The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-17 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1851.

" In order properly to adjust, and finally to settle
the respective claims of the several traders, I proposed
to them conjointly that Rili should request from your
Excellency the appointment of two or three gentle-
men as a commission to aid Mr. Fynn in effecting
this object. To this arrangement all agreed, but Rili
requests a little time. He says, that while the coun-
try is excited by war it is difficult to levy fines on his
people. ' Let the country settle down, and then I
will make them pay for the injury done.'
" After thus conversing with Riti, I told him he had
better not give his decisition until he had well thought
over the subject; and when he had thought it over,
and talked with his counsellors, he might bring his
decision to me. To this he'replied by saying that he
would return to Bookoo, and lay the whole case be-
fore him, and together they would give their decision.
" In order to save time I sent men with Rili.
These men returned this morning with the answer;
and as they wished these messengers to be sent to
your Excellency, I now send them accordingly, that
your Excellency may hear from them the message of
Rili and Bookoo. One of the men is a distant rela-
tion of the chief, and they have both been of great
service in bringing the chief to a right mind.
" My own views of Rili are, that he is much hum-
bled and altered ; but your Excellency will see Mr.
Conway and Gonyama, as well as the messengers
sent, from all of whom your Excellency will learn
many particulars. But whatever may be the future
course of the Kafirs, at the present time they &sire
peace.
" I believe Rili to be the key-note in Kafirland,
and that note quite harmonizes with that object.
But this has been produced by the late unmusiciil
sound of cannon and small arms in the Amatola
mountains."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
JUDGES' CHAMBERS, Sept. 16.
THE ALLEGED CHEATING AT BRIGHTON.

