The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30. 1810.

GLANDERED HORSES.
Deputy HICKS brought up the Report of the Mar-
kets Committee, relative to the nuisance of glandered
horses. It stated that they directed the City Solicitor
to report his opinion, whether the sale of a glandered
horse was an offence at law ; and annexed was that opi-
nion, in the suggestions of which they fully concurred,
and recommended that they should be authorised to take
such steps as might be advised to prevent the continu-
ance of the nuisance. The following is the Solicitor's
Report :
" Gentlemen,—ln obedience to your commands, I
have considered the petition of the inhabitants of Lon-
don, in reference to the sale of glandered horses in
Smithfield market ; together with the complaint of
Messrs. Vincent, Lawrence, Stanley, Ikey, and Worm-
ald, the eminent medical officers of St. Bartholomew's
Hospital, and the minutes of evidence taken by your
Worshipful Committee, upon which I have to report.
" I do not find it specifically laid down in any of the
ancient or modern text books of the law as an indictable
offence to expose for sale a glandered horse in any fair,
market, or other public situation ; but assuming to be
true the facts brought under the attention of the Com-
mittee, I have no hesitation in expressing my opinion
that an indictment can be maintained against persons
knowingly committing the acts charged by the peti-
tioners, as it comes within the class of offences affecting
the life, health, and property, of the public, which are
clearly indictable at common-law. It has long been
known that the glanders are in the highest degree in-
fectious, and it is not possible to introduce diseased
horses into the market without spreading the disorder
amongst other animals. By the certificate of the eminent
medical professors I have before named it now appears
that frightful and fatal cases have recently come under
their observation, particularly in St. Bartholomew's Hos-
pital, so that it should seem that this malignant disease
is now added to the catalogue of diseases which affect
the human race.
" If the detection of the disease were at all difficult,
or its communicable character were at all doubtful, I
might hesitate before I counselled the Committee to in-
stitute proceedings for the punishment of what might be
considered as a new and questionable offence, but as the
evidence clearly proves the guilty knowledge of the par-
ties in the habit of selling diseased animals in the market,
and that the disease is communicable, not only from ani-
mals direct, but also by contact with any substanceetinc-
tured by the specific virus, it appears to me that the
Market Authorities will not sustain the high reputation
they have acquired by its general improved arrange-
ments unless (their attention having been called to the
subject) they institute proceedings by indictment for the
removal of the evil and the punishment of the offenders.
" The practice of selling such animals with impunity
appears to have prevailed for so long a period that the
ignorant may be impressed with the opinion that it is
not illegal. If. therefore, the Committee adopt my
views of the subject, I recommend the circulation,
amongst the class of persons likely to be affected by
the proposed prosecutions, of a statement of the intentions
of the Cammittee, that they may be deprived of the
pretext which affected ignorance might perhaps obtain
in proceedings against them, instituted without any
previous notification.
" I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
" Your most obedient,
" CHARLES PEARSON."
Mr. HICKS, in moving that the Court should agree
with the Report, stated that the Committee had una-
nimously adopted the Solicitor's views.—( Hear, hear.)
There were, he said, twn courses of proceeding open
to their choice—the appointment of an inspector, or
.he alteration suggested by Mr. Pearson. The latter
hey considered was much preferable.
The Report was then agreed to, and referred back
o be carried into execution.
REPAIRS OF LEADENHALL MARKET.

Deputy Ilictis brought up the Report of the Mar-
kets' Committe on the state of Leadenhall Market, which
it represented was in very bad condition, particularly in
that part which was appropriated to the sale of poultry.
It recommended immediate repair.
The Court agreed to the Report, and referred it back
to be carried into execution as regarded the poultry
market.

EMBANKMENT OF THE THAMES.
Mr. HOARD, the Chairman of the Navigation Com•
mittee, brought up the Report on the embankment of
the Thames. It stated that a great number of meet-
ings of the Select Committee of the House of Com-
mons had taken place on the subject, and that several
witnesses hid been examined, but that no conclusion
had been arrived at, and no opinion had been given as
to the embankment.
Mr. LOTT said that a petition, prepared in a very
short time, and signed by 4,000 persons of respect-
ability, had been sent into Parliament, praying that if
embankments were to be formed, public walks might
form part of the improvements.
The Report was agreed to, and entered on the minutes.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.

A well-dressed man, named Thomas Canham was
placed at the bar.
Mr. James Watts said he was the proprietor of the
Falcon and Castle Hotel in Aldersgate-street, and at
an early hour on Monday morning the prisoner drove
up to the door in a cab, saying his name was Kelly,
and that he required a bed and some refreshment. An
American gentleman, named Kenny, being expected at
the hotel that morning, the waiter, deceived by the
similarity of the names, and from the fact of the prisoner
wearing slippers, and appearing rather in undress, as if
after travelling, showed bim up to the room that had
been engaged for Mr. Kenny, where he was treated
with the greatest attention and respect, until the fol-
lowing day, when " the 'real Simon Pure" made his
appearance. The prisoner then said he had no money,
but if a person were sent with him to Messrs. Rogers
banking-house, he would draw some money and pay
his bill. This was:complied with, but upon reaching the
bank he was quite unknown there. He then requsted
permission to go to Blackwell to get money, but was
refused, and he was eventually handed over to the care
of the police. Mr. Watts understood that there were
charges of a more serious nature to be preferred against
him by a person then in Court.
The gentleman alluded to here stepped forward, and
said his name was Este. He knew the prisoner, who
had been in his employment as an engineer and clerk,
and had attached his (Mr. Este's) name to a cheque
on Messrs. Rogers for 21. without his authority. The
prisoner had also raised several sums of money from
tenants of his in Blackwell. He had been further
given to understand, that the prisoner had gone down
to a property of his in Essex, and received moneys to
a large amount from the tenants there.
At the request of Mr. Este, the prisoner, who urged
nothing in his defence on either of the charges, was ac-
cordingly remanded.

Skipp, Dunnage, and Pearse, were afterwards taken
into custody in London, in consequence of their
quarrelling with each other as to the distribution of the
booty. These three were convicted, but Banks, not
being positively identified, he was acquitted. The pri-
soner, Charles Thompson, then pleaded guilty to an•
other indictment for burglary. The Chairman, after
remarking that the offences of which the prisoner% had
been convicted were the most serious that could be com-
mitted in a civilized community, and would have sub-
jected the prisoners to capital punishment if they had
used-illy actual violence towards those whom they had
robbed, sentenced Thompson, William Douce, James
Douce, Warren, and Dunnage, to be transported for
the term of their natural lives. Pearse and Skipp were
sentenced to be transported for ten years, and Har
wood for fifteen years. The three women who had
been convicted were sentenced to be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour for twelve calendar months. Pre-
vious convictions were proved against the greater part
of the above prisoners, and the county of Essex has
thus been ridded of the most desperate gang of mid-
night marauders that has ever infested this or any other
county.