The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-28 00:00:00

Meyer Morris, the native of Hamburgh who was some
days ago charged with having run away with a quantity
of cutlery from She field, was again brought up.
A letter was read from Sheffield, stating that there
were several cases against the prisoner in that town, but
that none of them were ready for prosecution.
Alderman Ginns asked Mr. Moore, of Sheffield, who
charged the prisoner with the offence, whethe 11 the
goods which the prisoner had obtained from h were
stopped at the place of landing ?
Mr. Moore replied that he found that only two out of
four boxes of his cutlery were secured. The rest, he ap-
prehended had been sent off to Hamburgh.
The prisoner in the most positive manner said that the
transaction was a bona fide one, and that the very people
who were said to have calumniated him in Sheffield
would most
.willingly give him credit at that moment.
Alderman Genus=-Why do you not pay for -the
goods now ? Prisoner—Why, he never asked me for
the payment.—(A laugh.)
Mr. Moore—He and his colleague went away from
Sheffield without even paying for their board. Prisoner
—That's a lie, Mr. Moore.

Mr. Moore—Another party, a friend of his, robbed
us of 91. worth of goods. Prisoner—That's a lie, Mr.
Moore.

The prisoner's solicitor contended, that as a bill of
parcels had been regularly made out, and the goods had
been delivered, the accusation was of no effect.
Mr. Moore—He never was to have any credit what-
ever. He promised to be back in an hour, but off he
scampered with the goods, and I never saw him again
till I found him smoking his pipe on board the steamer
to London.

Alderman GIBBS then directed Brand, the iparsbal-
man, to take the prisoner by the railroad in custody to
Sheffield, arid there deliver him up to the authorities of
that town.

GUILDHALL.
Police-constable 279 brought a young man before Mr.
Alderman Farebrother, on a trifling charge of felony,
which was discharged, no person appearing to prosecute.
The constable, in making the statement to the Court,
was almost inaudible from hoarseness, occasioned by a
severe cold, and in reply to the worthy Alderman, said
he attributed his sickness to the insufficiency of the
police clothing to guard against, the severity of the pre-
sent weather, as the cape which they wore allowed the
rain to penetrate in such a manner that half an hour's
shower would soak them through.
Mr. Alderman FAREBROTHER said, let the constable
get a certificate from Mr. Brand, the surgeon to the City
Police, and have the whole of the facts at once laid be-
fore the City Commissioner. He should also wish the
surgeon's certificate to be laid before the Court of Alder-
men, who knew nothing at all about the matter. Some
steps must be taken to put an end to this state of things,
which was disgraceful to a city like London.
Fewer of those charges incident to the conviviality of
the festival of Christmas came before the Sitting Alder-
man this year than perhaps at any previous one—whether
from harder times, or more good sense on the part of the
poorer classes, we have no means of ascertaining.

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS.
The Montpelier papers state that M. Carratie, of An-
,ignac, in the Berault, having gone on the 17th' inst. to
he market at Beziers to receive a considerable sum of
money, left a part of it in safe hands in the town, and
taking only 50 francs with him, set out in the evening
on his return home. Having got safe along the main
road to the point whence the country-way led off to
Antignac, he dismounted, and was walking homewards
with his horse's bridle on his arm, when a man stopped
him and demanded his money. As he was Deputy-
Mayor, and consequently well-known and equally re-
spected, he considered it to be a joke, and replied ac-
cordingly, but ere many words had passed the man dis-
charged a gun, and mortally wounded him. An hour
afterwards he was found and carried home, and there
died in great agonies. The horse had been led into an
adjoining field, and the portmanteau upon it, in which
M. Carratie had put the money, rifled of its contents.
The murderer has not yet been discovered.
Advices from St. Valery-sur-Somme state that a few
evenings ago the English schooner, Pera, Captain Henry
Holland, bound to St. Petersburgh, with a cargo of dried
fruits, was lost on the coast of Routhlanville. The
crew, consisting of eight men, were saved, but the cap-
tain was drowned.
A violent storm occurred on the night of the 16th
inst., in the neighbourhood of St. Jean de Luz. The
lightning fell on the steeple of Ciboure, and nearly de-
stroyed it. The chateau of Jolimont was set on fire
from a similar cause, with a farm, situated near it ; both
buildings were burnt down.
A person named Pelletier was prosecuted, a few days
ago, before the Court of Assizes, for the Deux-Sevres,
for having in August last written and posted placards in
Niort, calling on the inhabitants to resist the operations
for the Census, and to shut their doors against the fiscal
agents. He denied the charge of posting the placards,
bnt admitted their authorship. The jury returned a ver-
dict of not guilty.
The Royal Court of Riom has ordered thirty-two per-
sons to be tried before the Court of Assizes of the Puy-
de-Dome, for the late riots at Chauriot, near Clermont.
M. de Tocqueville has been elected a Member of the
Academie Francaise by 21 votes. M. Vatout obtained
eight, and M. Aime Martin two votes.
The first battalion of the 23d regiment of the Line
landed a few days since at Toulon from Africa, and was
received from General Boyer. The tattered colours o
this regiment, one of the earliest sent into Africa, ex.
cited much attention.

