The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-07 00:00:00

NEWTON V. ROE.

INDISPOSITION OF SIR L. SHADWELL.—The fol-
lowing notice was posted in the Vice-Chancellor's
Court yesterday :—" His Honour the Vice-Chancel-
lor of England will not sit to-day, in consequence of in-
disposition.—Nov. 6, 1844."
STATE OF TRADE.—The accounts received by the
kite arrivals from India and China, do not appear to have
made any change in our market. Yarn continues very
scarce, and exceedingly firm in price ; in goods there is
a moderate and steady demafid at unaltered rates.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, Nov. 4.—There has
been more business doing in the market to-day, but the
prises have been considerably lower. It is a general
rent-day in Rochdale this week, of which the merchants
take advantage, as it obliges the small manufacturers to
sell. Pieces have been sold to-day at a reduction of from
2s. to 4s. a couple. The wool market still remains heavy.
—Manchester Guardian.
CIRIOUS DISCOVERY.--A highly curious and inte-
resting discovery, not only to geologists, but to others
likewise, has just been made at the Pentwyn ironworks,
near Pontypool. While the workmen engaged on those
works and occupied in one of the mine levels, were pro-
ceeding with their operations, they met with a fossil tree
of very considerable size. It was found in an erect posi-
tion and perpendicular to the plane of stratification. The
circumference at the base, immediately above the point ,
of junction with the root is six feet, and from thence it
diminishes to four feet, in a height of about five feet.
THE MARBLE FOR THE SCOTT MONUMENT.—This
ponderous block of marble, the largest, we believe, that
has ever been brought to this country, on Friday
brought up from Mr. Maxton's yard, Leith, to Mr.
Steell's studio, Randolph-place. The svorkmen of Mr.
Maxton requested to be permitted, at nine o'clock, when
the time was their own, to give a hearty pull, in order
to be the first, as they said, to set in motion the block
that was to form the statue of the illustrious author of
"Waverley," and accordingly, on Friday morning, up-
wards of one hundred of the workmen drew the large
mass from the gate, a considerable distance along the
road, amid the loudest cheers. Twenty first-rate ,
horses were then yoked to the track, and, after malty
painful efforts, they succeeded in putting the wheels
in motion. They proceeded along Junction-street
and up Leith-walk, followed by a crowd of per-
sons, which increased at every step. Just before coming
to Leith-street, the horses were put to their speed, and
took the steep in a gallant style, amidst the cheers of
the spectators. The hill was gained in a short time, and
the cavalcade went slowly again. When it arrived oppo-
site the monument great cheering again took place, and
the horses were put to their speed. The car arrived at
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Leith will rot be less than 50L—Caledonian Mercury.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arrived from
Germany late on Monday night, and yesterday went to
Brockett-hall, on a visit to Viscount Melbourne. Lord
and Lady Beauvale and Viscountess Jocelyn are staying
at Drockett-hall.

