The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-22 00:00:00

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS.

The tide of prosperity, if the present flourishing state
' of affairs can be taken as an indication, has fairly set in,
to the great benefit of the treasuries of all the metropo-
litan theatres. Success like the present is the more cheer-
ing after the stagnation that prevailed during the eventful
year just terminated, in the theatrical as well as in nearly
every other profession or vocation. That dramatic enter-
tainment has received a fresh, and we trust a lasting
impetus from the gracious patronage and support be-
stowed upon it by her most gracious Majesty cannot be
denied, and that they will continue in their present
prosperous condition we have not the slightest doubt.
This is the more to be rejoiced at after the very great
exertions that have been made by the managers of the
different theatres to emulate each other in the production
of a novelty to welcome the generally prophesied
prosperous year 1849. Although pantomime has coma
forth with unusual force, it has encoantered such oppo-
sition from young and vigorous burlesque, that we fear is
a short time we shall have to number it among the
things that were. However, it is possible for old panto-
mime to recover his lost laurels, such as he possessed at
the time when Mother Goose was produced—he may, we
say, dare then, but not till then, burlesque even to the
encounter. At the little theatre in the Haymarket,
Mr. Webster, we see, has announced for to-morrow
evening The Stranger, and one of the most laughable
farces in the language, Twice Killed, for representation,
with nearly the same cast as they were produced at
Windsor Castle on Thursday last, when the royal
and distinguished audience were " delighted." We have nu
doubt that they will draw crowded houses for some
time. The only novelty produced at the Lyceum since
the Christmas tribute is a petite comedy entitled TM
Speaks First?—in which Mrs. Yates and Charles Ma-
thews, appear. Planchifs extravaganza, The King of the
Peacocks, supported by Madame Vestris, Miss K.
ritzy 'ilium, .Miss J. Coleman, Miss Marshall, Mr.
Harley, and John Reeve, drawing overflowing houses.
At the Princess's the new opera by Harold, called.
Marie, has proved a card, Miss Poole sweetly sustaining
the principal part. At Shakespere's home—Sadler.'
W(lls—henry VIII. has been admirably produced, and
draws a bumper every evening it is played. At the
Mar)lebene Mrs. Mowatt and Mr. Davenport appear
every evenit.g in a new piece, of which the former
is the authoress; it is 2,,1 excellently constructed play,
and will have a run. At the Adelphi nothing new has
been prod, c,d since Christmas; Dickens's flaunted Mae
and the Enchanted Isle being sufficient for some time to
come to draw crowds to this very favourite theatre. A.
new drama by Mr. Roberts, entitled Brigands in the Bud,
is co be produced this evening at the Olympic Theatre,
Mrs. Stirling sustaining the principal part, supported by
Compton: report speaks very favourably of this well-
sounding petite drama. All the other theatres are
doing, as we have said before, as well as the mana-
gers of them could wish.

STEAM-BOATS ON THE THAMES.

TO THE LDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—On returning yesterday to Blackwall from
Gravesend, with my lady and daughter, in the boat
called the Brunswick, a shameful race took place be•
tween that boat and a small one called the Emmet,
which I understand is to be placed on the halfpenny
trade above bridge.
It is all very well for a set of men to try the speed
of their boats, but when ladies are present, and
nervous person like myself, I think such a contest.
disgraceful.
The boats were thrust paddle-box against paddle-
box, giving now and then violent shocks, each trying
their utmost to beat the other. This was continued
for five or six miles without one or the other gaining
an inch, excepting by a species of jockeying, which
when,the boats came together the shock gave first one
and then the other a few feet. Surely such conduct
on board a boat opened fur the accommodation of
passengers ought not to be allowed. Hoping, you
will favour me by putting this note into your widely
circulating paper, where it will meet with the eye of
the proprietor of these boats,
I have the honour to be Sir, Sic.,
Jan. 20, 1849. G. H.