This day was appointed, as stated in our paper of
Saturday, for hearing two applications by Mr. Baron
Martin—one for costs, and the other to quash two
writs of habeas corpus, issued to admit James and
Staden, two of the defendants to bail ; the other de-
fendant (Broome) having been discharged on bail.
The summonses were taken out by Mr. Sill, the
attorney for the prosecution. In the case of John
James the application was to quash the writ, and for
costs occasioned by the present application, and for a
journey to Swansea, to inquire into the sufficiency of
one of the proposed bail. In the case of the other
defendant (Staden), the application was, in addition,
to quash the writ for costs incurred in attempting to
put in bail at Brighton, and also for costs attendant
on the present application.
Mr. Sill waited the usual time, and the other par-
ties did not appear.
Proceedings were adopted to bring the case before
the Court on a future day. The trial of the defendant
cannot take place before March, at Lewes.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Sept. 16.
(Before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER.)
SEDUCTION—IN THE MATTER OF JOHN HOWARD.
This insolvent, a brick contractor, was opposed by
Mr. Dowse, on the part of Thomas Foster, for the
damages awarded in an action for the seduction of his
daughter. Mr. Cooke and Mr. Sargood supported
the application for discharge.
The proceedings in the action "Foster v. Howard"
were produced. The cause was tried last August be-
fore Mr. Baron Platt. The damages were laid at
5001., and the jury gave 2001. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins
was for the defendant, and called no witnesses. The
opposing creditor was a brick burner at East Barnet,
and the insolvent followed a similar occupation on the
Great Northern Railway.
The insolvent said he had no property to give up.
He was a married man with four children—the eldest
was ten and the youngest four years old. He had
been an inspector at a salary.
Mr. COOKE said he had witnesses to call to show
that the insolvent had a good defence to the action,
The parties were not called on the trial.
The CHIEF COMMISSIONER declined to open the case.
Such a course would be in the teeth of all former de-
cisions in such cases.
Mr. COOKE was aware that such was the uniform
course, and, therefore, he wished the opinion to be ex-
pressed by the Court.
The CHIEF COMMISSIONER remarked that the only
question for the Court was the amount of damages,
and the situation of the parties.
The insolvent said he could assure the Court that
he had plenty of witnesses in court to prove that he
was not the seducer.
The CHIEF COMMISSIONER, in giving judgment,
said the jury had awarded 2001. damages, and the
only point was to give a remand commensurate to
that amount. He had no doubt the Learned Counsel
for the defendant on the trial had acted with dis-
cretion in not calling witnesses, and therefore he
(the Chief Commissioner) had nothing to do with
that matter but simply to consider the damages and
the humble sphere of the parties. He thought that
the jury had considered that the insolvent, being a
married man, was unable to make the young woman
the only reparation that could be made in such a
case. Considering all the circumstances of the case,
he adjudged that the insolvent should be entitled to
be discharged out of prison so soon as he had been
imprisoned at the suit of Thomas Foster for the
damages awarded against him in action of seduction
for a period of ten calendar months from the date o:
the vesting order.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(Before Mr. WITHAM.)
Morris Fleet, 21, was indicted for having stolen a
watch, value 61., the property of John Trotman, from
his person.
Mr. O'Brien appeared for the prisoner.
The prosecutor stated that he was a chain maker,
residing in Holborn, and that on the evening of the
21st of August he was in the City-road, near the
Angel, looking, with a great many other persons, at a
man who, dressed in a soldier's uniform, was going
through a performance which he called " the exer-
cises." The prisoner and one or two others were close
by him, but observing that they were pressing against
himself and others, ho thought he had better get a
little father off. The prisoner and two others followed,
and again took up a position beside him, and in a very
short time afterwards, he (prosecutor) saw his watch
in the prisoner's hand, the bow being cut close to the
pendant, the swivel remaining attached to the chain
quite perfect. The prisoner ran off, followed by
prosecutor, who demanded the restoration of his watch.
The prisoner stopped suddenly, turned round, and
struck him a heavy blow on the aide of the head, after
which be again ran off, but was in the end captured
in the City-road.
Mr. O'BRIEN said he could not struggle with the
evidence, and the jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
Archer, an officer of the G division, stated that the
prisoner had been convicted summarily of picking
pockets at Sadler's Wells Theatre, and that he was a
regular associate of thieves.
Mr. WITHAM sentenced the prisoner to one year's
hard labour.
Michael Driscoll, 17, was indicted for having un-
lawfully assaulted Emma Caunter, a girl under the
age of 10 years, with intent, &c.
Mr. Payne prosecuted on behalf of the Society for
the Protection of Young Females; Mr. O'Brien de-
fended.
The jury found him Guilty. Judgment deferred,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
William Smith, who has been several times re-
manded, was again brought before the Lord Mayor
for further examination, upon a charge of having, in
conjunction with two other persons not in custody,
robbed a gentleman of the name of Gibson, who had
recently returned from Calcutta, and who was stay-
ing at the Captain of a Man-of-War public-house,
High-street, Poplar, of the sum of 1531. in notes and
gold. After some additional evidence had been given,
Mr. Humphreys addressed the Court on behalf of
the prisoner, contending that no sufficient case had
been made out to justify the Lord Mayor in sending
it for further investigation; in fact, that there was no
evidence at all implicating him.
The LORD Maron—The evidence convinces me
that the matter ought to be further investigated at
another tribunal; and as the grand jury is now sit-
ting at the Central Criminal Court, the prisoner, if
innocent, cannot long be detained in custody.
He was then fully committed.
GUILDHALL.
Michael Marlow, who was tried at the Central
Criminal Court, in 1846, for uttering a forged
cheque for 101., on Messrs. Glyn's bank, and for
which he was sentenced to ten years' transportation,
applied to Mr. Alderman Salomons for relief. He
stated that having on all occasions, with the exception
of one only, borne a most exemplary character, instead
of being sent to the settlements, he worked out five
years of his time at the Portsmouth hulks, when he
was recommended to the Royal clemency, and received
a free pardon. Since that time he had been endea-
vouring to obtain an honest living, as he had formed
the resolution to return to the paths of virtue, and to
perish from starvation rather than commit another
dishonest action. He returned to what he had left a
peaceful, happy home, but found it ruined, and his
aged parents infirm and distressed, himself unable to
assist them, through a weakened constitution produced
by long confinement. His character being gone, al-
though he was a reformed and penitent man, none
would give him employment. The consequence was
that he was in the greatest destitution. He had re-
ceived a little temporary assistance from some gentle-
men who knew the circumstances of his case, but it
was not sufficient for anything more than to support
existence for the time, and was of no permanent good
to him. He had received an offer to be sent abroad,
but he was unwilling to abandon his parents while
they lived, and when they were dead, he would nut
me what became of bun.

