The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-31 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER SEsSIONS, AUG. 30.

The August Session for the City and Liberties
of Westminster commenced this day before F.
CoNsT, Esq , Chairman, and a full bench of Ma-
gistrates. In the course of the day Mr. Serjeant
Andrews took the usual oaths and his seat on the
bench as a Magistrate for the county of Middlesex.
Maurice Levy was indicted for assaulting Mrs.
Mary Mathews Stephens on the 25th of May last.
Mrs. Mary Mathews Stephens was the wife of
Mr. John Stephens,and resided with her husband, in
Smith•square, Westminster, and on the morning of
the 26th of May last, when she was dressing her-
self before the drawing-room fire, her maid-servant
brought up a message to her that there was a per-
son in the hall who came with a message to
Mr. Stephens, from a Mr. Andrews, which
was very important, and must be delivered
to Mr. Stephens himself. The witness was
in the act of communicating this to her
husband, who was in bed in the adjoining apart-
ment, to which there was an entrance from the
drawing room as well as from the stair-case, when the
defendant now at the bar entered the room. The ser-
vant-maid met him and said, that as the witness was
undressed, he could not enter• at present. The de-
fendant pushed away the maid-servant with vio-
lence, and the servant fell back into a chair, which
stood near, from the violence of the blow. The
witness, who was without her shoes, stockings, or
dressing-gown, then attempted to get into the bed-
room, and at the same moment the defendant rushed
towards the door leading from the drawing to the
bed-room, and violently pushed the witness down
upon a sofa which stood near, and then struck her
a blow upon the shoulder. The witness before this
said to the defendant her only wish was to get her
dressing-gown, but he said that he did not care.
The witness positively stated also that there had
been no desire to hide her husband from the de-
fendant, but she wished to enter the bed-room only
with a view to obtain her clothes. Her husband,
so far from hiding, was daily about his business,
both at the House of Commons and the town.

In her cross-examination by Mr. C. PHILLIPS,
the witness said that her husband had held several
high appointments under the Government of New
South Wales, with reference to his removal from
which the business about the House of Commons
arose. At the time she was struck on theshoulder,
she was endeavouring merely to enter the bed-room
with a view to get some articles of dress, and the
defendant's object seemed to be to prevent her from
entering the room. In the scuffle the door, how-
ever, was shut. Mr. Stephens had never been de-
nied by the servant, to the witness's knowledge, to
the defendant, who did not state who he was or
what was his business until this had occurred. He
rushed into the room, saying, " John, we want
you." The husband surrendered, and quietly went
away with the defendant.

The CHAIRMAN having charged the Jury, they,
after a very short deliberation, returned a verdict of
Guilty.
The defendant was then arraigned on an indict-
ment for assaulting Margaret Kidd, the servant-
maid, to which he pleaded Guilty.
The CHAIRMAN, in pronouncing the unanimous
judgment of the Court, remarked, that the Court
could not divest itself of the manner in which the
defendant had endeavoured to meet the charge.
The sentence of the Court was, that for the offence
of which the defendant had been found guilty, he
should pay a fine of 201. to the King, and for the
second offence, to which he had pleaded guilty, he
should be fined Is. acid be imprisoned until such
fines were paid.

