The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-23 00:00:00

.POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—DanieI Mitchel Davidson and Cos•
mo William Gordon, who carried on business together as
colonial brokers, in Mincing-lane, and Cousin-lane, as
distillers at West Ham, Essex, were brought before Sir
John Musgrove, charged under the Bankrupt Law Con-
solidation Act of 1849, with not surrendering at the
time and place appointed for their examination, after due
notice bad been served, of the adjudication in bankruptcy.
Mr. Ballantine appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Clarkson for the prisoners.

Sufficient evidence, of a merely formal character, was
given for the purpose of a remand, which was not ob-
jected to on the part of the defence, but from the open-
ing statement, it appeared that the bankrupts failed in
June last, for the enormous amount of 500,0001., and
absconded. They were afterwards traced to Neufchatel,
and thence to Naples and Malta, where they were ar-
rested, and a warrant sent out from this court to bring
them to London.
The prisoners were remanded.

CLERKENWELL.—Anne Smith, wa3 charged with
hocussing and robbery.
The prosecutor, a young man named Moore, residing
at No. 9, Whitmore-place, Hackney, appeared with his
face scratched and nose severely injured, as if from a
blow, and seamed as if he had not quite recovered from
the effects of some narcotic drug. He said that he bad
met the prisoner accidentally same short time since in the
streets, and had, on one or two occasions, gone out with
her on excursions, by appointment. On the previous day
he met her by appointment, and they walked together
until they arrived in the City. After partaking of some
refreshment, he called a cab, near the Royal Enchange,
and they were driven about. In the course of their
rambles he ordered a cabman to stop at a public-house.
The cabman brought out some spirit., and handed it to
him, and he immediately lost his senses, and knew no
more of what occurred until he found himself locked up
in the Somers-town station for being drunk and in-
capable.
Joseph Wileon, 72 S, said—At an early hour on r,
day morning I found prosecutor lying in College-street,
Somers-town, in a state of insensibility, dreadfully dis-
figured and bleeding ; his clothes were saturated with
blood. Before I arrived at the spot I saw a female leave
where the prosecutor was on the ground, and I followed
her and took her into custody, and removed both to the
station-house. On searching the prisoner a porte-nton-
naie, containing 45., one cent. piece, a gold Albert chain,
a silk handkerchief, a penknife, and other articles, were
found on her.

Mr. Moore identified the articles produced as belong•
ing to him.

Prisoner—l positively deny having taken the property
with any intention of felony. I met Mr. Moore by ao
pointment, and we went about together. He certainly
drank the gin the cabman gave him, and he became in•
sensible. I took the property with the view of keeping
it safe.

The Magistrate— It is very suspicious that you were
seen by the officer to leave the complainant. I see you
describe yourself as a "laun,lrass without a home."

Prisoner—l did not wish my friends to know I was
in such a position—they are respectable.
Magistrate—Whool was the cabman ?

Prisoner—l do not know—he left us in Great College-
street, where' Mr. Moore was found. I did not take his

n u rn ben

Magistrate—lt is evident that the prosecutor has been
severely injured. I must remand the case, unless the
prisoner states really where she lives ; if she does, I
have no objection to take her own recognisance to appear
in a week to answer the charge.
The prisoner, after considerable hesitation, said that
she lived in the house of Mrs. Sydenham, 99, College-
street, Somers-town.
The prisoner was put back for a short time ulti-
mately Sergeant Mulvaney stated that he had made
inquiries, and that the addres given by the prisoner was
correct. She was, therefore, admitted to bail on her
own recognisance.

MARLBORTJGH-STREET.—Williana Sharp was
charged with stealing a purse containing 37/ in notes
and gold, the property of a lady named Armstrong, re-
siding at No. 4, Great Marlborough-stret.
Mrs. Armstrong said she had occasion to go into a
shop to purchase some paper. She had her porte-monnai•
in her hand, which contained four 51. notes, 17 sove-
reigns, two half-sovereigns, and some silver. She laid
the porte-monnaie for a moment on a glass case in front
of the counter, and almost immediately afterwards missed
it. Information was given of the robbery, and the notes
were stopped.

Samuel Coombs, City police-constable, was on duty at
the Bank of England, and was sent for to take a man
named Spencer into custody. who had presented the
stolen notes. Spencer took him to a house and pointed
out the prisoner as the man from whom he received the
notes. The prisoner tried to escape, but was secured
and searched. The sum of 191. 10s. in gold was found
in his possession.

Pris Oner denied all knowledge of the notes, and was
remanded until Thursday.

