The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-08 00:00:00

BO TV- S TREE T.

Frederick Marriot, publisher of the Railway Bell,
appeared before Mr. Jardine upon a summons to
answer a complaint preferred against him by the police
for exhibiting a large flag from the parapet of his house
in the Strand, so as to cause an annoyance to passen-
gers in the public thoroughfare.
Mr. Clarkson and Mr. G. Knight Huxley appeared
for the defendant.

Inspector Mullins, F division, said he had applied
for a summons under the Police Act against the de-
fendant, in consequence of several complaints being
made by the inhabitants of St.Mary-le-Strand parish,
particularly by Mr. Greensill, lamp manufacturer,
who laid the case before the Commissioner.

Mr. Greensill stated that on the day her Majesty-
was proceeding to the City an immense flag, mea-
suring about forty feet by twenty, was suspended
across the Strand from the defendant's window,
merely as a puff to the establishment, he supposed,
and it continued flapping about in such a measure, as
to prevent the parish children from singing the
national anthem as the Queen was passing.'
Mr. John Faulkner, 325, Strand, proved that the
flag remained across the Strand till it was blown
down piecemeal. It remained suspended for several
days after the 28th of October, flapping about with
the wind.

Mr. JARDINE considered there must have been
great annoyance, for scarcely any horse could pass
through the Strand w ithout being frightened by it.
He was bound to order a conviction ; but it would
first be requisite to prove that the defendant was the
odending party.
The inspector said he went to the office to give
notice of his intention to apply for a summons, unless
the flag was removed, but /he did not see the defen-
dant; and it further appeared the beadle of the parish
could not say he lived in the house.
Mr. JARDINE considered it should be shown the
defendant had put up the flag before he could inflict a
fine upon him, although he was clearly of opinion it
was a great annoyance, but as that could not be done
he was bound to dismiss the complaint ; at the same
tune he was of opinion that the police would be fully
justified in future in taking any person into custody
who would be found again suspending it, and the
Court would put the law in full force against him.
There was another summons against Mr. Bragg,
the gunmaker, which met with a similar decision.
Police-constable Weaver, 28, F. division, was
charged with having, while on duty, committed a
rape upon Constantina Jones, in a public thoroughfare.
The case had been remanded from the previous day,
to enable the prisoner to obtain legal assistance.
The prosecutrix, a smartly dressed young woman,
stated, that she had been married six years, but,
during the last three weeks, owing to her husband's
confinement in the hospital, she had been living with
a friend at 3.5, Exeter-street, Strand (a brothel). The
policeman had accosted her on Tuesday morning, at
four o'clock, at the top of Bedford-street, on her way
home, and had forced her into a yard leading to the
back of St. Paul's Church, Covent-garden, where he
effected his purpose, though she resisted him to the
full extent of her ability, and at one time believed
that she had broken her arm and back in the effort.
She did not cry out, partly because he stopped her
mouth, and also because she feared he might turn
upon her and give her in charge, on the pretence that
she had committed an offence. She told her husband
of it, and also her friend, the next day, and by their
advice preferred the charge against the prisoner,
whom she had never seen before the morning in ques-
tion. In answer to the Magistrate's questions, she
admitted there were houses on both sides of the yard
(Church-place), and a cab-stand in the street. The
prosecutrix objected to repeat the words used by the
policeman, before committing the offence, but said she
should not mind writing them. She was accordingly
furnished with pen and paper, by which this part of
the examination was rendered complete. She ap-
peared to write very well.
The prosecutrix was cross-examined by Mr. Lewis,
the solicitor, to who:n she was compelled to admit
that, from the age of 14, when a gentleman eloped
with her from her parents at Bristol, and seduced
her, she had led a life of profligacy up to the time of
her marriage, at the age of 16. She would not deny
that she had been unfaithful to her husband (who
was in Court), and, to crown the whole, confessed
that she slept with another gentleman, the night
after the alleged rape and assault in Church-place.
She stated that she was 24 years of age.
Mr. Twyroun said, after the admissions which had
been made by the prosecutrix, he did not think he
could entertain any further the very serious charge
which she had made.

