The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-08 00:00:00

DEFERRED ANNUITIF.S.

. The best and most varied provision for after life hithert• of-
fercd—E2 I2s. per annum ( Is. per week) at 20, will at 65
give the policy-holder the choice of an. annuity of £47 16s. 6d.
or £349 Its. cash, or policy at death of £466. Similar ad-
vantages at 50, 55, and 60—Two••thirds payments lent at any
time, and Two •thirds returned in case of premature death.
The detailed Plans, and Last Annual Report, to be had at
thoOlEee, at any of its Branches, or on applicatio❑ will be for-
warded post free.
F. FERGUSON CANIROUX, Secretary.

PROMOTER LIF
ANNUITY COMPAD
friars, London. Established in

E ASSURANCE and
IY, 9, Chatham Place, Black-
-1826.

DI REC.
W. Goodenough Hayter,Esq., M.Y.
Charles Johnston, Esq.
John Towgood Kemble, Esq.
John G. Shaw Lefevre, F. ICS.

:TORS.
Robert Palk, Esq.
John Louis Prevost, Esq.
Samuel Smith, Esq.
LeAlarchant Thomas, Esq.

TRUSTEES.
John Deacon, Esq., John G. Shaw Lefevre, Esq., F.R. S.,

Charles Johnston, Esq.

_ .
The Trading Advantages of this Office are—
A low rate of Premium, without profits, or an increased
rate of Premium, with participation in the profits of the Office.

The following are the annual Premiums required for the as-
surance of 1001. on a healthy life in either case:—

WITHOUT PROFITS. I WI, II PROFITS.
,—...-----A...—... --......,
1
A ge2o Age,3o. Age 40. Ageso. Age 20. Age 30. Age 40. Age 50.
-- -- -- -- - ---- - --
£ s. d..£ s. d. .ti S. d. X c. d. ..£ s. d .£s. d. ..0 s. d. X s. (1.
1138 22 2 217 0 4 0 8 116 11 2 9 2 3 6 6 414 2

A division of the profits will take place quinquennially.
Bonuses accrue after three annual premiums shad have been
paid; and parties can receive their bonuses in a present sum,
or have them applied in augmentation of their Policies, or in
reduction of their future Premiums.
Assurers may contract to pay their Premiums either in one
sum, in a given number of paymenti, in annual, half-yearly, or
quarterly payments, or on the ascending or descending scale.
Officers in the Army and Navy on active service, Per-
sons afflicted with chronic and other diseases, and such as arc
going beyond the limits of Europe, are also Assured at Mode-
rate Rates.
Policy holders have a right to attend the General Meetings,
at which the Auditors report annually the state of the Com-
pany's affairs.
Prospectuses, and all necessary information, may be obtained
at the Office.

MICHAEL SAWARD, Secretary.

LICENSED VICTUALLERS' AND
GENERAL FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY, Empowered by Act of Parliament.
Adelaide-place, London-bridge, No. 444, W est Strand,
No. 11, Queen-street, Echo- No. 30, Oldham-street, Man-
burgh, chester, and
Wason's-buildings, Liverpool.
" „" The LICENSED VICTUALLERS' and GENERAL
FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, having of
fected an arrangement with the British and Colonial Life As-
surance and Trust Society, the Business of the two Offices
will for the future be conducted under one management: The
latter Company's Establishment, No. 444, West Strand, will be
continued as a West-end Branch..

iHRECTORS.
CHARLES BLEADEN, Esq., Chairman.
J. HARMAN, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Sir John Cowan, Bart., Ald. William Game, Esq.
George H. Child, Esq. Henry Jackson, Esq.
Andrew Clark, Esq. William Knott, Esq.
William Float, Esq. John Lund, Esq.
Francis Fuller, E.,1. Hobert Main, Esq.
ntßEcroas CHOSEN BY THE COMMITTEE.
Mr. Benjamin Bingley. I Mr. Joseph 111o,gan.
Mr. George Waiter.
The Company transacts business in every department of Life
and Fire Assurance, in Annuities, Reversions, and Loans.

LIFE DEPARTMENT.
J. T. CLEMENT, Esq Actuary.
A sum far more than equal to the value of the Policies is in-
vested in the public securities, in the names of the Trustees, so
as to be at all times available. . . .

