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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HO USE.

A man named John Brown, who was without a
coat, and appeared to have suffered in a conflict, was
brought before Alderman Gibbs, charged with having
committed a daring robbery. The case was made
remarkable by the display of extraordinary spirit and
energy upon the part of a lady, of rather small stature
and delicate appearance.
Mr. Hobler appeared for the prisoner.
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Bradshaw, wife of Mr. Brad-
shaw, of No. 103, Bishopsgate-street Within, hosier
and glover, stated that, about ten minutes past eight
o'clock on Tuesday night, a man came into the shop,
dressed in a green shooting-coat and yellow buttons,
and asked to look at some ribbons. Witness showed

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him some, and cut off a yard and a half. While she
was engaged in cutting, the prisoner entered, followed
by the shopman, who had been out, and whom she
desired to serve him. The moment she saw the pri-
soner she suspected that he was a thief, and she ob-
served his motions. The shopman incautiously placed
upon the counter, near the prisoner, a bundle of hand-
kerchiefs, and the man with the shooting-coat and
yellow buttons at the moment exchanged glances
with the prisoner, who took up some of the handker-

APPREHENSION OF GAMBLERS.—Yesterday, Fred( '—
rick Pemberton, alias Frederick Joseph Pemberton, wr ;
brought before Mr. Baron Gurney, in the custody ( d?
Inspector Aggs, of the C division. The prisoner wr
described of 31, St. James's-street. The court weal
crowded with West-end gamblers.
It appeared that the prisoner was engaged gamblin g
at the last Gorhambury races, and an indictment had
been preferred against him at the St. Alban's sessions,
Mr. Baron Gurney having granted a bench warrant
for his apprehension. A man named Mo Jacobs, de-.
scribed as a lawyer's clerk, and living at 101, Ber—
wick-street, met Pemberton yesterday afternoon int
Regent-street, and took him to the Vine-street
station, where he was given into the custody of In—
spector Aggs. Jacobs told the prisoner, on the way
to the station-house, that there was no occasion for
him to go, as it could be " settled." On arriving
there, Aggs, well knowing the whole of the parties
concerned, at first refused to entertain the charge„
when Jacobs became so abusive that he was threatened
with removal.

After a short " consultation," Mr. Mo Jacobi
consented to the bail, and the prisoner was liberated
on entering into his own recognizance in 801., and.
finding two sureties in 40/. each, to appear at the next;
assizes at Hertford.

James Hollick Davis, otherwise HoHick Davis, of
Hendon, was then brought np in custody of Sergeant;
Maris, A 50.

It appeared that the prisoner was pointed out at;
the Middlesex Sessions Court on Friday by a man
named Randall to Mr. Jacobs, and formerly livery
servant at a gambling booth at which the prisoner
acted as one of the principals. An indictment had,
been preferred against the prisoner at the Croydon,
sessions in 1843 for gambling on Ascot Heath race
course, and Mr. Justice Coleridge had signed a war-
rant for his apprehension. The prisoner had been
residing for some time at Guernsey and Jersey.
Mr. Russell, the solicitor in the qui tam actions.
against Lord George Bentinck, attended on his be-
half. Bail was tendered, the prisoner in 801., and'.
two sureties in 401. each.

Mr. Baron Gurney said, in such a serious case he
could not consent to take bail for less than 2001., and
two sureties in 1001. each.

The prisoner then entered into his own recogni-
zances in 2001., and two sureties in 1001. each, to ap-
pear at the next assizes at Abingdon.
The parties avowed that Lord George Bentinck
was connected with the prosecutions, but it is very
doubtful whether his Lordship is in any way mixed
up with them.

!,134 LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept. 11.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.)
,134 TREGEAR AND LEWIS'S BANKRUPTCY.
•K In this case the bankrupts carried on business as
music and picture dealers in Cheapside, and to-day
was appointed for their final examination. However,
',2% as further accounts were required, which the Court
es4ordered to be made out, an adjournment for a few
gh weeks was agreed to for their preparation.
A number of insolvent cases were heard before
7 Commissioners Fonblanque and Fane, but, like
the others which have preceded them for the last
5% fortnight, they contained not a fact worth reporting.

. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(Before Mr. WALESBY, Deputy-Assistant Judge, and a
full Bench of Magistrates.)
11,‘
The first September session under the recent Act
13„,
for the better administration of criminal justice in
% the county of Middlesex commenced on Tuesday, at
Hicks's-hall, Clerkenwell-green, before the Deputy-
Assistant Judge and an 04unusually full bench of Ma-
gistrates.
The calendar is numerically extremely heavy, con-
taining no fewer than 96 cases, of which 63 are in-
dictments for felony, whilst 33 are for misdernea-
% nours, some of an important character.
The grand jury having been sworn,
The Deputy-Assistant JUDGE shortly addressed
them.

