The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-14 00:00:00

COOPER V. EASTMAN.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a clerk in
the employ of the Alderney Dairy Company, to receive
damages from the defendant, Henry Eastman, a milk-
man, for assault and false imprisonment. It appeared
that, on the 14th September last the plaintiff,, in, com-
pany with a man named Custans, a milkman of the Al-
derney Dairy Company, hakl met the defendant in Cos-
well-street, and after some conversation between
Custans and defendant, plaintiff said to defendant,
who was carrying milk pails at the time, " Henry,
I think you have one of our cans." Defendant said,
" Yes, you may take it if you like," and swung the pails
round, when plaintiff took the can off, but seeing it was
not his, said, " I see it is not ours, and shall not have
it," and put it down on the pavement. Defendant said,
" I will not take it buck, I will swear a robbery against
you." Defendant then went to the station• house, and
gave the plaintiff in custody on a charge of felony ;
which, when heard the next day, was dismissed by the
Magistrates. Defendant had been in the service of the
Company, but had left about twelve months since, and
had set up as a milkman in opposition to the Company.
The plaintiff had been locked up in the cell at the sta-
tion-house all night.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—damages
201, costs 40s.
Mr. Montague Smith conducted the case for the pro-
secution... NO one appeared for the defendant.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Jan. 13.
SHAW V. HARRISON.

This was an action brought by the assignees of an in-
solvent. In the pleadings it was demurred that the
declaration should have been laid as of the assignees to
the estate, and not of the assignees by appointment, of
the Commissioners. Upon argument thereon before Mr.
Justice Bosanquet (at the time Judge in Chambers),
issue was joined, and the cause was tried in the Exchequer.
Mr. Sergeant MANNING this day obtained a rule nisi
for a new trial on points 'reserved, their Lordships how-
ever, giving their opinion that the motion should have
been made in the other Court.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Jan. 12.
(Before Mr. Commissioner EvANs.)
IN RE GEORGE DELIANSON CLARKE.
PATENTS EXTRAORDINARY.-This day was fixed for
the choice of assignees in the matter of this bankrupt,
who was described in the fiat as of 198, Strand, and
Fieldgate-street, Whitechapel, both in the county of
Middlesex, newspaper vender, bookseller, manufacturer
of animal charcoal, dealer and chapman.
Several disputed proofs were tendered, and the result
was, that the choice was adjourned until the 28th inst.
The fiat was dated the 24th December, and several pri-
vate examinations were held before Sir C. F. Williams,
Messrs. Ward, of Water-street, Bridewell Precinct,
being the petitioning creditors. The following schedule
of the " patents," in which the bankrupt is interested,
either wholly or in part, may prove amusing, if not in-
teresting, to his creditors and the public.
PATENTS FOR BELGIUM.
1. Hagues' railwaycarriage wheels.
2. Walker's improvement in coke ovens. First patent.
3. Ditto. Second patent.
4. Rudda's smoke burner.
5. Walsh's method of obtaining ammonia.
6. England's screw jack.
7. Frank's waterproofing.
8. Chaudron Junot's purification of oils, &c.
9. Cowley and Brown's improvements in locomotives.
10. Croll's method of purifying gas.
11. Chaudron Junot's improvements in soda.
PATENTS FOR HOLLAND.
12. Walker's improvements in coke ovens. First
patent. -
13. Ditto. Second patent.
14. England's screw jack.
• PATENTS FOR FRANCE.
15. Walker's improvements in coke ovens. First
patent.
16. Ditto. Second patent.
17. Rudda's smoke burner.
18. England's screw jack.
19. Croll's method of purifying gas.
20. Dampier's balance.
21. Rymer's spherical castor.
22. Improvements in manufacturing carbonate of soda.
23. Purifying oils, &c.
PATENT FOB SAXONY.
24. Mather's stocking frame.
PATENTS FOR ENGLAND.
25. Chaudron Junot's method of purifying oils, dated
30th March, 1840. Cancelled.
26. Ditto. Dated sth November, 1840.
27. Specification of Walker's improvements in col,e
ovens.

PATENT FOR SCOTLAND.
28. Delianson Clarke's improvements in coke ovenE-
Dated sth October, 1840.

'1 INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Jan. 13.
IN RE ADOLPHUS JOHN FEW.
The insolvent in this case was opposed by Mr. Cooxr,
' on behalf of an attorney named Abbott.
It appeared that he got a person of the name of Ham-
mond to accept a bill of exchange, for which the insol-
vent received the money, and Hammond being suedupon
it, took the benefit of the Act. It then came into the
hands of the opposing creditor, and proceedings being
taken, he (the insolvent) defended the action, by which
law costs were accumulated, and the Learned Counsel
therefore sought that he should be remanded under the
discretionary clause of the Act for entering a vexatious
defence.
The insolvent supported his application in person.
Mr. Commissioner BOWEN said it was evident that
the insolvent fraudulently and vexatiously put the op-
posing creditor to unnecessary expense. He should,
therefore, order him to be remanded for five calendar
months from the date of his vesting order.
IN THE MATTER OF JOHN HILLTUGS.
The insolvent was unopposed, and upon the Learned
Commissioner calling on his attorney, Mr. Morrell, an
attorney's clerk, named Mathews, said ho appeared to
conduct the case in his name.
Mr. Commissioner BOWEN ;mid there were some attor-
neys practising in that Court, who, without any regard
to their own characters, the interests Of their clients, or
the respect due to the Court,. were in the habit of em-
ploying persons to conduct their business who were
quite unfit for it. It appearel in the present case that
the unfortunate insolvent had pe.id, through his friends,
' the sum of 41. for carrying him through the Court, and
yet he (Mr. Commissioner Bowen) would be compelled
to send him back for a fortnight, without any fault of his
(the insolvent's). Such procee ling' on the part of these
attoneys were improper, and :he should`take every pos.-
sible means to put an end to it. The order of the Court
was that the insolvent should 'oe remanded for fresh ser-
vices, and also that Mr. Morrell .a in Court to-morrow.

