The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-14 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

Thomas M'Keur was placed at the bar before Mr.
Henry, charged with feloniously attempting to enter the
house, No. 2, Montague-street, Montague-square, by
means of a latch-key, supposed to be stolen. The pri-
soner was former!y servant to the Misses Rose, who
keep a private boarding-house as above. On Friday
night he attempted to open the street-door by means of
a latch-key, and was apprehended.
The latch-Icy was sworn to as having been lost by
one of the inmates of the house during the time of the
prisoner's service.
Miss Margaret Rose desired to withdraw frin the
ease, on account of the inconvenience of prosecuting, but
Mr. HENRY expressed very strongly his opinion that
the prisoner might to be prosecuted. He wou!d commit
the prisoner for trial, and bind Miss Margaret Rose
over to prosecute. However, in order to give trio officers
time to make inquiries as to the pris,ner s character, he
would remand him for a week.—Ranandcd accordingly.
CLE RKEN 1171-'1

Henry Venables, the young man who was remanded
from Friday, on the charge of robbing his empl,,yt-r, Mr.
Dunniogham, Seymour-street, wv.l again brought up on
Saturday morning, when the evidence of Mr. Chid:, of
Moor-street, Soho, and Mr. Powual, of King- Ltrec-t, Soho,
was taken in support of the charge against the prisoner,
of having received money f,r his waster, which he had
applied to his own use, after which the prisoner was
fully committed for trial at the Old Bailey.
SOUTHIVARK.

Three well:dressed na,n, named Couper, Morgan, and
Robertson, were charged with uttering several counter-
feit half-sovereigns to publicans and small tradespeople
in the district of this Court.
It appeared the prisoners were observed to enter several
shops in flerinondse.) by two policemen, olio, knowing
them to be " regular smashers," followed them to Mill-
pond-street,-where Cowper was seen to walk into the
Horns public house, while his companions stopped oppo-
site. Shortly after Cooper came out, and went off with
his two companions, when the policemen, finding that
the former had uttered a counterfeit half-sovereign, re
ceiving 9s. 10d. in eltan,;e, went after them to I)ockhesd,
and saw AL.rgan enter a tobacconist's shop, where he
was apprehended in the act of passing another half-sove-
reign. The other prisoners ran away, but were pursued
for a considerable distance, and at last secured after a
,very violent resistance. Other cases of uttering counter-
feit half-sovereigns having been preferred against the
prisoners, they were committed.
The secretary-of a benefit society, called the Spanish
Leather Dressing Society, was summoned for excluding
a membervho had belonged to it 45 years, and refusing
to grant him any pecuniary assistance in his old age.
The complainant had been a member of the' above
society for the above lengthened period, and having re-
cently bec6me incap,!,;ltated from attending to his busi-
ness, he declared upon the box of the society, as it is
called, and received a weekly allowance until it was re •
cently stopped, and when he inquired the cause, he was
told that it was discovered he had followed his business
after he had received the allowance, and that he, therefore,
incurred the penalty of dismissal from the society. Ile
complained of such unjust conduct, after contributing to
the funds for so many years. The steward, however,
having pored that the complainant had infringed one of
the clauses in the rules of the society, altticugh the
business transacted was done by an agent, the old man
being too ill to do it himself, the Magistrate said, how-
ever Unvvillirg he was, he was bound to dismiss the
summons.

The complainant inquired if he could appeal, hut was
informed that he was precluded from doing so, the ma-
gistrate's decision being final.
Thomas Ma, tin, the proprietor of a lucifer manufac-
tory, in Bermondsey, was summoned for exercising his
business in a situation dangerous to the houses in the
vicinity.
Mr. Phillips, the surveyor of the above parit,h, said
that he summoned the defendant under a clause in the
new Building Act, which precluded the owners of pre-
mises from carrying on the manufacture of lucifer•
matches having them situated less than tifty-feet from
any highway or dwelling-house. He witness the
numerous accidents that had arisen in consequence of
explosions occurring in such places, which often led to
fatal accidents, and said that the defendant's factory
was i❑ the immediate vicinity, not only of several dwell-
ing-houses, bat also of a yard where large quantities of
timber were kept, and that the defendant incurred a
penalty of 50/. •per day for every day he continued the
business after he had received noiice to discontinue it.
Witnesses having been examined on this point, and it
being contended that the premixes in (Festiva were more
than fifty feet from the highway, the case was postponed
for the purpose of ascertaining the fact.
LAMB TH.