The defendant immediately paid the money, and
was discharged,

Benjamin Philips was charged with assaulting,
on the 26th of June last, Ann Jennin. The com-
plainant was a mulatto; she was a little stout, well-
made woman, with a particularly fine fiery eye. The
flippancy of her tongue was such, that neither the
Chairman, Jury, or Counsel, could follow her. She
went ratthig on, regardless of ail remonstrance, un-
til she had told her s'ory, which was briefly this :
She is the wife of a tailor, and keeps a lodging-house
near Golden-square. Benjamin Philips was a lodger,
and on the day in question took it into his head, be-
ing somewhat the worse for liquor, to trounce in
good style his wife and a young child of his. The
wife cried out repeatedly, " Murder," and called
incessantly upon complainant to come to her assist-
ance. Upon this complainant went into Philip's room,
and begged of him to desist. Ile held his child na-
ked between his knees, and castigated it without
compunction; she remonstrated, upon which he left
off chastising his own flesh and blood, and fell upon
her and knocked her down. This was not the worst ; for
while he pummelled her, he never ceased from calling
her a " black devil." At this part of the recital the
whole court shook with laughter; upon which Mrs.
Jennin remarked, that it was very unpolite to laugh
at a lady because Nature had made her black, If her
face was black, her heart was white, and so was her
conduct ; no one could find a black spot upon either
of them. To prove that she was not blank-natured,
she would stop all further proceedings, if Mr. Philips
would make a proper apology, express his regret for
what he had done, and promise to sin no more.
Mr. C. PHILLIPS—I am sure the defendant would
have apologised before, had not the velocity of your
language prevented him from being heard.

Mrs. Jennie—l confess my tongue goes at a
pretty round pace—but how much faster would it
e delighted to see
itahuegmhe alld
run if it was paid, as yours is, for talking.—
(Laughter)? Here Mrs. Jennin curtsied to the
so merry, b
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not
to be

Mr. C. PHILLIPS-I'll engage you won't ; Jt
,vould be rattier difficult to laugh you out of coup
tenance.

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accept of it. It should be made loudly, distinctly,
and politely.
Mr. C. PHILLIPS (to the defendant—Put your-
self into your best attitude, pitch your voice into
the most gallant key, and atone for your blows and
black devil epithets.
Mrs. Jennie ascended again the wi::ness-box, in
order that the apology might be made in form ;
when she felt satisfied that it was done so, she said,
1 freely forgive you, but advise you to refrain
from ill-treating black devils, lest they should not
always prove as forgiving towards you as the pre-
sent black devil has shown herself."

The body of a woman was yesterday morning
at 11 o'clock discovered in the canal in St. James's Park,
at the end nearest Buckingham Palace. It was at first
supposed that the poor creature must have drowned her.
self on Wednesday night, as sne appeared to have been
tong dead. She was removed to Westminster hospital,
where, we hear, she is reepvering,

SUMMER ASSIZES.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YORK, Atia. 28.
The commission of assize for the county of Yolk
was opened yesterday, and the business commenced
to-day. The calendar contains the names of sixty'
tw3 prisoners, and 124, causes are entered for trial,
Mr. Justice PARKE tried three or four unimpor'
tant causes in the course of the afternoon, and Mr.
Baron BOLLAND disposed of two indictments in the
Criminal Court.

WEDNSSDAY, AUGUST 29.
ILEX V. ACLAND.

Mr. CRESSWELL opened tLe pleadings. Th'e
was a criminal information against the defendant fot
a libel. Plea, Not Guilty.
Mr. POLLOCK said, the prosecutor, Mr. Christo
pher Bolton, was an Alderman of Hull, and one of the
trustees of a charity that existed in that town, called
" Cogan's charity." The libel complained of was
contained in a publication called the Hull Portfolio,
and was in the shape of a letter from the defendant'
to Mr. Bolton.—[Mr. Pollock here read the letter,
which was of considerable length. It was ad-
dressed to " Christopher Bolton, Esq., Alderman
of Hull, and one of the Trustees of Cogan's Cha-
rity." The letter began by calling the prosecutor
the " Lion's-mouth" of the corporation, and ad.
verted to some alleged abuses of the corporate
trusts, which the defendant intended to expose. It
then proceeded to speak of Cogan's Charity, and
of the prosecutor's conduct in relation to it, in these
words :—" I charge you, Sir Alderman, with pen•
sioning your daughter—your unmarried daughter----
on the fund of Cogan's Charity, of which you are
one of the trustees. I charge you with robbing
that fund of 201. annually, through your daughters
for your advantage," The letter went on to ani-
madvert in strong language on the imputed miscon-
duct of the prosecutor, and concluded with " Your
accuser, James Acland.")
The publication and authorship of the alleged
libel were admitted by the defendant.
Divison Terry, Dig., was an Alderman and Mte
gistrate of Hull. He was one of the trustees of
Cogan's Charity. Mr. Bolton was also a trustee.
and an Alderman and Mvistrate. Witness had
read the letter contained in defendant's publication►
and had no doubt it referred to the prosecutor.
The defendant then addressed the jury at great
length, and animadverted very severely upon the
abuses which, he said, existed in the management
of the charity to which allusion had been made.
He contended that as a public journalist of the tow('
of Hull, it was his duty, and he had a right, to pub'
lish his opinion upon all abuses which affected the
public at large.
Mr. POLLOCK replied, and Mr. Justice PARKE Wai
summing up the case when this report came away-
James Armitage was charged with having on the
22d of March last feloniously stolen a gray mare, the
property of one Thomas Garforth, out of a stable at
Beeston.