POLICE INTE LLIGENCE.
MANSION-ROUSE.
Aldermen Sir PETER LAITRIE, WILSON, and GIBBS
sat yesterday to investigate clwrges against the crowd of
young men and boys who w ere on Wednesday accused
of having gone in gangs into the shops of two bakers,
and stolen bread and cakes :and biscuits, to the great
terror of the neighbourho ods of Cannon-street and
Bow-lane. Upon their arriral at the Mansion House,
the Alderman were informed that sixteen more young
men and boys had been ackried to the list of bread-
stealers, for offences committ, NI in the night of the day
on which the examination of the first gang took place—
an evidence of a system of rel'aellion and violence, which
Sir Peter Laurie, the senior Magistrate present said,
must be crushed in its cot amencement by the most
rigorous measures.
The Justice-room was crowded with tradespeople,
many of whom had witnessed the conduct of the prisoners.
Alderman WILSON said he -wished to be informed

whether there.was any truth in the statements made by
some of the prisoners who had been examined on AVect-
nesday before hi n, thaz, ',hey mt.t with difficulties in
Peckham workhouse, as to permission to stay in that
place and break Ro3iies,
J. A. Jopp, the son of one of the relieving officers of
the City of London Union, stated that he recollected the
faces of several of thoSe prisoners, whom he then recog-
nised, as having applied at various times at the house in
Cannon-street, for orders to go into Peckham Work-
house, which orders they uniformly received.
Some of the prisoners here stated that they had, to be
sure, received orders, uniformly, upon application to Mr.
Jopp, to go into the workhouse, but they asked what
could orders avail them when they were obliged to turn
out of that place at seven in the morning.
The ALDERMEN, after some consultation, deter-
mined to select from the prisoners who had been
charged the day before, such of them as could be sworn
to as having entered Mr. Church's shop, and stolen bread,
and distributed it amongst the crowd outside. Their
names were Joseph Gardiner, William Bradent, James
Cornish, George Allen, Henry Wilson, and William Toe.
Mr. Church stated that he could swear that four of
the above-mentioned persons entered his shop on Tues-
day evening, and took bread and biscuits and seed-cake
away with them without asking a question, and. divided
the eatables amongst the part of the gang remaining in
the street, which appeared to him to amount to between
30 and 40.

One of the policemen who interfered, said, that when
he was taking away the four prisoners, to whose iden-
tity kr. Church swore, eleven others followed, and
wished to go into the station-house, but were- prevented
by the closing of the door.
Church---/ was sitting in my parlour when they
walked into the shop, and on turning my head round I
saw the four I can now identify, and six or seven others,
helping themselves to whatever was within their reach.
Each of them took something.
Some of the prisoners thus accused denied that they
had entered the shop at all, but they all admitted that
they had eaten of the bread, although not of the
seed-cake.

Mr. Church—You certainly did partake of the seed-
cake, and some of you said the cake was nice, and you
would certainly come again for more.
Alderman WlLsort—That shows that the visit was
not one of starvation, but a regular preconcerted plan.
Mr. Church—They said it was a regular plan.
Alderman WILSON—No doubt it is a conspiracy
amongst forty or fifty to plunder. It is, proper I should
state that I have seen the Lord Mayor this morning on
this very serious subject, and he has expressed his deter-
mination to resort to the most rigorous measures against
every future delinquent of this description. The six now
before us are committed to Newgate for trial for the
robberies in Mr. Church's house.

Gardiner then denied that he was a ringleader. He
merely joined the rest who appeared to be equally dis-
tressed, in trying to get something to eat.
Twele others, who had been taken into custody on
Wednesday, were then placed at the bar, when Mr.
Clury, a baker, in Watling-street, proved that they and
a number of others, about thirty-five, surrounded his shop
and commenced taking the bread ; he identified four of
them, who gave their names, George Harness, James
Curtis, Wilson Reed, and Joseph Hartley, as being in
the shop. Mr. Clury begged that Sir Peter would treat
the case summarily.
Sir P. LAURIE said he could not ; it was a clear case
of stealing, and the bakers must be protected.
The commitments were all made out, and theprisoners
•
were taken to Newgate.
The other prisoners, against whom there was no evi-
dence as to stealing the bread, but who had been seen
dividing it outside, were then put to the bar, and informed
that sixteen had just been committed toNewgat e, and
that in all probability many of that number would be
transported. _ _

The multitudes of young men and boys who had been
brought up as participators in the plunder, outside
of the shops of the two prosecutors, were then discharged,
with an assurance that if they joined in any future
criminal act of the kind, they might calculate upon the
most severe infliction of punishment for the offence.