The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-11 00:00:00

ELECTION OF CHAIRMAN.

Mr. JESSOP brought forward an adjourned mo-
tion, " that on any future vacancy in the chair of
these sessions, no Magistrate should be elected
thereto who had not previously given notice of
offering himself as a candidate, or of accepting the
office if elected, or unless a notice should have been
given by another magistrate to propose him; the
notice to be given not later than the county-day of
the Sessions preceding that for the election of
Chairman." He had felt the necessity of such an
arrangement early in life, for in those good old
days, when their business was conducted in a room
to which those curious persons who take down the
words as glibly as they utter them were not ad-
mitted, he remembered that the Recorder and some
city Magistrates came down and elected a man upon
whom they had fixed their choice, and the announce-
ment of this successful ruse was received with shouts
of laughter in 'Westminster-hall. The situation
was so important that it required no argument to
prove that the Court should know whom they were
to elect before the very day of election.
Dr. ROBINSON seconded the motion.

Mr. ORME proposed as an amendment that the
Chairman should be nominated on one county-day,
and elected on the next.
Mr. M'WILLIAM seconded it.

Mr. HALLS supported it.
Mr. JESSOP withdrew the original motion, and

(PRICE 71).)

the amendment was substituted for it. Seventeen
magistrates voted for it, and ten against it.
After the disposal of some other business of no
public importance, the Court adjourned.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

A FOURTH PROFESSION.—Mr. Hillier, the son of
Captain Hillier, an old military officer, appeared
against the driver of one of the Clapham coaches,
named Thomas .Russell, a man of great strength of
body and reported pugilistic skill.
Mr. Hillier, according to his father's account, had
taken such a fancy for coach.dri6ng, notwithstand-
itig his education, that he first set up a stage-coach,
aid then asked the Captain's advice upon the subject.
All expostulations were useless. The son would
drive, and he necessarily became subject to the in.
solent comments of his meaner brothers of the whip,
who were always ready to whip away the female
customers into their own vehicles, from the very
steps of that of the gentleman driver. Upon the
present occasion the defendant was stated not only
to have seized two ladies who were about to honour
the complainant, but struck the young gentleman
violently in the face, knocked him down, and gave
him a most strangling twist in the throat.
The LORD MAYOR said that a gentleman who
attempted to satisfy so preposterous a taste as that
of stage-coach driving could scarcely expect any
other treatment than had been described. The fact
was, that there were now four professions for the
choice of gentlemen—physic, divinity, the law, and
stage-coach driving.—(Laughter.)
Captain Hillier finding that his son had so great
an attachment to the whip, had endeavoured to con-
ciliate the defendant, who was the most terrific ruf-
fian upon the road ; but the attempt had no other
effect than that of producing such a volley of oaths
and curses as could scarcely be expected to issue
from the most incorrigible villain in Newgate.---
(Here the defendant laughed.)
The LORD MAYOR said it would have been pru-
dent in the father to induce the son to take a long
coach—a Brighton coach, for instance, would be
desirable to one so young in the profession, for he
would then have some of the Nobility and gentry as
competitors; but in a rivalry like the present there
was no glory but that of abuse and blows. His
Lordship then asked the defendant what he had to
answer to such a complaint ? The defendant as•
sured the LORD MAYOR, in a very mild and respect-
ful tone, that he was himself the injured man, for he
had been not only struck and knocked about and
blackguarded by the defendant, but his two ladies,
who were just going to scat themselves in his coach,
were snatched away by the complainant from his
protection.—(Loud laughter.)
Two witnesses, whose appearance caused some
mirth, were ready to swear to the truth of the de-
fence ; but
The LORD MAYOR told the defendant that he
must find bail, to answer the complaint at the Ses-
sions.

Captain Hillier declared that it was hia determi-
nation to prosecute.

