The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-20 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1865.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBERY AT MESSRS. CROSSE AND BLACKWELL'S.—Two
boys named Edward Clifton and Patrick Allen were
charged before Mr. Knox with stealing several pots of jam,
jelly, marmalade, &c., of the value of 305., the property of
Mr. Thomas Francis Blackwell and others, Italian ware-
housemen, &c., of Soho-square.
Henry Dawson, 301 A, said that on the previous even-
ing, when in Sutton-street, Soho, he saw two lads in
Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell's employ come out and
give the prisoners a hamper. The prisoners then walked
away, Allen carrying the hamper. On getting near St.
Giles's Church he asked Allen what was in the hamper, and
he said he did not know, but that a boy- had asked him to
carry it for him. He then, with the assistance of Webb,
112 C, took the prisoners into custody.

Webb, 112 C, proved going to No. 28, Dudley-street,
where Clifton was living with his father, and finding a
large basket belonging to Messrs. Foster, bottled ale mer-
chants, of Brook-street, Bond-street.
Mr. Bell, from Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell's, identified
the articles produced as the property of the firm, and said
that they were not goods taken out of the stock, but some
which had been returned by customers.
Mr. Knox remanded the prisoners.
A CHARACTER OF THE STREETS OF LONDON--Cathe-
rine Brown, a professional beggar, with a child about 18
months old in her arms, was charged before Mr. Knox
with begging. _ _ _

Moorcroft, 165 E, deposed that about half-past 11 the
previous night he saw the prisoner standing at the door of
the Princess's Theatre with a child in her arms begging.
As he had cautioned her several times before, she being at
the door of the theatre nearly every night with the child,
he took her into custody.
Mr. Knox said it was a cruel thing to take a child out at
such an hour of the night. He should commit the prisoffer
for a month, and the child would be either sent home or
taken to the workhouse. _ _ _

The constable said the child was only borrowed by the
prisoner for begging purposes, and the mother was in
court.

Mr. Knox ordered the mother to stand forward, and told
her that she was a disgraceful woman, and that if the child
was caught out again employed for such a purpose he
would send her (the mother) to prison for a month.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday the first Court of Common Council since the
election in the various wardmotes on St. Thomas's-day
was held at Guildhall—the Lord Mayor in the chair.

SWORN BROKERS.

The Town-Clerk read a report transmitted from the
Court of Aldermen, in which they stated that they had
considered the whole subject of the grievances under which
the sworn brokers represented that they were labouring,
and that they had resolved to request the Lord Mayor to
inform the Court of Common Council of the results at which
they had arrived. These results were that, in addition to
the £5 rent which these brokers were liable to pay under
the 'Act of Parliament, they were also subjected to the pay-
ment of certain fees, which necessitated an outlay of up-
wards of £l3 upon the part of all persons who were desi-
rous of becoming sworn brokers. The Court of Aldermen
recommended that these fees be abolished, and that in
future no fees be payable except ss. on being admitted, ss.
for stah-ps, and the £5 rent.
Mr. SMELLING asked whether this recommendation applied
to all the brokers—colonial and ships brokers and others.
The LORD MAYOR replied in the affirmative.
The communication was unanimously ordered to be en-
tered on the Journals of the Court.