The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-09 00:00:00

THE CORN TRADE.

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early effected at about the rates of this day se'nnight,
whilst, by submitting to a decline of about 25. per
quarter, a fair extent of business was done in the best
description of south country and foreign, but middling
qualities were most difficult to move, although offered
at a greater reduction. Flour was much pressed for
sale in the early part of the week, at a decline of 2s.
to 3s. per sack ; but there being very little offering
to-day, rather more firmness was displayed by sellers,
and the comparative scarcity of the article enabled
holders to obtain rather more money than could have
been obtained earlier in the week. Barrels are sale-
able at 265. to 28s. according to quality. In rye
little passing. Grinding barley in fair demand, and
late rates fully sustained; for malting samples no in-
quiry. Malt continues to evince a drooping ten-
dency, and the low price at which barley is likely
to set in will doubtless cause holders to manifest some
anxiety to realise their stocks previous to the new
appearing at market. Beans and peas without change.
The show of oats from the country being moderate,
and principally of the new crop, sales could only be
made by submitting to easier rates, but in the value of
old we have little variation to note.
WISBEACEI, SEPT. 4.—We have a very small at-
tendance of growers here to-day. A few samples of
new wheat are offering, and find buyers at last week's
prices. A large supply would have met a good de-
mand on the same terms, and this remark applies to
old as well. New oats fetch 1 Oid. a stone for good
mealing quality.
LEEDS, Sarr. 7.—The arrivals of grain are mo-
derate this week. The weather continues fine for
harvest. Wheat finds free sale at fully Friday's
prices; the little new here goes off at extreme rates.
Barley as before. Oats, shelling, and beans, without
variation in price.

HOP INTELLIGENCE.
ALTON AND COUNTRY DISTRICTS, SEPT. 7.—Hop
picking has partially commenced in Alton and the
country districts, and will be very general next week.
We shall be able to speak with more certainty of the
prospects of crops in our next report.
BRENCHLEY.—The cold nights of the past week
have greatly retarded the growing out of the hops,
and the planters' estimate of last week cannot be
realised. We have had a white frost, which has tinged
some to a brownish colour, and caused a kind of pre-
mature ripeness. Picking partially commenced yes-
terday. Mr. Samuel Bates has received from his
hop-factors (Messrs. Doggett and Harryman) an ex-
cellent gold-laced hat, as a prize for his first new
pocket sent to London market this year.
CRANBROOK.—The ungenial state of the weather
we have experienced for the last few days has mate•
rially retarded the progress of the hop towards per-
fection, and we find on the most minute examination
into some plantations, combined with an extensive
inquiry among those who have been hitherto consi-
dered good judges of the plant, that we shall not grow
so many, by a considerable quantity, as we did last
season.
DARLINGTON AND ASIIBURNIIANI.—The crop in
these parishes will come down short ; it being esti-
mated at less than two-thirds of last year.
IGHTHAM AND SEAL.—The hops have certainly
gone back the last few weeks, but some few grounds,
where the bine was backward, in the damp situa-
tions, are still in a flourishing state; but upon the
whole they cannot grow what was expected some
weeks ago.
MAIDSTONE.—The hops have not made that pro-
gress which could be desired, yet most of the plan-
tations are doing well. The weather has kept them back
from coming to perfection. It is to be hoped the
planters will not begin picking too soon. Next
Monday appears to be the day fixed for general be-
ginning.
OFFHAM.—Our hops will be good in quality, but
the parish will certainly not average more than two-
thirds of the growth of last year.
TESTON, WATERINGBURT, MEREWORTH, &c.—The
hops have been sadly injured by the cold nights,
both as to quality and fitness for picking ; and the
general observation is, the hops want picking but
are not ready. The picking will be delayed a week
or ten days in consequence of the unfavourable state
of the weather, and it is very plain that the crop
will fall short of what was generally expected a fort-
night since.
TICELIURST.—A succession of cold weather having
stopped the growing of the hops, many of the back-
ward sorts will be small. Picking in this neighbour-
hood will partially commence about the Bth or 9th
instant, and generally in the following week.
YALDlNG.—Picking was begun here by two or
three planters yesterday, and will be general by the
end of the week. The mould is progressing rapidly
in some ground.—Maidstone Gazette.
BATTLE.—The hops appear very good in quality,
but the quantity will be something less than last
year's growth, the atmospheric change from warm to
cold having produced such a state of stagnancy among
them they will not do much more in respect to size.
Fifteen cwt. to the acre will be a first-rate crop ; but
they appear well equalised, for every planter will get a
quantity proportionate to the culture and richness of
his lands.
BREDE.—The hops in this parish, excepting some
gardens, have very much improved, and look well
and healthy. There is every appearance at present to
grow nearly as many as last year. Picking will com-
mence in about a week.
BRIGHTLING.—Our report this week upon the hops
is changed. The very singular weather we have had
during the week, cold, hot, windy, and rainy, has
retarded the progress of the hops in this parish. The
rust is coming on, and some kind of insect making
great ravage among them, giving but a faint prospect
of improvement ; therefore the thought of growing as
many as last year must be done away with, and the
duty must come down. Several will begin picking
before next week is out.
Brawasn.—The past week has been a most un-
genial one for the hops. Even in the best plan-
tations they have made, apparently, no progress at
all. " They are going back ; they really seem every
day to get smaller instead of larger ; in many gar-
dens they are going off too, getting brown, and in
some places mouldy." Such is the tale told now by
almost every planter. Report speaks of the same
being the case in many parts of Kent. Picking will
commence here in a few days, and will be general in
about a week.

