The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-20 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.

Yesterday four most determined looking ruffians, veil()
gave their names Charles Braille, John Houston, and John
and Charles Poole (brothers) were charged with a despe-
rate outrage,
The prisoners, after a most severe lecture, were fined 51,
each, being 201. altogether, and in default committed for
two months.

QUEEN- S Q UA RE.
Margaret Skelly, servant to Mr. Choffy, of the New Stu•
and Crown, Broadway, Westminster, was yesterday charged
with robbing her master, under the following singular cir
cumstances :—For a length of time past prosecutor had
missed articles of different descriptions ,to a considerable
amount, but could in noway account for their disappearance.
This induced the son to hide himself, after the house was
shut up on Sunday night, in the bar parlour, and he had
been there but a few minutes when be heard something
jump on the staircase like a cat, and in a minute or two
afterwards the prisoner walked into the bar, filled two
bottles of brandy from the taps, helped herself to some
sugar and cold meat, and then to some silver and half-
pence from the till. The prisoner slept at the top of the
house, and as the door crossing the staircase was locked,
he could not imagine how she came there, and, on fol-
lowing, to his surprise discovered that she had fastened
a long strip of calico to the banisters above the door on
the landing, and had by that means descended a distance
of twelve or fourteen feet. At the very moment he laid
hold of her, she was running up the shroud,: with- the
alacrity of a sailor, part of the provender she had stolen
being in her pocket, and the remainder slung round her
body, the lady being en chemise.
It was ascertained that the prisoner had taken several
other things previously.
She was fully committed for trial.

WILNA, OCT. 28.—(From the Russian Papers.)
—ln consequence of a conspiracy discovered in the king-
dom of Poland and in the Western Governments, one of
the ringleaders of which, Simon Konarsky, with many of
his accomplices, is in prison at Wilna, his Majesty the Em-
peror has been pleased to order that all the property, real
and personal, of the participators in seditious plots shall be
immediately sequestrated, and placed under the care of the
Crown ; and this measure is to be applied not only to those
persons who are now under arrest in consequence of the
suspicion which attaches to them, but to all others who in
the course of the investigation shall be accused and found
guilty, so that the sequestration shall take place at the
same time with the arrest of such persons. The Military
Governor of Wilna has therefore sent to the Governor of
the province of Wilna a list of the persons implicated who
are in confinement, and proposed to it immediately to adopt
measures to sequestrate the real and personal property of
such persons wherever it may be found, that it may be
placed under the superintendence of the Crown. The list
contains the names of fifteen persons.—Prussian State Ga-
zette, Nov. 15.

EXTRAORDINARY LEAP.—On Tuesday morning,
as Mr. T. Crook, of Broomfield, was sitting in his parlour,
he was surprised by the breaking of the window, and the
sudden appearance in the room of one of his large deer—it
had leaped through one pane of glass only, and had not,
broken the window frame. The intruder was easily cap-
tured, when it was found to be much cut. The size of the
pane was only 25 inches by 17.—Chelmsford Chronicle. (!)
On Saturday evening, as Mr. Newton, of St. Faith,
was returning home, he was stopped near the toll-bar by
two men, who demanded his money ; beinr, a powerful
man, he knocked the first man down, and had nearly over-
come the other, when a third fellow, from behind, struck
him a violent blow on the head, which broke his skull ;
the three ruffians then stamped on his body, and robbed
him of his watch and 30s. Mr. Newton, who is likely to
do well, notwithstanding the serious nature of his injuries,
threw his purse into the grass during the struggle, where it
was found the following morning.—Bury Post.
Dowton is one of senior actors on the British
stage, and, though upwards of seventy years of age, enjoys
all his faculties, like Braham, is full of life and dramatic
ardour, and acts with great vigour.
Herbert, the, son of the late Mr. S. Branker, of
Favant, who was born blind, fell into a pond near his
mother's residence on Saturday se'nnight, and was drowned.
This young gentleman, although labouring under this
severe deprivation, had acquired great skill in playing on
the piano and organ ; he also sang with great taste and
judgment. He was in the habit of walking for miles round
the country without a guide, in one of which rambles he
lost-his life.
Since the acquittal of that infamous woman, named
Levy, at the last Central Criminal Court Sessions, the pro-
stitution nuisance in the Strand has become worse than
ever ; indeed it has proceeded to such a fearful extent that
it is impossible for any respectable female to pass from the
new church to Wellington-street, particularly, without her
ears being assailed with the most disgusting language.
These wretches insist upon claiming the pavement as a
right, and in many instances respectable persons, rather
than come in contact with them, are compelled to cross the
Strand or walk in the road. Something ought to be done
in the matter, for the police seein verylittle inclined to afford
the necessary- protection to persons passing that way. It
is to be hoped that the Magistrates of the district will look
to the subject.