The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-02 00:00:00

01.711..D11ALL.

Yesterday a man named Charles Woodman, re-,
siding at No. 7, Little Collingswood-street,
road, was brought before Sir PETER LAURIE,
charged with obtaining good. under false pretences.
Mr. Henry George Brown, of the firm of Jones
and Brown, stationers,' 34, St. Paul's Church-yard,
stated that, in the month of Pebreary last, they re-
ceived a letter, purporting to come from a person
named Butcher, at Tring, in Hertfordshire, with
whom they had done .business for some years, re-
questing them to send a quantity of stationery to a
relation of his, named Woodmsn, who was opening
a shop at Hadley, near Barnet, and charge it to the
writer's account. A quantity of writinkpaper and
various other articles were accordingly sent .as di-
rected. Some time after Mr. Butcher Called upon.,
them, and, upon the subject being mentioned to
him, he said the letter was a forgery; and that the
prisoner had obtained goods in the•aame manner
from several other houses. The prisoner, however,
it appeared, was not inclined to suffer Messrs: Jones
ead'Brown to escape with the loss of one parcel of
goods, for on Thursday they received a letter,
aigoed by himself, and dated Hadley, stating that he
had a great demand for children's copy-books, and
requesting they would send him six dozen, together
with eight reams of writing paper, of different
sortc On receiving this letter they determined to
hure the prisoner taken into custody, and, gulped-
ing.that4nc. would be watching at the coach-office
in London to see whether the parcel was sent off,
witness went with a constable to the Cross Keys,
where, as they had expected, they found the prisoner
waiting, and took him into custody. He had as.;
pertained that the prisoner bad obtained goods from
many other tradesmen.
The prisoner, when,asked what.he had to offer
in his defence, admitted that what the prosecutor
had stated was correct, and said he had been un-
fortunate in Liminess, and had, ten Children, who
were in a state of starvation.

Sjr P. LAURIE told him that it was a very serious
charge,uul he would be remanded till Tuesday, to
give the other parties an opportunity of attending.
The prisoner said he was willing to save the
Magistrate and all parties trouble, for, to his shame,
he must admit that be was guilty of all he was
charged with,
Sir P. LAURIE told him he feared he would find the
consequences of his offence more serious than he
imagined. It was a charge which it was impossible
to puss over, and if having* family in distress were
to be admitted as an excnie, there would be no
wifely for any person's property. Ala own admis.
44,0 of his guilt was.not sufficient, and he must be
remanded till the witnesses could come froward.
The prisoner was accordingly remanded till Tues.
day.

I}OW.STII E ET.
Information was forwarded to this office that the
house of Major Nicholson, of Dow \Vater-crescent,
Dulwich, wai entered on the night' of the With ult.
and robbed of property to a considerable amount.
l'he thieves effected a►i entrance by boring a hole
through the shutter of the kitchen window, and they

carried oft a considerable quantity of plate, besides
about 30/. in money and also the will of Major
Nicholson, which he ;lad trade during a voyage at.
sea. A writing desk, containing mere of no u.e
to the thieves, was found broken open on the follow-
ing morning, on a piece of waste ground facing the
Major's residence.
Information IN as also received that the house of
the Rev. E. B. Pussey, one of the Canons of Christ
Church, Oxford, had been entered by burglar.,
supposed to be about three o'clock in the morning
of the 2-Nth ult. The house of the Rev. Gentle-
man adjoins the University, and the thieves obtained
access to the premises by rearing a ladder against
one of the bed-chamber windows. Property to a
considerable amount, comprising plate and articles
of value in domestic use, were packed tip and carried
off. The plate bore the crest of a cat. The Rev.
Mr. Pussey, upon learning his loss, sent a letter to
this office requesting the assistance of an experienced
officer to investigate the affair, and Riithven was
sent down for the purpose; but he has returned to
town without being enabled to effect the object of
his journey. - It is supposed, however, that the rob.
bery was "put up"—that is, planned by some person
well acquainted with the premises.
Four men, in the garb of mechanics, were charged
by police serjeant Stacey with having created a dis-
turbance in the streets at three o'clock in the minning.

It appeared that the defendants were returning
from a carouse in the neighbourhood of Clerken well,
when, in passing down Drury-lane at the hour mon.
tinned, they began, according to the serjeant," to
kirk up a rumpus," and one of them in no very,
melodious tones sung, or rather bawled forth, the
song of " Cease, rude Boreas," &c. Several of the
inhabitants, at this ungainly interruption to their
rest,put forth their night-capped heads from the win-
dows of their respective dormitories, and called to
Stacey to take the noisy rogues into custody. This,
however, was no easy matter, .for the mechanics
stood upon their privileges as freeborn Englishmen
to get drunk when it suited their pleasure, and sing
and be merry in spite, as they said, of the li-1 or
the new police. Indeed, one of them, more valiant
than the rest, threatened the serjeant that he would
" Smith him," that is, serve him as Smith (or Sap-
well) served poor Long, the policeman, while an-
other of the defendants said he intended, God wi!..
ling, to oppose the new police, tooth and nail, at a
meeting of the parish to which he belonged, and
which was soon to take place. Three of the de-
fendants, upon expre,ing their contrition, were dis-
charged; but the man who had used the threat to
Stacey was detained.