The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-27 00:00:00

professional capacity of a commission agent, he was re-
leased on his own rccognizances to attend here on Friday
next, when Arment will be brought up for final exami-
nation.
James Perry, a mechanic, was brought before Mr.
Yardley, charged under the following circumstances:—
The complainant, James Purcell, residing in Shak-
spere's-walk, Shadwell, said he was alarmed at a late
hour on Christmas night by a man entering his room
and pulling him out of bed. As soon as he recovered
from the fright he collared the intruder, and asked him
who he was and what he wanted, on which the stranger
said he was in his own room, and wanted to go to bed.
Ho endeavoured to get the man from the room, when a
violent struggle ensued, and his night shirt, the only
garment he had on, was torn to pieces. The noise
brought several persons to the apartment with lights,
and the prisoner was secured, but not before he made a
desperate resistance.
The prisoner said he had been enjoying the festivities
of Christmas with his friends, and feeling ill, he left
them, with the intention of returning home, and strayed
into the complainant's house, the door of which was
open, by mistake, he believing it to be his own. He was
far gine with liquor at the tim and scarcely knew
e hat he was about. _ _

Mr. YARDLEY asked the prisoner where he lived, and
he named a street half a mile from Shakspere's- walk ; on
which the Magistrate said it was strange indeed he
should have committed such a mistake; and although he
acquitted him of any intention of committing a felony,
he must order him to pay 6s. for the man's shirt he had
destroyed, or tube imprisoned for five days.
SOUTHIVAIiK. _ _ _

Thomas Webs and William Gee ware brought before
Mr. Seeker, charged with highway robbery attended
with violence.
Mr. Henry Edson, a harness-maker, living in the ♦i-
cinity of this court, stated that on Sunday night, as he
was returning home from the City, while walking along
the Southwark• bridge-road, when he came to the corner
of Lombard street, leading into the Mint, he was pounced
upon by the two prisoners, one of whom (Webb) struck
him in the mouth and knocked him down. He (com-
plainant) recovered himself, and having got upon his
legs, he struggled with his assailant, at the same time
calling out for help, when a policeman came up and
took Webb into custody. The complainant added that
he afterwards missed a purse, containing 21. 55., and also
a tobacco. box, the former of which he felt in his trousers
pocket safe a few minutes before the attack, and
also found that the buttons in front of the garment were
all torn off. When at the station-house, however, the
purse and its contents were discovered between his
drawers and trousers, and he thought that during the
attack, in his fright to save them, he hurriedly placed
them where they were found. At all events, if he had,
he had forgotten the circumstance, and that the purse
might have been placed in that situation by Webb, when
he saw the policeman approach. He further said that
the tobacco-box had not been found.
Webb, in his defence, said that he and his fellow-pri-
soner stood up out of the rain on Sunday night, near the
corner of Lombard- street, and that while there the com-
plainant ran against him, and some words having ensued
the latter struck him (Webb), and he returned the blow,
but that he never attempted to rob him. He added that
when the policeman came up, he did not attempt to es-
cape, knowing he was innocent of any offence.
Gee said that he was potma❑ at the Grapes, in Lom-
bard-street, and was returning home from his employer's
house, with Webb, when they stood up out of the rain
at the corner of the street.
Barton, a policeman, stated that Webb was tried and
convicted of felony at the Old Bailey, in 1846. He knew
nothing of the other prisoner.
A tradesman stood forward in order to give Gee a
good character ; but Mr. Seeker remarked that, as he
intended to send the case before a jury, it would be of
no avail ; but that on the trial it would be of advantage.
The prisoners were then committed.
CLERKENW ELL.

A young man of respectable but very dejected appear-
ance, who ga%e his name Henry Priss, was placed at the
bar before Mr. Combe, charged under the following cir-
cumstances :

Police-constable No. 62 G said that yesterday morn-
ing, at an early hour, he was on duty in St. John street,
Clerkenwell, when the prisoner came up, and, accosting
him, said that he was very uneasy in his mind, and
could not get any rest. He added, that a few weeks ago
he picked up a letter in the street, on opening which he
found it to contain a Bank post bill for 201. 7.., payable
to Mr. Samuel Gardener, residing in the neighbourhood
of Brentford. He immediately proceeded to the Bak of
England, where it was cashed, and he receipted it in
Mr. Gardener's name. He had ever since been squan-
dering away the money in profligacy, and having spent
the whole of it, his mind was seined with compunction,
and he determined on delivering himself at once to the
police, in order that he might be brought to justice.
A clerk from the Issue-office in the Bank of England
deposed that the bill was brought to the Bank and paid
in on the 20th of November, and had been drawn on the
13th of the same month, and the value was received
through Coutts and Co.
Mr. Cosmic a►ked the prisoner if he wished to say
anything in his defence to the charge? Prisoner-7I
have nothing at all to say, only that all stated is quite
true.—He was then remanded until Monday nezt.