The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1840.

FROM LAST INIGtiI"S GAZETTE.

WHITEHALL, AUGUST 10, 1840.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baron
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto the
Right lion. Charles Poulett Thomson, Governor-General of
all her Majesty's Provinces on the Continent of North America,
and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name,
style, and titleof Baron Sydenham, of Sydenham, in the county
of Kent, and of Toronto, in Canada.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, Auc. 7.
The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood upon James John Reid, Esq., Chief Justice of the
United States of the lonian Islands.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Ava. 11.

The LORD CHANCELLOR sat in the House of Lends
-day at eleven o'clock, to give judgments.

ABERNETHIE V. FORBES.

The Lo CIIANCtLLOtt gave judgment in aft case
to-day, affirming the decision of the Court I. e!ov, with
costs.

JACKSON V. JACKSON.

The LORD CHANCELLOR also gave judgment in this
case, reversing the judgment of the Court below, and
remitting the cause back to the Courts in Ireland, with
certain declarations.

A policeman stated that the defendant struck the
pig with all his might.
Defendant—The pig knew very well that it had no
right to go into a shop, for the Scotch breed are not
like the Irish.

The LORD MAYOR.—I did'nt know that pigs had
any national peculiarity of manners.
The defendant said that the Irish pigs, from their
e-rly habits of keeping company with their owners, were
easily discoverable from any others. The slaughtermen
knew the difference at once, for the first thing an Irish
pig did upon getting under cover was to smell out the
children, and try to scrape acquaintance with them.
He had driven pigs for the most extensive owners, and
he defied any one to prove that he was cruel in any
instance.

The LORD MAYOR, as the gentleman who was
said to have been assaulted was not present, said he
should discharge the defendant, who received a good
character from his employer ; but advised him to keep
up an Irish understanding in future with his pigs, so
that they would not be likely to run into people's
shops, which certainly were not the right market for
them.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS

PROSECUTION BY THE COMMISSIONERS OFCUSTOMS

—Tu'sday Ferdinand Malan, a foreigner, was in-
dicted for assaulting John Hayes, an officer of customs.
while in the execution of his duty. There was a second
count in the indictment charging the prisoner with a
common assault.

The assault having been proved, the defendant, in
answer to the charge, accused the cfficer of having corn
mitted the first assault, and denied that the goods were
smuggled. The brandy and zohacco were merely for
the seamen's own use.

The Jury found the prisoner guilty, and
Toe COURT sentenced him to one week's imprison-
ment and hard labour in the House of Correction.
A. LOST DUCK.—Edward Pritchard, a coach,smith,
pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging him with
stealing two ducks, value 35., the property of Mr.
Charles Saffrey.
Mr. BODKIN defended the prisoner.
Matthew Symes said he was formerly a policeman.
and on the 21st of July he saw the prisoner near the
Sluce House, at Holloway, pelting some ducks with
stones. He afterwards picked up a duck, and was
walkin; away with it, when the witness took him into
custody.
The CHAIRMAN asked the policeman to produce the
duck.

Mr. BODKIN—Oh, Sir, you'll find presently there a. e
a pair of ducks in this case (alluding to the two police-
men, who were examined apart).
The CHAIRMAN—What have you done with the
duck? Witness—l took it with the prisoner to the
New Prison.

What, was the duck committed?—(A laugh). Nn,
Sir, the duck is lost.--(Loud laughter.)
Where? internally or externally ? Come, now, tell
us, didn't you kill the duck and eat it ?—No, Sir ; I
left it at the Jolly Cooper.—(Loud laughter.)
Well, and what did the Jolly Cooper do withiit ?—lt
was thrown away because it became rayther high.
Cross-examined by Mr. BODKIN—Now, didn't you
kill the duck ? Witness—No.

Do you mean to swear that you didn't pull out your
sword, and, in an officer-like manner, cut the duck's
head off ?—Yes, Sir, I do.
Then who did assassinate the ducks 2—The other
policeman, Powell, did it.
And you and the Jolly Cooper didn't have it for din-
ner afterwards ?—( Laughter.) The policeman replied
in the negative.
Pray how came you to leave the poliec ? I'm " sus-
pended," because I couldn't find the duck.—(Renewed
laughter.)
John Powell, the other policeman, was then called
in, and he swore positively that Symes killed the duck.
The duck had " suspended" witness also.
Mr. BODKIN, in his address to the Jury, remarked
upon the prevarication of the witnesses, and said that
the prisoner pelted the ducks by way of a lark—
(Laughter)—as he was returning from a bean-feast,
where he had been spending the day, and had drank
rather too freely.
Several witnesses were then called, and gave the
prisoner an excellent character for honesty ; and
The CHAIRMAN directed the Jury to acquit the pri-
soner, as there was no proof of any felonious intention
on his part.
The Jury immediately returned a verdict of—Not
Guilty.

Enanza Robinson, a respectably-dressed female, aged
nineteen, was indicted for stealing a picture, value 305.,
the property of Mr. James Parish, landlord of the
Spotted Dog, in Strand-lane.
Mrs. Emma Parish, the prosecutor's wife, stated that
on the 26th of July the prisoner came into the Spotted
Dog, in company with a young man, and they went up
stairs and had a pint of ale. Shortly after they had left
she discovered that the picture produced had been stolen
from the wall.

