The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-19 00:00:00

THAMES POLICE.

Joseph Morris, the proprietor of several tenements
in Stepney, was charged with assaulting a poor wo-
man named Mary Pearson, who resided in one of his
houses. It appeared that the prisoner had sent a
broker into complainant's house a few days since,
under a distress warrant for rent, and sold all she
had. He came the next day, and finding that some
charitable persons had given her a chair and some
blankets, he attacked her and beat her, and endea-
voured to force her out of the house.

One of the complainant's neighbours proved the
assault, and said the prisoner had also flourished a
chair over her head in a menacing manner.
The prisoner, who seemed as subservient to power
as he had been tyrannous to poverty, interlarded his ad-
dress to the Magistrate with your Reverence, your
Lordship, and even your Majesty, said the com-
plainant owed him three-quarter' rent, and after the
furniture had been taken from the house the key
was given to him. On the next day, however, the
woman, he found, had taken possession again, and he
certainly did try to force her out.
Complainant said she was out at the time her goods
were taken, and when she returned home the found
everything gone.
Mr. BALLANTINE fined the prisoner 405., or in de-
fault he was to be imprisoned three weeks.
The prisoner for some time refused to pay the fine,
until he saw the cell door open, when he thought it
better to produce the money.
UNION-HALL.

On Friday 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 thatshe 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. COTTING HAM 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 done•
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 following her 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 ni
her own clothes.

Richard Mullett was brought up on remand for
stealing a horse, chaise, and harness, belonging to
Mr. Davis, livery-stable keeper, Blackfriars-road.
Henry Jordan, carrier, said that the prisoner had
for some days been driving about Woodford with a
dashing female whom he called his wife, and had put
up the horse and gig at his stables. He said he had
come down to enjoy the scenery of the forest, but
offered him, on a subsequent day, the gig for 51.,
saying he was short of money, and that the gig was
worth 161. Mr. Brood, a coach-maker of Woodford,
to whom he introduced him, asked him if 3/. would
do, which he agreed to accept, and gave him a receipt
for the amount, signed "R. Mullens." The prisoner
then accompanied Mr. Jordan's servant to Stratford,
who pawned the harness for him for 2/. The horse
was, subsequently, offered by him to Mr. Jordan,
who suspecting the circumstances, gave information
to the police. The sergeant found him and his pre-
sumed wife in bed at Woodford, and on being told of
the charge against him, he replied, " What's to pay ?"
He was then taken into custody.
A second charge of felony was brought against him
by Mr. Kerslake, stationer, of Vauxhall, whose lodg-
ings he had plundered of fifteen volumes of novels
and other property, having rented the rooms only
four weeks. He had disposed of the articles to pawn"
brokers in the vicinity, and all the cases were sub-
stantiated.
A plea of monomania was set up by counsel on his
behalf.
The AIAGISTRATE said this was a very fashionable
custom at the present day to aid every criminal of re-
spectability, but the jury would judge of the case-
He was then fully committed to the Central Cr"
minal Court on both charges.
George Walters, cabman, and Thomas Taylor, Iv
bourer were brought up on remand for driving
furiously over Mrs. Mary Ann Rees, the wife of a
compositor, in Webber-row, by which her life Wee
endangered.
Mr. Rees stated that the surgeon had now Pro"
nounced his wife out of danger, but that she would
remain a cripple for life. He ha 1 been at the expense
of a nurse, and two medical men, and it would yet be
a long while before she could venture down stairs.
Walters, in a ruffianly manner, said, that Mrs. El
after the accident was in the office on Thursday, an
the complainant only sought to make property °

them. -
Mr. Rees denied that statement ; his wife had r
been even out of bed since the accident, except a fell
minutes, when she fainted away.
The MAGISTRATE said they were evidently Breat
ruffians, and as they viewed the case in that light'
and supported it by a false hood, he should order 117'3
ters to pay 3/. for the damage, and a fine of 2/. it"'
with expenses, and Taylor to pay 2/. 10s., or to ""
imprisoned for one month with hard labour.
They were then both locked up.

THE VICTORY.—We are requested to state 010
the new naval novel, The Victory, or The Ward fleg,
Mess, by M. 11. Barker, Esq., " The Old Sailor,
published this day by Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlbo.
rough-street, and may now be had at all the libraries'
Mr. Colburn has also just published the following P°llll{
lar novels :—Parsons and Widows, by the authorle
" Peter Priggins"—The Wilfulness of Woman, by wo
authoress of " The History of a Flirt"—Hyde arstophe
Sporting Novel, by "Craven"—Whitefriars; t
Days of Charles the Second, an Historical RoraEolheen
third edition. The following are just ready :----Art-e
Arundel, a Tale of the English Revolution, by -01 be
Smith, Esq., author of " Brambletye House,' and the
Roman Traitor, a True Tale of the Republic, bf, txe.
author of "Oliver Cromwell," "Marmaduke

MARRIED. .e,lo ra
On the 12th inst., at the British Embas.y Paris, -o'-i,at r
John Woollett, Esq., of Rouen, to Marianne' , 'second datig'—e
ofJohn Arthur, Esq., late of Vernon, France. Col
On the 14th inst., at St. Martin's-in- the-Fields, no
pher Francis Holmes, Esq., Captain is the Army, to -412
Anisa, second daughter of Mr. Harding, Braintree, E.,55,_ef.t,' of
On the 14th inst., at St. Pancras, Mr. William Gu'Ver of
Steward-street, Spitalfields, to Mary Ann, eldest dang""
R. B. Clarke, Esq., of Gower-street, New-road.
On the 14th inst., at Hampstead,SylviaWest
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daughter of Major Bull, of York House, to Don ass!.
Antonio Chixhorro de Gamo o onford, Portlaylf,
On the 15th inst., at Hampton, Captainp Wentworth
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Madras Grenadiers, to Harriet, third daughter of the leLe
Ambrose Hardinge Giffard, Chief Justice of__:CeYl°

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On the 13th inst., at Leamington, Lady Anne E_ruz„B,oo,
Montagu Scott, eldest daughter of the late Charles iv i'"
Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry. ff.
On the 14th inst., Isabella Wright,the daughter o
Miss
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ironmonger, Hammersmith-gate, aged 21. .„,,..,in,
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On the 15th inst., Samuel Luck Kent,
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the infant daughter of J. D. Mullens. v- worth'
On the 13th inst., at the Rectory House of .e&eg
On the 16th inst., Thomas William
Leicestershire, Mrs. Rachel Wilson, aged 37. or the
Tyndale, Esq.,
Middle Temple, barrister.

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Middlesex, llionday, August 19, 1844.

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