The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-30 00:00:00

QUEEN-SQUARE.

Monday William Stanborough, a tall fashionably-
dressed person, who drove up to the private entrance
of the Court in his gig, was charged with an assault
on John Puleston, a boy in the service of Messrs.
Rackstraw and Atkinson, fishmongers, Victoria-road,
Pimlico. The summons was directed to William and
George Stanborough, of 6, Wilton-street, Grosvenor-
place, but the latter did not appear.
Complainant said that he went on Tuesday evening
by directionlof his employers to Mr. Stanborough's
No. 6, Wilton-street, to ask for a bill they owed. On
knocking at the door it was opened by a young gen-
tleman, and he had no sooner delivered his message
than a man from the other side of the street came up
to him, and with the assistance of the person who had
opened the door, dragged him into the passage, and
thence to the parlour. They then asked him what he
wanted ? and on his replying the amount that was
owing, defendant gave him a smack on the mouth,
which sent him backwards. Another of the party
then kicked him two or three times in the side, and
the third struck him a violent blow on the shoulder
with a stick, and hurt him very much. Complainant
then ran into the passage and called " Murder," and
the three parties then opened the street-door and
kicked him out of the house.

Mr. BOND (to defendant)—Do you wish to put
any question to the complainant ? Defendant—Yes,
I wish to ask him whether he did not make a great
noise at the door.

Complainant—No, I did not. I knocked and it
was opened to me directly, when I asked civilly for
the bill.

Mr. BOND—What answer have you to the charge?
Defendant—His account is not true, nor near true.

Mr. BOND—Have you no explanation to offer for
such conduct ? Defendant—There's no explanation
to offer. I don't reside there. Its too improbable, I
should think, to be true.
Mr. BOND—How is it that the second person who
is summoned is not in attendance here ? Defendant
—lie is out of town, and had been so for a week be-
fore this occurred.

Mr. BOND—You could have produced the third
party here to have contradicted the boy's statement if
untrue.

Defendant—He is certainly wrong as regards me.
From what I understand he was not treated as he de-
scribes. I am told that he came frequently and
knocked and rung violently, and made a noise at the
street-door. I deny the assault.
Mr. BOND—It seems to be extraordinary conduct
on your part. The attack of three persons on a boy
like this is very cowardly. You must pay a fine of 4/.
Defendant was locked up, but the penalty was sent
for and paid before the closing of the Court.
Jane Smith, a girl not more than sixteen years of
age, was placed at the bar charged with fraud.
She went on Saturday evening to Miss Catherine
Meyer, a lady residing at 4, Burton-street, Pimlico,
and representing that she was the daughter of a re-
spectable tradesman, named Smith, who was known
to the lady, solicited a loan. She stated that her
reason for making the application was, that her mother
was lying dead, and her father was too unwell to
come out, and he wanted thirty shillings, as it would
enable him to draw some money out of the funds.
As Miss Meyer knew Mr. Smith to be a very re-
spectable man, and believed the story, she gave the
girl thirty shillings, lent her her purse that she might
carry it with more safety, and gave her sixpence to
ride home in an omnibus. On the following day the
lady communicated what had occurred to her land-
lord, who was in the habit of employing Mr. Smith,
and on inquiry, it was ascertained that the whole tale
was a tissue of falsehoods, and that Smith knew no-
thing whatever of the prisoner. Monday the accused
again made her appearance to endeavour to obtain
some more money, when she was given into custody.
Mr. BOND asked her what she had to say ? Pri-
soner-111 tell the truth, your worship. I met that
man (pointing to Mr. Smith) whom I never saw be-
fore, and he told me to go to the lady, and when I
had been, I gave him a sovereign of the money, and
he let me keep the rest.
Mr. BOND (to Mr. Smith)—You hear what she says.
Mr. Smith, who looked very much surprised, ex-
claimed, " I never saw the girl in my life before."
Mr. BOND remanded the prisoner until Thursday.
THAMES POLICE.

