The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-29 00:00:00

George's-street, Bloomsbury. On the roof of one of
these houses the prisoner was seen ripping off the lead
between 9 and 10 on the previous night. The police
hastened to the place—one of them, 140 E, got upon the
roof, whilst the others were posted in the street below.
As soon as the prisoner saw the constable on the roof,
he immediately " gave chase;" the constable followed; at
length the prisoner dipped into the roof, the con-
stable popped in after him ; the prisoner ran along
the space betvteen the roof and the ceiling,
followed closely by his pursuer. At length the consta-
ble was alarmed by a crash, and on advancing a little
perceiVed that the ceiling having given way, Bresnahan
had partly fallen through, and having been caught be-
tween the joists in falling, remained, like Mahomet's
coffin, suspended in space. The painful position of the
prisoner was much aggravated by the endeavours of his
friends in the room below to pull him down, whilst the
constable strove to keep him where he.was. At length
the police came up stairs, and the prisoner was secured.
About a hundred- weight of lead was found piled on the
roof, which had b2en recently cut from the gutter.
The prisoner was remanded.
William Hogg was charged with the following mis-
chievous conduct.

The prisoner was standing by the window of Mr.
Foxwell, a linen draper, residing at 26, Judd-street, at
three o'clock on the previous day. The shopman de-
sired him to leave, but he struck him on the face, and
then thrust his hand through a large pane of plate glass
value 2/. 55., and damaged artificial flowers and ribbons
on the inside to the value of 3/. more.

In default of paying the' amount of damage done, the
prisoner was committed to the House of Correction for
two months.

MARYLEBONE.

A girl named Reynolds, alias Ellen Fitzpatrick, was
placed before Mr. Rawlinson on the following charge:—
Francis Cole Himbert, of the Hyde Park Hotel, said
that the prisoner had entered his service about six weeks
ago, representing that she was Ellen Fitzpatrick. She
referred him to Mrs. Dymond, of 22, Frith-street, Soho-
square, for a character. He went there, and that lady
told him that she had had a girl named Ellen Fitzpa-
trick, and could vouch for her honesty and-sobriety: He
upon these representations, and believing the prisoner
to be the Ellen Fitzpatrick to whom Mrs. Dymond re-
ferred, took her into his service. He had reason to be-
lieve that the prisoner, from the time she had entered
his house, had committed robberies upon the different
ladies upon whom she waited. Unfortunately, however,
he was not in a condition to prove either of those, but he
' had written to some of the aggrieved parties, and they
had given instructions to their solicitors. What those
instructions were he was not prepared to say. He wished
therefore, merely to go into the question of the false
character, and he would, therefore, call Dr. Dymond to
prove that the prisoner had never been in his service.
Dr. Dymond, 22, Frith-street, said that the prisoner
wa; known to the real Ellen Fitzpatrick, but that her
name was Reynolds, and she had never been a domestic
in his house.
The prisoner made a rambling defence, after which the
worthy Magistrate said that she had not even the
excuse of a girl who, getting into work by means of a
false character, was determined to make a good one by
honesty, diligence, and sobriety. She, on the contrary,
had from the house that she had been admitted to, Mr.
Himbert's, pillaged all who came near her, and he, there-
fore, felt it his duty to inflict the highest penalty the
Act would allow, which was to pay 201., with 10s. costs,
or go for three months' to' the House of Correction.
Mr. Himbart said that there, were wages due to her
to the amount of 11. 11s. 6d., and her box of clothes yet
remained in his house.
The prisoner directed that her sister, who was in Court,
should receive them.
WORSHIP-S TREE T.

Monday a man named Thomas Patterson, and Eliza-
beth Patterson, his wife, were placed at the bar before
Mr. Bingham, on the following charge of robbery and
attempted murder, upon a young man named George
Allen, a linen-glazer, residing in Monkwell-street, Fore-
street, Cripplegate.
The prosecutor, whose face was a mass of cuts and
contusions, and in other parts of his person bore mani-
fest evidences of severe ill-treatment, stated that as he
was passing through Aldersgate•street, at eleven o'clock
on the night of Sunday, the 19th inst., he was accosted
by a young woman, with whom he ultimately went to
numerous houses, and lastly to a very wretched one,
where he was attacked, robbed, and then wounded. The
whole proceedings were of the lowest and fiercest cha-
racter. At last the prosecutor made a violent struggle,
and succeeded in breaking away and running into Ar-
thur-street, where he met a policeman, and while telling
him of the ferocious attack that had been made upon
him, the two prisoners passed the end of the street, and
were immediately pointed out by the prosecutor as two
of the persons implicated.
Henry Turpin, an officer, who searched the prisoners'
house, deposed to finding the outer case of the watch
and the prosecutor's money-bag there, and to the floor
of the room being in several places dyed with coagulated
blood.—Both prisoners were fully committed to New-
gate for trial.
Brown and. Smith (officers) stated in the course of the
examination that the female prisoner had belonged to a
desperate gang, which had been routed out by the parish
authorities from Granby-street, Waterloo-road, where
they had located themselves, and afterwards distributed
themselves in other parts of the metropolis. The male
prisoner was stated' to be very respectlbly connected,
but bad bean discarded by his relatives in consequence
of his marriage with the other prisoner.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
EDINBURGH, SATURDAY, MAY 25.
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES IN ENGLAND.

