The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-21 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before Mr, Wmiam, and a BeLeh of Magistretes.)
Yesterday, William Miller, 59, one of those fellows
who hang about the County Courts, calling thern,elves
agents," was indicted for obtaining 9s. from Eharbath
Mills, under false pre tences.
The prosecutrix was a poor old woman, who earned a
precarious subsistence as a sempstress. Some short time
since she was anxious to sue a person named Smith, who
was indebted to her for money lent, and the prisoner
was introduced to her as an " agent" of the W Intechapel
County Court, who would get an execution for her
against Smith. The prisoner told her that he had been
an officer of the old Court of Requests, in adaorne-
street, for twenty years. The pro,ocutrix, believing
this statement, at once authorised him to proceed again,t
Smith, and gave him 3s. to take out the summons. lle
subs, querely told her that he must pay 4s. mere for the
hearing. To procure this sum she was obliged to pawn
her bedding, and shortly after he asked her for ss. to
take out an execution against Smith, telling her that
she would receive the fuel amount due to her after the
execution had issued, and without havirg any occasion
to attend the court at all. The prosecutrix was again
obliged to pledge the remaining portion of her bedding
to obtain the required sum; but instead cf receiving
the amount due to her, she discovered that, though
the summons hod been taken out against Smith, the
cause had been abandoned. There had been no hear-
ing, and, as a matter of course, no execution could be
obtained.

