The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-11 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

HATTON-GARDEN.
EXTREME HARDSHIP ON TRAVELLERS AND TA-
VERN-KEEPERS.—Mr. Brewin, the proprietor of the
Golden ,Lion Tavern and posting-house, in 'St. John-
street, Clerkenivell, was summoned to this office before
Mr. Greenwood on Saturday under the following dir-
cumstances

The proceeding occasioned much conversation, and
the office was densely crowded by gentlemen interested
in the matter at issue.

Inspector Penny, of the G division, said, that at a
quarter before one on Sunday morning he was passing
the defendant's house, and hearing the ostler in the
stable-yard, he called out " Jem, open the door," which
was instantly attended to, and witness, with one of his
sergeants, then proceeded to the smoking, or travel-
lers'-room, where they found four gentlemen sitting en-
joying themselves over a pipe and glass, for which of-
fence against the law witness had been desired by the
Commissioners to institute the present proceeding.
Mr. GREENWOOD.—HOW came you to go to the
house? Was there any disorder that attracted your
attention ?

Inspector.—Not the least. There cannot be a more
respectably conducted house. Information was sent to
us that Mr. Brewin did not comply with the Act so
strictly as his neighbours, and I was consequently bound
to pay the visit.

Mr. GREENWOOD.—Were either of the gentlemen of
whom you speak intoxicated ?
Inspector.—Not in the slightest degree.
Mr. GREENWOOD (to Mr. Brewin).—What is your
answer to this complaint, sir ?
Defendant.—The gentlemen spoken of by the in-
spector had arrived but a very few hours in town, and
they needed the refreshment they were having.
Mr. GREENWOOD.—But the law says that you shall
not serve any person or persons whomsoever with ale,
porter, wine, or spirits, between thq, hours of twelve on
Saturday night and one on Sunday.
Defendant—But you will please to bear in mind that
my house is a tavern resorted to, and principally sup-
ported by, travellers.
Mr. GREENWOOD—The Legislature has made no
distinction between an hotel and a common public-
house, which I consider to be your own faults.
Defendant—Why so, Sir ?

Mr. GREENWOOD —You are numerous and powerful,
and if you had pointed out to the Government, when
the Bill was before Parliament, the evils and incon-
veniences likely to result by such a measure appertain-
ing to travellers, you would, I am satisfied, have been
attended to.

Defendant—What are we to do, then, with gentle-
men arriving on Saturday nights, or Sunday mornings,
from the country—must we send them to bed ?:
Mr. GREENWOOD-I can give you no advice. lam
here to explain and enforce the law. Defendant—l
served no liquor after the hour of twelve.
Mr. GREENWOOD-But you suffered it to be con-
sumed on your premises, which the law forbids. How-
ever, I do not look upon this but as an offence of a
venial kind. You have erred in ignorance, and with a
desire to make comfortable the guests in your house :
but, notwithstanding this, I must pronounce that you
have offended against your license, and must be fined
10s. Defendant—Then I shall appeal against your
decision.

Mr. GREENWOOD--I wish you would.
The Chief Clerk—He cannot appeal,Sir, without you
impose a penalty of 60s.
Mr. GREENWOOD—I will not inflict that, then, for
the offence is not adequate to such a high sum ; in fact
I look upon this as a very slight case, and one that I
would not order a fine for unless the law was imperative
on me.

The defendant said be Was obliged to the Magistrate
for the attention he had given the case, and, under all
the circumstances, he would pay the I Os.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

At a congregation on Wednesday last the following de.
grces were conferred :

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HONORARY MASTERS OF AnTs.--Viscount Newport, Tri-
nity College, Viscount Clive, St. John's College; Hon.
G. Percy Sydney Smythe, St. John's Collegb ; Francis
Leslie Pym, Trinity College.
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MASTERS OF ARTS.—James Hemery, Trinity College;
Samuel Weston Wanton, St. John's College; Edward
Selwyn, Catharine Hall; George Arthur Clarkson, Jesus
College. _

BACIIELOR IN THE CIVIL LAW.—Eardley Wilmot Mi
chell, Queen's College. _

BACHELORS OF ARTS.—Harry Bennett Smith, Trinity
College; Charles Lawford, Trinity College; Walter
Cockburn, Trinity College ; Charles Henry Wilson, Tri-
nity College ; George Charles Hawker, Trinity College ;
Edward Everett, St. John's College; Henry Maltby, St.
John's College; Henry George Maul, St. John's College;
Alexander Chirol, Clare Hall; Henry Claydon, Caius
College ; William Henry Child, Caius College ; John
Foy, Trinity Hall ; Frederic Williams, Corpus Christi
College ; William Bell, Corpus Christi College ; John
Sheldon, Catharine Hall ; Louis Alexander Beck, Jesus
College.
At the same Congregation the following graces passed
the Senate:—

