The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, X 844.

JUDGE'S CHAMBERS.

APPRnIENSIUN dr GAmBLEas.---resterday, Frede-
rick Pemberton, alias Frederick Joseph Pemberton, was
brought before Mr. Baron Gurney, in the custody of
Inspector Aggs, of the C division. The prisoner was
described of 31, St. James's-street. The court was
crowded with West-end gamblers.
It appeared that the prisoner was engaged gambling
at the last Gorhambury races, and an indictment had
been preferred against him at the St. Alban's sessions,
Mr. Baron Gurney having granted a bench warrant
for his apprehension. A man named Mo Jacobs, de-
scribed as a lawyer's clerk, and living at 101, Ber-
wick-street, met Pemberton yesterday afternoon in
Regent-street, and took him to the -Vine-street
station, where he was given into the custody of In-
spector Aggs. Jacobs told the prisoner, on the way
to the station-house, that there was no occasion for
him to go, as it could be " settled." On arriving
there, Aggs, well knowing the whole of the parties
concerned, at first refused to entertain the charge,
when Jacobs became so abusive that he was threatened
with removal.

After a short " consultation," Mr. Mo Jacobs
consented to the bail, and the prisoner was liberated
on entering into his own recognizance in 801., and
finding two sureties in 40/. each, to appear at the next
assizes at llertford.

James Hollick Davis, otherwise HoHick Davis, of
Hendon, was then brought np in custody of Sergeant
Maris, A 50.

It appeared that the prisoner was pointed out at
the Middlesex Sessions Court on Friday by a man
named Randall to Mr. Jacobs, and formerly livery
servant at a gambling booth at which the prisoner
acted as one of the principals. An indictment had
been preferred against the prisoner at the Croydon
sessions in 1843 for gambling on Ascot Heath race
course, and Mr. Justice Coleridge had signed a war-
rant for his apprehension. The prisoner had been
residing for some time at Guernsey and Jersey.
Mr. Russell, the solicitor in the qui tam actions
against Lord George Bentincic, attended on his be-
half. Bail was tendered, the prisoner in 801., and
two sureties in 401. each.

Mr. Baron Gurney said, in such a serious case he
could not consent to take bail for less than 2001., and
two sureties in 1001. each.

The prisoner then entered into his own recogni-
zances in 2001., and two sureties in 1001. each, to ap-
pear at the next assizes at Abingdon.
The parties avowed that Lori George Bentinck
was connected with the prosecutions, but it is very
doubtful whether his Lordship is in any way mixed
up with them.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept. 11.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONELANQUE.)
TREGEAR AND LEWIS'S BANKRUPTCY.
In this case the bankrupts carried on business as
music and picture dealers in Cheapside, and to-day
was appointed for their final examination. However,
as further accounts were required, which the Court
ordered to be made out, an adjournment fur a few
weeks was agreed to for their preparation.
A number of insolvent cases were heard before
Commissioners Fonblanque and Fane, but, like
the others which have preceded them for the last
fortnight, they contained not a fact worth reporting.

chiefs in the bundle, put his own handkerchief over
them while the shdpma&s head was turned another
way, gracefully wiped his nose with thetti, arid put
them into his pocket.—(Laughter.) When I ob-
served that, said the lady, I lifted up the flap of the
counter. I said to him, Don't any or these handker-
chiefs please you, Sir? No, said he. Then said I,
interrupting him and preventing him from going out,
allow me to look at those you have in your pocket ?
He declared that he had none, and that he was a gen-
tleman, and had a cab waiting for him at the door,
and out he rushed into the street. I ran after and
caught hold of him, and he struck me ; but I would
not let him go. The fellow with the green coat
seized me by the wrist to disengage me from him,
but I kept my hold, and the prisoner and I were up
and down together three times, he struggling to ge'z
away, and I struggling to hold him. The fellow in
the green coat then kicked me in the hip, and the
prisoner struck me abhiw on the neck, and then he
ran off. I followed him along the street, and caught
hold of his coat, which gave way, and the tails of his
coat remained in my hand. He then escaped from
me, but was soon brought back in custody. He
denied that he was the person accused, but there he
was, with the upper part of his coat on his person, and
the lower part of it in my possession.
James g innaly, of Hoxton, bookbinder, stated that
at about a quarter past eight o'clock he wai in
Bishopsgate-street, a few yards from the shop of Mrs.
Bradshaw ; that he heard her cry out, and saw her
and the prisoner struggling on the ground ; that the
prisoner ran away, and that he ran after and secured
him, without losing sight of him. The witness
added that the handkerchiefs were picked up near the
London Tavern, where he secured the fellow.
Nicholas Merry stated that he picked up the hand-
kerchiefs at the time.

