The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-15 00:00:00

Temple-street, with the same uncle. I am 24 years of
age. My cousin may have turned 30. I visit my cousin
once in three or four months.
James Mills said he was a stonemason, carrying on
business at Whitworth, and had built a house for the de-
fendant. He had joked him about marrying the plaintiff.
Mr. Serjeant Wilkins then addressed the jury for the
defendant, which, while it was amusing to the male
members of the audience, was not of a description de-
sirable for ladies' ears. Ie remarked that his learned
friend (Mr. Hill) possessed one great quality when before
a court, land that was, gravity ; how he could have
talked such nonsense he could not imagine. It was like
Brutus haranguing over the dead body of Lucretia, when
he talked of having betrayed, deceived, and abandoned
one of the loveliest flowers that could have been ga-
thered by the ruthless hand of man. (Great laughter.)
He asked them for the largest amount of indignation on
the head of the seducer who had destroyed the sweet
beauteous flower, blooming in all her loveliness behind
the pillar (one of the pillars in court.) Why, one would
suppose it to be a twofold seduction !
Mr. Hill—l shall have the right of reply if you go
into such a matter.

Mr. Serjeant Wilkins, repeating the words, continued
—Lord Eldon bad said, " Thore was sic a thing as
proof positive, and sic a thing as proof presump-
tive," and knowing his friend's good taste, and his
criticism of femal loveliness—(laughter)—one could
understand why he nudged his attorney to go and take
the beauty out of court. (Roars of laughter.) Now,
what was the case ? This gay seducer began his seduc-
tion between three and four years ago ; then he must
have been 20 years of age ; and she has the modesty to
come into court to listen to that of which she has no
right to complain. His learned friend told them in his
reply that he (Mr. Serjeant Wilkins) would endeavour to
disparage the appearance of the plaintiff. That would
be a work of redundancy. He asked them whether any
man, be he young or be he old, could discover anything
in the plaintiff to make him act in such a way ? The
defendant went there as a butcher, and she supposed he
at once threw sheep's eyes at her. He went there for
meat, and he got an order for a heart. (Laughter.)
Well, then, without any note of preparation—without
anything to show it—where and when was the first time
any promise, if any there were, was made ? Up in her
own bed-room, at 3 o'clock in the morning ! Not down
stairs when they were quietly alone, but where they
were so noisy in their amours that they disturbed the
assistant up-stairs. He believed the whole story to be
a fabrication ; there was not a single person brought for-
ward to show that they were ever seen out together. If
the jury believed that a promise had been made, he
trusted they would mark their sense of the woman's con-
duct, who was fully 40 years of age, and was not unac-
quainted with life, while the defendant's age was only
24, by giving a verdict for the defendant, or one farthing
damages. .

HisiLordship summed up, and in a few minutes a ver-
dict for the plaintiff, with 401. damages was returned.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—Hugh. Joseph, Smith, a man of very
respectable appearance, was charged with stealing one
hundred 10/. shares in the Great Luxembourg Railway,
the property of his master.
Mr. William Jessop, a stockbroker, of No 5, Token-
house-yard, said—The prisoner was in my employ about
a year and a-half ago as clerk. On the 15th of March,
1854, I gave him 100 101. shares in the Great Luxem-
bourg Railway to deliver to Mr. Mossup, for whom I
had purchased them. Finding a deficiency in my ac-
counts I made inquiries, and then taxed the prisoner
with not having delivered the shares to Mr. Mossup. He
stated that Mossup had left them with him to exchange
for bonds, and that the shares were at that time in the
hands of a person whose name I forget at Southampton.
I went down to Southampton, and cuuld not find any
person of the name the prisoner gave. On returning to
town I found the prisoner had absconded, and have not
seen him since until he was taken into custody. I did
not take the numbers of the shares. That was the
clerk's duty. I paid 4501. for them.
Mr. John Mossup, a stockbroker, of Pinner's-hall,
Old Broad-street, said—l gave the last witness instruc-
tions to purchase 100 101. shares in the Great Luxem-
bourg Railway in February or March, 1854. I did not
receive them nor any portion of them, nor the produce
of them. I never authorised the prisoner to keep those
shares to exchange for bonds, nor do I know any person
at Southampton with whom I have had transactions.
After some further evidence Alderman Finals, on the
request of the prosecution, granted a remand, relusing to
take bail.

