The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-14 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE. Catherine Fernley was
brought before Sir R. W. Carden, charged with having
disturbed the congregation of All Saints, Bishopsgate,
during service time on Sunday morning.
Mr. Collins, schoolmaster, stated that daring the
hours of divine service, the defendant made a noise in
the church, that she was drunk at the time, and inter-
rupted the minister after having taken her seat in the
middle of the aisle, and that he went to her for the pur-
pose of removing her.
Sir R. W. Carden—Was the service stopped by her
mipoonduct l
Witness—lt was, effectually.

The Rev. Richard Ruddook, incumbent of the parish,
said, I was officiating at the time of the disturbance, and
I observed the defendant's conduct from the moment of
her entrance. I observed that she was in a condition
not adapted to the place in which she was, and I found it
necessary to speak to her. She spoke in a loud tone,
but I did not hear her articulation. Mr. Collins then
came down from his pew and judiciously removed her.
I understand that she has been 24 hours in confine-
ment, and I do not wish that her punishment should be
continued. Perhaps that would be considered sufficient

Sir R. W. Cardin—Does she belong to the parish ?
Witness—l believe she does. Her daughter has been
with me this morning, and probably the defendant has
had enough.
Sir R. W. Carden—ls the congregation large ?
Witness—lt is not. It is a small and poor congrega-
tion, but extremely attentive and respectful.
Sir R. W. Carden—Nothing can be worse than such a
gross interruption, particularly to a poor congregation
who assemble together for the best of purposes.
The defendant—Your lordship, I didn't know what I
was about at the time. I had a drop.
Sir R. W. Carden—At what house had you been
drinking !
The defendant—l don't know, but it was in Petticoat-
lane. I went in with another woman on the Sunday
morning, and we had a half-quartern.
The alderman was informed that there were several
houses in Petticoat-lane in which persons were served
on Sunday morning with gin upon asking for " milk,"
and that the police found great difficulty in detecting the
vendors, as the facilities for all kinds of illegal dealings
in that neighbourhood abounded iu the most extraordi-
nary degree.
Sir R. W. Carden—lt was to prevent people of this
description from getting drunk on the Sabbath that the
act was passed for closing public-houses during certain
hours. I hope that the day is not distant when all pub-
lic-houses will be compelled to shut up during the whole
of Sunday. lam convinced that were it not for the
excessive encouragement held ont for the consumption
of spirits the duties of magistrates would be extremely
slight, and the necessity for prisons would go down in
proportion. In fact, it is my belief that if gin-shops,
with their splendid apparatus for captivating the inhabi-
tante of 'indigent neighbourhoods, were abolished, our
gaols would be almost empty. In Canada it has been
determined by a majority of 90 to 5, that there the sale
of spirits shall be under severe penalties restricted.
That regulation does the colony the highest credit.
Sir R. W. Carden then said that notwithstanding the
interference of the rev. gentleman, he must sentence the
defendant to seven days' imprisonment in Holloway
The Alderman requested that the press would acknow-
ledge the receipt at the Mansion-house of 121. 95., the
third fortnightly subscription for the Patriotic Fund
from the men employed by Messrs. Money Wigram,
of Blackwall.

GUILDHALL.—Mr. Van Sandau, a ,solicitor, ap-
plied to Alderman Kennedy on behalf of Lord Hard-
wicks, for his assistance under the following circum-
stances.
It appeared that a man bad been going about
with a document, purporting to be signed by the British
Consul at Leghorn, setting forth that the bearer, Thos.
Charnock, had been masterof a vessel called the Tribune,
and had lost 3,0001. by the capture of his ship by the
Russians, by which he had been totally ruined. Various
noblemen's names were appended to the document, as
subscribers of considerable sums to make good this loss.
The document was sent to Lord Barrington, who seeing
Lord Hardwicke's name as a subscriber for 201., and
knowing the signature to be a forgery, sent the paper
to Mr. Van Sandau to have the matter investigated.
Lord Hardwicke said he had never signed his name,
nor contributed anything.
Alderman Kennedy said Mr. Van Sandau had better
apply to the Mendicity Society, who kept up a staff of
officers for suppressing such impositions. If the society
then referred him back to the City, and he had j urisdic-
tion, io would give all the assistance he could to punish
the impostor.
William Puddick attended before Sir John Musgrove
with a donation of five guineas for the Patriotic Fund,
and wished it to be acknowledged in the following man-
ner :—" The cab-drivers of the Great Western Railway,
being desirous of expressing their sympathy for the
widows and orphans of the brave soldiers and sailors
who se gallantly lost their lives in the battles fought in
the East, have subscribed the sum of five guineas for
their immediate support."
Sir Join Musgrove inquired how many cabmen there
were belonging to the Great Western Ra I way.
Puddick said there were 92, all of whom had sub.
scribed, and they were anxious that publicity should be
given to the matter, in order that the rest of the London
cabmen might follow their example.

