The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-15 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

James Rconey, a powerful young Irishman, a stone-
mason by trade, was charged with committing a furious
outrage in Drury-lane last evening. It appeared that
his first freak of drunken violence was to upset a poor
Welsh woman's can of milk, and knock down herself for
complaining. He served in the same way two men, who
attempted to protect her from further brutality. But,
upon seeing two or three policemen hastening to the
spot, the prisoner lay down on his back, and feigned to
be insensible and motionless. He was, however, at
length compelled to find the use of his legs, when he
made a desperate but unavailing effort to escape.
The magistrate, Mr. JARDINE, committed him to
prison for six weeks.
POST-OFFICE ROBBERY.-Mr. George Maurice Kurnct,
deputy postmaster of Raleigh, in Essex, was 'placed at
the bar, charged with stealing out of a letter a Bank of
England note for 5/., the property of the Postmaster
General. Mr. Pocock, the solicitor to the Post-office,
attended for the prosecution; and Mr. Parry, the bar-
rister, appeared for the prisoner.
Mr. Robert Nash, of Whitechapel, a linen draper,
stated that some days ago the prisoner purchased three
muslin dresses from him, as for his wife and two chil-
dren. The price was 1/. 6s. 6d., and the prisoner gave
in payment a five pound note, receiving three sovereigns
and silver in change. The note was numbered 954,497,
and dated October 13th, 1815. It was a new note, and
the prisoner endorsed it " William Browne, Raleigh."
Peake, a constable attached to the Post-office de-
partment, upon some information which he had received
went down and searched the prisoner's house, where he
found the pieces of muslin which had been purchased
with the W. note, the subject of the present charge. The
officer on seeing the prisoner told him he had been sent
down to make inquiries respecting a Bank of England
note, which was alleged to have been posted from Folk-
stone, on the 22d of March, in a letter, addressed to Mrs.
Chambers, Hockley, near Raleigh, ssex. The pri-
soner replied that he remembered delivering the letter,
and that when it was opened there was no inclosure in
it—there had been many inquiries about it. The officer
having told him that the note had been traced to him
through Mr. Nash, took him into custody. The prisoner
said he had received it from a person who gave his name
as Browne, of Brentwood. He showed the constable
other notes which he had in his possessien to show that
he was not in the habit of marking his notes, and he
never could tell exactly from whom he took them. He
gave every facility for the searching of his house, but no
letters or vestiges of destroyed letters were found.
Mr. Parry said that the prisoner did not dispute the
fact of having paid away the note. He had received it
in the course of his business, and that was a complete
ar.swer to the case.
Mrs. Faring Chambers, wife of Captain H. Osborne
Chambers, proved that she received from the prisoner,
on the 23d of March last, at the Post-office, a letter,
which stated that a Si. note was inclosed in it. Such not
being found to be the c. se, she wrote to her husband,
who communicated to her the number of the note, since
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traced to the prisoner. This lady stated that she had
known the prisoner about twenty years as a highly re-
s ectable man in Rale h, kee a druggist's shop.
pThe further hearing of the in g
case was adjourned to
await the attendance of Captain Chambers, who is at
present at Boulogne.
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RAILWAY LAI:IOU/MRS.—MEETING OF THE
CLERGY.---NOW that the construction of railroads is
becoming general in the neighbourhood, a committee of
clergymen has been formed for the purpose of providing
spiritual superintendence and instruction to the labourers
on tho several lines, and they have called a general
meeting of all taking an interest in the subject to report
their proceedings, with a view of promoting the object
for which they were originally appointed.