The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-18 00:00:00

LONDO,V LAW REPORT.

COURT OF REQUEST,7-KINGSGITn-STEIKET.
It was N pleasing sight, on Monday morning, to observe ye.
veva; ladies and geutlenien iu theAnner court, and still more
pleasing to record the fact, that one gentleman gave his card
aireackteess to several of the most wretched of the defender:tie
at the. same time desiring them: to-come to him in the morninr-
early.
Among the. three hundred and ten eases heard bid'ore
Mr. Commissioner Dubois,.and a very respectable and
gent jury. the following is a hap hazard selection.
AstyriiEn DANIMA—Daniel Flyn, a very knowing-looking
(as far as the outline of .his features went) Wiwi beggar of the
parish of St. Ntaryiebone,.was summoned by a depraved-lank-
ing,giu-shOrtenetl Irishwoman, for the sum of 335, for thirty-
three•weeks' attendance on the defendant, at the' rate of Is, a
week, board and lodging included. The cat was sadly let out
Of • the bag in this case, and the profitable inestetieS Of the art
of cackying•developed in a Manner, hitherto unknown, save and
except to the veteran agitator himself, old Dan q-* Derrynanc.
-Mr, Commissioner Dubois inquired how it haopened
feudan eoull'afford to keep a servant ?
.• --Misha, the lord (said the complainant) mane's
the long time he's (mad me he finds over £20.) a-year fer beg-
ging; lit's got the lengthasf the fut of a mighty number of gen-
tlemen, audio regard of his being blind and not able to say,
(see) and beiugaitageder no small time ihrunk entirely, its them
sends him the Money, and I wonst tuck in a rale paper note
meeself, five pounds weight. (Laughter.) Its ineesetf that's
seen hint wid.scores of gouldeu suvreignis in his pockets, and
now (less power to him !) he refuses to pay me, bekase he's got
rich a world of tin, (money) its nothing he don't know what to
he at aid it, except to pay me ! (Laughter.)
Commissioner.—Really begging appears to be a most profit-
able speculation! Plenty of brass in the face, it seems, is sure
to attract gold to the pocket. What have you to say to this,
Mr. Flyn ?
Defentlar.t (scratching his left ear, and making very curious
'.fares.)— Pee heard that bastely woman's tongue,—(laughter,)
and sad is the sorrow brought to me own door that I tuck her
to Inv house. Many's the good turn she's done to me,—(laugh-
ter.) She stole me a flock bed and she tmk away the tick; •she
stole me a pair of shoes that didn't belong to meeself; she stole
a large sheet of linen that without my consint,—(laughter;)
she stole me a pair of snuffers, and she stole me two pillows and
tuck away the cases.—(roars of laughter;) and she stole me
half a dozen of the finest knives and forks that ever was put in-
to mate; but, me Lord, the most bastely thing she done was
wastanei for two men without my consiut, and wid me own soap
and starch,—(laughter;) and last of all she stole,—
Commissioner.—For pity's sake stop, Daniel. She must have
been a capital jay/call to provide su handsomely for such a lion.
12:1() you mean to say she actually stole all these things, and that
yo u received them?
• .'Defendant.—Me restive them !—Glad would I be;—but she
stole all cl'ein froze me, and in regerd of that 1 coutind I don't
owe her a brass fardin.
Cernmissioner.—Oh! oh ! the things were taken from your
establishment. Pray, sir, how do you get your living?
Defendant.—Tbere is a great number of rale gentlemin as-
sists me. I make a regular collection,—(laughter.)
Couainissioner.-e4 sort of rent 1 suppose ?
Defendant.—Exactly so, my Lord,—(laughter.)
Commissioner.—Well, sir, I must say, begging seems to be
an excellent business; and the only way we can decide upon
this knotty queition is,,fer you to put a value on the goods you
have lost, and we will allow it as a set-off.
- After a long squabble between Daniel and his ex-handmaid-
en, it was decided that the riot-seeking •` Daniel" of Maryle-
bone, should hand over 10s, with all costs; and he immediately
pulled out a bag of 'money and was about to pay, brit was in-
formed that it wits not required until Wednesday next.
" I shall pay it with considerable pleasure, Sir," said Dan,
and groped his way out of court followed by tite termagaut
plaintiff, who, dissatisfied with the amount awarded to her, vow.
ed vengeance upon Daniel the little; and the beg',:al man was
very' efficiently clapper-clawed before he was out of the.precints
of the court.