LIVERPOOL, CORN• EICIIANGE, SEPT. 7.—The
imports from Ireland and coastwise continue ex-
tremely
limited. From Canada there are 3,143
quarters of wheat and 37,366 barrels of flour, and from
foreign ports they are again very heavy. The exports
amount to 2,256 quarters of wheat, 331 quarters of
oats, 6,609 quarters of Indian corn, 3,318 barrels of
corn meal, 333 sacks and 21,184 barrels of flour. The
weather in the early part of the week was favourable
for the completion of harvest, and in this immediate
neighbourhood the fields are mostly cleared. For
three days past, however, heavy drenching rains have
fallen, which may impair the condition of the new
wheat. For wheat there was daily a good consump-
tive demand, et the fall prices of Tuesday. Flour met
an extensive sale at 255. 6d. and 255. for Western
Canal and the best Canadian descriptions ; and Balti-
more, Philadelphia, and Ohio were offered at 245.
per barrel ; unsweet, 20s. and 18s. 6cl. per barrel.
Oats in moderate request at 3s. 2d. per 451 b. for good
old Irish. Barley was flat. Beans and peas without
change of value. Indian corn met hut a slow sale at
275. per 4801 b. for New Orleans, and at 31s. and 30s.
for prime and yellow New Jersey and Galatz. In-
dian meal was offered at 13s. 6d. to 14s. 6d. per
barrel, and few transactions occurred. At our Corn-
Exchange this morning there was a good attendance
of the trade and a large show of sampls of all kinds of
grain, dour, &c. There was a large consumptive de-
mand for wheat at the full prices of this day week, and
some choice mixed American fetched 3,1. per 701 b.
advance. And for flour there was also a large sale at
255. and 255. 6d. per barrel for Western Canal, and
for other kinds in proportion. New oats scarce, and
the few samples offered fetched 3s. 2d. for Newry, and
3i. per 451 b. for Scotch ; old were flat, at former
rates. Barley, beans, and peas, were without change,
and in moderate demand. Oatmeal was held for 30s.
to 31s. per load for Irish new. Indian corn and
In-
dian corn-meal were in fair request at previous rates.
HULL CORN-EXCHANGE, TUESDAY.—.There has been
a decided change in the temperature during the past
week, and on one or two days some quantity of rain
has fallen. This will prove a benefit to the turnips,
which were beginning to look anything but right,
and being followed by a cold brisk wind would do no
harm to the grain crops. The fields are now rapidly
clearing of Wheat, and other grain is being fast se-
cured.
Without any material extension of business, a
firmer feeling has pervaded the market since our last
report. The majority of importers preferring to land
rather than submit to previous low rates, there is less
stuff pressing for sale than we had previously to re-
port. Much now depends upon the course pursued
by farmers. They cannot easily forget the agreeable
high prices of the last six months, and those who can
hold we think will, and see whether a cessation of
arrivals, which is now pretty sure to take place, will
not give them a better result than present sales will
do. There has certainly been less inclination to sell
at some of our local markets the last week.
At to-day's Market we had only a small show of
Wheat from the farmers—less than our
rmillers
needed—it was very free sale at full last w
rather more money being paid in some instances. prices,
good enquiry for foreign Wheat, but little or none
offering afloat, and our stocks are also trifling, parti-
cularly of useful red Wheats.
The quality of the new Barley shown (merely
samples) was very fine, and there is no doubt this is
the best crop on the ground. The season for Grind-
ing Barley is now on, and the demand good at pre-
sent moderate rates.
We have still arrivals of Foreign Oats, which are
saleable at the above currency.
Beans are inquired for, but being landed are gene-
rally held above present rates. From the general
failure in the crop of this article some improvement
is confidently looked for.
Rye-meal still attracts great attention, and is a
shade dearer since our last. It is being used mixed
with water for pigs, and with brewer's grains for
milk
cows with great advantage, in both cases mixed
thin. Water put to it in a large tub and drained off
after standing some time, has proved good for young
calves.—(From Messrs. Taylor and Bright's Circular.)
NEWCASTLE •UPON-TYNE, —The wea-
ther this week has been for thekTuoasntkprart of a bois-
terous character with occasionalm showers, but they
have not been of sufficient importance to impede har-
vest operations. At our market this morningocwr
growers,
a pretty fair supply of wheat from the had
great bulk of which consisted of the new
Oa condition being much improved, :lad sucohip Laing
Want6d by our caillol6 for
..1.03) a c carance wax,

