The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-21 00:00:00

Found Not Guilty—Q. Newton alias Neale, C. Gib-
son, L. Glyn, D. Leary, J. Radford, 'Margaret Griffin,
C. Blizard, Ann Saunders, J. Cannel], Coghlan, W.
Smith, W. Cole, Ann Herbert, T. Miller, J. Macarthy,
T. Cagan, Mary Sweeney, Ann Hawkins, G. M. Domb-
rivelick, J. Snelling. W. Pryor, W. Blifiwcross, R. Wel-
ler, Earth Moore, Harriet Falla, U.• Wilde, Catherine
Dorsey, E. Prosser, Ann Scott, I'.. Pascal!, J. Mason,
D. Davis, E. Windley,-J. F. Berry, 3. Page, G.
11. Dennis. 1, Driday,, 4. Jones, R. Abbot, X. Evans.
Elizabeth Evans, `Mary Ann . Barrett,— H. Woomben;
Martha Hockingtob, C. Feather, Danbury and J.
Steevens.
Bills Ignored—Ellen Smith, T. Nixon, Mary Jones,
T. Thompson. J. Basset, R. Granffeld, J. Trapp, J.
Stewart, B. Lambert, J. Leary, E. Austin, and T.
Browne.
JudgMent Respited—W. S. Heale, J. Bond, A. W.
Dear, F. Poynz, G. P. Barrett, E. P. Barrett, and W.
Lacey.
Remanded until Next Session—W. Stone E. Smith,
J. Tattersall, J. Hamilton, and J. Gorman.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
The_ hearing of the informations against several
omnibus proprietors, for using omnibuses not truly
constructed to carry the number of passengers they
purported to be constructed to hold, was resumed be-
fore Alderman Wilson, Alderman Finnis, and Alder-
man Lawrence.
The court was very much crowded, and the case
being one of public importance, and one in which the
omnibus proprietors, omnibus builders, &c., were
very much interested, a great number of that body
was present in court during the proceedings.
Mr. Lewis attended for the proprietors of the Pad-
dington and Metropolitan Association.
Alderman WILSON asked how long a time it would
take to make all the alterations required ?
Mr. Lewis said, as there were quite 99 out of every
100 that were illegally constructed, it could not
possibly be done in less than two months, without
great detriment to the public accommodation, by
drawing off a great number of vehicles from the daily
traffic.
Alderman WILSON thought two months was more
than necessary, and evidence was then put in to show
that every omnibus took from six to seven hours to
alter, and that they could not all be remodelled in
less time, as these alterations could only be effected
between twelve o'clock at night and six or seven
o'clock in the morning.
Alderman WILsoN said be would give them two
months, and begged to caution the proprietors
that he would send round inspectors on that day
two months to measure every omnibus, and if he
found any smaller than the Waterloo vehicles at the
end of that time, the penalty of 101. should be most
rigidly enforced in every instance, and he hoped that
the press would give publicity to this decision, in
order that the proprietors might not be able to plead
ignorance of the statute, or the present proceedings
and result, when the time should come for the inflic-
tion of the 101.

r. Lewis undertook, on behalf of the proprietors
of 800 omnibuses, plying to and from London in
short stagee, that their vehicles should be altered
within the time, and the progress made in the altera-
tions reported to the magistrates every week, to
show that the proprietors had nO•wish to evade the
law. _ _ _

Alderman WILSON did not i think they were so
much to blame as the builders, and he would ad-
vise the proprietors to bargain with them, so as to
Ist the responsibility of illegal construction rest with
the latter.
Convictions of ls. and costs were then taken in
each case.

