The Sun.
London, England, 1833-05-27 00:00:00

BAIL COURT, MAY 25.

RIDGWAY D. BAYNTUN, ESQ M.P.

In this ca-e an application was made to allow the
notice of declaration of ilial left at the Junior United
Service Club House to be considered as good set,
vice. appeared that the action was upon a bill of
exchange drawn on the defendant, directed to him
at the Junior United Service Club, and accepted by
him. Several attempts had been made, but without
success, to effect a per-onal service. An affi lavit
was sworn, that the defendant's servant called at the
Club-house daily for letters, and, therefore, it wa.,
believed that the untie • of declaration would reach
him through this channel. _ .

The COURT thought, under thee circumstances,
the set vice would ho good.

ROLFE V. MINTON.

This was an action against the defendant, an
opulent butcher, to recover a sum of money due for
the support of his illegitimate child. It appeared
that in 1821, the defendant paid his addresses to
the dough er of the plaintiff, and that on the lst of
May, 1822, .he was delivered of the child in ques-
tion. The defendant, it was proved, had taken and
paid for loilg ngs for the young woman, and had paid
all rite exoens-s consequent upon her rot finement ;
and further, had advised that the child, which he
tr-ated in every respect as his own, should be pa,
out to wet.nurse, the expense of which he also de-
frayed. The chid was kept at nurse for ten months,
when an arrangement was entered into by the de.
fendant to pi), the plointiff a sum of Bs. per week
for the nursing and maintenance of the child, which
it was agreed should be sent to her as the issue of
a friend, and not as the child of her daughter, of
which fact the plaintiff was to be kept in ignorance.
The defendant continued to pay this allowance for
seven year., when he refused to continue so large a
stipend, but said that he would pay 4s. a week,
which was as much a• he could then afford. This ob-
jection was raised in 1829, and the present action
was brought to recover the balance, the defendant
having paid .5/. since that period tip to the present
time. After considerable evidence had been gone

into,

The COURT suggested that the matters in dis-
pute had bater be referred, wh ch was ultimately
agreed to.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION HOUSE.

THE PROCESS OF MAKING STINKING FISH
SWEET —On Saturday Thomas GiLon, senior, a
hummeree, or retailer of ft•h in Billingsgate, v‘a-•
brouglit before the Lord Mayor, for having followed
Mr. Goldham, the clerk of the market, from place
to pl ee, with a loaded stick, a blow of which, in-
fl cted by a man of moderate strength, would fell
an ox. It was proved that the defendant had been,
in consequence of repeated acts of mi c•snduc', inter-
dicted he run (lithe market by Mr. G Ilham; that
he threatened Mr. Goldham, who found it nece
to wrest the dangerous instrument from his hands,
and that the stick had been made heavy within the
last few day', for the purpose of real mischief.

The LORD MAYOR—What is the general conduct
of ihe old man ?

Mr. Goblham, to the surprise and amusement of
the crowd in the justice-room, gave the following
account of Gilson :—" I have hail a great deal of
trouble, my L .rd, with the d fendant, who is con-
standy in the habit of imposing on the public by
he tricks of his trade. lie puts the g ifs of fie.li
fi.h in.° the bodies of fi•h that have been long dead,
and he also supplies the heads of a hiking fi•h with
fres', eyes. S.imelitnes he throws a Ii tie blo-d
amongst the pale old gill: of a fi.h, and the old
ladies ate deprived by the freshness of the app,at.
afire, the coil or mackarel ae•ually looking a. if it
hail just pa.sed the agonies of death, and they thr,.w
down their money with pleasure for a prze, which,
when ti.ey ger it home, ruin: out to be as bad as a
three week.' old melt.—( I aughter.) It was only tile
other day that he imposed s ch plaice upon an old
lady, for what he called a turbot.—i Laughte..) She
!end, • Oh dear, a tut bot. a young uudergrowu t urbot,
I suppo-e ?" " Yes, ma'am (says he) ju.t like a
paraque,, what's like a parrot, but younger awl
more tender." So the lady took home her turb.at,
and it was more tender sure enough.—(Great
laughter.) The lady came d.,wn the next day, but
Tom was too good a judge to be there. She had
paid 3 for the turbo', and he had sold its fellows,
whet, good, at 41 a piece —(l,aughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—Is it tier, defendant, that
you act in this way ? Gilson —Why, my Loro,
they do put new gills aid eye: into the fi •h wha.
comes up to the marke. ; but, howsom,iever, the
fish met the worse fur having of bad eyes and white
gills. The fi•h m,y be good fi•li, though his eyes
is sore—(Lang'iter.) But there's some people as
won't have no ti:h as atet perfect every where, and
so we're obligated for to plea.e 'em, and we do put
in a fresh eye or two what I,toks br ght, and th -
moment they sees the eye: glisten they :ays,
have that un—(Loud laughter.) Howstandevet, we
!lever beautifies barrio the fi-h is good fi h.

