The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-24 00:00:00

Sifl -COURT.-(THIS DAY).

(Before Mr. Commissioner BULLOCK.)
DENNETT V. SIMMONS.
This was an acLion brought to recover the sum of
10/.
55.. the balance of an account for work done. The
plaintiff is a carpenter, and the defendant was described
as a, " railway computist," in Westminiter.
The defendant pleaded that he was never indebted
beyond 61, which he had paid.
The facts of the case were these:—The defendant
took a house in Sr. Ann's-terrace, Brixton, and employed
a Person named Swaine to do certain repairs under a
contract for 401., and the latter employed the plaintiff to
ao the carpenter's work. The defendant, however, gave
extensive additional orders, but contended, that except
as respected work to the amount of 61.., he had merely
given the orders to him as Swaine's foreman.
Mr. IlucrrEs, for the defendant, said he would call
Swaine to prove that defendant had paid him, and that
he had paid plaintiff.
Swaine, on being called, however, said that none of the
- Work charged for in plaintiff's bill was in his (Swaine's)
Contract. He had paid him for the work done under the
contract.
A long argument ensued as to the admissibility of the
contract betw, en Swaine and defendant, as it was not
841140, and also that it could not be received as against
the plaintiff.
The Learned JUDGE did not consider a stamp neces-
sary, and admitted the document.
The defendant's son was then called, and proved that
wlign plaintiff demanded the 161. defendant objected, and
Plaintiff then made out another bill for 61. only, which
he was paid. He could not say what a " railway corn-
Mist" was, but they contracted to do the railway busi-
ness in Parliament.
The Learned JUDGE was proceeding to sum up, but
the jury said they were satisfied, and gave a verdict for
the plaintiff for the full amount claimed.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron PARKE.)
THE IRISH RIOT AT THE CAMDEN-TOWN STATION.—
I:11e seventeen Irish labourers who were indicted for a
hot and aggravated assault on the persons of William
Xllis and George Marshall, at the Camden-town station,
Were this morning placed at the bar, and pleaded Guilty
to the cffences with which they were charged. The
:lock presented a curious appearance from the numbers
`.penned" in the confined space; the unmistakable Mile-
Ilan features, and the eager desire evinced by those in
the back ground to ascertain what was going on in
front. The galleries were crowded by anxious friends,
Who had evidently donned their holiday dresses for the
occasion.
His LORDSHIP asked whether Mr. Clarkson would be
satisfied if the less culpable among the prisoners were
bound over in their own recognizarces to keep the peace
for a certain period?
Mr. CLARKSON was afraid that he could not accede to
this course.
His LORDSHIP then said that he must defer passing
sentence until he should have read the depositions.
Witnesses to character were then heard, and the pri-
soners were remanded until a future day.

