The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNINCT, FEBRUARY l9, 1847.

results of their experience were these: That in a popu-
lation of 300,000 persons there had been committed
and tried, during the last seven years 2 51,000
persons !—ln the course of seven years ! Of these
persons, no less than one-tenth, or 5,500 odd, had
been offenders under seventeen years of age; and that
of those, not less than one-fifth—(he meant of the whole
51,000, not of juvenile offenders)—no less than one-fifth
or 10,000 upwards had been committed during those
seven years five times on an average. Consequently,
with respect to those offenders, the immediate, the
inevitable result was, that those offenders had been
punished four times after their first conviction, so
undoubtedly efficacious had been the punishment which
their laws had inflicted.—(Hear, hear.) Those magis-
trates went further. They had made investigations
which he thought was of incalculable value, and be
trusted he might be permitted to tender them the thanks
of their Lordships for them. They had examined four-
teen cases taken perfectly indiscriminately, out of that
number of juvenile offenders —(he wished to direct par-
ticular attention to those offenders, because he wished to
reform the discipline with respect to them—not to trust
to punishment, but trust to reforming them, and
because after offenders became a certain age, and
became hardened in wickedness, that reformatory
principle ceased to possess the principle of amendment
to the same extent ; he therefore looked to the younger
offenders, and he wished to direct attention to the state-
ments put forward in the petition—statements, which he
was merely embodying in his own mind. They selected,
as he had said fourteen juvenile offenders at random, and
carefully examined their circumstances. He should give
only two or three instances out of the fourteen, hut he should
observe that, the whole of the fourteen had been appre-
hended on the average fifteen tittles each.
Earl FITZ WILLIAM—There were not 51,000 per-
sons convicted ; that number only represented the coin-

mitmen ts.
Lord BROUGHAM—Certainly he had not said
Otherwise, but they had all been frequently discharged
without beingeommitted to trial. They had been committed
on an average, nine times each, during that period of
sevens ears. He would single out three persons in or-
der to show the good effects of the prison discipline.
The first case was that of a boy twelve years of age ,• be
could neither read or write; be was first apprehended in
September, 1838, and for the last time in January, 1842.
In three years he was apprehended sixteen times, and
he was committed for trial nine times. His sen-
tences were for various terms of imprisonment in
the common gaol, and he was convicted no less
than three of those eight times in three years and a half,
and ended by being transported for ten years. The se-
cond case he would bring under the consideration cf the
House, was the case of a boy aged ten years. He had
been fourteen times apprehended, and eleven times con-
victed. The third case was that of a boy only nine
years old, who, in the space of two years, was appre-
hended sixteen times, and convicted four times, and
ended by being transported for seven years. He hid long
been engaged in the study and adininistration of laws ;
he was, however, bound to open his ears to the voice of
wisdom, and not to shut his .eyes to such a fearful state
of things as this. What were the expenses of
this state of things? Why, the expense of convicting
these 14 individuals, amounted to 8891. In consequence of
the admirable arrangements of the magistrates of Liver-
pool, they were enabled to convict at much less cost than
I in most other places, but even with their good arrange-
' ments the cost of those convictions amounted to 8891.
Was it not time then seriously to inquire into this state
of juvenile crime. Were the Government dealing rightly
with human beings, even according to their knowledge
of human nature, in always appealing to the fears of
the prisoners rather than to their hopes, their feelings,
their capacities, and their wishes. He would call atten-
tion to the prayer of the petition, and request their
Lordships to appoint a searching inquiry into the
subject. The present state of the law was to take a
criminal, place him in the prison and convict him, and
when convicted he was either imprisoned or transported
—that was the only alternative. He was no friend to
transportation. It was neither economical to the
country, nor justifiable to the colonies where
the convict was sent. His principal objection
to that species of punishment was, that it was not suffi-
ciently appalling; it did not terrify the persons about to
commit crime. All the persons who knew anything
about the feelings of prisoners, concurred in saying that
imprisonment had far mote horrors for them than trans

portation. Then again look at the cost of this punish-
ment ; 4000 persons were sent out every year from this
country to the penal settlements, the cost of which was
half a million a-year ; the expense of keeping the same
number
,of persons in prisons in this country, for two
years, would be only 300,0001. The system of trans-
portation was therefore inefficient to the end, and ex-
pensive in its machinery. Their lordships should take
care that if they could not deter others from com-
mitting crime, they should at least take care that
tile prisoners did not come out of prison worse
than when they went in. The total number of convic-
tions in each year were 100,000 ; of this number, 96,000
retnahed in prisons at home. Did not imprisonment
actually make these persons worse ? Did not they, in
99 cases out of 100. come out of privet: infinitely more
demoralised than when they entered ? And what was
the poor convicts to do when they earn: out ? Was not
their character gone ? their family attachments gone ?
Were they not debased in their own eyes, and disgraced
in the c 3 es of their friends, upon whom their own dis-
grac:: was reflected ? They carried with them, wherever
they went, the sail effects of the, bad system of
punishment. Was it then to be wondered at
they should again go on to pursue a coures
of crime? Short imprisonments he denounced
on the authority of Mr. Pitt Taylor, and numerous
other authorities, as highly improper. The criminal
thought but little of the punishment, it was but a few
days, they thought only of passing the tune the best
way they could, and made no tlforts to improve their
mural condition. What, then, could be done to make

