The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-10 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron GURNEY, and Mr. Justice
ERSKINE.)
JOSCp/1/ Paler 7011, aged 20, vas indicted for felonious -
)reaking and entering the dwelling;-house of Messrs.
Ran;vell, and Browning, and stealing nine
:andkerelliefs.

A p&iecular, who had disguised himself as a con,-7-
tryman, w.i!clied the prisoner and another person break
the prosecutor's window and take the property in gues•
Lion. He apprehended the prisoner and the hand-
kerehinfs were lound on him. He was found guilty,
and sentenced to fourteen years' transportation.
- The Grand JUry came into Coiirt in the course o!
'the day and made the following presentment
-Tne Grand Jury of the Central Criminal Court. for
the present session having disposed of all the bills vnalch
have been placed bef3re them, take leave 's*y'•l•6sp'ect- I
fully to submit to their Lordships and the Cinitt the
follo•A ing Ltrief chsetyations . .
Ist., It appears in the judgment of the Grand Jury-
that a law portion of the bilis submitted to them have.
Consisted of trilling charges, comprising offences
for wilteli the ends of justice would be Eff:.ctuallv
rvedby prompt and summary punishment. For in
their opinion the direct influence of penalties so inflicted
would tend equally, if not snore, to the prevention of
crime than the formal but tardy visitation adopted by
the present mode.

2d. It is with pain the Grand Jury remark that evi-
denee has been submitted to them, where the juvenile
partiesgiving it have evinced the greatest ignorance of
the nature and responsibility of an oath.
31 The Grand Jury have great pleasure in bearing
testimony to the good conduct of the police force, who,
while they have shown the most commendable vigilance
in detcetinir and bringing offenders to justice, have, at
the same time, used their power with mode:ation, and
whohave been invariably clear and effective with their
:idence.in , •
4th.. The Grand Jury having inspected the gaol of
Newgate, are desirous of recording their great satisfac-
tion with the means therein adopted for the security,
accommodation, health, dnd befitting comforts of the
unfortunate prisoners.
The Grand Jury 'remarked, however, that two female
prisoners, named Elizabeth Tulley and Mary Anne
Bombay, who -were indicted under a peculiar charge,
and which bill was thrown out on Tuesday morning
List, remained in ignorance of that fact, and were conse-
quently suffering great mental anxiety.
- JAMES BARBER, Foreman.
Old Bailey', Jan. 9, 1840.

• ROBBERY IN AN OMNIBUS Dl' SWELL-MOB-MEN,
—Pfn)es Thompsm: and John ,roues were indicted for
itealitig, on the 23d of December last, a Bank of Eng-
land note for tl)g payMent and of the value of 301., seven
sovereigns, five halt sovereigns, eight shillings, and two
sixpences, contained in a purse value 25., from the -pgr-
son of Jane \Veils, the property of her husband, Joiai

Mr. CLARKsoN stated the case at considerable length.
Messrs. Phillips and Payne conducted the defence.
Mary Welts deposed that she lives at No. It 3, PhiM-
u:lore-place, Kensington, and her husband carried on
the business ot. a pawnbroker, in Broad-street, London.
Oa the `2.3d of December she went to Rinsom's Bank
with a cheque, and received a 301. bank-note, and some
ohl and silver in change. She and her husband pro-
ceeded from Pall Mall to Piecadil!y, when they hailed
iardwick's omnibus, but there was only room for one, and
she got in. The conductor told her husband to walk on
to Bond-stree!, where some persons were to get out.
When witness got, in, the prisoners were sitting together,
Ind made room for her to sit between than, and Thomp-
ion sat on her right side, where sim carried her pocket.
When she got in she held her gown up in folds, and
held it and her pocket as she mounted the steps, when
she felt her purse. Before they left the White Horse
gat oxue before%s,,a s Raven,
tvlel
(Aar, Me. Hardwick, who conduct; his own oninihn
r
anZercelda twhKe tehnesri nagntyo t one
wantaesdnto)
he, Harchvick-, rode on the box next the driver. When
she was near Apsley House, she thought she felt a touch
at her pocket ; hence she turned round to Thompson,
hut as he appeared respectable, suspicion was disarmed
On their arrival near to Sloane-street Jones called on •
Cie conductor and requested to be let out, and scolded
him for leaving his r,:gular placc• Thompson followed
him in a hurried manner, and off they both went. Wit-
ness immediately missed her purse and money, and she
and her husband went in pursuit. They thought they
bad filed, and were about to return to town to stop
the payment of the note when she saw Thompson get into
a cab at the door of the
Fox and Bull public-house
in Sloane-street. Her husband instantly went up
to it, and said t` You arc the persons who rode
with us in the omnibus''" What of that ?" said
Jones,
" Why, you robbed my wife, said my
husband, and Jones jumped out of the cab on
one side and Thompson on the other, and they both ran
off in different directions ; she followed Thompson, and
her husband pursued Jones, and eventually they were
both captured.
The witness; who gave her evidence in a remarkably
clear manner,
was subjected to a rigid cross-examina-
tion by Mr.
Phillips,-- hut her original evidence was not
invalidated in the slightest degree.
Mr. J. Wells, her husband, was examined at consi-
derable length, but his testimony went generally to con-
firm his witb's.

After some further evidence the Jury, without the
least hesitation, returned a verdict of Guilty against
both prisoners.
The COMMON SECGEANT said that the law rou:t be
enforced to protect passengers in public vehicles, and
it was impossible that they could be allowed to remain
in this country. The sentence upon each of them was,
that they be severally transported beyond the seas for
term of ten years.
The Young gentlemen, as some of the witnesses called
them, did not appear to approve of the judgment.

, The Assembly of the Estates of Brunswick has
lately agreed unanimously to a resolution to invite the
Government to apply to the German Diet for satisfac-
tory explanations respecting the Hanoverian question,
and especially in tho manner in which the Hanoverian
Government, in its proclamation of the 11th of Septem-
ber last, interprets the declaration of the Diet on the
question of the Constitution.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.