The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-15 00:00:00

S 1 FEBRUARY 15, I€so.

POLICE .INTELLIGENCE.
GVILDHALL.
A young lad, of respectable appearance, named
Edward White, was *brought up fur final examination
charged with uttering a base half•crown.
The facts of the cat e are interesting, in consequence
of the trouble differen t Aldermen have taken, and the
many remands becalm e the Solicitor to the Mint would
not adopt the views (a; the Alderman.
It appeared that th prisoner had left a good situ-
ation in the country, and came to London, visiting
various places of amusement, until one evening he
went to a shilling dancing-room at the west-end of
the town, where, for a supposed insult to a woman
he waa about getting: a beating, when a young man
named Lishman intedered on his behalf, and an inti-
macy sprang up between them. The prisoner being
nearly out of money, and believing Lishman to be a
respectable person ask.e d him if he could recommend
him to a situation. liishman said he could, and told
dim to call at his lodgings in St. Martin's-lane, which
he did, and was then told by Lishman that he could
make a good deal by passing bad money, at the same
time giving him some. He was also instructed to
say, if the coin Islas discovered to be bad, that
he got it in chanot of a sovereign, and to
give a wrong address. He practised this until given
into custody on the: present charge, with Lish-
man, who was also in the coffee-room with him at
the time, although in the next box. Lishman on a
former occasion had thlsown a bad half-crown into the
fire, and it was melted. At the first examination the
Solicitor to the Mint wi )uld not prosecute Lishman,
although a well-known sz aasher in good circumstances,
who on coming of age would have property to the
amount of 3001. a year, because the piece had been
thrown into the fire and I aelted, and therefore it would
be doubtful if a convicti*a 'a could be obtained. Lish-
man was discharged, and the prisoner remanded for
inquiries to be made respecting him, as he was not
known. Inquiries were. made, which were most sa-
tisfactory as to the character of the prisoner and all
his family, upon which the Alderman suggested the
propriety of the Solici";tor of the Mint, giving direc-
tions for the apprehension of Lishman again, and
taking the evidence of the prisoner against him, as
in cases of felony against receivers; for he did not
like to send Wbite, who evidently was the dupe of
Lishman, to Newgate. The Solicitor to the Mint
objected to such a courses, and said he was ready to
prosecute the prisoner. The case was adjourned
several times, but still the solicitor refused to give
the psliee directions to apprehend Lishman, and at
last the prisoner (by 11.‘pointment) was placed at
the bar at eleven o'clock, but no one from the Mint
appeared.
Mr. Alderman SALOWONS said that, as it was the
desire of the Mint to pro atcute the prisoner, he should
send the case to the a, !salons, although it was very
painful for him to do so., He could not understand
the unwillingness of the,. Mint to get rid of such a
character as Lishman, mr'hen the evidence of the boy
was sufficiently corroborative for the purpose. The
principle of the law as to the greater expedience of
getting rid of receivers applied to this case. When
the whole matter came :before the judges, with the
confession the boy had trade, he bad no doubt some
representations upon the ts abject would be made in the
proper quarter. At the same time he must observe
that the case was appointed for eleven o'clock pre-
cisely, and he had waitexl three• quarters of an hour
without any one attenling, and he considered the
Solicitor to the Mint had :treated the bench with great
disrespect.
The prisoner was conveyed to Newgate.
110 W. STREET.
William Castley, a rogister clerk in the General
Post-office, was placed at the bar before Mr. Henry,
on three separate charg es of stealing money-order
letters containing rernitt: inces to the amount of 200/.
Mr. Peacock, solicitor to the Post-office, prose-
cuted, and Mr. Burrell, an attorney, appeared for the
prisoner.

Ic was briefly stated that there were five clerks
(including the prisoner) i o the register department.
Ai many as eight money letters hall been recently
abstracted after their arrival at the office, and upon
a strict investigation respecting them suspicion was
directed to the prisoner, under the circumstances
detailed in the evidence of Peak, the Post-office con-
stable.

Elizabeth Williams, daughter of the post-mistress
at Hobbs' Point, in Pembroke, stated that on the 2J
inst. she remitted 301. to Colonel Maberley, the Se•
cretary to the General Post-office, on account of
money-orders. The enclosure consisted of twenty,
sovereigns of the present reign, and two 51. bank-
notes of the Manchester and Swansea Banks. The
address upon the envelop& Was in a printed form, and
the words " Money-order remittance" were also in-
scribed upon it. The bill and letter of advice accom-
panying it were in her mother's handwriting. It is
usual to receive an acknomledgment of the safe ar-
rival of money letters by the next post ; but in the
present instance none was received,
William A. Tyrrell, clerk in the Inland-office,
opened the Hobbs' Point mail bag on the morning
of the 4th instant, and handed the remittance
letter, bill, &c., to Mr Fisher, a clerk in the register
department.