purisliment reformatory, and to prevent these persons
at the end of their sentence from falling into tha same
course of evil which had brought them there? lie was
proud to say that there were establishments calculated

to produce that end near Hamburgh, and in the depart-
ment of the Loire, at Metteray. • lie would call the
attention of the house to the mode of proceedings at
Metteray. The establishment was opened in the year
1839, since which period 521 persons bad been
received. No person was admitted but male
convicts under sixteen years of age. The
establishment was conducted by one m -ster and two
assistants, called brethren, chosen to that situation by
the convicts from among themselves, the fear of being
sent back to prison was over the prisoner as a check to
their bad conduct. The inmates were educated in agri-
cultural and other pursuits. What .was the result of
this system? Of 521 persons admitted, 17 had died, 12
were sent back to prison, 144 had been placed in various
situations, and 128 were still remaining in the establish-
ment. Ile did not envy France its Algeirian colony,
its Spanish marriages, or the glories of Na-
coleon and Turenne, but he did envy- them
their model establishments, and he hoped that
soon this country would join in laudable rivalry
with them in the establishment of.those institutions.
He would not enter further into details, but p7O-ced to a
report which was made by the Rev. John Clay, -the
chaplain of the Preston prison. The Rev. Gentleman
stated that there were in that prison 1,050 prisoners,
562 of whom were utterly unable to real, and 226 who
could write a little. Now, just let their Lordships look
to the clll ets of that ignorance. There were 514 of
then who did not know the names of the months, 527
slid not know the Queen's name, and 490 of them were
unable to understand the plainest wordi ad tressed to
them, end did not know what the words virtue and vice
meant ; 62 of them could not count one. hundred, 242
could read and write a little ; and of the whole thousand
there were only twenty who had received anything
like an education. Those who were able to read
a little had read all those wild, detestable
and disgusting productions which issued from the press
of this country, such as histories of bandits. highway-
men, murderers, thieves, and every species of disgusting
crime, with which the press of this country and of Faris
was polluted. All th, so persons hail perused such in
famous productions as these, and made him (Lord
Brougham) almost think that the ability to read was a
Curse to them rather than a blessing. The proportion
of persons convicted to the population of North Lanca-
shire was as one to eleven hundred, but in South Lan-
cashire it was as one to five hundred. He maintained
that they could not go on as they did at present. Times
had changed since the days of Sir Richard Ark-
wright. The manufacturing population then numbered
only a few thousands, but now it amounted to 800,000.
and when any portion of this large population was out
of work, they had no provision made fur a bad day, and
the consequence was, that they fell into criminal courses.
That
was a rea,on why their Lordship's should interfere
to reform the criminal law, that these persons should
escape the evil nalluencee to which they were now sub-
jected. It was with these iews that he brought the
subject before them, and if they agreed with him,
and should think that the time was come to
apply in good earnest to amend the administration
of the law,- -not only as regards the law itself, but the
prison discipline also, they would be prepared for a pro-
position, that he intended to submit to them shortly for
the appointment of a Select Cemmittee to investigate the
whole subject.
The Duke of RICHMOND concurred with his Noble
Friend, that their thanks were- due to the magistrates
who had called their attention to this subject, and to
the Noble Lord who had presented this petition. No-
thing could be of more importance than the subject of
criminal law, and he also believed that prison discipine,
under a judicious system might do much to effect a re-
form in juvenile offenders. They might at present send
a child of about nine years of age to prison, and keep
him there for six weeks or two months before trial, and
if convicted, the county magistrates, did not know what
to do with him. If they stamped on his brow

the word felon, they precluded him ever after obtaining
employment. He should like to know whether in the es-
tablishment at Metteray, which had been referred to, they
had been taken as they came,
_or had been selected.
The prestige of this country was greatly against giving
( mployment to any one who had been once convicted of
a crime, and any one so situated had no chance

ever of emploiment. He knew an instance of this,
where a man who had been sentenced to be transported
and was afterwards sent to Pentonville prison, in con-
sequence of his good conduct there, he was, after some
time, liberated. lie subsequently obtained employment

. - from a railway company, and, his good conduct in
his situation, obtained promotion; but some busybody
made acomp:aint to- the directors, and informed them
that he had been a convicted felon. lie was, therefore,
dismissed from his situation, and was now starving.
If, therefore, they sent a boy to Parkhurst prison, and
afterwards got him a situation, they might get them-
selves into a serape, from such cause as that to which he
wtohuel would moveesu t wouldf Gr an
r:oty referred. He should be very glad if his Noble
3ti'lyi.natodvtabne
Friendthought
tsausbejoeuest
country. 9taosthhee

_ -
Earl GREY agreed with the Noble Lord who just ad-

dressed the House, that the subject was one of very
great importance, and they would be satisfied to know,
from two papers which he had just laid upon the table,
that the subject had not escaped the attention of her Ma-
jesty's Government. They would find in them that the
views which had been so :ably put forward by
the Noble Lord were concurred in by the Government,
and that they intended to bring forward a measure
bearing especially upon juvenile offenders. Accordingly
a Bill would be brought in for the purpose of effecting
a reform in the criminal law, which all seemed to admit
was so much wanted. The great difficulty which
attended the present system, and which prevented them
from attaining such results as in France was, that the
boys, if sent out of prison, must necessarily be par-
doned.