Mrs. Bradshaw identified four silk handkerch!efs,
by the private mark of the house.
The prisoner here stated that the handkerchief
which covered the others was his property, and he re-
quested the Alderman would cause it to be restored
to him.

It was stated that the handkerchief which the pri-
soner called his was unhemmed, and in all probability
had been stolen by him.
The prisoner very coolly said that it had been
washed two or three times, and nobody but himself
could lay claim to it.
John Scott, City policeman (626), stated that he
heard the cry of " Police" near the shop, and saw the
prisoner escape from the grasp of Mrs. Bradshaw. As
the prisoner approached, witness asked him what was
the matter, supposing it was an assault affair, and the
prisoner said " That man struck me—take him for
God's sake." Witness said, " What man ?" " That
man in a buff waistcoat," replied the prisoner, and
when witness looked in the direction pointed at, ran off.
Witness followed and apprehended the prisoner.
Mrs .:Bradshaw--A jeweller in the same street was
robbed of property on the same evening, and no doubt
by this prisoner, assisted by the fellow with the green
coat. He has no doubt that this prisoner was one of
the thieves, but as he has no proof, he does not wish
to come forward.

The prisoner-- Now don't say that. Don't say
that things are worse than they really are.
Mrs. Bradshaw—When he came to the shop he
had a black patch upon his lip, but he tore it off be-
fore he got to the station-house.

Alderman Gums committed the prisoner for trial,
and congratulated the lady upon such uncommon
self-possession and courage as she had exhibited
throughout.
The green-coated gentleman will, in all probability,
be very soon in custody.

CLERKEN WELL.
Anne Rhodes was brought up for final examina-
tion, charged with stealing an immense quantity of
wearing apparel, house linen, tea, sugar, spirits,
books, and almost every other portable article ofa well-
furnished house, being the property of her master,
Mr. Cross, residing in York-plac9, Stoke Newington.
James Gibson was charged with receiving the same,
well knowing it to have been stolen.
It appeared from the evidence, which was very
voluminous, that the female prisoner, a demure 'look-
ing person advanced in years, has been in the employ-
ment of Air. Cross during the last five years, and has,
from the first day of ber•servitude, carried on a whole-
sale system of plunder, but so artfully and secretly
effected, that up to this time she was believed to be
" a faithful servant." The malt prisoner was in the
same service about two years ago, and since then it
appears that Rhodes has kept up a constant com-
munication with him. He lodged in Norfolk-street,
Islington, and thither the plunder was conveyed ; in
fact, it clearly appeared that she was his paramour, for
with the landlady of the house she went by the name
of Mrs. Gibson, and whenever her employers
were put of town, she came there laden with plunder,
and they passed the night in the same apartment.
At length Maria Woodgate, her fellow-servant, who
had been induced to convey some tea, sugar, brandy,
&c., in hampers to the prisoner's lodgings, informed
her mistress of the fact. The female prisoner was
forthwith given into custody, and made a full con-
fession of her guilt. She declared she would stab
herself, and soon after became so ill that she lay for
several days in the workhouse in a very precarious
condition. At Gibson's lodgings a very large quan-
tity of the stolen property was found, stowed into
every hole and corner capable of containing it ; there
were
jars' and even pails filled with tea,
sugar,
andttle spiritss,
of every description.
bottles,
Mr. COMBE decided on committing the prisoners
for trial, and depositions were taken down ac-
cordingly.

