The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-27 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
ITAINING CHARITY BY FRAUDULENT REPRESENTA-
TIC ,N 1 3.—Morris Lotez, a Pole, aged eighteen, in the
att ire • of a female, was put to the bar, charged with
haN vir ,g solicited charity at the Synagogue in Duke's-
pla, -.te on Thursday, twice as a male and once as a female.
The:: prisener, who could not speak a word of the Eng-
lish: 1 anguage, had, as might well be imagined, a great
nut ash er of Jewish followers to the justice-room.
3 fir.. Oppenheim, secretary to the Jewish Synagogue,
sta tei 1, that as the Feast of the Passover was approach-
ing he had been, on Thursday, occupied in delivering
Pa is over bread to the poor of that persuasion, between
600 . and 700 of whom received reliet, and amongst those
per :se ms who presented themselves was the prisoner,
wt xi appeared at first dressed like a man, and was handed
a ticket for 71b. of bread, the customary allowance to a
si agle man. Soon afterwards a person, also in the dress
of s• man, presented himself as a claimant, and ono of
th a men in attendance at the Synagogue called at-
te siion to him, as an individual who had been
se wed before. As witness was not certain of the
fat it was determined that the applicant should
ha ye the benefit of the doubt, and a ticket
for 71b. of bread was accordingly delivered to
hi n, the man in attendance at the Synagogue
be in g positive that he was the identical party who had
be er , served previously. In the latter part of the•evening
the t prisoner at the bar appeared in the bonnet, shawl,
an. I. gown with which he was covered at that moment,
an d said he had a husband and two children, the one
two, :the other four years old. Witness upon that repre-
ser eta tiou delivered to him a ticket for twenty P
bre at 1, believing that it was correct, and thetprisoounndsf
prisoner left
the 3 •oonn, but upon going to theouhtaenrcfead eNlias recog-
nis,
.td by one of the porters, who him in, and
sai A, " Here is a man you have relieved tw
ar once as a woman.' There was then notice atshea man,
q eLei,`ion as to the prisoner's identity with the three
1131mants upon the charity, and he was delivered into
kw. hands of a policeman.
'The LORD MAYOR—Did he say anything upon being
41A:toted? Mr. Oppenheim—He begged to be allowed to

go off, and did not deny that he had been imposing upon
the charity. As itis our practice to give indiscriminately
to poor applicants of the Jewish religion, we are, no
doubt, immensely imposed upon, and as considerably
more is to be dispensed, we dread still greater imposi-
tion, unless your Lordship will make an example of this
person.
The LORD Maroc.—lf he happened to be a strict Jew,
and to have required the bread, would you have dis•
pensed it to him? Mr. Oppenheim—Certainly.
The Loan MAYOR—WeII, Mr. Lotez, what have you
to say in answer to this. charge of disgraceful imposi.
tient

The prisoner put on a crying face.
The LORD MAYOR—Have you got any friends in the
crowd behind you?
The prisoner turned round, and several Jews who
were standing close to the dock fell back amidst
much laughter, evidently terrified at the idea of being
claimed as an acquaintance. He shook his head.
With the assistance of a gentleman who acted as in-
terpreter, the Lord Mayor learned that the prisoner was
no Jew at all, bt a Protestant; that he had applied
at the Synagogue before, and having met with a repulse,
he determined to be even with the officials, and accord-
ingly adopted that mode of revenge.
Some persons present recognised the prisoner as the
associate of a set of bad fellows iu the neighbourhood of
Wentworth-street.
The L. onn Maron--For the protection of charitable
institutions like the one which has been thus three
times imposed upon by the prisoner, twice as a man, and
once most disgracefully in the dress of a woman, I sen-
tence him to imprisonment and hard labour for three
months as a rogue and a vagabond, for endeavouring
to procure charitable contributions under a fraudulent
pretence.
The prisoner was then taken from the bar.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
DARING HIGHWAY. ROBBERY.— William Wynn and
Louisa Higgins were brought up for further examination,
charged with having committed the following highway
robbery on Marshall Junes, a carpenter, living at No.
Blackhorse-yard, Oxford-street.
The complainant, who exhibited marks of the violence
he had sustained, said he was walking homewards on Mon-
day, about one o'clock in the morning, when he was sud-
denly surrounded and hustled by several persons. Th
female prisoner threw her arms around him, and the male
prisoner thrust his band into his (complainant's) pocket.
Ile :struggled with Wynn, and was thrown down on the
pavement. The parties then left him, and witness tried
to rise, but before he could regain his feet the prisoner
Wynn came back and kicked him violently on.
the head, with the remark, " You , I know
you have some money." The kick was sufficiently
violent to deprive witness of his senses for
a short time. A police-constable came up on hearing
his cries, and ho told him what had occurred. Witness
afterwards went to a house with the police, and there
found the two prisoners, whom he immediately recog-
nised as the persons who had been the most active in.
robbing and ill-treating him. Witness bad about 11. 14s.
in one of his pockets, which escaped the notice of the
prisoners. Witness recollected having been at the Land
of Mischief public house, where his boother lodged, just
before the attack on him, and in front of the bar there,
was the prisoner in company with some other men.
Witness recollected that he pulled out his money when
in the public-house, in the presence of the prisoner and
his companions. It was apparently this money which led
to the attack on him. The pocket in which he bad
placed the money was not ransacked, but a pocket in
which he had some keys was torn from his coat, and it
was afterwards picked up near where he was kicked.
The constables proved finding the witness as described,
and taking the prisoners into custody.
The male prisoner said he was not the individual who
had committed the offence. He bad not been in the
Land of Mischief public-house that night, nor had been.
in the woman's company at all.
One of the constables said he saw the prisoner and the
woman come out of a public-house together just before
the occurrence.

