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

WORSHIP-STREET.

John Harman, alias White, a notorious " smasher,"
was charged upon the police-sheet with uttering a
counterfeit half-crown to Mr. Edmund Warlter, a butcher
in Durham-street, Bethnal-green-road.
It appeared from the statement 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 bad practised a similar imposition upon him
on the preceding day. On being charged with the fact,
the 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 him,
th. prisoner

made another attempt to snatch the money
hand of the prosecutor ; but, instead of getting P'116,-1,
sion of the base coin, he grasped hold of a hag, Pe`'-i,lci
piece, which he immediately thrust into his moutb, 14,
made an attempt to swailo;Y. He was observed, hu;og
ever, instantly to turn black in the face, the piecet,bitlt'•
got tightly fixed in his gullet. and, after some 11v,°.„--110
attempts on the part of the officers to dislodge it,,liendos
conveyed, in a state of strangulation, to the aG
Hospital, where the coin was forced down his th1:1,0
The sergeant:added that the prisoner still remain`, l'
the hospital in such a condition as at present Ott'
precluded the possibility of his removal. nt to
Mr. BROUGHTON gave directions to the sergett-,0
keep his eye upon the case, and when the prisoner ogo
sufficiently recovered, to bring him to the court, t°
the charge against him.

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THAMES POLICE. .03
Yesterday James Bridgman, alias Smith, and eil.nrce
great many other aliases, was brought before gr.' b
derip, charged with breaking into the Union CbsPe
Poplar, with intent to commit a felony. g teJ
Henry Plewrite, a police-constable, No. 106
that on Saturday morning, the attention of the Wle a
tants in the neighbourhood of the chapel was attrsetee,
by the groans of a man, which gradually became fe-i°
About six o'clock information of the occurrence I'4e
:el,
to the station-house, and he walked round the c":l2e,
and heard a low moaning, and cries of " Help, etil:clied
lam dying !" Having procured the keys, he ote
the
the interior for sonic time, and ultimately traced et
sounds to the chimney of the vestry-room, and thelitsbi
a man's legs, and attempted to haul him down, hebie
was unable to do so. He then attempted to Wee toe
up the chimney, but with no better success, and the.,
Ile
bpd
in a low tone said he was stuck fast in the chirnneJ
dying, and that he could not hold out much longer. 0,
immediately procured assistance and demolished
chimney with pick •axes and crow-bars. About eleA
o'clock the prisoner was rescued, quite insensibleo'e of
surgeon was called in, who found him in the list
feerpo
6;14'00
exhaustion from the cold and bruises he had inflicted
himself in his efforts to get out of the chimney', wile—eri'
must have remained for fire or six hours. After u'enftil.
soner was rescued, he was sent to the London 1-I°4:o,et
and he had just been fetched from that place to ell', to
the charge against him. Ile knew the prisone`o
be a notorious thief, and he examined the chitoneYsbsd
his apprehension and discovered that the top of L",ogit
been taken off and the prisoner had descended Wr:try-
the opening, and was proceeding towards the 11;icia
room for the purpose of robbing it, when he be-
fixed in the chimney.
Mr. George Cross, of No. 6, Titchbourne-cour-,1 the
born, said that on the Ist or 2d of December, 18';',0
prisoner made application to him for employnteejteP
said he could make himself handy. He ordered etee
come on the following Monday, and found hies ;eV
work to do. The p"isoner said he had no lodgingja coo'
to, and asked permission to sleep in the house. 11,00
sented to his doing so, although such an arrsiLgt; set
was extremely inconvenient. Next morning, h!'"801101.
one else was stirring, the prisoner decamped etteh,t'
dering the house of a quantity of tools belonging `pit'
ness and a journeyman in his employ, the aPPre,;:4l34
wearing apparel, two pillows from the bed on
slept, and other property. I'lll
The prisoner, who was very ill and weak, lq,,ftii/
covered with soot and dirt, on being called 013,';,110
defence, faintly articulated —"I have nothing s`
say."r.
till ;ell
M BRODERIP remanded the prisonerr°
next, and he was led awes. ' y the gaoler. A their
sl'
ertj
Yesterday the Merrell? Conv • forwarded courr
nual contribution of 104 to t poor-box of the
On Saturday the I arl e— sent 5L
IIitAIMERSMITH. 6,14
Mr. PAYNTER requested our reporter to anith°',oo,
the receipt by him, on Saturday last, of two
notes kindly sent by the Earl of C., one for the Fratoly
of this Court and the other fur that of the Want'
Police-court.

