The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-19 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Jun. 18.

(Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant Judge.)
The Court sat yesterday at Clerkenwell for the
purpose of disposing of petitions and appeals. There
were fifty-two in the list.
LOLA MONTEZ' BAIL.

Henry Daniel Davies, solicitor, of Warwick-street,
Regent-street, appealed against an order made by
Peregrine Bingham, Esq., one of the magistrates at
the Marlborough-street police-court, for the payment
of the amount of a recognizance entered into by the
said Henry Daniel Davies, for the appearance before
the said P. Bingham, Esq., of Marie _Dolores Com-
tesse de Landafeld (Lola Montez). There was a like
appeal against the same order by Daniel Davies.
Upon the application of Mr. Bodkin, who ap-
peared for the appellants, and with the consent of
Mr. Clarkson, who appeared in support of the order,
the hearing of both the appeals was postponed until
the April General Sessions.
The appeals disposed of during the day involved
questions as to parochial settlements, of no public
interest. Several appeals against parochial rates
were postponed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

John Stretton was brought up in the custody of
Barber (102), before Alderman Humphery, charged
with being a begging letter impostor.
Mr. John Cassell, of 80, Fenchurch-street, tea-
dealer, said, on -Wednesday I received the following
letter :
"Sir,—Undercircumstances of no ordinary nature do I
thus venture to address you; nothing short of my truly
painful situation could compel me to do so.
"I beg respectfully to state that I am a native of
Edinburgh, and for many years wa3 in business at No.
12, Leith-street; but owing t) misfortunes in trade,
caused by an accumulation of bad debts, I was reduced
from a state of comparative comfort to that of distress.
Three months ago I found myself thrown into this hug•
city, with no capital beyond the introductory recom-
mendations furnished me by my friends; and when I state
that I have a wife and young family solely depending
upon me, and have been unemployed since I came here,
I am admitting but a small portion of the consequent
privations we have undergone.
" I am aware that you must have many applications
of nearly a similar nature, but I would respectfully sub-
mit that you are aware there are some who are not ob-
trusive, and who do not complain before being com-
pelled. In humbly representing myself as being of than
class, I shall be most grateful for a small portion of your
sympathy. lam not pleading for myself, but for others
whose necessities augment my miseries, and I have not
committed myself by exposing my situation until driven
by the sternest and most unmitigated distress. Since Mon-
day, at twelve at noon, my little ones have had no bread.
Under these painful circumstances might I fondly a'ti-
cipate a little pecuniary assistance to ards alleviating
my present situation? In doing so such condescension
will be remembered with every sense of f cling.
" I have the honour to remain, Sir,
" Your very humble servant,
" ALEXR. SUTHERLAND.
" P.S. I may here mention that I have good prospects
of employment when Parliament sits.
" January, 1850."
I happened to know Mr. Sutherland, to whom the
note alluded, having formerly served him with goods,
and I questioned the prisoner as to the premises of
that gentleman, and found beyond all doubt that the
character was assumed for the purpose of imposing
upon me. I then told my clerk to give the poor
man " half-a-crown," and when the prisoner pocketed
the money I told him my opinion of him, which he
then acknowledged was correct, and he admitted that
the letter was fictitious.

