The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-07 00:00:00

LAMBETH-STREET.

Yesterday JVilliani Burling, a coffeeshop-keeper at Strat-
ford, was brought before Messrs. WALKED. and NORTH for
final examination on the following serious charge :
Thomas Ball, a labourer at Stratford, stated that on the
night of Saturday week he went to the coffee-shop kept by
the prisoner, and called for some coffee and bread and butter.
Immediately afterwards the prisoner accused some person
present with having taken a half-quartern loaf, and fixed
upon him because he had some bread under his arm. He
(thf_, prisoner) took up a chopper, and with a desperate oath
th reatened to cut his head off, and was in the act of aiming
a blow at hire, when he wrested the deadly weapon out, of
'his hands and threw it into the road. ' The prisoner then
challenged him to fight ; but he declined, and pushed him
out of the room. In a few minutes afterwards the prisoner-
again entered the room, and exclaiming " I have got some-
thing else here that will draw your blood," made whinge at
his face, and drove the blade of a table knife through his
left cheek and tongue, and wounded the gum on the caner
side. So severe was the injury, that for several days he
could not move his tongue, nor could he yet scarcely spepit
with. distinctness.

Two or three other witnesses cornktrated the testimony
of the complainant.

The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said that the com-
plainant had, in the first instance, stolen his quartern loaf
and some butter, and on his speaking to him on the subject
he threatened to knock his head off, and was going to put
his threat into execution, when he (the prisoner) took up a
chopper in his own defence, but this the complainant
took from him, and shoved him t tof the room. He then
-went in search of a watchman, and on his return to the
room the complainant struck him. He then, he would. ad-
mit, struck the complainant with a knife which he had in his
hand at the time ; but not with the view of doing him any
bodily harm.

The
prOsecutor and witnesses swore positively that the
prisoner was not struck on coming into the room the se-
cond time, and before he slabbed the prosecutor.
Mr. WALKER remarked that the act was most ferocious.

- The prisoner prisoner was then committed to Newgate to take his
trial at the next session of the Central Criminal cQkkri., on
the capital charge of cutting and maiming.

UNION-HALL.

Yesterday Thomas Prior, Charles Buck:and, and John
Czurch, the latter a discharged servant 'from the employ-
ment of Mr. Bryant, propriotor of the Horns Tavern at
Kennington, were brought before WEDGWOOD, charged
with breaking into Mr. BrYD",t's dwelling house at Nor-
wood, and stealing a quer;tity of plate and other articles,
his property.
The complainant "bated that on the 30th ult, a man in
Lis employ as a p..rdener at Norwood came over to Ken-
nington, and gave him information that Beulah Cot-
tage, in his complainant's) occupation, at Norwood, had
been broken open on the preceding night and robbed.
He immediately went over to the
,house, and dis-
covered that it had been entered at the rear by
forcing up the bazk parlour window, and robbed of
plate and other p-roperty to a considerable amount. Here
Mr. Bryant ga:,-e an inventory of the stolen property, con-
sisting of s;_iv. er candlesticks, decanter stands, knives, spoons,
ladles, c,..:ke basket, and sundry other articles, of plate, be-
sides a, -valuable time-piece, a white and gold tea service,
toge.',:tier with other property. Mr. Bryant added that he
grave information of the robbery to the poiice, and on a
subsequent occasion a constable from Windsor called upon
him, and stated that three men had been taken into cus-
tody at Windsor offering the greater portion of the pro-
perty for sale at the shop of a Jew salesman in that town.
The 1-.irisoner Church had been in his (complainant's) .
lir% and was discharged about a month ago.
John Lovegrove stated that he was a constable -of Wind-
sor, and that he received information that three, suspicious_
looking men had entered that town in a ca :.t on the morn-
ing of the 31st ult., and offered some valuable articles of
plate for sale. In the course of the morning the witness
succeeded in the apprehension of Prior and Buckland in
the town of Windsor, at the
it
of a man named Ja-
cobs, in Thames-street, wheFe, it appeared they had offered
plate between 301. and 40Z, in value for 71., but the shop-
keeper, suspecting the articles were not honestly come by,
gave the information thP.,t led to the prisoners being taken
into custody. The tv:o prisoners above-named were driv-
ing the cart which contained the stolen property, and w'nen
Prior was questioned by the constable as to whom it be-
longed, and where he had brought it from, he said, in reply,
that he bought the whole of the articles the day previously
from a man at Uxbridge fair. The other prisoner (Church)
was subsequerAtly taken into custody at Iver, in Bucking-
hamshire, r,c Prior's house in that town.
Mr. WEnowoon examined the prisoners separately, and
Prior's account was that he had told the constable a false-
hood as to his having purchased the plate. His account
now was that he accompanied the two other prisoners in a
can from Iver to Norwood, on Thursday last, for the
purpose of breaking open Mr. Bryant's house and robbing
it. That on their arrival at the latter place Church and he
got out of the cart, leaving Buckland to mind it within a
short distance. They then 'proceeded to the rear of the
house, and succeeded in effecting an entrance through
the parlour window, and from thence got into the different.
rooms where property was deposited, all of which they
placed in the car'c, and drove off to Iver, where he (Prior)
lived, and from thence over to Windsor, in order to dispose
of the whole of it for what they could get.
The ether two prisoners made a statement voluntarily to
the Magistrates, which agreed in all the essential particu-
lars with that previously made by their associate. Church,
it appeared, after his discharge from. Mr. Bryant's service,
gave the other two
,prisoners such in,formation with respect
to. the house at' Iteetviotti, aaithii description of property
that it contained, as rendered it a matter of little difficulty
to effect a robbery, particularly as none of Mr. Bryant's
family were at the cottage on the night in question. Church
had never been in custody before, t tie other two priso-
ners have been for some time under Cue surveillance of the
Windsor police.

