The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-26 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

Ann Davis, an old offender, who had been already
convicted about twenty times in this Court, was in-
dicted for stealing a quantity of meat, the property of
Joseph Smart.
Upon the prisoner being placed at the bar, the police
constable, who had charge of the case, was not in at-
tendance, and the prisoner was consequently ordered to
be discharged for want of evidence.
The Learned ASSISTANT-JUDGE commented strongly
upon the negligence of the constable, and ordered his
recognisances to be estreated.
Thlnias Monipmery, another well-known thief, was
indicted for stealing a handkerchief, the property of
some person unknown.
Mr. O'BRIEN, who appeared on behalf of the prisoner,
took an objection to the form of the indictment, on the
ground that the property was described as belonging to
some person unknown to the jurors, while in point of
fact the depositions showed it to be the property of a
person named Frederick Martin.
The Learned ASSISTANT-JUDGE coincided in the ob-
jection. and remarked that this appeared to be a parti-
cularly lucky day for thieves and pickpockets, as it
seemed fated that the more notorious they were the
more likely they were to escape—no less than four of
tho best known in the calendar having e*caped that day
without even entering upon the merits of the charges
against them.
Elizabeth Beazeley was indicted for robbing her fur-
nished lodgings of a quantity of bed clothes and furni-
ture, the property of William Hales.
The prisoner must have been carrying on an extensive
system of plunder, not alone in the lodgings where she
was detected, but also in other places, as upwards of
seventy pawnbrokers' duplicates were found upon her
when she was taken into custody.
A verdict of guilty having been returned against the
prisoner, she was sentenced to four months' imprison-
ment.
James Wilson, was indicted for stealing a quantity of
metal piping, the property of Henry Murray, his master.
It appeared that the prosecutor was an extensive
plumber. The prisoner had been his foreman for three
years. On Monday week he was observed by a police.
man to enter the shop of a marine store dealer several
times with a bundle, and information of the fact having
been conveyed to the prosecutor, it was ascertained that
the prisoner had stolen a quantity of lead, which
he disposed of at the shop for about a quarter of its
value.
He was found guilty, and sentenced to six months' im-
prisonment with hard labour.

DuNmow. TILE DODGE ARTFUL. Last week
Mr. Valiance, the governor of the Dunmow Union
Workhouse, discovered that the scales for weighing the
paupers' bread had some clay fixed on the bottom of the
weight side, so that each pauper had upwards of an
ounce more bread delivered tee him than was allowed.
On Friday, James Hatley was taken before the Rev.
J. P. H. Chesshyre. and the offence being sworn to by
one of the inmates as having been done by him, he was
committed
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Express.
JUPITER AND ills MOONS.—There
most
beautiful and interesting grouping of the moons of
Jupiter on the evening of the 2d of November at nine
o'clock, when all will appear to the eastward of their
primary in rare and close companionship ; the second
and fourth moon occupying a position nearly parallel
with the belts, and once his diameter from his limb; the
first and third parallel with his equator, and distant two
and three diameters. Owing to the rapid and now op-
posite motion of the first and second satellites this con
vocation of worlds will be of short duration, and the
beautiful group will separate; but not as a distinguiihed
lecturer has said " never to meet at the same time on
the same side of their magnificent primary ;" but again,
on the evening of Dec. 30, at 7h. 16m. mean time, as if
by mutual concert, they congregate and occupy the
opposite or western hemisphere of Jupiter, where in bold
and beautiful relief they will exhibit the same triangular
configuration as described on the 21. The belts of
Jupiter, which for a series of years have exhibited
marked inequalities of distinctness, this year are strong
and well defined.—New Bedford (United States) Mer-
cury. _ _

THE LONDON CITY MlSSlON.—Tuesday evening the
fourth annual meeting of the members of the North
clergy London Auxiliary to this Association was held at the
Music Hall
andDih dsienv,etrhael
other Rev.
cEig) Bic
men
Store-street, Bedford-square: The Rev.
Lord Wriotesley Russell, M.A., presided, and was sup-
ported by the Rev. Thomas Mortimer, the Rev. W. R.
keernstaend ge
th,Rn.tlCem. Leo..Belv,arno,mEstqh.e,
annual report it aeared that during the four years of
its existence the auxiliary association had remitted to
the parent society the sum of 1281. By the London
City M;ssion 160 agents were employed, who devoted
their whole time to the work of visiting the poor in th-ir
own habitations. The report showed in detail that the
church accommodation of the metropolis was only for
351,290 persons, and the chapel'accommodation 601,415,
of a p,pulation of 2,103,279 persons. The report was
adopted, and resolutions expressive of confidence in the
mission, and pledging the meeting to its support, were
passed.
ROBBERY AFTER ATTENDING A FUNERAL.—George
Day, a lime burner, was brought before the county ma-
gistrates at Rochester, on Monday, on a charge of hav-
ing robbed his uncle, John Day, of a silver watch and
295. in money. On Friday the prosecutor had been to
the funeral of his brother, the father of the accused,
and in the evening accompanied the prisoner to the
Lower Bell public-house, on the Maidstone road, where
they sat for some time drinking together. The prose-
cutor, stupified with liquor, fell asleep, and when he
awoke, about half-past one o'clock in the morning, dis-
covered that he had been robbed. The next day the
prisoner pawned the watch at Rochester, and afterwards
disposed of the ticket ti another man, and the same day
was taken into custody at the Nag's Head public-house.
He was committed to Maidstone Gaol for trial at the
next Quarter Sessions.