The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-22 00:00:00

CROYDON.

A man named William Bates, who has for a great
many years been confidentially employed by Mr. T. L.
Robinson, wine and spirit merchant, and also a
banker at Croydon, was taken before Messrs. Reed,
Adams, and Sutherland, at the Town Hall, charged with
plundering his employers to a very large amount in
wines and spirits.
Mr. R. Russell, of Croydon, attended in support of
the prosecution, and a solicitor from London appeared
for the prisoner.
From the statement of Mr. Russell, and the evidence
that was adduCed, it appears that for a considerable time
Mr. Robinson had missed large quantities of wine and
spirits, but no suspicion was at first entertained of the
prisoner, on account of the long period he had been in
Mr. Robinson's service, and the good opinion that was
entertained of him. On the 2d of this month,
a bottle, containing a gallon of gin, was found
in the bottling-house, where it had no business
to be, and Mr. Robinson's principal clerk, who
was informed of the circumstance, directed that
a mark should be placed upon the bottle, and that it
should be watched. The bottle was subsequently re-
moved by the prisoner, and he was shortly afterwards
taken into custody. Mr. Robinson, believing that many
other persons were concerned in the plunder, and that
his property had been feloniously removed by parties in
the neighbourhood, then told the prisoner that if he
would tell him the whole truth, and who were the re-
ceivers, he would not prosecute him. The prisoner at
first denied that ho had robbed his master, but after-
wards he admitted that he had stolen the bottle from
the bottling-room, and he showed the officer where it
was concealed under a bundle and some pea sticks
in Mr. Robinson's garden. Upon the prisoner's house
being searched by Inspector Collier, there were
found no less than twelve empty bottles, some
of which had contained wine, and others
spirits of different kinds, A quantity of pale
brandy was also found concealed in a clock
case, and in other parts of the house several bottles full
of gin were discovered, but the spirits, of course, could
not be identified. The prisoner's solicitor did not attempt
any ,defence upon the merits, but he urged that Mr.
Robinson's observation to the prisoner amounted to
such an inducement as would exclude the prisoner's con-
fession
from being received in evidence, and, as the
case was by no means complete without it, he was enti-
tled to his discharge. Mr. Russell, on the other side,
contended that, even should the magistrates consider
that Mr. Robinson's promise to the prisoner ought to
exclude the confession, yet the act of the prisoner
in taking the policeman to the place where
the bottle was concealed was clearly evidence
and coupled with the other circumstances made
out a sufficient prima facie case _to justify the bench in
committing the prisoner for trial.. The magistrates then
consulted together for some time, when Mr, Russell said
that if the bench really entertained a serious doubt upon
the matter, he was sanctioned by Mr. Robinson to state
that he did not desire to press the charge. The magis •
trate then told the prisoner he would be discharged, but
he must not therefore imagine that the bench considered
him innocent. They had no doubt of his guilt, and but
for the inducement that has been held out to him by
Mr. Robinson to make a confession, he would certainly
have been committed for trial. The prisoner was then
discharged.

THE BOY JONES AND THE BOY
JOINVILLE.
(From Punch.)
The eyes of Europe are once more upon the Boy Jones.
Well, the eyes of Europe have very often been turned
upon more insignificant persons. We confess it—we
have a regard for the Boy Jones. Whether he be really
nephew or not of George Jones, of Ancient America,
Esq., we have nevertheless a regard for the youth, who
at so early an age associated his name with the annals
of his country; for what future History of England, we
ask, will be complete, omitting all notice of Jones?
Poor boy! If fortune were not as perverse as a prima
donna, the Boy Jones would have been born in some
western square; would have learned his humanities at
college, and so been regularly trained for public place.
Only think of the Boy Jones, as Home Secretary, at the
Post-office! As it is, we have only the heavy Graham.
At least, we should have had sprightliness casting its
charm over illegalities; Jones would have broken a seal
with a whim apologetic of the felony, whilst Graham—
but we will not pursue the contrast.
Jones is a genius. That of the millions who gaze upon
the awful walls of Buckingham Palace, shut out from
them as from Paradise, Jones should have been the only
daring spirit that conceived a design to pass them—to
dip his plebeian fingers in the custards of the royal lar-
der—to creep up the royal chimneys—to crouch beneath
the royal sofa, thereby (as his uncle, George Jones, has
written t• Punch) " causing her Majesty so much
alarm ;"—that he alone should have done this makes
Jones—whatever his real time of life may be—far in
advance of his age. And her Majesty—bless her!—saw
the daring in its proper light; and therefore, as it now
appears, sent the Boy Jones on board the Warspite
(whence the world has just heard of him), with a recom-
mendation to the captain to watch " his dawning me-
rits," that Jones may, in good time, sport epaulets.
A recent letter tells us that Jones fell overboard off
Tunis in the first watch ; when the life-buoy, " which
blazed away with a steady and beautiful light," was let
go, and Jones clinging to it, called out to the boat's
crew, " Here I am—look lively !" However, the writer
insinuates that Jones jumped overboard, "and that for
no other purpose than to see the life-buoy light burning."
This is a slander. The truth is, the poor boy had been
reading in the forechains his uncle Jones's " Ancient
America;" whereupon he naturally fell into a sleep,
which lasted many hours, and in his sleep fell overboard!
Ilis life was saved for greater things.
However, we are happy to have heard thus incidentally
of the Boy Jones; as his whereabout is a sufficient evi-
dence of the watchfulness of Ministers as regards the
designs of France on Morocco. Sure we are that neither
Sir Charles Napier nor Lord Minto would have twitted
the Admiralty with neglect had they only known that
the Boy Jones was on the Gibraltar station. We at
once acknowledge the profound policy of Ministers: it
is their intention to meet Joinville with the Boy Jones!
There is. if we mistake not, a minor theatre drama called
The Prince and the Chimney Sweep ; and we have no
doubt that this piece will, sooner or later, be revived on
the high seas, with—as Mr. o.baldiston has it—" new
and startling effects; the whole to conclude with the
destruction of the enemy's tleet!"
Yes : let Joinville hover on the coast of Morocco,
Britannia may be as mild as a Quakeress, for has she
not at Gibraltar her babe of glory—the Jervis of the
ehimney—the Nelson of the larder—her Boy Jones ?
It may, possibly, wound the self-love of the French to
learn that we pit our Jones against their Royal Admiral;
nevertheless, up to the present moment, is not the
achievement of greatest daring on the side of our hero ?
We taste the fulness of content to know it is so. To
quote the sweet song of a sweet singer_
"As the pause upon the ceasing of a thousand-voiced psalm
Is our mighty satisfaction and full eternal calm,"

