The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-26 00:00:00

GREENWICH PETTY SESSION.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.— On Tuesday IVilliam
Saxby, who was in the employ of John Cunnington,
constable of Greenwich, was charged with stealing three
fowls, and likew:sc breaking out of prison, under the
following extraordinary circumstances :
From the evidence it appeared that about ten years
since the prisoner, at that time a youth of about twelve
years of age, was taken into Custody with two other
lads, by the prosecutor, upon the charge of stealing
three fowls. The prisoner before he was tried, or a
bill of indictment was preferred against him, contrived
to make his escape from eonfineramt and went abroad.
A bill of indictment was, however, preferred against
all parties, and the other two were found guilty. The
prisoner, after an absence of eight years, having fol-
lowed the life of a sailor, returned to his native home,
and succeeded in getting into the service of a gentleman's
family, and supposing that no possibility existed of
his ever being recognized (having from his employme
acquired a very old appearance, although not more
than twenty-three years of age), and the original
plaintiff being dead, he subsequently got into the ser-
vice of the present prosecutor, with whom he remained
upwards of twelve months, and no remark having been
made to him relative to the above circumstances during
that time, he was induced to suppose that he had not
been recognized. In this, however, he was mistaken.
A quarrel having ensued between the prisoner and his
master, lie (prosecutor) charged the prisoner with the
above offence, which he acknowledged, and the pri-
soner was apprehended.
The Bench held the prisoner to bail, himself in .50/.,
and two sureties in 2.51. each.
A gentleman in the Court, who was a witness
against the prisoner, here stepped forward and offered
himself as one of the bail, which was accepted.
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.
A man of very respectable appearance, named
Proctor, was brought before the LORD MAYOR, in the
custody of Daniel Forrester, the officer, charged with
having, by means of a forged document, obtained the
sum of 4/. 10s. from a clerk in the office of the Re-
ceiver-General of Customs.

Mr. John Bucknell Cabburn, No. 5, King's-cross,
stated that he purchased a hogshead of brandy, which
lay in a warehouse of the London Docks, and paid the
duty on 54 gallons. When the hogshead was guaged
previous to the delivery, it was found to contain no
more than 50 gallons. He had consequently paid more
duty than he ought to have paid to the amount of
41. 10. ; and he employed the prisoner, with whom he
had had several other transactions, and whom he knew
to be a sort of salesman for other merchants, to manage
matters at the Custom-house in such a manner as that
when he (witness) should call at the Receiver's office,
he might obtain the money without difficulty. After-
wards, upon going to the Custom-house, he found to
his surprise that the money had been received, and a
document was shown to him bearing his name, and
acknowledging the receipt of the amount. He had not
signed any acknowledgment of the kind, neither had he
authorized the prisoner, or any other person, to receive
the money.
The Solicitor to the Customs, who attended for the
prosecution, produced the receipt, with Mr. Cabburn's
name to it, and the name of the prisoner as attaching
witness.

Mr. Cabburn swore that the writing was not his.

The prisoner declared there had been a great variety
of pecuniary transactions between him and Mr. Cabburn,
and that there was a balance due to him from that gen-
tleman amounting to 251. 15s. Ho asserted that he
never entertained a thought of defrauding any body.

The chief clerk in the Receiver-General's Office
stated that the document, with the name of Mr. Cab-
burn appended to it, had been presented to him by the
prisoner, who was accompanied by another person.
Witness asked the prisoner whether that other person
was Mr. Cabburn, to which the prisoner nodded affirma-
tively, and witness required the prisoner to sign his
name to the document, as a sort of identification of Mr.
Cabburn, whom witness did not know.

The prisoner said that the witness was mistaken in
saying that he stated the person who was with him was
Mr. Cabburn. He alio said that he had signed for
Mr.:Cabburn, and he thought himself justified in re-
ceiving the money, as he was authorized by Mr. Cab.
burn to receive it. He bad paid that gentleman many
thousands.

The prisoner's Attorney produced a paper which he
described as an authority to receive the money, and
asked the Mr. Cabburn whether the signature was mot
in his handwriting ?
Mr. Cabburn said it was very like his handwriting,
and he believed that it was his.