The Court was densely crowded throughout the
examination, principally by police-constables. The
prisoner is said to have borne a good character in the
force, and some few months since distinguished him-
self by taking a person into custody in spite of the
interference of a superior officer, who happened to be
a friend of the offender, and who was, consequently,
punished and further suspended.
WORSHIP -STREET.
Yesterday a ruffianly-looking fellow, named
Johnson, was charged with violently assaulting Mr.
Everington, a surgeon residing at Hackney.
The prosecutor stated, that at eight o'clock the
preceding evening he was walking in company of a
lady through the public footpath leading from Hag-
gerstone towards his own residence, when the lady's
veil happened to waft forward by the wind and be-
came entangled with the union pin in his stock.
Whilst in the act of disengaging it the prisoner and
several other blackguards came out of an adjoining
field and pelted them with stones and brickbats, one
of which struck hint a violent blow on the back of his
head.
'The prisoner said, in answer to the charge, that he
RH his mates had observed the prosecutor and the
lady who accompanied him in a position which implied
great indelicacy, and that on his speaking to the pro..

secutor on the subject, the latter struck him a violent
iblow, which knocked him down, and afterwards se-
verely kicked him. It had been his own intention
to give the prosecutor into custody, but his inten-
tions had unfortunately been anticipated by his oppo-
nent.

Mr. BINGHAM asked him what he was, and what
le was doing in the field at that time of night ? The
prisoner said that he was out of work at present, and
Thad gone to the field with his mates to keep watch, in
order to prevent persons conducting themselves as the
prosecutor had.
The policeman who had the case in hand said, that
the neighbourhood was infested with fellows who
were in the habit of prowling about for the purpose
of making similar false charges against respectable
persons of both sexes who were obliged to pass that
way, in order to extort money from them.
Mr. BINGHAM on this said, that however distressing
it might be to the lady's feelings to attend in such a
case, yet, as the prisoner positively denied the state-
ment made by the prosecutor, it was absolutely neces-
sary to hear her evidence, and he theretbre requested
that she might be sent for.
After the lapse of a short interval, a very mudest
and lady-like young woman, the daughter of a gentle-
man in the India-house, attended, and fully confirmed
the account given by the prosecutor as to the cause
of their momentary stoppage, and added, that on
being assailed by the prisoner and his companions
with a shower of brickbats, she called out for the
police, upon which one of the men seized hold of a
small work-basket she was carrying in her hand, and
turned it completely over. She would not go so far
as to say that the men had robbed her, but her cambric
handkerchief and purse, which were in the basket at
the time, were both lost.

The prisoner, in confirmation of his statement,
called one of his companions, who gave a similar
version of the affair to that which the prisoner had
given, but with such a manifest appearance of false-
hood, that
Mr. BINGHAM expressed his entire disbelief of all
he had stated, and ordered him to be detained, in order
that the prosecutor (who had been obliged by pro-
fessional business to leave the Court) might be con-
sulted as to indicting him for perjury.
The MAGISTRATE then said the prisoner had been
guilty of a most abominable outrage, greatly aggra-
vated by the false and cruel slander which he had at-
tempted to fix upon two persons of undoubted re-
spectability. He had no doubt whatever that he and
his mates were lurking about the spot to assail the
passengers with similar disgusting accusations, and
thereby work upon their fears and extort money from
them. In order to put a stop to such an infamous
system, he should impose upon the prisoner the full
penalty of 51., or in default of payment he should
commit him to the House of Correction for a month.

The money was not forthcoming, and the prisoner
was removed in the van.

