The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-19 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE,

INSOLVENT DEBTORS" COURT, Sept. 18.
(Before the Cam COMMISSIONER.)
IN RE GEORGE WEBB.

This insolvent, formerly a clerk in the Commander.
in-Chief's office, applied to be discharged from custody.
He had been in prison four years. _

The CHIEF COMMISSIONER asked why an earlier ap
plicatton had not been made to this Court.
Insolvent replied, he had hoped to effect an arrange
ment with his creditors.

No opposition being offered, the insolvent was dis
charged.

IN RE WILLIAM BENNETT.
Mr. COOKE appeared in this case on behalf of credi-
tors. The insolvent had in February last given a bill of
sale for 150 L to a person named Hill, who, after the in-
solvent's arrest, put his security in force, and gold all the
property, leaving nothing for the other creditors. As
this proceeding was illegal, the-61st section of the Ist
and 2d Victoria, c. 110, preventing all persons from
availing themselves of a warrant of attorney or bill
of sale after the insolvent's arrest, the creditors re-
quired Mr. Hill to give up the proceeds of the pro-
perty, and come in for his dividend with the general
body.
Mr. Hill was examined, and said that having fairly got
the bill of sale as a security for his debt, he would not
forego it, but would defend his right at law.
The CHIEF COMMISSIONER said, in that case he had
no power to compel Mr. Hill to give up the property,
but he regretted that person's determination, as it would
lead to great litigation, and most probably entail upon
him very heavy expenses.
This insolvent was discharged.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

Arthur Black, a well-dressed person, wearing largo
moustaches, surrendered to take his trial upon an in-
dictment charging him with having unlawfully threatened
to publish certain defamatory letters of and concerning
Edward Blackett Beaumont, with intent to extort
money.
The defendant pleaded Guilty.
Mr. BODKIN, who appeared for the prosecution, said,
that as the defendant had taken this course, he was in-
structed not to press for punishment being inflicted upon
him. The Court was aware of the nature of the charge
from the reading of the indictment, and he would there-
fore merely state that the defendant had threatened to
publish certain letters of a delicate character, reflecting
upon the prosecutor; but, as he had pleaded guilty, if he
would undertake not to repeat such a proceeding, there
was no desire to press forjudgment.
The RECORDER ordered the defendant to enter into
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his own recognizance in 100 L to appear and receive the
judgment of the Court, in case he should be called upon
to do so. His Lordship at the same time observed, that
he must understand that if he repeated the offence he
would be liable to severe punishment.
Ebenezer Tearle surrendered upon a charge of making
a forcible entry and riot.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Huddlestone prosecuted; Mr.
Robinson was for the defendant.

The prosecutor in this case was a person named Wells,
and it appeared that he was the owner of several houses
at Hammersmith. In June last the defendant entered

into some negotiation with the-prosecutor, and desired
to become the tenant of one of the houses, and an agree-
ment was drawn up between them with that view, but
subsequently the prosecutor, from some circumstances
that came to his knowledge, was not desirous to accept
the defendant as a tenant, and declined to let him have
possession ; upon which it appeared that the defendant
hired eight cabmen from a stand in the neighbourhood,
and, with their assistance, took forcible possession of the
hoase, and when the prosecutor went in he found they
had made a large fire in the drawing-room from the trees
and shrubs in the garden, and the whole party were
smoking and regaling themselves ; and this state of
things continued for several days before the prosecutor
could regain possession of his property.
Mr. RoniNsorf, for the defendant, having urged that
by the agreement between the parties the defendant had
been accepted as tenant, and that he had a right to take
possession, . . . .

The RECORDER said, that whether there was an agree-
ment or not, the defendant had no right to resort to the
strong hand, and employ such means as he had to obtain
possession of the house. If such proceedings were per-
mitted, very serious breaches of the peace might be the
result ; and the law, therefore, wisely discouraged such
acts of violence.

The jury found the defendant Guilty.
Mr. BODKIN said the Court was, no doubt, aware of
the object of the prosecution, and if the prosecutor could
be assured that he should suffer no further annoyance he
would be content if the defendant entered into a recog-
nizance to appear and received judgment, if ho should be
required to do so.
Mr. ROBINSON having conferred with the defendant,
the latter consented to give up the agreement, and he
was liberated upon entering into recognizances.
Two miserable-looking girls, named Jane Brown and
Mary Smith, were convicted of assaulting the porter at
the City of London Union, and they were sentenced to
14 days' imprisonment, the relieving officer promising, at
the expiration of their sentences, to have them passed to
their own homes.

