The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-05 00:00:00

CIVIL SIDE.

Mr. Sergeant Taddy sat at Nisi Prius, but none of
the cases disposed of were not of the least public interest.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

The Rev. Mr. Hall, a Roman Catholic clergyman, ap-
plied to Mr. Alderman Kelly for his advice under the
following circumsiances :—He was sent for by a Roman
Catholic prisoner confined in the Giltspur-street prison
to visit him, and he did so last week. He afterwards
sent him a prayer-book, and also some prayer-books for
some other Catholics who were confined in the 'gaol.
Upon making a subsequent visit, he foucd that none of
the bOoks had reached the prisoners, but had been inter-
cepted by the Rev. Mr. Boddington, the Protestant chap-
lain of the gaol. . The same prayer-book which he
was pleased to prohibit was admitted for the use of
the Catholic prisoners in Newgate, with the sanc-
tion or the Rev. Mr. Carver, the Ordinary. Com-
plainant had an interview with the Rev. Mr. Boddington,
and was not treated with the courtesy which one clergyman
ought to show to another. The complaint he made was
twofold ; that the Catholic prisoner was compelled to
attend with the Protestants at the chapel, against the
man's conscience ; and next that he was prevented from
receiving a Roman Catholic prayer-book.
The Chaplain said, with respect to the latter, that it
contained matters contrary to what he taught, and he
had a mind to burn the several copies complainant had
sent ; and that he should persist in requiring Catholic
as well as Protestant prisoners to attend divine service in
his chapel.
Mr. Alderman KELLY said he bad no power to inter-
fere as a single Magistrate, but if the complainant would
take the trouble to make his representation to the Com-
mittee of Aldermen, who met at . noon on Saturdays, he
was sure it would receive due consideration.

Mary Ann and Sarah Davis were charged with steal- •
it g a pair of mutt! c(4luhs from a blind mmi, Who
stands in rarringJQn-street with a little buk full of SOy.
articles.

James Tidy, oF' Bleeding Hart-yard; Hatton-wall, th,
blind man, said, that two persons, whom he knew to t)
females by their voices, inouired the price of a pair o
side-combs. He asked 3d. for them, and they gave him
a sixpence,'which he changed. After they were gum:
he felt the number of side-combs left in the tray, and
missed a pair, which by suspected they had stolen. Im-
mediately afterwards a lad asked him what the two
young women had purchased, and he replied one pair of.
combs. The lad said they had taken two pairs, went
after them, and gave them into custody.
Frederick Chowne, a lad, proved that they took two
pairs of combs. His suspicion was excited by seeing
one of them put a pair of combs at once into her hair. •
The prisoners said it was a mistake. They thought
the blind man said the two pairs would cost 3d.
The policeman said the prisoners occasionally appeared
as street-walkers.

Mr. Alderman KELLY thought none were so heartless
as to rob a poor blind man. Being their first offence, he
would punish them summarily with imprisonment and
hard labour for one month.

The blind man thanked the Alderman for treating
them so mercifully.

BOW-STREET.

Thomas Lake Wills, a clerk in the Inlaid office of the
General Post-office, was brought before Mr. Twyford
for final examination, having been remanded, charged
with stealing a letter, containing a 101. note, the pro-
perty of the Postmaster-General.
Mr. Peacock conducted the prosecution.
At the last examination, the note was traced to tho
prisoner's possession.
Mr. Alrm Chettle, a draper, residing at Fromc in So-
mcrsetshire, stated that he sent a letter to his father on
the 16th of July last, enclosing a 101. note of the Frome
Bank, with half a sovereign, and 3s. in silver, and after
Sealing and directing it to the " Rev. John Chettle,
Sheerness," he gave it to his wife to put into the Post-
office ; but not receiving an answer on the Wednesday
following, he made inquiries and discovered it had not
come to hand. Witness identified the note produced
with his initials upon it.
Mrs. Chettle, wife of the last witness, proved having
put the letter into the post-office, on the day in question,
and Mr. Chettle, to whom it was directed, proved that
he had never received it.

Mrs. Sarah Webber, at whose house, in Allen-street,
Lambeth, the prisoner had lodged for the last four
months, stated that on Use 23d of July she saw a 101.
note in his possession, which she believed was the same
as that produced. He took it from a bookcase, saying,
" Look here, how careless I am with money ; here's a
101. note I have left on the shelf.". He was then look-
ing for a sovereign he had lost. Witness did not think
any person had come to visit him during his stay at the
lodgings. She went out at half-past three o'clock on
the 23d of ,July, and the prisoner did not return home
until a late hour on that night.
The evidence of Mr. Bitt, a clerk in the General
Post-office, which had been taken on the former exami-
nation, was read over. It proved that the prisoner was
on duty on the day in question, and tae letter must have
passed through his hands.
The prisoner declined making any defence, and he was
fully committed for trial.
He was again charged with stealing a letter containing
a silver meaal, the property of Mr. Drinkwater, a member
of the Society of Odd Fellows.
It appears that the prosecutor sent a letter, in which
the medal was enclosed, to Mrs. Wood, a charwoman, in
Buckingham Palace, and in the usual course of busines
it should have arrived at the General Post-office on the
16th of June from Brighton, but it never came to hand.
The prisoner had been on duty on the day in question,
and on searching his lodgings the medal, which he said
he had found in the Westminster-road, five weeks back,
was discovered by the officer.
Mr. Blott and the officer gave the same evidence as in
the last case, a.nd the witnesses being bound over to pro-
secute, the prisoner .. was ordered to stand committed on
this charge also, but to be brought up again on Satur-
day next.