NAMES OF STREETS AND
SQUARES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—lt is really a disgrace to the cities of Londot
and Westminster, the negligence exhibited in the
matter of having the names of the streets and square►`
properly designated and marked at the different cor-
ners of the same. It is absolutely impossible for ti
stranger to find his way, and even those who arta
well acquainted with the different localities, like
myself, are often greatly at a loss to find their way.
A few evenings since, in the neighbourhood of Bed
Lion-square and Holborn, I could not discern the
name of a single street ; and it is exceedingly annoy-
ing to be obliged to call in at a dozen shops, as. !Yrs:
the case with me, to know where I was, thliswin.te__
rupting people in their business. Only a te.nnar:
since, while in one of the numerous squareso .2
mate
neighbourhood of Bedford-square, a
nbl_ cl_praraZ
accosted me, and said he knew he was 1 a '
but could not tell which,•
vain in all directions, without beingd
tbere being," shops
a single name anywhere;
which
h occurred
boasts
oitn.:inp
and time, in ilk
there, I was obliged to wait
I could procure the
heavy shower of rain,
from
and asked mahele
to recognise
reclookognediseja
A passenger. I will
necessary information
could venture to say' thhiiiso
Europe, as there is scarcely t
in
other city the names of the
but has streets pro•
the continent
perly marked,
w city in Europe, isshamefullydefi-
cient
the best regulated
t.
in this respect. A PEDESTRIAN.

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500 to 520 toCoals dolls. 11.500 to dolls. 13.000. Salt,
refs. Letters from Buenos Ayres to 24th 06
November, at which date all was quiet. Air. Sotherons
our Minister, had landed his furniture, and was furuish..
ing a residence he had taken.
STATE OF TRIDE.—BIRMINGIIAM, SATURDA.Y.me
The trades of this town generally, as compared with the
corresponding period of last year, continue brisk. At
the concluding meeting of ironmasters held at Dudley,
a still stronger opinion prevailed than previously ex-
pressed as to the firmness of existing prices. Commer-
cial travellers, now Christmas has closed, are resuming
their journeys, and the home trade in a few weeks is
expected to make a further advance. From America,
so far as Birmingham manufactures are concerned, the
latest intelligence is favourable. Important arrivals tney
be looked for next week.
r On Saturday morning an accident happened to a
boy of the Lame of R. Radford. while engaged cleaning
upon examinee
the back parlour windows of the house, 79, Cromer-
street, Gray's Inn•road. It appears that while so en•
gaged ho missed his hold and fell into the area beneath.
Ile, was immediately picked up, when,
tion, we are happy
bruises. that ho escaped with a few
The commercialtiontsealyligence by the India mail is
again regarded as itisfactory, the demand for cotton
manufactured goods being especially active both at Cal-
cutta and Bombay. The report of the Chinese markets
is not so favourable, but there appears to be no grog
apprehension of a continued decline.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
CHANCELLOR'S COURT, York, Jan. 18.
(Before the Worshipful GRANVILLE HARCOURT Vt:a-
.. NON, Chancellor.)
The court was crowded to hear the following case.
'which has excited th, greatest interest in this city and

county:—
THE OFFICE OF JUICE PROMOTED BY BIJUDER v. HALE.
Dr. R. Phillimore and Mr. Travis were advocates,
and Mr. Askwith proctor for the promovent ; Mr.
Blanshard, advocate, and Mr. Mills, proctor, for the de

fondant.
The prayer of the promovent was that the Judge
pronounce that the promovents proctor had sufficiently
proved the articles by him given in and admitted in
this cause, on the part and behalf of Mr. John Burder,
bis party, and that the Rev. Richard Hale, clerk, the
party accused and complained of in this cause, may
be canonically and duly corrected and punished accord-
ing to the exigency of the law, and be also condemned in

