The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-17 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the
week ending Aug. 13, 1844, is 325. lid. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

A young man, named John Tennyson, was brought
before the Lord Mayor, charged with having robbed
Mr. Thomas Dunster, of Gun-street, Spitalfields, of a
pocket handkerchief.
The prosecutor said that as he was passing through
Petticoat-lane he felt somebody busy about his
pocket, and on suddenly turning round saw his hand-
kerchief in the prisoner's hand. He immediately
collared the thief, but was surrounded by a gang of
fellows, evidently the companions of the man with
whom he was engaged, and if it had not been for the
police, who ran to his assistance, he entertained no
doubt that his life would have been endangered, as,
amongst the crowd, he saw several most desperate
vagabonds, and there appeared to be gathered together
about 150 persons.
The prisoner—My Lord, the gentleman is all in
a mistake. He happened to fall up against me, and
when I turned about he produced the handkerchief,
and said Ihad robbed him of it, though I never thought
of such a thing since I was born.
Several of the policemen stated that they had fre-
quently seen the prisoner in the company of thieves ;
and Gooch, the turnkey of the Giltspur-street
Compter, recognised him as a customer.
The LORD MAYOR observed that the prisoner was
just the sort of person who ought to be sent out of
the country.—Committed for trial.
Mr. George Deacon, a person who was said to be
very respectable, was brought before the Lord Mayor
upon the charge of having caused great disturbance
in Mark-lane and its neighbourhood. by addressing
the passers-by in the language of Scripture, and dis-
tributing amongst them hand-bills, containing a most
extravagant rhodomontade about his former business
of a farmer and breeder of cows and sheep, and his
present occupation of promoter of the religious ad-
vantages of his fellow-creatures.
The LORD MAYOR asked Mr. Deacon whether he
belonged to any business ?—He replied, no. I am
disposed to do nothing but to serve the Lord by ad-
vancing the interests of his creatures.
The LORD MAYOR—What money have you about
you ? Mr. Dea2.4on—Oh! I have as much as I want.
I have twenty sovereigns, at any rate.
The LORD MAYOI-4 am told by your uncle that
he has reason to believe that you have a great deal
more.

Mr. Deacon—l have no more than I shall require
to answer my necessities in doing the work to which
the Lord has called me.

The LORD Mayoa—But you must know that we
cannot permit such interruptions to business as your
conduct has occasioned. _ _

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Mr. Deacon—lf the Lora requires me to do it how
cant, his bumble servant, refuse to obey. Oh, no, no.
The uncle of the defendant declared that the poor
man was harmless, and disposed to perform generous
actions, and that no doubt he would attend to the
direction of the Lord Mayor.
His LORDSHIP having addressed the defendant in
a very kind and soothing manner, obtained from him
a promise that he would, if possible, serve the Lord
without preventing his creatures from saving them-
selves.

The defendant, who was supposed to have nearly
1001. about him, then retired in company with his
uncle.

BOW-STREET.

Charles Lamb Dowden, lately an actor at Sadler's-
wells Theatre, was brought up, having been reman-
ded,and uttering several bits
of exchange, purporting to be drawn on Mr. Thomas
charged with forging
Hagger, and accepted by him.
The prisoner was the nephew of the person whose
name had been forged. In March last the prisoner
called on Mr. Edward Wells, who keeps an inn near
to Sadler's-wells Theatre, and asked him to cash an
order for 91. His uncle, he said, allowed him so
much a year, but as his uncle's pension would not be
due for a few days, he had allowed the prisoner to
draw upon him at a short date. Upon this represent-
ation, the witness cashed the order. When it had
run out he presented it for payment at the address
mentioned in the order, but it was dishonoured, as no
such person as Thomas Hagger lived there. Upon
this he went to the Surrey Theatre, where the pri-
soner had been engaged, and there saw him, and told
him that the order had been dishonoured. Upon this
the prisoner expressed his astonishment, and said he
would take up the order in the course of the day.
He did not do so, and the witness heard nothing of
him until he was taken into custody.
There were several other cases of a precisely simi-
lar nature against the prisoner.
The old man, the uncle of the prisoner, whose
name he had forged, is upwards of ninety years of
age, and is bedridden, having been ill for a consider-
able time.

