The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-27 00:00:00

E-TENING, JUNE 27, 1850 a

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET,
Edward Ilawkes, a letter-csrr er, was charged with
steihng a letter coma ning a valuable miniature, set as a

brooch.
Information was given at the General Pos'-office re-
specting the loss of a letter and its contents, which had
been sent by Mr. J. Pike, a jeweller at Chatham, to
Messrs. Alexander, of Batton-gar&n. The u,ual t,st of
honesty was applied to the servants in the del.arment
through which the letter pa,std, and the prisoner was
detected—having stolen a trap•letter containing a
marked hall'-sovereign. The coin was found upon him
and the brooch was afterwards taken from a box at his
lodgings.
Mr. HENRY committed him for trial.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
A lady asked the advice of Mr. Bingham in the fol-
lowing case:—
She saw in a shop, 96, Oxford•street, a mantle
marked a guinea which suited her, and she went in•
and bought it. She put down the guinea. but was told
she must pay another halt-guinea, as the price was a
guinea and a halt'. She declined taking the mantle at
that price, and requested to have her money returned.
This was refused, and she was comp.-11A to pay the halt-
guinea. As she conceived she had been imposed upon
she wished to know if she bad any mode of obtaining

redress.
Mr. BINGHAM said a magistrate could render no at
sisiance, but tie had no doubt she could procure redress
at the ceunty court.
A second lsdy came forward and made a precisely si-
milar statement, but the occurrence took place in ano-
ther shop in Oxford-street, the number of which was not
stated. The lady said she bad been terrified into giving
the additional price
Mr. BINGHAM gave this lady the same advice as he had
given to the former one.
MARYLEBONE.
Mr. Assheton Smith, a gentleman of considerable pro-
perty, residing at 13, Hyde-park-gardens, attended be-
fore Mr. Broughton, by vittue of a summons which had
been obtained against him for assaulting Richard John
Kent Herring, a youth fifteen yt ars cf age, whose father
is a solicitor in Stafford-street, Maryiebene.
Mr. Herring attended on behalf of his eon, and Mr.
Randall for the defendant, who was accompanied to
the court by two Members of I'arliaaient and other
friends.
Mr. Herring, upon the ewe being called on. remarked
that he hoped there would be no distinction made, and
that the defendant, however high his station in life
might be, ought to take up his pasition in the placa
usually occupied by persons when charged under similar
circumstances. The gentleman added that, while in
the court, defendant had assaulted his (Mr. Herring's)
clerk, for which offence he would probably be proceeded
against elsewhere.
Mr. BROUGHTON said it was no unusual occurrence at
the Old Bailey for a party accused to be allowed to sit
by the side of his counsel.
Defendant here left his seat and stood at one end of
the attorneys' table in front of the bench.
Mr. Herring detailed at some length the particulars
connected with the affair, and the following evidence
was adduced:—
Complainant said—On the morning of the 24th inst.
I was sent by my father to defendant's house for the
purpose of serving him with a copy of a writ. The
footman was standing at the -door, arid I asked him if
Mr. Smith lived there; to which he replied that he
did, but that he was then engeged with a gentleman.
He asked me my business and my name ; when
I told him that my business was particular,
and that I wished to see Mr. Smith himself. Ho said he
did not think Mr. Smith would see me without knowing
my name and the reason for my calling, when I told him
that my name was Herring, and repeated that my busi-
ness was of a particular nature. He asked me if I would
come in and sit down in the hall, which I did; and pre-
sently the butler came and questioned me as to my
name, &c., and I gave him the same answer which I had
given to the footman. He left me, and in about an hour
and a half afterwards a gentleman, who I imagined at
the time to be Mr. Smith, went out of the house, and,
jumping into a cab in waiting at the door, was driven off.
The butler came and asked me my name a second time,
and on my telling him what it was, he opened a door and
went into a room, and soon afterwards Mr. Smith made
his appearance. I asked him if his name was Aitsheton
Smith, and he said " Yost, it is; what do yen want? " I
then put my hand into my pocket, and took therefrom a
writ and a copy, and holding out the copy told him (Mr.
Smith) that I had a writ against him, when he said, " If
!ou come presenting any of your writs to me I'd give
you a good licking. Get out of my house directly."
-He put his fist up within three or fear inches of my
face, and on the footman, by his directions, opening the
door, I quitted the place.
Mr. BROUGHTON (to Mr. Randall)What answer is
there to this? Mr. Randall—Mr. Smith has just inti-
mated to me that he wishes to make his own states, nt
and to call his witnesses.
Mr. Smith—l deny the truth of the greater part of
what complainant has stated. I admit Laving said that
I would give him a good licking.
The footman and the butler were called, and their evi-
dence, particularly that of the former (who, however,
prevaricated considerably in some instances), was con-
tradictory of the most material portions of complainant's
allegation. The witnesses underwent a severe cross-ex-
amination by Mr. Herring.
The MAGISTRATE felt that he should not be justified.
from the coalicting nature of the evidence, in commit-
ting the defendant, and the summons was iherefore dis-
missed.

