The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-23 00:00:00

PANY.

In this case a rule had • been obtained, calling on the
defendant to show cause why he delayed to enter on the
registry of the Company the registry of the name of the
mayor of Oxford as a trustee on the transfer of certain
shares in the Company. In the year 1778 the corpora-
tion of Oxford was desirous of appointing four lectu-
rers or preachers in the city, and as an assistance i❑
effecting that object received five shares in this company.
These shares were to be transferred from time to time
to the mayor, recorder, and aldermen of Oxford. There
was a mode specially appointed for filling up any vacancy
in the office of any one of these trustees. Some difficulty
had recently occurred in making the registration, the
name of the mayor being omitted, and the transfer being
made in the name of four of the aldermen and four of
the town-councilmen alone. An application to set this
transfer right was refused, and hence this rule.
Mr. M. D. HILL and Mr. HAYES appeared to show
cause against the rule. They contended that the delay
in applying for the alteratio❑ was an answer to the rule.
Mr. Sergeant Manning and Mr. Phipson were in sup-
port of it.
The Court thought that the mayor's name ought to
be inserted, and therefore made the rule absolute.

THE QUEEN V. THE GUARDIANS OF THE TENBURY

UNION.
In this case a rule had been obtained, calling on the
defendants to show cause why they should not pay over
to one Helena Walker a sum of money borrowed by
them of her, and secured upon the rates of the union.
It appeared that a brother of Mrs. Walker was a guar
dian of the union, and had received a put of this money,
but, as it was alleged, without any such au.hority front
her to do so, as would release the guardians from their

Mr. Sergeant 'Falfourd and Mr. Grey s.r.owed cart=e
against the rule, which ivas supported by Mr. Archbold.
As it appeared that there was a dispute about the
facts, the matter was referred to the Master for exa-
mination.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
CLERKEN WELL.
.William Barrymore was placed at the bar, when nu-
merous persons of great respectability attended and
identified him as being the man who had plundered
them, end Lockerby, of the S division, recognised him
as a convicted felon.
Mr. J. Newson, of New I3ond•street and Hammer-
smith, said that the prisoner about a week ago followed
him through the streets for a considerable distance when
on his road from Bond-street to his country residence at
Hammersmith. Some time after his arrival there his
wile and friends drove up in their carriage in a state of
great alarm and excitement, and beheld him standing in
the garden facing his house, and inquired whether he
had not met with a "dreadful accident." He was asto-
nished, and was at a loss to understand their meaning
until they informed him that they had received a mes •
sage to the effect that he had been knocked down by a
horse and Nearly killed, and that their immediate at-
tendance was required at Hainmersmith. He instantly
returned with them to New Bond-street, when they ascer-
tained that the man who had raised this false and cruel
alarm had subsequently called at the house and told the
servant that he had been sent for a change of clothes for
her master. She brought down ono of his best suits,
and, the drawers not being aired, the servant said,
"They are not aired, I had better not send them." Ho
replied, " Oh, they will be aired before your master
gets them."—(Laughter.) He left the house with
them, and nothing more was seen or heard of him until
they read a report of his apprehension and examina-
tion under the head of this court in a daily news-
paper. His servant and wife could positively identify
the prisoner.
Mr. Gouse, of Bond-street, said he had been robbed
by the prisoner under similar circumstances. He was in
the employ of Messrs. Hunt and Ro3kell, jewellers, of
New Bond-street. The prisoner called and told his wife
that ho had bee❑ knocked down and nearly killed by
Mr. Roskell's horse, and she wag to go to him directly.
She did so, and he afterwards called and obtained a suit
of clothes from the servant. His wife and servant iden-
tified the prisoner.
Mr. Hievesley, secretary to the Foundling Hospital,
Guildford-street, attended with his servant, who iden-
tified the prisoner as having obtained a suit of clothes
from her.
Several other persons identified the prisoner under
exactly similar circumstances.
He was remanded in order that inquiries should be
made as to his former conviction, and for the production
of the certificate.
He also stands fully committed for trial on numerous
other charges.

