The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-08 00:00:00

POLICE tNTtLLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL—AIm Robinson, a drover, who wears
the badge No. 31, attended before Mr. Alderman Scho-
tay yesterday, upon a summons for aetitig as a drover in
Smithfield, without wearing his badge, and for Wantonly
ill-treating a sheep, by setting a dog to wortyit.
Branscomb, one of the City officers, stated, alit early
on Monday morning, lie saw the defendant engaged in
lifting four sheep out of a caravan. He seemed to be in a
state of considerable irritation, and witness therefore
watched him. When he had taken out three, defendant
addressed &di in the ordinary style its Use among the
fellows of this class, threatening to beat their brains out if
they stirred from the spot. Witness dared to say the poor
things did not understand these threats, but nevertheless
they did not stir. When he had taken the fourth sheep
from the van, he drove them along the pavement, and one
of them happened to swerve into the road, upon which
the defendant, without attempting any gentle means to
beep the animal in the desired path, set a dog to worry it,
and it was hunted under the legs of a drove of beasts. To
extricate it from thence was a difficult matter, and, after
poking at it some time, the defettda
nt
bceaglalendstcommanobtlliinegr
drover to job the animal's eye out, and
over some bullocks' backs to assist. Witness then inter-
fered, and demanded a sight of his badge, which after some
demur he pulled from his pocket.
The defendant denied almost every thing the officer stated.
Mr. Alderman SCIIOLEY said, Branscomb was an old
and very respectable officer, and he therefore had entire
faith in his statement, and as defendant had taken such a
course of defence, instead of expressing sorrow at being
overtaken in an act of imprudence, he should fine him
10s. fur not wearing the badge, and 10s. for his cluck.
Branscomb suggested, that as he was a young (hover,
and it was his first offence, a fine of less amount would,
with costs, made a strong impression upon him ; and the
Alderman accordingly waved one of the f nes of 10s.
Yesterday John Winter, pot-boy to Mr. Weare, of the
Crown public-house, 'Watling-street, summoned his master
and mistress for an assault, on Thursday last. The com-
plainant detailed his grievances by stating that Mrs. W.
had, for no offence whatever, collared him at the bar-
door; and that Mr. W. immediately joined issue, and
knocked him about and turned him out of doors. On
cross-questioning the complainant, however, acknow-
ledged that he had merely said "good night" to two ladies..
Air. Weare, in reply, stated—that on the night in
question the complainant was in a state of intoxication, and
had in front of the house made a piece of work with two
girls of the town. Mrs. W. was indignant at his beha-
viour, and said a few words to him. Complainant then
went down to the cellar and slept a short time, when lie
again carne up and demanded his supper-beer, which Mrs.
Weare refused to let him have, as he was still in a state
of intoxication. Complainant then became outrageous,
entered the bar and attempted to serve himself with the
beer by force. Mrs. Weare consequently turned him out
of the bar—the disturbance attracted the attention of Mr.
Weare, and he interfered to protect his wife from insult.
Mr. W. likewise stated, that Winter was habitually drunken
and abusive, and this could be proved by evidence which
the defendant had present.

Alderman SCHOLEY recommended a compromise, with-
out going into the evidence, but Mr. Weare objected to
that arrangement, and said that he would rather sutler the
case to go to the sessions. After some conversation, the
parties did withdraw, and in a short time they re-appeared
before the Magistrate, and Mr. Weare stated that Winter
had confessed his error, and made ample apology.
The ALDERMAN told Winter that be stood in a sorry
situation to prefer a charge against his master, and then,
instead of establishing the charge, to be under the neces-
sity of acknowledging himself the aggressor.
Mr. Weare said he would decline turning the tables on
the complainant, which he night do, hut would pay him
the few days' wages that were due to him, and suffer him
to go about his business.

