The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-15 00:00:00

THAMES.

NOVEL CHARGE OP BEING DRUNK AND INCAPABLE.—
Emma Brown, a young woman, was brought before Mr
Paget charged with being drunk and incapable of taking
care of herself.
Police-constable 104 E. said the prisoner was drunk and
incapable last night. She came to the Bow station-house
very much intoxicated, and said that she wanted a night's
lodging, and was locked np.
Mr Paget said the evidence of the police-constable wee
the strangest definition of being drunk and incapable he had
over met with. The woman came to the station-house, said
she was drunk, insisted on a night's lodging, and was locked

up.
The prisoner said she mistook the station-house for the
Stepney Union House at Bromley. She got out of a rail-
way carriage where the train stopped opposite the Stepney
Union House, at Bromley, and walked into the station
house instead of the workhouse.
Mr Paget—You are a pauper.
The prisoner—Yes, sir. I had leave of absence yester-
day.
Mr Paget—And got drunk. I don't believe you mistook
the stationhouse for the workhouse. They were moie than
a mile apart. You are discharged.
DEAD DRENI..—John Fleet. a dock labourer, was
charged with being insensibly drunk in the St. Katherine
Dock yesterday afternoon.
A dock watchman stated that he found the prisoner dead
drunk on the brandy quay yesterday afternoon, and he
vomited a good deal of liquor from his stomach.
The prisoner expressed great contrition, and said he had
been in the service of the dock company many years, and
was never drunk there before.
Mr Paget—lt is a very dangerous thing indeed to be
drunk in the dock. You were in danger of rolling into the
basin and being drowned. You are discharged.
DRUNE. AND RIOTOUS.—Ann Hinman, an elderly mar-
ried woman, the wife of a steady, hard working bricklayer,
was charged with being drunk and riotous in Ratcliff-high-
way yesterday afternoon.
Dannevill, 140 DI, said the prisoner had been drunk 50
Imes to his knowledge, and was incorrigible.
The prisoner—l will become a teetotaller. I will,indeed.
Mr Paget—You are fined 58 for being drunk.

WESTMINSTER-
SINGULAR CASE OF FELONY.—Jane Hill, an intelligent
looking child, only 10 years of age, was placed in the felon's
dock charged with stea'ing a sovereign.
Mrs Ann Allwood, of 65, Milbank-street, Westminster,
wife of a stone merchant, said that prisoner occasionally
came to the house to nurse her infant. She was there on
Saturday night, and in her presence prosecutrix placed a
sovereign in a purse and put the latter in a drawer. On
the next afternoon her husband went to the purse and found
to come on the Sunday but failed to do so, and as she was
suspected soshveewreaigsnsewntas gone. The prisoner had promised
for yesterday, but the sovereign was
not found.
Mr Arnold—What evidence is there against the child ?
Inspector Humphreys—
She is found in possession of half
a sovereign which she gave to her father. Perhaps you
would like to hear him.
The little girl's father, a journeyman tailor, working at
a West-end house, said that his wit) and children were in
the habit of meeting him on Saturday night as he came
home, and did so on Saturday. Directly she saw him she
put a half-sovereign in his hand, told him she had picked it
up, and asked him what it was. She said she had picked
it up near the Houses of Parliament. When he heard that
his daughter was suspected of stealing a sovereign he took
her to Mrs Allwood's, but she positively denied all know-

ledge of it.
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She was immediately discharged.
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M. Berryer at the Lord Mayor's Banquet.

. fi9, 9th speech!o o ft
that
ts
November, attained its climax
in Thethe brief oratory,
but oelegant
Berryer. The presence
part of the of this distinguished advocate tended materially to increase
the brilliancy of the gathering at. the Lord Mayor's table
and his response to the toast which called him to his feei
was a moat suitable
M. Berryer took his
entertain-
ment which is usually considered " a feast of reason and
tone from the scene and circumstances around
a flow of soul." Like a wise poet,
him. He saw there some of the results of a
stubborn conservatism of usages, and he was struck by the
advantages of adhering to the institutions that had been
tested by the wear and tear of centuries, as compared with
the uncertainties and frequent disappointments necessarily
attendant on inconsistent change. How could one who has
seen revolutions of all kinds—some sudden and some slow,
ono of the latter class being still in progress in the capital
wherein his fame had been acquired—how could such an
one sit down at the Lord Mayor's table and not feel that
the past has bequeathed to this age many things that the
world will not willingly let die ; things that ensure security,
plenty, liberty, and a healthy public spirit, all of which
might have been wanting in a state of society newly founded
or hastily remodelled uLder the inspiration of contempt for
the past ? Charmingly did M. Berryer express fe
thisfeeling
of his mind when he spoke of the happiness of the nation
that knows how to guard the traditions of its fathers, and
which in retaining their usages, in a certain sense, recalls
them from thtir graves, and has still the benefit of their
counsel. M. Berryer has touched the secret of the success
of municipalities in this country, and will no doubt carry
home with him as useful impressions of the civic life and
customs of old England.—Cili DV 86.