The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-25 00:00:00

- The trial of Captain Jennings, charged with slave-
trading, has been again postponed at the request of the
prosecutor in consequence of the absence of a material
witness. Cooper and Weston, the two men who robbed
a house in the Waterloo• road, under the pretence that
they were police-officers come to search it under a war-
rant, were convicted at the Central Criminal Court be-
fore the Recorder, but judgment was not pronounced.
Amelia SMith, aged 23, and Eleanor Stanton, 43, were
convicted in the New Court for feloniously taking and
detaining a male child, aged eight weeks, with intent to
defraud the parents of the possession of the said child,
and were each sentenced to be transported for seven years.
A young man named William Chivers, a native of
Aberdeen, was charged at the Guildhall with collecting
charitable contributions by false pretences. The pri-
soner had represented himself as a draper's assistant out
of employ, who bad just come up from Aberdeen in
search of a situation, and collections had been made for
him by the assistants in several shops. His statement,
upon enquiry being made, turned out to be false, and'he
was given into custody. Mr. Alderman Hughes re-
manded the prisoner till Saturday, to see if any further
charges would be preferred against him.
At Clerkenwell, John Baker, proprietor and driver of
an omnibus, badge 4,018, and William Webster, driver
of another Islington omnibus, badge 7,836, charged with
furious driving and endangering the lives of her Majesty's
subjects, were fined 31. each and costs.
Caroline Berry and Elizabeth Phasey, charged with
having been concerned in stealing a quantity of jewellery,
&c., the property of John Goldie, Esq., 39, Baker-street,
Portman-square, was fully committed from Marylebone.
At Worship-street Eliz Jaeth Ford, a girl 16 years of
age, was charged with having attempted to commit sui-
cide at a house of ill-fame in a notorious locality, called
the Vinegar-ground, City-road. The unfortunate crea-
ture stated that her father was a typefotunler, living at
Pentonville. That about 14 months ago she had been
seduced and deserted, and that she was in such a horrible
state of disease and misery, that she had taken poison to
put an end to her sufferings. It appeared that the poison
had been removed by the stomach-pump, and the magis-
trate directed that she should be sent to St. Thomas's
Hospital.
Win. Saunders and Mathew Crowley, charged with
endangering the lives of her Majesty's subjects, by
furiously driving in the parish of Charlton, Kent, were
each fined 40s. and costs at Woolwich. _

A boy named John Jackson, charged with steal-
ing a flute and a silver snuff-box from the shop of Mr.
John Clay, a surgeon, of No. 85, Jubilee-street, Stepney,
was fully committed from the Thames Police-court. Mr.
Clay caught the prisoner as he was leaving the shop with
the flute sticking out of his pocket.
At the Uxbridge Petty Sessions, Mr. John Coles, pro-
prietor and driver of the Thame (Oxon) and London
omnibus, appeared before Messrs. Dagnall, Clark, and
Mills, the sitting magistrates, to answer a summons,
charging him with cruelty to a horse. The defendant
had driven the horse while it had a raw place on its
shoulder. He was fined 20s.