The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-31 00:00:00

(PRICE 7n.)

COURT OF REQUESTS, JULY 30.

The plaintiff here pulled the unmentionables out of a
bundle, and holding them up, exhibited a most disastrous
rent, exactly across that part where " honour's lodged ;",
and, in addition, pointed out a fractuve which one of the
legs had apparently sustained at the sams. -
« Fell, me Lorts (continued Mr. Abrahams), 1 ax him
vil he pay for me goots ; ven he say, I may go hang
mYshelf, for he von't pay not no monish for de damage.' "
Mrs. Abraham, certainly the " larger" if not. the "better"'
half of the plaintiff—fat, and apparently forty stone—pre-
sented herself to prove that the compound fractures had oc-
curred in consequence of the defendant's exertions to get the
garment on.

The circumstances, as extracted from the statements of
both parties, appeared to be, that the defendant had been
invited by the plaintiff to try on a pair of blue unmentiona-
bles, which seemed to attract his fancy, and that having
managed to squeeze himself into the garment, the plaintiff
with affected admiration, pronounced the article to be a
" prime fit." Unluckily, neither party had taken into con-
sideration the flimsiness of the fabric, and that the trowsers
had not been fashioned for a Dutch built customer, so when
the defendant stooped to tie his shoe, the seat of the gar-
ment gave way in a twinkling, and a gap of somewhere
about half a yard was the consequence. The plaintiff also,
in assisting to get the breeches off, seized one of the legs,
and at the very first pull, brought away a hand's breadth
from the bottom, The defendant refused either to take
the trowsers or to pay for the damage.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said it was quite evident,
from the size of the trowsers, that they were much too
small for the defendant, and, consequently, the plaintiff
ought not to have suffered him to draw them on.
" I'll no pay a single bawbee for the breeks," said the
defendant ; " I tell'd the chiel I thocht they wadna fit me ;
but he says. Hootawa, you're no half sae muckle as the
mon they were made for'—so I rugged awa until the breeks
brack across, just like an auld rotten plaidie. It's an ad-
meerashun to me hoo I got thae breeks owre, my htirdies."
Did the plaintiff give you permission to try them on?"
asked the Commissioner. •

" Yes, he did," responded the defendant ; " he tell'd me
to gang ben, and put on the breeks, or I wadna had ony
argue bargling about paying for the damage."
The permission to try on the trowsers was not disputed
on the part of the plaintiff, and, under those circumstances,
the Court being of opinion that the plaintiff had not acted
with prudent caution, made their award accordingly.

MAIDSTONE.

DEATH BY EATING PICKLED SALMON.
Tuesday an adjourned inquest was held at the New
Inn, to prosecute the inquiry touching the death of William
and Ann Bore, who had died on the preceding day in con-
sequence, as it was alleged, of eating putrid pickled salmon.
Several witnesses were examined, the evidence of some
of whom implicated a man of the name of Flood (the
vendor), as numbers are now lying ill in consequence of
partaking of his nauseous merchandise,

- Mr. Saunders, a professional gentleinan, was sent by the
-Gem,c.nor_-to.. nVl.*iynp the body of Bore 0. plat
»zortem examination of the other body .ras taken before),
and on his return he reported that the morbid appearances
were the same in both bodies, but the intestines of one were
more inflamed than the other, and the stomach less. He
had no doubt but the deaths arose from the absorption of
putrid food, but an exit would in such case be much more
slow than supposing acrid poison had been taken.
A gentleman from Aberdeen tendered his evidence to
show how extremely cautious the boilers and curers of
salmon were in their selection of fish ; and the only acid
liquid he knew of was vinegar of a strong quality.
Mr. Stacey, a baker, proved that his wife and five chil-
dren had all become invalids through eating the salmon in
question. _ _

The fragment of the kit was here produced, when the
handkerchief of every gentleman was called in requisition
(one excepted), and Dr. Saunders pronounced it to be un-
wholesome, and said that those who ate of it ran the risk
of a speedy death.

