The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-11 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

HUNTING INTELLIGENCE.
AFFOINTMENTB FOR THIS WEEK.
The Sinnintun Fox,hounds, on Friday, ut Marton--
at nine.

'Elie York City 1-lArrierv;on Friday, at Huntington—
at half-past ten.

The Boroughbridge Harriers, on Friday; at Milby—at
half-past ten.
The Marquis of Cleve Fox-houndq, on FrAl, a Noin4n,s Boor, at half-put ten; and Saturday, at Stone-
bridge, Laver 13anks, at eleven,
the Northumberland Fox-hounds, on Friday, at Nether-
witton—at ten,
Sir R. Pulestou's Hounds, on Friday, at Halton Hall
—at eleven.
Mr. Wickitead's Fox-hounds, on Friday, at Aqualate.—
at half-past ten.
Sir T. Sykes's Fox-bounds, on Friday, at Knapton
Plantation—at ten.
The I'lurworth Fox-hounds, on Friday, at Neasham—
at tea.

MEDICO-BOTANICAL SOCIETY.--- A
ninner-
ckto Meeting cf this Society took place yesterday, at which
Mr. crown, of the British Museum, was declared expelled,
by a majority of six. Earl Stanhope was in the Chair.
AFFAIR OF I-lONOUR.—We have heard a
"coating rumour of an affair of a delicate nature, which
occurred lately in Belfast. We do not, however, vouch
fur the accurkzy of our statement. It is said that a
certain Noble Marquis has sworn informations against
a learned and rather dogmatic Barrister, for having
delivered to him a hostile message from a gentleman
who has lately been lather reluctantly introduced into
the Law Courts, in consequence of having rashly ventured
into the holy state of matrimony. This Mr. con-
ceiving sonic insult (a very erroneous conception, we are
told) offered to his fair sister, lately on a visit to the
Nyrth, forthwith deputed the aforesaid lawyer to demand
an apology, or a meeting. The Courts above are likely,
we have been told, to finally settle the matter.—Northern
Whig,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.

There was a novel but useful decision at this office
yesterday, respecting the delivery of parcels. to the
inhabitants of the outskirts of the Metropolis.
The porter at the White Horse-inn, Fetter-lane,
was charged with demanding more than the legal
porterage for a basket of game, which had arrived
at the above inn from Swaffham, directed to Wm:
Berry, Esq., of Kennington. The carriage was paid
at Swaffham, and the porter, instead of forwarding
the baSket by one of the coaches from the poulterer's
at the end of Fleet-market, or the Kiugs and Keys
in Fleet-street, which :would have entitled him to
only 3d. porterage, carried it to the Cress Keys in
Graceehurch-street, which entitled him to Bd. por-
terage, according to the distance, and from thence it
was conveyed to Kennington by the errand-cart.
The charge for conveying it from the inn to its
destination was Is. 6d., and it reached Mr. Berry at
seven o'clock in the evening instead of one o'clock
in the day. Mr. Berry, therefore, complained, not
only of the additional porterage, but the delay from
taking it to the carrier instead of to the nearest coach.
Mr. Alderman LticAs decided that a porter car-
rying a parcel to the farthest instead of the. nearest
coach, for the sake of increasing his porterage, was
not entitled to such increase, and he fined the de-
fendLnt
The porter immediately paid the fine.
BOW-STREET.

