The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-19 00:00:00

THE SUN,

that time. Brandy is little wanted, and prices continue on
the decline for all kinds. Geneva is wanted for exportation,
and common brings 2s 3d to 2s 4d, and fine for home con-
sumption 2s 7d to 2s 10d, Notwithstanding the continued
advance in the value of British Corn Spirits, still the demand
has been active at lOs 9d per gallon, net cash, and there is
not more being made than is required. For Gin the demand
has been active at 98 2d for 22, and at 9s 7d for 17 per cent
under proof.
RlCE.—Bengal has met with lass attention, and although
the market has been but moderately supplied, still a decline
in prices of 6d per cwt has taken place. Of Java the market
is without a supply ; large parcels would find buyers if
offered, and at stiff rates. Cleaned Rice is wanted, and prices
rule very firm.
SPIOES.—To- day at public sale 104 barrels of Jamaica
Ginger were only in part sold at previous prices ; good quality
went at 4143 to 51155, good middling 31 to 31 15s, middling
56s to 58s. 211 pockets 200 bags of Bengal went at moderate
rates, fine scraped at 43s to 50s.
COCHLIEAL.—This afternoon the market was more liberally
supplied, buyers were not much inclined to operate. At public
sale 129 bags were brought forward, and the chief part sold,
but at a decline on former rates of Id to 2d per lb.
HOPS.—The official duty for the kingdom is at 160,0001.
Prices keep up for Hops, but there are not many purchasers
at present ; there is not a large quantity offering for sale.
Otis.—There has been a limited business transacted in
Olive Oil this week, and prices have slightly given way. For
Linseed Oil further reduced rates having been taken, tempted
the trade to come forward more freely, and a good business
has been transacted. Rape is wanted, aid brings firm rates.
For Cocoa Nut former rates are insisted upon, but
the demand has been less active. Prices rule firm
for Palm, and there has been a good business doing.
Holders of Seal having submitted to a further reduction in
prices, tempted buyers to operate with more freedom. In
Southern the operations are upon a more extended scale, but
at low rates. Sperm has been purchased with increased
freedom, and stiffer rates have been given.
TALLOW.—Prices for Russian are not so firm, but on the
spot a good business has been transacted. Town Tallow has
met with a ready sale at 42s net cash. In other descrip-
tions there has been a good business transacted, and the
public sales generally went off at prices rather above those
previously quoted.

LA WINTELLIGENCE.
BAIL COURT, Nov. 18.

THE QUEEN V. lIOOKWAY.
Mr. ATIIERTON applied for leave to exhibit articles of the
peace against John Hookway. The Learned Counsel stated
that the exhibitant in this case was Charles Arthur Pulley,
an attorney, who was engaged in some legal proceedings on
behalf of a woman named George, the sister-in-law of the
defendant. On the 25th of October last the exhibitant at-
tended at the house of the defendant for the purpose of
serving him with a copy of a writ of summons, and also
with a declaration of ejectment, with a view to the recovery
of some lands claimed by Mrs. George. Exhibitant ex-
plained the nature of the proceedings, awl on hearing them
he called to his wife to bring him his gun, as he would shoot
him. He then entered the house and came out again with a
blind roller, with which he aimed a blow at the head of the
exhibitant, and braised his hand, and destroyed the papers
he held. He made repeated blows at the exhibitant, saying,
" I will kill you, by G—d." The exhibitant got away, and
proceeded to a magistrate named Patterson, who issued a
warrant, on which the defendant was apprehended. He was
fined 20s. and costs, or fourteen days' imprisonment. He paid
the money, and then followed the exhibitant for half a mile
along a lonely road, using the most violent threats and the
most obscene language, until he was taken into custody by
a policeman. The exhibitant was in bodily fear of the de-
fendant, as he was of ungovernable temper, and did not con-
sider his life safe.
The application was granted.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. ls.
(Sittings in Banco.)
EMERY V. RICHARDSON.
This was an action of debt for money had and received,
which the defendant contested, and the case was tried before
the Sheriff of Middlesex, and a verdict returned for the plain-
tiff. Mr. Gill subsequently obtained a rule nisi to show cause
why there should not be a new trial, on the ground of mis-
direction. The action arose out of a disputed bet, which the
plaintiff deposited with the defendant, but afterwards brought
the present action to recover back the amount, on the
ground that the bet had been illegally made.
