The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-13 00:00:00

robbery appeared in our police report of Thursday,
on which occasion it will be remember that the corn-
Otinant had several fits in court, and at the conclu-
sion of the examination refused to give his name or
address, and having threatened to destroy himself,
was sent to the county gaol, in default of procuring
the requisite securities. To insure his safety as well
as his attendance to prosecute the charge against the
accused persons. _

When the case was called on yesterday and the pri-
soners placed at the bar, the complainant stood for-
ward and appeared to have recovered his usual state
of health. He then proceeded to give a more minute
account of the circumstances attending the robbery
than he was enabled to do on the former occasion :
That he had 20/.,—namely, a 101. Bank of England
note in halves and ten sovereigns, besides some loose
silver, in his pockets when he went into the house with
the woman Wiggins ; that on finding he was plun-
dered in the morning, and that he expressed his de-
termination to call the police, the prisoner Rogers
handed him half the bank note, the other half being in
his pocket, where it was probably overlooked by them.
Ile also said that he had no doubt the four sovereigns
discovered by Coombes, the policeman, hidden under
some gravel in the yard at the rear of the house,
formed a portion of his money. Still there were six
sovereigns missing, which have not been since found.
The whole of the money, with the exception of some
silver, belonged to his employers, and had been re-
ceived by him as one of their collecting clerks. He
should of course account to them for the loss ; and he
added that he did not wish to press the charge against
the prisoner.
Mr. COTTINGIIAM said that he could hear of no
compromise in the case, and that the complainant
must prosecute.

Mr. Roberts then proceeded to cross-examine the
complainant, with the view of showing that he might
have been robbed before he met with the prisoners,
and in reply to some of the questions he said, that he
always carried a great number of papers in his. poc-
kets, and that the two halves of the 101. note might
have been amongst them previously to his having
missed the money; that he did not mention to Wig-
gens that he was allowing a girl named Ann Williams
three guineas a week, nor had he on the night in
question been in the company of some girls of the
town previously to meeting with Wiggins. He ad-
mitted that he was very much intoxicated, and that
when he uttered threats of self-destruction the fol-
lowing morning he was labouring under the effects of
liquor. Mr. Roberts then contended that the evi-
dence against the accused was not sufficiently strong
to render it necessary to send them for trial ; that
none of the money was found in the prisoners' pos-
session, the half of the 101. note being picked up in
the room by the landlady, and afterwards restored to
the complainant.
Mr. COTTINGHAM, however, expressed his determi-
nation to 'commit the prisoners for trial ; and address.
ing the complainant, observed, that now a prosscution
was about to take place it was necessary that he
should declare his real name and address, which must
appear on the face of the depositions.
The complainant hesitated for some moments, when
a policeman of the E division stood forward and said
that he attended the court in order to take the
complainant into custody for embezzlement of his
employer's money, alleged to have been committed in
the district of another police-court. He then said the
complainant's name was Muggeridge, and that he was
a collecting-clerk in the employ of an extensive cheese-
monger in the parish of St. Giles.
The complainant admitted that his real name is
Muggeridge, and that he was in the employment of a
cheesemonger, but denied the charge of embezzlement,
adding that he was accountable to the firm, for the
money of which he had been robbed.

