The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-11 00:00:00

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Witlimn Bran:aand Elizabeth R eve were yes-
terday brought before Mr. BENETT for re-examina-
tion, on a charge of feloniously killing the prisoner
Brown's wife.
No evidence touching the death of the unfortit
nate woman was gone into, the Coroner's inquest
not having yet been held upon the body.
The prisoners, neither of whom said any thing
upon the subject of the charge against them, were
remanded until the Coroner's inquest shall have
been held, and were taken back to Spitalfields'
watch-house, whence they bad been brought in or-
der to their examination.
Both of them seemed rather advanced in years,
and were extremely quiet-looking persons. Yester-
day afternoon, as they were passing through one of
the passages from the office, in custody of the
office's, a well-dressed female, in the crowd of
women who wet e waiting there to see them pass,
exclaimed, " This is the wretch," and struck the
female prisoner a violent blow in the face. She
was immediat' ly taken into custody, and placed at
the bar before the Magistrate.
She stated herself to be Margaret Ward, a milli-
ner and dress-maker.
Mr. BENT^►T asked her what she had to say in
defence of such conduct ?
.The young woman, who appeared in a state of ex-
treme agitatian, replied, that she hail known the de-
ceased, and had been unable at the moment to re-
strain ti.c feelings excited a hen she first saw the
woman who had been the occasion of her death.
Mr. BENETT lectured her upon the impropriety of
her condliet, of which, indeed, she now seemed
fully sensible.
The yquiig woman, who was a very respectable
person in appearance, was discharged in the course
of the evening, upon recognizances for her keeping

the peace.
UNION-HALL.
Yesterday the stewards of a benefit club, called
the Friendly Benefit Society, were summoned by the
widow of a deceased member, for refusing to pay
her the slim of 15/. which she was entitled to by
the rules of the society.
The complaitiant stated that her husband had
Iwo a member of the above Society for the space of
five years, and regularly made good all his payments.
He ear taken unwell a short time ago, and died af-
ter a week'? illness ; and when she applied to the
stewards of the Society of which he was a member,
for the sum of 15/. which she was entitled to by
the regulations, in order to bury him and pay other
expences attendant upon. his illness, they rejected
her application on the ground that her husband died
Hof a di-ease which exempted his widow from all
beriefit:; arising from the Society.
On hearing_ the above statement of the poor
widow, Air. CHAMBERS could not help expressing
considerable surprise, and asked her of what com-
plaint her huahand had died ?—She replied, of the
small-pox.
One of the stew-as:la, who acted as spokesman on
the oceasion, said, " Youe Worship, the rubs of our
Society are, that the wives of members who die of
the stnall-isox are not entitled to any benefit ; for it
is expressly stipulated that persons who have not had
the small-pox are not to be admitted as members."
The steward here began to mumble forth the
article whic% had reference to the different profes-
sions, trades, and religious persuasions of those who
were deemed unfit for becoming members of the
" Friendly Itepefit Society ;" the reading of which
of great rempsement. " You will find," said
the steward, " that the sth article of our inks sets
forth that the individuals labouriog in those voca-
tions are consiiiered ineligible to be enrolled amongst
116,—immely, lawyers, scriveners, thaat,crs, and otl.ers
of the learned plofeszion ; neither do we admit a
painter, plumber, glazier, water-gilder, eoloura
grinder, shoemaker, tailor, bailiff, or bailiff's fob,
lower, or any person who has not had the small-
ox, or bel.stig,s to any other benefit society of this
p ltiael or sort. And it is specially provided," sad
tiae steward, roaring out as loud as he could, " that
frialanan or Jew, or aay person other than those
professing the Protestant rei;gion, shall be ad-
mitted as members of the said society,"
When the laughter provoked by the reading of
the above extraordinary clause in the articles of the
" Friendly Benefit Society" had in some measure
subsided, Mr. CHAMBERS exclairnea," By the clause
you have just read, Mr. Steward, it Appears that in
addition to members of the learned peofessions
being deemed ineligible to enter the society, yogi
have also excluded a great majority of the different
trades which are followed in London. lam only
surprised," added the- Magistrate," that you were
enabled to get any members to enrol themselves in a
society where there are so many restrictions." He
added that the society had been receiving the poor
man's money for five years preceding his death, and
it would be most unjust indeed to exclude his
C#Y4lotv from the benefit arising from the Society.
ibis opinion Mr. ELYARD most cordially joined,
and the stewards were awarded to pay the sum
which the widow was entitled to.
M A RYLEBONE.
Yesterday Henry Bai•er, a respectable-looking
young man, was charged before Mr. GRIFFITH, by
Thomas Ellen, a boot and shoe maker, at No. 39,
South-street, Manchester-square, with a breach of
the peace.
Nr. Ellen represented that the defendant kept

company with his daughter-in-law, and had lately
made himself very troublesome at his house, by
charging him with being the writer of some anony-
mous letters which he had received, and he was
obliged that morning to call in a police constable,
and have him taken to the watch-house.

