The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-17 00:00:00

WEIGHT V. GAME.

The plaintiff in this action is an omnibus conductor,
and the defendant is a butcher and purveyor to her
Majesty, Cannon-street, and the action was brought to
recover damages for it,juries sustained through the negli•
genre of defendant's servants.

Mr. Bachanan, for the plaintiff, stated the case. It
appeared tbat on the 15th June plaintiff was with hia
'bus in the Circus, Piccadilly, and he had got off to take
his fare from a gentleman who was on the p ,vement ;
he was returning, and just off the kerb, when deten-
danet, man, in a cart, drove sharply by and knocked
him down, and his coat, sc„ were torn, and he received
bod,ly injuries.
The case was clearly made out, and his Honour gave
udgment for 3/.

POLICE INTETs.IGENCE.— (This Day.)

THAMES%

FRAUDS ON OUTFITTERS.—John Elliott, a tall young
man, of 21 Pembroke-street, Plymouth, ship carpenter,
was brought up on remand, charged with fraudulently
obtaining clothes and money from several outfitters by
means of lalse and fraudulent pretences.

It appeared that on S iturday, the 4th instant, the
prisoner called at the warehouse of Shores and Brill,
outfitters, Stepney, and said he belonged to one of her
Majesty's ships at Woolwich, that he had been recently
di-charged, and that he was to be paid off that days
He then selected a new suit of clothes, pilot jacket, nec-
kerchief, cap, and complete new " rig," which he put ors
in the shop, and requested that a messenger might be
dispatched with him to Woolwich to receive the
amount of the bill 71. 55., with change for a 101.
nets. A. young man, named Page, one of the por-
ters of the establishment was directed to ac*
company the prisoner to Woolwich. On reaching
that place the prisoner managed to " wheedle" the
porter of the money in his possession under pretence
of giving change to his captain, and went into the dock'
yard, the arsenal and other places, under pretence of
seeking Captain Hamilton his commander, and nodded
to and seemed to know all the officials in the tovre,
Alter the prisoner had almost tired out the patience of
the porter he gave him the slip. Some time after erode
the prisoner was found riding in a carriage across Wool'
what] Common. Page stopped the carriage and g()
inside and asked the prisoner what he meant by giving
,
him the slip. The prisoner said it was all right, pointed
to a large house near the Common and said that was
Captain Hamilton's residence. The prisoner and the
poster alighted, and the former entered the garden enci
spoke to the footman who ordered him off the grounds,
and said his master was General Barrett not Captaie
Hamilton. The prisoner re-joined the porter, and di'
rectly afterwards leaped over a fence into a field, and gcA
into the Victoria-road, where the porter lost sight of hire:
The prisoner had represented himself as the carpenter 0'
a ship, and upon this representation, Mr. Lowe, foresees
to Messrs. Shores and Brill, allowed him to put on tb°
things.
The second charge was preferred by Mr. James Glad.
well, foreman to Mr. George Skinner, of Knightsbridei
clothier, who stated that, on the morning of the 261 b
June, the day on which her Majesty distributed the
Victoria Crosses, the prisoner made a purchase of anel
suit of clothes and accesscries, the cost of which amount%
to 71 10s. The prisoner said he lied been in the 13ell'
campaign, at Hango, in the Crimea, and other plecegg:
and had 3001. He also said that he had blown 013 •
powder magazine belonging to the Russians ; and tow
great number of incredible stories. The prisoner toed
'
finished his story by stating that her Majesty inteeded
to decorp.te him with a Victoria Cross, that he weeteo
t go to Woolwich to receive his pay, and that he sv°l3,
discharge the amount of his bill at Woolwich. He V:.
seeded then with the prisoner, who managed to enter f'•
dockyard as the workmen were coming out, and el
him the slip.
Janes Willis, a police constable, No. 207 R, said
prisoner had attempted a similar imposition on an °I/J,
fitter named Cartwright, in the Tottenham-court-o%s
When he took the prisoner into custody, and told 131,0
the charge, he said " You are decidedly wrong ; Y 131'„p
been in Portsmouth, and know nothing about the "1,
fitters." The prisoner had been knocking about W°°
with some time, and was a regular swindler.
The prisoner made no defence, and Mr. I[a--
committed him for trial on two charges.

SOUTHWARK.
IMPOITANT DECISION. —A. case of some import
9°
to tradesmen having bagatelle tables in their IPtis

was decided this morning.
Mr. Van Damon, a tobacconist, residing at 55, - jot
ington-causeway, appeared to answer a summons sio
hid been issued against him for permitting gaming i°
house.

From the evidence of a police constable, it apPliro
that in a room adjoining the shop kept by Mr. 00
Damon was a bagatelle table, at which several 10r 00
were playing, and during the progress of the
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several bets of five ehillingq were made. tl3O
Mr. Soloman, for Mr. Van Damon, considered
no offence bad been committed, inasmuch as he bed °
tained a license for a bagatelle table. eye
Mr. Combs said be was of opinion that the statute°
which the bagatelle license was granted did not °it'd
it an offence to bet on the game, and, acting upon
view, he should order the summons to be dismissed'

CHARGE OF LIBEL.—LIVERPOOL, July 15.—The ,r
nal charge of libel rcainst Mr. Ousley, editor an",iteir
prietur of the Liverpool Herald, for an alleged it Sts
went of the chastity of three Roman Catholic prie9"eeP
the Isle of Man, has been adjourned until Tuesday°. tb°
The article in question sets out by an attack uP?„11° ociAl
Romish institution of the celibacy of the priest g 0
points to the temptation such a law engenders, 006
states that in the priest's house, Isle of Man, threadropo.o
have three young and pretty servant girls to atten re
them. The writer, after asking what necessity tbetbioP
for three domestics, says he does nut impute 10011:
indecorous or immoral to these gentlemen, bat he tot,
"from high auth' rity of the Papal Church (D, us), t'a,
priests are permitoed, under certain circuineitAle-opo;
violate their vows of celibacy." After quoting, tf:o
this subject, from " Dens' Theology," the vvritehre cop
concludes :—" We hope—and know nothing to tuepolld:
trary--the three priests at Douglas are as pure a° bio°o,
yet we tremble for the temptation of flesh arid 06t
especially where, as we have shown, one priest 0,0 too
solve another. Very few wolves can be found roo
quietly in the same told with lambs." The three 00
are the Revs. James Carr, John liswkesviort
Gerald O'Reilly.