Lord BROUGHAM observed that they were sent
back to prison if they misconducted themselves.
Earl GREY—Exactly so. If they misconducted
themselves in France they were sent back to prison,
but in this country there was no power of that
kind—they had no other resource but to turn
them out. That was a great difficulty, which
at present existed, and to remedy which the Bill pro-
posed was intended. Further, their Lordships would ob-
serve, from the minutes of council on the subject of
education, it was proposed to establish a penal school in
London, to which were to be sent, not only juvenile
offenders, but vagrants also. The whole subject also of
transportation had been under consideration, and in-
deed, he might say, that the measure proposed had
extended as far almost as the abolition of that punish-
ment. The Bill of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Home
Secretary, which was laid on the table, would fully
explain the system, and the details which it gave of
those transports who had been sent to Norfolk Island,
were such as would make their Lordships shudder. He
thought it right to make these observations in conse-
quence of what had fallen from the Noble and Learned
Lord with respect to the reformation of the criminal law.
The subject should continue to have the most serious
attention of the Government.

Lord BROUGHAM explained, that by the Ist and
2d of Victoria, the - institutions alluded to by the Noble
Earl were constituted in the way mentioned by him.
Captain Maconochie who deserved much praise for his
exertions, proposed that the nature of the punishment
should not be by time, but by the conduct of the pri-
soner, that ho should receive marks for good conduct,
and that, after obtainirig a certain number, he should be
set at liberty. Mr. Hill's plan was not so efficient, but
yet it was a very, good one. Atter the conviction of a
juvenile offender (Mr. Hill is the Recorder of Nor-
wich) he sent for the parents, guardians, or master of
the boy, sand alter having obtained a pledge that they
would watch over his future conduct, he set him tree,
after the imposition of a fine, or merely an admonition.
He had adopted this plan for four or five years,
with wonderful effect, as they had seldom been brought
before him again, as appeared to have been the case at
Liverpool. Of course he (Mr. Hill) could not tell
whether or not they had gone elsewhere and committed
like offences.

The subject then dropped.
DISTRESS IN IRELAND.

Earl GREY laid a dispatch on the table from the
Government of Nova Scotia, stating that the Assembly
had voted 1,0001. for the relief of the destitute poor in
Ireland and in the Highlands of Scotland. He (Earl
Grey) was sure their Lordships would rejoice at this
proof of the interest manifested by that Assembly in the
welfare of their fellow-subjects at home.--(Hear, hear.)

rise the Sale of the raisley and Renfrew Railway to the
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway Comp any,
and the Improvement of the said Railway by the !fatter
Company."
East of Fife (Markinch Deviation)—" to enable the East
of Fife Railway Company to deviate a portion of their -Main
Line, and to improve the junction thereof with the Edin-
burgh and Northern Railway, near Markinch."
Dublin and Drogheda (Branch from Navan to Kells)—" to
enable the Dublin and Drogheda Railway Company to make
a Railway from the Navan Branch of the Dublin ana Belfast
Junction Railway, in the county of Meath, to the town of
Kells, in the same county.''
Dublin and Belfast Junction and Navan Branch—." to
authorise the sale to the Dublin and Drogheda Railway Com-
pany of the Navan Branch of the Dublin and Belfast J unc-
tion Railway, and to enable the Dublin and Drogheda, the
Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway Company with a
Branch from Drogheda to Navan, the 'Ulster and the. Dun-
dalk and Enniskillen Railway Companies, or any of them,
to amalgamate with cne another."
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley (No. 2)
Branches—" to enable the Birmingham, Wolverhampton,
and Stour Valley Railway Company to construct Branch
Railways to Stourbridge, to Dudley, and other places, and for
other purposes."

The following Railway Bills were read a second time, corn
matted, and referred to the Committee of Selection :
Leeds and Thirak (LeedE, Durham, and Newcastle Exten.

sion, &c.).
Leeds and Thirsk (Deviation of Main Line in Crimple
Valley, tic.).
Leeds and Thirsk (Knaresborough and Boroughbridge
Branch).
Leeds and Thirsk (Eaglescliff and Stillingtcn Extension).
Leeds and Thirsk (Harrogate and Pateley Branch, &c.).
Leeds and Thirsk (Branch from Melmerby to North&ller-
ton, &c.).
Exeter and Exmouth.

Midland Great Western of Ireland (Extension from Athlone
to Galway).

NOTICES GIVEN AT TIIE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE.
The following Railway Bills are appointed to be read a
second time :

MONDAY, FEB. 22.
Caledonian (Branches to Canobie, &c.). •
Caledonian (Lease of part of Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle
Railway).
Caledonian (Branch across Clyde and Glasgow Station).
TUESDAY, FEB. 23.

South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole(Penistone, &c., and
Purchase of Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield,
Huddersfield, and Goole Railway, Dun Navigation, and
Dearne and Dove Canal ).

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 24.
Edinburgh and Northern (Burntislaud Pier, &c.).
Great Northern (Hertford, Hatfield, and St. Aiban's Branch),
Great Northern (Deviations between Grantham and York).
Great Northern (Deviations between Peterborough, Boston,
and Doncaster).
East Lancashire (Southport Branch and Preston Extension)
East Lancashire (Burnley Connecting Line).
East Lancashire (Deviations and Rawtenstall Coal Branch).
East Lancashire (Bury to Manchester).

