The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-17 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

John Harman, alias While, a notorious " smasher,"
was charged upon the police sheet with uttering a
counterfeit half-crown to Mr. Edmund Warlter, a butcher
in Durham-street, Bethral-green-road.
It appeared from thstatement of police-sergeant K 8
that, on Saturday evening, the prisoner entered the
prosecutor's shop, and in payment of some trifling article
he tendered a half-crown piece, which Mr. Warlter im-
mediately discovered to be spurious, and, on looking at
the utterer, at once recognised him as being the same
person who had practised a similar imposition upon him
on the preceding day. On being charged with the fact,
;l-,e prisoner made ,a sudden attempt to repossess himself
of the coin, which, in the struggle fell to the ground,
and finding the butcher was determined to secure it, the
prisoner caught up one of his cleavers and made a cut
at his head with such force that, but for his fortunately
evading the blow, must have produced fatal conse-
quences. The prisoner, after a violent struggle, was
overpowered, and given into the custody of a policeman,
who conveyed him to the station-house. While the
charge was being there taken against thug the prisoner

made another attempt to snatch the money from the
hand of the prosecutor ; but, instead of getting posses'
ti.on of the base coin, he grasped hold o.`'a large petolY;
piece, which he iriuu,:iia..ely thrust into his fnouth, and
made an attempt to swallow. He was observed, how-
ever, instantly to turn black in the face, the piece having
got tightly fixed in his gullet, and, after some aborti‘e
attempts on the part of the officers to dislodge it, be 1c55
conveyed, in a state of strangulation, to the London
Hospital, where the coin was- forced down his throats
The sergeant added that the prisoner still remained 10
the hospital in such a condition as at present entirely
precluded the possibility of his removal.
Mr. BROUGHTON gave directions to the sergeant to..
keep his eye upon the case, and when the prisoner had
sufficiently recovered, to bring him to the court, to meet
the charge ageing him.
THAMES POLICE.
Yesterday James Bridgman, alias Smith, andwith
great many other i://qses, was brought before Mr. 13r0:
derip, charged with breaking into the Union Char'
Poplar, with intent to commit a felony.
Henry Plewrite, a police-constable, No. 106 K, stated
that on Saturday morning, the attention of the inbabi:
tants in the neighbourhood of the chapel was attracted
by the groans of a man, which gradually became fainter;
About six o'clock information of the occurrence *as lel
to the station-house, and he walked round the chsPe:
I
heard a low moaning, and cries of " Help, save It%
lam dying !" Having procured the keys, be vitro%
the interior for some time, and ultimately traced
sthw
sounds to the chimney of the vestry-room. and then „
a man's legs, and attempted to haul hies down, but pi,
was unable to do so. He then attempted to force him
up the chimney, but with no better success, and the mad
in a low tone said he was stuck fast in the chimney skie
dying, and that he could not hold out much longer. Le
Mom diately procured assistance and demolished Om
chimney with pick -axes and crow-bars. About eig
o'clock the pri-oner was rescued, quite insensible. si
surgeon was called in, who found him in the last stage
exhaustion from the cold and bruises he had inflicted uPehl;
himself in his efforts to get out of the chimney, where
must have remained for five or six hours. After the Pirs:i
soner was rescued, he was sent to the London Hosr '
wer
and he had just been fetched from that place to Os- to
the charge against him. He knew the prisonertee
be a notorious thief, and he examined the chimney shad
his apprehension and discovered that the tcp Of 4
been takers off and the prisoner had descended thr°llb.
the opening, and was proceeding towards the ve*,,,tol:
room for the purpose of robbing it, when be bec"'--
fixed in the chimney.
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Mr. George Cross, of No. 6, Titchbourne-court,
born, said that on the Ist or 2d of December, 1842,11
prisoner made application to him for employmetilinto
said he could make himself handy. He ordered
sore
come on the following Monday. and found him
work to do. The prisoner said he had no lodgings
and asked permission to sleep in the house. lie
tented to his doing so, although such an arrange":„"
was extremely inconvenient. Next morning, bef°l43l—nos
one else was stirring, the prisoner decamped after P
dering the house of a quantity of tools belonging W:10-'6
ness and a journeyman in his employ, the apPren ha
wearing apparel, two pillows from the bed on whicl.
slept, and other property. A 01
The prisoner, who was very ill and weak, tar_ "ms•
covered with soot and dirt, on being called on for to
defence, faintly articulated —"I have nothing at all
say."
Aar. BRODERIP remanded the prisoner till Ttlembli
next, and he was led away by the gar,ler.
Yesterday the Mercers' Compan-y
nual contribution of 101. to tb., poor-box of the C°lll.
On Saturday the Earl of sent 51.
11411.1-111 ER SMITH. vrleage
Mr. PAYNforwarded their lit:
TER 'requested our reporter to 20010- „zit!
the receipt fry him, on Saturday last, of two five-r- %
notesy sent by the Earl of C., one for the poor hero
of ''nis Court and the other for that of the Wands°
I Police-court.

