The Sun. — 1847-04-07 (London, England)

HOWDEN V. STANDISH. This was an action against the late sheriff of the county of Lancaster, to recover the amount of a debt due to the plaintiff from a certain Professor Keller, against whom process hid been sued out, the officer having, as was alleged, failed through his own negligence in executing the warrant. Mr. Knowles and Mr. J. Henderson were for the plaintiff; Mr. Martin, Mr. Crompton, and Mr. Atherton for the defendant. Professor Keller, as he was called, was, it appeared, the manager of, and principal performer in, a group of artistes who in the course of the last year repre,ented, in various parts of the country, subjects taken from the antique and celebrated paintings, the figures, male and female, being arranged on a pedestal which turned round, so as to exhibit the composition to the spectators in all its different points of view. Mr. Keller was a powerful man, with large beard and mustache, and possessing a singular command over the muscles of the forearm, by the movement of which he beat time to the music. The professor, however,unfortunately' had got into debt, his performances in London not having been very successful. He came down to Birmingham, and thence to Liverpool, where he was engaged to per. form at a theatre erected in the Zoological Gardens. The plaintiff (Mr. Howden) was a creditor, to whom the " professor" owed something better (or worse) than 1001., and, in the hope of enforcing the payment of his money, had followed Mr. Keller to Liverpool. A writ had been sued out, and, under a judge's order, the plaintiff was empowered to hold Mr. Keller to bail, on the ground of his being about to leave the country. The warrants reached the hands of the officer, a person of the name of Lawton, on Wednesday, the Bth of July. On that very evening Mr. Keller was to perform at the theatre in the gardens, and thither Mr. Lawton, in the company of Mr. llowden, repaired. Mr. Lowden pointed out Keller, who was exhibiting studies from the ancient statues, and personated Cain in a group of " Cain and Abel." Me. Bowden, with little reverence for the ideal, saw nothing in Cain or the antique statues but his simple debtor, Mr. Keller, and pressed Mr. Lawton strongly at once to execute her Majesty's writ on the First Homicide, or the Apollo, or the Dying Gladiator, . as might be most convenient. Mr. Lawton, however, " albeit unused," seemed to have been restrained by a kind of superstitious awe from anything so profane—to say nothing of the fact that the stage was some six feet awo above the ground, and that the troupe were aware of the danger of the chef, and prepared for resistance, together with the advantage of beingmid the labyrinths of the able to leave the aggressors, in a twinkling, in the dark, a :, 'cenes, should a seizure be attempted. Mr. Lawton, therefo.,e, thought it better to wait and intercept his victim as he left the gardens. Accordingly after the performance was ove l' they waited for this purpose between the gardens and'. the hotel adjoining, at which Mr. Keller was staying. la i jus time a hat, cloak, beard, and mustache, which  could helorg to no one but that gentleman made their NE W CUSTOMS REGULATIONS al-R.:armee, and their identity was corroborated by the AT