The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-22 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, N0v.20.
(Sittings in Banco.)
The Court was occupied nearly the whole of the
day with a case arising out of an order made by Mr.
Baron Platt respecting the delivery of certain title
deeds, upon which it was contended a lien was held
by the attorney to the defendant.
The particulars of the case were not of sufficient
interest to the public to warrant a lengthened report.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 20.
BOOSEY V. TOLKIN.
Mr. Sergeant BYLES applied for a rule to show
cause why an order obtained by the defendant in this
case, and made by Mr. Baron Parke, should not be
rescinded. The order directed the plaintiff to strike
out the first and second counts, or the third count of
the declaration, it being alleged by the defendant that
they could not be pleaded together without a violation
of the ordinary rules of Court in such cases. The
action had been instituted in consequence of the
alleged infringement by the defendant of the copy-
right of an air contained in Bellini's opera of La
Sonnambula.—Rule granted.

CORBETT V. HUDSON.
At the conclusion of the business of the Court, Mrs.
Cobbett appeared on the floor of the Court, and re-
quested their Lordships to issue a habeas corpus,
calling upon Captain Hudson, the Keeper of the
Queen's Bench Prison, to bring her husband, 'William
Cobbett, befbre their Lordships, for the purpose of
showing that the return made by him to a certain
writ was a false return, and that her husband was
i
illegally detained n custody.
The COURT promised to look over the return, and
give their decision on Monday.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-SOUSE.
On Saturday John Fisher, a savage-looking fellow,
who stated that he had lately come from Manchester,
where he could not get work, was brought before the
Lord Mayor, charged with having committed an out-
rageous robbery.
The shopman of Messrs. W. and G. Mott, of 36,
Cheapside, jewellers, said, that at about a quarter
before ten o'clock in the morning he heard a crash, and
saw that.the window, in which were several watches,
was broken, and that the prisoner, who had done the
mischief with a large stone, about 121 b. in weight,
had taken a tray containing a dozen gold watches,
worth to the firm about 1201. The prisoner struggled
hard against the attempts to dispossess him of his
plunder. The watches were scattered about the
streets, and picked up by the passers by, but one of
them, which had been hanging in the window, was
lost. They sustained no damage beyond breaking the
glasses.
A City policeman, who was on duty in Cheapside
at the time of the robbery, saw a crowd collected
about the shop, and saw the prisoner on the floor on
his back, struggling violently with several persons
who held him down. The fellow seemed determined
to carry off the plunder, and to smash all around him,
but was at last mastered and dragged to the station-
house.
The LORD MAYOR—Prisoner, what account do you
give of this desperate robbery ? The prisoner, in a
whining tone, quite at variance with his act, said—
I've got nothing to say, my Lord, but that real dis-
tress drove me to it. Indeed it did.
The LORD MAYOR—What ! Hunger made you run
away with a dozen gold watches ? The prisoner—
Yes, indeed, your Lordship ; but that I was so poor,
I wouldn't have thought of such a thing.
The LORD MAYOR—You'll go for trial to the Old
Bailey. 1 suppose you thought that was the best way
to relieve your distress? The prisoner—Yes, I
thought they'd last me some time.
The LORD MAYOR told the shopman he was sur-
prised that more frequent attempts were not made
upon valuable articles so foolishly exposed. The City
jewellers really seemed to think that they were privi-
leged against all attempts at robbery.
The prisoner, who said he thought it a great hard-
ship that he should be sent to take the trouble of a
trial was then committed.
A jeweller who was present sai I, he kept an oak
stick in his shop, and the moment he observed any
fellow endeavouring to steal, he used it with the ut-
most violence about his shins, and sent him away
roaring.
John IV heeler was charged under the following
circumstances :
Mr. Francis Dodd, silversmith and jeweller, at 78,
Cornhill, said—A little before nine o'clock on the
morning of Wednesday, the 17th inst., the prisoner
came into the shop and asked the price of some dia-
mond mourning rings. I told him from 31. 16s. to
81. or 91. He required to see them, and I put them
on the counter before him. Ile lo,.ked at one for
51. 103 , and handled several others. There was but
one that fitted his finger. He then took up a hoop
ring, of which he asked the price, and while I was
looking for the figure I saw his hand, which was over
the tray, pass to his pocket, and I immediately missed
a ring. The prisoner then took up another hoop
ring and asked the price, and then dropped into his
pocket another, which jingled. He then selected a
ring, and asked to look at some pencil-cases, and
whilst I was showing him some, another person came
in and asked for a watch ring. I said I had none, and
he went away. The prisoner then asked for a watch
key. I showed him one, and he told me to make out
a bill of the articles, and he would call again. He
had his hand on the door, and I stopped him and told him
he had some of my property. He denied that he had,
and I said I must search him. I then put my hand
into his pocket, but could not find anything, and I
said that I would send for a policeman. I told him
to empty his pockets, and he took out some silver, and
I observed that he had something in the palm of his
hand. At last he gave me one of the rings, declaring
that he had not any other, but put the other on the
counter, and begged that I would not punish him. I
gave him into the custody of a policeman. The two
rings are worth 51. 12s. 6d.
The prisoner said, the awkwardness with which the
thing was tried on,
.showed that he had never made
any attempt before.
The LORD MAYOR said, Mr. Dodd was more in-
debted to his own vigilance than to the inexperience
of the thief.
The prisoner was committed.
A man named Enos Hancock, one of those persons
who help abandoned women of the town to rob gen-
tlemen at night in the streets, was brought up
charged with having performed an office of that kind
some nights ago.
A prostitute of the lowest sort about a fornight ago
was charged with having snatched a gold watch of
considerable value from the fob of a gentleman who
was passing through Thames-street. She passed it
over to a man who had been observing her from a
concealed place, and that man was identified as the
prisoner. She was taken into custody and committed
for the robbery, but the prisoner was kept out of the
way for some time ; at last he was detected lying in
apprehended.
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life, for he had a watch as well as a wife of his own.
He was committed for trial.
Leybe Aaranson Jacob Friedeburg, Raphael
Kaufman, and Ichman lifuscoutitz, the persons
charged with having an immense number of forged
notes, purporting to be the bank paper of the Russian
Government, were brought before Sir G. Carroll for
re-examination.

