The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-07 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

Jas. Thompson and William Cunnington were placed
at the bar, before Mr. Broughton, for final examination,
charged, the former with having stolen, and the latter
knowingly received two valuable sporting dogs, the pro-
perty of Mr. William Burnell, a licensed victualler at
King's-cross.
In addition to the evidence already published,
Edward Hornsby, a waiter at a public-house in Cock-
lane, Shoreditch, proved that on the night of the rob-
bery the prisoner Thompson entered the tap-room with
the two dogs now produced, and was shortly after joined
by two othr men, who remained in conversation with
him for some time, when they all left the house.
Elizabeth Crowther, a lodger in Cunnington's house,
deposed that the dogs had been left there by the pri-
soner Thompson, and that he afterwards called and fed
them on several occasions.

Police-constable Burchan proved that the prisoner
Thompson had recently suffered twelve months' impri-
sonment for uttering base coin, but nothing was known
to the detriment of the other prisoner.
Mr. BROUGIITON said that this was the first case of
the kind that had been brought before him since the
passing of the new Act for the more effectual suppres-
sion of dog stealing, which contained very stringent pro-
visions for the accomplishment of that object. By one
of the clauses any person found guilty of the offence
was liable to be committed to the House of Correction,
and there kept to hard labour for six calendar 'ninths,
or, at the discretion of the Magistrate, to forfeit and pay
over and above the value of the dog so stolen any sum
of money not exceeding 201. ; and, by anotber clause,
any person in whose possession, or on whose premises,
any stolen dog, or the skin thereof, should be found,
with a guilty know' dge that such dog had been stolen,
was liable to the same penalties as those specified in the
preceding clause. In the present case he did not con-
sider the evidence adduced against the prisoner Cun-
nington to be sufficiently strong to warrant his c _evic-
tion, and he; should, therefore, order him to be dis-
charged ; but with regard to the other prisoner, the
offence had been conclusively established, and he should
order him to be committed to the house of Correction
fur six months, and to be kept to hard labour.

ILFORD PETTY SESSIONS.
Henry Randall, a labourer, was placed at the bar, be-
fore G. Masseter, Chairman, and a full Bench of Ma-
gistrates, charged Kith stealing wood, the property of
the Earl of Mornington, the Lord of the Manor of
Hainault.
William Seabone, a keeper of the forest of Hainault,
said that for some time past extensive depredations
had been committed in the forest by the cutting
down and stealing trees ; and they had increased to
uch an extent, that Earl Mornington had issued
orders for a sharp look-out to be kept after
the depredators. The time genera ly selected for the
commission of the depredation was on Sunday
nights, and it frequently occurred that as many as fifty
trees, which were seen standing in the forest on the Sun-
day, were cut down and conveyed no one knew whither
before the following morning. Some time since he missed
some trees from Barking side, and on the 14th July,
about four in the morning, one of hi: men informed him
that he thought there was a load of wood just got off the
forest, as he had heard a cart going off it in the direction
of Stratford. Witness immediately went in that direction,
and on getting opposite the "Pigeons," overtook the defen
dant driving a cart laden with trees, which he could swear
to having seen growing on the Sunday previous in the
forest. There were thirteen in the cart, and their vase