The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-25 00:00:00

BAIL COURT, May `24.

'AIARSHALI. AND OTHERS V. NEWTON.
This was an action, brought by the plaintiffs, and 140 others,
who constitute a body called " The. Friendly Sawyers Society,"
to recover the cash-box and banners of the Society, from the
defendant, the landlord of Paul's public-house, where the So-
ciety were accustomed to assemble. The defendant pleaded
that he did not detain the goods, and that the goods did not be-
long to the plaintiffs.
Mr. ERLE stated the plaintiffs' case. The Society were in
the habit for a long time of resorting to Paul's public-house,
where they kept their boxes, banners, and flags. Before the
defendant came into possession of the ho it was kept by a
person called Whitesides, who when leaving informed Newson
upon what terms the Society used to meet : that the advantage
he had to gain from them was the profit of the goods he sold
them. A dispute, however, arose, and the Society resolved to
remove elsewhere; but the defendant refused to give
up either the box (which contained more than twenty-
one pounds in money) or the flags, stating that a sum
of money, amounting to 20/., was due from the Society to him.
It was to recover back this money, and the flags, which were
worth about 150/., that the present action was brought.
Mr Whitesides, the former landlord of Paul's public-house
proved that he told the defendant the terms upon which the
society met at the public-house.
Richard Mullen, formerly a member of the Society, proved
that the defendant came into a room where he and several
others were sitting, and said that he would keep the goods of
the Society—that they asked for the:box, but that instead of
giving them it, he gave them a bill for 201. The witness also
proved that it was not the debt of the Society, but his own
debt.

The demand of the goods detained having been proved,
Mr. JAMES addressed the jury for thedefendant.
His LORDSIIIP summed up, and left it to the jury to say whe-
ther the Society were indebted to the defendant in the 201. he
demanded : and also, whether there was sufficient evidence
to show that all the plaintiffs were members of the Society.
The jury brought in a verdict for the plaintiffs,damages 70/.,
to be reduced to 401., if the money and flags were rvturned.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, May 24.
The Court took the new trial paper this morning. No cases
of any public interest came on.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, May 24.
THE MARYLEBONE BANK-IN RE DAVID HARNEY.
This day was fixed for the final adjourned examination of the
bankrupt, who was the Managing Director of the Marylebone
Bank, from which it was stated that he had drawn out upwards
of 17,0001. At the last hearing, the bankrupt was not present,
as it was said he was in a state of ill-health in France, but to-
day he was in attendance.
The bankrupt handed in a letter to the Commissioners to
bear out his statement of ill-health, with which the Commis-
sioner expressed himself satisfied ; and, after a short discussion,
a further adjournment of three weeks was agreed on, to give the
bankrupt time to render his accounts.

BANKRUPTCY OF THE CHICHESTER OLD BANK-IN RE RIDGE,

RIDGE, AND NEWLAND.
Friday, the 20th instant, having been appointed for the ad-
journed final examination of the bankrupts, at the Dolphin
Inn, Chichester, illy. Montague Chambers appeared on the
part of the assignees to oppose, and Mr. John Henry Pollock
to support, the passing of the bankrupts.
An amended balance-sheet and very elaborate supplemental
accounts were delivered in, whereby taking the loss by the
failure of Fry and Chapman at the date of the failure, 161.28, as
it had since turned out (viz. 37,0001.), the bank appeared to
have been then insolvent to the extent of .51,000/. and upwards,
and that deficiency had gradually increased annually to the
present amount of between 80,00 W. and 90,000/.
The bankrupt, Charles Ridge, was examined at great length
by Mr. M. Chambers, as to the accuracy of these accounts.
Mr. J. if. Poi,Locx stated that one of the clerks (Goodeve)
had since been made a bankrupt, and the assignees under this
estate, who were also assignees under Goodeve's, had made a
claim for 20,000/. as creditors under that estate, the whole of
which bad been allowed, except what was barred by the sta-
tute. Goodeve, it was understood, had been alloweji to pass
without accounting for one shilling of this money.
Mr. Commissioner MtssiNG stated that the Commissioners
were unanimously of opinion, that although great negligence
was attributable to the bankrupts for the careless manner in
which they had conducted their affairs, yet it was manifest that
the accounts rendered had been framed with great care, and
were in their present shape fully explanatory of the bankrupts'
affairs, and therefore the Commissioners had felt it to be. their
duty to pass the bankrupts.
The other Learned Commissioners concurred, and the
Bankrupts were declared to have passed their final examination. '
The summary of the balance-sheet, of the joint-estate of
the bankrupts exhibited the total amount of debts to be
230,362/. 14s.

do Saturday last the first dividend meeting took place, when
a dividend of 4s. in the pound was officially declared.

IN SOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, May 24.
RE MOSES ABITHOL.

The defendant, who described himself in his balance-sheet as
a foreign merchant and consignee, was opposed in person by
Mr. Bristow, of the firm of S. R. Bristow and Sons. His pe-
tition to be discharged was supported by Mr. Cooke.
In a lengthened examination it appeared that he contracted
a debt with the opposing creditors, tor work done as coopers,
in the shipment of a cargo, in which be (the insolvent) was
engaged, on behalf of (according to his deposition) an eminent
banker in the City.
The Cou is T held that there was nothing to induce a remand,
and ordered the insolvent to be discharged forthwith.

