The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-24 00:00:00

rciting it they found, wrapped up in some rags and a piece
of chemois leather, twenty-five sovereigns and the missing
note. While they were looking over the money a person of
the name of Waddington came in and remained a few
minutes, and while she was leaving the house a person of the
name of Beun came in, the bearer of a message from the
prisoner, to inquire if it was true that the money was found,
there having, as it was alleged, been in the interval no
means by which she could legitimately become possessed of
the knowledge.
The further evidence against the prisoner went to show
that she had been seen, just about the hour when the money
was found, walking backwards and forwards, opposite the pas-
sage leading to Mr. Lawry's back door; that she bad entered
the yard, remained there but a few seconds, not sufficient to
enable her to enter the house, and then hastily went away.
The person, however, who deposed to this fact, stated, that
the prisoner had on a light-coloured gown, hut it appeared
from other testimony that the gown she had on that evening
was of a dark colour.

Mr. RAMSHAY addressed the jury for the defence, and
called witnesses to show that the fact of the money having
been found had transpired, and was known to several parties,
before the time when the prisoner sent the message by Benn.
One; of these, a person by the name of Hodgson, had in-
formed her of it, having heard it from some of the persons
who had been in Mr. Lawry's house.
The prisoner was Acquitted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,
MA/vs/ON-HOUSE.

William Watts, the master of the vessel called the
City of Rotterdam, appeared before the Lord Mayor
upon an information filed against him for having ne-
glected to take on board a certain number of apprentices.
Mr. Swainson, from the office of the solicitors to the
Admiralty, attended for the prosecution, and stated that
the defendant was charged with having violated the 7th
and Sth Vic., cap. 112, sec. 37, which was entitled, " An
Act to amend and consolidate the laws relating to mer-
chant seamen, and for keeping a register of seamen."
The vessel of which defendant was master, belonged to a
company to which several other vessels belonged, some
of which went on voyages without having any appren-
tices on board at all, to the great injury of the service,
in which it was indispensably necessary to keep up a
constant supply of able and efficient seamen. The pro-
secution was instituted at the instance of the officer of
the Registrar-General of Seamen, and the penalty for
each infringement was 131., which could, at the discre-
tion of the magistrate, he reduced to one-third of the
amount.

The defendant pleaded guilty.
Mr. Swainson said, that as the object of the Lords of
the Admiralty was to press the observance of so neces-
sary an act for the support of the sea service, and as the
defendant and others who had been also chargeable with
neglect of the kind, had readily expressed their determi-
nation in future to carry out the provisions of the Act,
he would be satisfied with the mitigated penalty and
costs. At the same time, he trusted that the prose-
cutor of the case would render any future representa-
tion of the kind unnecessary.
The LORD MAYOR said it must be obvious to every
experienced man, that the infringement of so important
an Act was calculated to do serious mischief by relaxing
the vigour of a service to which England owed
so much. As the solicitor to the Admiralty
had expressed a wish that the penalty should
be reduced, the sentence upon Captain Watts was
that he should pay the fine of 101. and ss. costs. His
Lordship at the same time intimated that if any other
cases were brought forward and proved, the full penalty
should in every instance be inflicted.
The Captain returned thanks for the indulgence, and
paid the fine and costs.
A woman named Sarah Scott was brought up charged
with having committed a robbery in the shop of Mr.
Hall, the extensive linendraper in Bishopsgate-street
Without.

This was the fifty second robbery committed upon the
prosecutor. The woman had gone into the shop to pur-
chase a small quantity of ribbon, and she contrived to
hide two pieces under her shawl. The prosecutor's un-
fortunate experience enabled him to judge the moment
one of his shopmen spoke to him, that the prisoner had
some of his property concealed about her, and he seized
and took it from her himself.

The prisoner was committed for trial.
The prosecutor has been more than once the victim of
some of the persons employed en his premises. At the
last session of the Central Criminal Court a young man
named John Boraston, who was behind the counter. and
who stole a large quantity of silk and kid skin gloves,
pleaded Guilty; and since that time Mr. Hall discovered
that a trunk belonging to the prisoner was detained at
a coffee shop at which the fellow lodged, for a score,
and he went from the Mansion House for the purpose of
examining it, on the beliet that it was filled with his
goods.