The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-15 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

Geo. Ston, aged 29, was indicted for stealing a comb,
and a foreign coin of the value of one shilling, the pro •
perty of Allied Lovell, his master, and Herbert White,
aged 18, was indicted for receiving the some, knowing it
to have been stolen.

The prisoner Ston pleaded Guilty.
Evidence was then shown against the other prisoner,
from which it appeared than Ston had been an appren-
tice to a cheesemonger. His master suspected him a
short time before his apprehension of several defalca-
tions. White, being a constant companion of Ston's,
he also was suspected, and both were given into custody.
White's boxes were searched, and the coin named in the
indictment was found. On his being charged with receiv-
ing goods with a guilty knowledge, he admitted that he
was aware of Ston being in the habit of robbing his
master, but he had no connection with him in that re-
spect.

- The COMMON SERGEANT having summed up, the Jury
said they did not consider there was sufficient evidence,
and acquitted the prisoner.
The same prisoners were again indicted, the one with
stealing, and the other receiving, nibs. weight of
cheese, the property of the same prosecutor.
Ston pleaded Guilty to this charge, and the other
prisoner was acquitted on the same ground.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Charles Higgins, a drover, in the employment of Mr.
James Lethbury, home lamb and Welsh mutton sales-
man of Whitechapel, was charged with having driven a
bullock into the shop of Mr. Isaacs, a broker.
The complainant stated that his shop was unfortunately
in the way from Smithfield to Whitechapel, and in such
a position that, on cattle-driving days, people found it
necessary often to run into it to avoid the contact with
bulls and bullocks. The defendant had upon the occa-
sion which gave rise to the complaint, three bullocks
under his care, and whether from negligent driving or
other cause, in walked one of them to the shop, to the
great terror of the females of the family, and, after
whisking about his tail, overturned a writing-table, a
wash-hand stand, and other pieces of furniture. The in-
jury done by the unexpected visit amounted to 41., a very
small damage considering the value of the articles on the
premises, and the bulk and careless character of ,the
animal.
The LORD MAYOR asked whether it was not the prac-
tice of the shopkeepers in that vicinity to keep their
shops closed at a certain time on market days, on account
of the probability that bullocks would just as soon walk
into a shop as into a stable or shambles ?
Mr. Lethbury said that those who knew any thing of
the vagaries that entered a bullock's head, generally
exercised that very commendable vigilance. He had
been nearly fifty years an inhabitant of Whitechapel, and
he had seen bullocks in very extraordinary situations.
They often took it into their heads to walk up narrow
flights of stairs, and when all attempts to get them down
failed, they turned about, unwieldy as they were, and
moved down stairs, doing no harm, but just spitting
round upon those who felt alarm. Some years ago, one
of the bullocks in Newgate-market took a fancy to exa-
mine Alderman Crowder's printing-office, and up stairs
he trudged to the top of the house, to the terror of the
poor old compositors ; but when he saw what a fright he
caused, he turned round, and performing a very uncere-
monious office amongst the type, bundled down again to
their great relief.—(Laughter.)
The defendant said that Mr. Isaacs at first stated that
the damage done was to the amount of no more than 31.,
and for his part he did not believe that the bullock had
done any at all, for he walked in as quietly as if the
shop was his own home, and if he dirtied the place a
bit, every one " knowed" that bullocks' dirt was clean
dirt.—(A laugh.)
Mr. Hobler said it was altogether out of the question
that a bullock, however quiet and manageable, could pay
a visit to a shop of polished mahogany furniture without
doing mischief.
The LORD MAYOR—I am sure that Mr. Lethbury will

pay any fair demand for damage.
Mr. Lethbury—Certainly, my Lord. I shall, a._
though the bullock that called to see the gentleman's
family did not belong to me. The fact is, I don't think
the drover could pay all the attention that was necessary
to the beasts, for he had to take care of a great curiosity
at the time—a thorough-bred Leicester sheep, five years
old, with five legs and eight feet, and weighing 197
pounds, which I have now at home, and which plays
about as if it had no incumbrance whatever.
The salesman and broker then retired and compro-
mised the matter.

