The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-01 00:00:00

A GENUINE YANKEE.

"Hallo, my good friend, can you inform me how far
it is to the next house?" Jonathan started up, leaned
on his boo handle, rested one foot on the gambril of his
sinister leg, and replied, "Hallo, yourself 1 how'd dew?
We'll, I guess I can. 'Taint near as far as it used to be
afore they cut the woods away; then it was generally
reckoned four mile; but now the sun shrivels up the
road, and don't make it more'n tew. The fust house
you come to, though, is a barn, and the next is a hay-
stack; but old Hoskins's house is on beyont. You'll be

sure to meet his gals long before you get there; tarnal
romping critters, they plague our folks more'n a little.
His sheep git into our orchards. Dad sets the dog arter
the sheep and me arter the gals, and the way he makes
the wool, and I the petticoats fly, is a sin to snakes."
" I see you are inclined to be facetious, young man; pray
tell me how it happens that one of your legs is shorter
than another?" " I never 'lows anybody to meddle with
my grass tanglers, mister ; but, seein' it's you, I'll tell
you. I was born so at my tickerler request, so that when
I hold a plough I can go with one foot in the furrer and
t'other on the land, and not lop over; besides, it's conve-
nient when I mow round a side bill." " Very good,
' indeel • how do your potatoes come on this year ?"
" Tneydon't come on at all, I digs 'em out; and there's
an everlasting snarl of 'em in each hill." " But they are
small, I perceive." " Yes ; I know it. You see we
planted some whoppin' blue noses over in that ere patch
there, and they fluurished so all-tiredly that these stopt
growin' out of spite, 'cause they knowed they couldn't
begin to keep up." " You appear to be pretty smart,
and I should think you could afford a better hat than
you wear." "The looks ain't nothin't it's all in the
behaviour. This here bat was my religious Sunday-go-
to- ineetia' hat, and it's chock full of piety now. I've got
a better one to hum: but I don't dig taters in it, no
how." "You've been in these parts some time, I should
guess? " " I guess so, tew. I was born'd and got my
brot'n up in that ere house, but my native place is Por-
dunck." " Then you say it is about three and a halt
miles to the nest house?' " Yes, sir, 'twas a spell ago,
and I don't believe it's grow'd much shorter since."
" Much obliged ; good bye."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BEIVCII,_Nov.3O.

:Sittings at Nisi Pills, before Lord Chief Justice DEN.
MAN and Common Juries.)
necABE cc LORD HARLEY.
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This was an action upon a bill of exchange for the sum
of 3001., accepted by the defendant. The only plea on
the record was a denial of the acceptance.
Mr. HayEs called a witness, who said that the ac.
ceptance was in the handwriting of Lord Harley. The
witness had received several letters from Lord Harley
upon money matters, to which he had replied, and in
other ways acted on them ; but he had never seen his
Lordship.
Lord DENMAN said this evidence was not sufficient ;
there was nothing to connect the writer with the de-
fendant.
The witness then stated that he had written to Lord
Harley in the Queen's Prison, and that he had received
answers from him dated from that place.
Another witness was then called, who said that he had
served the writ in the action upon the defendant in the
Queen's Prison ; and that, having asked for Lord Har-
ley, he was at once shown to his room.
Lord DEN MAN then said that he should leave that
evidence to the jury, who appeared satisfied with it, and
immediately found a verdict for the plaintiff for 3001.

B•ITTEASBY V. RUSSELL.

Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Lush appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Cockburn, Q.c., and Mr. Hill for the
defendant.
This action was brought to recover damages for
slander, spoken of the plaintiff by the defendant, who
pleaded the general issue. The plaintiff was the keeper
of a public-house at Turnham-green, called the Prince
of Wales ; and the defendant was the head gardener of
Mr. Lumley, of the Italian Opera• house, and also was
said to be the owner of four houses in Great Wyld-street,
Lincoln's Inn-fields.

