The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-02 00:00:00

The defendant's wife said the various sums were in-
serted in a book which she had left at home, and Mr.
Broderip ordered Douglas, an officer of the Court, to
accompany her to her house, and fetch the book.
After an absence of a minute Douglas returned, and
said the woman would not go one way or the other.
She said she bad no account.
Mr. BRODERIP carefully went through the accounts,
and said he believed no more than 21s. Gd. had been ad-
vanced to the seamen. He found that 111. was due to
the complainant, and he made an order that that sum
should be restored to him by Ryan. He should also
inflict a fine of 20s. on the defendant for unlawfully de-
taining the sailor's money. In default of payment of
the money and fine, the defendant would be imprisoned
for one month in the House of Correction.
John Saunders, a porter in the employ of Messrs.
Hoare, the brewers, and Mary Ann Saunders, his wile,
appeared on their recognizances, before Mr. Broderip,
to answer a charge of being in unlawful possession of
116Ibs. of sheet lead, suspected to have been stolen.
It appeared, from the evidence of Inspector Falconer,
of the Thames Police, that on the evening of the 23d
ult., he wont to a marine-store shop kept by the defen-
dants in Old Gravel-lane, Wapping. He was induced
to visit the place in consequence of information that two
houses in the neighbourhood had been recently stripped
of the lead. After some considerable time, and with
much difficulty, he got into the house. The female de-
fendant was in the back part of the shop, and the in-
spector informed her that lead had been stolen, and
asked if she had bought any that day. She at first said
she had bought some on the previous day, on which
Falconer commenced searching the place. She then
pointed to a bin full of rags, and beneath them the in-
spector found 116 lbs. of sheet lead. It appeared to
have gene round the skylight of a house, or had
been taken from the gable end of some build-
ing. He asked the woman how she became pos-
sessed of the lead, and she said she bought it
from time to time of a carpenter-looking man. lie
asked her to let him look at her book, and she said
she kept none. Falconer seized the lead, and soon
afterwards the male prisoner came home. On the
inspector asking him how he accounted for the lead being
on his premises, he said he knew nothing of it, and was
very seldom at home. While Falconer and
.hit men
were in the marine store shop, a notorious thief, named
Humphreys, came there with a piece of sheet lead,
which was concealed in his side-pocket. He a:tempted
to make his escape when he saw the officers, but was
pursued and detained.
Mr. Thomas Holbrook, of the "Black Boy," had no
doubt the piece of sheet lead taken from the thief was
stolen from his house. He missed such a piece from the
copper in his back kitchen; but he would not undertake
to swear to it.

Humphreys was fined 50a., and the dealer and his wife
held to bail.

Falconer now repeated his evidence, and said he had
been unable to trace the owner of the lead.
After further proceedings,
Mr. BitoDEnn. said the Act of Parliament was specially
directed against those receptacles called "marine store
shops," and it was impossible for any one with their eyes
open to walk along the streets and not observe what was
going on in them. The marine store dealers, as they
called themselves, bought of anybody and anything. He
fined the defendant John Saunders 5Z for unlawful pos
session of the lead.

VICTORIA PARK.—In consequence of the very
propitious state of the weather, the operations of digging
and planting have been very actively resumed, and from
seventy to eighty men are daily employed in these occupa-
tions. Within the last month upwards of ten thousand trees
and shrubs have been planted, the avenues being lined with
elms and horndeans, intermixed with laurels, chesnuts, and
the true cock-spur thorn. Since the removal of the Three
Colts public-house, and the adjacent houses in Grove-street,
a very extensive view has been thrown open from the upper
parts of the park to Temple Mills and the adjacent districts
in Essex. Great activity is being exercised by building
speculators in the vicinity, and some very handsome and
uniform villas have been erected in the Bishop's-road, adia_
cent to the new Bethnal-green workhouse.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE RIVER LEA.--Wednes-
day Mr. Baker held an inquest at Coventry-cross, Bromley,
East Middlesex, on the body of Eliza Morris, aged twenty-
seven, the wife of Thomas Morris, a sawyer of Bromley.
Sarah Stainback deposed that she was a neighbour of de-
ceased. On Saturday evening, about dusk, she saw the de-
ceased going towards the river Lea, with two pails, for the
purpose of fetching water. On passing she asked her how
she was, to which she replied she was but poorly, having a
dead child at home, and there Was nothing but trouble for
poor people. Another witness deposed that she was passing
the river near Bromley-mills when she beard a splash in
the water, followed by a female's screams. She gave an i,
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alarm to the dock-keeper, who procured the drags: and
less than ten minutes the body was got out. The deceased
most have faflen in whilst filling drownea on of her pails., which was
e ..7,
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found in the water. Verdict—