The LORD MAYOR (to Mr. Goldham)—And is
it the fact, that people are imposed upon by this
sort of dealing? Mr. GoWham—Not a doubt of it,
my L ird. A lady botight a turbot a short time
ago ham) this man, and, as it had been lying by on
his forn for some time, it began to get fl ruby. To
remedy this defect he shoved a stick up the hod',
which, of course, became quite stiff enough, and he
soon found a customer. D ',yr) came the lady next
day, to toe terr, r of the deletidato, who, however,
had not winch reason to be triglvened, fur she says
to him, " My good man, I don't blame you, but we
couldn't eat a b t of the poor turbot yesterday.
Do you know that the pour unfortunate fish must
have suffered a great deal of agony, for upon boiling
him we found tha, he had swallowed a piece of
timber, very nearly as long as himselt."—(l...mghttr.)
Gilsou—But the fish was good, please your
Lordship. This lady didn't think there was any
good in him if he wan% as stiff as a poker; and 1
think-d it no harm for to ram a bit of clean
wood in him, for to make it an outsandsou! caper.—
(Laughter.) Ste might have et him if site chose;
the mules he got Wier the life was out on him dune
him no !:arm.

The LORD MAYOR—WeII, you- have acted can-
didly at any rate, and confessed that you are a prac-
tised imposer. How much do you get fur doctor-
it.g fi.ti in ►his manner to cheat the public with ?
Gilson—l'd like to have a little to do in that
way, my Lin], but not for cheating. I takes pride
in beautifying, the watery hattima;,, but they never
in my tiands.—( L -nigh er.)

The Lotip MAYoR-LFor all that, I'll make you
find bad.

Here r he son of the defendant, also a fish-retailer,
but a re.pectable young man, offered bail, and it
was immedottely received.
COSTER —Toe LORD MAYOR said, he found that,
although he was intormed, by what he considered a
very high authority, that Coster had committed an
offence off board the hulks, and had been punished
win a flogging, there was no foundation for the
report. He took that opportunity to correct the
impresssion that must have gone abroad, that the
ingenious person who, his Lordship hoped, was
about to take his fate %ell for ever, had been so in-
judicious as to incur a fresh penal y.

BOW-STREET.
A SAULT BY A POLICEMAN AT THE SPAFIELDS
MEETING —lt will be recollected that among the
w,triesses etcarn,ned by the Coroner, during the in-
quest on the body of Cully, was a p,-n.oit named
Cli ales Wheeler, who de,cribed himself its inspector
to the Sue ety for the Sti.,pre•sion of CiUt Ity to
Animal-. He stated that he had nothing to do
with the meeting., but that he was accidentally
bassi-g the ground on widen it %VHS held, when
lie saw the policemen meeting the prof le, and
turned loom' with his wife, who aceompatii.d
him, to go home another way. He 7va lit
round to the Bago'gge NVells•toad, whale he
heard a nurryter of women and children pereittc-
ing, and saw a youth, mun Nitta his aye td ed-
; he siw hitn struck by a vliceman of the,
division, whom he should know, and while looking