The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-29 00:00:00

HAIL STORM.

Yesterdity afternoon, a most extraordinary scene of confusion
and alarm was excited at the Police-office, High-street, Maryle-
bone, by the sudden and violent hail-storm which did consider-
able damage in the neighbourhood. Mr. Rawlingua the Ms-
gistrate, was attending to a case, when his attention was attracted
by a sudden noise, as if a volley of pebbles bed been thrown on
the skylight immediately over the office, and he had scarcely time
to make the inquiry "whether it was raining?" when the sky-light,
which is exceedingly spacious, was broken in ration* places by
the tremendous force of the hail-stones, and in a moment after-
wards Lord Montford, Mr. Hoskins, and Mr. Rawlinson, who
were on the Bench, were surrounded by the fragments of glass,
and hail-stones not less than an inch in circumference, which ren-
dered it necessary for them to make a precipitate retreat from
their seats, and make their way to the passage leading to the front
of the office in High-street. Thera they were placed in as dan-
gerous a situation, as an immense sky-light over the passage shared
the same fate as that in the peblic office; and while passing
through it with speed, large pieces of glass and hail-stones struck
against them with great force, and
.much injury was anticipated;
they, however, escaped to the front door, where they remained
until the violence of the storm was over, when they returned into
the office, which was completely bestrewed with pieces of glass
and hail-stones. During the above period, the individuals in the
body of the office were :in the utmost confusion, and squeezed
themselves into every corner, in order to avoid the glass which
was flying.in every direction while the storm lasted. At its con-
clusion the Magistrates resumed their labours, and we are happy
to say that no further accident occurred. At Hampstead, we
understand, the hail-storm did very, extensive injury, particularly
to the green-houses, in many of which not a single pane of glass
has been left entire.

(A NOTION, ACCOUNT.)
Yesterday, between two and three o'clock, one of the moss
t
dreadful thunder storms ever what
occurred at St. John'
Wood, and the adjacent neighbourhood of Paddington. The prin-
cipal violence of the storm lay at Hall-place, Circus-road—no less
than 200 pence were broke. At Pine-apple-place, in the nur
eery grounds of Mr. Anderson, 30,000 panes were utterly demo.
fished. ttlifruoly's green-house,
troyed ; Pirr Elm-tree-road, was des.
The front of 141 r. Boedeit's eldm-rroddge
been also beater, in, had it not been luckily protected by two large
sijGicirot-'ooood-prolinarel,s wdoiulthiro haveyedestroyed.
elm
trees. Mr. Atklason's g -house, in the same neighbour-
hood, has lost 10,000 squares ; Mrs. Hogg, between 3 and 4,000.
BMOrO./.jbenykiltheis'stoPr°mrt,m4nand oNthuevrelirinY•ttrie acme proportion. 7 and

The domestic calamities of the Noble House of
Ingestrie have been augmented by the receipt of distressing intelli-
nee from Cologne. The Ron. Arthur
t V' no a °
attend the
place ..te way a am where he teas hastening to
muse of his noble boOther to the' /my, when hi beams the
T lh t had reached that
subject of a violent attack of varlet fevers which placed his own
fife is cowiarrable jeopardy. Earl Talbot, on receiving this me-
lancholy informatiot!, set off for Cologne • bat, we are happy to
add, that he'had toot proceeded far on 14joutney, before he was
met br a messenger, with the welcome news that his son heti
been pronounced out of danger.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Jusa 28.
LOCI, V. 10SIE.

This action was brought by the plaintiff, en Officer in ,the
Custom-h°u'et against the defendant, a Surgeon and Apothecary,
residing in the New Kent road, to recover damages for the publi-
cation of a libel injurious to the plaintiff, inasmuch as it held him
up to public ridicule.
Mr. SCARIATT stated the case. This was the first time he
had ever known a person standing in the situation of a medical
attendant, publish a libel on the person whom he was employed to
attend. He could not see what right any man had to interfere
with the domestic concerns of a family for the purpose of holding
up to contempt any one of that family. The plaintiff at an ad-
vanced period of life had married a lady twenty-live years younger
than himself, but that circumstance did not justify his medical
adviser *ending forth to the world a song in which the plaintiff
was to be made the object of laughter.
Mr.,Scatture read the libel. Some passage. were too gross
for publication, The following were leas ohjeetionable :
AN OLD MAN'S LAMENTATION.
..,` . Do come and help ..poor old man,
A wanton wife to tame, Sirs,
For she is active, young, and gay,
While I am old and lame, Sirs.
She's lovely, handsome, Est, and fair,
Her age is twenty-three, Sirs ;
But, Ah ! I fear, in spite of all,
She'll be the death of me, Sirs.
When I did go a wooing her,
She 'mil% and said Dada, Sirs,
But now, I'm disagreeable,
An ugly old Papa, Sirs.
The Plaintiff having found out the Printer, traced the publica-1
tion to the defendant, and when the Jury heard the evidence they
would doubtless give such damages as the case required.
Charles Corry said, he knew the plaintiff, Mr. Peter Locke,
who resided in Webb's County-terrace, Kent-road. The de-
fendant carried on the business of a surgeon near the same place;
the witness was an apprentice to the defendant's brother; he
remembered the marriage of Mr. Locke with his present wife ;
the witness received instructions to write a copy of some verses
which the defendant had written; he made the copy, and the
defendant's brother directed him to take it to the Printer's;
he took it to Mr. Burke, a printer, in Seven Dials, and the wit-
ness had 100 printed; 111 r. John Bosse directed the witness to
copy the manuscript, and the copy he made lie gave to the
Printer. Two sets were printed by the same Printer, to the
order of Mr. John Bosse, the defendant ; the second set of copies
the witness was ordered to get printed ; Mr. John Bosse did not
attend Mr. Locke as his medical man ; Mr. David Bosse was his
medical attendant; the brothers carried on business together ;
some of the copies of the song were given away ; he had seen one
stuck on the gateway of the terrace, where Mr. Locke lived : the
copies were about the defendant's shop.

