The Sun.
London, England, 1827-11-03 00:00:00

let him have for 8/. 10s., but he wanted my husband t(:
hire a man for hitn to carry them away, and therefore he
should not have them. I should think I know what busi-
ness is, having been 36 years in it; and when 1 left Knights-
bridge, where Mr. Goding, the ale-brewer, who has the
Cannon-brewery, who knows me well, said, 4 There (says
he) goes out of the parish the most honourablest little woman
in the world.'"—(Roars of laughter.)
Husband—For .God's sake, my dear, don't talk so fast.
Mr. WHITE—Do go on with your story, we shall never
get to an end.
Mrs. Orme—Very well, then. I went to Mr. Stewart's
to demand the rent, he said he did not know me, and that
I should bring a note from my husband. Well, thinks I,
I think you ought to know me. I that had seven houses
in the parish ; and I told him to ask Mr.
not the most bonourablest little woman he ever knew, but
I thought he wanted me to show any marriage articles ;
but a monied woman, your worship, only think of that ;
if I had been his woman, indeed, he might have wanted
a note.

Husband—Don't run on so fast, my dear.—(Laughter.)
Mrs. Orme—Very well, then, " Get out of the house,'
says he, and he pushed me out; but, your Worship, is not
a wife all the same ? When I was at the altar with my
husband I understood we were the same. When I was at
Walthamstow, in five years I spent 1,3001.
Mr. WHITE-Really all this has nothing to do with
the case.

Mrs. Orme—Very well, then, I employed a broker to
get the rent,—by the by, he charged 13s. and upwards, and
I will have no more brokers,—" a pretty expense indeed,"
said I to my husband, and told him to go and work for it.
With considerable difficulty Mr. White stopped the de-
fence, for the volubility of Mrs. Orme's tape baffled
several attempts to stop it.
Mr. WHITE said he bad heard a long rigmarole story with
some patience, and she must find bail. •
Mrs. Orme—Find bail, indeed ! I'll serve him out for
thiS. Husband—Yes, my dear, I'll
,give him a taster.
Mrs. Orme having tendered her bail, bounced out of the
office in high dudgeon. • -

WOIISIIIP-STREET..--00 Thursday a young fellow,
named William Sweatman, a journeyman weaver, was
brought before Mr. Bolo= for final examination, on sus-
picion of having stolen 100 sovereigns, the property of an
old man, named M‘Lachlin, and substituted in their place
100 farthings.
The prisoner declared his innocence of any knowledge or
participation in the robbery. His story, however, was not
credited, for he was known to be not over fond of work,
and he has but lately emerged from the House of Correction,
having been imprisoned for stealing grapes from a gentle-
man's garden.
West and Powell, who had apprehended the prisoner on
Thursday, informed the Magistrate that they had no further
evidence to produce ; and Mr. Bayarr, addressing the
complainant, said, his suspicions were probably very- well
founded, but there was no evidence upon which the prisoner
could be any longer detained.
The prisoner was accordingly liberated, and the bag of
farthings was returned' to the complainant, who left the
office appearing tolerably resigned to his loss.
UNION-HALL.—Yesterday the Magistrates of this
office were engaged the whole day in hearing summonses
granted on the complaint of William Cobbett, jun. against
several toll-collectors, belonging to different gates on the
Surrey new road trust.
Mr. Cobbett said, that amongst the charges he had to
prefer, was one which was of the utmost importance, re-
' lating to stage-coaches. It was against the collector at
the King's Arms gate, for demanding a toll
.of 6d. from,
the driver of one of the Greenwich stage-coaches, atter
he had produced a ticket of the toll he had previously paid
at the Marsh-gate, which he (Cobbett) contended, under
the general Turnpike Act, should kayo exempted the
driver from farther toll for the different journies he per-
formed to and from town the same day.
A Solicitor, for the defendant, contended, that his
client was justified in demanding the toll under the local
Act, which was not repealed by the general Turnpike Act.
The charge against the defendant, of having demanded a
toll of 6d. of the driver of the stage-coach in question, hav-
ing been admitted, a long argument took place between
Cobbett and the solicitor, during which nearly the whole
of the clauses in the general and local turnpike acts were
recited. The magistrates at length decided, that no offence
bad been committed by the defendant, and the summons
was therefore dismissed.
We understood Mr. Cobbett ' to have had four other
cases of a similar description in readiness to bring for-
ward, in the event of a conviction on the former ; but
owing to the above decision, he immediately withdrew the
whole of them.

His next case was against a toll-collector on the Surrey
new road trust, for demanding more toll for a van drawn

by two horses than is allowed.
On the perusal of the summons issued against the de-
fendant, his solicitor at first took an objection to it on the
ground that the offence set forth against his client was not
sufficiently designated ; he, however, waved the objection,
although the magistrates concurred with his view of it.
The case then proceeded, in order to give Mr. Cobbett
every opportunity of proving any offence against the de-
fendant, if he could. The defendant having admitted that
he demanded a toll of sd. of the plaintiff on the 26th of
September for a van, on passing through the gate, Cob-
bett was again completely posed by the defendant's soli-
citor, who referred to the Act, which authorized the col-
lector to demand the said toll. The magistrates also dis-
missed this, case.
In the next case Cobbett was equally uusuccepful.
A summons against a toll collector, by the driver of a
post-chaise, for demanding a greater toll than Mr. Cobbett
considered he was entitled to, also shared a similar fate
with the foregoing, the magistrates perfectly concurring in
the opinion that the offence set forth in the summons against
the defendant was not sufficiently specified.