The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-02 00:00:00

M. Williams' bell-hangers, Birmingham—T. Jones and
J. Davies, drapers, Chester—S. L. Samuels and J.
Engel, umbrella manufacturers, Little Alie-street,
Goodman's-fields 11. Lea and J. Wells, machine
makers, Bradford, Yorkshire—W. and H. Jupp, corn
merchants, Old Brentford—H. Combe, J. Delafield, and
W. Delafield, Castle-street, Long-acre (so far as regards
W. Delafield and J. Ward, as executors toJ. Delefield)—
W. J. Vernon and W. R. King. type founders, Newcas-
tle-street, Strand—E. Forster, E. Forster, jun., and.J.
Forster, grocers, Colchester (so far as regards J.
Forster)—M. Ford and M. Tyler, shopkeepers, Wiclewar,
Gloucestershire—W. Tarbotton, R. Tarbotton, and J. C.
Tarbotton, curriers, Hull (so far as regards J. C. Tar-
botton)—T. Colven and J. Smith, bricklayers, Counter-
street, Borough—E. G. Bray, T. G. Bray, and A. G.
Bray, masons, Petertavy, Devonshire—B. Palmer and
B. Adams, ironforgers, Birmingham—J. W. and R. J.
Ryder, pawnbrokers, Devonport—G. Henderson and W.
Hole, drapers, Totnes, Devonshire—E. Neal, T. Neal,
and J. Neal, wine merchants, Tonbridge-wells (so far as
regards E. Neal)—W. Lacomber and J. Thyer, cabinet
makers, Manchester—G. Topham and M. A. Jones,
straw hat manufacturers, St. Alban's—Jh. and Js. Uns-
worth, farmers, Pemberton, Lancashire—H. Cowie and
J. P. Hall, jun., ship brokers, Liverpool—H. Pinhorn
and J. Strachan, tailors, Southampton—J. Merson and
T. Wright, jun., linendrapers, St. Helen's, Lancashire
—R. V. Moyse and G. Cork, cattle salesmen, West
Smithfield—T. Cornfield and F. Rodbard, schoolmasters,
Dorking—J. W. C. Walker and T. Martin, attorneys-
at-law, Southampton.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.
JOHN GRAHAME, wine merchant, Edinburgh,
Nov. 6 and Dec. 2, at twelve, at the chambers of R.
Deuchar, Edinburgh.

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the
week ending Oct. 29, 1844, is 31s. 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.
Francis Patrick 11PDerinot, one of the City police-
men, was brought before Sir John Pirie upon the
charge of having been the confederate of a thief in
robbing a gentleman.
Mr. Timothy Jones, of No. 8, Racquet-eourt,
Fleet-street, stated that on Monday last, at about
half-past eleven o'clock at night, he went into the
Burton Coffee-house, in Cheapside. He was cer-
tainly excited at the time, and a man, who appeared
to be a Jew, asked him to drink. As witness was
leaving the place, the person who asked him to drink
was waiting for him, and struck him. The blow was
repeated, and the assailant followed witness and con-
tinued his violent conduct. Witness missed his
watch, and his stick was also lost in the
scuffle which took place. Witness went to the
defendant, and pointing to the person who had
acted so outrageously, requested him to take
the offender into custody. The defendant refused to
take the man into custody, and witness then said he
was determined to go to the station-house and report
the case. He accordingly reported the case at the
station-house, and the defendant was sent for, but
there was some difficulty in finding him, and indeed
he was not found at all ; but when witness was going
to the station-house he saw the person who had as-
saulted and robbed him and the defendant speaking
together, and a woman was following them.
Sir JOHN PIRIE —Had you been drinking? Wit-
ness replied that he had been drinking, but he knew
what he had been about. The stick produced and the
knob to it was his property.
Inspector Waller stated, that at six o'clock in the
morning of the night of the robbery he was on duty
at the Bow-lane station, and, in consequence of
information which he had received, he called the de-
fendant into his room, and asked him if he had heard
about the robbery. The defendant said he did know
of it. Witness said to him, "Do you know anything
about the stick the gentleman had ?" He replied that
he did, and that it must be there. Witness said it
could not be there, as the thief had not been there;
and then the stick dropped from his clothes, and he
went into another room to be searched, and the knob
of the stick was found upon him.
Henry John Teague, policeman No. 402, stated
that he requested the defendant to produce the pro-
perty, and the defendant went into another room with
him, and pretended to feel about; he lifted up his
trousers, and pulled it out of his boot.
David Smith, policeman No. 482, stated that about
half-past one o'clock he saw the defendant talking to
a prostitute, and he afterwards saw her give him the
stick, and the defendant gave him (witness) the stick.
Witness sent the female away because the defendant
said she was a prostitute. As soon as she went away
witness saw defendant screw off the knob and put it
in his pocket, and the defendant offered him the stick
to take home to his children without the knob, and
witness refused it.
Sir JOHN Plain asked the prosecutor whether he
had any doubt upon his mind that he pointed out the
person who had robbed him to the defendant, and that
the defendant had refused to take that party into cus-
tody ?—Mr. Jones said there was not the least doubt
of the correctness of both statements. He distinctly saw
the man who bad robbed him and the defendant
walking together, and in conversation, towards the
Post- office.

