The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-23 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-April 22.

BOW-STREET.— A sorter in the Post-office, named
Peter Francis Morgan, was brought up for final exami-
nation on two charges of stealing money letters, which
had pas,ed into his hands in the curse of duty.
Tee case was conducted by the Post-office solicitor,
Mr. Peacock, and Mr. Hobler appeared for the defence.
The prisoner, who has been for 20 years in the service
of the Post-office, had for some time been under
clop, in consequence of which a watch was set upon hie,.
.On Monday week fragments of no less than eight letters
were found under circumstances tending to increase this
suspicion, but affording no distinct proof again..t him.
On Tuesday precautions were taken, and a stricter watch
kept, aryl he was seen to tear up a letter and throw
away the pieces, which were afterwards collected and
put together. It was found to be a letter from a lady
at Brockworth, in Gloucestershire, to her father at Hack-
ney, enclosing a sovereign for the relief of the old gen-
tleman, who was bedridden and in great distress. The
prisoner was at once apprehended and searched by the
Post-office constables, Peake and Smee, who found on
him a sovereign and some other moneys, and two visit-
ing cards. It was a "George and Dragon " sovereign.
The lady who forwarded the money proved that the So-
vereign she had enclosed was of the same description,
and that she had fastened it between two visiting cards,
bearing the same names as the two produced, which
were, in fact, to the best of her belief, the same cards.
At the prisoner's house the officers found a considerable
quantity of watch guards, pins, rings, and other jewel-
lery, and the remains of another letter, which on being
put together turned out to be a note frym the Rev. Mr.
Barr, of Wendon rectory, near Saffron Waldon, enclos-
ing half a sovereign to his nephew, at school at Maida-
hill.

On these two charges the prisoner was folly 1:13M
milted.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Lord Ward was
summoned before Mr. Bingham for refusing to pay Ed-
ward Philpot his fare.
The cabman said one of his lordship's servants hired
him to go from Dudley-house to Kensington. The dis-
tooce was over three miles, and when he applied for 2s.
he was refused payment.
His lordship had no knowledge of the circumstances
under which he had been summoned. Be presumed the
question was as to distance, whether under three or over
three miles, and as that was a matter upon which he had
nothing to say, be should pay the demand at once.
His lordship then handed Mr. Leadley, the chief clerk,
half a sovereign to pay fare and expenses, together six

His lordship had left but a very short time when one
of his domestics entered the court to state that the cab-
man bad been previously paid, and he wanted to know
what he was to do under such circumstances ?
Mr. Leadley asked him if this was the ocly cab en-
gaged to take up at Dudley-house on that day ?
The servant said there were a great many other cabs
engaged that day, and he did not think he should be
able to swear to this particular cab.
Mr. Bingham could not assist the applicant, who then
left the court.

WESTMINSTER.—A few days ago Eliza Perk,ns.
a plain, matronly-looking woman, between 80 and 40
years f age, preferred a complaint against a policeman
for assaulting her. In the course of the inquiry it trau•
s7ired that she had gone to the house of Mr. Protheroe,
formerly M.P. for Bristol, No. 8, Eccleston-fiquare, Pim-
lico, and having refused to leave the premises, the police-
man was called in to remove her. Owing t ) her resist-
ance he was compelled to use some force, and the com-
plaint against him was consequentiy dismissed. On Mon-
day the woman Eliza Perkins was charged by Mr. Pro-
theroe with creating a great disturbance at his house by
knocking and ringing the bell. She alleged as her - xcuse
that she had formerly lived with Mr. Protheroe, that
her husband had lately left her in consequence of sus-
pecting that the c innection between them still existed,
and that she Has left destitute with three young children,
the. pati•reity of whom aas questionable.
Mr. Protheroe, who is apparent y above 80 years of
age, said that the woman had no claim upon him, and
she was discharged by Mr. Arnold upon entering into
her own recognisance s to keep the peace, and promising
to prosecute any claim, real or imaginary, she might
have against the gentleman in a legal way. In the course
of the same afternoon, however, she and her friends got
up a scene in Eccleston-square, to the great annoyance
of the residents there, which resu!te I in Eliza Perkins,
Mary Thompson, Jane Preston, and Ann Malcolm being
yesterday charged at. th s court.
It %vas proved that, between 4 and 5 o'clock, Perkins
and her companions, Preston and rhompson, walked up
and down Eccleston-square, accompanied by the former's
three children, apparently aged ab nit 2,4, and 6 years.
A. large crowd of persons a-seurbled, whose sympathy
was excited by their account respecting the children, and
the la-ter were pleat lcusly imploded with bread and butter
and halfpence by the tnuititude, who were told that they
were suffering all manner of privation through the neglect
of some person who had a right to maintain them. Per-
kins called upon Mr. Protheroe by name, applied dis-
graceful epithets to him, and declared her intention to
annoy him. The police were striving to remove the de-
fendants and disperse the crowd, when Malcolni told the
former to move at their peril, reminded them that they
had had their instructions, took out a daguerreotype
portrait of Mr. Protheroe, and exhibiting it said that
that was the father of the children.
Mr. Austin, jun., solicitor, urged on behalf of his
client, Mrs. Malcolm, a very respectable-looking woman,
that the crowd was there before she came up. She had
advised Mrs. Perkins to go away, and if the had been
betrayed into the utterance of any improper expression
with r. specs to Thompson and Preston remaining, it had
been caused by her sympathy for the poor children.
A witness having been called on behalf of Malcolm,
who denied the statements wade on the other side, the
defendants Preston and Thompson declared that Mal-
colm had given them no instructions to take the children
to Eccleston-square bet that they Lai gone to Mr.
Protheroe's with them by direction of Perkins, _who
thought that if he would not do anything for her, he
would be moved to compassionate the children. Mrs.
Perkins denied that she was in the square at all.
Mr. Arnold observed that it was clear to him that
Mrs. Malcolm had given the woman Preston and
Phoinpson instructions in this matter, and that she was
exhibiting the portrait ; and her conduct was the less
excusable because she had applied to him on the previous
day respecting Mrs. Perkins and the children, and he
had told her -he could not pei mit a disturbance to be
made at Mr. Protheroe's house. It was altogether an
extremely disgraceful affair, and he should call upon
Perkins t► find two sureties in 201. for the next six
months, Mrs. Malcolm to find one surety iu .20/.,
Thompson one surety in 101., and Preston (a-widow
ith a large family) to enter into her own recognisances
to keep the peace.
Bail was put in for Mrs. Malcolm, Perkins's landlady.

LAMBETH.—Frederick float e, a young man dressed
in a cloak or cape which well y.uited his calling, that “f
an expert thief; was charged with stealing from the per-
son of Mr Jaynes Hunt, a butcher, in the New-cut,
Lambeth, a silver watch.
It red that on the preceding afternoon prosecu-
tor, wilseveral thousand others, had been attracted to
the Canal House Tavern, Peckham, to witness several
feats, such as climbing a greasy pole for a leg of mut-
ton, and the sailines of a brace of clowns 500 yards
along the Surrey Canal in washing tubs, drawn by
four geese each. On entering the tavern in the midst
of a considerable crowd he discovered that his coat
had been unbuttoned, and his watch, which was in his
waistcoat pocket, wrenched from his guard chain. He
saw the prisoner, who but a moment before had been
at his side, pushing his way through the crowd, and
having no doubt he was the person who had taken his
watch, he laid hold of him.
Sergeant Jay deposed that on the evening before he