QUEEN-SQUARE.
Yesterday the first order of affiliation under the
recent Act of Parliament was made at this office.
The putative father of the child was Joseph Edgely,
a young linsndraper's assistant, who was summoned
to show cause why an order of 28.6 d. per week should
e of the child she then held in her
12th of
not be made upon him for its maintenance.
oroeftoFternhbeianrtyim. intimacy, and to her hav-
ingrmT
arms
been
m todhtehehe
delivered
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Defendant visited
herr and passed the night
with
Alfred Easton proved that the complainant lodged
ithfive her.
times
at her lodgings,
at his house, and had been delivered on the day stated.
Defendant had visited her there, and passed as her
husband.
In answer to a question from defendant's solicitor,
witness said he was jositive that the child had been
born on the 12th of li cbruary.
The solicitor said he did not consider there was the
required pro-
duced in this case.
p
description of confirmatory testimony
Mr. BURIUILL observed, that it was not necessary
to go back so long a period as nine months before the
birth. It was enough that she should be confirmed
in some material part of her testimony. He thought
the case clearly made out, and should adjudge the
defendant to make an allowance towards the main-
tenance of the child.
Mr. Edwards, the chief clerk, inquire the amount ?
Mr. BiIRRELL said it must be 2s. 6d. per week.
The object of the Legislature in mentioning this sum
had clearly been with a view to put part of the onus
on the mother of the child.
Defendant was further adjudged to pay the sum of
W. 17s. travelling expenses of the officer to Nantwich,
and other costs.

inquiries in Catherine-street, when they were informed
by the neighbours that the brother had left there a
long time before, and that no one knew where he had
gone to.
Policeman 74 K, from information he receisred from
one of the last witnesses, went on the preceding aYen-
ing to the house of the prisoners and took them into
custody. On apprising them of the nature of the
charge against them, the male prisoner said that the
infant was at the house of his brother, in Henry-
street, Commercial-road, but afterward admitted that
the brother had gone to Bristol, and that they had
neither since heard from him, nor knew where he
was to be found. On the road to the station, the
male prisoner told his wife to keep close and not say
anything, as there was no evidence whatever against
them.

In defence the male prisoner denied having deserted
his child in the manner that had been described, and
persisted in his statement that he had placed it in the
care of his brother, who had left London more than
a month ago, and he had always since then entertained
the firm conviction that the infant had been carried
by his brother with him to Bristol.

The female prisoner's statment was precisely to the
same effect.

Mr. BROUGHTON said that the case was one of very
deep suspicion, and there could be no doubt whatever
that the child produced in Court was that of which
the female prisoner had been delivered at the house of
the woman Atthill. lie should commit them both to
prison for child-dropping, but let the case stand over
for a week, to give them an opportunity of bringing
forward any exculpatory evidence they might be able
to adduce.—.-The prisoners were then removed.