At the last quinquennial meeting there was added a bonus to
the Life Policies equal to twenty-five per cent. on the sums
paid, and a bonus of five per cent. was added to the Shares in
addition to the payment of the annual interest.
he quinquennial meeting being only just past, a favourable
orportunity now offers for the commencement of new Insu-
rances; parties now joining will be allowed to participate in
the profits at the next division, as if they had been insured for
the whole period.
For the convenience of parties wishing to assure for a spe•
eifie sum, without a prospective bonus, a new table, at lower
rates, has been cab ulated, on which, as well as on the partici-
pating scale, ONE-HALF THE PRENHUM MAY RE-
MAIN ON INTEREST AT FIVE PER CENT. FOR
FIVE YEARS, thus enabling a person to assure his life for
1,0001. on the immediate payment of the premium for 5001. only.
The following are the annual premiums for the assurance of
1001., for the whole life, one-half of which may remain fur
five years by merely paying the interest annually at five per
cent., and should the policy become a claim in the interim the
amount due will then be deducted :

Age 20, without profits El .13 0 with profits El 18 0
30
40 . ........... 214 3
50 4 3 4 ...... 4 9 6
Fir short periods the premiums are considerably lower, and
forany ages or contingencies not usually advertised, information
may bo obtained on application to the Actuary or Secretary.
• FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The Company insure Houses, Furniture, Stock in Trade,
Farming Stock, and every description of Personal Property,
against loss or damage by Fire. •
*** The Directors beg to remind their friends, whose Pre-
miums become due at Lady Day, that no extra charge is made
at this Office for-the Transfer of Policies, and that they will 1 e
rated on terms peculiarly favourable to parties insuring.
Ir suranees may be effected for any pet iod of time ; if for
SEVEN years, the Premium and Duty will only be charged
or S 1 X W. T. FA 1‘ CETT, Secretary.

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ASSIZE INTELLIciENCE.
OXFORD CIRCUIT —Gloucoter, April 5.
HERON V. F ftrrwzr..r.. _

This case was a very singular one: Ali. Samuel Heron, the
plaintiff, is a most respectable silk-throwster, at Chipping
23
Air. Franklin was the bro•
the premises of a Mr.
away.
T IhBi
resides at Cheltenham. Fretwell had fallen latterly into in-
(Ciiagmenptdcein„,mad
mnsiaAlliert..s Thomas
,and
hadßbuelkeeniein the practice of receiving
y Fretwell, the def ndant,
pecuniary support from Mrs. Bowhay, an aged lady of large
pr( p rty, residing at Blockley, and a relation of the plaintiff,
A
Franklin, since deceased, had been broken into, and consider-
ablel p n
property carriedn
they of Mrs. Bowhay. A reward of 103. was cffered for the
discovery of the depredator, but without success. It was ge•
nerally supposed that a person of the name of Smith, who soon
after the robbery went to America,' was the offender ; but the
Heron.
transaction alter a time fell into oblivion. Mrs. Bowhay
having, for some reason or other, withdrawn her contributions
from Mr. Fretwell, that person became restive, and resorted
to means calculated, as he thought, to bring her into a re-
nen al of her acts of generosity. lie threatened to inform
against a person in whom this lady was supposed to take an
interest, and, finding the attempt to obtain money fruitless, on
the 28'h of Pecember last he swore an information of burglary
against Mr. Heron, before Mr. Thomas Beale Cooper, one of
the Justices of the Peace for Worcester. Oa the following
day Mr. Heron was apprehended, and only released on finding
sureties. After undergoing two examinations he was discharged.
Air. GREAVES said, the jury were now called upon under
the w. i• of inquiry, to assess the damages due to the plaintiff
for the grievous injury he had sustained.
Sergeant Lunnow followed, and the witnesses were about to
be called, when Mr. Godson rose.
Mr. Gonsox said—This is certainly a melancholy case.
at once admit all the fat's stated by my Learned Friends. I
a 'mit that the letters which have been read were written by
the unfort' nate defendant, and therefore I will not trouble my
Learned Friends to call any witnesses to prove what I so
readily admit. The Learned Counsel then read that part i f
the declare ion which recounted the injury which the plain •
tiff hail sustained by the malicious and unfounded charge
preferred against him by the defendant, and stated that the
defendant, having admitted the truth of it by allowing
judgment to go by default, he (Mr. Godson) now, in the
presence of the Court, admitted that it was true, and that
there was not the slightest ground fur the prosecution to
which the plaintiff had been Subjected. He (Mr. God.
son) was sire the Jury would be glad to hear one statement
more, and ic was that the defendant was upwa'rds of 70 year,
of age, and that he (.%lr. Godson) agreed with his Learned
Friend (Sergeant Lunlow) in thinking that the only way of
accounting fi r his extraordina-y conduct was on the g,ound of
insanity, or perhaps, more properly speaking, of delusion. As
to damages, a large sum should be given. - Such a sum as must
convince the plaintiff that the Jury regarded his character as
untainted, unsullied, perfectly good, moral, and just. ile (11r.
Godson) was prepared to consent, and the arrangement had
been sanctioned by his Learned Friends on the opposite side,
that the verdict should be for 2001.

