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London, England, 1830-08-10 00:00:00

LAW RF.PORTS.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Avo. 9.
IN THE MATTER OP HORSLEY', ♦ LUNATIC.

Mr. Sotic rroa-Ozuzaar. said this was the petition of the
committee of the person and estate of the lunatic, and it prayed that
a sum of 200 guineas, which had been allowed by the Muter to
Dr. Wilmot, for visiting the lunatic at his estate in Yorkshire
might be disallowed. Dr. Wilmot had on a former occasion been
permitted by an order of the court to make a similar visit, and had
been allowed the sum now charged. In the course of the last year
he made another journey, and had claimed another sum of 200 gui.
ness in consequence. The Muter reported that it ought to be paid
to him, and the committee opposed it because there had been no
order of the court authorising the visit.
Mr. RoVPELL was heard in support of the Masters report.
The Loan Cnawcar.Lou said, that as the visit hid been made
without any direction by the Court, the payment recommended by
the Muter could not be allowed. He did not mean to disparage
the value of Dr. Wilmot's services, nor to say that he ought not to
receive some remuneration. A sum of 100 guineas might be al-
lowed him, but no more, and the reduction was made solely on the
ground that his interference had not been required by any direction
of the Court.

IN RE SIR O. Pt TURNER, • LUNATIC.
Mr. PHlLListoar stated this to be the petition of the committee,
which stated that the pools' rates in the parish of Bicester had
reached a very large amount,—Vis. in the pound, in consequence of
which it had been thought advisable to encourage emigration among
the paupers. The petition, therefore, prayed a reference to the
Master to ascertain the propriety of advancing a certain sum of
money for the purpose of enabling persons who were chargeable to
the parish of Bicester to emigrate.
His LORDSHIP asked if there were any affidavits stating the rea-
diness of the paupers in question to concur in the proposed emigra-
tion, or that the scheme had been agreed to by the other landed pro.
prietors of the neighbourhood ?
Mr. PHILLIMORE said he was not furnished with any such affi.
davits.
His LORDSHIP said, then it was impossible that the Court
could make any such speculative order. Unless the case which
was put by the petition should be proved to the satisfaction of the
Court, it could not take upon itself to become a party to such an
arrangement.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COORT, Augtgat 9.

