The Sun.
London, England, 1810-01-19 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY STORY.

Dublin has been, for sonic time, agitated with
the following 'eatraordinary s6ary, .which has su-
perseded almost every other subject of conversa-
tion in that city :—=Surge years ago, ,two blind
men, an, the foundation of Simpson's Hospital,
" fur the reception of decayed, -blind,- and gouty
patients," wkire poisoned. The- poison -was adrni-
nistered in a cake, which two men, seemingly of
their 'aegnaintance had left with them, upon pay-
ing tlicat a visit at the hospital. Large rewards
were at the time offered- forthe discovery of thoSe
enoinious criminals, but without .effea, and the
transaction 'appeared nearly buried in oblivion,
until within a few days since, when Mr. —, a
Gentleman of large fortune, and hitherto 'of ami-
able and respectable character, publicly charged his
mother, Mrs, —, with having procured the per-
petration of this ,horrid crime, and with equal
publicity declared his intention of- bringing her
to justice, alleging that 'they were material • wit-
nesses in a cause of considerable impottance, in
which a friend of hers .was a party,. who would be
injured by their evidence. These declarations of
the son, 'being frequently repeated, reached the ears
of the mother ; and, 'a few. days since, she called
upon him;- accompanied by a profess:opal Gentle-
man, of the first eminence and respeaability ; but,
so far was he from expressing any contrition, for
what (in any point of view) may be called 'hi, mi.,-
natural condu6t, that he again, and to her face,
reiterated those charg,a, and declared he would
substantiate them by the testimony of respeaable
witnesses. Under these circumstances the mother
applied to the Chief Justice of the King's Bench
(Downes), who granted a fiat of 2001; against the
son. We understand the affidavit was couched
in such vague, loose, and general ternas; that the
Chef Justice conceived he ought not to exceed
that sum ; but that, •upon being apprised of the
particular nature of. the Slander imputed to the son,
he larnented the affidavit vvau not More specific ; 'as,
in that case, he would have grantedafiat to almost
any amount. _ _

We have been for some time in, pciSsession of the
wiwie•iof this case, the names of the parties, and
the particulars oft he cause alluded to; but, from
motives of delicacy, we - have. carefully abstained
from even glancing, in our relation, at the names..
But, as the law' has been now- appealed to, and the
charge is,in progress to that state in which it must
soon come before the public, we kel. no improprie-
ty ingiving.the substance. The general opinion in
Dub 14,15 in favour of the Lady. On the other
hand, it is difficiilt to cOnceive, that ,a son; of
sound mind, could possibly make such a charge,
knowing it to be withont. foundatiol.

Tuesday night, a barge heavily. laden, going
through London Bridge, was sunk, owing to the
strong, current and floating ice. Happily .no lives
were lost. '

A Gentleman yeSterday, in 'Oxford-street, near
the corner of Bond-street, accidentally slipping from
the pavetnent, by -the mere suddenness of the shock
fractured the:pspetta of his left
.knee, which ,was
effectually separated in :the 'C'entre, and -One part
went down his thin, the other Love his knee. Such
is the structure of this bone, that it would require
the stroke of a cleaver to cut it asunder, and yet in
this case, a, in all others Of the like nature,, the Fe-
'parature was occasioned by 'We sudden divulsive
force of the muscles of the kg and thigh.

Wedne.sday evening .a young woniangoing along
M ddle-row, HO:bon, had her pockets"cut &out
her side, containing 1,51. in notes.

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ED.= URGArt JAN. 15.

COURT OF SESSION-FIRST DIVISION.

BROUGHTON V. AITCHISONS.

This is a case tit casiderable importance to
Merchants.—Messrs. Crow,, Wood, and Company,
corn-merchants in Leith, sold the defenders, John
and Alexander Aitchisons, bakers, in Edinburgh,
by letter, 98 bolls of wheate recei'ing payment of
eart o! the price, and a bill for the remainder,(w:nch
‘A as afterwards paid), and at the same time st pular-
lug, that the wheat should.be allowed to renean for
a short . time in their, granaries, until the defenders
'should find it convenient to. take it away. The de-
fenders at the same time received an order upon:the
'.ke"cper of the granary for &livery of the wheat,
which they: duly intiinated and delivereti, anti also
-paid him for terning and airing tite wheat, -,eni:e
it remained in the granary. in e ehen,iit. time,
tCrow and 'Wood became binkruprs, and they or-
;dered the keeperof the granary to refuSe,delivery of
the wheat, which, :cons`c(iucnce their Insol-
vency, they alleged became the property of their
creditors at large. Application was then M.:lde to
the Sheriff of Ediebureh: by the defeuklerS, '*ho
granted them a warrant 14 delivery ; but tee clues-
.tion having been brotight into the Court of ‘Sssieti
by suspenSion, "at the instance of j‘tir._ Charles
Broughtone accountant, in Edinburgh; trustee upon
the-bankrupt estate of Craw and Wood,: Lord
natyne, the. Lord Ordinary, upon considering the-
Tmorials for-:the parties, found, that neither toe or-
der. for delivery, gilen by the seilers to flee pur-
chasers, nor that obtained froth the Sle:riff, could .
be held eqUivalent to actual delivery and possession
of the • wheat, as renviiinng it: the warenonse at the
time of dm seller's bankruptcy, and could not there-
fore. operate as a tranfer of the property in favour
of the buyers, or prevent it passing into the hands
of, the trustee, as pact of the banktupt estate. • .
Tht deferiders brought the case before the review
of the;CoOrt by petition; when 'the judgment of the
Lord Ordinary was qltered, and it 'was found. that
the-property of the wheat in question was legally
vested in Ifittiefenders.