Monday, John Featherstone, a tall, portly, and
well-dressed man, aged 32, was brought before Mr.
Ballantine, charged, on a peace warrant, with pre-
senting a pistol at Mrs. Elizabeth Wall, the landlady
of the Britannia Tavern, in the New-road, St.
George's-in-the-East, and threatening her life. There
was another charge against the prisoner of obtaining
10s. by false pretences from Thos. Wilson, a broker,
of No. 7, Wilson-street, Drury-lane ; but, owing to
the absence of the prosecutor, who was acting as a
special constable in the City, the case was adjourned
till to-morrow.

Mrs. Wall, who was much agitated, said the pri-
soner came to lodge in her house in May last, and she
understood him to be a seaman who had been paid off
from a man-of-war, and he represented that he was
entitled to considerable wages, and also held a prize
ticket for 3001. After staying in her house some
time, he began to pay very great attention to her, and
proposed himself as a suitor ; but, having ascertained
that he was a mere adventurer, and that he had ex-
pended all his prize money and wages with the excep-
tion of a few pounds, she refused to encourage his
addresses, and frequently requested him to leave her
house. He refused to do so, and continued in the
house until the early part of September, and
contracted a debt of 141. for board and lodging. Ho
then began to assume all the importance of a master,
and attempted to control her actions. On the 6th
of September she was about to leave home on busi-
ness, and the prisoner, who appeared to be jealous of
her, insisted on knowing where she was going to,
and on her refusing to satisfy him, and directing him
to leave the house, he abused her most shamefully,
and took up a carving knife, and threatened to
murder her. His conduct was so violent that she
gave him into custody, and he was ordered by the
magistrate to find bail to keep the peace. After he
had been in prison five days he procured bail, which
she believed to be hired, and was liberated. He
immediately returned to her house, and commenced
annoying her again, said he was master, and dealt in
the most scandalous insinuations against her reputa-
tion. One night he refused to leave her house till she
gave him a sovereign, for which he handed her his
I. O. U. On the following day he molested her

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again, and remained in front of tier bar, shining here!
and vilifying her character to the customers until he
was again taken into custody and held to hail, himself
in 801. and two sureties of 401. each, and in default,
he was committed till the sessions ; when Messrs.
Wire and Child? her solicitors, exhibited articles of the
peace against him, and he was ordered by the Chair-
man to enter into sureties to keep the peace towards
her for twelve months. He remained in prison till
the last Tuesday, when he found bail, and was dis
charged. On the afternoon of the same day he again
came to the house and created a disturbance, and
threatened her life, and he repeated the same conduct
on Wednesday and Thursday, and collected a mob
about the house, interrupted her business, and alarmed
her family and servants. On Friday night he sud-
denly presented himself in front of the bar, swore
loudly at her, and drew a pistol from his pocket,
which h• presented at her. She was so alarmed that
she fainted, and before she recovered the prisoner
rushed out of the house, and made his escape. In the
middle of the night stones were thrown against her
bedroom window, and on opening it she saw the pri-
soner below, and he demanded admittance. She
called for the police, and he ran away. She had no
doubt the prisoner meditated serious mischief against
her, because she had refused to marry him, and if she
was not effectually:protected she must close her house
and be ruined.

Blake, 137 K, said he took the prisoner into cus-
tody on Saturday night on another charge, and he
made two attempts to strangle himself in the station-
house, and his neckerchief, garters, and braces were
taken away from him.
The prisoner, with great assurance, said that Mrs.
Wall had once encouraged his addresses, and that he
went to her house on Tuesday night last, to ascertain
if his cousin in Warwickshire had forwarded a letter
to him. He then made vehement assertions that he
never had a pistol, and stated that he met Mrs. 'Wall
at the Court on Saturday, and she wanted to speak to
him, and because he refused to converse with her, she
followed him about the streets for three hours. They
ultimately walked and talked for a long time.
Mrs. Wall clasped her hands, sobbed loudly, and
declared that there was not a word of truth in what
the prisoner said. After she obtained the warrant,
the prisoner followed her from the Court and abused
her till she reached her home.