It appeared from the evidence given by the plaintiff's
witnesses, that on the 7th of February last a person of
the name of Athlick had been drinking at the plaintiff's
house for some hours, and lett at seven o'clock on
the evening of that day. From that time he was
not seen again until ' his body was found, on the
10th of March, floating in the river Thames,
near to the defendant's garden wall. The body having
been found was taken to the Cannon public-house, where
it was identified by the defendant as the body of his
friend, Athlick. On the same day a policeman, named
Scotney, and another man, named Bullock, having been
to view the body in an outhouse, returned into the par-
lour of the public-house. They there saw the defen-
dant, who said that Battersby, the plaintiff, IA as in the
habit of drugging his liquors for the purpose of stup!-
fying people, in order
had
they might bo robbed in his
house, and that ho had no doubt that the deceased had
been served in that way. lie added, that he had been
so drugged himself, and that he knew two or three in-
stances of the sort, where people had been drugged in
the plaintiff's house. Ile also said that the plaintiff's
was a bad house, and it was a bad lot that used it. It
was also proved that the defendant had volunteered
similar expressions on two other occasions (once before
the deputy-coroner, and that ho had given instructions
to the police, which had led them to watch the plain-
tiff's house several days in plain clothes. Evidence
was then given that the plaintiff had kept the
public-house in question for a period of twenty
years (and his father before him), and that no
charge had ever been made as to the manner in which
his business had been conducted. It was proved, also,
that the defendant had said that he had received a letter
from Lady Montagu, in which her Ladyship, in whose
service the defendant had been, had given him directions
not to spare any expense in finding out what had become
of the deceased; and also that she would bear him harm-
less if an action should be brought for what he had said.
Mr. COCKBURN addressed thn jury for the defendant,
and said that he could not attempt to justify the lan-
guage which had been proved to have been used by the
defendant, but he trusted that they would make some
allowance for the excited feelings under which the de-
fendant had spoken. The defendant had not been ac-
tuated by any feeling of malice against the plaintiff, but
had become much excited by the disappearance of his
former pupil under those circumstances. The Learned
Counsel entirely exculpated the plaintiff from any impu-
tation upon his character.
Lord DENMAN briefly summed up the case to the jury,
who retired for a short time, and on their return into
court gave a verdict for the plaintiff, with 75/. damages.
In our report yesterday of, the, case of " Osterman 1,.
Bateman," the leading Counsel for the defendant was by
mistake stated as Mr. James, Q.C., instead of Mr,
Gurney, Q.C.

EXCHEQUER CHAMBER, Nov. 30.
(Sittings in Error.)
(Present—Barons PARKE, ALDERSON, ROLFE, and
PLATT; and Justices PATTESON, COLERIDGE, WIGHT-
MAN, and ERLE.)
This Court to-day took errors from the Court of Com-
mon Pleas.

GIBBS V. FLIGHT.
Upon this case being called on,
Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD said this'case would stand
over with a view to an arrangement.

IvARLEY V. TIEALEY.
This was an action brought against Mr. Wakky for
libels inserted in the Lancet, reflecting upon Mr. Healey,
the editor of the Medical 7 inies. The case was tried in
the Court of Common Pleas, and a verdict was found for
the plaintiff, with 40s. damages.
Mr. Waltley then brought a writ of error upon the
pleadings.
➢lr. Ilita.mwELL, for the plaintiff in error, contended
on the first count that the words " desperate adventu-
turers," which it was alleged had reference to the plain-
tiff, were not actionable.
The COURT, however, said that the jury had found the
words intended to apply to the pluintiff, and it Was a
question of fact for them. The first count, therefore,
was goud.

As to the second count, the words were these,—" We
need not here dwell upon the impolicy of the connexion
between the present agitation and the National Insti-
tute, a body which has ,disgusted the Government, and
with other persons not belonging to the profession, and
whos© weekly vocation it is to bring everything belong-
nig to the profession into disrepute and contempt."
The Learned COUNSEL contended that there was 1:10-
thing in this language to connect the plaintiff below with

the persons who were stated to have this " weekly
vocation."

The COURT said it was a very ungrammatical sentence,
and was difficult to be understood, but eventually time
was taken for the consideration of this count.
The third count spoke of a quack mountebank.
Mr. BRAMWELL urged that there was not a sufficient
inuendo in this count.

The COURT, however, thought that count would do.
The fourth count spoke of the plaintiff as a " briefless
quack secretary."
The COURT held that count to be good.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON said, that two names were
used in that count, namely, those of Joseph Ady and
Ikey Solomons. The Court did not know but what they
might be the most respectable persons in the world. All
the Court would say would be, that it would not, take
judicial notice of them.

- Mr. DEARSLEY addressed the Court in support of the
second count.