PETITIONS ON PRIVATE BILLS.
HOUSE OF COMM ONS.
(Room 22, before Mr. Examiner SMITH.)
UNOPPOSED LIST.
The cases numbered from 321 to 339 inclusive in the
general list were disposed of to-day by Mr. Smith. The
standing orders were complied with in each case. They
were as follows :
Caledonian Railway (Purchase or lease of Wishaw and
Coltness Railway).
Wilsontown' Morningside, and Coltness Railway (Branches
to Benham Coal Works).
Caledonian and Dumhartonshire Junction Railway (Devi-
ations, &c.)
Stratlitay and Breadalbane Extension Railway.
Glasgow and Shotts'-road Act Amendment.
'Thorne and Crowle Moor Drainage and Improvement.
Colchester and Stour Valley, Sudbury and Halstead Rail-
way (Purchase of Stour Valley Navigation).
Dublin and Drogheda Railway (Amendment of Acts and
Purchase of Navan Branch Railway).
Southwark Improvement.
Ross, Cromarty, and Nairne District Road Act.
Aberdeen Improvements.
Worcester Improvements.
Shrewsbury and Chester Railway (New Branches).
East Lothian Central Railway.
Cork and Bandon Act, 1845 (Amendment of and Devia-
tion).
Cork; Blackrock, and Passage Amendment Act.
There were no opposed cases in Mr. Smith's list to-day.
(Room 23, before Mr. Examiner Mix.)
OPPOSED CASE.
EDINBURGH AND NORTHERN.
Mr. May was engaged the whole of the day in hearing the
allegations in this opposed case. Several of them were sus-
tained, but the inquiry had not terminated when the exami•
ner rose.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
ROUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 18.
The House sat today to hear appeals. The Peers present
were the Lord Chancellor, Lerd Brougham, and the Earl of
Hardwicke.
SIR DAVID BAIRD, BART., V. BAIRD AND OTHERS.
The arguments in this appeal from the decision of the
Court of Sesgsion in Scotland, occupied their Lordships the
whole morning, and appear likely to take up the time of the
House for several days. The case is totally devoid of any
interest except to the parties concerned, the question being,
whether, under a deed of entail, executed by Sir John Baird,
of Newbyth, in August, 1737, the heir in pOssession of the
property, the present appellant, Sir David Baird, was effcc-
tually restrained from selling or alienating the lands included
in the entail. The Court of Session decided that he was,
and from that decision the present appeal was brought.
The Lord-Advocate, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, and Mr. James
Anderson, were counsel for the appellant; and Mr. James
Stuart Wortley and Mr. Bolt appeared in support of the
judgment of the Court below.

SHERIFFS' COURT, Feb. 18.
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BUaCHELL.)
ROBINSON V. HOLMES, M.P.
This was an inquiry which was set down for hearing on
the last Court-day, and stood first on the list to-day.
Mr. Thomas appeared for the plaintiff, but the cause was
struck.

The defendant is known as the " whipper-in "of the House
of Commons. The nature of the case did not trangpire, but
it was understood to have reference to some political sub-
ject; there were a great number of letters to be read.

IIIOCKWOOD V. CIIALLENOR.

The plaintiff is an auctioneer and house-agent, near Port-
man-square, and the defendant is the proprietor of some
houses in Elm-tree-road, Grove-end-road. The action was
brought to recover the sum of 31. 3s. 6d. for work and labour.
The defendant pleaded payment of 1/. 12s. 6d., and denied
his liability as to the remainder.
Mr. Titomns appeared for the plaintiff, and called wit-
nesses, from whose evidence it appearel that the defendant
offered to give up his house, called' Elm Lodge," which was
to be divided into two parts, and let on lease, the leases to
be prepared at the expense of the lessees. The plaintiff was
employed to make out inventories of the fixtures. There
was also some repairs done under the direction of the plain-
tiff, and the present charge was 11. lls. 6d. for the schedule,
and 1/. 12s. for the work done, which were fair and reason-
able charges._

For the defendant it was contended that the schedule was
to be taken as part of the lease, and ought to have been ob-
tained at the expense of the lessee. 1/. 12s. was proved to
be paid to plaintiff's clerk, but the money was afterwards
sent back. It was urged that this was a vexatious-action,
as the 1/. Ils. Gd. coull have been recovered in the County
Court. '

Mr. THOMAS, in reply, contended that the unfairness was
on the part of the defendant to entrap plaintiff to receive a
smaller sum than due by paying a clerk who was not aware
of tne facts, but the money .had been sent back as soon as
the circumstance became known to defendant. The plaintiff
was in such a case fully justified in bringiug an action, but if
lie recover less than 405., he would be liable to pay double
costs.

The UNDER-SHEZIFF said that the leases could not be
prepared with a schedule, if the landlord did not furnish it.
If the IL 12s. 6d. had been paid, and more was due, and the
money was returned, then it ought not to be considered as a
payment. If the defendant had had a bill for 31. 3s 6d., and
then sent 11.125. and a receipt ready, written as for an account
delivered, it was taking such an advantage that it went
against him.

