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

MARYLEBONE.

Mrs. Sarah Broadbent, ---wife of a respectable car-
penter, residing in Clarence-gardens, Regent's-park, was
charged with having uttered a counterfeit half-crown,
knowing the same to be spurious, at the shop of Mr.
Philip Maynard, 'a butcher, carrying on business at 6,
Hampstead-road.
Frederick Maynard, brother and assistant to pro-
secutor, said, between six and seven o'clock' on Saturday
evening, prisoner came into the shop, and in payment
for a knuckle of veal, which came to Is. 100., gave tne
a half-a-crown. I took it into the parlour, to try it by
the detector, and on finding that it bent, and was there-
fore bad, I gave it back to the prisoner, at the same time
desiring her to go-away. She refused to do so, and as
she made a disturbance in front of the house, I was
obliged to give her into custody. There was a mob
round the door, and she said I had robbed her of half-a-
crown.
Mr. BROUGHTON—Then you did not give her in charge
from a sense of duty towards yourself and the public,
as being an utterer of bad money, but because she made
a noise outside of your place ?
Witness—Yes, Sir.
O'Brien, 90. 5, examined—When I arrived at the
shop, after being sent for, the prisoner was not there,
and I heard she was looking for a policeman. The pro-
secutor told me that she had parsed a bad half-crown,
and I then asked him why he did not give her into cus-
tody at the time, and he replied that it was Saturday
night, and he was very busy. Presently the prisoher
came up, and said she would gtve the witness into cus-
tody, as he had returned to her a bad piece, which was-
not the one which she had given to him. The master
told me to take her in charge, which I did.
Mr. Baonaurox.—What do you know of her or of
her husband? Officer—l know .her husband to be a
respectable man.
Mr. BaoucuroN—Has she been confined,in the sta-
tion-house ever since she was taken up ? Officer—
Yes; your Worship.
Mr. BROnGIITON—Was she searched ? Officer—
Yes, and a half-crowh and two shillinge, all good, were
found upon her; she stated where she, lived, and that
she had kept a shop for four years.
Mr. BROUGHTON—Did it not occur to you that if it
she had been a smasher " she would have run off in-
stead of looking for a constable to give the butcher into
custody ? Officer—lt did, Sir; but I could not avoid
taking the charge; had I refused, I should have been re-
ported for neglect of duty.
Prisoner—l was looking about for at least a quarter
of an hour for a constable, as I knew that the half-
crown was not that which I had given for the knuckle
of veal.'

having
Mrs` Jones, Upper Fitzroy-street, spoke as to the pri-
sonerbeing given in charge by the prosecutor; she (witness)
sought for a constable herself prior to her
also heard prisoner tell the constable to take Fredertck
Maynard for giving her a bad half-crown which she had
not tendered to him.
The prosecutor stated that prisoner said she had been
robbed at the shop, and that unless a good half crown
were given to her she would stand'outside and tell every
body that she had been robbed; owing to her conduct a
crowd of persons assembled in the street.
A gentleman here stepped forward and stated that after
the prisoner was locked up he offered to procure bail to
any amount that might be required, but she (the ac-
cused) was not allowed to be liberated, which he thought
was a very hard case.
Mr. BftounwroN observed that from the nature of the
charge, after it was once taken, the police had no power
to accept bail._ _lle was of opinion, however, that under
the circumetancea of the case. due discretion had not
been used on the part of the officer, who, prior to taking
the prisoner lin charge upon so serious a matter, should
have caused the whole of the facts to be fully made
known to the inspector on duty, who would then have
exercised his discretion. as to whether the prisoner should
have been detained or not.

The prisoner was discharged, and the Magistrate
strongly advised. the prosecutor to make some compensa-
tion to the hasband for what his wife had suffered ; he
(Mr. Broughton-) cited a similar case which had come
before him while be was sitting at-Worship-street, and
an action being brought for false imprisonment, a jury
awarded damages to the amount of 1001.
The parties then retired from the Court, with the
view, as it was imagined, of coming to some arrange-
ment, but prosecntor declined to bold any interview
•" or Mrs. Rrntarihr.l. a
aibhgbret.
William Trigg, an old offender, was charged with
having stolen three pewter pots, the property of Mr.
Watts, landlord of. the Pontefract Castle, Chapel 'street,
Lisson-grove.
Committed to Newgate for trial.
LAMBETH. -
A person connected with the establishment of Messrs.
mom, and Sons, tailors, &c., Aldgate, attended before
Mr: Elliott to contradict a part of the statement which
appeared in-the morning papers of Friday last, under the
head of this Court.