Mr. Baron PARKE then said they were all of opinion
that all the counts were good, but the second, and, with
regard to that count, not being all agreed, they would
take time for consideration.

SHERIFFS' COURT, Nov. 30.
ROBERTS V. POCOCK.

This was an action to recover damages for trespass.
Mr. WARELING, solicitor to the plaintiff, stated the
case, by which it appeared that the plaintiff had been a
tenant to the defendant of a cottage in Pocock's-fields,
Islington, a place of painful notoriety as being the scene
of the murder of Mr. Templeman a few years since. The
defendant, it appears, was anxious to obtain possession
of the premises, and gave notice to quit, but which not
being legel, plaintiff continued to hold possession till de-
fendant sent labourers and pulled the cottage down and
destroyed the garden, &c. The defendant at first
pleaded a justification, but having withdrawn the plea,
the present was an inquiry to assess damages.
Two witnesses were examined, who proved the above
facts.

In mitigation of damages Mr. Ring contended that
the defendant had let the land originally on the terms,
that if at auy time the landlord required the land for any
other purpose, the tenants were to quit at six months'
notice, with an allowance of a year's rent. The plsin-
tiff had refused to so leave, the consequence of which
was, that the defendant forcibly took possession.
The UNDER-SHERIFF told the jury that the only
question was, what damages was the plaintiff to receive
for the wrong the defendant admitted having done.
The damages were assessed at 501.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
William Day, of No. 3, Eaton-street, New-cut, Lam-
beth, was fistilly examined on the charge of breaking
into the premises of Mr. Reed, working jeweller, of No.
38, Fetter-lane, and stealing therefrom a variety of
trinkets and other articles.
Sir C. MARSHALL committed him for trial, and, the
depositions being made out, he was conveyed to
Newgate.

BOW-STREET.
John Adams, a scavenger, was charged with sweeping
road-soil into a common sewer in Museum-street.
The inspector of nuisances for that district stated,
that he was in the sewer, when he heard the dirt and
rubbish falling into it. He immediately went to ascer-
tain the cause of it, and discovered the defendant iu the
act of sweeping the granite slush into the drain—a prac-
tice which was commonly indulged in by scavengers, who
frequently cleared a whole street by this means before
the shops were open in the morning. Very recently a
sewer in Oxford-street was filled up nearly to the sum-
mit by an accumulation of dirt, which had become wholly
immovable by water.
The defendant said the rain had sot it running, and he
could not help it.
Mr. HALL fined him 405., remarking that the prac-
tice was a very general and a very abominable one; and
that the punishment, if the case had been presented to
him under the new Sanitary Act, would have been much
severer.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Jonathan Scott, cab-driver, was summoned before Mr.
Bingham, at the instance of the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, for having wantonly
ill-treated a horse.
Sir William Abdy stated that he was at the window
of White's Club-house, in St. James's-street, when he
saw the defendant suddenly rush out of the ranks and
begin 1 fishing his horse on the legs and knees with vio-
lence. The defendant then lashed the horse over the
head, and finally took the butt-end of his whip and beat
the wretched animal over the head with great force.
tie (Sir ‘Villiarn) went out and remonstrated with the
brutal driver, and then communicated the circumstance
to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
who immediately instituted the present proceeding.
The only defence set up was that the horse would not
go out ( t the rank quick enough to take up a fare. The
defendant lashed his horse, and the horse backed and
kicked, and as the only cure for kicking was to beat the
horse about the head, he had certainly used the handle
of his whip as described.
A witness was called who said the defendant was plied
to take up a fare, when the horse became restive.
Mr. MINGIIA.II fined the defendant 3s. and costs 2s.
MARYLEBONE.
James Hayward, alias Chamberlain, was brought be-
fore Mr. Long for final examination, on the chaate of
having committed numerous railway robberies.
Mr. Collard, Superintendent of the Great Western
Railway Company's police, attended during the inquiry,
and much interest was excited, in consequence of a re-
port having been circulated to the effect that some cases
of magnitude against the prisoner would probably be
brought forward.
The evidence gone into upon former occasions went to
show that the prisoner was first taken into custody at
the Paddington terminus on the 16th of November, by
Sergeant Brooker, one of the company's officers at the
Paddington station, who stopped him as he was making
his egress from the premises with a portmanteau, the
property of Mr. James Montague, a passenger by an
express train, and which had been stolen by him (pri-
soner) from the platform; it contained wearing apparel,
&c., of the value of 251.; it was also shown that through
the exertions of Mr. Collard and Linden (the latter a
detective officer employed at the terminus) a second
robbery was made out against the accused, who it was
proved had stolen a carpet-bag belonging to Mr.
Slade, a gentleman residing at Talbach, in Glamor-
ganshire, and which had in it some linen ; he
missed the bag upon his arrival at Bristol from Pad-
dington, and which, with some of its contents, was
found by Mr. Collard to have been pledged in Bath.
The prisoner was committed upon the two charges
above alluded to, but was ordered to be brought up again
with the view of:affording time for additional inquiry;
Linden having discovered at the lodgings of the prisoner
in Somers-town another corpet-bag, together with seve-
ral duplicates for articles pawned.
Yesterday another charge was made against the pri-
soner by Mr. Alfred Goslett, residing at Stock, near In-
gatestone, Essex. He deposed that on the 13th Novem-
ber he travelled from Ingatestone by a train on the
Eastern Counties Railway, having with him a portman-
teau and two carpet-bags, and that on his arrival at the
Shoreditch station one of his bags was missing.
Linden produced a carpet-bag, which, with some ar-
ticles therein, was identified by Mr. Goslett. Some
shirts, &c., belonging to him were also produced by a
pawnbroker, and a knowledge as to what had become of
them was arrived at through the duplicates which were
taken from the prisoner's room.
The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was-fully corn-
mitted for trial upon three separate charges.
WESTMINSTER.
Sarah Walter, aged 32, a good-looking woman, de-
scribed as a servant, was placed at the bar before;Mr.
Burrell, charged with the wilful murder of her child.
The prisoner, against whom a coroner's jury pro-
nounced a verdict of " Wilful Murder" a few days ago,
has bees since that period an inmate of Ratcliff Work-
house, whence she was brought to this court yesterday
morning by Sergeant Foay, of the H division. She was
assisted into the dock, apparently in a very weak state,
and throughout the examination exhibited the deepest
emotion.
Mr. Bloxham, a witness, said, forming an opinion
upon the evidence, I should say the quantity of lauda-
num alone stated to have been given the child would be
sufficient to cause death, and I think that exposure to
cold through a winter's night would be sufficient to cause
death. The exposure to cold for a night might un-
doubtedly cause the appearance I have observed in the
brain. I remember that the temperature of the air on
the night previous to my examination of the body was
very keen.