Mr: COTTINGHAM remarked, that if there was no
other charge against the complainant but that which
referred to the money stolen from him on the present
occasion, and which it appeared belonged to his em-
ployers, as he was prepared to make good the loss, he
(the magistrate) thought that an arrangement be.
tween the parties might take place, so that the com-
plainant might be enabled to prosecute the prisoners.
The policeman, however, said that the complainant's
employers had discovered acts of embezzlement on his
part previously to what had transpired on the present
occasion, and which had no reference to the money of
which he had been robbed in the brothel.
Mr. COTTINGIIAM said, that if that was the case, he
should order the depositions against the two prisoners
to be taken, and that, after the complainant had given
his evidence, the policeman might take charge of him.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF
FRIDAY.
WAR-OFFICE, Nov. 12, 1847.
6th Dragoon Guards—Captain Daniel Henry Mackin•
non, from 16th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice
Warriner, who exchanges, Nov. 12.
Bth Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Henry Duberly,
from the 63th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice D'Oyley
William Battley, who retires upon half-pay, Nov. 12.
16th Light Dragoons—Captain Ernle Warrener, from
6th Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, vice Mackinnon,
who exchanges, Nov. 12.
sth Foot—Lieut. John Urban Vigors, from 9th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Hawes, who exchanges, Nov. 12.
6th Foot—Captain Matthew Gunning, from half-pay
25th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, repaying the dif-
ference, vice Sullivan, deceased ; Lieut. Henry Balguy
to be Captain, vice Gunning, who retires ; En-
sign Richard Thompson to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Balguy ; Edward Lloyd, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Thompson, Nov. 12.
9th Foot—Lieutenant George Cubitt to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Lushington, promoted ; Lieutenant
George Harrington Hawes, from sth Foot, to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Vigors, who exchanges ; Ensign John
Whiteside to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cubitt ;
Thomas Rice Hamilton, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur
chase, vice Whiteside, Nov. 12.
18th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Doran to be Adjutant,
vice Bruce, promoted, Nov. 12..
26th Foot Ensign David Hunter Blair to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Duff, who retires ;
Sylvester W. F. M. Wilson, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Blair, Nov. 12.
-42 d Foot—Ensign John William Powlett Orde to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Barnett, who retires;
Charles Maitland, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Orde, Nov. 12.
60th Foot—Lieutenant William Henry Stirling, from
half-pay 9th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Mitchell, pro•
moted, Nov. 12. a
64th Foot—Ensign Joseph Singleton to lyre Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Stephens, who retires; William
John Chads, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Sin-
gleton, Nov. 12.
68th Foot—Lieutenant John Cassidy, from half. pay
9th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Duberly, appointed
Paymaster Bth Light DragOons, Nov. 12.
71st Foot—Major Sir Hew Dalrymple, Bart., to be
Lieutenant-Cblonel, by purchase, vice England, who
retires ; Brevet-Major Edward Foy to be Major, by
purchase. vice Sir H. Dalrymple ; Lieutenant George
Whitworth Talbot Rich to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Foy ; Ensign William Francis Segrave to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Rich ; William Johnson,
Gentv to be Ensign, by put chase, vise Segrave, Nov. 12.
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ricL Foot—Lieutenant Henry Rice to be Captain, by
purchase,. vice Pollard, who retires ; Ensign Arthur
Wade to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Rice; Thomas
i sCharles Hardinge Best, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Wade, Nov. 12.
73d Foot—Major William Eyre
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"*7sth Foot—Lieut. Augustus Thomas Hotham to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Freer, promoted in 3d West
India Regiment; Ensign William Meynell to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Hotham; Charles Fitzroy
Barnett, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Meynell,
Nov. 12
92d Foot—Lieut. Christopher Monteith Hamilton to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Miller, who retires; En-
sign Alastair Man M`Douald to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Hamilton ; Donald Patrick Campbell,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice M'Donald,
Nov. 12.

Rifle Brigade--Lientenant Peregrine Charles I3aillie
Hamilton to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Major
Rushbrooke, who retires ; Second Lieutenant Augustus
W)keham Clifton to be First Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Beckwith, who retires; Second Lieutenant the lion.
Leicester Curzon to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Hamilton ; the Hon. John Charles Ribert Bingham to
be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Clifton, Nov.
12 ; Hecry Becher, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Curzon, Nov. 13 .
3d West India Regiment—Major William Maxwell
Mills to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice
Maclean, who retires ; Captain Daniel Gardiner Freer,
from 75th Foot, to be Major, by purchase, vice Mills,
Nov. 12.
UNATTACHED.—Lieutenant Thomas Mitchell, from
60th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, Nov. 12.
BREVET—Captain Matthew Gunning, from the 6th
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tenant:-Colonel in the Army, Nov. 9, 1846.
GAR RISON S.—Lieutenant William Jenkins, of the
Royal Newfoundland Companies, to' be Fort Major of
St. John's, Newfoundland, wee Mason, who resigns,
Nov. 5.

HOSPITAL STAFF.—Assistant Staff Surgeon Nicholas
O'Connor, M.D., to be Staff Surgeon of the Second Class,
vice Edmondson, deceased, Nov. 12.
MEMORANDUM.—The Christian names of Second
Lieutenant Stephenson, of 87th Foot, are Henry James.
The commission of Captain James Symington Shortt, of
the 4th Foot, is to bear date the 2d June, 1845, instead of
28th June, 1844.

Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex.
Royal West Middlesex Regiment of Militia—Churchill
Proby, Gent., to be Lieutenant, Nov. 8.
WHITEHALL, Nov. 6.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Arthur Bromley,
of Manchester, in the county palatine of Lancaster,
to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of
Chancery.