The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-20 00:00:00

1-.)oj ICE INrEtilIGENCE—March. 19.
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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Mr. Rendall, corn-
cutter, Regent-street, was summoned before Mr. Bing-
ham for assaulting Mr. Bernard, another corn•cutter,
in Regent street.
Mr. Sleigh for the complainant, and Mr. Lewis for
the defendant.
Mr. Sleigh said, on account of the serious nature of
the assault, he wished the magistrate to Fend the case to
the sessions.
Mr. Lewis wished the case to be disposed of sum-
marily.
Mr. Bernard said be was a chiropodist in Regent.
street, living a short distance from My. Randall, who
was is the s one business. Each had a large brass plate
indicating his name and occupation. On Tuesday the
defendant came to his house armed with a whip, and
after a short parley, seized him by the hair of his head,
tore out some of his hair, and struck him repeatedly on
the head and body with the whip. A person by whom
the defendant was a cornpanied prevented complainant's
wife from coming to his assistance. His hand was cut
by the whip, and his wife i❑ attempting to assist him
was flogged unmercifully. Knew of no cause for the
assault.
Cross-examined—The defendant was a cornmutter in
the Quadrant. Before he set up business there, persons
sometimes called at his house, mistaking it for the de-
fendant's, and he had invited them upstairs to the con-
sulting•rootn. A person called the previous day, and
inquired for a Mr. Renda►.l ; and he replied that the
scamp did not live there.. Had also told people that
Mr. Rendall had gone to Scotland. There was another
Mr. Rendall in the street, who had gone to Scotland.
The offensive remarks were applied to that Mr. Rendall.
When the defendant called, he said, " Where is that
scoundrel?" and then knocking his wife on one side, he
rushed upstairs to get at him. He was nearly stunned
by the violence he was subjected to, and be had not re-
taliated on the defendant. It was the butt end of the
whip with which he was struck.
Mrs. Bernard gave evidence similar to that of her
husband.

Cross•examined--Did not Nee her husband kick the
defendant. But all three rolled down stairs together.
Mr. Morgan, surgeon—Examined the complainant,
and found severe bruises and a serious internal injury.
Mr.:. Bernard was also very much injured.
Mr. Lewis said in such cases there was always consi-
derable exaggeration. It was in fact but another illus-
tration of the accuracy of the old adage, "Two of a
trade," &c. The parties lived near each other, carrying
on the same business, and this occasioned frequent mis•
takes on the part of customers, which led to the subse-
quent events.

- Oa behalf of the defendant, Mr. Gowan, surgeon, said
he fund an injury of the leg on examining the defendant,
which injury had apparently proceeded from a kick.
A. witness proved that when be called on Mr. Bernard
and asked for Mr. Rendall, the reply was, "No such ---
scoundrel lived there." Went with the defendant to Mr,
Bernard's house for an explanation. Saw Mr. Bernard
kick Mr. Randall, and then Mr. Kendall struck com•
plainant with the lash of the whip, not the butt end. Did
not see Mr. Bernard struck, but saw Mr. Bernard strike
Mr. Rendall.

Mr. Bingham thought that the defendant had been re.
ceived with a kick, and had reOrted by Om; the kicker
a too severe horse-whipping. He should send the case to
the sessions.

LAMBETH. —Lucy Contsablc, who had been in cus•
tody for upwards of a fortnight on a charge of wilfully
inflicting a Wound upon her throat and hand, under cir-
cumstances already reported i❑ The Sun, was brought up
for final examination.

Sergeant Coppin informed lfr. Elliott that he bad no
more evidence to offer, and the prisoner was ordered to
be discharged. She seemed delighted at being restored
to liberty, and hurried out of the dock to join her friends,
who were present for the purpose of taking her back to
Tunbridge, to which she t,elongs.
Owing to the reluctance manifested by the prisoner to
give a minute deecriptiou of the young man whom she

MANSION HOUSE.—Charles IVileox, a powerful
ru.m, about 38 years of age, was brought before Alder-
man Wire, charge,' with having deserted from three dif-
ferent regiments, the last regiment being the Royal Ar-
tillery.

The defendant said he was a deserter from two other
regiments, but he was merely absent frzma the Royal Ar-
tillery without leave.

H® was ordered to be handed over to the War Office,
according to the usual form.
James Allcott, a man of respectable appearance, was
brought up charged with having threatened to stab his
wife with a dagger.
Mrs. Allcott said her husband came home drunk, and
after using strong language to her and to her son, pro-
duced a large knife like a dagger, and threatened to use
it upon her. He then broka two mirrors which were in
the drawing-room and smashed the chain; and tables.
The defendant said he was jealous of his wife, in con-
sequence of her unjustifiable attachment to a young man,
and he felt v(ry much annoyed at the preference she
gave that person.

Alderman Wire said the defendant and his wife were
rather too old to be affected by the passion they spoke of.
The policeman 'who apprehended the man said the
couple had been married only 6 weeks. (A laugh.)
Alderman Wire—l hold you to bail in two sureties of
50/. each.
Defendant—l never meant to hurt her, and she
knows it. - _
Complainant—You know I would not hurt you, but
there is no possibility of standing such dreadful treat-
ment.

