The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-11 00:00:00

QUEEN-SQUARE.

Yesterday a young man named Samuel Webster, who has
undergone two examinations at this office, was placed at
the bar before Messrs. Gregorie and Burrell, charged with
bigamy.
The prisoner does not appear to be more than twenty-
five years of age.
Mr. Thiselton, the parish-clerk of St. Pancras, produced
the register of marriages, by which it appeared that on the
20th of June, 1833, an entry had been made of the mar-
riage of the prisoner to Ann Thorburn, but the witness had
no recollection whatever of the parties.
John Smith, a gate-keeper at the private road near St.
Pancras Church, in the summer of 1833, was called upon
by a party who were proceeding to the church to witness a
marriage. He attended at the church, but he could not
identify the parties.
Elizabeth Smith, of Shouldham-street, deposed that in
October last, the prisoner called upon her mother, request-
ing her to attend at the church of St. Mary, Bryanston-
square, where he intended to marry a Miss Thorburn.
Witness was present in place of her mother, and the mar-
riage was regularly solemnized.
In answer to questions proposed by the solicitor for the
prosecution, she could not positively swear to the hand-
writing of the prisoner. _ _

Mr. John Thorburn, the father of the second wife, pro-
duced a letter he had received from the prisoner immedi-
ately after the second marriage ; but
Mr. GREGORIE observed, that before such letter could
be received in evidence, he must connect the prisoner with
it, which had not yet been done.
Mr. Blunt then brought forward several other witnesses,
but neither of them could establish the fact as to the hand-
writing of the prisoner ; and
The MAGISTRATES, considering that be had already been
twice remanded, in order to give the prosecutrix time to
procure sufficient evidence, wished the case to be taken to
the Grand Jury, which is now sitting.
Mr. Blunt, however, applied for another postponement.
Mr. GREGORIE had no doubt whatever as to the offence
having been committed, although, at present, there was not
sufficient evidence to substantiate it. He would, therefore,
consent to hear the case once more, and the prisoner was
remanded accordingly.

A fashionably-dressed man, who gave his name John
Smith, and stated that he resided in Kensington-place,
Holywell-street, Westminster, was charged by John Grey,
one of the constables of St. James's ?ark, with wantonly
breaking off branches from the shrubs near the Duke of
York's column.

Grey watched Mr. Smith, who had an umbrella in his
hand, and observed him attempt to strike off some of the
branches of a tree which proved to be rather too stout for
the umbrella. He then went to another, and broke off the
pieces he produced.
Mr. Smith, in answer to the charge, went out that
morning to procure a switch for one of his children, and
that he did -not think there was any
_harm in procuring one
from the Park.

Mr. WHITE observed that such an argument might do
very well for a child, but he should have expected a man
of his appearance would have known better.

He was then fined in the amount of damage done, and
left the office apparently anything but satisfied with' the
result of his morning excursion in search of a plaything for
his child.

UNION-HALL.
Yesterday a respectable-looking man named Neal was
brought up in custody, charged with stealing a watch, a
quantity of flannel, some pieces of calico, and a few other
trifling articles, the property of a person named Bond, an
inmate of the King's Bench Prison. An inventory of the
alleged stolen property having been laid before the Magis-
trate (Mr. Jeremy), he was informed that the complainant
was not in attendance to substantiate the charge, and in
fact the prisoner's wife had absconded from him, and was
then living with Bond in the above prison.
The prisoner declared that the charge of felony alleged
against him by Bond was trumped up for the purpose of
having him taken into custody, and brought to this office,
in order that he might be arrested at the suit of a person
named Ainsworth. Bond had given intimation that he
(the prisoner) was in custody on a charge of felony at this
c•ST. and"the Marshatsea officers were now in attendance
to arrest T•im the moment he was out of custody. The
prisoner added C.:at Mrs. Bond would prove that the pro-
perty he was charged v.:th stealing was in her own pos-
session, and that so far from Eu.. 4 having any, grounds for
making such a charge against him, tub.: i,erson owed him
upwards of 2001.