Jane Dowling, the mother of the little girl Jane
Kingston, whose complaint against the schoolmistress
of the workhouse of the Bethnal-green Union we in-
serted in yesterday's paper, attended in Court and
stated, that on her return from the Court to the
workhouse on the preceding evening, the master of
the house told her that herself and children should be
placed in confinement, by themselves, until the case
which had been sent to the sessions had been finally
decided. She remonstrated against his so doing, and
told him that she should return back to the Court and
mention the circumstance to the Magistrate. The
master answered, that in that case she must take
all her children out with her, which she said she
was willing to do ; but one of the overseers, who was
standing by, said he should not allow the children to
be taken out of their warm beds at that time of night,
and that if she was resolved to go out of the house,
she must go out alone. She said, that rather than be
shut up by herself, she would prefer going out; and a
messenger was then sent up to the place in which her
husband was, who brought him down stairs with
him, and they were both turned out of the house.
Under these circumstances, she wished to know what
she was to do, as she considered that she had been
very harshly treated, having committed no other of.
fence than that of taking the proceedings on the pre-
ceding day on behalf of her child, who had been so
ill-used.

Mr. BINGHAM said that he had no jurisdiction
whatever over the internal regulations of the work-
house; but from the woman's own statement she had
left the house at her own particular request. If,
however, she had been unfairly treated, he should
direct instructions to be given to her how to make
out a written statement of her complaint, which she
had only to take immediately to the Commissioners
at Somerset-house, and it would be thoroughly in-
quired into, and if anything wrong had been done, he
felt quite satisfied that she would have redress af-
forded her.

The applicant thanked the magistrate, and went
into the waiting-room adjoining the court.
Henry Miller, William Johnson Thompson, and his
wife and daughter,, and Samuel and Charlotte Edge,
whose former examinations on almost innumerable
charges of fraud and felony in all parts of the metro-
polis we have before noticed, were brought up for
final examination, and, the cases against them having
all been completed, the depositions were ordered to be
taken, and the prisoners were fully committed to
Newgate for trial.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING,
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Arrivals at Singapore—Anonyme, Aug. 7, from Cal-
cutta, and sailed 9th to China; Coromandel, 9th, from
Bombay, and sailed 10th to China; Malacca, from Cal-
cutta, and sailed 10th to China; Chatham, from Calcutta,
and sailed 10th to China; Little Catherine, 10th, from
Bombay; Ellen, 11th, from Glasgow; Stork, 11th, from
MadraQ, and sailed 13th to China ; Anmundchunder,
from Penang; Emelina, from Penang; Britomant, from
Calcutta.
Departures from Singapore—Emma, Aug. 7, to Pe-
nang; Wisanichon, 7th; Antelope, Bth; Paul Jones, 10th ;
Castle Eden, 10th, to China; Archimedes, to Manilla;
Druid, 9th, to Liverpool; British Merchant, 12th, to
London.
Loading—Helvellyn, for Cowes; D'Arcy, for Liver-
pool.
Departures from Manilla—Macassar, June 15, to
Hamburgh ; Marznolia, to Cork ; Brookshy, 24th, to
Sydney; Colon, 25th, to Cadiz.
Loading at Manilla—Vindicator, Fortescue, and Mis-
chief, for London; Chance, for Sydney; Pandora, for
Cork; Marchioness of Douro, for Macao.
Arrivals at Ascension—Agueda, previous to Sept. 18,
from Bombay to Liverpool.
Arrivals at New Zealand—Bella Marina and Sydney,
previous to May 31, from London.
Arrivals at An3panam—Elizabeth, from Sydney, and
sailed to Manilla; Amazon, from and loading for 'China;
Bazar and Rouble (American) ; Jean, Elise, June 24,
from Bourbon.

Departures from Singapore —Her Majesty's ship
Dido and Plegethon, July 26, to Borneo; Harriet, 26th,
Batavia ; Red Rover, 27th ; Earl of Balcarras and Pau-
lina, 27th; Scaleby Castle, 28th, to China; King Henry,
30th, Pedeir Coast ; Emma, Eugenia, 31st, Mauritius.