Edward Fisher received the Hobbs' Point remit-
tance from the last witness, and placed it with other
money-order letters upon a tray for the purpose of
sorting them. It was his duty to separate the Lon-
don remittances from those which were to be for-
warded beyond London, and give the latter to dif-
ferent, clerks in other departments. This duty occa-
sioned his frequent absence from the Register-office,
often for six or seven minutes together, and during
those intervals the prisoner, who was on duty at the
same time, had ample opportunity of going to the
tray of letters unobserved. After sorting the letters
he handed the London remittances to another clerk,
to be compared with the bills and forwarded to the
Receiver- G eneral.

David Davis, another register clerk, received the
London letters from the last witness, and was assisted
in checking them by the prisoner, who called the
names of the towns registered in the bill while wit-
ness entered them. The prisoner did not call " Hobbs'
Point" among the list read on the morning in ques-
tion, end consequently it was not entered. The
prisoner was able to secrete any of the letters if so
disposed.
Thomas J. Hewett, a clerk in the Receiver-Gene-
ral's office, opened the bag received from the last
witness on the morning of the 4th. There was no
remittance from Hobbs' Point, nor any entry re-
specting one.
Mathew Peak, an officer attached to the Post-office,
was authorised to search the prisoner, who was sus-
pected of the robbery. Witness took a small memo-
randum-book from his hands, and on examining it
found an entry in pencil of a number of figures and
dates corresponding to the particulars of some missing
bank-notes. Witness asked him what was the meaning
of the figures, and he replied " that they related to
various qualities of wines which he had lately tasted
at the docks." Witness took about 2/. from his
pockets and asked him what money he had at his
lodgings. He stated that he had 91. in his desk, and
between 401. and 501. in his cheffonier. Witness se-
cured the prisoner, and then went to his lodgings at
3, King-square, oswell-road, where he found 91. in
his desk as described, and 70/. 105. in gold in the
cheffonier. He afterwards returned to the prisoner,
and informed him that the figures in his private me-
morandum-book related to bank-notes, and witness
asked him what he had done with them. The pri-
soner replied, "that it was so, and he had paid them
away." He was detained in custody from Saturday last
until the following Monday, when Mr. Peacock, the soli-
citor to the Post-office, read a letter in his presence,
showing that the figures and dates of nine 51. bank.
notes which had been stolen were accurately entered
in his pocket-book. The prisoner declined to give
any further explanation, and was then conveyed by
witness and another constable (Tyrrell) to the Bow-
street Police-court, on reaching which he requested
"to have a private interview with Peak in the cell."
Witness went to him, and the prisoner asked "if he
intended to search his lodgings again ?" Witness
replied that he and Tyrrell were then going to make
a very rigid search after the missing notes. The
prisoner then said, " Do not turn the place over too
much in consideration of my poor wife, and I will
tell you where the notes are secreted. You will find
them on the top of the cheffonier outside." Witness
proceeded to the lodgings, and found nine 51. bank-
notes in a book on the cheffonier, answering the de-
scription of those which had been stolen. The total
amount of money found at the prisoner's lodgings
was 1251. 9s. The sovereigns, excepting eight, were
all of the present reign.
By the prisoner's attorney—The prisoner's reason
for requesting me not to upset his place too much was
that his wife was still in bed, having been confined
only a fortnight.
By Mr. HENEY.—The prisoner's salary was 901.
per annum.
One of the clerks stated that about 151. extra might
be made in the course of the year by extra work.
The prisoner said nothing to the charge.
The prisoner was then charged with stealing another
money-order remittance of 60/. under precisely
similar eircure4ancts.
'Toe remittance was sent to London by Mrs. Gies-
son, the post-mistress at Lancaster, arid consisted of
six 51. notes and 30 sovereigns of the present reign.

[PRICE sp.