The &en to the County Court proved that there were
no fees paid for hearing or execution, and that nothing
further than taking out the summons had been done.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Mr. WulfAm said that it ii-El6 a most heartless fraud.
It was intok rable that such persons as the prisoner
should be allowed to hang about •.hese county courts, and
extort money from muse poor persons who were
obliged to resort to them. Tile sentence was that he
be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for the term of
six months.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSIOIV-HOUSE.
Lieutenant Lean, the City agent of the Emigration
Commissioners, attended for the purpose of bringing a
charge, under the sth and 6th Vic., cap. 107, called
" An Act for regulating the Carriage of Passengers in
Merchant Vessels," against Mr. Sutton, a licensed emi-
grader' broker, who voluntorily attended to answer the
matter of complaint. Alderman Wilson presided.
Lieutenant Lean said the subject was one of great
importance to persons who intended to emigrate. Two
men and a woman bed applied to him, sating that they
had paid money to Mr. Sutton for their passage to New
York, per the Rose, emigrant vessel. It appeared from
their representations, that the emigration broker had
violated the Act in two of its important clauses iu
dealing with them. In the first piece they had not
given them receipts for the money in the form contained
in the schedule, and, in the si cond, he had received the
money without having received a written authority to
act as agent for the party on whose behalf the contract
for such pessege was purported to be made. These
omissions we re infringements upon the 19th and 21st
sections of the Act, and subjected the defendant to two
penalties iu each case of lot. a head, the Act having
been expressly made for the protection of the passenger
from fraud or the conic quences of false pretence. It
happened that the emigration ship turned out, upon
examination, to be wholly unfit for the voyage, and she
was accordingly ordered into dry dock for repairs, and
when she would be fit to undi rtake the voyaeas was
quite a matter of conjecture. The defendant, although
informed of the illegality of the proceedings, had, never-
theless, refused to return the money to the com-
plainants, who seriously felt the grievance, and appealed
to the Commissioners for assistance in so disagreeable
an emergency.
Alderman WILSON having examined the receipts given
by the defendant for the amount of the passage-money,
which receipts _were of the ordinary kind, and by no
means such as were required 'by the Act of Parliament,
and having been informed that the defendant had no
written authority from the owner of the vessel to con-
tract for the passage of the complainants, asked what
answer Mr. Sutton was prepared with?
The defendant said he did not mean to deny anything
which he had done. He certainly had received the
money, and given the receipts produced, and he had no
written authority from the owner of the ship to act as
agent; but he considered himself perfectly justified in
the course he had pursued, and was wholly at a loss to
find anything in the Bill at all tending to show any
obligation upon his part to return the money.
Alderman Wlnsteet-Hove can you be justified in
acting in direct violation of the Emigration Act?
Mr. Sutton—My licence is my authority. I contend
that I have carried out the Act of Parliament, by en-
tering into a contract as agent for the complainants,
and that the section you have quoted has no reference to
any person but the passenger.
Alderman WILSON—Your construction of the Act of
Parliament is so palpably erroneous, as to amount to an
imputation of actual stupidity. I advise you to go to
some one capable of advising you.
Mr. Sutton—l look upon the Act in quite a different
light, and I am determined to appeal against your deci-
sion. I am anxious to have the point settled, and have
no idea of shirking the responsibility. To show that
I had no intention of doing wrong, when the Rose was
found incapable of going the voyage, I entered into con-
tracts for the passage of the complainants in the Pioneer.
Alderman WiLsow—Have you got the written autho-
rity of the owner to act as agent in that instance? Mr.
Sutton—No.
Alderman WILSON—Then you are subject to double
penalties.
Mr. Sutton—l am willing to take the responsibility in
all the cases.
Lieutenant Lean said he had in vain endeavoured to
prevail upon the defendant to come to arrangements, to
prevent the inconvenience which must result to the com-
plainants from the delay.
Alderman WensoN—l perceive that the case is out of
my jurisdiction, but I hope the defendant will see the
necessity of returning the passage money to these poor
people, and not render an application to the magistrates
of the Thames Police necessary.
Mr. Sutton—l don't mean any offence, but I assure
you, Sir, that I expect, upon my return home, to find
some persons waiting to be suprlied with a passage to
New York, and it is my determination to act for them
just as I have acted for these people.
Alderman WILSON—In dope Lieutenant Lean will at
once apply to the Thames police magistrates, who know
well how to deal with such a case, and that he will not
forget to mention the defendant's expressed determina-
tion to repeat the offence of which he certainly has been
guilty in directly violating the Act. The Act was made
tor protection against such conduct as that upon which
I have animadverted, and the case most strongly proves
how necessary it is to be stringent upon agents. The
defendant is liable to penalties to the amount of 801., and
if I had authority he should feel the consequence of the
threat to continue in an illegal course.
Lieutenant Lean said he certainly would act upon the
Alderman's suggestion.
GUILDHALL.
Mr. Robert William Rickard, of Harpur-street, Red
Lion-square, surgeon, was brought up before Aldermen
Gibbs and Carden, for final examination, on the charge
of uttering two forged receipts for rent.
Mr. Humphreys attended to prosecute; and Mr. D.
W. Wire, of the firm of Wire and Child, defended the
prisoner.
The first witness called was
Mr. Hugh Hughes, of No. 6, Portland-place, Clap•
ham-road, who said I am one of the deacons of the
Welsh chapel; I took the receipt for the Lady-day
quarter to the landlord—he said it was a forgery. I
saw it taken off the file which is kept in an iron chest in
the cupboard in the Welsh chapel-house. There are
three persons who keep the keys of the cupboard, but
Mr. Edwards had the one belonging to the chest, and I
saw him open it a few nights ago. This is the receipt
which was taken off the file, and I marked it.
Mr. Wire—How do you know it. Mr, Hughes—l
am satisfied about it, as I had it in my possession from
Monday evening to the Friday evening, when I
marked it.
Mr. Wire—The prisoner was connected with your
chapel for some time. Mr. Hughes—He was.
Mr. Wire—Were there any disputes between him and
some other members? Mr. Hughes—There has been a
lawsuit between him and Mr. Davis, one of the deacons,
but it has no connexion with this transaction.
Mr. Morgan Jones, of 2, Union-place, Pimlico, slate-
merchant, said I am connected with the chapel in Jewin-
crescent. I was with Hughes when he went to Mr. Lilly.
I was in the room when Mr. Hughes got the receipt. It
was at a meeting of the elders. This is the receipt of
the Lady-day quarter. When we returned I put this
mark on it.
Mr. Alderman Genns asked Mr. Wife what defence
he had to make.
Mr. Wire—There is no case against Mr. Rickard. I
take it that there ought to be evidence to show that he
uttered the documents, knowing them to be forgeries, for
the purposes of fraud. There is an utter absence of evi-
dence to prove that offence, or that he even knew them
to be such.
Alderman GIBBS—But they are vouchers which turn
out to be forgeries.
Mr. Wire—But the first document is disposed of, as
be paid the Christmas rent.
Mr. Humphreys—l must disabuse Mr. Wire's mind
on that point, and inform him that they were both for
genies.
Alderman GIBBS—Mr. Lilly, who paid you the two
last quarters' rent?
Mr. Lilly—Mr. Rickard paid the last, and his wife
the previous one. All the receipts before that time,
which are now produced, are in my handwriting.
Alderman GIBBS—Upon the evidence before me I
shall commit the prisoner for trial.
Mr. Wire—Then it is useless to address you; but
you have the discretionary power of admittingtr cireum-
my client
to bail, which I hope you will do, as at th
stances will come out that will throw a the trial
very diffeteut
light on the whole transaction.
Alderman GIBBS —I don't feel inclined to do sO.
Mr wire—lie is is professional man, and it will be
hevzewuntwolo'lliwbgentowahraldt
impression his admittinghim
his ruin.
Alderman Genus said, be
have on the
to the severity of the case. wbuats
to bail would
minds of a jury, namely, that the magistritte had st doubt
in the case, and therefore he must decline acceding to
Mr. Wire's application.
The prisoner was then conveyed to Nevvgate.
L.4IIIBETII,
ROBBERY FROM THE PERSON.—A you wernan,
with an infant in her arms, named Louisa Lloyd, was
placed at the bar charged with stealingµ purse contain-
ft
losiding at Peckg ten solereigbacone flow the pereon et Mr. W.-Buteeer;
,
The complainant stated that the previous night ho
was Rassing along the Kent-road, when he met
( the prisoner, and acc9 • '
mPanted her into Surrey-square.