A verdict of 2001. damages was then recorded for the plaintiff.

NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Norwich, April 6.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Lord Chief Justice TINDAL.)
THE QUEEN V. UTTIN6 AND ANNE BUNN.
This was an indictment which charged that the two defen-
dants conspired together knowingly to accuse falsely one Dani I
bshoeurriifffig man, residing near'3 officer in Norfolk,
and the
Durrant with having committee a lately-capital assault upon
the female defendant, Anne Bunn.
Mr. Andrews and Mr 13yies conducted the prosecution; Mr.
Preneergast and Mr. Palmer the defence.
The
emale
female was
defendant,
the Utting,wife
f a
is
laa
Yarmouth ; the former alone has pleaded to the indictment,
and he, therefore, alone was i d
tr_e . At the lait assizes one
Daniel Durrant was indicted for having on tan several occa- i
sions committed a rape on Anne Bunn, and, after an investi-
gation of many hours, he was acquitted upon one indict-
ment and found guilty upon the second. There were many
circumstances which at the time rendered the story of tl.e
prosecutrix very doubtful, but she persisted in A. : w:t,. 1.,
i great
cunning and consistency, and it having been in some degree
confirmed by other evidence, especially by that of Utting, the
prosecution was but too successful, and the
unfortunate man
was sentenced to be transported for life, anti he is now at the
hulks. At the trial she swore that the prisoner was the first
and only nan who had been intimate with her, and she hid
the scene at a period then very recent. Soon after the trial,
however, she was observed to be enceinte, and it then becamee
apparent that the story of her being intact at the time of her
alleged intercourse with Durrant was false. Inquiries were
immediately set on foot by the friends of the then prisoner,
who had heretofore borne an irreproachable character, whic ,
ended in the preferring the present indictment, which vta,
found a true bill, and removed into the Queen's Bench.
The evidence taken yesterday and to-day was most volumi-
nous, and as it consisted almost entirely of conveisations with,
and statements made by the two defendants, it i, impossible to
give an account which would be intelligible without extending
it to an into erablo and unpardonable length.
The defendant, at the conclusi at of a very protracted in-
quiry, was found Guilty.
Sentence will be passed in the Court of Queen's Bench.
CROWN COURT. —( Before Mr. Serjearit ArcriERLEY.)
William Youalls, aged 17, was indicted for setting tire to a
barn full of corn, the property of Daniel Watson, on the 29,,h
of December.
...

Air. O'Malley stated the case ; Mr. Gunning, at the reque.t
of the Learned Judge, undertook the defence.
The prosecutor is a farmer at East Harling, and on the
night of the 29th of January he had a barn full of wheat
and peas near his dwelling-house. He was at his brother's
at eight o'clock in the evening of that day, and was calle I
in a great hurry to go-!0 his premises, which he did, when
he found the barn on fire. The prisoner was a poor boy
living in the same place, and it appeared that in the morn.
in of the same day he met one Ward in the street, and

