The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-09 00:00:00

CHANCELLOR V. LADY MARY RING.

Mr. Locke and Mr. Keyser appeared for the plaintiff,
and Mr. Beaden for the defendant.
This was an action brought to recover the sum of 8!.
for damage done to the plaintiff's carriage, by the wil-
ful conduct of her Ladyship's coachman in insisting in
breaking through the ranks, and endeavouring to take
up out of his turn. The plaintiff is an extensive job-
master at the west-end of the town, and he let one of his
carriages for the season to Lady Charles Someraet. On
the evening of the last Derby-day a select party was
given by Lady Philips, at her residence, 12, Hill-street,
Berkeley-square, to which both Lady Charles Somerset
and Lady Mary King were invited. The party broke
up at midnight, and Lady Somerset's carriage was called
to take up by the linkman, when the coachman of Lady
King, who had been previously called, attempted to
" cut in," by which means the carriages came in contact
with each other, the wheels getting locked together, and
on the coachman of Lady King endeavouring to back
out, considerable damage was done to the carriage of the
plaintiff, the panel was broken and the wheels injured, so
much so, that Lady Somerset refused to have it any
longer, and another carriage was sent by the plaintiff for
her ladyship's use.
The Learned COUNSEL called several witnesses, who
completely proved his case, among the number was the
linkman, who kept the Court in a roar of laughter during
the whole time he was giving his evidence.
John Mayer said, he had the honour of being ap-
pointed linkman to her Majesty's nobility for these last
thirty years, and his son-in-law was his deputy and man
of all work. —(Loud laughter.) He did not see the ac-
cident occur, but he heard the cry of " Linkman, bring
your light," and he then saw the two carringes con-
tracted together.—(Great laughter.) Lady King's
carriage bad smashed the panel of the carriage
of Lady Charles Somerset ; her Ladyship's (the
defendant's) carriage had come out of its turn and broke
the ranks. The coachman had come the artful dodge of
"cutting in," and witness told him that he had got in a
pretty mess.—(Loud laughter.) A regular aristocratic
coachman would have quietly waited until his lady called,
and not have been out of the way when he was wanted,
by which means he was sent to the bottom, and lost his
turn. _ .

Cross-examined—Then, I suppose you are the " light
of other days."—Yes, a very ancient linkman, and was
first brought out in well-bred society by a celebrated
lady of rank.—(Laughter.) Didn't wonder at accidents
happening now-a-days, they called things such rummy
names, as wasn't illegitimate.—(Roars of laughter.)
They had BroughamQ, buggys, flys, aulkys, and such like
jimcracks, instead of the real nobleman's illegitimate car-
riage.—(Convulsions of laughter.) My Lord Duke, or
her Grace, in going to parties, was no sooner in than
they were out again ; and that wasn't, so when George
the Third was King.—(Continued laughter.) That's
the way these here accidents occur, for as one's coming
the other is going, and that creates confusion. There's
always great smashing at the Opera.
The Learned COUNSEL then addressed the jury at great
length, and contended that the servants of the defendant
were not to blame, and Lady Somerset's carriage drove
up when .it was not called. The Learned Gentleman
called three witnesses ; but they totally failed to esta-
blish his defence, and the jury, without giving the
Learned Judge the trouble to sum up, returned a verdict
for the plaintiff—Damages, St, being the full amount
claimed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(SATURDAY.) •
BOW-STREET.

Yesterday, a miscreant, respectably-dressed, who
refused to give kis name, was brouglit before Mr. Jardine,
to answer the charge of having indecently exposed him-
self to a little girl, 13 years of age, in St. James's-park,
shortly after two o'clock in the afternoon.
The charge was fully established, it being proved also
that the offence was committed in the presence of two
still younger children than the one to whose care they
were entrusted.
The defendant said he had no reason to dispute the
evidence which had been given, but he assured the magis-
trate that everything he did was with. the unqualified
consent of the girl. lie would not attempt to justify his
conduct in a moral point of view, but he denied that he
had offended against any law. He added that he was a
gentleman living upon his fortune, and moving in a station
that would save him from the imputation of having in-
dulged frequently in habits of this nature.
Me. JARDINE, after some hesitation, expressed his
‘-.egret that he was compelled to believe that the child
-4. ft...3nsenting party to all that he did and said in hc:r
was that it was impossible to convict him of an
But, a-, the act of exposure in a pub-
outrage upo.. by persons of high respectability,
lic place, frequ, `-igL he thought it probable he might
was an offence for reference to the child, he
be prf ceeded against, wit- ,f -uch disgraceful and im-
should mark his abhorrence o_ tt; find two sureties in
moral conduct by requiring him ,n recognizances of
401. each, and to enter into his o. • b.• instituted at
1001. to answer any charge that migt,. to .keep the

the next sessions, and in the meantime
peace, &c.
[Surely neither of the younger children or the
keeper, all of whom witnessed the disgusting ode,.
were consenting parties ? Could not a charge fur the
offence as against them be supported? If it can possibly
be procured, we shall certainly publish the name and ad•
_dress of this disgrace to human nature, that his crime
may not go wholly unpunished.]
QUEEN-SQUARE.
Yesterday Michael M'Donough, police-constable B 66,
was brought before the magistrate, charged with having
apprehended Mr. James Lambden, a boot-maker, residing
at 39, -St. John. street, Clerkenwell, and dragged him
through the streets in broad daylight, without the slight-
est excuse for such conduct.