Daniel Heath alias John Loyd, the attorney's
clerk who stands charged with bigamy, was yester-
day brought forward to be re-examined.
Basjamin Parrott stated that he was a broker, and
liven in Cromer-street. About 14 years ago he
knew the father and mother of Caroline Charreneau
who lived opposite to him •in Cromer-street. The
father owned some billiard-tables, he also kept a
sma:l shop in Cromer-street Remembered the
daughter, Caroline Charreneau; she was afterwards
married to the prisoner, and became Mrs. Heath.
Witness was not present at the marriage, but had
always understood that it took place.
Mr. My:swum—How long is it since you saw
the woman whom you knew as Caroline Charre-
neau ? Witness-1 saw her about a fortnight ago.
Mr. MINSHULL observed, that the fact of the first
wife being living a fortnight ago established a case
against the prisoner.
Mr. Harmer, who appeared for the prisoner, ad-
mitted that there was now sufficient evidence against
hill to warrant a committal.
Mr. IVIINSHULL having made -up. his mind to send
the prisoner for trial, another examination could not.
be objected to. He therefore directed the second
wife and the other witnesses in the case to attend
again on Wednesday next.
The prisoner was then removed in custody.
At a very late hour last night Devkin, the night-
constable of Kentish-town, brought in custody to
this office a man named John Pace, who is charged
with being one of a gang of four housebreakers who
committed a burglary at the house of a lady named
Mountain, who-resides at Whetstone, near Barnet.
Mrs. Mountain, the lady whose house was broken
into, is the widow of Mr. Mountain, the coach pro-
prietor, of the Saracen's Head, Snow-hill.
George Lawrence, the gardener, deposed as fol-
lows :—On the night of -the 22d of October last I
locked the outer gate of the shrubbery, and -bolted
and barred the hall-door, leaving the female ser-
vant to secure the ,upper part of the house. I
then went to bed, and was awoke about half-past
one o'clock in the morning by the female servant,
who, knocking at my door, cried out, " Gardener,
gardener, there are thievea in the house; for God's
sake get up, or we shall all be murdered." At the
same moment I heard some persons knocking at the
hall-door. I lifted up my bed-room window and
looked out,
.but could see no one. I then partly
dressed myself, and taking a cord from my box, I
tied it to the foot of my bed, and lowered myself
down into the garden, a height of about fifteen feet.
I took my gun with me, which was loaded with
slugs, As soon as I descended, I perceived four
men running with all speed from the outer iron door
which leads into the hall, and which had been very
strongly secured. As soon as the men saw me they
all ran away, and I pursued them. I presented my
gun towards them, and said, " If you do not stop,
I will blow your brains out." They did not mind
me, but continued running, and I then presented
the gun at them a second time, and pulled the trig-
ger, but the gun missed fire, and did not go off. I
continued in pursuit of the men, who were running
tom:n:s. the gate. I came up with one of the men
(the prisoner) jtzst as he was turning round the cor-
ner of the shrubbery-walk. I raised the gun and
struck the prisoner, either on the head or the shoul-
ders, a violent blow with the barrel, and knocked
him, into a laurel in the shrubbery. I did not stop
to secure the prisoner, believing that I had disabled
him, but continued to pursue the other three men.
Two of them, in forcing through the shrubbery-
gate, ran against the bell wire, and broke it. They
got clear- off. The third man was in the act of
getting o:verthe gate also, when I knocked him off
with a blow of the e!m, which broke the stock in
two. The man cried out, think you have broken
sny ; I give myself up." I then took him into
custody., AO brought him with me to Whetstone,
where I delivered him into the hands of the con-
stable at that place. The man Iso secured was
tried arid convicted last Friday upon my evidence
at the Old Bailey.
Mr. Maism.u.L—Are you quite sure that the pri-
soner is the man whom you struck and knocked, as
you say, into the laurel.;—Witness—l am quite posi-
tive that the prisoner is the man. 7.,t was.a beauti-
ful moonlight morning, and I could not be mistaken
in the features of the prisoner.
Mr. IVllNstium.—But you tvpre not, perhaps, suf-
ficiently collected at the time to be eutain of the
man's features.—Witness—l was perfectly collected,
Sir, Ind felt no alarm until I got over the fence,
which was after I had struck the prisoner.
Mr. MiNiffp,J, dire'cled the gaoler to place a
candie so as the lien should fall directly upon the
countenance of the prisoner, who told at the
same time to put on his hat.
Mr. Mltigsg,t4L—Now, witness, recollect yourself,
and look once more ,;',"; the prisoner.
The witness again turned -pound, and in the same
pog,i;re manner declared that the prisoner was the
man : he could no: be mistaken in him.