- •
- The statement complained of was one which had been
made during the investigation of a charge against a
female named Monnser, of unlawfully pledging seven-
teen shirts; wherein it was alleged that the shirts so
pawned were the property of Messrs. Moses and Sons.
The applicant denied all knowledge of the transaction;
said that Messrs. Moses and Sons were not in the habit
of getting shirts made up for exportation; that half-a,
crown 'a dozen was not what they paid for making the
shirts they required, and that, in fact, the woman Mounser
had never been emplo)ed by the firm.
Mr. Gunn, the magistrate's clerk, observed that the
person who attended the examination of Mounser, and
who represented himself as clerk to the owner of the
shirts, undoubtedly led the magistrate and all present to
believe that Messrs. Moses and Sons were his employers.
His own words Were that he was clerk to Messrs. Henry
Edand and Morris Moses, of the Minories.
The applicant remarked that the firm just mentioned
resided on Tower- hill, or New America-square, and had
no connexion whatever with the house of Messrs. Moses
and Sons, Aldgate. He, the applicant, expressed a hope
that as the report in question was likely to excite a pre-
judice unfavourable, if not injurious to the latter firm, the
reporters would notiee,..and the different journals contra-
dict, the statement, as far as Messrs. Moses and Sons
were concerned.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, AuG. 7.
STacK Exaifezroa.—There has been but little done in
shares to-day, and prices are somewhat less than last quoted.
The market closed heavily at the following prices :
London and North-Western 125—Ditto, New Quarters, 1 t 4(
c. p.—London Brighton, and South Coast, New 5/. Shares,
p.—Midland Stock, 102—Ditto, New Halves, 6% dis.—
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 3 dis.—York, Newcastle,
and Berwick (N. and B. Extension), No. 2, 14 p.—Ditto
(G. N. E. Purchase), 1 p.
MANCHESTER, Aua. 7.
&ram EXOTIANGIL—The sales are—Birkenhead. Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 31/. Shares, 7 11-16 dis.—
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Preference, 11-16 p.—North
Staffordshire, 2% dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4,
2 15-1 G c. dis.—Wkitelnypn and Furness, 9% dis.

BIRXIINGRAM, Aug. • 7.

STOCK EXCHANGE.— Very little business done. No lit
issued. The sales are—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B)
31. 118.3 d. dis.—Caledonian, 86. 9d. p.

ROYSTON AND HITCIIIN RAILWAY.---.A. meeting of
the shareholders of this company was held yester-
day at Radley's Hotel, at which it was resolved that
the ground between She!ford and Shepreth, not hav-
ing been taken up by the Eastern Counties Company,
should be occupied by the Royston Company, with a
view to making an approach to Cambridge through the
means of the Great Northern Company. So much of
the plan was sanctioned, and the Earl of Hardwicke, Mr.
J. Arbouin, Mr. W. Ekin, Mr. J. Masterman, M.P., and
Mr. J. Phillips having been re-elected directors, the
meeting broke up.
EMIGRATION TO CANADA.—The emigration ships
which have arrived at Quebec from the port of London
this season are the Helen, Santa Maura, and Cremona.
They landed all their emigrants in excellent health.
There has been a great falling off in emigration to Ca-
nada this season. Up to the middle of last month (July)
only 17,500 souls had arrived. The number which
landed during the corresponding period the year pre-
vious was 48,700. The deaths at the quarantine station
at Quebec, up to the Ist of July, were 74, which num-
ber is not equal to the mortality for one day last year.
The agents do not regret that they have received a re-
duced number this season, as they trust it will enable
the country to recover from the effects ©f last year.
Canada, it is stated on authority, can absorb 50 000
souls annually without any inconvenience. Numbers of
German emigrants have arrived at Quebec; no less than
1,235 had been landed, but generally proceed to the
States.
LINCOLN, AUGUST 7.—On the evening of Saturday
last the inhabitants of this city and the towns in the
neighbourhood were greatly alarmed at the falling of one
of the heaviest hailstorms and rain that has been known
since 1838. The damage done to the crops is exceedingly
great, and from the length of time and heaviness with
which the rain fell, it is feared that the wheat and barley
will be so much laid, that even if fine weather does set
in, the corn will be very much deteriorated in value. At
Till Briggs, a district about eight miles south of Lin-
coln, reclaimed from the fens about thirty years since,
and now very productive, the embankment raised to
guard against any sudden inilux of water from the adja-
cent hills, was broken down to an extent of fourteen
feet; and on Sunday morning the level country was com-
pletely laid under water for several miles; in addition to
this hailstones, measuring from two and a half inches to
three inches in circumference, caused serious destruction
amongst the
growing crops in the adjoining district, 41X-
tending to Doncaster.