LAMBETH.—Upwards of three hours of the time of
the Hon. G. C. Norton was occupied in bearing and dis-
posing of the cases wherein persons had been charged
with picking pockets and committing various robberies
at the procession formed on Monday last, between the
Bricklayers' Arms and Westminster-bridge, for the re-
ception of the Emperor and Empress of France, and also
in the front of and about the Crystal Palace, on Friday,
during the Royal and Imperial visit.

The first case called on was that of Jam Cregan, a
young fellow, who described himself as a painter, who
was charged with robbing Mr. Leopold Weimar, a native
of Vienna, of a brilliant pin, of the value of 71. near the
Bricklayers' Arinc=, on Monday afternoon, just as the
carriage of the Emperor, the Empress, and Prince
Albert, was approaching.
The prisoner was committed to the House of Correc-
tion for two months.

Upwards of 30 other prisoners were also committed to
Wandsworth House of Correction for various periods,
varying from one to three months.

The Hon. G. C. Norton delivered his judgment in the
case in which Barfoot Biggadike, a police-constable, 81
P, had been charged with committing a most unmanly
assault upon Mrs. Sarah Tyler, a respectable ma-ried
woman. The charge was investigated by direction of
the Commissioners of Police.

Mrs. Tyler had been to the Lord Nelson public-house,
Old Kent-road, to bring her husband home, and while
there had been grossly insulted by two policemen. Sub-
sequently meeting the def-ndant, she complained to him
of their conduct, hut he at once knccked her down, and
applied to her the most disgusting epithets. Her hus-
band said he would go to the station-house and report
the policeman, upon which defendant dragged him
to the station-house, and preferred against him a
charge of assault. On the following day, before Mr.
Elliott, this charge was wholly disproved, the accused
discharged, and the magistrate expressed a strong opinion
that the charge of assault, as well as that of a false
charge, should be preferred against the constable.
Mr. Norton having read from his notes that portion
of the evidence which bore most forcibly on the charge,
said that it was to him a matter of deep regret to have
to deal wish such cases, as they brought odium on a
number of respectable men, but he was sorry to add that
he was by no means satisfied with the testimony given
in the case by Sergeant Fagg, 216 P, as he dii not think
that officer told all he knew of the matter. He then
convicted the defendant Biggadike in the penalty o 121.
10s., or in default of payment to one month's imprison-
ment.

The penalty was at once paid and the defendant dis.
charged.

THAMES. —Mr. Sherwood, one of the overseers of
Whitechapel parish, accompanied by Mr. Cochrane,
corn merchant, of No. 18, Cable-street, applied to Mr.
Ingham on behalf of a poor widow named Ballard and
her two children. Mr. Sherwood said that on Easter
Sunday a horse and cart, belonging to a person named
Church, a greengrocer, of Devonport-street, Commer-
cial-road, were left unattended in Brook-street, Rat-
cliff. Something caused the horse to take fright,
and it darted off at a tremendous pace. A young
man named William Ballard, in the employ of Mr.
Cochrane, who was standing opposite his master's shop,
on seeing the horse and cart approach at full speed,
darted into the middle of the road for the purpose of
stopping the animal. This act of courage and humanity
cost him dear. The shaft of the cart struck him on the
breast and broke his heart-strings. He was knocked
down, and scudded along the road by the wheels, which
mangled him in a shocking manner. The horse was
soon afterwards stopped ; and the poor fellow was picked
up in an insensible condition. Mr. Cochrane caused
his immediate removal to the London Hospital. where
he died a few minutes afterwards, leaving a widow who
was far advanced in pregnancy, and two young children,
to deplore his loss. His (Mr. Sherwood's) object in
waiting on the magistrate was, to ask if some assistance
could not be extended to the widow and her children,
now quite destitute.
Mr. Ingham said this was a most lamentable case
and deserving of public commiseration. He should be
most happy to assist the gentleman who appealed to
him ; and he ordered a sovereign to be banded to Mr.
Sherwood from the poor-box fund, for the relief of the
widow and her children.

" LIVES OP THE PRINCESSES OF ENGLAND."-Thig at.
tractive work is at length completed by the publication
of the sixth volume, comprising tho conclusion of the
lire of the celebrated Queen of Bohemia, the Lives of
Mary, Princess of Orange, and of Henrietta Duchess
of Orleans—all these peculiarly interesting from their
misfortunes. It has been justly observed that the inci-
dents in the lives of our feminine royalty have ever been
found to possess a charm which we look for in vain in
their rougher mates. This, we take it, is the secret of
the success that has attended Miss Strickland's labours,
and this, too, is the explanation of the favour with
which the volumes of her sister author, Mrs. Everett
Green, who has undertaken to chronicle the "Lives of
the Princesses of England," have been received by the
public, the great body. of her work being occupied with
the most interesting privite mil domestic details. '