The Sun. — 1833-06-14 (London, England)

ATTORNEY-GENERAL, Mr. CLARK, and Sir GEORGE GREY, appeared for the Crown, and Mr. ADOLPHUS, assisted by another Gentleman were for the defendant.  The case for the Crown was that on the 16th of March the officers of the customs went to a warehouse in Wycherly.yard, Thames-street, and found the defendant in the counting.house, and in the desk they found several catoons filled with French ribbons. They then searched the warehouse, and, in four large boxes, that appeared to contain apples, they found a few apples on the top, then a quantity of lead to make up the weight, and under that the cases were filled with ribbons, which were all seized and con. demised. They sold for 6361. Bs. 6d., but the Crown only went for the triple value of taking them at 6001. For the defence it was attempted to be proved that the warehouse belonged not to the defendant, but to a man named Gage, who was the real smuggler, but who had run away—that Mongue was merely allowed to use the warehouse in his own business as an egg-merchant, for which he paid a trifling sum to Gage, and that he knew nothing of the trans. action, as he had made no attempt to get out of the way. The Arroaxxv-GENERAL replied, and said it was clear that though the goods were not directed to the de. fendant, he was found in the possession of them, as the officers found him in the counting-house, and at the very desk where part of the goods were; and when they had searched the four packages, Mangue said, " You have got all the goods, you need not search any further."  After the learned Baron had summed up, the jury instantly returned a verdict for the Crown—Penalties, 1,8004  The late Lord KING was facetiously called " the Bishops' Tormenter." His Lordship led the Reverend Bench a sad life of it.  Upwards of 2001. were taken at the gate of the Zoological gardens on Whit-Monday. This is " seeing the lions" to some tune.  We should strongly incline to doubt the authenticity of the following paragraph from the Sheffield Iris, if we did not recollect how frequently the murderous spring-gun used to be resorted to for the protection of property, until the Legislature at length interfered. The fact is, that the protection of property forms the first con. sideration in this country. The protection of life is not even the second ; for when law and usage happen to be, as they mostly are, on the side of havoc—vide our critai. nil code—they obtain a degree of respect too often, as experience proves, superior to the claims of humanity. Will it be believed that the bard-hearted vigilance of the proprietor of some garden ground at Rotherham, has discovered a substitute for spring-guns, which is quite as Aicient in the way of murder ? The following is the paragraph from which we derived the intelligence " NEW METHOD OF DETECTING GARDEN Rosin:sta.—We are credibly informed that a gentleman resident in Rotherham, who had his garden frequently robbed of cucumbers, last week had recourse to a new and curious method of detecting the thief. He strongly Impregnated a fine cucumber with arse.. nic, and the same was stolen the following night, or early the next morning. The thief was discovered beforethree o'clock the same day in a condition that beggars description. We understand that many individuals in this neighbourhoUd have had recourse to the same practice ; for, as the law now stands, owners of gardens meet with no protection."--sheffidd Iris. According to this account, not only has the creditable discovery been made, but it is already becoming popular. What a state of society does this exhibit ? Must we hare another Act of Parliament to prevent us from poisoning each other, for the protection of as much property as represented in the price of a {moniker