The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-06 00:00:00

bar, charged with embezzling large sums of money, the
property of his employers, Messrs. Tate and Co., coal-
merchants, Bankside.
Mr. Stephen Nelson Tate said that the prisoner had
been in their employ as collecting clerk about two years.
It was his duty to receive money and pay it over to him
every evening. In consequence of some of the out-
standing accounts not being paid, inquiries were insti-
tuted, and it was soon discovered that several consider-
able sums of money had been received by the prisoner,
which he had not accounted for. The prisoner, finding
that inquiries had been made, absconded, and had not
been heard of until he was taken into custody by a City
police-constable on the previous evening. He was, con-
sequently, taken before the Lord Mayor at the Man-
sion-house, who sent the case to this court.
In answer to Mr. Trail', witness added that the defal-
cations have all occurred since January, 1846. He
wished the prisoner to be remanded, as he had not been
able to get the witnesses together ; there were, how-
ever, two in court who bad paid the prisoner 701. which
he had not accounted for.

Mr. TRAILL asked the prisoner whether he wished to
say anything at the present stage of the inquiry ? He
replied, in a very desponding tone, that he had nothing
to say, only he hoped they would not send him to a cold
cell. He was now completely wet through, and so weak,
that he could hardly stand.
Mr. TRAILL remanded him until Wednesday, and
directed the officer to convey him direct to Horsemon-
ger-lane gaol.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant-Judge, and a full

Bench of Magistrates.)
Robert Baker. William Taylor, and Thomas Jones were in-
dicted, on Friday, charged with having committed a violent
assault upon James Allen.
Mr. PRENDERGAST appeared for the prosecution.
The defendants, it will be recollected by our readers, are
privates in the Grenadier Guards, and on the evening of the
18th of the last month they went to the Cock public-house,
in Tothill-street, Westminster, and having been there a short
time, left, saying that they should quickly return, when
they would " turn the house inside out." This threat they
carried into execution, for in half an hour they came back,
with about thirty of their comrades, when they commenced
annoying and assaulting various persons who were at the
time in the house. Amongst these was the prosecutor,
the pot-boy, who having entered the parlour and en-
deavoured to quell the disturbance which the defend-
ants were causing, they knocked him about without re-
morse. During this part of the transaction, there was
another man, who, being alarmed, ran up stairs, but on being
pursued by the soldiers he jumped out of the first-floor
window. On these men coming down stairs again, they
knocked about a person of the name of Flexton. This dis-
turbance, it was stated, collected a mob of at Jeast 300 per-
sons around the house, and it was some time after the de-
fendants had left before anything like order could be restored.
The defendants each denied having been in the house on
the evening in question, and called witnesses to prove an
alibi. They, however, failed in establishing the fact of their
presence at another place, and
The jury found them all Guilty.
Jones then pleaded "Guilty" to an indictment againsthim
for a second assault.
It appeared, in this instance, that a man of the name of
Allen, one of the witnesses on the former indictment, had,
on the day after the assault, gone up to the barracks for the
purpose of identifying the parties who had committed the
offence, and upon his pointing out Jones as oee of them, he
at once knocked him down.
The Learned JUDGE, in passing sentence, said, that the
offence was of a very serious character. He should, there-
fore, award the following punishment : to Jones four months',
to Taylor three months', and to Bakcr six weeks' im-
prisonment.
The other cases were destitute of interest, except to the
parties concerned.