Mr. MARTIN, Q C., now appeared to show cause against
the rule nisi, and remarked that the question which had to be
decided upon the trial was whether a bet of 10s. upon a foot-
race of 51. aside was a legal or an illegal contract.
Mr. GILL—No ; the question was whether a party deposit-
ing money in the hands of a stakeholder could recover the
money back in a certain event.
Mr. MARTIN concurred in the view of his Learned Friend.
The action was brought to recover 10s., which had been de-
posited with Richardson ; and by a recent deci-
sion of the Court upon this point, the plaintiff had a
right to recover before the event transpired which
was to determine the bet, on the ground that it was illegal.
In this case, however, the 'defendant refused to refurid the
money, and one of the parties having walked over the course
for the race the money was paid to him. Now, he con-
tended that the bet was illegal, and therefore the defendant
had rendered himself liable to the action in not refunding
the money when it was demanded of him. The
' first statutes relating to gaming were the 16th of Charles 11.
and the 7th of Anne, chap. 11; the 3d section of the first Act
invalidated all bills of exchange, and bets above 1001.,
where the consideration depended upon the result of any
game, horse, or foot-race ; and the 2d section rendered
illegal all bets which had been won by fraud or collu-
sion. The statute of Anne reduced the amount
from 100/. to 101_, rendered all debts upon tic or
credit illegal, and declared certain races and games fraudu-
lent, giving power to parties depositing money with stake-
holders, as bets upon such games or races, to demand and
recover back the same, provided the demand was made
within three months of the deposit, or before the race came
off. He did not, however, contend that the race in
the present instance was illegal ; but he relied
upon the case of Applehard v. Colley, registered in 10 Meeson
and Wailsby, which was a decision upon the statute he had
mentioned last, and which confirmed the Ist section of the 7th
of Anne, chap. 11, declaring all bets and wagers, the considera-
tion for which depended upon gaming, horse or foot-racing,
to be null and void. He might remind their Lordships that
the Legislature in the past session had been guided by this
decision while dealing with and amending the law of gaming.
Mr. GILL relied too upon the case of Applehard
v. Colley, and directed their Lordships' attention
to the fact that, by the statute of Anne, bets
and wagers under 10/. were legal. But his Learned
Friend said the decision in Applehard v. Colley made all
wagers and bets illegal ; but if their Lordships would look to
the closing of the judgment, they would find that it was all
wagers and bets upon credit that were illegal. Here, how-
ever, there was no credit; the stakes had been deposited
on the spot, so had the bet, and he submitted,
therefore, that the rule ought to be made absolute.
The LORD CHIEF BARON agreed with the Learned Coun-
sel for the defendant, that this was not a bet upon credit, for
it was admitted that both the bet and the stakes had been
paid down. Upon looking at the statute, it was clear that
the Legislature wished to put an end to betting upon tic or
credit, but not to betting under 101., where the stake and
the bet were deposited in the hand of some stakeholder on
the spot. In his opinion the rule ought to be made absolute.
Mr. Baron PARKE was clearly of opinion that there ought
to be a new trial ; and he apprehended the case of Apple-
hard v. Colley justified such a step, for the decision in that
case acknowledged the validity of bets and wagers under 101.,
where the money was produced and deposited in the hands of
a stakeholder on the spot.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON and Mr. Baron ROLFE concurred in
this opinion, and the Court ordered the rule to be made
absolute.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Yesterday a man of very dark complexion, named Richard
Ford, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with
having committed an assault upon William Short.
The complainant's statement was, that as he was passing
over London-bridge on the night before, the defendant, who
was in the company of another person, pushed up against
him. The complainant eXpressed surprise at such conduct
and passed on, expecting to hear nothing more upon the sub-
ject. He was mistaken. The defendant followed, and,
after having used the most menacing language, called him by
the most opprobrious name ,that disgraces the English lan-
guage. As a policeman happened to be near, the complainant
sought his protection ; but the defendant, instead of abstain-
ing in consequence of such authority, challenged him to a
trial of skill with his "bunch of fives" (his fists). The in-
vitation was not accepted ; whereupon the defendant struck
the complainant violent blows with his "bunch of fives,"
blackened his eyes, and otherwise disfigured him.
The police:nan confirmed the account of the transaction.
The defendant said the history of the matter was quite the
other way. He had been fulfilling an engagement as a
vocalist at a tavern in Tooley-street, and might have de-
parted rather too much from the spirit of Father Mathew's
prescription for the establishment of the national prosperity
while performing the duties of his vocation, when the com-
plainant stopped in the street to insult him, by asking him
whether he was not Sambo, the black bruiser? When he
denied that he was a fighting man, the complainant became
very bounceable, made a comparison between himself and
the champion of England, and showed those symptoms of
doing battle which no man could mistake; so that the blow
that had been struck merely prevekted the blow that was
coming from the other side.
