The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-07 00:00:00

THE KING V. BENJAMIN FINCHAM.

Mr. PATTISON moved for a rule nisi for leave to
file an information in the nature of a quo war rant°
against Mr. Lie.ijamin Fineham, for exercising the
several offices of principal burgess and bailiff of the
borough of Eye, in Suffolk.—Rule nisi granted.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Jurx G.
HETIIERINGTON V. GRAHAM.

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE uenverea the judg-
ment of the Court in this case this morning. The
plaintiff had brought a writ of dower, to' which the
defendant pleaded that the plaintiff had left her hus-
band, and lived away from him in adultery. The
plaintiff replied that she had left him with his con-
sent ; and the defendant rejoined that the plaintiff
had left her husband of her own accord, and lived in
adultery with one William Colson. To this re-
joinder there was a deMurrer on the part of the
plaintiff, which raised the question for the decision
of the Court as to whether, upon the construction
of the 13th of Edward 1., c. 34,a wife's leaving her
husband's house with his consent, and then com-
mitting adultery, was a ground of forfeiture of
dower; or whether it were necessary, in order to
bring him within that statute, to show that the
adultery bad been committed before she left her hus-
band's house ? The judgment of the Court was
that the It oinder was right, and that the demurrer
must be disallowed.—Judgment for the defendant.

LOGAN V. LOWEL.
In this case Mr. Sergeant WILDE bad obtained a
rule to show cause why the allowance of bail should
not be set aside, on the ground of misrepresentation
on the part of one of the bail as to his circum-
stances, and why the bail should not attend the
Court to explain his conduct. In support of his
rule the Learned Sergeant produced affidavits, al-
leging that although the bail had sworn that he was
a master leather-dresser, was a yearly tenant of the
house he occupied, and had furniture, fixtures, and
stock in trade on those premises to the amount of
2501., be was in reality a journeyman, and only a
weekly tenant.

Mr. Sergeant SPANKTE now showed came, the bail

being in attendance, and produced the affidavit of
an appraiser, who swore that he valued " his fur-
niture, fixtures, &e.," at upwards of 1501.
The COURT, without calling on Mr. Sergeant
Wilde to reply, ordered that the allowance of bail
should be set aside.—Rule absolute.

A GHOST of the NINETEENTH CENTURY.

LEICESTER POLICE, JUNE 30.

A Mrs. Bridgart appeared before the 11agistrates
with her servant girl, under the following extraordi-
nary circumstances :—She stated that they had
beed annoyed at various times by some noise, the
cause of which they were as yet unable to ascertain.
On Friday night, a little before ten o'clock, the
family were in the yard, when they heard the girl
screaming out very lustily in one of the rooms,
which had such an effect upon her that she could
elmoit imagine she heard the noise at this time. On
proceeding to the room; she found the girl extended
on the floor, apparently inanimate. They asked her
what was the cause of her alarm, but 'she either
could not or would not speak or stir for sonic 'time,
at length, however, when she appeared to recover
the power of articulation and emotion, She replied,
that " she saw something white in the shape of a
woman ?" They were in consequence advised to get
somebody to sit up all night, which they did, but
nothing was heard. A doctor was then sent for,
who, on feeling the girl's pulse, pronounced her to
be quite well.
The next night the girl fainted, or affected to
faint, again. This produced some little alarm; and
the complainant conceiving it 'to be probably the
effect of a guilty conscience upon the imagination,
said to the girl, "If thy heart condemns• thee,
speak the truth, for God knoweth all things." No-
thing having been elicited from the girl of a satisfac-
' tory nature, the complainant thought it was pro-
bably a supernatural call for one of them ; but said,
they were not to be frightened to death if it was so.
On further interrogation, the girl said to her; " This
is all through the wickedness of the lads ; they are
all liars; you don't ,know how they all swear and
tell lies :" but after Wards added, that, while the
complainant remained in the house, the like would'
not occur again. The complainant asked her se-
veral other questions, and particularly about her
saying that they should not be again disturbed by
the intrusive spectre, when the girl replied. that " the
Lord had told her so !" Through such strange in-
coherent answers, she (the complainant), strongly
suspected that the girl had been putting a trick
upon them. She believed there was no foundation
for the accusation against the boys, and regretted
that the girl was not so well-disposed as they were.
She thought the defendant ought to be compelled
to give some explanation of her extraordinary con-
duct, believing that she was the sole cause of the
annoyance; for, since she had left her service, " the
ghost" had not thought well to make its ghostly ap-
pearance, to disturb the tranquillity of the family.
The defendant, on being called upon to explain,
said that she heard a noise like a loud crash, and
afterwards saw something go through the top of
the ceiling ! No aperture, however, was perceptible
where she imagined the fair phantom passed
through !

