The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-20 00:00:00

QUEEN-SQUARE
Yesterday a highly fashionably-dressed person, who gave
his name Mr.• Benjamin Stevens, was charged before
Messrs. GREGORIE and WHITE by Inspector Forbes of the
B division with creating a disturbance at the entrance of
the House of Lords at the time the Members were going in
Mr. Forbes.was on duty that morning at the Houses o
Parliament. At the moment the carriage of his Roya*
Highness the Duke of Cumberland came tip there was a
tremendous hissing and hooting. The defendant was pre-
sent at the time, and endeavoured to excite the mob by
whom he was surrounded. He assured the Magistrates
that the conduct of the defendant was rendered more con-
spicuous than the rest of the.persons present in consequence
of his respectability of dress and appearance. He had a
witness to•prove his.violent conduct it necessary.
Mr. GREGORIE asked the defendant what he had to say
to the charge?
Mr... Stevens, in reply, said that most unfortunately for
himself the carriage of the Duke of Cumberland drove up
to the door of the House of Lords, and. stopped at the
very point where he (Mr. Stevens) was standing. The up-
roar. among the mob was certainly very violent, and a
whole posse of police were instantly on the spot, who be-
haved in a very arbitrary manner. He did not know at
the time that Mr. For bes had any authority to interfere
with him as he was dressed in plain clothes. He asked
him his name, and admitted that he was a little excited at
the time, but attributed the excitement to the unnecessary
nterference of the police.
Mr. GREGORIE said that the police-officers must be pro-
tected in the discharge of their duty, but as it did not ap-
pear that a blow had been struck by the defendant he
should merely fine him his discharge fee—one shilling.
This was instantly paid, and Mr. Stevens was discharged.
In the course of the morning several persons attended at
the office to prefer charges of robbery whilst waiting to see
the Members attend the opening of Parliament Amonwt
the rest Mr. William Davis, of No. 88, Ste*:en-street, sag-grove;-complained that he had been robbed about one
o'clock that..afternoon of a valuable Catch and appendages,
in St. Mai:garet's Churchyard., witnessing the Mem-
bers go down to the HouP,...
Hughe4 id Joseph Stevens were charged with
picking pocket'. in the crowd assembled before the House
of Lors that morning. -
Stirimel Wise, No. 6, division A, saw the prisoners in
the mob, just as the Members were passing, making them-
selves very busy, and attempting to pick the pockets of
several persons who were standing there. His suspicions
being excited he took them into custody, and upon the per-
son of-Stevens two handkerchiefs were found.
Both prisoners in defence said that they we-re brush-
makers out of employment, and had formerly been in the
service of Mr. Brighton, a brushmaker, Ih Ossulston-street,
Somers Town. They denied the c'harge.
Mr. GREGORIE ordered th(na to be remanded.
John Barker, a well-kP.-ownpiCkpocket, was charged with
stealing a silk handkerchief from Anthony Thompson, a
servant, in the mnploy of Sir George Clerk, Bart., of 124,
Pall-rnall.,-.lt:ho was attending his master at the opening of
Parliainent.
The prosecutor, whilst standing opposite the door of the
House of Lords, felt a tug at his pocket, the prisoner was
standing close to him at the time. He was taken into cus-
tody, and the handkerchief found concealed in the lining
of his hat. He made a violent attempt to escape, and
got away from the constable, but he succeeded in recaptur-
ing him.—Committed.
Several other well-known characters were charged with
picking pockets, and remanded.

LAMBETH-STREET.
We are assured that it was her Majesty's Steward, and
not her Treasurer (as stated in The Sun of yesterday), who
called at the Office on Wednesday, relative to the girl
Rix ford.

WORSHIP-STREET
Yesterday Thomas Robinson, a journeyman silk-weaver,
was placed at the bar, and finally examined before Messrs.
Twvronn and GROVE, chary-ed with having unlawfully pos-
sessed an immense quantity of silk goods that had been
stolen from different manufacturers in the neighbourhood of
Spitalfields.
The property that had been found in the prisoner's pos-
session,
,at his residence in Gibraltar-gardens, Bethnal-
green, amounted to nearly 200/. The office was greatly
crowded with silk manufacturers, who attended to identity
portions of the property. The prisoner was defended by
Mr. Charles Phillips, the barrister, and Mr. Humphreys,
the solicitor.
It appeared that the prisoner was detected by the means
of Sergeant Scott and police constable Tickle of the H
division, and great credit was due to them by the trade
generally for exerting themselves in. the manner they had
done. A warrant was granted to search the prisoner's
premises, and it was executed by the office's on Saturday
week last, and the property was conveyed direct to this
office in hackney coaches, for safety. There appeared to be
but little doubt that the property bad been embezzled from
the master manufacturers by their journeymen weavers, and
sold to the prisoner for less than half its value.
Mr. Moore, one of the oldest established silk manufac-
turers in the metropolis, conducted the case for the prose-
cution ; but the prisoner's advisers objected to such a course
of proceeding, as he was not a professional man, and said
that it was an injury and a great disgrace on the law pro-
fession in persons who were not professionally appointed
being allowed to contend and expostulate with those who
were.

The MAGrSTRATES convicted the prisoner, and fined
him 20/. under the Act the 17th Geo. 111., or one month's
imprisonment. The property will be given up to the proper
claimants.

MARYLEB ONE.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN A STATION-DOUSE.—Yes:ter-
day, Mary Anti Turner and Elizabeth Hayley, who de-
scribed themselves as " unfortunate girls," were brought
before Mr. Hosxuss, charged with the following disorderly
conduct :
It appeared from the evidence that, on the previous night,
as police constable 123 S was on duty, he heard a great
disturbance in the Hampstead-road, and on going to the
spot found the prisoners, who were both intoxicated, in the
act of deciding a quarrel by a pugilistic contest, surrounaed
by a mob of low characters, and divested of their bonnets,
caps, and shawls ; the prisoner Turner was the more violent
of the two, and before the disgraceful scene was put an end
to, silo bad actually torn out a considerable portion,:of her an-
tagonist's hair by the roots ; they were ultimately con-
veyed away to the station-house in Albany-street, but had
not been confined there above an hour, before one of the
constables present detected Turner in the very act of tying.
round her throat a silk handkerchief, one end of which wad
securely fastened to the iron window-bar of the ca. She
at length became more calm, and promised not to repeat
the attempt ; the constable then closed the boor, and shortly
afterwards fancied that he heard a kind of gurgling noise,
which again led him to the.place or,
her confinement, on en-
tering which, he discovered br,r suspendedfrom the same
place by her garters, quite •
Ijiack in the face, and apparently
in the agonies of deg‘'„
pocket a clasp-kn;`,,, with which he cut down the unhappy
he immediately drew from his
and dissolute
vered, ana expressed the greatest sorrow and contrition for
who, after the lapse of some time, reco-
the _attempt she had made upon her
Mr. HOSKINS having ascertained that the prisoners had
not been charged with misconduct at any former period,
discharged them both with a suitable admonition, at the
same time telling them, that for a second offence they would
be sent, to the House of Correction.