Mr. MINSITULL- cyidence is certainty very
contrusive as far as it ha. gone.
3,1;.:”llum then eskeki how the prisoner had
been taken '?

The witness Lawreacg explained, that the day
after the burglary had taken pla.ce; he went to the
Sw,4-with-two-Necks public-house at Whetstone,
and gave a description there of the man whom he
had knocked into the laurel-bush, requesting that if
suc7l a man should happen to stop there, word should
be sent to him at Mrs. Mountain's.

Mr. Shearman said that perhaps he could explain
the matter more fully. The day after the burglary
it was a,scertaiped that four men, answering the de-
scription of the robbers had been on the night pre-
vious at the public house called the Swan-with-two-
Necks, Whetstone. Directions were agcoNjngly
left there, that if any of the men should again call,
word Apia() be sent to the witness Lawrence. Ac-
cordingly, about two o'clock yesterday, the prisoner
came to the Swan-witk,two,-Alecks? driving a cart
with fish in it. Intimation was immedigtelV for-
warded to Lawrence, that a man answering the de-
scription of the one he had previously described, as
having been knocked by him into the laurel-bush;
was then at the inn. Lawrence immediately went
over to Whetstone, and without any hesitation
identified the prisoner, upon , which he was taken
into custody.
Mr. MiNsHuu. asked the prisoner if be had any
thing to say in answer to the charge?
he prisoner replied that he had a great deal to
say, but he did not wish to enter into his defence at
present.--The prisoner was remanded.

MARLBOROUG H-STREET.
A very decent-looking young female and her hus-

I band, named Addington, who have been in custody
some days, charged with possessing:several prints
and other articles of property belonging to Mr. Tomp-
kins, the eminent engraver, were brought before Mr.
DYER, the sitting Magistrate, for examination.
IThe brother of the female prisoner had been for
some time in the service of Mr.. Tompkins, during
which his master Occasionally missed several thinp,
but did not suspect the lad,- who was quite
,a youth,
until he • absconded altogether, and bad not since
been seen or, heard of; although every search bad
been made for him in various places, and amongst
others at the re'idence of the two prisoners ; and
here Mr. Tompkins found,the- prints now produced,
his property. It was dear, Mr. Tompkins said;that.
the prisoners knew nothing-of the prints they had
got hold of, or their value ; for,, in fact, there was
when he lost them no less than five different prints
in each frame, one placed at the back of another, he
having so arranged them himself for safety and con-
venience when he should want them, and they are
all still in the same state. Every one of the prints,
although small, Mr. Tompkins said, was of consider-
able value, and aome of them had, in fact, been lent
to him as a favour by Lady Diana Beauclerk to make
engravings from, and he was quite ashamed and
grieved at not being able to return them sooner. In
searching a box belonging to the youth who has ab-
peonded, a book was also found which had been
stolen from a private drawer in Mr. 'J'ompkins's
house, and the recovery of which, Mr. Tompkins
said, gave him the utmost satisfaction,' for it was a
book of so atrocious a nature, that he greatly feared
same junior member of his own family might have
got hold of it. _ _

