The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-19 00:00:00

EX PARTE SCALES.

Sif J. SCARLETT moved for a rule Nisi for a quo
warranto information to Thomas Johnston, Esq.,
calling on him to show by what authority he claimed
to exercise the office of an Alderman of the city of
London. The affidavit stated the mode of election,
which was by the freemen householders residing in
the ward; that a vacancy having occurred in the
office of Alderman fur the ward of Portsoken, a
precept was issued by the Lord Mayor and Alder-
man for the election, which afterwards took place;
that on that occasion there were two candidates, for
one of whom there were 155, and for the other 107
votes ; that the gentleman who had the majority
was returned to the Cuurt of Aldermen duly elected,
but they had thought fit to reject him, and had
sworn in Mr. Johnston. Under these circumstances,
the Court would see that the only remedy was by
quo warranto; for the office being full, Mr. Scales
would not be entitled to a mandamus, even if he
should succeed in the action now pending for a false
return.

Mr. Justice .TAMES PARKE—Very well; as you
have stated a prima facie case, you may take a rule
to show cause.—Rule granted.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 18.

CUNNINGHAM V. FONBLkNQUE.

This action was brought to recover 64/., the
amount of a printer's bill. The plaintiff printed the
Examiner, a newspaper of which the defendant
was the proprietor and publisher. The claim was
composed of a demand for certain matter, which
was set up, but not used, end also for a month's
salary, on the ground that the plaintiff was dis-
charged without a month's notice, the wage of the
trade being a month's notice or a month's salary.
The cause was tried before Mr. Justice Park at the
Middlesex Sittings after last Term, when a verdict
passed for the plaintiff.
Mr. Sergeant JONES to-day showed cause.
The COURT, however, suggested that the ver-
dict should be reduced to 111. 65., which arrange-
ment was adopted. —The rule was accordingly
discharged.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

There was an incident of rather a remarkable
kind in the evidence in a common case of pick-
pockets at the Justice-room yesterday. Three boys,
named Nathan, Jacobs, and Clarke, were brought
before the LORD MAYOR charged with having stolen
a pocket-handkerchief from a person who belongs
to the Potteries, in Staffordshire. Nathan, who
was the youngest, was the boy who most adroitly
whipped the handkerchief out of the complainant's
pocket ; but, clever as he was, he was both felt and
seen at the work, whilst the other two endeavoured
to act as a screen to him. The mother of Nathan,
an industrious poor woman, who has a large family,
and sells fruit in the street, declared that her
son was so completely in league with the other
prisoners that a reformation upon this side of
the water was quite impossible. She was, in
consequence of the public nature of her calling, in
the constant habit of observing.the manceuvres of the
pickpockets, and the three boys at the bar were
of and on every gentleman they came across. When
they committed the last robbery she ran after
Clarke, whom she considered the worst, and seized
him ; he pummelled her desperately, but she grabbed
him so tight that he could not escape. She after-
wards went into a beer-house, where Jacobs was
sitting with three other thieves, each of whom was
able to take his own part, but she lugged him our,
and gave him into the custody of the police. Her
own boy had been ruined by these two, and there-
fore she did not care to what hazard she exposed
herself for retribution's sake.

The LORD MAYOR asked the complainant whe-
ther his employment wonld permit him to attend
to a prosecution at the Old Bailey ? The com-
plainant said his absence from his business would
be extremely diserviceable to him.
The father and mother of Nathan begged that he
might be bound over to prosecute.
The LORD MAYOR refused to comply with this
request, as lie could send the prisoners to Bridewell.

Mr. Nathan said that 131idewell would do no
good, and again besought his Lordship to send the
boys to the Old Bailey ; but
The LORD MAYOR rejected the appeal, and sen-
tenced the boys to solitary confinement for the
term of three months.
MARLBORO UGH- STREET.

John Cook and John Dean, the former of whom
was a diminutive country-looking fellow, equipped
in a fustian shooting jacket, were yesterday placed
at the bar, charged on suspicion of stealing a port.
manteau from the Three King's Tavern, Piccadilly.
The portmanteau was deposited in a room in
which Cook slept, and the principal cause of suspi-
cion against him was, that he absconded on Thursday
morning immediately after the property was missed.
The other prisoner was usually loitering about the
yard, and he was absent with the other man, and
they were apprehended in company.
Mr. CHAMBERS (to Cook)—How do you get
your living? Cook—l be independent.
Mr. CHAMBERS—lndependent ! Prisoner—Ees,
I be.
Mr. CHAMBERS—Where do you live ? Prisoner
—At Devizes.

Mr. CHAMBERS—What are you doing here ?
Prisoner—Why, I be just corned up to see Lunnun.
Mr. CHAMBERS—And, pray, is that other person
with you an independent gentleman ? Prisoner—
Noa ; he be employed by me, to show me Lunnun.
Mr. CHAMBERS—And you employ him to show
you about ? Prisoner—Why, if I go to the Tower,
or any other place, to see the sights, I pay for him.
Mr. CHAMBERS—And, pray, where is your lug-
gage ? Prisoner—Oh, my luggage ! Why, I be
got 'un in my pocket.—(Laughter.)
Mr. CHAMBERS—What ! an independent gentle-
man carry his wardrobe in his pocket ? Prisoner—