Mr. HARDWICK said he should commit both prisoners,
but it would be advisable to get some additional evi-
dence.

NAVAL IN TELLIGEN CE.
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—WO understand the Admi-
ralty have awarded annuities to two of the daughters of
the late Lieutenant W. P. Green, R.N.; and that the
same boon will be con:erred upon the eldest daughter or
the deceased veteran.
His Excellency Lord Bowden, the newly-appointed
Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
to the River Plate, and suite, arrived at Gosport this
afternoon, by the express train on the South-Western
Railway, and put up at Pettet's Railway Hotel, where
his Lordship dines and sleeps this evening. The suite
and personal baggage of his Lordship have been em-
barked at Spithead in the Rattler steam-sloop, Com-
mander Moorman, the vessel appointed for his Lordship's
mission, which will sail to-morrow it is expected.
Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., the Commander-in-
Chief, accompanied by his Flag-Captain, Milne, and Mr.
G. B. B. Collier, Flag-Lieutenant, paid an official visit
this morning, at half-past eleven, to the Salamander
steam -sloop, whose crew had been previously mustered
and inspected by Captain Milne. The A.dmii al was
received with manned yards by the crew of -the vessel
(the band of the Victory on the poop playing the usual.
salute as he passed to and from her), and the other
ceremonies incidental to official visits. John Barton, the
marine recently condemned to suffer death for a viola-
tion of the 22d article of war, in abusing and striking
whilst in the execution of his duty his superior officer
on the quarter-deck of the Salamander, was then sent
for, having been previously brought aboard from the
Victory in custody of the Provost-marshal and a guard
of Marines. The Admiral having ordered every one in
the ship to be called aft on the quarter-deck, and all
being assembled, Captain Milne read an official letter
from the Lords of the Admiralty, stating that the Earl
of Auckland, First Lord, having laid the case of the con-
demned John Barton before her Majesty, it was the
Royal command that the sentence of death passed upon
him (John Barton) by court-martial, be commuted to
transportation for seven years. Sir Charles then ad-
dressed the culprit in a very feeling and impressive
manner, enlarging on the enormity of his offence, the
necessity for its suppression and punishment, &c., and
hoped the prisoner would show by his future conduct
his gratitude for the mercy the Queen had been gra-
ciously pleased to extend to him in consideration of his
former good character. The Gallant Admiral took oc-
casion to admonish the crew generally against similar
conduct, animadverting on its dangerous tendency and
the necessity fur preserving rigidly proper order and
subordination, concluding with these words:—" The
strength of the navy consists in discipline." The pri-
soner was then taken back to the Victory, where he
will remain until disposed of by the Secretary of State
The St. Vincent, 120, Captain Milne, was got all
ataut again yesterday, having been very sniFtlt newly-
rigged in the basin, the short time occupied in doing
which reflects great credit upon the officers and ship's
company. She will be docked on the Fairy coming out,
and be quickly refitted for sea-going service.
Contracts were taken yesterday at the Royal Clarence
Victualling Establishment, Gosport, for 1,000 quarters
of barley, at 48s. sd. and 48s. Bd. per quarter, and 1,000
sacks of biscuit-meal at 50s. 9d. The establishment is
in work all day to keep up a supply for the navy, and all
night for the " relief service."
The Talbot, 26, Captain Sir Thomas Talbot, was paid
off this afternoon all standing. Her sails are unbent,
topgallant-masts struck, and as much of her runnin.
rigging and stores returned as could be dispensed with.
She will be docked without delay, and refitted with all
dispatch for the relief service. We were led into an
error about a fortnight since in commenting upon the
fact of Captain Thompson having brought home two
freights in succession from the Pacific. Sir Thomas
was sent home with the first involuntarily, being ordered
home with important dispatches; the freight did not
amount to more than 1,000,000 dollars; the one just
brought home only amounted to 60,000 dollars in specie,
and was, therefore, anything but adequate to the loss
sustained by Sir Thomas by the America bringing home
freight out of her turn. which fact has deranged all the
intentions of the Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific,
and greatly disappointed those officers who expected to
benefit by the usual train of the proceedings on that
station. Sir Thomas Thompson, although a baronet, is
not a rich man, as might be supposed ; quite the con-
trary, and has a right to expect restitution of that of
which he has been unjustly deprived.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 25.—Her Majesty's sloop Mari-
ner, 12, Commander Mathison, returned yesterday
morning with loss of jibboom, bowsprit sprung, stern-
boat stove in, and ship leaky. She was bound to Ascen-
sion and the coast of Africa, and put back to this port
some weeks since, damaged under similar circumstances.
After being refitted she left again on the 13th instant,
and will now require a thorough repair. The Mariner
is overmasted and sparred; she consequently rolls
heavily, and in stormy weather always incurs damage.
The emigration barque Belle Alliance, Captain Van-
det berg, which put back on the 23d, after reaching 17
deg. 30 min. W., carried away her maintopmast and
miz-n, sprung her mainmast, and damaged her rigging,
and will now require a complete relit. She was bound
to Adelaide, and has about 240 emigrants on boare.

