The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-29 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.--(THIS DAY.)

Collingwood, who was yesterday acquitted at the Cen-
tral Criminal Court upon two charges of forgery, at the
prosecution of two persons named Joseph and Abrahams,
was immediately afterwards taken into custody upon a
third charge, at the instance of the same prosecutors,
and was this day brought before Alderman Sir William
Maguey.
Mr. Taylor, who appeared, as on the former occasion,
for the prosecution, applied to the worthy Alderman for
a delay of the examination, in consequence of the ab-
sence of a material witness. The case was accordingly
allowed to stand over for some time; but the expected
witnesses not arriving within an hour, Sir Wm. Magnay
determined to proceed.
Mr. Taylor pressed hard to have the prisoner re-
manded until to but the Alderman considered
it unreasonable that he should keep any man from day
to day in confinement to suit the convenience of other
parties, who could not but know when they ought to
attend in support of their own charges.
Mr. Wontuer, on the part of the prisoner, submitted
that this was a merely vexatious proceeding. The case
now attempted to be established against the prisoner
was essentially of the same nature as the two upon
which he was yesterday unhesitatingly acquitted at the
Old Bailey. They arose out of charges of forging the
name of his father, and the ground of his acquittal was
expressly that he had his father's authority to use his
name.

After some discussion, in the course of which Mr.
Taylor strenuously insisted on his right to demand the
detention of the prisoner, whose father (he said) pro•
mised to give evidence against him in this third case, the
Alderman ordered the prisoner to be discharged.
Immediately afterwards, however, he was placed again
in the dock, and it was represented to Sir William Mag-
nay, that the prosecutors were prepared to take the pri-
soner into custody outside the Police-court, and carry
him before a county magistrate.
Mr. Taylor admitted that this was the case, and en-
deavoured to justify this extraordinary course.
The ALDERMAN said he believed an officer might take
him into custody, at the instance of the prosecutors, but
it should be on his own responsibility as an officer, cer-
tainly it should not be by his (Sir W. Maguey's) authority.
The prisoner was then discharged from custody, but
instantly afterwards arrested in Guildhall-place, and
conveyed to Worship-street Police-office.

CLERKEN WELL.---(THIS DAY.)
Mary Sullivan was brought up on remand, charged
with stealing two yards of cloth.
Charles Nicholson, a youth about fourteen years of
age, stated that as he was passing along the High-street,
Islington, towards the residence of his father, who kept
a tailor's shop at Potter's-bar; he stopped to buy some
apples from the prisoner, who keeps a fruit-stand, and
when putting his hand in his ;pocket to pay her, he laid
down a parcel he was carrying, containing two yards of
cloth, in one of her baskets, and walked away without
remembering it. On discovering his loss he returned,
but she denied that he had left anything of the kind on
her stall.

Constable Walker said after her denial he went to her
lodgings, and found the cloth concealed in the ticking of
the bed.
The prisoner, who did not attempt to deny the facts of
the case, was committed for trial.

THE GRAVESEND AND ROCHESTER RAILWAY.—At
length the long-expected transfer of this line has been
made, and on Sunday the South-Eastern Railway Com•
pany entered on their newly-acquired possession. For
some days past surveyors have been taking sections of
the line with the view to its future enlargement, the
works on which will be commenced so soon as the season
is a little more advanced, the extraordinary protraction
of fine weather at present rendering this line still one of
considerable traffic.
past and half-past eleven o'clock on By ILGILART IN OXFORD-6TR —onßseutnwdeaeyn
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eight
ing some thief or thieves, by means of a picklock key,
entered the shop of Mr. Millard, optician, No. 335, Ox-
ford-street, and stole property to the value of hove
2001. The adjoining house at the corner of Argyll-
street is a coach booking-office, which was open at the
time, and yet the burglars were not observed. Mr.
Millard left the premises shortly before eight o'clock, to
go to his house at Islington, and was at church when he
received information of his loss. Two trays of silver
and solid gold spectacle frames were emptied of their con-
tents. On the silver spectacles is the maker's name,
" Punch," by the Halt mark " J. M."
SCARCITY IN IRELAND.—At the Privy Council
held on Saturday, at Windsor Castle, the Archbishop of
Canterbury was direoted to prepare a Form of Prayer
for the relief of the distress and scarcity now existing in
parts of the United Kingdom.
LIMERICK, SEPT. 25.—The Comet, steam-vessel,
Lieutenant-Commander Johnson, arrived from Cork at
this port, on Thursday night, and landed yesterday
morning twenty boxes of silver coin to the amount of
10,000/., which were deposited in the Bank of Ireland in
this city.
THE AMERICAN LINERS.—The New York line of
packet ships, which have hitherto discharged their
cargoes and embarked their passengers in the St.
Katharine Dock, will in future come into and sail out of
the London Dock, where there is more accommodation
for the numerous emigrants and
_visitors who are con-
itantly rooortiDg to Won noels;