EASTUOATHLY.—The din of preparation among our
hop-growers. is now actively going on for the sp-
proacning picking, which will, hereabouts, be pretty
general before the close of the present week. The late
hard frosts have been anything but favourable to their
ripening well.
FARNHAM.—Some of our planters have com-
menced picking, and they quite answer their expec-
tations. I think it will not become general till the
latter end of the week, as those groands which were
much blighted are considerably back warder than
those more favoured. Our duty is estimated at
5,500/.
FLETCHING.—Hop-picking will commence pretty
generally in this parish in the course of the ensuing
week. The hops are small, and scarcely an average

crop.
HURSTGREFN.—The high winds and cold nights of
this last week have considerably injured the hops in
this neighbourhood. Some grounds do not look
so flourishing or so good a colour as they did a
week ago. The hop-picking will- commence this
week.
NIAYFIELD.—The hops have improved but little
during the past week. The weather has been very
cold during several nights pasts, attended with
frost. The picking will become general this week,
and the crop will fall very far short of last year's
produce.
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NINFIELD.—Our hop grounds are still looking re-
markably well, and, no doubt, we shall have a fair
crop and a good sample. We expect picking will
commence in some gardens this week.
NORTHAM.—The hops have much improved, and
are now ripening fast. The picking will partially
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TUNBRIDGE.--We perceive a slight change in some
grounds, which are not looking so bright ; we hear
the mould is making its appearance. Notwithstand-
ing, our hops generally are getting into good condi-
tion, and if the weather continues favourable, will
come down well.
UCKFIELD.—Our hops have not been doing 'flitch
to boast of during the past week—the cold winds and
frosty nights will prevent their growing much more,
notwithstanding, we shall grow a good crop at last,
considering the blight we have had. Picking will
commence in a few days, when we shall be better
able to judge as to the duty.
WADHURST.—Our hops in this district have not
been doing much since the last report ; the atmosphere
having been cold and unkindly for the hop to grow
out. The majority of crops will be small compared
with last year. Picking will commence about the
9th inst.
An esteemed correspondent of considerable authority
on the subjcet on which he writes, has kindly forwarded
us the following analysis of the amount at present cal,
culated as the probable duty. lie estimates the seve
ral districts as under—
/Cent .••
Sussex
Worcester ...
Farnham ...
Kingdom ...

