The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-03 00:00:00

QUEEN-SQUARE.

Michael Crawley, a rough and very desperate-looking
character, was charged with being found concealed in the
area of a house in Ebury-street, Pimlico, at twelve
o'clock at night. _ _ _

Anne MusChett stated that she was at present in charge
of the house No. 58, Ebury-street. On Wednesday
night, about twelve o'clock, she was in bed with her sister
in the kitchen, when they heard the fall of something
heavy. They got out of bed and procured a light, and
upon opening the kitchen door, found the prisoner
crouched in a corner near it. She became dreadfully
alarmed and screamed " murder, police," when the .pri-
soner climbed up the area wall like a cat, but as he was
getting over the rails a person seized him and gave him
into custody of the police. The prisoner had obtained
an entrance into the area by dropping from the street, a
depth of 15 feet.
The constable, who took the prisoner into custody, said
he did not find any housebreaking. implements upon him,
but he gave an address which had proved to be false.
The prisoner pleaded drunkenness as an excuse for
being fonnd in the atea.

GREGORIE said he had no doubt as to the pri-
golfer's motive in descending into the area, and should,
therefore, commit him as a rogue and vagabond to the
House of Correction for three months and hard labour.

WORSHIP-STREET.
The Baron Rehausen, the Swedish Minister, and Cap-
tain Leven, of the Swedish Guards, occupied seats on
the Bench with Mr. Proughtan, the Magutrata): during

