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

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, Bedford-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 whom I 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 lilts, 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 he would pay me.
On the succeeding day I took a eoat 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 rug r 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 lie v. a 4 gone. I have been repeatedly at the house,
but could not find him till this day, when I gave 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 D.&rce,
that a great part of Sootland belonged to him, that he
was member of Parliament for some to%4n or borough in
Scotland, and that he was going to his native place next
day. Upon that representation he took his order.
Alderman Carter—Had you any ilea of leavinl the
goods witLo.it getting tha amount of your demand ?

Witness—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 him ?
Witness—l did not. 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 had 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--I have
received information that a person who completely an-
swers the description of Lord Colville, as the prisoner is
called, succeeded in getting safes to a considerable
amount from Messrs. Milner and Co., and believe that if
the prisoner be remanded I shall be able to bring forward
evidence to that effect. . _

The prisoner—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 next summons, against Mr. Henry Bicknell, also
of the Lawn, Norwood, being precisely 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 (sir. Rayner) disputed both
the validity of the rate and his own liability thereto, as
he had been incorrectly assessed.
The churchwardens' 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 Erclesia4tical 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-
poed to the rates having been mado, the first on the
IGth April, 1852, on which the defen lant owed Bs. 4d ,
and the second on the 18th April, 1853, on which the
defendant was assessed for 103. 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 bad 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 prisoner—l suppose you will have no objection
to let me at liberty upon my own recognisance to appear
before 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:

THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

[Tbe following article is substituted for that which ap•
pearejl 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 Loudon for his Majesty the King of
Hanover.

DOWNING-STREET, AUGUST 2G.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Neville Pucker,
Esq., to Lea l'uiFsne Judge of the Supreme Court of the
Province of New Brunswick, with rank and precedence in
the sail 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 M:desty has been further pleased to appoint Richard
S. Darling and Toussaint Rostant, Rigs.. to be Melubers
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 Seai granting the dignity of a Ba-
ronet of the United Kingdom of Crest Britain and Ireland
unto John Beverley Robinson, Esq., G 8., Chief Justice
of that part of her Majesty's province of Canada., eallel
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 Kingdom .of
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, callei 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, EQq., to be Lieutenant in the Artillery Company
of London.

WHITEHALL, .kuG. 29.
The Queen has been please:l to present the Reveren•i
George Clark, M.A., to the united Rectory and Vicarage
of Saint Mary's, Tenby, in the county of Pembroke, and
diocese of Saint David's, void by the cession of the Rev.
William Hayw. rd Cox.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Aug. 28.

Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain Charles
Henry Morris to be Captain, vice Levinge, deceased,
Aug. 3 ; First Lieutenant Charles Edward Mainwaring 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. Phrupp; First Lieutenant G.
A. A. Walker.
COMMISSIONS SIGNEL In LORD-LIEUTENANTS.

Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
Wm. Leyland Feilden, late 13th Light Dragoons, to be
Lieutenant, Aug. 24.
3tl 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-
ment, to be Captain, vice Bristow, resigned ; Ensign
Henry Alexander Scriven to he Lieutenant, vice Keily,
resigned; Ensign Edward Eden Elliot to be Lieutenant,
vice 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;,lit Infantry Regiment of
Middlesex Militia—Captain E cry Pentrm to be Major,
vice Glossop, promoted ; Ensign. lobert Bruce M`Ewen to
be Lieutenant, vice Parsons, promoted, Aug. 18.
Royal Wilts Militia—John Frederic Nicholls, Esq., to
be Surgeon, Aug. 16.
Royal 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, proteoted, Aug. 1.
Ist, Regiment of \Vest 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 Waud,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, July 20.
3d Regiment of West York Militia —Assistant-Surgr on
Move:is Guy to be Surgeon, vice Lister, resigned; Richard
Hayes Perry, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeou, vice Guy,
promoted, Aug. 22.

—" There are on board the Jane dreenes about 150
souls, a portion of whom entered the ship on the 18th
inst. On the 20th the food su!plied was the gift of
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 circutbsta.nees, 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 tune in London, delusive guarantees daily given of
the ship going to sea, we are now entirely destitute."

