The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-15 00:00:00

Every stitch of our own clothing was wet, and we were
determined that the joke should be carried out. They
begged and laughed ; others got wind of what was going
on, and joined us, and a more amusing and ludicrous '
scene it would be impossible to picture. At length the
cloud passed over, the Moon broke forth, and a loud
roar of laughter followed it, for there stood some half-
dozen fellows. in their shirts and drawers ; some with n
blanket under the arm, others with one over them, and
one or two with cot under the arm, doubled up so as to
prevent the rain from soaking in it. With the moon•
shine their good natures returned, and they heartily
joined in the laugh exacted at their own expense. The
next night, those who were high-mindedenough to roof
it, had the precaution to pull the ladder up after them.—
, Correspondent N. 0. Bee. • •

POLICE; INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

George Srhith was charged with having passed bad
money. -
The prisoner went into a druggist's shop and asked
for two pennyworths of salts. He threw down a six-
pence, which the shopman knew to be a counterfeit, and
said so. The prisoner then said he could get it changed
in a minute, and whipping it up, was walking out, when
he was secured, but not before he swallowed the sixpence.
The prisoner said the sixpence-was a good one, but as
he saw that people were taken up for passing good as
well as bad money, he resolved to settle the question by
disp Aing of it.
The ALDERMAN told the prisoner he run a great
hazard by swallowing base metal.
The prisoner seemed to think very little of the danger,
and said he did not know that a small trifle of good
money could do a man any harm either in his pocket or
his stomach.. •
Mr. Powell, solicitor to the Mint, raid, the prisoner
had been in the habit of making dangerous-experiments
of the kin.l.—Remanded.
• Philip Isaacs was charged with• having stolen a pair of
boots.
The shopman of Mr. Oliver, bcotmaker, of Bishops-
gate-street, saw a hand slip a pair of boots from one of
the shelves and disappear. Upon going into the street
he saw, the prisoner walking off with the.prize, and tap-
ping him upon the shoulder, was immediately answered
by the offer of the boots.
The prisoner said, that a person (no doubt, the fellow
who committed the robbery) had thrust the boots into
his hands as he passed along, and he naturally delivered
them to the man who first claimed them, knowing that
he was not himself the owner of them.—(A laugh.)
Committed for trial.
William 'Sessue, a native of St. John's, New Bruns-
wick, was charged with having begged incessantly in
spite of the police.
The prisoner, who is but 20 years of age, has been, as
the policeman said, in the habit of appearing in the
streets with the back of his person bare when the weather
has been severe, and soliciting alms from some, and
threatening others upon being refused assistance. It
was more especially for the indecency of the exhibition
that the officer made the capture of the unfortunate
beggar, who, upon being apprehendekshowed such pro-
digious strength, that four powerful men felt great diffi-
culty in restraining him.
The prisoner said he had been three years in London,
after having been four years in Liverpool, and had done
all that man could do to procure work ; and, failing to
accomplish that, to get home, but not -a human being
would serve him.
Upon being told by Alderman Kelly that he must go
to Bridewell for fourteen days, he said (knowing that
thp fourteen days' 'imprisonment comprehended short
commons), that he would not go for less than six months,
or three months at least.
The ALDERMAN—Yon shall not go for more than
fourteen days.
The prisoner—Then I'll do something worse than you
think when I.cotne out. I care nothing about your bolts
and bars and officers. I tell you I won't go for fourteen
days.
Although the prisoner was a mere boy in appearance
as well as in years, five policemen with much difficulty
conveyed him to the cage, when, after tearing off, his
meagre clothing, he tore the seats to pieces.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
CAUTION TO RIVAL OMNIBUS-DRIVERS.—James Sol-
way, driver of one of the London Conveyance Com-
pany's Paddington omnibuses, was summoned for having,
by furious driving, damaged one of Nelson's 'Eastern
Counties Railway omnibuses, driven by James Smith.
From the evidence it appeared there was a spirit of
rivalry between the proprietors or drivers of these om-
nibuses. It was alleged on the part of the complainant
that it was the practice of the London Conveyance om-
nibus-drivers to obstruct his omnibus on its Journeys,
and to endanger the passengers by keeping another om-
nibus close to the doors of his vehicle. A second omni-
bus was put on in front, and in this way, with one om-
nibus in front and one behind, he was obliged to drive
through the streets, and to take up and set down his
passengers in the best manner he could. On the day