013.1ECTION OF A CLERGYMAN TO PAY A POOR-RATE.
-On Saturday the Rev. Mr. Barber, the minister of St.
Paul's Proprietary Chapel, near Vauxhall, attended be-
'ore Mr. Norton, and complained that a distress for
poor-rates had been put Into hit house, though his pre-
decessors in the same office had been Otempted from all
rates. •
The Rev. Gentleman stated that for two years he had
discharged the duties of Chaplain to Lambeth Work-
house grattlitutuily; Mid at the end of that time had been
appointed to the office by the gtiardiatis of the poor; at a
salary of 150 Z por annum, and this, he understood, was
to be exclusive of all . parochial rates. The overseers,
however, had put an execution into his house for a rate
due in- 1845; on a warrant signed in June last, and the
brad' left a Mali iii pOkietsloth
In reply to questions from Mr. Norton, the Rev. Gen-
tleman admitted that an execution on a former cccasion
had been put into his house for poor-rates, for the year
1846, but it had been withdrawn at his request, to take
the opinion of the parochial board on the-question, as to.
whether .lie IV ai-etithled tti the saihe exemption as his
predecessors, and it was not afterwards persevered in.
All he required in the present case was that the man
might be withdrawn, to give him time to represent the
case to the parochial board ; but the broker- refused to
do so unless the money wet paid.
Mr. Norton sent for Mr. Heather, one of the over-
seers, who, with some warmth, replied. ,
when he
thatll•lr.Bar-
ber must bate misinforthed his worsh
presented that he had been excused the payment of
former _rates since the year 1844, though trele it was
that the ,Reverend Cientlemari had, by a trick; done
the parish out of the -rates of 1846, and those he (Mt.
Heather) -doubted not he- should have to pay out of his
own pocket.
He added, that it was the unanimous
vote of the board that Mr. Barber should pay his rates ;
and he (Mr. Heather) could not therefore think of giving
any_directiOri to the man in posse; lion to withdraw,
Mr. NoRTON.--Mr. Barber states that his predeces
sors were exempt from the payment of poor-rates, and
he, therefore, feds entitled to the same exemption. A
man has been put into possession, he says, for the rates
of -1845, and all he requires is that this man be with-
drawn, until the opinion of the parochial board is taken
on the question as to his right of exemption ; and should
it be decided against him, he will be ready, I have no
doubt to pay.
Mr. Heather—He never will go before the board.
The other distress that I put In he got me to Withdraw
ih an unhandsome way, by promising to go before the
board, but lie never did so.
Mr. Barber.l had not an opportunity of doing so, as
there Was rib board between the tireoftaking the
e
man and putting him in again.
Mr. heather (ettiphatieally)—The fact is that I have
beta appointed to the office Of oVerteer, to do equal.
; and how can I sanction the remissioll of a
poor-rate to. anindivideal in the enjoyment of 1501. of
the. parish money, and at the same time cornt,:el oor
working persons, with ooly ten shillings or tt pounpd a
week, to pay them ? I cannot, and wiil not do it.
Mr. Barber said that when he was appointed by the
board of guardians as' the laid chaplain to the work-
house, he understood that, like' his predecessors, he
should be free from the payment of rates.
-IYlr. NORTON had ne doubt the parochial board would
do ample justice in the case when it was brought before
it, and he would, therefore, recommend Mr. Heather to
withdraw the man in possession, Item the Rev. Gentle-
Luau's house until that decision should he had,
Air. Heather replier' he‘,id not see witat co;21c1
Lie accomplished-by tills, as Lc well w tho ,opinion of
the Board on that subject, and as fc: bimsel,l,l4e s.b,ould

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cartier,living at, omit`:
Upti getting into the cab, Grovs, , fly: ty sober
old the prisoner that he very tired, and sir u d
sleep in the cab 01 k• got to his jo.:rn,)', t,nd.
before five o'cl.o a policeman on the Uxbridge foul,
near Ealing, saw the prisener pull u;, his cab into a re•
tired pa' t of th,, road, and get off the box. . He Went vp
to see what the cab had stopited for, when. the prisoner
came from the door 141. die other side, and upon seeing
the policeman, askud him in a hurried manner the dis-
tance to Ealing, and then drove off Upon arriving at the
Coach and Runes, Ealing, Groves was awakened by the
ostler, and upon his taking out his purse to pay the
cahmin 45., he missed his purse, containing four soy°
reigns, two half eovcreigrs, and seventeen shillings.
The cabman was immediately charged with the robbery,
and his cab was searched .by the ostler. After a con-
siderable time spent in ransacking the interior of the
cab, the money was at length, found, some behind the
padding of the back cushion, and some under the mat.
The purse was afterwards found by Groves, thrust into.
his own waistcoat rocket, under his smockfrock.
The prisoner was fully committed to Newgate for
trial.

COMMITTAL of a QUACK DOCTOR

FOR MANSLAUGHTER.

HULL, FRIDAY NIGEIT."--AR inquiry, which, from its
remarkable character, has created considerable at:en-
lien in this part of the provinces, was, after two sidoura-
ments, brought to a termination to-day, in the corainit-
tal of a quack doctor on a charge of poisoning a female.
Three years ago, the deceased, Mrs. Francis Ripling-
ham- Cox, the wife of a tobac;Jo merchant in this town,
had what is termed a iurgus turneur appear on the wrist
of the left arm. . She applied to s. veral medical gentle-
men, who pronounced it to be incurable, and that even
tually the arm would have to be amputee', the only .mode
of saving her life. Various remedies were applied to
delay the operation as long as possible, which was fixed
to take place as last week, and she was undergoing a
,course of medicine for that purpose, when a man of the
name of Cotton, who professed to cure diseases of all de-
scriptions was introdeced to her notice. Cottanexan fined
the. tumour, and -deluded the unfortunate -female to
place herself under his treatment. He informed h r
that he would not only save her arm, but would, in
is few weeks, make a perfect cure ; that he would
give her no pain, and all the disadvantage she would ex-
perience would be tickling heat in the tumour. He then
took-out from a packet a red •powder, which-.ho rubbed
over the tumour, and parts of the arm that were inflamed.
This took place on the 21st of last month. Soon after
.the powder had been applied one of the family surgeons
came by accident to see her, and hearing of the applica-
tion, he endeavoured• to persuade her to wash it off.
'This she resolutely refused to do, and_ in a day Or two
she was seized with violent vomiting and purging ; ex-
cruciating pains ensued in vari, us part- of the body, and,
notwithstanding the most skilful treatment of various
surgeons, she gradually sunk, and expired on sday
last. A post mortem examination was ordered by the
Coroner, and the opinion given was, that h,r death had
been occasioned by the abs-,rption into the system of the
irritating powder, applied by Cotton to 'he tumour, the
powder they believed being compos, d entirely of arsenic
particles of which had been discovered in the post mortem
examination.

The jury, after a short deliberation, ruturned a verdict
of " Manslaugh:er" against Cotton, who was luny o‘ml-
miited on the Coroner'b %'arrant to take his trial at the
ensuing assizes,