Mr. Bryant mmtioned that b.e was satisfied in his mind,
from the first moment, that the robbery was not com-
mitted by any persons in i.kle vicinity of Norwood, but that
it had been effected N,y parties living at a distance from
the pace.

The prisoners were then committed for trial.

•
Our seie'.itific neighbour, A. Crosse, Esq., nar-
rowly escr.,ped a terrible death yesterday week. He was
• out shoGting with Mr. W. Beadon, on Broomfield-hill,
when an ox, driven by a man from Stockland, Dorset, and
%Aid) appeared in an infuriated state, rushed towards Mr.
leaden, who presented his gun at the animal, upon which
it turned round, and ran furiously towards Mr. Crosse, who
stood firmly presenting his gnn in the direction of the
creature's head. Unwilling to injure it, and conceiving it
likely that the ox would retreat, Mr. Crosse refrained from
.firing, and the animal rushed upon him with fury, knocked
him down, and thrust his horns on his body, one of which
passed under the sleeve of his shooting jacket, which was
completely ripped up, and the other was prevented from
inflicting a ~vound, which most probably would have proved
fatal, but the Providential position of the metal button
of his t-mwsers, which received the point of the horn. The
beast did not repeat his attack, but darted off into the
thicket, pursued by the drover.—Taunton Courier.
AFFECTING INCIDENT.—When the George the
_Fourth convict ship was lost last April, near Van Diemen's
Land, the wife of a soldier of the 50th regiment displayed
feelings of the most courageous and amiable description.
This poo: woman had recently been confined ; and when
the vessel was wrecked, she saved her babe, and also the
infant of another woman, who was unfortunately drowned.
She contrived to secure herself in the fore-chains ; and
although the sea ran mountains high, with frost and rain,
this poor .creature was exposed for 'forty-eight' hours to
the weather, with two babes sucking at her breait, and a
child of two years old held between her knees ; and after
all her troubles, they were providentially saved. Dr.
Wse, the superintendent, states that•it was a most affect-
ing sight ; and Governor Arthur, immediately he was
informed of it, visited the poor woman, provided her with
food and raiment, besides a present of a 101. note for the
great courage she had manifested,