mentioned in the summons the defendant was driving
the omnibus at the tail of his omnibus. Complainant
stopped to set down a lady, upon which the,defendant
attempted to pass him, although there ,was not room
enough, and in this attempt he ran against the door and
did damage to the extent of 40s.
Witnesses corroborated the allegation of the com-
plainant that the defendant kept behind him along Ox-
ford-street, and drove against the omnibus when it pulled
up to set down a passenger.
The defendant denied the rivalry. He certainly came
accidentally into collision with the door of the coti-
plainant's vehicle ; bat this was the fault of the com-
plainant himself, who suddenly pulled up short, and
made no signal to those behind him.
Mr. HARDWICK said the mode in which rival omnibus
proprietors conducted their competition was alike dis-
graceful to themselves and dangerous to the public. The
drivers of rival omnibuses appeared to be wholly regard-
less of the safety and accommodation of their passengers ;
therwere only anxious, at whatever risk, to accomplish
a trifling triumph over an opponent. These were prac•
tices that could not for a moment be tolerated. It had
been proved in evidence that the complainant was dogged
by a rival throughout Oxford-street—that his passengers
%sere kept in a perpetual state of alarm—and that posi-
tive danger- was produced to a lady when she attempted
to alight. Here, then, was quite sufficient to warrant
him in punishing the defendant with proper severity. If
rivalry could not -be put down, at least he would take
care that it should be so conducted as not to alarm sad
endanger 'the public. If pecuniary fines were not suffi-
cient, he should resort to other measures. In the pre-
sent case he should inflict a fine of 40s. for the public
offence, and 40s. for the damage ; but he b•-gereel it might
go forth that in future instances he should cancel the
licenses of the driver.
Mary Jones, a girl about 15 years of age, was brought
before Mr. Hardwick, charged with attempting to put a
pe'riod to her existence.
'Mary Grambler said she resided in Falconbridge-
court, Soho, and the prisoner resided in the same house.
Yesterday afternoon she had occasion to. go up stairs to
a back bed-room, and was surprised to see the. prisoner
stretched at full length on the bed. She went up to her
and took hold of her hand to wake her up. She was
alarmed at the coldness of her hand, and thought there
was something wrong. On closely examining the pri-
soner she found that she had tied a handkerchief tightly
round her neck, to endeavour to strangle herself, and had
it not been for her going into the room she must have
effected her purpose. "
:Joseph Loader stated that-the prisoner had been
under his care ever since the death of her parents. He
had endeavoured to bring her up so as to get an honest
livelihood, but was sorry to say that she was a lazy, bad
girl ; she would not keep any situation she was placed
in, but would associate with low and bad girls. "
The prisoner, in answer to Mr. HARDWICK, said the
reason she was tired of her life was that Mr. Loader
beat her.
Mr. HARDWICK spoke to her upon the sinfulness of
the crime of suicide. She was old enough to be aware of
the wickedness of such an act.
The MAGISTRSTE ordered an officer to take her to
Mr. Norris, the priest of St. Patrick's Chapel, Sutton-
street, which she was in the habit of frequenting, and in
whose school she was educated.
Tho prisoner, in tears, said she was very sorry for
what she had done, and would promise not to do the like
again, and appeared thankful for the Magistrate's kind-
ness.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Among the numerous individuals charged with being
" drunk and incapable," &c., was a female of very re-
spectable appearance, who, it appeared, had last evening
so energetically been paying her devoirs at the shrine of
the rosy god, that when found by the constable in the
Kingsland-road she was unable either to speak or walk,
and was, therefore, conveyed by him to the station-
house.

The defendant, on being asked by the magistrate, Mr.
BaonowroN, what she had to say in defence of such con-
duct, replied that she had been to visit some friends of
her husband, who was a superintendent of police in the
country, and she could account for the state she was in,
when found by the constable, only by her having been
suddenly affected on her coming into the open air by an
extra glass of wine she had been induced to take previous
to her departure from them.
Mr. BROUGUTON discharged the defendant with an
admonition. As soon, however, as she had withdrawn,
some gentlemen who were present, and who appeared to
know her and her family very well, after stating her
name, said that she was in the possession of 3001. a year,
independent of her family and her husband, who is in a
large way of business in the City, and who has-brought
up a large family (sons and daughters of the late de-
fendant) in honour and credit. The above female, it was
stated, was seldom or ever to be met with in a state o
sobriety.