BOW-STREET.--A few days since Mr. Edwardes,
landlord of a private hotel, in Norfolk-street, Strand,
obtained a warrant against Lawrence Cuthbert, the se-
cretary of a Matrimonial Alliance Association, purport-
ing to carry on its business in John-street, Adelphi,
charging him with a violent assault, tinder the following
circnmstances :
It appeared that a young gentleman, at present residing
in complainants house, had met with one of the adver-
tisements of the "association " in a weekly paper, in
which Young porqono wishing to form, matrimonial

alliances were invited to put themselves in communica-
tion with the secretary, who undertook to arrange "in-
troductions," and pledged himself and the society to the
" strictest secrecy." The young man, who had no ex-
perience of town life, was tempted to call at the offices
of the association, where he was shown into a well-fur- '
nished apartment, and was informed that the sum of '
101. must be paid down, as a guarantee of good faith,
before an interview with any of the young ladies on the
books of the establishment—embracing beauties of all
ages, and heiresses of every degree of fortune—could
be granted. The money was at once advanced, and
the unsuspecting youth awaited with some anxiety the
first introduction. He was at length directed to take
up a position near the Duke of York's Monument,
St. James's-park, on a given morning, at 12 o'clock,
where a lady would meet him, and wave a white hand-
kerchief as a "signal " of recognition. The morning
was extremely favourable for such an interview, and the
appointment was faithfully kept by a nicely-dressed and
tolerably good-looking lady, with whom he was soon on
terms of affectionate regard. Having exhausted the
usual common-place phrases of endearment, and satisfied
themselves that their union would be mutually agree-
able, the young man began to descant upon the illibe-
rality of the association, in demanding so large a fee fie
101., upon which the lady complained still more bitterly
of her having to pay a much larger sum—no less than
25/. ; and assured him that he had been let off very
lightly. As the afternoon advanced they agreed to part
—the lady consenting to another interview, to be ar-
ranged, as usual, through the secretary. When the
young gentleman called again at the offices, a further
sum was demanded before a second interview could be
arranged ; and then, suspecting that he had been im-
posed upon, he resolved to confess everything to Mr.
Edwardes, who at once determined to inquire into the
matter, and see his young guest righted. The result of
his calling on this mission was a violent personal attack
upon him by one of the "officials," but on the warrant
being granted the matter was arranged by the repayment
of the 101,, probably to prevent publicity.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Two persons applied
to Mr. Bingham for advice. It appeared that an in-
surance office, called the British Industry, having a
',ranch in Regent-street, had been opened for the pur-
pose of securing a sum at the death of an insurer, on
payment of 2d. or 3d. weekly. One of the applicants,
an Irishwoman, said that her mother had taken out a
policy about two years ago, had paid 3d. a week regu-
larly; but about June last the society had stopped the
policy, and had given her mother 2s. 6d. as a settlement
of any claim she might have on them. She wished to
know whether there was no redress for this proceeding ?

One of the constables attached to the court was di-
rected to call at the office, and to request some one con-
nected with the society to come to the court, and answer
the complaints.
The Secretary of the society being in attendance,
Mr. Bingham stated the substance of the complaint,
and asked him for an explanation.
The Secretarywaid that a former agent of the company
had absconded with money he had collected, and the so-
ciety, after supplying his place, had determined upon re-
quiring all parties who had opened policies through that
agent to attend personally at the office, as it was strongly
suspected that numerous frauds had been committed on
the society by parties representing their ages to be
much younger than they really were, by which means
their claims fell on the society so much sooner than
contracted for. The applicant's mother had been to

the office, and her appearance at once proved she
was at least 10 years older than she had represented
herself to be. She was required to produce the
certificate of her birth, but she refused to do so, and the
society had stopped the policy. The society, however,
were quite willing to reinstate the policy—even though
it had become void in consequence of non-payment of
the weekly money provided satisfactory proof were
afforded that the age of the woman was as she repre-
sented it to be.
Mr. Bingham thought this was but fair and reasonable
on the part of the society.
The applicant said her mother could not bring any
proof of her ago. How could she do so, being a Roman
Catholic, and a native of Ireland ?
Mr. Bingham had no doubt that the mother's exact
age could be furnished if parties were not interested in
keeping back the truth. He should not interfere further,
as he was of opinion the society were entitled to have
the information they required.
Another Irishwoman, whose case was similar, received
the same answer to her application.
John Redman was charged with the following daring
robbery.
Caroline Nicholl, wife of Mr. Nicholl, cloth-presser,
Marshall-street, said on Tuesday week a knock was
heard at the door which she answered. The prisoner
and another man were there, and they asked if Mrs.
Brown lived there. She said, no. The prisoner then
inquired the way to Pulteney--.street, and while she was
directing him she felt her dress lifted up, and on placing
her hand in her pocket found her purse containing a
sovereign and some silver was gone. She immediately
ran alter the prisoner and seized him by the tails of his
Coat, but the prisoner managed to tear the tails away
from the coat and to make his escape.
Edward Hobson saw the prisoner and another man
commit the robbery. He tried to pursue the prisoner,
but lost sight of him in the pursuit. About a week
afterwards he saw the prisoner in the act of picking
pockets, and he gave such evidence to the police as led
to his capture.
Mrs. Nicholl was positive the prisoner was the perh
son who made the inquiry of her.
The prisoner denied his guilt, and was fully corn•
mitted.