Mr. BURRELL having asked the accused what sho had
to say, she replied in a faint voice—"l wish to say I did
not give it all the stuff; I took part myself. I wish you
to have mercy on me. It was not my intention; far from
it. I could not have known. what I was doing, or I
would not have done it."

Mr. BURRELL said it was hii duty to commit her for
trial upon this very serious charge at the Central Cri-
minal Court.

The wretched woman was then assisted from the
dock, where it had been found necessary in the course of
the examination to hand her a glass of water.
SOUTHIVAI?K.

Thomas Masterman, a tradesman in Parker's-row,
Bermondsey, was charged with committing a violent as-
sault on John Thomas Colsey, whereby his life was con-
sidered in danger.
The complainant said, he was agent to a gentleman,
and collected his rents for houses situated in Bermond-
sey; that the defendant was one of his tenants, and on the
morning of the 10th inst. he called upon him for some
rent. Witness had to ascend through a trap-door to get
to the workshop of the defendant, who, on seeing him,
said that he was prepared to pay what was due, and
desired complainant to write out a receipt for the money.
He then placed the writing materials on a bench, and
complainant was in the act of stooping down to write
when he received a dreadful blow with some instrument
on the head with such force as to knock him down the
trap-door, where he lay insensible, covered with blood,
and he was afterwards conveyed home; and,
Owing to
the serious nature of the injuries inflicted, he was unable
to leave his home until that day.
The clerk said that two certificates had been sent to
the court; the first described that the complainant's life
was in danger; the second, however, gave hopes of his
ultimate recovery.

A solicitor proceeded to cross-examine the complain-
ant, to show that the assault was not committed with any
instrument, but with the fist, and that the defendant re-
ceived much provocation before he had recourse to such
an alternative. The complainant, however, adhered to
the accuracy of his evidence, and
Mr. SECKER said that the charge was of too serious a
nature for him to decide upon summarily; ho should
send it before a jury.
The defendant was therefore committed.

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