The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-22 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

The court sat yesterdaytat the Sessions House, Clerk-
en well-green, to hear bait cases. There were only five
prisoners for trial, three for assaults, and two for felony.
(Before Mr. Sergeant Adams.)
ROBBERY OF CORN, &a.
James Taylor, ostler, and William Hierons labourer,
pleaded not guilty to an indictment chargieg them with
stealing a large quantity of horse provender, the pro-
perty of the Richmond Conveyance Company.
It appeared from the evidence of the police engaged
in the case, that having received information that the
corn was in the habit of being taken from the company's
premises at Twickenham by their ostler (Taylor), and
sold to the prisoner Hierons, a watch was kept, and on
the evening of the sth -police-constable Roberts saw the
latter leave the stables, which are at the back of the
Red Lion Tavern, with a bag on his shoulder. He fo!.
lowed and took him into custody, and found the bag to
contain bruised oats, bruised beans, and chaff. On ask-
ing him where he got it, he said from Sbepperton; a
place 10 miles distant, and in a contrary direction,
when he took him into custody, and on his way to the
lockup the prisoner attempted to shoot the contents
into the road. The prisoner Taylor, who received a
most excellent character for honesty up t 3 the prescint
occasion, from Mr. J. Corbeliow, the Richmond Convey-
ance Company's manager (the prosecutor), said, wheAe
MB taken into custody, that he knew nothing about the
robbery, and that he had not seen the other prisoner, at
all that night.

Mr. Paine jun., prosecuted, and Mr. Repton and
Mr. Sleigh defended the prisoners.
The jury found both prisoners guilty.
The Assistant-Judge sentenced Taylor to eix, Snd
Hierons to nine calendar mouths' imprisonment, with
hard labour, in the House of Correction.

This closed the business of the session, and the court
adjourned.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Nov, 21.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Robert Hopkins was brought
before the Lord Nlayor, charged with having feloniously
stolen 20 postage stamps, each denoting the payment of
one shilling duty, 260 penny postage stamps, and 37
printed books of the value of 51., the property of his em-
ployers, Messrs. King and Co.
Mr. King said—l am partner with George Smith,
trading under the name of Smith, Eder, and Co., at
No. 65, Corubill, as booksellers. The prisoner has been
in our service about a year as copying clerk. It is ne-
cessary t ) keep in our foreign department large numbers
of postage stamps. In consequence of a communication
which I received from our cashier come weeks since I
directed him to mark some postage stamps. On Mon-
day last our cashier brought to me 3/. 10e worth of
postage stamps, and on the following evening I spoke to
the prisoner about them. I asked him where he got
them from ? He said " I got them from a young man
in the City." He did not know the name. I replied
that I knew that was false. I said "I am in possession
of evidence to prove that a portion of these stamps are
our property." He first stated the same as be had done.
before, and I then said, " Is that all you have to say?"
and told him I lead sent for an officer, who would be
with us shortly. He then said, "If you'll forgive me
I'll tell all about it." My partner told him that we could
make no terms whatever; lie must use his own discretion
ai to what ho said. He then said, "I took them out
of Johnson's desk." I said, " And that applies to the
other stamps you have sold to the cashier ?" and he said,
" Yes." Storey, the officer, arrived, and he searched
the prisoner in my presence, and found on him some
other postage stamps to the amount of 3s. 4d. Storey
asked me if the portemonnaic was ours ? I said, "We
make no claim to it." The prisoner said "The stamps
are yours," and lie was taken away in custody. John•
son is a clerk in our newspaper department, and has the
charge of the stamps required there. I have no doubt
that the 37 books produced belong to our firm, and
some of them are our own publications.
Mr. J. Fowler, cashier to the prosecutors, said—lt is
nay duty to give out the postage stamps to the different
in
departments. The prisoner has on several occasions
asked me to buy postage stamps of him. Once ihn told
the
me that they were sent to him from h
country. By the direction of Mr. Kinge
T‘ i his
I brotherjmarkedohnso n
someto b e
stamps, which I afterwards handed to :on
_ay
last the
d
used in the business of the firm. On _
prisoner brought to me some p
amount of 3/. 103. He told 133_e postage stamps to the
come to me
next day for the money.
k, and are a portion of the
stamps which I had The twenty-one shilling
stamps bear my private Inari
received
handed
Mt or.MEro.
Fowler
Johnson.
I previou
Mr. Johnson said—
age stamps for the use of the business, which I keep in
.my desk. I have never authorised the prisoner to take
away postage stamps from my desk, or to go to it.
Storey deposed to finding the postage stamps upon
the prisoners and finding the books in the prisoner's
lodgings.
The prisoner said—t Some of the books are my own.
I euilt of the res .
aCmom' y
mitted for trial.