THAMES:
Two athletic and sturdy thieves, named Thomas John•
son, alias Robinson Johnson, and John Collins, alias
Austin, alias Jacketly, were brought before Mr. Yardley,
charged with attempting to commit a felony on board
the schooner swift, of Inverness, on the river. There
was a second charge against Johnson, for attempting to
murder William Simmons, a Thames police-constable,
with a deadly instrument called a life-preserver, and also
beating Inspector Fox.
Johnson had been suminarily'convicted nine times, and
on each occasion Sentenced to three months' imprison-
ment and bard labour. Its bad also been twice con-
vidtcd of felony at the sessions, and after each trial was
sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and hard
hibour. Collins had been thrice summarily convicted
under t'itrioOs names. They are two of the most des-
perate ruffians that ever :11f9Ocad the river. Johnson and
the constable Simmons anneared to have been engaged
in a severe conflict; their es were
az:llen and bruised.
The constable had also received a severe the
wounu .
right band, which was bound up.
They were fully committed for trial.
_ _ _ SOUTHWARK.

Joseph Stokes, a poor man, was brought before Mr.
Cottingham, charged with attempting to destroy him-
selt.

A policeman stated, that while on duty that morning
he observed the prisoner sitting at a door in High-
street, i❑ the act of taking oxalic acid. He (the police-
man) immediately snatched the greater portion of the
poison out of his hand, and took him to the station-
house, where antidotes were administered, and, owing to
the small quantity he had taken, he soon recovered from
the effects.

The prisoner said, that being destitute ho applied for
admission into the workhouse, but was refused, and de-
sired to go on the tramp and seek his bread; that being
tired of life, owing to the privations ho had undergone,
as soon as ho went away from the workhouse he pur-
chased a pennyworth of oxalic acid at Mr. Warren's,
the druggist, in High-street, with the view of poisoning
himself, but was prevented by the policeman, as already
described.

In reply to Mr. COTTINGHAM, the prisoner said that
Mr. Warren asked no questions of him at the time of
the purchase of the oxalic acid, but merely wrote " poi-
son" on the paper in whiehit was wrapped ..up.
The magistrate sent fur Mr. Warren, and he admitted
that he sold the oxalic acid under the ercumstances

mentioned, writing " poison" on the paper in which it
was contained.

Mr. COTTINGEIAM expressed his surprise that any
druggist should vend so dangerous an article, particularly
to a person of the prisoner's destitute appearance, with-
out making any inquiries on the subject.
Mr. Warren said they were in the habit of selling
oxalic acid to clean bonnets, and that he supposed it was
for that purpose it was required on the present occasion.
Mr. COTTINGIIAM said that it was Mr. Warren's duty
to have very strictly questioned such a man as the
prisoner before ho placed in his hands tke almost imme-
diate means of destroying himself ; if the man had ac-
complished his object, the seller of such an article under
such circumstances would have placed himself in a very
serious situation. The magistrate added, that he trusted
in future Mr. Warren would not act so incautiously in
dispensing poison such as that he had sold to the unfor-
tunate wan at the bar, but that he would make a very
rigid inquiry beforehand, and if he had reaso❑ to suspect
the person of wanting it for the purpose of sell-de-
struction, then he was hound to call a policeman and
give him into custody. The magistrate then remanded
the prisoner in order that inquiry might be made re-
specting him.

-Li the course of the day Winch, one of the summon-
ing officers of the Court, brought up a man of respect-
able upprarance, who gave his name Edgcombe Ley, to
answer the charge of offering chloroform fur sale in a
public-house.

George Chiqy stated, that being in a public-house
opposite to that Court the accused walked in, and after
some time witness saw him produce a small phial, and,
showing it to a man who happened to be there at the
time, he said, "If you put two or three drops of the
liquid contained in this bottle on a handkerchief, and
then apply it to any person's nose, it will cook their hash
for halt an hour." The man to whom the above words
were addressed, however, left the house, and witness
then saw the accused exhibit the bottle containing
the liquid to the barman and tell him that
he would not part with it under ten guineas.
Witness added, that having read in the news-
papers of the dangerous quality of chloroform,
arid, under the impression that the person who brought
it there wanted to get a customer for it, he considered it
his duty to give information of what had transpired to
Winch, who accordingly made the accused accompany
him to this court, to explain the matter before the ma-
gistrate,