The Jury, without hesitation, found the prisoner
Guilty.
Another indictment against him for a similar
offen-e was not gone into.

Charles Murfi eld waB charged with having, o 0
the night of the 19th of March last, together with
one Thomas Marsh, feloniously assaulted John
Armstrong, of Appleton-upon-Wink, on the road
leading from thence to West Houston, and robbed
him of a sovereign, 2/. 6d. in silver, and
silver watch.—Not Guilty.

THE MARKETS.

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK•

Wheat. ißarley. f Oats. Beans.
Per Quarter. ja.to s. s. a. a. to a. a. to
Blandford 59 35 I 22
Brigg ~ 52 63 36 40 19 22 31 :$2,
Cambridge— 58 29
Chard 56 62 30 36 18 22 36
Huntingdon 58 67 28 32 17 23 31
Long Sutton—....... 56 64 17 22 32 „
Louth 50 55 27 32 19 20 32
Lynn 56 61. 28 32 22 28 34 11
Newark 5B 64 33 40 18 24 36 •'",„
Nottingham 58 68 31 33 20 25 37
Peterborough 56 63 32 36 19 25 33
Plymouth 50 64 30 34 20 23
67 43 27 _ 43
Sleaford 65 70 36 38 22 28 41 41
Uppingham 58 65 32 40 20 24 30 t"
Wisbech

LEEDS CO liN 111 A RKET.—Aug. 2S.
Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b.
York. and Lincoln. 601 b.
Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 92s. to 35.. 4
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
----- Grinding
Beans
Oats, I'otatoe
—lllealing, For. 12d. to 13d Eng. 11 'tl. to 133. per
Shelling '3os. to 31s. per loacii.
Rapeseed, English, ltii to .24.

L 1 V Eitl'OOl. CULI.N EXCtitk Nti E.—Aug. 2b. i
WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b.
lied
—...-- Scotch, Welch, and Manx
Irish, White 7 8 8 b
—--- Red 7 6 7 /0
Foreign 9 0 9 4
OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b '2 g .2 10
Irish
Foreign
BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 34 0 38 0
Scotch and Irish, per 601bs.
Feeding 4 0 4 0
BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 36 0 40 0
Irish, &c. 93 0 35 0
Foreign
PLAsE, English, per Imperial quarter 36 0 38
00
Foreign
FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 4B 0 50 0
Irish
OATMEAL, English and Irish, per ‘.2401bs 2l 0 23 w
INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b.
~ 0
ItyE, per Imperial quarter
NIALT, per Imperial quarter
I mrouT or GRAIN for the Week ending Aug. 27. 1.
Wheat. Oats. Barley Flour. Oatoi
Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Foreign, Brlsdlrish, &c. Scks.l Lo
8,188 4,157 8 374 I 2,727 1;7:03