asked him how he liked Norwich Castle? to which Ward said
not at all. Norwich Castle is the Norfolk county gaol, and
Ward had been recently confined there. Upcn Ward's giving
this answer, the prisoner replied" l'h be there soon; set
somebody's place on fire before to-morrow night." The fire
was first observed about eight o'clock in the evening, and five
minutes before that time the prisoner was seen within a few
yards of the barn. He was apprehended two hours after the
tire, and stated to the policeman who had him in custody that
he had gone to the barn between four and five in the afternoon;
that he had then tone home and supped, and taken a box
of lueifers, with which he and another boy had set fire to the
straw in the barn. He made the like confession to the Magis-
trate,. before whom he was taken, to whom he also admitted
having confessed to the policeman. The prisoner was one of the
most active persons at the fire, endeavouring to extinguish it.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.—Sentence was deferred.
George Barber, aged 10, was indicted for murdering John
Smith, a lad of eight years aid, by throwing him into the river
Waveney on the 6th of last November.
The stripling prisoner not being tall enough to be seen
above the front of the dock, the door was opened and the boy
placed outside the bar. He at first pleaded " Guilty," but at
the suggestion of the Learned Judge he withdrew his plea, and
consented to take his trial. It appearing that the only evidence
against the prisoner were certain supposed confessions of his
own, and that they were rendered inadmissible by reason of
having been extorted after a threat to run him through the
body with a red-hot iron unless he confessed,
'I he Learned JUDGE stopped the case in limine, and the pri-
soner was Acquitted.

NORTH WALES ClRCUlT.—Chcater, April 6.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before 111 r. Justice COLTSIAN.)
HICKSON V. WOOD.

This was an action to recover compensation,in damages for
defamat on of character.

The plaintiff is a commercial travellei rasiding in Manchett;•
ter, and the defendant is a grocer residing in Stockport, in this
county: The facts of the case were briefly these : About
the beginning of the present year the plaintiff, who was in the
employ of a wholesale-tea dealer in Manchester, called upon the
defendant to receive a small account, and to solicit orders; the
defendant took up a bag containing a quantity of silver, and a
purse containing gold, from which he paid the account to the
plaintiff, and the latter left the 514. Shortly afterwards the
purse was mi,sing, and the defendant pursued the plaintiff
and charged him with stealing it. This he denied, on whicb
he was searched, but the purse was not ff.und. Subsequently
it was discovered on the counter in the place where the defen-
dant had placed it. The latter was afterwards applied to to
retract the charge of felony which he had made, but he refused.
. The Jury found for the plaintiff—Damages 401.

CRIMINAL COURT, YESTERDAY.

OLD COURT.

George Coley, aged 38, was indicted for assaulting and
wounding Richard Pratley, with intent to do him some grievous
bodily harm.
It appeared that the prosecutor had been playing at skittles,
drinking at the house of the prisoner, who keeps tke sign of the
Hoops at Kensington Gravel-pits. At the proper time the
prisoner desired the prosecutor and his companions to leave
the ground, and at the same time extinguished the lights, in
order to compel them to leave off playing. Upon being pressed,
however, he consented to allow them to finish' their game, and
then again requested them to leave the house. The prosecutor
refused to go, and some opprobrious language passed between
them. The prisoner said he would fetch a policeman,
and put the prosecutor where he was before ; he went
out, but shortly returned, armed with a stick. He
again desired the prosecutor to go away, and instantly struck
him such a violent blow on the head as to knock him down,
and stun him for some time, inflicting a wound two inches in
length. It was admitted by the prosecutor, upon cross-exami-
nation, that he had been several times in prison for drunken-
ness and disorderly conduct, and also for assaults up n the
police; he also admitted that he was a prize—fighter, and had
been frequently mixed up in quarrels.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE having summed up, a •erdict of
Guilty of an assault was returned.
The Learned JUDGE sentenced the prisoner to six months'
hard labour in the House of Correction.
NETT' COURT.

