The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-04 00:00:00

from the beds by the Company were produced, and
ih,y were all doe'ard t 9 he of the nrd
worth two guini3as a busnel at the present, mouueut.
The LORD MAYOR asked whether the Company suf-
fered much from the unfair dealings of which they com-
plained? The Foreman—Your Lordship would be sur-
prised at what we have endured. We are obliged to
keep perpetual watch, and the most desperate attacks
have been made upon our men by the plunderers of the
beds. Perhaps four fellows would steal a boat with
which they would row to the beds, and one would dredge
while the fourth, who is armed with a sack full of stoues,
would pelt our men and desperately injure them. In
one instance one of our men was almost killed.
The LORD MAYOR.—WeII. Are you disposed to pro-
secute this man to the utmost, or will you be satisfied
as he is the first person who has beers brought before
me, and you seem to have no reason to think that he
has been engaged in any irregularity as a member of
your body if I a hnonish him.
Mr. Wire, after consulting the eornpkinants, said they
were satisfied with what had taken place. and that in
every future case they should go for the whole penalty
in b.,th ways.

The Loth) MAYOR—You may depend upon my rui,st
prompt at,,*istance.

BO W-STRE F T.
John Clark was charged on a summons with assault
log William Jolly, under the follow.ng circumstances:—
The complainant stated that the defendant had made
a charge against him of stealing half a sovereign, which
charge the insp, ctor at the station house refut..ed to
entertain, on the grom-e! that it was not a theft, but a
debt, for whieh a summons must he taken out. The
defendant then went away, and he (complainant) followed
in a few moments, and overtook the deteudant at a shun
distance. The defaidant, as soon as h« saw witne,s,
ran towards him, and struck him in the face, without the
slightest provocation, witness not having spoken a word,
or taken any notice of the prisoner.
William Morgan, aho was with the complainant at the
time, ettrroborated this statement.

The defendant said, that after he had left the station,
he was standing in the street talking with a friend,
when the complainant and his witness came towards him,
and said, in a loud tone, "That's the d—d vagabond
who said I stole his half-sovereign." At the same time
he lifted his hand, and attempted to strike him (the
prisoner), but he warded off the blow and struck the
complainant in the face.

Tile person mentioned by the prisoner as being with
him at the time gave evidence in support of this
statement.

The prisoner's employer, in whose service he had
been for fourteen years, gave him an excellent character,
and said that he was a remarkably quiet and peace-
able man.

Mr. JARDINE said that he suspected, even when the
complainant was giving his evidence, that some such ex-
pression as that spoken to by the prisoner's witness was
made use of. These sudden attacks were not made
without some provocation, or something to excite the
person at the moment, and though the complainant chose
to deny it, he himself believed the witness, that the com-
plainant called the defendant a " vagabond." Taking
this into account, and also taking► into account the pri-
soner's previous good character (which, in all cases, had
considerable weight with him), he would inflict no
penalty, but defendant must pay the costs (25.) The
defendant payed the costs, and left the Court.
John Orchard, a drummer in the Coldstream Guards,
was charged with stealing a watch and a sovereign, the
property of Captain Charles Grinstead.
It appeared that, on the 26th November, the prose-
cutor left his gold watch and a sovereign on the table in
his own room, adjoining the guard-room (to which no
one but the prisoner and a corporal had access), at
eight o'clock in the evening, when he went to
mess. At eleven o'clock he returned and missed the
watch and sovereign. Nobody but the prisoner and
the captain's servant had been in the room. The
prisoner was apprehended on Tuesdcy last by policeman
11 17, at a public.-house in Whitechapel. He said that
he had taken the watch and sovereign, and had taken a
cab to Ratcliffe-highway, where lie got a man whom
he knew to pawn it for 31. The policeman, after leaving
the prisoner at the station, went to the lodging of the
man mentioned by the prisoner, but failed in apprehend-
ing him. He afterwards made inquiries at the pawn-
broker's, and found the wat(rh which he now produced,
and which was identified by the captain.
Mr. JARDINE remanded the prisoner till to-morrow
week.