The spinning-mills of the Marquis and Count d'He-
ricy, near Valognes, in the Manche, were totally de-
stroyed by fire a few evenings since. The accident was
occasioned by a lad, who was lighting the lamps, suffer-
ing the candle to come in contact with some cotton. All
that the firemen could do was to save the surrounding
houses. The loss is estimated at 200,000 f., but the
greater part is insured.

One of the conductors on the Paris and Corbeil rail-
road, named Roset, having two evenings ago delayed get-
ting on his seat with a train at Choisy-le-Roi until it was
again in motion, made an attempt to get up, but fell,
and was so severely crushed, that he died in the course
of the night at the Hotel Diex.
Prince Frederic of Prussia arrived at Rome on the
10th inst., under the incognito of Count of Rheinstein.
His Royal Highness visited immediately his uncle, Prince
Henry of Prussia, who has resided many years in the
Pontifical capital. The young Spanish Princes, sons of
Don Carlos, have had their audience of the Pope, to take
leave previous to going to Naples.
A Vienna letter, 15th inst., in the France, states that
the Duke de Bourdeaux had been allowed to get up the
day before, and had remained in the company of the per-
sons of his household. On the next day, his Royal High-
ness received the Papal Nuncio ; and was shortly to be
visited by the other members of the corps diplomatique.
While M. Lambert, money changer, was seated in his
shop, in the Rue Montmartre, the evening before last,
about ten o'clock, a man threw a heavy stone through
one of the panes of the window, put in his hand, and
seizing a bowl with 2,0'...0f. in gold, made off. M. Lain.
bert was prompt in his pursuit, calling for assistance,
andtwo police-officers being
immediately caught ; he had, however, time to pass his
prize to another man. On being taken before the Com-
missary, he gave his own name, Francois Crete, lodging
in the Rue de la Vanuerie, but would not disclose those
of his confederates. He was committed to the Prefec-
ture of Police.

letter of the llth instant says :
" The Emperor Nicholas, in further commemoration of
the glorious events of 1812, has erected at Smolensko a
column similar to that which stands on the field of the
battle of Borodino. It is
.37 archines in height, including
the pedestal, and 13 archines and a half in circumference,
and placed in front of the King's Bastion, which was the
principal point of attack, and forms a fine ornament to

other person who was with you. I don't know what he
might have told others.
Thomas Batchelor, a person who said he resided in
Barking Church-yard, deposed that he saw the defendant
take hold of Mrs. Levy by the cloak and drag her away
from Mr. Jones's door, desiring at the same time another
officer to take care that she did not drop anything.
Defendant—Did I not say to her, " If you do not
satisfy me as to what you have got under your cloak, I
shall take you to answer my Inspector at the station-
house?" Batchelor—l did not hear you say so.
The defendant then stated that as he was walking
along his beat he observed Mrs. Levy with a bulk under
her cloak, walking quickly. She looked particularly at
him as she passed, and he suspected that she had some-
thing about her for which she could not properly account,
and questioned her, as he considered it to be his duty to
do. The answer he received was a volley of abuse. She
told him he was a villain ; that she paid to support him
and other fellows of the kind, and that she would have
him punished ; and when she got close to the public-
house belonging to Mr. Jones, she told him he might go
in and see what she had about her. He then considered it
to be his business—as he could not go into the public-
house, and as his suspicions were increased instead of
being diminished—to take her to the station-house. The
bulk was occasioned by a large bonnet under the cloak.
He entirely denied having used the least violence.
A City policeman, named Morris, stated that the de-
fendant called him to walk behind Mrs. Levy, and see
that she did not drop anything, and he heard her use the
most insulting language towards the defendant as they
walked to the station-house.

The Defendant—l have other witnesses, my Lord.
Alderman Gibbs—No. I dismiss the case.
Two Spaniards, in a most wretched condition, with
famine in their faces, were brought by Brand, the Mar-
shalman, before the Aldermen. They stated that they had
unfortunately worked, the one as steward, and the other as
cook, in a British vessel from Baltimore to this country,
and subsequently to India, and back to England, and
after having undergone great privation, they were obliged
to sleep in the streets, until they received the aid of the
Refuge for the houseless poor.
Alderman Gibbs asked the unfortunate objects whe-
ther the Spanish Ambassador, or the Spanish Consul, had
refused to do anything for them ?
Brand said, that by the direction of the Lord Mayor,
he had gone with them to the Spanish Consul, but they
were treated like dogs by that functionary, who said that
as they had assisted in working a British vessel they
could receive no aid from the Spanish Government.
Alderman GIBBS asked the men whether they had ap-
plied to the Spanish Ambassador ?—They replied that
they had been sent by the Consul to the Ambassador,
and by the Ambassador to the Consul, backwards and
forwards several times.

Mr. Hobler—These poor creatures must not perish in
the streets. If they were to sit down at the door of the
Spanish Ambassador, that functionary would probably
listen to them.
The Spaniards said that their object was to get home,
and they were able and willing to work their way if the
Spanish authorities would only show them the way.
Alderman GIBBS—Let these men be taken to the City
of London Union, and be supported till we see what can
be done to prevail upon the Spanish authorities to act
upon the occasion.