The Sun.
London, England, 1832-02-18 00:00:00

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)

GARDL:: V. tt ILSON.

Mr. PLarr for the plaintiff, said the plaintiff was of the
same profession as himself, a barrister, and in the year
1814 had conceived a place for a cemetery in this large
city. The defendant had, a few years ago, also conceived
a plan for the same purpose, but he proposed to
carry it into effect in rather a different way from
the plaintiff--he proposed to build a pyramid to
rival anything that had been heard of, and which
was to contain millions of coffins. Both plans had been
before the public, and in the year 1830 a meeting was held,
at which the Marquis of Lansdowne presided, when the
plaintiff's plan was preferred and a Company formed,
called the " General Cemetery Company," which now had
the sanction of Government and the public, and was in a
very flourishing condition. The plaintiff was appointed
Secretary of the Company, and the success of his plan and
its adoption by the meeting in prefer ence to the defendant's,
seemed to have affected his mind, for it gave rise to the
present action. Shortly after the meeting he had
alluded to a letter appeared in the John Bull, in
which the plaintiff was charged with fraud, and all the
abuse possible heaped upon him. The plaintiff did nut
see it till his attention was called to it by a friend, upon
which proceedings
.were instituted against the proprietor
of the John Bull; but when the action had gone so far
as the delivery of the declaration, they gave up Mr. Wilson
as the author ; and as the plaintiff only wished for justice,
tint action was immediately put an end to, and the pre-
sent one commenced.
After a short consultation between the parties, the AT-
TORNEY-GENERAL, for the defendant, said that the offer
of his Learned Friend was a very fair one, and Mr. Wi'son
regretted that he had written the letter, and consented to
a verdict for nominal damages.—A verdict was accordingly
found for the plaintiff, damages 4.0/.

OLD BAILEY.-(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.

Mr. Baron GURNEY, the newly-appointed Judge, took
his seat on the Bench this morning, with Mr. Justice
BOSANQUET and Mr. Justice TAUNTON.

George Bletchley was indicted for stealing a 10/. note,
a 51. note, and six sovereigns, the property of William
Young. from the dwelling-house of the Right Honourable
Earl Grey.
The prosecutor was valet to Viscount Howick-, Earl
Grey's eldest son, and resided in the house of the Noble
Earl, in Downing-street. The prosecutor, on the sth
instant, placed the money in question in a drawer in
the servants' room, and upon looking in the drawer,
on the following day, he found that the money
had been stolen. Upon further search the purse
in which it had been, and 13/. 9s. were found con-
cealed in the coal-cellar, but the rest, amounting to
71. 10s., was never found. The prisoner was one of the
servants, and it was a part of his duty to supply the fires
in the house with coals, and consequently a suspicion was
immediately excited that he was the robber ; upon charg-
ing him with the theft, he most strenuously asserted his
innocence. However, a constable was sent for, and he was
given into custody ; the prosecutor then told him it would
be better for him if he told the truth, upon which the pri-
soner made a confession ; but the confession having been
made under a promise that it would be better for him, the
Learned Judge refused to receive it in evidence. He,
however, subsequently admitted to the policeman that he
had taken the money, and concealed that portion of it in
the coal cellar which was found there ; the rest, hi
stated, he was robbed of by a woman of the town, and it
(lid appear that the prisoner had given two women i❑
custody for robbing him, but being himself in custody
when he should have attended before the Magistrate to
substantiate the charge, the women were liberated.
Several witnesses gave the prisoner a good character up
to the present transaction.—Verdict Guilty.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

M.ANSION. H 0 USE.

A well•powdered peppery old gentleman was charged
with the threefold offence of committing assault and battery
on the body of hie maid Mary, detaining her clothes, and
refusing to pay her lawful wages.

The maid stated she had covenanted with Mr. Dalton to
have a " veek'■ vorning or a veek's vages," but Mr. D.,
after benefitting a whole fortnight by her services, thought
proper to turn her off ene evening without the " reek's
vorning," or indeed any other " vorning" than sundry hard
bumps and bruises, which he inflicted with his fist, and
eke with his foot.

