The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-16 00:00:00

Q UEEN- S QUARE.

Wednesday James Whitelaw, a waterman, who up to the
present charge has borne an irreproachable character, was
finally examined before Messrs. BURRELL. and So OTT, charged
with having broken open a storehouse in Old Palace-yard, and
stolen a quantity of carpenter's tools, ironmongery, and a pair
of handsome window curtains, the property of the Commis-
sioners of Woods and Forests.

The prisoner, in defence, said that he plied at Palace-yard
stairs, and was coming from the water, after making his boat
fast, when he was taken into custody.
The Magistrates fully committed him to Newgate for trial.
Several respectable persons attended to give him a cha-
racter, and it was stated that he had been for many years in the
navy, and bad served in the Glasgow frigate at the battle of
Navarino, where he had been severely wounded in the head,
from the effects of which, upon drinking, he had been induced
to commit many intemperate acts.
Mr. liummatEs, on the part of the prisoner, applied to the
Magistrates to be allowed a copy of the depositions, which he
said he was entitled to under an Act passed at the close of
the last session of Parliament. The application was immedi-
ately granted.
Four Irishmen, named Buckley, Collins, Murphy, and
Carthy, were charged with stealing a quantity of timber
from the premises now erecting upon the site of the ancient
Cock-pit, in St. James's-park, so celebrated in the annals of
the reign of Charles the Second. This site of ground for a
great number of years has lain dormant, until lately purchased
by Mr. Under-Sheriff Pearson from the Governors of Christ's
Hospital.
Mr. Webb, a builder, stated that neither Buckley nor the
other men had any right to take away any of the property,—
it was worth 6d. per foot, and was nearly new, and it appeared
that the prisoners were about to sell the whole of it to Drake
for 2s. 9d., to cut up for firewood.
They were all fined in the penalty of 205., or to be com-
mitted for ten days to Tothill-fields.

A remarkably pretty girl, only 15 years of age, and who ap-
peared to be completely unsophisticated, was yesterday charged
before Messrs. BURRELL and WHITE with being found in an
insensible state of drunkenness in the Westminster-road, at 11
o'clock on Wednesday night. Inspector King, of the L divi-
sion, said that her name was Rebecca Henderson, and that she
was the daughter of an industrious labouring man, residini, at
Thames Ditton, Surrey. About a week since she had been
induced to leave her home by a man, named Chalmers, a
bricklayer, who had been sent from London to work at a building
at Thames Ditton. He promised her marriage when they
came to London, and said that Ile had provided lodgings for
her in Westminster. She came with him upon this promise,
and she resided with him for two days. He then left her, and
she was shortly afterwards visited by an old woman, who per-
suaded her to take a walk over Westminster-bridge for the
benefit of the "fresh air." This woman conducted her to An-
sell's gin-palace, near the Marsh-gate, Lambeth: where she
gave her a quantity of gin, which had such an effect upon her
that she was discovered by Police-constable Cockercll stretched
in the road, completely insensible. The fiend who bad en-
deavoured to lead her further into crime disappeared.
The MAGISTRATES told her that they would upon this occa-
sion remit the usual penalty for drunkenness, upon her under-
taking to returns home.
She expressed her gratitude to the Magistrates in terms
which evinced that she bad received a better education than
might have been expected, and left the office, after receiving
assistance from several individuals who had heard her case.