The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-23 00:00:00

INSOLVENT I'ETITIONERS.

George Poole, Wheelock, Cheshire, farmer.
William Matters Sargent, Poorstock, Dorsetshire,
farmer.
Maria Alcock, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Lancashire,
boarding and lodging-house keeper.
Samuel Barber, Great Yarmouth, tinman.
Thomas Ellis,
.jun., Yarm, Yorkshire, servant.
Thomas Cole Peacock, Melbourne, Yorkshire, surgeon.
James Beattie, Reading, draper.
Richard Bigg, Minster, Lie of Sheppy.
Ann Jones, Oldham, Lancashire, shopkeeper.
John Trt herne, Ross, Herefordshire, gardener.
John Price, Minster, Isle of Thanes, carpentLr.
Jams Melhuish, Exmouth, Devonshire, baker.
Cornelius Springett, Lintin, Kent, assistant to a beer-
shopkeeper.
Henry Lott, Whitstable, Kent, butcher.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
J. W.' Hedderwick. Glasgow, distiller, to meet within
the George Hotel, Glasgow, Oct. 25 and Nov. 16, at
twelve.
H. Uric, Paisley, painter, to meet within the
Saracen's Head Inn, Paisley, Oct. 28 and Nov. 22, at one.
J. Birnie, Dundee, manufacturer, to meet within the
British Hotel, Dundee, Oct. 28 and Nov. 18, at one.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT,
OLD COURT.
(Before the REcolthErt.)
Yesterday henry Hyams, a Jew, aged 40, described
as a dealer, was indicted for a burglary in the dwell-
ing-house] of Louis Nathan and stealing a silver
butter-knife, his property. In another count the
prisoner was charged with receiving the article in
question knowing it to have been stolen.
Mr. Payne prosecuted; Mr. Ballantine defended
the prisoner.
The prosecutor deposed that he was a merchant,
and re!ided at No. 10, Finsbury-circus. On the
night of the 23d of September the family went to
rest about twelve o'clock at night, and the next morn-
, ing, at half-past six o'clock, upon his going down
stairs, he found the house in confusion, and his
servants informed him that the premises had been
entered during the night by the back area window,
and ho ascertained upon further investigation, that a
considerable quantity of plate, which he valued at
801., had been stolen. Among the articles so taken
was a silver butter-knife, and he identified the one now
produced as that which had been stolen on the night
in question.
George Trew, one of the city of London detective
police force, deposed that on the evening of the 29th
of September, while he was sitting at tea in his own
house in Monkwell-street, City, he saw the prisoner
pass his window, and " knowing him," he resolved
upon following him. The prisoner proceeded to
Shoe-lane, where he stopped a short time at the corner,
he then went on to Holborn, and after this to a pub-
lic. house in King-street, Drury-lane, where he re-
mained for twenty minutes. He then went again into
Holborn, when witness stopped him and asked him
where he had been, and he said he had been for a
walk. Witness told him he suspected that he had
stolen property about him, and he should wish to
search him. The prisoner said he had nothing about
him bur a purse and a few shillings, and he expressed
his readiness to be searched, and witness took him
into a public-house, and upon examining his person, he
found the silver butter-knife which he now produced
in his breast coat pocket. He then told the pri-
soner that he should take him into custody for
having the butter-knife in his possession, and he
" Oh, don't," and at the same moment put
his hand into his trousers pocket, and when he pulled
it out witness laid hold of it, and he found a five
pound note in his hand. The prisoner then said to
him, " Take that, it is as square as a guinea, and let
me go." Upon this he took the prisoner into custody,
and locked him up in the Smithfield station-house.
The jury found the prisoner guilty of feloniously
receiving the butter-knife, knowing it to have been
stolen.

In answer to a question put by the Learned Judge,
the officer said he was not aware of the prisoner ever
having been convicted before, and the reason ho was
induced to follow him upon the occasion in question
was that he had repeatedly seen him in company with
notoriously bad characters.
The prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour for twelve months.
In the course of the day the prisoner Paul Frazer
was brought up for judgment, and sentenced to be
transported for seven years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STREET.

IMITATING A DETECTIVE.— W. Rust, who repre-
sented himself as an agent and collector, residing at
No. 7, Brown-street, Grosvenor-square, was charged
with representing himself to be a police-constable.
Mrs. Mary Ann Beresford stated that her husband
was the proprietor of the White Hart, Temple Mills,
Tottenham. On Monday afternoon, the prisoner,
with another man, came in,front of the bar. The
man walked into the tap-room, and the prisoner had
something to drink at the bar. He there
spoke to her about a robbery which bad been com-
mitted at the house on the Saturday afternoon pre-
vious, when a sum of 781. 15s. was stolen with a gold
watch. He then steed that he was connected with
Marylebone Police-court, and asked for a piece of
paper to take down some particulars respecting the
robbery, observing that he had some clue about the
watch. Thinking he was a police-officer, she asked
him into'the bar-parlour. The prisoner wentlthere,l,when
he stated that he belonged to the detective force, and
showed what she believed to be his authority. (A letter
was produced which was from the office of the Commis-
sioners of Police, and in answer to an application of
the prisoner to be made a policeman, but which was
refused). She subsequently took the prisoner, at his
request, to the room, in which was a chest of drawers,
from one of which the property stolen was abstracted.
He examined the locks which he remarked were very
insecure. She there mentioned to him that the pot-
boy was suspected, and upon ascertaining when the
brewer's collector was to call, he remarked, " Good
God I What a shocking thing it would be. I sup -
pose you have not the money in consequence of the
robbery ? " She said she had not. He then stated
that there were many cases of that kind, and that
three weeks ago there were several horse-stealers in
that neighbourhood. He took down upon the piece
of paper she gave him all the particulars she had stated
respecting the robbery. He returned to the bar-
parlour ; her husband was there, whom she informed
that the prisoner was one of the detective force from
Marylebone Police-court. The prisoner nodded assent,
and added that he had a clue to the discovery of the
watch. Clarke, a policeman of the N division, was in
front of the bar, upon which she stated to him that
one of the detectives was in the bar-parlour. Clarke
! went there.

Clarke produced the paper containing the parti-
cular?, as taken down by the prisoner, who, after
some further evidence,•was-remanded to Friday next.