The defendant wal.then sent to prison.
The dagger was quite enough to frighten anybody
when in thlYtancie.a..a4nan drunk either with liquor or
with jealousy.
POW-ST kpray alias Hawkins, an Irish
basket-wom, § Charged by Johanna Conway (also
an Irishwom n) with stealing a basket containing 100
oranges.

It appeared that the complainant, wbo keeps a fruit
stand in Conduit-street, Grosvenor-square, had been to
Covent-garden to lay in a stock of fruit. Having pur-
chased a hundred oranges, she left them at the Britannia
public-house, in James-street, while she returned for
some other articles. In her absence the prisoner entered,
and seeing the basket with no one taking care of it, she
hoisted it on her head and waled;off with it. In a few
minutes prosecutrix returned, and missing her property
set up a great outcry, upon which a bystander informed
her that a woman had just taken it away, and had been
seen to turn into Hart-street with it. She started in pur-
suit, and in Hart-street overtook the prisoner, who in-
sisted that she (prosecutrix) had employed her to carry
it home for her.
Prisoner, in defence, pretested that this was the
truth, but the magistrate, giving no credit to the story,
remanded her that due inquiry might be made as to her
character and antecedents.

The clerk to the Senate of the London University, Mr.
Henry Moore, waited upon Mr. Jardine, in consequence
of a communication from his worship, to give his opini
of the genuineness of a document purporting to be a cer-
tificate or diploma of the University.•
This instrument, whicli was very carefully written on
parchment, and professed to confer the degree of M.D.
on " The Count Gustavus Paul Charles de Beaufort,"
was presented . t this court on the previous day by a
well-dressed .• ) r sniel by an interpreter.
The foreignet- 7%.•-.6;',0f the officers wrote the
name "C. NelEen,'.l" a memorandum to the effect that
the signatures to,the body of the certificate were genuine,
and his purpose was to have this declaration counter-
signed by the. magistrate. The form of the instrument,
however, excitect suspicion, and it wa; detained until
inquiries could be made.

Mr. Moore, oil. seeing the "diploma," said it did not
in any way resernle the genuine diplomas of the
Uni-
versity ; nor were any of the names attached to it tho,e
of officers of the university, or of persons in any way
known to hire. The genuine diplomas were signed by
the Chancellor, the Earl of Burlington
Mr. Jardine observed that the document bore marks
of falsehood on the face of it, but still he had no doubt
that if his signature, and the seal of the court, could have
been obtained, it might have been made use of abroad,
where it would pass for a real English diploma.
" The Count Gustavus Paul Charles de Beaufort" did
not, of course, return to claim his diploma, which still
lies in the hands of the clerk.

WORSHIP-STREET.—John, Stuart and Thomas
Hopkins, the latter of whom was stated to be a ticket-
of-leave convict, were placed at the bar for final exami-
nation, charged with having broken into and plundered
the premises of Mr. Robert Marshall, a silk manufac-
turer, in Spital-square.
The prosecutor stated that shortly after one o'clock
on the afternoon of Wednesday, the 20th ult., he left his
warehouse for a short time, according to his usual prac-
tice at that hour, after carefully locking the outer door,
which appeared in the same state of security on his re-
turn in three-quarters of an hour, but, on admitting him-
self with the key, he discovered that the premises had
been thoroughly ransacked during his absence, all the
drawers and boxes having been forced open, and that a
quantity of manufactured silk and velvet, of the value of
4001., had been carried off by the thieves. A reward of
50/. had been subsequently offered for the detection of
the delinquents, which ultimately led to the apprehen-
sion of the prisoners, but not the slightest vestige of the
stolen property had since been traced.
Thomas Levesque, a warehouseman employed at a
manufactory in Spital-square, stated that about ten
minutes before two o'clock on the afternoon in que,tion,
he saw two men stealthily emerge from the prosecutor's
warehouse, each of whom was carrying a bulky bag,
with which they proceeded to the corn, r of an adjoining
street, and having deposited the sacks in a light cart
which was waiting there in charge of a third man, they
drove rapidly off with the booty.
Three other persons, named Thomas Bowler, John
James, and Robert Dyer, gave corroborative evidence,
and positively identified the prisoners as the two men
referred to by the last witness, which they were en-
abled to do without hesitation, from having seen them
loitering about the neighbourhood at the same hour for
three weeks previous to the commission of the robbery.
Sergeant Jackson, of the H division, stated that, in
conjunction with Whicher, an active detective officer, he
succeeded in apprehending the prisoners in the Kings•
land road, and after lodging them in the cell at the
station-house, the prisoner Stuart was deteoted in the
act of tearing up some paper, the fragments of which
were collected and put together in the presence of the
prosecutor, who at once recognised it as a ticket bear-
ing the private mark, which had been attached to a por-
tion of the inis,ing property.
The prisoners, who reserved their defence, under the
advice of Mr. Wontner, their solicitor, were ordered to
be committed for trial.