The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-14 00:00:00

MONDAY EVENING, APRIL l4, 1851.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION HOUSE.
Philip Lyons, Solomon Horns, and Sarah Hyams,
were hruught before the Lord Mayor, charged, tile n st
with having had in his possession 3'431 yards of silk
which had been stolen, and the two others with h.ving
received the property, well knowing that it had been
stolen. The two latter prisoners were also charged
with having received five new coats which had been
stolen.

Mr. Humphreys said he appeared on behalf of Mr.
Attenberough, the pawnbroker, whose premises had
been broken open on the night of the 31st of March, or
the Ist of April, and plundered of a quantity of valuable
property which had been laft in pleege. A person, who
had been seen in the neighbourhood where the robbery
was committed, had been, on the subsequent day, appre-
hended and examined as one of the persons concerned,
but was discharged from want of evidence. One of the
City police, howeser, in consequence of information
which he had received, called at Lyons's house, and
found wrapped up in a counterpane, and shaped like a
bed, a large quantity of good, which were now identi-
fied as part of the property which bad been stolen from
Mr. Attenborough. The possession of the silk was ac-
counted for in the evidence, which would clearly trace it
to Solomon Hyenas and his wife, by whom it bad been
conveyed to the house of Lyons.
The evidence was then gouts into at some length,
after which the prisoners we, e remanded.
BOW-STREET.
dinathan Marchant, an aged man and totally tilled,
carrying on business as a coal-merchant in the Adelphi,
and residing at 41, Gerrav-street, Soho, appeared to
answer five summonses charging him with having sup-
plited coals deficient is weight at Buckingham Palace,
and thereby defrauded her Majesty, and also with
carrying an improper weighing machine.
It appeared chid the quantity of coals ordered was
twenty tons; that there was a deficiency in the weight
of tie trly every sack in each of tne four waggous, and
that the total deficiency was about two tons.
Mr. Huddlestone, for the defendant, seated that he
was c nmshing the wish of his client as well as his ewn
diseretio;?, in Wetvileg guilty to the the ges preferred
.eiesi Marc" :tic ny the Master of tier 51:jest)%i
taut alth.ogn h, ad .pted this coun.e, hM
trusted he shield bra auks to. satisfy .he Court that the
defendant, while legal y guilty. was morally innocent of
the offence inaput.-.d to hon. The de.endato, was eetherery
years of age, and ,for the last there years, had be. n
of with the total lo,a of his eyeaight. In him
absence the business had be. n intrusted t.. a .3 oulig
man named Isaacs, distantly related to him by
marriage, and it was to the neglect of the wharf clerk
and men ewplo)ed under him that he owed his present
painful position. Hts client had carried on his business
for up waids of 45 years, during 17 years of which he
had enioyed the prow: distinction of supplying the
P.ilacei coals; end during the whole period had never had
the slighiest complaint made against him by the cus•
tomers whom be had served, or the least reproach cast
upon his character.
James Isaacs, jun., whom the Learned Ceurisel then
examined, stated that be had attended to the business
of the detendant for several years pa-t, owing to the
calamity which had befallen Mr. Merchant, and which
bad prevented his taking any part in the management
of the trade. On the 4th of April an order for 20 tons
of ccat was received from the Palace. Witness gave direc-
tions to the wharf clerk to see them properly weighed,
partly from the wharf and partly from the warehouse
stock. The coals in the warehouse are nett-illy lighter
than the wharf stock, as the latter is °len wet. Wit-
ness's father was the wharf clerk who ought to have
obeyed these directions. He was related to the de-
fendant, and had been put into his eituation at a time
when, through a failure in business, he was out of em •
ployment. Neither witness nor his father had any in-
terest in the business, except as servants of the de-
fendant, who had no partner. The price of the coals
served to her Majesty was 255. 6d. per ton, at from six
to nine months' credit, being a fair market price.
James Isaac, nen., confirmed the statement of his son,
and attributed the deficiency in the weight of the coals
to the neglect of the men, who failed to attend to his
orders. It was the duty of witness to superintend the
weighing of the coals personally, but he neglected to do
this, trusting to the man, and wishing at the time to at-
tend to some other business which required his attention
before the return of the tide.
In reply to questions from the Learned Counsel, both
the witnesses stated that the defendant had supplied the
Palace with coals for seventeen years, and had always
felt the greatest pride in the honour thus conferred upon
him.