The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-28 00:00:00

Mr. COMBS observed, that such a strong able fellow ought
to engage in some useful employment, and not be wandering
about the streets.

The fellow, in a very artful manner, referred to the de-
pressed state of the shipping service, and said there were 400
able-bodied seamen out of employment in the neighbourhood
of London.
From the evidence of Waddington, the gaoler, a very
shrewd officer, aisd the evidence of other constables, it appeared
that the prisoner is nothing more nor less than a common im-
poster, and derives a livelihood from " cadging." He is a
very sturdy beggar, and if he meets females alone, generally
succeeds in extorting money, from their fears. He was never
at sea, and, when questioned by the Magistrate, showed his
utter ignorance of nautical affairs.
Mr. COMBE sent him to prison for seven days.
UNION-HALL.
Edwin Brown, a decent. looking man, was charged with
stealing a piece of cotton goods from the shop-door of Mr.
Gelks, linen-draper, High-street, Southwark.
The prisoner was observed to go up to the shop door and
take the piece of cotton, with which he ran off, and being
pursued was taken.

- Mr. Corrr.•rGlum made some strong observations on the
practice of tradesmen placing their goods in such exposed
situations outside their shop doors as to be a very great
temptation to distressed persons.
The complainant said that tradesmen must shut up if thif?
were not permitted to expose their goods, and he added that
the article in question was fastened in such a way as to render
it difficult for a person to take it down.
The prisoner said that he was a sailor, but that having
met with a serious accident in falling down the hatchway-of
his ship he was unable to go to sea again.
The MAGISTRATE committed him for one month.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
A person in male attire, about twenty-five years of age,
of feminine appearance and voice, and wearing the hair long,
curled, and turned back in female style, who gave the name
of Timothy Bowen, was charged with begging on the previous
night in Oxford-street, and on being taken into custody
assaulting police-constable No. 109 of the C division.
It appears that her practice was to enter public-houses and
solicit alms, stating that she was a female, who, to escape
the persecutions of some of her relations, had been obliged to
disguise herself as a man.
inspector Frond, of the C division, said that on the girl
being brought to the station-house.he was so much under the
impression that the sex of the offender was of the feminine
gender, that the party was purposely locked in a separate cell
for the night.
The prisoner indignantly declared that she was net a woman.
She was committed to Westminster Bridewell to hard
labour for a month, where, of course, his or her sex will be
ascertained.

SHERIFF'S COURT, GREENWICH.
Yesterday, Mr. Frances, the Under-sheriff for Kent, held
a Court at the. Greyhound Tavern, Greenwich.

MARTLN V. BONE.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who is a re-
spectable tradesman in Gravesend, against the defendant,
who is a person of independent property, to recover damages
for defamation of character.

The damages were laid at 1,0001., and judgment had been
allowed to go by default.
Mr. Home, for the plaintiff, in a very forcible address to
the jury, stated the facts of the case, from which it appeared
that the defendant had accused the plaintiff of being in the
habit of committing the most foul and unnatural crimes.
After hearing the evidence, which is unfit for publication,
the address of the defendant's solicitor, and the summing up
of the Learned Under-Sheriff;
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 2001.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges
the receipt of 151., sent to him by some person unknown, to
be added to the funds of the Exchequer.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges
the receipt of two sovereigns, to be applied "to the use of the
nation," and forwarded to him by some person unknown.
THE LATE MR. WAREING, BIRMINGHAM.—An
inquest was held on Monday evening, at the house of Mr.
Joshua Stinton, Grand Turk, Land ate-hill, Birmingham, on
the body of the late Mr. George Wareing, whose death oc-
curred in the Catholic Cathedral of that town. The first
witness called was Mr. George Payne, who deposed that he
was an assistant to deceased, and had been in the habit of
seeing him daily. He seemed in pretty good health gene-
rally, and was a man of very active and temperate habits.
He saw him about eight o'clock on Sunday morning in his
own yard, and afterwards in the cathedral. Witness went
into the church first, and deceased came in at about twenty
minutes to eleven o'clock. Deceased went to the upper end
of the pew (or seat) and knelt down beside witness on his
left hand. Deceased joined in the service the same as others.
and read from his book, and he (witness) perceived nothing
the matter with him until a few minutes before twelve o'clock
he saw deceased kneel down with others, and put his hand to
his face, and presently he fell back and then on his side on to
the ground. Deceased put his hands to his face suddenly, as
if from pain, and then fell back. There was a
rush of per-
sons to assist him, and his body was taken to the Palace, and
attended by Mr, Benlsow, surgeon, who bled deceased at the
back, but he expired. Mr. James Wareing, son of deceased,
stated that he complained of being a little deaf during the
previous fortnight, and sometimes of a tightness over his
nose. juryimmediately returned a verdict of "Died by
the visitation of God by apoplexy."
:MERCHANT SEAMEN'S SOCIETY.--On Tuesday, a
meeting of the Governors of' this Charity, which is estab-
lished for the relief and support of sick, maimed, and dis-
abled seamen, their widows and orphans, was held at the
Society's rooms, Birchin-lane. From the report read by Mr.
'Watson,
it appeared that the receipts amounted to 21,7311.
3s. 9d. ; and the disbursements, including 17,638/. paid to
pensioners, figured 20,330/. 17s. 2d. The following are the
pensioners on the Society's funds, viz., 1,646 men, 2,519
women, and 2,785 children.
METROPOLITAN DRAPERS' ASSOCIATION. A
meeting of the Islington District Branch of "the above Asso-
ciation was held at the Parochial School-room, the Rev. D.
Wilson, Vicar, in the chair. The meeting was addressed by
the Rev. Mr. Auriol, Rev. Mr Hughes, and the Rev. Mr.
Venn, Messrs. Owen, Foskey, and other gentlemen, and re-
solutions were unanimously agreed to condemnatory of the
present late-hour system, and calling on the public to assist
in removing the evil by abstaining from making purchases at
late hours of an evening. The several speakers pointed out
in forcible terms the evils arising from the present system,
and gave a very satisfactory account of the progress of the
Association. Thanks were given to the Chairman, and the
meeting dispersed soon after ten o'clock.

