The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-02 00:00:00

THAMES.

PERSONATING A DETECTIVE. Henry Young, a car-
man, out of place, about 35 years of age, and of shabby
genteel appearance, was brought before Mr. Partridge,
charged with falsely representing himself as a detective
officer of the Metropolitan Police Force.

Crane Barrett said he kept a Tom and Jerry, or beer_
shop, called the Bank of Friendship, in the West India-
road. Last night, at half•past 11, the prisoner came to hi,
house and represented himself to Mrs. Barrett as a detec
tive, and said he intruded to lay an information. He asked
the prisoner what he meant, to which Le replied, "If you
don't come up right I. shall know what to do." He said,
"What authority have youfor pretending to be a detective ?"
The prisoner said he was a detective, and he intended to
bring witnesses forward to prove there was gambling in the
house. He be 'ged of the prisoner not to give false infor-
mal ion. The prisoner then bade him good night. In an-
.wer to questions by the magistrate, the witness stated that
his wife could not attend, and she was very much alarmed
by the prisoner's visit.

Alexander Munroth, a clothier and boarding-house
keeper, said he heard the prisoner say he was a detective,
and belonged to the K division of police, and he intended to
briog Mr. Barrett to the Thames Police Court for suffering
gambling, card playing, and other games in his house.
Sorrell, a police constable, said that at half-past ten
o'clock last night he saw the prisoner talking to a prosti-
tute in the West India-road, and spoke to him. The
prisoner said there was a man named Evans in the Bank
of Friendship playing at cards, and that there was a war-
rant out against him. He pulled his hat off to prevent
being discovered, looked through a pane of glass in the
window and could see no one.
Mr. Phillip Beare, inspector of the K division, said the
prisoner was formerly a police-constable of the K division,
and was aismissed 18 mouths ago for drunkenness. The
prisoner had been working for the Limited Company, at the
Orchard-house, Blackwell.
Mr. Partridge said it was clear to him the prisoner
assumed the character of a detective for the purpose of ex-
torting money. He fined the prisoner £5, and in default of
payment to be imprisoned one month.

THE BRIGHTON RAILWAY ACClDENT.—Yester-
day Mr. W. Carter, the coroner, concluded the in-
quiry, at Streatham, into the circumstances connected with
the Brighton railway accident of the 29th of May last.
After several persons employed on the line had been exa
mined, Mr. John Scott Russell was called by Mr. Faithful,
on behalf of the company. He stated that he considered
tank engines the safest and best kind of engine that could
he used for traffic on this particular line, namely, between
Victoria, London Bridge, and Croydon. He had heard
nothing to account for the accident, f xcept the irregular
shutting off of the steam. Colonel Yolland, who had made
an inquiry by direction of the Board of Trade, said that the
permanent-way was not strong enough to bear the weight
of the engine and carriages running at such a speed. He
did not think it expedient to run at the rate of 60 miles an
hour with tank engines having 181 t. 6in. wheel basis, espe-
cially when the engine was not tightly screwed up to the
break van behind it. The jury, atter deliberating for an
hour, returned the following verdict :—" That the deceased
persons severally came by their deaths from accident, and
we, the jury, are of opinion that it was attributable to the
high rate of speed at which the express trains run over the
line from Croydon to Victoria. The jury would urge on
the directors of the London and Brighton Company the
necessity of allowing more time for the performance of the
journey, and that careful attention should be given to the
'coupling of tee trains."

The Wester Zeitung states that the works at the
port of Jdhde have not suffered any delay in conse-
quence of the present state of the internal affairs of Prussia;
but, on the contrary, are being carried en with great energy,
upwards of 1,800 men being constantly employA on them.
The expectation is that next year the works will be suffi-
ciently advanced for a part of the Prussian navy to find
anchorage in the port.
At the Liverpool Police Court yesterday, a per-
fect adept at picking the pockets of ladies dresses,
who gave his name as James Buxton, and who is well
known in Manchester, Leeds, York, Birmingham, and other
places, was sent for trial at the sessions on three charge:
His custom wa3 to meet respectable women in the street,
and stop them by putting some trifling question, w b
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he would detain them in conversation, and suddenly
away. Invariably the ladies, after these interviews,
found themselves roVbed of their purses and rnsual.