The Sun.
London, England, 1829-04-24 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF. KING'S BENCH, Amu. 23.
BRAGG V. LEVI AND ANOTHER.

This was an action against a sheriff's officer and
his assistant, for an assault. The plaintfff was a
young man living with his father, who was the pro-
prietor of certain baths, and a billiard-room in the
New-road. In June, 1827, the defendants having a
warrant to arrest the plaintiff's father for a debt of
101., proceeded to his house between six and seven
o'clock in the morning. They were met at the
outer door by the plaintiff, whd told them that his
father was from home, and they then asked whether
he had left any message for " Mr. Jones." The
plaintiff said he did not know, but would inquire: of
his sisters, who were up stairs in their bed-room.
He then proceeded up stairs, and was followed by
the defendants, who endeavoured to make their way
into the room. The plaintiff resisted their attempt
telling them that his three sisters were in bed, but,
it they would wait about five minutes until they had
dressed, they should be admitted. They refused to
wait, and Nathan immediately seized the plaintiff by
the collar and knocked him down. Levi then took
hold of him and dragged him to an adjoining room.
While lying there, both the defendants jumped upon
him and kicked him; and Levi, with a stick which he
took out of his pocket, struck him several times
about the head. The nest morning the plaintiff,
accompanied by his sisters, attended at the police-
office, where the defendants charged him with hav-
ing assaulted them, and obstructed them in the
execution of their duty. They also made a com-
plaint against the two sisters, who they said " ill
used" them. The plaintiff was admitted to bail,
and the two sisters were discharged on their own
recognizances. The plaintiff, who was about 25
years of age, had,' it appeared, not yet recovered
from the effects of the defendants' ill usage.
The above were the facts of the case, as deposed
to by the plaintiff's sisters, the constable, and a young
man in the service of the plaintiff's father.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Da-
mages 401.

CURING A COLD.

" Stuff a cold and starve a fever."—Old Saying.

Much as we venerate the time-honoured sayings,
and the wise saws of olden time, we must beg leave
to call in question the first clause of the above. It
has no more foundation in truth than the divine right
of Kings. Stuff a cold ! and starve a fever—as if a
cold was not likewise a fever. But, absurd as the
first part of this saying is, it has governed the multi-
tude for ages. When they feel the slightest advances
of a cold, they incontinently begin to stuff. The
cold, thus fed and encouraged, acquires a strength
and decision not its own, pushes on with vigour,
blockades the nose, the throat, the lungs, and nearly
cuts off all communication with the vital air.—
But the more the patient is stuffed with the
cold, the more he stuffs himself with food. One
would suppose they were stuffing on a wager—
the cold stuffs up the breathing aperture, the
patient stuffs the alimentary canal. Only imagine
for a moment what war of stuffing I but it so hap-
pens that the stuffing of the stomach only increases
the stuffing of the lungs, until the stuffed patient,
wheezing and barking, can just speak in a hoarse
whisper, and deems it a matter of prudence to call
in a physician.
The doctor comes—" How do you do, Mr.
Pheezer ?"
Patient—(Coughing) ugh ! ugh ! ugh ! I don't
know doc—ugh ! ugh! ugh! doctor I've got a ter-
rible—ugh ! ugh ! ugh !—a terrible cold.
(Enter Wife.)—Don't try to talk Mr. Pheezer,
you're se stopped up. I'll tell you how 'tis doctor.
Mr. Pheezer put on a damp shirt, t'other day, and
took cold, and though I've done my best to cure
him, he's grown worse and worse, till now, poor
man, he can hardly speak above his breath.
Doctor--What have you done for him ? Mrs.
Pheezer—Why, besides giving him a sight of yarb
drink, and bathing his feet in warm water, I made
him eat as much good victuals as he could any way
stuff down. I han't starved him, depend upon it.
Doctor, I've had a good dozen of turkeys cooked
since he was unwell, poor man—which is only a
week come to-morrow—besides three spare-ribs and
a goose : and as sure as I'm a living sinner, doctor,
he's eat the bigger part on'em.
Doctor—And he's yet alive ? Mrs. Pheezer—
Yes, I desire to he thankful that he is ; though I
think he would'nt have ha' lived a very leetle while,
if I had'nt ha' done what I have; don't you, doctor ?
Doctor—No, good woman, I think if you bad
starved, instead of stuffed his cold, he would have
been well before now.