the goods, and the prisoners were entitled to an imme-
diate discharge.
Mr. BROUGHTON said that after giving the matter the
most mature consideration, he was of opinion that the
case had not been sufficiently made out to support an
indictment, and although the whole conduct of the
parties was marked with every appearance of fraud ; he
was bound to act strictly on the law of the case and the
evidence bearing upon it, and he must, therefore, order
them to be discharged.
Sergeant Lambert then applied for instructions respect-
ing the disposal of the property, and after a short con-
ference with the prisoners, Mr. Hentage stated that they
offered no objection to its being restored to the pro-
secutor.
Mr. Baoucwrox said that the prisoners were acting
very discreetly in adopting that course, for if the bill
which the prosecutor had so incautiously received was
not paid when it became due, there could be no doubt
that they would be liable to an indictment for conspiracy.
The prisoners, to their manifest surprise and satisfac-
tion, were then discharged.
CLEAUCENWELL.
A young man, named John Smith, rather genteelly
attired, was charged with attempting to commit nume-
rous frauds on housekeepers.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner has
been for some time in the habit of visiting houses which
have lodging bills in the windows, on pretence of taking
apartments. The rooms shown to him invariably
suited his taste, and so anxious was he to conclude the
bargain that he always insisted ;on leaving a deposit.
For this purpose he drew forth a sovereign or half a
sovereign (he never had any small change), expressed a
wish to leave five shillings as a guarantee for his return,
and having obtained the change, walked away, leaving
the landlady quite pleased with the punctuality of her
new lodger. Failing to come, however, on the day ap •
pointed, the lodger was suspected, and the deposit, on
examination, turned out to be a counterfeit. On the pre-
vious evening he went into the coffee-shop of Mr. Hitchin,
15, Colonnade, Russell-square, and asked for a pork
pie, which was supplied him. In payment he threw
down half-a-crown, a genuine one ; the change was laid
on the counter, but whilst the landlord was engaged in
other matters, the prisoner put one of the two:shillings in
his pocket, and left a bad one in its place. He then re-
membered that he had a penny, which he wished to pay
for the pie and get back his half-crown. The landlord,
however, discovered the fraud, and upon charging the
prisoner with it, he instantly swallowed the base shil-
ling, and then in a daring manner set the landlord and
police at defiance.—The prisoner was remanded.
DARING ROBBERY.—Two women of the town, named
Reeves and Holland, were charged with robbing Mr.
Briggs, an artist, residing in Moorgate-street, of a gold
watch.
The prosecutor was returning from a dinner party
last night along Holborn, between 12 and 1 o'clock, when
he was accosted by the prisoners. They asked him to
treat them, which he refused. When he entered Gray's-
inn-lane, one of them pushed him into Fox-court, the
other threw her arms round his breast ; he shouted po-
lice, and a constable, 35 G, came up. They were
secured, and Mr. Briggs then found that his watch had
been removed, and that his gold chain had been cut or
broken. Every search was made for the watch, but it
could not be found, and it is believed that the prisoners
threw it away when they saw the officers coming up.
Mr. Briggs was perfectly sober.
The prisoners, who did not deny the charge, were re-
manded.
Sixty postage stamps have been received by Mr.
Combo, the sitting Magistrate at this Court, for the re-
lief of Mary Anne Hartwell, whose case appeared in
The Sun about a week ago. The benevolent donor re-
quested that the receipt of the stamps might be ac-
knowledged in The Sun, as from H. C. E. S.
Our Reporter has been requested to state, that when
the period of her imprisonment had transpired, Baylis,
the messenger of this Court, by direction of the Magis-
trate, conveyed her to an asylum, in accordance with
the wish she expressed on her trial. She, however, re-
fused to enter the asylum; and there is too much reason
to believe that she has again resumed the same profli-
gate course of life which, on her examination, she
seemed so determined to abandon.
The stamps lie at the Police-court, and will be re-
turned to the donor, if he wish, or applied to the gene-
ral purposes of the poor-box.
A ruffianly-looking fellow, named Thompson, without jacket
or vest, and with other garments indecently ragged, was
charged with violently assaulting the potman at the Sun
public-house, Islington, and police-constable 90 N.
The prisoner went into the Sun last night and asked for
some drink, on which the landlady, seeinghe was already con-
siderably under the influence of liquor, very properly refused
to serve him. He then tossed down sixpence on the bar and
asked for " six-pennorth of brandy and water." This, too, was
refused, and becoming insolent he was desired to leave the
house. The prisoner refused, and when the potman at-
tempted to expel him he attacked him with great violence.
The policeman was then called in but the prisoner "pitched
into" him too, and strove to throw him on the flags ; he was
at length with much difficulty secured and removed to the
station, using the most obscene and blasphemous language
all the way thither.
The prisoner said he had been four years on board the
Phoenix man-of-war, Captain Richardson, master ; he was
subse9uently ayear on board a collier, plying between London
and 1\ ewcastle.