Alderman SALomoNs said he had no claim upon the
sympathy of the Court, and could not therefore ex-
pect any assistance. There were a great many per-
sons occupying a much more respectable position than
ever the applicant held, and who had to part from
friends and relatives to seek their fortunes in a strange
land, and if they were compelled to sacrifice their
feelings, surely he, under the circumstances of the
last few years of his life, ought not to complain of,
or offer any objection to, a plan that gave him the
opportunity of retrieving his character, and becoming
a useful member of society in another country.;
The applicant said he was in hopes that the alder-
man would have been able to put him in the way of
getting 51., to establish him in a little business.
Alderman SALMONS said he could not do anything
of the kind. He could only give him a little relief
to keep him in food for the present ; but with regard
to any future relief, he could not give him any pro-
spect of obtaining it from the magistrates. There
were so many unfortunate fellow-creatures who had
never been known to leave the paths of rectitude and
honesty, and who were at present out of employment,
that were in every way more deserving of public
sympathy than applicant ; and he, therefore, could
not diminish the funds for relieving their claims by
granting applicant's request.
He then received 2s. from the poor-box.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Frederick Otto _Hermann, described as a German
student, who also represents himself to be a political
refugee, was brought before Mr. Bingham, charged
with having committed an extensive robbery at
Vernon-house, Pall-mall, under the following cir-
cumstances :
Mr. James Keen Hawkins said—l am a barrister-
at-law, and reside at No. 50, Pall-mall. The prisoner,
who is a German, called upon me two or three weeks
ago, and represented himself to be the friend of a
person with whom I was acquainted when in Ger-
many. The prisoner said he was in distress, and I
gave him half a sovereign and some food. On Friday,
the 12th inst., the prisoner called again, and was
again relieved. I was fatigued at that time, and I
went into my bed-room, leaving the prisoner in an-
other room. I laid on the bed, and went to sleep. I
was awakened by my servant, who told me I had
been robbed by the prisoner. The prisoner had left
the house while I was asleep. I missed my watch
from the head of the bed. I missed a quantity of
plate and other articles, worth together, at least 1001.
All the articles were safe when I left the prisoner in
the room. On the following day a countryman of the
prisoner's called on me to give information relating to
the robbery.
Police-constable Rogers, C 153, apprehended the
prisoner at his lodgings, 27, Rupert-street. The
prisoner was writing a letter at the time. On search..
ing the prisoner a gold watch, two rings, and other
articles were found. After being taken to the Vine-
street station, witness searched the prisoner's room
more minutely, and found a quantity of table and
dessert spoons and other articles, all of which were
identified by Mr. Hawkins.
The prisoner admitted he had given to a man named
Blanck two rings to pawn.
Blanck gave up the rings, which were also iden-
tified.

A number of letters were produced in the handwri-
ting of the prisoner. Some of them were in ridicule
of the English people for the easiness with which they
wece duped by foreign adventurers passing them-
selves off as political refugees and victims of despotic
tyranny.
In defence, the prisoner said he should not have
committed the robbery had he not been drunk and in
distress.
The prisoner was fully committed.
CLE.RKENWELL.
Samuel _Herring, a smartly dressed young man,
one of the swell mob, was placed at the bar before
Mr. Tyr whitt, charged by police-constable 31 E di-
vision, with having violently assaulted him. The
prisoner was also charged with having violently as-
saulted Timothy Sullivan.
It appeared from the evidence of the constable that
he was in Golden-lane, St. Luke's, that morning, at
one o'clock, when he saw the prisoner, who is a no-
torious swell mobsman, with about a dozen others of
his fraternity ; the prisoner, who knew him to be an
officer, came up to him, and addressing his compa-
nions said, "This --- has often crabbed us, let's
serve him out ;" and with that he struck him right
and left on the mouth, which caused him to bleed
profusely. He seized the prisoner, whose associates
were about to attack him, but the young man Sul-
livan came to his assistance, on which he was attacked,
beaten, kicked, and bitten by the prisoner.
The prisoner, who refused his address, denied the
charges, attributing violence to the prosecutors.
Mr. TYRWRITT felt satisfied with the evidence, and
sentenced the prisoner to three weeks' imprisonment,
with fine, for the assault on the policeman, and ten
shillings, or a fortnight, for that committed on Sul-
livan.

James Day, an elderly man, was placed at the bar,
charged by Ann Hoare, a decent, pretty-looking
girl, thirteen years of age, with having attempted to
violate her.
The prosecutrix deposed that on Monday night she
left the house of her mother, No. 3, St. Alban's-place,
Islington, to attend a fair in Copenhagen-fields. At
half-past nine o'clock she was outside a show, when
the prisoner gave her a ticket of admission. lie fol-
lowed her into the booth, and sat by her side. At the
conclusion of the entertainments he pursued her out-
side the back of the booth, threw her down, and acted
with great violence towards her. Her cries of mur-
der brought the assistance of a gentleman, who gave
him into custody.
Mr. John Chalton, master tailor, of 22, Sandwich-
street, Burton-crescent, heard the cries of " murder,"
" help," and on proceeding to the spot from whence
they came, he saw the prisoner holding the prosecu-
trix down on the ground in a manner not fit to be de-
scribed. He detained the prisoner until Bryant, a
policeman, 209 N, came in view, and he gave him into
custody.
Bryant corroborated this evidence.
The mother of the girl was present in court, appa-
rently much affected, and said her daughter was so
much alarmed that she had been in screaming fits all
night.
Mr. TYRITHITT remonstrated with her on the im-
propriety of suffering so young a girl as her daughter
to go to a fair unprotected, to mix with the worst of
characters.
The prisoner said nothing in his defence, and he
was fully committed for trial. He declined saying
who or what he was.

