The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-24 00:00:00

IN RE LOUIE MARIE DELPLANQUE.

The insolvent was a dancing master, and was opposed by a
hotel-keeper at Richmond. His petition had already been heard
in Court about three weeks ago, when the particulars were reported
in The Sun.

On that occasion the further hearing was postponed to this day,
to produce certain documents, and fcr the attendance of a material
witness. This person being unable to attend through illness, the
case was adjourned to the Ist of April.

IN THE MATTER OF CHARLES THOMPSON.

The insolvent was opposed by Mr. Hughes, on behalf of Messrs.
Heber and Son, for a debt contracted in 1833.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said the opposition could not be
supported, as the debt was debarred by the statute of limitation.
No other creditors appearing in opposition, the insolvent was
discharged.

RE JAMES EDW•RDS.

Mr. CooKE opposed the discharge of the insolvent, who was de-
scribed as a farmer and hop-planter at Lewisham. He was sup-
ported by Mr. HUGHES.
The Learned Counsel said the grounds upon which his opposi.
lion was founded were, that in the month of August last the insol-
vent received a sum of money out of the Court of Chancery, not one
farthing of which went to his creditors; and that his wife was entitled
to property under the will of his father, of which there was no account
in his schedule. There were also two creditors left out, and a total
omission of debts amounting to upwards of 300/. He (Mr. Cooke)
contended that, under those circumstances, the insolvent could not
be heard until he filed a new schedule, and gave all his creditors
fresh notice.

Mr. Commissioner HARRIS said he should dismiss the order for
hearing, and as it was evident the insolvent's conduct had been
fraudulent, he should refuse to enlarge his bail until the next day of
hearing.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.--(THIS DAY.)

A buckishly.dressed young man, arrayed in a cut away green
coat, a most magnificent satin stock, with union.pins, and the other
addenda necessary to the making up of a buck, was charged with
robbery, under the following circumstances : _ .

The prosecutor, whose name did not transpire, said that about
four o'clock this morning as he was going home, in company with
two friends, with whom he had been spending the evening,
feeling rather dry they stepped into a public house at the bottom
of James-street. Whils, there they had a friendly bit of a
joke together, in the course of which the prosecutor was thrown
down, and in the act of falling his money, to the amouut of 10s. fell
out of his pocket, " which," said the prosecutor, " the prisoner at
the bar picked up. With that I says, says I, You're got my
money. He then hands me over 3s. Says I, that's not all
you're got ? " Yes, it is," says he. Now afore that he hadn't
much money I know, 'cos he axed the barmaid to trust him for a
pot of porter, but she would not ; she said she didn't know nobody.
He then, however, when she wouldn't trust him, did pull out 6d. and
paid for the beer, and I cer'nely drunk out of the pot with him ; I
eer'nely did, as he put himself for'ard into our company, and made
himself wot yc u may call werry agreeable, certainly werry. When
he said he had'nt got no more money I got a policeman, who took
him to the station-house, where he pulled out half-a-crown and a
sixpence, which I think belongs to me."
The MAGISTRLTE—I was pet fectly sober, 'pon my honour; I was
as sober as 1 am now.

The MAGISTRATE—You had been out all night, spending, what
you call the evening with these two friends of yours, and then this
practical joke going on. It certainly does not look like great sobriety.

Another witness corroborated the statement of the prosecutor as
far as the scuffle, the display of the money, and the returning it
were concerned, but he added, " that the whole lot on 'em was jest
half and half between drunk and sober."

Another strange, dirty-looking man, with a moustache, next
ascended the box, and we were much struck by his apparent affa.
bility and excessive politeness ; there was a kind of idiotic expres.
sive manner about his owl.like eyes, with a lowering of the under
jaw which excited our attention ; when he was pronounced to be
quite drunk however by the inspector, and the Magistrate threatened
to fine him ss. if he did not quickly make himself scarce, our
surprise at his appearance vanished.
The MaoisTasTE, addressing the prosecutor, said he could place
no reliance whatever on his testimony; it was quite evident from
the testimony of the second witness that he and his friends were
drunk, and it was not likely he knew what money he lost. Under
these circumstances the prisoner was discharged.

The next charge on the paper was against Robert Rouen, for
stealing a quantity of paper from Mr. Bradley, his employer. The
Inspeetor announced, however, that this charge could not be pro.
ceeded with at present, as the unfortunate young man had seriously
wounded himself by cutting his throat with a razor whilst on the
way'to the station-house. He had in consequence been conveyed
to the Charing.cross Hospital, and the house-surgeon had given it
as his opinion that it would be highly dangerous to remove him at
present.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)

SPUILIOUR CIIAMPAGNE.—KarI Frederick' Marmite, a Pole, was
placed at the bar charged with stealing a thermometer and other
articles, of the value of :31. and upwards, the property of Mr. Ber-
nard Signes, the landlord of the Grapes public-house, in Old
Compton-street, Soho. It appeared that the prisoner was recoil'.
mended to the prosecutor about three weeks ago, as a lodger,
and having run up a score, and no money being forth
coming, he stated to Mr. Signes that he had made the dis.
covery how to manufacture a liquor, which the most pro-
ficient judge would not be able to tell from the best genuine
champagne, and that the cost would be a mere trifle compared with
the extraordinary high price at which that wine was sold,
and that, consequently, the secret would be of great value
to wine-merchants, and that if he only had the means
of producing a sample, he had no doubt but that
" some gentleman " would give him a very handsome
" gratuity" for the information. He then prevailed upon Mr.
Signes to purchase the apparatus he required for his experiment,
and among which were the articles he was charged with :stealing ;
also a quantity of quicksilver, tinfoil, &c. Mr. Signes being dis-
appointed from time to time of the prisoner's producing a
" sample," was at last inclined to examine the apparatus, and
then discovered the deficiency.