IVEIY COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner BULLOCK.)
Selina Sinclair, a respectable looking middle aged
woman, was indicted for stealing a quantity of silver
spoons, forks, and other articles of plate, worth nearly
40/, and a theatrical dress, the property of her master,
Benjamin Charles Jones, from his dwelling 'house.
The prosecutor stated that he resides at No. 2, Ar-
boor-street, Peckham, and is a tobacco merchant, having
a place of business at 23, Moorgate-street, City. The
prisoner was his housekeeper in February last, and had
Ibien so for about ten months previously. It was his
practice to travel, and whilst he was from his home she
had the management of his house. Upon his return
from a journey in February, the prisoner left his service
without any notice, and he then found the articles named
had been stolen. A few days subsequently he received
from her a letter, posted near Newcastle, containing the
duplicates, and upon application to the magistrate Mr.
Burgess, the pawnbroker with whom they were pawned,
was ordered to give them up, and he heard nothing
more of her until a short time back, when she was in
custody at the Thames Police-court upon some other
charge.
Ia cross-examination the prosecutor admitted that, in
addition to his trade as tobacconist, he occasionally
gave Shaksperian readings in costume through the
provinces, and sometimes starred in tragedy at the coun-
try theatres. He also was connected with the turf and
play world.
The police-constable who took the prisoner in custody
at the:Thames Police court said that she admitted having
pawned the articles, adding, that she was pregnant by
the prosecutor, and had done so to keep herself and pay
the expenses of housekeeping.
The prosecutor assured the Court that such an asser-
tion was entirely false; he had always found her plenty
of money, and no intimacy of the nature she alleged ever
existed between them.

The jury found her Guilty, but recommended her to
mercy, in which recommendation the prosecutor joined.
The Learned COMMISSIONER sentenced her to eight
months' imprisonment and hard labour.
No other case worthy of mention occurred in this
court during the day.

mason'sn R L Bo NE'
labourer,
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
living at 25, Or.
Michael Gore, all
chard-street, Portman-square, was placed at the bar,
charged with having most brutally and l savage y as-
saulted Mary, his wife.
Complainant, both of whose eyes were dreadfully
bruised and swollen, and who was exceedingly lame and
weak, in consequence of the injury inflicted upon her, deposed that on Saturday night last, as she was sitting
in her room blowing the fire, the prisoner entered, and,
taking the :bellows from her hand, struck her with it
several blows on the head with such force that she fell
senseless on the floor; what happened afterwards, while c
she was in that helpless situation, in the way of violence
towards her, she could not tell, but when she recovered
a little she found two women with her, one of whom was
imploring the prisoner not to hurt her any more ; she
was scarcely able to stand, and was bruised nearly all
over her body, the prisoner having no doubt kicked and tJ
beaten her while she was down and before assistance g
could be given. Upon a former occasion, when within f
a short period of her confinement, he brutally used her, '
and she was for some time laid up.
It was further shown that Stanley, 48 D, hearing loud
cries of " Murder," went into the house and took the
prisoner into custody, who alleged that complainant had
attempted to stab him with a knife; neither of the parties
was the worse for drink.
The prisoner, in answer to the charge, denied having
struck his wife with the bellows ; he admitted having
given her a blow with his fist, but it was after she had
abused him and scratched his face.
He was fined 51. ; in default of payment two months
in the House of Correction.
WORSHIP-STREET.
A rather interesting report was made to Mr. Combo
yesterday, by Mr. Henry Roper, Honorary Secretary to
the Distressed Need!ewomen's Society (to whom the
magistrate was indebted for his exertions in investigat-
ing the case of a miserable sempstress named Sarah Ladd,
charged at this court about a fortnight back with ille-
gally pledging some shirts she had been employed to
make), of the result of some proceedings in which his
society had been engaged for ameliorating the condition
of the unhappy class for whose benefit that association
had been formed.

The gentleman stated, in substance, that the society
had ascertained that one of the primary causes of the
grinding wages these unfortunate beings had been forced
to accept for their labour was a system which had for a
length of time obtained in numerous union workhouses
and prisons of the metropolis and neighbourhood, of re-
ceiving such work from various master manufacturers,
to be made up by the inmates of their respective estab-
lishments, at a scale of prices which so reduced the re-
muneration paid to the self-supporting sempstress, that it
was next to an impossibility for an existence to be gained
out of it. lie had himself seen at one of the largest
union workhouses some of the female inmates employed
makingin full-sized shirts of such a superior description
that the fair wages for the work ought to amount at
least to Is. 91. each, but which were taken by the parish
of the warehouses at aid. each, and of that only one
farthing was allowed to the pauperwork- woman for the
labour she had expended in the manufacture. The same
system had been likewise pursued at one of the prisons,
at which sailors' jackets were made at the rate of 2id.
each, and soldiers' coats at sd. ; and although repeated
overtures had been made by himself to induce a total
suppression of the practice he had only been partially
successful. As it was manifest that such a system must
have a most prejudicial effect upon the independent
sempstress, incessantly struggling to keep herself out of ,

the workhouse, and free from temptation to offences
against society, ho bad entered into correspondence with
the guardians of the chief metropolitan unions upon the
subject, and the result of his labours, he was happy to
state, was an unanimous determination on their part to
decline taking all such contracts in future, and to con-
fine the labour of their work-people to the manufacture
of such articles only as were indispensable for the use of
their fellow-inmates ; in addition to which he had in-
duced several of the most respectable dealers in and
makers of that kind of goods to increase the
rate of wages they had before paid very con-
siderably, and they had displayed so much
heartiness in seconding his exertions that the
association to which he belonged had been encouraged to
draw up a scale of prices for their adoption, to which
the majority of them were of opinion that all the minor
tradesmen who had any claims to respectability and hu-
manity would feel it their interest to accede, as it would
not only greatly increase the sale of such goods, by giv-
ing the public a guarantee for far superior workmanship,
but the condition, both moral and physical, of the ge.
neral mass of such fragile and overtaxed competitors in
the field of industry must be most materially raised from
the starvation and misery in which but too many of
them were now involved.

