The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-24 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

Thomas Watson, a young man, was charged with
committing a number of robberies.
Mr. Joseph Darker, of 4, White Horse-street,
Piccadilly, proprietor of coffee and dining-rooms,
stated that the prisoner, who represented himself as a
visitor to the metropolis for a few days, came to
lodge at his house on the 14th of September, and
left abruptly early on the morning of the 9th inst.,
without paying his bill. Shortly after his departure
prosecutor missed five waistcoats, some trowsers, and
other articles of wearing apparel, from his drawers
in the prisoner's sleeping-room, which had been left
locked.

A number of pawnbrokers produced portions of the
missing property.
William Sinkins, 830 A, proved finding the du-
plicates relating to these articles concealed in the
lining of the prisoner's hat, when he took him into
custody. He also produced an article of wearing ap-
parel belonging to the prosecutor,, which he found in
his possession.
Prisoner, with tact, cross-examined the prosecutor,
but elicited nothing to his advantage. His only reply
to the charge was, that he was the owner of one of
the articles of wearing apparel positively identified by
the prosecutor.
lie was committed for trial.

John Cooper, a tailor, occupying apartments at the
Red Lion, Princes-street, Westminster, was the next
complainant. The prisoner, with the same story as
before, took a lodging there on the 14th instant, and
decamped on the morning of the 17th, when the pro-
secutor discovered that a drawer in which his clothing
was kept had been forced, and his apparel carried off.
G. Barker, a clothier, produced the stolen property,
which had been sold to him by the prisoner, who
alleged it was his own.
The accused, who made no defence, was also com-
mitted upon this charge.
Benjamin Harbour, waiter at the Red Lion, exhi-
bited a complaint against the prisoner for stealing all
his clothing, and some money, from his room.
Immediately after the prisoner had decamped from
the house the waiter discovered that his drawers had
been opened by some means, and all his wearables,
with 10s. in silver, carried off. A portion of the pro.
perty which had been sold with Mr. Cooper's by the
prisoner, was produced.
The accused was further committed upon this
charge. _ _

JOl2n Purser, a traveller, from Huntingdon, who
was staying for a few nights at the Red Lion, proved
that on going to bed the night before the accused
left, he placed his trowsers under his pillow, and in
the morning discovered his purse and 13s. 6d. gone.
He went in quest of the prisoner, and meeting him in
Newgate-market gave him into custody, when he
saw him drop the purse and a quantity of silver
money, corresponding with what he had lost.
Prisoner, who set up a plea of innocence to this
charge, was also committed for trial upon it.
Mr. Symonds, an inspector of the B division, said
there was another charge against the prisoner for
robbing Bridget Carroll, a poor servant girl at a
tavern. He had asked her to lend him 55., when she
took down a little work-box with a sovereign in it,
in order to assure him that she had no change, when
he adroitly substituted a gift medal for the sovereign.
Mr. BRODERIP thought it unnecessary to proceed
with this case, as prisoner already stood committed
on four charges.

PRO4TECTED TUBULAR BRIDGE ACROSS THE MER-
SEY.-Mr. Cunningham, architect, of Liverpool, has sub-
mitted a project to the directors of the various railway com-
panies interested in the communication between Birkenhead
and Liverpool, for a railway to cross the Mersey, and thus
connect Birkenhead and Liverpool for all kinds of transit.
Mr. Cunningham proposes to sink an iron tube in the bed of
the river, buried so completely below the surface thereof
that there would be no more obstruction to the currents than
at present. The tube would have perpendicular sides and an
arched roof. It would be placed in a prepared bed, and would
be protected outwardly by various contrivances. Inter-
nally there would be two lines of rails running on each
side of the tube with a passage in the middle for pedestrians.
The entire work, it is estimated, would cost not more than
250,0001. It would form a complete means of transit for
goods, railway passengers, and pedestrians between Liverpool
and Birkenhead, besides opening a communication to an
from Liverpool for all the railways feeding the Cheshire
junction.