-.The jury immediately gave a verdict for the full amount
claimed.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
FOSTER V. IRELAND.
Sir,—ln this case the plaintiff brought his action to
recover the sum of 101/. 10s., for his services as an
architect and surveyor, in and about his superintending
the building of some houses at Walworth for the de •
fendant; to which the defendant pleaded a sett off to the
amount of 681. 2s. 6d. for goods sold and delivered, and
a tender of 151. before the action was commenced, and
also pail that 15/. into Court. The jury gave a verdict
for the defendant, and not as was stated, for the plaintiff
Yours, very obediently,
EDWARD GOVETT, Defendant's Attorney.
7, Red Lion-square, Feb. 18, 1847.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
TUE ROBBERY AT SAVORY'S CORNHILL.—A young
man, who stated his name to be William Jones, but who
is known by the police as Billy Jones, was brought be-
fore Aldermttn Gibbs, in the custody of George Trew
(City policeman 26), charged upon suspicion of having
been concerned in the robbery of Mr. Savory's shop in
December last, on which occasion watches of the value
of 1,0001. were stolen by some very expert thieves.
Joseph Bassett, clerk to Mr. T. Cox Savory and Co.,
of No. 54, Cornhill, said at about eight o'clock on the
15th of February, I came-to work. At about twenty-
five minutes past nine o'clock I bad to go out for a few
minutes, and I came cut leaving everything safe in the
shop, and locking the door after me, and taking the key.
I remained away about five or six minutes at the fur-
thest, and upon my return I found the door open, and
that the whole of the property which had been left safe
on the,counter had disappeared.
Alderman GIBBS—You had nobody in the shop with
you ? Witness—Nobody whatever.
Alderman Gains—And at what do you estimate the
value of the watches ? Witness—At 1000/.
Trew (policeman 26) —I have been engaged since the
robbery toklk place in endeavouring to trace the goods
and the thieves, and I apprehended that prisoner in con-
sequence of information which I received, that two men,
one of whom answered to the description of the pri-
soner exactly, had, on the morning of the robbery, hired
a cab suddenly in the neighbourhood, deposited a heavy
bag in it, and gone off to Bethnal Green. I have two
witnesses here, one of whom has been with me un tha
look-out for some days.
William Pius, cabman, No. 2,116, stated, that at about
half-past nine o'olock on Wednesday, the 15th D. cern-
bet., as he was on his stand, opposite to Iron-
monger's Hall door, a man came out from the
neighbourhood of Trinity-square with a black bag under
his arm, and stepping into the cab, desired him to drive
to the Bird Cage public-house, Bethnal-green. Another
man came from Billiter-square, and got upon the box,
and witness's companion drove. There were then three
on the box, and one inside with the black bag, in which
there appeared to be a weight. When the cab arrived
at Tysoe-street, Brick-lane, the outside passengers got
off the box and disappeared, and witness's fellow servant
then drove off to Bethnal-green, where, when they
arrived at, the Bird Cage public-house, the inside fare
got out to look about for his companion, who had lef,
the cab at Tyson-street, and who presently came up and
paid witness two shillings for his fare, after which both
walked away together in the direction. of Pollard street.
Witness could swear that the prisoner was the man who
got into the cab with the black bag.
The prisoner—My friends will, I have no doubt, bring
an action for false imprisonment for this business. .
Alderman Gssins—Do you wish to ask the witness
any question. Prisoner—l have . only to say that it is
all false. My wife was near her confinement at the time,
and I was engaged on her business.
Trew said, the cabman, Pitt, before they went to look
for the prisoner, stated that the man who had the bag,
wore the collar of his coat, which was much worked on
the concealed aide, up about his ears, and described him
in so accurate a manner, that there could be no mistake
about him.
The prisoner's collar was then exhibited. It appeared
to be as it had been described.
The prisoner—Why every man's collar is worked now,
I assure you, my Lord it is all false.
Joseph Cooper said he drove the cab on the seat of
which his fellow-servant, Pitts,- and the companion .of
the inside party, who had the black bag, sat. As soon
as they got to the Bird Cage public house, the person
inside got out, leaving the bag inside, and toll witness
and his fellow-servant to go into the house and have a
drop of something. They al so accordingly, and the
party. who get down at Tysore-street soon afterwards
arrived, and, tapping witness's comrade on the head, put
two shillings into his hard.
Alderman GIBBS—Do you know the prisoner as one
of the two persons who hired the cab ? Witness—l
cannot swear to the person who had the bag, but I can
swear to him who sat on the box. I cannot swear to the
prisoner as being one of them.
'1 he prisoner—l do assure you, Sir, that lam not at
all acquainted with it I have not been out of my own
place these three months from night till morning, for my
wife has been in her confinement.
Alderman GIBBS—She cannot have been in her con
finement for three months,
The prisoner—Well, I am entirely innocent. This
will upset my wife; I assure you, my Lord.
Alderman GIBBS—Have you got any one here as to
your character ?
The prisoner made no answer.
Trew—He was tried at the Old Bliley.
Alderman Gums—For what offence ? Trew—For
burglary. He was acquitted. The trial took place
when the juryman died. I had been after him myself
about five or six years ago for what they call " starring
the glaze," breaking a window to gee-property out.
'Prisoner—l am innocent of this here, at any rate.
The prisoner was then remanded.