costs.
Dr. PHILLIMORE proceeded to state that this was a
case in which the office of judge was promoted by let-
ters of request to the Chancellor of this Court, and trans •
mated by Joh❑ Burder, of No. 27, Parliament-street,
Westminster, against the Rev. Richard Hale, vicar of the
vicarage and parish church of Harewood, in the diocese
of Ripon and province of York, and also rector of the
parish of Goldsborough, in the same diocese and pro-
vince, in answer to certain articles touching his soul's
health and the lawful correction and reformation of his

manners and excesses; and more especially for that he
bad caused great scandal to the church by his irreverent
and unseemly conduct in the pulpit, both before and
during the time of preaching his sermon, and also
by quarrelling, chiding, and brawling by words
- during such times in the parish church of Harewood.
These letters of request were sent on the 17th of
July, 1847, and the cause progressed through the
Yariotes stages. The Learned Advocate then went
in detail through the articles, twenty-two in number,
,hid against the defendant, from which we gather the
following history of the case:—ln 1801, on the 13th of
August, Mr. Hale was inducted to the vicarage of Hare-
wood by the then Archbishop of York, which vicarage
was then in the diocese and province of York, but is now
in the diocese of Ripon. On the 18th of November,
'lBO3, Mr. Hale was inducted to the rectory of Golds-
borough, by the Bishop of Chester. The sixth article
chaste" that during the past two years (that is, the two
rears previous to the date of the letters of request, July
17, 1847), Mr. Hale, being wholly regardless of the
sacredness of the place and of his duty in the perform.
ance of the divine offices, had been in the habit, in the
• church at Harewood, of making offensive personal re-
marks and observations in a chiding, quarrelling, and
brawling manner, on many of his parishioners, by which he
bad caused great scandal to the church and caused many
of his parishioners to abstain from attending the church.
The 7th alleged that during this period the defendant
had introduced into his sermons divers grossly offensive
observations against the Earl and Countess of Hare-
wood, by which they and their family had been driven
from the church. The Bth stated that on the sth of
November, 1845, a dinner was given at Harewood-house
in celebration of the majority of Viscount Lascelles, the
eldest son of Lord Harewood, at which the health of the
Bishop and clergy was given, and thanks were returned
by the Rev. Mr. Shepherd, one of the clergy of the
diocese of Ripon; and it alleged that, on the following
Sunday, Mr. Hale in the course of his sermon, alluded
to that proceeding in words to this effect:—" I took up
the paper the other day, and saw a long account of what
has been going on during the week. I saw they toasted
the Bishop of the diocese and the clergy, when one of
my reverend brethren got up hiccupping drunk to
return thanks." The 9th article charged- Mr. Hale
with having, on Sunday, March 1, 1846, used the follow-
ing words in a brawling manner, viz , " While I am mi-
nister of this parish I consider myself responsible for the
Protestant worship in this church. I have observed
lately some persons bowing and curtseying when pro-
nouncing the name of Jesus; it it continues I shall take
it as a personal insult, and will find occasion to expose
them publicly before this congregation." By the 10th
article Mr. Hale was charged that he, a few days after
the above circumstance, sent the following letter to
Joshua and Mary Ann Barrett:—" Mr. Hale is very
jealous of any Popish customs being introduced into
the Protestant worship of his church ; and as the
making bows or curtsies at the same of Jesus is one
of those, and has no authority from Scripture or the
Prayer• book, he shall fed. it his duty to notice in the
church those who in defiance of his admonitions per-
sist in observing them. Mr. Hale hopes that the perusal
of the enclosed tract will convince Mr. and Mrs. Bar-
rett of the impropriety of such customs." The 13th
articles alleges that on Sundry, the 15th day of March,
in the same year, Viscount Lascelles and the lion. Arthur
Lascelles attended Harewo al Church with a troop of
yeomanry, of which they were in command; that during
his sermon Mr. Hale made a personal attack upon the
said Viscount Lascelles and the Hon. Arthur Lascelles,
in these words:—" I have got you here in the pew, and
now I will lash you ;" and that during the sermon Mr.
Hale made many offensive, abusive, and unseemly obser-
vations upon the Earl of Hare wood and his family.
One of these was—" You are tawdry-laced, jacketed
jackanapes and popinjays." The 16th article alleged
that, on the same Sunday (March 29), the defendant,
addressing his congregation, -and alluding to Mrs.
Barrett; said, " I see that woman still continues to
insult me by bowing to the name of Jesus. Where is
her modesty, I ask, whsn she knows a hundred heads
are turned to look at her? A saucy, pert intruder—
where is her husband's authority? But I doubt that
already the grey mare has become the bstter horse."
The 18th article alleged that on Sunday, the 17th of the
said month of January, during the preaching of his
sermon, defendant feequently referred to John Gregery
Smi:h, then present, as "his friend the reporter;" and
in an angry tone remarked, " Are your pencils ready
sharpened? Take ie down. Bray it in your mortar and
send it off to head-quarters. You will get your reward
—perhaps a lunch, with a ham and a bottle of port wine;
no bad things either ; they are not to be laughed at.
You can take your garbled notes in one pocket, and a
gallipot in the other." And again, on referring to the
Apostle Peter denying our Lord, defendant turned to
Mr. Smith's pew, and said with great emphasis that he
- was "a lying scoundrel." Dr. P•nillimore then referred
to the responsive allegations of the defendant, in which
he denied many of the expressions attributed to him, and
"explained others in a way to deprive them of the in-
decorous character attributed to them in the articles.
The Learned Doctor animadverted in terms of severity
on the conduct of the rev. defendant, the fruit of whose
forty-five years' incumbency had been the establishment
of five Dissenting chapels amongst a population of 2,000
- parishioners, and concluded by calling on the Court to
- pronounce such a sentence of lengthened suspension as
should teach Mr. Hale his duty, and protect his parishio-
ners from the insults to which they had been exposed.
Mr. BLANSLIARD was heard at considerable length on
behalf of Mr. Hale, after which the Court adjourned to
the following day.
On Friday the CHANCELLOR declared that in his
opinion a case had been made out against Mr. Hale
upon some of the articles, and he sentenced him to be
suspended from his ministration for six m.;nths ; that
he be condemned in the costs of the suit ; and that he be
admonished to refrain for the future ix ous the practices
alleged against him.