L 127,000
... 51,000
... 4,500
... 6,500
1,000
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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1847.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
The LORD MAYOR« said he had received from a
fellow-citizen a communication upon a subject to
which the public press frequently referred in its
energetic attempts to have a system established for
the improvement of the health of towns, He should
openly read the letter, in accordance with the request
of his correspondent :
" May it please your Lordship,—l request to call
your attention to a shameful desecration of the last
resting place of the dead, which I have just witnessed
with horror and disgust from the window of my
counting-house, which overlooks the very small
churchyard of St. Ethelburga, in Bishopsgate-street
Within. I saw the men employed in digging a
grave - the spot, however, must have been often the
recipient of human remains ; for at least six sculls
and several large and small bones were thrown up
and treated with that apathetic indifference which
familiarity with such employment alone can account
for. The sculls, as thrown up, were knocked to
pieces by the men, and by them were shovelled in
negligently under the mould that had been thrown
up. Whilst this was going on several boys were
occupied in detaching the nails from portions of the
coffins, an occupation which seemed to afford them
much mirth, for they seemed very merry indeed.
During this scene the effluvia from the spot was
offensive in the extreme.
" I beg to apologise for thus intruding on your
Lordship's valuable time, but knowing your Lord-
ship's desire to abate whatever is offensive to the
morals or health of the citizens, over whom you so
worthily preside, must be my excuse fur begging that
your Lordship will permit this communication to be
read in open Court. The authorities with whom it
rests to prevent the recurrence of such scenes will be
thereby reminded of their duty in a manner more
effectual than by the mere representation of an indi-
vidual.—l have the honour to be, &c. &c.,
" FREDERICK CARSON,
" Firm of Samuel Phillips and Co.,
St. Helen's-place."
His said, that amongst the numerous
complaints
Lo
rcishmip adetohim relative to desecrations of
the description mentioned by Mr. Carson, was one
from Dr. Farquhar, of No. 101, Drury-lane, who
called upon him the other day for the purpose of re-
questing his magisterial attention to the condition of
the burying-ground attached to Elim Chapel, in
Fetter-lane, a place of worship which he believed
belonged to the body of Dissenters called the Pri-
mitive Christians. A carpenter bad, the Doctor
said, called upon him, and having mentioned that
he had buried two of his children in that ground,
expressed the greatest apprehension that their bo-
dies would be cut in pieces, and mixed up
with others in compliance
,with the regulations
which seemed to prevail there. In order to be sure
that there was no exaggeration in the statement,
Dr. Farquhar said that he had visited the burial-
ground himself, and he found that there were actually
on the spot two or three cart-loads of human re-
mains packed up in coffins for carting and removal to
some other place, which it might be, perhaps, con-
sidered necessary, on some future occasion, to dese-
crate in a similar manner. Dr. Farquhar denounced
such treatment of human bodies, which thus appeared
in the various degrees of decomposition, as an out-
rage of the most appalling kind, and stated that the
exposure in the close neighbourhodd was calculated
to engender diseases of fatal character. Now, noth;ng
could be more congenial to his (the Lord Mayor's)
feelings than the power of applying a remedy to
such an evil ; but he could not act as a magistrate on
this occasion. Dr. Farquhar was then referred to
the ward authorities, but he said that he should leave
his statement to be disposed of as the Chief Magis-
trate might think fit, upon which he (the Lord
Mayor) adopted the present mode of letting those
who had the power of dealing with the question know
what was going forward in the churchyards of the
metropolis.
Thomas Ill'Carthy and Mary Doherty were charged
with haviug fraudulently obtained a sovereign from
Mr. Nagle, the owner of a public-house in Tower-
street, St. Martins- lane.
The prosecutor walked into a public-house at six
o'clock one morning to treat some friends, and he saw
the two prisoners and a young man of respectable
appearance, who addressed him by name and claimed
acquaintance with him. While they were talking
together, one of the prosecutor's friends told him that
he was conversing with a thief, whereupon the male
prisoner knocked down the man who gave the caution,
and at the same time the person alluded to as the thief
whipped the watch out of Mr. Nagle's fob and de-
camped. On Wednesday the two prisoners called
upon Mr. Nagle and told him that if he was willing
to pay 41.105. to a Jew, in Petticoat-lane, he could
get back his watch ; that the female prisoner, who
was the original receiver of the property, had sold it
to " Smouchy," and that they would all go to the
crib to get it hack. The prosecutor consented to ac•
company the prisoners to the Jew, but took care to
plant two policemen to watch their movements in the
neighbourhood. The prisoners, after having pointed
out a person in Petticoat-lane as the man who had
present possession of the watch, proposed to the pro-
secutor that he should put a sovereign into their
hands to hand to the Jew as a guarantee that all
was right, and with that sovereign they attempted to
escape.
Committed for trial.
BO IV- S TREET.
John Robson, alias Thompson, alias Spore, and
many other names, was again placed at the bar,
charged with obtaining charitable contributions by
false pretences.
The particulars of the case appeared in our paper
of Monday last. The officers of the Mendicity So-
ciety now attended, with a large number of letters,
supposed to be written by the prisoner, and sent from
time to time to Lord J. Russell, Lord Eldon, Vis-
count Morpeth, the Marchioness of Londonderry,
the Duke of Northumberland, and other noblemen
and gentlemen, from many of whome he had received
donations, at one time or another, during the past 12
months.
It will be remembered that the prisoner was given
into custody by Mr. R. W. Grey, M.P., who, suspecting
his character, had caused the- police to be in waiting
to take him into custody, on a second application, at
his house in l3elgrave-square, and after receiving five
shillings from the Hon. Gentleman.
It appeared from the letters, all of which ware read
in Court, that the prisoner had assumed different
names, and dated them from different parts of London.
It was amusing to observe the incongruity of these
documents when read one after the other; for, accord-
ing to them, the prisoner had been confined to his bed
from a succession of broken legs and limbs, which
occurred regularly every other week for a consider-
able length of time past, although dating his applica-
tions for relief from the Commercial-road, from South-
wark, from Fenchurch-street, and other localities,
equally distant from each other.
The prisoner did not deny that he had written
most of the letters produced, but adhered to his state-
ment in the one addressed to Mr. Grey, that he had
suffered severely from the failure of a joint-stock
bank in the north of England.
Mr. JARDINE said he had taken care to have the
whole of the letters produced recorded, in order that,
on a future occasion,sif the prisoner should ever be
again detected in this kind of fraud, he might have
the punishment he so well merited. At present his
Worship regretted that, being a first conviction, he
was only enabled to inflict the punishment of three
months' hard labour, to which he then sentenced him.
!VEST MINSTER.
James Savage and William Durant, respectively
aged 16, were charged under the following circum-
stances :
Mr. Lazenby, of Little Chelsea, said that on the
previous afternoon he discovered from twelve to
twenty buys in his gardens stealing fruit, and suc-
ceeded in capturing the prisoners. Not only had the
boys stolen an immense quantity of fruit, but they
had split the trees in several places, and torn up a
great number of artichokes by the roots.
Complainant produced an exceedingly large apple,
apparently twelve or fourteen inches in circumference,
and said that he had for fourteen years, paid great
attention to the culture of the tree upon which it
grew. The apple now was not near so large as in all
probability it would have been, and it was a source
of much vexation to find that this tree had been en-
tirely demolished by the boys.
Mr. BRODERIP observed that depredations of this
sort were now carried on to so serious an extent, by
organized gangs, that he should suggest the propriety
of checking the offence by the employment of police-
constables in plain clothes in the neighbourhood of
gardens. At present the robbers watched the con-
stable in uniform, and took the opportunity of com-
mitting the offence the moment his back was turned.
It was essential that this, as well as other descrip-
tions of property, should be protected, and he thought
that if a few constables were dressed in plain clothes,
the object would be effected.
The prisoner, who pretended that they went into
the ground to get their caps, which were thrown
there by some other boys, were committed for two
months each.