To appoint Mr. Skinner, of Jesus College, and Mr.
Eyres, of Caius College, Examiners for Tyrwhitt's He-
brew Scholarships.
To affix the seal to a conveyance of three roods and three
perches of land in Bradwell cum Hollins, in Cheshire,
part of the Hulse estate, to the Manchester and Birming-
ham Railway Company.
On the 30th ult., the following gentlemen were elected
Scholars of Trinity College
Unwin Heathcoto, Geo. Percival Smith, Alfred Mar-
tincau, Thomas Robinson, Thos. Richardson, Isaac Biap
Turner, Chas. A. Swainson, Frederick Currey, J. B.
Gisborne, Fred. A. Goulburn, John G. Lonsdalc, E. H. J.
Craufurd, J. C. Turnbull, John Bickerdike, William
Smith, H. A. J. Munro, Joseph F. Fenn, B. F. Smith,
Benjamin Shaw, Arthur Cayley, George Denman, Arthur
Lowther.

On Tuesday, last, the Rev. Francis Hod9;sDn, Arch.
deacon of Derby, was elected Provost of Eton College,
vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Goodall.
Oa Saturday last, the 2d inst., the Rev. John Oswald
Roscth, M. A., Fellow of Christ's College, in this Uai-
versity, on the foundation of Sir John Finch and Sir
Thomas Brines, was elected a Foundation Follow of
that Society.

On Wejnesday last, Edmund Thompson, B. A., of
Christ's College, in this University, was elected a Fellow
of that Society, on the foundation of Sr John Finch and
Sir Thomas Baines.

The Rev. William John Travis, M. A., Chaplain of
Trinity College, in this University, has been presented by
the Duke of Rutland to the Rectory of Lidgato, SufFolk,
in the diocese of Ely.

On the 30th ult. the Lord Bishop of Lincoln instituted
the Rev. H. De Foe Baker, to the Rectory of North
Whitham, Lincolnshire, to hold pro tempore, for the Rev.
W. Newcome. Patrons—the Trustees under the will of
the late Lord Downe.

Mr. James Garvey, B. A., late a scholar of Christ's
College, in this University, has been appointed to the
Mastership of Repton Grammar-school, in Derbyshire.

ERNESTINE ; OR, TILE CHILD OP MYSTERY,

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—lt is quite certain, wo understand, that this work has been
prepared principally from manuscript documents once in the
possession of the wetter, but now destroyed. 'Whether they
were placed in the hands of the party with an express view to
the purpose here assigned them, we know not. It is to be
hoped, however, that their publication at the present period
will not be considered, as in a recent instance, a breach of pro-
priety or good faith, though we believe that some witnesses of
the singular facts connected with the birth of the Child of
Mystery are still living. It is certain that many of the cha-
racters who figure in the story—particularly the fashionable
Physician—will not fail to be recognised by those who were fa-
miliar with the world of ton at the beginning of the present
century.

SUICIDE ON THE RIVER.—At the end of last
month a paragraph appeared in The Sun, relative to the find-
ing of the body of a gentleman near the church at Rotherhithe,
and at the same time was given a description of his person and
apparel, the name " Aked " being marked on some of it. The
deceased, it appears, had been a tutor, but had been left a
considerable property, which led him into habits of dissipation,
and he was often heard to declare that when it was all gone he
would commit suicide.
ELLESMERE.--An appalling case of self-de-
struction occurred last week in the vicinity of this town. Mr.
Lee, of Ifton Heath, recently married, was walking homewards
from Dudleston Chapel to his own residence, in company with
his wife, when he suddenly leaped from the road into a deep pit
of water by its side, in which he immediately sank ! She ran
to the brink, and rent the air with her cries for help, but in
vain. The poor man rose once or twice to the surface in the
agonies of death, and finally sank to the bottom a corpse. As-
sistance was procured, and the body raised; but life was utterly
extinct.