The prisoner Flood was called in to hear the evidence
read, when he declared his innocence, and that he should
be able to prove that the salmon was warranted to him by
an Irish salesman in Thames-street, of the name of Redpath.
The CORONER summed up the evidence, and the Jury
returned a verdict of " Guilty of Manslaughter" against
James Flood, who was committed to the Town Gaol to
take his trial at the next Assizes.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JULY 29.
The sales in our cotton-market to-day amount to about 3,000
bales, at full market prices, nearly 1,000 of which are on spe-
culation, principally American, from Bd. to 9d.
ANOTHER FATAL CAB ACClDENT.—Yesterday
morning, a poor woman, named Martha Rutland, died at the
Middlesex Hospital, in consequence of the injuries she had
received by being run over by a cab driven at at a furious rate
in Oxford-street a few days ago. An inquest will be held on
the body to-morrow (this day.)
An individual lately arrived from abroad had with
him a trunk containing diamonds to the value of 500,000
francs. On his arrival from Calais a few days since, by a dili-
gence, he discovered that his trunk had been changed on the
road. According to the account of the conductor, the mis-
take could only have taken place at Abbeville, where a passen-
ger had taken his place for Dieppe. Upon this information
the gentleman instantly set out in a post-chaise, accompanied
by the conductor, arrived at the latter place in fourteen hours,
and was fortunate enough to recover his trunk. He had not,
it seems, a moment to lose, for the traveller, who had taken his
trunk by mistake, from its resemblance to his own, was on the
point of embarking. Such was the agitation of the owner of
the diamonds that he fainted, and it was some time before he
came to Mins-elf: His brother, fearing that despair might
have led to some unfortunate result, followed him closely on
the road, and arrived just in time to witness the above scene.
—Paris Paper.
FREE TRADE WITH TIIE WEST INDIES.--The
following are among the articles which should be admitted into
England, duty free, from the British West Indies : cocoa, or
chocolate, cotton, vinegar, dates, oil of pimento, blossoms of
pimento, leather, logwood, braziletto, starch, tamarinds, bal-
sams, baskets, plantains, dried or preserved, hides, lime juice,
ebony, lignum vitae, nicaragua wood, mahogany, preserved
ginger, lancewood spars, pickled peppers, succades, preserved
fruits and pickles of every kind ; honey, wax, arrow-root, ta-
pioca, cocoa nuts and castor oils, turmeric and various dyes.
(Liqueurs at the same rate as spirits, and segars and snuff and
tobacco); oranges, lemons, limes and citrons, cordage, hemp,
pepper extracts, palmetto thatch for hats, Guinea and Indian
corn, rice, various drugs, such as senna, aloes, jalap, barks, &c.
&c. &c. —From Montgomery Martin's " History of the British
Colonies, Vol. 11. West Indies.

SWINDLER EXTRAORDINARY.—On Thursday an
individual, whose real name is understood to be Thomas
Dickson, but who, as convenience demands, has many aliases
n reserve, was apprehended in the Cowgate by Sergeant
i Major Ramage, on a charge of swindling to a great extent, by
a method somewhat original, and but too successful. This
personage, who has a very pleasing exterior, plies his vocation
it seems in the following manner :—He contrives to obtain
some vague history of the family against whom he means to
direct his attack, and having thus so far veiled his imposture,
he generally assumes their name, and sets forth a piteous, in-
teresting, and rather well got up, tale of his misfortunes. By
this means he has imposed on the credulity of several families
in this city, and obtained. sums of money, of 1/. to 81. To
give an idea of the extent of his impositions, we may men-
tion that among the various names which he has assumed, and
which has come the knowledge of the authorities, are as
follows :—Galloway, Jardine, Maxwell, Smith, Craigie,
Robinson, Cathcart, *Kenzie, Ferguson. He first appeared
in this city in April 1833, and, we believe, also :in September
of that year, but some noiice of his rogueries having appeared
in the newspapers, and the public having been thus put on
their guard he found the scene rather too hot for him, and
wisely took his departure. Ha returned übout ten days ago.
At the time he was apprehended he was riding up the Cowgate
on a fine black long-tailed horse, which he had purchased from
a horse-dealer in this city. Upon being searched, no less
sum than 2501. Bs. Bd. was found in his possession. e also
wore a handsome French gold watch, with correspondingf as
p-
purtenances all suspended round his neck in the most fashion-
able style.—Edinburgh Paper.

DANGERS OF A " TIGHT FIT."
Alexander Mackenzie, a stalwart Scotch navigator, was
summoned by Levy Abrahams, a dealer in old and new
clothes, living in that emporium of "second-hand swell
toggery," Monmouth-street, for having refused to pay the
sum of twelve shillings for a pair of blue kersey smalls,
warranted " petter ash new," irreparably damaged by the
defendant.
Mr. Abrahams, a little withered old Jew, with a pair of
red, ferrety eyes; and a nose like a parish pickaxe, set forth
his claim with great vehemence, in these terms :
" Pleash you, me Lorts, dish man come into ma street,
and as he look like a cushtomer, I shay to him, Pleash to
valk in, ven I shall sell you very goo!: pargains, more sheaper
as any von in ma trade Vell, me Lorts, he valk in, and
ax me how much for a pair of breeches vot I have got to
shell. I show him de goots, and he pull dem on ; but ven
he got dem on,, he split dem right across de seat, so dat
upon ma conscience, I could not ask no shentloman to puy
de article."

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