The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-20 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.—A. distress warrant was issued by
Mr. Henry to enforce the payment of a fine of 40A. and
coats, which had been imposed upon Mr. E. Lucas, coal
and flour merchant, Millhank-street, Westminster, under
the following circumstances :

A few days ago the defendant, Mr. Lucas, was sum-
moned before the court to answer the charge of having
refused to supply a horse and waggon to convey a por-
tion of the baggage of the let battalion of Scots Fusilier
Guardr from the Wellington-barracks to one of the rail-
way stations. Other tradesmen had promptly obeyed
the directions given to them in her Majesty's service,
but the defendant, being a member of the Society of
Friends, and also a conscientious adherent to the Peace
Association, had resolutely refused to assist the military
authorities in any way whatever. The magistrate (Mr.
Henry) intimated that the penalty for disobeying orders
of that kind was 51. Eventually the mitigated penalty
of 2/. and-costs were impose I, and three days allowed
for payment, at the expiration of which (yesterday) the
money being still unpaid, the distress warrant was di-
rected to issue.

The officers who executed the warrant reported on
their return that they found Mr. Lucas abient from his
place of business. One of his clerks suggested that the
officers might help themselves to a sack of flour, but
seeing some loose money in an open desk, they preferred
to take the amount they required, and accordingly did
so, the clerk in attendance declining either to sanction
sr to oppose their mode of satisfying the claim of her
Majesty.

MANSION-HOUSE.- -Sir R. W. Carden, in ao-
knowledging the receipt of further subscriptions on be-
half of the emigrants at present on board the Jane
Green, observed that it was gratifying to himself to be
enabled to state, as he believed it would be satisfactory
to the public to learn, that out of the 108 destitute
passengers 148 had, through the liberality of the public
and the assistance of the Government Emigration Com-
missioners, proceeded to their destination. Toe cases
of the remaining emigrants were equally deserving the
sympathy of the public. He regretted that the amount
of the subscriptions in hand was quite inadequate to the
effectual relief of the remaining emigrants, the funds
having been necessarily diminished to the extent of up-
wards of 501. in providing food for them during the time
they were to remain on board, and until a passage
could be obtained for them. He (Sir R. W. Carden)
earnestly hoped that the expectations of the remaining
sufferers would not be disappointed, feeling, mile did,
.that they were objects worthy the sympathy of the
benevolent and charitable.

GUILDHALL. James Brebner, a respectably-
dressed person, about 30 years of age, with a cork leg, a
strong Scotch accent, and an impediment in his speech,
was placed at the bar upon a charge of obtaining money
under false pretences.
Mr. Beard, from Mr. Buchanan's office, appeared for
the prisoner, who was described in the police sheet as
a solicitor.