" She richly deserved all she got, as your Lordship shall
hear," said the defendant, in a passion. "My establish-
ment consists of one maid, and when I engaged her, I cau-
tioned her particularly not to stop long on her errands. On
the morning in question she kept me knocking at my own
door considerably above five minutes ; when I got in I
remonstrated ; she answered saucily, and I instantly
ejected her from my establishment."
The LORD MAYOR—But you have detained her clothes
and wages.

Defendant—Oh,:she may:have her clothes, but no wagee
no not one farthing. I'll pay 20s. if you like to a cha-
rity, but I won't pay her a farthing wages for keeping me
knocking at my own door, after my previous caution.
The LORD MAYOR decided the case by recommending
the defendant to give up the clothes, and the complainant
to summon to the Court of Requests for her wages, and
indict for tie assault at the Sessions, if she liked.

The French Government has made a highly
satisfactory concession to English trade. It has agreed to
diminish the tonnage duty on English ships in French
ports from four francs twelve centimes a ton, to a franc
and a half; or from about 3s. fid. to Is. 3d. We have,
of course, accepted the proposition with pleasure, as a near
approximation to the duty paid by French shipping in our
ports (which is 9d.), and an earnest of final perfect reci-
procity. This present advantage, and this approach to a
more liberal system in future, has been obtained through
the able intervention of Lord PALmitaszotr, and the
confidence reposed by the French Government in the Eng-
lish Cabinet. We need scarcely appeal to the fact as an
answer to those opposition Members of Parliament who
have been'perpetually dinning in our ears, that whatever
professions might be made by the French liberal Govern-
ment, they would never enter into any liberal commercial
arrangement with ours. They thought only of the Minis-
ters of CHAntxs X. ; who always resisted an equalization
of the tonnage duties.— Times.

A Parliamentary paper has been printed, the
title of which will, we dare say, excite some curiosity.
It is brief—An account showing what the Crown has
gained or lost during the two reigns of GEORGE 111. and
GEORGE IV., by surrendering the hereditary and tem-
porary revenues as enjoyed by his Majesty GEORGE 11.,
and accepting an annuity in the place of them. It ap-
pears, that from the 26th of October, 1760 (the accession
of GEORGE lII.j, to the demise of the late Kiug, the 26th
of June, 1830, the sum total of the revenues alienated, in-,
cluding all branches of every description, would, during
that period, have produced 94,871,4271. ; whereas, the
annuities paid to the Crown during the said 70 years,
under the denomination of Civil List, including occasional
grants of Parliament for the
.discharge of arrears due at
nine different periods, and the whole of which extra pay-
ments amounted to 3,398,0001., make up the grand total
65,823.4381., deducting which from the total of the here-
ditary, &c. revenues, as above, leaves the public a gainer
by the exchange, to the amount of a fraction more than
29,000,0001. sterling. Supposing, there'ore, that it had
ever been constitutional to consider the hereditary revenues
as the absolute property of the King, free from all controul,
and entailing ❑o responsibility on his advisers, the country
would have no small reason to be satisfied with the com-
mutation.— Timis.

We emphatically beseech the members of the
medical profession not to be led by the commercial cry,
that the malignant cholera is not in this metropolis. We
have examined the cases, noted the symptoms, and scru-
tinised the pathological effects of the disease, and we fear-
lessly stake our professional and literary character on the
assertion, that numerous cases of the malignant Asiatic
cholera have occurred in London since the publication of
our last number.—Luncet.

Typhus Fever is now raging in Edgeley
with alarming virulence, several having already died from
its effects. In one instance, a family of the name of
SHEPLEY was visited by the disease, which first showed
itself in one of the children. The mother, disregarded the
advice of complying with the requisite precautions, and
herself, with the whole family of five children, are now
suffering under the disease in all its virulence. The hus-
band, after a week's illness, died yesterday morning.
Slum's-I- has been an old and trusty servant in the employ
of Messrs. J. and R. GEE, of Edgeley, and by them much
respected.—Stockport .Advertiser.

In galvanic experiments made by Dr. URE,
in Glasgow, on the body of a murderer who had been
hanged, the Doctor applied the galvanism to the phrenic
nerve in the neck, and also to the head of the diaphragm,
and he says, " full, nay laborious breathing instantly
commenced ;" and be is almost willing to imagine, that if
the spinal marrow and blood vessels of the neck had not
been injured, there is a probability life might have been
restored.... Coventry Herald.