The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-19 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BO STR EE T.
James Odell was charged before Mr. Jardine with
assaulting John Smith, the son of Mr. Smith, landlord
of the Lamb and Flag, Rose-street, Long-acre, and
threatening to stab him with a pocket-dagger.
The complainant stated that the prisoner and some
other men were drinking in the tap-room on Thursday,
when the prisoner ordered some rum, and when witness
asked for the money he refused to pay,
and said that if
witness attempted to enforce payment he would stab
him with a dagger, which he took from one of his
pockets. He shook his fist at the complainant, and used
abusive language. A. constable was called in, and he
was given in charge, but the dagger was not found on
him, having probably been taken away by one of his
companions, who left shortly before him. The prisoner
is well known, and always carries a weapon of the kind
described.

The prisoner said that one of the men who was with
him called for the rum, and would no doubt have paid
for it if he had been asked. He denied that he had any
dagger about him at the time, and that he used any
threatening or abusive langutse.
Mr. JARDINE fined him 1/., or in default sentenced
him to 14 days' imprisonment.
The pri▪
soner was then removed.
MARLBOROUGII-STREE T.
John Roberts, a well-dressed young man, was brought
before Mr. Hardwick, charged with stealing from the
pocket of Mr. James Hocken, tailor, 23, Maddox-street,
a pocket book and a silk handkerchief.
The prosecutor stated that on the previous night,
about half-past ten, he was standing at the bar of the
Cambrian Tavern, Castle-street., Leicester-square, in
conversati▪
on with Mr. Russell, the landlord. The pri-
soner, who was drinking with another man, came and
placed himself by the side of witness, and began to
tumble about his pockets. The prlsonec was in the act

of leaving the house in a hurried manner, when witness
felt in his pocket, and missed his pocket book and silk
handkerchief. He followed the prisoner, and taxed him
with the theft, which the prisoner denied. Subsequently
the book was found behind the door, and the handker-
chief underneath the seat, near where the prisoner had
been standing.
Mr. William Russell, the landlord, proved seeing the
prisoner drop the bock behind the door, and seeing him
with the handkerchief in his hand, and afterwards throw
it under the seat.

The prisoner, who denied the charge, was committed
for trial.

Charles Paul, a youth of respectable appearance, an
apprentice in the establishment of, Messrs. Reynell and
Co., printers, Little Pultoney-street, was charged by
Mr. Titus Danks, on suspicion of breaking open a desk
and stealing 51.

It appeared that the complainant is overseer of Messrs.
Reyneli's establishment, and boarded and lodged several
of the apprentices, amongst whom was the prisoner.
Latterly complainant had missed several sums of money
from the desk, and could not tell whom to supect, till he
was informed that the prisoner had lately expended
about 5/. 19s. Complainant's suspicions were then ex-
cited, and, on looking into his desk. he missed five sove-
reigns, which he had deposited there on Saturday last.
Before questioning the prisoner, complainant made in-
quiries, and found that the prisoner had purchased a
quantity of clothing and other articles. Knowing that
he was perfectly destitute of means to do so, complainant
at once suspected that he was the thief. He questioned
the prisoner as to how he bscame possessed of the money,
but his answers were so unsatisfactory that he gave him
in charge. _ _ _

The —prisoner denied all knowledge of the robbery.
He had purchased the clothes with his own money.
Mr. HARDWICK said, notwithstanding the strong sus-
picion against the prisoner, he must discharge him, as
there was not the least particle of evidence to prove that
the prisoner did actually steal the money from the desk.

defect in the masonry of the piers or abutments, but
from its being made of a strength insufficient to bear the
pressure of qui, k trains passing over it. We feel that
the eleven remaining girders having been cast from the
same pattern and of the same strength are equally weak,
and consequently equally dangerous for quick or pas-
seeger trains, as was the broken one. We consider we
should not be doing our duty towards the public if we
separated without expressing our unanimous opinion
that no girder bridge of so brittle and treacherous a
metal as cast iron alone, even though trussed with cast
iron rods, is safe for quick or passenger trains, and we
have it in evidence before us that there are upwards of
one hundred bridges similar in principle and form to the
late one over the river Dee, either in use or in course of
being constructed on various lines of railway. We con-
sider all these unsafe, mere or less, in proportion to the
span; still, all unsafe. We, therefore, call upon he:.
Majesty's Government to institute such an inquiry into
the merits or demerits of these bridges as shall either
condemn the principle, or establish their safety to such
a degree that passengers may rest fully satisfied there
is no danger, although they deflect from 1 to .54 inches."
The CORONER said that the first part of the verdict he
would record, but that the latter part, calling for Go-
vernment interference, might be taken notice of by the
gentlemen of the press, and would be forwarded by him
to the Board of Trade.