The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-12 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREE P.

ATTEMPT TO OBTAIN MONEY BY FALSE PRETENCES
FROM THE DUKE OF NORFOLK.—Michael Maguire, a
e 1 rk, cf 6, Warwick-road, Pimlico, was charged by
Horsford, the Mendicity Society's officer, with endea-
vouring to obtain money from his Grace the Duke of
Norfolk, in St. James's-equate, by false pretences.
His Grace said that he received a le ter some days
ag signed "Michael Maguire," asking for as4stance,
upon the plea that the writer had obtained chiefly by the
exertion of the Rev. Mr. Cotter, a situ,,tii#n ac booking
clerk on the railway at Wi' the ter. Subsequently he
saw the prisoner at his house, and he sail he was the
writer of the letter. He gave him tr e certificates en-
closed in the letter, and told the pri,-over if be intended
to do any,hingf"r him, he should hear fry m him.

The Rev. Mr. Cotter, of St. George's, Southwark,
said he was not the wri er of the letter, and that be did
not bow any other person of that name. In 1851 the
prisoner made an application to him concerning a situa-
tion as booking clerk, at Winchester, on the railway.
He saw him afterwards, and he said he had not suc-
ceeded. The prisoner name to him, showed him his
papers, and be assisted him to go to Brighton, at the
same time giving him a letter containing money to de•
liver, which the prisoner never did. The certificate
produced was in his handwriting, but the date it bore
1857 was no: the original date, which was 1851. lie
bad seen nothing of the prisoner for the last few years.
The prisoner had used the certificate Inc the purpose of
obtaining money by false pretences of several noblemen
and gentlemen.

Hori.ford, the Mendicity officer, waisted by Webb,
took prisoner into custody, and found on the prisoner a
number ir,f papers and letters from noblemen is which
the original uates had been altered. He bad known the
prisoner for six or seven years.
Tne prisoner said he bad sent a friend to Mr. Cotter's
with the certificate bearing date 1851, to get it altered
to 1857, and it was br /tight back altered, and he bup
posed it was done by the Rev. Mr. Cotter.

Mr. Bingeatn said he was a very danger,ius person,
and he coinmitted him for three mouths with bard labour.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(This May.)

LONDON, May 12.—Wind this day at noon, N.W. ;
moderate breeze, and cloudy, with rain.
SOUTHAMPTON, May 11.—Arrivad —Alexandria, (ss),
from Benares.

PLYMOUTH, May 11.—Wind S.—Sailed—General
Hewitt, for Adelaide.
QUEENSTOWN, May 10.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Justyn
from Moulmein.

MILFORD, May 8. —Arrived—Hannah, from Swansea,
for Catania.
DUBLIN, May 10.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Busy, frest
Barbadoas; Frederic, Mazogau.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning.

Wind N.B.
Arrived—Ceres, steamer, from Dublin ; Barcelona,
steamer, Spanish Ports; Benares and Tevoit, steamers,
Alex Andria ; Avon, steamer, Brazil.
Sailed—Rainbow, for Cardiff; Ripon, steamer, Alexan-
dria ; Medway, steamer, St. Thomas ; Atalanta, steamer,
Jer6ey.
LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morning.
Wind N.N.W.

Arrived, May 11—Victor Emanuel, from Singapore ;
Ganjam, Calcutta; Albert Gallatin, Mobile ; lii l
Dantzic ; Celerity, Caen ; Amanda, Hamburg; Sappho,
Sines ; Wildman, Antwerp.
Arrived, May 12—Flora, from Bremen ; Lucy, from
Falmouth.

Stilled, May 11— Ocean, for Naples ; Highland Chief,
Savannah ; Rattler, screw steamer, St. Petersburg ;
Gondola, Rio Janeiro ; Ocean Pearl, New Orleans ;
Conqueror, Curacoa ; Tijerety Misr, for CAdera ; Gazelle,
Malaga.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Win] N.W. ; tide, three hours' flood ; weather, cloudy,
with rain.

Arrived, llth—Margretba, from Emden ; Telsia, Gro-
ningen ; Sweeling, Groningen.
Arrived, 12th—Anna Christiana, from Christiana; Ma-
tilda, Guernsey.
Sailed, May 12—Morning Star, for Antigua; Lucy,
Archangel; Sir John Franklin, New York, via Sunder-
land.

DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Wind N.N.W. ; fresh.
Passed, May 11—Queen of Holland, from London, for
Hong Kong ; Iris, London, Jersey ; Paris and London,
screw steamer, London, Paris.
Passed, May 12—Bankside, from Sunderland, for Hong
Kong.

IteeetED SCHOOL UNION.--This society held its manila'
meeting on Monday night in Exeter-hall—the Earl o'
Shaftesbury presiding. The hall was densely crowded,
and many hundreds of persons sought in vain for admis-
sion. Atter an opening address from the chairman, the
secretary read the annual repart, which announced an
increased number of seholars in the schools, an improve-I
state of finances, and a general cx ension of the various
operations cf the Union. The rirnb-r of Sunday schools
in union wa, 134, contaieine 20,500 scholars; d'-y schen.,
98, containine 14,300 scholar-; week evening schools, 131,
containing 8,650 scholars. The voluntary teachers num-
bered 2,580, aed the paid do., 128. There were 9 shoe.
black societies in various parts 01 London. Of these the
three most important—the red, yellow, and blue bri-
gades, containieg 190 boys, earned eluting the year
3,2271., about le. a-day for each boy. 57 of the teachers
had been formerly themselves ragged scholars, and 115
of the pupils had become communicants of various Chris.
tian bodies. A large number of the scholars bad been
placed at service at home and in the coloniee of whom
several had entered the army and navy. The penny
banks had received 2,5301 , from 15,000 depositors. The
annual grants to the schools amounted to 2,000/. a-year,
hesides special grants of a considerable amount. The
entire receires of the Ut ion aid of the local schools
were 35,0001. The meeting was addressed by several
gent emen, who advocated the oause of the society,
and detailed mow of the results of its operations
A DETECTITE OFFICER ROBBED OF Hls OWN WATCH
IN FRONT OF THE OLD BAILEY —Yesterd,y, re the af-
ternoon, while the trials at the Old Bailey were proceed-
ing in the different courts, a crowd was collected outside,
in consequence of a noisy wrangle between two WOOL-I,
of the town, who appeared determined at last to make
"a fight" of it. Three or four of the detective officers
were present in the Old Bailey, opposite the
he
dPitigeernt6ffi
Head,
where the row took place. Brett, a m
cer of the force, at the moment the fracas was at its
height, stepped from the opposite kerb---where, at the
moment, our reporter was conversing with hitn--thiek-
ing there might be some game of another description
going on. Instantly afterwards he saw a hand pass from
the waistcoat pocket where his gold watch, 141. in value,
was deposited. The ring was at once snapped, and the
offictr immediately seized the thief,
having observed him
pass the article to another varrY, whom the office,
also in-tautly grasped. The fellows were at once tai,_,,
to the Selithfie d Station, where they were tie covered to
be experienced thieves from the neighoourhood(ifßeeotl:-.
Hal-green, and both were r a having been
corned in the robbery of a gentleman in Petticoa'-'ace,
on Sunday, the 2d instant, but who then eluded the
vigilance of the police. Upon searching them, ample
roofs of their previous character Were afforded.