And here it be (pulling a dirty shirt and a 'pair of
stockings out of his pocket.)
Mr. CHAMBERS—And where are your outward
clothes ? Prisoner—Why, they be here (putting
his hand on his shooting jacket).
Mr. CHAMBERS—Where's your money ? Pri-
soner—Some of it be in the Bank, in some part or
other of it.
Mr. CHAMBERS—I should like to know what cor-
ner of the Bank it is to be found in ? Prisoner—l
dare say you would.—(Much laughter.)
The other prisoner admitted that he was employed
by, the gehiAn to Show hiffi about town:
George Ellis, one of the officers of this establish-
ment, identified the country gentleman as a person
who knew town very well. lie had, upwards of 10
years ago, been living at Brixton, and had ridden
two or three matches for sporting butchers.
Mr. CHAMBERS—Now you find you are known, I
suppose that the money in the Bank is gone ? Pri-
soner--Ees, I'm afraid it is.=(Laughter.)
Mr. ChASiBERS—WeII, I should like to know
where your property is ? Prisoner—And so should
1.---(Much laughter.)

Ml'. CHAMBERS remanded the prisoners.
MARYLEBONE.

A PASSIONATE CAPTAIN.—Capt. Joseph Breck-
nell, of the Royal Horse Guards Blue, residing at
No. 10, Somerset-street, Manchester-square, ap-
peared to answer a warrant obtained against him by
a footlad in his service, named William Morris.

Complainant had been in the Captain's service
about seven months, during which time he (the
Captain) had been in the habit of indulging himself
(without having had any inattention or disrespect
shown him), by caning him (the complainant)
round the drawing-room. On Wednesday last,
complainant could not find a certain pair of gloves
that the Captain wished to wear, when the latter,
on being made acquainted with the fact, seized a
cane, with which he gave complainant several
strokes across the back, and threatened to throw
him out of a window. Witness, in consequence of
such treatment, applied at this office for a warrant.
Mr. RAWLINSON (to complainant)—What did he
beat you on former occasions for ? Complainant—
I don't know, Sir.

Mr. RAWLINSON—Why, I suppose he didn't ring
the bell and say, when you went up to answer it,
" Come in, and be caned."—(Laughter.)
Complainant—No, Sir; it was for as trivial of-
fences as the one of not being able to find the gloves.
The Captain, in reply, said he had a set of rebellious
servants. Sometimes the complainant would not
get up till nine o'clock, while he himself was up at
seven. To correct such idle habits he therefore
had now arid then just given him a slight touch with
a cane.—(Laughter.)
An uncle of the complainant, from what his ne-
phew had told him, thought proper to wait on the
Captain, who, having learned his business, said,
" Your nephew is a sleepy dog, and if you don't go
I'll beat you the same. I'm a King's soldier, Sir."
—( Laughter.)
Mr. RAWLINSON—What answer did you make ?
Witness—l said to him, " Then we're both King's
men."

Mr. RAWLINSON—What are you, then ? Wit-
ness—l'm in the service of the King.—(Laughter.)
Mr.RAWLINSON—In what capacity ? Witness—
One of the grooms in the Royal stables.—(A laugh.)
Mr. RAWLINSON hoped that the Captain would
not be so hasty in future, and for his frequent
amusement in caning the complainant fined him 20s.
which the Gallant Captain paid, with the expenses
of the warrant.
QUEEN-SQUARE.

Yesterday Joseph Wood, a footman in the service
of J. Biddulph, Esq., of No. 14, Spring-gardens, of
the firm of Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., bankers, 43,
Charing-cross, was brought up in custody, and
placed at the bar before Mr. BURRELL, charged with
stealing wine and other articles, the property of his
master.—He was fully committed for trial.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE FROM DISTRESS IN ST.
JAMES'S PARK.—Julia Dellakay, a young female
about 20 years of age, of very prepossessing ap-
pearance, %alas brought up in custody from the sta-
tion-house of the A division in Gardener's-lane,
where she had been taken the greatest care of since
Sunday morning, charged with attempting to drown
herself in the canal in St. James's Park.

Mr. Dixon, coachmaker, of No. 16, Cross-lane,
Long Acre, on Sunday morning, about eight o'clock,
was going with a friend to Pimlico. They were
passing through the enclosure in St. James's Park,
%%hen he observed the unfortunate defendant leaning
against one of the iron hurdles near the canal. He
and his friend were struck with her melancholy and
disconsolate appearance, and strong suspicions
arose in his mind that she intended to drown herself.
Under these impressions they both determined to
watch her for a short time, and retired behind one
of the shrubberies. In a few minutes his friend
called out to him, " She is doing it." He ran to
to the spot. She had thrown her reticule and bon-
net into the water, and he was just in time to catch
hold of her clothes, but so sudden was the occur-
rence that they both fell into the canal. The sensa-
tion he felt from the shock was such that he was not
ashamed to confess that he fainted away, and had
not his friend come up at the moment he must have
been drowned. Assistance was procured, and they
took her to the nearest station-house, where he
desired that every attention might be paid to het
comfort.

The unfortunate young woman, in reply, had no
lodging, relatives, or friends in the country. She
was born in Calcutta, where all her friends resided;
she had been brought to this country by a person
who had deserted her, and left her destitute upon
the world. A short time ago she went down to
Newmarket, where she supposed her brother was
residing, but found that he had gone back to India.
She was weary of her life.

Mr. BuRRELL, atter putting several questions to
her, desired her to be taken care of until the over-
seers arrived, when she was taken into the work-
house for the present, and Mr. axon very hu-
manely gave her some pecuniary relief.