James Robertson, a policeman, said he found the pri-
soner about fifty yards from the prosecutor's, with the
picture under her shawl, and on being asked where she
got it from, she said it was given to her by a young man.
The picture was here produced and identified.
The prisoner, who during the trial fell down, said in
her defence, that she came from Li% erpool on the eight
previous, and, as she came out of a linendraper's shop,
she was accosted by the young man, whom she thought
she had some recollection of in Liverpool, where her
friends reside. Her husband had gone to America, and
was in the habit of remitting her money, and she merely
held the picture for the young -Ilan she met, to whom
she thought it belonged. He afterwards left her sud.•
denly, and the policeman came up.
The Chairman observed that it was extraordinary that
a married female should make such acquaintances.
Mr. Kilsby, the governor of the New Prison, in-
formed the Court that the prisoner was in such a weak
state since ber committal that she fell clown three and
four times a day.
The Chairman sentenced her to three months' impri-
sonment in the House of Correction, and said if she was
unable to be put to hard labour, that kind of punish-
ment would not be enforced.

She was then led out of the dock, crying bitterly.

THE COMIC WRITINGS OF THE LATE JAMES
SMITH.--Although the recent death of the admirable wit
and humourist, so well known as " one of the Authors of
the Rejected Addresses,'" has deprived his personal
friends of the most delightful companion that eve! " set
the table in a roar," it has, en revanche, removed those
scruples which his own modest estimate of his literary
merits had ever thrown in the way of a collection and re-
publication of his comic miscellanies. They are now,
however, given to the world in a convenient shape, and
they form, together with a Memoir of his Life, and a se-
lection from his correspondence, one of the most amusing
post-chaise companions and parlour window books that
have seen the light since the ever famous " Rejected Ad.
dresses" themselves. The volumes are edited, and the
Memoirs written by, the accomplished author of " Bram-
bletye House," &c., and they deserve to attain a degree of
popularity not inferior to that which has attended the bril-
liant jeu d'esprit which first brought these two writers
into public notice.

CURIOUS CASE OF ERYSIPELAS:—Monday
morning an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, at the
King's Head, the Maze, Limehouse, on the body of Wm.
Rose, aged 71. It appeared in evidence that deceased
had been employed during the greater part of his life
along the river side in tinkiaditig barges of brieks. He
had to stand between the barges and carts, and the bricks
being pitched to him he pitched them to others. In fais
Operation thd bricits Often brae or slipped, and struck
him on the chest. It further appeared that, on Saturday
last he was taken suddenly ill in a public-hour-, and con•
veyed home in a state of insensibility. A surgeon was
sent for, who found him in bad, labouring under erysipelas,
extending all over chest and neck, and the medical gentle-
than stated that it etas that disease which caused death,
and that a wound of long standing on the upper bone of
the chest, caused by the striking of the bricks, produced
the disease. Verdict—" Died by the visitation of God."
ANECDOTES OF CHARLES loved what
that' be called fun, as much as the youngest of his cow_
tiers. tin one of his birth days, an ittiptiderictascal of a pick-
pocket had obtained admission to the drawing-room, in
the garb of a gentleman. He had succeeded in extract-
ing a gold snuff-box from a nobleman's pocket, and was
quietly transferring it to his own, when, looking up, he
suddenly caught the King's eye, and disc.,vered that he
had been perceived by his Majesty. The fellow, aware,
in all probability, of the King's character, had the impu
denee to put his finger to his nose, and winked know-
ingly at Charles to hold his tongue. Shortly afterwards,
the King was much amused, by perceiving the nobleman
feeling one pocket after another, in search of his trea-
sure. At last, he could resist no longer, and looking
about him (probably to make certain that the thief had
escaped), he called out to the injured person—' You need
not, my Lard, give yourself any more trouble about it;
your box is gone, and I own myself an accomplice;
could not help it, I aaas made a confidant.' . . . .
An account of one of lib debauches after a hunting-party
in 1667, is amusingly detailed by the gossiping Pepys.
It was related to him by Sir Hugh Chulmely, who was
present. " They came," he says, "to Sir G. Cartaret's
house at Cranbourne, and there were entertained and all
made drunk • and being all drunk, Arrnerer did come to
tho King, and swear to By G—, sir,' says he,
' you are not so kind to the Duke of York of late as you
used to be.' Not I?' says the King, why so ?" Why,'
says he, 'if you are, let us drink his health.' Why, let
us,' says the King. Then he ( Armerer) fell on his
knees and drank it; and having done, the King began to
drink it. Nay, sir,' says Armerer, by G—, you must
do it on your knees.' Sj he did, and then all the com-
pany; and having done it, all fell a-crying for joy, being
all maudlin and kissing one another, the King the Duke
of York, and the Duke of York the King, and in such a
maudlin pickle as never people were."—J. H. Jesse.

• • ____
BODY FOUND IN THE RI VER.—On Monday, at
two o'clock, an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, at the
Town of Ramsgate, Wapping, ol the body of a foreign
siilor, name unknown. Nothing of value was found upon
his person. Verdict—" Found drowned."

DEATHS IN THE LONDON HOSPITAL.—On
Monday three inquests were held before Mr. piker at the
above Hospital.