The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-30 00:00:00

THE SUN; LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1854,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Colwell George Colwell was
brought before Alderman Carter, in the custody of King
(78), charged with having robbed William Alexander
Goodbody. of No. 19, Beeford-terrace, Victoria-park,
tailor, of a coat and a chaise rug some time ago.
The prosecutor said about three years ago I met the
defendant in a public-house on Cornhill. He said he
was going to Scotland next day. He was in company
with a person with whoml was acquainted, but I did not
know the prisoner. He said to me that he wanted a
warm great coat and a horse rug to throw into his chaise,
and he told me if I had such things by me I was to bring
them down to the same house between eleven and twelve
o'clock the next day with the bill, and be would pay me.
On the succeeding day I took a coat and a rug to the
same house at the time appointed, and the.prisoner, who
was called by the parties there Lord Colville, was in the
house ready to receive them. I addressed him, saying,
"Good morning, my lord." He recognised the title,
and I laid.the parcel on the table, and went out of the
room for a short time. On my return to the room the
parcel was gone, and I saw nothing more of it or the
prisoner till about six weeks ago, when I watched him
to a house in, I think, Great Bell alley, into which he
walked, followed by me. I said to him, "About that
coat and horse tug ?" and he replied, " Come again on
Wednesday, and I'll pay you." I ran down to London-
wall to get a policeman, but could not find one, and then
I went to the station-house, and brought thence an officer
With me to the place in which I had left the prisoner,
but he was gone. I have been repeatedly at the house,
but could not find him till this day, when I gays him
into custody.
The prisoner said the matter was a mere debt, and that
the statement contained a great deal of the fabulous,
having no foundation' except in the angry imagination of
the prosecutor,, who knew right well that the dealing had
nothing felonious about it.

Alderman Carter—Did he tell you that he was a
nobleman ?

Witness—He told me he was Lord Colville Darce,
that a great part of Scotland belonged to him, that he
was member of Parliament for some town or borough in
Scotland, and t 1 at. he. was going to his native place next
day. Upon that representation he took his order.
Alderman Carter—Had you any idea of leavin:r the
goods witholt getting the amount of your demand ?
Witneis—Not the least.

Alderman—Had you made out any invoice or bill of
the goods ?
Witness—No. The coat was to be 2/. 155., and the
rug was to be 15s. _ _ _

-Alderman Carter—Did you deliver the parcel to Lim ?
Witness—l did nut. I laid it on the table, and I had
no conversation. further. than saying, "Good morning,
my lord," when I put. down the_ parcel.
The prisoner denied that he ever Lad any interview
with the prosecutor at all. He remembered that he had
had a dealing of the kind with a tradesman named Har-
vey some time ago, and he had at home an invoice of the
goods which he had purchased, and he remembered, too,
that a partner of the tradesman had called on him at
Croydon for the amount, which he accordingly promised
to liquidate in a few days ; that he called at the address
of Mr. Harvey according to his promise with the money,
but could not find any one connected with the firm,
The officer who apprehended the prisoner said—l have
received information that a person who c impletely an-
swers the description of Lord Colviile, as the prisoner is
called, succeeded in getting safes to •a considerable
amount from Messrs. Milner and Co., and believe that if
the prisoner he remanded I shall be able to bring forward
evidence to that effect.

The pri,onPr—The whole is a tissue of lies. There is
not one word of truth in all that has been stated.

Alderman Carter—Let the Parliamentary records be
examined with reference to the prisoner.
The prisoner—There is no occasion for any search of
the kind. lam not, nor have I ever been, nor have I
ever said that I have been, a member of parliament. All
that is false, as well as the particulars of the charge.
Alderman Carter—l shall remand you for further
examination.