BOW-STREET.—Yesterday Mary Gregory, a half-
silly looking country girl, was charged by her mistress,
Mrs. Francis Lynes, with unlawfully pawning various
articles, her property, without her knowledge and consent.
Mrs. Lynes, a young woman, lived with her husband
in Stanhope-street, Clare-market. Her husband was em-
ployed as a porter in Somerset House. She engaged the
prisoner as an occasional servant, to nurse. her child and
go of errands. A few days ago she missed three gowns,
a lace veil, a Prayer-book, and other property ; and sus-
pecting that the prisoner had stolen them, she searched
the cellar, where she found three duplicates, and on ap-
plying to the pawnbrokers, she identified the gowns and
lace veil now produced as part of the propety of which
she had been robbed.

Two pawnbrokers' assistants being examined, swore
that the prisoner pleolged the property at their employers'
shops, and Mrs. Lynes added to her evidence that such
pawning took place without her knowledge and consent.
Three well-dressed women, and the prisoner's sister,
now came forward, and one of them, whose superior vo.
lubility of speech bad elected her as spokeswoman, ad-
dressed the magistrate on behalf of the prisoner, declaring
that a vile conspiracy was on foot to destroy the character
of the young girl at the bar. Would his Worship believe
that the very articles which Mrs. Lynes had sworn she had
lost, were given by her to the girl to pledge for her?
The truth was, Mr. Lynes seldom left his wife any money,
and she was obliged to pawn property in order to pur-
chase necessaries.

Mr. HALLS asked the prosecutrix if it were true that
she had authorised the girl to pawn articles for her.
Mrs. Lynes replied, with considerable embarrassment,
that on one occasion she certainly had sent the prisoner to
the pawnbroker's to raise a temporary supply, as her hus-
hand was paid his wages only once a quarter. She so-
lemnly declared, however, that she had given no autho-
rity whatever to the prisoner to pawn the articles iu
question.
Oh, what a wicked woman, exclaimed one of the friends
of the prisoner ! When the duplicates were tbund in the
cellar, she went upon her knees to the prisoner's aunt,
and begged of her, for God's sake, not to acquaint her
husband with the fact of her having employed her niece
to pawn things for her. She said be would be the death
of her if he were to know it.

Two of the women were sworn as to this fact, which,
however, Mrs. Lynes distinctly and positively denied.
Mr. HALLS observed, that there was something very
extraordinary in the case. The prosecutrix had sworn
that the property was pawned without her knowledge and
consent, yet here were two witnesses who as distinctly
swore to the contrary.

Bond, jun. here whispered something to the Magistrate,
who asked the prisoner's aunt if she (the prisoner) had
not been very lately at Marlboreugh-street office upon a
similar charge.
The aunt replied in the affirmative.
" And the charge was compromised, I believe ?" added
the Magistrate.
The aunt made no answer ; but Bond replied that the
girl was discharged through the exertions of her friends.
1 he husband of the prosecutrix, a decent young man in
livery, said that the prisoner's aunt and the other women
now present, came to him, and begged and prayed that he
would not proceed against the girl, promising that the
articles should be redeemed, and that all should be made
right.

After a long investigation, Mr. HALLS decided that the
prisoner bad been guilty of unlawfully pawning the pro-
perty of her mistress. He firmly believed that her present
half-idiot appearance was in a great degree assumed. As
to her aunt and the rest of the women, who strove to
bolster up a case for her by endeavouring to turn the tables
upon her mistress, be did not believe one word they had
either said or sworn. The prisoner was adjudged to pay
seven shillings, being the amount of the articles she had
pawned, and a tine of twenty shillings for the offence ; and
in default of payment she was to be confined 14 days in
the House of Correction.

The decision appeared to give very general satisfaction.
William Parr. Pope, a young man who has lately
acted in the capacity of travelling agent to several news-
paper•agents and stationers, was charged by Mr. Westley,
stationer, of No.. 159, Strand, with fraudulently obtaining
the sum of 71. 12s. in his name, from a person named
Davis, a stationer, in Atherstone, Warwickshire.

