The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-31 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

John Burroughs,a little boy only 12 years of age, was
placed at the bar for final examination, before Mr.
llammill, charged with having stolen a large number of
valuable engraved copper-plates, the property of his
master, Mr. 11. Titford, lithographic printer and engraver
in Worship-square, Finsbury.
The prosecutor stated :that the prisoner had been in
his employment as errand-boy for a considerable period,
and although he was detected a short time since in clan-
destinely removing a quantity of paper from the pre.
mises, under circumstances which left no doubt of his
dishonest intentions, witness, in consideration of his ex-
treme youth and apparent penitence, abstained from
giving him into custody, and consented to retain him in
his service. Only a week afterward, however, as he
was. passing a shop not far from his own residence
he happened to notice an engraved copper-plate ex-
posed for sale in the window, and immediately recognised
it as his property. In answer to his inquiries, the owner
of the shop informed him that he had purchased a large
number of similar plates from the pro oiler, many of
which he had subsequently sold again, but that he had
still eleven left, which he showed to the witness, who
identified them also. Nearly all the plates were en-
graved with elaborate designs, in commemoration of dif-
ferent memorable events which had occurred within the
last half-century, and although they were finished in
such a style of excellence that the workmanship of each
could not have cost less than thirty guineas, he ascer-
tained that the prisoner had sacrificed the whole of them
as old capper, at the rate of sd. or 7d. per lb. On his
return home he examined his stock, and having missed
property of a like description to a large extent, a portion
of it possessing an adacititious value as historical relics,
from being the only plates of the kind in existence,
he called in a policeman and gave the prisoner into
custody.
_

Mr. Rourke, a coppersmith, stated that five of the
plates produced were sold to him by the prisoner, on
the 18th inst., as old copper, at 7d. per pound, and the
remainder at the rate of ed., in tho month of Juno last.
The first transaction of the kind he had with the pri-
soner was in the preceding February, when he offered a
quantity of old copper for sale; and, having ascertained,
upon inquiry at his master's, that ho was really autho-
rized to sell it upon that occasion, ho purchased the
various plates which he afterwards brought without sus-
picion or
HM:Mhesitation. Mr. AILL said it was lamentable to find so young
a boy pursuing such an inveterate career of crime; but,
as every opportunity had been afforded him for reforma-
tion, without effect, he had no alternative but to commit
him for trial.

The prisoner, who appeared perfectly callous, was
committed accordingly._

LAMBETH.
Mr. Herring, a Plymouth solicitor, attended before
Mr. Elliott for the purpose of contradicting a statement
made by a woman tobis Worship last Wednesday,
and the report of which in the papers on the fol-
lowing day had caused the friends of Lord Hunting-
tower, to which it related, much annoyance.
In the report in question it was stated that Lord and
Lady Huntingtower had taken lodgings at the house
of the applicant, that his Lordship owed a debt of 20/.
for such lodging, and also that his Lordship had acted
with considerable violence on the Sunday before when
endeavouring to secure some letters that were in the
lady's possession, and which it was alleged would sup-
ply evidence of a Scotch marriage with Lord Hunting-
tower. He, Mr. Herring, was instructed on the part of
Lord Huntingtower to say that there was not the
slightest pretext whatever for the statement about the
marriage, and that it was pure fiction. The real facts
were these i—Some time since Lord Huntingtower had
formed an acquaintance with a young woman, and had
taken a lodging for her at the house of the lady who had
made the application on Wednesday, and they lived
there under the assumed name of Mr. and Mrs. Langton.
They subsequently left their lodging, and his Lordship
ultimately left the lady, but, notwithstanding, had
provided for herself and three children. Find-
ing that an injudicious friend was interferingh
between him and the lady, and that
Lordt
latter had returned to her former lodging,
Huntingtower called on the lady, as had
and
but nothing like the violence described took place;o . 0
the only letters which his Lordship could desireand to b
been
but
returned were merely of a gossiping nature, and
marriage,
as no relation whatever to a Scotch or other_ince oaugled,
the as no such thing had ever taken place. 6
ap-
pearance of the report he (Mr. Herring)an
the lady and had paid her demand, had called
hadon offered on
the part of his client to settle 701. a year and a house to
live in on the other lady, but this she conceiv-
ing, declined, c -
ing, no doubt, that by threats she could compel Lord
Huntingtower to support her in affiuen been instructed
ce.
Mr. Salomons, a solicitor, said he had that the
h
on the part of the lady before alluded to, to
Tife—tov say,
treatment of Lord Huntingtower to for such
t
by the Scottish law she was—
h
that described by his Lordship's soa i been anything bul
solicitor.
that the unfortunate lady and citor. The fact was
he
been deserted by the father andsedhucoero,
however,
willingly
leifltina.
state of paverty. The lady
settlement of 1001. a year
would,r three children had
w
give up his Lordship on a
being made on herself and children.
Mr. Herring declared that there was
woman had never
not a tittle of
truth in the alleged marriage, that
been to Scotland at all, and he would stake his profes-
sion reputation that there were no grounds whatever for
the assertion of marriage.
Mr. ELLIOTT remarked, that the report
madein the
to h
papimers,
was a perfectly correct one of the statement
but as the only thing in which he had jurisdiction had
since been settled, there was an end to the case. As
respected the other matter, it was not for him to give
any opinion.

SOUTHWARK.
,Jaws Johnson alias Moor, Thomas Bench, Wm.
'ning, Ambrose Jacobs, and Captain Henry Hodgson,
were brought before Mr.' Cottingham for re-examina-
tion, charged with swindling a great number of tradesmen.
The connexion existini.g between the prisoners to
.defraud tradesmen of their goods ivas first discovered
in. consequence of the apprehension of Johnson,
alias Moor, a well dressed respectable-looking man,
which took place in the earls part of the present
month. He had iven an order to a tradesman
named Deacon for emery and glass paper, and referred
to Captain Hodgson whom he described as his uncle,
for a character, and Upon the faith of the latter person,
Deacon was induced to part with his goods. No sooner,
however, had Johnson obtained possession of the goods
than he sold them, and then absconded from his resi-
dence. Inquiries were subsequently instituted, when it
was ascertained that Johnson was concerned with a prig
o.c swindlers who had for 'some length of time been en-
gaged in act 3 of swindling to a very serious extent, some
of them inhabitin respectable houses, for which they
paid no ren', ands eady at all times to act as referees,
and give eueh characters of their associates as to throw
the tradesman off his guard, and induce him to part with
his goods, for which, it is needless to mention, be was
never paid. The following additional charges were pre-
ferred against the prisonere:—Nir. Cleet, a gold-beater
in the City, stated that Johnson gave an order for 201.
worth of gold leaf, and referred to a person named Mar-