The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-27 00:00:00

HOWNESS V. WOOLLETT.

This was an action brought to recover the sum
of 100/. for money lent, and interest. At the trial
of the cause, the plaintiff having proved the loan,
the defendant set up payment as a defence, and pro-
duced a receipt, the signature to which was sworn
to by one witness; and a conversation with the
plaintiff, in which the plaintiff admitted that he had
been paid, was sworn to by another. These wit-
nesses were cress-examined severely, and the cir-
cumstance that the receipt was for 110/., which was
more than was due for both principal and interest,
was strongly relied on. The defendant attempted
to explain the difference as to the sum by calling a
witness to show that a settlement of wages due to
the plaintiff had taken place at the same time, and
that the wages made the amount reach the sum
of 1101, _

The Jury, however, returned a verdict for the
plaintiff.
Mi. CHANNELL on a former day moved for a rule
to show cause why this verdict should not be set
aside. Defend:int had been taken by surprise at
the trial, as he would have been able to give satis-
factory evidence both as to the payment of the
wages and the handwriting of the receipt, but he
had been misled on that point by the conduct of the
plaintiff's attorney.
Mr. PLATT now showed cause upon affidavits
which denied in the most distinct manner that the
plaintiff's attorney had ever admitted the hand-
writing to the receipt.
Mr. CHANNELL supported the rule.—Rule dis-
charged.

EX PARTE DE MOLE IN THE MATTER OF ROBERTSON

AND OTHERS.

Sir J. SCARLETT applied for a rule for a criminal
information in this case for libels published by the
defendants. Mr. De Mole was the clerk and soh-
citor to the Merchant Tailors' Company, and the
libels of which he complained were published by the
defendants in the Sunday Herald. They were six
in number, and the last of them appeared in that
paper on the 29th of September, 1833. The de-
fendants, not content with assailing Mr. De Mole in
his capacity of solicitor to the Merchant Tailors'
Company, in which attacks they made the most
false accusations against him, contrasting his con-
duct with that of a highly honourable gentleman,
Mr. Knapp, the solicitor to another Company, and
stating things utterly untrue of Mr. De Mole, in
order to make out the contrast, but at last thought
fit to wound his feelings on the most tender point.
They not only slandered his own private character,
but they attacked the virtuous reputation of his
mother.

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE asked whether the
proof of publication was sufficiently made out `?

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Sir J. SCARLETT said that it was; and
The COURT granted the rule to show cause.

THE GREENWICH RAILROAD.

COURT OF COMPENSATION, TOWN HALL,
SoLITftwARK, J AN.25.

A Special Jury was summoned before the RE-
CORDER, the HIGH BAILIFF, Aldermen, &c., to
assess the amount of compensation to Mr. Thomas
Hun', a baker, in Bermondsey-street, whose pre-
mises were about to be pulled down, pursuant to
the Act of Parliament obtained by the London and
Greenwich Railroad Company.
Mr. RICHARDS stated the case to the Jury. After
explaining the object for which they were met, he
said that the project of erecting the railroad was
entirely a speculative one, and whether the parties
whom they were authorised to deprive of home
and business were benefitted or not by the re-
moval was a matter of (to them) perfect indiffe-
rence. If the present speculation succeeded it was
expected that a profit of 1.5 per cent. would be made
upon the outlay, arid, therefore, the parties whose
premises were required should be handsomely com-
pensated for whatever injury or inconvenience they
might be subjected to.
William Giles, the claimant's journeyman, stated
that his master's business had doubled since July
last. The price was 41. per loaf of 4lbs. The
sick of flour made 94 loaves, and the price of the
sack was 40s. The profit on biscuits and fancy
bread was also very great. The claimant's removal
would greatly injure him, and it was probable would
destroy all his custom. His business had risen from
six to sixteen sacks per week.
Mr. Green, a baker, stated the profit on each
sack of flour made into loaves to be 7s. I Id., after
deducting incidental expenses. If made into bts•
cuits the profit would be ten shillings in twenty. If
into fancy bread it would also yield cent. per cent.
RECORDER—How do you account for making
94 loaves of 41b. each from a sack of flour ? You
must use something else to make up the weight. I
do not wish to pry into the secrets of trade, but the
Jury must be informed, so that they may make their
calculations? Witness—Potatoes to be sure. We
have an Act of Parliament for that.

Mr. Sergeant TADDY—Any thing else. Witness
—Yes ; yeast and salt.
Mr. Sergeant TADDY—Any alum. Witness (he-
sitating)—Yes.
Mr. Sergeant TADDY—Pray have you an Act of
Parliament for that ?—(Laughter.) Witness—To
be sure we have not, any more than we have to sell
short weight ; but I tell you this, we do both some-
times, although it is dangerous.—(Loud laughter.)
RECORDER—State to the Jury the ingredients
used in mixing your flour, and the cost upon
each sack.

The witness then gave the following items :
Salt and alum 3d. per sack ; potatoes Bd. per bushel ;
coals 6d. per sack; wages is.; wear of oven 2d. ;
leaving a profit of 7s. 11d. per sack, exclusive of
the large profits on biscuits and fancy bread.
Several flour-factors proved the quantities of flour
supplied to the claimant.
The Jury assessed the amount at 1861. 10s.

LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, JAN. 25.
The market far cotton up to the close of Thursday was
very unsettled, and prices receded id. to id. per lb. :
there was on Friday a more extended inquiry both from
the trade and on speculation, and prices may now be
quoted about the same as last week. The Surats went off
heavily, and at id. per lb. decline 1,200 taken for
export. Speculators have taken 1,500 sew Bawed and
250 Surat. The import this week is 15,219 bag., and
the sales are 15,730—viz., 320 Sea Island,, 14d. to 20d. :
10 Stained ditto, 7id. to 11d. ; 7,320 Boweds, lid. to
9J. 0,1,200 New Orleans, 7jd. to 10d. ; 1,120 Alabama,
&c. 61,1. to sp. ; 940 Pernams, 9id. to 111(1. ; 590
Bahia, 9d. to 90.; 460 Maranhatn, 91(1. to 101,1. ;
20 Demerara, 100. ; 700 Surat, 5 1.3 d. to 611. per
lb. By auction, 3,050 Surats, 4id. to O. per lb. Th, re
has been a brisk demand for cotton today. The sales
amount to 3,500 bags. Previous prices are maintained.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSIuiV-HOUSE.

Saturday a little girl, named Bridget Murphy,
was brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged will]
having robbed a poor woman of a box containing a
sovereign and some silver. The girl was in the ser-
vice of a woman who had scraped together the
fruits of her hard earnings, and locked them up in a
tin box, which the prisoner got at, broke open, and
emptied. For several nights the prisoner went to
see Jack Reeve "flaring up" at the Adelphi, after
which she partook herself to a fourpenny bed in
Pettycoat-lane, where she treated a set of young
vagabonds like herself to gin and milk, and the
moment all the money was spent back she weni,
said she was very sorry for what she had done, and
began to look about for other moveables by means
of which she might repeat her visits to Cupid at
the Theatre.

The LORD MAYOR asked the girl what she had
done with all the poor woman's money ? The
mother of the girl—Arrah, then, you don't cay
my child's a thief, do you ?
The LORD MAYOR—No doubt of it ; and I have
very little doubt but that she is encouraged by you.
The mother—Ah, then, blood and ounds, you're
not serious, are you ? Why, that girl would despise
thieving, it's so mane a thing.
The prisoner—Why, mother, you know I tuck
the money as well as I do. The mother—Hould
your tongue, you . . .

She then gave the girl a punch on the head ;
upon which the Lord 57,iyor ordered that she should
be placed at the bar along with her unfortunate
child.

The girl said that she had been brought up very
badly, and was regularly sent out by her mother
to beg.
The LORD MAYOR ordered that both should be
remanded.

A man named .lohn Torres: was 1 rought up,
charged with having sold a load of manure which
did not belong to him to a countryman.
Thomas Smith, the countryman, was a great
curiosity. He appeared with a smock frock upon
him, and upon being called lie scratched his head
and said, " Eh, what do you want of I ?
The LORD MAYOR—My good fellow, do you
know the nature of an oath ? Witness—l'se sure I
cant't say.
The LORD MAYOR--Do you know what swearing
means ? Witness—Oh, to be sure I do. D---
my eyes is swearing. _ _

The LORD MAYOR—Can you read ? Witness—
No, that I can't ; nor I'm blessed if I can wri:-e either.
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, tell us about this
dung. Witness—Why, you see, this man which
stands there, he comes up to me and he offeis me
the dung for a half-crown. All I bid was 25., and
so I forks 'em out, and I shoved the dung into the
cart. So as I knowed there would be a bit of a
rumpus about it, I goes to make an inquiry, and
they told me it wa'nt his dung. So I tells him
what people said, and says he, "Never mind, I'd
make it all straight." But he didn't do no sich
thing. It wa'nt all straight, for he prigged the
dung.—(Laughter.) Howsomdever, I gives him
the odd sixpence vot I owed him, so I thought that
would make all straight for me at any rate; but it
didn't make all straight, for up comes a police gen-
tleman, and he says to me, " Where are you going
with your dung ?" " That dung is paid for," says I.
" No, it a'nt," says he ; " it's my prisoner, and
pull you before the beak."

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The LORD MAYOR—You swear to the truth of
this statement ? Witness—lf I don't I'm —.
(Great laughter.)
.The LORD MAYOR—And if the prisoner says
that you took the dung without his knowledge he
tells a frikehood ? Witness—Yes, by —, a
lie.—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—I believe you are a very
honest poor fellow, but you have an ugly way of
swearing.
Witness—Why, please your Lordship, didn't you
ax me to swear You wouldn't let me go until I
relieved myself in that way, and Pm if I mean
any harm.
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, prisoner, do you wish
to ask this man any thing ? Think well before you
a•k him. Prisontr—My Lord, he took the stuff out
of the wrong hin.
Witness—l know I did, for it was you as pointed
it out. I knowed nothing about it whatsomdever.
lie knows he's telling a whopper, and if I was you,
my Lord, I wouldn't believe a word he says.
—(Laughter.)—Remanded.