The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-04 00:00:00

GUILDHALL,

The Rev. Mr. Hall, a Roman Catholic clergyman, ap-
plied to Mr. Alderman Kelly for his advice under the
following circumsiances :—He was sent for by a Roman
Catholic prisoner confined in the Giltspur-street prison
to visit him, and 'he did so last week. He afterwards
sent him a prayer-hook, and also some prayer-books for
some other Catholics who were confined in the gaol.
Upon making a subsequent visit, he foucd that none of
the books had reached the prisoners, but had been inter-
cepted by the Rev. Mr. Boddington, the Protestant chap-
lain of the gaol. The same prayer-book which he
was pleased to prohibit was admitted for the use of
the Catholic prisoners in Newgate, with the sanc-
tion of the Rev. Mr. Carver, the Ordinary. Com-
plainant had an interview with the Rev. Mr. Boddington,
and was not treated with the courtesy which one clergyman
ought to show to another. The complaint he made was
twofold ; that the Catholic prisoner was compelled to
attend with the Protestants at the chapel, against the
man's conscience ; and next that he was prevented from
receiving a Roman Catholic prayer-book.
The Chaplain said, with respect to the latter, that it
contained matters contrary to what he taught, and he
had a mind to burn the several copies complainant had
sent ; and that he should persist in requiring Catholic
as well as Protestant prisoners to attend divine service in
his chapel.

Mr. Alderman KELLY said he had no power to inter-
fere as a single Magistrate, but if the complainant would
take the trouble to make his representation to the Com-
mittee of Aldermen, who met at noon on Saturdays, he
was sure it would receive due consideration.

Mary Ann and Sarah Davis were charged with steal
ing a pair of small combs from a blind man, who usual!'
stands in Farringdon-street with a little box full of suc]
articles.

James Tidy, of Bleeding Hart-yard, Hatton-wall, the
blind man, said, that two persons, whom he knew to be
females by their voices, inquired the price of a pair of
side-combs. He asked 3d. for them, and they gave him
a sixpence, which he changed. After they were gone
he felt the number of side-combs left .in the tray, and
missed a pair, which he suspected they had stolen. Im-
mediately afterwards a lad asked him what the two
young women had purchased, and he replied one pair of
combs. The lad said they had taken two pairs, went
after them, and gave them into custody.
Frederick Chowne, a lad, proved that they took two
pairs of combs. His suspicion was excited by seeing
one of them put a pair of combs at once into her hair.

The prisoners said it was a mistake. They thought
the blind man said the two pairs would cost 3d.
The policeman said the prisoners occasionally appeared
as street-walkers.

Mr. Alderman KELLY thought none were so heartless
as to rob a poor blind man. Being their first offence, he
would punish them summarily with imprisonment and
hard labour for one month.

The blind man thanhed the Alderman for treating
them so mercifully.

BO W-STREET.

Thomas Lake Wills, a clerk in the Inlad office of the
General Post-office, was brought before Mr. Twyford
for final examination, having been remanded, charged
with stealing a letter, containing a 101. note, the pro-
perty of the Postmaster-General.

Ir. Peacock conducted the prosecution.
At the last examination, the note was traced to thQ
prisoner's possession.

Mr. Win. Chettle, a draper, residing at Frome in So-
mersetshire. stated that he sent a letter to his father on
the 16th of July last, enclosing a 101. note of the Frome
Bank, with half a sovereign, and 3s. in silver, and after
sealing and directing it to the " Rev. John Chettle,
Sheerness," he gave it to his wife to put into the Post-
office ; but not receiving an answer on the Wednesday
following, he made inquiries and discovered it had not
come to hand. Witness identified the noto produced
with his initials upon it.
_ _

Mrs. Chettle, wife of the last witness, proved having
put the letter into the post-office, on the day in question,
and Mr. Chettle, to whom it was directed, proved that
he had never received it.

Mrs. Sarah Webber, at whose house, in Allen-street,
Lambeth, the prisoner had lodged for the last four
months, stated that on the 23d of July she saw a 101.
note in his possession, which she believed was the same
as that produced. Ile took it from a bookcase, saying,
" Look here, how careless I am with money ; here's a
101. note I have left on the shelf." He was then look-
ing for a sovereign he had lost. Witness did not think
any person had come to visit him during his stay at the
lodgings. She went out at half-past three o'clock on
the 23d of July, and the prisoner did not return home
until a late hour on that night.
The evidence of Mr. Blott, a clerk in the General
Post-office, which had been taken on the former exami-
nation, was read over. It proved that filo prisoner was
on duty on the day in question, and the letter must have
passed through his hands.
The prisoner declined making any defence, and he was
fully committed for trial.
He.was again charged with stealing-a letter containing
a silver medal, the property of Mr. Drinkwater, a member
of the Society of Odd Fellows.
It appears that the prosecutor sent a letter, in which
the medal was enclosed, to Mrs. Wood, a charwoman, in
Buckingham Palace, and in the usual course of business
it should have arrived at the General Post-office on the
16th of June from Brighton, but it never-came to hand.
The prisoner had been on duty on the day in question,
and on searching his lodgings the medal, which he said
he had found in the Westminster-road, aye weeks back,
was discovered by the officer.

