The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1849.

a remand of eight calendar months from the date of
his vesting order, at the suit of the complaining credi-
tors, for contracting their debts without reasonable
expectation of payment. This judgment would keep
the insolvent about six months longer in prison, and
it was to be hoped would teach him in future to avoid
such ways as would lead to this court.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
A butcher, named Tunnage, was summoned before
the Lord Mayor by Mr. Fisher, Inspector of Meat
of the City of London, for having exposed for sale a
quantity of beef which was not fit to be eaten by
human beings.
The complainant—At nine o'clock on Saturday
night I walked into the shop of Joseph Gardner, No.
53, Aldgate High-street, and saw two quarters of
beef hanging upon a nail there, and seized them as
unfit for human food. I saw the defendant, who
admitted that they belonged to him, and said he had
purchased them of a wholesale butcher in White-
chapel. I then took them to the greenyard, and
brought them to the Mansion-house on Monday, and
received an order from the magistrate to destroy them,
which I accordingly have done. The defendant rents
the front of the shop of Mr. Gardner, and was selling
on that night, and the Whitechapel butcher said he
had sold the meat to him for 4d. per stone. It was
in a high state of inflammation, and had probably an-
ticipated the knife.
The defendant said he had purchased the meat in
broad day, in the open market, for dogs' and cats'
meat, and not for human food.
Mr. Fisher—lt was hanging along with other
meat, and Whitechapel market is not a place for the
sale of dogs' meat.
The defendant said he was in the habit of selling
an immense quantity of stale tongues, bullocks' hearts,
and other parts of the animal for dogs' meat.
Mr. Fisher—lt is my duty to seize all exposed
meat which is unfit for human food.
The LORD MAYOR Certainly. I fine the de-
fendant 20s. and costs.
Mr. Fisher—These men seem to think that the
inside of the shop is not the open market, and that
they can do whatever they please within doors with
impunity. It would be of service to them probably,
and I am sure it would be serviceable to the public,
if they were convinced of the contrary.
The LORD MAYOR—Bring all here whom you find
acting as if they entertained that foolish opinion.
Charles Cowland, a young fellow who was five
years ago taken as an apprentice into the house of
Messrs. Causton and Jones, printers and stationers, of
47, East Cheap, was brought up in the custody of
Haddington the officer, charged with having robbed
his employers, whose practice it has been to take
lads into their employment without fee as apprentices.
Mr. Causton had for some time observed deficien-
cies in the till, and proceeded towards the detection of
the thief upon the advice of the officer, who one day
went into the shop, and purchased two reams of paper
for 165., which he paid for in a half-sovereign, two
half.crowns, and a shilling, all of which he had
marked. The prisoner's duty was to pay over all he
received into the hands of the clerk, and of that money
he had paid over only 10s. Subsequently the marked
money was found in his pocket.
It is believed that his plunder, of which he had laid
aside a considerable sum for future comforts, must
have amoanted to between 4001. and 5001.
The prisoner gave &confused, unintelligible account
of the manner in which he became possessed of the
marked money, and was committed for trial.
GUILDHALL.
In the course of the morning Sir Peter Laurie
entered the justice-room, and begged the sitting
magistrate to allow him to express his thanks to
the press for the kindness with which it had assisted
him in tracing a poor man who was missing, and
was supposed to be drowned. The notice taken by
the press had elicited that the man was alive.
He bad written to his brother, Mr. Petrie, of Dun-
dee, from Kent, and had removed the anxiety for his
fate which had arisen in his family. He (Sir P.
Laurie's) correspondent wrote, " I know not all you
have done in regard to the matter, but your giving
publicity to my letter has been the means, under
God, of meeting the eye of the object sought for.
Accept, then, of my tribute of thanks for your great
kindness in answering the prayer of an entire
stranger."

