The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-14 00:00:00

UNION• HALL

William foltmog, alias William Fellows Abtrknets,
! was brought up fir re-examination, charged with
robbing a great number of hotels,. coffee-houses, and
tavem., in all parts of the metropolis. The office, as
on the for:7ler examination, was crowded with the
proprietors of establishments in the above lines, who
had been-plundered of plate by the accused, under cir-
cumstances similar to those already detailed in a
previous police report.
Ur. COTTINGHAM, addr6;siriZ the parties in attend-
ance, said that four cases out of the number would he
sufficient to send for trial. The m,egistrate added that
it was quite time the prisoner shoula
' be sent out of
the country, for it appeared he had been Lied and con-
victed of robbing hotels and taverns of plate, and sen-
tenced to six months' imprisonment.
He was then committed.
John Newnrin, a young man in the employ of an oil
and colourmau in Harper street, Newington, was charged
with presenting a pistol at John Homer, a policeman of
the M division.
The policeman stated that on the preceding night.
while on duty in Harper street, his attention was called
to the prisoner, under the influence of liquor,
flourishing a pistol about. The policeman went up, and,
addressing the prisoner, advised him to go home, upon
which he immediately presented a pistol at him, at the
same time muttering a threat. Tha policeman wrested the
weapon from him, and found it was loaded nearly to the
muzzle.
The prisoner said, that a brittle of' turpentine upset in
his master's shop, and that, in saving a portion of it, it
made him very unwell; that his master gave him a glass
of brandy to turn the sickness, and that it made him
tipsy, and, while in that state, he took the pistol out of
his master's room, and had no recollection of what took
place afterwards.
The prisoner's master being present, Mr. COTTINGHAM
gave him a severe lecture on the impropriety of having
such deadly weapons within the reach of the young man,
who might have shot the policeman on the occasion, and
that his (the master's) conduct was more culpable than
that of his servant.
The MAGISTRATE, having cautioned the prisoner as to
his future behaviour, discharged him,
CROYDON.

Inspector Collier, of the P division of police, brought
to the attention of the presiding magistrates, Messrs.
Adams, Lucas, and Barclay, a cage of imposition,
which, it is feared, from the ingenuity displayed in
has been very successful as a means of defrauding the
humane and charitable.

It appears that, on Thursday, a document, par-
porting to be the certificate of the magistrates of the
Croydon bench, and which represented that a trades-
man, named James Brown, who resided at Croydon,bad
been robbed by burglars of property to a large amount,
and was thereby reduced to a state of poverty, was
enclosed in a letter, addressed to Mr. Howell, of the
firm of Howell and James, in Regent-street, an
application, at the same time, being► made for assist-
ance. Mr. Howell not being in town, the petition
was sent down to Croydon, for the purpose of inquiry
being made respecting it, when it was, of course,
discovered to be a fraud.

The inspector handed the document referred to to
the magistrates for their inspection ; it was of rather
a singular character, and well calculated to disarm
suspicion. It was headed by the Royal arms; on the
left-hand corner were the printed words "Croydon,
Surrey, to Wit ;" and below them the words
" Whereas, the bearer hereof," printed in old Englis:a
characters ; and the paper had all the appearance of
the ordinary forms of process issued from the police,
offices. It went on to state that the magistrates,
having fully investigated the circumstances of the
robbery, which had reduced the pretended James
Brown from a position of respectability and comfort
to poverty, and deeply commiserating him, had in-
structed their clerk to draw up the statement, in the
hope that it would be the means of inducing
charitable persons to assist him, and enable
him again to enter into business. The docu
ment was represented to be signed by Mr.
George Penfold, the clerk to the bench, at the re-
quest of the magistrates, and a sum of .51, was also
placed as having been contributed by him. In addi-
tion to this, there were very excellent imitations of
the signatures of Mr. Reid, Mr. Barclay, and other
magistrates who usually act in this district; as also
the signatures of the Rev. Mr. Lindsay, the vicar,
Lady Hoare, Mr. T. L. Robinson, and others. The'
name of Mr. J. Drummond, the solicitor, also ap-
peared, and he was represented to have paid over the
sum of 211., which he was stated to have received for
the use of the unfortunate Mr. Brown. It was evi
dent that the projector of the fraud had taken great
pains to get it up well, as he must have obtained
means to copy the genuine signatures of the gentle-
men whose names appeared on the paper, the whole of
them being so excellently imitated.
Mr. ADAMS, having looked over the document, re-
marked that it was a very well got-up thing, but
there was one circumstance connected with it which
would immediately have made him doubt its authen-
ticity if it had been sent to him.
Mr. Lucks asked what that was. _

Mr. ADAMS drily observed that the paper repre-
sented two lawyers to have subscribed—one 51., and
the other 21/. ; V and this alone would have excited his
suspicion .—(L aughter.)
Mr. Penfold remarked that perhaps this was what
excited distrust at Mr. Howell's, and which led to the
petition being forwarded to him to be inquired into.
The MAGISTRATES observed that it was fbrtunate the
fraud had been discovered, and it would now, in all
probability, be put a stop to ; and they at the same
time gave instructions to the police with a view to the
apprehension of the party, if he should again make
his appearance.