THE TREADMILL APPLIED IN CASES OF ATTEMPTED

SUICIDE.—A woman, who had some months ago been
brought up on a charge of having attempted to destroy
herself by walking into the Thames, was charged before
Sir Peter Laurie for disorderly conduct, which he did
not think it necessary to punish, as she had been locked
up in the Compter all night.
Sir P. LAURIE said he considered it to be his duty to
say a few words upon the course which he had adopted
with respect to persons who made attempts, or pretended
to make attempts, upon their own lives. The attempts,
or pretended attempts, to commit suicide, had for some
time been greatly on the increase, and in the months
of September and October five individuals had been
charged at the Mansion-house, and twenty-five had
been charged at Guildhall, under circumstances
of the kind. At the beginning of November,
under the impression that so revolting an offence
should be checked by a little wholesome severity,
he sent a man from the Mansion-house to 13ridewell to
be kept at hard labour for having cut himself in the neck
on account of poverty and idleness, and a day or two
after he committed a woman for the felony of attempting
self-destruction, to the Central Criminal Court. The
example he thus set was followed by Sir Chapman Mar-
shall, who committed a man for trial for attempting to
drown himself. The two latter persons pleaded guilty,
and the Recorder, as it was the first offence either was
known to have committed, sentenced each to no more
than 14 days' imprisonment. Now the e&ct of this mode
.of treating the class of persons to whom he alluded was
admirable. From the moment the City Magistrates
showed a determination to punish attempts to commit
suicide as other felonies were punished, the mania ceased
altogether, and not one charge had been made in the City
during the gloomy month of November and the miserable
days of December which had already passed away.
Mr. Hobler observed, that several desperate impostors
had made money by the experiment of tumbling into
the Thames. The infliction of imprisonment and hard
labour for the offence would certainly check the practice
as far as pretenders were concerned, whatever effect it
might have on those who seriously wished to get rid of
life. The result, for the last four or six weeks, cer-
tainly showed that the great majority of those who
were charged were impostors.
Sir P. LAURIE—The Judges and the Recorder highly
approve of the plan of treating the sort of delusion, of
which I have spoken, and I shall certainly follow it up.
Every man and woman brought before me for jumping,
or trying to jump into the river, shall most positively
walk off to Newgate ; and lam very much mistaken if
the Judges do not henceforward inflict upon such of-
fenders very heavy punishments.

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WORSHIP-STREET.
SINGULAR CASE OF HIGIIIVAY ROBBE ne
Jones, a young journeyman weaver, was charged on sus-
picion of having violently assaulted Mr. John Warren
Green, a trinlming-manufacturer, and stolen from his
person a parcel, containing thirty-nine pieces of silk-cord,
value 51.

The prosecutor stated at about eleven o'clock on Sa-
turday night he was returning home to his residence in
Quaker-street, Spitalfields, carrying the parcel under
his arm, and he had nearly reached his own door, when
he suddenly received a violent blow on the back of the
head that felled him to the ground and rendered him in-
sensible. He did not see the person of his assailant,
nor was he aware that any one was near him until
he received the blow. On recovering his senses he found
that his parcel was gone, and that ho was under the

care of a
.policeman and another person, who assisted
him to his place of abode. He obtained no tidings
relative to the transaction until the following after-
noon, when the prisoner called at his house and said
that he had a quantity of silk cord for sale, at the same
time producing two pieces, which he immediately identi-
fied as part of the property of which he had been robbed.
He was enabled positively to swear to it in consequence
of its having two knots at each end of it which he had
himself tied in a very peculiar way. Upon asking the
prisoner to whom the property belonged, the latter said
that he had been commissioned to sell it by a person who
had 29 more pieces for sale, and that he wanted 21. for
the lot. Witness then said that he would purchase the
lot at the required price, and he desired the priscner to
return back for the remainder, and he would give him ss.
for his trouble. The prisoner accordingly withdrew, but
he returned soon afterwards and said that he could not
find the man who had employed him to sell the property;
upon which witness sent for Sergeant Peakle, of the H
division, and gave the prisoner into custody.
Sergeant Peakle stated that after apprehending the
prisoner, he questioned him on the subject, and he said
that the man by whom he was employed to sell the cord
was an entire stranger to him, and that he appointed to
meet him in an adjoining street, but on going there he
was unable to find him.

Police-constable Trew, of the II division, said that he
had known the prisoner for at least five. years to be an
associate of notorious thieves ; that he had been confined
in the House of Correction upon a summary committal,
and had been twice tried for felony, and once convicted,
at the Old Bailey.
A person, who gave his name Daniel Scavington, and
who said that he was a weaver, contradicted the asser-
tion of the officer that the prisoner had been convicted at
the Old Bailey. He attended at the prisoner's trial for
the purpose of giving him a character, and the jury
acquitted him. He was well acquainted with the pri-
soner, and knew him to be a hard-working industrious
young man.
Mary Evans, the wife of a beer-shop keeper, attended
with a view of proving an alibi, but her evidence was
entirely nugatory.
Mr. BROUGHTON said that he should remand the pri-
soner on the charge ; but as he was inclined to believe,
from the remarkable circumstance of his having offered
the property for sale to the prosecutor himself, that he
was an accessory after the fact rather than a principal,
he should take bail for his appearance.
The prisoner was remanded until Saturday next.

THE MARKETS.-YESTERDAY.

COLONIAL MARKET.

There was little business done, and prices suffered
little alteration. B. P. Sugar in slow demand. Low to
fine yellow, 635. to 735., and brown, 545. to 625. 6d. per
cwt. In Mauritius and Bengal few sales made privately,
and the public aution of the latter went off quietly, at
previous rates. Coffee very dull, and prices on the de-
cline. Cocoa in very limited request, and prices in-
clined to give way. Prices of Rice a shade lower.
Spices almost without demand, except Cassia, which
being scarce is held for high prices.
TEA MARKET.

Prices a shade firmer, and more disposition was
evinced to make purchases. Almost the whole of the
breaks bought in at the late auctions have been sold at
the buying in prices. Company's Congou in demand at
ls. 94d. to ls. 9id..per lb., cash.