The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-19 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.—Edward Mortimer, a young man
who has been for many years in the employ of Messrs.
Ingram and Cooke, the proprietors of the Illystrated
Lonclon, New, was charged with stealing a number of
cloth covers; gilt and lettered for binding, and several
copies of the paper, belonging to his employers.
It was proved that the property in question had been
left by' the prisoner at a coffee-shop in Drury-lane,
where he proposed to call for it subsequently. Mr.
Ingram could not swear to the identity of the property,
but stated that the prisoner had access to the room in
which the stock was kept. The prisoner was a ware-
house clerk.

The prisoner said that he received the papers from his
brother, and he knew nothing about the other property.
He did not know his brother's present address.
A. dozen copies of last week's number of the paper
were found at the prisoner's lodgings, in Angel-court.
Mr. Henry remanded him for further examination.

WESTMINSTER.—Jonathan Robt. Richardson, 17,
King's-road, Camden-town, cab-driver in the service of
Mis. Birch, cabowner, was summoned for neglecting to
pay her the sum of 155., due for the hiring of a hackney
cab on the 4th of May, as he had agreed for.
The agreement having been put in by a person in the
employment of the complainant, who carried on her
business in the Horseferry-road, Westminster,
Defendant stated that he had only commenced to
drive a cab on the day in question, when he obtained one
from the complainant, agreeing to pay her 15s. a day.
He had not been long out with the vehicle before he
found the ,horse in such a condition that it could not
work. When in Camden-town, he met a gentleman who
engaged with defendant to take him to Cremorne Gar-
dens, and who agreed to give Bs. for the journey there
and back. Defendant was to take him up in the New-
road at 2 o'clock. He was, however, fearful that the
horse would not be able to do the distance. At the
time appointed he met the gentleman. en the way to
Cremorne Gardens the horse showed great symptoms of
weakness, and suffered so much, that the perspiration
dropped off its body. The wheels of the cab squeaked so
loudly, that he thought they would be on fire. He was
two hours in going to Cremorne Gardens. Many per-
sons in the streets called out to him, " why do you not
take the horse home ? " He went with the horse to the
yard and complained of the state of the animal and cab.
He was provided with another horse, but be had the
same cab. He wished the complainant to make him
some allowance, but she would not. The interior of the
cab was unfit for any gentleman.
Mr. Arnold—Why did you not take the cab back
when you found the horse in the state it was ?
Defendant—l had entered into a contract with the
gentleman to take him to Cremorne Gardens, and I was
not aware whae might be consequences if I broke the
contract.

Mr. H. F. Davis said that he was under an en-
gagement on the day in question to be at Cremorne
G.-adens. He observed that the horse laboured with
seat .difficulty.

Mr. Arnold's—Did the horse go at a proper pace ?
Witness—No, sir. I have been the same distance on
a former occasion, for which I have paid es., and the
journey was performed in three-quarters of an hour.
In answer to the magistrate, the witness stated that
he rode on the box, and that the inside of the cab was
in a bad state. lie had two attendants inside.
Mr. Arnold said that if a proprietor sent out a vehicle
which was not in a fit state, he could not compel
the driver to pay the sum he agreed to do. He had no
doubt that in this case it was not in proper condition,
as it had taken the defendant two hours to do the dis-
tance which had been done in threc•qUarters of an hour.
He trusted that before long the law would be altered in
reference to hackney carriages. The only means lie had
of teaching proprietors that they should provide proper
vehicles was to prevent drivers from paying them.
The summons was dismissed.

SOUTHWARK.--John Burke, a private in the
Tower Hamlets militia, was charged with assaulting
Thomas Murphy, a leather dresser, and also a policeman
who interfered for his protection.
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Murphy stated on the previous evening he was walk-
ing home quietly from his work, wheri the defendant
came up, and addressing him said, "Are you the fellow
that called out, There goes a militia-man. He (com-
plainant) assured him he had not done anything of the
kind, upon which the defendant, without any further
ceremony, struck him a violent blow over the eye. A
policeman who came to the spot for his protection was
also assaulted by the defendant, who resisted very much
being taken into custody.
The Magistrate said that of late several men had been
brought to this court for offences, and that such cha-
racters as were before him he was afraid would reflect
anything.but credit on the service.
The defendant said that he ought to be at drill with
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his regiment instead of being standing at the bar of that
court, and that he was afraid he would be liable to the
punishment of a deserter if he stayed away 'much
longer. .
The Magistrate said the defendant had cowardly as-
saulted the parties who had made the complaint, and that
before he was suffered to depart,he should pay a penalty
of 40s. for the assault on Murphy, or in default of pay-
ment be committed for one month, and for that on the
policeman a penalty of 205., or 14 days' imprisonment.

•THAMES.—Jobs Ilawices, James William Pearce,
and William Whitbread, police-constables of the H
division, appeared before Mr. Yardley to answer a
charge of assaulting a married woman named Jennot.
Owing to the irregularity in the manner of presenting
the case to the court, the magistrate was unable to pro-
ceed to a decision, but took the information of the prose-
cutrix as follows :

Mrs. Jennot said she was a married woman, and mo-
ther of five children. On Saturday night she was pass-
ing the station-house in Leman-street. A great many
persons were assembled there ; and, in endeavouring to
make her way along the footpath, a police-constable
pushed her violently against the railings in front of the
station-house ; and, on expostulating with him, she was
assailed with the most gross abuse, and called a prosti-
tute, with the. accompaniment of a very low expletive.
Three constables pushed her against the railings a second
time, and on further remonstrating with them, one of
them struck her violent blow on the nose with his
clenched fist, and she bled profusely. She attempted to
enter the station-house, to complain to the inspector of
the outrage conunitted upon, her, and was refdsed ad-
mittance, rudely pushed back, abused and further as-
saulted in the grossest manner. Four police-constables
were concerned in the outrage. The defendants were
three of them.

Mr. Yardley inquired what had become of the fourth
man alluded to by the witness ?
Inspector Kendall said he was out 'of the way.
Mr. Yardley said he should be looked after.

A TRANSCENDENTAL LADY PREACHER.—The " Rev."
Miss Antoinette Brown has accepted a "call" from a
congregation► in America, and she is shortly to be in-
stalled. judging froM her late contributions to a New
York journal, her sermons will be a round of theologi-
cal conundrums serving to keep the hearer in a puzzle
from one Sunday to another. A high reward might
safely be offered by the lady to the discoverer of the key
to the following passage, taken from her last effusion :
"That man should bow before his own idol, and serve

her though the heavens fall, is no marvel, it is serving
his ideal self-hood ; but that his divinity should be set to
worship wholly at the shrine of his present self in its un-
regenerated earthiness, is putting the whole system of
humanity to revolving around an admantine pivot of un-
mitigated egotism. The philanthropy of this central
clement, proverbially unbounded, must be of the radia-
torial character; for the genius and fitness of things
would forbid the literal descent of so much majesty into
by-lanes and alleys. But when man is raised into his
final position instinct with divine life, what then is to
become of woman ? She will be a novice in the art of
setting up for herself, and how can the poor parasite of
a human soil ever take root in the divine essa,nce ? It
were almost fitting that this beautiful type-being should
be swallowed up in the great typified ; that at his advent
into immortality she should make the last willing sacri-
fice upon the altar of his redemption, and sleep hence•
forth in his grateful remembrance an ethereal dream
of things that were, but are not !"—American paper.