acting business, but who had then taken no notice of
her, suddenly came up, and representing himself as
a commercial traveller for wholesale houses in the

linendrapery business in the City, intimated that he
should have no difficulty in furthering the object she
had in view, as he had been requested by a large house
in Shoreditch to procure for them several respectable
young persons as assistants. After some further con-
versation, in the course of which he referred to seve-
ral respectable firms with which he was connected, she
accompanied him to various shops where he had busi-
ness to transact ; at the conclusion of which he pro

raised to introduce her to a person who would require
her services. The defendant then asked her to ac-
company him to the house of a friend of his in the
neighbourhood, where they would have every facility
to complete the negotiation, and at which lie would
furnish her with his address, and conducted her to a
house in what she had since ascertained to be a noto-
rious locality, called the Vinegar-ground. They
were shown into a room, in which she was startled to
find a bed, and the defendant almost immediately
seized her, and, forcing her upon it, proceeded to acts
of violence too gross to be described. She resisted to
the utmost of he; power, and screamed loudly for as-
sistance, when he told her that her cries were quite
useless, for that if a policeman came he could readily
escape, while she would be taken to the station. She,
however, continued her screams and struggles, so as
to prevent the completion of the offence, and at length
succeeded in escaping into the street, in a state of ex-
treme terror, followed by the defendant, who made
her promise to wait a few minutes, while he entered a
jeweller's shop ; but the instant he had done so, she
hastened to the house of a female friend in the City-
road, to whom she communicated the particulars of
the outrage to which she had been subjected, and was
protected home to her father, who subsequently went
round to the shops she had indicated, and having there
obtained the defendant's name and address, took out a
warrant for his apprehension.
Mrs. Jane Supple, the lady referred to, corrobo-
rated the latter part of the complainant's statement,
and deposed that upon reaching her house the young
woman was in a state of dreadful excitement, and her
whole appearance denoted the ill-treatment to which
she had been exposed.
Mr. Vann was about to address the Magistrate on
behalf of the defendant, when
Mr. illAmmu,t, said that after the convincing evi-
dence he had heard, he felt it his duty to remand the
defendant upon the charge, but would, in the mean.
time, accept bail for his future appearance, which
must be defendant himself in 2001., and two respon-
sible sureties in 1001. each, with '24 hours' notice to
inquire into their sufficiency.
SOUTHWARK. _

Edward Price, landlord of the Elephant and Castle
beer-shop in the Kent-road, was charged with as-
saulting Mark Redman, under the following circum-
stances. _ _

The complainant, whose eye was blackened and
swollen, stated that some days since he was induced
to purchase a ticket in a sweepstakes for the St. Leger,
held at the Elephant and Castle, in the Kent-road.
He called there a few days ago to know the result of
the draw, and the running horses, at which time
the defendant was in the bar, of whom he made
the necessary inquiries. He (complainant)
asked him if he was more fortunate in drawing a
good horse this time than he had been on former
occasions, and was answered that the horse he had
drawn was not amongst the starters, therefore, he
had "Nothing to expect. Complainant made a remark,
that although he had often expended money in the
purchase of tickets, still he never got anything

by it ; and added, that he thought there was a great
deal of trickery and humbug about those things, and
that he should take care and not throw away his
money again on sweepstakes. The moment he made
those remarks the defendant got into a passion, called
him by an offensive epithet, and when he (complain-
ant) retorted, and said that he did not deserve the
application bestowed upon him any more than the
man who had uttered it, the defendant immediately
struck him a violent bloVon the face that made his
nose bleed, and blackened one of his eyes; not con-
tented with this, he seized him by the shoulders, and
was thrusting him out of the house, hut on seeing
that he was bleeding, his assailant ashamed to eject
him into the road in such a condition, permitted him
to remain in the house until it stopped.
The defendant, a very powerful man in comparison
to the complainant, said the latter had exaggerated
the facts—that when he entered the house, on being
apprised that the horse he had drawn was not a
starter, he became extremely abusive, and taunted
the sweepstakes got up at his house as a regular
piece of humbug, and insinuated that he had been
choused out of his money. Such language was im-
proper, and he desired the complainant to quit the
house if he could not behave himself, and he (de-
fendant) admitted that he was about to turn him out
when he lifted up an umbrella, and made a strike at
him with it, and he merely pushed him on one side,
but declared that he did not strike him, or give him
the black eye of which he complained.
The defendant then called two witnesses who were
drinking on the premises at the time to rebut the
complainant's statement as to his having struck him,
but they equivocated so much that the Magistrate re-
marked that he did not place any credence in their
statements, but believed the main facts as described
by the man who had been assaulted.
Mr. COTTINGHAM then said, that the conduct pur
sued by the defendant, a strong and powerful man.
in comparison to the complainant, reflected much dis
grace upon him. He then inflicted a penalty of 40s.
and costs on the defendant, and at the seine time
addressing the young man who had been assaulted,
advised him in future to refrain from throwing away
his money in the purchase of tickets on races.
LAMBETIL _

