The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-03 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE. After Borne unimportant
cases had been disposed of, and as the Lord Mayor was
about to leave the bench, the justice-room was suddenly
filled by a large crowd of persons, chiefly Jews of the
lower orders and Irish labourers, many of whose heads
exhibited marks of recent and severe -violence, and were
bandaged up. Presently two men, named Daniel Sul-
livan and William Burnes, whose faces were streaming
with blood, were placed at the bar upon the charge of
having assaulted a young man named Samuel Jacobs,
of 'No. 6, Meeting-house-yard, Houndsditch. It ap-
peared that the defendants were in the employment of a
Mr. Tatham, a leveller of houses, and had with nine or
ten 'others accompanied him to the house in question
(the residence of complainant's mother) for the purpose
of pulling it down. The inmates refused to quit, assert-
ing that Tatham had no legal right to eject them, upon
which some of the labourers commenced removing the
tiles from the roof. A general fight now ensued between
the occupiers of the houses and their friends on the one
side and the labourers on the other, life preservers,
bludgeons, bolts, bars, and broken gas pipes being called
into requisition. It was said that one man, named
John Sullivan, had been taken to Bartholomew's 1103-
pital with the back of his head knocked in by a blow
with a life preserver or crow bar.
The defendants denied that they were the aggressors,
and said they had struck no blow until assaulted by the
complainant and his friends.
The Lord Mayor said, that as the defendants had
not been proved to have struck any blow, and appeared
to have been very much punished themselves, the charge
must be dismissed.
Mr. Tatham next appeared in the witness box and
charged the complainant and his brother John Jacobs
with violently assaulting and wounding in the head, with
a piece of gas pipe, John Sullivan, who had been con-
veyed to the hospital.
After hearing a good deal of evidence the charge
against Samuel Jacobs was dismissed, his brother John
being ordered to find bail for his appearance on a future
dayM.
r. Paw, Clerk to the City Commission of Sewers,
whose attendance bad been requested by the Lord
Mayor, said that no notice to take down the house in
question had emanated from the commissioners, although
they had served notices upon the reputed owners as well
as occupiers of various houses in Meeting-house-yard,
to drain and amend their premises and generally put
them in a proper state of repair ; they having been the
subject of constant complaint on sanitary grounds and
being places where cholera, whenever it visited the me-
troplis, would be sure to abound. Although no order
to level the houses had issued from the City Commis-
sioners of Sewers, who knew nothing whatever of Mr.
Tatham, he (Mr. Daw) was quite certain that the pull-
ing of them down would be a great public benefit.
Mr. Tatham said he had a perfectly legal authority in
writing-for the step he had taken, although his instruc-
ions did not proceed from the City Commission of

Sewers.
The Lord Mayor said he would offer no opinion as to
the legality or illegality of the act of Mr. Tatham, and
recommended the parties to be orderly and peaceable
until their civil rights were determined in a superior
court.

GU ILDII A L L.—Thom as Harrison, an apparently
decrepid old man, bordering upon 80 years of age, was
charged with an attempt at fraud.
Elizabeth 'Rowley, a shopwoman to Messrs. Ellis and
Brown, confectioners, of 28, Ludgate-street, said the
prisoner came on Saturday, and ordered 2s. worth of
macaroons, the same quantity of biscuits, a 2s. cake,
and ls. worth of sweets, and directed them to be sent
to Mrs. Thompson's, in Old Change.
Edwin George Baker, porter to Messrs. Ellis and
Brown, said—As I was taking the confectionery ordered
by the prisoner, I met him in St. Paul's Churchyard.
He said that Mrs. Thompson wanted 2s. worth of
ratafias, and asked me if I had the bill with me. I
said I had; and he then remarked that the amount
was 75., but that with the ratifias it would be 95.,
which he said he would pay me if• I would give him
the box containing the confectionery, and run back for
the ratafias. He then showed me the head of a coun-
terfeit half-sovereign, and immediately wrapped it very
carefully in paper, and asked me for the change. I
opened the paper, and saw what kind of coin it was, and
while pretending to feel in my pocket for the change, I
looked out for a policeman. I could not see one, and
the prisoner walked away in an opposite direction. I
followed him, and when he perceived my intention he
stopped and threatened to punch my head. I said,
" Punch away, old man," but he preferred begging of
me to let him go. He said that he had a wife and six
children, that all the money he had was a threepenny-
piece, and that it would do me no good to give him into
custody. .I said it would do me no harm, whereupon he
set off running up Paul's-chain. I followed him, and
he stopped at a public-house and asked me to have
something to drink, again urging that it would do me
no good to take him. I said I would follow him until I
met a policeman, if I was obliged to follow him till
midnight. He ran into Cloak-lane, and I saw him drop
another coin down the area of No. 9. A policeman
shortly after made his appearance, and I charged the
prisoner. We went back to No. 9, and there found the
coin I saw the prisoner drop.
The officer produced the two coins. On the way to
the station-house the prisoner dropped a purse contain-
ing nine counterfeit sovereigns, and seven half-sove-
reigns. On searching the prisoner, five more base coins
were found upon him.
Alderman Hunter understood that a great many
frauds of this kind were practised upon tradesmen at
the present time, and as more stringent penalties were
now being enforced in all similar cases by the judges, he
would remand the prisoner to give the Treasury Solicitor
an opportunity of ascertaining if he was not an old
offender or not.
Remanded accordingly.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Thomas Mitchell, foreman to
a potato salesman in Spitalfields market, was charged
with having assaulted and grossly misconducted himself
towards a respectable young woman, named Sarah
Porter, residing in Grey Eagle-street, Bethnal-green.
The complainant, a young widow, of very modest de-
portment, stated that shortly before 12 o'clock on Sa-
turday night, she was proceeding at a rapid pace on her
way home through a secluded street adjoining Spital-
fields-market, when she was suddenly accosted by the
prisoner, who caught hold of her in the most offensive
and indelicate manner, and made improper overtures to
her. She indignantly repelled his importunities, but the
defendant persisted, and endeavoured to throw her down
upon the pavement. She succeeded by a violent effort
in extricating herself from him, and hurried on, scream-
ing loudly for assistance, but she was quickly overtaken
by the- prisoner, who struck her with all his force be-
tween the eyes. Before he had time to renew the attack
she was rescued by a policeman, who took the prisoner
into custody.
The prisoner coolly admitted that he was unable to
gainsay the facts alleged against him, for he had been
drinking, and had no recollection of anything that oc-
curred on the occasion.