Mr. TWYFORD remanded the prisoner until next
Friday, in order that he might attend at the old man's
bedside to take his deposition. It is, however, much
feared that the old man will not survive until the day.
The prisoner was then committed on the several
charges of forgery, but was ordered to be brought up
again on Friday next.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
A MEMBER OF THE Tuar.—George Martin, alias
Toby, a powerful man; who called himself a jockey
and gentlemen's bet-maker, was summoned before
Mr. Hardwick, for having cruelly beaten Richard
Parrott.
The parties lodged at No. 14, Shepherd's-market,
where SOME differences occurred between them.
About six weeks ago the defendant attacked the com-
plainant outside of the house, about half-past twelve
o'clock at night, knocked him down, broke his leg,
and hammered his head against the pavement. The
landlord of the house came out, and succeeded in put-
ting a stop to this ruffianly attack by seizing the de-
fendant by the throat and dragging him out. While
the complainant was resting on a step of the door, the
defendant rushed at him and renewed his violence.
The bystanders interfered, and the complainant was
protected from further injury. As it was discovered
that the complainant's leg was broken he was re-
moved to the hospital, where he has been confined
ever since.
The landlord of the house, named Rowe, corrobo-
rated the statement of the ferocious violence displayed
by the defendant towards the complainant.
In reply to the charge, the defendant said he had
been jockey boy in the service of the Duke of Cleve-
land and afterwards of the Earl of Pembroke. Re-
cently he had picked up a living by going about for
gentlemen to see horses entered for the different races,
and to form a judgment of their chance of winning.
If bets were won on information which he furnished
them, he received a gratuity ; if they were lost he re-
ceived nothing. With respect to the assault, a gnar-
croelmhpali
had occurred,
got the
rred,andwaorfis.gtht had ensued, in which the
l
Mr. HARDWICK said nothing could be more cowardly
and
plainant's head on the pavement after he had broken
unmanly than for the defendant to beat the com-
his leg. He should inflict a fine of 4/. for the assault,
or six weeks' imprisonment.
CAUTION TO HOTEL-
KEEPERS.—MF. Dick, pro-
prietor of the Blue Posts Hotel, Haymarket, was
summoned by the police for having his house open
after the hour prescribed by the Act of Parliament.
Police-constable Gray proved that he went into
the defendant's house at twenty minutes past twelve
o'clock on Saturday night, and found three persons,
men and women, taking refreshment at the bar.
He went up stairs and found several other persons
having supper.
Mr. Dick said he was willing to admit the cor-
rectness of the statement of the police. His house
was an hotel, and frequented by company of respec-
tability. Parties who attended the Opera, after the
performance repaired to his house for supper and
refreshment. As the utmost decorum and propriety

were observed, he really thought some little indul-
gence ought to be extended towards him.
The police admitted that the parties in the house
appeared to be persons of respectability.
Mr. HARDWICK said the public might possibly
suffer some inconvenience in not having the means of
procuring refreshment after the performances of the
theatre ; but the Act was peremptory, and he was
bound to put it' in force. If an indulgence was ex-
tended to well-conducted houses, other houses not so
well-conducted would claim the same privilege, and
thus the very evil which the Legislature sought to
remedy would be created to a great extent.
The fine of 20s. was then inflicted.
The next case was against M. Duliourg, the well-
known restaurateur, in the Haymarket.
The evidence was similar to the previous case, and
the penalty was the same.
Mr. Baker, the late superintendent of the C division,
accompanid by Mr. Beresford, the new superinten-
dent, came into Court, and, addressing Mr. Hard-
wick, begged to be allowed, on his retirement from
the police, to express his grateful thanks for the
kindness and assistance he had invariably met with
from every Magistrate who had sat on the bench, and
to beg for a continuance of the same advantages to
his successor.

Mr. llAnnwicx said he was pleased at the oppor-
tunity of expressing his satisfaction at the respect
and attention which the officers of the police had in-
variably paid to the suggestions of the bench. Such
a good understanding was calculated to render the
administration of the law by Magistrates more secure
and more respected, and at the same time to add to
the efficiency and the respectability of the police force.
The parties then retired.
UNION-HALL.