Mr. Nelson deposed, that about a fortnight ago the
prisoner entered his service, end up to the preceding
evening nothing occurred to cause himself or his
daughter to complain of her conduct. About four
o'clock on the evening before his daughter, on find-
ing the coal-cellar filled with smoke, gave an alarm,
and on his (witness's), with some difficulty, making
his way through the dense smoke into the cellar, he
found a box in which shavings, wood, and turf were
in names. The latter had reached the flooring, and
ignited the joists, and had the fire not been disco-
vered so opportunely, and extinguished so promptly,
the house and those adjoining must have been de-
stroyed. Supposing, however, that it might have
occurred by accident, by the prisoner being in the
cellar with a candle, end a spark falling into the box,
he did not say anything to her, but allowed her to at-
tend to her business as usual. At about 6 o'clock,while
at tea in the drawing-room, something was heard to
fall on the landing-place of the next floor resembling
a candlestick, and, on going out to see what was the
matter, he found the whole of the lobby of the upper
part of the house in flames. By a good supply of
water he was enabled, after much exertion, to subdue
the flames ; and then discovered that the fire had
evidently been caused by a light having been applied
to some silk and other dresses hanging up there, and
all of which, to the amount of 151., had been destroyed.
lie subsequently found that the prisoner had also set
fire to the curtains to the bed in which she slept, and
which were completely destroyed.
Mr. ELLIOTT—Did the flames from those curtains
extend to anything else ? Mr. Nelson—No, Sir ;
they seemed to have exhausted themselves on con-
suming the bed-curtains.
Mr. ELLIOTT—Is there any part of the building,
the flooring, or pictures burnt ? Mr. Nelson--Oh,
yes ; the joists in the cellar are much burnt, and the
bannisters and flooring of the top landing are also
much injured.
Mr. ELLIOTT—Did you see the prisoner at the
time the upper landing, as you have stated, was on
fire ? Mr. Nelson—l did :not, Sir; she absented
herself for about a quarter of an hour, or, at least,
she was not to be seen for that time, when her ser-
vices were much required to carry up water to extin-
guish the flames.

Mr. ELLIOTT—Has she said anything to you about
either fire ? Mr. Nelson—Ne, she has not ; but I
understand that she has to the policeman. In con-
clusion he (witness) said, that had it not been for the
alarm caused by the slight noise resembling the fall
of a candlestick, the room, and perhaps the whole
house in which it was placed, must have been
destroyed. Five or ten minutes more would have
given the flames such an ascendancy, that it would
have been impossible for him Ito subdue them, or pre-
vent their spreading all over the house.
The constable who took the prisoner said that at
the station house the prisoner was asked why she did
it, and her reply was that she did not like to be out
as a servant, and she did it to get home again.
The prisoner, after receiving the usual caution from
the magistrate, said the thing was quite accidental.
She was remanded to a future day.
HAMMERSMITH.

On Thursday just before the close of the court, a
young man named Edward Davis was brought
before Mr. Beadon, in the custody of Inspector
Drake, V division, on numerous charges of burglary
and robbery.
Inspector Drake said, he bad no doubt the magis-
trate would remember that on Monday last a middle-
aged woman named Anne Perkins was charged before
him with having been concerned in a robbery that bad
been committed on the premises of Mr. Salmon, the
landlord of the King's Arms public-house, Fulham-
road, Little Chelsea, on the 19th instant. The evi-
dence against her was, that she had pledged on the
morning of the 20th instant, the day following the
night of the robbery, at the shop of Mr. Wolsten-
holme, a pawnbroker in Liquorpond-street, Gray's
Inn road, a lady's paletot, a green velvet scarf, a blue
scarf, and a gown for 1,,5.' all of which were identi-
fied by Mr. Salmon as having formed a portion of
the property stolen. On that evidence the prisoner
was remanded until Saturday next. From informa-
tion which he had subsequently received, be had
ascertained that the robbery in question had been
committed by the prisoner at the bar, whom he had
that day succeeded in apprehending, after much in.
quiry. He had also ascertained that the prisoner had
been likewise concerned in several daring burglaries
recently committed in the neighbourhood of Battersea.
If the prisoner were remanded for a day, he should be
prepared with the necessary witnesses to prove four
clear cases of burglary against him as well as the above
robbery.
Mr. BEADON said, that as the principal charges
against the prisoner had occurred in the county of
Surrey, he thought the cases bad better be taken at
the %Yandsworth court than on this side of the water.
The inspector had therefore better bring him up the next
morning before him (Mr. Beadon), when he would
either go into the cases or remand him to a future day.
Yesterday the inspector informed the magistrate
that on the previous day the prisoner Davis was
removed from the court to the Milman's-row, Chelsea,
station of the division, for safe custody until his re-
moval in the morning to the Wandsworth police-
court, but he was sorry to say that shortly after he
had been placed in one of the cells of that station,
and left alone for a few minutes, on his being again
visited, it was discovered that he had committed sui-
cide by hanging himself, and, although the body was
still quite warm, and a surgeon was immediately in
attendance, life was quite extinct.
Mr. BIADON said it was to be regretted that the
matter had terminated in the manner it had, but of
course it could not be further proceeded into.
An order was then made for the discharge of the
female prisoner, who would have been admitted as a
witness in the case.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From last, night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday, the 22d day of December, 1848.
1581111 InEMILTIUNT.

Notes i55ued........ 3C,284,630

X.
Government debt • • 11,015,100
Other securities •• • • 2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 16,007,503
silver bullion • •• • • 277,077