The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-22 00:00:00

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than harm, but if.they were to be spies on the conduct
of individuals, and were to be employed watching, tuon,th
after month and year after year, houses of individuals
for the purpose of discovering anything importault for
those who employed them to know, he confessed it
appeared to him, would lead to considerable danger
throughout all the walks of life. In obtaining their in-
formation these persons must use for their instrurnents
the basest and worthless characters of society, beceiuse a
spy was so odious to the national feeling of Eoglis hmen,
and so much odium was attached to the employment,
that few persons o: respectability liked to be so engaged,
and he trusted that would always be the feelir,p; of the
people of this country. The learned gentlezian then
proceeded to review at great length the proceedings that
bad been taken in the case, and the evidence given
thereon, observing that in the original libel in Doctors
Common, adultery was never alleged to have taken place
in Edgeware-road or Bryanstone-street ; but in the
additional libel put in reference was made to the occur-
rence at Cheltenham, spoken to by Mann to have taken
place in August ; and on the defendant proving that he
was not in Cheltenham at that time, tilt.) witness on the
trial had shifted the time to July ; he Also proved that
no adultery took place at the above places, and con-
sequently the Court of Arches roftiscd to grant
a divorce; and now the prosecutor bad insti-
tuted these proceedings with. evidence tha
had come on the defendant with surprise. After some
remarks criticising the evidence, the learned gentleman
said that one of the many difficulties Mr. Robinson had
to contend with, was that unfortunately Mr. Carrington
and his wife were dead and he could not call them,
which was of importance to him, because that lamented
gentleman would have proved the lodgings were taken
for him and with his consent. It had pleased Providence
to deprive the defendant of the evidence of Mr. Car-
rington. On the 10th inst. Mr. Carrington, a gentleman
of great respectability and of an advanced age, dropped
down suddenly and died, and in the course of the same
day his wife followed him to the grave. The import-
ance of Mr. Carrington's evidence could not be over-
estimated in a case of this description, because
it was admitted the defendant had been on terms of the
utmost familiarity with the family, and thought no more
of going into Mrs. Carrington's house than his own,and
that he was in the habit of riding and walking out with-
her, and was such a reflection to be thrown .on this
respectable man that he would have tolerated any such
intimacy as existed between the defendant and his
daughter, which, if they believed the witnesses for
the prosecution, almost proved.to demonstration that
criminal intercourse bad taken place between them.
The old gentleman's evidence would have b ;en of im-
portance to show that the lodgings in Edgware-road
and Bryanstone--treet were taken with his concur-
rence. He coull not, however, call that gentleman;
but there was a witness he should bring forward,
because it was imp ,ssible to come to a conclusion,
tbat the defendant was guilty of perjury without her,
and without casting an indelible stain on Mrs. Evans'
character. Painful as was her position, anticipated
perhaps by the prosecution to place the defendant in a
position almost compulsory to determine whether to
expose her to an inquiry for which the prosecutor was
prepared, or whether he would abandon the chance he
had of being protected by her evidence. The lady herself
however under the painful and distressing circumstances
under which she was placed with her father and mother,
scarcely cold in their grave, with another member of the
family within three days having been numbered with the
dead—felt that she must protect her character by ap-
pearing in the witness-box to disprove the odium and
calumny it had been endeavoured to be established
against her ; she would appear before the jury and sub-
mit to the most rigid examination.
(The case was not concluded when we went to press.)

POLICE INTRT.TJGENCE.— (This Day.)

MARLBORO UG H-STREET.
A JUVENILE THlEF.—James Sullivan, a dirty little
urchin, whose head scaroely reached the top of the dock,
was charged before Mr. Beadon, with stealing a purse,
containing U. 16s. 6d., in gold and silver, money belong-
ing to Mre. Harriett Warren, 7, Belsiie-road, St. John's
Wood.

It appeared from the evidence of the proseontrix, that
on the previous afternoon, about balf-past five, she was
with her daughter in a confectioner's shop in Regent-
street, when she had occasion to lay her purse, con-
taining the sum named in the charge, on the counter.
At the rear of the latter was an ornamental plate of
silvered glass, and, on happening to cast her eye
thereon, she distinctly saw a dirty hand stealthily
move along the counter and clutch hold of the purse.
Prosecutrix immediately turned round and saw the
prisoner running out of the shop with the purse in
his hand. She pursued him through the mud across
the street, when he was st-pped by Webb, one of the
Mendicity constables, who picked up the purse, which
the prisoner had previously thrown away.
The prisoner, being interrogated by the magistrate,
replied that he knew "nuffin wot somderer ' about
the purse, and he was as "hinnercent " as a young
kitten. He subsequently changed bis tone, and pleaded
guilty. Mr. Beadon therefore committed him for a
month.