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. —THE NEW BEER
BILL.—THE "TRAVELLER" QUESTION.—SeveraI licensed
vietualleri 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 cases raised the much-vexed question of
what constitutes a traveller.

Charles Skinner, landlord of the Black Horse, Oxen-
den-street, was charged: with serving liquor after 10
o'clock
Sundayrove night.
d by the police, who saw the driver
The o n
case
was
l)
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 he served the two persons with re-
freshment because he considered they came within the
meaning of the clause which made an exception in favour
of travellers. The driver and conductor had come from
Brentford, 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 tohim that the Legislature intended to include such
cases in the privilege accorded to travellers. Besides,
drawn up on the road and supplied them-
Person% if they really wanted refreshment,
tchoeulodminmibvues
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 by
magistrates which went to show that per.
sons coming from Richmond, Kingston, and similar dis-
tances were to be regarded as travellers. The persons
who were served by the defendant, had come from
Brentford, 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 be 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 Sinipkin, 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 vertices in the mews, and that on entering the de-
fendant's house, two, persons were found, who were
drinking gin and water.
The defence was that the two persons in the house
were lodgers. The per-one who were served with beer
outside of the house were neighbours, who had just re-
turned from an excel sion by railway, and were served
with refreshment as travellers.
Mr. Hardwick said they appeared to be getting into
a delectable etete of mystification on this questioe.
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 wit/ in the meaning of the word " traveller," even
though they had jest come off a railway journey, he
must require the defendant to pay the costs.

LAMBETH.—Yesterday a number of summonses
taken out by the churchwardens of the district church of
St Luke, N(Twood, was set down for hearing before
the lion. G. C. Norton. The first called on was that
against Mr. Edward Brown, a gentleman residing at
the Lawn Lower Norwood, for the payment of 3/. 155.,
,
an arrear of three yew's' church rates.
Mr. Brown, in reply to the summons, said that he
bad already paid the rate in question to the church-
wardens of the Brixton portion of the parish, between
whom and the churchwardens of St. Luke dispute

al. He did not piriare, captain a. dividend of 4s. 3,1. (making 204.)
in the pound, payablo at 5, Portugal-street,
A ~" ~.• ~,,-e,ented the cliorckwarcre;,.,
acl-
witted that, ,ocii .I",,cutes did exit. arid the case was
adjourned to a (attire day, Mr. Norton having ob.erved
that it was rather hard on Mr. Brown that he should be
put to the inconvenience of attending, and did not ,
think it was right he should be put to any expense in 1
the matter.

DF, TO

Davi)! Holden, jun., of flurrhaw, Sirsex, ironmonger,
September 20—John Birch nail, late of Ti:herington, Che•
shire, cotton spinuer, October 20—Joshua Wdrmald, of
Glossop, Derbyshire, shoemaker, October s—WilHarn
Wilkinson Bawling, Samuel Rawlino,,Y and John Bawling,
of Manchester, corners, October 6—Richard Fairbourn, of
Preston, -Lancashire, wholesale grocer, October 12—David
MiTeer, of Manchester, Belfast, and Liverpool, merchant,
September 21—John Roberts, of Stratford-upon-Avon,
Warwickshire, builder, October 14—Charles Barnett Gibbs,
of Eccleshall, Staffordshire, grocer, October 14 —Henry
Anstey and William Walton, of Birmingham, draper,
October 7. •

CERTIFICATES TO BE GRANTED.
John Solomon, of 12, Circus, Minories, shipowner, Sep-
tember 20—Willubm Fowler, of Abergavenny, Monmouth-
shire, grocer, September 20—James Hope, of Burnley,
Lancashire, grocer, September 30—John Rawling, of Man-
chester, currier, October 2—Richard Fairbourn, of Preston,
Lancashire, wholesale grocer, Septem ber2B—Charles Robin-
son, of Brierley-hill, Staffordshire, boot and shoe manu-
facturer, October 12—Houry Rubbra, of Dudley, Worces-
tershire, grocer, October 9—Thomas Archer and Samuel
Archer, of Burslem, Staffordshire, tailors, October 9
William Burrows, of Leicester, tailor, October 10.