The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-23 00:00:00

PAN Y.

In this case a rule had been obtained, calling on the
defendant to show cause why he delayed to enter on the
registry of the Company the registry of the name of the
mayor of Oxford as a trustee on the transfer of certain
shares in the Company. In the year 1778 the corpora-
tion of Oxford was desirous of appointing four lectu-
rers or preachers in the city, and as an assistance in
effecting that object received five shares in this company.
These shares were to be transferred from time to time
to the mayor, recorder, and aldermen of Oxford. There
was a mode specially appointed for filling up any vacancy
in the office of any one of these trustees. Some difficulty
had recently occurred in making the registration, the
name of the mayor being omitted, and the transfer being
made in tho name of four of the aldermen and four of
the town-councilmen alone. An application to set this
transfer right was refused, and hence this rule.
Mr. M. D. HILL and Mr. HAYES appeared to show
cause against the rule. They contended that the delay
in applying for the alteration was an answer to the rule.
Mr. Sergeant Manning and Mr. Phipsoa were in sup.
port of it.
The Couri; thought that the mayor's name ought to
be inserted, and therefore made the rule absolute.
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to one Helena Walker a sum of money borrowed by
them of her, and secured upon the rates of the union.
It appeared that a brother of Mrs. Walker was a guar-
dian of the union, and had received a put of this money,
but, as it was alleged, without any such authority from
her to do so, as would release the guardians from their
liability.

Mr. Sergeant Talfourd and Mr. Grey showed cause
against the rule, which was supported by Mr. Archbold.
As it appeared that there was a dispute about the
facts, the matter was referred to the Master for exa-
mination.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
CLERKEIV WELL.
William Barrymore was placed at the bar, when nu-
merous persons of great respectability attended and
identified him as being the man who had plundered
them, and Lockerby, of the S division, recognised him
as a convicted felon.

Mr. J. Newson, of New Bond-street and Hammer-
smith, said that the prisoner about a week ago followed
him through the streets for a considerable distance when
on his road from Bond-street to his country residence at
Hammersmith. Some time after his arrival there his
wife and friends drove up in their carriage in a state of
great alarm and excitement, and beheld him standing in
the garden facing his house, and inquired whether he
had not met with a "dreadful accident." He was asto-
nished, and was at a loss to understand their meaning
until they informed him that they had received a mes-
sage to the effect that ho had been knocked down by a
horse and nearly killed, and that their immediate at-
tendance was required at Hammersmith. He instantly
returned with them to New Bond-street, when they ascer-
tained that the man who had raised this false and cruel
alarm had subsequently called at the house and told the
servant that he had been sent for a change of clothes for
her master. She brought down one of his best suits,
and, the drawers not being aired, tho servant said,
" They are not aired, I had better not send them." lie
replied, " Oh, they will be aired before your master
gets them."—(Laughter.) He left the house with
them, and nothing more was seen or heard of him until
they read a report of his apprehension and examina-
tion under the head of this court in a daily news-
paper. His servant and wife could positively identify
the prisoner.

Mr. Gouse, of Bond-street, said he had been robbed
by the prisoner under similar circumstances. Ho was in
the employ of Messrs. Hunt and Itokell, jewellers, of
New Bond-street. The prisoner called and told his wife
that he had been knocked down and nearly killed by
Mr. Roskell's horse, and she was to go to him directly.
She did so, and he afterwards called and obtained a suit
of clothes from the servant. His wife and servant iden-
tified the prisoner.

Mr. Hievesley, secretary to the Foundling Hospital,
Guildford-street, attended with his servant, who iden-
tified the prisoner as having obtained a suit of clothes
from her.

Several other persons identified the prisoner under
exactly similar circumstances.
He was remanded in order that inquiries should be
made as to his former conviction, and for the production
of the certificate.

He also stands fully committed for trial on numerous
other charges.

THAMES.

Two athletic and sturdythieves, named Thomas John •
son, alias Robinson Johnson, and John Collins, alias
Austin, alias Jacketty, were brought before Mr. Yardley,
charged with attempting to commit a felony on board
the schooner swift, of Inverness, on the river. There
was a second charge against Johnson, for attempting to
murder William Simmons, a Thames police-constable,
with a deadly instrument called a life-preserver, and also
beating Inspector Fox.
Johnson bad been summarily-convicted nine times, and
on each occasion sentenced to three months' imprison-
ment and hard labour. Ile had also been twice con-
victed of felony at the:sessions, and after each trial was
sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and hard
labour. Collins had been thrice summarily convicted
under various names. They aro two of the most des-
perate ruffians that ever infested the river. Johnson and
the constable Simmons appeared to have been engaged
in a severe conflict; their faces were swollen and bruised.
The constable had also received a severe wound on the
right hand, which was bound up.
They were fully committed f'or trial.
SOUTHWARK.
Joseph Stokes, a poor man, was brought before Mr.
Cottingham, charged with attempting to destroy him-
self.

A policeman stated, that while on duty that morning
he observed the prisoner sitting at a door in High-
street, in the act of taking oxalic acid. He (the police-
man) immediately snatched tho greater portion of the
poison out of his hand, and took him to the station-
house, where antidotes were administered, and, owing to
the small quantity he had taken, he soon recovered from
the accts.
The prisoner said, that being destitute he applied for
admission into the workhouse, but was refused, and de-
sired to go on the tramp and seek his bread; that being
tired of life, owing to the privations he had undergone,
as soon as he went away from the workhouse he pur-
chased a pennyworth of oxalic acid at Mr. Warren's,
the druggist, in High-street, with the view of poisoning
himself, but was prevented by the policeman, as already
described.
In reply to Mr. COTTINGIIABI, the prisoner said that
Mr. Warren asked no questions of him at the time of
the purchase of the oxalic acid, but merely wrote " poi-
son" on the paper in which it was wrapped up.
The magistrate sent for Mr. Warren, and he admitted
that he sold the oxalic acid under, the groumatttueet