WORSHIP-STREET.
Mr. Charles Clayton, a fancy-soap manufacturer
and wholesale perfumer, in Fell-street, Cheapside,
was brought up in custody of Holland, the warrant
officer, charo•ed‘ with an aggravated assault upon
Georgiana H.oskins, a respectable and modest-looking
young woman, sixteen years of age.
The complainant stated, that feeling anxious to pro-
cure some respectable employment, she was recom-
mended to call at a linendraper's in Goswell-street-
road, to which she went on Monday evening; but on
communicating her errand she wa's informed by the
owner that there was no vacancy in his establishment.
She accordingly left, but had only gone a short dis •
tance from the door when the defendant, who had been
previously stazihag 4,t the counter) afparently trans-

Samuel Skepheard,T4ll:,%;; brought before Mr.
Elliott, by order of the Police Commissioners, on a
charge of violation of duty.
Police-sergeant Thomas. Veness, 2 L, deposed that
on Monday night the prisoner, after going on duty,
had deserted from his beat, and on the following
morning he, witness, took him in Tooley-street.
Inspector Evans said that on Monday morning the
prisoner, who had been about six months in the force,
had been taken before the Commissioners, in Scot..
land-yard, and fined 2s. for being irregular.
Mr. ELLIOTT observed that the prisoner's conduct
on the occasion was very gross. and his having been
fined by the Commissioners on Monday morning, in-
stead of acting as a check or example to him, seemed
to have a contrary effect. The Magistrate sentenced
him to pay a penalty of 40s , or, in default of pay-
ment, to be committed to prison for fourteen days.
Charles Gibson Reggers, a journeyman baker, in
the service of Mr. Marshall, of Loughborough-place,
Brixton, was finally examined, and fully committed
for trial on various charges of embezzling the moneys
of his master.

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bim foe
The statement of the prisoner was added to the believed she called at his residence to ask
depositions, by her own desire, and she signed it. some money for the support of the children. .a. be
The prosecutor, in answer to a question put by the Mr. YARDLEY said comment in this caie r_oraas to
magistrate, said there was not one word of truth in superfluous. The prisoner was acquitted t the
what the female prisoner had stated. Mr. Gilbert, he deserved to be prosecu
The prisoners were then committed for trial at the gross perjury he had committed.
Central Criminal Court.
THAWS.
Two soldiers, named Joseph Stordy, a private in
the Coldstream Guards, and Edward Darby, of the
Grenadier Guards, surrendered before Mr. Yardley,
on a charge of feloniously receiving a gold watch and
appendages, value 30 guineas, the property of Mr.
John Sercombe.
The case has been repeatedly before the magistrate
(luring the last three weeks, and every exertion has
been made by the police to discover two women of the
town, who first administered a noxious drug ti the
prosecutor, and rendered him insensible, anti while lie
was in that state, plundered him of his watch and
money. The exertions of the police to discover the
women have proved unavailing. The prosecutor, who
has been seriously indisposed since the robbery, could
not attend till to day, when the prisoners, in pursu-
ance of an order of the magistrate, were surrendered
by the sergeants of their respective regiments.
Mr. Sercombe, a middle-aged gentleman, stated
that on the night of the 19th of August he was re-
turning home, after dining with some friends, when
he met with two women opposite the National Gal-
lery, and went home with them to a court in the
neighbourhood of Tothill-street, Westminster. He
sent for some wine, and drank a few glasses with the
females, and became very unwell. The two girls
then mixed something in a tea-cup, which they
assured him would do him good. He drank it off,
and became insensible immediately. He had no
further recollection of what passed, and did not re-
cover from his stupor till the following morning,
when he found himself alone in a room. His watch,
and all his money, consisting of fourteen or fifteen
sovereigns, and about 7s. 6d. in silver was gone.
There was an old 'woman in the house, but he did not
seen any other person He left the house as soon as
possible, and upon reaching the court he saw two
soldiers, whom he firmly believed left the house next
the one in which he passed the night in the court, and
they ran away on seeing him approach. He gave
immediate information of the robbery to the police.
A gold watch, guard,.and chain were produced and
identified by Mr. Sercombe as his property. The
value of the articles was thirty guineas.
In answer to questions by the magistrate, Mr.
Sercombe said he was satisfied a noxious drug was
mixed in the tea-cup. It took immediate effect upon
him.