The prisoner said, he was really compelled by the
distress he had described, which was far from being
fictitious, to resort to that mode of obtaining tempo-
rary relief. He was not, he confessed. Mr. Suther-
land, but he was as badly situated in his finances as
any person of the name could be ; and he hoped that,
as he was detected in his first attempt and never in-
tended to make another, the Alderman would bear
lightly upon him.
Alderman Humnumir—You shall not make
another attempt for some time at any rate. You have
not only forged the name of one individual to cheat
another, but you have by such an expedient, per-
haps, put the credit of the party you personated into
jeopardy. I convict you, and sentence you to im-
prisonment in Bridewell and hard labour for three
months. You are accomplished in this particular
line of business, and this letter and all 'the circum
stances attest your skill in the trade. Take my ad-
vice, and abandon it henooforward. If the money
had not been given to you in the way of charity you
would have been liable to transportation for seven
years.
The prisoner—Consider my wife and children.
Alderman llummtErty—Wife and children point
the way to industry, not to robbery. It is better for
them and for society that they should go to the union
than that you should succeed in such an avocation as
you have chosen, the tendency of which is to dry up
the fountain of all charity.
A lad, named John Conroe, was charged with hav-
ing maliciously stabbed Henry Smith.
C. H. Rix, cigar-sorter, of Great Alie-street, Good-
man's-fields, said, on Saturday, the sth instant, about
a quarter to two o'clock, the prisoner and several
others were playing together cn St. Dunstan's-hill.
They were all boys, in the employment of Mr. Ro-
binson, of it. Dunstan's-Lill, cigar-manufacturer.
The prisoner and a boy named Croft were playing at
marbles, and Smith and some others were throwing
about a basket, which they at last put upon the head
of the prisoner, who, when Smith went to take it off,
stabbed him with a knife and then ran away. Smith
called out that he was stabbed, and the blood flowed
into his trousers. I saw the blood and the cut in the
waistband of the trousers, and I took the boy to a
surgeon, and then to the hospital.
It appeared from the evidence of one ef the lads
who had been playing together that Smith held the
prisoner while the others put the basket on his head.
Smith, the complainant, said—l went behind the
prisoner to lay hold cf him in play, as the basket wai
on his head, and he said " If you don't get away I'll
stab you," and he immediately stabbed me in the left
side of the body, and the blood ran down. I had h W
no quarrel with him.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
Mr. Showier, GUILDHALL.
inspector of Smithfield-market, ap-
plied for the magistrates' order to destroy some sheep
which had been seized that morning, having been
brought up in waggons and placed in the pens ; but

the salesman would not receive them, although he had
a consignment note, which he refused to show to the

police.
Alderman CARDEN asked where the sheep were
now ? Showier replied, " That they were in the
hands of the police."
Alderman CARDEN thought that as they were so bad
as to require an order for their destruction, steps
should be taken to punish the parties sending such
cattle to market for human consumption.
Russell, one of the officers of the market, stated
that he understood these were a part of a flock of 600
from the north of Spain, which were seized as soon
as landed by the Government about four months ago;
200 of them had died and been buried, and these
were some of those that had been sold by Government
to defray expenses, at the rate, he understood, of 3s.
6d. per head.
Alderman CARDEN said he thought it was not very
discreet on the part of the Government authorities to
sell any of them, if it was merely to cover expense 3.
The Chief Clerk suggested that some evidence
should be taken upon oath.
David Showler, inspector of Smithfield•market,
said that about half-past eight o'clock that morning
he seized 38 sheep in a " scabby" state, which were
totally unfit for human food.
George Russell, 34, said that about twenty minutes
past ten o'clock he was in Smithfield-market, and
observed two carts full of sheep, opposite the pens of
Mr. John Hill. Thirty-eight were put into the pens,
and he saw that they had the " scab" very bad, and
were much emaciated, in consequence of which he
called the attention of another officer to them, and
they were removed from the market.
Alderman CARDEN—Do you think they were in-
fectious ? Russell—l certainly do.
Alderman CARDEN—To whom were they con-
signed ? Russell—To Mr. Hill, who admitted that
he had the consignment notice, but refused to show
it ; upon which I warned him not to destroy it, and
told him the present application would be made.
George Frew, 26, said, he was called to look at the
sheep, and found them in a very bad state. They
had the "scab," and some of them had the wool off,
while others were scarcely able to stand. He helped
to take them to the Ram-yard, and examined them,
mad from their appearance he should say they had had
the smallpox, and some of them were still labouring
under that disease.
Mr. Nice, the veterinary surgeon, was called, and
after examining them, said they were totally unfit for
food, and were still suffering the disease of smallpox.
Alderman CARDEN—Is Mr. Hill a large salesman ?
Frew—He is not.
Alderman CARDEN—Did you ascertain the name
of the consignee ? Frew—The name on the carts was
Mr. Geer, of Stratford, and if Mr. Geer gave 3s. 6d.
per head for the sheep he gave as much as they were
worth.

Russell said they were in a most infectious state at
present.
Alderman CARDEN said it was no wonder that legs
and shoulders of mutton were so extraordinarily cheap
when sheep could be purchased for little or nothing.
He should thoroughly investigate the affair, for he
was not at all satisfied with letting the owners off by
merely condemning the animals, but he was deter-
mined to punish them as far as the law would allow
him. He therefore ordered that the 38 sheep should
be destroyed, and that summonses should be taken out
against Mr. Geer for sending the sheep, and against
Mr. Hill to produce the consignment note on Tues-
day next.
The usual order was then made out for the destruc-
tion of the sheep and handed to the officers.