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Complainant stated that on Tuesday afternoon, about
four o'clock, he was walking through Belgrave-square in
company, with a friend, when defendant came up, and
pointing to his (complainant's) little dog that was !oh
lowing him, said he must go with him to the station, as
he believed the dog to be the one which had been lost by
a gentleman a short time ago. Complainant assured
the defendant that the dog was his property, and offered
to give him his name and address, but the defendant in-
sisted on.it that the complainant should go to the station
with him. Complainant refused unless it was in the
road he was going, when defendant replied, that if he
did not he should take him into custody and make him
go. Defendant then forced him along by the arm, and
on complainant stating that he was a respectable man, and
did not like to he so handled in the public street, de-
fendant replied that he did not care what he was, and
taking hitn by the collar, used him more roughly than
before. After being treated in this way for some time,
in the presence of a. number of persons who had as-
sembled, complainant insisted upon having a cab, and
rode to the.station with the constable. On arriving there
to his great surprise, defendant did not say a single word
about the dog, but informed the sergeant that there had
been a robbery of four pairs of boots and a pair of shoes,
that afternoon, by a man wearing a Taglioni coat, and
he thought complainant resembled the description of the
man, us the person in the boot and shoe case was des-
cribed as being about 5 feet 4 or 5 inches and complain-
ant was 5 feet 10 inches? and defendant said, he thought
he answered the description. Complainant was liberated
and considered it his duty to bring the complaint, to de-
ter others from committing such an outrage.
Defendant, in a strong Irish accent, observed—lie
said he'd knock my head Off.
Complainant—l was much excited at being treated as
a felon in the neighbourhood where several gentlemen
for whoth I work reside, and I did say, when he was
handling me roughly by the collar, that if it was not for
his being a policeman I would knock him down. I made
use of no bad language at that or at any other time.
Ceniplainant's friend confirmed the greater part of
his statement. _ _ _

Defendant, in reply to the charge, said he was never
told the height of the person who was wanted for the
boots; and as complainant and his friend loitered about
the square in a suspicious way, and answered the des-
cription, he took him.
Complainant and his friend denied most positively that
they had loitered.
Defendant said—Yes, they did ; and looked in at shop-
windows.
This was denied in equally positive terms ; and com-
plainant said, he would show defendant's incompetency
to be a policeman by his own admission. He (defendant)
had called at his house that morning to entreat forgive-
ness, and said, " I have been a policeman for 12 months,
and you are the first man I ever took up."
Mr. BURRELL said that defendant bad clearly, and
without knowing what he was about, apprehended com-
plainant on two charges without there being a shadow of
foundation for either. He should not impose a fine, but
commit him for one month to the House of Correction.—
Committed accordingly.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Yesterday a powerful fellow, named Samuel Badgery,
was placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham, charged with
the following unprovoked assault upon a poor woman
named Sarah Mullins, the wife of a labouring man resid-
ing in Richardson's-place, St. Luke's :
The prosecutrix, whose face was much contused,
stated that while standing at the corner of Bath-
street, Old-street, near her own house, at one o'clock
that afternoon, she saw the prisoner most shamefully
ill-using a poor blind man who picks up a scanty
living in • that neighbourhood by selling tapes and
laces, and after witnessing his conduct for some time,
in the hope that some man would interfere for the
blind man's protection, but which no one did further
than giving vent to exclamations of indignation, she at
length went up to the prisoner and told him that he
ought to be ashamed of himself to so knock about a per-
son old enough to be his grandfather ; on which the
prisoner turned round, and, telling her he would serve
her the same, instantly struck her a violent blow in
the face which felled her to the pavement; on recove r-
ing from the effects of this violence, she got up ana
called for, the police, and was a second time struck to
the ground ; her screams at last reached the ears of her
husband, and brought him out to her assistance, but he
bad no sooner mule his appearance than the prisoner

furiously rushed upon him, and, knocking. Wm to the
ground also, finished his operations by giVimr. him
several violent kicks in the ribs with his hobnailed boots.
Several of the male bystanders at length interfered, and,
a constable being procured, the prisoner, who made a
stout resistance, was overpowered and secured.
Three witnesses corroborated the above statement in
every particular, and described the prisoner's conduct As
cowardly and gross in the extreme.
The prisoner, who displayed great violence even while
at the bar, and so rolled about the dock r.s to give
grounds for supposing he was labouring under the effects
of intoxication, flatly denied all that had been stated
against him, and called a friend of his to make good his
assertion; but this person, so far from doing so, fully
substantiated the evidence of the other witnesses.

Mr. BINGHAM considered it a most cowardly and un-
provoked outrage, and sentenced the prisoner to pay a
fine to the Queen of 505., or in default ordered him to
undergo a month's imprisonment and hard laboar in the
INuse of C,Jrrection.