The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-08 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS.

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE CITY.
The occasion of her Majesty honouring the entertain-
ment of the city of London on Wednesday evening next,
at Guildhall, bids fair to surpass anything of the kind
that was perhaps ever witnessed in this country. We
are in a position to state positively that her Majesty has
fixed the period of her arrival at Guildhall for half-past
nine o'clock. The order observed will be semi-state.
Nearly the process
on®r Majesty's household will take
part in the prion, which will leave Buckingham
Palace a few minutes before nine o'clock.
The entire line of road from Buckingham Palace to the
Guildhall will be kept by the police and the Ist and 2d
Life Guards. The approach to the Royal entrance of the
hall in King-street will bo lined by the corps of the lion.
Artillery Company, whose band, with that of the Life
Guards, will be stationed in the open space between the
church of St. Lawrence, Jewry, and the Irish Chamber.
On her Majesty alighting, she will be received by the
Lord Mayor, Recorder, and the other civic ofliceri. The
intermediate approach to the throne will be lined by the
lion. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, the Yeomen of the
Guard being also in attendance in the passages which
the Queen will traverse.
The streets will be cleared at six o'clock, end barriers
erected, and at balf-past six o'clock the hall will be opened
for the reception of visitors. The number of invitations
has been confined to 2,500. The Mansion House and all
trine the public buildings will be brilliantly illuminated.

The undermentioned sums have been awarded to
the following general officers, as rewards for distinguished
services :—Lieut.-General Lloyd, 2001. per annum;
General C. Gordon, 2001. ; Major-General Ayhner, :2001. ;
Major-General Sir de Lacy Evans, ; hisjor-General
Eleatiag, 1001,i aajor.uenerg Duciachiap, 1001.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
Henry Dimsdale was called upon to surrender and
take his trial for an assault.
The defendant, it will be remembered, had a true bill
returned against him and other parties at the last session,
for a series of assaults, by pelting persons with eggs,
upon the return from the Oaks' Races.
Mr. BALLANTINE, who appeared for the defendant,
said that he was at present confined in the Queen's
Bench Prison upon civil process, and the prosecutor had
not taken the ordinary course of bringing him here by
habeas to take his trial. Ho, consequently, was not in
attendance, and as there wore other parties included iu
the indictment, it would probably be better that the
whole of the cases should be disposed of together.
The trial was accordingly ordered to stand over.
Edward Pontifes, 38, pleaded guilty to a charge of
embezzling three several sums of 6d., the property of
Philip Pound and another, his masters.
Mr. BALLANTINE, who was for the prosecution, in-
formed the Court that the prosecutors were omnibus
proprietors, and in consequence of the absence of the
regular conductor, the prisoner had been employed to
act in his place with en omnibus plying to the Exhibi-
tion. He only went one journey, during which he re-
ceived fourteen shillings, and upon arriving et the ter-
mination of the journey, he very coolly appropriated the
whole amount to himself, and refused to give up a single
farthing.
The RECORDER said it was a very impudent robbery,
and it was fertunate for the prisoner that nothing was
known to his prejudice before, or he would have been
much more severely punished. He then sentenced him
to bo imprisoned, and kept to hard labour, for three
months.
Robert Young, 38, was indicted for embezzling money,
the property of his employers, Messrs. Squire and
M'Cullocb.
Mr. Robinson prosecuted; Mr. Parry was for the
defence.
The prisoner, it appeared, bad been in the service of
the prosecutor, who was a wholesale druggist in Bishops-
gate-street, for thirteen years, and he bad latterly been
employed as town traveller to the firm. In that capacity
he had to receive money on their account, and it was dis-
tinctly proved that he had in two instances received
money from the prosecutor's customers, which he did not
afterwards account for.
Mr. PARRY addressed the jury for the prisoner, and
called several respectable witnesses, who gave him a
high character for integrity and honourable conduct.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty, but strongly re-
commended the prisoner to mercy, on account of his pre-
vious good character.
In answer to a question put by the RECORDER Mr.
squire stated that he had reason to believe that the total
amount embezzled by the prisoner was at least SOO/.
The REconi)en said he would take time to consider
what sentence ought to be pronounced.
James Smith, 21, was indicted for feloniously forging
and uttering a cheque for 731., with intent to defraud
the London and Westminster Bank.
Mr. Parnell prosecuted; Mr. Ballantine; defended the
prisoner.
The circumstance of the case were of rather an extra-
ordinary character. It appeared that the prisoner, who
is the son of a clergyman at Boston, St. David's, Somer-
setshire, went to the St. James's-square branch of the
London and Westminster Bank OR the 14th May, and
presented a cheque purporting to be signed by William
Lewis, one of the customers of the bank, for 731., and re-
ceived' the amount. It appeared that he had subsequently
presented another cheque of the same description for 161.,
which was also paid, and it would seem that he had on a
third occasion presented a cheque apparently drawn by
the same person for 2801., but as there were not suffi-
cient funds to meet it, the cheque was not paid, and a
communication which was thereupon made to the sup-
posed drawer of the cheque, led to the discovery of the
forgery. From subsequent inquiries that were made,
Trew, one of the city of London detective police, went to
the residence of the prisoner's father, accompanied by
Lewis, and the prisoner, on being told what ho was
charged with, at first denied that he was guilty, but
shortly afterwards he made a statement to the officer, in
which he admitted that he had forged the cheque in
question, and said that he had spent the money in riding
about, and that all that remained of it was concealed iu
the coal cellar, where the officer, upon making a search,
discovered a five-pound note, five sovereigns, and some
silver, in a bag. From questions that were put to the
bank-clerks by Mr. Ballantine, it appeared that Lewis,
the person whose name was represented to have been
forged, had kept an account with the bank for three
years, but ho had not originally been introduced by any
one, and he had never had a larger balance at any time
than two or three hundred pounds. It also appeared
that after the cheques which were alleged to be forged
had been handed over to him with his pass-book, two
or three days elapsed before he returned them, with the
representation that they were forged.
William Lewis, the person referred to, was called to
prove the forgery. He described himself as a jeweller, car-
rying on business at 42, Gloucester-street, Queen-square,
Bloomsbury. He said that he kept an account at the
London and Westminster Bank, St. James's branch, 00d'
the cheque for 731. was not his handwriting, and
not been written with his authority. He made the eas:du
statement with regard to the 161. cheque, and )51
his belief that both the cheques were in the
of the prisoner. rare cross.ex-
The witness was subjected to a mostvase egeeldwrreiting
amination by Mr. Ballantine, but 17.7 seed as much as
was not until the
'that if he, did not
possible giving a direct answer;
"Loner that he would-
Recorder interfered, and throve
that an evidence
answer the questions in A r,
take measures to compel him At
At length it was elicited
could be extracted from him
e *vas a witness in this
from him that in 1847 b - court
who were charged with
against three persons . , robbing a
d Jerrie of a large sum of move b
a gentleman named he he said that he hy yd
cheating at cards, a • h- been concerne_
~,ou by going to Cremorne Gardens with
upon the occ..
to " pick up a flat "and that Isubse-
quentlyone of the parties
of
the
, he
at
tr, one
asset the othersmeetings packed the cards
•
so ascarrying out their
sch, me of plunder; and when the charge was
preferred against them he turned round agaiuet
Ins companions and gave evidence for the prosecution.
fie said that he believed the other parties swindled
Kerrie out of 1,0001.; but he said he had nothing to do
with it. He then proceeded to state that he first met
the prisoner at Neath, at an hotel, and that he was aware
that at that time he was an undergraduate of one of the
colleges at Oxford. When he was at Neath he was en-