to know that wheresoever Joinville is, there henceforth
will be Jones; that whensoever it may please the French
Admiral to attempt a descant on Brighton, Margate, or
Herne Bay, Jones,
"Like a sweet little cherub will sit up aloft,
And keep watch for the life of John Bull !"
And when some twenty years have passed away, pleas-
ing it will be to see the Boy Jones—then Post-Captain
Jones—kneeling to receive the honour of knighthood
from our darling Queen, surrounded by her seventeen
sons and daughters; most pleasant will it be to mark the
sly yet benignant smile with which her Majesty dubs
the hero who " once caused her so much alarm;" the in-
truding boy, who, according to his own report, once
heard the Princess Royal " squeak."
We put it to Mr. George Jones, as a man and an an-
cient historian—should so likely an event come to pass,
would he then deny his nephew, the Boy Jones ?
Punch thinks not.

BANKRUPTCY EXTRAORDINARY

Before Sin C. F. WimaAms.

At the sitting of the Court, a figure entered, looking
as pale as death, and begged to be allowed to surrender
himself as a bankrupt.
The figure represented himself as the statue of Nelson,
now and for some time past of Trafalgar-square. He
stated that a few friends had been desirous of setting him
up in the neighbourhood of Charing cross, where he had
hoped to have cut a good figure, but want of money had
for a long time kept him down, and he had been com-
pletely laid-upon hie, back for a very considerable period.
Sir C. WILLIAMS—What do you want here ? I sit
here to do justice, and if justice is not most thoroughly
done in every sense of the word, it is no fault of mine.
The figure observed that he came to surrender, and to
ask for protection against the numerous jokes that were
being made at his (the statue's) expense, and which
were really enough to break a heart of stone.
Sir C. V. WILLIAMS—I can give you no protection
against jokes. I can't protect myself. I have been nearly
joked off this chair on several occasions. What is the
extent of your liabilities ?
The figure said he really could not tell. A man
and a boy had been employed, who had left no stone
unturned, but he (the figure) was not aware whether
they had been paid for their labour.
Sir C. F. WILLIAMS asked if there was any truth in
the report that the statue contemplated throwing himself
off the pedestal, in consequence of his awkward position ?
The figure, with large drops of stucco standing in his
eyes, observed that he had never thought of throwing
himself on the public by jumping down; but he admitted
that, if he had had sufficient rope, he might as well have
hanged himself.
Sir C. F. WILLIAMS—FIow much rope have you, then?
The figure said he had got a coil of about a yard, till
some of it was cut away, for what reason he did not
know—for he was just as much tied by the leg HOW as
he had been always.
Sir C. F. WILLIAMS asked if the statue had no friends
who would set him up respectably ?
The figure replied that his best friends were for
withdrawing him altogether from public observation.
He would sooner pave the public street than be knocked
about and taken to pieces as he had been lately.
Sir C. F. Wuziams—l sit here as a Commissioner,
and I really can do nothing.
The figure said he had heard so before ; and having
thanked the Commissioner, he was carried out by the
man and the boy who were appointed assignees under
the bankruptcy.—Punch.