BIRTHS
On the 18th inst., in nereford-ztreet, the Viscountesa
Villiers, of a son.
On the 18th inst., at Orford-terrace, Hyde-park, the lady
of G. Hotham, Esq., of a sou.
gioi tinnefineti
d,
.orfoaadd,
On the 18th inst., at Glocester-terrace,
On the 17th inst., at the Node, Welwyn, the wife of W.
lady of H. W. Eaton, Esq., ofadauhter.
Reid, Esq., of a son.
At Folkstone, Kent, on the 17th inst., the wife of Captain
the wife
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On the 7th inst. at Lrechi, Lieutenant William Fraser.
44th Regiment Madras Nativen Infantry, to Helen, daughter
of Dr. Guthrie, i.reehin.
On the 4th inst., at Tywardrenth, Charles Edward, second
sKirby, on of the Rev. George itashleigh, M A., vicar of Horton
Ke t, to Charlotte Hinxtuan, eldest daughter of W.
F- ,of A:enabilly, Cornwall.

DIED
On the 16th inst, at Woudhill, near Guildford, William
Ait:she, Esq., aged 64.
On the tith inst., at Wickham-hall, West Wickham, Rent,
Henry Gayer', Esq., aged 42.
On the 17th inst., the 'lel:. Charles Richard Pritchett, 25
years reader at the Charter-h,use, and 14 years rector of
Little Ilallingbury, Essex, aged 63.
On the ltqh inst., at Onslow-square, Brompton, Lady
C. F. Smith.

On the l;qh inst., at Canonbury-square, Islington, Mr. J.
N. Warner, pged tB.
On tl.e 15th irst., at Cheltenham, John Thomas Evans,
late CAptain Ist Dragoon Guards, second and youngest son of
J. Evans, Esq., of Hertford-street, .alaytair.

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Bliddlesex, Thursday, June 21,1848,