TRIAL of MR. PORT at CHESOI4.

(Reported in the Times of the 11th instant) i;e,
The trial of Mr. Port proves, beyond con ion
tion, how juries have been imposed upon in questi..,,a
of medicine by interested doctors, in order to pp
up their sinking theory (the organic). The 1r11:4 of
laid down by Sir Mathew Hale, in " Hale's ne-4,30
the Crown," and affirmed by Blackstone, at 9 itlo
when medicine was not made such a trade of ° col'
at present, in cases similar to Mr. Port's, ig

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"If a physician gives a person a potion
intent to do him any bodily hurt, but with an inner
to cure or prevent a disease, and, contrary to the
tation of the physician, it kills him, this is no 110113.1% to
opin.„l°
and the like of a chirurgeon ; and I hold their
be erroneous that think, if he be no licensed chirn, ell
or physician that occasioneth this mischance, OP „"fed
it is a felony, for physic and salves were before lice; bo
without
try
physicians and chirurgeons and therefore, if , aile/off
not licensed according to the statute of the 3a A. 1.0
c. 1., of the 14th Henry VIII., c. 5., they are so )4
to the penalties of the statutes ; but God forbid that 00;
mischance of this kind should make any PeP°ll'
licensed, guilty of murder or manslaughter: „h
Of late years a competition has arisen w"fiojit
diplomaed doefors, and consequently our judges4ool
convenient, and in opposition to the before-inein
dictum
high legal authorities, to adopt another ,Tvof
which is, " that the accused shall be deemed 81;,-,,,/'
manslaughter if he acted with rashness a 701 i.
Bence," and the judges of this "rashness or 1:,-1'
Bence," are—who do you think ? The judge el*J,t in
but the doctor, with the piece of parchtne":4
his pocket, who is directly interested in obtati Sir
conviction. The very forcible reason given lysie
M. Hale, and affirmed by Blackstone, that `` P wer
and salves were before licensed doctors is 50 the
ful, that we need not say_ another word' to Prb°' law'
iniquity of the present mode of laying down t`f for
The idea of placing an honest man on his trim oree
felony, when his only crime is that he does trot e
with the opinions of the interested doctors, an thot
he has done all he can to save, is so monstrous, Ail
every lover of liberty must rejoice at the trinl7,j
acquittal of Mr. Port. It is hoped that the anew toil
the doctors, on their cross-examination on thsvoisb
will open the eyes of the people. Our judgelaoctoll
present day appear to combine with the a the;
against the people ; it is, however, to be hope 90 0
the verdict of acquittal in Mr. Port's case, in, .1;011 to
both judge and doctors, will operate as leinos
them. The only thing that should have been th-tstea
Mr. Port, if he acted as an apothecary, was Os
by Sir M. Hale) for the Apothecaries' Co
have brought an action against him on the stlllut Ae
penalties. That's the true remedy for doctors ;
presume that that, like Sir James Grahams ,fibes
not sufficient protection for them. If a surge:ll/%0, Ae
drunk, kills a person in performing an operitt!"loo
hear of it because it is so palpable that not",,,lnfieentl
shield him ; but with respect to a physician, 'leo OP
to be responsible to no one ; and the only ref's!, (the
he is not responsible appears to be, that the.Y
physicians) all differ in theory and practice:ooo,
subject is certainly deserving of serious coosine

