The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-18 00:00:00

WESTBROOK

Plaintiff is a• labourer, and defendant is a stevedore.
Plaintiff sought to recover 3s. for nine hours' work on board
a vessel, he having been employed by defendant. The de-
fence was that plaintiff and some of his companions had
pillaged some cases of wine in the ship's hold, and had left
work without being discharged. A claim had been made
for the loss on the owner of the ship.
Plaintiff complained that such charges were made, and
that no steps had been taken to connect him with them.
His Honour made an order upon defendant, telling that
person he could not set off the loss against wages.
Verdict for plaintiff.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CHARGE AGAINST A 'TRADESMAN OF DANGEROUS
DRlVlNG.—Charles Robinson, an upholsterer, at Hackney,
was charged with furiously driving a horse and cart, being
drunk at the time, and endangering passengers.
From the evidence of Tarrant, 299 A, it appeared that
about ten on Saturday night the defendant was galloping
his horse along Coventry-street at the rate of nine miles an
hour, till at length he came in collision with a cab, knock-
ing the driver off the box, and had anything been passing
at the time the driver must certainly have had his life in
Ho WOc drunk at the time.
Defendant said it was a " moral impossibility" he could
have gone at that rate ; it was only about two miles.
150 C said the defendant was going between eight and
nine miles an hour. The cabman was knocked off his seat
like a ball. He assisted the cabman up, but he said he did
not then feel much hurt. The defendant was very violent.
The defendant said he was not drunk, and Inspector Steel,
who took the charge, was sent for, and proved that he was.
On asking the defendant's son, a young. boy, some ques-
tions, he said his father had been drinkingat Knights-
bridge, and he could not get him home.
The defendant said ho was insulted by everybody. He
had only had two threepenny-worth's of gin at Knights
bridge

The boy denied the inspector's statement, but said his
father had left him in the cart for an hour and a quarter,
and was with some porters at a job.

Mr. Beadon said he was satisfied the defendant was drunk
as sworn to, and fined him 40s.

The defendant said he should seek redress at Scotland•
yard, persisting that he was not intoxicated.

THAMES.

TOBACCO SMUGGLING.—Henry Holloway, a seaman,
was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with unlawfully
unshipping 2i lbs. of foreign manufactured tobacco, before
the Customs' duties had been first paid and secured.
Mr. Thomas Smith, a tide surveyor, stated that on the
arrival of the General Steam Navigation Company's ship
the Cologne, from Rotterdam, at the St Katherine's wharf,
yesterday, he saw the prisoner get into a boat in a very
hurried manner, and suspecting that he had smuggled
goods about him, he asked him if he had any, to which he
replied in the negative, and at the same time threw a paper
containingtobacco overboard. He searched the prisoner and
found suspended round his neck three papers, each con-
taining a half-pound of tobacco, and in his hat another
paper containing a half-pound of tobacco ; making in all
2} lbs. The value and duty was about 30s.
The prisoner acknowledged his guilt, and

Mr. Yardley fined him 40s.

A GREAT NUISANCE.—EIIen Crawley, a wretched-look-
ing woman, with her eyes swollen and blackened, bloated
face, and hair hanging loosely about her face and neck, was
brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with creating a dis-
turbance opposite the Court, and breaking a pane of glass
in the window of the Prince of Wales publichouse, in
Arbour-street East, Stepney.
On Saturday morning the prisoner's landlord, a most
consummate scoundrel and thief, named Willis, of No. 8,
Bluegate-fields, Shad well, and a female named Maloney,
were charged at this court with assaulting and plundering
an Austro-Italian seaman, and they were remanded. The
prisoner, who is strongly suspected of having been concerned
n the robbery—one of the most audacious ever perpetrated

—lived in the same house, and came to look after the fate
of the two thieves, and got very much excited. She left the
court for a short time, and returned in a half-drunken state
and, made a disturbance in the passage of the court. She
was expelled from the building, and then crossed the road,
went into the Prince of Wales public-house and demanded

liquor. Mr. Preece, jun., the landlord, refused to serve
her, and she gave utterance to a volley of foul abuse. He
ejected her from the house, and she then pulled off her shoe
and smashed a large pane of glass.
Roche, the gaoler of the court, and Mills, a police-con-
stable, No. 306 K, said the prisoner 'was a foul-mouthed
and very disorderly woman.
Mr. Yardley sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned in
the House of Correction for one month, and kept to hard
labour.

DISCOVERY OF A LARGE QUANTITY OF ANCIENT
COIN ON THE PRINCE CONSORT'S FARM.--A field called
the hospital field, belonging to the Shaw farm estate, in the
possession of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, and
abutting on the Long Walk, has recently undergone the
process of thorough draining, the earth afterwards turned
in, and the ground rolled. Three boys were subsequently
employed to collect.the loose stones, when on Friday last
one of them picked up something on the surface of the re-
cently removed earth, which appeared to them to be a lump
of lead, and they were about to dispose of it as such, but
upon further investigation it proved to be a leaden case con-
taming upwards of 150 pieces of silver coin, prineipallyhalf-
crowns, of the reigns of Elizabeth, James 1., and Charles
1., most of them being in admirable preservation. The boys
divided the coin among themselves, but on the discovery
becoming known to Mr. Tait, the steward of his Royal
Highness, the coins were collected and forwarded to her
Majesty, and the lads suitably rewarded.
THE LIVERPOOL BATHS AND WASHHOUSES.—At
the council meeting, held on Wednesday, the following
statistics respecting the Liverpool corporation baths and
wash-houses were read :—The Cornwallis •street baths had
been used during the quarter by 15,427 males, 1,276 females;
total, 16,763. The St. George's Pierhead baths had been
used by 4,203 males, and 215 females; total, 4,418 The
Paul-street baths were patronised by 4,490 persons, of whom
' 4,196 were males and 294 females ; making a grand total of
25,611 for the qUarter, showing an increase of 3,387, of
which 2,598 were to be put down to Cornwallis-street , 763
to St. George's baths; and 26 to cPaul-street. The Frede-
rick-street washhouse had been used during the present
(first) quarter by 7,225, and by only 4,664 in the corres-
ponding quarter of last year, showing an increase in
favour of this year of 2,561 washers, and £54 Os. Bd. in
mow.