The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-04 00:00:00

The special thanks of the institution, inscribed
on vellum, were presented to Capt. Kennedy, R.N.,
late Deputy Comptroller-General of her Mai: ,ty's
Col -guard Services, in. t,stimony of his valuable
services during the past six years, end his cordial
co-operation in assisting to carry out the important
and philanthropic objects of the Royal National
Lifeboat Institution.

After a very cordial vote of thanks had been
given to the chairman, Mr. Chapman, for the con-
tinued kind interest in, and his valuable services
to, the society, the proceedings closed.

POLICE' INTELLIGENCE--Jan. 3.

MANSION-HOUSE.—A well-dressed man,
named Henry Bell, who was stated to be very re-
spectably connected, was brought before the Lord
Nilayor, charged with felony, under the following
rather peculiar circumstances. The prisoner ap-
peared to be very faint and weak, and he was
allowed to be seated during the investigation.
Mr. Wontner, the solicitor, appeared in support
of the charge, and Mr. Beard attended on behalf of
the prisoner.
Mr. Wontner briefly opened the case, and said
that the prosecutors were Messrs. Croesdell, Brock-
sopp, and Co., wholesale cheese-dealers, in Miles-
lane, and they charged the defendant with having
defrauded them ef their property in a very impu-
dent manner. Having given a brief narrative of
the facts, the following evidence was adduced:7
Mr. Frederick Croesdell deposed that he carried
on business in partnership with Mr. Brocksopp, as
wholesale cheese-factors, in Miles-lane, and about
two months ago the prisoner called upon him and
purchased some goods, for which he paid, 7.-te
came again and wanted more goods, bit, in conse-
quence of information witness bad received, he told
him distinctly that he would not let him have any
goods unless he paid cash for them. The prisoner
after this did purchase some goods, but witness
gave the Canaan instructions not to leave them
without the money, and as the prisoner would not
pay for them the carman brought them back. The
prisoner came again to the warehouse on Wednes-
day, and selected goods to the amount of£l2 2s. 7d.,
and witness told him distinctly that he would not
let him have the goods unless he paid cash for
them, and the prisoner told him that he would send
the money back by the Carman. At the time the
goods were sent away he gave the carman an in-
voice upon which there was a stamp, and gave him
strict injunctions not to leave the goods without
the prisoner gave him the money.
Mr. Beard asked the witness whether the first
transaction that took place between him and the
prisoner was net to the amount of £63 and whether
he did nos receive that sum from the prisoner, and
he admitted that this was so.
Richard Rowland, the prosecutor's carman, de-
posed that he took the goods to the prisoner's shop
in Clarence-place, Hackney, and found him there,
and handed him the invoice, and at the same time
said that he had orders not to leave the goods
without the money. The prisoner told him that if
he would bring the goods into the shop he would
pay for them, and not without. He agreed to take
the goods into the shop upon that condition, and
took them out of his cart and placed them where
the prisoner directed him. He again demanded
the money, but the prisoner only laughed at him,
and made use of very foul language, and said that
now he had got the goods he would see him
before he would pay him for them. He then com-
menced cutting up the bacon he had taken to him,
and asked him in a jeering manner whether he
should not like to have the goods back again. He
waited for about an hour and a half in the hope
that the prisoner would pay him, and at length the
prisoner threatened that if he did not go away he
would kick him out of the shop, and he then %went
back, and told his master what had taken place.
Mr. Arthur Brooksopp, the partner of the first
witness, stated that, upon hearing from the carman
what had taken place, he went in the evening to
the prisoner's shop and asked him to pay him for
his goods. The moment he did so the prisoner ordered
him to leave the shop, and made a rush at him, and
said that if he did not go he would stab him, and he
was obliged to make the best of his way out of the
shop. Having procured the assistance of a police-
man he gave the prisoner into custody. The witness
then stated that upon examining the things in the
shop he found that the greater portion of the arti-
cles were " dummies," and consisted of composition
painted over to resemble cheeses and half-firkins of
butter. (A laugh.)
Mr. Beard asked the witness whether it was not
a very usual thing for persons in the cheesemougery
trade to make use of those dummies in their busi-
ness.