The prisoner—l suppose you will have no objection
to let me at liberty upon my own recognisance to appear
berme you
Alderman Carter—You are quite mistaken. I shall
not do anything of the kind.
The prisoner, who repeated that every word which
had been spoken to his disadvantage was a falsehood,
was then remanded till Thursday.
Mr. Parry, the barrister, attended upon the part of
Griffiths and Newcombe, the scrip brokers, who were
summoned at the instance of Captain Lean, the Govern-
ment emigration agent, in consequence of the violation
of the Passengers' Act in several cases similar to those
already publicly detailed.
Mr. Maynard, of the firm of Crowder and Maynard,
attended for the prosecution, and
Alderman Carter adjourned the consideration of the
complaint, in order to await the decision of the Lord
Chief Baron upon the hearing of the matter of a writ of
Habeas Corpus issued at the instance of Newcombe,
who is now in the custody of the governor of Holloway
prison. The justice room was crowded with dis-
consolate candidates for emigration, who handed
to the alderman the copy of a petition to the Colonial-
office, of which document the following is a paragraph :
—" There are o❑ board the Jane Greene about 150
souls, a portion of whom entered the ship on the 18th
inst. On the 20th the food supplied was the gift of a
private individual. On the 21st, but one entire meal was
served out, the residue of that gift ; and on the 22d no
rations whatever were afforded until nine o'clock in the
evening, when two kind friends brought us 18 half
quartern loaves. On the 23d, the rations were received
by order of the Commissioners of the Bankruptcy Court,
which allowance will be discontinued on Tuesday next,
and the passengers be then ordered to leave the ship.
Under these Circumstances, and many of us being from
the most distant parts of the country, and having been
subject to the delay of two and three months, waiting all
that time in London, delusive guarantees daily given of
the ship going to sea, we are now entirely destitute."

11TARLBO ROUGH-STREET. THE NEW BEER
BILL.—THE "TRAVELLER" QUESTION.—SeveraI licensed
victuallers were summoned before Mr. Hardwick for
keeping open their houses for the sale of liquors after
the hour of ten at night on Sunday, the 20th instant.
Two or three were excused on payment of costs, with a
caution to be more careful in future.

The following casts raced the much-vexed question of
what constitutes a traveller.

Charles Skinner, landlord of the B!rck Horse, Oxen-
den-street, was charged with serring liquor alter 10
o'clock on Sunday Light.
The case was proved by the police, who saw the drive r
and conductor of a Brentford omnibus served with re-
freshment after legal hours.
The landlord did not deny the statement, but alleged,
in explanation, that lie served the two persons withre-
freshment because he considered they cane within the
meaning of the clause which made an exception in favour
of travellers. The driver and conductor had come from
Brentforil, had finished one journey, and were about to
go back to Brentford, at which place they would arrive
too late to obtain refreshment.
Mr. Hardwick thought it was drawing the matter
very fine indeed to say that these persons were travellers.
He could not view them in that light, and it did not ap-
pear to him that the Legislature intended to include such
cases in the privilege accorded to travellers. Besides,
the omnibus persons, if they really wanted refreshment,
could have drawn up ou the road and supplied them-
selves before ten o'clock.
The Solicitor for the defendant—As there was an im-
portant principle involved, he wished to draw the atten-
tion of the court to the fact that decisions had been given
recently
sons coming from Richmond, Kingston, and similar dis-
by magistrates which went to show that per
tances were to be regarded as travellers. The persons
who were served by the defendant had come from
Brent ford, and were about to return to Brentford, there-
fore they could hardly be regarded as being otherwise
than travellers.
Mr. Hardwick said that it was possible that the de-
fendant had acted on mistaken views as t the meaning of
the act, and he should therefore only call upon him to
pay the costs.
Mr. Hardwick further intimated to the solicitor that
he would consult his colleague on this case, but he had
no doubt himself on the question.
Thomas Simpkin, landlord of the Nag's Head, South
Audley-street, was summoned for a like offence.
The police proved that a pot of beer was sent out to
some perscns in the mews, and that on entering the de-
fendant's house, twod persons were found, who were
drinking gin and water.
The defence was that the two persons in the house
were lodgers. The per-ors who were served with beer
outside of the house were neighbours, who had just re-
turned from an excursion by railway, and were served
with refreshment as travellers.
Mr. Hardwick said they appeared to he getting into
a delectable state of Toystitication on this question.
If neighbours were to be considered as travellers, he
did not see where the line was to be drawn. The
question of distance must be regarded, and as it was im-
possible he could consider the defendant's neighbours
came w'thin the meaning of the word " traveler," even
though they had jin-t come off a railway jturuoy,
he
must require the defendant to pay the costs.