INSOLVENT' DEBTORS' COURT, Jan. 20.
LIBEL—IN RE JAMES HENRY CHAPPELL.
The ia.olvkTrit, an American, was oppoed by Mr.
Cooke, fa- Mr, Minister, habitmaker to her Majesty, for
damages awarded in an action for libel.
It appeared that the amount of damages awarded was
405., and the costs of tie action were up,vards of 1001.
The CHIEF COMMISSIONER, in giving judgment, said
the Court was governed by the amount given ; and,
acting on that principle, the eve was not an aggravated
one. It was further complained that the insolvent had
Made away with his property. The judgment was that,
for the damages, the insolvent In-, remanded fir three
months, and for disposing of his property, for four
calendar months.

The
,judgments are concurrent from the 28th el
November, when the vesting order was made.

IN RE CHRISTOPHER BELL.
•
The insolvent, armoury keeper in the Tower, applied
to be discharged.
The insolvent,
it appeared, had beenftVish enough to
accept accommodation bills, which had
pri,on. Ile had a salary of 801. a year. got him into
On the part of the insolvent an offer of 10/, a year
•
for the creditors was made.
Ills 11011017 R accepted the proposal, and stron ly re
commended the insolvent to abstain from "lendic his
name" to any person.
The insolvent was then discharged.
Mr. Dowsff appealed for immediate protection-to an
insolvent who had just filed his petition. According to
the usual practice, the protection would not be issued
until Monday, and he had an affidavit showing that an
execution was out either against his person or property.
There property,
e was some and,if it was riot protected,
would be seized by the execution creditor.
The Cuixv
granted an immediate Comtismunder the cir-unis'ances
2,11.11, • •
protection.

COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL.
The Court of Criminal Appeal sat on Saturday in
the Exchequer Chamber. Thy following Judges consti-
tuted the Court :—Lord Chief Justice Denman, Mr. Baron
Parke, Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr. Justice Coltman, and
Mr. Baroin Alderson.
QUEEN V. SARAH WATERS.
•
• The prisoner in this ease was found guilty of having
' caused the death of an infant illegitimate child of
which she had been delivered. It appeared that she
placed the child upon a heap of ashes, and left it there
-exposed, by which expoiure its death was occasioned.
'There were two questions reserved by Mr. Baron Rolte,
who tried the case, but the only one upon which the ar-
gument turned was whether the age of the child had
been properly described in the indictment, it being al_
leged that, in order to prove that leaving exposed upon
the ashes was an unlawful act, it was necessary t 3 show
that the child was of tender age.
. Mr. CLARKE, Who appeared on the part of the
Crown (the prisoner was unreprestaited) contended
that the age of the person was immaterial so long
as it was alleged that the act done had been the came of
his death.
Mr. Baron .ALDERSoN said, if the plrty were twenty
years of age it would not be unlawful to leave hiin so
exposed, although it would be unlawful ta knock him
• down. But if the party a ere of tead,r years, for in-
-. stance, an infant, the act alleged would have been ilk
gal, and therefore it WAS necessary that the age should
be stated.
TiteCpArt, however, took time to con,ider their de-
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Mr. BALLANTYNE appeared oni,behalf of the appellant,
a point of law having been reserved by Mr. Baron Platt, ,
who tried the case, for the decision of this Court. There
were two counts to the indictment, one charging with
stealing, and the other with secreting, and the jury found
that the defendant having committed a mistake whilst
sorting the letters, secreted them in a water-closet, in
order to avoid the penalty which such a mistake might
subject him to. The question, therefore, was, whether
this verdict amounted to the act of stealing; and the
Learned Counsel contended that it could not,:and that it
simply amounted to an act of constructive larceny. The
property was in the honest possession of the prisoner,
and it did not appear that the secreting was with the
intention of taking the entire dominion over the pro-
perty out of the hands of the Post-office authorities.
Supposing, for instance, a servant were to take a book
from a library, and having injured or defaced it, were
to put it into the fire to prevent its being found out.
would it not be an unusual stretch of the law to find
him guilty of larceny?
Mr. Baron ALDEJesoN—There is no doubt about it
being a secreting, and I have a strung opinion that it is
a stealing also.—(Laughter.)
Mr. BALLANTYNE apprehended, however, that there
was no lucri causi in the case, because it could not be
imputed from the term " secreting " that he intended to
destroy the properiy or to separate the possession of it
entirely from the owner.
Lord DENMAN said the Act of Parliament applied to
persons who had dealings with Post-offic, letters, and
who had a most important trust reposed in them, placing
at times almost all the property of the country in their
hands, and, theretore, they were not placed in the posi-
tion of ordinary thieves and robbers. If a letter were
secreted for any purpose whatever, it amounted to
larceny; and it appeared to him that the indictment was
perfectly good under the statute, and that the stealing
had been satisfactorily proved.
The other Judges concurring, the conviction was af-
firmed.

QUEEN V. ALLEN.
In this case, which had been reserved by Mr. Baron
Rolfe, the Court decided that the conviction was good.