The cases to-day were uninteresting ; but, as a specimen of
life in London, we may state that a policeman, in alluding to a
gentleman who keeps a cab, added that be believed the gentle-
man's mother at the same time keeps a brothel, but then it is
one of the highest. respectability.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Yesterday afternoon, just at the close of this Court, Mr,
Barnard Gregory, the proprietor and editor of the Satiris
weekly newspaper, was brought up in custody of Gibbett, one
of the police-constables, appointed to serve the processes of the
Court, on a warrant that had been issued on an indictment
found against him this morning at the Central Criminal Court,
" fur unlawfully, wickedly, maliciously, and designed:y print-
ing, and publishing, and causing, and procuring to be printed
and published, a certain wicked, scandalous, malicious, and
obscene libel, against the peace, &c." An order of Court was
i .vested in the warrant, requiring 48 hours' notice of bail to be
given to the pro!ecuter, Mr. Lane, of No. 29, Argyle-street,
Regent-street, s.ilicitor.
Mr. Frederick William Fisher, clerk to Mr. Lane, identified
the defendant as being the party named in the wai
rant, and Mr. Gregory admitted that he believed, that
he was the person named.
After some delay Mr. Lane, who was in attendance, ex-
pressed him-elf satisfied with two gentlemen who offered them-
selves as bail for Mr. Gregory, viz.., Mr. Charles Shangster, of
No. 307, Oxbrd street, poulterer, and Mr. Thomas Hughes,
of No. 53. Great Coram street, Russell square, soliei- or, and
waived the forty-eight hours' notice of bail.
The a nount of bail received was. the defendant in 80/. and
his sureties in' 401. each, for his appearance at the present
sittings of the Court, either to tale his trial or traverse, and the
required recognizances being entered into, Mr. Gregory, who
had been arrested at his residence, No. 15, North Audler.
street, Grosvenor-square, was set at liberty, and drove from
the office in his carriage, accompanied by. several of his friends.
It was stated that the indictment in question has been at
the instance solely of Mr. Lane, who has taken up the matter
on public grounds. The subject of the libel relates to her
Majesty and Prince Albert, and appeared in the Satirist of
the 30th of January last.
WORSHIP-STREET.

DISORDERLY PA U PERS. Sarah C,amplin, Amelia Jones,
and Maiy Seamlin, three plump and imptidtnt looking young
women, were charged with disorderly conduct in the Hackney
Union workhouse, and with having violently assaulted William
Hunter, one of the beadles.
It appeared that in consequence of a long continued course
of misconduct on the part of the prisoners, they were tak,n
on tl.e preceding day before the Board of Guardians, and on
bring admonished by the Chairman upon the impropriety
of their behaviour, they began to abuse him and the
other members of the Board in the most obscene and
disgusting language, and positively refused to withdraw
when ordered to do so. Hunter, the beadle, was
desired to remove them, but the prisoners fell upon him,
and struck him several severe blows ; and they also assailed
some other officers, who went to his assistance, in a similar
manner.

Ali.. Pulley, the Vestry Clerk said he was instructed by the
board to request that the Magistrate would make a severe ex-
ample of th,.. prisoners.
In their defence the prisoners said their fare for two days
had been nothing but bread ar.d potatoes, and having been
threatened with a contit.uanca of the same meagre diet
for two days longer, they felt exasperated at being subjected to
such treatment.

Mr. Pulley said that the prisoners had been placed on short
allowance, in consequence of a complaint from the Chaplain
that they had grossly misconducted themselves in chapel.
Mr. BirgarrAst said it was evident, from the robust and
healthy appearance of the prisoners, that they were much
better fed and treated than many of the poor hard-working
rate-payers who contributed towards their support, and theleast
they could eo was to conduct themselves s ith decency and
civility whilst they were maintained at the public expense.
He should make an example of the'prisoners, in compliance
with the wish of the Board; and, instead of dealing with them
under the Act of Parliament applicable to ordinary cases of
misconduct in the workhouse, he should fine them 40s. each,
and in default of payment, commit them for two calendar
months to the House of Correction.

The prisoners, on hearing the decision, launched forth a
volley of abuse against the Magistrate and the parish autho-
rities, which they kept up until they Were removed out of hear-
ing by the gaoler.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.

UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON.

The most prosperous Theatre in I ondon.
THIS EVENING, APRIL s,
In consequence of its amazing suecess,
Will be performed the most interesting New Domestic Drama, in
Three Acts, enti led THE LUCKY HORSE SHOE; OR, THE
LONE CHAMBER OF THE,SILENT HlGHWAY.—Characters
by Miss Vincent, Miss Coveaey, ble:sr,. E. F. Saville, Dale, Gard-
ner, Seaman, &c.

After whiCh, with gorgeous scenery, dresses, &c., LADDIN ;
OR, THE WONDERFUL LA M P.—Aladdin, Miss Vincent; the
Princess, Mr.. E. F. Saville; Widow Mustapha, Mrs. Griffith .
To conelude with a New Drams, entitled. THE HOLSTEIN HUS.
SA R; OR, THE GIMNADIER GUARD—Frederick, Mr. Sea.
man; Klaus Olmutz, Mr. Gardner; Stultz, Mr. Paul; Minna, Miss
Coveney ; (Atha, Mrs. Griffith..

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