The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-07 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

Yesterday EKemp, clerk to Mrs. Marsh, hous,
agent, l'airtha -street, Grosvenor-square, was final])
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examined, charged with several extensive robberies it;
the houses of the nobility and gentry where he had bet t
employed.
Tne large table of the court was completely coven,
with property of various descriptions, which formed tho
subject of the numerous charges, and the court war
densely crowded with pawitbrok-rs and other witnesse-
The prisoner was originally apprehended upon it;
charge of stealing a box, containing a very handsonat
muslin dress, from the residence of the Hon. Captati
Scott, in Chesham-street,_ lielgrave-square, the particu
lars of which have been already detailed. On that exam,
nation, Stephen Thornton, a sergeant of the A divisiot•
stated that he had found in the prisoner's box, after the ti
examinatioo, 50 pawnbrokers' duplicates for property •
various deseriptions,to which the accused would haveacce-
in tlis capacity of house agent's clerk, he had no doubt tt
could produce a number of charges against the prison•
upon which the latter was remanded until yesterday.
On ihe prisoner being plac• din the dock the charg
of stealing a large quantity of table and other linen, at,
articles of various descriptions, from the residence of ti,•
Marchioness of Sligo, wa. proceeded with against hi u.
Thornton said, that on searching prisoner's room a;
14, Great Union-street, Borough-road, on the 24th ult
he found on a chest of drawers there some duplicates
eight of which referred to properly belonging to th
Marchioness of Sligo. He also tumid in the apartmet;
an ormolu candlestick and snutf,r, part of a very vale
able dinner service of china, a pair of candlesticks,
copper pan, and other articles.
11. Winch, assistant to Mr. Barnett. St. George'
circus, produced a tablecloth and six napkins ; the firs
pledged on Feu. 26 last for 55., and the napkins on Ma.
7, for 7s. 6d.

An a.sistant to Mr. Tute, Cambridge-street, Gohien•
square, produced two linen sheets, pawned for 83.
Mr. Chapman, of Walworah, produced a tablecloth
eight napkins, two sheets, and two pillow-eases, pledge
for various sums.

Mr. :11a-sl-osa-ssistant, from the Westminster-bridge
road, exhibited two tiblecloths ; and John Cass, jun..
127, Waterloo-road, two others.
Mrs. Anne Tayl-cr, late housekeeper to the Marchioness
of Sligo, identified the whole of the property produce.
by the pawnbrokers, and part of that found by Thurntor,
in the prisoner's room.
Mrs. Marsh said, that she had been employed by th,
Marchioness of Sligo f r upwards of ten years as how.
agent. The prisoner, as her clerk, was at the house .•
the Marchioness, 2, Mansfield-street, Portland-place, I.
the latter part of last year and beginntn! of the presen
She let the house in Februag. She identified the chilea
and some other articles prOduced by Thornton, and s;dd
she had seen the set of china complete whilst at the
house superintending the business of taking the inven-
tory, Zc.
A servant at the house in Mansfield-street proved
having seen the prisoner there with the ormolu candle-
stick in his hand, lie said he was going to lock it up.
Prisoner on being asked whether he wished to make
any reply to the charge, said " Nothing."
The second charge against the prisoner was that 0•
steding a qua..tity of wearing apparel from the residenct.
of Viscount Jocelyn.
Thornton proved finding two duplicates at prisoner's
room, referring to a crumb-cloth, a pair of trousers, two
waistcoats, and other articles. fie also found in pri-
soner's room a glass pickle jar.
The pawnbrokers having produced the property,
Sarah Bose, his Lordship's housekeeper, identified the
property, which was pledged in November last. Sh,
stated that the prisoner was engaged at the house in
Curzon-street to take an inventory at the time of hi
Lordship's leaving.
Prisoner mach, nu reply to this charge.
The next charge against the accused was that of steal-
ing some napkins, a toilet glass, a thermometer, and
other articles from Captain Bastard's.
Thornton proved finding a very handsome letter-
weighing instrument, a thermometer, and other property
at prisoner's lodgings.

Anne Gatherpole, housekeeper to Captain Bastard
identified the property produced by the officer, and also
some napkins which had been pawned. The origins
marks on the napkin: had been obliterated, and the pri-
soner's initials substituted. The prisoner was employed
as clerk to Mrs. Marsh in taking an inventory at Ceptaii•
Bastaro's in October last.

