The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-10 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

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SHARPERS Ot;Xtv errEn.—Tvre well-dressed men, named
ple-looking countryman, with
having been concerned in an attempt to rob Mr. Thomas Wil-
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son, a builder, residing at Upminstur, in Essex.
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.The prosecutor stated that he had come to London to trans-
mit some business, and, on the preceding afternoon, was pass-
jog through Norton Folgate, near the terminus of the Eastern
Counties Railway, where he was accosted by the prisoner
Mumford, who asked him if he was going down by the railway,
as he himself was about to engage a place by the four o'clock
train. Witness replied that he intended to go by the tire o'clock
train ; upon which the prisoner said that, as he had plenty of
time to spare, he should protract his stay for an hour, that lie
might have the pleasure of his company. After some further
conversation, the prisoner proposed an adjournment to a public-
house, when the stale trick of inducing ererylme in the room
to exhibit his money was resorted to. The prosecutor was
asked to exhibit what he had, to show his respectability.
He apparently agreed to the preposition, bat said
he had some urgent business to transact in the
neighbourhood, and would return in a few minutes.
He then left them and proceeded at once to the station-house,
where he obtained the assistance of a policeman, with whom he
returned back to the public house and gave the prisoners, toge•
ther with Lovett, whom he found in their company, into
custody.
The policeman produced a roll of flash notes which the pri-
soner Mumford had thrown from him on their way to the sta.
tion-house, and also a purse containing 19 sham sovereigns,
which was found concealed underneath the sleeve of his coat.
Sergeant Coleman stated that the prisoner Lovitt had been
ascertained to be a highly respectable man, who had acciden-
tally fallen into the prisoners company. He therefore wished
to withdraw the charge against him.
_Mr. William Shurey, cashier at the establishment of Sir H.
Meux and Co., the extensive brewers, stated that the prisoner
Lovitt held the situation of bailiff to Sir H. Meux, and was a
person of unimpeachable integrity. He had come to town to
settle his annual accounts, and had 6.3/. in his pocket, of which
he would no doubt have been speedily dispossessed, had lie re-
mained much longer in company with the prisoners.
The Mao ISTRATE instantly ordered Lovitt to be discharged,
and on asking him how he got into the prisoners' company, lie
said that he entered the public-house to procure some refresh.•
nsent, and found the prisoners in the parlour, who were in
the act of relating a story, when the recital was cut short by
the arrival of the policeman, who conveyed them' all to the
station-house.
Sergeant Coleman applied to the Magistrate to remand the
prisoners, as he expected to be able to establish other charges
against them.—The prisoners were accordingly remanded.

SUlClDE.—Yesterday a young man, apparently not
more than twenty years of age, committed suicide in a part of
Chalk Farm-fields, adjoining the carpet-ground. A son of
Mr. Jones, the proprietor, observed him entering the ground,
but thinking that he was going
to have a shot at some birds,
took no particular notice. Ile was horrified, however, to ob-
serve the young man place a pistol to his chin, and commit the
act of self-destruction; his head being literally blown to atoms.
The alarm was immediately given, and the remains of the un-
fortunate suicide were conveyed to the workhouse. There was
found upon his person 4s, 6d. in silver, a couple of pistols,
with several bullets, and a flask of powder. lie had no card,
and the only piece of paper found upon him contained the
words, " suffer," and. " accounts." Ile was dressed in a brown
frock coat, tweed trousers, and undress military cap. Notice
was immediately given to the Coroner.
WESTMINsTER-BRIDGE. --- It appears, from the
statement of Mr. Barry, the architect, that no patching can
make this bridge secure, it is altogether in such a dangerous
state. "It has become notorious," he says, " that the system
pursued by Messrs. Walker and Burges for securing the feun-
dation of the piers has failed, and the bridge is consequently in
such a critical state as to cause an order to be given by the
Commissioners to suspend all further works for the present.
From what I have seen of the recent alarming dislocations of
the present structure, it is now, in my opinion, no longer a'
question as to the propriety of re-building not the superstructure
alone, but the entire bridge."
FEBEMASONRY.--We regret to hear that the Mar-
quis of Salisbury
hag withdrawn from Freemasonry. The
refusal of that body to elect him Grand Master, in succession
to the late Duke Of- Sussex, is the general assigned cause.—
Bury Peat.