the greater part of yesterday, and appeared to take
much interest in the proceedings.
Henry Valentine Hooker, a young man,who stated
that he was formerly in the situation of valet to Mr
Macready, the tragedian, was charged with having an-
noyed and molested his wife, and also with having threat-
ened the life of her father-in law.
The wife, who was a very fine young woman, stated
that she was married to the prisoner about two years
ago, and he then told her that he held the situation of
store-keeper at Drury-lane Theatre, but she found after-
wards that he was without any employment. As he had
not a farthing of money she supported him for the first
few weeks by pledging her clothes, and when she had
nothing left to dispose of the prisoner proposed to her
to receive visits from gentlemen, and intimated that if
she was too shy or proud to go out and solicit the ac-
quaintance, he would himself- bring them home to her.
In consequence of this infamous proposal she left him
and sought refuge at the house of her fathar-in-law; but
the prisoner had since been in the habit of perpetually
annoying her, and of threatening her Either-in-law's life.
On the preceding night he forced his way into the house
and behaved with so much violence that they were
obliged to give him into custody.
Whilst the complainant was giving her evidence she
was interrupted by the prisoner, who vehemently denied
having urged her to go upon the streets, and declared
that until the time she left him he supported her as well
as he could by copying dramatic pieces. Prior to that
he was employed as storekeeper at Drury-lane, and as
dresser to Mr. Macready.
The wife rejoined that he - well knew she had spoken
nothing but the truth, and that only three weeks after
they were married, in consequence of the state of health
he was in, her own became so seriously impaired that
she had been ever since under medical treatment, and
her constitution was destroyed.
The prisoner admitted the truth of the last accusation,
and said that he was sorry for it.
Police.constable Haywood said that about Christmas
last he held a warrant against the prisoner, at the suit
of his wife, but on hearing that it had been taken out
the prisoner absconded, and it was supposed that he had
enlisted in the East India Company's Service. After he
was locked up on the preceding night he behaved with
great violence, and made an attempt to strangle himself,
in which he nearly succeeded.
Mr. Craggs. the wife's father-in-law, a respectable-
looking man, upwards of seventy years of age, produced
a large bundle of letters and papers which the prisoner
had written respecting 'W m. Most of the letters were
addressed to witness and' his neighbours, and they con-
tained the most horrible threats and imprecations
against him. One of the papers, which was couched in
the most profane language, was actually affixed by the
prisoner to the door of the parish church, where it re-
mained until it was pulled down by the beadle. The
witness added, that he considered his life in imminent
danger from the prisoner's violence.
The MAGISTRATE, after reading the documents, in
quired if there was any proof that the prisoner had
written them.
Prisoner—l admit that they were all written by me,
and I consider that I was justified in employing that
language towards the man who has been instrumental
in separating me from my wife whom I dearly love.
The MAGISTRATE—You: have forfeited all right to
your wife's society in consequence of the treatment
which you admit yourself she has received from you,
and I shall require you to enter into your own recog-
nizance in 501. and find two sureties in 40/. each to keep
the peace towards your father-in-law.
The prisoner, who *as much excited, was then
locked up.
A CHARTIST'S VlCTlM.—Joseph Clark, a poor boy
who last week applied to the Magistrate in a deplorably
destitute condition, re-appeared before the Magistrate
yesterday. The statement which he had made on the
first occasion was, that his father had been killed by
the Chartist insurgents in 'Wales, for refusing to join
them in their attack upon the town of Newport, under
the convict Frost.
Mr. BROUGHTON, who had directed some inquiries to
be made in the meantime, now questioned the lad
again as to some of the principal facts.
The poor fellow's account was in brief, that his mother
died at Bristol, where his father was in the employ of
Messrs. Ackerman and Co., iron•founders ; and while
there they lived in Temple-street. After the death of
his mother, his father went with him, their only off-
spring, to a place called Pen Gwyntley, near Newport,
and was employed in iron works there. On the first
morning of the attack on Newport, they met on the
road a large body of the insurgents headed by Mr. Frost
in person, whom he said he saw on horseback, and some
of them laid hold of his father, and insisted upon his re-
turning with them ; and upon his refusing to join them,
one pf them struck him in the back with a pickaxe and
knocked him down, and he was then attacked in the
breast and stamped upon, and died in a short time of the
injury he received.
• Tilt, one of the Ushers of the Court, now informed
the Magistrate that he had written to Messrs. Acker-
man and Co., of Bristol, whom the lad had named as
his father's former empl(lers, and their answer was a
confirmation of that part of his statement, for they had
at the time mentioned a man of the name of Clark in
their employ, and living Temple-street, and they be-
lieved him to be the man from the the boy's description
of him.
The Usher now, as arranged, went with the lad to the
Marine Society, which he had expressed a wish to get
admitted into ; but they were afraid there that he had
the itch, and were unwilling to receive him in that state,
but would receive him when cured.
The poor boy said that what had been observed upon
his hands was not the disease that had been named, but
for months past he had been lying about destitute, and
was last sheltered for a short time at St. Luke's work-
house, where they sent him to the stone-yard to break
stones, which made his hands so sore that they assumed
the appearance now alluded to.
Mr. Coste, the relieving officer of Shoreditch, who
was now present, said he would shelter the lad until he
could go to the Marine Society.
The poor fellow having received some refreshment by
the Magistrate's direction and a trifle of money given to
him by a gentleman in Court, went to the workhouse
for the present, and the Usher said the gentlemen of the
Marine Society would certainly admit him in the course
of a week.

SEIZURE FOR CHURCH-RATES.-EXTRA-
ORDINARY PROCEEDINGS.—Yesterday a more than or-
dinary degree of excitement prevailed at the auction-
rooms of Mr. Lloyds, Hatfield-street, Stamford-street,
from the circumstance of the sale of a copy of Matthew
Henry's Bible, in 3 vols. ; Baptist Magazine, 13 vols ;
and Ridgley's Body of Divinity, 2 vols. ; which had
been taken, under a warrant of distress, from the Rev.
Mr. Francis, Baptist Minister of the Waterloo Chapel,
Waterloo-road, for the non-payment of 16s. 6d. for
two Church-rates. The proceedings were marked by
the indignation of all present, and it was with difficulty
that the sale proceeded, owing to the clamour and vitu-
peration raised. The sale would have, nevertheless,
passed off with much less tranquillity, had it not been
that the buyer in of the books was Mr. Fall, friend of
the Reverend Gentleman's, and who attended the sale
for that express purpose, by the request of Mr. Francis,
who, though he refused the rate on principle, was un-
willing to lose the books. The three lots were knocked
down for 21. 18s., to Mr. Fall.