The prisoner made no defence.
He was then charged with stealing a blanket, the pro-
perty of Lady Dawson.
The case in every respect resembled the oth,rs. Pri-
soner was engaged to take an invi-story of the turnitur,
in May, and on the same day the blanket was missed.
The pawnbroker proved that it had been pledged
May.
Prisoner having again drclined saying anything,
Thornton said he had other ctiarg.s against the pri-
soner for robbing Lord Gordon, Lady Waterpark, and
others.

Mr. BURRELL did not consider that there would be
any necessity to take any more cases against the pri
soner. There were already five charges, and he thought
those would be amply sufficient without putting others
to the trouble and inconvenience of prosecuting.
The prisoner was then fully ctnamitted upon th,
chargesu occasion of n
uccaabtott,.e detailed, and upon that beard on the pre-
viothe box from the Hon. Captain
Scott.
LAMBETH.

Yesterday Mr. John Hudson, a young man of re-
sp,,ctable appearance, the son of a timbrr merchant ot
considerable wealth in Westminster, was placed at the
bar on a charge of appropriating to his own use a 401.
Bank of England note that had been lost by Mr. Edward
on business at 33, Gib-
Mr. Church, the prosecutor,
sCohnu-srctrhe,eat,ciAraan-bdeetahl.er, carrying
rece)inve' England note, which he placed
BfLrtkni,gdht
in one end of his purse, and on going to change it on
the following day he discovered that there was a hol,.
rdhaur4so,l7?
in the end of the purse in which he had placed it,
through which it had passed, and was lost. He gave
information of his loss at the Bank, and on its being
paid into that establishment he received intimation
of the fact. He then, with the assistance of a po-
lice-constable, ascertained that on the very day upon
which he had missed it, the note had been offered to
Mr. Herring, a coachmaker in the Westminster-road by
the prisoner in payment for a chaise which he had pur-
chased for 10/., and had been changed by Mr. Baker,
the landlord of the Oxford Arms, Westminster-road.
The prosecutor further found that the prisoner had been
discarded by his family, and not likely to become ho-
nestly
fore into
had him taken custody.
' The prisoner, in the first instance, said, ho bad taken
the note from a person whose name he did not know, in
the Royal Exchange, in payment for a quantity of oak
timber which he had sold him, but subsequently declared
that it bad been given to him by a person named Gid
ney, one of the witnesses who had been called against
him. lie said, that on the morning of that day fort-
night Gidney came to him, and said he had a 401. note
which he had endeavoured to get changed, but was un-
able, and requested
he would procure it ,or him. They
then went together, purchase—‘l the chaise from Mr
Herring, got change for the note at Mr. Baker's, paid
for the chaise, and Gidney pocketed nearly the whole of
the ditlerence.
Mr. NORTON, on hearing this, and finding
that Gid-
ney had since raised money on the chaise. ordered him
to be placed at the bar, and remanded both him and
Hudson for further examination.

IRELAND.--BELFAST.—Under the influence of con-
tinued brilliant weather, for the growiag crops, and
large supplies from abroad, the principal corn markets
have again considerably declined. In Liverpool, Indian
corn of fair quality has been sold so low as 255. per
quarter, and American flour 25:;. to 275. per barrel.—
Northern ll'hig.
FROST, WILLIAMS, AND JoNEs.A letter has been
received from Hobart Town, by a party in Monmouth,
from which the following is an extract—whence it will
be seen that they have uncontrolled liberty in Van Die-
men's Land:—" I saw the Chartists, Frost, Jones, and
Williams, not long since. Williams is at New Norfolk,
in good heslth, but unhappy; wants to get to England.
He taiki.d of
opening a shop in the general line, i: he
does not hear favourable news soon from home. Jones
is in partnership with a watchmaker named Ducheme, a 1
Frenchman, at Launceston, tar better off than ever he
was in England ;
I saw him a few weeks since extrava-
gantly dressed. I believe Frost is living at Bagdad,
Some miles from here, with Geach and his wife. She
keeps a very respectable boardirg-school there in the
name of Mrs. Foster. They have all very great indul
gences.—Gloucester Journal.
A VOICE FROM THE GUILLOTINE.—The public
executioner of Paris having lately been- dismissed from
his place without, as he thinks, sufficient cause, has
fu;
up and ir
or restoration,publishei a paphlet, in which he pleads
nn the ground that in the whole course
of his experience he has acted w;th the greatotit kind
ness and respect towards all his clients ; that he has in-
variably cut off their heads in a very neat style, and with
great dispatch, and that ho has introduced SQLUQ i13:1-. •
pOrtUlA icOproVVl22eDt4 in the guilicoliUo ! .