-Cross-examined by the COMMON-SERGEANT.—Mr. John Bosse
once took out a tooth for Mr. Locke. The bill was in the hand-
writing of Mr.. John Bosse. The plaintiff was an elderly man,
and hie wife was young. Mr. Locke had two daughters ; the
elder was about the age of his wife. -The witness paid his ari-
dresses to the younger daughter, and was still acquainted with the
family. He left Mr. Bosse in . getolser last.
.The verses, were
circulated in April last. There was some dissatiefactiOn, and hi'
left Mr. Bosse's fatnil'. He did not know that they thought he
was not paying sufficient attention to the business. He had no
doubt that the person alluded to in the bill was Mr. Locke.
Mr. Burke, a printer, said the last witness came to him with
the manuscript of the bill. The first manuscript was destroyed
after the first set had been printed. He received a second order
in April last, and printed another set of bills.
Cross-examined by Mr. Cistrrv.—The witness said there was
an alteration in the second title. The first manuscript was headed
" The Old Man who bed four Wives. The la:it was " The Old
Man's Lamentation."
Mr. Corry called again.—The additional verse was written to
the last copies. It was in the hand of Mr. J. Bosse. Some of
the first copies were stuck up near the plaintiff's residence.
The COMMON SaaGXANT objected that there was no proof
that the defendant published a paper entitled " The Old Man's
Lamentation." It had not been proved whether Mr. John Bosse
was the publisher of the sung with that title or his brother.
Mr. SCARLETT contended that there was proof to go to the.
Jury. . . .

The CHIEF JUSTICE said, it appeared that the brothers were
so connected together, that the act of one was the act of the
other.

Mr. Locke, the son of the plaintiff, said his father was sur-
veyor of the King's Warehouse at the Custom-house. His father
married Mademoiselle Euphrosyne Desangennies, a lady much
younger than himself. The defendant was in the habit of attend.
ing him. y

The Cosmos Sitaozatre then addressed the Jury for the de-
fendant. It was said in the declaration, that the plaintiff had
married four wives and had seven children. He had also lately
married a beautiful woman, Euphrosyne Desangennies, and was
living in happiness and comfort when the defendant published
the libel. If that were so, he was wrong in coming into a Court
of law to disturb his happiness; but the question was whether
the defendant was the author of the alleged libel ? There was
not one fact proved by Mr. Corry or Mr. Locke, to show that Mr.
Bosse had any thing to do with the publication. , The young man,
, who had been examined appeared to be the author of this song; it
was the language of youth, and did not smell of the apothecary's
shop. Youth was apt to combine strength with weakness. The
daughters of Mr. Locke were displeased at having a sort of
Dueuna brought home by their father, and young -Corry being
the admirer of the youngest daughtar, the preemption was
that he was the author of the verses. The young man, interested
as he was, however, said Mr. Bosse was the author, and that ,
he copied the verses ; but the Jury csitild not reasonably believe
that to be the cue. There was no one to connect Mr. Bosse
with the transaction, but the evidence of u young man who had
been discharged from his (the defendant's) eervice. He could
not justify the song, but it was not a publication that called for
damages. It was a thing which could not he read without a
smile. Peter Pinder had said— •

To laugh is a laudable thing,
When people are silly and mean."
The Jury would perhaps think the same way, and consider this
snore a subject for laughter than damages.
The Loan CHIEF JUSTICZ left the Jury to say, whether they
believed the testimony of Corry. If he was believed, the publi-
cation was brought home to the defendant.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Dsmages, 601.

clelphi Theatre,
Mr. Scott, late proprietor of the A
is again its owner by purchase. He is fitting it up in
a very handsome style.
Sir John Sinclair strongly recommends the use of
oil as a manure, having seen excellent effects resulting
from it on the Continent, and in some recent expe-
riments in this country. it is applied in the vapor-
tion of two gallons of coarse whale oil to twenty bushels
of ashes.

EARTIZQUA )(E.—At the end of October, an earth.
quake was experienced at Shirauz, in Persia, which
destroyed'many buildings ; and, among other national
monuments, overthrew the celebrated tombs of Hafiz
and Saadi. Thus, two years in sucCession, has this
part of the world been visited by the same appalling
phenomenon.

RENtARKABLE GRowTIIMr A TROUT.—On
Tuesday morning a trout, of the extraordinary weight
of twelve pounds, was caught in one of the waters at
Welton Plitee,in Northamptonshire. It was turned in,
in 1822, four years ago, at which time it measured
three inches in length, and weighed two ounces ; and,
when caught, it was two feet nine inches in length,
ten inches wide, and four inches thick through (what
is usually called the thin) or the belly part, and being
a kipper "Thale fish, iti size was not increased by be-
ing in spawn.