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

SURREY SESSIONS.

(Before E. PENRHYN, Esq., and a Bench of Magistrates.)
LAMB STEALlNG.—Wednesday Ma. Scrirens, 23, was
indicted for stealing two lambs, the property of William
Fuller, and in a second count he was charged with killing
the lambs with intent to steal their carcases.

Mr. Wallinger prosecuted, and Mr. Charnock defended the
prisoner.
The prosecutor is a farmer at Tolworth, and on the night
of the 6th of October his shepherd left a flock of seventy-
two lambs safe in the fold. The next morning two were
missing, and on a search being made, the skins and head
were found in a ditch in an adjoining field. Suspicion at-
tached to the prisoner immediately, and upon some consta-
bles of the V division going to his house they observed in a
pot a quantity of lamb that had evidently been recently
killed, and also four sheeps' kidneys. Upon comparing this
meat with the remains of the joints left in the skins, it was
found to fit it exactly. In addition to these facts, it wag
proved that the prisoner had a very peculiar gait, and turned
his toes out a great deal in walking, and this corresponded
exactly with the footmarks that were observed near the
sheepfold.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the Chairman
sentenced the prisoner to be transported for ten years.
Music LICENSES.—The Court then proceeded to hear ap-
plications for the renewal of licenses for music and dancing,
and those of the Southampton Railway Arms, at the Kings-
ton station, Vauxhall-gardens, the St. Helena-gardens, at
Rotherhithe, the Castle Tavern, Richmond, and the Rose-
mary Branch, Peckham, were granted without any obser-
vation.

Mr. Charnock applied, under the recent Act of Parliament,
for a license for an establishment to be used as a lunatic
asylum, at Epsom.
In answer to a question from the Bench, the deputy clerk
of the peace said that the necessary notice required by the
Act had been given, and the plans of the building had been
deposited in his office ; and the Court then granted the li-
cense. _

Mr. Richard Pierce. of the Grapes, Great Suffolk-street,
renewed his application for a license to have music and
dancing.
Mr. Knapp and Mr. Corner supported this application,
which was opposed by Mr. Striven.
It will be recollected that a similar application was made
last year, but the license was refused on account of it ap-
pearing hat after a previous refusal by the Court Mr. Pierce
had continued his performances without any license; and the
Court, principally, as it appeared upon that ground, refused
him a license, but at the same time gave an intimation that,
if the house was properly conducted for the ensuing year,
they would give him one.
Mr. Knight, in support of the present application, put in
a petition, signed by the churchwardens, the parish officers,
several of the board of guardians, and four hundred and
seventy of the principal inhabitants of the parish, which
testified to the respectability of the applicant, and the good
order that prevailed in his establishment, and prayed the
Court to grant the license.
Mr. Scnven said, he had a petition, signed by the gover-
nor and deputy...governor of the Queen's Prison, and a num-
ber of the inhabitants, praying that the license might not be
granted.
The Court, after some discussion, granted the license.
A similar application was made on behalf of Mr. Harris, of
the Salmon public-poise, Union-street, which the Court also
granted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-ROUSE.
Yesterday, a gentleman applied to the Lord Mayor for in-
formation in what manner to proceed against a person of the
same name, to whOm the postman, by mistake, handed letters
connected with railway speculations meant for the applicant,
and who opened and read them. He admitted, in answer to
questions from the Lord Mayor, that tae offending person,
who was no other than his own brother, hid, in all proba-
bility, no felonious intention in opening the letters of allot-
ment; but he declared that the practice was extremely dis-
agreeable, and might be prejudicial to him if continued.
The LORD lI.LAYou said that no offence had been com-
mitted of which he could take cognisance. His Lordship
added that he knew but very little indeed of railroads
beyond the fact that every body was talking of them, and
that when a man looked into a newspaper for a little
relief, his agony was sure to be increased by what he had
met with in every page. He ha 1 reason to believe, how-
ever, that although he had no shares in any railway com-
pany, some portion of the press would have it that he either
was, or was to be, a participator in the advantages arising
from some of the speculations ; for, in an article which
appeared in a morning paper a day or two ago, it was
asked why the Lord Mayor had stepped forward in the
case of the Direct London and Manchester (Ashurst's) line ?
The writer of the article in question had paid him a com-
pliment to which every member of the Corporation knew
him to be not at all entitled ; and he believed the very re-
port of the proceedings in the Common Council, on the pre-
sentation of the petitions on Thursday last, would testify on
what very indifferent authority the writer of the paragraph
relied. His Lordship said it might be useful to those whose
letters happened to tall into the hands of persons for whom
they were not intended, to know that the only remedy ap-
peared to be by complaint to the Postmaster-General of the
neg:igence of the servants of the establishment.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
William Humphries, a solicitor, living at No. 10, Water-
loo-row, King's-road, was charged with having stolen a
number of sovereigns from the person of George Flowers,
hat-dyer, Great Guildford-street.
Benjamin Caunt, the ,well-known pugilist, said the rob-
bery occurred in the parlour of the Coach and Horses public-
house, St. Martin's-lane, of which house he is the landlord.
The prisoner and the prosecutor were in his parlour last
evening sparring and joking with each other. The prose-
cutor was the worse for liquor. He saw the prisoner put his
hand into the proFecutor's waistcoat pocket, and take out a
number of sovereigns. He told the prisoner he would allow
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fused and contradictory account of the affair, that Mr.
Hardwick said it was quite impossible to make anything at
present out of the prosecutor's story.
Caunt said he saw the sovereigns taken from the prose-
cutor
in the prisoner's hand. There were apparently about
eight or ten sovereigns.
On compaaing the money found on the prosecutor after
the alleged robbery with his statement of the amount re-
ceived during the day, there was a deficiency of eight sove-
refgns.
The prisoner denied all knowledge of the robbery.. His
own money—two pounds odd—had been taken from him,
and was in the prosecutor's possession.
The prisoner was ermanded for a few days.