The LORD MAyoß—Why did you use the horrible lan-
guage attributed to you? Defendant—lt is quite impossible
that I could have used language which, if used towards me,
I certainly should have resented.
The LORD MAYOR—By your own account you were drunk,
and I shall fine you for that offence, and, if you do not pay,
you shall sing in a cage.
William Goddard, cabman, No. 3,410, was summoned for
overcharging a gentleman upon driving him to the neigh-
bourhood of the station of the foreign steamers.
This was one of the numerous robberies committed upon
persons about to sail in foreign steamers by cabmen, in the
confident belief that the latter will never return to prosecute.
The fare of the cabman was Is. Bd. ; the complainant offered
him 2s , but he refused to accept less than 2s. Gcl., and ridi-
culed the threat of the gentleman to complain to a magistrate.
The cabman thought he should be all right if he pleaded
guilty, and subsequently admitted bis error.
The Loan MAYOR said the public were much obliged to
the complainant for having taken the trouble to punish the
fellow who, no doubt, was in the habit of committing plunder
in that particular way, and probably in other ways, whenever
opportunities presented themselves. The sentence upon him
was, that he should pay a penalty of 20s. and the expenses,
or be locked up in Bridewell.
His LORDSHIP said, that travellers might take it for
granted that he should in every instance of the kind inflict
severe penalties, and that the apparent humility and contri-
tion of the accused should avail them nothing.

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*,spector of letter carriers, said, that
Mr. James Smithers, 1.- •-gard from the lastmr iwitness, he
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he -was doing with it, he said " nothing.
out of the apartment, and the letter turtied
rected to the " Secretary of the Wilts, Somerst and Wey-
mouth Railway Company, 449, Strand," upon whigh a con-
-stable was sent for, to whom he was given in charge. After
the otter carriers had cone away, the prisoner sent for wit-
r ness, and told him that itsdid not intend to do anything
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torn near the seal when taken from t.L•4I prisoner, and as it
was not in his delivery, he should not have ii,:`.d it in his pos-
session. It appeared to contain coin with the stamp of eight
o'clock on Monday evening, the time at which it should have

been sent out.
Mr. George Willis, a clerk in the railway-office, having
opened the letter, found that it contained the transfer deeds
of conveyance for ten shares, with a half• sovereign on ac-
count as fees.
The prisoner said that when any letters were mis-sorted,
it was customary to take them back to the sorters, and that
was his intention when the letter was taken from his hand,
which had not been broken open ; besides, what was seen in
his hand when he left the office was not a letter, but a bit of

waste paper.
He was ordered to be remanded.
Francis Cope, another letter-carrier, was next chargedwith
stealing three letters.
Matthew Peake, a constable employed in the General Post-
office, stated that on Monday night, about seven o'clock, he
went to the Paddington branch-office, where he met the pri-
soner, and having searched him, be found a small tobacco-
box, containing secret springs, which he desired him to open,
at the same time asking him what was inside, upon which
he replied " two letters," and having set the hands of the
springs, it was opened, and contained a letter torn into pieces.
Witness then proceeded with him to search his lodgings,
No. 8, St. John's Wood-terrace, and having asked him on the
way what letters were in the tobacco-box, he replied that
one contained a sovereign, and the other, which was only
addressed to a servant girl, nothing. He was then asked if
the sovereign found upon him was inclosed in the letter, and
he said " yes." On searching the tobacco-box at the sta-
tion, a letter was found addressed " Jane Stagg, St. John's
Wood-terrace, Regent's Park, 75 ;" and also the fragments of
a letter, addressed " Mr. Bastin, at Mrs. Harris's, No. 2,
Wellington-place, St. John's Wood-road, near the chapel,
London."
Mr. Cole, after corroborating the evidence of the last wit-
ness, said that the letter addressed to Jane Stagg bore the
London stamp of the 11th, five o'clock in the evening, and
the other the 17th, which would in the course of business, be
forwarded to the chief office at ten o'clock in the morning.