CASE OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM RICHARDSON.
The grand jury ca me into Court at half-past ten
o'clock, and, after presenting several bills, found " No
bill against Captain William Richardson for felony."
The announcement did not take any person by surprise,
as it had been pretty generally known in the course of
the morning that such a decision would be come to.
Mr. BODKIN, on the part of the Ludlow, Worcester,
and Tenbury Company, rose and said—My Lord, I
have to make an application to your Lordship on the
Part of the directors of the company of which the pri-
soner was chairman. lam aware that according to the
usage of the Court a prisoner against whom no bill is
found is usually discharged forthwith, but the directors,
have a painful duty to perform, and I am instructed to
apply to your Lordship that the prisoner may be de-
tained until the grand jury is discharged, in order to
give the directors an opportunity of consulting the
shareholders as to the future course to be adopted
Under the circumstances.
Mr. CLARKSON—I am certain that in the long ex.
Perience of your Lordship at the bar, and on the bench
You have never known an instance in which a party has
been detained until the persons composing a joint-stock
company shall have determined what to do with him.
In this case my Learned Friend cannot complain that he
has been taken by surprise; he was forewarned, he had
the whole of the' depositions in his possession, and if he
Was net prepared to proceed with the indictment for
felony, he ought now to be in a position to determine
What future course he will adopt. If my Learned
Friend had indeed confined his application to the deten-
tion of the prisoner until the grand jury should have
been discharged, I could not have opposed him, but to
detain a prisoner until the company shall have made up
their minds as to what charges they shall prefer is alto-
gether so novel a proceeding, that I confess I cannot see
how the Court can entertain it. I must, therefore, oppose
the application, and I hope your Lordship will not
grant it.
Mr. Baron PLATT—Do I understand the application to
be, whether the prisoner shall be detained until the
company shall be consulted, or only until the grand jury
shall be discharged ?
Mr. BODKIN—The latter, certainly.
Mr. Baron PLATT—I do not see, that because one bill
is thrown out, the prisoner should be forthwith set at
feat tiy, because such a course might, in many cases, de-
him detained
ends of justice; and as the application is to have
until the grand jury shall have been dis-
• arged, I cannot see why it should not be granted.
,_
CLARKSON—MY Lord, I feel that if my Learned
eriend had applied to have the prisoner detained in
Custody only until the grand jury should be discharged,
that I would be unable to resist it; but to detain him
until the company should be consulted
Mr. Baron PLATT—Iie is detained until the grand
jury shall have finished their duties; and if, in the
meantime, the parties interested consult as to what steps
should be pursued, it is but reasonable they should have
the opportunity of doing so. I cannot shut my eyes to
the fact that the prisoner has moved in a position which
gives him advantages unattainable by a poorer man, and
feel it my duty, therefore, to accede to the application.
POST-OFFICE ROBBERY.—Thomas James, late a letter-
goner in the Post-office, was indicted, that he on the
2d of September stole a letter containing half a so-
vereign.
The Attorney-General, Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Bodkin,
and Mr. Clark were for the prosecution; Mr. Ballantine
attended for the prisoner.
The evidence of 'several witnesses proved that a letter
vas written by James Ball, a clerk in the East India
,
-00elts, to his brother in the country. The letter en-
Closed half a sovereign, which for safety was placed in a
Card so cut as to retain it in a certain position. The
letter was put in a district post-office at half-past five on
the ''d of September, and reached the Post-office about
• It was then handed over to the table at which the
Prisoner was engaged. The prisoner was observed to
enter the water-closet at seven o'clock, by a constable
Who was so placed that he could see all that
happened without being himself seen. The prisoner
Was then observed to place his hand in front of his
Clothes, and the constable heard a crumpling of paper.
Ile afterwards was observed chewing some paper, and
the constable descended and took him into custody. The
Prisoner threw something down the closet, but a piece of
Card was forced from his right hand. On further search,
a purse containing two sovereigns was found in the
right-hand trousers pocket,, and a loose half-sovereign
Was found in one of the waistcoat pockets, while a bag,
with two shillings, a fourpenny piece, and some coppers,
Were found in the other. A piece of card found in the
closet corresponded with the remaining piece which was
left in the first witness's house ; and several fragments of
the letter written by the same person were fuund in the
closet also.
Mr. BALLANTYNE having addressed the jury,
Mr. Justice MAULE summed up ; and
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.—Sentenced to
ten years' transportation.

NEIV COURT.
(Before the REconnun.)
Henry Allen, a respectable looking man, who was de-
scribed as the steward of a steam-vessel, was convicted of
stealing five shirts, and other articles, the property of
Jessie Jane Munns, a laundress, and sentenced to nine
months' imprisonment, and hard labour.
William Jacobs, a labourer, was indicted with stealing
10 bushels of oats, value 31., the property of Sills, Jones,
and Cu., corn-factors, of Bankside. Two ether persons,
named King and Palmer, were indicted with aiding and
assisting Jacobs to commit the robbery; and William
Simpson, a carman, was indicted with feloniously receiv-
ing the stolen property, well knowing it to hare been
stolen.
The jury found all the prisoners Guilty.
The RECORDER sentenced Simpson to eighteen months'
imprisonment and hard labour, and the other three pri-
soners to six months and hard labour.

GUILD HALL.—(T HIS DAY.)
A tall elderly Frenchman, of gentlemanly exterior,
who gave his name as De I?uchtt, was charged before
Mr. Alderman Humphery with stealing a handsome um-
brella from the subscription-room of the Jamaica Coffee-
house, St. Michael's-at-hill. It appeared that for some
time suspicion attached to the prisoner, who occa-
sionally patronised the house, and yesterday they
Watch ed him,
and detected him walking off with
the umbrella in question from the stand, in about
half a minute after another visitor had deposited
it there. He was followed into the street and given into
the custony of a policeman. It was also found that a
stick which he placed in the stand, in lieu of the stolen
umbrella, and which he carried when coming into the
house, as if in preparation for an exchange, had, on a
former occasion, been stolen from the same room.
He was committed for trial at the present sessions of
the Central Criminal Court, the police at the same time
informing the Alderman that it was believed similar
charges could be substantiated.

CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.)
A young man, about twenty years of age, who stated
his name to be John Thompson, but who the police knew
to have several aliases, was charged with the following
daring and impudent robbery:—
Mr. Hunt stated that he resided next to the shop of
Mr. John Lockyer, in Suffolk-street, St. James's-walk,
Clerkenwell, and about seven o'clock yesterday evening,
as be was standing at his own door, he observed the prt-
zoner, accompanied by another man, standing close to
Lockyer's window, when the prisoner's companion
with as little noise as possible broke one of the panes of
leas', while the prisoner held his hands under it to pre-
vent the noise it would cause by falling to the ground.
They then took two large ingots of metal from the
:shelves inside the window, with which they walked away
an different directions; and as the prisoner passed wit-
mess's shop the latter made an attempt to seize him,
Ilvh.n ,ser v_ but was eventually st•op-