The LORD MAYOR said that perhaps the violence
and exposure to which the young gentleman had
been subjected, would tend more than all the advice
in the world, to conquer his taste for the fourth
profession, which even the high rank of some of the
professors could never render respectable.
Captain Hillier had endeavoured to bring up his
son to the law, but the lash of the whip had more
charms for the young man than a client's bill. It
was but little his family ever expected that any
member of it would become one of the fraternity of
the Clapham-road, or be engaged in a quarrel with
a person so infinitely beneath the notice of a gen-
tleman.

The Captain then retired with his son, who had
a tremendous black eye.

G UILDHALL.

THE REFORM ACT.—Yesterday the overseers of
St. Bride's waited upon Sir C. MARSHALL, to learn
the decision of the City Solicitor respecting the
legality of compelling a liveryman, who acquires
no additional power by being registered as a 101
householder, to pay a shilling for such registration.
Mr. Farr, of Fleet-street, who does not resist the
payment from a spirit of opposition either to the
overseers or to the Act, but from the desire to
settle a question affecting some thousand of his fel-
!ow-citizens, begged to put his point in his own
way. He thought that the construction to be put
on the 44th section was, that the overseer was to
prepare two lists, one containing a list of persons en-
titled to vote otherwise than in respect to property—
that is, as regards London, the liverymen residing in
the parish whether 10/. householders or not ; the
other list containing the 10/. householders enfran•-
chised by the Act. The course which had been
pursued was to mingle the liverymen with 101.
householders, when they were entitled to vote in
respect to their property.
Mr. Gale, a solicitor, as vestry-clerk of one of the
city parishes, had sent a circular to the liverymen
householders, informing them that he should put

them on the list of 101, householders, notwithstand-
ing they might be liverymen, unless they gave him
a written request not to do so, which request
would bar them from afterwards complaining of the
omission. His opinion was that a liveryman, be-
ing a 101. householder, might vote on which quali-
fication he pleased, and it was therefore the duty of
the overseer to return him in the list of householders.

A gentleman observed that if this were held to be
the law, the effect might be that all the liverymen
would disqualify as householders, by refusing to pay
the taxes, &c. till the Ist of August in each year.
Mr. Farr was asked whether he voted as a house-
holder or a liveryman ?
He replied he did not vote at all.
A gentleman said Mr. Farr had nearly lost his
privilege as liveryman, through the clerk of the
company posting up a misdescription at the Royal
Exchange, which happened to be noticed by a
friend in time.
The City Solicitor said his first impression was
that Mr. Gale's view of the matter was correct;
hut he would rather consider the question again than
decide hastily, and all parties should have notice
when he made up his mind.
Q UEEN-SQ UARE.

ASSAULT.—A dashing-looking young fellow,
named Driver, was charged with violently assaulting
Mr. Attie, a distiller in Church-street, Lambeth.
On the previous evening the defendant rapped at
Mr. Attie's door, sad on that gentleman coming out
the defendant violently assaulted him. The police
took him into custody.
In reply to the charge, the defendant said that
Mr. Attie had got a lady in the house, and he
merely called to him through the key-hole.
The Magistrates fined the defendant the full
penalty of .5/.
THE WESTMINSTER GANG OF JUVENILE THIEVES
—Yesterday five youths, named Preston, 211 Isaacs,
Gee, Collins, and Ricks, were brought up for final
examination, charged with entering the shop of Mr.
Brown, a potato-salesman, in Great Chapel-street,
Westminster, and stealing a bowl, containing from
Ios. to 12s. in copper.
The prisoners, with two or three other lads, en-
tered the shop in the evening, and, in the most da-
ring manner, snatched the bowl of halfpence off the
counter, and ran away with it.
Ricks was admitted King's evidence, and stated
that Preston, who is not more than nine years of age,

trig urchins now commenced charging each
th cheating in the distribution of the
. One declared he only got sixpence, instead
of eighteen-pence; another said he was done, for
he only got sixpence-halfpenny.
Mr. GREGORIE committed them all for trial.