Mr. Ballantine, the counsel, and Mr. Peachy, from
the offices of Messrs. Oliverson and Co., solicitors,
of the Old Jewry, attended for the Russian Govern-
ment ; Mr. Robinson, of the bar, and other counsel,
appeared on the part of the prisoners.
Mr. B. allantine said he was under the necessity of
requesting that the Lord Mayor would further post-
pone the case, as the Russian Government, to which
a message had been transmitted, desiring that the
necessary testimony should be sent over to Englandto show that the notes were forgeries, had, by mis-
take, sent over authentic notes
of the bank, from a
comparison of which it would be very readily seen
that the notes found in possession of the
prisoners
were fabricated. As the courts of justice in England
required evidence of a more conclusive kind, those
who conducted the prosecution, upon finding that
the Russian Government had fallen into an error
which it was important to have at once corrected,
sent over to that country for some person qualified
to discriminate between the real and the false
notes, and now applied to the Lord
Mayor for the
further postponement of this important case to the 11th
of December, when the prisoners could be committed
for trial upon the perfect evidence that would then be
produced.

The counsel for the defence considered it a great
hardship upon the prisoners that they should be sub-
jected to such delay.
Mr. I3allantine said he did not think there was any
hardship at all in the matter, but it certainly would
have been a very great hardship upon the poor Rus-
sians if the villanous forgeries which had been seized
in the pos3essioauf the prisoners had obtained circula-
tion amongst them, as was intended. The forms of
English law demanded the production of evidence
which was not considered necessary in Russia, and he
thought P. very lucky for the prisoners that it was in
their own country they were to take their trial.
The LORD MAYOR said the application of Mr.
Ballantine was as reasonable as any that could pos-
sibly be imagined. The offence of which the pri-
soners were accused was one of great magnitude, and
they should be remanded until the 11th of December,
two days before the commencement of the next ,
se6sion.

GUILDHALL.
On Saturday, a young man, named ,film Frederick
Byron, was brought be!ore Sir John Pirie for further
examination, charged with stealing about 401. from

the iron safe of his employer, Mr. Toker, a proctor in
Doctors' Commons, on the 9th of November.

At the previous hearing Mr. Toker deposed to the
general features of the charge.
Sir J. PIRIE asked if any additional evidence bad
been procured ?

Heaington, one of the City detective policemen,
stated, that he followed a trace he obtained, and found
that the prisoner went down to Southampton, where
he put up at the Clarendon Hotel, picked up some
loose women, treated one of them to a ride out into
the country, and brought another up to London. He
took lodgings with her at a coffee-house in Covent-
garden, where he had run up a long bill. He had
been seen in the possession of money at Southampton,
having given the landlord of the hotel 251 to take
care of; but it was given back to him without taking
the numbers of the notes.

Sir J. RIME asked if the numbers of the notes
stolen had been ascertained ? Hedington said the
inquiries into that had failed. If the notes were
produced they could not be identified. A witness,
who lived in town, could show the prisoner was in
possession of money.
Mr. Cutt, of Beresford-street, Walworth, stated
that the prisoner was a relative, and called on him on
the evening of the 9th of November. He saw the
prisoner had a good deal of gold, and asked him how
much he had. The prisoner said 371. Witness sup-
posed he had received a legacy to which he was en-
titled.

