The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-24 00:00:00

AUGUST 24, iti

Mr. COTTINGIIAM said, he considered that frauds of
the above description, perpetrated under the guise of re-
iigion, by a person of the prisoner's sacred calling, were
of the most aggravated description, and richly deserved
punishment. In order, therefore, to give the police an
opportunity of apprehending the other person engaged
in the offence, he should remand the prisoner until that
day week, when he would be brought up for further ex-
amination.

The.prisoner was then sent to the county gaol.
LAMBETH.
Joseph May, who had been remanded from the pre-
ceding day on a charge of grossly ill-using his son, a
boy of ten years of age, was again placed at the bar,
before Mr. Norton, on a further charge of grossly ne-
glecting and cruelly ill-using his second child, Maria,
aged eight years.
A spectacle more wretched than that which the poor
child presented it is impossible to conceive. The coun-
tenance appeared unearthly, with the right eye and
cheek much discoloured from recent violence; the hair
matted together, and neglected; the body so attenuated
as to be merely skin and bone; and the few filthy rags
which partially covered it a mass of vermin.
The wretched child, upo❑ being questioned by the
Magistrate as to how she received the injury on the right
eye and cheek, said it had been caused by her going in
the dark to the water-closet.
English, one of the summoning officers, however, in-
formed the Magistrate that on going to the prisoner's
house, the child, in answer to a question put by him,
said it had been caused by a blow given to her by her
father.

The step-mother of the child endeavoured to extenuate
the charge against her husband, by saying that it was
poverty alone that had brought the children to their then
conditiun.

The landlord of the house, however, and several of
the neighbours, spoke of the negligence and cruelty
with which the prisoner and his second wife treated his
children; and

Mr. NORTON remanded the case, to give Mr. Aldrich,
the relieving-officer of Camberwell, an opportunity of
taking the opinion of the guardians as to whether they
would prosecute the prisoner ; he (Mr. Norton) ex-
pressing it as his opinion that they should do so.
Henry Schneider, the young German who has been in
custody for somo days past on various charges of fraud,
was brought up for final examination.
The prisoner was fully committed to take his trial at
the present sessions at the Central Criminal Court on all
the four charges. _

THAMES.
Margaret Alsturn, who has been in custody a week,
was brought before Mr. Yardley, on remand from the
Infirmary of the Clerkenwell House of Detention,
charged with attempting to murder her infant child by
cutting its throat with a knife, and afterwards attempt-
ing to destroy herself.
The prisoner, who appeared overwhelmed with grief
and in an exceedingly weak state, made no defence. It
was explained to her by Mr. Yardley on a former occa-
sion that he could not decide the case, and that not-
withstanding she was in a state of delirium from typhus
fever when she committed the act he must send her bo-
tore a jury. The depositions, which are exceedingly
voluminous, having been read over,
Mr. YARDLEY committed the prisoner to Newgate
for trial, and bound over the witnesses to prosecute.
His duty would not permit him to discharge the unfor-
tunate woman, but she would be properly taken care of.
George Holden, a man about forty years of age, who
has been in prison on various remands for the long pe-
riod of three months, was brought before Mr. Yard. ly
for final examination, charged with feloniously cutting
and wounding William Payne, a lad aged 16 years, with
intent to murder him.
Mr. YARDLEY committed the prisoner for trial fur
feloniously wounding with intent to murder.

