The Sun.
London, England, 1833-06-17 00:00:00

SIBLEY V. TOMLINS.

This was an action for words spoken, with a count for
special damage, &c. The plaintiff, it appears, is the
keeper of a Tom and Jerry shop, and moreover a vendor of
pork, at Edgware. The defendant much, however, to the
plaintiffs annoyance, and, as he alleged, to the damage of
his custom, uttered certain accusations against the plain-
tiff's pork as well as his character ; and, in order to vindi-
cate both his pork and his character, the present action
was brought. The words charged were, " You thief,
who'stole Fraser's pigs?" To which plaintiff, pleading
ignorance, defendant replied, " You did, you thief; yo❑
stole the pigs, and poisoned them with mustard and
brimstone."

Mr. Baron GURNEY left it to the Jury to say, whether
the words implied a felonious intention. The Jury gave
a verdict for the plaintiff—damages 40e., declaring that
the words did not impute a felonious intention, and were
spoken of the plaintiff in the way of trade.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

A young girl, named Eliza Howe, was brought before
the LORD MAYOR, under extraordinary and horrible cir-
cumstances. The father of the girl appeared before the
Lord Mayor a few days ago, and stated that his daughter
bad raised a report of him in the neighbourhood, of his
having been guilty of horrible conduct towards her, which
receiving credit, an immense mob collected round his
house determined on his destruction, and but for the pro-
tection of the police he would certainly have been killed.
The t• ither of the girl declared that her story was an
utter falsehood ; and the mother, who stated that when
her daughter first made the charge she herself took up a
knife determined to kill her husband, said she was now
perfectly satisfied by the declaration of two medical men,
that it was quite impossible that the girl's story could be
true.

The LORD MAYOR strictly examined both the girl and
her parents, for the purpose of discovering what could be
her motive for making the horrible accusation.
It appeared by the mother's statement that the girl was
by no means of weak intellect, but, on the contrary,
rather clever; that she was addicted to petty thefts, for
one of which her father bad lately tied her up and pun-
ished her severely, and she then threatened to hang him.
The girl begged to be forgiven, and said she would
never be naughty again.
Her father, however, declared that he was afraid to take
her lone, and the Lord Mayor undertook to procure her
admision into an institution where every endeavour
would be made to effect her reformation.
Q UEEN- S UA RE.

FRAUD UPON THE LESSEES OF TOLLS..--CAUTION TO
CARMEN.-Mr. Hans, of Southwell-green, appeared on
a summons to answer for the misconduct of one of his
carmen, who was charged with evading the toll at the
Hammersmith gate, under the following circumstances.
On Wednesday, the sth inst., the man in question was
despatched to London with a cart drawn by two horses.
Previous, however, to the carman arriving at the Ham-
mersmith gate, be unhooked one horse, and proceeded
through the bar with the cart and remaining horse, leaving
another person to follow with the other animal. By this
manoeuvre he evaded the toll, inasmuch as he only paid
3d. for the horse and cart, and three halfpence for the
single horse ; whereas, had he taken the two horses and
cart through at one time he would have been called upon
to pay 94. Suspicion was excited, and the toll collector
sent a boy to follow the cart, when the carman was shortly
observed to hook the horse on again.
Mr. Levy, one of the lessees of the toll, was acquainted
with the circumstance, and he at once proceeded against
the master of the carman, under the 3d Geo. IV., cap. ]26.
In answer to a questi:an from Mr. GREGORIE, Mr.
Hans acknowledged that his man had charged him nine-
pence for the toll.
Mr. Levy said that the practice was carried on to a far
greater extent than could be well imagined. Lessees of
tolls were not only defrauded„ but the proprietors of carts
and waggons also.
Mr. GREGORIE observed, that he saw no reason to mi-
tigate the penalty, as it was a case in which the master
ought to enforce the clause of the Act against the man ;
and in order that he might be induced to do so, be (Mr.
G.) should call upon the master to pay the full penalty of
51. and costs.

Mr. Hans made an application for the fine to be miti-
gated, but without effect. The costs amounted to 14s. 6d.
MARLBORO UGH-STREET.

Wm. Daniels, John Green, and a female, supposed to
be the wife of the latter, but who gave her name Ellen
Fennessy, were brought before Mr. CONANT for re-ex-
amination, on suspicion of having been concerned in steal-
ing a dressing-case, containing notes and gold to the amount

The lady's maid of Mr. Donovan had occasion to go up
stairs into her master's bed. room in the afternoon of Wed-
nesday, when she saw the prisoner Daniels there, who
appeared confused, and said he came to look for the
blacking brushes, in order to clean his master's beots
The prisoner went out upon an errand of his mistress,
but he returned again in company of Green, who re
mained in the ball while the other prisoner went up stairs.
She heard the hall door bang, and she then found that
Green and Daniels had gone out together.
Mr. Donovan said, with respect to the prisoner Dc
niels excuse far being in his room, it told against him,
because he had given the keys of his carriage-box to the
prisoner, to place the brushes in it, some hours previous
to his being discovered by the lady's maid,
Farrant, a police constable of the C division, said, that
when he went to 36, :Manchester-street, where the pri-
soner Green was living as footman, a young woman, who
was posent, opened the door to him, and told him that
Green'—.was • not there, although ho saw him in the
kitchen, through the area railings. This young woman
also admitted that Green had given her a tin case to take
care of, answering the description of the one stolen from
Mr. Donovan, but that she bad put the case and its con-
t nts in Green's room as soon as she learnt that the
police was in search of him. Farrant said he had no doubt
that this was the case he was in search of, and that Green
had contrived to remove it from the house when he made
his escape on that diy.
The young woman, who was attired in most preposterous
finery, was housemaid where Green lived as footman. Her
motive for acting as she bad done was because she thought
the officers intended to arrest Green for some debt he owed.

Mr. CONANT said that she might consider herself very
fortunate that she was not placed at the bar along with
the other prisoners.
Several other circumstances of great suspicion were
brought forward against both the male prisoners—in
particular, the fact of a great number of forged characters
found in Green's box, by which it was conjectured he had
been instrumental in procuring improper individuals
situations. They were both remanded; and the female
was discharged. _ _