The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-17 00:00:00

SMALL DEBTS ACT.

Several summonses, grant( d under this Act, were heard,
and in twa or three, warrants for commitmen's were issued,
the Court authorising the parties to take the defendants.
In one case, a defendant asked for costs, on account of the
non-attendance of his plaintiff.
The COURT said, there was no power to grant costs in the
Act. The summons would be dismissed, and no lurther sum-
mons would be granted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WESTMIArSTER.
On Saturday, John Walker, a young man was charged
with being found iu the house of Mr. W. Spires, the
Grosvenor Arms, Flolywell-street, Milibank, shortly
after midnight, and stealing the contents of the till, and
a pair of sugar tongs.
Mr. Spires, stated that having, as usual, fastened the
house up, he retired to bed at ten minutes past twelve on
the previous night; he had scarcely been there twenty
minutes when his wife thought she heard a noise, and
they listen, d to ascertain whether it would be repeated.
Being shortly convinced that there was somebody stirring
in the house, complainant struck a light, and having par-
tially dressed himself, opened the room door, and ran
down stairs, when he saw the prisoner rush out of the
bar into the tap-room. Complainant laid hold of the
fellow, when he muttered something of having a " pal "
(companion) at hand; upon which prosecutor told him
tie did not care how many he had, and gave him a sound
shaking, upon which prisoner became very quiet. On
an examination of the premises the bar door had been
forced open, some copper and silver money, which had
b-en left tbr change in the morning, and a pair of sugar
tongs, stolen. The back door had been unfastened, and
Was propped open ready for the escape of the thief.
The fellow made no defence, and was remanded until
Tuesday.

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was rinsing a mop in the river, when it became entangled in
the chain which is fixed to the hull of the boat for the pre-
servation of life; and in endeavouring to disengage it de-
ceased lost his balance and fell overboard. Lines were
thrown out to the deceased, but none of the crew of that or
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of age, and has left a wife and eight children.
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT ON CITIZEN " D" STEAM BOAT.
—On Saturday afternoon, between twelve and one o'clock,
the following dreadful accident, attended with fatal results,
occurred on board the Citizen " D" steam-boat, whilst that
vessel was holding on to the Nine Elms Pier, waiting fur the
train. Richard Lewis, the engine-driver, had, as it is stated,
unknown to those in command of the vessel, descended into
the larboard paddle-box, for the purpose of oiling the bear-
ings of the wheel; he had done this, and was in the act of
getting out of the paddle-box when the captain gave the
order to "go on." The engines were set in motion by the
stoker, and, before the wheels had completed a revolution,
an obstruction to the way of the boat was felt by all on
board, and several asserted that they heard a shriek. The
dreadful fact that the engineer was in the paddle-box then
flashed upon the crew, and the boat was stopped instantly.
Upon looking into the paddle-box a horrible sight presented
itself. There was no sign of the engine driver, but that he
had seen instantaneously killed there could not be any doubt,
as the top and sides of the paddle-box were splashed all over
with his brains. His body had after vards dropped between
the floats into the river, frord *hence it had not, up to Satur-
day evening, been recovered.