Mrs. Pheezer—Goodness ha' mercy on ye doctor !
Starve a cold ! why I never heard of such a thing
in all my born days.
Doctor—May be not, Mrs. Pheezer, but I assure
you it is the right way to manage a cold, if you
mean to get rid of it. For instance, let the patient
take a little, tea, coffee, or a glass of water, with a
cracker three times a day—or a little water gruel, if
more convenient or agreeable to the taste. By this
management a cold may ordinarily be cured in two
or three days, while by the stuffing process it would
probably be prolonged as many months, unless death
should intervene and put an end to the cold and the
patient together.
Mrs. Pheezer—Why, Doctor, I'm astonished at
ye. I used to think you kaow'd something, but now
I'm convinced all your skill an't worth a snap o' my
thumb. You needn't come any more, Doctor.—
(Exit physician.) Starve a cold ! Well, of all the
strange doctrine I ever heard of, this is the cap
sheaf. Among all my sins, I hav'nt got this to
answer for.
Mrs. Pheezer pursued
iher stuffing regimen, her
husband's cold became all nflammation of the lungs,
and in a week after, Mrs. Pheezer saw him laid in
his grave, consoling herself in the midst of her
afflictions, that she had not been guilty of the sin
of starving his cold.—Medical Publication.

EXECUTION.

acted Of
Varnam, Hinton, and Forrester, earn. , of
horse-stealing, underwent the extreme illy
of
the law on Monday last, at the new drop sir ift% / that
our county gaol. It being the first execution ,e 0
has taken place since the new county gaol has
erected, together with its being Easter Nerrds).
the concourse of spectators was immense—not Int
short of 20,000 persons were present. The demo
nour of the unhappy men, from the time of their
being found guilty up to the last moment they cease
to exist, was highly praiseworthy; they expressedl
the justness of their sentence, and wished to die in'
peace with mankind. On Sunday night Varmint'
took leave of his wife and brother, the latter stilD
under sentence of death ; the parting from his wife,.
to whom he had only been married twolyears, vso's
very affecting. The condemned sermonlwatpreached•
on Sunday morning by the Rev. R.• ffurnabYtl°. •
whom the culprits seemed to pay particular anew'
tion. Young Varnam sobbed aboud when the Itelf,„r's
Divine alluded to him, as not being yet out 0'
danger. On Monday morning the sacrament via'
administered to them. On entering the yard rrt' •
have their irons knocked off, they all walked witY
a firm step. Varnam, on changing Na prism" dressy
said, since he had been in prison " finct b'eooolB
as weak as a cat." At about half-past esu jilef
were pinioned by the executioner, Hinton siii,ro"'
heavily, but said nothing. Shortly. after they We°,
brought out on the scaold—Hinton first, Varna
nt'
next, and Forrester last: They were placed under,
the fatal beam, when the executioner drew the Or,
over their faces, and after a few minutes in prat
the fatal bolt was drawn, and they were cut off fro.'
the land of the living. Hinton seemed to die with'
out a struggle; Varnam once appeared as if he 11::,
in the last agonies, clasped his hal;ds togethsr,
u
very easy. The hodies, after hanging 15.4, e usual'
tainle..•
were cut down, placed in coffins, and deli.erefl
respective friends. Varnam ca„„,,fier
to their seemed'. to
a heave, and all was still; Forrester
t
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taken the same day to be buried at Coleorton,
native place. Forrester's father, who resides in'
Northamptonshire, was In the town, but we under—
stand did not witness the execution of his son, who'll'
he had seen or heard nothing of for several yeetge
until he was condemned to die for horse-itealinge"
Leicester Herald.

THE MARKETS.

COUNTRY CORN MARI9ITS DURING THE WEE'

Wheat. Barley. Oats. 800.
Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. a. to a. 6. $0
Blandfc•rd '79 39 29 40
Brigg '7o 75 24 31 16 20
Cambridge 77 SO 18 -- y
Chan! 56 '76 32 39 24 30 42 41.
Huni:ngdon.......— 66 '7O 26 32 17 23 28 Fs;
Long Sut:"o9, 54 7° 15 22 53 46.
Louth 68 '72 21 32 .15 24 S 4
Lynn _ 56 72 24 30 12 28 24
Newark . -
Nottingham '7B 85 28 4g
Peterborough 56 78- 37 40 18 25 37
Plymouth . 81 :4 3925 31 4".. 40
76 q 1750 lb
Sleatortl
Uppingham 18 73 30 39 .`,`; -P
Wished]

LEEDS CORN MARKET.—ApriI2I.
The supply of Grain to this day's market has been smaller
for some weeks past, except Beans, which are a &if 04E,
Fine new English and Foreign Wheat has been sold tor- forerj
more money than last Tuesday, but no amendment can beinuo
in other descriptions of new and old Wheat. The best OLIO
of heavy English Barley have fully maintained their price. 0
the demand for the light samples of English and Foreie,c,.
been very limited. In Oats and Shelling no alteration in
Hard New Beans the same as last week, but those that are
B-
and old ones, also Pease, may be noted lower if sales are eal4
In Malt, Flour, and Rapeseed, no material alteration-
Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b.
York. and Lincoln. 601 b.
Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
Grinding 25,. to 265.
Beans
Oats, rotatoe
Mealing, Foreign 12d. 63t011b3c. t32‘250 34t143438..A„,,.."c1t
Shelling 32s. to 345. Pe_yr jot.
Rapeseed, English, 321. to 311. Foreign, .4. to --L Pro'