The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-22 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BO W-STREET. oe.
Yesterday a shabbily-dressed woman, of middle ae t
named Anne Adams, was charged with havin,g stolen agile:4
number of splendidly-bound popular works, the property
Messrs. Ackermann, publishers, in the Strand.
Mr. Flower, of the firm of Alderman Harmer, Flo'.':
,
and Co., attended for the prosecution, and Mr. Htimphr e'
for the prisoner.
The prisoner was in the service of Messrs. A.ckermanbille
and in consequence of a great many books of a VajtilF;rq
kind being mixed, suspicion fell upon her ; en her vct'L';
searched, several pawnbrokers' duplicates for copies °f. 14,
" Forget Me Not," for 1835, Illustrations of Lord
ron's Works," and other books, were found upon her•
officer who took her into custedy also found duplicates 9,1
table-cloths and other household property, which hel°'4bee
to the prosecutors, and which the prisoner admitted s
had taken away and pawned. •
A pawnbroker produced three copies of the Forget •
Not," and one volume of the " Illustrations of BYrt!r;
Works," most beautifully bound, and said the former 1,,,
pawned for .55., and the Litter for the same sum. °e 5'
produced a table cloth.
Mr. Ackermann, jun., in answer to a question from ',Do
Halls, said the books contained in the title page the ed
of the publisher, and that the value of the four predel

was 3/.
Mr. HALLS asked where the pawnbroker lived, "a t'‘.r.
told in Brydges-street, Covent-garden, upon vvhich
worthy Magistrate strongly condemned the conduct of '
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shopman who took the books ` in pledge, and said the 161',
he could have done, seeing that the books were quite ne
and knowing that the publisher lived at a short distanceej
would have been to make some inquiry before he advane
money upon them. Committed.

HATTON-GARDEN.
Yesterday Richard Stephens was brought before Me
LAING and BENNETT on a warrant, in the custody of 131s1;;,
the beadle of Clerkenwell parish, charged by Mari 3
pliens, his wife, with having deserted her and child,

years of age.

Mr. Hal, the Assistant Overseer of the parish, El
not have brought the present case before their W°l
had it not been a very novel one under the New

Law Amendment Act.

The defendant had desert'

wife • and child, and had become chargeable to the P,45
in consequence of their having been relieved. Tbe37,o
clause stated that after the passing of the Act all relief Offl
to or on account of the wife, or to or on account ef,„%j
child or children under the age of sixteen, not being
or deaf and dumb, shall be considered as relief given t° !;1,
husband of such wife, or to the father of such child or 04
dren, &c. The 3d section, 79th clause states, " end bO,
further enacted, that from and after the first day of
vember, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, der
poor person shall be removed or removable under anY erbi
of removal from any parish or workhouse by reason °r
ra
being chargeable to or relieved therein until 21 days a'"eac.
notice in writing of his being so chargeable or relieved,e
companied by a copy or counterpart of the order of
t!"100
moval of such person, and by a copy of the exaraiea
upon which such order was made, shall have been sept he
post or otherwise by the Overseers or Guardians of t.,,h
parish obtaining such order, or any three or more of s'eh
Guardians, to the Overseers of the parish to whore,!er.
order shall be directed, provided always that if such us re
seers or Guardians as last aforesaid, or any other or uleee
of such Guardians shall by writing under their hands agrfi,
to submit to such order, and to relieve such poor Pel.°o
it shall be lawful to remove such poor person accoraieg 0•.•
the tenor of such order, although the said period of oven 'O,
one days may not have elapsed. Provided also that if '1„
tice of appeal against such order of removal shall be Ito
ceived by the Overseers or Guardians of the parish ree!
which such poor person is directed in such order to be
alt
moved within the said period of twenty-one days it abbe
not be lawful to remove such poor person until after .ri
time for prosecuting such appeal shall have expired, 01.',101
case such appeal shall be duly prosecuted, until after
final determination of such appeal."
Mr. Hill, according to the above clause, could n°l re'
move the prisoner to his settlement until twenty-one ial:
after the notice. He was at a loss to- know whether ta',;„
would be justified in detaining the prisoner in the workb°ll'
for the twenty-one days.
The prisoner was taken to the outer Office, and his es;
urination taken, when his legal settlement proved to be
Luke's parish, where he lived with his father 19 years
On being brought again before the Magistrates,
Mr. LAING read over his examination, and asked ri'!l,,
what he had to say why he bad deserted his wife ?
prisoner said, " Indeed I did not desert her, she left IV'
The wife denied this emphatically.
Mr. LAING—I give you your choice of two things, 'ti,
to be committed to prison and hard labour, or go t°
workhouse.
The prisoner was then taken out by the parish °'-ce
but accompanied them with considerable reluctance.

