The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-08 00:00:00

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, N°"- 7.

THE REV. 11. MITCHELL V. THE REV. E. WILLIAMS.
This was an action for malicious prosecution, tried
c 0,
before Mr. Justice Wightman, at the lust: assizes at
Bristol, when a verdict. was returned for thoplaintiff
damages ,
a
4001.
Alr. DER now moved for rule to show
cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and
a new trial granted, en the ground that there had
been no evidence to criminate the
,defendant, and of
an excess of damages.
The COURT granted the rule. • ,

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Nov. 7.
IN RE AUGUSTUS NEWTON. • - •
Mr. CooKE moved in this matter that the schedule
of the insolvent be transmitted to Cheltenham, through
Mr. King, an attorney of the Court, to substantiate
certain charges of forgery, and fraudulently becom-
ing possessed of a will which the insolvent brought
against Lady Ricketts, widow of the late Admiral Sir
J. Ricketts, in the police court' of that place. •
• The COURT granted the application, first ordering
the party to lodge a.copy of the schedule with the
officer.

' • POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
iI7()RSHI P-STR E ET.
A genteel looking lad, named Frederick Brown,
and a respectable tradesman residing in White Con-
duit-terrace, Pentonville, were charged with having
let, off fireworks in the public high Way.
The charge against the elder defendant was proved
by a policeman, who saw him
discharge a cracker,
near the City-road, at half-past twelve o'clock on
Saturday night. A similar offence was committed at
half-past eleven o'clock, by the lad Brown.
'
The elder defendant adMitted having b:en foolish
enough to discharge a cracker which was given to
asptaotliiocncznu,se.
him by a passenger, but the instant it exploded he
who conveyed him to the
ei'ilt°ehxielt°l:nl3lrspector, ne begged leave to send into the
On being ushered
Itib\li'leea:CfSotis.street for a friend to bail him, but the answer he
received was, that it was too late, and he was locked
up it '1 a filthy cell, Nvh e r e he was obliged to remain
until nearly nine o'clock on Sunday morning.
The younger defendant said he had a similar com-
plaint to make, although he reached the station-house
an hour earlier than the other defendant. He offered
, any money to be provided' with 'a messenger who
I would communicate his situation to his parents, but
his request was equally unheeded with that of ' his
fellow captive.
The
residing in Bartholomew-close, said that he was em-
ployed wholetthaetherof th
nigeb3troinutlraii a respectable gentleman,
ranging
the streets in search
of his son, whose mother was in a dreadful state of
apprehension, in consequence of his absence. He
l
heard nothing of him until between eight and nine
o'clock on Sunday morning, when a messenger at
lengthlarrived from the station-house, to whom he gave
half-a-crown for his trouble, without knowing at the
time that he had already received a shilling from his son.
Mr. BuouGuToN inquired who the messenger was,
as he considered that he had been guilty of a gross
act of extortion. . .
Sergeant Lambert said he was a young man living
near the station-house, who was in the habit of carry-
ing messages from the prisoners,
The MAGISTRATE immediately dispatched an officer
to require the attendance of the messenger, who ar-
rived in Court soon after, when he admitted having
received the extra recompense of S. 6d., but said that
it was voluntarily given to him.
Mr. BROUGHTON said that he had acted most dis-
honestly in receiving the money without mentioning
that he had already been paid, and unless he imme-
diately refunded it he should certainly commit him.
After some hesitation the young man
returned the
money to Mr. Brown, who requested that it might be
deposited in the poor-box.
Mr. BROUGHTGN then said that proper facilities
ought to be afforded at station-houses for the procura-
tion of immediate bail, in order that respectable persons
might be saved the inconvenience and disgrace of being
locked-up on such trifling charges.% Ile should dis-
charge the defendants, as he considered they had been
amply punished for their indiscretion.

packet, TilThe
Co Countess ofa m
Lansdale, General
tarrived yesterday
off the Tower, with mails and passengers from
Hamburg. SteNoaisdaigale Navigation Company's mail- 1
A CONFESSIONAL AWKWARDLY
SITUATED.—In
the cathedral of Girgenti, in Sicily, the slighter whis-
per is borne with perfect distinctness from the great
western door to the cornice behind the high altar, a
distance of 250 feet. By a most unlucky coincidence,
the precise focus of divergence at the former station
was chosen for the place of the confessional. Secrets
never intended for the public ear thus became known,
to the dismay of the confessors and the scandal of the
people, by the resort of the curious to the opposite
point (which seems to have been discovered accident-
ally), until at length one listener, having had his cu-
riosity somewhat over gratified by hearing his wife's
avowal of her own infidelity, this tell-tale reculiarity
became generally known, and the confessional ';vas re-
moved.—Herschers Treatise on Sound.