The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-15 00:00:00

MARLBORO UGH-STREET.

Mrs. Elizabeth Harris yesterday brought Mrs. .Mary
Ball before Mr. CONANT and Mr. HALL, for that she, not
having the fear of the statute in such case made and pro-
vided before her eyes, had on more than one occasion
threatened to do " for her, and for all the minor branches of
the Harrisses. '

Mrs. Harris, an elderly damsel, who was evidently gifted
with a " forty-parson power" of speech, informed the Ma-
gistrates that on Friday last the defendant came and stood
before her " winder," and in a " bordable voice" called out
to her to come into the court, and she would " do her busi-
ness for her." Not having any particular wish to be "done
for" by the pugnacious Mrs. Ball, she did not accept the
challenge, but as the same threat was, as she alleged, re-
peated the next day to her next door neighbour, antt all her

little progeny included in it, she determined to apply for a
warrant, and to swear her life against the offending party.
In confirmation of her story she called her back-kitchen
lodger, a pigmy professor of reading and writing at three-
pence a week, who, after a profound shake of the head, de-
clared the.case was " vheels within vheels," but he certainly
did hear Mrs. Ball make a " wow" that she would spend
five shillings for a bottle of red port wine, get jolly drunk,
and then come into the Court and make root and branch
work with her antagonists. In addition to this the witness
declared the defendant " shoved" her fist in his face as he
was standing in his own premises.
Mrs. Ball—l have had the distance measured, your
Worship ; he was fourteen yards and a half from where I
stood, so I must have had a good long arm to reach him.
Witness—lf you'd been two miles off it's an insault in
the eye of the law.
The schoolmaster, having delivered this opinion, walked
away with a very grand air.

Mrs. Ball, in defence, asserted that when Mrs. Harris
came to reside in the same court she brought with her a
number of qualities, none of which were of an amiable
description. In particular, she delighted in making mis-
chief, and ever since she had lived where she now did, she
had thrown the whole neighbourhood into a conflagration.
The defendant did not explain how this novel species of
incendiarism was produced, further than by hinting that
the complainant exercised, with unceasing activity, her
organs of volubility and detraction. Her daughters took
after their mother in many respects, and on Friday last one
of them, she asserted, committed an assault Lty pushing
past her, and turning her round with her elbow. But
what most enraged her was, the fact of Mrs. Harris having
placed out of a window, which exactly faced her house, a
large looking•glass, and beside it a certain piece of useful
domestic crockery, and whenever she bad occasion to go
out Mrs. Harris would point at this arrangement, the mystic
meaning of which she professed to be unable to fathom, and
tell her " to take it out of that."

The Magistrates put an end to further altercation by
observing that such disturbances must, not be continued on
either side, and therefore they should call on the defendant
to find surety for her peaceable behaviour.—The parties
then retired.