QUEEN V. HOLLOWAY.
The Court, in this case, which was reserved from the
.ast Liverpool Sessions, were of opinion that there was
no larceny committed by the defendant.
The conviction was, therefore, annulled.
QUEEN V. GEORGE READ.
This case was tried at the Surrey Sessions, and a ver-
dict of guilty found against the defendant for a criminal
assault upon a child.
After hearing counsel on both sides,
The Court held that the conviction was wrong.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.
John Smith and Thomas Ashby, two well known mem-
bers of the " swell mob," were placed at the bar by Ser-
geant Wicher, a detective officer, charged with com-
mitting a robbery at the shop of Mr. Jones, jeweller and
silversmith, 432, West Strand.
The prisoner Smith, being observed looking about the
Strand, was watched by the officer, who saw him join
the other, and after a short conversation they entered
the prosecutor's shop, where they remained only a few
minutes. They then proceeded up the Haymarket, and
having gone into a public-house the witness followed,
and having asked Ashby had he not lately returned from
Bristol, he replied that he had not, upon which they
were conveyed in a cab to Scotland-yard, and on Smith
was found 6s. ltd., in addition to a shilling of the reign
of the good Queen Bess, in excellent preservation, which
is supposed to have been stolen.
In Ashby's coat-pocket were found some gold pins,
and a halfdozen of silver-bladed knives, which the pro-
secutor identified as his property, which had been stolen
from his shop.
They were ordered to be remanded, to give time for
further inquiries,
Alfred Guest and Joseph Smith, two yonng men, were
charged on their own confession with breaking open a
desk belonging to Messrs. Bradshaw and Knowles,
house-decorators and painters, of Birmingham, from
which they stole the sum of 251.
The prisoners applied at the station-house to see the
inspector on duty, when they informed him of the rob-
bery, expressing a wish to surrender themselves to
justice, adding that when they possessed themselves cf
the money they came to town, and after wandering
about for some days fell in with a few nymphs in Ship-
yard, Temple-bar, who eased them of the few pounds
they still had.
They were ordered to be remanded until Tuesday next.
ROBBERY IN THE VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT.—A
tall, dark•complexioned, middle-aged man, who refused
to give his name or address, was brought up, charged
with picking pockets in Vice-Chancellor Shadwell's
Court, Lincoln's Inn.
The prisoner was pointed out to Mr. Uxley, a law-
student, by a barrister's clerk, as having stolen his hand-
kerchief, and before he could procure a constable, seeing
him stop another clerk, with whom he spoke femiliarly,
he asked about him, and was told that he bore a very
indifferent character, upon which he gave him in charge,
when it was discovered that another gentleman had had
his pocket also picked.
The prisoner, whose name was Wimbush, and who has
been convicted at the Central Criminal Court, and sea-
tenced to eighteen months' imprisonment for the rob-
bery of a casket of jewellery of the value of 1601., was
remanded till Wednesday next.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Alexander Mackenzie, son of Captain Mackenzie,
who Kas found in a starving state in the street by
the Mendicity Society's officers, and brought to this
court as a vagrant, came to thank \lr. Hardwick for
the assistance afforded to him in his destitute condition.
The young men's case, it will be recollected, came before
the public through the pubiic press, and this led to an
immediate clue to his relatiuns, who are of great resrec-
tabi!ity. The young man's appearance was so much
changed as hardly to allow him to be again recognised.
tits rags were replaced by decent clothes, and he appeared
otherwise comfortably taken care of.
Mr. HARDWIcx handed the young man a 5/ note and
three sovereigns, as the balance of donations from chari-
table individuals who had seen a report of his case. The
young man expressed himself deeply grateful for all that
had been done for him.
A person from the firm of Romford and Co., East India
agents, who accompanied the youg man into court, inti-
mated that the uncle of the young man had given such
orders respecting his nephew as would enable his em-
ployers, when the young man was sufficiently recovered,
to tied him suitable employment.
Jane Evans, an elderly woman, dressed very respec-
tably, was brought before Mr. ilardwick, charged with
having given a false character to a servant for the pur-