7 prone to more than
.Oriental colctrine and exagge:
ration. Though every sane man in England, and,
indeed, in the world, sees that this prandial, ere.
rian, and Communist rebellion must be put (lows'
yet we cannot choose but think that the putting it iows
will be much more tedious and difficult than is in gogi
land commonly imagined. The people are, men/ of
them reckless—many of them distressed, and many ~,f
them acting under the full conviction and belief thathheY
may as well die by the sword or the axe as by the slower
and more lingering death of starvation. Others of them,
better off, cling to the hope of holding fast the produce
of their land and labour, and paying neither rent, tithe'
nor taxes—others of them again relinquish not the ides
of regaining a good fat stripe of a country which be;
been three times confi-cated. These are the richer a"
more intelligent rebels, who treasure up Ortelius'sge?
of Ireland, in which the properties of all the O's and:en°
are carefully registered. To regain these broad fat acres
of the heretic and Cromwellian is, to the pious Retain
Catholic a sufficient motive for a religious, and, to the
worldly and covetous kerne, a sufficient motive ft s
servile war. The tatterdemalliona of the towns, and 11),_e
ribbon-instructed conspirators of the country, only look
to pillage, plunder, and the neglect of industrial par:
suits.. The great O'Connell, now no more, showed .
them the example of a life of luxurious idleness, and
there is not one Milesian among them all whodoes not wish to eat and drink as much—to talk
as
much—and to work as little as the late M.P. for Cork
county, of wordy, and place-taking, and Repeal-prowls'
ing, and non-performing memory. Plunder is now in-
deed
,a popular passion in Ireland. Within the Pest
week, at Fraukford, in the Queen's county, in that ye/
Saxon division of Leinster, 150 of the fine peasantry
sembled, and cut down a large quantity of corn, Its
within the last four or five days, an entire cock of
wheat has been taken from a field near ClonmeL.i4
dozen carts and three score of men must have been oe'
cupied for several hours in its removal, yet no alarm
was given, nor a finger raised to prevent the villains
from plundering it wholesale. Sheep and cattle have
been also taken in large quantities, and broiled a la Si.
Laurence, on a monster gridiron. Such aloyaus a a 95,
such gigots a la cornmunzsme needed no such indifferent
chef as Soyer to spit or roast them a fail. or a la Pro-
vencale. Now that the Irish peasant has tasted of this
flesh-pot, it will not go very hard with his stomach
while a Heretic hen-roost, or a Protestant piggery,
stands, as they say in Ireland, to the fore. These Are
the Whig-created difficulties of the situation, and there
is a bitter comfort in thinking that Whigs have to deal
with them.

" Nec lex justior ulla
Quam necis arbitrium arte perire ana."

BANK OF FRANCE.
The following is a return of the situation of the Bank
of France on Thursday, Sept. 14, 1848:

ASSETS.
Cash in coin and ingots . .
Ditto in branch banks
••• ,
Bills over due
•• •• •••
Bills becoming due in• Paris,• of which 18,702,713f. 37c. are from branches 76,071,468 40
Bills in the branch banks
... 123,270,870 63
Advances on coins and ingots... ... 14,411,004 Ou,
Ditto on French public securities
... 34,033,996 63
Ditto by branch banks...
... ... 1,510,904 01
Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,000 00
Advance to the State on the loan of
150,000,000 f. 25,000,000 00
Stock forming reserve
.• • •• • 10,000,000 00
Rentes, disposable funds
... 33,902,413 62
Investments of the new branch banks in
the public funds ...
Hotel and furniture of the Bank
...
Real property and branch banks
...
Loan of' 10,000,000 f. to the city of Paris
Interest in National Discount Bank ...
••• • ••
Interest in old Departmental Banks in
National Banks of Towns
Bills protested in the Bank ...
Ditto in the branches ...
Expenses of administration of t▪
he Bank
Ditto of the branches
Miscellaneous ...
Consolidation of Treasury Bon▪
ds

... f. 124,845,624 81
95,878,370 00
268,529 36

12,806,741 3.,„9
4,000,000 00
2,521,754 00
500,000 00
200,000 00

230,000 00
-• 16,923,616 71
9,837,511 00
253,751 07
505,305 00
723,927 87
6,997,270 00

E 643,743,061 51