GITILDEfALL.—Iohn Mennie, a lad about 12 years
of age, was charged, under the Juvenile Offenders' Act,
before Aldermen Cubitt and Wire, with stealing a port-
manteau under the following circumstances :
The Rev. Frederick Massy Evelyn, of Reading, said,
on the 3,l of November he hired the prisoner to carry his
portmanteau from Farringdon-street to the London-
bridge station, and when he got as far as St. Paul's
Church-yard he turned round to speak to the pri-
soner, who he expected was following him, but found
he was nowhere to be seen. He went on to the
station, expecting he had passed him, and he waited
there for some hours, but nobody came. There was_
in the portmanteau a porte-monnaie containing
.in
two
5/. notes, either of the Bank of England or
monds' Bank, Reading; also wearing apparel to the
shirtss
value
of several pounds. The dress boots and two
pro-
duced were his property, and also one of the lorte•mon-
naies produced.
Mrs. Orgar, of the Anchor and
boy came to
Sheerness, said the prisoner and another_
her house and slept on the
they were going to bed the
mounaies to take care of. Hope public-house,
f November, and when
6t-ho°„or ,ave her two porte-
Irnisone there was 5/, in gold,

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1.445" N'4l'
=, 4 14'4,1fl and in the other 14s, in silver. In the natleiilliAl --4;!,t); T ithv;
asked her for the ports-monnaies, but she refusittlto
them up, saying she did not believe he came hofikalt.W-1-
them. He protested he did, and appealed to the'y4ting
man that was with him to verify his assertion. They. I S'
left the house, and the prisoner sent a note requesting
the money, but the witness had in the meantime sent
for a constable, who apprehended him and brought him
to the Anchor and Hope, when witness gave to him the
porte-monnaies and their contents.
William Pratten, a constable at Sheerness, took the
prisoner into custody, when he tried to make his escape.
William Hurst, an assistant to a pawnbroker in
.Bloomsbury, produced two shirts and a pair of boot&
pledged on the 6th of November, by a female, in the
name of West.
Thomas Mapleston Green, superintending constable of
the Faversham division, said he received the prisoner
into his custody on the 7th of November, at Sitting-
bourne. The prisoner then sail he bad the money and
porte-monnaLs given to him by a cattle salesman
Woolwich of the name of Walsh. He subsequently toil
witness several ways in which he had become possessed
of the money. When be took him out of jai!, on the
15th of November, he told him that his name was John
Meanie, and not Johnson, the name he gave at Sheer-
ness. The prisoner then said that ell he bad previously
stated was false, that he had been employed by a gentle-
man to take a portmauteau from Farringdon-street to a
railway station, but that before he got to St. Peel's
Churchyard he ran away with it. He met a boy 'he
knew by the name of Harry, and a woman. They
broke open the portmanteau, and the woman paemil
the clothes. He took the portemonnaie, which eon.
tamed two 51. notes, one of which the woman changed,
and the other he changed himself. Ho said he did not
know the woman, nor could he tell where to find Harry.
Alderman Cubitt sentenced him to three months' im-
prisonment and hard labour, and to be once privately
whipped.

CLERK ENWELL. William Heath, aged 34, of
No. 3, Fazdly-street, Birmingham, and Thomas Pope,
aged 33, having "no borne," boatmen, were charged
with being cor.carned in causing the death of a woman,
name unknown.

