The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-10 00:00:00

HATWOOD V. M'DOWALL.

Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, Mr. Knowles, and Mr. Flood, ap-
peared for the plaintiff ; Mr. Martin for the defendant.

This action was brought nominally for a fortnight's wages,
but in reality to determine between the master printers and
the compositors of the metropolis two points—first, whether
according to the custom of the trade a fortnight's notice is
necessary to determine the contract of service on either side,
and, secondly, whether Parliamentary appeal eases" should
be paid for at fist/ rate of Bd. or of 7d. per thousand letters.
At the commencement of the case, Mr. MAawzx said he did
not intend to dispute the first point, and would, therefore,
admit that the plaintiff was entitled to a fortnight's notice be-
fore he was discharged.

The only questaii, therefore, now to be determined was the
rate of payment.
The defendant is the well known printer, carrying on busi-
ness in Pemberton-row, Gough-square. The plaintiff is a
compositor. The defendant is honorary secretary to the
Master Printers' Association. The plaintiff is supported by
the body of London compositors. In January last the
defendant, who had not before hid much Parliamentary
business. got an order to print an appeal case, " Ranger the
Great Western Railway Company. • As all business done
before Parliament, or in connexion with it, is paid for at a
higher rate than business done e.sewhere, compositors charge
more for Parliamentary than other work, and require Bd. per
thousand for " appeal cases." The defendant offered only
7d. per th,..ufand. This "the companionship," i.e. the body
of compositors in the defendant's employment, for this kind of
business refused to take. Though there was plenty of other
work in the office, the defendant i ould not give any einloy-
Anent to them, and they thereupon gave him a fortnight's no-
tice to leave. During this fortnight they were wholly unem.
ployed, and this action was brought by one of them for about
41., the snm which, on the average, he would be supposed
likely to make by piecework during the fortnight he was so
employed.

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After a few witnesses had been examined for the plaintiff, the
ease was adjourned till to-morrow.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Winnums.)
George Hickmott, 20, butler, was indicted for felo•
niously forging and uttering an acquittance or receipt
for the payment of IL 145., with intent to defraud
Abraham Wilday Roberts.
Mr. CLARKSON said he had just communicated with
his client, and as he could not hope to struggle success-
fully against the facts that were to be deposed to by the
witnesses for the prosecution, he would, with the per-
mission of the Court, retract his plea of not guilty.
The plea having been recorded,
Mr. CLARKSON said he believed he should be in a
position to show the Court by respectable testimony that
the prisoner, up to the time of the transaction, had borne
a most unimpeachable character. He believed he had
been led away by other parties.
Mr. BODKIN reminded the Court that there were three
other indictments against the prisoner.
Mr. CLARKSON said he believed that the extent of the
defalcations of the prisoner was not more than 131.
altogether. _ _ _

Mr. Roberts said the amount was much larger than
that stated by the Learned Counsel, but this was not so
much the consideration, as the feeling that his duty to
the public required him to prosecute in a case which he
considered one of great breach of confidence. The pri-
soner was entrusted with cheques to pay the trades-
people, and his practice was to keep the amount and
forge the receipts of the parties. The prisoner received
a most excellent character when he came into his service,
and he believed he had been induced by parties to bet
upon horses and horse-races, and this had led him into
difficulties.

Mr. Justice WILLIAMS said he should consider what
sentence ought to be passed upon the prisoner.
Chailes Chalk, 38, was indicted for feloniously killing
and slaying his son, George Chalk.
There as not the least evidence in support of the
charge, and
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS directed the jury to return a
verdict of Not Guilty.
William Warren, 26, shoemaker, was indicted for
feloniously cutting and wounding Sarah Warren, with
intent to murder her.

The facts of this case have already appeared in our
police reports. . .

Mr. Justice WILLIAMS having summed up, the jury
found the prisoner guilty of a common assault.
The Learned Judge, after some appropriate obsorva-
dons, sentenced the prisoner to three months' imprison-
ment.

Anthony Aldred was indicted for forging a receipt for
the sum of 205., with intent to defraud Edward Cooper.
It appeared that in June last the father of the prose-
cutor received a letter which purported to be written by
his son, and in which he was requested to send him a
poet office order for 205., to N.,. 93, Tower-street,
Blackfriars-road. The order was sent. and was preyed
to have been received by the prisoner, who signed the
name of the prosecutor to it, and received the money.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and a previous
conviction for felony having been proved against him, he
was sentenced to be transported for fifteen years.
(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.)
Henry Lowden, a news. agent's boy, was convicted of
uttering a forged request tor the delivery of four quires
of the Pictorial Times newspaper, with intent to defraud
Andrew Spottiswoode.
Thomas King and John Courtney were also convicted
of a similar offence.

Mr. Baron ALnEnsoN sentenced all the prisoners to
be kept to hard labour for two years, but intimated that
in the cases of Courtnay and King, who had received a
good character, that some mitigation of the sentence
might be granted.
illaty Calland, 19, was convicte3 of stealing a 10/.
Bank of England note, the property of Marie Quentin,
her mistress.

She was sentenced to be transported for ten years.

MEMOIRS OF SOPHIA DOROTIIEA, CONSORT OF
GEORGE I.—With the exception of Mary, Queen of
Scots, no illustrious personage has excited so much in-
terest and sympathy as the subject of this memoir. Her
whole life, as relatedin these pages, is a perfect romance.
The dreadful hatred of the Countess Platen towards her
Royal Highness, the devilish acts with which she pur-
sued her to ruin, and the cold-blooded and cruel murder
of Count Konigsmark by the same fiendish hand, makes
us believe we are reading some recital of the cruelty of a
female Borgia, rather than those of a German lady of
the last century. The true features of the drama are
now for the first time published, gathered from various
German documents, and from the diary of the unfor-
tunate Princess herself, written during her long confine-
ment in the fortress of Ahlden. Independently of the
interest these memoirs must excite on account of the
ill-starred Princess, whose persecution they set forth, a
vast number of contemporary portraits are given, which
add great value to its pages The politic, yet weak-
minded Elector of Hanover ; the Platens, those devils in
human shape ; the corrupt Bernstorf ; Madame Schu•
lenburg, and others of the ugly harem of George the
First ; Frederick Augustus, the Sardanapalus of the
North ; and last, not least, the handsome and Notorious
Count Konigsmark. figure most prominently in this in-
teresting history.— Weekly Chronicle.
GRAND PROCESSION OF THE SOCIETY OF OLD
FRIENDB.—The twenty-seventh anniversary of this Society (whose
object is the relief of distressed brothers, and whose branches have
spread over all parts of the kingdom), was yesterday celebrated
with grand processional pomp. The main body of the procession
rendezvoused in Finsbury. square, each lodge furnished with its
respective banner and band of musicians, and formed in order of
four deep, the lodges (of which there are 101 in London) taking
position according to seniority. The procession then moved, ac
companied by a vast assemblage of people, onward to Vauxhall
Gardens, where an excellent dinner was spread for 2,000 members.
The procession in its course was, from time to time, considerably
augmented by tributary lodges falling in from the side streets at
which they awaited their opportunity of joining. After dinner
the evening was passed amid the varied attractions for which " the
royal property " (Vauxhall) is remarkable.
QUICK COMMUNICATION —What would folks fifty
years ago have said (asks the Pittsburg Age) had they received a
London paper with an engraving of a fire in Pittsburg before the
ruins had ceased smoking? yet such is the case now. We re.
ceived a paper of this kind on the 4th, and lit a cigar among the
ruins on the same =ND,.