The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-01 00:00:00

CI,ERKEIV WELL.

A cabman, badge 189, was charged by his employer, Mrs.
Penevint, a cab-owner, residing in Silver-street, Bloomsbury,
with the following outrageous conduct :
It appeared, from the evidence, that the prisoner had
not been more than a few days in Mrs. Penevint's employ-
ment when he was sent out with a chaise. He left the yard
with the chaise at eleven o'clock yesterday morning, and
nothing was heard of him until nine o'clock last night, when
the complainant was informed that the prisoner was drunk in
a public-house. She immediately dispatched Lea Pigeon,
her stableman, to bring home the cab and horse, but when
the messenger arrived neither cabman or vehicle were any-
where to be found. At three o'clock this morning the' pri-
soner came home, in a beastly state of intoxication, without
either cab or horse. ' Mrs. Penevint asked him where they
were, but the fellow said he knew nothing whatever about
them. He was leaving the yard when Mrs. Penevint gave
him into custody. About an hour afterwards three strange
men brought home the cab and horse, which they had found
in Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury, without guidance.
The prisoner said that he had been very sick, and was not
drunk.

Mrs. Penevint said she had been informed that the pri-
soner was in the habit of alleging sickness as an excuse when
there were no grounds whatever for it. The prisoner had not
given her a farthing for the use of her vehicle although he
contracted to pay 9s.
The Magistrate sentenced him to pay a fine of 11., or ten
days' imprisonntent.

A mini named George Welfare, who is employed at the
Islington toll-bar, and who has been repeatedly convicted of
assaults on the police and on civilians at this Court, was
charged with the following conduct :
On the previous night, at eight o'clock, police-constable
Harris being on duty in Ring-street, was passing a beer-
shop, at the door of whiclithe prisoner was standing; he.(the
prisoner) exclaimed, " Oh, there goes b— Kiddy Harris,
but I'll have a mug at him." Kiddy Harris was the flame
of a most diabolical character, who was some years ago
executed at the Old Bailey for the murder of a young
woman under circumstances of extraordinary cruelty; he
repeated this offensive language, and haying been expelled
from the beer-shop in consequence, followed Harris, seized
him by the throat, and thrusting his hand between the
leather'stock and the skin' pressed his knuckles against his
windpipe. A policeman fortunately came up and rescued
Harris from his grasp. The prisoner, however 'fastened on
Harris again, and clung to him with desperate tenacity, he
kicked him on the leg, and tut, and bruised the constable's
face.

Police-sergeant North, 14, deposed that nothing' could
exceed the prisoner's violence at the station-house. He was
an associate, &thieves and the most depraved characters.
Mr. GREENWOOD said, it was very disgraceful that such a
person should be employed in such a capacity as assistant at
a public toll-bar, and he was surprised that Mr. •Pickford
could tolerate it. The prisoner had done his best to injure
the constable, and he would send him to prison, without fine,
for ten days.
A PROFLIGATE WlFE.—Sarah Duck, the wife of Simeon
Duck, a French polisher, residing in Kingsgate-street, Hol-
born, was charged with assaulting her husband.
It appeared, from the evidence, that the defendant is a
woman of disAipated habits and unfeeling disposition. The
husband, a hard-working man, deposed that she frequently
scinandered in drink his week's earnings, leaving her three
little children in a condition bordering on ' starva-
tion. She has been frequently brought before this
Court, and bound over to keep the peace towards the com-
plainant. On Saturday night last he gave her a sovereign
for the housekeeping expenditure for the week. On Tuesday
last she said she had taken two of her little children to Percy
Chapel, but, instead of doing so, spent the evening in a beer-
shop with two low fellows, and returned home at night in-.
toxicated, having squandered the whole sovereign except
fivepence. When her husband wanted to have the fivepence
from her to get something for supper, she flew at him like a
tigress, tore his face, and knocked him down. She then
seized the poker, which, having been disarmed of, she caught
hold Of the tongs. Of these, too, she was fortunately deprived,
before she could inflict any serious injury.
In default of the payment of fine, she was committed to the
House of Correction for a month.

, George Rogers was committed for trial for stealing three
pounds of tea, value fifteen shillings, and other articles, 'the
property of Mr. Jenny, a grocer residing in Hatton-wall, in
whose service he was engaged.
Thomas Watson, alias John Boyle, a notorious thief, was
charged with stealing a necklace, the property of Susan
Hone, a poor woman, living in Peter-street, Saffron-hill.
The prosecutor was in bed with her children at five o'clock
on that morning, when she was aroused from sleep by the
prisoner having opened a box in the room, from which he
had abstracted the necklace. She screamed, having never
seen him before, upon which he said he had come into the
house with his brother and a young woman. The story
turned out to be false, and the necklace was found, on his
person.—He was fully committed for trial.

SENTENCE of the COURT-MARTIAL
ON SERGEANT-MAJOR W. NELAME.