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TRIAL of MR. PORT at CHEST
(Reported in the Times of the 11th instenW die
The trial of Mr. Port proves, beyond ceetrstioo
tion, how juries have been imposed upon in (lug 1)09
of medicine by interested doctor.;, in order ti°o,
up their sinking theory (the organic). The 'sssi
of
laid down by Sir Mathew Hale, in "Hale's Fie tOt
the Crown,' and affirmed by Blackstone, at it
'll
when medicine was not made such a trade of 1' fol'
at present, in cases similar to Mr. Port's.
lows : t °sf
"If a physician gives a person a potion wi,--tlinteti
intent to do him any bodily hurt, but with ,11,,P,
to cure or prevent a disease, and, contrary to b''',„,e'cv
tation of the physician, it kills him, this is no 11°-.1000
and the like of a chirurgeon ; and I hold their orinrg' e4:O
be erroneous that think, if he be no licensed ehltrut ;110,
or physician that occasioneth this mischance, to,'„ple'
it is a felony, for physic and selves were before 111,'-ey
physicians and chirurgeons ; and therefore, if
not licensed according to the statute of the 3d oje;
c. 11., of the 14th Henry VIII., c. 5., they g're
to the penalties of the statutes ; but God forbid 01
0,0
mischance of this kind should make any Pell°
licensed, guilty of murder or manslaughter. „h
Of late years a competitiois has arisen '00114031
diplomaed doctors, and consequently our judgest'ioes
convenient, and in opposition to the before-Triediletoo('
high legal authorities, to adopt another ,-,•itf
which is, " that the accused shall he deemed g,[i eg!''
manslaughter, if be acted with rashness el nee?
gence, and the judges of this "rashness er,
gence," are—who do you think? The judgete,„'e'at 1!
Ni-o, but the doctor, with the piece of psve''''',2ifir
his pocket, who is directly interested Vi °l)ntaiblviier
. .
conmetzon. The very forcible reason give tifll
M. Hale, and affirmed by Blackstone, that '4001) wet'
and salves were before licensed doctors i 3 s°
„'e ti/al
ful, that we need not say another word' to the IV;
iniquity of the present mode of laying doivolgi for_.;
The idea of placing an honest man on his tai sr,
felony, when his only crime is that he does nsa abet
the opinions of the interested doctors, 111' tlisi
he has done all he can to save, is so monstrollel
every lover of liberty must rejoice at the triteol
acquittal of Mr. Port. it is hoped that the o,s'i tti±''
the doctors, on their cross-examination on tull'f sl'4
will open the eyes of the people. Our judgesdoct°l
present day appear to combine with the 3, tilid
against the people ; it is, however, to be h°Peoite,
the verdict of acquittal in Mr. Port's case, inl7,ooi
both judge and doctors, will operate as a jei
eej'
them. The only thing that should have heeini)trto
Mr. Port, if he acted as an apothecary, was
by Sir M. Hale) for the Apothecaries'' CO,r„te I'4
have brought an action against him on the st9'tit sit
penalties. That's the true remedy for doctors; /13301,
presume that that, like Sir James Grahams
not sufficient protection for them. If a sure% c"
drunk, kills a person in performing an open ling t 4;
hear of it because it is so palpable that net,p.iee,lll,/
shield him ; but with respect to a physician, P- no 015
to be responsible to no one ; and the Only reit,/ („tk`'o
he is not responsible appears to be, that o'l
physicians) all differ in theory and practice'rotioll'
subject is certainly deserving of serious collide
.01

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The new President of the United Sta:oo;fj
Scottish lineage ; and his curious looking hiv,
abridgment of a good old Scotch one. Mr.
or grandfather is said to have been a Lanarks"iio"l,o,"l
of the name of Pollock. In the somewhat pet- t,O i
lect of the upper ward of this county, that mite/
flounced Poke, and hence, probably, the ort7cilt
adopted by the transatlantic branch of the
Glasgow Post.
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.B.FRTH3.