+,§ ig 6;
The new President of the United Stll`"--10 ."r
Scottish lineage ; and bis curious looking 13, fay
abridgment of a good old Scotch one. Mr. P01k.% 001
or grandfather is said to have been a Lanarkahlro rlio.
Pile:at:et isr:;:i
of the name of Pollock. In the somewhat
lect of the upper ward of this county, that
nounced Poke, and hence, probably, the orthelilP"
adopted by the transatlantic branch of the 1
Glasgow Post.
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BIRTHS. afortisbits'
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On the 10th inst., at Meppershall Rectory, "-- ore. •
the wife of the' Rev. Henry Howarth, of a son, still of esP
On the 12th inst., at Torrington-square, the ladYn. of
tamn Mackenzie, Royal Engineers, of a eon, still-b°r),-;15`11
On the 13th inst., at Merrow, near Guildford, t-- ir
Captain Parke, Royal Marines, of a daughter. ,r, of Ot
On the 14th inst., the lady of George Taylor, P-6cl"'
field House, Hants, of a son. „,,00, f 044
On the 14th inst., the lady of A. H. Kinder"' _.,d
Liverpool, of a daughter. Ay
On the 15th inst., at Connaught-place, Lady %CO
Hope, of a .
On the 15dthaughter inst., in Portland-place, Mrs. Jamb A
A, es
Nicol, of a daughter. 0
v.
On the 15th inst., in Dorset-place, Dorset-square" v•-
of John Lagier Lamotte, Esq., of a daughter. fill*
On the 15th inst., at Claremont-terrace, Pent°ll tbi
lady of Henry Hills, Esq , of a son. tr'ra,
On the 15th inst., at Edmondthorpe, LeieesterB-1
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Hon. Mrs
16th ins teat Edwars of a son. A °
On the Ratcliffe, Mrs. Buchanan, °I. to
ter, still-born. TI i4ri‘'
On the 16th inst., at Westboarne-terrace, --, d.-
wife of James Colhoun, Esq., of a daughter.
IV
MARRIED. ti, Isti
At the church of St. Bride's, in the City of Lon--io,
Rev. H. Hyndman Jones, Mr. W. Simpson, t° '''. „00
Best. '17‘7.4'
II On the sth inst., at St. George's, Hanover-sciusTA.lhvy
ood, Esq., late of Bond-street, to bliss Fella, ° 0'
ye, rifp street, Regent's-park. .i.t,r
On the 12th inst., at St. James's Church, D° Jobe
Lodge, of London, to Ann, only child of the late
0111
den, Esq., Kingston, Portsea. gr" '
On the 14th inst., at St. Botolph, Bishopsg Olt
A,
Humphery Smith, to Mary Ann, second daughter
Hall, of Bishopsgate-street Without. !Get'
On the 14th inst., at St. Mary's, Islington, Daniel p-.1,;*
away Porter, Esq., of Great Tow er- street, to Ji...011.1c-p'
daughter of Joshua Reynolds Pugh, Escli.:ll.
City-road.
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DIED. ly Tel'',
On the 11th inst. after a few hours illness, dsel) 0,, 13
by his afflicted family, Richard Hazel, Ea+, I" Ole
aged 66. jernairrige.
On the 29th of October, at Lower Clarendon, coolocp,
Rev. John Nash. 8.A., of Corpus Christi College' mrs. I.'t
On the 7th inst., at Frankfort-on-the-Maine; ,e, el 0,
the wife of her Britannic Majesty's Consul to toh‘_tert' ileg
On the 9th inst., at Woodford, Wilts, n u
k Oil
Esq., aged 69.
O gl/ ar._, n
the 9h inst., in Connaught-square, E
11.7de-P on
beth, relictt of the late John Crosse Crooke, gli
e f ';1411
rn ,
-On the 10th inst., at Guernsey, Elisha, eldes 7, „',,,i
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of the late Peter Dobree, Esq., of the I.leaureeeVl.ag ""
On the 10th inst., at Upper Gower-street, Is w
of the
Peter Muter, Esq , aged 61. thy, yeti'
On the 12th inst., at Southampton, Dore loci,
late William Bowyer, Esq. r 'onel
EsOqn, late
Cl3atili)taiinnsti.n,
haterAmlbves,t,yn,es.
,ed 78' ;
On the 14th inst , Elizabeth .All4nartehGliuDai,lr;rdeyu'w-"a:r°fte°'-
Mansse, Esq., of Lawrence Pountney- lane, ab
~, or
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Middlesex, Tuesday, December 17,1844