The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-05 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. -'
BOW-STREET.
CHARGE OF 2 RSoN.—Yesterday Emily Beaunzon
a coffee-shop keeper, in Long acre, was placed sl
the bar, before Mr. Jardine, charged with soliciting
Mary Fitzgerald, her servant, to set fire to het':
dwelling-house, and a young man, named James Frit--
was charged on suspicion with being an accessol
before the fact.
Mr. Sidney, solicitor, of Hatton-garden, attended
on behalf of the 'Westminster Fire office to conduct
the prosecution.
Mr. William Storr, of King-street, Covent garden,
assessor to the 'Westminster Fire-office, stated, that
on the 25th of August a fire took place at No.. 531
Long-acre, which was then occupied by the first',
named prisoner as a coffee-house, and he was called
Upon to asses the claim 4, on the part of the office,
which amounted to 2721. 165., made by the prisoner
Beaumont, from whom he received the letters pro-
Aced attesting the same. She put in her claim
within the last week on her own part, since which
time he had received frequent communications from
her upon the subject, and with her professional ad-
viser. She occupied yie entire house, and he was
given to understand that the fire originated in the
bar, and that the injury was confined to the append'
ages of the coffee-shop.
Joseph Bagster, a porter in Covent-garden maliketi
deposed to the fact that the female prisonett'hau
offered him 101. to set fire to her house, and had se;
tually paid him 3/. on account. He also depose
that previous to the fire she had removed a great des'
of property from the house, and he admitted that he
gave information to the fire-office because she bad
refused to pay him the balance of 71., although he had
not set fire to the house. The male prisoner, it was
said, had bought combustibles for the purpose of firing
the premises.
The prisoners were, at the close of the witness's
examination, remanded.
MARY LE BONE.
Yesterday Mr. Charles Frederick Oldfield, residing
at Fitzroy-park, Highgate, was charged before Mr'
Broughton with having assaulted two police-consta•
A bles, and also with other misconduct.
Hardley, 199 D, deposed that he was called to the
'r " Scotch Stores," Oxford-street, to arrest the defend'
ant, who, as alleged, had refused to pay for some
wine. Witness objected to do so, as the matter is
question was one merely of debt ; but as he (defend'
ant) was drunk and extremely violent, it was et
length found necessary to convey him to the station-
house. On the way thither he said, " Ohl you are
going to take me before that b--y old Broughton,
are you ? I know bins well ;" and at the station-houset
while the charge was being entered by the inspector,
he struck witness violently under the ear.
Totman, 393 A, proved that at the station-house
defendant gave him a blow.
Defendant, in answer to the charge, said that be
objected to pay a demand which he considered was
exorbitant, and that the waiter took possession of bia
hat; he was much excited, and was unconscious °I
anything that might have occurred besides.
Mr. BROUGHTON fined him in two penalties of 203/
each, which he immediately paid.
SOUTH WART:
Mary Smith, a woman of loose character, ires
brought before Mr. Cottingham, charged with being
concerned with two men (not in custody) in corn'
mitting a highway robbery attended with violence-
Charles Lawton, a tradesman, stated that, on Sr
turday night, between eleven and twelve o'clock, as
k
he was returning home, in passing near an arc",
of the Greenwich Railway at the lower end of
Tooley-street, he was accosted by the prisoner, who
wanted to prevail on him to accompany her home'
He desired her to go away ; upon which she greet'',
him by the throat, and while he was atruggling, ,`°
disengage himself two men rushed out upon 101
from the archway, and while one of them
knocked
him down by a severe blow under the ear, the other
stopped his mouth by holding his hand over it, and
ransacked his pockets of all the money they contained'
Ile was rendered perfectly incapable of making the
least resistance, or giving any alarm during the saw::
When his assailants had plundered him of all h"
money they ran away. The complainant added that
he was subsequently discovered lying on the growl°
in the place where he was knocked down, and thst •
when he was taken to the station-house he there gm'
such a description of the prisoner that she was
taken into custody on the following night.
The policeman said that the prisoner was well
known about the water side ; that she had male ass°.
ciates who generally followed her at some distance,
and that when she picked up a person likely to bap'
property about him, she led him to some unfrequentea
spot, where she and her accomplices would have an
opportunity of robbing and maltreating him. The
prisoner had been in custody before, but alsor
escaped justice.
Mr. COTTINGHAM said that robberies of this de'
scription were not of uncommon occurrence, end
committed the prisoner to take her trial.
WANDSWORTH.
John Groom, a journeyman shoemaker, living in
the New road, Knightsbridge, was charged with
firing off a loaded gun, and thereby wounding Wit'
Liam Bury and Thomas Simmonds, two lads iu the
employ of Samuel Poupart, a market gardener at
Battersea.

It appeared that on Saturday afternoon the boil/
were at work in an enclosed garden belonging to Mr:
Poupart, and close to the bridge which divides h
from the high road leading from Wandsworth to Nine
Elms, when they heard the report of a gunt and
Bury instantly felt shot penetrate his face, shoulder,
and hand. One of the shots was lodged immediatelf,
beneath the right eye. Simmonds was also wounded
in the shoulder. Upon rising the boys saw the pri-
soner with a gun in his hand leaving a piece of stuk'.
i
ble on the opposite side of the high road, and although
he saw they were wounded and crying, he did not et'
tempt to stop until he was compelled to do so bf
police-constable Potter, 118 V, who was on duty near
the spot in plain clothes. He then admitted that
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had fired the shot, and had aimed at a lark, not sup'
posing that the boys were on the other side of the
hedge. He accompanied the lads to the house of
Wing, and paid that gentleman's charges for extranw-
ing the shot.
The prisoner, who was much agitated, and said be
deeply regretted what had' occurred, was remanded for a fortnight, the magistrate observing that although
there were no apparent symptoms of danger in Burt s
_
case, he had known an instance very similar to the
present, when a boy afterwards died.
The prisoner's own recognizance in 10/. was take°
for his re-appearance.

RAILWAY' SHARE MARKETS-
BRISTOL, . 4.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —BusinessSEPT to-day has been dull, and
the sales effected in Bristol and Exeter Third Shares wer°,
one at 13 dis.—Ditto, Commercial Rooms, at 14 per share../0
LIVERkOOI„ Suer. 4.
York-
shire EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Lancashire and
(late Manchester and Leeds), 161/2—Ditto, Fifths,t
dis.— Ditto, 10/.Preference, 6s. 3d. c. p.—London and North-
Western, Western, 1151/2—Ditto, New Quarters, 3s. 9d. 1?•,—,,3141112,-
chester Sheffield, and Liecolnshire, Eighths, 64 "'; d
Shrewsbury and Chester (late Shrewsbury, OsweetrY,,...,
Chester), 8% dis.—Ditto, 10!. Preference, 12:A-0°L1„
Eastern and Dover, 25 C. x d.—Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, 7,11 c"
—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase),
MA.NCHESTER, SEPT. 4.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Leeds,
5-16 p.—East Lancashire, Preference, 3-16 p.—No
Staf-
fordshire, 4 3-16 dis.—Manehester and Birmingham (C).
Quarters, 2 p.— South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4,7 IA•
BIRMINGHAM, Surr. 4.
STOCK EXCHANGE.— Mere was a trifling amount of busi-
ness transacted to-day; prices remained the same as 00
Saturday. frrtertee

YORK, SEPT. 2.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day wafi
as follows: Great Northern, 7 n.—York, Newcastle, and
Berwick, No. 2 (late New Berwicks). 10% n.—Ditto (G.
N. E. Purchase), 81/1 n.—York and North Midland (Emit
and West Riding Extension), 28.