The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-27 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

The Court sat by adjournment yesterday morning at the
Guildhall, Westminster, for the purpose of bearing the cases of
felony remaining undisposed at Hicks's Hall yesterday
evening, and also for the disposal of the bail cases.
Mr. BALLANTINE appeared on behalf of Major Beniowski,
and said he was surprised at the application which had been
made on last Tuesday, in the absence of himself (Mr. Ballan-
tine), and the defendant or his solicitor, and without the
slightest communication being made to any one of them.
Mr. Beniowski had had reasons inducing him to change his
solicitor, and he (Mr. Ballantine) was now prepared with an
affidavit from Mr. Jackson, his present solicitor, in which it
was stated that further postponement, except it would be
extended over the 27th of May, would be ruinous to the de-
fendant, owing to the circumstances of his being at present
engaged in the perfection of certain patents, and he (Mr.
Ballantine) now applied to the Court to have the case taken
either at the present sitting or adjourned to the 27th of next
May.
The ASSISTANT-JUDGE, after adverting to Mr. Clarkson's
application on Tuesday, and the statement made by Major
Beniowski yesterday, said it struck him as rather singular
that no intimation had been conveyed to Major Beniowski or
his attorney by the opposite parties, and this surprise was
the greater, for the affidavit of the solicitor stated that he
had called upon Major Beniowski with the result of his in-
quiries at the Court on Tuesday evening. He (the Learned
Judge) had ordered that information should be conveyed to
the defendant and his solicitor as to postponing the case, if
no application was made to the contrary by the defendant
before this day, but if the attorney had made an application
to the Court directly on Tuesday evening, instead of inquir-
ing of one of the officers of the Court, no misapprehension
would have arisen. He could not think of granting an ap-
plication allowing a charge like this to stand over from the
26th of March to the let of June, it must be taken at some
more immediate sitting, and it had been already ordered to
come on on the Bth of April.
Mr. BALLANTIICE thought when his client had been in at.
tendance for two sessions ready to take his trial, it was most
unfair to postpone it. He (Mr. Ballantine) should not be
able to be present on Thursday, so that Major Beniowski
will have to defend himself on that day.
The ASSISTANT-JUDGE—WeII, then, let it come on on
the 22d. - _ - -

Major Beniows 1, who occupied a seat behind his counsel,
said, " No, no, no, my Lord, that day would not at all
suit me." _

The AsstsTArr-JunaE—The case must stand, as previ-
ously arranged, for the Bth of April.