BOW-STREET.--Thomas Clarke, a messenger in the
Post-office, was charged with stealing a letter Containing
a sovereign.

Mr. Peacock, the Post-office solicitor, prosecuted.
Mr. R. Partridge, deputy comptroller, and Messrs.
Gardner and Dixon, clerks in the General Post-office,
proved that a letter, previously made up, and containing
a sovereign privately marked, was delivered to the pri-
soner at about six o'clock in the morning, to be conveyed
with others to the sub-sorters.

John Forbes, a messenger, and William Smee, a
constable attached to the office, proved that they were
appointed to watch the proceedings of the prisoner, after
the bag of letters containing the one in question had been
delivered to him in the usual course of business. Having
secreted themselves in such a manner as to escape ob-
servation, they Paw the prisoner passing the letters
through his hand, and feeling them as if to ascertain if
they contained anything. Presently he selected the
letter which contained the sovereign, and which they
could distinguish from the rest in consequence of its
having a black border across part of the envelope. He
held it up to the light, squeezed its contents, knocked
the envelope against a table, and eventually shook out
something from the corner, which he placed in his mouth.
He had tried several of the other letters in a similar way
previously, and having placed them all together again
afterwards, was proceeding with them across the build-
ing, when witnesses discovered themselves, and See
took the prisoner into a private room before the deputy-
comptroller, and other officials, who, on examining the
letter which they had prepared with the view of testing
his honesty, found that the corner of the envelope had
been slit open and the sovereign taken out of it.
Matthew Peak, the Post-office constable, deposed to
having searched the prisoner, and found in his posses.
sion three gold five franc pieces, six sovereigns, one half
sovereign, and 7s. in silver. Witness afterwards went
to the prisoner's residence, 29, Gerrard-street, Islington,
where he found nine 51. Bank of Fngland notes, two 1/.
notes of the Bank of Ireland, eight sovereigns, and 2/.
7s. in silver, which the prisoner claimed as his own.
Mr. Henry—What was the prisoner's salary l
Witness—He was paid 255. a week.
Cross-examined by the prisoner—On finding the above
the prisoner stated, with reference to the five franc
pieces, that they were sent to him three years ago by a
brother in the West Indies. He also stated that the 51.
bank notes were given to him by a Mr. Benham in ex-
change for 40 sovereigns, and that he received the two
Irish notes from Mr. Nolan, of the Customs.

Mr. Henry—The statement as to the five franc pieces .
is manifestly untrue, for they only came out last year.
They were added to the coinage of France by the French
Emperor in 1854.
It was stated that the French soldiers in the Crimea
were in the habit of sending the new gold five franc
pieces home.to their friends, and a great many were re-
ceived in this way, in letters, owing to their being so
well adapted for transmission through the post.
The prisoner was remanded for a week.

MARLBOROUGH-STREE l'.—Mary Morris, a re-
markably fine, well-dressed young woman, was charged
with attempting to drown herself in the Serpentine.
From the voluntary confession of the defendant it
appeared that her parents lived in Wales. About two
years ago she was seduced, and she went on the town
She was afterwards taken from the streets bar a clergy-
man and placed in a penitentiary asylum. After re-
maining some time in this refuge she was taken into
this clergyman's family, and lived there in a domestic
capacity for several months. The brother of the clergy-
man came to stay at the house, and he induced her to
listen to his overtures. She was obliged to leave the
family, and came up to town to seek another service.
She went to Cremorne-gardens the previous night, and
having passed the night in drinking, she became frantic
at her condition in the morning, and at length deter-
mined to drown herself in the Serpentine.
Mr. Bingham asked her if she had any friends in
London ?

The defendant replied in the negative.
A person here stepped forward and agreed to take
charge of her for the present.
After a suitable admonition from the magistrate the
defendant was allowed to leave the court in the com-
pany of her acquaintance,