- Winch here produced the phial containing the chloro-
form, which was nearly full.
The accused, who seemed a good deal excited, denied
that he had used the words attributed to him on the oc-
casion; he certainly did produce a phial with chloro-
form, but not with the intention of selling it, and his
principal motive in entering the house was to write
down scraps of poetry for any person who might feel
disposed to have a specimen of his qualifications. He
added, that it was beneath him to use such a phrase as
that mentioned when he exhibited the chloroform, as
that it would "cook a man's hash."
The barman of the public-house was sent for, and he
confirmed Chitty's account of the fact of the accused
submitting the chloroform to him, and saying he would
not take ten guineas for it.
Mr. COTTINGHAM (to the accused)—Pray, what
are you? _

A-ccused—l am a literary man. My father is a ma-
gistrate for Devonshire and Cornwall; but, owing to
unforeseen circumstances, I have been much reduced of
late, and although at one period I was connected with a
daily newspaper I am now compelled to resort to other
means of obtaining a livelihood, and beg to assure your
worship that it never entered into my mind to dispose of
the article in the bottle.

Mr. COTTINGHAM asked him where he procured
the chloroform, and the purposes for which it was in-
t(nded ?

The accused replied that he bought it of a druggist,
from whom he was in the habit of buying opium, which
he used for a disease under which he suffered; ho (ac-
cused) had a dread of the cholera, and, under the im-
pression that chloroform was an antidote against it, he
procured it, and intended to have used it in the event
of his being attacked with that formidable dis-
ease; he also thought of substituting it for
opium, which he had been long in the habit
of taking, and weaning himself off by &grecs from the
use of the latter narcotic. lie added that he regretted
he had been so incautious as to exhibit the phial in the
public-house, and that he now clearly perceived the folly
of his conduct.

Mr. COTTINGUAM said that, upon hearing the expla-
nation given by the a ;cused, and the remarks he had
made about the chloroform in the public-house before
others, he did not believe his intention was to sell such
an article there. He, however, thought that a patien;
substituting chloro o-m for opium was wrong without
consulting some medical practitioner, as its immediate
effects were so much more potent and likely to destroy
life. With respect to the accused's conduct in entering
a public room and describing the operation of chloroform
on any person to whom it was administered, he had
acted extremely wrong, and the magistrate trusted he
now saw the imprudence of it, as there might be persons
there who would take advantage of the information they
derived, and by some means or another procure the
article and use it for the purpose of assisting in acts of
plunder. The magistrate detained the chloroform, and,
alter having advised the accused to be more cautious in
future, discharged him.

A. RELIC OF THE " FORTY-FIFE."—We lately
saw, in the possession of Mr. John Cruickshank of
Knauchland, Rothieway, the identical " sneeshin horn,"
out of which the chivalrous but unfortunate Prince
Charles took a " pinch," when sorely pinched himself, a
few minutes before the star of his destiny, which hac:
shone so brightly on Gladsmuir, became for ever ob-
scured by the clouds of misfortune that enshrouded the

bloody field of Culloden. Mr. Cruickshank obtained the

horn from a p,rson whose grandfather was a servant to
one of the chiefs, and present at the battle. When almost
reduesd to the last extremity, the Prince asked the
trusty chief for " a snuff," who replied that "he had
Lone, but his servant had," whereupon the servant handed
the "horn" to Charles, who took a hearty pinch. The
horn itself does not seem to belie the tide, as it has the
appearance of great antiquity. It is shaped like a cone,
and appears to have been made of what is called a scur,
artificially rounded to a perfect circle, with a few at-
tempts at ornament on the outside. It has a capacious
bore, and would hold, we should suppose, about two
ounces of Teddy.—Bany Journal.
MINING SHARES.—The business transacted in
mining shares during the week is thus described in the
Mining Journal :—" The improvement in the mining
share market which we have noticed for the past three
weeks continues to progress, notwithstanding the de-
pression of the standard for copper ore. The advance
on tin has given an impulse to mines connected with that
metal, and several new ones are in course of development.
Inquiries continue to be made for Devon Great Consols
at advanced prices. Buyers are to be found fur Bedford
United, West Caradon, and Cern Brea. Trehane, Tre-
lawny, and Bedford have also been in request, and seve-
ral transactions in each concluded. Shares in the fol•