It appeared from the evidence of police-constable
Charles Ratcliffe, that about two o'clock yesterday
morning, cries as of a woman drowning were heard to
proceed from under the Regent's Canal Tunnel, pear
Thornhill-bridge, Islington. Witness ran down to tills
towing path, near 'the month of the tunnejr and saw line
skirt of a woman's gown dying on the path. He soon
after saw some object apparently sinking in the water.
lie was about to go into the water to her rescue, when
a boat, containing two men (the prisoners) was seen ap-
proaching the tunnel from the direction of Camden-town.
Witness called to the prisoners to look out for the wo-
man, and when they got under the tunnel they called
out that they had "got her," and that she was " dead."
The police having fetched a stretcher went to the City-
road end of the tunnel, where they found the prisoners
and their boat. To Cie surprise of the officers the wo-
man was floating in the water, a rope with a slip noose
beiog round her body ; and it appears that the priso.
ners when they found the drowning woman in the tun-
nel, instead of taking her into the boat, had towed her
to the City-road end of the tunnel. They were imme-
diately apprehended. It appeared that when the pri-
soners called out that they had got the woman, they
added, " We can't bring her back ; you must go to the
other end of the tunnel." The deceased's fingers were
clenching the rope, which showed that she was alive
when the rope was put upon her.
Mr. Jc.s.,elyn Bradford said—l reside at No. 4, York-
place, Islington. I am a physician and surgeon. Between
2 and 3 o'clock this morning I was called upon to the
deceased woman. I examined the body. It was warm,
but dead from drowning. If any proper or ordinary
humanity hail been observed towards the poor woman
by placing her on board the boat, and putting some
warns covering over her, her life might have been saved.
The deceased was a fine, strong, well formed woman,
and certainly not of the lowest order. There was no
signs of her having been drinking.
Mr. Tyrwhitt (to the prisoners)— Pray what do you
want to say to this ?

fleatb---Why, the police told us a woman was in the
water. I put in the boat hook and picked her out. We
put a rope round her body. She was 200 or 300 yards
in the tunnel.

Ratcliffe—She was only 15 or hi yards from the
tucuth of the tunnel.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said that the prisoners had beeu guilty
of the most culpable and gross neglect. The woinau was
alive and crying just before they picked her up. Two
strong fellows like themselves might have pulled her into
the boat, covered her over and rendered her assistance,
and her life no doubt have been saved ; but they bad
acted with a culpable indifference, and they must answer
for such conduct. The woman was alive when they picked
her up, and they killed her, no doubt, through dragging
and towing her through the water with cruel indifference,
and they must answer for it before a jury on a charge of
manslaughter.
The prisoners were then remanded.

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George Newboli. 3i4, Strand.

mJULLIEN'S CONCERTS. - ROYAL
• ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GA.RDENT.— Last Week
but Three.—THE FALL cf SEBASTOPOL QUADRILLE.—The
programme for T.I IS EVENING (Thursday, Nov. 22) will include :
—Weber's Overture to Der Freischutz (first time) ; L'Enfant Pro-
fugue Quadrille ; the Andante from Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony ;
Cavatina from Il Trovatore (first time), and " 0 lace di quest' ani-
a," sung by Madame Gassier ; La Prima Donna Valse (first time
this season); Solo, cornet-a-pistons, by Herr Koenig; M. Jullien's
"New Grand Quadrille, entitled
THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL,
assisted by the military Bands; Grand Operatic Selection from le
Prophete; the Katy-did Polka; the Minuet from Bristow's Sym-
phony in E fiat ; S 10, violoncello, by Si. Montigny (his second ap-
arance) ; Galop, Vive I'Empereur, &c.
Prices of admission :—Promenade, upper boxes, amphitheatre
Stella and amphitheatre, Is. ; dress circle, 2s. 6d, ; private boxes, 12s ,
11. ls., and It. lie. 6d. Places and private boxes may be had at the
box-office of the theatre, of Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Hammond, Mr. Hook-
lata, and Messrs. Andrews, Bond•street ; and at Messrs. Juillen and
Co.'s, Regent-street.
11. Juillen's Grand Annual Bal Masque will take place on Mon-
day, Dec, 17, 1855.