CAUSEWAY ACROSS THE SEVERN .—A writer in the
Hereford Journal proposes, what he acknowledges "in
other times would be considered an extravagant and
chimerical undertaking, no less than the blockade of the
Severn at the Old Passage." He says, " Let the Great
Western Railway Company, the Severn Navigation
Company, the contemplated Company for a Railway
through Newport and South Wales, and the Post-office
department of the Government, unite for the purpose of
forming a causeway across the Severn at the spot men-
tioned. After the proportion of expence that each is to
bear shall be decided on, the engineering part at the
commencement is simple enough, by loose stones thrown
overboard, or sunk in tanks, until they rise to high water
mark. The part of the Severn above this breakwater
will then form an immense lake of transparent water con-
taining about fourteen thousand acres, or twenty-two
square miles, below Gloucester, the entrance to which,
by vessels of any size, should be by a lock from the Wye
at the narrow isthmus where the figure 3 (miles from
Chepstow) is marked on the Ordinance Map. which is
only three hundred yards across, and the mouth of the
Wye will be a good reedetead r soft mud-bed for
vessels bound up the Severn. A weir will, of course, be
formed on the breakwater of sufficient capacity for the
River Severn in its greatest fiends, and for tire passage
of the Salmon, and over all is to be a causeway for a
railway from Bristol through South Wales. The ad -
vantages cottzetnpla,ed by the proposed plan are as
follows :—.First, with resp, et to the Yost.-office commu-
nica: ion with South Wales, the letters are at present
detained in Bristol four hours after the arrival of the
London mail, because the passage (always dangerous)
can seldom be crossed in winter before daylight—but ex-
cluding this objection, Bristol alone will still he the,
London of South Wales, requiring the most direct com-
munication with the principality. The navigation up the
Severn will be greatly facilitated, as the water will
always remain at the same level, with but little or no
perceptible current, and the present " boar" up the river,
with all the other annoyances occasioned by the rapidity
of the tide. be ennihiletted. The passage into the Severn
Lake, by the Wye, being landlocked, will always be free
from danger anti difficulty, which cannot be said of the
entrance to the Berkeley Canal; and last, t h,.ugh not lea. r,
the lake of transparent water will add greatly to the
beauties and attractioe of the neighbourhood.
A CENTENARIAN.—There is now living under the '
care of James Adam Gordon, Esq., of Naish House, in
this city, an old man of the name of Richards, who has
attained the extraordinary age of 109 yearn. He was
born at Broadelist, Devon, in the year 1735, and is a
fine tall, intellectual, merry-hearted old fellow, possess-
et
ing a most benevolent countenance. The old gentleman London ; Printed end Published by MURDO 112;
is at present visiting one of his sons at Tiverton, Devon, No. 112, strand, Printer, at The Sun Offiee,gooty 111
and he walked on Sunday last to that town from Col-, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, °I
luraptop, a distance of alb milo&—Bristol Gado. Middlous Monday, Octoble 14,1544.

MARRIED.
On the Bth inst., at Aldstone Moor, the Rev. Octairisa
James, A.M., to Jane Katherine Helen, eldest daughter of tho
late Captain Bowlby, R.A.
On the 10th inst., at St. John's Church, Paddingtql
James Miller, Esq., M.D., to Rosetta, only child of the la"
W. Mitchell, Esq., of Clapham Rye, Surrey.
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On the Bth inst., at St. George's, Hanover. square, 4 gam
Bullock, youngest son of Samuel Floar Bullock, Esq., ;.,/
Pickwell, Leicestershire, to Selina Crossley, only daughter of
the late W. Irwin, Esq., of Leicester.
On the Bth inst., at Epsom, Mr. William Strode, of South{
street, to Julia, elder daughter of Mr. J. S. WinstanleP°
Hooktield-grove.
On the 28th of June, at her Britannic Majesty's Legati°ll,'
Lima, Samuel Went, Esq , of Arequipa, to Mary Ann GNP
second daughter of Archibald Robertson, Esq., Chatham.
•
On the Bth inst., at Litchborough, Northamptonshire, iihe
H. Graham, Esq., to Harriet Ella, second daughter ef
late Rev. W. Church, of Hampton, Middlesex.
On the Bth first., at the parish church, Chatham, lotild
Gihb, Esq, of Montreal, Canada, to Mary Louisa, only c
of R. Adams, Esq., of her Majesty's Dockyard, Chathani• tf.
On the 9th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square,
Ashton, Esq., eldest son of the late John Ashton, Esq., °ft ;
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Grange, Cheshire, to Mademoiselle Clement de la BretaftL
Departement de la Loire Inferieure, France, and niece to
late Marsnal Jourdan.

DIED. N;
On the 7th ult., at Ramsgate, Captain W. Shall), R•V
On the 30th ult.. at Gisborn, in Yorkshire, J. Sykes, r',7l;e
Ou the Bth inst., at Horton, Bucks, Elizabeth, relict 0
late Evan Evans, Esq. D.lter,
On the Bth inst., at Frensham Hall, Edward Jameg -L."—
Esq., aged 63.
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On the 9th inst., at Turnham-green, Sarah, relict of
late Philip Booth, Esq.
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On the 9th inst., at the Manor House, Brixton, Euk—e
relict of the late F. B. Goldnev, Esq. Josh
On the 10th inst , in Finsbury-circus, the Ref.
Pratt, 8.D., Vicar of St. Stephen's, Coleman-street. lee,
On the 9th inst., John, youngest child of Jr. Sneof
Hit.thburv-pArk.
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On the 9th inst., Ann, the wife of John DockseY, --"'"
Doughty. street.
On the 9th inst., at Friern- par k, F. 1 1
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