In the Country.
G. Wilson, Wakefi.od, d apw-,ly 18, at eleven, at
the Court, Leda—J. Peuneuk, York, farrier, Juiy IS,
at eleven. at the Court, Leeds—G. Page. Wolverhamp-
ton, coal dealer. July 18, at twelve, at the Court, E;r-
miugham—J. T. liolla,nd, Coventry, broker, July 18, at
twelve; at the Court. Birmingham.
CERTIFICA I'ES GRANTED.
J. R. West, Mill 'wall, Poplar, certificate of the second
class—J. Prentice, Oxa)rd, ironmonger, certificate of the
first class—A. Mose, Cambridge, grocer—W. B. Maher,
Little Britain, City, painter, certificate of the third class
—W. Archer.Painswick, Gloucestershire, miller and corn
factor, certificate of the second class after fifteen months
from May 22—E. Lord, Painswick, Gloucestershire,
miller, certificate of the second class after eighteen
months from May 22—M. D. Robinson, Dudley, Wor-
cestershire, coatectinner, certificate of the second class—
\T. Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, innkeeper, cer-
tificate of the second class—J. Chawner, Kenilworth,
Warwickshire, grocer, certificate of the second Blass—J.
Bynner, Oswestry, Salop; certificate of the first class—
J. Finnsmore, Birmingham, steel pea manufacturer, cur-
-1 tifirute of the first class.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
C. J. Bather and J. Griffiths, Shrewsbury, builders—
F. S. Frost and T. P. Wright, Portland, Dorsetshire,
surgeons—E. Hudson, J. Nicholson, and J. Crowther,
Leeds, common carriers—E. Hudson and J. Nicholson,
Liierp ail, common carriers—T. H. Boorman and J.
Anderson, Liverpool, rice millers—R. Wilson and It.
Doughtan. Ipswich and liendlesharn, Suffolk, manufac-
turers and
,deal, ra in E tst India oils—S. Prior and G.
Hick, Malmesbury , Wiltshire, millers—T. Steel and J.
Sa,el, Trinity -street, Rotherhithe, lightermen—M. Wil-
kinson and G. Kerman, Liverpool, apothecaries—J.
J. Sparks, J. Sparks, jun., and IV. Jacks, n, Liverpool,
ship store dealers—W. Buchanan and E. Hill, Liver-
pool, merchants—S. Lambert, J. Brown, and H. C.
Pigott, Regent- street, gold lacemr n (so far as regards H.
C. Pigott)—P. Johnson and G. B. Wolstenhome,
Wi-
gan, Laneashire, engine,ra—E. Ely and J. Fuulger,
City-road, horlcultural builders—W. P. Bathe and J.
G. Breach—W. Rushforth, B. Wells, and J. Wray (so
far as regards B. Wells)—H. B. Roberts and J. T. Wal-
ker, Moorgate-street, City, tailors—J. Blaker and W.
Blaker, Brighton, coachmakers—J. J. Huskiason and G.
Terrill, Birmingham, Alcester, and Evesham, carriers
and coach proprietors—H. King and T. Pat kiuson, Car-
rowford, Lancashire, washing liquor manufacturers—C.
Attwood and J. Braim, Kidderminster, bout and shoe
makers--J. Leighton, J. Leighton, jun., and J. Leigh-
tan, Brewer-street, Golden-square, booksellers and
binders (so far as regards J. Leighton, sen.)—S. Coch-
rane, J. Cochrane, and J. M'Kee, Newcastle-under-
Lyn],' Staffirdshire, mercers and dr:slurs (so far as re-
gards J. M'Kee)—W. Quilter, J. Baj, G. H. Jay, and
W. Crasbic. Coleman-street, City, accountants (so tar as
regards G. H. Jay)—N. Hinchcliff, G. S. Hincticliff, E.
8.-Hinchcliff. and W. Haselden, Chelsea and Wardour-
strker, paperhanging manufacturers (so far as regards E.
S. Hincticliff).
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
Walter Scott, Salford, Lancashire, letter press printer.
Owen Parry, Bangor, Carnarvonshire, victualler.
John Waldo Pring, Bangor, Carnarvonshire, surgeon.
Daniel Wiaiains, Caernarvon.
William James Foot, Hatton-garden.
William Black land. Art ow, Warwickshire, shoemaker.
Richard jailson, Dalton, Lancashire, joiner.
Elizabeth Timmins, Dudley, Worcestershire, victualler,
Joseph Sykes, Huddersfield, innkeeper.
Robert Kaye, Alinone bury. Yorkshire, grocer.
Sarah Juckes, Rodihgton, Shropshire, farmer.
Richard Beech, Wombridge, Shropshire, charter master,
Charles Hiorns, Leamington-priors, baker.
William Hilton, Shaw, Lancashire, tea dealer.
John Horden, Leamington priors, clock and watchmaker,
William Swat's, Leeds, butcher.
Thomas Loverock, Dudley, Worcestershire, retail brewer,
James Leech, Longwood, United States, manager of a
manufactory.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
W. Ross, Portobello, litlmburghshite, innkeeper and
catch proprietor, to meet within the Ship Tavern, Edin-
burgh, June 26 and July 24, at two.
W. Hodge, Leith, shipowner, to meet within the New
Ship Hotel, Leith, June 28 and July 19, at two.
J. Norie, Ihverness, merchant ald spirit dealer, to
meet within the Vine Hotel, Inverness, Juue 29 and July
20, at twelve.
J. Hewat, Dumfries,- druggist, to meet within the
Kaig's Arms Inn, Dowries Jute 2 and 23, at one.