The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-16 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS.-TUESDAY.
The general quarter sessions for the county of Surrey com-
menced yesterday, at the Court House Kingston. There was
a very full attendance of magistrates. E. Pennryn, Esq.,
presided as chairman, and there were also present Earl Lov-e-
-lace, H. Kemble, Esq., M.P. ; J. Trotter, Esq., M.P. ; Sir R.
Fredwick, J. J. Briscoe, Esq.; Colonel Challoner, T. Puckle,
Ecq. ; J. W. Freshfield, Esq.; G. T. Nicholson, Esq.; J.
Jeffrey, Esq.; R. C. Austen, Esq.; C. Barclay, Esq.; A. K.
Barclay, Esq.; J. E. Johnson, Esq., &c.
The surgeons of the different gaols made their reports,
from which it appeared that their respective establishments
are generally healthy, and the surgeon of Brixton Gaol gave
some rather curious information relative to the effect of the
prison discipline and diet on the prisoners. It appeared that
in many cases the prisoners gained considerably in weight ;
in two instances where the prisoners were confined for six
months, the increase being in one case 151b5., and in the
other 251bs.
The County Treasurer (Mr. Smallpiece) then reported the
,tate of the county finances. He said there was a balance
in hand at the last meeting of the Court, of 8,1081. 3s. 3d.,
which sum had been increased by a county rate of 2d. in the
pound, and other items, to 26,911/. Is. Bd. ; he had had on
behalf of the county 12,8001., which included a awn of 6,189/.
on account of the money borrowed for the erection of the
County Lunatic Asylum, and there were other bills now due,
which would reduce the amount of the balance in his hands
to 7,9321, which would be sufficient to carry him on to the
next session without another rate.

A lengthenep discussion then took place on the motion of
Mr. Barclay for the erection of a lock-up house at Dorking,
and another of a similar nature by Mr. Nicholson for Farn-
ham, under the new Parish Constables' Act.
Mr. BARCLAY, after remaking on the want:experienced at
Dorking; of some place of security for prisoners before exa-
mination, observed that, as the question was a novel one,
and arose under a new Act of Parliament, he and the gen-
tlemen who had brought the matter forward did not feel
themselves sufficiently acquainted with the details to make
any motion to the Court on the present occasion, and he
should, therefore, move that the matter be referred back to
the magistrates acting in these divisions of the county; that
they should consider the matter fully, and be prepared, by
the next session, to give the Court ample information on the
subject.
In answer to questions put by one of the magistrates, it
was stated to be the intention to appoint an officer to take
charge of the lock-ups, who would superintend the con-
stables of the district.

The Earl of LOVELACE said, he was not at present suffici-
ently acquainted with the subject to givs any opinion re-
specting it; but he trusted this was not an endeavour, by a
side wind, to introduce the constabulary into the country.
Mr. NICHOLSON said, there was no ground for such a sup-
position. The person appointed as superintendent would be
a parish officer to all intents and purposes, and would be paid
by the parish.
After some further conversation, it was arranged that the
matter should be referred, as proposed by Mr. Barclay, with
a view to the Court being placed in possession of all the
details, before they came to any decision upon the subject.

GUILDFORD QUARTER
SESSIONS.
(Before the lion. G. C. NORTOI% Recorder.)
NERVOUS EXCITEMENT AND ROBBERY.

Martin Williams, solicitor's clerk, was placed at the bar,
charged with having, on the evening of the 6th of September
last, stolen three gold chains, the property of Mr. Triggs,
eweller and watchmaker, High-street, Guildford.
No counsel had been engaged fur the prosecution ; Mr.
Parry appeared for the defence.