Mr. DYER had looked at this book, and although
he had occasion often, in the course of his life, to
have books of a very infamous nature submitted to
his inspection, all that he had ever seen or beard of
fell far short of this detestable publication. All the
abominations that ever degraded or debased huma-
nity must have been concentrated in the mind of the
author of this work; and, indeed, the wretch who
could have sat down to pen it must have been in
the fullest sense of the terms " hostis humani
generis ;" it was totally impossible that any of the
youth of either sex, to whose eyes the blighting
curse of this volume was applied, could escape utter
and irremediable ruin. So entirely horror-struck
were his (the Magistrate's) senses on perusing only
two pages of it, that he dropped it from his hands
with an involuntary shudder of disgust, and he could
not venture again to look at it, or even to submit it
to the inspection of any of his brother Magistrates ;
for this reason, too, he was ignorant of where it was
published, or what its date was.
Mr. Tompkins said that he has bad this book in
his possession for upwards of 40 years; for about
. that time since he was acquainted intimately with a
young man, a friend of his, who had by some acci-
dent got hold of this book, and lent it to him, Mr.
Tomkins, to read, but on perusing a few pages of
it, he found it to be of so diabolical a description
that he determined never to return it, or let it go
into the world from his hands again, and he never
did afterwards part with it, but instantly sealed it
up, and placed it in one of his private drawers,
where it remained in that state until a few months
ago, when he missed it.
Mr. DYER asked Mt. Tompkins how he wished
to have the book now disposed of ?—Mr. Tomp-
kins said, that his desire by all means was to have it
destroyed immediately.
Mr. DYER said, that this was precisely the sort of
answer be expected from a gentleman of Mr. Tomp-
kins's respectability; and he (Mr. Dyer) would see
that the book should be destroyed in his own pre-
sence.—The prisoners were remanded.
The driver of the hackney chariot No. 18, was
summoned to answer the complaint of Mr. Dyer,
the magistrate, which was preferred before Mr.
SHARP, a county magistrate, who sat on the bench,
for driving an incompetent chariot.
The defendant admitted the bad state of the
vehicle to the full extent described by the magistrate,
but said that he was really so poor, he could not af-
ford to have it mended.

The defendant was then convicted. in 10s., the
highest penalty the act allows for this offence, and
the costs, which not being able to pay, he was com-
mitted to prison.

A notice was yesterday forwarded from the Judges
of the Court of King's Bench to Sir George Far-
rant, the magistrate at this office, under whose com-
mitment William Smith, Esq., in custody of a charge
of rape, was lodged in Newgate the day before, re-
quiring the magistrates to have the depositions taken
before him in the case produced in the Court of
-King's Bench before the Lord Chief Justice thereof,
at the hour of three o'clock that afternoon, on an
application to be then made on the part of the pri-
soner, that the court would allow him to go at
large upon sufficient bail unto the sessions in which
his trial is to take place; and in pursuance of this
notice Mr. Bishop, one of the clerks of the office,
was directed by the Magistrate to be in attendance
in court at the hour named, with the'depositions of
the witnesses in the ewe. A habeas was also served

in the early part of the day upon Mr. Wontner, the
Governor- of Newgate, requiring him to produce
Mr. Smith in 'the Court of King's Bench at the
same hour...

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) • •
On Tuesday afternoon Mr. Smith was removed.
to NeWgate, and immediately afterwards numerous
affidavits, tending to show the falsehood of the
charge, and the infamous :character of the parties
making it, were laid before Mr. Justice Bayley,
who immediately granted ati habeas corpus for the
defendant to be brought before a Judge to be bailed.
Mr. Smith was accordingly taken yesterday after-
noon before Mr. Justice Park, who, after perusing
the various papers, said, he thought it a fit case to
adm4 to bail, and that he should not require the
sureties 'to enter into hravy reeognizenees. The
Learned Judge then directed the defendant to give
segarity, himself in MI., and four persons in 30/.
each. This was immediately done? and the defend,-
ant liberated.

Jane Byrne, the prosecutrix, and her witness,
Elizabeth Roebuck, attended at the Judge's cham-
bers for upwards of two hours; and Jane went be-
fore the Judge to oppose two of the bail; but on the
gentlemen being finestioned, they gave the most sa-
tisfactory answers.
• An extraordinary fact. respecting Roebuck hqs
been ascertained in consequence of 'the publication of
the evidence in the Times, which is, that about six
years ago she- rpade -a charge of rape against a re-
spectable publican in Holborn, which was so palpa-
bly false, that' although she swore positively to the
fact, the Magistrates et I.s9w-street e3ercised their
good sense and discretion, and discharged theaccpsed.