pose of getting the party into the service of Alfred Bat-
son, Esq., of 20, Bedford place, Russell-square.
Mrs. Batson stated that en th; 9th instant, being in
want of a servant, a footman, named James Cripps,
came and offered himself. The man referred to a Mrs.
Stephenson, No. 7, Duke-street, Portland place, who
would give him a good character. He also said if a
written character was preferred, Mrs. Stephenson, who
was then at her country residence, would send one. The
man said Mrs. Stephenson lived at Enfield Lodge, near
Reading. Witnt ss said she would call on Mrs. Ste-
pliensen, and the man then left the house, and the next
day caked again to say that Mrs. Stephenson would be
in toe n the lullowieg day at three o'clock. Witness went
to Duke-street at the time appointed, and was intro-
duced into the parlour, where she saw the prisoner, who
pays d herself off as Mrs. Stephenson. Witness inquired
about the character of Cripps, and the prisoner replied
had laved with her more than two years; that he
was sobs r, steady, honest, and a thoroughly goad
servant.. From these representations she engaged the
lulu as butler. Witness had not proceeded many yards
from the house, when a person came up to her and said
she had received a false character, and that the police
were then at No. 7, Duke-street, the house she had just
t, and that they would call on her in the evening.
Mary Coleman, servant to Mrs. Williams, No. 7,
Duke-street, identified the prisoner as the person who
had hired the parlours in her mistress's house. The
prisoner said et the time that she wanted them for two
hours a day te see her friends in, as she did not like to
go to an hotel.
Police sergeant 65 E said, from information he had,
he went to No. 7, Duke street, and hid himself in
the back parlour. He had not been there long
before the prisoner and another woman came into
the front parlour. The prisoner took a dress-
cap from a small box and put it on. The other
woman also put on a cap and apron. The prisoner
took some rouge and painted her face. About twenty
minutes afterwards a carriage drove up, and two ladies
got out, and were introduced to the prisoner. Witness
heard the prisoner give Cripps an excellent character.
Witness afterwards went to Reading, but could find no
such place as Enfield Lodge, nor was there a person
named Stephenson residing anywhere near Reading.
°`.l an un Ftroind-apyl a nightc , Regent's he heard that the prisoner was at
gent's Park, and having obtained a
warrant for her apprehension, ho went there and took
her into custody.
The prisoner said the lady was quite mistaken about
her identity. She had never seen the lady before, had
never given Cripps a character, nor had she ever been in
a house in Duke-street.
Mr. Hannevicie said he was satisfied, from the evi-
dence, that the prisoner had given a false character to a
person, with the object of procuring himainpg false
eh
a•.
family of Mr. Batson. The practice of giving
ratters might lead to so much evil, as parsons of bad
character might thus obtain admission into respectable
families for the purpose of committing robberies, that it
could not be too strongly repressed by the power of the
1a w . Nobody could
icroedritthhreere
mdeeneitahl,s,ainmdphriesesnhmouenldt:
therefore, fine her 20 e
deal f there hwe
tehwt ehreema nayf t
eother cs ae snetse
sentence
swhiothulhdabred
plarehpoaurre;datroid
had expired.
were numerous cases of the same
sortT toi) e police
biereo us agihdt t fho7tee ard.
WESTMINSTER.
TsuTEtar._RlNGvii,,T FRIGHTFUL
tCASE
ac OF FoDESTITUTION
uty t o
tWcoasEstesaTrtlxote;
that further subscriptions in the latethfeipguhbtllluel
destitution in Yerk-street, Westminster, are unnecessary
and had better be withheld. It is not essential that we
should offer any further remarks upon the matter at pre-
sent, but seine circumstances have come to light with
TC3peCt to the former proceedings and conduct cf this
'
family which induce us to offer these observations.
The following wser.e,
itir;ancs.m‘ivtt.eFd.,
ibiy; Friday night's
post:—F.
:_G .; j
H. N. 10:.: S. G. L., Se.; F. B. L., 10s.;
H. W. P., 10s.; a 51. note
(No 34.905); Two Brewers, 55.; T. W., 55.; Lady F.,
51. note (No. 54,831); W. H., 55.; R. G., 31.;
L. C., is.
Die later requested an acknowledgment in the papers.
No further contributions were received at this court on
Saturday, an intimation to the above effect being made
to two or three who attended for that purpose.
Sh rtly before the closing of the court a genteel and
rather pretty looking girl, who gave her name Mary
Ann Ilumpstead, was placed in the felon's dock, charged
with stealing a shawl, value 48.