SURREY SESSIONS.
(Before J. W. FREITIFIELD, Esq., and a Bench of
• Magistrates.)
John Clements, a respectable-looking man, was indicted
for feloniously stealing five hundred bricks, the property of
Thomas Morris, at St. Giles's, Camberwell.
Prosecutor said, that on the 12th of February last he pur-
chased twenty loads of brick of Mr. Parry, brickmaker, of
Peckham, and employed the prisoner to cart them. On the
day in question the prisoner only delivered twenty loads, al-
though be was charged for twenty-one. On Sunday after-
noon, the 14th, he went with a police-constable to search
after the prisoner, who said, when they met him, " I suppose
you have been waiting for me about those bricks. It is a bad
job, but I have the money in my pocket to pay you for them,
sooner than have any bother about it." Witness said he
could not think of compromising the felony.
In cross-examination by Mr. Robinson, prosecutor said
that he had known the prisoner several years, and intended
to employ him again. fhe prisoner was a carman, and was
possessed of several carts, which he used in his business. He
was not, however, aware that the prisoner dealt in bricks.
James Juniper, a builder, residing at Peckham, said he
had known the prisoner as a dealer in bricks for many years.
On the 12th of February last he purchased 500 bricks of
him, which was delivered on the Saturday following.
Thomas Bates, a labourer in the employ of Mr. Parry,
proved the delivery to the prisoner of twenty-one loads of
bricks.
Mr. ROBIIISON addressed the jury on behalf of the pri-
soner, contending that the prisoner had received an order for
500 bricks from Mr. Juniper, and being afraid of disappoint-
ing such a good customer, he had used one of the loads be-
longing to Mr. Morris, which he fully intended to pay for
honestly. The Learned Counsel called forward a number of
respectable witnesses who gave the prisoner an excellent cha-
racter for honesty and general good conduct.
The CHAIRMAN' summed up, stating that if the jury were
satisfled that he intended to defraud Mr. Morris out of the
bricks, the verdict would be guilty, but if they thought he
had no intention of defrauding Mr. Morris, they would return
a verdict accordingly.
The jury consulted nearly twenty minutes, and returned a
verdict of "Not guilty."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Two brothers, named George and Niko Reeves, were
brought before Mr. Alderman Johnson for final exa-
mination, charged with stealing about 801. in notes
and gold, the property of William John Baynham, who
keeps a coffee-shop and lodging-house in Poppin's-court,
Fleet-street.
At the previous hearing it was shown that on the 25th
of November Mr. Baynham drew out a deposit of 1001.
from the London and Westminster Bank. The 50/. note,
No. 2,242 B. N., was amongst the notes. The two pri-
soners, who had been lodging at his house about three
weeks, absconded on the followi❑g day, and it was im-
mediately disco►ered that a cash-box within a trunk in
the landlord's room had been opened, and the 50/. note,
and other monies and notes stolen. After the lapse of
three months Mr. Baynham accidentally met the two
runaway lodgers in Great George-street, Westminster.
They ran different ways, but he followed and secured
one of them, the prisoner George. At the station-house
he admitted the crime, and said he had secreted the
501. note in the hollow of a pendulum of a clock which
stood in the kitchen of a puddler at Tipton-hill-top,
near Wolverhampton. He said they had changed the
two 10/. notes.
Ephraim Joseph, an apprentice to Mr. Roseley, a
jeweller at Southampton, now identified Philip as having
tendered the 50/. note produced two days after it was
stolen. The prisoner agreed to give 121. 103. for a watch,
and offered the note in payment, saying his name was
Philip Hughes, residing at the White Horse, Brighton,
but staying at the White Hart, Southampton. Witnesa
wrote this address on the back of the note, at the pri-
soner's dictation. The prisoner said he was nervous,
but was afterwards persuaded to try his hand at writing,
•nd wrote the word Philip, but would write no more.
They declined taking the note, and said he had better
send his father, to whom he said the note belonged.
Daniel Oliver deposed that on the 2d of December he
was in the service of Mr. Holford, a jeweller, at Wolver-
hampton, and on that day he changed the 50/. note pro-
duced for the prisoner, in payment for some rings and
a brooch. The prisoner Philip was accompanied by a
woman older than himself. When he took the note he
supposed it was a 51., and his master sent him to Fryer's
Bank to get change. He there found it was a 501. note,
and wrote his master's name on the back of it.
The prisoners denied the charge, but did not attempt
to explain their sudden disappearaLce from the coffee-
shop, or their running away when they met him acci-
dentally.
Mr. Alderman JOHNSON committed them for trial.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
William Clark, a young man, was charged with breaking
into the house, No 42, Fitzroy-square, last night, with in-
tention to commit a robbery.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hotton said she returned home about a
quarter before nine o'clock and went into her back parlour,
but while there she supposed she heard a noise below. She
listened, and being convinced there must be some person in
the room underneath, she opened the street-door and beck-
oned in a police-constable, whom she followed down stairs.
Upon unlocking the kitchen-door with her key, she saw a
box that she had left locked by the bed-side broken open,

the -prisoner concealed under the bed, and a bundle, which
the witness now produced in court, containing two dresses, 1
two shawls, one coat, two waistcoats, a scarf, stock and front,
worth in all about 41. 10s., and which had been taken out of
the box already mentioned.
Police-constable Davis, E 29, corroborated the other wit-
ness's evidence, and said be searched the prisoner at the sta-
tion-house, where he found on him a bunch of 17 keys, one
of which answered the kitchen door, another the street door,
of No. 42, Fitzroy-square, a box of lucifer matches, and five
duplicates.
The prisoner made no defence.
Mr. HARDIVICKE committed him to take his trial at the
Central Criminal Court.
WORSHIP-STREET.
A respectable-looking couple, each about 30, were
charged with creating a distui bance, and causing a mob
to assemble in the public street.
Constable 37 G said he was on duty in the City-road
about six o'clock on the previous evening, when he ob-
served the defendants surrounded by about two hundred
persons—men, women, and children. The male delete l-
ant held in his arms an infant, the possession of which,
however, was being resolutely disputed by the female.
who, he learned, was his " better half," and who, it
appeared, had been chasing him for some time through
the various streets in the neighbourhood for that
pitrpose.