George Harper, principal change taker at Paddington
branch-office, said that the prisoner had been an auxiliary
about twelve months. The letter addressed to the female
Stagg would have arrived at the branch office about twenty
minutes past seven o'clock in the evening of the 11th, and
the other about ten o'clock in the morning. The prisoner
assisted in sorting letters on Monday, and the last letter
which was not in his delivery might have come into his pos-
session through finis-sorting; but in that case it was his duty
to have brought it back to the office, and have the words
" taken out by mistake," written upon it.
Mr. Bastin proved that the letter produced was addressed
to him by his sister, Mrs. Matilda Kemp, of Wood Hill, near
Grantham, and contained a sovereign.
Eliza Vale said that she wrote the other letter to Jane
Stagg, containing a piece of paper with directions from her
mistress upon it.
The prisoner, who said nothing in his defence, was ordered
to be remanded.
The prisoner was again charged with stealing another
letter containing money.
It appeared from the evidence, that a letter containing a
marked sovereign, a shilling and a sixpence, was addressed
by Mr. Walter Culthrope, a president of the General Post-
office, to a Miss M'Kensie, of St. John's Wood, and although
another letter was delivered on the same evening by the
prisoner at the same house, nothing was heard of the letter
in question. the contents of which were found upon his per-
son. He was again ordered to be remanded upon this charge.
THE ALBERT ELASTIC STOCK.—Thomas Smith, of No. 4,
King William-street, Strand, appeared on a summons, to
show cause why he was in possession of a quantity of elastic
stocks, the property of Mr. Edward Joseph Weston, well
knowing the same to have been stolen.
Mr. Wontner appeared to prefer the complaint, and Mr.
Gale for the defence.
The case occupied the Court many hours, and it appeared
from the testimony of several witnesses that the complainant,
who had purchased the patent of the articles in question
from Messrs. Hughes, of Holborn, observed, on passing
through Duncannon-street, Strand, some elastic stocks in a
window, and as they resembled his own manufacture, he
sent a friend to make a purchase, and on opening the article,
having found that it not only corresponded in every particu-
lar with his patent, but that the materials were composed of
his property, he applied to this Court for a search warrant,
which was granted, and the man in attendance in the shop
was given in charge. The name of Thomas and Co. was
over the door, and it being ascertained that the concern be-
longed to the defendant, who kept an ale store in George-
street, Adelphi, and was also an advertising agent for news-
papers, a summons was issued for his appearance. The com-
plainant had a lad named Pierce in his shop in the Strand up
to the month of May last ; but was obliged to part with him
in consequence of a large deficiency in the stock; and his
mother also managed another establishment for the cum
plainant in Holborn ; with both of whom the defendant was
on the most intimate terms, and after the discharge of the
youth, had been known to have frequently visited the
mother at the house in Holborn, who was also discharged for
malpractices.
On the part of the defendant it was proved, that the de-
fendant employed a person in Brownlow -street, Drury-lane,
to manufacture the goods,' amounting to about fourteen
dozens of springs for stocks, produced, which being stripped
of the satin, turned out to be correct, with the exception of
one, the pattern of which was furnished by another person
not connected with the complainant ; but the other materials,
such as lining, India rubber, &c., were identified by the com-
plainant as his property.
Mr. JARDINE said that the case was the first which came
under his notice under the particular clause in the Police Act,
and, therefore, he considered it necessary to pay the greater
attention to it. The defendant must have known he was
possessing himself from time to time of stolen property. Had
the case, which was of a very grave nature, been investigated
by him on a former occasion, it might have been sent to
another Court, but he would prefer dealing with it in a sum-
mary manner by sending the defendant to hard labour for six
weeks, and the goods to be delivered up to the complainant.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
A Rim BEGGAIL—An aged countryman, in a smock frock,
was seen by Bostock, one of the Mendicity Society's officers,
to beg of various persons in Oxford-street, on Monday after-
noon. His venerable appearance and seeming poverty
attracted general sympathy, and he had alms bestowed on
him by charitable passers-by, whose condition appeared to be
but a shade better than his own. Bostock took the old man
into custody, brought him to this Court, and, according to
the usual practice, proceeded to search him, to ascertain if
he had any property about him. The old man suddenly shook
off the infirmities of age, and made such a vigorous resist-
ance, that it took the united strength of six persons to over-
power him. He was at last subdued, and the search com-
menced. In a pocket in the smock frock the officers found two
pounds in copper money. In a pocket in his clothes they found
between two and three pounds in silver money, and in his
wallet, which formed a sort of capacious trousers pocket, they
found concealed among potatoes, bacon, bread, and provi-
sions sufficient for three or four persons, a small bag which
contained sixty-four sovereigns and half sovereigns.