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an a'‘le I.4wyer to ennOl,et {tin
v•as paid tor ilia pi.0;1:18- d and ten in
the hope that a lull report would appear in the news
papers. After the case had been heard and disposed of,
the party applied to his mate, near the brewery in South-
wark, and from the representations then made, his mate
was induced to pay the man another sovereign ; this he
was most clearly not entitled to, and this circumstance
induced him to make the present application.
Mr. JEREMY said it was most disgraceful that persons
should hang about the Court, and beset suitors and ob-
tain money under such gross representations. The
Secretary of State had very properly issued orders to
put an end to mock attorneys practising at police courts,
and steps should be taken to put a stop to proceedings
equally disreputable. He would say the applicant had
better go to the Court of Requests, for obtaining the first
money without having given value. In respect. to the
sovereign obtained from his mate by misrepresentation,
the party so imposed on had better come to this Court
and obtain a warrant, arid he (Mr. Jeremy) should know
how to deal with the case.
Mes,rs. Barclay and Co.'s servant then retired, de-
claring that he would follow the worthy magistrate's
advice.

Mr. Ffinch then drew up a notice, which was imme-
diately posted, warning mock attorneys and touters from
appearing at the Greenwich and Woulwich Cuurts, or in
their immediate vicinity.

THAMES.
James Ryan, a licensed agent for supplying seamen
for merchant ships, and who also keeps a boarding-
house for sailors at No. 3, Princes street, Ratefill-high-
way, was summoned to answer the complaint of William
Williams, a mariner, for unlawfully detaining 13/. Is. 61,
his money.
This was a case under the Merchant Seamens' Pro-
tection Act, which passed last session, and has already
been of great service to the class it is intended to
benefit.
Williams said he came home in the brig Arrow on the
15th irst., and went to Ryan's house, where he remained
a fortnight only. The second day after he had taken
his things there, he gave the defendant 11s., and on the
fourth day 17 sovereigns. He took an account of every.
thing he had had during the fourteen days he remained
in the defendant's house, and allowing 28s. for his
board and lodging, he found he was indebted to Ryan
41. 9s. 6d. lie asked for the balance of his account pre-
vious to leaving the defendant's house, and he refused to
give him a farthing. Three or four days before the de-
fendant's wife offered him 11s., which she said was all
that was due, and he refused to accept it.
Mr. BRODERIP —You paid into his hands the whole of
your wages, I suppose ? Williams—Yes, sir, every far-
thing, and he advanced me a shilling or two as I re-
quired it, and supplied me with the clothes I now
have on.

Ryan, in defence, said he was licensed by the Board
cf Trade under the new Act, that the proceeding arose
out of a conspiracy on the part of. the Jews and crimps
in his neighbourhood, who were no longer able to supply
seamen for merchant ships, and defraud them with im-
punity. Be then declared that he had only received a
sovereign of Williams.
The seaman was recalled, and swore positively to the
payment of 171. lls. to Ryan and his wife.
Ryan said he would admit his wife received sixteen
sovereigns, but he only received one.
Mr. BaopsalP could plainly see what sort of a person
the defendant was, and asked what magistrate signed his
certificate before he obtained his license from the Board
of Trade ? The defendant replied, tnat he received a
certificate of good character from Mr. Stutfield, a county
magistrate, and proceeded to state that his bill amounted
to 171. ss. 4d., and that only ss. Bd. was due to the man.
Mr. BRODERIP asked the defendant for his account,
which he put in, and said that on the 24th June, 1844,
the complainant, who had walked all the way from Ply-
mouth, came to him quite destitute, and he boarded and
lodged him until the 2d of September following. He
clothed him, gave him an outfit, and procured a ship for
him. During that time he never had a farthing from the
seaman. He charged him for eleven weeks' board and
lodging, in 1844, which amounted to 81 16s.
Williams said he was employed as a runner and touter
during the eleven weeks, and that when he obtained a
ship, Ryan did supply him with his old sea clothes, for
which he gave him his advance note.
Mr. BRODERIP at once said he should strike out the
8/. 16s. for eleven weeks' board and lodging. It was clear
that Williams was acting as servant to Ryan ; and if he
had not, he could not take cognisance of a by-gone
transaction.
Williams then put in his account, in which he had made
himself a debtor to Ryan for two weeks board and lodg-
ing, at the rate of 14s. per week.
Ryan claimed 16s. per week, and as that sum was
stated upon his card, it was allowed.
The sum of 30s. was charged for a blue top-coat, of
very coarse texture, and it was declared by Mr. Hart, a
slop-seller, who was in Court, to be worth 20$. only, and
the magistrate would allow no more.
Ryan charged the seamen 31 for cash delivered at dif-
ferent times.
Williams declared he had only received 11. ls. 6d.
Mr. BRODERIP said that 31. was put down in a lump;
he could not allow that. It wag the old trick, that was
the way seamen were duped by the old crimps, and the
licensed agents, it appeared, were playing the same
game.