The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-13 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, JAN. 11.

Thomas Lavender, Robert Poulter, William Came-
ron, John Jones, Thomas West, Robert Croft, James
Davis, and William Ashton, stood indicted for a
nuisance, in keeping a gaming house in Pickering_place.
This was the house in which the " lady," disguised in
male attire, lost so much money; and this prosecution
was instituted by the parish.
Of the parties, Lavender alone has been apprehended
and held to bail
On the case being called on,

Mr. ALLEY applied that it might be put off till next
Session, on the ground that his client Lavender had been
arrested last night, and was now in the custody of the
Sheriff of Middlesex.

Mr. AnoLratus said the defendant bad certainly suc-
ceeded in outjockeying them. As he was sworn to be in
custody, and they had no habeas to bring him here, he
could not help saying that he had no doubt he would be
at large within an hour after it had been granted.
The application was granted, subject to the condirion
that the expenses of the day h. paid by the defendant
within a week, or in default the recognizances entreated.;

CITY OF LONDON CORPORATION
:COMMISSION.

(Continuer) from The Sun of Saturday.)
Mr. Tyrrell, City Remembrancer, examined—He at-
tend! both Houses e f Parliament, and looks after the Bills
coming on in which the Corporation is concerned ; he
also takes the propr means of having addresses, on the
part of the Corporation, presented to the King and
Queen ; he attends the presentation of all petitions to
the House of Commons, he obtains the summer and
winter venison warrants, and delivers them to the Lord
Mayor, Sheriffs, Recorder,Common Sergeant Town-clerk,
Chamberlain, and Remembrancer; by those warrants,
which come from the Warrant-office, Somerset House,
and which, no doubt, were intended by the King as
commutation for the right of bunting in the Royal
parks, the Lord Mayor receives six bucks an six dots ;
each of the Sheriffs three bucks and three does; tie
Recorder two bucks and two does; the Chamberlain and
Remembrancer each two bucks and two does ; and Town
clerk one buck and dce.
Mr. Woodthorpe was again examined about the func-
tions of common pleaders. He said, they are allowed 4/.
or 5/. a year for a living, and their emoluments are de-
rived from their exclusive practice in the Lord Mayor and
Sheriffs' Courts. Both plaintiffs and defendants must
employ them.
Mr. Wire stated that it frequently happened that the
Common Pleaders got blank briefs, but bad their fees, as
they must be employed in those Courts, whilst the real
and filled up briefs were put into the hands of foreiFn
counsel (meaning by foreign, any counsel except the City
Pleaders), who, of course, were also paid. He stated
this to show the injustice of the Common Pleaders' mono-
poly of exclusive practice in those Courts, and be adihd,
that another effect of it was, that it drove the busineis out
of them.

Mr. Woodthorpe's cross-examination resumed, relative
to the Sword•bearer—lle is marshal and regulator of the
officers of the Lord Mayor's household, and first officer
attached to the Lord Mayor ; he constantly attends the
Lord Mayor, from 10 o'clock daily until his Lordship
quits the Justice-room, and then he inquires if his Lord-
ship has any further commands, and he sees them executed
by the proper officers ; he may be considered as a species
of Lord Chamberlain to the Lord Mayor, and he is the
medium through which licenses for concerts and occa-
sional public entertainments in the city are obtained ; the
Lord Chamberlain cannot grant a licence to any theatre
within the city ; the Swordbearer is paid by fees, and not
by salary ; on fixing the seal of the office of Mayoralty he
receives a fee, and he has been entitled to the price of ad-
mission into the galleries of the Old Bailey ; this right is,
however, at present disputed ; by a Report of the Cum-
tnon Council, dated 1819, it appeared that the gross emo-
luments of the Sword bearer, fur 14 years, were 17.1341.,
making a yearly average of 1,2231. ; but on account of
certain deductions and alterations, the emoluments of the
office may be considered at 6041. II s. The galleries of
the Old Bailey formerly belonged to the Lord Mayor's
servants, and they received the money paid by the public
for entering them. The officers and door-keepers of the
Old Bailey have no right to take fees, and ought to admit
the public gratis into the body of the Court.
11r. Wire stated that Mr. C. Pearson once knocked at
the Court door and applied for admission, but was told
that the Court was full ; through the square hole in it he
showed the door-keeper a half-a-crown; the door was
opened instanter, but the moment Mr. Pearson got inside.
be put the balf_crown in his pocket, and in that way
baulked the door-keeper.
Mr. Payne, the Coroner for London and Southwark,
was examined as to the duties of his office—The nature of
his office is judicial and ministerial ; be summons juries
on the view of all persons who die of violent deaths in
London and Southwark, and pronounces verdicts as to
the cause of their deaths, and in cases of culpable homicide
he issues writs for the apprehensions of offenders. lie did
not think the Lord Mayor was ex officio Coroner, though
the opinion of Mr. Alderman Venablea and the City Soli-
citor, as given in their former evidence, went to show that
he was. For each inquisition he receives a guinea ; he is
also Chief Clerk of the Justice-room at Guildhall, and re-
ceives a salary as such of 4001. a year.
After some other evidence of no public interest the
Court adjourned to Monday morning.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

G UILDHALL.

A journeyman coachmaker was summoned by the parish
of Christ Church, Newgate-street, that an order of affi-
liation might be made upon him. The mother was a tall,
good looking woman, named Mary Owen, aged twenty.
The man, in reply to Sir PAer Laurie, said, with a smile,
that he believed he was the father, and he hoped his Wor-
ship would not be hard upon him, as lie had to pay for the
keep of another.
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Sir PETER LAURIE said his smiling and flippancy of
manner were disgraceful to him, and it was disgusting to
see him glory in his shame. He might as well have thrown
the young woman over the bridge into the Thames, as
inflict such a lasting stain upon her character, and such a
blight to her future comfort and prospects. What was to
become of her now ? The law was, in his opinion defective
in not empowering the magistrates to inflict some severe
punishment on such transgressors.
Ordered to pay 3s. 6d. a week.
B 0 W- S TREE T.