Mr. Cooper, a tailor, in the Walworth-road, who
made clothes for the prisoner, had changed a 10/. note
for him about the 9th of November. He had paid
away the note to one of his neighbours without taking
the number.

Sir J. PIRIE regretted this, 'as, if produced, some
name or date might be found endorsed on it that
would lead to its identity.
Mr. Mason, clerk to Mr. Toker, said the prisoner
had been in that gentleman's service about a month.
Mr. Toker was absent on the 9th, and witness locked
up the iron safe, putting the key in a cupboard, the
key of the cupboard in his desk, and the key of the
desk between the framework of the desk and the
wall. This was done by arrangement with Mr.
Toker, that he might have access to the safe in the
absenee of witness, and the prisoner had been there
long enough to observe this. The prisoner was re-
maining at the office when witness left on the 9th.
The prisoner did not come at his usual time next
morning, or at any time, and when the safe was
opened (for the several keys had been duly replaced)
the money was found to have been stolen. The
prisoner took with him the key of the office, so that
he could let himself in without ringing the bell, and
on the evening of the 13th inst., after business hours,
the prisoner came to the door of the premises. Wit-
ness had returned for his umbrella, and was standing
at an inner door when the prisoner came up the step
of the outer door. He had a handkerchief over part
of his face to disguise his features; seeing witness in
the passage, the prisoner halted at the outer door, and
began taking down the names on the doorpost. Wit-
ness asked him who he wanted ? He replied, in a
feigned voice, " Which is the College ?" This re-
ferred to a notice that a person had removed to the
College. Witness pointed it out to him, and he
crossed over to it. 'Witness thought he recognised
him, and that he had called to pay a second visit to
the safe, and he followed, and caused him to be ap-
prehended.

The prisoner declined saying anything to the
charge. _

Sir J. PIRIE remanded him that the depositions
might be prepared, when he will be committed for
trial.

Ann Davis, a young woman, was brought up for
further hearing, charged with having stolen a gold
ring from the bedroom of the landlady of a coffee-
house on Holborn-hill, where she had taken a lodging
for the night, on the 9th of November.

Mrs. Ruff, of the Bell Tavern, Bell-yard, Grace-
church-street, new preferred a similar charge against
her. She came to her house on the 14th of October
for a lodging for the night, representing that she was
unfortunately too late for the Gravesend boat. From
the respectability of her appearance, witness without
hesitation placed her in a room where there was a chest
of drawers with clothes in it. She did not go away
till two o'clock the next day. 'Witness remarked
that her appearance was very bulky, and the servant
said the lady had told her she was pregnant. After
she had left, witness missed from her drawers a
handsome satin shawl, a large rich scarf, two new
shirts, two petticoats, a gold neck chain, and a red silk
pocket-handkerchief. The prisoner's breakfast was
taken to her in bed, as she slept late, and complained
of feeling poorly.
The prisoner made no answer to this charge.
Two other like charges were entered into, and the
prisoner was remanded till Monday.
BOW-STREET.
On Saturday John Fisher, shopman to Mr. Gadd,
nen d rape r, of llungerford-street, and Francis
Burgess, a porer, were charged with robbing their
employer of property to a large extent. It seemed
that Burgess had called at the shop of Mr. Hedges,
a pawnbroker in Drury-lane, and offered a quantity
of new satin handkerchiefs in pledge, stating, in
answer to inquiries, that they had been gives to him
by Fisher to raise money upon. He had another
parcel under his arm, which contained a number of
new shirts. On being asked what he intended to do
with them, he declared he was about to take them to
Fisher's mother to be washed. Mr. Hedges, suspect-
ing all was not right, detained both parcels, and
ordered Burgess to send Fisher to him, or he would
detain the property. Mr. Hedges sent a shopman to
Mr. Gadd's warehouse, who learned that the articles
had been stolen from the stock of that gentleman.
Fisher, however, declared that he had taken the pro-
perty and paid for it at the time, having entered it
on the books at cost price. Burgess said that he
pledged the property at the request of Fisher, for
whom he had been in the habit of performing similar
offices for some time back.