On Wednesday the Court re-assembled at Chatham Bar-
racks, when the following charges and sentence upon Ser
geant-Major William Nelame were promulgated, who had
demanded an inquiry, in consequence of certain allegations
having been made against him by Major L. C. N. Meyer,
Superintendent' of the Cavalry Riding Establishment at
Maidstone :
Charge 1. For conduct to the prejudice of good order and
military discipline, in having, 'at Maidstone, On the 26th of
March, 1844, offered to Major Meyer,-the Riding-Master of
the Cavalry DepOt at Maidstone, some bank-notes, saying, at
the same time, I have brought you a present, or words to
that effect; and when ordered by the said Major Meyer to
remove such bank-notes, begging the said Major Meyer to
accept them, he, the said Sergeant-Major Nelame being at
the same time under the instructions of the said Major Meyer,
with a view to qualify himself for the appointment of Riding-
Master, to the 12th Lancers, and intending such sum of money
as a•bribe to the said Major' Meyer, to report favourably of
his qualifications.—Guilty..
An additional charge preferred against the prisoner for
having at Maidstone, ill a letter addressed and-sent by him,
the said Sergeant- Major Nelame, to the Most Noble Field-
Marshal Arthur, Duke of Wellington, Commander-in-Chief
of her Majesty's Forces, bearing date the 2d day of April,
made false and malicious assertions, with intent to injure and
defame, and to give his Grace the Commander-in-Chief false
impressions of the conduct of the said Major Meyer, in the
following instances—to wit :-
Ist-Instance—ln asserting, en the 7th of December last,
" I got a ride to drill, Colonel Middleton and Major Meyer
being present. After drilling the ride, I was mounted on a
horse, and rode two or three times round the school. When
I was 'dismounted, Major Meyer told me my drilling was
good, but my riding was bad. Whereas,, in truth and in
fact, the said Major Meyer did not, on the occasion referred
to in the said letter, tell the said Sergeant-Major Nelame
that his drilling was good.—Guilty.
6th Instance—ln asserting that, when all these means
(thereby meaning the alleged means mentioned in preceding
instances) fail, he (thereby meaning the said Major) makes
a report to Colonel Middleton that " I gave him a sum of
money for the purpose of getting him to make a favourable
report of me to the itorse Guards. How any perion holding
the high and honourable position he does could stoop to such
a subterfuge shoas me." Whereas, in truth and in fact,
such report to Colonel Middleton was not, as insinuated in
the said letter, false or malicious; but was a true report,
made by the said Major Meyer in the due discharge of his
duty.—Guilty. -.
. Sentence—To be reduced to the ranks.

This declaration came like a thunder-clap upon the Ser-
geant-Major, who, it was evident, did not expect it. We
understand that be has been actively engaged in the service
of his country for the last eight•and-twenty years, sixteen
of which were as sergeant-major, and two years as regi-
mental sergeant-major. Upon the stripes being cut from his
jacket, he indignantly threw it off, and declared he would
never put it on again, although 'he was strongly persuaded
so to do, and join his regiment. He subsequently-became so
excited and ill, that he was ordered to be removed- to Fort
Pitt Hospital, whence he was -conveyed in a carriage pro-
cured from the town for that purpose.

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Captain Blair and Capt. Tynmore, arrived in Lon-
don on Thursday, by the General Steam Navigation Com-
pany's Mail-packet, John Bull, Captain J. P. Corbin, after a
fine passage of forty-five hours. We yesterday had to record
the arrival of the Monarch, another of the Company's ships
from the same place in forty-four hours. The regularity 1G
the arrival of this Company's ships, notwithstanding the un-
settled weather, is remarkable.
THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT AT LONDON. BRIDGE.
—FINDING OF THE THIRD 110 DY.—Thursday afternoon Mr.
Baker, for the second time, resumed an inquiry at the Town
of Whitby Tavern, Wapping-wall, touching the death of
Robert Harrison Thurlow, aged eight years and a half,
another of the unfortunate children who lost their lives by
the upsetting of a boat at London-bridge, on the evening of
Sunday, the 19th instant. The particulars of the occurrence
appeared in our journal on the following day. The bodies of
George Newton and Caroline Smith, who were also drowned
at the same time, have been recovered, and inquests held be-
fore Mr. Payne, the City Coroner, within whose jurisdiction
'they had been found. That of the deceased was picked up
floating off Pelican-stairs, Shadwell, on Tuesday morning
last. On the present occasion, George Clark deposed that
the deceased was the son of Mr. Edward Thurlow, a printer,
residing in Shaftesbury-place, Aldersgate-street. On the
evening in question he took the deceased to London-bridge,
and entered the boat in which there were-thirteen other
young persons, for the purpose of being conveyed to Tower
stairs, at one penny a-head. The witness here detailed the
particulars of the occurrence, which have already been pub-
lished. Mr. Cutler;the beadle of the Watermen's Company,
stated that a summons had been taken out by that Company
against -Williamson, the owner of the boat, for plying for
hire -without being duly licensed, which-was to be heard-be-
fore the Lord Mayor the next day (Friday), when the jury
expressed a wish that the inquest should be adjourned, to give
them an opportunity of knowing the decision of his Lordship
on the case before they delivered their verdict. The investi-
gation will be resumed on Monday next. -
SINGULAR TEN UR E.—King John gave 'several
lands at Kipperton and Atterton to one Solomon Attefleld, to
be held by this singular service :—That as often as the King
should be pleased to cross the sea, the said Solomon and-his
heirs should be obliged to go with him to lioldbis MAjesty's
head, if there should be occasion for it, "that is, it he should
be sea-sick ;" and it appears by the record in the Tower that
this same office of head-holding was actually performed IA the
reign of EdWattl the' First: ' - •