The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-26 00:00:00

LOND'ON,

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. Oct, 25.
(Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.)
IN RE JAMES BUTLER.

This bankrupt was an upholsterer, of Saffron
Walden, and came up on the balance-sheet, prepared
by Mr. G. Butler, Pancras-lane, to pass his last exa-
mination. The failure is for a somewhat large
amount, and the following is a copy of the balance-
sheet :

From May 18, 1840, to May, 1847.
Du.

To creditors ... ••• ..• .. £6,547 17
To creditors for goods purchased by
assignees under an assignment ... 146 17
To mortgage creditors . . ... .., 2,247 2
To liabilities ... ~, ~, "II ..
To profits ... ... ... ... ... 9,052 19
To premiums ... ... . . ... 136 0
To rents received ... ... ... ... 115 7
To cash received with wife ... ... 1,149 15
To difference in books ... ... ... 119 17

£19,658 3

CA.
By debts, good ... £1,760 7 2
Doubtful ... ... 268 16 0- £1,894 15
By property ... ... ... ... 2,640 15
By ditto, mortgaged ... ... ... 2,400 0
By trade expenses ... ... ... 7,477 2
By domestic ditto ... ... ... 2,036 19
By repairs and improvements ... ... 548 0
By interest on mortgages ... , ... 570 18
Bylosses ... ... ... , ... 1,968 1
By law costs ... ... .. ... 87 13

Total ... . ....£19,658 3 3
No opposition was offered. and the bankrupt passed.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT..
OLD COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
A person of middle age and gentlemanly ap-
pearance, who was indicted by the name of John
Fawcett, surrendered yesterday to take his trial upon
an indictment charging him with an indecent assault
upon John Pinion.

Mr. Bodkin examined the witnesses for the prose-
cution, at the request of the Court. Mr. Clarkson
conducted the defence.

The evidence in support of the charge is of course
not of a character to be given in detail.
Mr. CLARKSON, for the defence, urged that the
story told by the prosecutor was highly improbable.
A number of highly respectable witnesses were
called to speak to the character of the defendant,
which they described as irreproachable. It was stated
that he had formerly been a merchant, but was at
present engaged as a stockbroker. One of the wit-
nesses said that the name of Fawcett given by the
defendant was fictitious, but his real name did not
transpire.
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
John Green, 19, was indicted for stealing at
Rich-
mond a loaf of bread, the property of Alfred Stans-
field.

The prisoner, who appeared in a miserable condi-
tion, pleaded Guilty.
Mr. Cope informed the Court that when he was
brought into the gaol he was in a very destitute state,
and seemed to be almost starved.

The RECORDER sentenced him to be imprisoned in
Newgate for seven days, and he requested Mr. Cope
to have inquiries made, in order to ascertain if he had
any friends who would do anything for him.

TUESDAY KVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1847.

guilt, that he wished him to be admitted to bail, but
the inspector would not permit
Mr. Elliott, au asi,,tai,t sul-too, of i\OT'tll place,
West-square, stated that he had
,just alighted from an
omnibus. He saw a man run by with the umbrellas,
and saw the witness Neill point out the wrong man to
the shopman. He told the shopman at the instant he
had stopped the wrong man.
Crawford admitted this.

Mr. Alderman SIDNEY, after inquiring into the
character and employment of Neill, said he was satis-
fied there was a mistake. Neill had no interest in
making a false charge against Cronson ; but he was
certainly mistaken, and he should discharge the pri-
soner. He recommended Mr. Williams to make him
some compensation, as he had incurred the expense of
obtaining professional advice.
Mr. Williams consented, but with some reluctance,
as he said he had acted on the disinterested informa-
tion of others.

The prisoner was discharged.
John Cochrane, sen., and John Cochrane, jun.,
were brought up for further examination, charged
with embezzling twenty pairs of trousers, which had
been delivered to the elder prisoner, as a journeyman
tailor, to make up for a Mr. Pickett, an army clothier
in Fore-street.