DIVINITY IN SPORT.—A certain divine, of
sporting celebrity, who resides not a hundred miles from South
Pool, in the county of Devon, having spent the day at a farm,
where he was entertained with all the genuine hospitality for
which its owner stands so high in the estimation of his friends,
was followed on his return home in the evening by the favou-
rite old sheep dog of his host, led by instinct to conceive the
friend of his toaster must be his also. Entering with confi-
dence the domicile of the " man of God," he fully expected to
have been rewarded for his friendly convoy by a plate of meat,
or at least a bone. Bnt,'alas ! poor " Sheppy ;" he was seized
by this pious priest, assisted by another " saint" (who resides
under the same roof). who, after cutting off the hair, and
scraping his tail, applied to the raw parts turpentine and tar,
and then turned him out to seek his master, howling with
agony. This instance of clerical gratitude is the talk of the
whole neighbourhood.— Western Z inies.

RE-CAPTURE of RICHARD GOULD
AT GRAVESEND, ON BOARD A SHIP
ABOUT TO SAIL FOR NEW SOUTH
WALES.

On Saturday, about half-past duce o'clock in the
afternoon, Richard Gould, who was cried and acquitted
at the last Sessions of the Central Criminal Court, on
a charge of being concerned in the murder of Mr,
John Templeman, of Pocock's Fields, Islington, was
brought before Mr. Hall, at Bow-street, on a warrant
which had been granted to Sergeant Otway, A division,
on the previous day, for his apprehension, charged on
suspicion with being concerned, with others not in cus-
tody, with burglariously breaking and entering the
dwelling-house of the deceased on the 17th of March
last, and stealing therefrom a quantity of gold, silver,
and other monies, his property.
The prisoner was respectably dressed, and appeared
to have lived well since his acquittal, although, on being
brought to the bar, he seemed to have lost the confi-
dence and self-possession which he evinced during the
trial at the Old Bailey.
Sergeant Otway being sworn, stated that having pro-
curCd a warrant at this Court on Friday, the Bth inst.,
from Mr. Jardine, he proceeded to Gravesend, where he
went on board the Mary Catherine, a trading vessel
bound for Sydney, and having examined it on the fol-
lowing morning, at half-past four o'clock, he took the
prisoner into custody, and conveyed him before the sit-
ting Magistrate of this Court.
Inspector Miller, N division, stated that on the
morning of the 17th of March last, a burglary and rob-
bery was committed at the house of the late Mr. Tem-
pleinan, situated in Pocock's-fields, Islington. It would
appear that the burglars had effected an entry through
a small window in the front of the house, in which a
small bit of glass bad been cracked or broken, and then
by simply undoing with the hand a small button which
was immediately inside the sash.
Mr. HALL inquired if any and what description of
property was missed at the time the robbery was disco-
vered.
Witness was not able to speak to that fact, but there
was every reason to suppose that sums of money had
been taken away. •
Mr. HALL asked who the officer was that examined
the premises at the time the first discovery was made.
Witness said that Sergeant Collins was the officer,
but he happened not to be in attendance, and if his tes-
timony was required he could be sent for.
Mr. HALL—Perhaps you can give me some account
of the property which was found.
Witness—The same night about a quarter-past eleven
o'clock I went to a cottage about 250 yards distant from
that of the deceased, which was occupied by a person
named Allen, where I found the prisoner in bed with two
children, and I took him into custody. In his trousers
pocket upon searching him, I found 95., and in his waist-
coat pocket seven Lucifer matches, together with two
pawnbroker's duplicates. After he was conveyed to the
station it was discovered that he wore a new pair of boots.
Sergeant King, the officer who had assisted in search-
ing the cottage , was not in attendance, but it appeared
that ho found a quantity of money in the roof of the
cottage.
Mr. HALL said that it would be very desirable if
the constables who had made the search could be sent
for, in order that they might be examined.
Sergeant Otway was immediately ordered to take a
cabriolet and proceed to Islington for both the officers,
and on his return with them, about half-past four o'clock,
Sergeant John Collins, 24 N division, being sworn,
deposed, that he knew where the late Mr. Templeman
lived, which was a short distance from the cottage
occupied by Allen. Witness searched the house of
the deceased, on the morning that the murder was
committed. He received information of the occurrence
before eleven o'clock, and on entering the premises
found two surgeons examining the body. On making
a search, he discovered that an entrance had been
made through a window into the sitting room.
Mr. HALL—Can you give any account of the pro-
perty that was found ?
Witness—l cannot speak of my own knowledge any
thing respecting it.
Sergeant Thos. King, 22 N, proved that on the
morning of the 18th of March he went to Wilson's
cottage, in Pocock's-fields, which was occupied by a
person named Allen, and where the prisoner was then
lodging. From information he had previously received
he proceeded to search the privy, and subsequently the
back kitchen, where, between the ceiling and the tiles,
he found placed behind one of the rafters a white cotton
stocking, containing nineteen halfcrowns,4B shillings, and
seven sixpenny pieces. The stocking was identified by
Mrs. Allen at the time as having belonged to the pri-
soner.

