The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-12 00:00:00

MARLBORO UGH-STREET.

The Secretary of the Amicable Society, held at No.
63, St. Martin's•lane, summoned Thomas Thrower
before Mr. Long, for refusing to pay the sum of
3/. 45., being a portion of the sum of 91. 145., advanced
to a member, for whom he l:ad become security.
Among benefit and loan societies it is the custom to
advance sums to applicants of questionable
both as respects ability to repay the lo zn and honesty,
provided they cam bring forward a person who will be-
come security, and that person be approved of by the
society. In the present instance the sum of 9/. 14s.
was advanced by the society to one of its committee,
who produced the defendant as his security. The
principal soon afterwards left the country, and the
eommittee, after allowing five weeks to elapse, called
upin the security to pay up the arrears.
The defendant said the demand upon him was most
unjust, for he had received no notice of the person for
whom he had become security having gone off, until
called upon for five weeks' arrears, although the rules
of the society required that every security should have
information of the fact of three weeks being in arrears.
Mr. LONG, on referring to the rules, said the secu-
rity was not liable for any part of the sums for which
he had become security, as the society had failed in
doing what their rules required them to do.
The summons was then dismissed.

BATTON-GARDEN.
Henry Hughes was charged with felony under very
singular circumstances It appeared that between two
and three o'clock in the morning Mr. Penny, an in-
spector of the G division of police, met the prisoner
and a little girl, nine years of age, carrying two bun-
dles. He stopped them, and demanded them to give
him some proof thet they were the rightful orners, but
the only reply he could obtain from the prisoner was,
"It belongs to me, and touch me if you dare." Wit-
ness soon convinced him that 11-J dared to touch him, by
removing him to the station-house, when, on examining
the articles, the follotving words were found written
on some of the property :—''Stop him ! it has been
stolen from No. 13, Middlesex-street, Somers-town."
This remarkable inscription induced witness to send to
that house, and the lan,lladv, Mrs. Hill, identified the
property, and proved that the prisoner had stolen it. It
further appeared that the prisoner had debauched an-
othea's man's wife, wlio had been living with him at the
proseeutris'i, and that he abandoned the wretched we-
man while she was asleep on the night in question,
intending never to return to her, and he took with him
all the articles within his reach belonging to his land-
lady.—He was remanded.

------- The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland arrived in town
on Friday evening.
FISHING EXTRAORDINARY.--AS Thomas
Boswell, the fisherman at Great Marlow. was angling with
two gentlemen en Monday last in the Thames, one of the
gentlemen, Mr. Peacock, caught a jack weighing 201 b.
with a perch-hook No. .5 ; and shortly after another, weigh-
ing 101 h. and a half. The larger moll ter was cne yard
'2l.:d four inultca and c;t3btecn inches hi Oi.b. it is
Lhe mor(; remarkable aa tho water was clear as crystal and
no sport expected.