The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-19 00:00:00

MANSION-HOITSE. —Ferdinand Leaden; a fo-
reigner, was brought before Alderman Wire upon a
remarkable charge.
Mr. John Lipscomb, clerk to Mr. Henry Pearson
Maples, of No. 5, Arthur-street, said—On the 25th of
March I received from the traffic manager of a railway
with which the firm is connected a letter in the prisoner's
handwriting, requiring compensation for the loss of a
carpet-bag, and two or three days afterwards I saw him,
and he told me he bad registered his carpet bag in Paris,
paging the customary fee of one shilling. I had then the
ticket in my possession, and I showed it to him. He
observed to me that he had had two bags, one of which
he had registered, and the other he bad wearing round
him as a pouch ; and he also raid that be bad not
seen the carpet bag after he had left Paris, but a com-
panion of his voyage had told him that his bag was out-
side the Custom-house at Newhaven, and he had better
take it. He mentioned that he told his friend that his
bag having been registered for London he had no con-
trol over it till it reached London. I told him that
every endeavour had been made to recover his bag, and
that we should persevere in our efforts. He afterwards
called two or three times, and on one occasion he pro-
duced an invoice which bad been given back to him,
and which he stated was a receipted invoice of articles
he had purchased at Chester, and which he had been
obliged to purchase in consequence of the loss of his
carpet bag and its contents. He asked me then to pay
him 10/. on account of the 191. which he claimdcl as com-
pensation for his lost bag and clothes, I returned him
his invoice, and told him I could make no arrange.
ment of that kind. On the 29th of March he called
again, and all efforts to find the bag were unavailing.
I, believing that be had really lost his bag, offered him
as a compromise the sum of 101., which he accepted, and
for which he gave me a receipt. We have ascertained
that he subsequently made a claim for the balance of his
demand to the managers of the French Railway, between
which and the English Railway there exists an arrange-
ment.
Alderman Wire—Has the registered bag been found ?
Witness—lt has been found in the prisoner's posses-
sion. I shall be able to prove that the bag produced by
the officer who apprehended the prisoner bears the coun-
terpart of the ticket for the bag upon which the prisoner
claimed this compensation. I present last night at
the prisoner's lodgings at 40, King William-street, City,
when the bag produced was found in the chamber occu-
pied by him. There has been au attempt to obliterate
the indication on the ticket, but the identity has not
been destroyed. Its contents, which consisted of cloth-
ing and documents, were examined, and the bag was
found to have the custom-house nark upon it.
A metropolitan detective officer who took the prisoner
into custody said that some of the clothes which the
preotker eleael. got *._Cittter,..,at4d rjiirtjA3B4ns been
paid for, were fomid in are bwr, .na requeiteZ that time
should be allowed to get together the witnesses.
Alderman Wire said that the officer should be supplied
with all the necessary facilities for completing a case of
such public importance, and remanded the prisoner, who
by the advice of his solicitor made no answer to or com-
ment upon the e..iarge.

