The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-28 00:00:00

one, and said he had sold the other. On account of
this discrepancy in their statements, and the low price
he had given, witness took him into custody also.
Barnard protested he had only bought two, giving
2s. for one, and ls. 6d. for the other, which had been
used. He put one at the door and one in his window.
Mr. Alderman SIDNEY inquired what was the
wholesale price, and whether journeymen did not oc-
casionally make up goods and hawk them at lower
prices ?
Mr. Williams said the wholesale price would be
3s. each, but they might be hawked at a lower price
in the mode the Alderman had supposed.
Barnard said he could get them up at 2s. himself.
Mr. Alderman SIDNEY said he should discharge
Mr. Barnard. The price given was not so low that
a guilty knowledge must be inferred, and the fact
that the umbrella was exposed in the window without
the least attempt to alter or disguise it, was opposed
to the presumption that Mr. Barnard was conscious
he had bought stolen goods.
Mr. Barnard was then examined as a witness, and
confirmed on his oath the statement he had made
before.

The prisoner re-asserted that he bought the three
umbrellas for .ss.

Mr. Alderman SIDNEY questioned the prisoner as
to the cause of his singular conduct.
The prisoner said he was a single man. He was a
tailor. He came up from Birmingham a fortnight
ago to find work, but he found it impossible to do
so, and he had no friends who could help him.
Mr. Alderman SIDNEY said there was sufficient
evidence, without his confession, that he had com-
mitted an impudent theft in a great thoroughfare, and
he therefore committed him for trial.
BOW-STREET.

John Quad, described in the charge-sheet as a
surgeon, of a, Howland-street, Fitzroy-square, was
charged with hying attempted, by forcible means, to
obtain an audience of the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, in Dowsing-street.
From the statement of a messenger in the Chan-
cellor's office, and police-constable 101 A, it appeared
the prisoner had acquired a notoriety among the Go-
vernment officials ,for the frequency and intrusive
character of his 7isits to Cabinet Ministers during the
past four years, with the view of representing his
alleged claims upon the country, and requiring of the
State a just recognition of them, and a speedy liqui-
dation thereof in the current coin of the realm. On
some former occasons he had been fortunate enough
to get an interview with the Chancellor ; but, as his
claims were repudiated by the Government, they
had since declined having any conference with
him upon the subject. Not long ago he presented
himself at the door of Sir Robert Peel's residence,

in Whitehall-gardens, and, forcing himself into
the hall, demanded the immediate presence of
the Right Honourable Baronet ; upon which
the porter, it seems, of his own responsibility, ejected
him from the mansion. On that occasion he applied
to the magistrate at Bow-street for some means of
redress ; but his worship advised him, if he really
had any claims on anybody, to adopt the usual legal
remedy. Yesterday, however, he called again at the
Exchequer-office, and requested to speak with the
Chancellor; and, on being refused admission, became
so violent in his language and behaviour, and tried
so hard to effect an entrance by forcible means, that
the messenger and assistant-secretary, Mr. Trevelyan,
were compelled to hand him over to the care of a
police constable, who conducted him to Bow. street.
The prisoner declaimed against the advisers of her
Majesty for having so long resisted the just demands
of an injured subject upon his country's bounty. His
1 claims, he said, had been admitted by the Right Hon.
Chancellor Baring, but the State, unhappily, had not
the honesty to meet them. When he came to that

court for tmuisterial advice, he was referred to the
" usual legal remedy." Surely, he contended, he was
not acting incon',istently with that advice, when he
quietly applied at the Exchequer- office for a personal
interview with the Chancellor. The fact was, he had
to endure more than human patience could bear up
against. His demands upon the state had been esta-
blished beyond dispute, and its refusal to liquidate
them reflected discredit on the nation.
Mr. JARDINE would not discuss the justice of his
claims. If they were genuine, the law affbrded him
ample means of redress. At any rate, it was quite
clear that Ministers of State, if they repudiated such
claims, had a right to be protected from the annoy-
ance of his importunities. He should therefore re-
quire him to enter into his own recognisances in
100/., and to find two sureties in 50/. each, to keep
the peace for three months.
MARYLEBOIVE.

