The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-30 00:00:00

LAMBETH-STREET.

After the night charges had been disposed of, Thomas
Sterne and Elizabeth his wife were placed at the bar
before the Hon. G. C. Norton, and charged with being
concerned in a wholesale system of plunder on the
licensed victuallers of the district.

From the evidence it appeared that on that forenoon
the prisoners were met by Clay, a constable'of the K
division, and, suspecting by their manner that all was
not right, he asked what they had in the basket carried
by the female. The male prisoner replied that that was
no affair of his, and abused him as an impudent fellow.
Clay, who was in plain clothes at the time, drew
out his staff, and, stating that he was an officer,
insisted on searching them. He . did so, and
finding that the basket was full of publicans' pots, he
requested the assistance of Mr. Hemmingways, the land-
lord of the Weaver's Arms, in the Mile-end road, who
was accidently passing at the time, to take them to the.
watchhouse, and on their way there the male prisoner
voluntarily took off his hat, and handed Clay a pint pot,
nearly bent together, which he had concealed over Id:;
head. After locking them up, Clay proceeded to their
lodgings, and there found a frying pan, which was evi-
dently used for the purpose of melting down pots, with
upwards of 101bs. of the melted metal in it. On urther
searching, the officers found a great number of pots be-
longing to various publicans in the vicinity of the Mile-
end-road, and also a great number of liquor glasses, tum-
blers, &c., some of which had the name and marks filed
out.

Mrs. Good, landlady of the Black Boy, in the Mile-
end-road ; Miss Grant, of the White Swan, in the same
neighbourhood ; and Mr. Melchan, of the North Briton,
Bedford-square East, identified a portion of the measures
produced, and each recognized the prisoners as being fre-
quently at their houses. Mr. Melchan stated that in less
than two months he had missed five dozen of pint pots,
which cost him 375. a dozen ; and added, that the extent
to which this species of plunder was latterly carried was
almost incredible.

The prisoners, who declined offering anything in their
efence, were remanded until Tuesday next.

THE EMIGRANTS.
They fled•from the land of the brave
Heart-broken, •
Where never the word of a slave
Was spoken :
0 why do they fly o'er the wave
Heart-broken ?
Oh, list ! their complaint, as. they fly
Is spoken,
" Though plenty still hangs in the sky
Its token,
From hunger—from hunger we tly,
Heart-broken."
From hunger !—though half of the soil
And the cattle ada
p Is unbroken ;
ted to toil
Breathe a curse on the Are unyoken
Lords of the soil
Ye hoart-broken !
Birmingham, Au;. 24th, 1841. R. It. R.

General Gascoyne, whose death we announced
on Saturday, enteredappointed En-
sign in the .10th Foot on the 9th of Pebruary, 1779. He had
not been long
thewas C
createdol di tre aLmi
in this Regiment before he became Ensign in
the army early, and was
Lieutenant and
an(01 ecapththeinlBth of August, 1784, he
• ; on the 3d of May, 1796,
he became Colonel b 1 ' ' • y ire Net , and after the lapse of about
three year- January, 1799, promoted to the
was, on the 7th of
16th Foot, by the title of Lieut.- Colonel. On the 29th of
April, 1802, he wasmade a General; three years after he
became Colonel of the 7th West India Regiment, and on the
25th of Apt il, 1808, Lieut.-General. On the 12th of August,
L''l9, he was Invested with the title of Gtnetal. General
Ga,coNne served with the Guards in Flanders. He was
severely wounded in the affair at Lincelles, and subsequently,
in 1794, whilst commanding the covering party on the retreat
of Sir Ralph Abercromby's division from Mouvaix to Rou-
baix. From the effects of this wound in his head he frequently
suffered very acutely in his later days.
THEATRICAL GOSSlP.—Covent-Garden opens
on the fith of September.* It is reported that a lady of rant:,
in whose family genius seems to be hereditary, will make her
debut at this theatre early in the season.— On dit that Miss
Ellen Tree has objected to take the part assigned to her in
Sheridan Knowles 's new drama.--1 he Vandenhoffs are at
Southampton, Where a Miss Montgomery has made a most
truce ssfut debut as Juliana, in the Ho; eymoon. A provincisl
critic says, " Miss Montgomery possesses great advantages cf
person, is an ezcel!ent study, and acts with gracefulness arid
contidi nee."

TI e piai2e of railway travelling was rather ori-
ginally advocated by a companion of curs whose admiration
was chiefly excited by its putting an end to high way robberies.
Sir," said hv, "it has extinguished one of the most ext,n-
sive, dangerous, and worst species of ci ime. A footpad, Sir,
cannot nut a pistol to the boiler, and stop the train by threaten-
ing to blow its brains out, so that the passengers may be
plundered at leisurr."—Literary Gazette. I But footpads
can place some obstruction on the line, overturn twenty car-
'r lag es, and rob :).00 passengers at their • leisure,"