WORSHIP-STREET.—William Barber was charged
on remand with stealing 6 sovereigns from the person of
Mrs. Matilda Wright, in one of the Stoke Newington
omnibuses.
The evidence given on the former occasion was, that
on Monday, the 7th inst., the prisoner entered the vehi-
cle on its starting for town, taking his seat next the door.
Mrs. Wright, who resides at Dalston, got in at Kings-
land-gate, and took the only vacant sitting by his side.
Prisoner apps _red busy during the journey reading a
ve.v.paper, and alighted near Shoreditch Church. Mrs.
Wright almost instantly missed 6 sovereigns from her
dress-pocket, which had been cut by some sharp instru-
ment, the porte-monnaie containing the gold being still
in the pocket.
Jones, the conductor of the omnibus, deposed to the
accused being a frequent passenger of his to and from
town, and gave such such information as led to his appre-
hension three days after the robbery.
Another lady, named Abbott, was now in attendance
to describe a precisely similar depredation upon her in
one of the Kingsland omnibuses a few weeks since by a
man in every respect answering the description of the
prisoner, who, from his sober suit and white neckcloth,
she mistook for a Dissenting minister. His features, as
on the other occasion, were concealed by an unfolded
newspaper, which partly covered her dress, as he ap-
peared intent on reading it ; but after he alighted she
found her dress cut and a silk purse, containing seven
sovereigns and some silver, was missing.
Inspector Drennan, of the G division, said that he had
known the prisoner for many years to have been carrying
on this system of plunder, and he had frequently seen
him tried at the sessions and charged at the police
courts. Witness believed he had been transported, but
could not at present adduce evidence on that point.
Mr. Hat/mill intimated his intention to further re-
mand the accused.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Mr. Frederick New-
ell/tam, the historical painter, was brought to this court
for the purpose of having the magistrate's order to re-
move him to a lunatic asylum, the unfortunate gentle-
man having recently manifested unequivocal symptoms
of aberration of intellect, which renders restraint an
indiepsosable proceeding.
A. day or two ago Mr. Newenham went into Mr.
Graves's shop, and used such threats as led Mr. Graves
to believe that some mischief would result in Mr. New-
enham being at large. An application, it was under-
stood, was made to Bethlehem Hospital, but there were
difficulties in the way which prevented the authorities
from receiving him. The asylum at Peckham was then
applied to, and arrangements were made for sending
him there. The delusion under which Mr. Newenham
labours appears to be of a very singular character. One
of leis mania is, that he conceives himself to be the firl
historical painter in the world ; another, that he has
discovered the way to pay off the national debt ; and a
third, that he is the Prince Imperial of Austria. The
following letter, among other epistles to high personages,
was directed to Lord Palmerston :
" 72, Newman-street, the 16th day of Ai
" Beloved and most respected Lord,—l believe I possess
the means of clearing off the national debt at one fell swoop.
I know not as yet of the means I may possess of doing so,
but will convey the precise position I am in in a week from
this, when I will communicate with you through the Emperor
of Austria.

"My dear and most respected lord, your truly hutnble
servant, " FREDERICK NEWENHAM,
" Prince Imperial of Austria.

The Viscount Palmerston."

Whin brought to this court Mr. Balderston and Mr.
Tucker, the late and present district surgeons, were
tilled on to pronounce upon the state of his mind.
Mr. Newenham, who appeared with a' smiling counte-
nance, and conversed freely and with seeming ration-
ality, expressed his desire to make his plan for paying
ff the national debt publicly known, as that would serve
to convince the world that he was in possession of his
rational faculties.
Mr. Newenham having been encouraged to explain
himself sa4l—Belonging as he did to the House of Haps-
burg, and born as his registry would prove in the year
ten thousand and two, his bi-reditary revenues as Prince
of Prussia amounted to a million a year, or thereabouts—
he could not speak as to a pound or two more or less.
This revenue he proposed to allow to accumulate-for 100
years at compound interest, and this, according to his
calculation, would produce such a sum as would enable
him to pay off the national debt slap, and leave him a
trifle or so of a few hundred millions to devote to other
patriotic purposes. He hoped the explanation he had
now given would sufficiently show the state of his intel-
lects.

The medical gentlemen having given their certificates,
Mr. Bingham made the usual ostler, and Mr. Newen-
ham was removed in the company of two lunatic asylum
keepers.

THAMES.—Mr. Charles Clarke, the landlord of the
Royal Oak public-house, in Plummer's-row, White-
chapel, wag charged with having his house open for the
sale of spirituous liquors and beer after 12 o'clock on
Saturday night last.
After hearing the evidence,
Mr. Selfe said—l have no hesitation in saying that if
there were no other grounds for taking out the summons
than those mentioned it might have been spared. Pub-
Beans must have a reasonable time allowed them to clear
their houses, and police-officers, who are public servants,
should not prefer frivolous and vexatious informations
against any one.

A deputation from the Associate Institution for Im-
proving and Enforcing the Laws for the Protection of
Women had an interview yesterday with Lord Robert
Grosvenor, M.P., at his residence in Park-street, on the
provisions of a bill for the more effectual suppression of
brothels. The deputation consisted of the Rev. W. G.
Cookesley, M.A., Rev. R. Plumptre, M. A , Mr. J. E.
Davis, barrister-at-law ; Mr. W. Shaen, M.A., solicitor ;
and Mr. Newman, the secretary.
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