The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-25 00:00:00

POLICE IN7'ELLIGENCE—Dee. 24.

GUILDHALL.---Robert Williamson, principal
clerk to Mr. Tatlant, bookseller and publisher, of
Ave Maria-lane, was charged with stealing £2, the
money of his master.
Alderman Phillips remanded the prisoner for a
week, and said he would accept bail for him if he
could procure it.

Aldoirman Phillips, in acknowledging the receipt
of .E 3 3s. from " P. R.," for the poor-box, expressed
the gratification he felt at having the means placed
at his command, through the benevolence of pri-
vate persons in their contributions to the poor-box,
to relieve a portion of the distress and destitution
usually prevalent at this period of the year, and
which was greatly aggravated at present by the
inclemency of the past season. A great num-
ber of aged women and other applicants
for the trifling assistance rendered on such
occasions to deserving persons, thronged the
court, and the greatest circumspection was neces-
sary to alleviate real suffering and detect imposi-
tion, to insure which every precaution was taken,
and none were relieved who could not in some way
make themselves, as well as their wants, known to
the Court, or some one connected with it.

WESTMINSTER.—WiIIiam Earl, a tall power-
ful man, was finally examined, charged with steal-
ing £6O worth of gold chains from the shop of Mr.
Alexander Hugh Rees, goldsmith and jeweller, 19,
Queen's-row, Pimlico.

Mr. G. Dennis, clothier, carrying on business
next door to the prosecutor, said, that a quarter
past 9 on the evening of the 11th inst. he was
engaged closing his shop, when he saw the prisoner
approach Mr. Rees' shop, strike a heavy blow with
his fist at a large pine of plate-glass in the front,
snatch at something, and run off. Witness and
others who had seen the outrage committed fol-
lowed the prisoner, who was at last captured, but
not until he had proceeded a long distance.
Another witness proved seeing the accused snatch
some of the valuables from the window, and the
prosecutor said that gold Albert chains of the value
Of 1:60 had been stolen. Although the prisoner was
strictly searched, none of the property was found
upon him, but a ticket describing the price of one
of the chains was found on the spot where he was
captured.

The prisoner, who made no defence, was com-
mitted for burglary, the breaking and entering
being established by his hand having been within
the shop front at the time he snatched the chains
from their fastenings.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Johnßeardon,a power-
ful Irish labourer, was charged with maliciously
cutting and wounding.
At 4 o'clock in the morning of the 18th instant
Ambridge and Herbert, two constables of the H
division, saw the prisoner drunk in Whitechapel,
making a disturbance, and with a crowd round
him. They dispersed the crowd, and the
prisoner walked away, but went so reluctantly
that the officers followed him to see that be did not
renew his noise, and the prisoner had not gone far
when he noticed Ambridge, and turned suddenly
upon him, and struck him in the face with some
instrument which glittered, and which, upon being
afterwards picked up, turned out to be a strong
clasp knife, inflicting a gash in his face from which
the blood poured profusely, and which has ren-
dered the constable unfit for duty ever since. Some
persons passing indignantly called upon the officers
to lock the prisoner up, and, notwithstanding the
blow he had given him, Ambridge seized him, but
the poisoner was'so outrageously violent that both
fell, and it was only after a severe contest with the
constables that he was at last overpowered and
Vodged in the station.

Mr. John Comley, the surgeon, who was called
i &to the constable, said that, on being so, he found
a wound in his temple an inch in length and a
quarter of an inch in depth, and dividing the tem-
poral artery. The man of course bled very much ;
the wound was a very dangerous one, and just such
a wound as the knife produced would be capable
of inflicting.

The prisoner denied the charge, protesting that
he had no knife in his hand that morning at all ;
but

Mr. Knox committed him for trial.

LAM BETH.—George Thomas Lingham, a young
felloW who was said to be most respectably con-
nected, but who has been for some time the asso■
ciate of practised thieves, was re-examined on a
charge of fraud.

The prisoner first exhibited a gold watch to Mrs.
Ovington, the prosecutrix, while the latter was
having some refreshments at the Rockingham Arms
publichouse, and said that though it was worth £2
she should have it for, £l. The prosecutrix offered
him 10s. for it, which he took, giving her *hat she
believed to be the same watch in a small leather bag,
and disappeared. The proeecutrix soon discovered
that instead of a watch she had a brass locket not
worth a penny.
The prisoner, in reply to the charge, admitted