LAMBETH. —Philip Aii'Donnell and YaTentine
Fletcher, two ruffianly-looking fellows, were placed at
the bar before Mr. Elliott, on a charge of attempting
to break into the residence of the Rev. John Liugham,
the Recory-house, Lambeth.
• The prisoners were seen by Constable Cannon in a
balcony at the back of the Rectory-house, about half-
past two o'clock on Sunday morning. When asked
what they did there they said they had gone there to
sleep, and had slept there before. They were then ar-
rested. Their shoes were subsequently found in an ad-
joining garden belonging to the Archbishop of Canter-
bury.

The prisoners were then remanded.
In a case before the magistrate, where a servant was
charged with robbing her mistress, the constable en-
gaged complained that he had been refused to see some
goods pawned by the accused at the shop of Mr. Haw-
good, a pawnbroker in the district, and at the same
place an old tablecloth had been exhibited instead of a
valuable one pledged.
Mr. Elliott directed the officer to inform Mr. Haw-
good that in this and in all cases where pawnbrokers
refused to exhibit the goods improperly pawned with
them, on the proper application of a constable, he (Mr.
Elliott) should at once grant a search warrant.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERS ALL'S-MONDAY.

Owing to the attractions for the next three days at
Shrewsbury the room was very thinly attended, and the
business that was transacted comprised only the follow-
ing bets :--

SHREWSBURY HANDICAP.
7to 2 agst Pantomime (taken).
Bto 1 agst Newbold (taken).
Bto 1 agst Boddicot (taken).
COLUMN HANDICAP (SHREWSBURY).
sto 1 agst Orinoco (taken).
DERBY.

10 to 1 agst Graiculas Esuriens (taken to 2251.)
13 to 1 agst St. Hubert (taken to 251.).
15 to 1 agst Oulston (taken to 751., and after.

wards offered).
40 to 1 agst Polydora colt (taken to 2001.)
40 to 1 agst Prince of Wales (taken to 591.)

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, Nov. 13.

ENTERED INWARDS.—Tho Citizen, from Bordeaux ;
Secret, Messina ; Nonpareil, Denia and Xabea ; Stadt
Dordocht, Dordt and Breruershaven ; Jane, Zante and
Cephalonia ; Hanovot, Rotterdam ; Lunwarden, Har-
linger and Nien Diep ; Pilot, Hamburg ; Prospectus,
Dram ; Railway, Xabea ; Charlotte Jane, Adelaide • Pa-
triot, Hookseil ; Lydia Jane, Memel ; Eclipse, Madeira ;
Duchess of Sutherland, Madras and Basseler ; Arrow,
Emden; Heimdall, Nokjobing ; Princess Victoria, Got-
teaburg ; Juliana., Dantzic ; Vice-Admiral Gobins, Mar-
sala ; Lusitania, Oporto ; Lively, Gottenburg ; Oak, Dant-
sic ; Epaminondas, Cadloa ; Orestes, Chincha Islands ;
Leda, Rotterdam • Falcon, Reunion and Cape of Good
Hope; Thomas Hamlin, Calcutta.
ENTERED OUTWARDS.—The Stadt Dordrecht, for
Dordt ; Jantina, Amsterdam ; Pinto, Malta and
Alexandria ' • Robert, Konigsburgh ; Chieftain, Cal-
cutta ; Eclipse, Madeira. ; Romance of the Sea,
for Long-Song and Canton; Helene for Hamburg;
Falcon for Algoa Bay ; Dolphin for Calcutta ; James
Holmes for Barbadoes ; Gainburg for Malta and Constan-
tinople ; Lusitania for Oporto ; Leda for Rotterdam.
VESSRLS CREARRD WITH CARGO.—The Selina, for Al-
tone and St. John's, Newfoundland; Barrick, for Barba-
does; Feronia, for the Canary Islands ; Oregon for New
Orleans ; Wilhelmina, for Harbors ; Victoria, for New
York ; Planter, for Tobago ; Onkel, for Copenhagen.