DESCRIPTION OF REMARKABLE
FARMS.
By ADAM BROWN.
No I.—Near Chelmsford, in Essex.
A journey of a few minutes less than an hour into
Essex, by the railway from London, will bring you to
a station, where, if you are curious about remarkable
farms and farmers, you may leave the train.
Having got out and given your ticket to the officer,
go down the winding stair. At the bottom of it you
will find yourself beneath one of several archways,
each raised upon many pillars, bearing aloft the level
railway upon which runs the train you have just left.
It is now on its way to Colchester, and you are at
Chelmsford.
Looking through the pillars you will see passengers
going t.) and fro, carriages, carts, and waggons also.
Before you have emerged into the full glare of day-
light, you will observe the end "of a new row of brick-
built houses, and on the end of the house nearest you,
on a painted sir-board, the words, " Office of the
Essex Society for irotection to Agriculture."
Should you turn to a:9 right, and proceed to the
north and north-west, you will pass many pretty
little houses with floral adornments around them ; and
you will come to a park of fine old tresss and meadow
grass, through which, to the left, there is a footpath.
Enter and proceed by this footpath. You will in
ten minutes reach a small river, over which you will
cross by a wooden bridge. You will then p:occed
by the brink of this river for shout fifteen or twepty,
minutes, if you do not delay. But if you linger ants
examine the farm land on your left, and the fences
that enclose it, and the gaps in the fences, and the
weeds in the fields, and all the signs of dilapidation,
including the washing away of the road on which
you walk by the river—not a rolling, spoliating,
reckless river, but a deep, slow, lazy river, which,
even in doing nischief, does it in such a lazy style,
that you are forced to believe that the road is gnawed
away by the tooth of time, and not by the floods
of one year—if you linger to examine such things as
these you may, likely enough, take another half hour.
And indeed if you do, it will not be the worst spent
half hour of your life. You will see that the river
has not done its little hits of mischief in recent floods ;
no, nor in the floods of recent years. You will, on
more intimate acquaintance with it, find it is an old-
fashioned river that does not like to be put out of its
old way, and which never has been interfered with ;
for on its banks are those who, not liking to be stir-
red up, or turned aside themselves, not even for their
own good, are averse to troubling even the old river
by leading it in a new and more profitable and be-
coming course.
Therefore, on they go; the water in its course, and
the dwellers on its bank in their courses, as the streams
of water and the generations of men did even in the
days of the kings of the East Saxons.
But, having arrived at that junction of roads where
the river is to be parted from, you may with pro-
priety come to a dead halt. Stand still ; think for a
while. Here is a toll-bar, there is a village. Behind
you is a farm-house, yard, stable, barns, corn-
stacks, haystacks, carts, waggons, wheels without
waggons, one wheel without its fellow, its fellow
lying a hundred yards off, without its ring ; iiL* ring
keeping comp my with a piece of a plough, anci a
piece of a plough lying in the most likely place on all
the farm to break a horse's or a cow's legs, Frag-
ments of implements, and implements separated from
the companion implements, present themselves to you
in wondrous confusion.
You may think it worth while to look. round the
whole farm-steading and farm fields after this. It
is worth while. I will go with you ; I will show
you. Look here ! A horsepond and a ditch full
of water. "Is the water all of that black colour
in Essex ?" you will ask me. " No, it is
not ; you saw the river ; the river was only
earthy coloured because of the rain." " Why,
then is the horsepond and this ditch full of black wa-
ter ? and that other ditch as well ? and this hole
down in the field where the cattle are drinking ? Do
the horses drink that black water in the pond ? Why,
it has a stench. Ah! how nasty it is !"
Nasty ; yes, it has cause to stink and be nasty. It
contains the urine of the cattle and the washings of
the farmyard dung. You wonder how anybody can
give horses and cattle such water to drink ; but it is
an old custom to do so, and it would incur trouble
and expense to drain the liquids of the yard some-
were else. You are surprised that the horses should
drink this water. Rest assured the horses would
choose good water as readily as any human being
would; perhaps more so, for their tastes are not viti-
ated by strong drinks from choice, they only drink
polluted water from necessity.
You are surprised that a farmer, for his own profit,
does not provide his horses and cattle with pure water.
But you may be still more surprised that the very
pollution which poisons this water consists of sub-
stances which make poor soils rich, and rich soils
richer still ; consists of substances which are here
utterly wasted, and for the draining of which into
speedy and utter waste those ditches are made; con-
sists of substances thus wasted at the very threshold
of the farmer's house, though precious as the guano of
Ichaboe, carried to this country by five hundred ships,
over latitudes of ocean measuring thousands of miles.
But, proceed over the farm. We have little diffi-
culty in getting through, so far as gaps can serve us ;
but those undrained bogs, and broad ditches choked
with weedy foulness, let us be careful how we tra-
verse them, lest we sink. And mind the briers that
fill up the wide distance between the old stumpy
hedgerows—distances that would produce ten bushels
of wheat on each four hundred yards lengthways ;
that is to say, if by any possibility one could ever
hope to see wheat sown on so rich a soil as this.
You are surprised. See you not that wheat is not
cultivated here. See you not that, where there was
once cultivated land, as we may see by those ridges,
there is now grass, and that grass is giving way to
rushes and thistles, docks and weedy wastefulness.
True this is good land, the best land in Essex for
wheat; but if you went all over Essex, and all Eng-
land, you would not see wheat so little cared for as
here.