The cases which were disposed of in the course of
;he day did not offer any feature of public interest.
During a temporary cessation, however,
Mr. PRENDERG•ST said he trusted his Lordship
would permit him to make an application for the
r 4 postponement of a case wherein the defendant was in-
7',r dieted for a nuisance. The case was entitled " The
4 Queen v. Thompson." The defendant was very ex-
tensively engaged as a brushmaker, and had a manu-
-7'l factory at Kentish-town. The prosecution was by a
I'4 gentleman of the bar of the name of Pike. lie affi-
Dtll davit upon which he made the present application dis-
ri),,' closed several most important facts in reference to the
circumstances of the case, and it was quite clear that
as the prosecution had for its object the stoppage of
his business, the proceedings were a life or death
matter so far as the defendant was concerned. There
was this singular fact, too, connected with the case—
that it was the first instance in which a brushmaker
had been prosecuted for carrying on his trade. No
NI brushmaker had until now ever been indicted for a
• nuisance. The ground upon which he moved for a
2 postponement of the case was the absence of a mate-
: rial witness.
I,u The Learned JUDGE asked whether there could be
any objection to a postponement ?
• Mr. Ronny, who appeared on behalf of the prose-
1/ii cution, said there were very powerful objections.
534 Mr. PRENDERGAST begged to direct the attention
a of the Learned Judge to the fact, that had the late
statute been still in force, the case could not have
s been tried until the adjournment day, which would
O have fallen just about the period at which the next ses-
-1 Sion on would commence, so that in reality, although a
0 postponement was now asked for until the ensuing
session, the case would come on quite as early as
6 before the new Bill had come into operation.
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The Learned JUDGE thought it was very early in
the session to make such an-application, for the wit-
ills ness might be obtained ere it had concluded.
so Mr. PRENDERGAST remarked, that the object in
:i making the application thus early was to relieve se-
II veral professional witnesses from a probably unneces-
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rp sary attendance for three or four days.
19 The JUDGE inquired of Mr. Hurry what ineonve-
is
I'l% nience could arise by the postponement ?
a Mr. HOaRY replied, that the inconvenience to the
16114% prosecution would be very great ;in addition to which
sk the nuisance—a nuisance of the most pernicious and
ts destructive character—would still be carried on. The
14 defendant was in the habit of using a preparation of
Isulphur to, as he said, bleach the bristles of which
7 he made his brushes ; and he furthermore used, as
1(1,°% the Learned Counsel was understood to say, the chlo-
-5 . ride of arsenic in the construction of a peculiar de-
-4% scription of fancy shaving-soap, as well as for another
14 purpose. The fumes which were the result of these
33i% operations were of the most injurious character, and
3 spread themselves around the neighbourhood wherein
51% they were carried on with the most lamentable effects.
5 The object of the prosecution of course was to ac-
-7 complish the removal of the nuisance as quickly as
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,54 possible, and any postponement would tend to delay
VI the achievement of so desirable an end. He was in-
s% strutted that the defendant had removed this nuisance
,Iyis4 from another place about two years since. With
; respect to the ground upon which the postponement
e was sought, he should submit that the affidavit did
not show the materiality of the evidence of the par-
Vi ticular witness sufficiently even to justify the appli-
r cation ; whilst, on the other hand, the prosecutor had
;N a witness who was now in the inost dreadful state of
;14 health, and who had lost her husband and daughter
i from the operation of these poisonous fumes upon.
I their system.
Mr. PRENDERGAST here read an affidavit, which set
1 forth that the nuisance, if nuisance it were, had been
1i discontinued from the moment when the notice of
Ili indictment had been served upon the defendant.
Eventually it was arranged that the trial should be
postponed until the next sessions, upon the under-
taking of the defendant not to renew his operations
% during that period.

GAMING HOUSES.
Mr. PRENDERGAST now moved that bench warrants
:gz might issue in the case of
TILE QUEEN V. GODFREY AND OTHERS.

The defendants, Godfrey, Joseph Bevan, Joseph
1 Sherwood, C. Lulu, and W. Sufilin, had been indicted
s on the I9th of August, for keeping a common gaming
5 house in Bury-street, St. James's, but had neither put
in bail nor appeared. The party making the affidavit
4N swore that if the bench warrants were issued, he was
in possession of such information as would enable him
1S to capture them, and so bring the parties up for trial.
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The COURT granted the application for the war-
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rants, with 24 hours' notice of bail.
WEIS