The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-14 00:00:00

MARLBOR-OUGFI-STREEf.

Yesterday Joseph Adams, the fashionable swindler, a ho
was brought up in custody, from Southampton, was
again placed at the bar, on his second re-examination.
As on the former occasion, Mr. Humphrey, the solici-
tor, appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Flower, of Hat-
ton-garden, on the part of the prisoner.
After a number of shopkeepers, robbed by the pri-
soner, had been examined,
William Terry, the sergeant of the Southampton-
police, who apprehended the prisoner, stated that on
searching him he found about twelve shillings in silver
in his pockets, and also a valuable gold watch. 11:g
likewise wore at the time a diamond pin and.
finger-ring. On his being searched the follow-
ing day at the gaol at Southampton, a small bag in
the shape of a heart, and made to fit in the cavity of the
pit of the stomach, was found under his flannel waist-
coat, and next to his skin : it contained a 51 Bank of
England note, two sovereigns, and between 20 and 30
pawnbrokers' duplicates. In a trunk at his lodgings was
found among the other papers a certificate of his dis-
charge from the General Penitentiary, Millbank, West-
minster, which led to the discovery that he had been con-
victed of felony, and sentenced to transportation.
Mr. Charles Prince Hall, the Chief Officer of Bath,
stated, that he was present at the trial and conviction of
the prisoner, in 1834, at the Taunton Sessions, for steal-
ing two gold watches, of the value of thirteen guinea's
each, the property of Mr. Reginald Lautien, of Bath,
watchmaker and jeweller. The prisoner was sentenced
to seven years' transportation, which was commuted to
imprisonment in the Penitentiary, and the prisoner
served three years there, and then, by some interest, he
obtained a free pardon.
Mrs. Colonel Hill, who had been summoned to attend,
not having arrived in town, Mr. MALTBY said, he should
remand the prisoner until Monday next, when, if that
lady neglected to attend, he should be under the neces-
sity of bringing her before him by a warrant.
WORSHIP-STREET.
SINGULAR CASE Os HIGHWAY ROBBE William
Jones, a young journeyman weaver, was charged on sus-
picion of having violently assaulted Mr. John Warren
Green, a trimming-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 Jelled 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 he 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 wjaom the property belonged, the latter said
that he had Eeen 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 prisoner 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 Peaklc, 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 H 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. BROLTGHTON 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.

CHARTISM IN BILSTON.

On Saturday morning, at about eleven o'clock, the
Public-office of this town was surrounded by about five
or six hundred working men, drenched to the skin, the
rain having fallen in torrents, and the poor fellows un-
able to gain admittance. It appears a public meeting
was called by the High Constable, in compliance with a
requisition, signed by the Gentry, Clergy, Magistrates,
&c., for the purpose of presenting a congratulatory ad-
dress to her Majesty and Prince Albert, on the late aus-
picious 'event of the birth of a young Prince ; eleven
o'clock was the hour appointed.
The HIGH CONSTABLE proposed the Rev. S. H.
Fletcher to the chair, which was seconded by one of the
great unwashed, a Mr. Baldwin, Magistrate and iron-
master, amidst great confusion.
Mr. STIRAN moved as an amendment, that Mr. John
Cadley, a working man, do take the chair, which was se-
conded by a respectable tradesman.
The amendment was carried in the affirmative, amidst
several rounds of cheers, waving of hats, and great
applause.
The divines, dogberries, lawyers, and iron-masters of
this vast mining district, were confounded ; they looked
unutterable things, and seemed completely chop-fallen—
it was a display of the unwashed and ignorant set in
array against the mighty and intelligent ; and least of
all to be expected from what is termed the poor and
despised colliers, who risk their lives and toil hard for
little or no remuneration, subject to every imposition
that their Christian taskmasters think proper to •inipose
in the shape of tommy and truck.
The CHAIRMAN then addressed the meeting by say-
ing,—Fellow. working men of Bilston, her Majesty ought
to be proud of such subjects ; you have nobly done your
duty by the good sense you have evinced by placing a
working. man to preside over this meeting, in preference
to a booby squire or a canting hypocritical parson.
Mr. BALDWIN then took a paper out of his pocket far the
purpose of intimidating the Chairman; when Mr. Magis-
trate was boldly called to order. Mr. B. said, lam a Justice
of the Peace; when the Chairman said, "I know it, and I
am placed here to make you keep it, and not commit a
breach of it," and then read the following proposition:—
" Whilst we congratulate your Majesty on the late
happy event, we cannot but acquaint your Majesty that
thousands of virtuous and modest women, your Majes-
ty's subjects, aro passing the like natural extremities
on beds of straw, without even a pillow thereon to lay
their heads—that starvation and misery are pervading
the whole length and breadth of the land ; and we
attribute this state of things to class legislation ; and
in order to secure to the whole of your Majesty's
subjects the blessings of plenty and good government,
as well as to convince them of your kind disposition
towards them, we entreat your Majesty to order the
release of all Chartist prisoners, and to call to your
councils such men as will make the document entitled

'The People's ChatTer;theTawor thel;nd."
The Rev. S. H. FLETCHER then read, as an address,
a leaf of flattering nonsense calling upon Divine
Providence for a blessing upon her Majesty, the young
heir, Prince Albert, the royal household, and all those who
were entrusted with the education of the young Prince,
when about thirty or forty kid-skin gloves were held up,
but it was no go. A huge forest of blistered and unwashed
hands were held up for Mr. Stiran's proposition, which
was carried.
Mr. STIRAN remarked that he did not believe her Ma-
jesty called for such filthy adulation, but he would call
on Providence for a blessing for the starving millions
that were lying in the hedges and streets, without a
morsel of food to put in their hungry mouths, while her
Majesty, and all belonging to her, had an over-abundant
flow of every luxury. This was also unanimously carried.
The meeting closed with three cheers for the Charter,
and three cheers for Feargus O'Connor.—Staffordshire
Examiner.

EXTRAORDINARY
single
root
of
potatoes POTATOwaE; growing
A short time
sincee
in Mrs.
Skitter's garden, at Shrub End Farm, Leyden, the top of
which, when green, extended over to space measuring 33
feet in circumference. A few days since it was dug up,
when the amount of produce was found to be 231 pota-
toes, some of which were very fine, and the greater part
fit for the table.--Ipswich Express.