The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-27 00:00:00

LONDON SESSIONS.

Yesterday the Sessions were held before the Lori
Mayor, the Recorder, and Aldermen Cowan, Lainson, an(
White.

An appeal was entered against an order of removal of
child, about six years of age, named Ann Morgan, to the
parish of Bishopsgate, as the place of her birth. The reH
sponaents, it appeared, bad removed the child as an illegiti-1
mate child, and the question of the propriety or improprietyl
of the removal turned upon the question whether the mo-.
ther was lawfully married to a man named Morgan, wit!
whom she was living as his wife at the time the child
born, but who had since left her.

The case stands adjourned, and, hi the meantime, th,
parties seeking to invalidate the marriage will have to eon-
sult the statutes of the Irish Parliament, made before thi
Union, to see whether there were any in force in
which would in any way interfere with such a marriage o
that relied on in the above case.

It was stated as an additional reason for the adjournment
that there were other cases awaiting the decision. Perhaps,
in the meantime, some persons learned in the Irish laws
may be able to furnish some information on the subject.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

HATTON-GARDEN.

Yesterday Mary Clapton, an able-bodied young woman,
was brought from the station-house, charged by Mr. West,
the master of Clerkenwell workhouse, with drunken and
disorderly conduct.
The prisoner denied being drunk, but she was ordered to
find bail, and in default she was committed.

MARLBORO UGH-STREET.
A man, and a woman passing as his wife, were yesterday•
brought before Mr. CHAMBERS and Mr. Coxaavr, charged.
by the officers of the Mendicity Society with being two of
the most incorrigible begging letter impostors in th.: metro-
polis..

Horsford, a mendicity constable, on Friday last, saw tlit
prisoners in Grosvenor-street, conversing together, and
while watching them he noticed that the man tore up .
letter which the woman handed to him, and threw th.
pieces on the pavement. The woman shortly afterward,
went to the residence of Lord Sandon, and left something
As soon as the pr;loners had walked away llorsford picked
up the pieces of paper, and, on putting them together
ascertained that they formed a begging petition. On call
ing at Lord Sandon's, the footman informed him that th.
woman had left a petition purporting to come from a dis
tressed seaman of the Royal Navy, soliciting relief from hi.
Lordship. Horsford proceeded to the lodgings of the pri
soners in Bird-street, Lambeth, and found them living
there as man and wife, by the name of Wright. 0
searching the apartment a great number of documents, cer-
tificates; and other papers, concocted for the purpose of
authenticating fraudulent pretensions, were found.
From the representations made to the Bench, it appeare.
that the male prisoner was one of the most daring, tia,
chievous, and ingenious of the London begging-letter fra
ternity. From a journal taken from his person when apr
prehended on a former occasion, it was discovgred thai
within the short space of eleven monals he had obtained bti
his scandalous frauds upwards of 360/. To give some
idea of the systematic manner in which he carried on hi,
operations, and their extent, an extract from his journal o
tho-success or otherwise of two days only, is here presented.
" Feb. 6.—Marquis Bristol, Derry ; Mary Cole (the
name to the begging letter) blind, seven children, thret
cripples. Result—No go.
Feb. 6.—Ad. Curzon, ship Pallas, Sam. Bowden, mate,:
seized paralytic stroke. No. 10, Charles-street. 2/.
" Feb. G. Ad. Curzon, ship Douglas. Powder,
Mackay, and Bill Stroud. Cripples, and two stone blind.
2/. Stick him e‘ery week.

" Feb. 6.—Sir Phil. Durham. Lieut. Spratt, leg off,
hard up. (Written in large letters across thu memoran-
duma trump. 201.

Feb. 6.—Lord Skeltnersdale. Bob Pitts, powder mon.
key. 101.
Feb. 6.—Countess of Mansfield. Widow, nine chi.-
dren, pooping-cough, cholera-morbus, meazles. No go, try
another tack.

" Lord Melbourne. Jane Simpson. Father blind, mother
dead ; no money to bury her. Referred to Mendicity.
• " Feb. 7.—Countess Munsfi-Id. Daughter supportin,.:
mother and grandmother by needlework—lost use of both
hands. Seized 6/. 10s. Luck 3/.

" Feb. 7.—Sir P. Durham. Lieut. Spratt, 101. Bravo
" Feb. 7.—Earl Fitzwilliam, 4/. 4s. Goods seized, no
bed, wife just lying-in, 2/.

" Feb. 7.—Marquis of Bristol. Jack Kenedy, to bur
father. Result; 10/."

When the Mendicity Society's officers acquainted the!..
benevolent individuals who had been thus imposed upon of
the fraud which had been practised, it was difficult to con- • .
yinee a number that such was the fact, for the parties de-
clared they could have no doubt that the writer of the
ters was the person there represented, as facts and circum-
stances were stated, which could only have been known to
those belonging to the particular ship's company. This
was explained by detailing the manner in which the infortna-
tion was acquired. The prisoner used to go down to Green-
wich, enter into conversation with some of the old tars, and
by means of a glass of grog draw from the unsuspecting
seamen the history of their adventures, with the names of.
the ships and the officers who commanded them at the time
they were in service. It is needless to do more than Te-
mark that the particulars thus acquired were speedily em-
bodied in a petition to those Naval Commanders who pos-
sessed a knowledge of the presumed writer.
It was proved that the prisoners had been convicted be-
fore for similar offences, and that the very same day on
whi_gh the man was released from prison he bad comlnenced
his shameful impositions.

Both prisoners were sent for three months each to the
House of Correction.

CORONERS' INQUEST.

Last night an inquest was held at the Hercules, Devon-
shire-street, Lisson-grove, on the body of Christopher Tav-:
lar, aged 54. The deceased was a married man, with a fa-
mily of children. He carrricd on the business of a clothier
and woollen-draper. Latterly lie had been in a low state
of mind, which was attributed to his pecuniary embarrass-
ments. On Saturday he scarcely left his bed-room. Be-
tween 8 and 9 o'clock in the evening the servant went int')
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the room, when she discovered her master on the floor. sur- -
rounded with a pool of blood, A razor was clenched in his
right hand, with which he bad cut his throat from ear to .
ear. Verdict—" Temporary mental flerangeTPP,t..7,,,

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SCIATICA.—This painful disease, uuder which Si 4
Robert Peel has been for some time a sufferer, was describ ea 4
by ancient medical writers as "-gout of the hip-joint ;" Cron,
which point, by means of the sciatic nerve, it distributes its ,
agency to the extremities. It is too deeply seated to be reached '
by topical remedies, but generally yields to time* and lb,.
powerful aids to the digestive organs.
Emmy,