THE PEMBROKE COLLECTION Or COINS.--The
sale of this extraordinary and important collection of coins,
after lasting twelve days, was brought to a close on Satur-
day, by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, the auctioneers, of
Wellington street, Strand. Among the coins sold on the
last day those which fetched the highest prices were some
curious gold coins of Cyrene, of great rarity, which sold for
571.; two little silver coins of Nubia, very rare, sold for
4 a curious " contomiate," or ticket of admission to
thei public games and spectacles of Constantine the Great,
stated in the catalogue to be unique, sold for 2/. 15s. The
most remarkable coins in the day's sale were the Roman Im-
perial coins and the coins of the Byzantine Emperors, most
laf which were purchased for the British Museum. The fol-
lowing were worthy of notice :—Romulus Augustus, struck
A.D. 475-476, and of extreme rarity on account of the Ro-
man empire in the west ending with this emperor, sold for
9 guineas ;
J 6, h lII._
avi annd Theodora, his mother,
struck A.D. 842-8 g on the reverse the
bust of our Saviour, in the act of blessing it, sold for
4 guineas ; a coin of great rarity of Theodore, A.D.
1054-1056, having on the obverse the bust of the Empress,
and the reverse a bust of Our Saviour, sold for 41. 7s. Among
the miscellaneous objects, three curious antique Roman
bronze weights were bought for the British Museum for
1/. 35.; a beautiful medallic carving in wood, 1 inches in
diameter, representing two royal personages habited in the
costume of Germany, of the early part of the 16th century,
stated to be " cut on wood by Albert Durer," and mentioned
in a book giving a full description of the works of that artist,
under the title of " Das Leben and die Werke Albrecht
Purer," published by Heller, at Bamberg, in 1827, sold for
3/. 14s. The sale was wound up by the disposal of the cabi-
nets which had contained this rich collection, and, although
they were dropping to pieces from age, they fetched remark-
ably high sums. The collection produced in the aggregate
5,905/. 14s. It will be gratifying to know that the most
valuable of the coins still remain in the country, our own
national collection, the collection of Major-General Fox, that
of Dr. James Bird, recently Physician-General at Bombay,
at., having been greatly enriched by it. For the continen-
tal museums Mr. Curt purchased largely.
MONEY MARR.ET.—The premium on gold at Paris
is 11 per ruffle, which, at the English Mint price of
3Z 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 25.42; and the exchange at Paris on London
at short being 25.34, it follows that gold is 0.38 per
cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advises from
Hamburgh the price of gold is 433 k per mark, which, at
the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. loid. per ounce for
standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.91 and the
exchange at Harnburgh on London at short being 13.9,
it follows that gold is 0.12 per cent. dearer in Ham burgh
than in London. The course of exchange at New Yorkon London is quoted by the last arrivals at 109 i per
cent., and the par of exchange between England and
America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the
exchange is 0.33 per cent. against England;. but the
quoted exchange at New York being for bills at 60
days' sight, the interest must be deducted from the above
difference.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
CLERKENW WELL.
George Coleshrook, a journeyman baker, was placed at
the bar before Mr. Combo, charged with having assaulted
several officers of the G division.
The prisoner exhibited a severe wound on his head,
and was otherwise most dreadfully injured.
Mr. Robinson attended to conduct the defence.
It appeared from the evidence of police constable 52
G, that on Sunday morning the 13th inst., at about half--
past twelve o'clock, there was a disturbance on Saffron-
hill, where the prisoner and other persons had assembled
together. He ordered the prisoner to muve on, which
he did. Subsequently he was found further from the
spot sitting on the step of a door. He refused to leave
when requested to do so, and became violent, kicked wit-
ness several times on the legs, and once on the mouth.
Assistance arrived, when the prisoner resisted and called
for a knife, threatening to kill them.
Mr. Robinson inquired whether the prisoner was not
seized and dragged by them, and called out for a knife
in order to cut his neckcloth to prevent them from
strangling him ? Witness—No, he called for it to kill us.
By Mr. Robinson—l struck him once on the arm with
my staff. The people called out "Shame!" from the
windows. The prisoner bled profusely. The officers
were also bleeding through the prisoner's violence.
They were followed and pelted by the crowd. He was
kept in the police-yard five hours after the charge was
taken, when he was bailed and sent home in a cabriolet.
Taylor, 130 G, corroborated this evidence. Witness
struck him over the arms with his staff. The prisoner
was violent in his resistance, and kicked the police.
Mr. Robinson—Pray, was he not covered with blood
in consequence of your violence? Witness—No; not
through mine.
Constable 85 G, was in Turnmill-street when he re-
ceived information that two officers were nearly mur-
dered on Saffron-hill, and he proceeded thither, and
found policemen 52 and 130 G with the prisoner on the
ground. The prisoner kicked witness on the nose. Saw
tha officers strike the prisoner with their staves.
153 G was called to assist. The prisoner resisted.
Witness struck him on the arm, and once or twice over
the legs with his staff.
George Henry Adams, undertaker, of Easton-street,
Clerkenwell, a special constable, deposed to having seen
the prisoner kick 52 G.
Mr. Robinson suggested the necessity of allowing
some one to examine the prisoner's legs. Be had re-
cently broken his leg by accident, and it was now in a
most shocking state through being beaten with the
officers' staves. He (Mr. Rubinson) never saw so bad a
leg, and it would be a considerable time before he would
be able to obtain a livelihood.
The prisoner here burst into tears.
Mr. COMBE—The qutstion is, whether ho did not
bring it upon himself ?
Mr. Robinson called
Mrs. Elizabeth Slade, wife of Mr. William Slade,
master hatter, of 16, Hatton-wall, Hatton-garden, who
said she was awoke out of her sleep by a noise in the
street. She opened the window, and saw the police-
men dragging the prisoner, who was exclaiming, " My
dear sirs, it you will let me alone I will go quietly
with you." The police had tightly hold of his
neckcloth, and nearly strangled the man. He called out,
" Give me a knife for God's sake, to cut my handker-
chief, or I shall be choked." She knew the prisoner to
be a hard-working, quiet, sober man. The people called
out " Shame 1"
Another witness spoke as to the prisoner's sobriety.
Mr. Robinson addressed the Bench, and censured the
violence offered by so many officers with their staves,
and begged that his client's present injured state might
operate in mitigation of any punishment that might be
inflicted, if it was the intention of the Bench to convict.
His client was a little man, and it would be absurd to
think that it required four officers to use their stares for
the purpose of securing him.
Mr. COMDE said, that there was no doubt the prisoner
resisted and assaulted the police whilst in the execution
of their duty, and that it required violence on the part of
the police to take him to the station-house. He should
fine him 205., and were it not for the injuries he had re-
ceived, he would have punished him more severely.
The prisoner paid the fine and was liberated.
SO U T HIJ'A RK.
John Harris, a I3aptist minister, was brought before
Mr. Cottingham, charged with obtaining money by
means of a fictitious petition for subscriptions in aid of
the repairs of a chapel anti a school room attached, in
Wales.