The notes were among the number found at the
prisoner's lodgings.
Similar evidence having been given, as to the trans-
actions of the Register-office, &c.,
Mr. HENRY committed him for trial.
It was uteler,.toed that there will be other charges
against him.
The prisoner's attorney requested that a gold watch
and diamond ring taken from the prisoner might be
restored by the officer for the benefit of his wife, who
was left with her infant totally destitute. Her father
could but ill afford to assist her.
Mr. Heear could make no order upon the su'lject,
as large sums of money were still missing.
LAMB E TH.
Mr. Hugh Lavington, agent to an extensive firm
of railway carriers, applied to Mr. Norton fur his as-
sistance under the following circumstances :
It appears that previous to the, extension of the
South- ts'estern Railway to the Waterloo-road, and
while the traffic to the Nine Elms station was con-
siderable, a shrewd, long-headed fellow discovered
that a street called Bond-street, which runs between
the South Lambeth and Wandsworth-road, was not
included in the Surrey and Sussex trust; and that,
therefore, all waggons and other vehicles going to
and from town to that railway might do so without
the payment of tolls. Availing himself of this import-
ant fact he made an application to Messrs. Levey, the
then lessees of the Vauxhall turnpike gate, for a
large sum as the purchase of his silence. An inter-
view took place between the applicant and the lessees,
and the result was that the latter found it necessary to
allow the former a handsome weekly allowance for the
remainder of their term. The moment the• lease
of the lessees bad terminated the secret was
disclosed, and so great in consequence was the
depreciation in the value of the tolls that no
person could be found to take them, and the
trustees were com Felled to take these on their own
bands. The -carriers and others taking advantage of
the discovery, steered their course in going to and
from the railway station so as only to cross the turn-
pike-road at two points, and though they passed
through the Vauxhall-gate, they got through exempt
from toll. The discovery, as before stated, had been
productive of great saving to the carriers and public,
and of serious injury to the trustees. It appears, by
some manoeuvring, the parish or the parochial high-
way board, under whose control and management
Bond-street has hitherto beer, has consented to its
being given up to the trustees of the Surrey and
Sussex roads, in order to its being taken into the trust,
end a short Act is now, it is said, before Parliament
for the purpose. In the interim Bond-street is stopped
up, and rendered impassable for vehicles.
The applicant, Mr. Laviegton, said that the street
was rendered impassable as tar back as Monday week,
by poles being placed across it under the pretence of
its being repaired, though since that time nothing
whatever had been done to it, and the object for stop.
ping it could not, therefore, be mistaken. It was
evidently to prevent the public from passing through
it with their vehicles, and to compel them to pay toll.
The object of his (Mr. Lavington's) application was,
first, to know if the parties were justified in stopping
the road without an order from a magistrate, or
keeping it closed up for the space of ten days under
the pretence of repairing it, when no repairs were
commenced, and none appeared necessary.
Mr. NORTON, after consulting the authorities on
the subject, informed the applicant that it was not
necessary to have a magistrate's order to stop a street
for necesary repairs, and said, that as regarded the
other peat of the complaint, it was a matter to form
the subject of an indictment, and not one in which he
(Mr. Norton) as a magistrate, had any power to in.
terfere.

Mr. I.2vington thanked his Worship for his kind-
ness and. attention, and said he should not the matter
drop.

THAMES.
John Stockwell, a well-known thief, of about 19
years of age, Solomon Croster, a Jew, described as a
general dealer, and James Aforphett, aged 37, who
keeps a ,3bandler's-shop in Ann's-place, Wentworth-
street, IVhitechapel, were brought before Mr. Ingham,
the first charged with stealing a great coat, a candle-
stick, and other property, and the other two with re-
ceiving the same knowing them to have been stolen.
It appeared from the evidence that a communica-
tion was made to Police-sergeant Kelly, 2 H, an
active officer of the detective force, by a respectable
man named Hall, that bis son, a buy only 11 years of
age, and a girl named Allen, of about the same age,
had been met on their way from school by Stock-
well, and. induced to commit several robberies ;
that Stockwell took the property from them,
and that some of it had found its way to the Jew,
who resides in a low lodging-house in Ann's-place,
and that ame bacon and pork, stolen by the children,
had been sold by Stockwell to Morphett. Kelly lost
no time its making inquiries, and found the informa-
tion true, and also that Stockwell, who has been con-
victed of Felony, was in the practice of inducing child-
ren to plunder shops. Kelly first repaired to Mor-
pbett's shop, and asked him if he had purchased any
bacon and, pork of a Jew ; and he said he had not;
he then asked him if he had received any from any
other person ; and he declared he had not. Kelly
advised him to be cautious, and he then said he bad
received some ham. Kelly seized a cushion of bacon,
and another piece of bacon which had been stolen.
Morphett was taken into custody by Wigley, 141 H,
who aftervrards accompanied Sergeant Kelly to a
lodging-house next door to Morphett's shop, and in a
room there found Croster and Stockwell. There was
a large quantity of stolen pork boiling in a pot on the
fire, and the children said it was the same they had
taken out of a shop. Kelly expressed his surprise to the
Jew that be should be boiling pork for his supper,
and Croster impudently said, "it was mutton with
the thick rind on, and that he was glad to eat any
thing he could."