From the evidence for the prosecution it appeared that the
prisoner, about nine o'clock on the evening in question,
dashed his hand through the shop window of Mr. Triggs,
and having seized three gold chains which lay there, ran
slowly down the street. As above a dozen persons were
near the spot at the time, and witnessed the transaction,
lie was instantly pursued and taken into custody. When
Mr. Triggs, who was conversing with a friend in the shop
when the window was smashed, had reached the spot where
the prisoner had been seized, the latter pulled the chains
out of his pocket, and presenting them to the former, said,
" Here are your chains; do not be alarmed." He was taken
to the station-house and searched; and found to have in his
possession only one farthing in money, a bit of deal, and a
pair of gloves. His appearance betokened great bodily
exhaustion, his clothes were soiled, and his hands and face
unwashed. He appeared to set much store by the shapeless
bit of deal, and requested the constable to leave it in his pos-
session, and when this was refused, he charged the officer to
take care of it. On his examination before the magistrates,
previous to his committal, he reiterated his request to be
allowed the wood, and it, was again refused, and he appeared
rather annoyed in consequence. This conduct on the part of
the prisoner excited Suspicion that his mind was disordered.
Mr. Panay, for the defence, admitted that the prisoner
lied stolen the chains in the manner deposed by the wit-
nes.cs, and stated that he also considered him of sound mind
when the act was committed, and consequently responsible
for his actions; but still he (Mr. P.) felt convinced that he
should be able to convince the jury that the prisoner could
no: be blind guilty of the charge laid in the indictment of
having feloniously stolen the property. The prisoner had
taken the chains, rot for the purpose of depriving the pro-
secutor of the property, but to get himself transported. The
very act itself was proof enough of that desire. The prisoner
selected a time when the street was full of people, and parties
were in the shop, to seize the chains, and then he had slowly
ran away iu order to maintain the impression that he was a
regular thief. The Learned Gentleman, having assured the
jury that what Ire was going to state was nothing but the
purest truth, proceeded to narrate the following circum-
stances :—The prisoner had been in the employ of a noted
first is London as a confidential clerk for twenty years, but
having been, by the death of one of the partners, deprived of
the situation, he made application for another under another
solicitor, and although there were above two hundred other
-applicants, his excellent character obtained him the pre-
ference. But here unfortunately his writing was not
considered sufficiently good, and his employer intimated to
him as much. The prisoner being of a remarkably ner-
yous and excitable temperament, took this to heart, and
began to fear that he would be discharge], and ex-
posed
to want and misery, along with his wife and
child, to whom he was most affectionately attached. Op-
pressed with this idea, lie absented himself from his em••
ployment on Monday, the Ist of September, and started
into the country with only Is. 3d. in his pocket, and
without having formed the least plan to act upon. He
wandered about half distracted the whole week, and
,on Saturday arrived at Guildford in a very deplorable
condition, as he had not slept in a bed nor taken food from
the Webiesday ; and having conceived the idea that he
should be far less miserable if were transported from the
country, he broke the window and stole the chains to secure
that—in his excited imagination—desirable position. This
would explain the circumstance which had caused so much
curiosity—the prisoner's attachment to the bit of deal. That
insignificant bit of wood he had seen his child cutting on the
day previous to his flight from his home, and he wished to
treasure it as a memorial of the son whom he felt convinced
he should never see again. The Learned Gentleman called
the following witnesses to character:—
Mr. Frederick E. Thompson, of the firm of Springhall,
'Thompson, and Powell, Raymond's-buildings, London, de-
posed that he had known the prisoner 20 years as confidential
clerk to Mr. Springliall. Witness would have trusted him
with thousands of pounds without the least hesitation, such
mill& nee had he in his integrity. He had come expressly
down to bear that testimony.
Mr. A. Groome, managing clerk to the above firm, had
known the prisoner fourteen years, and had often entrusted.
him with sums of money to various amounts; once, in fact,
with 4,0001. He believed him to be a person of the highest
character for honesty and sincerity.
Mr. Linklater, of Leadenhall•street, City, deposed to
having engaged the prisoner as clerk a few weeks ago, and
that lie and his brother had made remarks upon the pri-
soner's deficiencies as a penman. He bad chosen him from
above two hundred applicants because of his character. The
prisoner absented himself from the office on the lst of Sep-
tember, as had been stated.
*The jury, after a short consultation, found the prisoner
guilty, but recommended him 'to mercy, on account of his
distressing circumstances ; and the prosecutor added his re-
quest to that of the jury.