John Harvey, a wood-cutter, was opposed by Mc. Barry, on
behalf of a creditor, named Browning. Mr. Cooke supported the
insolvent.
Examined by Mr. Barry.—Mr. Browning is his only creditor:
be was journeyman wood-cutter to Mrs. Anson, of 4, Vine.street,
Lambeth ; was not a master; he worked a little on his own ac-
count ; he cannot read or write ; he is ignorant of all sorts of
learning ; he worked up the timber for Mrs. Anson ; he had been
married ; had separated from his wife previous to her death, and
allowed her a maintenance ; he had lived in the yard belonging to
the house for seven years; can't say whether Mrs. Anson is a spin.
ster or a widow ; two or three months before Christmas her name
was on the cart ; his own name was on it afterwards ; on the 20th
of •July, 1829, his name was on the cart ; the horse was not his—it
was a borrowed one ; had no lease of the premises ; Mrs. Anson sold
the wood, and paid the rent of the house ; he had been foreman to
her better than twenty months ; he received 18s. weekly; there was
not a shWing profit paid to him on the timber; he had bought wood
from other persons besides Mr. Browning, because he would not
supply him. An offer of 151. had been made by a Mr. Duncan to
Mr. Browning to settle the action, which had been refused.
Mr. Barry.—Mrs. Anson's name ought to be on the debtor's side
of the schedule.
Martha Anson examined by Mr. Barry.--She is a single woman;
she knew the insolvent ; he had been her foreman ; he lodged with
her ; believes he had been separated from his wife ; she died on
the 2d of March ; he was not a partner, was foreman only ; insolvent
bought wood for her.
The Chief Commissioner—The witness is answerable to Mr.
Browning.
By Mr. Cooke.—The timber had been worked on the premises.
Examination continued.--The debt was originally 491. odd ; a
part had been paid ; she would have come to some settlement, but
Mr. Browning could never be seen. She could not say whether she
had lent the insolvent 151. perhaps she might have lent him a few
pounds ; he might have paid 151. himself out of his saving ; if she
had lent him a few pounds, she freely forgave him. He used the
wood and received the money to pay for his wife's far.eral.
The Chief Commissioner—Why do you not go and pay the
?
The
money
witness said she had not the means. The horse and cart
were always her's ; she had the horse three years ; she has the cart
now ; her name has been on the cart since the 30th of July, 1829 ;
she allowed the insolvent to put his name on it, but it was al-
ways her's.
Mr. Barry—What, allow your foreman to put his name upon it !
The bills were made out, sometimes in his name, and sometimes in
her's; she paid him 12s. 13s. and IGL a week, but never so high as
20s. she owes him no wages; her business is going on now.
By Mr. Cooke—The business is in the bundle wood way ; there
is not aifer:rai deal of profit attached to it.
Mr. —llly client ought not to be defrauded by this man and
woman; it a juggle between them.
The Chief Commissioner— There can be no doubt that the money
was her's; I suppose she let the foreman into the secret.
Mr. Cooke—Mr. Browning was a great fool not to take it.
The Chief Commissioner—l advise a settlement ;it looks like a
conspiracy; the parties may take time until Wednesday to arrange
the matter; should no arrangement take place by that time, a jutig.
ment must follow.
Mrs. Anson is a person of respectable appearance, and curtsied
low to the opposing counsel on being asked if she was single.
William Finch, a saddler, was opposed by Mr. Cooke on behalf
of a creditor named Joseph Newman.
Mr. Nicholls supported the insolvent.
From the examination of the insolvent. it appeared that he had
been in business at Maidon in Essex, and finding himself in diffi-
culties in February last, he called a meeting of his creditors, and
offered them 12s. in the pound. At this period he owed about
5001. and so soon as he bad made the arrangement with them, he
paid the composition out of the money arising from the sale of his
business, which he disposed of to a person named Palmer.
The insolvent underwent a long examination with respect to the
property disposed of, which realized nearly 3001.
The Chief Commissioner said, he saw nothing in the conduct of
the insolvent but what was intended for the benefit of the creditors,
and when he had filed a copy of a particular will in Court, be would
be discharged.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

LEWES, Auo. 9.

The Assizes commenced hers this day. Lord Tenterden presided
in the Crown Court, Mr. Baron Harrow in the Nisi Prins.
Lord TENTERDEN addressed the tirand Jury. The number of
prisoners to be tried (he said) was very considerable, and their duty
in consequence might be increased. The calendar, however, did
not present any eases of particular interest.
There are no cases of an aggravating character, except those of
two for violently assaulting females.
Mr. itughea, the counsel for three young men committed in 1829,
for an assault of this description, produced an affidavit from the
surgeon who attended the prosetutrix, stating her utter incapability
of appearing in Court, owino bad health ; upon this Lord Ten-
terden told the prisoners they might be at liberty on producing
good bail.
STAFF' )RD, FRIDAY' Atm. 6.
CROWN SIDE..-4BefOri us Mr. Jilce BosematEis
Thomas Badria, and Frederick Shorthose, were Indic for the
wiltid murder of Thomas Hollier, yeoman, at Burton-upon-Trent,
on the 13th of March, 1828.
The deceased was at a house called the New-inn. at Horainglow,
on the night in question, when a quarrel arose between him and the
prisoner Battle, about a dog. The deceased left the house about
seven o'clock. on hoese.bacb, and was afterwards seen by several
person at &Arent parts of the road leading to Burton. The next
morning, a little before five o'clock, a labouring man, on going to

his rendvered the body of the deceased lying across the road
M the towards Little Burton. His horse was fastened to a gate
about 35 yards off.
The cue was stopped by the learned Judge, after 10 or 16 wit-
nesses had been examined. The principal evidence to implicate the
prisoner Batkin, was a declaration made b hint before the deceased
left the New Inn, that if he (the ) came out of the house
that night, he would give him such a beating as be had never had in
his life. Shorthorn had interfered in the quarrel between the deceased
sod Batkin, and offered to second the latter in fighting the de-
ceased. It appeared by the evidence of the medical men who were
examined, that Hollier's death bad been caused by an effusion of
blood upon the brain, arising from a fracture of the skull; but
there was no evidence to show that the fracture had been occasioned
by violence.
The Jury, under the learned Judge's directions, acquitted the
prisoners.
This case closed the business of these assizes to-day about three
o'clock. The Judges left Stafford about five o'clock for EccleshaU,
where they were invited to dine with the Lord Bishop of the diocese.
None of the prisoners have been left for execution. Nightingale
and Lawrence, the two men who were convicted of putting off
several forged notes of the Devises bank, have been sentenced to 14
years' transportation.