Mr. Hammill ordered the prisoner to be committed
and kept to hard labour for 6 months.
Michael Daly, an Irish hawker, was charged with
having unlawfully exhibited a number of indecent prints
and publications in the public streets on Sunday morn-
ing, and the offence having been clearly established, he
was ordered to pay a penalty of 40s. or to be committed
for one month to the House of Correction.

CLERKENWELL.—Mr. Birchmore, the overseer of
Saint Pancras parish, attended before Mr. Yardley to
complain of the conduct of Mr. Bennett, a relieving
officer of Clerkenwell.

It appeared that on Thursday last two children, one
five and the other three years of age, were deserted in
the waiting-room of this court. As the poor little
things seemed almost perishing with cold and hunger,
Mr. Tyrwhitt, who was then presiding on the bench,
ordered them to be taken to Clerkenwell Work-
house. Sheen, the officer, accordingly took them
there, but Bennett refused to receive them, and sent
them back to this court. They were then sent back
to the workhouse, and Bennett and the parish
authorities being absent, the master of the workhouse
took them in for the night upon his own responsibility.
On the following morning the unfortunate children
were again greturned to the court in defiance of the
magistrate's order, and it having been intimated that
they had been at nurse in Tottenham-place, St. Pancras,
the magistrate sent them to that parish workhouse,
where Mr. Birchmore received and sheltered them.

Bennett said he was sorry to impose upon the time of
the magistrate.
Mr. Yardley (indignantly)—lmpose, sir? What do
you mean ? The magistrate is here to administer the
law. Your conduct is disgraceful contrasted with that
of the authorities of St. Pancras. It is perfectly shock-
ing that two poor children should be handed about from
one place to the other, in such inclement weather.
They having been deserted in Clerkenwell, you wero
bound to protect and pass them to their legal settle-
ment. It ought to be made known to the overseer and
parish authorities, in order that they may adopt mea-
sures to prevent the recurrence of such shocking and
disgraceful conduct in future.

Bennett Raid hevould receive the children, and left
the court.

WESTMINSTER.—TeremiaA O'Brien, an old Irish-
man, was charged with attempting to cut Mary Egan's
throat.

The prosecutrix, observing the prisoner's son intoxi-
cated in the street, and inclined to quarrel, was induced,
from a wish to prevent his getting into trouble, to see
him home to his father's house. As she was about to
leave, the prisoner rushed upon her with a table-knife,
and putting one arm round her neck, made a thrust at
her with the knife, She threw up her hands and shawl
to save her throat, which was slightly wounded, and
made a grasp at the knife, by which her fingers were cut.
She then got away from the prisoner, and subsequently
gave him into custody.
The prisoner was committed for trial at the Central
Criminal Court.
Jeremiah O'Brien, the younger, son of the former, and
the person so kindly seen home by the prosecutrix, was
then charged with having threatened to murder her if
she appeared against his father, and with having so ter-
rified her that she was afraid to come forward when the
case was first called on.
The threat having been clearly proved, the defendant
was ordered to find good bail to keep the peace towards
her.

A poor woman applied to Mr. Arnold for relief. She
stated that she had been wandering about the streets for
the last three or four nights without shelter, and that
she had applied at St. Margaret's and St. John's work-
house on Sunday night, but that after remaining from
half-past seven till• midnight the authorities refused to