MAGISTRATES-HOW came you to say the Lord
told you that your mistress should not be again dis-
turbed, so long as she remained in the house ?
Defendant—l did not say that the Lord told me
so; but that it might be the Lord's will to send it
(Meaning the ghost), as the boys were in the habit
of swearing.

On the complainant strenuously insisting that the
girl ought to be compelled to give a more explicit ac-
count of the matter than what she had hitherto done,
the Magistrates observed that they thought she
might ascertain who or what this disturber was
without the assistance of a conjuror.
The complainant, in reply, assured them that she
did not think their Worships were conjurors.—(A
laugh.)

The MAGISTRATE.; said they could do nothing in
the case; and, after admonishing the girl against
practising such tricks in future, she was discharged.

GERMAN PAPERS.

FROM THE DANUBE, JUNE 18.—The .Allgemeine
Zeitung lately published an article, which if the state-
ments it contains were well founded, would be fully calculat-
ed to excite apprehensions respecting the continuance of the
good understanding between the great Christian Powers.
This article states, under the head of Leghorn, that ac-
cording to accounts received at that port from Alexandria,
a part of the Egyptian troops was to be embarked, in or-
der to reinforce the army of the Sultan in Europe. It is
added that an European Power has induced this important
change in the destination of this force, the whole of
which was at first to have been sent to Ezeroum.
If we recollect that there is in the Levant a Russian
naval force, which would certainly be sufficiently strong
to hinder the conveyance of the Egyptian troops to the
coast of Europe, it seems that it could not be effected ex-
cept under the protection of a European power, a transaction
which would be hostile to Russia, and would in all probability
soon lead to hostilities. By the European power spoken of
England must certainly be meant, but without pretending to
have dived into the real sentiments of the Cabinets, we
find it difficult to discover a reasonable motive to induce
the Cabinet of St. James's to provoke a state of things
which would undoubtedly be attended with great dis-
advantage to the British interest; while, even on the
most favourable supposition, the advantages seem ex-
tremely problematical. So long, therefore, as the above
statement is not confirmed by fact, we may retain the be-
lief that the war between Russia and Turkey will not ex-
tend farther, especially as its results thus far are not of
such a nature as to afford grounds for the interference of
a third Power, on the trivial pretext of probable danger
to what is called the balance of power.
FUOM THE MAINE, JUNE 22.—Several officers of the
English who have resided in this country (some of them
for years) have suddenly received orders to join their regi-
ments. They are already gone to England, where, how-
ever, they do net expect to remain long, as their regiments
are to be embarked fortlalta.

The day before yesterday a man was arrested at May-
ence, who offered some coupons of metalliques to a Jewish
house for sale, but who being questioned as to the man-
ner in which he became possessed of them, gave such
evasive answers that he was suspected of being concerned
in the robbery (which has been announced in the News-
papers) by which a house at. Frankfort lost 40,000 florins,
chiefly in such coupons. On examination, it appears that
the coupons found in the possession of this person corres-
pond with the number of some of those stolen. Their
whole value, however, is only 3000 florins, and it remains
to be seen whether the investigation will lead to any fur-
ther result.

FRANKFORT, JUNE 23.—The greater part of the eon-
pons, &c. belonging to a house in this city, which were
lost on the way from Holland, has just been recovered in
the following singular manner. Some countrymen of a vil-
lage near Wisbaden found weat number of strips of paper
scattered in a meadow, and picked them tip,suppining, though
they did not know, that they might be of value. The affair
coming to the knowledge of the Magistrates, they imme-
diatelycalled the inhabitants, and invited them to deliver
up their slips of paper for a reward of six kreutzers each.
According to the accounts received to-day, the value of the
coupons already recovered in this manner is 30,00 florins.
A person has been arrested at Mayence who offered a par-
cel of coupons for sale, but not giving a satisfactory ac-
count of himself was detained. This is probably con-
nected with the finding of the other coupons by the pea-
sants. It may therefore be hoped that nearly the whole
will be recovered.

BERLIN, JUNE 25.—1 n afew days a medal on the battle
near Sl►umla, of June 11, will he issued from the medal
manufactory of this city. It will represent the effigy of
the Emperor of Russia, crowned with laurel, and the in-
scription " Nicolaus I. Totius Russise Imperittor ;" on the
reverse, encircled by a wreath of laurel, will be the follow-
ing inscription :—" Auspiciis Augustissimis et Ductu
Comitis de Diebitach, Turcurunt Ferox Exercitus Sub
Primo Visirio Concisus Apud Shunla, die 30 Mai, Stili
Veteris, 1829.

The bank at the great house in St. James's-
street has been twice broken within these few weeks, by the
fortunate son of a fortunate merchant.—Morning Paper.
The inhabitants of St. Andrew's, Holborn,
are struggling hard against the Rector's claim for " Per-
sonal Tithes ;" this is a tenth upon every man's clear gains
in business. The majority of Hatton-garden Magistrates
are in favour of the claim, but the parties appeal to a
higher tribunal.