BO

_W-STREET.
Two men, named Thomas and Wright, were placed at the
bar before Mr. Henry, charged with breaking into the house
of Mr. Hayes, of 22, Russell-square, and stealing therefrom a
quantity of property of the value of 601. Thomas was further
charged with wounding Policeman E 99 by a heavy blow
with a life-preserver.
Policeman E 55, said, that at about a quarter-past four
o'clock that morning, being on duty in Keppel-street, Rus-
sell-square, he found the garden- gate of No. 24, Russell
square, open. He waited till E 99 came up, and then en-
tered with him. As soon as they got inside they heard a
noise of feet in the next garden, and proceeded to climb over
the wall. As they got on the top of the wall they saw the
prisoner Thomas, crouching down at the toot of it, but as 99
was about to get down, Thomas rose and gave bins a violent
blow with something which he held in his hand
The constable fell back, stunned, but after a.
momeut recovered himself and proceeded. They then
went on in pursuit of Thomas, who had crossed
the wall at the opposite side of the garden, and being guided
by the noise of his footsteps they crossed six walls, and
then arrived at the garden of No. 2, Upper Bedford-place.
They had seen two men crossing the wall and getting in
there,
.but they then lost sight of them. Supposing that
they had gone down into an area in that garden, they paused
and sprung their rattles. In the course of a few minutes
they were joined by another constable, E 51, and with him
they descended into the area. There' were there two cellars,
in one of which Wright was concealed, and in the other
Thomas. Upon Thomas he found a tea spoon, a sugar tongs,
and a large clasp knife. He afterwards found in te garden
they had passed through, a pair of silver caudlesticki, one of
which was broken, and a gold watch.
Policeman E 99, who, being very faint from loss of blood,
was allowed to sit down, corroborated this stetement.
Policeman, E 51, went to the cellars where they had beer,
taken, and found the numerous articles of plate. &c.
In the cellar where Thomas was hid several skeleton keys
were found by policeman, E 110.
Thomas Smith, servant to Mr. Hayes, Russell-square, se
cured the doors, &c., last night, and on being roused by the
police, found that an entry had been effected by the back
parlour window.

The property having been identified as belonging to Air.
Hayes,
..
Mr. HENRY committed tbem far trial Wright for the bur-
glary, and Thomas on both charges. ,
Air. Palmer, a gentleman living in Bussell-square, said,
that so impressed was lie with the energy and courage of
the police in this matter, that he came down to the court
this morning, sacrificing important business in order that he
might state his opinion and that of his neighbour. Any one
who knew the locality would understand what difficulties
they had to meet, and how bravely they had overcome them.
Mr. Hrsrav said he fully agreed with sir. Palmer, and
he wished the inspector to report the two constables, E 99
and 55, as cpecially meritorious.
111ARLBIWOUGH-STRF2ET.
Henry Jones, alias Williams,' was brought before Mr.
Hardwick, charged with going to the residence of Captain
Patton, .R.N. No. 6, Dean-street, Park-lane, with a false
message, for the purpose of committing a felony.
Joseph Higgins, butler to Capt. Patton, stated that on Wed-
nesday, about seven o'clock, the prisoner came to his master's
residence, and said, that lie was sent from Air. Bird's, boot-
maker, xford-street, for a pair of boots, which were to be
stretched. Witness was in the act of going up stairs to
his master with the message, when he looked over the
bannisters, and saw the prisoner take two great coats
off the pegs, and was in the act of tying them up in a hand-
kerchief; when witness darted upon him, and held him till a
policeman was sent for, into whose custody he was at once
consigned.
The prisoner, in defence, said, that he was sent to the
house by some person whose name he did not feel inclined to
disclose.
Inspector Whall said, that the prisoner was committed
from this court on the 17th of January, for stealing an
umbrella from the residence of Sir Thomas Wilde. If the
prisoner was remanded for a few days. he had several other
charges which could be proved against him.
Mr. HARDWICK remanded him for a week.
Claroine Williams, a well-dressed female, was brought up
on a charge of creating a disturbance at the residence of Mr.
Morse, No. 83, New Bond street.
Mrs. Matilda Morse said, that on Wednesday even•
ing the defendant came to her house with a letter addressed
to Lord Frankfort (who lodged in the house), and said that
she wished to wait for an answer. Witness told her that
there was no occasion for her doing so, as his Lordship
would not assist her. The defendant, instead of going away
quietly, threw herself down in the passage, and began
screaming in such a fearful manner as to quickly cause a mob
to assemble. The defendant still persisting in her extraor-
dinary conduct, witness sent for a policeman, and gave her
in charge.
The defendant, in tears, said, that she went to the house
by the express desire of Lord Frankfort, who had known her
for many years. She was in great.. trouble, and took the
note to his Lordship to inform him how she was situated, as
he had told her repeatedly to call upon him whenever she
was in distress. She was subject to fits, and denied throwing
herself down in the hall.
Mr. HARDWICK, after remons'rating upon the impropriety
of her conduct, and in consideration of her being locked up
all right, discharged her.