ROYAL ARSENAL.—The works in this great
rnavalese
n t
and military depot, at Woolwich, are carried on at
with great vigour, the number of guns of modern rconstruc-
tion to replace those previously mounted on the variousfer-
nsiuomnsboerf
for-
tifications at home and abroad in the colonial i
this country being considerable; and the additlloionsltels
of large pieces of ordnance for the new fortifications at home
stations has required a ''number of workmen to complete
them within the time they were ordered to be ready for use.
quantity, and have upwards of 4,500 l
clasupplied a large
The contractors for timber have recently
for field ordnance. The works in the carriages and limbers
ds to deliver for
making ship and gun carriages, and
partments are now effected
steamboring
p power,
edr airnrsi
taegaed d
oef
with
horses, the former laborious plan ; the horses are now em-
ployed in the open air in carting timber and moving large
ifiecesof tovorNdhnearnecetheNar
and,i from the proof butt and to the de-
partments
one works are carried on to make
them perfect.
About 100 horses are required every day,
with 50 gunners and drivers of the Royal Artillery for the
work in the Royal Arsenal, and upwards of 100 men of the
Royal Artillery are daily employed in assisting to unload the
timber from the barges which convey it by canal from
Yorkshire.
SUDDEN DEATH AT THE Towitn.—A young man,
named Houghton, while on Thursday engaged in the works
going ou at the Tower, was seized with a fit and fell to the
ground. He was immediately eenveyed to the regimental
hospital, and was attended by the surgecTs.,but death ensued
almost immediately. The bod; now wal-tel.l inquest at the
canteen.
WESLEYAN CONFERENCE rozl347.—The Wesleyan
Methodist Conference will be held in Liverpool this year, in
Juno or July. The meetings will take place, tut os' farmer
occasions of a similar kind, at the Brunswick Ch-Mosa-
street, and will be attended by Wesleyan minisOrilrom all
parts of the kingdom. To some of the Conferencemeetings
the ministers belonging to that denomination only are ad-
mitted; to others the public generally are &di:W=lle.