The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-20 00:00:00

POLICE IN TELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
A young man from Carlisle, named John Conynghenn;
who looked like a bullock-driver, was brought to the Jus-
tice-room, before Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL, charged with
having, in the character of a literary man, defrauded a
London merchant.
The complainant stated that the defendant called upon
him about eighteen months ago, and solicited him for a
subscription for a book, which was about to be published,
containing interesting anecdotes of the eminent men of
Cumberland. The defendant at the same time had in his
possession a note from Mr. Blaniire, the Member for Car-
lisle, bearing testimony to a publication already issued by
the defendant, and the complainant, upon the strength of
that recommendation, consented to subserh? to the forth-
coming work, and handed to the prisoner half-a-crown, for
which he was to receive a copy. The complainant, how-
ever, found that the publication of a work was all hnrn•
bug, and that his name had been made use of in the list
of subscriptions for the purpose of defrauding other mer-
cantile men, many of whom followed hii example, and thus
the defendant had been daily enlarging his sphere of sub-
scriptions, by which he contrived to live without troubling
himself about the literary part of the labour at ail.
Sir C. MAasHALL---,Well, defendant, when are you
going to publish these anecdotes ?—lt otnrht to be out ziow,
but it. ;eat. I expect it howsomever.
S:r C. MARSHALL—DO you mean to say that you trill
immediately satisfy the subscribers ?—No, I don't mean to
say no such a thing.—(A laugh.)
Sir C. MARSHALL—A very pretty fellow you are to get
up a literary work.—l was doing it, but was prevented by
circumstance. The printer at Carlisle has disappointed me.
Si: C. MARSHALL (to the defendant)—So you have been
humbugging the London fiats, have you ?—I was recom-
mended among them from one to the other.—(Laughter.)
This• gentleman recommended me, and was of great use
to mc.

Sir C. /4.IIAIISTIALL—It is rather surprisg that so illite-
rate a person could induce any one to suppose that he was
qualified to write anecdotes of eminent mm:.
Mr. Ilobler---Any body will do to collect the materials,
which are put in form by persons of a very different de-
scription. It is like some of our Parliamentary speaking.
A Member, after stammering and hesitating on a subject
he does not understand, finds next morning, upon looking at
the papers, that he has the gift of the gab us well as the
bCst of them.—(A laugh.)
Sir C. MAhsHALL—W hat are you, my friend ?-1. was
intended for the priesthood, but I a'nt a priest. I was
brought up at a College near Durham, but I did'nt go far
in learning.
Mr. Hobler—Perhaps you would favour us with a little
Greek, as you seem to have forgotten your English ?
(Laughter.) Defendant—l don't speak no Greek at all,
nor Latin neither ; and I did'nt-go out of the rudiments of
my own lingo.

The complainant wished that some punishment should be
inflicted upon the impostor.
Sir C. MitastrALL said, that if gentlemen would believe
such statements from suck persons, ha could rot pretend to
cure them of their credulity ; and if the sole motive was
charity, the giver had no tight to make any complaint. He
refused to inflict any punishment, but hoped that a little
more caution would be exercised in giving subscriptions.
Some time ago he heard that a female in the nciltbourhood
of Russell Square was in the habit of raising money by so-
liciting with her pen, and upon making strict inquiry, he
ascertained beyond a doubt that she wrote letters upon the
authority of the court Guide, from four in the morning
till ten, when she breakfasted, and prepared to take her
rounds ; after which she returned to an excellent dinner
dinner and wine, and made further arrangements about her
correspondence in the course of the eveninsr.
A poor littlo boy, named John Smith, was charged with
having picked a pocket of a handkerchief.
When the Loy was first charged, the Lord Mayor recog-
nised him as a clever fellow who had got a premium in the
Bishopsgate charity school, of which his Lordship is a most
munificent supporter, and directed that the parish officers
should make inquiry about the case.
Mr. Booker (one of the parish officers) yesterday men-
tioned that. the statement made by the boy, who at once
'acknowledged that he had committed the robbery, was cor-
rect. The unfortunate child lnul lost both parents, and had
been turned out of doors oy his uncle, without a iend or a
farthing in the world. As begging produced little or no-
thing, he began about two year.F. a;;-o to pick pockets, and
had lived ever since by stealing handkerchiefs, and which
he disposed of at the rate of two or three per day, and was
most anxious to get out of so dreadful a way of life as soon
as possible, and by any means. Mr. Booker said he was
()vlle
by necessity to thieving, and
that
all thought of it if he had anything to
do. He said to me, said the. officer, " Where's the use of
discharging me ? No one will give me a morsel of bread,
and if I mean to live, I must steal again. God help me."
it,ee v,( !ou thek i bdoryp was driven
This case excited a great deal of commiseration.

So rigorous and oppresiiive is the censorship in
Austria, that no work whatever can be put to press until it has
undergone the revision and often conflicting alterations of
these offices.

ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—Ott Monday even-
ing, between eight and nine o'clock, another accident occurred
on the river off Battersea church, which had nearly been at-
tended by the less of eight lives. Mr. Jump, of the firm of
Bellamy and Co., jewellers and watchmakers of Pall-mall,
and his family, consisting of Mrs. Jump, three sons, and a
daughter ;Mr. Gulstone, of the Ship, Vauxhall-bridge-road,
and a Mr. Whitby, in all eight persons, were returning in a
wherry from Mortlake ; when off Battersea church, near the
Surrey shore, at which time Messrs Whitby and Jump were
rowing, a rope was observed in the water, apparently affixed
from a barge moored off the shore, and extending to the masts
of the Alarm sailing-vessel, which sunk on Monday. The dis-
covery of the rope was made too late, it being dusk at the
time, and the bow of the wherry coming in contact with it, she
immediately filled. Mr. Whitby jumped on the barge, whilst
the other seven persons were immersed in the water, clinging
to the rope. The scene was of the most distressing and
alarming nature. The cries of the sufferers brought a number
of tvatermen, as also the inhabitratts of Battersea, to their as-
sistance ; but in the interval of time, the daughter of Mr.
Jump, a fine young woman, twenty years ofa,ge, had loosed her
hold of the rope from exhaustion, and had sunk twice. She
was happily, on rising a third time, picked up by a. watcrman
named Bridge. The rest of the party continued to hold by
the rope until they were rescued from their perilous situation.
Much credit 13 due to the two v:atermen, Bride and Platt, who
were chiefly instrumental in saving the lives of the whole party.
THE SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES BILL—The
Commission of the General Assembly met here on Thursday,
for the purpose of expressing their opinion of the character
and tendency of the Universities 13ill introduced by the Minis-
ters. A resolution condemnatory' of the entire Bill was car-
ried by an overwhelming majority. We trust that the deci-
sion of so numerous and influential a meeting will have its full
weight with the Legislature, and induce Ministers to withdraw
their Bill. It has given almost universal dissatisfaction -in
Scotland; and surely a Government who profess to defer so
completely to public opinion are hound to comply with its
loud and deliberate expression with regard to the prope!ed
mgasure.-4'dinburgh Evening Post.