The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-25 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 24.

The Court was occupied the whole of the morning
in hearing arguments on motions, which related only
to points of practice, and were utterly void of popular
interest.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 24.
DOE DEM. ELLIS V. OWEN.

This was an action brought in the month of March
1837, and after the proceedings had lieen commenced
the plaintiff was admitted to teen
in forma
pauperis. Previously to his having been so
admitted, the defendant had received an order
to recover from him certain costs. The question
now at issue, and which was one of some difficulty,
was, whether the plaintiff should be called upon to
pay for costs thus incurred before he had been allowed
to plead an a pauper.
Mr. JERVIS, on behalf of the defendant, appeared
to show cause against a rule obtained on the other
side, calling upon his client to show cause why an
allocator of the Master, awarding costs to the defend-
ant, under the circumstances we have detailed, should
not be set aside. The Learned Gentleman contended
that by the terms of the statute, and according to
precedent, a party could be exempt from no costs,
except those incurred after he had been admitted to
plead as a pauper.
Mr. TOWNSEND argued the point at some length
on the other side.

The COURT held, that according to the statute, and
in equity, a party was liable for any costs incurred
before he had pleaded as a :pauper. The rule should
therefore be discharged. •

SHERIFFS' COURT, Nov. 24.
Several short undefended causes were taken at the
sitting of the Court.

LAW V. DAW.

This was an action to recover the sum of Si. 18s.,
being due for cigars supplied, and the price of a talking
parrot.
The defendant was a man about town, and tbeplain-
tiff was a cigar manufactnrer, in Soho. The defendant
was in the habit of purchasing cigars at the plaintiff's
shop, and taking soda water, ad lib, in the summer.
These various luxuries were put down in a running
account between the parties. The defendant used to
smoke at the house of the plaintiff, and, one occasion,
he heard a parrot chattering in the house belonging
to the plaintiff. He wished to see it, and the parrot
was brought to him, and the defendant taking a fancy
to it, purchased it, but did not pay for it. The parrot
was sent home to the defendant's lodgings. A witness
was called to prove that the parrot could chatter
beautifully.
The UNDER. SHERlFF—Perhaps you had better call
the parrot as a witness, as it can talk so well.
Further evidence was then adduced to prove that
the other articles were supplied.
Mr. JONES, who appeared for the defendant, said
he would not contend against such evidence, and the
Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, for the full
amount claimed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Edward Poole, a youth of respectable appearance,
about 18 years of age, and Thomas Roman, a sturdy
young countryman, were brought up from Bath, hi'
custody of the principal Superintendent of the Police
there, the former being charged with stealing a silver-
mounted cut-glass butter-boat, of the value of 121.,
and other property of a miscellaneous description, be-
longing to Mr. Thomas Hulse, of Burlington Arcade,
silversmith and jeweller, and the latter with felo-
niously receiving a portion of the stolen property,
well knowing it to have been unlawfully come by. It
appears that the prisoner Poole was in the prosecutor's
employ as shopman, and on the 9th instant absconded
from his employment. On the following day Mr.
Hulse missed the butter-boat in question, but was
then not aware that any other property was missing.
In the interim the prisoner, it seems, had proceeded
by railroad to Bath, and took up his hdgings at the
Britannia public• house, at Walcott, where he left in
the hands of the landlord, as security for a small
loan, the glass part of the butter-boat, and a valuable
knife and fork, Mr. Hulse's property. On the 15th
inst. (last Tuesday week) the prisoner, Roman, en-
tered the shop of Mr. Young, of' Bath, pawnbroker
and silversmith, and offered a piece of broken silver for
sale. Suspicion being entertained that he had dishonestly
come into possession of it, he was asked if he had any
more pieces, and on his replying that he had, he was
told to bring all he had got, and they would be pur-
chased of him. He then went away, but quickly re-
, turned bringing with him 11 more pieces, which, on
being put together, formed the mountings of the
butter-boat. He was given in charge to the police,
and accounted for the possession of the property by
stating that a young man he had met with in Bath,
but who was gone on by the railroad, had given it
him to sell. This story being unsatisfactory, he was
detained; and the police having received information
of Mr. Hulse's robbery, the prisoner Poole was ap-
prehended in a public-house at Bath, where he
was accidentally met with by the landlord of
the Britannia, who had received notice from the po-
lice of the articles left with him by the prisoner having
been stolen. On searching him twenty-one pawn-
brokers' duplicates, relating to the stolen property, and
which had been pledged in London, were found.
Mr. HARDWICK asked if the prisoner Roman was
known to the police of Bath ? The Superintendent
said he had been so for many years, as a daring and
convicted thief.

The prisoner Poole said it was no use his saying
anything. The property spoken of all belonged to
his master.

The Superintendent said that Poole was taken into
custody a few minutes after he had enlisted for a sol-
dier.—The prisoners were both fully committed.

MARYLEBONE.

George Danger, was charged with assaulting and
putting in bodily fear, his mother, a respectably
dressed old lady, residing in Shaw's-buildings, St.
Pancras.

It was proved that he came into his mother's house
drunk, and demanded money ; which not receiving, he
took up a large stick, and struck her several times on
the body, then seizing the poker he commenced a
wholesale destruction of everything in the room.
The police-constable who took him in charge said
that the prisoner had been at that Court before on
charges of the like description, and that he associated'
with the most worthless characters in St. Pancras,
spending in debauchery any little property left by his
father.

Mr. LONG said he was sorry the law did not allow
him to punish him according to his deserts, but he
would do the utmost that the law would allow him,
which was to fine him 51., or commit him for two
months.