Mr. H•anwlcx—What was the tinfoil and the quicksilver for ?
The Prosecutor—The foil was to cover the neck of the bottle, as is
usual with champagne wine, and the quicksilver was, as I suppose,
to give the wine strength.

Mr. HARDWICK—At all events it seems that a very gross fraud
was intended on the public.
The prisoner was remanded till further inquiry should be made.

UNION-HALL-(THIS DAY.)

Elizabeth Holbein, a young female of interesting appearance, was
charge with deserting her infant, by leaving it at the door of the
reputed father. .

Mrs. Mary Sutherland Stated that she lived at Dockhead, and
that on the previous afternoon the prisoner knocked at the door,
and without uttering a word, placed an infant which she carried in
her arms, on the floor of the passage, and then ran away. She
(witness) pursued her, and gave her into custody.
In reply to the Magistrate, the witness said that her son was ac-
quainted with the prisoner, and that she said he was the father of
her infant ; that her son lived with her (the mother), and that was
the reason the young woman left the child at her door.
The accused, who wept during the examination, said that Mrs.
Sutherland's son was the father of her child, but he refused to con-
tribute to its support, and she kept it as long as she could, until
being reduced to the greatest distress, she was at length compelled
to act in the manner she bad done : repeatedly applied to the
father on the subject, but he peremptorily refused to give her the
slightest assistance.

Mr. CovriNoliam said she was not justified in acting as she had
done, but ought to take the infant to the workhouse of the parish
in which the young man resided, and the parochial officers would
proceed against him, and compel him to maintain his offspring.

WORSHIP-STREET-(THIS PAY.;

SEDUCTION AND REVENCE.—A young man named George Smith
was charged before Mr. Bingham with having committed a violent
assault upon John Blake, a journeyman silversmith, in the employ-
ment of Mr. Mordon, the patent pencil manufacturer in the City-
Road.

The Complainant (whose eye was frightfully swollen) stated that
he was returning home on the preceding evening when he met the
prisoner, who, without the slightest provocation, commenced a
violent attack upon him, and struck him several severe blows on
the face and body. Witness offered no resistance, but called a
policeman and gave the prisoner into custody. He had sustained
such serious injuries that he would be unable for some time to
attend to his employment.

In his defence, the prisoner admitted the assault, but said, that
he considered himself justified in committing it in consequence of
the complainant's having seduced his sister, who was now with child
by _ _

The prisoner's mother, a respectable looking woman, confirmed
her son's statement, and added that the complainant before be suc-
ceeded in effecting the ruin of her daughter, had promised her
marriage, but, on being subsequently called upon by witness, to fulfil
his engagement, he refused to do so, and told her that her daughter
and herself might both be d—d.

---ihecomplainant was recalled by the Magistrate, and after con-
siderable hesitation, he admitted that the charge alleged against
him was well founded.

Mr. litNomast said, that he would make every allowance for the
excited feelings under which the prisoner had acted, but no degree
of provocation could justify him in taking the law into his own
hands, and assaulting the complainant in the violent manner he
had done. He must convict the prisoner, but he should impose
the least penalty he dared to do, which was five shillings, and the
prisoner must also find bail to keep the peace towards the complain.
ant for three months.

THAMES POLICE.-(THIS DAY.)
Three stylishly dressed young men, who gave the names of
George Michael Harrison, Chapman Harrison, and Thomas Price,
the two former residing at Stepney.green, and the latter in Beau-
mont-square, Mile-end, were charged by the police before Mr.
Ballantine, with having indulged in the very gentlemanly pas-
time of wrenching divers knoaers from the doors of the peaceable
inhabitants of Blackwall, Poplar, and the Commercial.road, between
the home of two and four o'clock this morning.
From the evidence of the police, it appeared that the two Har-
risons were heard knocking at a door very loudly in the Commer-
cial.road, and when the police made their appearance, they ran
sway and joined their companion. They were overtaken, however,
in Salmon-lane, and all three taken into custody, when three
knockers were found upon Chapman Harrison. It had been since
discovered that as many as six knockers had been forcibly removed
in Blackwall, Poplar, and the Commercial-road.
Mr. BALLANTINE said there did not appear any evidence to im-
plicate Price in the:wrenching off the knockers, and lie might be
discharged.

The
knockers were then severally identified as having been taken
in the course of the night, and
Mr. BALLANTINE asked the defendants what they had to say to
the charge, when
Mr. George Michael Harrison addressed the Magistrate, and
questioned the policeman, for the purpose of proving that he was
not one of the party who were seen to run away, and called Mr.
Thomas Price, who had just been discl.argad, to show that they
were together.