SURREY SESSIONS.
SHEEP STEALING.—Jo/ti Weston, the elder, and John
Weston, the younger, were indicted for stealing, at 'Mitcham,
in the county of Surrey, one ewe, the property of John Steb-
bington.
Mr. CHARNOCK defended the prisoner.
It appeared that the prosecutor had sent some sheep to Lon-
don to be sold, but he did not succeed in disposing of
them, and the sheep were brought back to Mit-
cham and turned out upon the Common. The next morning
it was discovered that one of the sheep was gone. From in-
formation they received two constables proceeded to the house
of the prisoners, and they there found the carcass of a sheep,
which bad but recently been dressed. A person was then dis-

patched to search the Common for the skin, and after a long
search the skin was found in a pond on the Common, placed
under some turfs. The witness for the prosecution stated that
he found the skin at about three feet below the surface of the
water. The skin was identified as the property of the prose-
tutor. The prisoners were given into custody at their own
house, and on their clothes being examined they were found to
be covered with recent stains of blood.
Mr. CHARNOCX cross-examined the witnesses for the pro-
secution severely, froin which it appeared, that for some time
past an enmity had subsisted between the prisoner and the pro-
secutor. He then called several witnesses for the prisoners,
who stated that the prisoners were in the habit of buying
lambs immediately after they were dropped, and bringing them
up by hand for sale. The witnesses swore that the pond where
the skin was said to have been found was only sixteen inches
in depth. They all gave the prisoners an excellent character
for honesty and industry. The Learned Counsel having ad-
dressed the Jury,
The CHAIRMAN summed up the evidence, and the Jury,
after a short consultation, returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A man of forlorn and exceedingly miserable aspect, whose
name was entered in the police charge-sheet as Theykilns 11 il-•
lions Curry, and who designated himself " a sehoolmas t er,"
was placed at the bar before Mr. Maltby, charged with having
twice attempted to commit suicide. It appeared that about
half-past eleven o'clock yesterday morning, the prisoner en-
tered the tap.rcom of the George public-house, in Castle-
street, Leicester-square, in a very agitated state. The pot-boy
and a customer were the only persons in the room. Of the
former he solicited the loan of a knife, but the party refused,
saying that he did not appear in a fit state of mind to be trusted
with such a weapon. The pot-boy, however, gave him a small
penknife, thinking he wanted to cut his shoe-string or some such
matter. The prisoner immediately tore his neckerchief cif,
and made a violent stab at the right side of his throat, but his
arm was arrested by the pot-boy at the instant the point was
just entering hiineck. The determined manner in which it
was done plainly evinced the prisoner's intention to effect his
purpose. The knife was wrested from his grasp with consi-
derable difficulty, and he then ran out of the house, and cross-
ing the street, entered a public-house, the Monmouth Head,
directly opposite, where he retired to a dark part of the tap-
room, and attempted to strangle himself by tying his cravat
tightly round his throat. When discovered, he was black in the
face, and nearly insensible, and would, no doubt, in a very short
time, have been a corpse. On being sufficiently recovered, he
was given in charge to the police.
Mr. MA LTEY interrogated the prisoner, and succeeded in
eliciting from him the following particulars :—He was 31 years
of age, and a native of Bungay, in Suffolk, where his father
had for many years extensively practised as a medical man, and
continued to do so until his death. He had a brother a sur-
geon, at present residing there, from whom he continued to re-
ceive occasional assistance. He was himself intended for the
Church, and was educated at Emanuel College, Cambridge,
where he obtained the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and left the
University, as nearly as he could recollect, about 1834 or
1835. lie was shortly afterwards ordained by the Bisnop of
Norwich, and in two years from that time was presented by
the Rev. Mr. Watson, of Swaffham, with a living near Lynn,
in Norfolk, which he ,(rave up, after retaining it about six
months, to superintend a school in Monmouthshire. This
speculation proved unsuccessful, and the last situation he held
was as classical tutor at an academy kept by Mr. Norton, at
Braintree, in Essex, which lie quitted about fifteen months
ago, and had since subsisted by vending cheap publications
about the streets. He had been living at lodging-houses of the
commonest description in St. Giles's and Westminster, and had
lately been in Westminster Hospital with a diseased leg, under
Mr. White.

Mr. Mat.rinr said, that if the prisoner's account of himself
was correct, it was truly lamentable that a person of his con-
dition should be reduced to such a deplorable situation ; and
the worthy Magistrate, therefore, directed Mr. Clements, the
Chief Usher of the Court, to make inquiries as to the truth of
the statement he had made.
In the interim the prisoner was allowed to sit in the
eharge.room, but lie was shortly afterwards seized with de-
lirium tremens, or drunkard's madness, and although coffee,
brandy, &c., were administered to him, he continued in a state
of great suffering and mental excitement.
The result of the officer's inquiry proving that the prisoner's
account of himself, as far as could then be ascertained, was true,
he having lodged at the place he mentioned, and had also been
a patient in Westminster Hospital, and his name being found ,
in the University Calendar, as a member of Emanuel College,
in 1831, Mr. Maltby directed that he should be received into
St. Martin's Workhouse, until such time as his relatives could
be apprised of his unfortunate condition.
UNION-HALL.

Frederick Flower, a baker, was summoned for sellir g bread
without having scales and weights in the vehicle he was driv-
ing. As a caution to master bakers, it may be necessary to
state, that for the above offence they are liable to a penalty of
5/., and that of late several belonging to the trade have been
fined, the informers being on the alert at this side of the water.
The defendant was fined 10s. and costs.
A seaman just paid off from the lienb3w line-of-battle ship
was charged with being found insensibly drunk lying in the
road. He came up from Sheerness on the preceding day, and
having fallen in with some girls, he commenced treating them,
until he at length became so drunk as to render himself insen-
sible; and while in this state he was robbed of all his wages,
besides his hat and shoes, in which situation he was found lying
in the road, exposed to being run over.—After a brief lecture
from the Magistrate, the sailor was discharged.