Mr. Blott and the officer gave the same evidence as in
the last case, and the witnesses being bound over to pro-
secute, the prisoner was ordered to stand committed on
this charge also, but to be brought up again on Satur-
day next.

SHIPP)NG INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYDS.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITIL-The Maria, fro'hutondon,
steering S., June 22, lat. 14 S., lon. 29 W. ; Sabina,
froEir London, steering W.S.W., 14th, lat. 42, lon. 30 ;
Partheon, bound W., 22d, lon. 13, by the Camoens, ar-
rived at Havre. Bolivar, for Bombay, April 8, lat. 18
S.; lon. 52 E., by the North Pole, arrived at Bombay.
Sir Herbert Compton, March 19, in the Straits, off the
North Sands. Myaram Dyarain, April 1, lat. 6 W.,
lon. 94 E., by the Bomajee Hornajee, arrived at ditto.
Morning Star, London to Ceylon, April 17, by the
Lady Faversham, arrived at ditto. Garland, Liverpool
to Quebec, lat. 46, lop, 55, by the Aberdeenshire, ar-
rived off Romney. Carshalton Park, 12th ultimo,
lat. 47, lon 44, by the Ocean, arrived at Waterford.
Mary Ann, Salcombe to Quebec, Ist inst., off Anticosti,
by the Congress, arrived at Fleetwood. Arcadia, Li.
verpool to ditto, 24th ult., lat. 50, lon. 10, by the
Triton, arrived at Fishguard. Richmond, Havre to
Richmond, Bth, lat. 41, lon. 58, by the Clayborne, ar-
rived at Boston. Washington, Liverpool to ditto, sth,
lat. 45, lon. 54, by the Lucy, arrived at Boston. Barque
Robin Gray, 10th ult., lat.' 52, lon. 34 ; Madonna of
Pictou, from Leith, lat. 57, lon. 17“, by the Northum-
berland, arrived at Pentland Firth. Eliza, Madeira to
Bahia, June 10, lat. 9 W., lon. 24, by the Meteor, ar-
rived in the River. Lady Flora Hastings steamer, 23d
ult., let. 45, lon. 11, by the Eliza, arrived at Bristol.
Romance, Alexandria to Milford, 27th ult., off Coast
Palos, by the Emerald, arrived at Holyloch. Ous Ge-
noeque, Amsterdam to Batavia, May 14, lat. 14 S., lon.
32 W. ; Rebecca, Trinidad to Clyde, 11th ult., lat. 36,
lon. 36 ; Rhode Island and Rockshire, both from Liver-
pool, 30th, lon. 10, by the Superb, arrived in the
Downs. Clorinda, Dominica to London, lat. 47, lon.
34, by the Helene Catharine, arrived off Falmouth.
Mary Grey, of Peterhead, for Torres Straits, 22d ult.,
by the Sir Charles Forbes, arrived at Booby Island.
Marga..7et, bound to Lombock, lat. 11, lon. 12, by the
Berksh ire, arrived at Bombay. Miranda, Hobart Town
to Lonrhock, after being on shore on Portlock Reef,
Torres Straits, in a calm, but received no damage, May 6,
by the Berkshire, arrived at ditto. Pomona, of Alloa,
4th ult., lat. 46, lon. 58 ; Wolf's Cove, Quebec to Liver-
pool, sth, lat. 46, lon. 57, by the Lord Wenloch, arrived
at Bull. Express, Cadiz to Quebec, sth ult., lat. 57, lon.
16, by the: Reward, arrived at ditto.

The Boyne man-of-war, which caught fire and
blew up, the 4th of May, 1795, at Spithead, when four-
teen men perished, is now endeavouring to be blown up
by similar means used to shatter the Royal George. The
year after (1796) the Amphion man-of-war blew up at
Portsmouth, and two hundred and fifty men perished ;
and on the 17th March, 1807, the Invincible, 74 guns,
was lost off Yarmouth, by which accident the Captain
and fox hugdred men perished.