ROBBERIES IN GRAVESENM,
Gravesend has been for some time infested by inn?
titudes of thieves, who commit robberies in the
del
time under the very noses of the police. During the
last week several depredations were very coolly Fh;
petrated, and the inhabitants cry aloud against thet
Corporation for not stirring up the rolice, or, as e
detachment of the force located in this district sr
called, " the fine-weather blue coats," to make 3°,rhe
exertion for the protection of their propertY• --
following instances, selected indiscriminately
he frool.
number of robberies, will give some notion of t el"
cacy of the system of police at Gravesend.
The hall-door of a house in Parrock-street was leifr:
open by a servant one day last week, and uP longsl
walked a tall, genteel-lookingl fellow, with s er
cloak ; upon the servant's return she met the with
coming down stairs, and upon asking him .whalio.
had been about, was told that he called to visit $ 'OO3
Ellis, who lodged their formerly. The girl accused
him at once of being a thief, arid insisted upon setiou
what he had under his cloak. The loud oonverstisired
roused the lady of the house, and when she lintle.ool
the cause of the disturbance, the visitor herturrie" to
and in the most courteous manner appealed to twho
protect him from the insolence of her 8011004 ha
had the audacity to accuse him of theft, hee,3a, re'
had made a very common mistake. The 140/
buked the girl, who, however, persevered 5° re, a
in his
i the charge, that the gentleman was seized jo his
an irresistible desire to take to his heels, IT toed
flight dropped a valuable dress. It afterwarus
pursuit,
to
out that the dress was flung down Re
Pod tIO
it Ale found ile
for upon examination of the room
a considerable quantity of plate had disappeared i
escaped. iundere°
A market-gardener, named Amos, was P into the
by two well-dressed ruffians, who walked
too of
back parlour of his house, under the pretence time to
writing a letter. They contrived in Damsh° or f mongii
break open a drawer in which was 3 raved' by
which wplhanichthtehyewere regu a
they appropriated,
theyafter ha ving P 1r Lonaoa
" family men." fey diq 59 sll,a
Several houses were robbed within 3 laundress w'''
on Saturday, about seven o'clock, a wh.,sbe
robbed of a large box of valuable lint.en'sc of Xr'
wGaosugdehl,ivoefriHn
delivering some
t that the
l
It will be seen from the above stateulePte so //el
police of Gravesend are not organized VI rotect tbe
setrceleott.hes at the 00
as those from whom they are employed to
ed gas
public. It is believed that the well-disciPlui aiffereat
of thieves are located with their families in acquire $
parts of the town, that they diligentlY
_r the e:
knowledge of the habits and circumstances °.., their
spectable inhabitants, and that they folloL.'el; has Ot
information with the rapid movement /Ithe SO
long distinguished and enriched some 0'
clever thieves in the metropolis.

