The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-16 00:00:00

DUMFRIES MA

s. d. s.d.
Wheat, Imp. Bush 6 9 to 7 6
Barley
Oats 2 4 271
Flour, 141 b.
Oatmeal 1 9 2
Potatoes, cwt 1 4 1 8

RKETS.—June 6.

s.d. s.d.
Butter, 16oz
00
Eggs, dozen 0 0
Beef, per IU.
Mutton 0 4 0 0
Veal 0 4 0 5
Quartern Loaf 0 7 0 9

LEEDS CORN MARKET.—June 12.
Wheat, Norfolk and Suffblk, 601 b.
York. and Lincoln. 601 b.
Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
Grinding
Bean
.0,
Oats, Potatoe
_......r.Healing, For. P2d. to 13d
Shelling
Rapeseed, English, 164 ck to ili ForEeinggn.,3l--/IlstcLoto3t2o—sl.l3.dpePpelle'ora'a;'tt".

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.--June 12. _ .
WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b.
Red
0
-.. Scotch, Welch, and Manx
- Irish, White 8 10 9 1
--- Red 8 7 8 10
- Foreign 9 3 9 8
OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 0 ?
- Irish
- Foreign 2 7 2 9
BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 36 0 40 0
---. Scotch and Irish, per 601bs.
- Feeding 4 6 4 -
BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 37 0 42 0
--- Irish, &c.
Foreign 16 0 40 0
-
PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 36 0 38 0
Foreign
----
FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 5O 0 51 0
--- Irish
OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 25 6 26 0
INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b.
RYE, per Imperial quarter
09
31 0 32
MALT, per Imperial quarter
IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending June lloatineat
Wheat. Oats. Barley, Flour.
Loads.:Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. 1 ••••••Foreign, Brls.llrish,Scc. Sclo.l
3,511 2,380 4 • I 1,891

This action was to recover damages for work
done by a builder on the premises of the defendant,
in Hertfordshire. He had to repair his dwelling-
house, and add to it some wings, as well as to make
adjacent erections convenient; all which had been
specified in an estimate, and which the plaintiff had
agreed to complete for the sum of 8001. The
agreement was made, and the work commenced, but
the building had not proceeded far, when the de-
fendant interfered, giving directions as he pleased to
have this and that done, and in many material re-
spects altering the plans and designs, and employing
the men on different works foreign to those in the
estimate. The plaintiff, therefore, thought his agree-
ment void or voidable; and that his charges should
not be coerced by that agreement on the estimate,
but by an estimate on an agreement or survey of the
alterations made in consequence of the interposition
of the defendant, or of the whole work when corn-
pleted.—Surveyors were called to prove the altera-
tions. Several workmen deposed to the above facts,
and to the changeable and petulant conduct of the
defendant. A waiter on the bricklayer, a native of
the sister isle, that had crept up the ladder to carry
the hod, gave a querulous account of his supposed
misfortunes.

COUNSEL—You said he ordered you often from
your work—what for ? Witness—Sometimes he
would make me pull up the grass in the yard, some-
times work in the kitchen, and sometimes carry
water for the cook.—( Laughter.)
CouNsEL—And you did draw the cook's water
for her ? Witness—Arrah, to be sure I did ; but he
gave me a sixpence sometimes to drink his health,
although sometimes he'd strike me if I did not go
immagently when he bid me.
Cross-examined—You say he gave you money to
drink—were you often drunk ? Witness—l don't
think I was; I was often the worse for the drop.
COUNSEL—How much did you drink at a time?
Witness—Arrah, now—isn't that a quare question
for yer honour to ask when you can't tell your-
self. I drunk whatever I could get ; but, barrin a
pot or so at a time, and a couple of glasses of the
right stuff with it, divil a bit drunk was Larry.
COUNSEL—How 1. Don't you remember the fair-
day, when you went into the town, and made a dis-
turbance ? Witness (scratching his head)—Ah
now yer honour, that fair was another affair, and had
nothing at all-at-all to do with the work. For as
how our master gave us the evening of that day to
ourselves to make merry ; and we kicked up no row
at the building.
COUNSEL—But were you not drunk then, and
were not others of the men with you ? Witness—
See that now ; if I were drunk, how could I know
whether the others war drunk ? But by the same
token I was not drunk, for I only get one black eye
—(Laugl•.)—and I was at work the next day.
COUNSEL—Did not the defendant threaten to have
you dismissed ? Witness—He threatened me often,
and bate me besides.