Mr. CUMMING, of London, said that since last year
a most important change had taken place in the de-
signation of the Presbyterian Synod in England.
They had agreed to exchange that portion of their
title "in connexion with the Church of Scotland,"
and immediately agreed to receive a deputation from
a body who were known by the title of the "Free
Church." This had taken place immediately after the
late secession, and the result was that the Synod,
which was recognised as in communion with the
Church of Scotland, had ceased to exist in any way
whatever. It had been said, that the declaration in
favour of the Free Church had been come to unani-
mously, but the true cause of unanimity was because
many of the ministers of the Church of Scotland in Eng-
land were so dissatisfied with the statements made in the
Synod, that they studiously, and by concert, absented
themselves from its meeting. It was not, therefore,
right to suppose that all the ministers who had been
in connexion with the Church of Scotland had alien-
ated from that connexion, or lost their affection fur it.

On the contrary, some of the best and ablest minis
ters in England not only maintained the connexion
unimpaired, but had become more attached to the
Church than they had been before.—(Bear, hear.)
He rejoiced that that attachment had become
stronger, and that he had it in his power to say, that
many who had separated in consequence of the ex-
citement, were now rapidly returning within its pale.
There was one church within the Presbytery of Lon-
don which could not contain the number that had
returned, and who were sick to the heart of the at-
tempts made against it.—(Hear, hear.) All that he
wished to ask of, 'the Assembly was, that the
tie which knit the' Ministers in England to the Esta-
blishment should be as broad and palpable to the eyes
of the public as it could with consistency be made.
The reasons for this were extremely cogent, for state-
ments were circulated in England to the effect that
the churches there were disowned—that the Church
of Scotland had nothing to do with them. All that
was necessary, then, was simply that they should be
recognised—that the Assembly saw in them a useful
outpost of the National Church.—(Hear, hear). He
could make statements to the house which would
prove that some ministers in England had rendered no
unimportant services to the interests of the Church.
It was reported throughout London, that all religion
had evaporated from the Established Church of Scot-
land—that scarcely an evangelical minister was to be
found within its pale--and that those who remained
were absolutely Socinian in their principles. When ap.•
plication was made to therresb ytery of London for i n for-
illation on the state of the Church, they gave a true
statement of the facts of the case. The Presbytery
in London had divided itself into two parties—one
half of whom, whose trustees were less specific as to
their connection with the Church of Scotland, re-
mained attached to it, while the other parties, whose
trust-deeds stated distinctly that they should be in
connection with the Established Church, had alien-
ated itself from it. He believed that, as soon as
those had light to see their duty, there would be
seven or eight, instead of only three churches in con-
nection with the Church. In Liverpool there were
two churches—one retained its connection with the
Establishment, and he believed the other would very
soon be the samec— (Hear,hear.) Several ministers in
England were anxious that something should be done
to rally the scattered forces throughout that country,
and he had received letters showing how desirous
they were that the Assembly should adopt some
measure which would mark the line of demarcation
of such as were ministers of the Church of Scotland.
Many in England were anxious to combine the status
of being connected with the Church of Scotland,
while they courted all the popularity of the secession
—they having never formally renounced their con-
nection with the EstabliShment. He. would suggest
that in these circumstances the Assembly would be
pleased to request the scattered ministers of the
Church in England to form themselves into presby-
teries, and that those presbyteries should form them-
selves into a synod—composed exclusively of the
licentiates of the Church, and allow the synod to
send a deputation to the Assembly ; or perhaps it
would be still more advantageous that a small committee
of the Assembly were appointed to confer with the
ministers in England as to the way in which their
relation to the Church of Scotland should be recog-
nised.—(Rear, hear.) The connexion with England
was of great importance to the Church, fur many
persons came to the metropolis to spend a few years
—perhaps but a few weeks ; and if there was no
Church connected with the Establishment, they
would go either to the Episcopalian Church, and
thus be in danger of forsaking the Church of their
fathers, or they would join those who were hostile to
it, and then return home to exert themselves to its
prejudice. But if the Church kept up its connexion
in London, there would be every prospect of
those who visited that city being sent home
better Christians and better men. The connexion