Mrs. Bond was called in, and she stated that her I.'!F-
-band abandoned her, and that some of the articles which
the prisoner was charged with stealing she found in a box
belonging to her husband at the time he left her. She
added that she was convinced her husband had no grounds
for making such an accusation against the prisoner, whose
wife had aandoned him, and was then living under the
protection of her (witness's) husband. Mr. Jeremy said
that it was a very gross proceeding on the part of Bond, if
he bad had an innocent man brought up in custody on a
charge of felony, merely with a view to have him convicted
on a civil process.
The MAGISTRATE then directed that if a Marshalsea
officer were in attendance, be might be called forward, in
order to ascertain whether it was Bond's suggestion he at-
tended to arrest the prisoner.
Robert Coker, a Mai shalsea officer, stated that Bond
sent over a message to him that morning from the King's
Bench prison, to the effect that Neal was in custody at
Union Hall, on a charge of felony, and that if witness at-
tended there, he would have an . opportunity of arresting
him before he left the office, on the writ which lay out
against him.

Another Marshalsea officer confirmed the above state-
merit, and, addressing the Magistrate with a writ in his
hand, said, " I hope your Worship wont let Mr. Neal go ;
I have come over here to grab' him, and here is the writ
I hold against him."
The accused shrunk from contact with the Marshalsea
officers, and Inspector Hack stood between the parties, so
that the writ could not be executed on the spot.
' Mr. fEnEMY, on hearing the Marshalsea officers, said
that there was no doubt the charge of felony against the
prisoner was without the slightest foundation, and trumped
up for the purpose of bringing him to the office, that he
might be arrested. If Bond had really a charge of felony
against the accused, or grounds for such an accusation, he
could easily have sent a verbal request that he might be re-
manded, but this he did not do, and no sooner had he given
him into custody on a most serious charge than he imme-
diately sent over to acquaint the officers of the fact of his
being at that office. This very circumstance plainly
showed that Bond, when he gave the charge, must have
known that the accused would have been discharged, and
that then the officers could have arrested him upon the writ.
The accused said that Bond had acted in the manner
described to prevent him from following up some proceed-
ings relative to his (the accused's) wife, who was then liv-
ing with Bond.
Mr. JEREMY said that the accused was discharged, and
added that it was a gross case of conspiracy to get posses-
sion of his person, and that such schemes would never re-
cognised at that, office ; and that the accused had ample
grounds for an action for false imprisonment against Bond.
The accused here left the office without the writ having
been served upon him, taking advantage of the time occu-
pied by the Marshalsea officers in giving their evidence,
which, at the request of the Magistrate, was taken down in
writing.

THE FUNDS.-C.
BRITISI

dOSINCT PRICES.
FUNDS.
India Stock c,58
Ditto Bonds 20 pm.
South Sea Stock I, 3%
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities
Ex. Bills, 10, 0/....
Ditto SXI! 39 pm,
Ditto 5(10! O9 pm
Bank Stock for Opg. 221
India Stock for Act.
Consols for Act.

Bank Stook
3 per Cent. Red. 9l
3 per Cent Cons WI(3
'314 per Cent.' Sifi.,
314 per Cent. Red 91%
New 314 per Cent 100
.1 per Cent. Assented
• Dissented
Long Annuities to expire
11.11 1860 16%,
Oct. 1850
Jan. 1860
kOREIO/

9-2 5

Austrian, 5 per cent —
Belgian, 5 per cent 10314
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 4O
Chilian, 6 per cent 57
Columbian, 6 per cent.
Ditto, 18'24 47
Danish . 77%
Greet: Bonds, 18.25, 5 per cent.
Mexican, 5 per cent , 182 b 35%
Ditto, 1825, 6 per 'sent 46%
Peruvian, 6 per cent.

• rums.
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent.
Ditto, Now Ditto 93
Prussian:. 5 per cent. —
Russian Bonds, 5 per cent.
Ditto, Metallic —
Spanish, 5 per cent
Ditto, 159.3 —
French, 5 per cent
Exchange —f —c.
French, 3 per cent —f. —.-,
Dutch, :2i per cent 561,4
Ditto, 5 per cent.

The Norfolk Chronicle of to-day contains a long
account of the elections of the Common Council ; which elec-
tions, it remarks, " is a confirming fact of the ascendancy of
Conservative principles in Norfolk." The report is headed
thus :—" THE CLEANSING WEEK." Westminster has had a
cleansing week as well as Norfolk.