The amount of money found on the old impostor ex-
ceeded 691.
The defendant gave the name of Jesse Grover, and stated
that he was a native of Hemel Hempstead. He said the
money was his own, he had saved it out of the wages of his
labour, and he declared that he had never begged a penny
from any body.
Mr. MALTBY sent the defendant to prison for a month, as a
rogue and vagabond, and directed that a portion of the
money found on him should be applied to cover the expenses
of his maintenance in prison.
QUEEN-SQUARE.
UNPROVOKED MURDEROUS ASSAULTS —Thomas Howard,
a powerful fellow, was charged before Mr. Bond with a suc-
cession of assaults of the most desperate character.
There were no less than four distinct charges of feloniously
assaulting and wounding clearly proved against the accused,
independently of another in which the injured man could not
be found.
Henry Tyne, a labourer, stated that on the evening of the
21st of last July, he went in company with three other
men into the Colville Arms, King's-road, Chelsea, where he
saw the prisoner, who on his entering the room immediately
asked him if he would fight, and on his refusal declared he
would knock him down. Prisoner then advanced towards
him and struck him on the head with his hand, and then,
seizing a quart pot from the table, threw the beer it con-
tained away; and gave him a violent blow on the head with
the pot, which felled him to the ground, and whilst in that
defenceless condition the prisoner kicked him desperately in
the eye. The blow the prisoner inflicted with the pot cut
bis head open, and it was found necessary to take him im-
mediately to the hospital.
James Foreman, another labourer, after confirming the
account given by the last witness, said that on going to his
assistance when on the ground, prisoner gave him, without
the least provocation, a desperate blow on the head with a
quart pot, which knocked him down. He got up and de-
fended himself as well as he could, until he became senseless
from the loss of blood. The wound in his head was five inches
long, and he also received a very severe injury in the back.
He was taken to the hospital, where he remained ten weeks,
and never expected that he should get up again. Witness,
on concluding his statement. said, .‘ I was se injured, that I
shell never be the man I was before."
Jesse Taylor said that on seeing Tyne on the ground, and
the prisoner kicking him in the head, he went to pick him
up, when the accused knocked him down with the quart pot,
and kicked him with such fearful violence as to dislocate his
shoulder. Witness on partially recovering was about to
leave the place, when the prisoner rushed into-the room with
an axe in his hand, which was fortunately taken from him
by a man who stood by his side.
Benjamin Goodal said he was in the street advancing to-
wards the house, when the prisoner struck him a violent
blow with his fist, which knocked him down. He then threw
two large flint stones at him, which cut hishead open, and he
was also conveyed to the hospital, where he remained for a
month, and was afterwards an out-patient for five weeks.
He never spoke to the prisoner before he struck him.
JamesCobbetts, foreman over the men emploped in making
a sewer in the King's-road, proved the dreadful condi-
tion in which he found the victims of prisoner's brutality,
On hearing that some of his men had been treated with
great violence, lie went into the Colville Arms, and found
three of them on the floor, weltering in their blood. He
immediately put them in a cart, and had them driven to the
hospital.
In the course of a long, rambling story, -prisoner said that
Tyne wanted to fight, and lifted his hand as though he would
strike, when he (prisoner) gave him a blow with his hand,
and after that he took his part as well as he could.
14tr. BOND committed him for trial on the whole of the
above charges at the Central Criminal Court.
WORSHIP-STREET.

James Harrison and William Edwards, alias Setter, were
brought up for final examination, on suspicion of having
been concerned in breaking into and robbing the house of
Mr. Roper, one of the parochial guardians of Hackney; and
in several other burglaries committed in the same neighbour-
hood. Two other men, who gave their names Samuel
Trindle and John Setter, were now placed at the bar with
thew, before Mr. Greenwood.
The two first-mentioned prisoners were apprehended on
the morning after the burglary, at Mr. Roper's, by Inspector
Cooper, who found upon them several pieces of wax taper,
one of which appeared to be the counterpart of a piece left
by the robbers at Mr. Roper's. Upon one of them also was
found a piece of prepared liver, calculated to entice and
silence watch-dogs, and a similar piece had been found upon
Mr. Roper's premises.
A fresh charge was now stated of a burglary committed at
the house of Mr. Sewell, Dalston-rise, early in the morning
after the burglary at Mr. Roper's, and a few hours only be-
fore the two first-named prisoners were taken into custody.
James Summers, gardener, in the service of Mr. Sewell,