper,
who had been called in, and taken before a Magistrate. Capt.
Bond remained behind.

Mr. AnoLPIII3s, for the defendant, said if any thing but
a farthing damages could have been expected by taking this
case into another Court, such undoubtedly would have been
the course the complainant would have adopted. Ile con-
tended the separating Mr. Blythe and his prisoner was a rescue,
and the pushing him about by the collar was the first assault.
The Jury found a verdict of Guilty, but they considered the
provocation very great.
Mr. ARABLN, in passing the judgment cf the Court, said,
Gentlemen must be protected in their own houses ; the de-
fendant, from his education and situation in life, ought to have
known better.—He was sentenced to pay a fine of 51.

CAPTAIN ROCK IN CORK.—On WedliPsday
night a notice of an inflammatory tendency was posted on the
door of the Rev. T. F. Saunders, in Blackpool, cautioning all
persons from taking a store which was occupied by a man named
Barry, who wqs ejected out of the premises on the previous
day for nor-payment of rent. The rotice was signed Mooldigh,
secretary, amid death and destruction were very liberally dea't
out in it even to any person who should presume to take it down.
This last threat we blush to say, had its full effect with severel
respectable persons, who suffered the pernicious document •o
remain until removed by one of Mr. Saunders's inen.—( Cork
Constitution.)

At the Middlesex Sessions this day, Mr. Ex-
Sheriff PARKINS obtained a verdict of Guilty
against JOHN SCOTT, the principal witness on the
late trial in the King's Bench, between the Sheriff
and Byrne, for an assault committed on him in
the avenues of the Court.