The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-25 00:00:00

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SURREY SESSIONS.—(THIS DAY.)
George Knight, 36, de-cribad on the calender as II
whitesmith, was indicted fir stealing a chaise, the pro"
perry of John Smith, at St. George the Martyr. ,
Mr. Goldsmith prosecuted, and Mr. Johnson defenoeu
the prisons:a.

George Smith, the son of the prosecutor said, that it;
the beginning of February la: t, a chaise was entrusted
by his father to the prisoner to repair. Witness repeat'
edly called upon him for it, when he male mane excuses►
and when pressed for the return of it, whether finished
or not, he told him that some one had stolen it. Witness
called in a policeman and gave him into custody, when
the axletree and springs were discovered concealed in the
back premises. _Witness identified the axletree and
springs from a peculiar mark placed on them when hie
father purchased the chaise.
Even Jo❑es, a police-constable of the N division, said
he searched the prisoner's house, and after finding the
property produced he discovered nearly a hundred
skeleton keys of the most extraordinary description;,,
sufficient to open any lock, a number of ,6 jemmied,
and two curiously-construc•ed centre-bits tfgreat power,
which would enable a housebreaker to enter any shop.
The whole of them had been manufactured by the Pri'
soner, and he was knoen to supply the most notorious
burglars in the country.
The prisoner said that, being a whitesmith, he bed
use for those things in his business. Ile denied making
them for housebreakers.

Mr...T6hnson addre3sed the jury for the prisoner, rind
a verdict of Gu Ity was returned.
The constable stated that the prisoner had been in
custody several times fur stealing carts, but he generally
managed to get acquitted. He was, however, sun"
manly convicted six months ago for robbing his ftw
fished lodging 4.
The CHAIRMAN said the prisoner was a dangerous
character to society, and there could be no doubt be
manufactured these extraordinary implements for the
purpose of disposing of them to housebreakers. 06
should take care he did not carry on his avocation for s
long time, by sentencing him to two years' hard labour
in Brixton House of Correction.

BOW-STREET-(THIS DAY.)
A middle-agel man, dressed in a comfortable-look'
ing fustian suit, named Collins, was charged With
Police-constable E 42 stated that yesterday afternoon
he was on duty in Bedford-square, and about feet
o'clock he observed the prisoner try several area•gated•
One of them was open and he went down the steps, bet
he did not appear to do anything wrong except kneckiug
at the kitchen door. Receiving no answer to his knock
the prisoner returned into the square, when witneee
asked him what he wanted there, and the prisoner re-
plied that he bud been begging a little bread. He had a
long canvas bag across his shoulder, which on being
searched was found to contain broken victuals enough to
last any moderate man for four days. The prisoner 111.90
had money about him, and witnes., suspecting that he
was a practised hand at meudicity, took him to SP*
station.

The prisoner said he was a anuff-grinder, and be
came from New Ross.

Mr. HALL sentenced him to eight days' imprisonment.
A woman named Mary Archer was charged on
bench warraht by a common informer, who stated bin
mane to he Fr. derick Cruse, of 51, Mount-street,
Grosvenor-6.quare, with keeping a brothel in Lower
Searle's-plate, Temple-bar.
Mr. Inspector Dodd thought it right to inform the
magistrate of the manner in which the warrant had been
execu:t d. This warrant bad been in the informer's hands
for some time, but be bad watched his opportunity to
arrest the defendant on ;;:aturday, so that she might be
locked up all Sunday.
Mr. HALL had ❑o doubt that these men were nothing
better than extortionists, but his duty was simply minis-
terial, to order the woman to put in bail.
The formal evidence of the granting of the e arrant
and finding of the indictment was then put in, and the
defendant having been told that she must find good bait
for her appearance at the sessions, r,f which she must girl/
twenty-tour hours' notice to the informer, she said she
wished to make a statement to the magistrate. This
man Cruse and another came to her about a month Mr
and threatened to indict both her and her husband na'
less she paid him 2/. 10s. Some money was handed to
him, and then, by his direction, she went into the
country till the meaer had blown over. She returned
home on Saturday evening, and just as she was going
out to market Cruse and another pounced upon her. She
had two sovereigns and two shillings in her hand at the
time she was arrested, but when she got to the station
the two sovereigns were missing. No one had touched
her but Cruse.

