The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-11 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.-(THIS DAY.)

A young man, a cab-driver, whose name and number
it is not at present expedient to make public, was placed
at the bar, before Mr. Alderman Wilson, charged with
stealing a great coat, the property of Mr J. S. Robin-
son, of Middleton-square, from the stable 3 of Mr. Grey,
the postmaster, in Earl-street, Blackfriars.

It appeared, from the evidence of the police and per-
sons in the employment of Mr. Gray, that the coat, which
was fully identified, was stolen about three months ago from
the stables in Earl-street, whet., the prisoner's brother was
at the time employed. Several sets of hotness, and
other portable property, disappeared about the same
period, and ( ne of the men meeting the prisoner, whose
brother had fallen under suspicion, and recognising the
coat as one of the articles stolen, gave information,
which led to his apprehension. His defence was,
that, six weeks ago, he purchased the coat
from a Jew, at the cab stand in Gray's Inn-lane,
for 245., and that he could refer for his character to re-
spectable persons who had known him for years.
The officers applied for a remand for a week, to give
them an opportunity of finding the brother.
Mr. Alderman WILSON did not think that their sus-
picions against the brother were proofs against the pri-
soner, whose statement about the purchase might be
true. However, as the latter had bought in the street
from a person of whom he knew nothing, and whom he
could not produce, he must take the consequences of his
imprudence, if he really were guilty of nothing more.
But he refused to remand him longer than Monday,
advising him to have a search made by his friends fur
the Jew dealer of whom he said he had purchased.

MARLBRO'-STREET.---(THIS DAY.)
James Miller, dressed as a seaman, was charged with
begging, and assaulting a licensed victualler.
Alexander Blackie, 85, Dean-street, Soho, said the
prisoner came into his bar,last night begging. When
requested to leave the prisoner persisted in staying and
begging, till the complainant, after showing him the
door, put him out by force, and in doing so was struck
by the prisoner several times in the face. But
the one door was no sooner shut on the prisoner when
he entered at the other, and complainant this time
pushed him out, so that he fell down on the door-way.
The prisoner, however, re entered, and as the policeman
was remonstrating with him, he forced past the police-
man, and struck complainant again in the face.
Horsford, of the Mendicity Society, said the man was
a well-known vagabond and impostor.

Mr. HARDWICK committed him to the House of Cor-
rection for one month.

CLERKEN WELL.-(THIS DAY.)

Robert Cross was placed at the bar before Mr. Com-be,
on the charge of stealing a four-gallon copper measure,
the property of Messrs. Charles Tanqueray and Co.,
distillers, of Vine-street, Bloomsbury.
It agpeared that a constable of the detective force,
named Haydon, met the prisoner running along Skin •
ner-street, Clerkenwell, with the measure in his hand,
and followed by two other persons, who were well known
as bad characters. He immediately gave chase, and
upon taking the prisoner into custody he told the old
tale of having been employed to carry it. Three of
Messrs. Tanqueray's waggons were standing opposite to.
a public-house in Skinner-street, and during the tempo-
rary absence of the drivers in the house, the prisoner
managed to extract the vessel from a large basket, in
which it was placed in the waggon.
The prisoner, when asked for his defence, repeated the
story of having been employed by another to carry it ;
and was fully committed for trial.

Henry Venables, a young man, in the employment of
Mr. H. Dunningham, grocer, of No. 9, Seymour street,
Euston-square, was harged with stealing a basket and
a quantity of tea, the property of his master, and also
with having received various moneys on his account,
which he had applied to his own use.
The prosecutor stated that a quantity of tea having
been exchanged by order of a customer, the prisoner
appropriated that which had been sent back to his own
use. He (Dunningham) had since ascertained that the
prisoner had received money from various customers for
which he had tailed to account.
The parties who had paid the money to the prisoner
on account of his master not being in attendance, the
further hearing was adjMurned.

