The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-30 00:00:00

default of payment committed for one month to the House
of Correction.

CLE RK EN WELL.
Mr. Jahn Matthews, an engraver, carrying on business
in John-street, was brought up in custody, upon a war-
rant, charging•him with violently assaulting his ap-
prentice, John Price.
Mr. Wakeling, the solisitor, appeared% on behalf of
the complainant, and said that the defendant had fre-
eriently assaulted the lad more especially when he
demanded his wages from him ; and on last Saturday
the defendant struck him a violent blow on the breast,
which knocked him down. For the protection of the
complainant he (Mr. Wakeling) trusted the magistrate
would order the defendant to find bail.
Mr. COaIBE declined requiring bail, but said as the
assault had been clearly proved he should fine the de-
fendant 20s. and costs.
SO C 7 THWARK.
Mr. 011ey, of the firm of 011ey and Bridges, coal mer-
chants, of Shad Thames, was summoned at the instance
of Mr. Daniel Benvitt, for sending out a quantity of
coals without a ticket, whereby he had incurred a heavy
penalty under the Ist and 2d Vic., cap. 5.
It appeared that Mr. Benvitt had ordered three
ch4ldrons of coals at the defendant's wharf, and on their
delivery at his house the carman had no ticket signifying
the quantity and quality of the article. As it was an
omission on the part of the firm, which was likely to be
detrimental to the purchaser, the complainant therefore,
on public grounds, adopted the proceedings.
The defendant said no fraud was intended ; that tho
complainant was present at the wharf and caw the coals
weighed and placed in the sacks, and on that account it
was not deemed necessary to send tickets with them.
Mr. SECKER said the words of the Act were as distinct
as possible, setting forth that the seller was to produce
a ticket to the purchaser on delivery of the coals at his
premises; and the 3d section of the Act referred to ad-
mitted of no qualification, therefore it made no difference
in the offence, as to whether the purchaser was present
at the wharf and saw the coals weighed, or not. It was
the duty of the defendant to have sent the t:ekets with
the coals ; and he (the magistrate), although not be-
lieving in this instance there was any intention of fraud,
still thought that it was a wise provision in the law,
in order to guard the public against losses on an article
of such consumption ; for in the transit from the wharf
to the place of delivery, how easy would it be for the
carman to dispose of some of the coals elsewhere, which
would be avoided by the production of the ticket agree-
ably to the words of the Act. Taking all the circum-
stances, therefore, into consideration, he should, on the
present occasion, mitigate the penalty on the defendant
to 103., with costs ; but at the same time it ought to
go forth to the trade the necessity of their being parti-
cular in furnishing the purchasers with tickets on delivery
of the coals.

LAMBETH.
William Durant, who has been in custody for the last
week, on the charge of committing a burglary and rob-
bery at Addington-park, near Croydon, Surrey, the
country residence of his Grace the Archbishop of Can-
terbury, was placed before Mr. Elliott, for final ex-
amination.

Mr. Hodgson, the private secretary of the Right Rev.
Prelate and prosecutor, was present, as was also Mr.
Humphreys, kis Grace's house steward.

The evidence extended to a considerable length, but
the brief facts of the case are these :—On the morning
of Monday, the 19th instant, the servants of his Grace,
on coming down stairs at an early hour, found the fas-
tenings of the door opening on to the lawn undone, as if
some person from the inside had let himself out,
and on examining the drawing-room a pair of candle-
sticks and various articles were missing. Informa-
tion of the robbery was forwarded to the police,
but no trace of, the thief was discovered uatil the night
of the Tuesday following, when the prisoner, and a
female with whom he had been to a brothel in the vici-
nity of the Waterloo-road, went to the station-house in
Tower-street, when the former charged the latter with
robbing him. The woman denied the charge, and said
that, amongst other things, he had charged her with
stealing seven duplicates, when, on searching the place,
she found the duplicates under the pillow, and returned
them to him. Mr. Roger requested the pri- oner to let
him see the duplicates, which he reluctantly did ; and,
on looking over them, the inspec'or found that they re-
lated to such property as that stolen from the mansion of
the Archbishop of Canterbury, and he in consequence
put some questions to him on the subject. The prisoner,
after a little fencing, admitted that he had committed a
robbery at the Archbishop's, and said, "I don't care a
d—n if they transport me." Mr. Roger observed that
the property was small to get transported for, upon
which the prisoner replied that he should have had much
more if the deg had not barked so. It further appeared
that the prisoner had been formerly in the service of the
Archbishop of Canterbury, but had been dismissed for
irregular and improper conduct, so that he was very well.
acquainted with the ways of the house in Addington-
park. It was also apparent that the prisoner must have
got into the house during evening. or night, before the
doors had been closed, as the door had been opened from
the inside.

The assistants to the pawnbrokers with whom the
prisoner had pledged articles belonging to the Arch-
bishop on the day after the robbery, six domestics be-
longing to Addington-park, a woman at whose house
the prisoner had lodged after the robbery, and where he
left part of the stolen property, Inspector Roger and Ser-
geant Goff were bound over to appear at the next as-
sizes to be holden for the county, of Surrey, to give evi-
dence against the prisoner, who was fully committed for
trial.

Mr. NORTON attended at the Court to hear the final
examination of William Wilmott Byron, the advertis-
ing swindler, in order to his being tried at the pre-
sent session at the Central Criminal Court. The prisoner
was committed upon three charges of obtaining money by
false representations; audit was also the intention of the
magistrate to have sent him for trial for one or 'mere
cases of conspiracy with a person named Schoones. On
taking the evidence, however, it was found that both
parties bad acted with such tact and adroitness as to ren-
der it almost impossible to found an indictment for con-
spiracy. In the course of the evidence the secrets of an
" artful dodge," and deeply-laid scheme were disclosed.
It will be well recollected that the prisoner and others of
his gang bad accomplished the negotiations of numerous
loans by means of tea warrants, which were perfectly
valueless, as the tea they represented is of the most
abominable and poisonous description, being covered
with verdegris. Some parcels of this staff have been
placed in a sale to take place this day (Thursda), for
the mere purpose and object of enabling some friend of
the prisoner to offer money for, and purchase them, and
be thereby enabled to swear at the trial that the teas
were of such and such a value, as they procured so much
per pound at a public sale, and that therefore the war-
rants were bond fide security. The teas are, however,
so well known as the "fraudulent" teas, from being in
the market since 1842, that no person in the trade is
likely to be deceived by them, and they have, therefore,
been put into the sale only for the purpose above stated