The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-23 00:00:00

POLICE INTEELIGENCE.—Feb. 22.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Robert Raynham, a re-
spectable-looking boy, between 14 and 15 years of
age, messenger to Messrs. 'Hackett and Co., ship
agents, of Savage-gardens, was brought before
the Lord Mayor, charged • with having robbed his
employers of a bag containing £ll 10s.
Mr. R. Hackett said—On the 17th of this month
I left in a bag in my safe in the office £ll 10s., and
other moneys, received during the day by one of
my partners, were also placed there. Ori the
evening of that day I missed the bag and the
money, and questioned the prisoner, who was a
messenger in the office, and who had access to the
safe, but he denied all knowledge of either. On
Saturday morning we commenced a search, and in
a drawer which contained some private papers of
his, we found some memoranda which had pre-
viously been in the bag. Upon being shown these
papers he snatched them up, but upon our taking
them from him he fell down on his knees and cried
and begged for mercy. We then sent for his father,
who took him home and undertook to produce him
at 10 ,o'clock this morning, which' he did. Amongst
the papers found in the drawer was a receipt for
£9, which he had paid in advance for board and
lodging for three months at the house of a man
whose daughter, I understand, he has been court-
ing. Ido not want to be vindictive, but I have
taken these proceedings under the idea that he
might be placed in a reformatory.

The Lord Mayor—How old is he ?
Prisoner's father—He was 14 in August last.
The Lord Mayor—Then he is too old for a re-
formatory. (To the prisoner)—What have you to
say to this charge ?
Prisoner—Nothing.
_ _

The Lord Mayor---Are you desirous that the case
should be dealt with here, and that you should not
be sent to the Old Bailey for trial ?
The prisoner, who made no reply, held down his
head.

Smith (officer)—He wants to know whether if it
is dealt with here he will get off. He wants to go
to a reformatory.
The Lord Mayor—He cannot do that ; he is too
old. It is for ignorant boys who have no parents,
or depraved parents, that reformatories have been
instituted.

The prisoner, who pleaded guilty to the charge,
was then remanded till Friday, when he will be
brought up in petty sessions.

WORSHIP-STREET.—George Inskip, 21, a
shoemaker by trade, was charged with violently
assaulting Mary Ann Clark.

The complainant's story was a very sad one.
Eight months since her mother died, and her father
soon married again. She was glad to leave her
former comfortable home for servitude. There she
by some casual circumstance was introduced to the
defendant, and unfortunately listened to his per-
suasions to take a lodging and consent to his ad-
dresses. She did so. Their marriage was arranged,
and then she fell into the trap which it was mani-
fest had been systematically set for her. He threw
himself out of work, and commenced a series of ill-
usage which resulted in her following the streets
to supply them both with the necessaries of life.
At length from incessant kickings and beatings she
left him, resolved, as she said, to lead a new life,
but ashamed to seek her father. She shared the
lodging of a young woman whom she formerly
knew, and was endeavouring to procure a situation
again as a servant, when on Monday evening her
seducer met her, struck her with his' fist twice on
the face, and gave a third blow which inflicted a
terrible injury to left eye in presence of police-
constable Walsham, 73 G, who thereupon took him
into custody. The front of the girl's dress was
covered with blood, yet despite the ill-treatment
endured on this and former occasions, she appeared
very much td regret having appeared against him.
Defendant I said he was sorry, and Mr. D'Eyn-
court, sentenced him to'four months' hard labour in
the House of Correction, and to find two sureties
for a like term.

LAMBETH.--Joseph Lock, a person of respect-
able appearance; who described himself as a com-
mercial traveller, and who had been brought in
custody from Birmingham, was placed at the bar
before Mr. Elliott, charged on his own
.confession
with stealing a gold watch, gold chain, and a signet
ring, of the value of £2O, the property of Mr.
Joseph William Jones, a watchmaker, in Gravel-
lane, Southwark.

The prosecutor deposed that on the 17th of last

September he gave a gold watch to the prisoner to
pawn, and at the same time let him have a gold
chain and signet ring. It was his wish that the
watch should be pledged at the shop of Mr.
Richards, in the Westminster-road, and he accom-
panied the prisoner there, and waited his return
with the money he was to get on it, but he did not
make his appearance. He (witness) waited in the
Belvidere-road and saw the prisoner go into Mr.
Richards' at a door in that road, but on inquiry it
appeared he passed out of another door into the
Westminster-road, walked off with the property,
and he had not seen him from that time to the
present. The prisoner, however, had forwarded to
him the ticket of the watch, which it appeared he
had pledged at a shop in Farringdon-street for £B,
though the sum he was to have pawned it at
Richards' for was £lO.

Prisoner—Might I ask you, Mr. Jones, why you
did not pawn the watch yourself?
Witness—Because I was known as living in the
neighbourhood, and did not like to go to a pawn
shop.

lirisoner—Now don't you. make a living by buy-
ing and pawning watches ?
•
Witness—Certainly not.
The prosecutor admitted that some offers had been
made to compromise the case by paying the money
for the articles, but he refused to listen to it.
The prisoner contended that the offence was not
one of a felonious character—he said if his worship
thought otherwise he should request that he might
be remanded for legal advice and assistance.
Mr. Elliott remanded him to Monday next.