THEATRE aOYAI, DRURY-LANE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING,
Will e performed the comic drama called USED UP.
Followed by COOL AS A CUCUMBER, la which Mr. C. Ma-
awe, &c., will appear.
To he followed by NITOCR[3. Characters by Messrs. E. F. Ed-
gar, Stulrt, B. Sullivan, G. Wild, C. Vincent, &c. ; Miss Glyn, Mrs.
Selby, Mies De Vere, Miss Anderton, Miss Cleveland, &c.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
I Under the Management of Mr. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING,

' Will be presented THE PROVOKED HUBRAND. Principal
chirectors by Messrs. llme, W. Farren, Chippenlils, Compton,
M 133 Cushman, Mrs. Poynter, and Miss Swanboratigb.
Po:lowed by THE LITTLE TREASURE.
To concla•.ie with JOIN JONES.

7.3.)?AL rEISATRE, OXFORD-STREIGT.
T.7hdor the Man2.gement of Mr. Camiraas YEr►et.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed THE RIVALS.
To conclude with THE MULETEER OF TOLEDO.

TILEATRZ EIYAL
Proprietor, Mr. B. webdter.—Directress, Madame Celeste.

THIS EVENMO,
Will be perforated MNIZIE DUC %NOE ; or, The Jersey Carl.
After which, the c,o.nady of FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
To conclude with BETTY MARTIN.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Lease?. Mr. J. IL Auder3on, 13, Norfolk-street, Strand.
Increased Attractions, and success In equal ratio
TEN , AND EVERY EVENING, at Eight o'Clock,

WIU he oresentod, with entirely New and Maglifle.ent Ippoint-
Ment4, LfA [C 11Y-IP2,' itY, in twelve acts, arranged in two
parts, by Professor Anlerson.

After w`ife'l, the it irtfla? illaitrationl of Spirit-Rapping. HALF-
IVI Cif t, bct,ig the most surprising and
latereiting series of experiments ever given within the walls of any
theatre.

Ilevval, in an irrorovel form, of the aitounding novelty which
atartizA Loadou 10 years ago, the GRE.tT GUN TRICK !

Pril=s of admillion: —l'r vati Cs ,sea, 11. I Is. (11. end U. Is. ;
Oreheitr.l stalls, 45.; Dress T 1 me 3, 3i : Upper ISoxei, 24.; Pit,
Is. ; Gallery, 6.1. No llaif-price. Tios-oftleo open from 11 to 5
dany.
Grind Morning Performance on Satardey Next a Two o'Clock.
Dom open at lall-past Ono.

ROYAL STRAND TILEATRE.
Under the direction of Mr. Payne.
Tills EVENING,
Wilt be pegormel NICHOLAS NICKLEBY.
After which, a SPINES a BALLET, by the Spanish Dancers.
Followed by NITOCRIS.
To conclude with THE LADIES' CLUB.

R )Y.ll. OLY ‘IPIC THEATRE.
THIS E Mingo,

W.ll ha presented, TO OBLTOE '7;NSONT, in which Messrs.
Reaery, F. Haien, Lune, Mrs. Stirling, and Miss Ternan will appear.

After S LILL WATERS DEEP.
Yo:tc,:wed 1,3, CATCHING A MERMAID.

ASTLEY'S ItOYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and. Manner, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
THIS EVENING.
Mademoiselle CLEMENT! NE SOU ER, the greatest Eques-
i Artiste in the World I (Vide " Times," 13th Nov.)
Mr. CV. Cooke's Leviathan PROVINCIAL EQUESTRIAN
ESTABLISIIIIENT, during this week only I
Also, the Spectacle, The FALL of SEBASTOPOL!
After which, the GEM of the CIRCLE ; with Vie Magnificent
Act of Mlle. Soullier, and the Performance of Cue Provincial Esta-
blishment; with other Entertainments.
itoz..urfizu opea from Eleven tilt Your. Stage .lixiager, Mr. W.
tr:et. F.T.zaitriar. Director, Mr. W. Choke, inn.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

Mg DA Y—Afori. 14 min. aft. 12—Eve/ling 37 min. aft. 12
0-'..r9F.R0117• —Morn. 2 min.aa. I—Evening 24 min, aft. 1

THE WE,ITHER.—SuN OFFICE, Nov. 22.

THERMOMETER, IN THE &UDR.

41—h':ghest since noon yesterde.y.
43 -lowest this morning and daring the night.
45 -thi✓ day at noon.

R tI,ONTRTVE, 29-93.
Wlsl,.—N.E.—Light, airs and hazy.

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