The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-12 00:00:00

THAMES.

J. B. Cutler, proprietor of the Red Lion public-
house, Batty-street, Commercial-road East, was
charged with keeping his house open for the sale of
beer and spirits within the prohibited hours on Sunday
week.
Mr. Childe, of the firm of Wire and Childe, attended
for the defence.
Dunimore, 127 H, proved that he saw several per-
sons enter and leave the house from nine to ten o'clock
on Sunday, the 2d instant. Amongst them was a
woman who brought out a half-pint of gin, which
witness ascertained to be such. After this discovery,
a child was leaving the house with a vessel in her
hand, but defendant, on seeing witness, snatched it
from her, and hastily closed the door. Witness then
knocked, and the door was opened, but the defendant,
when charged with Sunday trading, said he had served
nothing that morning.
Mr. Childe for the defence, called Wm. Wilkinson,
a retired publican, who swore that he was in the Red
Lion all the morning, and during the time no one
came into the house.

Mary Ward, a servant girl in the defendant's em-
ployment, swore that she went out several times from
nine until half-past ten in the morning alluded to, and
she was positive no female was served with beer or
spirits during that period.
Mr. YARDLEY observed that the solicitor would have
exercised a wiser discretion had he abstained from
calling witnesses. It was shocking and disgraceful
in the last degree to bring persons forward to forswear
themselves in so gross and reckless a manner. There
could be no doubt that the defendant had violated
the law, and he must pay a fine of 51.
The fine was instantly paid.
A publican, named Schooley, proprietor of the Rain-
bow, in Burn street, North-street, St. George-in-the-
East, was summoned for a similar offence on the same
day. Three constables of the .1-1 division distinctly
proved the Sunday trading.

A man named Tate, who said he lodged two years
in the house, was called for the defence. He said he
was in and out collecting the pots four or five times,
and could swear that no person had been served during
the morning.
Another witness, named Summers, deposed to the
same effect.
Mr. YARDLEY observed that the line of defence in
these cases exhibited a terrible relaxed state of moral
feeling. One man, who, by his own admission, had
been in and out four or five times, swore that nobody
had been served. He could not put such testimony
against the evidence of three police-constables, who
had no interest in the question. The case was a
shocking one. The defendant was charged with a
minor offence, and, to avoid the penalty, he suborned
witnesses to perjure themselves.
The defendant was then fined 5/. and costs ; but
on pleading inability, he was allowed a fortnight for
the payment. _ _

RoBBEIiY IN THE LONDON Doc.-s.--WilliamJohn
Williams, a carman, out of employ, was charged with
having, in conjunction with another unemployed car-
man, named Sims, been concerned in stealing a bottle
of quicksilver from one of the warehouses in the
London Docks. Sims has. already been committed
on the charge. The felony was rather ingeniously
contrived, and would seem to imply connivance on
the part of others not in custody. It appeared that
on the 21st ult. a cart was sent to the dock to take
some cochineal from one of the warehouses to Butt-
street, Spitalfields. After it was loaded, the prisoner
took the nose-bag from off the horses' head, and
emptied half the contents into the waggon. Sims,
the man previously sent for trial, then brought out a
bottle of quicksilver from one of the warehouses,
which he handed to the prisoner, who placed it in
the nose-bag, which he again slung over the horse's
head.. The action was observed by some of the
men at work in the adjoining warehouses, who gave
information to Mr. Sayer, the dock constable ; he
instantly took Sims into custody. The prisoner
Williams was taken into custody on Monday
evening. _ _

The evidence was perfectly conclusive, and he too
was committed for trial.

PARTRIDGE KILLING EXTRLORDINART.—We have
been informed that Mr. Clift, butcher, on Sunday morn-
ing last, about four o'clock, while standing in an orchard
adjoining tho railway between Gloucester and Bristol,
and about seven miles from Gloucester, observed a par-
tridge rise just before the down mail train, and it ap-
peared as if directly struck down by the engine, which
was at full speed. Mr. Clift proceeded to the line, and
there found a covey of five partridges lying dead. What
is the strangest part of the matter is, that only one of
the birds seems to have been touched by the train; the
others seem to have been frightened to death.—,Bristol
Mirror.