The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-27 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

At the Central -Criminal Court, Henry Brown, 41,
Emma Brown, 16, and Elizabeth Jones, 23, were in-
dicted for feloniously making counterfeit shillings and
sixpences, and also for having in their possession moulds
calculated to make counterfeit coin. They were all con-
victed, and Mr. Baron Gurney sentenced the male pri-
soner and Elizabeth Jones to be transported for twelve
years ; and Emma Brown was ordered to be kept to hard
labour for six months.
Thomas Corby was indicted for feloniously forging an
acceptance to a bill of exchange for 6/., with intent to
defraud William Franks. The jury found him not
guilty, as it appeared that the acceptor had authorised the
prisoner to use his name, and the acceptor's wife had
received a portion of the proceeds of the bill.
The Recorder sat in the New Court, where John
Mullett, convicted of horse stealing, was sentenced to
be transported for ten years.
A domestic servant, named Elizabeth Hughes, was
convicted of robbing her master, and sentenced to be
imprisoned for a year. In passing sentence, the Re-
corder remarked upon the great number of cases of rob-
bery by domestic servants in the calendar, a crime which
must be suppressed by the intervention of the law.
William Fisher, convicted of stealing a pipe of port
wine, the property of his employer, was sentenced to fif-
teen years' trankportation.
John Riley, a lighterman, aged 20, for stealing 38 gal-
lons of brandy, on the sth of August instant, the property
of the East and West India Company, was sentenced to
be transported for ten years.
A the evening sittings, before Mr. Commissioner
Bullock, Mary Ann Smith, aged 20, and Charlotte Wil-
liams, alias Mary Ann Smith, were convicted of stealing
35 handkerchiefs, value 405., the property of Elizabeth
Knox, there being a former conviction against Williams.
The jury found them guilty, and the Court ordered
Smith to be confined for six month, and Williams, other-
wise Smith, to be transported for seven years.
Harriet Thomas, a young woman who has frequen t ly been
in custody, was committed from Guildhall by Mr. Alder-
man Brown, charged with stealing a diamond pin from
Mr. Gray, a merchant, of Dublin. She had snatched the
pin from his breast on Ludgate-hill. Mr. Gray wished
her to be summarily punished, but the Magistrate re-
fused, and bound Mr. Gray over to prosecute.
A very respectably-dressed man, habited in full blaCk,
and white cravat, and who gave the name of Frederick
Grosjean, a tailor and draper, living at 99, Quadrant,
was brought before Mr. Hall, the chief magistrate, at
Bow-street, charged with having caused an obstruction
in front of St. Paul's church, Covent-garden, by collect.
ing a crowd, and refusing to withdraw when requested
by the police. The defendant, who had attracted a crowd
by preaching in front of the church, was admonished
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J ail Smith was convicted from Clerkenwell on seve-
ral charges of robbing furnished lodgings.
At Queen-square, John Jones, a labouring man, was
charged with wilfully breaking one of the gas lamps in
Marsham street, Westminster. The defendant, who had
been refused a night's lodging at the station-house and
' at the workhouse, said he was two hundred miles from
home, and had not tasted food for two days, and being
unab'e longer to walk the streets, had broken the lamps
in the constable's presence, in order to be taken up. Mr.
Burrell said that persons could not be allowed, because
they were in distress, to destroy the property of the
parish contractor, which offence subjected him to a
penalty of 51. Defendant must pay 7s. 6d., the amount
of damage, or be imprisone I fur ten days. The man
apea red very thankful, and was locked up.
Several vendors of fruit and toys were fined for ob-
structing the Knightsbridge foot pavement, by placing
their baskets thereon.
Mary Anne Jones was remanded from Marylebone, on
a charge of having " stolen" a silk umbrella, the property
of Miss Maria Louisa Riviere, the proprietress of a
school for young ladies, at 25, George-street, Camden-
town. The prisoner had called at the school on a rainy
day, and stated her intention of placing two young ladies
there, and on her departure had borrowed an umbrella,
which, it is needless to say, Was never returned, and the
address which she had given Miss Riviere could not be
found.
John Blake, John Rogers, and Sarah Smith, charged
with having been concerned in stealing furniture, &c., to
a considerable amount, the property of Mr. John Dyke,
Park-place, Padding-ton-green, were remanded.
At Lambeth-street, Saul Fichell, a German Jew, was
charged with robbing his employer, Mr. Adolphus Lip-
man, outfitter, 86, Pearson-street, Ratcliff highway, of
one gold and nine silver watches, value 351. The pri-
soner owned having taken. the watches, and said he was
instigated to it by a person who was a notorious coiner,
in Rosemary-lane. lie was remanded to give time for
the apprehension of his accomplice.
A respectable-looking man, who gave his name Chas.
Stevens, but which, it is known, is a fictitious name, was
committed, from Worship-street, for one month, . for
having deserted his wife.
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Me serimondsey, was charged with embezzling
several sums of money from his employers, and was
remanded.
George Bonchee, a member of the swell mob, was
charged before Mr. Broderip, at the Thames Office, with
assaulting Mrs. Elizabeth Cook, a lady residing at Mus-
well-hill, Hornsey, with intent to commit a felony. The
prisoner had attempted to pick her pocket on board one
of the railway Gravesend steamers. A policeman said
that robberies had been very frequent among the pas-
sengers in the steamers between London and Gravesend,
and the swell mob took advantage of the crowded state
of those vessels occasioned by the cheap fares. He was
committed.

