The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-23 00:00:00

1848,

Mr. Fearnley only asked fir the wages due to hit.
client ; surely that application would not be resisted.
Mr. BRODERIP said ha could not order the wages to
he paid, and the prosecutor declared he would give up
nothing.
Mr. Fearnley made some observations on the hardship
of the case, and the severity with which the prisoner was
treated. The young man was without a single shilling
in the world.

Mr. BRODERIP mninded the prisoner's solicitor of the
serious loss sustai,led by Mr. Boutillier. He did not at
all wonder that a man who had been nearly ruined by
the prisoner should not be disposed to treat h:m with
much favour. He was surprised that the prisoner, who
had done all he could to ruin his master, should expect
the least favour at his hands.

'rho prisoner, who made no defe.nee was then fully
committed to Nowgat© for trial.

On the intercession of Mr. Dianiond and Mr. Pelham,
the prosecutor consented to give up Stodatirt's clothes,
on which Mr. Broderip said more could not be exp ct‘d
from him.

SOUTHWARK.
Henry Savory, the keeper of a house of bad repute

Buckle's-buildings, Waterloo-road, was charged with
striking Margaret Scully on the head with a poker, with
intent to do her grievous bodily harm.
The complainant having been made acquainted that
her sister, a young girl, had quitted her situaion, and
had been inveigled into a house of bad repute on the
south side of the water, went to look after her, for the
purpose of prevailing upon her to leave such a place. In
the course of the complainant's inquiries she learned that
her sister was an inmate of the prisoner's house, in
Buckle's-buildings, Waterloo-road, and -that it was a
rendezvous for the worst of characters. On Friday last
the complainant accordingly proceeded to the house in
question, and on knocking at the door, was answere]
out of the window by the prisoner, who, in reply to
the question as to whether her sister was there, said
she was not, and referred her to the next house. Com-
plainant went there, and finding, from all she heard
respecting her sister, that she was in the prisoner's
house, altticugh he denied the fact, she IN turned there
again, and insisted, on having an interview with her
sister. The prisoner, who again answered her from
the parlour window, still declared that the yew%
woman was not in the house, and threatened to strike
complainant with a poker, if she did not go away.
She, however, remained at the window, insisting on see-
ing her sister, when the prisoner lifted up the poker,
and struck her a severe blow on the head, which cut it
to the bone, and she fell down insensible, and in that
condition was conveyed to the house of ;Jr. Brooks, a
surgeon in the Waterloo-road, where she was seized with
a strong fit, bat after some time she recovered sufficiently
to be enabled to be conveyed home. The prisoner ab •
sconded after perpetrating the outrage, but was since
taken into custody. .
The surgeon having given evidence of the serious na-
ture of the injury inflicted on the complainant's head,
and the danger arising from it,
The prisoner, in his defence, said that the complain-
ant's sister was not in his house at the time, and he told
her so, but she still continued to abuse him, and ulti-
mately broke his window, which caused him to strike
her with the poker; that he regretted the circumstance,
and was willing to make her every reparation in his
power.

Mr. SECKER said the assault was of such an aggra-
vated character that he would neither listen to any
compromise, however willing the complainant was to
accede to it, nor should he decide the case summarily,
but send the prisoner for trial.—Committed accordingly.

HOP INTELLIGENCE.
MAIDSTONE.—The duty still continues to rule at
220,0001., with various opinions as to the accuracy of
the estimate. This may, perhaps, be in some degree
tested by the amount of the Canterbury collection,
which we hear on pretty good authority will turn out
something very like 45,0711. 17s. ld. There were seve-
ral buyers at our fair on Saturday, but it seems of late
years not to have been the fashion to sell here, otherwise
there is no doubt sales might have been effected. A
correspondent informs us that there is an inclination on
the part of some growers, encouraged by the success of
the late experiment at Staplehurst, to establish a hop fair
here. He says, "No time should be lost. The growers
should meet and form a committee of management. They
should be the acting men, and with energy and deter-
mination much good might be accomplished."—Maid-
stone Journal.

The estimated bop duty has fallen off materially
during the past week. A high duty backer gives the
following estimate :—Canterbury, 45,6001. ; Rochester,
66,0001. ; Sussex, 63,0001. ; Worcester, 30,0004; Farn-
ham, 16,000/. ; Kingdom, 4,000/.—Total, 224,000/.
But general accounts say that it will not much excecd
200,0001. Canterbury Jonrnal.

CHESTER HOP FAIR.—The importance of this fair,
as regards the trade in hops, has for several years been
on the decline, and the practice of pitching hops here in
bulk has altogether ceased. At our fair on Saturday
last there was a good attendance of merchants from
Worcester, and the crop in that district being this year
both very abundant and excellent in quality, a good
business was done at sitisfactory prices; choice samples
were much sought after, and prices ranged from 90s. to
115 s. per cwt. for fine Worcesters ; but the trade in
Sussex and Rents was limited.—Chester Courant