Shortly after the disposal of the night charges, a
considerable degree of excitement was caused in the
vicinity of the court, owing to it having become
known that the father of Anne Simmons was to be
brought up for examination as a receiver of a large
amount of property, forming a portion of somewhere
about 2,0001. worth, which, he alleged, had been
stolen by his daughter from Messrs. Marshall and
Co. Vere-street, Oxford-street, in whose service she
had held a situation as shopwoman during a period
of nearly three years. The particulars of what tran-
spired, on Tuesday, when Anne Simmons was examined,
were inserted in our paper of yesterday, and it will
be remembered that a large quantity of silks, satins,
lace, and other articles of a most costly description
were found in the boxes of the prisoner at her em-
ployer's dwelling; and that Allison, 88 D, the
officer engaged in the case, discovered amongst some
of her papers the address of a gentleman named
Hickman, occupying chambers in Lincoln's Inn-
fields ; a large amount of property being discovered
therein, the greater part of it was identified by Mrs.
Marshall, and he (Mr. Hickman) admitted that he
had been on terms of intimacy with the accused
woman, with whom he had slept at his chambers on
the night of Saturday, the 16th inst. It will also
be borne in mind that Mr. Hickman was present
during the proceedings at this court on Tuesday, and
that, from what transpired in the course of the in-
vestigation, Mr. Broughton, at the conclusion thereof,
ordered him to enter into his own recognizance in
2001., and to procure two sureties in 1501. each, for
his being forthcoming at the next inquiry ; he as-
serted that he should be able to prove his entire in-
nocence, and the required recognizance having been
given, he was liberated.
At two o'clock yesterday Benjamin Simmons, the
father, 60 years of age, was placed at the bar, charged
as a receiver of a large portion of the plunder. He
was brought up from Market Harborough by In-
spector Tedman, of the D division. His residence
was at a village called Gumby, near the place first
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made acquainted with their business, the prisoner,
after some hesitation and denial of guilt, delivered up
a large hair trunk and a wooden box, which were
bound to contain an immense amount of silks, satins,
&c., which were identified by Mr. Marshall as be-
longing to him and his partner. Prior to these things
being given up a search warrant had been obtained
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daughter being mentioned to him, that he knew no-
thing about the boxes, nor was he at all aware of
any robbery having been committed.
Mr. Lloyd, lilk-street, Cheapside, was the solicitor
for the prosecution, and a clerk from the office of Mr.
Humphreys attended for the prisoner.
The investigation, which lasted nearly two hours,
excited a more than an ordinary degree of interest,
arising from the magnitude of the robbery.
The prisoner, acting upon the suggestion of his legal
adviser, reserved his defence, and he will be brought
up again next Tuesday, on which day Mr. Hickman
has been bailed to appear. It was rumoured that in
the course of a few days another person, supposed to
be implicated, will be in custody.
WORSHIP-STREET.
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Yesterday a young fellow of notorious character,
named William Maize, was charged with assaulting
and seriously injuring Julia Rose, a girl fourteen
years of age, the daughter of a fruiterer at Cambridge-
heath, Hackney.
The girl, who was obliged to be supported into the
witness-box, stated, that while watching a stand in
front of her father's shop on the preceding afternoon,
the prisoner came up and in the most daring manner
began helping himself to the fruit, and upon her re-
questing him either to return, or pay for what he had,
he struck her such a violent blow upon the temple
that she was sent reeling a considerable distance, and
fell down in the road. Before she had time to rise the
prisoner renewed his attack upon her, and kicked her
about the body so savagely that she became insen-
sible, and then attempted to effect his escape, but was
pursued and secured by her father, who sent for a po-
liceman and gave him into custody. She had since
been in a state of acute suffering from the effects.of
the prisoner's brutality, and was then under medical
treatment.
The surgeon called in, and the policeman corrobo-
rated this statement, and the prisoner, when called
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