These sessions commenced yesterday at the Sessions-
house, Newington-causeway, before Thomas Puckle,
E:q., chairman, Charles Francis, Esq., and other ma-
gistrates. The calendar was rather light, containing
only forty-two prisoners for trial, owing to the quarter-
sessions having only terminated on Saturday at Guild-
ford.
Elizabeth Brown, 22, was indicted for stealing, in
Vauxhall-gardens, the silver top of a smelling bottle,
the property of Thomas Lawson, from the person of
Harriet Lawson. She was also indicted for stealing a
purse containing 16s. 6d. from Jane Lawson, in the same
place.
Michael Hayden, an officer of the City police, said
that on the evening of the 15th of June he was in Vaux-
hall-gardens watching the company. As the balloon
was about to ascend he perceived the prisoner follow
several ladies, and try their pockets. She then pro-
ceeded towards a fountain, and deposited something
behind a shrub, after which she walked away. Witness
went to the fountain and found a purse, which induced
him to communicate with the inspector on duty, Mr.
Cowling, respecting the prisoner's conduct. They ac-
cordingly followed her at a short distance, watching her
actions, when they saw her put her hands under
Mrs. Lawson's Nisite and t,:ke something from
her pocket. She was immediately seized, and the silver
top ut.. the smelling-bottle was found in her hand. She
was then convoyed with al possible haste to the police-
station, and searched, wl...sin a purse containing 7/. 104.
and twenty franc pieces was found on her; also two :100
franc notes and and another purse containing 16s. 61.
which Miss Lawson identified, and in her gtove was 10s.,
all of which she had adroitly stolen that evening..
Owners were f_,und for the French money. but being
foreigners and
up to them, on their proving its identity.
Mrs. Lawson stated that she was looking at the bal-
loon with her husband and sister, when last witness came
up to her and asked hrr whether she had lost anything.
She put her hand in her pocket and found her smelling-
bottle, but missed the top. That now produced was
the one she lost.

Miss Lawson identified the purse as her property.
As soon as her sister-in-law found she had been robbed,
she put her hand in her pocket and missed it and the
contents.
In defence the prisoner said site found the things all
tied up in a corner of the. gardens.
The jury, without the least hesitation, found her
Guilty, and tho Court sentenced her to nine months hard
labour at Brixton.