Sentence, three months' hard labour in Guildford House of
Correction, the first and last fortnight to be solitary.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.
ROBRERY AT BUCKINOILUI PALACE.—Tuesday, a young
svoinan, named Caroline Evans, employed as a housemaid at
Buckingham-palace, was placed at the bar for final examin-
ation, charged with stealing a quantity of wearing apparel,
belonging to the clerk of the kitchen in the establishment.
It appeared at the last examination that a great coat being
missed by Edmund Heale, clerk of the kitchen, from his
bed-room, he inquired of the prisoner if she had observed any
person in the apartment, and being answered in the nega-
tive, he communicated the circumstance to Inspector Steed,
who is constantly on duty at the palace, and who, being
directed to make search for the property, found in the pri-
soner's trunk a bag containing forty-two duplicates relating
to a quantity of wearing apparel, among which was one re-
lating to the article in question and other property belong-
ing to the prosecutor. The prisoner was shortly after ques-
ti.ned at Windsor Castle about the matter, but she gave
no other account than that the entire of the duplicates did
not belong to her, and being taken into custody the whole
of the articles were found at different pawnbrokers in Pimlico
and Westminster, where they were pledged in the name of
Anne Brown a few days previous.
Mr. Wontner said, that it was useless for him to attempt
combating against the evidence, as he was certain the pri-
soner would be committed for trial on the charge ; but there
were two other cases against the prisoner, entirely uncon-
nected with the palace, upon which the prosecutors seemed
thsinclined to proceed; and, as they were very doubtful, he
submitted that the Court ought not to entertain them.
Mr. TWYFORD said that he was given to understand by the
clerk that the other cases were of a much more serious nature,
if possible, for it could be proved that on a late occasion the
prisoner paid a visit to her sister, living in the service of a
tue:Hcalgentleman residing at Pentonville, and, during her
temporary absence from the apartment, she contrived to steal
two silver table-spoons, for which the unoffending party had
been discharged from her situation, without a character;
and, not content with committing such a heartless robbery,
she paid another visit to a stcond sister, living as servant in
the family of a gentleman residing in the neighbourhood of
Regent's Park, where she also contrived to steal two other
silver table-spoons, and as the property, which could be
traced to the prisoner, could be identified, he considered- that
she ought to be remanded for the purpose.
A gentleman came forward to say, that he had no doubt of
two of the spoons being his property; but as his servant,
who was the only person competent to give evidence as to
the manner in which the robbery was committed, was una-
voidably absent, he could ensure her attendance on a future
dry, if the prisoner were remanded.
The prisoner, who said nothing in her defence, was ac-
cordingly ordered to be remanded for a week.
YLEBONE.
After the disposal of the night charges, a solicitor, whose
name did not transpire, attended at the Court, and made
k len to Mr. Rawlinson the following particulars, with re-
gard
to what he looked uport as a swindling transaction :
-tt stated, that two or three months ago an advertise-
ment appeared in the Globe,. *which ran thus—" Noblemen
amid gentlemen, clergymen officers on full- pay with good
expeaations, heirs toer entailed' estates, &c., can be accom-
modated on
otrhemirorp
ts_onal security . with loans of not less
owlth a
yn, 1 Ott% 1.
Messrs. 5,000/. Address, p.p. in writing
Young, 69 more 9_
square. Na personal a
c, tiller-street, uavendish-
tended to." pilication whatever will be at-
Applicant set forth that the advertisementin in question
ter:,
applied
attracted the notice of a clergyman
name he should not wish to mention, and t7:catsal
for a loan of one hundred pounds. At length
letters which bad passed to and fro as to his respectability,
and and the certainty of re-payment, he accepted a bill at three
months' date for 1504 and he returned the same, addressed
to _Messrs. Young and Co. The applicant said that the money
had not been forthcoming, and that his client was of opinion
hat his acceptance had been negotiated, as he had not re-
ceived a single sixpence from the party to whom he sent it.
Froni the inquiries which he (applicant) had made, he had
nyason to suppose that the advertisers were a set of swindlers,
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