The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-19 00:00:00

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

:Sittings in Banc• before Lord Campbell, Mr. Justice
Wightman, Mr. Justice Erle, and Mr. Justice Cromp-
tcD.

CRIMINAL INFORMATION. -THE QI:TEEN V. SIB J. A.

MORRIS, BART.

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In this case Mr. Bevil Q.C., applied to the court on
behalf of a Chancery barrister whose name did not trans-
pire, for a rule calling upon Sir J. A. Morris to shew
cause why a criminal information should not be filed
against him for writing and sending that gentleman a
letter, of which the following is a copy :
" Carlton Club, Pall-Mail, London,
March, 18, 1858.
" Sir,--I herewith, until flit, Vice Chancellor has
delivered hii judgment in re Morris v. Morris, writs to
express to you my opinion concerning yourself, which
is, that a more coutemptable scoundrel than yourself
exists not.

" Wordy would be lost upon you, so I say no more
than that I fervently hope and trust that God will mete
out t you a due punish ent for concocting and writing
the sill fahehoods and calumnies you did at the ex-
aminers office.

"If your employers instructed you to throw out the
poison, then I trust they will be equally punished with
your cont,roptible self during your respective life time.
In the next 'ifs it is not difficult to foretell the part of
such unmitigated liars, scoundrels, and defamers such
as you and they must be considered by all men not
barristers." "Jowl A. Moms"

Lord CAmpbell asked the learned counsel if he applied
on the ground that the letter was a libel upon the whole
profession. He remembered when at this bar that an
application was made in respect of a libel on a company
of brewers, but I suppose you do not rely on the general
charge contained i❑ the letter ?

Mr. Bovill said the bar generally, and, he believed,
the ,olictors, did not assume the charge to themselves.
The letter no doubt was written in consequence of cer-
tain proceedings in Chancery, instituted by Sir J. A.
Morris against his mother, Dame Julia Morris, relative
to family affairs, and with Sir John considered the bar-
rister in question, and those who instructed him, had
insinuated that he was not legally married, and copse-
qua t'y that his son was illegitimate. Tue application
m tde w,th a view of preventing a breach of tt•
peac..

Rule granted.
In the the other courts nothing of interest occurred.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day).

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
JUVENILE THIEVES AND MARINE STORE DEALERS.—
John Styres, 13, and Mary Ann Gray, 42, a marine
store dealer, of Robert-street, in the neighbourhood of
the Court, were again brought up, the former charged
with stealing 85 leads from 22 and 32, Grosvenor mews,
the prcpetty of air r. Newman, and the latter with re-
ceiving the same, well knowing it to be stolen.
From the evidence it appeared that, the lead being
missed from the premises, inquiries were made which
led to the apprehension of the boy, who owned be sold
it at the shop of the female prisoner. Police-constable
Peady then went t 3 the prisoner Grey's shop, and asked
her if she had purchased anything of the boy. At first
she said some pieces of brass, and then some pieces of
iron. On the officer's further pressing her, she said only
some bits of lead—a pound or two. He then asked her
whether that was all, but as she prevaricated in her
answers, he made a search, which led to the discovery
of a large quantity of lead, some brass tobacconist's
scales, and other articles.

Mr. E. W►lmott, agent for the property, residing in
Davies-street, Berkeley-square, said the lead found was
only a purtion of that stolen.
Mr. Bingham] said although the boy had been several
times convicted, and the woman was seemingly reApect-
able, he looked upo❑ her as far the wort, fur it wa,
very scandalous that she should purchase such things of
a mere boy. as she must have been aware they were
stolen. He should order her to pay the sum of 51., or
two months, and the boy he should send to prison also
for two months.

The boy has several times been convicted.
THAMES.
AN ARTFUL FEMALE SWINDLER.—After the dispo,al
of the night charges at 12 o'clock, Ann Habb, a little
woman tressed in black, and with a bloated face, wa,
brought np on remand before Mr. Yardley charged with
obtaining money by false pretences in a very adroit
manner.

For the last five months there have been numerous
inquiries at every police-station in the metropolis after a
"littli woman dressed in black, with a bloated face,"
who Lad committed numerous frauds. On Saturday the
10 hit at. she was csuyht. She apolied to Dr. Horton,
of High-street, Stepney, for a couple of pills and a black
draught for her " Missus," who she said lived close by,
and requested him to send his errand boy with the merli-
c:ne and charge for a sovereign. The prisoner met the boy
within a few yards of the place to which he was directed
asked him for the change, which he delivered to her,
and, pointing ,ut the house of her " naissus," said, "go
there and deliver the medicine and ask for a sovereign."
She would have got away with the change, as she bad
done in numberless other instances, but fortunately Mr.
Horton, who had suspected her, had sent his assistant
to watch her motions, and he gave her into custody di-
rectly after she obtained the change.
John Pritchett, a boy in the service of Mr. Henry
Cavendish, grocer and cheese-monger, Mile-end-road,
said the prisoner came to la's master's shop on the 25th
of March and ordered a pound of fifteen penny butter,
to be sent to No. 12, Cottage-grove, Mile-end, with
change for a sovereion. He way on his way to Cottage.
grove with If ei butter and the change, when the pri-
soner met him and asked if he had the eggs, to
which he replied in the negative. She asked him
for the change, which he delivered to her, and she told
him to proceed to No. 12, C At:we Grove, deliver the
butter, and ask Betsy, the cook, fora sovereign. When
he arrived at No. 12, and made known the errand he
bad come upon, he was informed that nothing was
kr own of the prisoner, nor had any orders been i-sued
for butter and eggs.
There were several other cases of a like nature against
the prisoner, who had distributed her favours over all
pa-ts of the metropolis.
The prisoner was sentenced to four months' imprison-
ment.

DEATH OF LORD DDNFERMLINE.--Lord Dunfermline
(Speaker Abercromby) died at his seat, Colinton-house,
near Edinburgh, on Saturday morning, aged 82. Lord
Handyside, one ( fotheijudgeeouf,
brother-in-law'stlieC(turtofSesseieoant:
Scslie, C lay morning at h
lacktnannan4ira ; his death creates a
died o n
Kennet.
house,
vacancy (di the So ,ttish bench.

THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.—On the 16th inst. th-
three director- n oninated tiy the Crown, viz., Lieut._
Geoerai Sir G Pollock, G.C.11., Majnr-General Sir R.
J. H. Vivian, K.C.8., and J. P. Willoughby, Eyq
M.P. took the prescribed oath and their teats as direc-
tors the East India Company.