The Sun.
London, England, 1833-09-10 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, SEPT. 9.

Mr. -ARNOLD applied to the Court for an order to
hold certain parties to bail, charged with a con-
spiracy to defraud a young gentleman (a son of a
baronet) of 5,000/. The Learned Counsel held an
affidavit made by the gentleman, which stated that
in consequence of an advertisement he saw in the
Morning Post of the 27th of July last, offering to
lend money, he applied to the address there given,
No. 15, University-street, and entered into a nego-
tiation with the parties, to whom he was then in-
troduced, for a loan. On the 2d of August ten
bills were drawn upon the deponent, to the amount
of 5,000/., by three persons calling themselves Henry
Leigh Hunt,
Philip Clissold, and Thomas Wilson;
against the two latter of whom, and John Minto
Hart, alias John Moreton, James Archdeacon Rich-
ardson, Henry Richardson, Henry Palmer, William
Bond, and Jane Tricker or Tucker, a true bill for a
conspiracy had been returned by the Grand Jury.
Those bills were fraudulently obtained from the de-
ponent, and had been negotiated and circulated.
The COURT directed that each of the parties
should find two securities of 250/. each, and enter
into their own recognizances for 500/., to answer
the charge at the se,sions.
Palmer was in Court, and was instantly taken
into custody by Leadbitter, the officer, on a charge
of stealing the bills.
_ THE "INTERMEDIATE" SESSIONS.

The Grand Jury having brought the remaining
bills into Court,
The CHAIRMAN addressed them, and said he had
requested them to sit this day, in order to wait
until the decision of the Judges might be known as
to the legality of the " intermediate" sessions, and
he was happy to inform them that their Lordships
had declared them to be perfectly legal. He was
glad of this himself, because these frequent sessions
were found so very beneficial both in point of hu-
Inanity, economy,
and justice, He had received

I:•tters from provincial magistrates, who had been so
much pleas d with the working of the system that
they intended to adopt it themselves.
The Grand Jury then eulogized the general good
conduct of the new police, upon their examination ;
and also for the vigilance they must have exercised
in the outskirts of the metropolis, as there was not
one person charged with stealing poultry this session.
The Grand Jury then withdrew.
Thomas Baxter, aged 15, a saucy-looking little
urchin, was convicted of stealing a handkerchief
from a gentleman in the street.

In his defence the prisoner said he should he very
much obliged to the Court if he was sent out of the
country, for he had no other means of getting a
living but by thieving. His father was dead, and
his mother had turned him out of doors.

The CHAIRMAN sentenced him to be transported
for seven years. _ _

John Brown, aged 18, was convicted of stealing
a waistcoat from a shop, and told precisely the same
story. He received the same sentence.

SURREY SESSIONS, SEPT. 9.

The adjourned Sessions for this county com-
menced to-day before Mr. HEDGER, the Chairman,
and several of the county Magistrates.
The CHAIRMAN, in his address to the Grand Jury,
after adverting to the state of the calendar, said
that it was the intention of the Legislature hence-
forth to give full effect to the law, and send
those prisoners who were convicted and sentenced
to transportation out of the country, in accord-
ance with the sentence passed upon them. Pri-
soners who were found guilty of offences, and
sentenced to banishment to the colonies, had
their punishment not unfrequently mitigated,
and instead of having the sentence carried into full
effect, were imprisoned for limited periods in the
gaols of this country, and then discharged. It was,
however, now intended to discontinue the latter
practice, and send the convicts for transportation to
their destination, and during the period of their cap-
tivity to make them work in chains, and perform
that kind of labour and drudgery which would have
the effect of making an indelible impression upon
them. If convicts who were formerly tried and sen-
tenced to be transported, shortly after their arrival
in the colonies, exhibted a reformation, and evinced
good conduct, power was given to the governors of
the places where they were to set them free again,
and send them back to this country. That power,
however, which was delegated to the governors of
the penal settlements was now to be withheld from
them, and no convict was in future to be released
from undergoing the term of his sentence of trans-
portation unless it had previously received the sanc-
tion of the King.