Yesterday Sarah Bagley, who it will be recollected
assumed the dress of a sailor to accompany a young
midshipman to sea, and who was charged with having
absconded from home, taking a quantity of clothes
and also some money belonging to her father, a letter-
sorter in the Post-office, was again brought before
Mr. Cottingham, having been remanded from Wed-
nesday, in order to have inquiries made with a view
of discovering her paramour.
The girl's father said that she still maintained the
same silence with respect to giving any information
as to the person who inveigled her from home, as she
did on the former occasion ; the only circumstance
she divulged being that he was a midshipman in the
navy, but as to what ship he belonged she refused to
tell. He added that he was willing to overlook all
that had occurre 1, if she promised never again to
assume the disguise of the other sex ; that he had a
comfortable home for her, and that he and her mother
would receive her with open arms.
Mr. COTTINGIIAM in vain endeavoured to extract
from the girl the reason of her having quitted home
under such extraordinary circumstances, and he pro-
ceeded to put several questions as to her acquaintance
with the man whom she said, on the last occasion
when she was brought up, had promised her a berth
on board his ship to go up the Mediterranean.
She said in reply, that she went to Dover with him,
and that he took her on board his ship, which was
lying in the docks there, and that she walked on board,
and that he was called " Ned " by his shipmates ; that
when she returned on shore, he took her into a pub-
lic-house, desiring her to wait for him, but he never
returned, and she was obliged to make the best of her
way back to London ; that she afterwards met him in
town, when he promised to take her to Italy, and
marry her, and she prepared to go with him in the
garb of a sailor, to work her passage, and to make
him fulfil his vows when they got to the end of their
voyage.
Mr. COTTINGHAM said that he now believed the
accused had been telling a great many falsehoods, for
it was absurd to suppose that there were men-of-war
lying in the dock at Dover; that she had prevaricated
a good deal in her story, and that he supposed she
was anxious to make a noise and excite the astonish-
ment of people by acting in the manner she had dohe.
She must get rid of the romantic nonsense which was
floating in her brain of her inclination to act the part
of a heroine in followingher lover in disguise to Italy,
and instead of reading such balderdash as she was in
the habit of doing, attend to her domestic affairs —to
stop at home at the house of her father, who was a
respectable man, and held a responsible situation, in-
stead of playing the fool, which would assuredly end
in her destruction. The Magistrate, having cautioned
her as to her future conduct, consented to liberate her
on her promise to accompany her parents home, to
which she agreed : and she was accordingly given up
to them, and they left the Court, she having pre-
viously doffed the sailor's togs and dressed herself in
her own clothes.

HAMMERSMITH.

ROBBERY Or THE WINDSOR COACll.—Yesterday
a respectably dressed young man, named Frederick
Fleming, described as an omnibus conductor, was
brought up before Mr. G. Clive, the sitting Magis-
trate, in the custody of police-constable Puddiford, T
127, charged on suspicion of having been concerned,
with two others not in custody, in stealing a port-
manteau and a box containing jewellery and other
property, to the value of nearly 2001., from Stacey's
Windsor coach, on the Bth instant, at Kensington.
Evidence having been given to show that the pri-
soner was the only outside passenger when the coach
stopped at Kensington, that he was seen in a sus-
picious position there while the coachman was setting
down a lady, and that the portmanteau had dis-
appeared,

The prisoner, in answer to the charge, protested
his entire innocence. He was, he said, the brother of
the proprietor of the Chertsey and Chobham coach,
with which he came up on the day in question to
Kew-bridge, but it there became very heavily loaded,
and he got off and came up by the Windsor coach.
Mr. Crave said the case was one of strong sus-
picion. It would be necessary to have the attendance
of Mrs. Batchelor ; for which purpose, and to give
time for further inquiry, he should remand the pri-
soner until Thursday next.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
Quarterly Average of the Weekly Liabilities and Assets of
the Bank of England, from the 18th day of May, 1844,
to the 10th day of August, 1844, both inclusive, published
pursuant to the Act 3 and 4 Will. IV., cap. 98.
LIABILITIES. ASSETS.
Circulation .......£21,324,000 Securities £22,908,000
Deposits ... 14,090,000 Bullion

£35,414,000
11, Downing-street, Aug. 1

£38,487,000

;, 1844.

GAME.—(From a Hampshire Correspondent.)—
There has not been known for very many years past so
much game as has been already noticed in the different
districts of this sporting county. In the various walks
of the New Forest, more especially throughout the fir
plantations of Denny, Iron-hill, the Nodes, and Ashurst,
black game is most abundant, which circumstance may
be attributed to the very favourable state of the late
breeding season, as well as to the great profusion of
whortle• berries produced this year, upon which produc-
tions the young poults of the tetrao genus chiefly feed.
Hares and pheasants in the above royal preserve
are proportionably numerous. Should his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert make any stay in the Isle of Wight
this season, it is generally believed that it is his inten-
tion to make the New Forest the principal scene of his
sporting operations. In the more open and champaign
districts, particularly around Andover, the coveys ap-
pear remarkably strong, and probably partridges were
seldom known to have proved more numerous in these
parts than they are observed to be this year. The land-
rail (or, as the farmers style it in this quarter, the corn-
crake), which is a migratory summer visitant, is un-
usually plentiful at present, and a few coveys of quail
have been repeatedly of late trodden upon on the slopes
of the uplands. On the whole, the most encouraging
prospects are held out to the sportsman this season
throughout every part of this fine sporting county.
INTEIIESTING RELlC.—Arthe 'Conference of the
Wesleyan body, now sitting at Birmingham, the ex-
President, before quitting the chair, made an interest-
ing statement. He held in his hand a small pocket
Bible, which, with its case, had belonged to Mr. Wes-
ley, and which Mr. Wesley had been accustomed to use
in his field and out-door preaching. It was printed by
Deane, and was given by Mr. Wesley, in the year 1789,
to the late Rev. Henry Moore, who, in his will, be-
queathed it to the Methodist Conference, to bo kept by
the President for the time being. It is supposed to be
the same Bible which the artist had before him when he
painted the likeness of the venerable founder of Metho-
dism, kept in the Chapel-house, City-road. Some dif-
ference in the apparent size will be observable, but that
is attributahle to its having been rebound ; and this
became necessary in Mr. Wesley's lifetime, from the
frequent use which that devoted man made of it. It is
almost needless to say, that the Conference most cor-
dially accepted this interesting bequest.—Doncaster
Gazette.

