The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-04 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

Yesterday, Henry Hollis, a young tradesman residing in
Prospect-place, Newington, applied for a warrant against a
person to whom he entrusted a sum of money for defraying
the expenses attendant on the publication of banns of mar-
riage, to have been solemnized that morning between him
and a young lady to whom he was attached.
The applicant had been paying his addresses for some
length of time to a young lady, the daughter of a tradesman
in the silk business. Three weeks ago yesterday it was ar-
ranged that the banns should be put up at Waterloo
Church, and for this purpose a female, considered until now
the mutual friend of both parties, was entrusted with the
money to pay the expenses requisite for that purpose. In-
stead, however, of his friend performing the office which
she had undertaken to execute, she never went near the
church, neglected to put up the banns, and converted the
money for that specific object to her own um. The appli-
cant then narrated the grievous disappointment which he
and the young lady to whom he was to be married sustained,
owing to the imposition practised upon them on the occasion.
The MAGISTRATE inquired the amount of the sum entrust-
to the party against whom the complaint was alleged ?
Applicant.—The money, your worship, is but a mere
secondary consideration : it is the disappointment that we
have met with that has occasioned me to come forward to
the complaint.
The MAGISTRATE asked how the applicant had disco-
vered that the money which was to have been appropriated
for having the banns published was not expended for that
particular purpose ? Applicant—l shall tell your Worship
in a few words how the discovery took place. This morn-
ing we were to have, been married. - The bride, myself,
and the friends who were to have given her away had a
coach, and on our arrival at the church the parson declined
solemnizing the marriage, on the ground that the banns
had not been previously published. The books were re-
ferred to ;no entry of our names appeared, and-we were
all obliged to go back as we came. The bride unfortu-
nately took, it into her head that I was the chief cause of
the disappointment ; but `I soon convinced her of her error,
and, after some slight recrimination on the subject, matters
were finally adjusted between us by the exposure of the
real offender.

The MAGISTRATE asked the applicant whether he had
seen the party to whom he entrusted the money to put up
the banns since the disappointment ? The applicant re-
plied that her name was Mary Ann Dee, and that on his
return from the church, disappointed as he was, he went
to her house, and upbraided her for converting the money
to a different use to that for which it was intended. She
denied the charge, declared that she had paid the fees for
the publication of the banns into the hands of Mr. Brown,
the parish clerk, and he (applicant) insisted on her meet-
ing that individual face to face to bear out her assertion.
She did accompany him to the clerk, but she prevaricated
so grossly that it was• quite evident she had not been near
the church before. The applicant added, that it was his
intended bride who paid over the fees to the person against
whom he complained.
The MAGISTRATE said that if the applicant intended to
pursue the matter any further, it would be necessary that
the young lady should attend herself to prove the fact of her
having given the money to Mrs. Dee for the specific pur-
pose of putting up the banns of their marriage.
The applicant said that both himself and the lady to
whom he was to be married agreed in the determination to
punish a woman who had so deceived them, and that for his
part he should spare neither pains, trouble, nor expense, in
following up the matter.

The MAGISTRATE recommended the applicant to let the
matter drop as the sum was so trifling, to save the young
lady the unpleasantness of appearing publicly at that office.
If, however, her feelings did not happen to be very sensi-
tive on the subject, and that she applied personally, any
application that she thought proper to make should be at-
tended to.

The applicant again reverted to the grievous disappoint-
ment experienced by him and his intended bride, owing to
their having been sent back from the church without being
married. They must now wait for three weeks longer until
the banns were published, and there was, no telling what
might happen in the interval to blast their hoees-ilf happi-
ness. He added, " Mrs. Dee is the whole and sole cause'
of all this disappointment, and 1 can't forgive her foi. prac-
tising such a piece of gross deception upon two young peo-
ple ; she deserves severe punishment."
The MAGISTRATE said that the applicant had better return
to the young,lady and consult with her •on the subject ;
that the better way for them to proceed was to have the
banns put up; and not to leave it to a third party, but go
to the church themselves, and then there would be no
danger of a disappointment.
The applicant expressed his determination to go himself
to Waterloo Church next Sunday and put up the banns,
and not leave so important a trust in the bands of a:other.
He then left the office, having thanked the Magistrates for
their attention to his application.

SIIOCKING CASE OF DEPRAVITY OF TWO FE-
MALES.—Yesterday morning, about seven o'clock, two females
engaged a cab from their lodging near Temple-bar, and or-
dered the cabman to drive to the London Hospital ; but as
they proceeded they altered their minds, and ordered him to
drive to the Chelsea Workhouse, and on their arrival there,
the porter at the gate would not admit them without an order
from a magistrate or overseer. After some hesitation, the
cabman proceeded direct to Mr. Toby, one of the overseers of
the parish, when one of the females informed him' that her
friend in the cab had been taken in labour on the road to the
workhouse. The overseer replied, " how could you be guilty
of such barbarity and disgraceful conduct as to leave your home
and permit your friend, who was in such a precarious state, to
proceed through so many parishes, and not to have applied to
any of them for surgical assistance ?" He immediately gave
an order for her admittance to the workhouse, and to -nlorm
the parish surgeon on their way back, which they did, and on
their arrival at the workhouse, to the utter astonishment of the
porter, the nurses, and other inmates of the house, on helping
the patient out, they found that she had been delivered, and the
child lying dead at the bottom of the cab. It is supposed that
both females knew of the circumstance, which, on their being
accused of, they strenuously denied. It is understood
to be the intention of the overseer, on her recovery, to take
the mother before a magistrate, and have the case thoroughly
investigated.
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WICK, AIJG. 25.—The last week's fishing was a
little better than the previous part of the season, the boats
averaging about five crans each, as much as the whole four
weeks preceding. This is nothing, however, to what was ex-
pected, at the Lammas stream, which usually is so productive.
Before this day last year, there were 170,000 crans caught
here—this year scarcely 10,000. This is a great deficiency,
and we have reason to fear it will not be made up this season.
The boats have put to sea to-night, but most of them are now
on their return, in consequence of a heavy sea from a strong
north east wind. Thurso, and west of it, did little last week ;
Orkney is also poorly fished. In short, there is not one-tenth
of a fishing from Cape Wrath to Helmsdale. Some places on
the Latheron coast have been so unproductive that the boats
will not average a cran or barrel each, and even here there is
a number of boats who have most diligently toiled five weeks,
and not got a single cran. Oatmeal has fallen to 14s. per boll,
and without herrings other things will be in proportion, but it
is not yet so bad as a country man would seem to have had it,
who gravely asked the other day, if it was true that the banks
had shut and the jail was full ! Small pox has visited our
neighbourhood, and proved fatal to one of the fishermen.—
Inverness Courier.