The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-15 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

CLERKENWELL—(THIS DAY.)
Thomas Walker, a fellow of ruffianly disposition, who has
been frequently before this Court, was charged with conduct
of a very outrageous character in the Clerkenwell Workhouse
on the previous night.
Mr. Hemet, the master of the workhouse, deposed that at
four o'clock on the previous evening, the prisoner came to the
workhouse and demanded relief. The overseer told him to
go to work (pick oakum), and he should have food and money.
The prisoner became very abusive of the overseer, and put
himself in a menacing attitude. The overseer directed wit-
ness to put the prisoner out, but the prisoner attempted to
jump over the wicket and get into the office in which the
overseer was. Witness repeatedly requested the prisoner
to leave the place, but was at last obliged to use force to
expel him. He then put his foot between the door and
the jamb, so as to prevent the door from closing. He
called witness a b— Irish b--, said the pau-
pers must starve in the workhouse, and that there was not
a shop in the parish but could prove his (witness's) villainy
and robbery. He then went round to the hall-door, and
commenced kicking at it, so that witness thought he would
have kicked the panels in. His outrageous behaviour
alarmed all the paupers, and caused a crowd of sixty persons
to assemble round the house. Witness sent for a policeman,
and had him taken into custody.
The prisoner, in defence, said he was starving at the time,
and as he had not eaten a morsel of food for two days, he
declined working until he had some food.
Mr. Charles Aldberry, assistant-overcer, deposed that, so
far from the prisoner's statement being true, he had abun-
dance of food on the evening previous.
Mr. COMBE sentenced the prisoner to find bail for the
Middlesex sessions.—He was committed,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)
Elizabeth Williams, a good-looking young woman, very
respectably dressed, was charged with obtaining goods by
false pretences of various tradesmen at the west-end of the
town. It appeared that the prisoner, three years ago,
quitted the service of a lady of fortune, named Wombell, re•
siding at No. 17, 6eorge-street, Hanover-square, where she
had lived for several months as upper housemaid. Nothing
further was heard of her until lately, when the discovery was
made that for several months past she had been obtaining
goods in Mrs. Wombell's name of different tradesmen in
Regent-street, Bond-street, and the neighbourhood, to a very
large amount. Last evening she was accidentally met in the
street by one of her victims, and given into custody. She
was fully committed on two separate charges, viz., for ob-
taining in Mrs. Wombell's name, of Mr. Lonsdale, of No. 179,
Regent-street, hosier, three pair of stockings, of the value of
355., and of Messrs. Lewis and Attenby, of Regent-street,
silk-mercers, a quantity of velvet. She will be indicted on
several other similar charges.

UNION HALL.--(THIS DAY.)
Thomas Matthews, a tall man of military appearance, was
brought up for re-examination, charged with robbing seve-
ral public-houses in the metropolis.
The prisoner a few nights ago went into a public-house in
High-street, and having engaged a bed, slept there, saying
he had come up from Dover, and was going to the theatre.
The next moraing when he got up, he was in the act of con-
cealing a pair of sheets round his body, when he was dis-
covered, and given into custody. Several persons
attended this morning against the prisoner. The landlord
of a coffee-house in Shoreditch said the prisoner
visited his house at the period the State trials were going on
in Ireland, and, having engaged a bed, went off the next
morning with a pair of sheets. He had, previously to leaving
the house, ordered a rump steak to be got ready, but it is
needless to state lie did not return.

Mr. TRLILL said that there were a great number of charges
against the prisoner, all of which were pretty nearly of a
similar character, and that lie should commit him for trial.

Tun NAPOLEON MUSEUM.—We have been highly
gratified and historically amused more than once, when in-
specting that singularly unique and very extraordinary ex-
hibition at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly—the Napoleon
Museum. On the last occasion, the proprietor had the ho-
nour of handing a volume of autographs to his Grace the
Duke of Wellington, who appeared to examine them with
much interest, and on seeing those of the unfortunate Maria
Antoinette, the Noble Duke said to the proprietor, "Has the
Marquis of Huntly been here ?" "I do not know, your
Grace,* was the answer. The Duke replied," I shall inquire ;
for the Marquis of Huntly has danced with the Queen Maria
Antoinette at Versailles, and with Queen Victoria at Wind-
sor." On ascertaining shortly afterwards whether the Noble
Marquis had been—for everything that our illustrious hero
notices is interesting to the British public,--we were informed
that a few days after his Grace asked the foregoing question,
the Marquis of Huntly, accompanied by some ladies, had in-
spected the same volume that his Grace the Duke of Welling-
ton topic so much interest in, and, with his Noble party,
remained several hours looking over 'the Napoleon Museum,
which we were not surprised to hear, considering its very
great historical importance.
THE MICROSCOPICAL SoctETT.—The attendance
of members was unusually large at the last meeting of this
society. Mr. C. Pearce was called to the chair. The first
object brought under the focus of the microscope was the
dividend of a Waterloo-bridge share. After many experi-
ments, in which the strongest light, including the hydro-
oxygen, had been thrown upon it, the dividend was declared
to approach nearest in shape to that of a round figure, with
nothing at all in it, which, upon an increased force of the
glass, was found to be a perfect 0. The shareholder whose
eyes had been opened during the investigation seemed to be
forcibly . struck with the accuracy of the result. The divi-
dend was ordered to be deposited in the museum of the Mi-
croscopical Society. The next object submitted to the mi-
croscope was one day's ration of food as allowed by the Com-
missioners in a poor-law union. The microscope was magni-
fied to its utmost power to allow this operation a fair chance
of success ; but, after every experiment had failed, the Presi-
dent said " that in all his experience of atoms he had never
seen anything so surprisingly wanting in size or substance,
though a microscope which magnified objects no less than
60,000,000 times had been used to help the discovery." This
announcement did not seem to surprise anybody. After
several sanguine members had endeavoured to magnify the
surplus of the revenue, the interest of a Pennsylvanian bond,
and " the sense" of the House of Commons, the microscope
was locked up for the night, and the President and members
adjourned to the tea-room, to refresh themselves after the
labours of the evening.—Parch,