The Sun.
London, England, 1820-01-27 00:00:00

THE KING V. WEDDERBURNE.

On the motion of Mr. LITTLEDALI3, this de-
fendant was brought up to plead to an indict-
ment, charging him with uttering certain• blas-
phemous expressions at a chapel in Berwick-
street, Soho, wherein he was a preacher; tending
to impugn the Christian Religion. The indict-
ment contained seven counts.

The defendant being called upon for his plea,
said be was a foreigner, and admitting that some
of the words imputed to him had been uttered by
hint, desired to know, whether, if he could prove
on his trial that the Bible contained lies, he
should be exempted from criminal
Time COURT said they could answer no such
question. He was only now .called upon to plead.
The defendant said, that in pursuance of the
advice he had received, he should plead Not
Guilty, which he did accordingly, and received
notice that he wouldsbe tried at the Sittings after
this present Tern).

CONSISTORY COURT, DOCTORS' COMMONS.

CORFIRLD V. CORFIRLD.

This was a suit for restitution ot conjugal rights,
by the wife ot a respectable solicitor carrying on
business at.the east end, and residing tat the west
end Of tl►e town. The wife, it appea••ed, shortly
after their voluntary separation, was delivered of
male child, of which the husband disputed the
legitin►acy,having previously put in a negative plea
generally, as to the fact of the marriage. t w►s
BOW alleged on the part of the husband, that this
plea bad been put in merely for delay, in order to

give time for negotiating compromise; but tbse
now he admitted the marriage.
Dr. LUSIIINGTON observed, the mode of de'.
fence resorted to in this case was quite unjust'
liable, as it went to deprive the wife of alimony,
she having received only 100 t. since the suit cow'
menced ; and the Bishop of Carlisle, who per'
formed the ceremony, being about to be exit'
mined, the object was to prevent and shut out:
this evidence.

The Court gave leave to examine the Bishop.

THE PATENT THEATRES AGAINST THE ROYAL CO•
BOURG THEATRE.

(Before the Sitting Magistrates at Union-Hall.)

WARD 4. T. GLOSSOP.

Yesterday being the day appointed by adjourn'
meta to hear the information, at the instance of
the Secretary of the Drury-lane Theatre Commit'
tee, for penalties against Mr. Glossop, the Pro.!
prietor of the Royal Cobourg Theatre, for in.'
fringing his License, by enacting at that Theatre
a modified performance of the tragedy of Richard
111., the defendant, attended by his Counsel, Mr.
Adolphus and Mr. Dowling, appeared before the
Sitting Magisti aces for the purpose of meeting the
charge, when it was discovered that the informa-
tion bad been withdrawn without any reason as-
signed.
The Informer's Counsel, Messrs. F. Poumcfc
and Mr. Tuaritea, were nor in attendance, but his
Solicitor, Mr. 13u EIGESS, appeared, and stated his
regret that the Learned Counsel on the other
side should have had the trouble of attending as
notice has been sent to Messrs. Rogers and Soo,
the Solicitors for Mr. Glossop, that the informa-
tion had been withdrawn, and that it would be
unnecessary for them to appear pursuant to the
adjournment.

Mr. Apo',rims and Mr. DowLING urged, that
the cireutiwanee of such notice having been se.ut,
was no reason why they should not appear pur-
suant to the adjournment, the,object of which ap-
pearance was to meet the informarion if it can't!

be sustained, and it not, to have a verdict of0;r-
-j quittal recorded. They complained in strong
terms of the uncandid n►anner in which the intor-,
mation had been withdrawn during the interval Of
an adjournment,--the necessary inference from
which was, that the parties at whose instance the
information was lodged, were conscious of the in-
justice and unpopularity of the step they had
taken, so prejudicial to tl►e interests of Mr.
Glossop. The defendant having appeared to the
information, he was entitled to have an acquittal
entered upon the record, and they now pr4ed
that the information might be dismissed, es the
prosecutor did not think proper to come forward.
The Sitting Magistrates said, they conlit have
nothing to say to the business, inasmuch as the
information had been wholly withdrawn mt. Tues-

day. and as there was nothing upon which they
could proceed, the presence of the Learned Coun-
sel was quite unnecessary. It was the ordinary
and every day's practice to lodge informations
under Penal Statutes, and withdraw them at the
will of the parties prosectoing. Such, was the
present instance, and there was no precedent
which justified the defendant in having an acquit-
tal recorded. In fuel, there was no iniormatiou
now beim e the Court.

Mr. ADOLPHUS anti Mr. HOWLING reprobated
the practice alluded to, as highly injurious to the
character of persons who might he subject to nin-
licions and nutotinded accusations. In the present
instance, Mr. Glossop had been subjected to a
charge highly injurious to his property--he had
appeared to the charge with a manful deteimina-
tionof meeting it, and after the expence, incon-
venience, and trouble, to which he bad been put,
be had much reason to complain of the uncandid
course which the business bad taken.

The Magistrates repeated what the practice of
)e office was, and that they had now no intorma-
on More them on which they could act, one

way or the other.
Mr. IItraGESS, the Solicitor, then lodged ano-
ther information of the like nature, but contain—
ing other allegations, and it is understood that
the case will come on for argument on Wednes-
day the 9th ot February.
The Counsel and the parties then retired. The
office WAS crowded to excess by persons anxious
to hear the decision of a cue' in which the public
feeling is so much interested.

SUICIDE PREVENTED.—Yesterday morning, be-
tween the hours of nine and ten o'cl(Sek, a young
man of gentlemanly appearance was observed
walking on Hackney Downs, wi,h his hands
clasped together, and Isis eyes fixed as if in deep
thought, when two men were determined to watch
his movements. They followed him nearly an
hour, when the unhappy man arrived at a lonely
spot, and, casting his eyes ai omit!, fell on his
knees, and offered up a prayer ; he then untied
his neck•handkerchiet, and, taking a razor iron
his pocket, applied it to Isis throat, but the two
men rushed forward, and prevented him from corn-
mitring the rash act. Upon his being questioned,
he said his Dame was Beverley, that he lived with
his friends at Abingdon ; and, from his incolio-
rent statement, he appeared to have been disap•
pointed in marriage.

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On Tuesday last, in Hos Aland-street, Fitzroy-square, the
Lady of Mr. Benjamin Goode of a son.

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On Tuesday last, at Allhallows Staining., Mark-lane, Was
Heittlicote, Esq. of Muunt-pleasant, l'uttenham, to ,Mils
Stet laud, of

PI ED

Yesterday, at his house, in Rutland-place, Mr. John
Pearson, aged 455.

Orr the 25tli instant, at his son's house, Sloane-street, at
the advanced age of 83, Charles Dick,Esq. heir to the title of
Braid.

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