BO TV-STREET.
Two young men, named James Kelly and William
Carter, were charged with breaking into the dwell-
ing-house of Mr. Henry Paine, 234, Strand, tailor,
and stealing property therefrom.
The prosecutor stated, that his house was closed in
the usual mariner on the night of the 7th of April,
but at five o'clock in the morning he was alarmed by
his servant, who told him that the house had been
broken into.. On going down stairs he discovered
that the greater part of his stock goods had been
cleared off, and the remaining portion scattered about
the place. It was evident that the entrance had been
effected through the back kitchen window, the
grating of which had been torn from the brickwork.
He considered that the thieves had been disturbed
during their plunder, as a coat, trousers, and several
other articles of clothing, with a chisel, &c., were
found in the passages, as if left in the hurry of
escape ; these, and a pair of shoes, being the pro-
perty of the men.
Some of the prosecutor's goods, which had been
pawned by the two prisoners, were produced in
court and identified ; and
Mr. JARDINE committed them for trial.
TV ANDSW ORTH.
Mary White, alias Wood, a little demure-looking
woman, dressed in black, was, together with a mas-
culine woman named Maria Stuart, brought beforel
Mr. Paynter on a remanded charge of imposing on a
number of ladies resident at Clapham, Balham-hill,
and Tooting.
William Horsford, the chief officer of the Mendi-
city Society, was now sworn, and recognised both
prisoners as old offenders. White had gone by the
names of Smith, Jones, Wilson, Grant, Thompson,
and other aliases, and she had lived with three or
four notorious begging-letter writers. She had got
no young child; she had only two sons, one was
married and the other transported. In 1837 she was
going about imposing on the charitable, and living
with a man since transported ; whether he was her
husband he could not say. In June, 1837, the pri-
soner imposed on the Earl of Harrington, but was
discharged by Mr. Dyer, at Marlborough-street. In
July, 1837, she was committed from the same office
for obtaining 2/. from Sir Francis Lawley, Bart., by
Mr. Chambers. In January, 1838, she was com-
mitted for three months by the Lord Mayor, and in
April, 1839, was tried at Newgate by the Recorder,
and sentenced to three months' imprisonment. In
August, 1842, she was committed for three
months by Mr. Ballantine, and in April,
1843, for three months by Mr. Trail; in
July, 1843, discharged by Mr. Hardwick ; in
February, 1845, committed by Mr. Hall for a month ;
1845 tried at Newgate and acquitted; March, 1846,
committed by the Lord Mayor for 14 days; August,
1846, by Mr. Maltby, for three months ' • December,
1846, discharged by the Lord Mayor, May, 1849,
committed by Mr. Ingram for three months ; July,
1850, committed by Mr. Hall for three months.
Among the offences she had committed was using a
forged certificate of a patient's death in the London
Hospital ; also a blank convict certificate, which had
been obtained from the transport-office, and afterwards
filled up with Mr. Capper's signature as the generous
donor of 2/. The prisoner had, in London only, been
apprehended 15 times and convicted 13.
The prisoner White, who turned her face to the
wall during the reading of her catalogue of offences,
made no defence.
Mr. PAYNTER said, this case showed the extent to
which the charitable feeling of the benevolent had
been abused. But the remedy was entirely in the
hands of these who wished to be truly charitable and
to effectually stop this system of plunder, so destruc-
tive to the really poor. What they should do was
never to give eeithout applying to the Mendicity
Society—a very excellent institution, which did mach
good—and to other sources. We did not do cur
duty by satisfying our conscience in giving at the
moment, and it might be as well to mention that by
a law in former times it was an offence to give alms
without making inquiry, and he hoped that by these
cases being brought before the public it might put an
end to this harmful system of charity. The prisoner
White, to whom it was useless to say anything:,
would be committed for three months with hard la-
bour.aabeen Tnen
an old offender,other prisoner, m
although
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even antecedently to the last prisoner, had not done

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that the ceremony of inauguration can witnessed
by 15,000 people, and that will probabl Om limit
to whicEtthe privilege we announce Wil • . atmaned.
For the., concession:thus •Matle,to,Vave ~, ud often-
It!mato. wishes-of the..peoishit ittsephblio '• : iin a great
measure to thank ixottl Granville "a. vitiExecutive
COmniittee, who 4nly and ur-Yently, • -t respectfully,
represented the unpopularity of a State opening from
which even exhibitors, after all their efforts and sacri-
fices, would have been excluded. We shall not at-
tempt to anticipate the splendour and attractiveness of
a pageant taking place under such auspices, in such
a building, and witnessed by such an assemblage.
If properly managed, as we have no doubt it will
be, the world has probably never witnessed a
grander or more imposing spectacle. Whichever
way the occasion is viewed, the materials for effect
which it developes impress themselves on the mind.
An unprecedented homage to human industry will be
combined with a manifestation of loyalty to the
throne under circumstances at once novel and affect-

ing. Her. Majesty will have an opportunity of judg-
ing how little her person and authority have to fear
from the encouragement of the peaceful arts all over
the world. Those sinister prognostications of evil
which we have lately heard uttered will be dispelled,
and a remarkable illustration will be given of the
truth that anarchy and industry are incompatible
terms. With reference to the programme of the open-
ing nothing is yet settled, but no time will now be
lost in making the necessary preparations, and it is to
be hoped that every means will be adopted which the
construction of the building and the objects it con-
tains present for rendering the ceremony as imposing
as possible ; and we would again repeat a suggestion
made by us some time ago—that from the large and
powerful organs which have been erected music
appropriate to the solemnity of the occasion should
swell out and fill the vast area. By the arrange-

