The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-03 00:00:00

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

(Sittings in Banco, before Lord Campbell, Justices

Coleridge Erle, and Crompton.)
IN RE ONARLES FREDERICK LEES.

Mr. Flood applied for a writ of certiorari to be directed
against this gentleman, of the Island of St. Helena, to
bring the record and indictment in the case into this
court, to stay all subsequent proceedings thereon, with a
view to a writ of error for an habeas corpus to bring up
the body of the prisoner. The prisoner was tried and
convicted for an assault at St. Helena, which conviction
and subsequent sentence was considered to be
illegal. The question turned upon whether the Island
of St. Helena was governed by its own laws in existence
before it was•conquered or ceded by the Dutch, or whe-
ther it was governed by the common and statute law of
England.

These charters were handed in and read, but neither
of them embodied the mepus of the English law, but the
Chief Justice of the Island had superior authority in all
matters of the kind.

After bearing the learned counsel at some length,
Mr. Flood said he believed he had omitted to bring
one charter, which embodied the corpus of the English
law.

The question was allowed to stand over for its pro-
duction.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.)
THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK.-IN RE H. BROWN.

To-day was appointed for the last examination of Mr.
Humphrey Brown, one of the director. of the Royal
British Bank, and he was brought up in custody under
the Commississioner's warrant.

Mr Linklater, for the assignees, asked for an adjourn-
ment, as the accounts, which were intricate, required
examination, and no doubt certain information for their
elucidation. He proposed two months.
His Honour said he could not name a day before his
vacation, but he did not see how the bankrupt could
suffer by a delay.

Mr. Linklater said it would perhaps be better to take
an adjournment for a longer period with leave for Mr.
Brown to apply for an earlier day if prepared, as it bad
been intimated that Lopes were intertained he would
obtain his release.

His Honour said he would grant proteetion till th•
4th of November.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.- --(This Day.;

MARLBOROUGH -STREET.

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ROBBERY OF SILK DRESSES BY LADY THIEVES.
SYSTEMATIO PLUNDERING.—Susannah Bishop, 32, Ella
BishOp, 24, and Kate Bishop, 22, three well-dressed
females, Were charged with stealing two silk dresses of
the value of 141. from Mrs:Perclval, milliner, &c., 20,
George-street, Hanover-square.

The prisoners are believed to have been carrying on a
systematic mode of plundering fa,shionable West-end
milliners.

Anne Searle said—l am in the service of Mrs. Per-
cival, milliner, of 20, George-street, Hanover-square,
and on Saturday last, in the afternoon, the prisoner
Susannah came to the door and asked if Mrs. P. was at
home, and said two ladies were waiting at the corner of
George-street t.) see her. She told her she was,and she then
left and returned with the other two. Took them into
the show-room, asked them to sit down, and left them
there. Missed two pieces of silk, and accompanied the
officer to Shepherd's-bush, where they were apprehended.
Cbarzed them with having taken two pieces of silk from
20, George street, on Saturday afternoon. They made
no answer to the charge.
Elizabeth Hill—l am assistant to Mrs. Percival. On
Saturday morning I placed two pieces of silk in the
show-room. One was a brown pieee about 21 yards,
the other drab, about 12 yards—the value of the two 14/.
Remembered being called into the show room on Satur-
day, and saw the three prisoners. One of them, Kate,
said she was Vansittart of Oatlands Park and of Harley-
street. She gave me an order for from 13 to 30 dresses,
as she was going to India in a mouth. I missed the silk
in the evening, and no persons had been in the room
but two ladies who had been customers for 20 years.
Mr. Bingham said he would advise the prisoners to
reserve their defence. The charge against them was
very serious. There were two strong points against
them—one that they had received the (Am ge in silence,
the other that one of them had represented herself as
Miss Vansittart, of Oatlands Park and Harley-street, at
neither of which places were they known.
Remanded for a week.