Mr. Brocksopp replied that some cheesemongers
did so, but he did not like the praotice, and his
firm made it a rule not to trust persons who adopted
the system referred to.
Mr. Beard, at the close of the case for the prose-
cution, asked for a remand, as he said he should be
able to prove that there was an understanding that
the goods were sold upon credit. He aka reminded
his lordship that it was admitted that goods to a
very much larger amount had been paid for, and
these would also have been if immediate payment
had not been insisted upon. This annoyea the
prisoner, and had led to his certainly having acted
with indiscretion, but he submitted that the charge
of felony had not been supported. He asked for
a remand in order that he might have an opportu-
nity of bringing witnesses forward who would
prove that the goods were sold upon credit.
The Lord Mayor, upon this representation, con-
sented to remand the prisoner, and allowed him to
go at large upon entering into his own recognisance
in £BO, with two sureties in £4O each.

CLERKENWELL. IMPORTANT DECISION
UNDER THE NUISANCES REMOVAL ACT.—Mr.
Thomas Lewis, 82, Upper street, Islington, the
owner of the premises situate at John's-place, Great
Arthur-street, St. Luke's, was summoned before
Mr. Barker, by the parish authorities of St. Luke's,
to show cause why an order should not be made
under the provisions of the Metropolitan Local
Management Act, 1855, requiring him to pay to
the vestry of the said parish of St. Luke's, Middle-
sex, the sum of £l2 10s., being the expense of cer-
tain work executed by the vestry at John's-place,
within their district, under the Local Management
Act.

Mr. Stable, from the office of Mr. Parson, vestry
clerk, attended to support the complaint, and Mr.
Lewis for the defence.
The case having been fully argued on both sides,
the following points were left for the magistrate's
decision:-Ist. That the vestry could not turn a
privy into a water-closet. 2d. That no notice had
been given to do the works done; and 3d. That
the act was to be construed with the Nuisances
Rerneval Act, avid before the works could be done
there must be an order ofjustices to do the work.
Mr. Barker said—l have considered this case
with attention, and also the different clauses of the
act of Parliament. I cannot see anything to justify
the converting of a common. privy into a watereloset.
The case of Tickler y, the Board of Works for the

Indeed it may here be mentioned that the manner in
which tho extensive and important, operations of the
Royal National Lifeboat Institution are carried out,
excites not only the admiration of Englishmen, but
also of many of our colonies, and nearly all maritime
nations throughout the world.
It was stated that the late Captain Bowerbank,
R.N., who had been a liberal contributor to the in-
stitution, left it a legacy of £lOO ; and that the late
grs. Barber, of Warwick, had also bequeathed it
£5O.

The thanks of the institution inscribed on vellum,
were also voted to G. H. Ackers, Lg., commodore
of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, in testimony of
his valuable and zealous services in obtaining from
the memb3rs of the club nearly £3OO to pay the
institution the cost of the lifeboat and transporting
carriage stationed at Grange, Isle of Wight.
Capt. WASHINGTON, R N., bydrographer to the
Admiralty, called the attention of the committee to
the desirability of erecting large barometer indict.
tors where practicable on the coast, so thoz seamen
and fishermen might be warned when in the har-
bour or offing, about two miles from tile land, of a
coming storm.
Mr. Sopwith, President of the Meteorological
Society, who takes great interest in the success of
the barometer department of the lifeboat institu-
tion's operations, exhibited at the meeting some fine
specimen models of the proposed indicators. The
institution decided that barometer indicators should,
in the first instance, be stationed in Northumber-
land in compliment to his Grace the Dake of North-
umberland, president of the society. Also, that one
be stationed at Wick, in Scotland, and another at
Arklow, in Ireland. To carry out effectually this
valuable suggestion a large sum would be required
by the institution to fit up the indicators. When it
is remembered that nearly 1,000 persons annually
perish from wrecks on our coasts, every friend of
humanity must rejoice in the establishment of any
practicable plan for the mitigation of the fear-
ful misery such a loss of life must cause in the
homes of our seamen and others. A good barometer
if carefully watched, is an infallible indicator of a
coming storm ; and the day cannot surely be dis-
tant when a barometer cannot be made as portable
as a pocket chronometer. Mr. Glaisher, F.R.S.,
verifies each barometer of the Lifeboat Institution
by the Greenwich standard; and it was decided to
request the makers not to sell any instruments in
its name which had not previously been so verified
by Mr. Glaisher, who takes much trouble in per-
forming this important, but gratuitous duty.
Payments amounting to £360 were made on
various lifeboat establishments.