The husband, on being asked what he had to say to
the charge, replied that a short time since he had a
disagreement with his wife, and proposed to her a separa-
tion, he undertaking the charge of the children, four in
number, which was agreed upon ; and having been pro-
mised a situation in London he came up to town, bring-
ing with him the three elder children. lie, however,
returned to Norwich, and having got possession of the
infant, got into the railway train, and again proceeded
to London ; but on his arrival at the London ternairus
to his amazement, he was suddenly accosted by his wife,
who he learnt had come up by the same train in another
carriage ; and this was the origin of the complaint made
by the constable.
The infant here exercised its lungs, which manifestly
were of the stentorian order, and,

The MAGISTRATE desired that it should be at once
given to the mother.
The Lather reluctantly complied.
Mr. Hermitage, on the part of the wife, said he was
instructed that the husband now cohabited with other
women, and all that the wife required of him was that
he would let her have the children, as her friends would
assist her in their maintenance and education, and he
might then go where he pleased. He had s.ild all their
furniture, and taken lodgings in London, where the other
children were ; but in what part could not be ascertained.
The husband said he certainly would not consent to
give up the other children, unless compelled to do so
by law.
Mr. ARNOLD replied that he had no power to compel
him to do so. lie had, however, behaved extremely ill,
and all he could do in the matter was, to bind over both
husband and wife to keep the peace towards each other.
The parties were then accordingly bound in the sum
of 201. each for that purpose.
THE LATI 111 eanEtt IN Stionsprrcti.—This having been
the day appointed for the final examination and completion
of the depositions touching the prisoner Brooks, for the
murder of William Gobert, of Hare-court, Shoreditch, on
Wednesday se'nnight, a concourse of persons were assembled
around the exterior of the court, anxious to catch a glimpse
of the wretched man. When handed out of the prison van
the crowd within the court was also excessive. The prisoner
was at length ushered into the court. The depositions, which
were read over by ➢lr. Vine, the chief clerk, were very
voluminous. The prisoner appeared to be greatly affected at
the painful situation in which he was placed, and exhibited
a complete prostration of his mental and physical faculties.
Mr. Vann attended as the prisoner's legal adviser, and
said he had reserved his defence.

➢ir. James Harrison, surgeon, described the appearances
presented on a post-mortem examination of the body of the
murdered man.

The prisoner was then removed from the dock, preparatory
to his conveyance to Newgate, to await his trial at the next
sessions at toe Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey.
A reinforcement of police was required to keep oil' the
crowd when the prisoner was removed to the van.
THAMES.

Five lath, apprentices on board the ships Favourite
and Autumnus, were charged with stealing thirteen
pints of brandy from a cask lying in a quay in the Lon-
don Dock.

From the evidence of White, one of the Thames po-
lice, and Dix, a constable, it appeared that the prisoners
had abstracted the brandy in a mode which is technically
termed " working the pony." It seems that on the pre-
vious day one of then, named Syhes, took one of the
ship's buckets and placed it under the cask. He then
bored a hole in the cask with a gimlet, two of the others,
Furman and Johnston, in the interim keeping a good
look-out in °Ruske directions for the police. They then
pia a spike in the gimlet-hole, and carried the brandy on
hoard the ship Favourite. The trick was discovered by
White observing the cask breaking, and on examining
it he soon found the spike was not such as a cooper
would use. On searching the ships, part of the brandy
was found concealed in each. The prisoners admitted
the fact; one observing, when called on for his defence,
" I only bored the hole," and the others said, " We did
nothing but look out for the police." They were all
committed for trial on the charge.