Mr. Davis stated, that on the 24th of last July the pri-
soner came. to his shop, and said he was directed by Mr.
Westley, of the Strand, to call for the balance of his ac-
count. The witness desired the prisoner to draw out a
receipt for the money, and the prisoner said he would
write one at the inn where he had set up. In a short time
he produced a receipt, signed henry Jones, and witnes,
paid him the amount.
Mr. IlAus said that the offence having hem committed
in Warwickshire, the charge must be investigated there.
Mr. Westley said that several other charges would be
brought aganst the prisoner.
The MAGtsTßATEaccordingly remanded him to a future
day, until a warrant is obtained from Warwickshire, to
which place he will then be transmitted.
Parkinson, the individual who stands charged with
having passed several of the notes stolen from the Gree-
nock Bank, Was yesterday admitted to bail, after several
ineffectual attempts to procure his liberation by similar
means.

LAMBETH-STREET.—Yesterday George Thompson
alias Nut, Henry Penny alias Webster, and George
Porter, were brought before J. IttuowlcK and M. WYATT,

Esqts., for Anal eianaMation, on suspicion of having bur-
glariously entered the dwelling-house of G. F. Young, Esq.,
of Church-row, Limehouse, and stolen therefrom a qUantity
of plate.
On the first examination of Thompson he was fully coin-
witted, the eyidenee being distinct, and he being taken on
the preniises with the property about bins ; but it was
considered expedient to remand Isitili as from his celebrity
as a housebreaker several Other charges were expected to
be preferred against him, and a hope was entertained that
his accomplices would, in the mean time, he diseotvied.
On the prisoner's being plaCed at the bar, Not ris, the officer,
stated, that from information he had received shortly after
the prisoner's commitment, and before he left the lock-up-
room, he thought it his dirty to make a further search of
his person. He did so, and on taaininink bins carefully,
found the eight silver spoons, which he then produced; tied
up in the tail of his shirt. These Mr. Young identified as
his property, and as part of the plate which was stolen on
the night of the robbery. •
Mr. WYa•rr.--We need go no further into his case. It
is already clearly Made out. What are the grounds of
suspicion against the other prisoners?
Lea, the officer, said that there was the strongest teasotio
though no positive proof, to believe that Penny was one of
the gang, and was implicated in the offence. His dress,
appearance, and age, corresponded with one of the burglars
who effected his escape from the watchman on the night
of the burglary ; but besides this, there were other circum-
stances, which scarcely left a doubt of it. He (Lea), with
another officer, apprehended him, after snaking his escape
from a public-house called the Black Hole, in Wentworth-
street, the rendezvous of the worst characters in London,
in the house in which Thompson resided. On securing
him, they asked him why he ran away, and he said it was
through the fear of being sent to the tread-mill. On taking
him to the watch-house, he gave the name of Webster,
though he now gave the name of Penny; but besides this,
there was another fact that looked suspicions,—he had on
him a new hat, which was purchased on the day after the
robbery, and the person who had escaped from the watch-
man had left his behind him.

Dawson, a Bow-street patrol, recognized Penny as an
old thief whom he had in custody some time since, but
under a different name, for "starring the glaze."

Mr. Haabwicic.--.What are the circumstances that
affect the other prisoner ?—Norris.—l apprehended him on
good information, as being concerned in the burglary.

- Mr. HARDWICK.—Is he known as a thief2J-MC. Mil-
ler (the chief officer).—He is, Sir ; the Union-hall offi-
cers, who were here this morning, recognize them all as
thieves of the Surrey side. Porter has been tried and cast
for death for a robbery in a publican's house, and now
there is a prosecution against him for breaking into and
plundering his father's house ; but this, I understand, will
not be carried on.

A Union-hall officer said that Thotnpson's real name was
Nut, and that he was now wanted for a burglary at Rip-
ley ; he had been on the look-out for him for some weeks,
but until now he was unsuccessful.