Mr. Kendeth McLellan said : I am a mechanical en-
gineer and generally reside at Liverpool, but at present
lam staying at 83, Aldersgate-street. About the latter
end of February last I was in Edinburgh with my mother,
when I first saw the prisoner. He told my mother in
my presence she was the right heiress to the personal
property of the late Mr. Macrae, of the Island of Jamaica,
amounting to 7,0001., but he afterwards stated it to be
as much as 36,0001. He asked me for money to enable
him to come to London, as that was the proper place
where it should be settled. Shortly afterwards I remitted
41. to the prisoner at Inverness per post-office order, and
he wrote to me acknowledging the receipt of the letter,
but did not mention the money. He, however, subse-
quently wrote to me at Liverpool, promising to be with me
there in the first week in June. He did not come at that
time, but I received instead a letter from him, stating he
was at Glasgow,and requesting a further advance of Si. to
enable him to come to London. I went to Glasgo w,and gave
him 51. more to enable him to go on with our business. I re-
turned with him to Liverpool, he paying his own expenses,
and on arriving there he said he had spent all his money
in defraying his expenses at Glasgow, and requested
me to give him more money to proceed to London. I
accordingly gave him 21.,1and accompanied him to Lon-
don, where he represented to me that there were certain
documents required in the matter, such as certificates of
baptism, &c. We then returned to Liverpool, and I
paid all the expenses except the last week's bill and the
travelling expenses to Liverpool, which he paid. When
there he said he should be obliged to go to the north of
Scotland for the necessary documents. Before he wen t
away he spoke to my mother about requiring more
money, and I saw her give him another 41. to enable him
to prosecute his journey. I went with him to take out
his ticket for Edinburgh, and a few days after he wrote
to me.stating he had been unwell. On the Bth of August
I received another letter, stating he had returned from
Ross-shire, and that he had found the papers quite cor-
rect. He hinted a request for more money, but did not
ask directly for it. He merely said he wished to be in
possession of 101. to enable him to proceed, but that he
had called upon his friends in vain. I sent him no
money then, but I shortly after received another letter
from him, in answer to a request of mine that he would
join me in Liverpool, in which he said he would return
100/. in thres days, if he could get the amount (1014
that he required to enable him to come to London and
settle the business. I received another letter, dated the
19th of August, requesting if I had any money, to send it
to him in Bank of Eng'alid notes, and not by Post-office
order. All those letters were addressed from Aberdeen,
but I found on proceedingthither that he had been stayil,g
ail the time at Fraserburg. I saw the Asoner at Fraser-
burg, and gave him 41. We then went to Aberdeen, and
he there said his money was all gone again, and that he
had none to take him to London. I therefore paid his pas-
sage, amounting to 305., arid accompanied bun to London,
and on last Saturday week he said he had called on Mr.
Martin, o e of the agents he bad employed in the matter,
but was unable to see him because he was at Chatham. At
his request I then gave him 55., to enable him to go to
Chatham' and in the evening I saw him again, when he
said Mr. Martin would be up in town on the following.
Monday. I have never seen Mr. Martin at all. On Satur-
day last, prisoner desired me to write to my mother, who
was in Liverpool, requesting her to allow me to act for
her. I did so, and she came to London in conse-
quence. He said it would be necessary to have an agree-
ment, which he drew up himself, and he and my mother
signed it in my presence. He said he wished for the
agreement for his own protection. He always repre-
sented himself to me as a solicitor of Inverness, but he
has told others that he is a solicitor of Aberdeen. I ad-
vanced the money to him upon that representation, and
his statement that he could put us in possession of the
7,0001. He always led me to believe that three or four
days is London would complete the business. There
were several persons of the name of Macrae that went
out to Jamaica, but I have not heard of the death of any
of them, nor have we received any benefit from them.
Cross-examined—l gave ,him into custody because he
promised to complete the business by Monday last, and,
failing to do so, I asked him to satisfy me if he was in a
position to recover the money he alleged we were
entitled to, and he then said he required 201. to defray
the broker's charges, and that having raised 121. he
wanted to know if I could assist him with the other
81. I declined and he then said he could not
complete the business for us ; and on my calling
upon him to prove to me that his representations were
not false, he refused to do so, under the pretence that it
involved a penalty to him of 2,000/, to disclose certain
particulars relative to the proceedings.
The prisoner was then remanded, there being other
cases against him.

WORSHIP-STREET.—SaraIt Smith, a middle-aged
married woman, living in Vincent-street, Shoreditch,
was placed at the bar before Mr. D'Eyncourt, char gel
with feloniously cutting and wounding her infant son,
two years old, whereby his life had been seriously en•
dangered.
Police-constable Kennedy, K 60, stated that shortly
after nine o'clock that morning he was hastily summoned
to proceed to the London Hospital, on reaching which he
was ushered into one of the wards, where the prisoner's
child was pointed out to him by the house surgeon, who
informed him that he was suffering from a dangerous
wound in the thigh, which had evidently been inflicted
with a knife. Having ascertained, upon questioning
the boy, that he had been stabbed on the previous night
by his mother, who was the wife of a stableman in Vin-
cent.street, where he found the prisoner, and acquainted
her with the nature of the charge, to which she replied
that she had not the slightest intention of injuring the
child, who had been accidentally struck with a knife
which she had thrown at her husband in a moment of
sudden excitement. The prisoner, who appeared to be
greatly afflicted at the occurrence, and exhibited exces-
sive agitation, was then conveyed to the station-house.
Emma Smith, the prisoner's daughter, an intelligent
child, about 10 years ofage, stated that after she had retired
to rest on the previous night, a violent quarrel took
place between the prisoner and her father, who occupied
another bed in the same apartment. After an angry
altercation between them, on account of his not having
supplied her with money, the prisoner suddenly caught
up a sharp-pointed knife from the table and flung it at
him, but missed her aim, and the point of the weapon
lodged in the thigh of the injured child, who was lying
asleep at his side. Her father immediately started up
and pulled out the knife from her brother's thigh, who
bled dreadfully from the wound, and with the assistance
of her mother, who cried bitterly, and repeatedly ex-
claimed, "What have I done ! " he was afterwards re-
moved to the London Hospital.
A. certificate from Mr. Frederick Poulden, house sur-
geon at the hospital, was handed to the magistrate,
which stated that the child had received an incised
wound in the thigh, which had punctured one of the
arteries, and that he considered its life to be in danger.