Mr. BALLANTINE said the prisoner was a most
worthless fellow, and had no business in Mrs. Wall's
house at all. He had already twice bound over the
prisoner to keep the peace towards the widow, who
he believed, was a most repectable woman of good
reputation, and he would not allow her or her chil-
dren to be annoyed and made uncomfortable. He
should on&,more compel the defendant to enter into
sureties to keep the peace .towards Mrs. Wall and
her family;-himself in Ifo"WaYid two sureties of 401.
each until the sessions, -Ailsen MitrWall coulak'xhibit
articles of the peace. it was. really monstrous that
Mrs. Wall should be' kept in a state of continual
alarm.

Mrs. Wall--Oh I can't afford to go to the sessions,
Sir. It cost me 71. last time.

Mr. BALLANTINE—You must do it if you sell your
bed from under you. You ought not to be put to
the expense of 75., and, the bail entered into before
me and at the sessions has become forfeited.
Mrs. Wall said the'prisoner :procured ‘.‘ bought
bail," and they gave false addresses.
The officer Blake sa.i.d. the sureties were straw bail.
Mr. BALLANTINE 10)4*, from his long exterience
as a magistrate, that m ninety-,nine cases:Out of a
hundred, false and artificial bail was given. The
Chairman of the session's must be made acquainted
with the fraud.

Mrs. Wall said she had received a lawyer's letter,
demanding 1501. which _the prisoner alleged was due
to him, and she was most shamefully persecuted.
Mr. BALLANTINE said the magistracy and police
would go as far as the law allowed in protecting the
widow, and after a strong condemnation of the pri-
soner's unfeeling and brutal conduct, once more con-
signed him to Clerkenwell Prison in default of bail.
UNION-HALL.

Thomas and Micilaelll;la- honey were charged with as-
saulting two policemen of the N division, one of whom
has been so severely injured that he was unable to
attend.

It appeared that the policemen were on duty in the
Grange-road, Bermondsey, the preceding night, about
twelve o'clock, and had just met when the defendants
came out of a house. One of the defendants had a stick,
and without saying a word, struck one of the policemen
with such violence on the head, as to knock him down,
and render him insensible. The other policeman, in his
attempt to take the assailant, was also struck, and
knocked down. The policeman who was struck on the
head was so badly wounded that he was unable to at-
tend, until which time the prisoners, who said they got
tipsy to commemorate the Queen's visit to the City,
were remanded.

STEALING WATCHES FROM AN

EMPLOYER.

CHATHAM, OCT. 28.—0 n Saturday last, at the Guild-
hall, Rochester, before the mayor of this city, Larkins
Allen, Esq., and three other justices, Robert Charlton,
who had been captured at Woolwich by one of the me-
tropolitan police of the R division, was brought up from
the station-house, and placed in the dock.

The prisoner had a very respectable appearance, and
was about thirty-five years of age, and held his face down
durinc, the whole time the witnesses were examined.
The charge against him was for stealing two valuable
silver watches and several working tools, the property of
Mr. C. F. Hick, 181, St. Nicholas, Rochester.
Mr. Hick, sworn, said—l am a watchmaker. On the
17th instant I missed from my stock two silver watches,
value 101. The prisoner came to me and asked for em-
ployment. On Saturday, the 12th instant, was the first
day I employed him, and he continued to work for me
in the shop for three days. Suspicion falling on the
prisoner, I went with the superintendent of the police of
this city to the prisoner's lodgings, and there was told
the prisoner was gone into the country the same even-
ing, the 17th instant. The prisoner's wife and another
woman came to my shop with a number of watchmaker's
tools, which the prisoner had also stolen. On the 19th
inst. I obtained a warrant to apprehend the prisoner.
Mr. Charles Hubbard, pawnbroker, Rochester, de-
posed the prisoner brought a watch to his shop on the
17th inst., and pledged it for 255.
George Tindall, watchmaker and jeweller, 110, High-
street, Woolwich, purchased a watch of the prisoner at
his shop, either on the 17th or 18th inst., for which he
gave him 31. 3s. He never saw the prisoner before.
William Gladwin, 122 R division of the metropolitan
police, from information received, went to the last wit-
ness's shop, and found the watch he now produced.
Patrick Burke, police-constable, 310 R division, from
information he received, went on Tuesday night, the 22d
inst., to the prisoner's father-in-law's house, in Powis-
street, Woolwich, and after a lengthened search, found
the prisoner secreted behind one of the room doors. On
searching him witness found several watchmaker's tools.
He took the prisoner to the station-house, and next
morning before H. Jeremy, Esq., the police-magistrate,
who ordered the prisoner to Rochester.
The two watches and tools were produced and iden-
tified by the prosecutor as his property.
The prisoner declining to say anything, was fully com-
mitted for trial at the next Quarter Sessions for this
city.

