The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-21 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

James Benham, James Copeland, Richard Anderson,
and John Hill, were brought up on the following
charge :—lt appeared from the evidence that Hill was
a carman in the employ of Mr. Graham, a sugar-broker,
and on Saturday, the sth inst., was ordered to take a
hogshead of sugar from the London Docks to the shop
of a Mr. Guest, a grocer ; that on his delivering the
hogshead, the shopnian noticed that the tin that covered
I the hole from which samples were taken had been re-
moved. This excited his suspicion, arid, on his weighing
the hogshead, be found it contained seventy-four pounds
less than the weight mentioned in the dock ticket, which
circumstance he immediately communicated to Mr.
Graham. In the course of the same evening, Hard-
wick, a policeman, 96 C (who had not then heard of the
robbery), was on duty in Marshall-street, Golden-
square, where he saw Benham (and another man who is
not yet in custody) place a bag in a cart, which was
driven by the other two prisoners. The cart was im-
mediately driven off by Anderson. Witness followed the
cart to Holborn, where be saw it stop opposite to a pub-
lie-house. The first three prisoners went in ; and the
witness, having procured the assistance of a constable,
went up to Benham, and asked him what he had put in
the cart, when he replied that he did not know what it
was, but that he had picked it up in the street. He
afterwards said that the man whom witness had seen run
away had put it in the cart, and told him (prisoner) he
might keep it. On questioning Copeland, he said that
the man who had ran away had put the bag in the cart,
and asked him to give him a lift in the cart, which he
did, and that he ran away on seeing the policeman.
Anderson said he was merely employed to assist Cope-
land, and that he knew nothing about the bag. The
bag, on examination, was found to contain 56 pounds of
sugar, which Mr. Guest said was precisely of the same
quality as that which had been stolen from his hogs-
head ; adding, that robberies of this kind were very fre-
quent, and that he had suffered considerably by them.
The prisoners severally protested their innocence, the
three former stating that the man who placed the bag
in the cart was an entire stranger to them. The two
prisoners, Anderson and Copeland, received a very
good character from their employers.
Mr. TWYFORD said that robberies by. servants were
now so frequent that he felt it his duty to remand all
the prisoners, to give the police time to make further
inquiries. They were remanded until 'Thursday.

MARLBORO UGH-STREET
A very respectable female, who gave the name of
Allsop, applied to Mr. Long 'for assistance, to enable
her to reach Glasgow, her native city.,-She said she
was married to a half-pay officer, and had six children
by him. Her husband had suddenly deserted his fa-
mily, and she had come to London in quest of him. On
application at Somerset House shsv found that her
hu.b..id had reedived a, alvaiTtoaGatiuu -farjla .half viva ;
and on further inquiry she believed ho was spending his

propetty in connection with a female, totally regardless
of the destitution which his family were in. Having
applied without success to the parish, and being with-
out money or home, she had come to the Court to beg
a trifle to carry her dawn to Glasgow. The applicant
further added she was related to Dr. Wardlaw, of
Glasgow ; and that at present her children were under
the care of the Marquis of Tweeddale, who was ac-
quainted IN ith hot pitiful story. She had been to
Windsor several times, but had been unable to see the
Queen ; and though she had received assistance from
several ladies about the Court, her little funds had been
expended in the journies she had been obliged to make.
Mr. LONG, with prompt humanity, ordered a sove-
reign to be given to the applicant from the poor-box.

QUEEIV-SQUARE
James Horton, the proprietor of the omnibus 3,239,
travelling from Kentish Town to the Elephant and
Castle, was summoned by Byers, the common informer,
for delaying on his journey on the Bth inst.
A man named Felstead proved that on the day in
question defendant stopped nine minutes facing the
Silver-cross, Charing-cross.
Mr. HuMphrey, the solicitor, begged to explain the
particulars of this, which he considered to he a very
hard case. Defendant had a few months ago started
the omnibus for the accommodation of respectable
families residing at Kentish-town, and he then tra-
velled from that place to Charing-cross. He subse-
quently, in the exercise of that right which every man
had to procure his living, extended his route to the
Elephant and Castle, but this appeared to have given
great offence to the proprietors of other omnibuses.
Defendant had paid a certain sum per week for book-
ing at Mr. Jarvis's, the Silver Cross, for six weeks an-
tecedent to this extension of his route, and for the
same period of time after, but on a sudden Mr. Jarvis
told him that he could not allow him to book there
any longer, as the other proprietors would leave him
if he did. Thus the defendant was debarred of the
right to stand at the great mart for passengera, and
having obtained the permission of a shopkeeper a door
or two off to draw up facing his door, applied to the
Commissioners of Woods and Forests for permission to
do so. Their reply was, that Mr. Jarvis would suffer
defendant to stay facing his booking-office, subject of
course to the regulations under which he conducted
his establishment, and that it was not desir-
able to establish another place of standing if it could
well be obviated. Defendant then went to Mr. Jarvis,
who said he could stop there on his way from Kentish-
town to the Elephant and Castle, but he could not allow
him to do so on his return there, allowing him just one-
half the privilege extended to other persons. His client
would take any time in the day they thought fit, he
would pay at the booking office, as others did, for his
right to stand, and he would be contented with four mi-
nutes where the others had six ; but it was cruel and

unjust to shut him out of the means of gaining a subsist-
ence, and then bring him before a Magistrate.
Byers could not undertake to say what had occured,
but declared that the defendant just came up at the
same time as another omnibus, and a constant disturb-
ance was the result. He (Byers) was set there to su-
perintend the carriages, and if he could not preserve
order he should give up his appointment at once.
Mr. Humphries thought the public would be " very
sorry" to be deprived of Mr. Byers's valuable services.
Byers said that there were other booking-offices within
a hundred yards where defendant might stop without in-
convenience to any body ; he had frequently reasoned
with defendant.
Mr. Humphries had no doubt of the informer's elo-
quence, but wished to know whether that would earn
defendant's bread. He might book somewhere else, so
might the others, and he had as much right to book at
the Silver Cross as them, if fair competition was to be
allowed.
After some further conversation, Mr. BURRELL ex-
pressed his unwillingness to come to any decision on the
subject. He would adjourn it for a fortnight, in the
hope that the difference might be adjusted. The sum-
mons was accordingly suspended for fourteen days.