LAMBETH.
Mr. Frederick Smith, a man of respectable ap-
pearance, who described himself as a working silver-
smith, was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott on a
charge of knowingly uttering a counterfeit half-crown
to Charles Ewins, the conductor of a Camberwell
omnibus.
Ewins stated that on the preceding evening the
prisoner got into his omnibus at Charing-cross, and
rode with him as far as the Camberwell-gate, and on
getting out tendered half-a-crown in payment for his
fare. Witness gave him 2s. 2d. in change, and in
doing so put the half-crown into his mouth, and found
it as soft as a piece of lead. He in consequence told
the prisoner it was a bad one, and his reply was that
he had no other money about him, and added that he
had borrowed it (the half••crown) from the publican.
On examing the half-crown he found it was one of
the reign of King William IV., and precisely the
same in every respect as forty pieces that had been
taken by the conductors engaged on the same road on
the preceding week, and from this circumstance, and
the fact of the prisoner having sufficient change to
pay for his fare without changing the half-crown, he
called a constable and gave him into custody for
knowingly uttering the half-crown.
John Skipp, the time-keeper at the Camberwell-
gate, deposed that in addition to the change given to
the prisoner by the last witness, he had observed
fourpence in coppers.

_
Prisoner—l had not the least idea that I had the
fourpence about me, else I should not have changed
the half-crown.

Mr. ELLIOTT—What are you? Prisoner—A sil
versinith, sir, and the half-crown I received from a re

spectable publican.
Mr. ELLIOTT—Is there any person here who knows
you ? Prisoner—Yes, sir, I wish Mr. Blackie to be
examined. _ _

Mr. Alexander Blackie, the landlord of the Rose
and Crown, Dean-street, Soho-square, was then
sworn, and said that the prisoner and his son were in
the habit of almost daily dining at his house, and be
believed Mr. Smith to be a respectable man. On the
evening before the prisoner borrowed a half-crown
from him, saying he was going to Camberwell, but he
could not take it upon himself to swear that the half-
crown produced was the one he gave him.
The prisoner was remanded, but was admitted to
bail to appear on Saturday next.
WESTMINSTER.
Anne Ayres and Catherine Pettitt, two good-looking
girls, were charged with stealing 551. from Mrs.
Birch, a widow, residing at Pimlico and at Twicken-

ham.
Upon the accused being placed in the dock,
Mr. ARNOLD inquired the nature of the charge ?
Mrs. Birch—These girls you see before you have
robbed me of 501. and a 5/. note.
Mr. ARNOLD—WiII you state under what circum-
stances ? Mrs. Birch—They were servants where I
had apartments in Hans-place, Sloane-street, and I
took pity on them and took them into my employ-
ment, and this is their gratitude. They told me their
mistress treated them like slaves, and:when an acquaint-
ance called upon them, said " What did servants want
with friends ?" I said, " It is a pity two such nice
girls should be treated in this way, and completely
buried," so I took them into my service, and they
have robbed me. I have had one's character, and I
have got the other one's now she has robbed me.
Mr. ABZIOLD—Where did you miss the notes from ?

Mrs. Birch—l missed the 501. note from under my
pillow. It was sewed up in my stays, and I placed
them under my pillow while I took half an hour's
sleep. I cannot sleep longer at a time. The 51. note
was in a prayer-book.
Mr. ARNOLD—When did you last see the note
safe ? Mrs. Birch—On Saturday night I took these
girls down to my house at Twickenham, but they
behaved very ill, and kicked up a great row, and
caused me to be very ill—ungrateful creatures. I
had some friends there at the time. Mr. Earney, a
musical gentleman, who is teaching me an instrument,
was quite shocked at their behaviour, and cried like a
child.

Mr. ARNOLD—When did you miss your notes ?
Mrs. Birch—l found them gone yesterday evening.
My coachman came and said, " Have you lost a
note ?" I searched, and found it gone. I begged
the coachman to fetch Catherine Pettitt. She was
going to hang herself. (The lady, after upbraiding
the girls again with their ingratitude, left the wit•
ness box.)
Mr. G. Herbert, of 20, Queen's-buildings, Bromp-
ton, silversmith and jeweller, stated that at about
eight o'clock on the previous evening the prisoners
came, to his shop and selected a pair of earrings, in
payment for which they tendered a 501. note folded
up. He did not open it, as he could plainly see the
amount through the paper; and having satisfied him-
self by inquiries of the girls that they were ignorant
of its value, he placed it on one side, and further in-
terrogated them, when, amongst other things, one of
them said her mistress had given it to her to procure
change, in order that she might pay her wages.
Finding their accounts very contradictory, and feeling
perfectly assured that there was something wrong, he
detained them.

Mr. ARNOLD inquired whether anything had been
discovered respecting the 51. note ?—Tne police re-
plied that the girls were found in possession of a great
quantity of new clothing, which, there was very little
doubt, had been purchased with it.
Mr. ARNOLD paid Mr. Herbert a well deserved
compliment for his conduct in the matter, and re-
manded the prisoners for a week.