The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—
Damages, One Thousand Pounds.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

IVilliant Bright, alias " Touting Bill," a sort of
amphibious fish-broker, was charged with having
diddled David Wallin= out or 39. 6d., by the fol-
lowing process :
The defendant, it appeared, was one of those ac-
commodating gentry, termed " bobbers ;" a class
of persons who hang about the avenues of Billings-
gate to pick up countrymen or strangers who come
to the market to buy fish, in order to put them in
the way of buing fish, by which means a large
quantity of unsaleable fish is disposed of at some-
what about double the market value. The defendant,
in the exercise of his " touting" vocation—viz.,
looking out for " fiats,"—that morning fell in with
the complainant, and after some conversation was
empowered to purchase a quarter of hundred of
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with the money he promised to pick out
some " reg'lar rum'uns." The defendant, however,
saw no more of his broker, but after waiting some
time a basket, containing only fifteen mackerel, was
handed to him as his purchase, which mackerel were.
indeed, "reg'lar rum'uns," for the fish were all
broken, and in a state to have required a strong
stomach to digest them.
Mr. Goldham, the Superintendent of the market,
hearing of the circumstance, caused " Bill," for
whom he had been some time on the look out for
similar practices, to be taken into custody.
Please your Lordship, said Bill in defence, that
ere good gentleman accorses me in the market and
says, Young man (says he), vill you buy me a guar-
tern of mackrel ? Yes (says I) I vill, and get you
some as shall do me credit; so he hands me over
the dumps, and I goes right avay into the boat, but
yen I seed as how the fish vorn't in no state to do
no credit to my carukter, I says, says I, I von't have
told up no more nor a fifteen into the basket; yell,
somevon gets the basket onperceived on shore, and
ven I vent to look arter it I vas taken into custody,
quite at a nonplush.
The LORD MAYOR, after a suitable caution, al-
lowed the defendant to leave the office upon return-
ing the money he had attempted to appropriate.
Henry Probert, a young man, was charged with
an outrageous assault on his mother. The com-
plainant, who wept very much, gave a dreadful ac-
count of her son's behaviour, especially when he
came home intoxicated. The preceding evening he
came home in that state, and on his younger brother
making same remark, he beat him, and left him
senseless on the ground. When complainant in-
terfered he beat her, and afterwards destroyed the
furniture, which belonged to her.
The LORD MAYOR fined him, and ordered him
to be imprisoned till he paid the damage done to the
furniture.

BOW. STREET.
Bunbury Layers, an elderly man of re-
spectable appearance, and dressed in military un-
dress costume, was yesterday brought before Mr.
certain HALLS,
certificate in order to his being finally examined, upon
a charge o f liav i having
anda
forged,
receiptnd
forl
uttereduals.
9fos
.rgi
ne forged,
the
county of Middlesex, with intent to defraud his
Majesty.
William Petre Crawford, Esq. was cashier in the
Army Half-pay Office, and in pursuance of the direc-
tion of the Secretary at War, he, on the 20th of
April , 1831, issued, to George Augustus Cosgrave,
administrator of the late Captain Francis Cosgrave,
the draught on the Bank of England now produced,
for 1,171/. 91. being the calculated amount of half-
pay, due to the deceased, up to the 23d of August,
1827, the day on which, according to the statement
contained in the certificate, also produced, he died
at Worcester. The person receiving the draught, and
representing himself as George Augustus Cosgrave,
signed a receipt, purporting that, on the day in
question, he, as such administrator, had received
from the Paymaster of his Majesty's Forces the
before-mentioned sum of 1,171/. 9s. for 3,347 days'
half-pay, computed at the rate of 7s. per diem, and
from the 25th of June 1818, to the 23d of August,
1827, due to the deceased Lieut. Francis Cosgrave.
Mr. HALLS asked if the prisoner was the person
who represented himself to be George Augustus
Cosgrave, and to whom the draught for the money
was paid ?
Mr. Crawford replied that be bad a clear recollect

don of having seen the prisoner before, some where
or other; but his memory was not sufficiently accu-
rate to enable him to say that the prisoner was the
individual to whom he had giren the draught re-
ferred to.

Mr. Mathew Seaford was a clerk in the office of
the Western Times newspaper-office, at Exeter.
He knew the prisoner, who had for ten months
acted as clerk in the same establishment. Witness
had frequent opportunities of seeing the prisoner
write, and becoming acquainted with his hand-
writing.

Mr. HALLS handed the forged documents to the
witness, and asked him if the signatures to them
and the words " York-crescent, Bristol," were writ-
ten in characters with which he was familiar.

Mr. Seaford, having carefully examined the sig-
natures and words to which his attention hsd been
directed, declared that they were all, to the best of
his belief, in the handwriting of the prisoner.
Mr. HALLS.—The prisoner's name is not George
August us Crawford.
Mr. Seaford had never known him by any other
name but that of 'William Bunbury Lavers.
Mr. Duke was clerk in the Army Half-pay
Office, and perfectly recollected that, on the 21st
of April, 1831, the prisoner, who now called him-
self William Bunbury Lavers, came to the office
and produced letters of administration to the late
Captain Francis Cosgrave, of the 25th Regiment of
Foot, which appeared to have been granted to his
lawful brother George Augustus Cosgrave. The
prisoner represented himself as the brother and ad-
ministrator of the deceased.

