The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-28 00:00:00

MARLBORO UGH-STREET.

Oliver Lodge was charged with having stolen a parcel
containing silk goods, &c., the property of Messrs. Tid-
marsh and Co., linen-drapers, Regent-street, and Thomas
Crow was also accused with having feloniously received the
same. With some difficulty part of the goods were found
in the possession of Crow, and another portion in the hands
of pawnbrokers, pledged by the same individual. A satis-
factory proof of the identity of Lodge having been pro-
duced, the Bench committed both the prisoners.

WORSHIP-STREET

On Saturday an elderly man named John Hall, who said
he was a shipwright, was charged with having swindled
several persons of sums of money. The prisoner pretended
that certain parties were entitled to property amounting to
170,0001. by an award of the Court of Chancery, but
having no ready-money for the prosecution of their claims,
they had offered him a third of the property for its reco-
very. He exhibited various documents which seemed to
give a colour to his statements, and the complainants, being
dazzled by the prospects he held out, advanced large sums.
He had obtained within the last two years from a Mrs.
Gibson, 401. ; from a Mr. Galledge, 301. ; from a Mr. Bow-
ler, 201., and various minor sums from other persons. The
prisoner denied that he intended to defraud the complainants.
The Magistrate remanded him until Tuesday.

John Niven was charged with stealing 90 yards of silk,
the property of Mr. Le Marc. The prisoner called upon
a relation of his, and having been left alone in the room, cut
the silk from a loom and absconded.

The prisoner was remanded for a week.

UMON-HALL.

On Saturday Mary Madi.r, a married woman, was
charged with annoying and breaking the windows of a
tailor, named Cody. It appeared that the lady's husband is
in the same line of business, and the complainant having
more trade than his neighbour, Mrs. Madix annoyed the
successful rival by throwing dead cats into his water-butt,
stopping up his chimney, and hanging him in effigy, affixing
to the gallows a goose, cabbage, and shears. On remon-
strating with her "in the most gentlest manner possible,"
she broke his windows.

The defendant denied the jealousy, and said she had been
" haggravated" by Mr. Cody calling her " monkey-faced
hindiwidual." She had no " hidea" of beinc, called out of
her proper name, and she smashed his windows..
The Magistrate fined her for breaking the glass, and re-
marked, that the old adage that " two of a trade could
never agree," was in this case verified.
On Saturday, Stowell, the informer, attended and pre-
ferred numerous charges againt cab-drivers and beer-shop-
keepers. The latter cases were shortly disposed of, the in-
former's witnesses having, in consequence of being dis-
charged, attempted a compromise, and the summonses were
dismissed. Mr. Braby, owner of the cab 952, attempted
to prove an alibi on the part of the driver, but failing, a
fine of 10s. and costs were inflicted, on the charge of " creep-
ing" along the streets, and plying for hire. Mr. Braby said
that in consequence of the great increase in hackney car-
riages (300 per cent.), the standing-room had been re-
duced one third, and from this cause the drivers were made
the victims of common informers. It was lamentable to
see, week after week, thirty or forty men kept from their
work, and he hoped the Court would instruct their own
police to do the business.
Mr. Alderman WOOD said that the matter would be duly
considered.

The other cases were then gone into, and five were con-
victed, which made 30s. the informer's moiety of the pe-
nalty. In six other cases he failed to prove the allegations,
and was ordered to pay the parties summoned I!. 19s. for
loss of time, leaving him minus 9s. beyond the payment for
summonses.

The Treasurer to the —Central Committee for the
relief of the distressed seamen and their families, sufferers by
the detention of the whaleships, we are gratified to learn, im-
mediately on receiving information of the arrival of the Lady
Jane at Stromness, and the dreadful state of, the seamen on
board her, forwarded 101., to Stromness by the Everthorpe, at
that moment on the point of sailing from this port for the
fishery ; and the Committee on the following morning, gave
orders for the dispatch of another remittance of 20/., without
delay.—Hull Packet.