The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-27 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

John Tyler, a powerful man, was charged with a daring
robbery in the Kent-road.
Mr. Matthew Fullard stated that on the previous
night, as he was walking along the Kent-road, the pri-
soner came up and, addressing him, remarked that it
was a fine night for the season, and added that he lived
a short distance down the road, and was going home.
Complainant said very little in reply, being no way
anxious to cultivate the acquaintance of a strangf-r
under such circumstances; and he therefore quickened
his pace in order to get rid of him. In this latter ex-
pectation, however, he was disappointed, as the prisoner
still kept up with him, and when they arrived at some
palings in front of a garden the prisoner rushed up, and,
seizing the chain of complainant's watch, by a jerk got
it out of his pocket, and ran away. Complainant imme-
diately pursued the prisoner, calling " Stop thief l" and
he was eventually secured, [and the watch was dis-
covered afterwards by a policeman in the road, where it
must have been thrown in the course of the pursuit.
The prisoner said that he was respectably connected,
and denied the charge. He was committed.
James Taylor, a tall, respectable-looking man, who
described himself as having been recently liberated from
the Queen's Prison, after suffering an incarceration of
twenty-eight years, was included in the list of night
charges as being found in a state of intoxication in the
street.

A policeman stated, that on the night of Christmas-
eve, at a late hour, he observed the defendant in Black-
friara-road very much intoxicated, with his coat open,
and his watchguard exposed, and he had also gold rings
on his fingers. lie was accompanied by three women,
one of whom walked on each side of him, and the third
behind, and as he (the policeman) knew them to be
abandoned characters, and that their object was plunder,
he took the defendant to the station to save his pro-
perty, much to the annoyanoe of the women, who com-
plained that it was a bard case a "gentleman" could not
accompany them without being prevented by the police.
Mr. A'l3EciErr said that the defendant had reduced
himself to such a condition from drink that he would
have been robbed of his watch and jewellery had it not
been for the interference of the policeman.
The defendant admitted the fact of his being intoxi-
cated as represented; but, in extenuation of the offence,
he said that he had only been liberated from the Queen's
Prison on Tuesday last, after an incarceration of 28
years, owing to an old Chancery suit. The circum-
qlnce of his discharge from gaol, after such a lengthened
imprisonment, in,used new life into him, and he in-
(Wig( d in rather a too copious libation, and, not being
accustomed to excesses of the kind, a little overcame
him, and he now regretted he had exceeded the bounds
of moderation, for he had lost 101. by his fully.—lle was
discharged.

A MAN KILLED BY A BULL —A shocking acci-
dent occurred at Sneatonathorpe, near Whitby, on Monday
evening—a young man named Crosby, son of Mr. Thomas
Crosby, of that place, farmer, having been killed by a bull.
It appeared deceased hau gone into the outbuilding to fodder
the cattle, where he was shortly afterwards found dead in
the stall where the bull was fastened. He bad evidently
been killed by the bull, as his body was much bruised and
torn by the horns of the animal. A coroner's inquest was
held on view of the body the following day, and a verdict
returned by the jury in accordance with the above facts.—
Hall Packet.

It is stated that an archeologist has lately dis-
covered among the archives at Chartres ninety-two original
letters of the kings of France—from Francis the First to
Louis the Eighteenth.