On the 10th inst., at Meppershall Rectory, ---,;boriPd
the wife of the Rev. Henry Howarth, of a son, Oil. et' ,
On the 12th inst., at Torrington-square, the 13 10 1,101
tain Mackenzie, Royal Engineers, of a son, still-b°,11;18'
On the 13th inst., at Alerrow, near Guildford, ' let
Captain Parke, Royal Marines, of a daughter.
.„wi at.'"
On the 14th inst., the lady of George Taylor, P•'' 14
field House, Hants, of a son.
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On the 14th inst., the lady of A. H. Kinde.- 011
Liverpool, of a daughter.
„Ay 0
On the 15th inst., at Connaught-place, ..--
110
Ope, of a daughter. f.nieo V
n the 15th inat., in Portland -place, Dirs. 'P..- it°
1
Nicol, of a daughter.
...re, thea
On the 15th inst., in Dorset-place, Dorset-gl'— tt"
of John Lagier Lamotte, Esq., of a daughter. filie' ,
On the 15th inst., at Claremont-terrace, Penw" tj'.
lady of Henry Hills, Esq., of a son.
On the 15th inst., at Edmondthorpe, Leicester
co"sh"/,x
Hon.On
the Mrsl6th inst. ,a. Edwardes, of a son. ors of
t Ratcliffe, Mrs. &cholla
ter, still-orn. l'
On theb 16th inst., at Westbourne-terrace, HYdrOr
wife of James Colhoun, Esq., of a daughter.
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MARRIED. bf gf
00' 0
At the church of St. Bride's, in the City of Lon J
io,
Rey. H. Hyadman Jones, Mr. W Simpson, W. t° ,
Best.
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On the sth inst., at St. George's, Hanover-8(1'17)/ AI 4,
Hood, Esq., late of Bond-street, to Miss Foild' - i,je.,;,
street, Regent's-park. r, 'OP
On the 12th inst , at St. James's Church, Jobsl3°
Lodge, of London, to Ann, only ehild of the late • lir
Wil f' den, Esq., Kingston, Portsea. , gr. „Of.
On the 14th inst., at St. Botolph,BishopsgaLel,,,,,r ei ~
Huraphery Smith, to Mary Ann, second daugo.-- ~,,,6
Hall, of Bishopsgate-street Without. • 14,1 11l
•,-,„ail dc, 0
On the 14th inst., at St. Mary's, Islington, Daniel
,10
away Porter, Esq., of Great Tower-street, to riarri
daughter of Joshua Reynolds Pugh, Esq., °'
City-road. i
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DIED. DV reler)i°
On the 11th inst., after a few hours illness, A -•e . top, 6
by his afflicted family, Richard Hazel, Eeco l" tD
aged 66. jaala,,ckriclghe',
On the 29th of October, at Lower Clarendon, -cailwi;,:"
Rev. Jolla Nash. 8.A., of Corpus Christi College, „ill. .t,,,
On the 7th inst., at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, Poo ci4ta
the wife of her Britannic Majesty's Consul to thstrt f;10
On the 9th inst., at Woodford, Wilts, Robe 81101
Esq., aged 69. talc, A
Hy der de
On the 9th inst., in Connaught-square,
beth, relict of the late John Crosse Crooke, Esq. ...ficill7,
st sili j if
On the 10th inst., at Guernsey, Elisha, elde ,t Aged sr
of the late Peter Dobree, Esq., of the Beauregnru.sil' e
On the 10th inst., at Upper Gower-street, ..-,0 i the
Peter Muter, Esq., aged 61. relic"
On the 12th inst., at Southampton, Dorothy, ,isfe,
el r
late William
inst., at a Lii lief 0
On the 13th inst., at Albury, near Guildfor , r,
Esq., late Captain in her Majesty's 4th Dragon Fife of
On the 14th inst., Elizabeth Amelia, theeii;.
Mansse, Esq., of Lawrence Pountney- lane, ag, u

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