James Dobbins, a young man in the employ of
Messrs. Barclay and Perkins, the brewers, was in-
dicted for breaking open ten desks in the office be-
longing to the firm, and stealing upwards of 1001.
in sovereigns and silver.
The particulars of this case have been so very
recently before the public that it is unnecessary to
repeat them here.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was
sentenced to be transported for 14 years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BO W-STREET.

DARING ROBBERY .—John Comerford, a fellow of
shabby appearance, who was stated to have been a
pauper in the parish of St. Mary-le-Strand, was yes-
terday placed at the bar before Sir F. ROE, charged
with stealing 9s. from the till of Mr. Cameron, a
pawnbroker, at the corner of Drury-court, Strand,
under the following daring circumstances :
Mr. Mott, shopmsn to Mr. Cameron, stated, that
at a late hour on Saturday evening the prisoner
entered the shop, and presented a handsome silk
waistcoat, with a gold sprig pattern, to pledge.
Witness, suspecting that so costly an article could
not have come into the possession of the prisoner
unless by dishonest means, asked him some ques-
tions, to which his answers were so unsatisfactory,
that he declined receiving the property. The pri-
soner then, observing the till open, ran round the
counter, and dashing his hand among the money,
secured a quantity of silver. He then jumped over
the counter, and was endeavouring to make his
escape, when witness ran after him, and seized him
befote he got to the door. The prisoner made a
desperate resistance ; but Rice, the beadle; passing
at the moment, assisted in securing hint, and with
some difficulty touk 9s. from his hands, which
there was no doubt he had taken from the till.
After the prisoner had been taken to the station-
house, R;ce proceeded to his lodgings, which he
searched, and there found several books and some
wearing apparel, which there was some reason to
apprehend he had not obtained honestly.
The prisoner, in his defence, impudently asserted
that he had not taken any money from Mr. Came-
ron's till ; and with reference to the articles found
in his lodgings, he said they were his own property,
and had been given to him by his brother. He
made a similar remark with respect to the waistcoat
which he had attempted to pledge.
The prisoner was then fully committed for trial,
on the charge of stealing the money; and was re-
manded till this day week, in order that some in-
inquiry might be made with regard to the property
found in his possession.
MARLBORO UGH-STREET.

FELONY.—John Henry was brought before Mr.
DYER, yesterday, charged with having commtted
a robbery in the house of a lady named Morris, situ-
ate in Portugal-street, Grosvenor-square.
The butler, it appeared, found the prisoner in the
hail about eight o'clock in the morning, and ob-
serving that he was making his way towards the
street door with a bundle, he seized him, and in.
sisted upon knowing his business there. The bun-
dle, on being examined, turned out to consist of
wearing apparel, which he had obtained by going
into the pantry, and which belonged to the inmates
of the house. The case being quite clear, the pri-
soner was fully committed.
COMMON INFORMERS.—A fellow named Attwell,
one of those common informers whose cases are dis-
missed at most of the police offices, brought an old
man before Mr. DYER, for having infringed the
Hawker's and Pedlar's Act. The informer could
hardly stand from intoxication, and the scandalous
state in which he appeared, at once attracted the
notice of the Magistrate. The charge of the in-
former was, that he saw the defendant with a few
pairs of braces offering them for sale.
The old man, who appeared quite astonished at
being told he had subjected himself to a fine, which,
though of comparatively small amount, would take
double his worldly substance to discharge, said he
and his daughter had contrived, for upwards of 20

years, to make a living by buying a lot of worsted
web, and manufacturing it themselves into braces.
He hoped there was no law which made it a crime
for a poor man to get a penny by his own labour,
and he could not help thinking it very hard to be
brought before a Magistrate for having, with his
daughter's aid, succeeded in manufacturing worsted
suspenders, which were, he said with an air of pride,
universally admired by all the town.
Mr. DYER asked the informer where he had met
with the defendant ? Attwell—ln a public-house,
where I was drinking a pint of porter.
Mr. DYER—And where you got drunk, 1 sup-
pose Attwell (steadying himself by the railing)
—l'm quite sober; I never get too drunk for
business.
Mr. DYER—Did the defendant offer his goods