I cards of some respectable persons, with one belonging
to)byre, 5, Grty's-inn-square.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said he should remand the prisoner for
strict inquiries about himn, as other charg,es uiight li
brought forward against him.

THAMES.— Win. Caulfield, 50, a powerfully-built
shin-carpenter, residing at 3, Rosetta-street, Limehouse-
fiefds, was charged with violently assaulting and
wounding police constable Merritt, 246 K, by strikif,g
him on the head with the butt-end of a pistol. Both
the men's heads were bound up in bandages, which ap-
peared as if they had been steeped in blood, and the
constable particularly seemed much exhausted. There
was a good deal of contradiction in the evidence pro
and con.

Merritt stated that on the previous night the prisoner
turned his wife out and locked the door on her. She
continued knocking at intervals until nearly one o'clock,
to the annoyance of the neighbourhood. Witness then
knocked and requested the prisoner to let her in, but
instead of doing so, he came to the front window, and
began to abuse witness. He had something in his hand,
and said to witness, "If you do not go away I will give
you the contents of this." Witness still entreated him
to open the door, on which be jumped out of the window
and presenting a pistol at witness's head, swore he would
shoot him if he did not quit the street. Witness seized
the pistol, and a struggle for it ensued, in the course of
which the prisoner wrested it away, and struck wit-
ness with the stock of it on the head upwards of a dozen
times, inflicting several wounds. Witness fell from
exhaustion, and the prisoner made his escape into the
house. Up to that time witness had not used his staff.
Brough, 338 K, then came to his assistance, and they
forced the door. They found the prisoner in a shed
behind the house, and when they approached him he
attempted to strike witness with a heavy log of wood,
but the latter avoided the blow, and struck him on the
head with his staff. The prisoner broke the pistol on
his head, and portions of it were subsequently found in
the street.

Mr. Ingham said it was too serious a case to be sum-
marily dealt with, and ordered the depositions to be
taken, committed the prisoner for trial.
Caulfield—l hope. sir, you'll take bail, as I have a
contract to fulfil at Blackwall.

Mr. Ingham—Yes ; but I must make further', it iry
respecting you. I understand you are known befoi to
the police, let me hear what it is.
Bevard, 117 K, said that he was sent some time since
with an officer of the county court to serve some process
on the prisoner, who, on that occasion, brought out a
pistol and a hatchet, and used most terrible threats.
Mr. Ingham—Well, I'll take good bail ; yourself in
801. and two sureties of 401. each.

The bail was not tendered up to the time of our re-
porter leaving.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-TIIESDIT.

On Saturday th• settling upon the Doncaster event
commenced, and has since progressed in a very satisfac-
tory manner, and large amounts have changed hands.
Book-makers in a general way are winners. Specula.
tion at present is confined to the two great events to
be decided at Newmarket, viz., the Cesarewitch and
Cambridgeshire Stakes. The handicap for the former
event has, ever since its appearance, been pronounced
bad, and the meagre acceptance has to a great extent
proved it to be so, although out of the few it seems dif-
ficult to find the " Pea," 100 to 8 being now offered on
the field. Calamus has been backed for a good deal of
money, 2,0001. to 1001. being taken in one bet. The
Star of Surrey is very fishy. 500 to 30 was taken once
about The Early Bird for the Cambridgeshire Stakes,
and 100 to 3, to win about 3,0001., about Monie Moses.
Orinoco has many friends. The following are the latest
quotations :

CESAREWITCH.
100 to 8 agst Balrownie (taken and offered).
100 to 8 agst Muscovite (offered).
15 to 1 agst Calamus (taken and offered).
20 to 1 agst Indian Warrior (taken).
20 to 1 agst D. 0. (taken).
25 to 1 agst Poodle (taken).
25 to 1 agst Kidnapper (taken). •
100 to 3 agst Burlington (taken).
100 to 3 agst Ptolemy (taken).
100 to 3 agst Ammonia (taken freely).
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
500 to 30 agst Early Bird (taken).
20 to 1 agst Orinoco (25 to 1 taken freely).
30 to 1 agst Eulogist (taken).
100 to 3 agst Monie Moses (taken).
TAKING OF SEBASTOPOL.-20 to 1 has been laid to
lose about 1,000/. that Sebastopol is not taken in this
month, and even bets that it is not taken in this month
or next. 20 to 1 has been laid that a fire from land is
made at Sebastopol in the present month.