Mr. Inspector Dodd informed the magistrate that •
true bi►l had been found against Cruse and his assist:ill
fur att?mpting to extort money from the &tendon'.
hu,band.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—Her Majesty the Queen
and his Royal Bighness Prince Albert again honoured
the performance of the opera of Der Freischutz with,
their presence on Saturday evening. In the Heys'
suite were the Viscountess Jocelyn, the Hon. Miss Mao'
donald, Lord Alfred Paget, the Earl of Morley, and
Colonel Bouverie. The general company included,
among others, his Grace the Duke of Leeds, the Countess
f Jersey, and Lady Clementine Villiers; the Earl of
Cardigan, the Earl and Countess of Bradford and the
Ladies Bridgman; Viscountess Mahon, Viscount 1%161.11"
deville, Viscount Castlereagh, Viscount Clifden,
count Chelsea, Viscount Exmouth, Lord George MO'
ners, Lord Alexander Gordon Lennox, Lady Annie
Dashwood, Lady Harriet Ramsden Lord Alfred Churchill, Lord Arthur Hay, Lady Wallscourt, Admiral
Berkeley, M.P, Lady Charlotte Berkeley, and Miss
Berkeley; Hon. James Stuart Wortley, M.P., Colonel
the Hon. G. Fitzgibbon, Sir Isaac Goldamid and the
Misses Goldamid, Sir George Armytage, Hon. Mr. and
Mrs. Gerald Dillon, Sir William and Lady Do Bathe,
Sir Henry Webb, Sir John Burgoyne and the Misses
Burgoyne, Lady Quentin, Sir George Carroll and Lady
Carroll, Sir Alexander Spearman and Lady Spearman,
Sir Charles Marshall, Hon. Mrs. Ferguson and the
Misses Ferguson, Mr. Henry Greville, Mr. ex Sheriff
Laurie, Mrs. awl Miss Laurie, Mr. Gerard Start,
Major Gage, Colonel Brownlow Knox, M.P., Mr. P.
Borthwick, Captain Bentiack, Captain Eeerton, Mr.
Morier, Mr. and Mrs. Coghlan, Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard,
Colonel Blare, Mr. Orm, &c.
OLYMPIC THEATRE. On Saturday next a
performance %sill take place at this favourite place of
amusement, in aid of the Metropolitan Typogra-
phical Widow and Orphan Fund. Tobin's admired
comedy of The Honeymoon is one of the pin's selected.:
in which Miss J. Coleman, late of the Lyceum, sad
Miss E. Clas ton, will sustain the respective parts of
Volanre and Juliana, each lady having given her ser-
vices on the c cca,i a. A divertissement, in which
Mdlle. Rose, Miss Desborough, Miss Louisa Coleman,
Miss S. Jenkin,, Mr. Smith, Mr. Britton W. Waite, all volunteers,
, and Master
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farce of His First Chompagne. We hope to see the
house crowded to the ceiling.
MR. BEIJLER'S BENEFIT.—OUT old friend Beuler,
the prince of cow c writer singers, canes out in great
force to-morrow eve ning at the H inover square Rooms,
on which occasion his annual mu,ical soiree takes place'
The entertainment will commence with a Monologue by
the be*iciaire. and will conclude with a concert, sup'
ported by the first vocal talent of the day. The veteran
humourist will no doubt have a bumper.
WESTMINSTER AND ETON BOAT RACE.—TIIB COD"
teat, which formerly took place almost annually betweg
these two schools, and which, as our readers ma! r
aware, has latterly been prevented by the Head Master
of Westminster, on the ground that rowing bad atene
e'ency to injure the health, will in all probabilitybs 14.
newed durit g the present season. All old Westminsters
and Etoniana look forward to this match with as In"
pleasure as they do to the school cricket matches at
Lord's ; and thinking, as they must, that the fact of a
boy occasionally hurting himself by rowing, affords no
more re icon for abolishing that sport than an accident at
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cricket or shooting (of which there are many) affords
for prohibiting those manly amusements, they will
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glad to learn that Dr. Liddell's objections are removed
Man was never intended to be idle. Inactivity
frustrates the very design of his creation; whereas an
active life is the best guardian of virtue, and the
greatest preservative of health.—Eliza Cook's Journal.
Pe)mhbeerrtol, Majesty'sysli has been for many
attaAichr. d
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the public service ; and the other office held by that
cr gentleman—viz., cent for the Russian-Dutch Loan--
has ben abolished by the Lords of the Treasury. We
also understand that it is not their Lordships' intention
to fill up the vacancy occasioned in the office by Mr.
ret retired years
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