QUEEN- SQUARE. if sirs.
Yesterday, Sarah Myers was &urged before °''e4
WHITE and HEATIICOTE, with assaulting John Nien°j,l:oll,-
one of the beadles of St. Margaret's parish, under the f°'
ing circumstances :--
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Nicholson stated that he was beadle and clerk t°.„,,,
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overseers of St. Margaret's parish. Yesterday
about seven o'clock, the defendant came to the workh°
very drunk, for relief; which was refused. She VI oulci:itilt
go away, and she was put out three times ; but elle air
persisted in forcing an entrance, and created a greati;eo
turbance, till they were compelled to send for the 10;o.
who took her into custody. On the road to the 08'101
house she grossly abused him, and spat in his face s;;c:1
times. At the station-house she took her shoe es' -Dig
struck him a violent blow with the heel of her shoe on
nose, which bled profusely for a considerable time. the
The defendant, in reply, for the last fortnight had ;rhe
destitute, and had neither food nor a home to go to.
and
overseer had allowed her to sleep in the workhouse ; er
on the previous day she met with a friend, who treated noi
to part of two pints of porter, and then gave her a glassot
gin, which quite overcame her. Nicholson shoved her 0
of the workhouse like a dog, and nearly tore all the r°to
she had on her back off. This treatment provoked her
strike him.
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In ansver to a question she said that she was a 101:3,-,.lea
woman, but had separated from her husband about '
months ago.
-Mr. WHlTE—Where is your husband? Defendant
believe be is somewhere about 'Westminster.
Inspector Grassmith of the B division said that the 1III".56;
band lived in St. Ann's-lane ; they were two of the °
drunken dissolute characters about the neighbourhood'
Mr. WHITE said that such conduct could be suffer ea
and fined her 10s. ; in default she was committed for sev
days to the House of Correction. 1
Defendant—You had better make it a twelvemontil*
hope you will order me something to eat, for I've had
thing since yesterday.
The defendant was then locked up.
UNION-HALL. • t
Yesterday Mr. S. Channell,.a nurseryman and figls an
bhe Waralsworth-road; was brought up on a l'it'•
charged with levelling: a gun at Thomas Palston, and tyre
ening to shoot him. After hearing evidence,
The defendant was held to bail.
LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, NOV. A 047
We have experience& a very animated demand to-daly, an7Ver
quote American Cotton id. per lb., above last week' boo'
put down the sales at 8,000 bales, of which speculators 00
taken 3,000 bales (American). Our stock is now 122'
bales of all kinds, Boweds sold at 10id. to-day. W
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NOVEL CONTENTMENT.--A monk who tri-
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convert the people of Fida, in Africa, told one of theulAtbei
"if the Fidasians continued their old course of lee, -1;'
would e/
unavoidably go to hell, in order to burn with the d.l sa
the Fidasian replied, " Our fathers, and grandfathers,. t°,o
endless number, lived as we do, and worshipped tfie sa,:ot
gods ; if they must burn, therefore, patience : we arf with
better than our ancestors, and shall comfort ourfielve'
them."—Bosnian.
BIRTHS. ~ tf 110
On the 18th inst., at the Vicarage, Horshair, the lacll—
H. W. Simpson, of a son. 954/
On the 20th inst., at Uprninster, Essei„ the lady 0-
f
Sterry, Esq., of a son. -
On the 20th inst., Mrs. Corder y New Br; dge-street, of altilef'
On the 21st inst., in D'Aop-siate-strr,et-within, Mrs'
Beale, of a daughter. 0130
In Albany-street, P!egent's-park, Mrs. J. Hogg, of a son,
died soon after its I.jirth.. `l% lare•
On the 19th nst., at Ramsgate, the lady of tie Rev. E!
Baylay, of •11, daughter.

MARRIED. , „ -
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On the 21st inst., at St. Alarylebone New Church, after
been first married according to the rites of the Roman C3L."ty
Church, Francis J. Van Zeller Esq., her Most Faithful. 31'lisevy
Consul General in the United Kingdom, to Dorothea, secondd
ter of the late Henry Van Zeller, Esq., of Oporto.
On the 20th inst., at Crowcombe, Thomas Cridland Lux
Esq., of Weacomb House, Somerset, to Mary Anne, second (11101
ter of George Henry Carew, Esq., of Crowcombe Court, in
same county. ;
On the 11th inst., at Kilve, Somerset, Captain R. CodnuE,„l,o
Bengal army, to Susan Elizabeth, third daughter of the Rev. '
Matthew, Rector of Kilve and Strinxton.

DIED. •;
On the 20th inst., at Buckden in his 81st year, Margaret, Lo
ct
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of the late John Green, Esq., and mother of the lady of the
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Bishop of Chichester. ! •
On the 19th inst., at Bury St. Edmund's, Mary, the %v. An11'
101
the late William Dawson, Esq., and sister of the late Thos, 311
Esq., of Great Saxham Hall, Suffolk. ~
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