The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-08 00:00:00

CLERKENWELL.

INcENnLattism.--Mary Connor and James Connor were
yesterday charged with attempting to set on fire the house :No..
10, Union-court, Pentoriville, and with dilapidating the same.
It appeared that the prisoners were lodgers in the house ;
that returning home drunk on Wednesday night the female
prisoner quarrelled with the lodkerr whir resided on the floor
underneath them ; that in the violence of passion she broke
every article her apartment contained; then, and with the
other prisoner, raised the flooring and broke through the
ceiling ; she discharged several tubs of water on two infants
who were lying in the bed beneath, and whom the policemen
declared were nearly smothered. Having done these things,
she piled a heap of 'dry wood, And declaring she would "burn
them out" (meaning the lodgers), she was in the act of setting
fire to it when the policeman arrived.
They were committed to the House of Correction for six
weeks.

SUMMER ASSIZES.
HOME CIRCUIT—HerVord, Thunsday, .1111/17.

CROWN COURT.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN, in his charge to the Grand Jury,
told them that there were two cases in the calendar of rather a
novel character, and respecting which he begged to offer them
a few observations. The first was a charge of manslaughter
against a boy named Charles Perratt, who, it appeared by the
calendar, was only 10 years old, and he would explain to them how
the law stood in reference to cases where persons of tender
years were charged a ith offences. Up to the age of seven the
law considered a child not possessed of sufficient reason to be
accountable or answerable for his acts, and it was only front
the age of fourteen that the law held a parson to be entirely
responsible. Between the ages of seven and fourteen, there-
fore, it was necessary that the offence should clearly testify the
malicious intention of the party ; and only in such a case would
a child of such an age be criminally responsible for his acts, and
there should be proof of malice to justify a Grand Jury in re-
turning a true bill. In the case now alluded to it it appeared that
in a scuffle with another little boy about his own sge in the
St. Alban's union workhouse, the deceased received a blow
from the prisoner, which had caused his death, and it would be
for them to say, under such circumstances, whether there
could be said to be any proof of malicious intention on the part
of the prisoner, and if they thought there was not, it would be
their duty to throw out the bill. The other case was also a
harge of a very serious description, and it was rather sin-
gular that the accused in this case was also a boy ten years
of age. The charge against the prisoner was for maliciously
setting fire to a barn and other buildings, and there was cer-
tainly the distinction in this ease that the act imputed to the
prisoner was clearly a malicious and desperate act.
In the course of the day Mr. Jtistice Coltman was informed
that a woman named Chapman, who was a witness upon an
indictment about to be preferred before the Grand Jury, re-
fused to be sworn.

His LORDSHIP directed the woman to he sent for, and asked
her why she did not take the oath ? She replied that she could
not take an oath.

Mr. Justice COLTMAN inquired whether she belonged to the
sect called Quakers, or to any other religious denomination of
persons that were by Act of Parliament exempted from taking
an cath ?
The woman answered that she belonged to the Church of
England, and she refused to be sworn, for Christ and her con-
science sake.

The Learned JUDGE told her she had offered no good rea-
son for being excused from taking the oath, and if effect were
to be given to such fancies as these, the criminal justice of the
country would be entirely defeated. He added that if she per-
sisted in her refusal to be sworn he should feel it to be his pain-
ful duty to commit her to gaol.
The woman still refused, and she was ordered into the cus-
tody of the gaoler.
The case in which she was a witr.ess was shortly after-
wards brought before the Court, and Mr. Justice Coltman upon
the prisouet's name being called ou as a witness, ordered her to
be sent for, and he again asked her whether she was willing to
give her evidence?---She answered that she would do just as his
Lordship pleased.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN told her that she had better give her
evidence.—She said she was willing to state all she knew, but
she would not take an oath.

Mr. Justice COLTII A N told her that as that was the case, she
must go back to gaol, and she was then removed in cuitodv.

CIVIL SIDE.
(Before. Lord ARINGER,)
RUSSELL V. SMITH AND ANOTHER.

This was an action by the plantiff,a hop Terchant, itt Saulli-
wark, to recover upon a bill of- exchange for 370/. 25., alleged
to have beer. accepted by W. H. Smith, and his brother, E.
Smith, the defendants.

Mr. Sergeant Andrews and Mr. Chamber 3 were for the
plaintiff; Sergeant Slice and•Nfr. Bagley for the defendants.
The Jury found for the plaintiff for the amount of 370/. and
interest.

Lord Abinger had disposed of all the common jury eases on
the list before four o'clock, and Mr. Justice Coltman bad got
nearly through the gaol calendar by the same hour.

APPOINTMENT. OF-INCOME-TAX

COMMISSIONERS.