Sir Joust PIRIE—WeII, defendant, what have
you to say in answer to this charge ? Defendant
—Well, Sir, I allow I acted wrong. I know
it was all wrong, but I had been out and drink-
ing a great deal, and I didn't know what I was about.
The fact is, I thought it was a mere row the gentle-
man got into, and I thought it would be better for
him to go home and drop it. I know I have acted
against the regulations of the force, but I was tipsy,
and I am willing to give my own watch to the com-
plainant in the place of the one he lost.
Sir J. PIRIE—Your conduct has been most atro-
cious, but I regret to say there is not evidence enough
to justify me in sending yeu to the Old Bailey. That
you have been a confederate to the robbery I have not
the slightest doubt.
The defendant—l know it was all bad—all wrong,
my Lord ; but I was tipsy, I assure you.
Sir J. PIRIE—You must go to Bridewell, as a
rogue and vagabond, for a month, and of course you
will have nothing more to do with the police.
The defendant was then committed to Bridewell.
WORSHIP-STREET.
William Bear, a schoolmaster, in Brick-lane, Spi-
talfields, was charged with having most cruelly treated
one of his pupils, a little boy, nine years of age, named
Crowe.
The substance of the little fellow's evidence (which,
from his extreme youth, was naturally rather imper-
fect) was, that while cleaning his slate with his hand
in the school-room, on Thursday week, the master,
without uttering a word of remonstrance, came be-
hind him and cut him a great number of times across
the head and ears with a thick cane. On the next
day, in consequence of his having soiled his own
brother's book, the defendant kept him in until all
the rest of the scholars had left the school but three
of them, whom the defendant ordered to stop for the
purpose, and then almost stripped the child, and whilst
the three boys held him to prevent his making any
resistance, beat him very severely all over his back
with four canes tied together so as to resemble a rod.
He complained of suffering great pain from the in-
fliction of the punishment, and, his person still exhi-
bited traces of the extreme violence that had been
exercised towards him.
The child's father (Police-constable 70 stated,
that on coming off duty, at ten o'clock on the night
of Thursday week, he heard the child, who was in
bed, breathing very hard and groaning loudly, in
consequence of which he examined him, and was ac-
quainted with the treatment he had received from his
master. Pulling down the bedclothes, he found the
whole of the child's back, from the shoulders to the
feet, so shockingly scarified that it resembled a piece
of raw meat, the canes having completely cut into
the flesh. His wife urged him to take summary re-
taliation upon the master, but he resolved, instead,
upon bringing him to this Court ; and it being at that
time very late, and having to go on duty again early
the next morning, he saw nothing more of the child
until he returned home the next (Friday) night, at
nine o'clock. On entering the room he found the
child's face and neck completely covered with blood,
owing, as he said, to the violent usage he had again
sustained from his master; and on examining his
person he found that one of his ears had been nearly
cut through, and that there were several other ter-
rible cuts about his head and face.- The injuries were
so severe, that witness was obliged to seek the assist-
ance of a medical person, who prescribed lotions ;
but although these were applied, the child continued
very restless, and could not sleep for three continu-
ous nights.
The defendant gave the child a very bad character,
said he had smeared his own and another boy's books
(as defendant thought) intentionally, and he con-
sidered that he was only doing his parents a service
by correcting him. He was not aware that he had
cut the boy in the4back in the manner described, and
declared that it must have been accidental, while the
child was trying to screen himself from the other
blows. On the second occasion he made the other
boys hold him to prevent the child's kicking them,
and that punishment was inflicted with a rod, is the
usual way, and not with the four canes, as the child
stated. He concluded Nsith an appeal to the magis-
trate, saying that he was a married man himself, and
had children of his own.
To contradict the defendant's statement, Mr. Bryer,
an officer of the Court, and Fitzgerald, one of the
warrant officers, were examined ; the former said the
boy was cut all over his hack, from the shoulders to
the loins, and that a great deal more violence had
been used than was at all propel- for so young a child.
'he latter stated that the father of the child had
stripped him for his inspection in one of the cells
attached to the Court, and that he found the child
" scored, from the bladehone all down the thighs,"
The injuries had certainly been inflicted with canes.
and .....,11/Ir. --11'''';iighton, who sat
and not with a rod;
when the-s against the defendant was applied