Isaac Morris, a man of respectable appearance, was
placed at the bar, charged with having assaulted a young
gentleman named Barwester, a student at one of the Uni-
versities, on that morning, at three o'clock.
. .

Mr. lifitismuct ordered the defendant to find hail.

Bail having been procured, the defendant was discharged.
SUICIDE.—A tall, stout fellow, who gave his name
William John, was brought up, charged with endeavour-
ing to impose upon the public by pretending to commit
suicide on the previous night.
Police constable 135 Fon the evening before saw the
defendant, around whom a crowd of persons had assem-
bled, in the Strand ; he had a penknife in his hand, with
which he bad inflicted a small incision in his neck, causing
the blood slightly to flow. Upon seeing him, he was
about to make a precipitate retreat, but was stopped and
taken to the station-house. _

The prisoner was committed for one month to the House
of Correction, at the expiration of which time he will be
passed to his own parish. He was recognized by a gen-
tleinan in the office as an old offender, having fallen down
in Red Lion-square in a pretended fit. He then escaped.
ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE. Eliza Jones, a
well dressed young woman of engaging manners, was
charged with having attempted to commit suicide near
Waterloo Bridge.
Police constable F '75, on the previous night saw the
prisoner standing on a coal-barge floating in the river
Thames, near Waterloo Bridge ; believing her intention
was to commit suicide, he secured her as she was about to
jump into the river.
The prisoner now declared her sorrow for having con-
templated so rash an act. Sbe was of respectable family
in Ireland, and had been seduced by a person with whom
she had since been living, and by whom she had had two
children. In a moment of irritation, occasioned by the
conduct of her seducer, she had rushed to the spot where
she was found by the policeman, and was about to pre-
cipitate herself into the river, when she was fortunately
prevented. The friends of the prisoner were then sent for,
and she was delivered over to their protection.
Q UEEN-SQ UARE.

A young man, named James Dixon, a clerk in the
service of Mr. Deacon, of Jubilee-street, Chelsea, car-
penter, was charged with embezzling various sums of
money, belonging to his employer.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
INFORMATIONS AGAINST PUBLICANS.—The cherished
friend of pawnbrokers, publicans, and others, the re •
nowned Byers, attended to support several informations
against the good folks of Hammersmith and its vicinity.
The first case called on was against Mr. C. Lidgard,
the proprietor of the Thatched House, Webb's-lane, Ham-
mersmith. This charge was for allowing dominoes to be
played in his house on the 21st of last month, to which
the defendant pleaded guilty, and he was fined in the
mitigated penalty of 40s. and costs.
Mr. William Vale, of the White Horse, Shepp ad's
Bush, pleaded guilty to an information charging him with
allowing cards to be played in his house. In mitigation,
the defendant observed that the cards were introduced
without his knowledge. The penalty of 40s. and costs
was inflicted.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dean, of the Half Moon and Seven
Stare, Webb's-lane, Hammersmith, pleaded guilty (by
proxy) to allowing dominoes to be played in her taproom.
It appearing that the defendant was quite ignorant of the
law upon the subject, she only lately officiating in the hu
siness since her husband's death, the Magistrate mitigated
the penalty to 20s. and costs.
Mr. B. Pring, landlord of the Red Lion, near the
waterside, Hammersmith, was also convicted in the miti-
gated penalty of 40s. and costs, for allowing domino play.
ing on his premises.
QUITE OVERCOME.--A middle aged man, named
Robinson, was charged with being drunk.
" Well," said Mr. GREGORIE, " what have you to say
to the charge, Sir?" Defendant—'Pon my honour, Sir,
I must confess I was quite overcome; but it was not with

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BIRTH.
On the 10th inst., Mrs. Tegart, of Pall-mall, of a son.

MARRIED.

On the 9th inst., at Calstock,tlT; Rev. Henry Morshead
M,An,,
the rector
11th in 3', Devonshire, to Elizabeth, eldest daugh-
ter of W. L. Salisbury Trelawny, Esq., of Harewood, Corn-
wall, and M.P. for the northeastern division of the same county
O
youngest son of John Forster, Esq., of South-end, Kent, to,
of Kste.l,l
at Beckenham Church, Charles Manners,
Charlotte Frances, -eldest daughter of Lancelot Holland, Esq.,
of Beckenham.place. ~
On the 10th inst., Mr. Richard Strange, to Martha, youngest
daughter of the late James Strange, Esq., Swindon, Wilts.
On the 9th inst., at Pitminster, the Rev. John Nutcoinhc,
Oxenham, of Upton-on. Severn, to Jane Georgiana, eldest:,
(laughter of John Gould, Esq., of Amberd, Somersetshire.
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DIED.
On the 9th inst., Mrs. Spencer, relict of the late 'Milian
Spencer, Esq., of Norwood-house, Middlesex, aged gs years.
On the 9th inst., at Cockwood-house, Devon, the Rev. Dl
Drury, many years head-master of Harrow School.
On the 10th inst., at Epsom, Sarah, relict of the late Joseph
Smith Gosse, Esq., of Clapham-common, in her 82d year.
On the 11th inst., in her 60th year, Janet Dear, wife of
Adam Young, Esq., of Vanbrugh-field, Blackheath.

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