SINGULAR DELUSION.—The following remarkable
instance of delusion is related in a letter from Nogent-
le-Rotrou (Rum et-Loire): ---" The widow of a wealthy
farmer near this place had a daughter, for whom she had
great affection, and who would easily have obtained a
rich husband, for she is very pretty and will have a
good fortune, but she had fallen in love with a young
man of the place, without fortune; and as she did not
dare to avow her attachment to her mother, she gave
way to melancholy. The mother, convinced that some
secret grief was preying on her daughter's mind, en-
deavoured to ascertain the cause, and at length it was
avowed. Anxious for her daughter's recovery, the mo-
ther consented to the union, and the lovers were mar-
ried. The young man went to reside with his mother-
in-law, made an excellent husband, and succeeded in
obtaining the mother's good graces. This went on for
several months, when a fire occurred, and as it was
supposed to be wilful, an investigation took place,
which ended in the arrest of a young man of bad
character. The day after the arrest an acquaintance of
the prisoner's called on the mayor, to reveal the following
extraordinary secret, which had been confided to him:—
The prisoner had, he said, told him a few days before
his arrest that he had been offered 1 OGO francs by the
widow above spoken of if he would murder her son-in.
law. He had consented, on condition of the money being
paid beforehand, but this she had refused, and therefore
the affair a as, for the moment, broken off. The widow
was sent for by the mayor, and interrogated. She con-
fessed the truth of the charge, and when asked whether
she had any reason to be dissatisfied with the conduct of
her son-in law, she said no, but that his good conduct
and the happiness of her daughter were the effect of
sorcery, and therefore she could not suffer him to exist.
He possessed, she said, the secret of preparing three
powders, which enabled him to make all persons happy
in spite of themselves. This,
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HONOURABLE ACaUITTAL OF
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ROYAL
LIEUTENANT SMITH,
officer (2d), Ist battalion Royal Artillery (recently em-
barkeds tried by a general court-
martial
in Dublin garrison, 111ajnr-General Nlonro pro-
secutor, for conduct unbecoming
the character, &c., in
a Jew bill dis-
counter named Gorer, has, alter a most
patient investi-
for Bermuda) who wa
preferred against him.
gation, been most honourably acquitted of the charge
GENERAL ANNUITY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION:
Yesterday the 17th annual meeting of this association
was held at the London Tavern, and was very nume-
rously attended. The chair was taken by G. P. Parkin,
Esq. Mr. Hewitt, the secretary, read the report of the
directors, which was of a gratifying nature, except only
that a fraud to the extent of 1,5411. 13s. I Id. had been
committed by a clerk lately in the employ of the associa-
tion, but of this amount 500/. had been recovered from
the sureties. During the year, 58 members, holding
124
bo erbeing
Annuities,
cnagpia capital
7 rtthhaetst,3d
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hu joinedrh h
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during;
the e u)s,se(
last,a)eri.
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wit°n ,
was 202,4431.
12,5891. 10s
amount
41305.: 62di..
after the payment of 8,0311. 3s. 2d. The amount for
distribution this 3 ear would produce the sum of
171. ss. 2d. for every annuitant on the civil fund, and
81. 148. 3d. on the military and nautical fund, which,
being under the minimum recommended by the actuaries,
the sum of 1(1. 10s. would be paid to each annuitant.
The interest derivable from the invested capital would be
found very nearly sufficient to psy all the annuities of
the past year. Twcrity-seven members on the civil fund
and four on the military and nautical fund had died
during the past year. The report was adopted. Mr.
Wray and Captain Warren were elected directors, and a
vote of thanks being passed to the chairman and direc-
tors, the meeting adjourned.
At the MiadlesLx Sessions on Thursday, a number
of iiiilietruents against indi inn s, most of whom were
either Italian or French, fur kefli,g disorderly howes
at the West-end, were heard, and the parties allowed to
stand upon their own recognisances, on consideration of
their abating the nuisances.