Son-repf the' 'Judges Were or opiniou that
,such
clairn.wasno more than a. pers.;:ral one, and fell to
be rankedi'with other claims upon the bankrupt es-
tate. The question was, ‘4,1-rether, at the date of the
banhruptey,!..the. ii.63/31,13/-pce9tirom the seller to the
buyer was cornplcied-11.00:tbought- it was nor,
and that the pument of tLe price was of no conse•-
quonee in this case ; and die order for de,
liv.ay gave Messrs, Aitchis:,,is a right to insist upon
the keeper of shy granary for cl 'ler)! of t 1 v„ „eat
from that particular place, yet they had not done
so ; and by allowing it to remain where it, was, the
property of the wheat was.cleady in the.eidn-Ors, of
Crow and Wood, the bank! opts. ;

A majority of the Judges.were, however, of opi.
nion, that, in this case, there was a cuipplete,,bar-
.
g4in of sale, by payment of the price, and the Only
delivery which the circutnstanc,...s• of the case could
admit of. The grain was measured, sei aside in the
granary,, an order granted for delivery, and this
duly intimated to the keeper of the -granary:, This
was the same, as if the keys of the W.,ireliouse had
been givm to the purch4sers,- with an order to go
and take the grain. The one was as good as the
other, as it gave the purchase's free entry to take
what was their own ; and, it) shOrt, it was one of
those cases which occur every day amung merchants:
where property, to the greatest extent and value, is
traniferred, without a..-tval delivery.
Judgment for the 'defenders, the putchaserS.

A few days ago, a. doe was enlarged it Grange
Cross, in the county of Cork, which ran to Butte-
vain, and was taken bythe.populace of that village,
in the river Aubeg, just under the Castle. When
the Gentlemen who were out came up, and found
what had taken place, .they, together with the po-
pulace (who conceived they had a just tight to de-
mand it, having saved the doe from being drowned),
requested that she might, be enlarged again, which
was compli d with,and she ran thence toTe r pltmary,
by Tullig and Bragogue, to Velvetstowo, thence to
Ballyhonra• mountain, and along the foot:of Lord
Ijoheraile's mountains, by Bailindvoneir to C
istle-
puca, after that by Doneraile towards Roche.% coun-
try, and 'round by Horny-wood, Anakissa, Fort
William, and Ballymagew, to EVallybeg, where they
saved her after night.came on, being altogether
about the diStance of 40 Irish miles.

MANSION HOUSE.—Evan Jones and joseph Jones,.
father and son, were yesterday:brought before the,
Lord Mayor, on a charge of felony. ft was' stated
in evidence, that the prisoner; JOseph Jones, was
a clerk in the house of Itvles-.rs. Bowden. and Tucker,
of Carnomile-street„ ehemiAs and druggists, foi.a.
considerable time, and that during the absence of
Mr. Bowden in the country, a few weeks since,
his warehouseman missed' a considerable quantity
olmusk ; and having communicated the dram-,
stance to a confidential clerk, a trap was laid, if
possible, to discover the thief, but without effect-t*
On Mr. Bowden's retura to town, he was informed
of the occurrence, and he instantly applied to Mr.
Nalder, the Deputy City Marshal; who from the
private sources of his intelligence, discOvered that
• a person named Jones, had been an agent, through
whom a considerable quantity of musk had been
sold; And he was traced as haying taken it to
the house of a man named Price, in East Smith-
field, from whence it was carried by' Price's ser-
vant,
to a man named Vincent, in Kina-strect,
,Tower-hill. This fa& being ascertained, Mr. Nah.,
der waited on Mr. Bowden, and asliecl whether
there was any person of the name of Jones in his
service, who replied, there was, and that he was
hi,s clerk. The prisoner Jones, jun. was then. seat
fbr, and asked several qrtestions, but he'prevaricated
so much, first promising to discover the whole
transaElion, and then denying any knowledge of it,
that Mr. Nalder deemed it expedient' to apprehend
both him and his father.

The servant girl of. Price yesterday recognized
the father as the person who brought the urisk .io
her rn3Ster's house, which she afterwards carried as
direeled. •

The -prisoners both denied any knoVfledge of .the
charge alleged- against .ihetn. They .werexemand,-1
for a intim; investigation, and in the interim it is
hoped some further light will be throWn on the
subied;

I'o3lished by WILLIAM ARMIGER SCRIPPS, South M
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-the Editor, 64, (,post-pain),

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