lowing mines have changed hands, vie.., East Wheal
nose, Treviskey and Barrier, Wheal Trehane, South
Wheal Basset, Wheal Trelawny,, Condurrow, East
Tamar, Wheal Mary Ann, Tamar Consols, Bedford
United, West Caradon, Comfort, Stray Park, Cwm
Elfin, Trethallan, Trescol, Wheal Vincent, &c. In
foreign shares there has been a considerable business
effected, especially in St. John del Rey. In Imperial
Brazilian, and United Mexican a fair proportion of
dealings have also taken place. Australian, Bolanes,
Asturian, and North British Australasian have found
buyers. The Copiago Mining Company have received
their letters and report for the month of July. The ad-
vices are to the 30th of August; and, although no im-
portant discoveries have been made since the last re-
ports, the mines generally are looking encouraging; 76
tons had been raised during the month, and the Jenny
Jones had arrived five days prior for a cargo of ore. At
the bi-monthly meeting of Great Bough Tor Consols a
call of 21. per share was made.
STREET BEGGARS.—SOMe steps have been taken
to abate the nuisance of street begging in London. The
City Police Commissioner has ordered that all persons
found begging in the streets of the City be forthwith
taken to the relieving officer of the nearest union; and
if, upon investigation, it shall appear that the party is a
known mendicant, let him or her be taken before the
magistrate; or if, in the absence of such evidence, the
officer refuses to give relief, then forthwith summon the
relieving officer. A return is to be made to the chief
office of the result of each case. The Sunday Times
says,—" The public are little aware of the extent to
which this begging system is being carried on. It is
actually exalted into a profession. Thus, perambu-
lating mendicants have regular rules laid down for them,
and regular districts chalked out, to which they are com-
pelled rigidly to adhere. Certain streets in the metro-
lis assigned to certain individuals, and certain villages in
the country allocated to others, show the systematic
manner in which their plans for imposing on the public
are carried into execution. We trust that the example
now set by the Commissioner of Police in the metro-
polis will be followed by the authorities in the rural
districts."
CONFESSION OF A TRANSPORTED! HORSE STEALER.
—The Rev. G. Walker, late of Market Resell, Lincoln-
shire, and now of the Rocky Hills, Probation Station,
Tasmania, Australia, sends home the confession of a
convict. In June, 1845, he hired a horse in York, and,
riding into Lincolnshire, sold it at Horncastle fair.
Shortly afterwards he got a horse from Mr. Greenwood,
at Lincoln, and sold it at Stagshaw- bank. Next Septem-
ber, Carlisle furnishes him with a nag, and at Stockwith
fair, Lincolnshire, he got a customer. He then went to
-aces, and got a horse and gig, both of which
&bout the 22d October, 1845, he
qhields to carry him to
"ss-sfield, and d-
i hefore

DODCIStua

he sold at Boston. __
hired a bay mare at Sonta
Chester-le-street, but rode on to Hda,..—
fected a sale. Hardly another week had elapse,. _
he secured a pony at Halifax, and sold it at Newark,
and in two or three days after that transaction he en-
gaged a horse and gig at aranthams one of which he
sold at Peterborough, and the other at Norwich. Thus,
in less than five months, ho sold seven horses and two
gigs! It would appear, therefore, that horse stealing is
a very profitable trade.
PARRICIDE.—Last week, an old man, named Oliver
Luck, a farmer and hop grower in Sussex, was killed by
his daughter, who is an idiot, and is about 35 years old.
No one was present, but it is believed that the woman
pushed her father down, and his skull being fractured
by the fall he never spoke more, and died before medical
aid could be procured.

MELANCIIOLT OCCURRENCE AT AIRDRIE,--On
Thursday last, as some boys were amusing themselves
by skating on the corn mill reservoir, Ardrie, the ice
suddenly gave way, and three of them were instantly
immersed in six feet water. Assistance was speedily
procured, and with the aid of a rope two of the boys
were rescued from the impending danger, but we regret
to add that the remaining one, son of Mr.. M‘Lauchlin.
sheriff officer, despite every exertion made to save him,
sunk to rise no more.—Edinburyh Advertiier.