The prisoners resided in Hopkins-street, Golden-
square, and when the trousers were finished, put them
iu a bag, to bring to the warehouse, in the City. The
landlady had advanced money while the work was in
progress, and was anxious, when the goods were
taken away, to see that the parties went in the
direction of the warehouse, but her spy finding the
father, son, and daughter, went in a contrary direc-
tion, ran back with the news, instead of continuing to
follow them.

A pawnbroker's shopman was now called, to show
that the elder prisoner had offered such clothes as a
pledge, but they refused to take them in.
Russell, who watched the prisoners from their lodg-
ing, by desire of the landlady, complained that he had
received the following threatening letter from some
unknown person :
" As you are going to give evidence against Coch-
rane, I am told to tell you that if you donot go against
him you shall receive ten shillings, by coming to the
Tower, Seven Dials, ma Wednesday evening, at seven
o'clock. Recollect, there is honour among thieves;
but if you go beware of the vengeance of his pals.
Ten shillings will come in very handy to buy you a
new coat, and it is more than you will get if you go.
So beware.

" To Mr. Russell, 3, Hopkins-street,
Golden-square."
The applicant was recommended to endeavour to
trace the writer who dared thus to tamper with a
witness.

There being no evidence that the younger prisoner
had offered the goods to pawn, the Alderman dis-
charged him.

Mr. Alderman SIDNEY remanded the prisoner
again till Saturday, recommending him in the interim
to restore the property or give security for the pay-
ment of the value. If he did not do one or the other,
he would be finally dealt with on Saturday.

IVESTMINSTEI?.
Thomas Ensor, a private in the East India Corn •
pany's artillery, was charged with stealing a gold
watch and guard-chain, a quantity of jewellery, linen
and wearing apparel, from the residence of Mr. S.
Archbutt, solicitor, King's-road, Chelsea.
About a month ago the prisoner, and another man
named Dignum, were charged at this court, and un-
derwent a remand, the former being accused with
breaking into the dwelling-house of Mr. Toby, a
gentleman of fortune, at Chelsea, and stealing a quan-
tity of very valuable plate, and the latter with having
plundered Mr. Archbutt of a gold watch and chain,
jewellery, and a great quantity of linen and wearing
apparel. In the course of the inquiry it turned out
that Ensor and Dignum, although apprehended upon
distinct charges, were on very intimate terms ; and
that during the absence of Mr. Archbutt and his
family for a few days in the country, Dignum, who
was a clerk in his establishment, introduced Ensor to
the female servant who had been left in charge of the
premises, and the two latter went out walking toge-
ther for some hours one evening, while Dignum was
left to take care of the house. Early the next morn -
ing it was discovered that the place had been robbed
of the property above stated, and Dignum was given
into custody. As there was not sufficient evidence
given in either of the cases to justify a further deten-
tion of the prisoners, they were discharged. The
police have been actively engaged since that period in
endeavouring to trace the proper;,y, and it was ascer-
tained, a few days ago, that Mr. Archbutt's guard-
chain had been pledged by a person closely answer-
ing the description of Ensor, in consequence of which
search was made for the prisoner, who had, after his
liberation from custody on Mr. Toby's charge, joined
the East India Company's service, and he was appre-
hended at Worley Barracks, Essex, on Saturday,
when a pocket-book which had been stolen from Mr.
Archbutt's was found in his possession, and he was
seen to tear up a letter from a relation, which cau-
tioned him not to come near Chelsea, as the police
were in search of him.

Prisoner made no defence, and was remanded for a
week, in order to give time for the attendance of, the
necessary witnesses.
Edward Reading, a strong-looking fellow, was
charged with stealing a cottage loaf from the shop
of Mr. Robert Boyd, baker, Abingdon-street, West-
minster.