NORTH BRITISIL—We are glad to learn that the
damages done by the recent floods to the North British
Railway at Linton-bridge have now been so far repaired
as to render the line at this point passable by the trains.
By great exertions on the part of the contractors, Messrs.
Ross and Mitchell, the works have just been completed,
and we are assured that the erections, though only tem-
porary, are of the most substantial description, and that
four trains with materials of the heaviest kind passed
safely over on Friday. The mails from London are still
late in the arrival—say about two hours in general—in
consequence of the injury to the North British Railway.
Yesterday forenoon, however, the mail train which
should arrive here at nine in the morning did not reach
town till twenty minutes past one in the afternoon. This
delay was said to he caused by the locomotive getting
off the rails somewhere on the road,—Caledonian
Mercury.

year Mr. Boutillier had made a large increase of his
stock, but the receipts were smaller than usual, and he
was unable to meet his engagements as early as he
wished. The cause of his deficiency was never sus-
pected until the night of the 14th inst., when the prisoner
was stopped with a large box in his possession, in King
David-lane, Shadwell, by two ponce-sergeants, who sus-
pecting something wrong, asked him what the box con-
tained. The prisoner made answer carelessly that it was
full of wearing apparel belonging to himself, which he
was about to leave at a public-house called the Green
Dragon, in Lower Shad well, for the purpose of being
forwarded br his father's vessel to the north. The
officers not being satisfied with this statement, conveyed
him to the station-house, with the box, and demanded
the key. The prisoner said he had not got the key in
his possession, and requested that a policeman should be
sent to No. 4, Northumberland-place to fetch one of his
mister's shopmen, who knew where to find the key. The
shopman returned with the policeman, but without the
key, and said he understood the box to contain glasses
and decanters. Mr. Boutillier and Mr. Diamond, his
cousin and book-keeper, were then sent for, and the box
having been broken open, it was discovered that it con-
tained, instead of wearing apparel, among other articles,
8 mousseline-de-laine dresses, 15 silk handkerchiefs, 12
shawls and scarfs, 5 rolls of riband, 4 cards of pearl but-
tons, 60 yards of gimp, 9 linen collars, and 20 packages
of needles. The wholesale and private marks were upon
the whole of the goods, and Mr. Boutillier had no diffi-
culty in identifying every article. There was a quantity
of shop rickets, two dozen of wine glasses, and two decan-
ters in the same box, the contents of which were valued
at about 301. The key of the box, which the prisoner
had previously denied having in his possession, and five
yards of riband, were found in his pockets. The two
police-sergeants immediately followed up their inquiries,
and a very extensive system of plunder was detected. On
searching a carpet bag and a writing-desk belonging to the
prisoner, in Mr. Boutillier's house, three holland bags, con-
taining bank notes, sovereigns, and silver, to the amount
901., were discovered. There was a pass-book of the
East London Savings'- bank also found in the prisoner's
desk, from which it appeared that he had paid in
301. to his own account in one payment on the 211th of
August last. In consequence of an intimation from an-
other person in Mr. Boutillier's employ, search was made
in a secret place behind the counter, where two more
holland bags, containing gold and silver moneys, were
discovered. They had been concealed there by the pri-
soner. The amount in cash and notes recovered was
1381. Os. 11d., exclusive of 301.. in the savings' bank. A
five-pound note found in the prisoner's desk was also
identified by Mr. Boutillier, who had changed it a few
days before the prisoner was apprehended, and another
five-pound note bore his endorsement. At the former
examination Mr. Boutillier and his cousin said the de-
ficiency in stock and cash amounted to at least 2001.
Since then a more careful investigation had been made,
and Mr. Boutillier now estimated his losses at upwards
of 4001. The prisoner had received from him 94/.108.20.
only while he had been in his service. On the mantel-
shelf in the prisoner's bed-room several invoices fur gas
fittings, brass ornaments, and five looking-glasses were
found. They were made out in the name of J. Stoddat%
and the goods, to which they referred, were found at the
Green Dragon, where they had been deposited by the
prisoner, who intended to forward them to Sunderland
by his father's vessel. The invoices amounted to 101.
Inspector Valentine also removed from the same public-
house three boxes of linendrapery goods worth
50/., which the prisoner had left there to be for-
warded by the lago to the same destination. The artichs
had been selected from Mr. Boutillier's stock, and the
wholesale marks were upon them. Besides the property
seized, the officers ascertained that the prisoner had
made other consignments of linendrapery to Sunderland,
where he intended to commence business as soon as he
had accumulated sufficient plunder for that purpose, and
there is no doubt, if he had not been stopped in his ex-
tensive career of robbery, he would have soon ruined
his master. A few days before the prisoner was taken
into custody he requested his employer's'errand boy to
look out some gas fittings, and said he wanted them
Vor a friend. The boy jestingly said " No, they are for
yourself," and the prisoner admitted that he' was going
to open a concern in Sunderland about Novernb:T. Ile
then directed the boy to order various goods, fur which
the prisoner paid.ready money.
Mr. Fearnley made application for a portion of the I
money tak.-n from the prisoner to be delivered up to him,
and that his wearing apparel should also be restored.
Mr. Pelham should be sorry to oppose any application
of this nature, or deprive a man, charged with felony,
of the opportunity of making his defence ; but really
the prisoner's depredations had been practised on such a
large scale, and might yet lead to the prosecutor's name
appearing in the London Gazette, that he felt bound to
resist the application. There were other Josses not ye
ascertained, and property at Sunderland which Mr,
Boutillier was unable to recover.