went at present contemplated, her Majesty will open
the building at ten o'clock, proceeding from Hyde-
park•corner along Rotten-row, and entering at
the eastern end, while the admission for spectators
entitled to be present will be at the south end of the
transept. It would be premature as yet to insist upon
the necessity which exists that all who are admitted
into the Cry stal Palace on this interesting occasion
should preserve the strictest order, and obey implicitly
the rules which shall be laid down for that purpose.
We cannot, however, omit this opportunity for point-
ing out the reasons which had very nearly deprived
the public of all share in a ceremonial to which they
had looked forward with feelings of very natural and
excusable curiosity. Whenever the Queen appears
in public people, who from their appearance and man-
ners ought to know better, flock around and almost
mob her. Nor is it the male sex alone, but ladies
also are found guilty of this impertinence; and it has
been ascertained by experience that the policeman's
truncheon, though effective as it is in a street row
under ordinary circumstances, is powerless against the
wearer of a satin dress or any other form of feminine
finery. Ordinary assemblages of commonplace people
can be kept in order, but crowds of gentlefolk, it is
said, cannot ; and it was this difficulty that Lord
Granville and the Executive Committee had to combat
in their happily successful efforts to impart to the
promised pageant -a popular character.
(From the Times.)

We have not recurred to the subject of her Ma
jesty's State visit to the Great Exhibition (although
great numbers of remonstrances against the scheme,
which was announced to the public have been ad-
dressed to us by all classes of persons interested in
that vast national enterprise),because w e felt assured
that her Majesty's gracious les_re
most remarkable
the utmost
the i m
effect and dignity to one of st oc-
currences of her reign wouldremove and amend
whatever had seemed defective and unpopular in the
instructions promulgated a few days ago in the name
of the Royal Commission. It is, therefore, with great
satisfaction that we now find ourselves authorised to
announce that the Queen has signified her Royal
pleasure that arrangements should be made to enable
her Majesty to gratify a wish very generally expressed
on the part of the public to be_ present at the cere-
mony by which her Majesty should open the Exhi-
bition ; and that a meeting of the Royal Commission
has been summoned to consider the programme of
this ceremony, and the regulations under which the
holders of season tickets will be admitted to the in-
terior of the building at the timetis
of her Majesty's
i visit. After this intimation needless to ad-
vert to the inconsistency manifestly involved in a
proposal for a State visit from which the public
should be excluded. The State visits of the Sove-
reign to Parliament, to thena
national theatres, or to
occasions
the city of London, are upon which the
ancient splendour of the Court of England is happily
and significantly blended with the
rejoicings of the
people; and while every one respects and admires
the refinement and retirement of her Majesty's
domestic life, there are times when the Queen of
England appears with state at the headofa loyal and
attached nation and meets with her accustomed dig-
nity the acclamations of her subjects. Of such occa-
sions this opening of the great edifice in Hy de-park
on the Ist May is unquestionably one.Raisedas
it
has been by the voluntary munificence ofe in-
dividuals under the authority private of a Royal Commission, is siin
the country and the world know that Prince Albert has'
been not only the zealous patron, but the active and
intelligent coadjutor of this stupendos work, which
owes perhaps its existence to the energetic influence
of the Court. Nor can it be forgotten that when
Europe still reeled under reeent calamities England
summoned the nations of the earth to her festival of
industry and peace. The part of Queen Victoria in the
inauguration of such an edifice is more than an act of
formal sovereignty; for her Majesty will dedicate the
Crystal Palace, in which her Consort has shown the
strongest interest, to those principles of universal
peace and commercial freedom which are the chief
glories of her reign ; and the cultivated feelings which
this enterprise is calculated to encourage and to ex-
press—the union of all classes in this nation, the
goodwill of England to foreign countries, and the
progress of the arts in taste and utility—could in no
age have had a more appropriate patroness and repre-
sentative than they find in the Queen.
But as the Court is prepared to take part with the
people in the august ceremony of the Ist May, it is
not less essential that all the persons who may have
qualified themselves for admission to the interior of
the building should remember that they, too, have a
part to perform beyond the mere gratification of their
curiosity and theirenenthusiasm. It is the earnest
desire of the Royal Commissioners to frame such re-
gulations as may most effectually conduce to her
Majesty's convenience and to the general satisfaction
of the public; and we trust that whatever those
regulations are, they will be decorously and good-
humouredly obeyed. It is obvious that the
promiscuous and continued admission of many
thousands of visitors during the presence of the
Court, or the unrestricted circulation of so large a
mass of persons within the building towards one
centre of attraction, would give rise to confusion,
which must be disrespectful to her Majesty and in-
consistent with the purposes of the Exhibition itself.
Whatever rules may be laid down, much must still
depend on the good breeding and self-control of
those present, who will conduct themselves as be-
comes English men and women in the presence of
their Sovereign and surrounded by foreigners, who
have been invited, to give increased splendour to the
Exhibition, whilst they are in one sense the guests of
this country.
We have never shared in the slightest degree the
political apprehensions which have been very absurdly
connected with the vast assemblage of visitors Lon-
don is about to receive. This metropolis has already
its full complement of fugitives and desperate charac-
ters from every part of Europe, and those who may
visit the Exhibition will belong, in an immense ma-