Prisoner went into the shop, and having seized the
loaf, the proprietor requested payment, when the pri-
soner replied that he had gpt no money, and did not
intend paying for it. The proprietor told him that
had he complained of distress, and asked for a piece
of bread, he might have given it to him, when the
prisoner replied that if he had, he had no doubt it
would have been all the same. A constable was sent
for, and it was with the utmost difficulty the bread
could be got from the fellow, who abused the shop-
keeper grossly.
Prisoner, who said he was a long way from home,
and in distress, was committed for trial.
The police produced the fellow's cap, to which
were sewn some ringlets, such as are used by thieves
to baffle identity.
MARYLEBONE. _

Thomas Good was chr---ged with having, in a
pugilistic encounter, killed Henry Bermingham. The
parties were both in the service of greengrocers, in
Portland Town.

Mr. Clarkson attended for the prisoner.
The evidence, which was briefly gone into, went
to state that on the previous night the prisoner and
the deceased were in the above neighbourhoc,d, and
that some words ensued between them. It was agreed
that they should adjourn to a spot near Primrose-hill
to fight it out. After the finishing of one of the
rounds deceased was in the act of getting up, when
he received a blow, and never more rose. Mr. Britton,
a surgeon, was sent for, who, on his arrival, pro-
nounced the poor fellow to be dead. He (the surgeon)
stated, in answer to the magistrate, that there were
no signs of external violence.
The prisoner was remanded till Monday next.
To-day a number of workmen commenced their
labours, which will probably last five or six weeks,
in the court, in which extensive alterations are to be
made. The accommodation hitherto afforded has been
extremely deficient in many respects, and has formed
the subject of well-grounded complaint. The busi-
ness will, until the said alterations are completed, be
transacted in the up-stairs rooms of the house, No.
86, High-street, of which the old court forms a por-
tion ; and the apartments alluded to have been fitted
up at a short notice, in such a way as to afford such
convenience as under the circumstances could be
looked for.

W ORSHIP- STRE ET.
The Rev. Samuel Hooley, chaplain to the Refuge
for the Male Destitute, at Boxton, attended to sup-
port a charge of violence and insubordinate conduct
against a lad, named James Wilson, 15 years of age,
under a clause of a highly beneficial statute of the
present reign, which had never before been acted upon.
The Rev. Gentleman stated, that about ten months
ago the prisoner, who had been previously convicted
of felony, and sentenced to seven years' transportation,
was received into their institution under her Ma-
jesty's conditional pardon of good behaviour while he
remained in the institution; but had only been there
a few weeks when he exhibited symptoms of great
insubordination, refused to perform any of the tasks
assigned him, and on subsequent occasions conducted
himself with such lawless violence, by repeated per-
sonal attacks upon the officers, that it was necessary
to place him under restraint, and explain to him that
in case of his pursuing the same line of behaviour it
would be requisite to make an example of him under
the particular statute above referred to, and the nature
of which was clearly explained to him. The warning,
however, had no effect upon the prisoner, who, on the
preceding night, was detected, with another boy, en-
deavouring to effect his escape over the roof of an ad-
joining house, but was intercepted, and again placed
in confinement, but conducted himself with such ex-
treme violence on the following morning, that the
assistance of four of the servants was required to re-
strain him, and they were compelled to give him into
custody. The Rev. Gentleman here read the clause of
the Act upon which the proceedings were based (the
Ist and 2d Victoria, c. 82, sec. 11), by which it ap-
peared, that juvenile offenders received into a chari-
table institution under a conditional pardon from her
Majesty, and who shall refuse to conform to the rules
and reglations thereof, shall be liable for the first
offence, to three months' imprisonment, with hard
labour ; and for the second offence to six months', at
the expiration of either of which terms, if the directors
of such institutions should refuse Ihe re-admission of
the offender, the original sentence of transportation
should be carried into full effect against him, as if no
:uch pardon had been granted. Considering the ex-
treme severity of the penalty attaching to the prisoner's
misconduct in this case, he was authorised to state
that the directors did not wish to exclude him perma-