The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-22 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

PENSION WALLIS, LUCERNE, August 18.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, made
excursions in the neighbourhood and on the lake
yesterday.

CENTRAL CRIAIINAL COURT-7his Day.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Lush.)
ALLEGED FRAUDULENT BANKRUPTCY.

Alexander Robinson was indicted for that he un-
lawfully after his adjudication as a bankrupt, with
intent to defraud his creditors, did conceal part of
his personal estate, and also upon the other charges
of concealing and embezzling his estate with intent,
&c,

The case was a very uninteresting one, consisting
as it principally did of the proving and disproving
a variety of debts and liabilities extending over the
last ten years.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
CHARGE OF PERJURY.

Ann Porton, a respectably-dressed young woman,
was ind cted for having committed wilful and cor-
rupt perjury.

It appeared from the evidence that the prosecu-
tor, a Mr.Bewick, of Fleetwood Hall, Northumber-
land, presented a petition to the Court of Divorce,
praying for a dissolution of his marriage with Mrs.
Bewick on the ground of adultery. The allegations
were denied, and the petitioner conducted his case
in person. During the trial the defendant
was called on behalf of the respondent,
Airs. Bewick, and she swore that she saw the peti-
tioner himself commit an act with a female of a
similar nature to that with which he charged his
wife. After the evidence had closed the Judge
Ordinary dismissed the petition with costs against
Mr. Bewick. Mr. Bewick utterly denied the truth
of the evidence given by the young woman Porton,
and he accordingly entered the present indictment
for perjury against her.

We refrain from publishing further particulars of
the case, which will not conclude till a late hour of
the day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A SOLDIER CHARGED WITH A VIOLENT ASSAULT
AND ROBBERY.—Henry Copestake, a private of the
2d battalion of Grenadier Guards, Wellington Bar-
racks, was charged before Mr. Knox with assaulting
Thomas W. Morris, a cook living in St. Mary's-
square, and robbing him of a gold Albert chain, and
other articles of the value of £4.

The prosecutor, whose eyes were blackened, said
that about eight o'clock the previous evening be
went into the Queen and Prince Albert public-
house, Knightsbridge, to have a glass of beer, and
/chile there prisoner came in and sat by his side,
asking him to have some beer, and he did so. They
got into conversation, and he told the prisoner that
he was going across the park, and the prisoner said
he was going too, and they left and walked on
together. After getting a little way the prisoner
seized him, threw him, and struck him, and he became
unconscious. On recovering his senses he missed
his coat, hat, and watch chain, and he then went
and spoke to a constable.

In reply to Mr. Knox, the prosecutor said the
conversation which passed between him and the
prisoner was respecting the barracks where the pri-
soner had lived, and such matters, and the prisoner
was perfectly civil. He saw the prisoner at the
station last night about half-past eleven.
The prisoner said he was at Charing-cross at eight
o'clock, and saw nothing of the prosecutor till he
was taken into custody, and a chain found on hial
was his own property.
The prosecutor said that was not true the chain
was his property, and the injury to his eyes was in-
flicted by the prisoner.

Police Sergeant Young, 20 A, said bo was at the
station when the prosecutor gave information of the
assault and robbery, and a description. Subsc"
quently, while patrolling the park, he saw prisoner
under a lamp examining something, and watched
him, and saw him go and speak to a man and woman
sitting on a seat, and in consequence of what they
said he followed the prisoner and asked him what
was the time. The prisoner said he could not tell.
He told the prisoner that as he bad a chain ha
supposed he had a watch, and he replied, " You
know what sort of chaps we are ; I'll sell you
the chain and the - big diamond (a piece
of crystal) on it for a pound." He took the
chain from the prisoner, who said, "If I bed
some of my mates here, by God, you would
not handle me like that." He then told the
prisoner he should be taken into custody, when he
said that he had had the chain a fortnight, and
that his sister gave it to him. On the prosecutor
being sent for he recognised the prisoner at once ao
the man who had robbed him, and the prisoner
made no reply to the charge.
In answer to Mr. Knox,: the sergeant said pro•
secutor was quite sober a few minutes before 10
when he came to the station.

The prisoner's sergeant said the prisoner's charac"
ter was decidedly bad.
The prisoner was committed for trial to the Old