By a private letter from her Majesty's ship Col-
lingwood, 80 (now on her way to the Pacific), bearing
the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir George Francis Seymour,
C. 8., G.C.H., we find the qualities of that fine ship
well spoken of. Although she only holds a third-rate
place, yet she is about two feet broader in the beam
than either the Caledonia or the St. Vincent, both first-
rates, and her tonnage is only 127 tons less than the
former, and 27 tons less than the latter. She is roomy
and commodious, and we have no doubt will be a good
sea boat in a gale of wind. The Collingwoud was built
in 1841, at Pembroke, by Sir William Symonds.—United
Service Gazette.

ERRATUM.—In the Summary of Spanish news
which appeared in The Sun yesterday, for " Heaven
helps only those who themselves," read " Heaven helps
only those who help themselves."
NEW NAMES FOR STREETS.—As much injury is
liable to be inflicted upon tradesmen by any alteration
of the names of their respective streets, a Correspondent
suggests that wherever such alteration takes place, the
old name of the street should be written up under the
new one.
THE GAME MANIA.—To such a disgusting length
do most of the game-preserving gentry carry out their
propensity, that if wanted for public business, it may go
to the winds rather than they would lose one head of
game or a little diversion. But only require their at-
tendance to stretch the iniquitous game-laws for " pro-
tection" of their game, and the mania which has long
taken hold of them is seen in its full vigour. Public
feeling is fast setting in against the game-laws and game-
preserving.—From a Correspondent.
PUSEYISM AT OXFORD.—It Will be seen that Mr.
Hadden, Fellow of Trinity College, has been appointed
a Public Examiner. This gentleman was some time
Mr. Newman's curate, and his sermons as such were
characterised as " abominable" for their hostility to the
doctrines of the Articles. Mr. Redden was also one of
those who attempted to break the force of the condem-
nation of Dr. Pusey's sermon ; so that within a few days
of the victorious convocation we have a Tractarian Pub.
lie Examiner officially nominated and approved by con-
vocation 1 Readers at a distance will ask, how can these
things be ? The manner of it is thus :—The Proctors
are Tractarians—appointed by the Masters of Arta of
Oriel and Trinity Colleges—one of them at this moment
excluded from orders on account of his anti-Protestant
opinions. Among other important functions, these
Proctors have the nomination of examining masters, and
therefore Mr. Hadden is nominated. The nomination is
subject to the approval of convocation, and convocation
has approved. We can now only give the facts. It will
also be observed, that the Regius Professor of Hebrew,
Dr. Pusey, in his notice, recommends undergraduates
requiring private assistance, to seek it of Mr. Morris,
of Exeter College. Mr. Seager was formerly joined
with Mr. Morris in this recommendation, but he—as our
readers know—is now in communion with Rome. Mr.
Morris is also at Rome, but is yet nominally with Eng-
land. It is now generally known that the opposition to
Dr. Symons, and the manner of it—unexampled in the
history of the University for literary ruffianism—is, to
a very great extent, referable to Mr. Morris, the re-
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