Mr. Gaid's father-in-law was in attendance, who
said his son had been confined to his bed for some
time, during which he suspected a constant system
of robbery had been carried on by both the prisoners.
The prisoners, who declined saying anything, were
remanded for a week.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Mr. Lurnley's Hds., Mon., Drakeholes; Tues., Malpas
Hill; Thurs., Rossington Bridge ; Fri., Headon Clump,
101.
Rufford lids., Mon., Norwood Park ; Thurs , Wink.
burn ; Sat., Sound Hall, 101.
Earl of Harewood's Hds., Mon., West Woods; Wed.,
Hookmoor; Fri., Marston Moor, to 11.
Lord Yarborough's lids., Mon., Normanby Clump ;
Wed., Elsham Hall; Fri., Swallow Village, 11.
Lord Henry Bentinck's Hds., Mon., Hackthorne ;
Tues., Midge Inn ; Wed., Tile House Beck ; Thurs.,
Normanby-by-Stow;idrneessHds., L
coopuwtiheko;,p Se LodgeatNortr
Toes.,Place
iol
Bainton New Inn; Thurs., Cavill Hall; Wyton Tollbar,
to 11.
Cheshire lids., Mon., Rocksavage ; Wed., Kinderton
Guide Post; Thurs., Tatton, 10i.
Sir W. W. Wynn's lids., Mon., Abermordda Gate;
Wed., Hawkstone ; Thurs , Cloverley; Sat., Tevenclews.
North Staffordshire lids., Tues., Summerton Park ;
Fri., Whitmore Station, 101.
Donington lids., Mon., Clifton Village; Wed., Aston
Hall; Sat., Bolton Village, to 11.
Mr. Meynell Ingram's lids., Mon., Egginton; Thurs.,
Sivarkstone Bridge ; Sat., Blithfield, to 11.
Sir R. Sutton's lids., Mon., Holt; Tues., 13ardon Hall;
Wed., Widmerpool Vill ige,ll; Thurs., Great Glenn, 12;
Fri., Theddingworth; Sat., Ratcliffe Hall, 11.
Baby lids—Mon., Baby Kennels; Wed., Caldwell;
Fri., Kirring-101.
Mr. Hildyard's Harrs.—Mon., Eastgate; Wed., Ken-
nels; Fri., Broadwood Bridge-10f.
Lord Elcho's Hds.—Mon. Palinaburn; Tues., Wark;
Wed., Hatchetrize; Fri., lids.—Mon.,
Bridge; Sat., Broom
Dykes—lo
Mr. Watson's Hds.—Mon., Longhirst; Wed., Wark-
worth; Fri., Saltwick Village-101,
Tindale Hds.—Mon., Fallowfield; Thurs., Nefferton
—IOA-.
Durham County Hds.—Mon., Einbleton; Wed., Hare
and Hounds, Durham-road; Fri., Two-mite Houses-101.
Glyudbourn Harrs.—Mon. Norton Top; Fri., Bar-
court-11.
Marham Harrs.—Mon., Barton; Wed., Middleton;
Sat., Finehani Turnpike-10,
Baron Rothschild's Stag Hds,—Mon., Oving; Thurs.,
Aston Abbotts-11.
Berkshire Hds.—Mon., Hatford; Wed., Kingston;
Inn; Fri., Step Farm.
Bedale Hauxwell Hall; Wed., York
Gate; Fri., Streetham—ioi.
Badsworthj lids., Tues., Womersley Park ; Thurs.,
Scawsby Bar; Sat., Ackworth Moor, 101.
Sherwood Ilarrs., Tues., Mansfield Race-course; Fri.,
Bolsover Moor, 11.
Hurworth lids.—Tues., Hilton; Sat. Dalton Village.
Mr. Selby's Hds.—Tues., Preston; Thurs., ileiferlaw
Bank-10f.
Haydon Hds.—Wed., Woodshield; Sat., Langley
Castle-9.
Lord Lonsdale's Harrs.—Tues., Buckland; Sat.,
Wendover Dean-12.

THAMES CONSEUVANCY.—On Saturday the City
Rernembrancer (Mr. Tyrell) lodged the requisite no-
tices, with the plans and sections, &c., on behalf of the
Mayor and Corporation of the city of London, of in-
tended application, during the ensuing session of Parlia
ment, for power to effectually conserve the navigation,:
of the River Thames. This proposed Act empowers
the Mayor and Corporation to erect jettys and piers for
steam-boats, to levy tolls on steam-boats, to license
steam-boat captains, and regulate the number of pas-
sergers to be carried according to the tonnage of the
vessel, &c.

KNOWLEDGE IS POWEIL—WhiIe a worthy indi-
vidual was " laying down the law," the other day to a
knot of his:acquaintances, he caught the eye of a carter
hard by, who had been vainly endeavouring to raise a
sack-of potatoes to his cart, and who appealed to the
roan of knowledge, "Come awa, Mr. -, knowledge is
power, ye ken ; gie us a lift on wi' this peck o' taties."