Mr. William Byas, pawnbroker, of No. 147, Rat-
cliff-highway, stated that on the evening of Thurs-
day, the 19th of August, the gold watch and chain
just identified was brought to his shop, and Stordy
asked 50s. upon it. He questioned the prisoner, who
said his name was Hutchins, of St. George's Barracks,
Charing-cross, that the watch was his own property,
that he had had it in his possession 19 years, and that
it had been left him by his father, who was in posses-
sion of it 55 years. Darby said, " You need not be
afraid, Sir, I know the watch and guard-chain to be
my comrade's property, and have seen it in his posses-
sion several years." Witness was not satisfied with
the statements made by the two soldiers, and gave
them into the custody of the police.
Police-sergeant t..;ovey, No. 7 H, stated that when
he took the prisoners into custody, Stordy said the
watch had been in his possession eight years, and that
his father, who lived in Cumberland, had had it 15
years. Witness asked him who could prove that he
had had the watch in his possession so long, and he
referred to the other prisoner, who he said was his
cousin. Darby confirmed all that Stordy said.
Witness told them he was not satisfied, and he should
lock them up on a charge of stealing the watch.
Stordy then said, " I'll tell you the truth—the watch
was given me: by two girls, and they are in a public-
house close by." 'Witness accompanied the prisoner
to a great many public-houses, but he pretended he
could not find the girls, and he lOcked him up again.
On the following morning Stordy said Darby gave
him the watch to pawn before he went to the pawn-
office.
Stordy, on being called on for his defence, said he
was brought into the affair innocently. He knew
nothing of the hocussing and robbery, and had never
seen Ir. Sercombe before. He met two girls at
Pimlico' and they brought him and his comrade down
to Ratcliff-highway, and asked them to pledge the
watch.
Darby made a similar defence. lie was fetched
away from his barracks by Stordy. He went out and
saw the two girls, and he accompanied them to Rat-
cliff-highway.
Mr. YARDLEY said a most serious robbery had been
'effected, and although the evidence did not go far
enough to implicate the prisoners in stealing the pro•
perty, he should commit them to Newgate for trial,
for feloniously receiving the watch and chain, they
well knowing them to have been stolen.
, Hamilton Murray, who is well known in the dis-
trict as a broker, man in possession, and hanger-on at
police courts, and the Whitechapel County Court, was
brought up on remand, charged with fraud.
It appeared in evidence that on the 12th of June
last Mr. Pike, landlord of the Fox and Goose public-
house, in Shakspere's-walk, Shad well, went to the
Whitechapel County Court, to take out a summons,
and was accosted by the prisoner, who, on learning
his business, said he would do it for him, and repre-
sented himself as the bailiff and officer of the Court.
In adjournment took place to a neighbouring tavern,
where the prisoner repeated, over a pot of ale, that he
was the bailiff and authorised to take out summonses.
lie procured some printed forms which were filled
up with the names of plaintiff and defendant, and
nit day Mr. Pike had an interview with the prisoner
at the Pox and Goose, and gave him 7s. 91 for the
purpose of taking out summogses, that sum being named.
by the prisoner as the fees payable when process was
obtained. The prisoner at the same time received a
written authority from Mr. Pike to take out money
already paid into Court by one of the prosecutor's
lebtors. The prisoner signed a receipt for the money
paid him by Mr. Pike, but he never took out any
summonses, and Mr. Pike soon ascertained he was an
impostor, and had been convicted of felony.
Mr. Gregory, one of the bailiffs of the Whitechapel
County Court, said the prisoner has no official ap-
pointment whatever, but was a mere hanger- on about
the Court, and printed cautions had been posted
warning suitors against the malpractices of such
persons.
Mr. Pelham made a defence to show Murray only
represented himself as an agent.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
A well-dressed woman, named Mary Boyle, was
charged with unlawfully knocking at the door and
ringing the bell at the house of Mr. Stevens, soap
manufacturer, in Dock-street, Whitechapel, near the
new Mariners' Church.
Mr. Gilbert, nephew of Mr. Stevens, stated that
on Tuesday night the prisoner came to his uncle's
house, in Dock-street, and said she wished to have
an interview with Mr. Stevens. He refused to call
his uncle, and desired the prisoner to quit the house
instantly, which she declined doing, until he threat-
ened to give her into custody, when she left the
place. About five minutes afterwards she returned
to the house again, and rung the bell. She re-
peatedly asked for Mr. Stevens, and he told her he
could not be seen. The prisoner peremptorily refused
to leave until she had seen Mr. Stevens, and he was
compelled to give her into the custody of a police-
constable.
The prisoner, in defence, said she was a deeply-
injured woman. She was formerly servant to Mr.
Stevens, and she lived under his protection for a
series of years, and had borne him seven children,
four of whom were now living. Mr. Stevens sup-
ported her, and behaved very well to her until within
the last two months, when he abandoned her, and
she was thrown upon the wide world with her four
children without any means of support. Mr. Ste-
vens had repeatedly made the most solemn pledges
that he would always maintain her and her children,
but at the instigation 6f -Others he repudiated her.
She merely went to the house on Tuesday night for
the purpose of having an interview with Mr. Stevens,
and he was denied. She knew that Mr. Stevens was
at home when she called, and that Mr. Gilbert denied
him.

Mr. Pelham, who was instructed to plead the cause
of the woman at the bar, said the connexion which
had so long subsisted between her and Mr. Stevens
was well known to Mr. Gilbert, and put some ques-
tions to him.
The witness stoutly denied that he knew anything
whatever of any such connexion as that alluded to.
He also swore that he was not aware that Mr. Stevens
was by repute the father of the prisoner's children.
He knew nothing about it.
Mr. Pelham—Do you mean to swear that, Sir ?
Mr. Gilbert—Yes, I do.
Mr. Pelham then called Mr. John Jackson, a re-
spectable hatter, residing in Stepney, nearly opposite
the Court, who said he knew all the circumstances
of the affair, and the prisoner stated that which was
perfectly true, and Mr. Gilbert was cognizant of all
the facts. He had endeavoured to obtain something
like justice at the hands of Mr. Stevens, and had
communicated, in the most delicate manner, with
some members of his family, to avoid exposure, but
without success. Mr. Stevens was reported to be
worth 30,0001. to 40,000 i., and would not support his
children. The prisoner had endured great distress
and anguish of mind for several weeks past, and she
was in possession of fifty pawnbrokers' duplicates re-
lating to property she had pawnod to maintain herself
and four boys.
Mr. YARDLEY was satisfied that Mr. Gilbert knew
more than he thought proper to divulge. When
people came into a court of justice, they were bound
to tell the whole truth. He then pressed Mr. Gilbert
very closely, and he extracted from him that he was
aware of his uncle's connexion with the prisoner, and