POLICE REPORTS.
Maxiirow-Housr..—A big fellow, who turned out to be a watch-
man belonging to Broad-street Ward, was brought before the Lord
Mayor, charged with rioting in the street, and breaking the win.
dorm of a well-known old gentleman, who is remarkable for not

having worn a hat for 40 years.
The defendant, it was stated, had taken the opportunity,
before his comrades were upon duty, to get himself into a
beastly state of intoxication, and to "chew fight," as the pu.
gilists say of a man who puts himself in a boxing attitude, to
those who approached him. At last he took a fancy to quar-
rel with the windows of a Mr. Ward, a carver and gilder, in
Bishopsgate-street, and punched in the glass. Mr. Ward, how.
ever, did not approve of this mode of accommodating him with air,
and called an officer, to whom he complained of the conduct of the
watchman. The officer instantly seized the warlike watchman, and
requested that he would quietly march before the Lord Mayor.
" No," said the watchman, " I'm blowed if I do. I don't want
to see no Lord Mayor"—and he thereupon called aloud to the
crowd, " Here's the b--y Jenny Derbys. We shall be pulled
and destroyed by the Jenny Darbys."—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR begged to know of the officer what was meant

by tfie'.lenny Darbys?
The officer said the defendant meant the French police, and al•
though he called them by their French name, the Jenny Darby% it
was wonderful how the common people, what know'd little or no

French, understood his meaning.
The LORD MAYOR—Aye, it was a serious word to use.
The officer said it certainly was a dangerous word, for the mo-
ment the defendant called out the mob rescued him, and it was with
difficulty he (the officer) again gut hold of the unruly fellow, and
then he refused to walk. He would. as be was going to the Sian-
dion.house, go like a gentleman, and so we were obligated to get him

.., a
coach. _
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, I think we are improving in our
watchmen at least. Pray, defendant, do you wish to say any thing

on this subject?
The Defendant—Please your Lordship, I was drunk, but I hope
you will look over it this once ; I didn't mean no harm.
The LORD MAYOR—At what hour did this outrage take place?
The officer said, the watchman was at the height of his glory at
five o'clock in the evening.
The LORD MAYOR—I shall represent this to the Watch Com.
mittee of Broad-street, and I am convinced they will not be troubled
any longer with such a protector. You must also find bail, and
pay for the coach and the broken window, and I advise you in future
to stick to your own language.
The watchman was then taken to the Compter.

GUILDRALL.—Anthony Cunningham, the young man who was
brought up on Saturday, in consequence of having jumped off Black-
friars-bridge, under the idea that some men were pursuing him for
the purpose of " Burking" him, was again placed at the bar.
Sir PETER asked him if any one was present who knew him
but the prisoner replying in the negative, Sir Peter Laurie expressed
his surprise, as the case had obtained so much publicity. He asked
the gaoler how he had behaved in the Compter ? The gaoler re.
plied that the prisoner behaved very quietly, keeping apart (rasp
the other prisoners, and scarcely speaking.
Sir PETER asked him how long he had supposed that persons in-
tended to sell his body to the surgeons ? The prisoner replied it was
about a week.
Did they speak to you ? said the Magistrate. No, replied the pri.
loner, but they followed me wherever 1 went.
Sir PETER endeavoured to erase the unfortunate impression from
the poor fellow's mind, and assured him there was no " Hurting"
going forward in London. He awakened bis mind also to the wick-
edness of attempting to put himself to death.
An officer was sent with him to the pawnbroker's, where his
pipes were pledged, and money was given to redeem them;
and Potter, the beadle of Blackfriars, undertook to pass him on.
As the poor fellow's feet were quite bare, a pair of shoes was given
to bins.

