The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-23 00:00:00

QUEEN-SQUARE.

Yesterday William Pullen and Elizabeth Denton
was charged with robbing the shop of Mr. John
Smith, linen-draper, No. 19, Shaftesbury-terrace,
Pimlico, of various articles of property; and Mar-
garet Denton, of No. 30, Burnett-street, Lambeth,
the mother of the female prisoner, was charged with
receiving the goods, well knowing the same to be
stolen.

A great quantity of linen-drapery was here pro-
duced, which was identified by the prosecutor.
The prisoners, by the advice of their solicitor,
Mr. Humphries, said nothing, and they were re-
manded. Mr. Smith was quite unable to state the
amount of his loss.
HATTON-GARDEN.

Yesterday Thomas Coppin, an elderly man; Eliza
Hopkins, his daughter, about 20 years of age; Sa-
muel Langan, aged 23; and Charles Pott, aged 21,
were brought before Mr. ROGERS for final examina-
tion, charged by Mr. William Hill, umbrella-maker
and tobacconist, of 88, Goswell-street, Clerkenwell,
with a daring burglary in his house.
The prisoners denied the charge, but they were
fully committed for trial.
The prisoners were now charged with a burglary
in the house of Mr. Cowen, tool and box manufac-
turer, of 31, Goswell-street, who identified a quan-
tity of boxes, &c., found in Coppin's house.
Fry, of G. division, produced the properly, which
was sworn to by the prosecutor.

The prisoners were remanded for the production
of further evidence.
L AMBETH- STREET.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—Yesterday Henry Eames,
Mary Anne Harris, Sarah Harrington, John Har-
rington, John Harris, William James, and John
Taylor, were charged with entering a bedroom in
the Maid and Magpie public-house on Stepney-
green, and s►ealing therefrom cash, bank-notes, and
other property, amounting to nearly 4001.
Eames, with the females, were remanded, and the
others discharged.
CHARGE OF ARSON.—Jane Walls, the girl who
stood remanded on a charge of arson, in having set
fire to the dwelling-house of Mr. Stones, a respect-
able farmer, residing at Barkingside, Eseex, was
brought up for final examination.
The evidence of the witnesses was taken, and
the youthful prisoner committed to take her trial at
the next Chelmsford Assizes.

On the application of Mr. Flower, she was ad,
milted to bail, and taken home by her friends.

THAMES-P 0 LICE.

Robert Smallwood, a sailor, was charged with
assaulting two decent young girls, named Sarah
Wybrow and az ibeth M‘Donald, and robbing one
of them of a shawl. The prisoner was also charged
with attempting to stab a policemen named Murray,
who took him into custody.
Mr. BALLANTINE, after hearing the evidence,
convicted the prisoner in the full penalty of 51. for
the assault, and in default of payment sentenced
him to two months' imprisonment.

EXTRAORDINARY PRODUCE.—A gentle-
man near Hambledon, in Sept. 1832, planted four oats,
horn which were gathered 53 stems, containing eight
thousand, six hundred, and sixteen I •

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Thames-Bank General Dispensary, situated in Holy-
well-street, Millbank, the humane objects of which
institution were briefly noticed in the Times of yes,
terday. ad in
Lord HENLEY having been unanimously voted
into the chair, explained, in a short speech, the
purpose for which the meeting had been convened.
He stated that be was fully aware that he needed
not, on the present occasion, enlarge on the duty of
the affluent to relieve the wants and administer to
the comforts of their indigent fellow-beings; but he
thought it necessary to observe that the class
of persons for whose succour the projected asylum
was intended had peculiar claims on the considera-
tion of the benevolent. There was scarcely a body
of individuals exposed to severer privations than
the watei men, fishermen, and others employed about
the River Thames ; and, in the winter season,
particularly, the misery of many of them was
abject in the extreme. So long as a year and
a half ago the necessity was felt of providing
some means of assistance for this useful and industri-
ous class of men ; and the Lords of the Admiralty,
on application being made to them, furnished a ship
to be used as a floating hospital; but that under-
taking had, for reasons with which he would not
then trouble the meeting, failed : and the present
institution had sprung up to supply its place: As
a proof of the utility of this charity, and the ex-
tensive good %% Ilia it effected, he needed only to say
that during the first ten months of its opera'ion,
nearly 4,000 patients had been relieved.—(Ap-
plause.) This, he repeated, was incontrovertible
evidence of its utility, and he earnestly trusted that
an institution which had proved itself, even in its
infant state, to be so extensively beneficial, would
not be suffered to sink from want of support.--
(Applause.)

