The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-14 00:00:00

Q UEEN- SQUARE.

James Hubbard, owner of the boat 750, was charged
by Dr. Bowring, late M.P., with having taken more than
his legal fare for conveying the complainant from a
foreign steamer.
In stating the case, Dr. Bowring said that the prac-
tice of exorbitant charges by the watermen was carried
to a very great extent. He said he could assure the
worthy Magistrate that the watermen who make it their
business to embark passengers upon, and take them
from foreign steamers, act in a most rapacious manner
towards their fares ; in fact, in some instances commit-
ting a fraud, as in the case of a foreign sailor, which
complainant witnessed. The sailor was rowed alongside
the steam-ship, got upon the deck, and gave the water-
man a sovereign, the only money he had, to take his
fare out of. The fare was but threepence, but the
waterman took the sovereign, put it into his pocket,
and rowed away laughing. The consequence o& this
rascally treatment was, that the poor sailor was left
without a farthing in the world, and the passengers,
pitying his forlorn condition, made up the money betwixt
themselves.

The Magistrate said that the rapacity of the water-
men was the cause of so many small cheap steam vessels
plying on the river, so that they had brought the ruin
on themselves.

The defendant was fined in the mitigated penalty
of 10s.

HATTON-GARDEN.

Mr. Inspector Jenkins, of the E division, applied to
Mr. GREENWOOD under the following circumstances :

On Wednesday night last Miss Eden Tree lost a
bracelet while being conveyed in her carriage from
Haymarket Theatre to her residence in Tav istock-
square, A man, who is not in custody, offered it on
the following day to a jeweller for sale, and it was d, -
tained, his account of the manner in which he had be-
come possessed of it being anything but satisfactory.
The article was given into the care of applicant, who,
having discovered the rightful owner, was desirous of
restoring it, and he wished ti:e sanction of the Magis-
trate for that purpose.
Mr. GREENWOOD—Did the man who offered it fur
sale make any inquiries with a view to find the owner ?
Mr. Jenkins—No ; at the earliest opportunity he tried
to sell it.

Mr. GREENWOOD—Then he acted very wrongly, and
rendered himself, had a sale been effected, liable to
transportation. If property be picked up, the finder is
bound to endeavour to ascertain the owner by adver
tisement or otherwise, and if he do not, and appropriate
it to his own use, is guilty of felony.
Inspector Jenkins—l don't think that he had a!,y
felonious intention.

Mr. GREENWOOD—I suppose that Miss Tree would
not like to prosecute if he were in custody.
Inspector Jenkins—Oh, no, Sir; she wishes it back
if it is possible to obtain it ; it is very valuable, and "if
withheld will spoil a set of jewellery.
Mr. GREENWOOD—Then let her have it.
The Inspector said he would proceed directly to her
residence and deliver it up.
James Lee, a carman, in the employ of Messrs.
Raymond, coal-mtrchants, was charged with riding in
his waggon. whereby damage was done to the stanhope
of James Hawkins, of Grove Cottage, near Peekhalo,
and to an omnibus.

Mr. Hawkins stated that on the Bth instant, as he
was driving up Broad-street, Holborn, the defendant
was going the same way, riding inside his waggon, when
an omnibus coming in the contrary direction, the c:),,!-
waggon was not drawn out of the way ; and the con-
plainant's gig, in which was a young lady, was jammed
between the two vehicles. So great was the force of

the concussion that three people on the omnibus were
thrown to the ground. The complainant, who had a
iady with him, asked the defendant to tak • her from the
perilous situation in which she was into the cart, but he
brutally refused. The damage done to the gig was
nearly five pounds, and to the omnibus upwards of four
pounds.

The defendant, who declared he was not in fault,
was fined 20s. for riding in his cart, and 101. for the
damage done to the vehicles, or twenty days' imprison•
ment.

THAMES OFFICE.
On Saturday, William Smith, landlord of the Royal
Sovereign public•house, Bluegate-fields, Shad well, was
charged with a brutal assault upon his wife. The com-
plainant was at tea, when her daughter, making use of
an offensive expression to her, she threw a knife at her
head, and cut open her lip. The daughter went up
to her father, and telling him what her mother had done,
Smith went down stairs and struck his wife about the
head and face until she fell down upon the fender, cut-
ting her head in a dreadful manner, and then he kicked
her about the head and body until she was insensible.
Smith, in his defence, said that his wife was a
drunkard and spendthrift, and had almost ruined him ;
in ackition to which she was of so vile and vindictive a
disposition, that the lives of his children were constantly
in danger.
The defendant's daughter confirmed her father's
statement, saying that her mother drank ten quarterns
of gin daily.
Mr. BRODERI? said that, however infamous his wife's
conduct, it could not excuse his cruel and cowardly at-
tack upon a woman. For this offence he inflicted a fine
of 41. and costs.

Mrs. Smith was then put to the bar for wounding
her daughter in the face with a knife, when the Ma-
gistrate said that had not her husband beaten her in so
terrible a manner, he should have inflicted a higher
fine ; he then sentenced her to pay a penalty of 40s.
and costs. Both parties asked if the Magistrate could
not separate them ; to which he replied he had not
that power.