QUIVEN-11QUAIS.-W. .r. Brown% and J. Wat Mow
three lads, the eldest not more than 16 years of age, were charged
with stealing from the person of General Morris, of 48, Cadogan-
place, one silk handkerchief. The handkerchief was produced,
but the General refused to swear that it was his property, as he
had no mark upon it. Mr. Uregorie said that did away with the
felonious charge, and he should commit them for three months to
the house of correction.

TX/MIS-POLICE.—T. Burton was charged with stealing a
pair of new boots from the shop of W. Orarenor, Shadwell. He
was earning tl. 15s. per week when he committed this act of disho-
nesty, which will consign his wife and family to a workhouse, and
ruin him for life. Committed.

James Powell was charged with a brutal assault on Timothy
Murphy, a police-constable, and breaking his leg. The officer
was called to quell a riot on Saturday-night in Old Gravel-lane.
when the ruffian knocked, him down and kicked him in the head
and side. On rising Murphy again laid hold of the prisoner, who
was rescued ; and while three of the prisoner's companions held the
officer, the prisoner best him with his clenched fist in the face, un-
til he bled profusely from the nose and mouth. They afterwards
dashed him on the ground, and in the end dislocated his knee, and
it is doubtful whether he will ever recover the use of the injured
limb.
The prisoner was fined 6L and, in default of payment, was com.
mitted to prison for two months.
LAYBETH.STILEET.—It will be seen by the details of the fol.
lowing case that the most friendly feeling does not seem to exist
between the parochial authorities and the new police, in some of the
metropolitan parishes. A policeman belonging to K. division was
yesterday broaght before MUSH. WYATT and WALKER, for OF
exulting Smith, one of the beadles of All Saints, Poplar.
Smith stated, that on the night of Friday last, between ten ad
eleven o'clock, while standing at his own door, he observed the de.
fendant taking one of the late parochial watchmen to the station.
house. He did not in the slightest degree interfere with him at the
time, though on his return, and perceiving him (Smith) standing at
his door, he asked him what he knew about him ? He (Smith)
replied, nothing, nor did he wish to know. The defendant then be-
came abusive, on which he was about to take his number, for the
purpose of reporting him to his superiors, when he seised him by
the arm, and insisted on his going with him to the station-house.
He did so, but was not detained there.
The policeman, in reply, said that it was Smith who insisted on
his going to the station-house.
A police sergeant said that, when the parties came to the sta-
tion house, neither gave charge, but they complained of each
other's conduct.
Mr. Clark, one of the overseers of poplar, remarked that the pa-
rochial authorities considered this attack on their officer most illegal
and unjustifiable, and therefore it was that they advised that he
should come before their worships for redress.
Mt. Ship, an inspector, said, instead of the policemen finding
protection and assistance from the parochial authorities, in some
parts of the district they experience a very different feeling. This
he thought arose from what was considered a grievance, namely, the
high amount of the police rate. Mr. Ship added, that the short
time the new police were established the most beneficial results were
perceptible. The streets of Poplar, which used to be the scenes
of the greatest uproar and disturance during the whole of the
night, previous to the introduction of the new police, were now at
all hours of the night kept orderly and quiet, and not a single
prostitute or low character was to be seen in them after 12 o'clock
at night.
The parish oftfesra declared that this was not the case, and that
the streets wee MOM disorderly than durinig the old system. •
The Nagloineos lememed tbst dose differences should exist, and
dismissed the thugs, vonsorldsig that there were faults on both slimy
which appeared to them to be tolerably balanced.
A lad mooed Wilikon Dmilh was committed to Barking Nam
of Correctimso.be Mad airing for sale a silver fork, there.
isellent his torater, Wisirklge, of Btratford.
woo no lengthen nevengelorgee Of different dessiptiowo
brought ban the Maelstrom try Ai iwai pellet.
NARY-LA-Botts .-.A.• i
slul Scene of jusimile
erranddnuency
presented itself at Misr**. • y morning. Twoboys,
named Brews and Watley, were charged with 'felony, and the
oldest of them voiresse more dun fourteen years. Brown bad been
three at four weeks in the envies of hie. Collier, at No. 31, Upper
blary.la.bonne.street. A chafweensa found three entire pieces of