HIGHGATE FOSSILS. There is a great
variety of curious fossils still to be occasionally met with
on the rising slopes near Holloway, which have been
formed by the earth thrown up by the excavators up-
wards of 30 years ago, when the Highgate Tunnel was
being formed. A very fine specimen of " echinus mari-
nus" (sea urchin) was a few days since picked up in
a field contiguous to the archway, as also a fish
very much resembling a sole, the head of which
is very perfect. Mr. Snow, of Highgate, has in
his possession a petrified fish, found in the brick-fields,
which precisely resembles a mackerel, in which the
gills are quite evident. On the left hand side of the
road, just after leaving the archway, on the route to the
Woodman Tavern, may be observed a narrow stratum
of dusky earth, which abounds with cockles, muscles,
pectines, and other fossil bivalves. Large quantities
of iron ore, combined with sulphur, in the foim of
pyrites, are also to •be detected in the above
stratum. A very interesting cabinet of fossils
might be still collected from this neighbourhood.
In a meadow behind ' Caen •wood, the seat of the
Earl of Mansfield, is a spring, which appears to have
been overlooked by the perambulating naturalist. The
water is exceedingly hard, and is so highly impregnated
with iron that the branches of trees and other deciduous
vegetable substances which may casually fall into it be-
come, in the course of a short time, thickly coated with
a hard ferruginous incrustation, and possess at the same
time considerable specific gravity. This spring is cha-
lybeate, and its waters contain a menstruuna of sulphur
and iron.

THE REBELLIOUS CLERGY.--.cur readers li
are aware that the rebels in the Commission of the As-
sembly, on Wednesday, ordered that all ministers
should, from their respective pulpits, inculcate the doc-
trine of infallibility to which the Kirk now lays claim.
The Churchmen of Aberdeen, conceiving this to savour
greatly of a Popish
3 edict, have come forward to resist
the lordly domination of the clerg • and the following
spirited resolution is now in course of sin-nature amongst
the members of the different churches city :
"The that :—
" The subscribers, members of congregations in the se-
veral parish churches and other churches of the Esta-
blishment in Aberdeen, understand that a meeting of
Commissioners appointed at last General Assembly have
recently recommended to clergymen of the Church to
take what are described as all prudent means of call-
ing the attention of their frocks to certain doctrines
said to be held by the Church. These assumed doc-
trines are the recently introduced Veto or Non-intrusion
law, and the co uentclaim
ofindependence or irre-
sponsibility. And the subscribers, being convinced that
if the clergyman's office, and particularly the pulpit,
shall be employed, even occasionally, and in the slight-
principles of. Christianity, it will
est degree, on matters so questionable, and so uncon-
be a dereliction of duty—a certain source of strife—
a publie scandal in the. Church—and. a corruption. and
netted with the real
of worship and discipline, and of religion itself ;
deprecate, and. therefore resolve, by all proper
—they
and legitimate means in their power, to prevent so dis-
orderly and unholy a use of the public station and pri-
vileges which the ministers of religion enjoy.—Scotsman.
EPTEMBER THE FIRST.—The campaign
against the partridges commenced this day. The birds
arc numerous and unusually strong on the wing ; but the
harvest not having yet been all gathered in, there will be
some difficulty in following. them. Hares are plentiful,
and from the grouse districts we hear that the birds are
so wild that it is almost impossible to bag them. There
is, we learn, a considerable falling off in the number of
persons who have taken out certificates at present this
year. All those, however, who are duly provided are
off this morning, the weather was so inviting. We wish
their garne-hags well stored.—Worcestershire chronicle,

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