CO trILT-r.asasorcem Zan.
The Prince of Prussia, upon his visit to the York race-
course on Thursday, was received at the Grand Stand by
the Marquis of Normanby, vs.'lio accompanied his Royal
Highness on to the course, and subsequently partook of
a dejoiner with the Prince, at the residence of General
Brotherton, the commanding officer of the troops sta-
tioned in that city.
The Earl and Countess of Wilton have been entertain-
ing during the past fortnight a distinguished party at
their villa residence, Binstead, near Ryde, amongst whom
may be mentioned the Hereditary Grand Duke of
Mecklenburgh Strelitz, the Duke and Duchess of Beau-
fort, and Lady Augusta Somerset, Baron Nieumann,
Lord and Lsdy Robert Grosvenor, Lord and Lady Ash-
ley, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, the Countess of Jersey,
and Lady Clementina Villiers, Lord Charles Manners,
&c. The Noble Earl and Countess are going to Bad-
minton next week on a visit to the Duke and Duchess
of Beaufort, to meet the Prince of Prussia and a select

party.
The Earl of Yarborough and the loading members of
the Yacht Squadron have arrived at Plymouth from
Cowes, and proceed on a cruise to other western ports.
Lord and Lady Francis Egerton have arrived at
Buxton, on a visit to Lady Charlotte Greying, from
Worsley Hall, Lancashire.
The Austrian Count Anersperg and his son have re-
turned to the Clarendon Hotel, from York races.
The Marquis of Douglas, accompanied by the
Marchioness (Princess Mary of Baden), has arrived at
the Clarendon Hotel, Leamington Spa, where they pur-
pose remaining for a few days, and thence proceeding to
Hamilton Palace, North Britain.
The Earl of Bessborough and Ladies Ponsonby have
arrived at Bessborough House, Kilkenny, from Caven-
dish-square, at which seat the Noble Earl and family
have made arrangements to pass the autumn. The ar-
rival of his Lordship at his paternal estates was welcomed
by his tenantry with every possible mark of esteem.
Count Nesselrode, and his daughter the Baroness
Seebacb, accompanied by the Countess of Stockelberg,
proceeded from Brighton on Saturday on a short visit
to the Duke of Norfolk. M. Kisseleff, the Russian
Charge d'Affaires at Paris, left Brighton on Saturday
for Dieppe.
The Marquis of Conyngham -arrived in Harwich
harbour last week, from the lale of Wight, in his splendid
yacht the Flower of Yarrow.
Lords Cranstoun and Gardner are among the distin- _ ;