Mr. HARDWICK ordered the discharge of Penny and
Porter, there being no distinct testimony against them, and
at the same time gave directions to the officers to appre-
hend them if ever they were again seen within the district,
in order to their commitment to tle House of Correction
as reputed and well known thieves.
UNION-HALL.—Yesterday John Jordan, late act-
ing bombardier, and now a pensioner in the Royal Artil-
lery, was brought up for a final examination, charged on
suspicion with having administered arsenic to his wife
Mary with intent to murder her.

Mrs. Jordan still labours under general debility, owing
to the baneful effects produced by the mineral poison on
her constitution. Her health is evidently improved since
the last examination. The prisoner's appearance has un-
dergone a considerable change for the worse since his ap-
prehension on the charge, and on seeing his wife he was a
good deal affected, and shed tears in abundance.
Mr. Boast, the surgeon, who was called in to attend the
complainant, subsequently to her having taken the poison,
and applied the stomach-pump, with which he extracted,
it, stated that on his leaving this office on Wednesday last,
he proceeded to the lodgings previously occupied by the
prisoner and his wife, and there examined the contents of
the butt out of which the complainant • alleged she had
filled her tea-kettle on the morning she bad taken the poi-
son. The water in the butt, Mr. Boast added, was per-
fectly pure, and did not retai❑ a particle of any deleterious
substance.

Mrs. Harriet Shoel, who resides in the same house re-
cently occupied by the prisoner and his wife, stated that
on the morning in question she filled her teakettle out of
the same butt, and neither herself nor any of her family
were affected by the tea made from it.
The prisoner's wife, in addition to her former deposi-
tion, stated, that on the night previous to her having
drank the poison, she boiled the water in the same kettle,
and made her tea from it, and was not affected. She left the
kettle afterwards on the bob by the fire-place, and no one
had access to the room from that time but her husband and
herself, until she drank the poison.
The complainant's son, by a former husband, now stepped
forward, and implored the Magistrate to be as lenient with
the prisoner as he could, under all tke circumstances.
He added that he was at present doing duty at Woolwich
as a soldier, and that should his father-in-law be committed
on this charge, he (the step-son) would be pointed at by
his comrades, and held in utter contempt by them.
The complainant here joined in an appeal with her son,
on behalf of the prisoner, who sobbed aloud, and in the
intervals protested his entire innocence of the charge, ex-
claiming, that such a diabolical attempt as to deprive his
wife of her life by administering poison to her never for a
moment entered his mind.

The prisoner's step-son here approached the bar where
he was standing, and they spoke for some time in an under-
tone of voice, after which, the complaipant evinced a dis-
position not to proceed against the prisoner.
The Magistrate perceiving this, after having remarked
on the enormity of the offence with which the accused was
charged, observed that he should certainly call upon her to
procure bail for her appearance at the Assizes to prosecute,
to prevent the possibility of her being kept purposely out
of the way.

The prisoner said, that it had been alleged be was living
with a woman named White. He now declared there
was no foundation for the assertion, and that he should be
enabled to contradict it most satisfactorily. He again
burst into tears, appealing to his wife, and ejaculating,—
" Mary, you know I never could have had in my heart
to have attempted your life in the way you have
charged me."
The unfortunate man was then committed, and he was
led from the bar in a state apparently of great affliction.
The following note the prisoner addressed to his wife
after the first examination :

" Horsemonger-lane Gaol, Oct. 4.
" Dear Wife,--I write these few lines to inform you of
the melancholy situation that I am in; and you are well
aware that I am innocent of the crime that lam accused
of—as innocent as the babe unborn. You must think on
that account what my state and condition must be. I beg
you will come and see me OH Monday, as you will have
permission from twelve to two o'clock, when I am per-
suaded a mutual reconciloment will take place between us,
which is the sincere desire of your unfortunate husband,
" JOHN JORDAN."

TOWN-HALL, SOUTHWARK.—David Davis was
summonul at the instance of Mr. Lewis Gompertz, Ken-
nington-oval, Honorary Secretary to the society for Pre-
ventin Cruelty to Animals.