MUSICAL TOURS.—The following will be found a
pretty correct sketch of the intended tours through the
provinces by various singers and instrumentalists :
Grisi, Favanti, Mario, and F. Lablache, will take the
midland and northern counties, and they will also visit
Dublin. Persiani, Orsini, Salvi, Puzzi, and Fornasari,
will proceed westwards, taking Bath, &c., in their route;
they give two concerts at Cheltenham next week. Si-
vori, Miss Lucombe, Miss S. Flower, Mrs. C. Harper,
and Lavenu, are traversing Kent and Sussex, and they
will pay a visit to the eastern counties. De Meyer,
with the Misses Williams and Mr. Hayward will take
Manchester and that neighbourhood. Mr. John Parry
is engaged to sing at the Theatres Royal Bristol and
Liverpool, also at several of the principal towns of South
Wales ; he will join the Persiani party at Bath, on the
28th instant. Mr. Wilson goes east, west, north, and
south, and finds a welcome everywhere; he was so hoarse
at the Burns Festival that he could not sing a note. Mr.
IL Phillips starts this day, we believe, for America,
with a view of giving his vocal entertainments, which
cannot fail of pleasing Brother Jonathan. —Dramatic
and Musical Review.

THE EMPEROR OF MOROCCO.—The present Em •
peror of Morocco was originally a merchant in Moga-
dore, and the previous Emperor bequeathed the crown
to him in preference to his son, who was a scapegrace.
That very son is now with Abd.el-Kader, and should the
Emperor not proclaim the " Holy War" at once, Abd-
el-Kader will proclaim this son the rightful heir to the
throne, and will place him there. The Emperor is,
therefore, in a cleft stick, and has no help in the matter

ROBERT BURNS.
'We have been favoured by a friend with the fol-
lowing extract from the original letter, of which he is
in possession, and addressed to Mr. Nicol, of the
High School, Edinburgh, well known as a staunch
friend of the poet. The post mark is " Mauchline":—
" I don't know how my farm may turn out, but I
shall fairly put it to trial. If it should not do, I
won't struggle with a ruinous bargain, but betake
myself to my excise business, as I have got my in-
structions, past trials, &c., and have no more to do
than ask employment from the Board.
"My present design is to inform you, that I have
left with the carrier from Mauchlin to Edinburgh, a
small cheese of last year's produce, which I hope will
do no dishonour to Ayrshire. You will please ac-
cept of it as a small acknowledgment for those obliga-
tions, which the world, so far from imitating,-would
scarcely believe were Ito tell them. I propose it as
an annual tribute, which, my dearest Sir, you must
allow me to tax myself with while I am a farmer.
My best compliments to Mrs. Nicol, little Nod, and
all the family. Would to God, Sir, that instead of
this lame, dull epistle, I could send you a transcript
of my glowing heart .. „I think of you ! Louis
Cauvin, noble exception to the general doctrine of
original sin, remember me to him. Mr. Vair, too,
please give him my compliments.
"O, Mr. Nicol, can time ever extinguish the glow-
ing remembrance of you in my bosom! The idea of
your uncommon abilities may dissipate a little in com-
parison, but where, except surrounding the Fountain
of Goodness, shall I find a heart equal to yours!—
Adieu. ROBERT BURNS.
—Caledonian Mercury.

COMMISSION OF THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY.

(From the Caledonian Mercury.)
The second quarterly meeting of the Commission
was held in the Assembly Hall yesterday, at twelve
o'clock—Principal Lee, moderator, in the chair.