Mr. HALL—Did you mention the circumstance to
the prisoner at the time ?
Witness—lt was both mentioned to him then and
at the trial.
Mr. HALL—Had you any knowledge that the pri-
soner resided in that cottage ?
Witness—l received information that he did.
Inspector Miller—l took him into custody in bed at
the cottage.
Sergeant King said that he took the stocking to the
Station-house, and delivered it the Inspector after the
trial.

Mr. HALL—lid the woman give any evidence
Witness—Yes, she believed the stocking to be the
prisoner's, and she said something about footing them
for him, and of two odd stockings, besides that which
contained the money.
Mr. HALL—Then Allen resides close by where the
robbery was committed ?
Inspector Miller—A very short way.
Mr. HALL—Are you prepared to say that you will
be able to bring home the case to the prisoner ?
Inspector Miller—l am quite convinced of it.
Mr. HALL—You have already been engaged in the
inquiry ?,
Inspector—Yes, I have, and I am on that account
certain of being able to establish the case against him.
Mr. HALL.—What time do you require to get all the
evidence respecting the additional facts you are in pos-
session of?
Inspector—l could not be ready before Wedneiday
next, as there will be a great number of witnesses le
examined.
Mr. HALL (to the prisoner)—ls there any cbserva.
tion you wish to make?
Prisoner—Yes, I wish to say
Mr. HALL—The application of the officer is to re-
mand you to a future day ; and if you have any °bur-
vation to make, I am ready to hear you.
Prisoner (hesitating)—l wish to know if there is
anything fresh against me, as all these witnesses have
been examined on another occasion, and will be of no
use raw ; besides I will lose my passage-money, although
their evidence has been given before.
Mr. HALL—You must bear in mind that the present
charge is quite distinct from that for which you have
been already tried. The present question relates to
property, and there are additional facts to be proved.
Prisoner—Let the time be as short as posible, for
in case they do not succeed against me, I may be abl
to get my passage.
Mr HALL—When is the ship expected to sail?
Prisoner—As soon as possible, should a wind offsr,
Sergeant Otway said that the vessel would sail in a
day, if she had not already sailed, for she had cleared
the Customs yesterday afternoon.
Mr. HALL—Then we will name Wednesday, and
Mr. Miller will get all the additional evidence in his
power in the meantime.
The prisoner was then removed from the bar, and
previous to his being conveyed to the House of C( r-
rection, his boots were taken from him, and he was p;o-
-vided with a pair of shoes.
We were given to understand by Sergeant Otway
that on his going aboard the vessel to make inquiries
abort a person answering to the description given
of the prisoner, be was told there was a young
man had been aboard who brought a latter with him,
and there being no berth prepared for him at the time,
a carpenter was sent for ashore to make one. After a
short time he saw the prisoner, and after asking him
how he did, he told him that the Secretary of State had
offered a reward of 200/. for the apprehension of the
murderer of the late Mr. Templeman, at the same time
showing him a copy of the Noble Lord's letter, which
he read, and immediately he said, " No, I can't ; I
have made up my mind ; 11l not say anything. I have
already told ono, person the whole sff.dr." After some
time ha asked to see the letter again, and on reading it,
he said, " have nothing to do with it, but I'll tell
what I'll do : if they give me 1001., and pay my ins-
sage-money, give diem the names of the parties
concerned." W4ness then asked him it he would give
the name of the person who had committed the
murder, and he said he would. Witness then
told him that most likely he would meet
him again in the Downs. This conversa-
tion happened at two o'clock, and wit se
returned to town, for the purpose of obtaining a war.
rant ; but on his return to Gravesend he again visited
the vessel, and found that the prisoner had gone ashore.
Witness next went to seek for him in the town, but
could not succeed ; and on returning to the vessel on
Friday night, he found him in his berth insensibly
drunk. At half-past four o'clock on Saturday morning
he roused the prisoner, and on telling him that he
should accompany him to London, the prisoner de-
manded by what order. He then showed him the war-
rant, and the prisoner asked if lie was to go as a pri-
soner ; and on being told (lint he was a prisoner, he
said, " Then I shall stick to that. If they choose to
detain me for nothing, let it come to anything. If they
play any trick with mc, I won't ray a b-- word ; for
I a'nt particular sweet about going out." Witness, at
six o'clock on Saturday morning, took him on board the
Sons of the Thames, and conveyed him to town.
The following is a copy of the letter which the
prisoner brought on board :-
1840.
" 1, Leadenhall-street, 7th Dlay,