Mr. HALLS asked the prisoner if he had any
thing to say, and being answered in the negative,
he was fully committed for trial.
There is little doubt that the prisoner has been
carrying on frauds of this description to a considera-
ble amount. A short time before his apprehension
he had nearly succeeded in obtaining 1,8001. by
falsely representing himself as the heir-at-law of the
deceased Colonel Hardy. It was this circumstance
that led to his apprehension, which took place at
Sr. Thomas's, in the county Devon, a short dis-
tance from Exeter. He was living there in an ele-
gantly furnished house. Ledbetter, the officer, by
whom he was apprehended, found a great number of
documents in the house, which fully prove the na-
ture of the transactions in which he had been en-
gaged for a length of time.

INTEREST WITHOUT PRINCIPAL.--The
Duke of WELLINGTON declared, at the late dinner, that
Mr. PITT promoted the interests of his country. The de-
ceased Statesman never promoted but one interest that we
ever heard of—though in the advancement of that one be
made up for his indifference towards the others. We allude
t) bis zealous promotion of the interest of the national deli.

The second report of the House of Commo►►s'
Committee on the Irish titbe question has been printed.
The Committee recommend that measures should, with
ai little delay as possible, he submitted to Parliament :-
1. A Bill to amend the provisions of the tithe composition
Acts, and to render them permanent and compulsory.-
2. A Bill to constitute ecclesiastical corporations in Ire-
land.-3. A Bill for the commutation of tithes in Ire'and.
The Committee also recommend a new valuation of all
benefices in Ireland, for the purpose of the first fruits, found
with a view to charging it with all Church cess, for the
building and repairing of Churches, and for the due cele-
bration of divine worship.

At a meeting of Stewards, held last night at
the Crown and Anchor Tavern, for conducting the West-
minster dinner on the 27th instant, to celebrate the return
of Sir FRANCIS Buantrr, and the triumph of those prin-
ciples of pare representation the electors of Westminster
have so long advocated, by the passing of the great charter
of the rights and liberties of the people of England, it was
resolved to recommend the general illumination to be de-
ferred till after the passing of the whole of the Bills, and
a deputation was appointed to confer with the Lord Mayor
upon the subject.

The Committee appointed by the Common
Council for an entertainment in the Guildhall, to celebrate
the passing of the Bills for a Reform in the representation
of the people in the House of Commons, to which his
MAJESTY'S Ministers and those Members of the House of
Lords and House of Commons who have supported the
Reform are to be invited, held their first meeting on Mon-
day last, and after giving instructions for laying down the
floor of the Hall, and other orders necessary to prepare for
the banquet, directed the Remembrancer to inquire by
what day it was probable that the Reform Bill would be
passed. They likewise desired letters to be written to
different engravers, inviting them to send specimens for an
invitation card suited to the occasion. The Committee
then adjourned till Wednesday, and on that day Mr. RE•
MEMBAANCER. reported, that he had ascertained, from
good authority, that the whole of the Bills will not pass
before the end of the first, or the beginning of the second
week, in July. It was then agreed to send cards to the
guests, requesting the honour of their company, stating,
that a day could not be fixed for the entertainment at pre-
sent, but that the earliest possible notice should be sent.
The Hall is to be fitted up to exceed in beauty all former
occasions ; the flags and armour to decorate the Hall will,
it is expected, give the most imposing app,arance. It has
been proposed that a bronze medal be struck to comme-
morate the passing of the Reform Bills, and to be pre-
sented to each of the guests, but this is not yet decided.

ANGLING COXTEST.—Friday being the day
appointed for the angling contest for a medal given by the
St. Roman's Angling Club, Piper Arm us, at an early
hour, struck up the Gathering of the Anglers, when nu.
merous competitors appeared, from the Coldstream to the
head of Tweed. After their names being duly enrolled,
they marched off towards their favourite streams; and,
agreeably to the regulations of the club, returned at five,
when the contents of their baskets were weighed i❑ the
presence of Earl TRAQUAIR and Mr. Hoot, when the
glory of the day was declared in favour of Mr. BOTD, the
club secretary, who killed with the Earl: Grey, or Reform
Fly, 201bs. 10 oz. of splendid trout. A. Mrrcuctsox,
Esq., of Middleton, was found next in weight. For the
information of anglers it may not be improper to mention
that the Reform Fly, the recent design of the Ettrick
Shepherd, is composed of a Grey wiag, and a body same
colour as the furze of the Brougham, and is found to be a
killing fly in any river and rivulet in Scotland. At six
the competitors, with their friends, sat down to dinner
in RIDDELL'S inn..— Caledoniau Mercury.

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ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY A YOUNG LADY
IN Sr. JAMES'S PARK.---Yesterday afternoon, during the
rain, a young man who was in the enclosure in St. James's
Park, observed a young lady throw herself into the deep-
est part of the canal. He jumped in after her and caught
her by the hand, but was unable to bring her out, and
he had much difficulty to save himself. After a few
minutes two persons came np, and by their assistance the
young lady was taken out and conveyed to Mr. MACGRE.
aoa's, the suttling-house in the Tilt-yard. She was
there recovered, but she refused to give any account of
herself. She was taken to the station-house in Gardi-
ner's-lane. The young man's conduct was most praise•
worthy.