Yesterday James Fenshant, a young lad about 18
years of age, was brought up in custody by a police-
c instable of the B division, No. 160, charged with
I ;tithing a man named John Brumwell, in the eye,
with a pitchfork, whereby his life was endangered.
The prisoner was removed in custody.
TV OR SHIP-STREET.

A respectably-dressed but poor woman, named
Mary Darby, came to this office yesterday, to com-
plain of having been grossly assaulted on the day
before by Mrs. Coombs, a pawnbroker in the neigh-
bourhood, and also by her clerk, a young man about
18 years of age.
The complainant went to the defendant's shop to
redeem a shawl, which she bad pledged for 45.; she
took the amount in farthings, -which she counted
out on the counter, while the clerk went to fetch
the shawl. On his returning with it, she handed
the amount to him, in papers of a shilling each ; but
he refused to take them, calling her, at the same
time, a—. Another clerk in the shop also said,
" Don't take such rubbage as that." Witness, con-
sidering that she was entitled to the shawl, took it,
and was in the act of leaving the shop, when the
defendant jumped over the counter and seized her,
as if she had purloined something, at the same time
knocking her about the shop. The other defendant,
Mrs. Coombs, on hearing a noise, ran up to her,
and after taking the shawl from her, called in an offi•
err; but he declined interfering, and said he thought
the complainant was very ill-used.
Police constable—So she was, your Worships ;
they knocked her about in a shameful manner.
Complainant—Being fearful, as the twelvemonth
had expired on that day, that I might lose the shawl
altogether, I went with the money in silver, and
brought it away this morning.
Mr. BROUGHTON—It's a great pity you took the
,mount in farthings at first. How came you to have
it all in farthings ? Complainant (bursting into
tears)—On the death of my husband I was in pos-
sion of a sufficiency to support me for the remainder
uf my life, but was induced by false representations
to lend all the money I had to a villain who is now
lining in Shoreditch, but from whom I shall never
get a penny. Since that time I have been in
poverty, and, therefore, all I could save at a time was
a farthing ! The shawl being an old family shawl,
I was determined not to lose it ; yet I don't see
why I should be beat and ill-used into the bargain.

Mr. BROUGHTON—Is Mrs. Coombs here y Cletk
—No ; she is prevented attending by illness.
Mr. BROUGHTON (tothe clerk)—Why did you
refuse taking the farthings ?—Clerk (impudently)—
Because they were all farthings.—How did we
know if she had counted them out right or not ? If
all the pledges taken out of the shop were to be
paid for in copper, we might employ another clerk
for the purpose of counting it.
Mr. BROUGHTON—I believe farthings are not a
legal tender beyond sixpence. But, supposing they
were not a legal tender, that did not juitly you in
assaulting and detaining the woman.
Defendant—We detained her to get the shawl
back. We did not hurt her as she represents.
Mr. BROUGHTON told the complainant that, as
there was a doubt upon the case, he would advise
her to let the matter rest, particularly as she bad
got her property back, notwithstanding that the
conduct of the defendants was highly reprehensible.
She might (said the Magistrate), if she was dissatis-
fied, still carry the case to the Sessions.
The complainant would consult with her friends
upon the subject, and the parties left the office.

On Saturday morning, the 15th ult., about
2 o'clock, a daring outrage was committed on the house
and property of Mr. Joint HAMILTON, of Knockabrin,
near Letterkenny. His son, on opening the front door,
was instantly fired at and wounded in the hand and arm.
In the course of a little time three large corn stacks, with
An out office, were set fire to anti burnt to the ground.
Sixteen head of cattle were saved by the activity of some
of the inmates. In the mean time the police arrived from
Letterkenn). Some of the neighbours being suspected,
their place was examined, which led to an investigation
on the Monday following, before the Magistrates and chief
officers of police, when five persons were committed to
Lifford gaol.—Ballyshannon Herald.