LAMBETH.--Yesterday a number of summonses
taken out by the churchwardens of the di,trict church of
St Luke, Norwood, was set down for hearing before
the Hon. G. C. Norton. The first called on was that
against Mr. Riward Brown, a gentleman residing at
the Lawn, Lower Norwood, for the payment of 3/. 155.,
an arrear of three yea-s' church rates.
Mr. Brown, in rcply to the summons, said tint he
had a:r,:,(1:; paid the rate in qtrtstion. to the church-
wardens of the Brixton portion of the parish, between
whom and the churchwardens of St. Luke dispute

existed. He did not care to which he paid the rate, but
be objected to pay twice.
A. barrister, who represented the churchwardens, ad-
mitted that such disputes did exist, and the case was
adi.urned to a future day, Mr. Norton having observed
that it was rather hard on Mr. Drown that he should be
put to the meonvnoience of att,oding, and did-not
think it was right he 8 hould be put to any expense in
the matter. _ _

The next summons, against Mr. Henry Bicknell, also
of the Lawn, Norwood, being prwisely the same as the
last, it also was adjourned.
The third was against Mr. William Rayner, who was
said to be a Roman Catholic, and when it was called on
a brother of Mr. Rayner handed to the -magistrate a
letter, representing that he (Ifr. Rayner) disputed both
the validity of the rate and his own liability thereto, as
he had been incorrectly assessed. _ _

The chuz'chwardens' advocate argued that no legal
objection could be urged at, the present stage of the pro-
ceeding. If the defendant had anything to urge against
the validity of the rate, he should have .given notice.of
trying it in the Ecclesiaitical Court ; and having failed
in this, the duty of the magistrate became merely minis-
terial.

Mr. Thorn, the parish clerk of the district church of
St. Luke, and also the collector of the church-rate, de-
posed to the rates hiving been made, the first on the
16th April, 1852, on which the defendant owed Bs. 4d ,
and the second on the 18th April, 1853, on which the
defendant was assessed for 10s. Bd.

Mr. Rayner, the brother to the defendant, expressed
a hope that the case might be adjourned to a future day,
when his brother would be in• attendance, as he believed
he had a good defence to the charge.
After some discussion as to the legality of the rate, and
a reference to many of the law authorities on the sub-
ject, Mr. Norton expressed his surprise that it never oc-
curred to the Legislature to raise this rate by pew rents,
which would be the proper and legitimate mode of rais-
ing it, and which would put an end to the very unplea-
sant bickering to which the present mode of raising it
gave rise.
The case of Mr. Rayner, as well as the others, was
ultimately adjourned to a future day.

THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

[The following article is substituted for that which ap-
peared in the Gazette of the 23d of June last.]
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 20.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. August
Wehner as Consul in London for his Majesty the King of
Hanover.

