The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-19 00:00:00

MANSION-HO USE.

A young man, named Monza.; Phipps, was brought
before the Lord Mayor, charged with having entered
the chambers of Mr. Blozam, a wine-merchant, No.
47, Mark-lane, and broken open the desk, with intent to
commit a robbery.
Mary Holt, the daughter of a female who takes care
of the offices in Mark-lane, stated, that at half:past one
o'clock on the day before, uponLlooking through the let-
ter-box hole in the door of Mr. Bloxam's offices, she
saw the prisoner standing by the desk. The prisoner
was a stranger to her, and the door of the offices was
closed, and she tried in the place where the key was
usually kept, but the key was gone. She also tried to
open the door, but did not succeed. She then went to
one of the clerks in the building, and took him towards
the offices, but they met the prisoner, who had let him-
self out at the private door, and took him into custody.
Mr. George F. Bloxam, the owner of the offices,
stated that he went to the docks at half-past one
o'clock, leaving the key of the door in the usual place,
and, upon his return,
he found the policeman in the
place, and every thing in confusion. His desk, to
which there was a patent lock, had been wrenched open
with champagne nippers. He had taken out of it,
before he went to the docks, 501. or 60/., but he had
left in it about 500/. worth of wine warrants. There
was nothing missing. The person who had rummaged
his desk had also opened the cupboard and examined
it, in doing which he broke a china cup.
Some duplicates of pocket-handkerchiefs were found
upon the prisoner, who, it appeared, had been seen about
the premises on a former occasion, and had been con-
fined in the House of Correction for a former robbery.
The prisoner, who is but eighteen years old, said that
he was sent to Mr. Bloxam's to inquire after a place,
and that he had never been in the room at all, although
he met somebody on the stairs issuing from it.
The LORD MA-vox sent the prisoner to Bridewell
for three months.

GUILDHALL.
A gentleman named Moseley, who described him-
se!f as a surgeon-dentist, appeared before Sir Peter
Laurie, on a charge of assault.
The Inspector stated that about twelve o'clock the
previous night the accused was brought to the station-
house in Bishopsgate-street, and there charged with
assaulting him by a person who entered his name in the
police charge-sheet as Rae, and his address at No. 3,
Union-court Union-street, Holborn.
The accuser being called, and not appearing,
Sir PETER. LAUME asked if it were customary for
the police to lock up persons all night on charges such
as this when they did not witness the assault ?
The Inspector replied that Mr. Moseley did not give
his address at first, and was therefore subjected to the
present inconvenience.
Sir PETER LAURIE observed that on all occasions he
would be most tenacious of the liberty of the subject.
An individual who was about leaving town on business
of vital impottance—for Liverpool, for instance, by rail-
way—might,
tionary powers of the police, be immured in a dungeon
if such laxity were allowed in the discre-
on a groundless charge. The Inspector was then di-
rected to use every exertion to cause the attendance of
the person who gave Mr. Moseley in charge, at twelve
o'clock to morrow (this day), when the defendant would
be good enough to attend, and if he were wronged
every means should be adopted to afford him satisfaction.
Mr. Moseley, having protested that he never assaulted
the individual, said he should attend, and retired.

Yesterda UNION-HALL.
Y, Charles Heaps, the driver of cab No.
3,376, was brought before Mr. Trail!, charged on sus-
picion with being concerned in robbing a sailor just paid
off from a sloop of war.
David Stephenson stated that he was a seaman on
board one of her Majesty's ships, and that he returned
from four years' service in the West Indies a few days
ago, and was paid off at Chatham. On the preceding
night, being anxious to get to town, he got on the out-
side of the Dover mail, at Chatham, and when they
arrived at the Bricklayers' Arms, be found himself so
completely benumbed with the cold, that he could not
get down without assistance. He then called a cab off
the stand with the intention of proceeding to the Mino-
ries, but his joints were so stiff, and his limbs altogether
so powerless owing to the severity of the weather, and
ho supposed the sudden change from being so
long in a tropical climate, that, on going into the tap.
room of the above inn, he determined on " bringing
himself to an anchor" there for the night. With this
intention he called the prisoner, who was waiting with
the cab at the door, and having expressed his determi-
nation to remain where he was, then paid that person
35., which he charged him as the fare. There were
several persons during the time is the tap-room, and