Ilenry Hall, a very little fellow, who did not ap-
pear to be more than eight years of age, said that
he had seen Stockwell and Croster in the streets.
Stockwell very often said, if he would live with him
he would give him plenty to eat and drink. As he
was cowing home from school on Wednesday Stock-
well met him again. A little girl was with him.
They walked half a mile, and Stockwell said he could
find " gifts " for them. They were passing a bacon
shop, and Stockwell pointed to some bacon and pork
and said, " There's a gift ; take that;" and he went
into the shop and took one piece of pork and gave it
to Stockwell, who said to the girl, " There are some
gifts for you," and told her to take two lumps of
bacon exposed for sale at the shop-door, and she did
so, and gave them to Stockwell, who afterwards gave
witness is. Stockwell took the pork and bacon to
the lodging-house where the officers found him ;
they afterwards went out again, and on passing by
a clothes shop Stockwell said, " There are some
more gifts for you," and pointed to some
coats, "take one of them and drop it; it will fetch
3s. or 4!." Witness did not like to do it ; but
Stockwell said, "Go on, you fool ; it's no harm."
The girl pulled the coat off the nail, and dropped it '
on the ground. Witness picked it up, and, by the
desire of Stockwell, dropped it down again ; Stock-
well picked it up, and put it on his back, and walked
away with it. They passed by another shop where
there was a large brass candlestick, and Stock well
said, "There's a pretty gift ; take it," and he did so.
The boy gave his narrative with the most artless sim-
plicity..
Louisa Allen, a very diminutive child, aged 10,
was sworn, and said, " Please, Sir, that gentleman,
(pointing to the thief Stockwell) came to my house
in North East-passage, Wellclose-square, and took
me out and said that there were some gifts for me."
The little creature then confirmed the evidence of
Hall in every partioular.
Abraham Raphael, salesman, of Back-road, Shad-
well, identified the coat stolen from his shop by the
children, and which was found in the lodging-house
by Kelly. He missed it on Wednesday night. He
also said be had been recently plundered of a large
quantity.
James Oness, sbopman to Mrs. Sarah Roll, Duke-
street, St. Georges'F, identified two pieces of bacon
weighing 10lb., which were missed from the shop on
Wednesday afternoon.
The boy Hall was recalled, and said that be saw
Stockwell give the bacon to Croster who took it to
Morphett's shop.
Morphett denied that he purchased the bacon of
Croster. It was brought to his shop by a man named
Jack Harvey, and he gave him 3s. for it.
The father of Hall said his child bad been dragged
away and initiated in crime by the villianlSAtolickenwall,
Stockwell,
i
and that in consequence of what the p
his son toll him he communicated with the
police.
MM r. INGHA said, this was a very
evidence was sufficiently strong to justify the com-
mittal of Stockwell
and eet forros trial,Croster,
and they
b utnot
mustb conclusive
dis-
charged.
agalnst
i‘lo
charged.
Mary Harris, alias Roche, and Ellen Sullivan, two
notorious and desperate thieves, were brought before
Mr. Ingham, on remand, charged with stealing 34
sovereigns from James Clark, a meat salesman.

Mr. INGHAM said he should commit both prisoners
:o Newgate fir trial.

Total number of emigrants to all parts from Great
Britain and Ireland in the year 1847:—England and
Wales, 153,998 Scotland, B,6l6—lreland, 95,756
Taal, 258,270.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.
Shakespere's play of Julius Casar was revived
here last night, and was received by a crowded boos
with the utmost enthusiasm. Too much praise cannot
be accorded to the manager for the spirit and enters
prise he evinces in the cause of the legitimate drama;
and it is pleasing to find that his success is commen-
surate with his merit. The play was admirably put
upon the stage. Brutus was played by Mr. Vanden.
hoff with great ability, as was also the part of Cassius
by Mr. Cathcart. The voice of this gentleman, in
some passages, was rather unpleasant, from its incli*
nation to a nasal twang. Mr. Anderson's Marc Ans
tony was worthy of himself. Miss Phillips's Tire
formance of Portia was clever and pleasing.
part of Lucius, small in itself, was admirably played
by Miss Florence Gre
this y. The personal appearance of
young lady is much in her favour, and her acting
displayed great care and attention. The curtain fell
amid most rapturous applause.

FRENCH PLAYS.
ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
There was a morning performance at this theatre
yestcrday, commencing at two o'clock. Auber's de-
lightful opera, Le Domino Noir, with Charton as the
heroine, was given on the occasion, and never has
the delightful Charton sung or acted better in tier
life. She was rapturously applauded throughout, and
was called for at the conclusion. During the course of
the morning Herold's splendid overture to Zampa was
admirably performed by the orchestra, under the an.
perintendence of the prince of conductors Mr. Charles
tiMun,senna.