The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-19 00:00:00

THE ABODE OF LOVE OR AGAPEItiONE

AGAIN.

JUDGES' CHAMBERS—THIS DAY.
(Before Mr. Baron Wilde.)
THE QUEEN V. THE REV. LEWIS PRICE.
Mr. Bishop, of the firm of Bishop and Son, and Registrar
of the Greenwich and Woolwich County Counts, with Mr.
Lovibond, solicitor, of Bridgewater, applied for and ob..
tained a writ of Habeas Corpus on the part of Mrs. Harriet
Lancaster Price, directed to her husband, the Rev. Lewis
Price, to produce her before Mr. Baron Wilde, at his
Chambers, and to show cause by what authority he had
forcibly removed and detained her in close custody, and
refused her permission to return to the Abode of Love, and
join Brother Prince and other inmates.
The applicants, in support of the application, showed
that Mrs. Price had, at her own free will and the consent
of her husband, joined the community of the Agape
monites, and that his accession from that body, and
his wishes for her to retire were opposed by her,
that her removal had been made by stratagem and
force, and that it was her strict determination and desire to
return to her former residence, the Abode of Love, and that
she was now placed under a state of imprisonment and pre-
vented from returning. Mrs. Price went on to say that
she desired at once to return, that she did not desire to
remain with her husband, and that she had given Ms.
Starkey, who was with her when she was abducted, every
authority to instruct Mr. Lovibond to take every necessary
legal proceedings to obtain her liberty and freedom of action
to return to her former abode.
Mr. Baron Wylde, without expressing any opinion in
the case, thought there was sufficient prima feels evidence
to justify the writ of Habeas Corpus being issued forthwith,
and made an order accordingly.

The writ was at once issued, and sent by express train,
and will be served on Mr. Price, at Glastonbury, this

evening.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(THIS D 21.1.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CAUTION 7'o LICENSED VICTUALLERS—A DEPRITED
FAMILY.—Owen Moran, a man who hawks chickweed, &c.,
was charged with the following robbery :
The prisoner and his family are about as shockingly
depraved a lot as it is possible to find. Along with his wife
he only came out of prison yesterday, where they had spent
three months for sending their children out begging—the
said children having been for a long time a perfect pest at
the West-end of the town. One of them, named Catherine
Moran, who was committed by Mr. Beaden yesterday for
one month for begging, although only 12 years of age, has
for some time past set up a home of her own, cohabiting
with a boy of a similar age in Charles-street, Drury-lane.
Palmer, 191 C, said that about one this morning he saw
the prisoner with a basket of chickweed on his back, and
seeing something in it glitter he stopped him, and en re-
moving the chickweed he found two measures, a quart and
a pint, belonging to different publicans.
Thomas Louden, waiter at the Scotch Stores, 365, Ox-
ford-street, Mr. Ricks, identified one of the measures, and
John Watts, servant to Messrs. Smith and Lipscomb, Lis-
son-grove, identified the other, remarking that he knew it
well from having had his head cut open with it.
Prisoner—Do what you like with me. Settle it here. I
didn't know I had them, and there is no use whatsomdever
denying it.

Londell said his master had lost 12 quarts out of 19 in a
few weeks.

The prisoner, who evidently uses the chickweed as a
screen while pot stealing, was committed by Mr. Beadon
for three months, with hard labour.

THAMES.

EXTENSITI SEIZURE OF FOREIGN TOBACCO.—Riehard
Smart, Richard Putter, John Childs, Richard Heeld,
Jonathan Clark, and Stephen Golden Geddes, seamen, ad
at the time of their apprehension forming part of the crew
of the steamship Ancona, belong to the St. Petereburgh
Steam Shipping Company, were brought before Mr. Yard-
ley, charged, on a Custom-house information, witk smug-
gling 2301b5. of foreign manufactured tobaczo, liable to a
duty of Os. sd. per lb.
The Crown sued for penalties to the amount of £6OO.
A clerk from the Customs' solicitor's office attended on
the part of the Crown.

Mr. Richard John, clerk to Mr. Cuttarns, solicitor, of
Mark-lane, watched the case for the owners of the Ancona,
whose interests were put in jeopardy by the illegal con-
duct of the prisoners.

Mr. William Taylor, a Custom-house officer, said that
on Sunday afternoon last when the Ancona landed in the
river he went on board, and upon making an examination
of the forecastle he discovered several packages, and on
opening them he found they contained a quantity of foreign
tobacco. Smith and Putter were there at the time he seized
the tobacco. The other prisoners were also on board. He
seized the tobacco, and by direction of the Board of Cus-
toms afterwards took the prisoners into custody.
In answer to Mr. Yardley, the witness said that Ike
whole of the prisoners slept in the forecastle. Their bertha
were there. He conveyed the tobacco to the Queen's ware-
house to be weighed.

Mr. Alfred Parsons, locker in the Queen's warehouse,
said that he received the tobacco and produced samples of
it. The net weight was 230 lbs., and the value and duty
£ll9 10s.

The secretary of the St. Petersburgh Steam Packet
Company stated that the seamen had introduced the tobacco
into the ship quite unknown to the captain and officers,
and they must have been aware they were doing wrong.

Mr. Yardley said he was perfectly satisfied that neither
the owners or the captain of the Anoona would give their
sanction to such proceedings, or tolerate any smuggling
whatever on the part of the crew. An attempt had been
made to defraud the revenue to a large extent. The pri-
soners were on board the Ancona when the seizure was
made. He had no alternative but to fine them £lOO each,
and to be imprisoned until the fines were paid.