new riband in his dinner-basket. lie confessed that he had con-
cealed three silk handkerchiefs and a pair of gloves in the canal?.
box, and that he had received the whole from the other prisoner.
Westley lived with Mr. Jones, a draper, in Tottenham Court.road.
A policeman found a purse beneath the waistband of his breeches,
which contained a ten-pound Bank of England note, two sovereigns,
and some silver, and the prisoner acknowledged that be stole the
money and the property found in Brown's possession, all from his
master. In answer to questions from Mr. Rawlinson, the prisoners
recriminated each other, and they were committed for trial, with
orders to be kept separate.

MAILIOROUGH.STREET.J. Ricks was yesterday brought
before F. A. Roc, Esq. charged with creating a disturbance and
throwing several stones through the drawing-room windows of the
Viscountess De Tagoahy's mansion in Piccadilly.
The defendant was brought here about three weeks since, charged
with creating a disturbance at the Viscountess's, and upon his sp.
pairing to express great sorrow for his outrageous conduct, he was
discharged, upon strictly promising never again to go to the house.
He however went again on Saturday evening, and after throwing
several large stones through the windows, went up to the door and
made use of the most violent language towards his wife, who was •
servant there. While in the waiting-room of this Office yesterday,
he was prevented by the officers from assaulting his wife, who has
just risen from a bed of illness caused by his violence.
Mt. Raz ordered him to find bail, and -1-

48 hours' notice.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT JARROW.

The explosion took place in the Barham Seam of Jarrow Col.
fiery, and twenty-three men and seventeen boys were instantly de-
stroyed, and several others more or less hurt, some of wham so
severely that recovery is not expected. The men generally are of
the married class, some of whom have left large families. Wednes-
day afternoon the Coroner proceeded to investigate the cause of this
dreadful accident by bolding an inquest on the body of Wm. Hume.
It was proved in further particulars of the evidence, that when the in-
flammable air was discovered, every precaution was resorted to for
rendering the works perfectly safe. Mr. Boddie visited them regularly
weekly up to Monday week, after which he was not in them again
till after the accident, when, on getting to the face of the east drift.
the cause of the accident was quite manifest. The whole front of
the drift was detached from the roof on the left side, as if the
block of coal forming the face of the drift had been detached by a
blast of gunpowder. A ragged aperture, of about nine inches
wide, was left between the coal and the roof, ands fissure about the
same width tom out on the left hand side. On probing these aper-
tures as far as they could reach (about six feet at that time,) they
found nothing but open space behind. It then became quite clear that
the miners had holed into an old waste, and that the fracture
was occasioned by the elastic force of what they termed a bag
of foulness, which had been compressed in that species of natural
gasometer, and which had rushed of in an enormous quantity, and
fired at the first light with which it came in contact, consuming all
the vital air in the small division beyond the stone drifts, and filling
the workings with a dense smoke and after-damp, and deranging the
ventilating apparatus so much as to cause the suffocation of the
people before the air course could be restored. The state of the
mine was so good, that they worked with candles, and the coal was
blasted with gunpowder almost daily till the day previous to the ac-
cident, when the candles were put out.
Mr. John Forster said, he was under-viewer, and spoke to the
healthy state of the mine at five in the morning. When he heard
of the fire he went with Mr. Johnson, and a man named Coxon.
They put up stopping., and got as far as the " thirty-one feet
trouble," where they found two boys alive. On going farther, the
after.damp was so strong that they were compelled to wait. They
then found that all the men on the east side would be dead. They
immediately put up a stopping, and threw the air into the west side,
by which they saved all that were in that side. On the Saturday
he went round the mine, not only the workings but the waste, with
his candle. If hs had apprehended danger he would not have gone
down, and the pit should not have gone to work.
The coroner recapitulated the evidence, and a verdict of " Ac.
cidental Death" was returned.
It was reported that the accident had been caused by two work.
men having unscrewed the tops of their lamps, but this was ascer-
tained to be erroneous, as the men in question were found without
any marks of fire about them. They had died of suffocation.
The destruction of property has not been so great as on some for.
er occasions, owing to the secluded nature of the workings.