The paper which proved not to be an authority to
receive the money, was then handed in.
The Loan MAYOR, under all the circumstances,
considered the case to be one which he was bound to
send to a Jury.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.
The LORD MAYOR said that he had received the
following letter from a neighbour, to whom he thought
it necessary to state that the correction of the evil lay
with himself.

" Near the Mansion House,
" Monday, March 23, 3 P.M.
" Lord Mayor,—Here they are again, the glee
singers! interrupting the quiet which I expect you, a
man of business yourself, must admit to be so necessary
to the conducting commercial transactions.
" Bear with it ! I thought there had been police'
in the City.
" YOUR DISTRACTED NEIGHBOUR."

" I've not told, or rather not explained,MYe:se—cor-
rectly,lnasmuch as the band of this day, 3 P.M., was a
new band of glee-singers. Now, 7 P.M., my old friends
the wind-instrument band have just struck up, I suppose
to cheer us in closing for the post ! Pleasant. Oh,
dreadful nuisance, horrible and damnable ! I feel any
enlightened Jury would pronounce the glee-singing a
nuisance."

The LORD MAYOR said "he could very well suppose,
from the communication of his neighbour, how severe
the annoyance must be to him ; but the Police Act
would, if acted upon, effectually protect him from the
attacks of these sweet sounds. He would see by
that Act, that if the musicians refused to stop
their music, upon being requested by any inhabitant
of a house within the influence of their notes
they were liable to severe punishment. His
Lordship also stated that he had received letters.
complaining of the successful attempts of swindlers,
One of these communications described an old practice
of cheats as in full operation. He meant the practice
of taking houses, pretending to be carrying on business,
and referring to other houses kept by parties connected
with the gang for characters, by the strength of which
goods are obtained. All he could say to those who suf-
fered was, that they had not taken good care in inquir-
ing after the persons who applied to them for credit.
He was quite astonished to find that shopkeepers were
imposed upon by old notorious practices, at a time when
it was so necessary to watch narrowly and guard thou-
selves against the active ingenuity of people who had no
other exercise for their minds than the planning of new
modes of plunder.

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FROM A CORRESPONDENT.—Very extensive
alterations have been for a length of time in progress at the
Bazaar in Baker-street. A splendid room, or rather, sa-
loon, with wide and extensive galleries, is now in a state of
completion, and this, it is said, is for the purpose of bringing
together every description of ironmongery, comprising all the
newly invented stoves, grates, cooking apparatus, &c. Fire-
places are constructing and flues building in order to show each
in operation. If this be the object, it cannot fail to be of great
importance to the architect and to the housekeeper, who will
be thus enabled, under one roof, to find every requisite; and
will, at the same time, open to the man of science and the
mechanist a school for observation and research.
THE SKIN.—The increased quickening powers '
of the sun during Spring, by giving an additional stimulus to
the circulation of the fluids is frequently the cause of throwing
to the surface of the body the impurities of the blood ; to this
fact may be attributed the numerous cutaneous visitations which
occur at this period of the year, and which medicine internally
taken is frequently unable to banish. The extraordinary cele-
brity which Rowland's Kalydor, as a pus ely vegetable produc-
tion, has long claimed to itself, as a thorough extirpator of Im-
purities from the Skin, is during the period of Spring most
pleasingly evinced ; it never fails of thoroughly cleansing the
skin, and is remarkable for inducing a fairness in the com-
plexion previously unknown.
SCRIPTURAL LECTURE AGAINST THE
CORN-LAWS.—The Rev. William Wyper on Monday evening
week delivered an eloquent lecture against the Corn-laws in
the Relief Church, Annan. The audience was numerous, and
listened with intense interest to the discussion of this important
subject. The lecture was in every point of view worthy of a
Minister of the Gospel. The speaker showed, by reference to
Scripture, that the discussion of this subject might legitimately
occupy the attention of the Christian Minister. He drew an
appalling picture of the misery which the Corn-laws had ssread
among the working classes, and the destruction they had
brought on our trade and commerce, and exposed the fallacy
that their abrogation would reduce the wages of workmen. He
recommended union among masters and men on this subject,
and concluded by calling on his hearers not to telex their
peaceful agitation till the obnoxious Corn-laws were abolished.
The meeting adopted petitions, praying for an immediate and
total r.peal of the Corn-laws. The petition to the House of
Lords to be entrusted to the Earl of Durham ; the other to
James Oswald, Esq., M.P. for Glasgow. —Hull Observer.