Now we come to another farm-steading, belonging
:o the same farmer, and again we see the liquids of
he farm-yard running to waste; again we see the
solids laid out to dry in the sun, as if it were good that
the ammonia should go into the air rather than into
the earth.
You ask why it is that one farmer should hold so
much land, and make such a poor use of it. I will
tell you. He holds so much land because he is rich,
and can be depended on for the rent better than a
poorer tenant can be depended on. He is rich while
many other farmers are poor; and he is so because
they are poor. His work is not that of toiling at the
farm to enable him to pay his rent; it is the "selling
up" of other farmers who cannot pay their rents. His
desire is not to get a good system of leases
'introduced, that he and his neighbours may
expend capital on their land, and cultivate
well. His desire is, that the present uncertain
system of tenure may continue. He thrives
by it. He is a land valuer ; and each tenant-at-will,
moving from farm to farm, year after year, has his
stock, and farm, and implements valued , and he pays
the valuer at the rate of six guineas a day and his
travelling expenses.
Did you not read those papers on the walls ? Ob-
served you not that sales of growing crops, sales of
farm implements, sales of work-horses, sales of
household furniture, sales of brewing utenails, and
several other sales of farm property, are advertised in
at least seven different large bills, in large letters,
posted on every side of the highway, and at the arches
of the railway, the sales to take place this week, next
week, and the next again ; one five miles east, several
of them six, and ten, and fifteen miles west ; others
north, and three out of the seven with no auction duty
to pay?
Have you to be told that "no auction duty" means
by warrant of the sheriff ?—that "warrant of the
sheriff" means a broken farmer being sold off, and
that " broken farmers," when sold off to pay their
rents, contribute also to the income of an auctioneer ?
And who is the auctioneer ? Why, the farmer on
whose farm we now stand. And who is he ? No
other than the Secretary to the " Essex Society for
the Protection of Agriculture," Mr. Robert Baker, of
Writtle.
You may stare with surprise that this eminent
farmer, as you would suppose him to be, who has
got a prize of 50/. from the Royal Agricultural
Society for the best_ essay on Essex agriculture, and
who keeps upwards of one thousand acres of the best
Essex land in that deplorable condition in which you
see it, should be such a very bad practical farmer.
But so he is.

IVere he a grocer, and kept his tea and his coffee
in one canister, and sugar in such a place that he
could not weigh an ounce of pepper without letting
sugar and pepper mingle together; were the coffee,
" when newly roasted and ground," put out to the
door in an open tray to allow its flavour to escape
into the air instead of the flavour being preserved to
bring back the customers at another time; were
streams of water allowed to run through the sugar
hogshead and carry the liquid into the cellar to
mingle. with the liquors there ; were he to neglect
to have the counter repaired when a panel was broken
in its front; were he to have beam and scales
tumbled over on the floor and covered with r-srdigris,
and the tea-chests standing where each person who
assisted in the shop must either step into them or
risk breaking a leg by leaping over them ; were he to
have his whole shop and stock in such confusion, l
while he was away from it all the year over five days
out of six, who would believe that he was a good
grocer, even though he might publish pamphlets on
the grocery trade, and argue that all the villager.; of
Writtle siloni,l I, c,,nstf:lne.l to lmy sudl ,rtHs.:,:,
,it Lk own prie,,, al. 10, 0,111 ••?;•.0 :, 110 t“id to :Cli -
Would he not be called a very bad grocer ? And i 3
it not beyond all question that competition with i
I
another grocer would have at least two good effects ?
—that while it gave the villagers of Writtle g better