The young man said this girl had had two ille-
gitimate children, and, still worse, they were be,
gotten by her ov. n father-in-law. When the com-
plainant married her mother she was seven years
old. When she was sixteen he seduced her in her
mother's absence from home, and she had had a
child, which is dead, and he continued the inter-
course with her until a second child was born, which
is now living, and six years old. He was well ac-
quainted with all those circumstances, yet he was
anxious to marry her ; but some one had written
anonymous letters to him and to his parents, with
the ill-natured deign of preventing it, and he be-
lieved they proceeded from the complainant.
Two of the letters were here handed to Mr.
Griffith, am/ the complainant was asked, upon his
oath, whether he wrote them. He declared that he
knew nothing at all about them. He told the de-
fendant so whenever he came, but the defendant
always created a great uproar, and called him a
monster and a disgrace to society.
Mr. GRIFFITH said there appeared no proof that
the complainant had written the letters,and there-
fore the defendant must not molest him respecting
them. Indeed it was not to be supposed that he
wrote them, for they charged him with being the
father of two children by his own daughter-in-law.
" It is a fact," said the defendant, " and he wants
now to injure her still more, and prevent my marry-
ing her."
The young woman was put forward, and, after
she had charged her father-in•law with having had
the intercou.se with her before alluded to, he said
he could not swear that he was not the father of
the children.

Mr. GRIFFITH asked whether they had in any
way become chargeable to the parish ? The answer
was no; and it appeared that the one now living is
suppor►ed by Mr. Ellen.
The charge against the young man was dismissed.

A correspondent states, that a great number
of mantuanalkers, in a neighbouring market town, at-
tended the confirmation at that place for the two-fold pur-

rme of partaking in the benefits of the rite, and for taking
a pattern of the Archbishop's. sleeves ! York Courant.
A kIIGHWAYNIAN.—A toll-keeper lived its
Dumbartinshire not many years since, who did not trouble
Limself about " the march of intellect," and had never read
" CooK's c6n;phte letter-writer ;" he had occasion once
to write to the Contractor for repairing the road, and when
he had finished his billet be addressed it thus, " To Mr.
uN c x CAMERON, Ilivlacryman, Renton."— Glasgow
Herald.

MELANCHOLY EVENT.-ROBERT WARE,
a man about twenty-eight years of age, who with his bro-
ther occupies a farm in the parish of Hew, a short distance
from this city on the Tiverton-road, on Saturday last went

into the house of a dairy-woman, whose name we have not
yet ascertained, but who resided neatly opposite, and with-
out any known provocation, discharged the contents of a
gun at her body, so that she died in less than two hours
of er, in great agonies, part of her bowels having protruded
before her death. The individual who has committed this
dreadful act was attacked, during the last spring, with a
phrenzy fever, hut considered by his medical attendant to
have recovered from its effects, and in consequence no
gusrd was kept over his conduct. We understand the
husband of deceased was with him at the time of his ill-
ness; from which circumstance the only conjecture at pre-
sent formed is, that the recollection of being under his
control had rushed into his mind with a return of the dis-
order, and instigated him to murder, as an act of venge-
ance. The information we have been able to collect states
that WARE, with his gun in his hand, proceeded to the
tarm-yard of the unfortunate woman, and watched her
entrance to the dairy, where he followed her, in order to
accomplish his purpose. He is at present, we find, in a
state of delirium ; and the husband of the deceased, who is
left with five children, in a most distracted state of mind.
An inquest is now being held on the body, from the result
of which, further particulars will be gained of this de-
plorable affair.—Exeter Alfred.
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A MORAL CONSTABLE.—A few nights
since, a parochial representative of the King's Majesty, in
a certain city which takes rank as the second in the king-
dom, happened to see a gentleman accompany a fair dam-
sel into a dontiae, which in the estimation of the neigh-
bours, was no better than it should he. Now this trun-
cheoned authority was none of your straight-laced moralists,
who assume an imperturbable gravity, rand frown upon every
little enjoyment of life, but a man who knew the world,
and who knew how to enjoy himself in it. One who can
take a cheerful glass, and who often takes one—and who,
on the night in question, had he been put to his oath,
would scarcely have cleared his conscience in swearing
whether he saw one or two coupled' inamoratas enter the
domicile aforesaid. But he is a strictly moral man, and
very properly felt scandalized that such proceedings should
take place in the street over which he was the peculiar and
la. ,ful guardian. He thereore remained en guard until
the gentleman made his re-appearance in the street, when
in the plenitude of his office, which the effects of his glass
caused him abundantly to magnify, be seized the gentleman
by the collar, and telling him he would have no such do-
ings in his sinct, made him his prisoner. The stranger
was astonished—at first he thought he was in the grasp of
some SC mudrel who wanted to make money of him ; hut
on mentioning pecuniary matters, the virtuous constable
repelled the offer with an indignation becoming a sworn
constable of Gtorge IV., and hiccupped forth his detesta-
tion of the immorality the gentleman had been com-
mitting, and for which he determined to have him locked
up. The gentleman was now convinced that he was in the
grasp of a lawful executive, and as was the duty of a good
subject, proceeded with the captor, who took him to a
famous lock-up-home, in a certain street with a Swinish
name, where sundry of the swinish multitude arc accom-
modated with a nights hlgint,7, when found " night-
wandering" in coutravertion of the city statute in that
rase made and provided. The worthy constable having ar
rived with his chat ;e, he staggered into the lock-up,
doubtless expecting to be thanked for his vigilance in pro-

teeting the public morals. Bnt the officer in command of
the establishment did not look upon the case exactly in the
same light as the constable. The gentleman was perfectly
sober, and apparently had conducte3 himself in the streets
with all due decorum, whilst the constable by his frequent
deviations from the perpendicular, showed his infraction of
that part of his Majesty's Proclamation against vice and
profaneness, which treats of drunkenness. The tables
were turned, and the amorous gentleman was sent about
his business, whilst the tippling constable was kept in
" durance vile" until the morning.— Yuri: Courant.

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