WORSHIP-STREE7.
WednesdayMr.BlionGllTON resumedbhe adjourned investi-
gation into the conduct of police-constable Charles Andrew
Amos, of the H divi,ion' who stood charged with having
grossly assaulted, and unlawfully taken into custody, a young
woman natned,Ellen Bolton, on the night of the 10th Inst.,
under circumstances which were stated in our paper a few
days since.
Mr. Medlicott, the superintendent of the division, was
present to watch and report upon the case, and Mr. Heritage
was retained for the defence.
The evidence given upon the former occasion having been
read over by Mr. Vine, the chief clerk, the complainant,
Ellen Bolton, and her witness, Jane Reeves, were subjected
to a severe cross-examination by the defendant's solicitor,
and fully corrobated each other in the main facts of their
previous statement; but, upon being further questioned
differed most materially upon several essential particulars, of
too indelicate a nature to be distinctly detailed, and which
carried the assault to a much greater and more gross extent
than had been before sworn to. The witness Reeve added
that upon the officer being balked in his designs upon Bolton,
he used towards her the most insulting language, and not
only ordered her off, but rushed her along by the back with
great violence, until she threatened to report his previous
misconduct at
.the police-station, when he at once took
her into custody. The witness followed the con-
stable and Bolton to the door of the station, with
the intention of giving evidence in favour of the com-
plainant, but was prevented doing so by Amos, who told her
she was not wanted there; and, although she next morning
requested the officer on duty there to take care of Bolton,
who was subject to fits, she was not admitted to see her.
Bolton herself also stated, that she felt so touch hurt at the
insults to which she had been subjected, that she was in
tears all the way to the station-house, on her arrival at which
she communicated to the inspector on duty the fact of her
having been ill-treated, but was prevented making a full dis-
closure of the particulars from the precipitancy with which
the charge was taken, and she was locked up in the cells.
Sergeant Coleman, the acting inspector at the time, was
then called and stated, that on Bolton being brought to the
station she was certainly not crying, as she had stated,• nor
did she bear the appearance of having previously done so;
and that although she complained to him that the policemau
had offered her money to accompany him down the court,
she said nothing of the gross acts of indecency alleged to
have taken place, although she had ample opportunity of
doing so. The sergeant added (as indeed the women them-
selves had acknowledged), that both the complainant and
her friend were common prostitutes, and lodged at the house
of a man named Sheen, which was the resort of the lowest
characters in the district.
Mr. Heritage addressed the Magistrate at great length on
behalf of his client, who had instructed- him to deny in the
most decisive manner everything that was alleged against
him, and to whom a conviction on such a charge would be
little short of destruction ; and after pointing out the dis-
crepancies which appeared in the statement of the two
women, said that he was necessarily precluded by the very
nature of the case from oaring any direct evidence to rebut
their testimony, but should call numerous witnesses he had
in attendance, who would give as strong a refutation of it as
the circumstances would admit of. The Learned Gentleman
then called—
Police-constable Galavin, 73 11, who stated, that while
going the round of his section, at half-past twelve on the
night in question; he came upon the defendant's beat in
Well-street, Mile-end, and saw him desiring the two women
Bolton and Reeve, who were using most disgusting language
in a loud tone of voice, to go away quietly. Witness also
desired them to go home, and Reeve persuaded Bolton to
do so, but they still kept repeating the same filthy exs
pressions through the length of several stress, and witness
left Amos and them together, Amos telling him that he
should be obliged to lock them up. "they were going on
so." The women were surrounded by a large crowd of
persons, whom their conduct had collected, but whose pre-
sence did not stop their disgusting language. Witness was
not present at the commencement of the transaction, and
could not, of course, speak as to what Might previously have
taken place.
Green, o l H, also deposed to the utterance of this language
by the women, and to his own interference and telling them,
as they were making a great disturbance, that if they had any
complaint to make-they should go away quietly and lodge it
at the station-house.
Mary Webb and Martha Walbank, two married women
living in Anne's-court, Well-Street, the scene of the alleged
outrage upon the person of the complainant, stated, that
they were both up on the night referred to till long after the
time at which the offence was stated to have been committed
by the constable, and that they heard no cries for assistance
whatever, or struggle, or noise of any description, and that
if there had been they must have heard it, as the court only
contained four • houses, was very quiet, and was not a
thoroughfare.
Richard Graves, a tradesman at the corner of the court,
gave precisely the same testimony as to no screanis or
remonstrance having been uttered at the time spoken to,
and, as his shop was not closed till a quarter past one
o'clock, had any woman been so ill-treated, she had an
opportunity of procuring assistance or complaining, and no
one did so.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hodge, the wife of a pewterer, also stated
that while a male customer was making some purchases at
her shop in Old Montague-streets about the time in question,
the man was most grossly insulted by two women outside,
although he had never seen_ them before, and who uttered
such foul language towards him that it was impossible fur
her to repeat it.

Mr. Wellesley Medlicott, the superintendent, Inspector
Ellis, Sergeant Teakle, and Alderman, the gaoler, were then
called as witnesses to character, and all described the de-
fendant as an exceedingly well-conducted, promising, and
pains-taking young man, who was very anxious to perform
his duty correctly, and who had kept his beat, which was the
resort of prostitutes of the lowest order, more peaceable than
it had ever previously been. Alderman had know him before
he entered theforce, when he was in business for himself, and
both he and his friends were respectable. He was also a
married man, with one child, and his wife was the daughter
of a tradesman in the neighbourhood.
Mr. Heritage said he could calla number of other witnesses
to the same effect, but considered it useless to do so.
Mr. BROUGHTON said that this wasundoubtedly a question
of much importance, both as regarded the administration of
justice, the conduct of the police force in general, in which,
if the charge mere established, it must go a great way to
shake the public confidence, as bad been justly stated else-
where, and the defendant himself, who, if the statement of
the women were true, had heed -guilty, if of anything, of an
attempted violation, followed by gross perjury, for which any
judge who tried him must sentence him to transportation •
for the moral status of the women offered no extenuation of
the offence; and a case was upon the books in which two
soldiers had been tried and executed at Exeter for a rape
upon a prostitute. The Learned Magistrate then went care-
fully through all the facts_ of the case, and the evidence bear-