DOWNING-STREET, AUGUST 26.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Neville Pucker,
Esq., to be a Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of the
Province of New Brunswick, with rank and precedence in
the said Court next after the Chief Justice.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Thomas
D. Archibald, Esq., to be a Member of the Legislative
Council of the province of Nova Scotia.
Her Majesty has been further pleased to appoint Richard
S. Darling and Toussaint Rostant, Eiqs.. to be Members
of the Legislative Council of the Island of Trinidad.
WHITEHALL, AUG. 28.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a Ba-
ronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
unto John Beverley Robinson, Esq., C. 8., Chief Justice
of that part of her Majesty's province of Canada., called
Upper Canada, and to the heirs male of his body lawfully
begotten.
The Queen has also been pleased to direct letters
patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the
dignity of a . Baronet of the United Kitiodoin
Great Britain and Ireland unto Louis Hypolite Lafon-
taine, of the city of Montreal, in the county of Montreal,
Esq., Chief Justice of that part of 'her Majesty's province
of Canada, calle I Lower Canada, and to the heirs male of
his body lawfully begotten.
. WHITEHALL, AUG. 29.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Henry Goodeve
Bowra, liqq., to be Lieutenant in the Artillery Company
of London.

WHITEHALL, AUG. 29.

The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverent]
George Clark, M.A., to the united Rectory and Vicarage
of Saint Mary's, Tenby, in the county of Pembroke, and
diocese of void- by the cession of the Rev.
William llayw 'rd Cox.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Aug. 28.

Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain Charles
Henry Morris to be Captain, vice. Levin,ge, deceased,
Aug. 3 ; First Lieutenant Charles Edward Mainwarino•° to
be Second Captain, vice Morris; Second Lieutenant Er-
nest Augustus Montague Lloyd to be First Lieutenant,
vice Mainwaring. Aug 4.
Memorandum—The date of the promotion of the under-
mentioned Officers has been altered to 3d of August, 1854,
viz.:—Second Captain H. A. ; hrnpp; First Lieutenant G.
A. A. Walker.

COMMISSIONS SIGNET, B 1 LORD-LIEUTENANTS.

Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
Wm. Leyland Feilden, late 13th Light Dragoons, to be
Lieutenant, Aug. 21.
3,1 Ditto—Wm. Thomas Harris, Esq., late Captain 35th
Foot., to be Captain, Aug. 25.
Royal Bucks King's Own Militia—Augustus Morgan,
Gent., to be Ensign. July 24.
Royal Monmouthshire Light Infantry—Bryan Sheehy,
Gent., to be Ensign ; William Grey Pitt, Gent., to be
Ensign.
4th or Royal South Middlesex Regiment of Militia—
Charles William Parker, Esq., late Captain 69th Regi-
tnent,• to- be Captain, vice Bristow, resigned; Ensign
Henry Alexander Scriven to be Lieutenant, vice Kelly,
resigned ; Ensign Edward Eden Elliot to be Lieutenant,
vie:Burgess, resigned ; Ensign Edward Crossweller George
to be Lieutenant, vice Vardon, resigned ; William Fleming
Marson, Gent., to, be Ensign, vice Scriven, promoted;
William Piers Brisly, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Elliot,
promoted, Aug. 16.
3d or Royal Westminster Li "it Infantry Regiment of
Middlesex Militia—Captain H Dry Penton to be Major,
vice Glossop, promoted; Ensign 'obert Bruce Dl`Ewen to
be Lieutenant, vice Parsons, promoted, Aug. 18.
Royal Wilts Militia—John Frederic Nicholls, Esq., to
be Surgeon, Aug. 16.
Roya Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia George
O'Grady, Esq., to be Second Lieutenant, Aug. 26.
The Essex Rifles—Charles Andrew Irwin, Gent., to be
Ensign, vice Campbell, promoted, Aug. 1.
Ist. Regiment of West York Militia (Rifles)—Charles
Edward Stainforth, Esq. (late 7th Regiment), to be -Cap-
tain, Aug. 17.
4th Regiment of West York Militia—Henry Irwin,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, Aug. 15; Edward Wilkes Wand,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, July 20.
3d Regiment of West York Militia--Assistant-Surgeon
Thomas Guy to be Surgeon, vice Lister, resigned ; Richard
Hayes Perry, Gent., to be Assistant•Surgeou, vice Guy,
promoted, Aug. 22.