The Sun.
London, England, 1831-01-19 00:00:00

B OW-STREET.

Yesterday a young matt, with a gipsey cast of
countenance, who gave the name of Elias Gray,
was charged before Mr. MIN.IHULL with having
attempted to extort money from Mr. Sadler, a grocer,
by accusing him of an indecent assault. The case
was fully proved.
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Mr. SaJler said he would bring forward the gen-
!email at whose house he dined on the day in clues-
ion, to prove the truth of his statement.
Ford, the getoler, said that to the best of his be-

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lief the prisoner was the same young man who was
some time ago charged with having attempted to
extort money from a gentleman in the Strand, by
imputing to him disgusting. propensities. On that
occasion he was pursued to the side of the river by
one of the Thames police, but he managed to escape
being taken by creeping into one of the common
sewers, where he lay concealed until the coot was
clear. So sudden wit; his disappearance that the
constable thought he must hare dropped int• the
river, and was drowned.

Mr. NIINSIICLL told Ford to bring forward the
Thames-policeman on Friday next, and in the mean
time the witnesses were bound over to prosecute the
prisoner for the capital chsrge at the next Old
Bailey Sessions.

UNION-HALL.
Yesterday, an engineer in the employ of Mr.
Maudslay, was charged with refusing to maintain
his wife, who was far advanced in pregnancy. It
appeared that the female had most imprudently con-
sented to meet, one evening, the medical man who
attended her husband during his illness, which cir-
cumstance had got to the latter's ears. le accused
her of it, and she did not deny it; but stated that
the doctor was surprised to find that she kept her
appointment, and advised her to go home. This did
not satisfy the husband ; and because she refused to
make oath that she had not entered a house with
the medical man, he turned her out of doors. On
appearing before the Magistrates, she positively
denied that her husband's suspicions were well-
founded ; but, on his urging her again to swear it,
she refused to do so. He then declared that he
would sooner rot in prison than take her under his
roof again. The wife here betrayed great agitation,
and was hurrying out of the office. On being
brought back, she confessed that she intended to
destroy herself by taking laudanum, a bottle full of
which was found on her. At the request of the
Magistrate, the overseers of Lambeth conveyed her
to the workhouse, until means are adopted to bring
about a reconciliation. The defendant was then
discharged.

REVERSE OF FORTUNE.—AMOIIgSt the
paupers who applied on Wednesday last at the Board-
room, St. James's, for relief, was the well-known Chevalier
RusriNr, dentist to his late .211aJEsTr, and who at one
time kept a large house in Pall-mall. The Board imme-
diately granted him a sufficient sum to relieve him and his
family for a few days, who are in great distress. The
Chevalier RITSPINI is, we believe, the founder of one of
our most admired public charities for children,—liforitiny
Post.

It appears that the English paupers return
the visit of the Irish paupers, if we may credit the follow-
ing extract from a circular letter from the Northumberland
Mendicity Institution in Dublin, Nov. 30, 1830 :—" To
the metropolis very many wretched objects inconsiderately
resort fur relief, who must either be assisted or perish.
Of 2,820 admitted on the books within the last ten
mouths, 1,7772 were not of Dublin, of which number
nearly 500 were English."