WANDSWORTH.—Three gentlemen, residents
of the parish of Battersea, applied to Mr. Ingham
for his advice and assistance under the following
circumstances :—They stated that they were the
auditors of accounts under the Metropolis Local
Management Act, appointed by the Vestry of St.
Mary's, Battersea, and although the general rate
had advanced over a period of three years they had
never been able to audit the accounts. Applications
had been made to the overseers by the auditors for
the production of all vouchers for the payment of
money, &c., ,and they had declined to make any
statement hatever. The auditors now asked for
his worship's advice in the matter.
Mr. Ingham, upon referring to the Metropolis
Local Management Act, said it appeared that the
accounts were to be audited every May. He wished
to know if the auditors attended at the vestry or
district Board of Works last May to examine the
accounts.

One of the applicants said he did not.
Mr. Ingham then inquired when the auditors
gave the overseers notice to produce the accounts ?
The applicant said that three weeks ago they
gave them notice to produce the accounts to be
audited.

Mr. Ingham—Did you mention any specific time?
Applicant said they gave them notice to produce
them within a week, but they had not attended
to it.

Mr. Ingham said the notice would not do. He
should state the day and hour when they should
produce the accounts. He, however, should advise
them to wait until next May, and then give the
overseers formal notice to appear at a certain day
and at a particular hour with their accounts to be
audited. His worship then inquired if they knew
what proviso there was in the act to enable the
magistrate to deal with the overseers in case of
refusing to allow the accounts to be audited ?
Another of the applicants said he did not know
if there was any proviso.
Mr. Ingham said they had better adopt his advice,
and in the meantime they could look through the act
to ascertain if there was any powerfor the magi-
strates to interfere. If there was not, they would
have to apply to the Court of Queen's Bench for a
mandamus compelling the overseers to produce all
their accounts.

The applicants thanked his worship for his ad-
vice, and promised to follow it out.

HEALTH OF LONDON .DURING THE
WE.EK.

(From the Registrar-General's Report.)

The returns for London exhibit a comparatively
satisfactory state of the public health. The deaths
registered; which in the previous week were 1,274,
declined to 1,156 in the week that ended last Satur-
day. In the 10 years, 1849-58, the average number
of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week
was 1,178; but as the deaths in the present re-
turn occurred in a population which has increased,
they should be compared with the average
after it is raised in proportion to that in-
crease--namely, with 1,296. The result of the
comparison is that 140' persons survived last
week whose deaths would have been placed on the
registers if the mortality had been equal to the
average rate for this period of the year.
The mortality from scarlatina and diphtheria
showed a decrease in the first week of the present
month, but it has been stationary since that time.
The deaths from these two diseases last -week were
90, the corrected average for corresponding weeks
being 36. Diphtheria was recorded in 21 cases,
which occurred in the following sub-districts :
One in St. Mary's, Paddington ; one in Chelsea,
north-east ; two in Belgrave, one in Long-acre, one
in Golden-square, one in Regent's-park, one in
Tottenham-court-road, one in Gray's-inn-lane, one
in • Kentish-town, one in St. Mary-le- Strand, one
in London City, north-east ; one in Ratcliff, one in
St. Saviour, one in St. Olave, one in London-road,
one in Trinity, Newington ' • two in Peckham, one
in Woolwich Dockyard, and one in Lee. A girl
diedifrom diphtheria last week at 7, Rush-grove,
Woolwich, and it appears that six children, five of
whom were in one family, have died in that house
from the same disease since January 3.
It is satisfactory to observe that smallpox was
less fatal last week, the deaths, which had risen to
29, having again declined to 13. Seven children
died of syphilitic disease; two persons from intern-
perance, five infants from malformations, two by
murder. Five minagenarians, all women, were
registered ; the oldest was a widow, aged 96 years.
Last week the birth of 996 boys and 944 girls,
in all 1,940 children, were registered in London.
In the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1849-5.8
the average number was 1,662.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.991
inches. The mean daily reading was above 30
inches on three days. The barometrical readings
varied from 29.69 inches on Sunday to 30.25 inches
on Saturday. The mean temperature of the week
was 45.1 deg., which is 6'9 deg. above the average
of the same week in 43 years (as determined byMr.
Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was above
the average throughout the week, and on Wednes-
day and Thursday this excess was equal to about
12 deg. The thermometer in the shade reached its
highest point, 59 deg., on Wednesday, and fell to
its lowest, 33.2 deg. on Saturday. The range of
the week was therefore 25.8 deg. The mean daily
range was 14.7 deg. The difference between the
mean dew point temperature and air temperature
was 5.1 deg. The mean temperature of the water
of the Thames was 44.3 deg. The wind blew gene-
rally from the south-west. On Friday it was in
the north-west. On Wednesday the horizontal
movement of the air was 255 miles, and on that day
the wind reached a maximum pressure of 121 b. on
the square foot. The amount of rain in the week
was not more than o'o9 in ches.

DESTRUCTION OF NAPHTHA WORKS BY FIRE.--
On Sunday, the extensive naphtha works of Mr. Read
Holliday, at Huddersfield, were, destroyed by fire. The
total loss is estimated at £2,000. The property was not
insured.