On Sunday last, while the Rev. R. Goor,n,
son of the Rev. P. GOOLD, of Borrisokane, was attending
and administering the comforts of religion to a sick woman,
he was interrupted by one of the police in attendance upon
him, and informed that a large concourse of people was
gathering from all quarters, with a design, as it was ap-
prehended, of doing him some bodily harm. The Rev.
Gentleman, who ever since the seizure of his father's tithe
has been obliged to travel under the protection of an escort,
almost immediately on the intimation being made to him,
left the house, mounted his horse, and was about to depart,
when several voices from the assembled multitude cried
out " Now for it—down with him." Mr. GOOLD, with
the most perfect composure, and apparent determination,
pulled in his horse, drew his pistol, and warned the mob
that the first person who threw a stone, or otherwise at-
tacked, should be shot. Upon making this declaration,
he instantly started his horse and flew threw the crowd,
the police accompanying hint, and fortunately escaped the
horrid death designed for him. The conduct of the police
on this occasion was most praiseworthy. But for their
vigilance, the name of Goyim would inevitably have been
idded to those of GOING, Wntrry, HOUSTON, and FER-
GUSON. —Evening Packet.

PROJECTED DOCKS AT WOOLWICH, WITH
RAILROADS THERETO, &c.—The usual notice required in
such cases has been affixed to the doors of the Middlesex
Sessions House of NI intention to apply to Parliament dur-
ing the ensuing Session for power to form a railroad from
the Commercial road, Limehouv, to the River Thames at
East Ham, opposite to Woolwich ; and also a carriage-
road to run parallel, or nearly so, with the railway ; also
for power to establish a ferry across the Thames to Wool-
wich; also for forming docks or slips and landing places
on both sides the river for steam-boats and other vessels,
with proper approaches, canals, locks, basins, wharfs,
bridges, &c. &c. ; and for power to impose tolls, rates,
and duties for the maintenance of the same. It is in-
tended the railroad should pass through Stepney, Lime-
house, Poplar, and Bromley, in Middlesex, and East and
Went Ham, and Barking, in Essex.

ANECDOTE.—An English Gentleman on a
visit to the North of Scotland was told, when he came to
Edinburgh, that he would not be able to understand the
Aberdeenshire dialect, and was advised to take an Edin-
burgh servant as an interpreter, which he did, and upon
his arrival at Lady F—'s, an old Scottish Countess, he
was desired by the hospitable Lady, when seated at dinner,
to "fa' tee, fa' tee, and eat." Upon his application to
his interpreter for an explanation, the servant said, " Hoot,
man, her Ladyship means fa' to and eat." " And pray
what the devil," replied his master, " is fa' to 7"
THE VETERAN JOHN LOGAN.—NO doubt
it will be in the recollection of some of our readers that
this veteran died about two years ago at the very great
age of 105 ; having served in the army upwards of half
a century. His widow, who is now living in this town,
lately petitioned the Lords of the Treasury for a small
allowance to be granted for the short period she may live,
being 75 years of age, and having no relative in ability to
assist her. Her pretensions were the long service of her
late husband (who was a Seotehman), and with whom she
had shared great fatigue and hardships, both in this country
,nd abroad. At the time of his death he was in the re-
ceipt of a pension, which enabled them to live together
sons-in-law,
whomha have alsover e served
killed
their comfortably; but it was discontinued on his demise; and
the little all she bad saved when in health is now entirely
exhausted. She was his second wife, and has had by him
wenty-four children, twelve eons and twelve daughters;
three
Kingof which sons,
country,
and m s w e
of , and
six o
n battle during the late war. He had eight children by
his first wife, making in the whole thirty-two. The poor
dd woman has received answer from the Treasury Office,
.tating ‘. that there are wo sums out of which they can
irant any relief! ! !"...lialafax Guardian.