Mr. Gorupeitz said on Saturday last he saw the defendant
near the Stones'-end, shamefully ill-using a horse he was
driving in a loaded cart, by striking it over the nose, eyes,
and other parts of the head, with the butt-end of his whir,
for a considerable time : on perceiving he was noticed, he
desisted.

Alderman J. J. SMITH said the words of the Act were
cruelly and wantonly, and asked Mr. Gompertz if the
defendant's conduct was of that description ; and on being
answered in the affirmative, fined the defendant 10s. and
costs.

A second complaint was lodged against a man named
Wyse, from Norwood, but dismissed as frivolous, the Al-
derman considering him entitled to his costs and loss of time.

Our Agricultural Correspondent mentions a
fact of which we were not before apprised, that pigs were
never known to be so abundant in Ireland as they are at
present.—. Dublin Morning Register.
FoRGERY.—As it is our desire that no
im-
praper stigma should attach to any particular body, we
think it proper to inform our readers, that Josxen MIN-
TON, who is charged with forgery to a large amount, is
not a member of the Society of Friends. He was expelled
by that body several years ago, for dishonourable practices
in the public funds.

It is in contemplation to form a new line of
road from this city to Hursley, by which travelling to
Romney will he rendered much more easy and pleasant, by
avoiding the bills, and considerably shortening the distance.
The' proposed road will branch from the Southampton
turnpike to the right a little on this side of St. Cross toll-
house, and proceed along the valley at the feot of Oliver's
Battery, following as nearly as may be practicable, the pre-
sent foot and bridle way, and to join the present road near
the King's Head Inn, at Hursley.—Hunts Chronicle.

CHesTea.--Wheat, per 751 b. 10s. 9d. to Ils. 9d. , Barley, 38 gas.
6s. Od. to Bs. Otl.l Oats, 491 b. 3s. Gd. to 1.. 3d.
NANTWICII.--INheat, per 751 b. Bs. 2d. to Bs. Gd.'; Barley, 38
eirts. ss. Od. to ss. 3d. ; Oats, 5(4b. 2s. Bd, to 3s. od.

(From the Glasgow Herald of Monday.)
The demand for Raw SUGARS has been brisk this
week; the sales amount to 1,100 hhds. and prices
have rated the same as last week. At yesterday's
market holders were very firm in their demands, but
no advance was realized. The grocers and refiners
purchased very freely, and several small lots were
taken for Ireland.
For British MOLASSES' there has been a steady de-
mand; sales were made at 225. 6d. a 225. 9d. and
235. is now demanded. No sales made in West
India Molasses.

The sales made in COFFEE are confined to 22 tcs.
of Jamaica, taken by the grocers; very ordinary and
broken mixed at 285.; fine ordinary to low ordinary
at .505.; and 30 bags Demerara triage, 245. and or-
dinary, 38s.
Nothing done in PIMENTO or GINGER.
Of East India RICE 260 bags were sold at 15s,
in bond.
For Jamaica Rum there is an enquiry; the sales,
however, have been limited; the recent importation
has not yet been brought to market. A small lot of
Demerara Rum in hhds. was sold at 2s. 4d., the
particularsl7 are, 24 Sea
strength 3 a 4 O.P.
alteration sales
The demand for COTTON still continues steady;
the
no
Island, 14d.; 14. Stained ditto, 81d. a 10d.; 291
Boweds, 6,id. a 6id. ; 403 Orleans, 60. a Bd.;
203 Egyptian, 8(1. a 8.1 d.; Demeraras, 81d.;
81 'West India, 60.
in prices.
ouTnltietol,
In DYEWOODS there has been nothing done.
For ASHES there has been a considerable de-
mand ; 360 brls. of Montreal Pot and Peal], brand
1828, were sold at 305., and 31s. is now demanded
for Pearls, which are scarce.
TonAcco meets a steady sale, and prices are with-
out variation.

Several parcels of Y. C. TALLOW have been sold
at 425.

Fish OrLs are very flat, and prices in a great de-