The Secretary then read the report of the provi-
sional committee, from which it appeared that,
during the last ten months, no less than 3,970 of
the most distressed portion of the labouring poor
had received gratuitously medical advice and medi-
cines immediately upon application, many of whom,
but for the prompt assistance thus afforded, must
have perished, or been driven to the workhouse, to
become a permanent burden on the parish. The
committee then pointed out that one of the peculiar
features of the institution was the immediate relief,
without letters of recommendation, of those persons
for whose benefit the charity was established,
' and they further stated, that they had directed
their attention to the expediency of making
the Dispensary available in cases of accidents on
the river. In furtherance of this object a life-preser-
ving apparatus had been presented to them by the
Humane Society, and the Committee had the satis-
faction of stating that on the sth of August last, a
boy who had fallen into the river and was apparently
drowned was carried to the dispensary, and, by the
exertions of the medical officers of the institution,
restored to life.—(Hear, hear.) The Committee
alluded to the establishment of the Chanticleer brig
as a floating hoTital, and expressed a hope that the
removal of that vessel, in consequence of misma-
nagement, would prove a benefit instead of an in-
jury, by leading to a real and efficient, instead of an
imaginary and useless, establishment. The expenses
of the institution since its establishment were stated
to be 3621., while the receipts amounted to little
more than 1001. The Committee concluded their
report by expressing a strong feeling of confidence,
that what had hitherto been accomplished would
induce the public to place the dispensary on a secure
and permanent footing.
Resolutions were then moved by the Rev Mr.
CONNELL and the Rev. Mr. BROWN, and unani-
mously adopted, declaratory of the necessity of the
proposed establishment, and pledging the meeting
to use their best exertions in furtherance of the ob-
jects of the institution.
The Rev. Mr. DAVIS, in proposing W. Billings,
Esq., of Albion-terrace BlackfT4s,s.
uglily complimented that gentleman for the zeal
and perseverance displayed by him in promoting
this useful undertaking. His mental labour in the
cause had been so great as even to cause his confine-
ment to his room, and he had advanced about two
hundred pounds out of his own pocket towards the
payment of the expenses already incurred. So
much earnestness in the cause of humanity was highly
honourable to Mr. Billings; but it was to be hoped
that the support of the public would render such
sacrifices on the part of an individual unnecessary
for the future.—(Hear.)
The motion was then put, and carried unani-
mously.
A Committee of Management was appointed,
and thanks voted to the medical officers of the In-
stitution. _ _

On the motion of Mr. GREGORIE, the Magistrate
of Queen-square, thanks were also voted to Lord
Henley, the Chairman, who was nominated Presi-
.!ent of the Dispensary.
The amount of the annual subscriptions an-
nounced by the Secretary was above 681., and of
donations upwards of 391.

On Monday morning, between one and two
o'clock, a barn, and outhouse, in the occupation of Mr.
Joseph Kendall, Potter's-bar, near Barnet, were totally
consumed by fire. The flames were first seen issuing
from the cowhouse. The parish engine was soon on the
spot, and every exertion used to arrest the progress of the
flumes, but without effect. The fire spread and burnt
with such dreadful rapidity, that in less than an hour the
whole was reduced to a heap of ashes. There is every
reason to believe it was the work of some diabolical
incendiary.
AMERICAN MANUFACTORIES.—There are
seven hundred and ninety-five factories for spinning cotton
yarn in the United States. The amount of capital em-
ployed in them is about eight million pounds sterling ;
and their consumption of raw cotton amounts to seventy-
eight millions of pounds weight._ a a

GLASTONBURY.—On Wednesday a woman,
named Tick, was led into our market for sale by her hus-
band, Thomas Tick, and purchased for 2s. 6d. by John
Trickey, gardener at the Abbey Hotel iu this town. After
the treaty was completed, the husband was pelred by the
crowd who witnessed the disgusting ceremony.—Sher-
borne Mercury.

ENORMOUS TURNIP.—A farmer near Stock-
ton, named Metcalf, pulled a large white tankard turnip,
which measured in circumference one yard tour inehea,
and weighed 2Slbs. ; and on being scooped out, was filled
with 61 fine large apples, and then sent as a present to a
friend in this city.— Yorkshire Gazette.

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NARROW ESCAPE.—When the Right gm
shooting excursion at the seat of Mr. Macpherson Grant,
Duchess of Bedford, at the Doune. In consequence of
natined:
men were bivouacked in a sort of hut of two rooms, con-
taining beds in the recesses; and in the same place was
Oen lodged Mr. French, an Irish gentleman, likewise a
guest. They retired before midnight; but the Right
Hon. Secretary, after he had been in bed a short time,
felt a great heat in the stnall apartment, and got up to
inquire into the cause ; when, looking under his son's
bed, he perceived a strong light of fire in the adjoining
place, whicii he knew was used as a kitchen. Ntt,
however, suspecting that it had any communication with
his room, he returned to hed, but was shortly afterwards
roused by a cry of " Fire," and by the appearance of a
young ma;--a favourite servant of Mr. H. Ross—ex-
claiming, " The gunpowder is in the closet !" .By ibis
time the mattress of Mr. Ellice, jun., and the shelf on
which stood the powder, were both i❑ flames,
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actually burnt a part of the outside wrapping
paper o.i
probably have then
cannister, contai.ong neatly twelve pounds
While the Secretary sod his son were ontleavoiutang to
subdue the fire the fearless youth seized the cann ster and
this bold And re-
threw it out of the window. lint 'tor
which would have done
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soti ifieed with that of his son. Singular to say, a-th,,tighi
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