The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-15 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY,

This morning these Sessions commenced before the
Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Mr. Alderman
Thorp, and the High Bailiff.
The RECORDER, in his charge to the Grand Jury, said
it was with much concern that he observed an unprece-
dented number of commitments on the calendar; but there
were no cases which required particular observation from
him. There was one case, however, which he would
advert to, as it would, he understood, come before the
Grand Jury. It was a charge against certain parties for
keeping a common gaming-house. The Grand Jury had
no doubt learnt from the newspapers that that of-
fence prevailed to a very great extent in another
part of the metropolis, and it appeared that the
majority of per ons who frequented those places
were domestic servants, and therefore the offence was of a
much more dangerous character, as it had a tendency to
induce such persons to rob their employers, in order to
provide the means of carrying on their illegal practices.
Should the evidence in that case be sufficient it would no
doubt give the Grand Jury much pleasure to send the
parties for trial.

EXTRAORDINARY CA SE.
Sarah Phillips, an elderly female, was indicted for
stealing, so far back as the 30th of July, 1823, fifteen
yards of lace, the property of John Jones.
It appeared that a female who had been in the habit
of going about twice a week to purchase goods at the
shop of the prosecutor, a linen-draper, of 147, High
street, Borough, was suspected on the 28th of July, 1823,
of having stolen a very large quantity of lace from the
shop, and suspicion fell upon her after she left the shop.
Two days afterwards, viz. on the 30th of Ju'y, the same
person came and made a purchase, but was closely watched,
and was seen to take up two pieces of lace and secrete
them. A constable was sent for, and the pieces of lace,
amounting to 15 yards, were found folded up in her apron.
She underwent an examination, and was remanded, and
Kinsey, the officer, achieving from her appearance, which
was then very swarthy, that she was a gipsey, went to
Peckham, where he discovered her eldest daughter, a girl
pitted with the small pox. From that girl he learnt that
the woman and her husband travelled the country with
donkies, occasionally pitching a tent on the road, and ob
taining a livelihood by the husband exercising his trade of
a tinker. Kinsey found out Ler husband's tent in Clay-
lane, Peckham, and there found no less than thirty piece-
of lace, all of which were recognized by Mr. Jones, the
prosecutor, as having been stolen from his shop on the
28th July. Time woman, on being again examined be-
fore the Alagistrates, was committed on the two charges.
She remained in the Borough Compter until the 9th of
August, when she contrived to effect her escape, and
although a reward of 201. was offered for her apprehension,
she remained at large for nine years. On the 2d of
July last, however, the prisoner was apprehended as that
woman, and was sworn to as being the same person by
some of the witnesses, although it was admitted that she
had undergone a great change in her appearance.
Mrs. Jones, whose husband is now dead, stated that
she was in the shop when the woman was taken into cus-
tody, but she had no recollection of the features of the
person.

Thomas Woolcott, who was the prosecutor's shopman,
positively swore to the prisoner as being the person ; be
hid frequent opportunities of seeing her for nearly fifteen
months that she had dealt with the prosecutor.
Reeve, the officer, who apprehended the woman, could
not identify the prisoner as that person.
Kinsey, the officer, swore to the prisoner being tie
person.
Mr. Law, the Keeper of the Borough Compter, and the
turnkey and matroa of the same prison, were called, but
neither of them could identify her.
John Welsh, who conveyed the woman to the Compter,
in July, 18•?3, swore that the prisoner was the woman he
then conveyed thither on the present charge.
In cross-examination by Mr. Payne he said at that time
he was in business for the Bank of England ; that was to
pick up all the rogues he could.
The prisoner, in her defence, said she never lived in a
tent or travelled about with donkies, nor was she ever in
London until last July, when she was taken into custody.
She had never been in the prosecutor's shop in her life.
She called
Charles Bushby, a labourer, who lived at Wool-
wich, corroborated the prisoner's statement, and
added, that she u,ed to get her living by working in
the fields. She bad worked also at Woolwich. lie
knew her eldest daughter, and he denied that she was
marked with small-pox, as described in the Land-bill.
By the RECORDER-The prisoner never lived with
witness.

A woman who was in the Borough cowpter, when
the person said to be the prisoner was there, said she was
sure the prisoner was not that person.
The Jury, after some consultation, acquitted the
prisoner.

Bushby was recalled by the Recorder.
RECORDER-Now we know that you sometimes go by
the name of Redman.
Bushby—Sometimes I do, my Lord.
RECORDER-And we also know that you and the pri-
soner cohabited together at Woolwich.
Bushby—Well, my Lord, we did.
RECORDER-Then how dare you give such evidence as
you have done ? Take him into custody.
Bushby was then taken into the dock.
The prisoner was next to be tried for stealing 30 pieces
of lace.

Hull continues in a most disturbed state.
About 30 individuals were apprehended on Friday, for not
obeying the orders of special constables who had been ap-
pointed to prevent a public meeting on that day, called for
"considering the illegal and unconstitutional introduction
of the military on Sunday the 30th ult., and the general
incapacity of the Corporative Magistracy of the town."
This meeting the Magistrates determined to prevent, and
it was therefore not persisted in by those who had called it.
A question of the greatest possibleimportance
to the merchants of Brighton is now pending the decision
of the Commissioners of his Majesty's Customs. The
trade has petitioned to be allowed to import and warehouse
West India, Mediterranean, Dutch and other produce, in a
most capacious and substantially-built warehouse, situate
at Kingston, belonginz to Mr. GORRINGE, near to the
entrance of Shoreham Harbour. To this, we are inform-
ed, an objection has been made by Mr. CLAYTON, who
is the owner of the legal quay at Shorehatn, and where, a
present, all foreign cargoes are compelled to go to die
charge.—Brighton Herald. -

The Madagascar frigate arrived at Trieste
on the 21st September, in company with a Russian frigate
and a French corvette, for the purpose of conveying the
Bavarian Regency to Greece. She conveyed thither a
Greek deputation, consisting of Admiral MIA tri.xs, Gene.
rals BATZAAIS, and KAIIINPOULIS, with their respective
Suites, who will all proceed to Munich to wait on the
)Dung KING, in about twelve days, when their quarantine
is over, which they will ride out in the French corvette,
as the Madagascar was immediately to be got ready to
convey a Bavarian deputation to Greece.
Thursday next is the day for the annual li-
censing of places of public amusement by the Middlesex.
Magistrates, at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell-green.
Notices have been given for the renewal of thirty-three
former licenses, and for twenty-one new ones, making to-
gether fifty-four miner theatres. Among the places for
which new licenses are to be applied for are the Pantheon,
the Clarence Theatre, Battle-bridge, the Strand Theatre,
and the Royal Portman Theatre, Marylebone.