The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-22 00:00:00

BO W-STREET.

Mary Clarke, alias _Browne, alias Wood, a respectably
dressed middle-aged woman, was charged with robbing se-
veral ready-furnished lodgings, and also with obtaining a
variety of goods under false pretences from different trades-
people.
It appeared from the statement of a number of wit-
nesses that within the last twelve months the prisoner has
occupied furnished'apartments in different parts of the town,
and that she had patronised tradespeople by ordering goods,
for which she promised to pay ready money ; but in every
instance where she contrived to gain possession pf them
left her lodgings the next day, forgetting to pay the rent,
an
.I'g the pods immediately after.
dshpea remanded till Thursday.
pawning

GUILDHALL.
Mr. Sansbury, of Valentine-place, Stoke Newington, ap-
peared before Mr. Alderman KELLY and Sir C. MAR-.
SHALL, to answer the complaint of Mr. Montague, the sur-
veyor of the floral district of the City, for refusing to pay
him 241., for surveying some stables in White-street and
Tenter-street. •
Mr. Sansbury ,said there was an item in the bill of
17/. is. for merely walking from Guildhall to Moorfields,
and looking at three coachhouses and three stables, and
then pronouncing that all was right. They were merely
stables with a hayloft over, and yet Mr. Montague had the
boldness to charge them as. so many third-rate buildings,

and demanded 21. 10s. for looking at each ; 21. 10s. was
the highest fee allowed by the Act.
Mr. Montague maintained that the stables were third-
rate buildings, because they exceeded thirteen feet in
height, which brought them within the description. There
were seven distinct occupations or lettings, and he was
therefore entitled to his fees on each. These fees were
never abated except on the ground of poverty ; he could
make no alteration, because he should injure the interests
of the surveyors of the other districts as well as his own.
The Magistrates, who have the power to fix a sum ac-
cording to discretion, considered the charge of 171. 10s.
exorbitant, and appointed Mr. Smith, a surveyor, to de-
cide what was the fair sum to which Mr. Montague was
entitled.

QUEEN-SQUARE.AN EMANCIPATED NEGRESS.—MPS. Mary Mitchell, a
black woman, well known in the purlieus of the Almonry, was
charged before Mr. Gregorie with being very disorderly on
the previous evening.

The defendant entertains some strange notions of the
privileges which the Slavery Abolition Act has given to the
negroes. On the previous evening she abused, in the most
disgusting language, a man for having merely looked at her,
and created a great disturbance in the neighbourhood.
Mr. GREGORIE.—What have you got to say to the
charge ? Mary Mitchell.—Me free nigger now, him no
ought to take me to stashion ; me's room all de same as my
castle ; dare is dat fellow Massa. Mooneyi. he first kick up
all de bobbery. I hab the law of him now, he call me a
nigger slave, and all man know Me be emancibated.
Mrs. Mooney, an old woman, here stepped forward and
begged for heaven's sake that something might be done with
Mrs. Mitchell, for she had got it into her bead that the
negroes might do just as they pleased, and that no law could
touch them.

Mary Mitchell.—So day can ; now all niggers free. I
nebber walk in Westminster now ; I have live wid my man
weddy spectable this five years, and now I walk in de city
wid de gentlemen on the Change, and dey tell me and say,
Mary Mitchell, all de nigger may do as they please.
Mr. GREGORIE told her that-he should commit her for
ten days as a disorderly person.

Mary Mitchell.—Send a free nigger to prison ! bery
yell ; I tell my friend on the Change, and I make him take
de law for me, and a send you all to prison ; a low vulgar
set ebery one.

Mary- Mitchell was then locked up.

MARLBORO UGH-STREET.

Thomas Bedborough, a carman, was brought before Mr.
Dyer, charged with running over a little girl of the name
of Matilda Pfort, in Regent-street.

Police-Constable No. 177 of .the C division deposed, he
was on duty in Regent-street, on Friday afternoon, about
three o'clock. He saw a cabridlet going along at a very
rapid rate ; the little girl, who was in the carriage-road, en-
deavoured to run across ; on'reaching the middle of the
street she turned her head round, evidently with the inten-
tion of seeing if she bad escaped the cabriolet. At this
instant the defendant, who wasdriving at a slow pace, came
up, and the poor girl ran against the horse and fell the
cart passed over berbody. Shp was taken up and conveyed
to St. George's Hospital.

Mr. DYER—Have you a certificate from the surgeon as
to the' nature of the injuries which the child has received ?
Constable—l have been to surgeon this morning, and he
is unable to give any opinion for the present as to whether
the symptoms are dangerous 6r not.
Mr. DYER—In that case I must remand the prisoner ;
for if in case the poor child should die, it will be my duty to
send him to trial for m4nslaugpter.
Constable-4n my opiniol.it was entirely accidental on
the part of this man, for he was not driving at more than
three miles per hour.
Mr. DYER—,—AS that is the case I will take bail for his
appearance ; but it must be heavy to ensure his attendance
provided the child should die:

The defendant said he could get bail to any amount.

W OR SHIP- STREET.

A young woman, named Fitzgerald, was charged with
the following act of inhumanity :—On Friday evening the
defendant went with an infant in her arms to Shoreditch
workhouse, and demanded 10s. relief. This was, of course,
denied her, upon which she exclaimed, with an oath, that
the parish should maintain her offspring, at the same time
dashing the infant upon the ground, after which she ran
away.—She was sentenced to, a month's imprisonment and
hard labour.