ing upon them on both sides, and after commenting upon the
important discrepancies in the woman's evidence, and the
improbability that an officer should attempt such an offence
in full uniform, by which he could be so easily identified, and
with the knowledge that the other woman was close at hand,
and that he might be momentarily detected by one of his
superiors while going their rounds, concluded by saying, •• If
the evidence of these two women had been consistent in its
chief particulars, or corroborated by other impartial testi-
mony, I should certainly have felt it my duty to send the
defendant for trial for perjury, when, good though the cha-
racter may be that he has hitherto borne, I have no hesita-
tion in saying that it would have very little weight in the
sentence; but, after taking every pains that I possibly could
in sifting and investigating this matter in all its bearings, I
must express it as my opinion that the evidence of the
women, with such manifest contradictions, is not such as
any jury or magistrate can safely depend upon, and under
those circumstances I shall order the defendant to be dis-
which was not over till a late hour, excited great
chTarhgeed case",
interest, and the court was most inconveniently crowded
during the whole proceedings.

LAMBETH.
Wednesday Mary Ann Brooke, an exceedingly good-look-
ing woman, was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott on
charge of robbing her master, Mr. Denny, a surgeon in the
London-road, and presenting the property to a person in.the
Queen's Bench prison, who repre'ients himself as a Lieute
nant in the Royal Horse Guards Blue.
It appeared that the day heft:it e Mr. Denny received a let-
ter from a person confined for debt in the Queen's Bench
prison, who represents himself as a Lieutenant P—, of the
Royal Horse Guards Blue, stating that some time before he
had met his servant (the prisoner) 'at the table of a MT.
B—, a fellow-prisoner, and that she subsequently visited him
very frequently in his own room; that during these visits
the prisoner had presented him (Lieutenant P—) with
various articles which she represented to be her own pro-
perty, but he (Lieutenant P—), suspecting now that they
wei7e the prop.ertfofMr. Denny, and that the prisoner had
properly ptissessed herself of them, was willing to give them
-p.pf This appeared all right and proper, but the rem/ming
part of the letter went clearly to sbofv that the
prisoner bad become more intimately•acquainted withOt her
debtors than Lieut. P— fancied, and that theletter forwarded
to her master had been written more from a fee:ing of
jealousy than compunctious visitatiops about the property
being dishonestly conic by. ;On receipt (if the letter, how-
ever, Mr... Denny • proceeded to the Qiieen:fi Bench prison,
ant in the room of Lieut. fouud two carpets, a fot,tmar,

a china basket, and other articles, which he recognised, and
which were at onc4 delivered up to him. He then returned
home, and accused the prisoner of stealing these articles,
when she replied that she bad merely lent them to the
gentleman in whose rooms they 'had been found, acd be
then gave her into the custody of an officer. Her boxes and
the drawers which she used were examined, and they were
found to contain several articles of property belonging to
Mr. Denny.
Police-constable John Payne, 156 L, deposed that he bad
been called in to take the prisoner into custody on the pre-
ceding evening, and on his telling her what it was for, she
replied that she had, lent the things to Mr. P--, who was it
t lie Queen's Bench prison. She also said she was sorry for
whit she had done, but Mr. P— wished her to take her
master's property. She said she should not do so, but would
lend him two or threeathings, which he was to return.
The prisoner offered a similar defence, and was remanded
to a future day, when the case will undergo the most search-
ing investigation..
THE LATL EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—After making the ap-
plication to this court on Tuesday evening, the parents of the
lad who had been detained at the Railway Hotel, Nine Elms,
by Mrs. Boys, proceeded there, as directed by the magistrate,
for the purpose of possessing themselves of their youthful ton,
and arrived just in time to accomplish their object. It seems
that at the very moment the parties had been making aPPli-
cation at this court, the father of the other two lads wb°l3l,,
Mrs. Boys had with her, arrived at the Railway Hotel, and
not at all relishing the then condition of the lady at whose
charge they had been confided, at once removed them trolls
her care. Finding herself freed from this encumbrance, Mrs'
Boys sent for a cab, and expressed ber intention of at, once
leaving the hotel ; and had it not been for the fact of thl
ignorance of her youthful companion as lo what he should
pay the waiters of the establishment, she would have. suc-
ceeded in carrying him off. She was seated in the cab ,
a jewel-case and several small boxes, containing, it was usj,,',
considerable property, beside her, and seedy to start;
her " dear Frederick," as she called him, was left to sett]
s
id
the bill. He did so, and left the hotel to ask what he 5i10.%
pay the waiters? She replied five shillings, and this 111
the youth offered,. but it was refused. He, returned to w'
cab to inform the lady of the circumstance, and the latter
,
directed him to give them ten shillings, or even 11., so tbto.
theY might get away ; but before he had time to settle th.:
matter, his parents came up, and by threats and mental'
succeeded in getting him away. Dirs. Boys, in the ir
terim, and upon seeing the parents of the lad come up, w;
rested the cabman to drive on, and she was driven in
No. 870 towards town, but whither no person at the hotel
aware of.