CITY or LeNnoN.—The Commissioners of taxes for the
City of London met on Tuesday, to chooseseven Commissioners
for the Income.tax out of their body for the city of London,
and the result of the ballot was as follows :—Mr. R. L. Jones,
Mr. 11. Carter, Mr. J. Blackett, Mr. J. Musgrove, Mr. D.
Allan, Mr. W. A. Peacock, Alderman 'Wilson. And for the
following supernumeraries, Mr. E. Eagleton, Mr. Greenaway.
Mr. John Evans, Mr. Jeremiah Evans, Mr. Butterworth, Mr.
J. Hunt, Mr. E. S. Hall. To these are to be added two Com-
missioners for the Bank, two for the East India Company, two
for the London Docks, two for the Corporation of London,
one for the South Sea Company, one for the Royal Exchange.
and one for the Sun Assurance Companies, making in all
eighteen Commissioners for the Income-tax for the city of
London.

PARISH OF ST. MA RY LEBONE.—Yestergay, at 12 o'clock, a
meeting of the Commissioners of Taxes for the parish of Mary-
lebone was held at the Court-house, Marylebone-lane, to ap-
point Commissioners for the general purposes of the Propert)-
tax, when Sir James Cockburn,
„Major Naylor, Capt. Wardell
(churchwarden), Messrs. Fielder, Pilgrim, and Hunt, were
nominated Commissioners. The Assistant-Commissioners
elected to fill up vacancies being Messrs. W. Undeiwood, G.
Spencer Smith, J T. Neat, J. Simpkin, G. S. Edwards,
Holies, and Skynner.

LADVERTISE:itENT.I
TNIPORTANT TO ALL THOSE WHO EXPECT TO DE
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throughout the United Kingdom, but throughout the civilised
world, that any enconium on its merits might appear viper-
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a century since, many imitators have started up, with more or
less claims to public patronage, J. S. and Co. take the liberty
of reminding their friends and the public that the above Cele-
brated Water continues to be manufactured on the largest
scale and upon the most scientific principles at their chief es-
tablishment, 51, Berners-street, London; and also at their
three branch Manufactories in Liverpool, Bristol, and Derby ;
and that. consumers may be supplied with the genuine article at
most of the respectable Chemists, Confectioners, and Italian
Warehouses in every province of the United Kingdom. The
just reputation of their manufacture, and the consequent de-
mand for it, have tempted unprincipled persons (many of them
of apparent respectability) to practice a deception, against
which Schweppe and Co. are anxious to caution the public.
The deception referred to is that of passing off a spuri'us
article for " Schweppes." by selling it in Schweppe's marked
bottles. The temptation to this is, the cheapness of the infe.
rior water, although in most cases the consumer is charged the
same. By this artifice a common water is surreptitiously
palmed on the public for the genuine—the reputation of the
latter is prejudiced by tlie substitution of a bad article—and a
certain proportion of the public patronage diverted from its
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and Co. have adopted the plan of placing a Red Label over
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out which none is genuine. Schweppe and Co. 'refer with
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three kingdoms ; nor is the demand for their Soda Water less
constant on the continent and in other parts of tit,. world.
Merchants and Shippers in general connected with the Ea't
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Schweppe and Co. are in the habit of receiving from gentle-
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Soda Water when met with in tropical climates, and of the
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reference to its destination, and it is well known that no other
can equally well endure the variations of climate. Schweppe's
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ss
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MINING SPECULATIONS.—OiI TIICAIIy a general
meeting of the subscribers to the queen's Mining Company,
was held at the office of Stainsby, No. 44, Finsbury.
square, when resolutions were come to for winding up the
affairs Li' the Company. The cash account to the Pith inst.
showed the expenditure to have been 7041. Is, /Id. The ore
sold had only amounted to 1731, 19,a. ed,, and the balance in
hand from the last call was 1464, 45.. Id. A 'meeting of the
proprietors of this Rose Down Mining Company was also
held at the same office, when, in consequence of the unfavour-
able report of Mr. Johnson, who stated that on examining the
work, no success could be expected without new machinery, an
outlay which could not be expected frcim the Company, resolu-
tions for dissolving lig Company and disposing of its property
were comp to! The expenditure from November, 1839, to
May, lira, amounted to 1,9:25/. 3s. 1 ld., during whlela time
the ore sold amounted to 490/. 3s. Uhl., and there was a ba-
tance of 681. 15s. 2d. against the CorNia
BODY FOUND IN THE 1-4 4(i ENT s CANAL.—Wedues-
day morning, shortly betOr:e nine o'clock, the body of a man,
app4rently about thirty years of age was found floating in the
Regent's-canal, hoar Bonner's-fielda, Bethnal-green.. He was
attired in a very respectable nit of black, and the suppe.
sition is, that he must have porougtted self-destruction. No
card of address or anything else was found upon his person
which could reed tq his hemg..identified. The body was re-
moved to the City of Paris pUblic7hoUtte, where it awaits a
Coroner's inquest.