The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-19 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS.

Elizabeth Green, Mary lio!lands, Jane Biggs, Maria
Roast, Ellen Johnson, and Ellen Sullivan, were indicted
with having unlawfully committed a riot and breach of
the peace at St. John's workhouse, Southwark.

William Armitage, potter to the above workhouse,
stated that on the evening of the 19th of August, the
women's ward was in a complete state of rebelli.?n. Hu
entered it at the time, and found the prisoners foremost
in creating the disturbance. On remonstrating with
them they defied his interference' and used such disgust-
ing and threatening language that he was compelled to
send for the police and give the prisoners into custody.
The witness further added, that the prisoners were
a terror to the inmates of the house, and had frequently
been punished for their misbehaviour. They were in-
mates of the house, and had on many occasions been
placed in situations by the guardians, but owing to their
gross misconducr had been discharged.

The prisoners behaved in a very indecorous manner
before the Bench, and denied the whole of the evidence
adduced against them.

The CHAIRMAN asked whether they had been con-
victed on any previous occasion ?—Witness replied
in the affirmative. They had been several times sum-
marily convicted at the Southwark Police-court. The
Magistrate, on that account, committed them for trial,
believing that the punishment they would receive would
prevent such disorder occurring again in the workhouse.
The jury, after a few minutes' consultation, Acquitted
the prisoner, but recommended some attention in the
mode of admitting paupers into the workhouse. Such
women as the prisoner, they considered, ought to be re-
fused admission, which would be the only means of pre-
venting the recurrence of such disorders. The pri-
soners, who had suffered nearly a month's imprison-
ment, were then discharged.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

James Ring, the man who was charged on Tuesday
last with havingattempted to commit suicide, by hanging
himself, was brought up again this day, and, on his ex-
pressing contrition for his folly and rashness, he was
discharged.
Mr. Cook, a farmer and grazier, being also a cattle
salesman in London, preferred a complaint again,t Mr.
Smith, a brother salesman, for using abusive and threat-
ening language in Smithfield market.
The complainant stated that he considered himself in
danger from the violence of the defendant.
In the course of the inquiry it appeared that the
whole matter, which had at length assumed a serious
character, arose out of some very trivial illustrations of
the adage, that " two of a trade cannot agree." After a
good deal of wrangling between the solicitors, Mr.
Sidney Smith, for the complainant, and Mr. Nobler, for
the defendant, Mr. Alderman Hunter bound over the
parties to keep the peace towards each other.
BO W-S TRE ET.

Mr. Kinnct, the deputy-postmaster of Raleigh, who
had been remanded from Tuesday, on a charge of steal-
ing a Si. note from a letter directed to Mr. Chambers, at
Raleigh, was placed at the bar before Mr. Jardine this
morning.
Mr. Peacock appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Parry for the prisoner.
Captain Osborne William Chambers said, that on the
28th March last, he wrote a letter (the same that was
now produced), in which he enclosed a five-pound note.
He took down the particulars of that note on a slip of
paper, which he had since lost. The number of the note
was 94,497, and the date Nov. 14, 1845.
Here a difficulty arose in proving that the letter was
directed to Mr. Chambers. The envelope was not pro-
duced, and Mr. Parry objected to the admission of
secondary evidence.
Mr. Peacock called several witnesses, clerks in
the Secretary's department at the Post-office, to
show that the envelope had been lost. It appeared
from their evidence that an envelope had been received
at the Post-office, being enclosed in a letter to the Post-
master-General—that this envelope had been sent to the
postmaster at Folkestone, and being returned to the
secretary's department here, had been sent to Paris.
Since that time it had not been seen. A diligent search
bad been made for it, but had failed.

Mr. JARDINE said that this evidence would not afford
sufficient ground for admitting evidence as to the super-
scription on the envelope. Not only was there no satis-
factory evidence of the envelope having been lost, bat it
appeared pretty clear that it had been sent to Paris, and
was there still.

Mr. Peacock said he had written to Paris about it,
and he found the envelope had been sent posted in a letter
to the post-master at Folkestone.
Mr. JARDINE said, that if that could be proved, and
if evidence was given that a search had been made at
Folkestone, a case for the admission of secondary evi-
dence would be established.

Mr. Peacock said, that if time was given he could
give much evidence. In the meantime he was pre-
pared to trace the letter into the possession of the pri-
soner. Mr. Peacock then called
Mr. Cullins, mail-master at Folkestone, and Thomas
Hart, a Custom-house officer at the same place, who proved
the recept there of the letter- box, bring letters by the
Queen of the French steamer on the 28th of March. It
was forwarded in the usual manner.
Mr. Chambers, being re-called, proved that he-him-
self had put the letter in the box at Boulogne on
that day.
Peacock, being unable to carry the evidence
further this day, applied to have the prisoner remanded
to Tuesday.
Mr. JARDINE
said, he had no doubt that the prose-
tutors would,use all diligence to complete the case by
that day, and that if they could not do so, they would_
not propose to carry it further.
Mr. Peacooli said, that of course all diligence would
be used.