In this action for libel, of which the particulars have
been frequently before the public, the plaintiff, a bar-
rister, applied for a rule nisi to enter a verdict in his
favour, upon the counts which the jury had found for
the defendant.—Rule nisi granted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.
Two well-dressed women of the town, named
Bridget Williams and Mary Euston, were brought
before Alderman Wilson, under the following cir-
cumstances :
About eight or nine weeks ago a gentleman was
met, at a late hour of the night, in Thames-street, by
a female, who contrived to rob him of a small bag,
containing 451. He subsequently appeared at the
Mansion• house, and charged Mary Euston with the
robbery. As, however, he could not positively swear
to her identity, and it appeared on being searched at
the station-house the woman was found to have no
property about her, the case was, after a strict inves-
tigation before the Lord Mayor, which was adjourned
from day to day, discharged, in consequence of a
fatal deficiency in the evidence. Mary Euston, as
might be expected, solemnly protested her innocence,
but she, at the same time, intimated to his Lordship
that she knew the woman who had committed the rob-
bery, although she could not tell her name or ad-
dress. It is proper to state that it is a general prac-
tice with women who combine the two characters of
prostitute and thief, to contrive, with the assistance of
some ruffian of the male sex, to lighten the pockets of
gentlemen who stay out rather late at dinners, not-
withstanding the activity of the City police.
On Tuesday night, as a policeman was in King
William-street, he heard a violent shrieking, and
upon going to the spot from whence it came, he saw
the Mary Euston, who bad been previously charged,
quarrelling with Bridget Williams, the other pri-
soner. The former, in her rage, said she would let
out all she knew, and then accused her adversary of
having stolen the money about which she had suffered
so much. They were both taken to the station-house,
where Mary Euston said that Bridget Williams had
promised to give her money to fee counsel to get her
out of trouble if she would not split; but that in-
stead of assisting her, the latter went out of the way
until all the cash was spent, and therefore the whole
business must come to light for the punishment of
such ingratitude.
The policeman said that Mary Euston distinctly
accused Bridget Williams in the station-house, not
only of having committed the robbery, but of having
basely broken the promise to send her a sovereign
for not " splitting.' That Bridget Williams did not
deny the fact charged, but, on the contrary, stated
the number of 101. and Si. notes contained in the
bag, and admitted that she had spent the whole of the
money.
Alderman WILSON (to Bridget Williams)—So you
robbed the gentleman between you, and when you
went off with the money you determined to keep it
all yourself ? Bridget Williams—Oh, upon my word,
my Lord, I never had a shilling of anybody's money.
She came to sue quite sudden and tore my clothes.
Mary Euston—l never saw her since she refused
to help me out of trouble till last night, and as she be-
haved so treacherously, I resolved to split. I know
she robbed the gentleman.
Alderman WILSON--How did you know anything
about the robbery, except you were both together
when it was effected ? Mary Euston—l heard it.
Alderman WiLsosi--And why did you not give
information of it before ? Mary Euston—l did not
know it so exactly as I do now. She told me, if it
went to trial, she would pay the expenses.
Alderman WILSON—WeII, I hope you have both
money enough to fee counsel now, for I think you
will want counsel's assistance.
One of the officers stated that there were three or
four of the " swell-mob," who were known to be the
associates of the prisoners, prowling about the Man-
sion-house. When, however, the Alderman directed
some of the police to take any persons of the descrip-
tion into custody, and place them at the bar, he was
informed that they had vanished.
The Alderman then remanded the prisoners.
An old Frenchman, named Jonas Legrand, was
brought up, charged with having picked a lady's
pocket of eighteen-pence. There.is an odd circum-
stance connected with the history of the prisoner.
A City policeman stated that between three and
four o'clock on Friday, as be was doing duty at the
west entrance of the Royal Exchange, he saw the
prisoner, who was covered with a cloak, busy at work
in trying the pockets of females in the crowd. The
prisoner afterwards left the crowd, but having taken
off his cloak and hung it over his arm, soon returned
and got into the midst of the multitude. Witness,
who suspected the prisoner's intention from the com-
mencement, continued to watch him, and soon saw
bins lift up a lady's gown, and evidently pull away his
hand. Witness seized him by the wrist, and he im-
mediately dropped a shilling and a sixpence on the
ground. The lady, upon being told that she had been
robbed, put her hand in her pocket and said she had
lost eighteen-pence.
The lady confirmed the greatest part of the police-
man's evidence, and
Aleernsan WILSON having been informed that the
prison Centraler was an
Criminaln oldoffencdoeur,rt.committed him for trial
at the
Gooch, the principal turnkey at the Compter, sub-
sequently mentioned that, on a former occasion, when
the old Frenchman was in prison for picking pockets,
he used to amuse himself in giving lessons to the boys
in that art, and advanced them so considerably in the
mystery, that one of them so adroitly whipped the
handkerchief out of the pocket of their instructor as
wholly to escape his observation. Legrand, who
despised the principle " arte perire sue," or falling a
victim to his own cleverness, made an awful disturb-
ance in the prison upon missing his property, and his
pupil, who proved to be really worthy of such a
master, could not be prevailed upon to restore the
handkerchief, which he considered he had fairly ob-
tained by such an exhibition of his superiority, until
the turnkey interposed his power. M. Legrand justi-
fied the vigorous means he had adopted for restitu-
tion upon the maxim of " honour amongst thieves."
CLERKEIV WELL.
Mr. David Patterson Barry, a surgeon at the Lon-
don University Hospital, was charged with using
obscene and disgusting language to a lady in the
public street ; and Messrs. John Thomas, and Edward
Abraham Hallier, with violently assaulting Mr. David
Henry Jobson, a gentleman connected with the edito-
rial department of one of the London journals, and
residing at 9, University-street.
The body of the court was crowded with medical
students, who conducted themselves in so indecorous
a manner as to interrupt the business of the court.
Mr. COMBE said if they would persevere in their
indecorum, he would have them expelled from the
court. There were no two classes of persons of any
degree which gave the magistrates so much trouble as
medical students and attorneys' clerks. If the per-
sons in the body of the court strove to laugh it off,
and treat the complaint as a joke, they would find
themselves greatly mistaken.
Mr. Jobson deposed that on the previous night,
between eight and nine o'Clock, he was standing on
the footway in University-street, talking to a lady,
when the three prisoners, one of whom affected in-
toxication, passed. Witness did not know them,
and had not given them the slightest provocation,
when Barry, turning about to the lady, said--(the
words were disgustingly obscene and unfit for publi-
cation). '['hey then walked on. Witness followed
them and demanded Barry's card. He refused it,
and Hallier, suddenly turning round, struck him a
violent blow on the left eye. Witness attempted to
defend himself, but the whole three fell upon him and
beat him so that he bled considerably from the mouth
and nose. He received another very severe blow on
the temple. A mob of two hundred persons ga-
thered, and witness eventually gave them into the cus-
tody of a constable. Were it not for the timely ar-
rival of assistance, he would have been dangerously
injured.
Each of the prisoners sharply interrogated him.
He admitted having struck at them in self-defence,
and having told them their conduct was the conduct
of blackguards. The reason he did not remain longer
, at the station was, because he went to a surgeon to
have his wounds dressed. The lady might not have
heard some of the words used by Barry.
Thomas—You are telling a tissue of lies.
Mr. COMBE—The gentleman is giving his evidence
in a highly creditable manner, and you had better not
repeat that language.
George Barker, a baker's boy, who chanced to be
passing at the time, confirmed, to a great extent, the
complainant's testimony, as did Mr. Coldrick, a
tradesman, residing at 34, University-street, who
positively swore he saw all three prisoners strike at
Mr. Jobson.
Mrs. Elizabeth Harrison' residing at 10, Grafton-
street, had been talking to Mr. Jobson as deposed to,
when the prisoner Barry, turning round to her, said
" You are a lovely creature." She was greatly agi-
tated by being thus addressed, and did not hear any
more. Barry's manner was most insulting. (The
lady was greatly confused and agitated.)
Police-sergeant 5 E deposed to having arrested the
prisoners, who were perfectly sober. The whole
neighbourhood was in a state cf great excitement,
and a mob of three hundred persons, some of whom