THE PITMEN.—There is now, we have re 3'
on to believe, a prospect of the disputes between the c°3:
owners and the pitmen being brought to an end. Al 0;
a hundred of Lord Do unAst's men, we are informed, LW:"
refused to contribute six shillings in the pound out of tiler
earnings to maintain the unemployed workmen in itlleneo'
We trust th it many more will have the good sense to 01'
low their example. A great many of the pitmen iisve
seceded from the Union within the last few days. 14(4,
less than a hundred of them have since been engaged P
Hetton colliery. As far as regards the county of Darliao
indeed, the Union may be considered to be now almost,
broken up. It must very shortly, we should suppose,
to pieces altogether. We shall then, we should hope',
have the satisfaction of seeing half of the seven or eig,,4
thousand pitmen at present unemployed again at Worl
and the shopkeepers of this district relieved from much
.°e
the depression under which they have laboured front tic
differences which have so long existed between the cots':
owners arid their servants. The remaining three or foto,
thousand pitmen will have to seek work elsewhere, 10
their places are filled by lead miners and other labourer'',
whom it would be extremely ...just to dismiss.— T.Y°
Mercury.

ick-place,
BIRTHS.
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at Benhton House, Chester, the 14"'
On the '2Bth inst.
f a daughter.
John Uniacke,
Deptford, Mrs. Ogle'
Cotton, of
eor3aotdh4iglti.tera.t Bruns:,

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MARRIED.
On
the 2su, inst. at Cheltenham, Samuel Champern°l4;s
Sadler,
ue't(.ll;iu,oatirnh,ag
tveosetrir saoiiinotyit,:
eSoacntoilluyun,eitalyuSfidi Sadler, Esq., I
otsf. t 1 ,
eo of
late A r lsecicnootzi,r tia'ri,, i i i
buildings, to Eliza, daughter of the late M. Levy, Esq ,of .
rect.
''soil the ti9th inst. Mr. Joseph Kisch, surgeon, of Broad-stfini'
4
bury-square.
vet On the 2.8t1i inst. at Stillorgan Church, near Dublin, ,1-,, o 1
Henry Kelly, Esq., eldest son of the Rev. Armstrong Keqi,'
Castle Kelly, in the county of Galway, to Elizabeth liticr*
eldest daughter of John Cator, Esq., 01 Beckenham Place,
...;%

Clarke,oiitiil:ar2it.)tii
inst.,
stroeent,tCheo 2veBritti:giaorla,t thLkl2hli
, bcth, the wife of Henry
On the 24th inst. Ann, the wife of Mr. Gustard, of Bedford
woo
aigneldiera44.6lEl,Diicrts, Sir Simon Haeg
il•
Eliza
manbury. Rolle, tah t y efluascg.
of
On the '2Bth inst. at Milton next Gravesend Mrs. Burslerars,ol
Betkeley-place, Cheltenham, relict of theul'at'e Rev. Wil..t.'er,
Burslern, of Hanbury Parsonage, in the county of Wore'
and daughter of the late Rawson Aislabie, Esq. nd '''Ci
On the 26th inst. at Leamington Priors, after a long a-,r 0
vere illness, the Rev. Robert Beehoe Radcliffe, M.A., reeslat'
Ashby-de-la-Zouche, Leicestershire, and Chaplain to the „
quis of Hastings. ~ the
b,boufrAydGdireo.vster,eeltsi,i,ll,tie:
On the 30th inst. at Blackheath, Lavinia Martha, relict 01
late Stephen Groombridge, Esq., F.R.S.. in her 66th year.
eight!'
On the 19th ult. at Howbury Hall, near Bedford, in the „ 11l
year of her age, Frances Sarah, eldest daughter; and 0
_foil
25th ult., in the sixth year of his age, William HenrY, '''
ii
son of Frederick Polhill, Esq., M.P.
while
On the ‘...)6th inst. at Brookinan's-park, near Hatfield, ~,o, '
a visit to her daughter, the Countess Dowager of 30;1,Talipli'
Martha Sophia Mating, aged 84, relict of the late C. T.
„ii,
Esq., of Hylton, in the county of Durham.
aged 62, Mr. William Hill, late of High-street, Borougt.
On the ~..nd inst. in Windsor-place, Southwark-bridgelp—O.

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