The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-06 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, JAN. 4.

POST-OFFICE PROSECUTION—SINGULAR SCENE.
—Paul Rivell, a young man of respectable appear-
ance, late a servant in the twopenny post de-
livery department of the General Post-uffice, was
placed at the bar, charged with having surrepti-
tiously abstracted a sovereign and a half from a
letter, the property of a Mr. Hams, in the parish of
St. Pancras, to whom the prisoner was to deliver
it. The prisoner's ca,,e was in the paper for trial
on Friday, and Mr. ADOLPHUS applied for its post-
ponement to Monday, on the ground that the So-
licitor• General could not attend before that time.

Mr: CLARKSON, for the prisoner, objected to this,
on the ground that he himself could not attend on
Monday.
The trial was eventually put off till this evening.
Mr. ADOLPIIUS now applied again for a post-,
punetnerit, but
Such a course-iv. ° most
oppressive. The Post-office, he understood, was
in fact riot prepared with their witnesses ; but was
a poor man to be kept in prison because of the ne-
gligence of certain authorities ?
Mr. Common-Sergeant MIREHOUSE saw no
ground for postponing the trial.

Mr. ADOLPHUS—then, my Lord, I will challenge
the Jury and exhaust the box.

Mr. ADOLPHUS accordingly challenged every one
of the July as their names were called over.

Mr. CLAFtKSON now applied to allow the prisoner
to traverse unt►l next session on his own recog►►i-

zance.

Mr. ADOLPHUS objected, upon which
Mr. CLARKSON—Then if the trial is put off to
Monday I will attend on Monday, and challenge
the Jury on my part.—(Laughter, and some clap-
ping of hands, in which one of the challenged Jurors
joined.)
Mr. ADOLPHUS—What ! do I see a juror clip his
hands ? It I had the power I would have that juror
turned out of Court. Nly Lord Kenyon on one
occasion fined a man 201. for clapping his hands in
Court. I desire that such conduct will not be
repeated.
Mr. Sheriff WILSON here said he would go in
search of a jury.
The COMMON SERGEANT would sit the whole
night, if it were necessary, in order to try the case.
Mr. CLARKSON would wait on the Duke of Itch-
mond, and represent the disgraceful manner in which
the Post-office prosecutions were conducted.
Mr. Alderman THOMPSON and Mr. Alderman
WINCHESTER remarked that certainly the conduct of
the Post-office parties was highly censurable.
Mr. Sheriff WILSON here returned, and said he
had got a jury, and could have 20 gentlemen, if ne-
cessary, having despatched coaches to various parts
of the county.
Mr. CLARKSON here read the 29th clause of the
Jury Act, by which it appeared that no juror could
be challenged in the name of the King, unless some
good cause of objection could be shown
Mr. ADOLPHUS admitted that he had not been
aware of this clause, and a jury was then sworn.
Mr. ADOLPHUS then said—l am not prepared
with witnesses ; but if I were, after the most inde-
corous conduct which I witnessed in the jury-box,
most certainly should decline calling one of them.
There being no evidence against the prisoner, he
was discharged.

LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, JAN. 4.
The demand for cotton since the commencement of the
year has been exceedingly small, consequently the very
limited business done has been Id. per lb. decline from
the quotations of Friday last. The import this week is
4,866 bags, and the sales are 2,480 bags,—viz., 110 Se
Island, 141 d. to 2s. 2d. ; 30 stained ditto, Bd. to 11y. ;
1,450 Bowede, lid. to 94d. ; 350 New Orleans, Sd. to
10id. ; 150 Alabama, &e., 74d. to Sid.; 90 Pernams,
9i-d. to 10/i. ; '7O Bahia, 9d. to 101 d. ;30 Maranham,
9A-I. to Rid. ; 120 Common West India, 7h i. to St I. ;
40 Carthagena, to '7d. ; 10 Smyrna, 9d. ; and 30
Surat, 51d. to 7id. per lb. The cotton market continues
dull. The sales to-day amount to a few hundred bags only.
BURNS AND DAFT JAMIE.—" The wan-
dering poor were to the poet a heavy tax; he allowed no
one to go past his door without a halfpenny or a handful
of meal. He was kind to such helpless creatures as are
weak in wind, and saunder harmlessly about. A poor
half-mad creature—the Madge Wildfire, it is said, of Scott
—always found a mouthful ready for her at the bard's
fire-side; nor- was he unkind to a crazy and tippling pro-
digal named Quin.—' Jamie,' said the Poet one day as he
gave him a penny,
you should pray to be turned from
the evil of your ways ; you are ready to run now to melt
that into whisky.'—' Turn,' said Jamie, who was a wit
in his way, ' I wish some one would turn me into the
worm o' Will Hyslop's whisky-still that the drink might
rin continually through me." Well said, Jamie!' an.
-wered the Poet, ' you shall have a glass of whisky once
a week for that, if you'll come sober for it.'"—From the
new Life of Burns, by A. Cunningham.