HONESTY,—A pleasing instance of honesty in a
farming labourer occurred last week. A gentleman
not far from us dispatched per post a letter, inclosing a
10/. note, addressed " ISr. , Hepworth." By a
mistake in the post-office, the letter was sent to Epworth,
in Lincolnshire, where it was delivered to a poor man, a
farming labourer, of a similar name. The next post
brought back the 10/. note to the sender, with a remark
from
.the poor man that he was sure it could not have
been intended for him,—Bury Post,

SAMBO SUTTON'S CRIM. CON.

CASE.

At the Cambridge Assizes on Friday, an action was
brought by the well-known " Sarnbo Sutton," a el-decant
prize-fighter, against Mr. Samuel Preston, a brickmaker
in that town, for criminal conversation with his wife.
There was a second count, charging the defendant with
having unlawfully and wrongfully harboured and de-
tained plaintiff's wife, and kept her away from her hus-
band.

Mr. GUNNING stated the facts of the case as he pro-
posed to prove them in evidence. His client, he said,
was Mr. Thomas Sutton, who complained of one of the
most serious injuries which one man could inflict upon
another. Mr. Sutton was a wine. merchant, residing
in London ; in former years he was connected with
the prize-ring, and was well known in the sporting
world. His age was about 27, and that of his wife
about 23. The defendant was a man between forty
and fifty years of age, residing in Barnwell, and
having a wife and family ; he was a brickmaker
and builder. His Learned Friend, Mr. Sergeant Byles
did not intend in the defence to contend that the plain.
tiff was not entitled to a verdict ; but be intended to
rely upon his powers of sarcasm and ridicule. His
Learned Friend, he was sure, would fail., for whatever
the station in life of the plaintiff, he was entitled to
equal justice. It was not for a man who had com-
mitted this grievous act against his neighbour to in-
struct counsel to answer an action by throwing ridi-
cule on the person whom he had injured. In 1840,
the plaintiff, being then about 23 years old, married
Isabella Pearce, some few years younger than himself,
who was a shopwowan in Burlington Arcade, London,
and a person of unblemished character. After his
marriage the plaintiff intended to quit his calling of
prize fighter, but he found a difficulty in meeting with
any other occupation. At length, in an unhappy mo-
ment for his wife, he came to Cambridge in 1842, where
he gave lessons in the art of self-defence, taking
up his abode with his wife, at the Black Bear.—
(Laughter.) There the plaintiff and his wife lived
happily together. The plaintiff had occasionally to go
to London ; during his absence his wife boarded with
the landlady, and he seldom returned without bring-
ing her a present of some sort. This was the state of
things when the defendant I ()same acquainted with
the parties, professing great friendship for the plain-
tiff, and offering to assist him in getting into some
business. Towards the end of May, 1843, plaintiff
went.to London, and during his absence his wife was
missed from the Black Bear, early one morning. She
was not seen for some time, but there could be no
doubt whatever that she had been off somewhere in the
company of the defendant. After a month or so de-
fendant returned to Cambridge and took a house at Ches-
terton, where he should be- able to prove the act of
adultery complained of.
T. B. Turner, teacher of dancing, 26, Sutton-street,
pLraemsebnettha—t
hlishamvaerrkinaogwe natplsair.ntiAiffaretiignhst
3C'ehaurrsch; , inan dlBw4aos.
Since that I have often visited them ; they lived to-
gether on the most happy terms ; nothing could be more
affectionate and fond.
Crass-examined by Mr. Sergeant BYLES—Plaintiff
is called " Sambo;" he is rather black and woolly. He
fights great battles, and is the most respectable
amongst them. When I first knew him he was a
pugilist ; I never heard of his exercising his profession
on his wife ; he may have beaten men, but not
ladies. They kept a cigar shop in Drury-lane when
first married ; and afterwards lived in a " first floor
private," near Soho-square. After that they went to
Clerkenwell, and lived private in a parlour ; plaintiff
used to sing at concert rooms; his wife did nothing be-
yond making him little things ; she was a very handy
wornan.—(Laughter.) I know nothing about Cam-
bridge except what he has told me. He came to Cain-
bridge in October, 1841 : sometimes he was at Oxford
and other places : he left his wife in London, and some-
times brought her with him to Cambridge. He left
her at the Black Boar, in Cambridge, but he was never
away long together from her. I never heard that she
had complained of his beating her, or that she com-
plained of him for another reason. She lived at a stock
and glove shop in Burlington Arcade
Mr. BYLES—Do you profess the Polka?—(Laughter.)
Witness—Certainly I do. She came to tea with him at
a lodging near Leicester-square.
Mr. BYLES —DO you remember his buying some flesh-
coloured gloves for her ? Witness—What colour ?
Mr. BYLES —Flesh-coloured—l know the term is
rather doubtful in this case.—(Laughter.) Witness—
He bought gloves. I don't know what colour.
Mr. BYLES—WaS the courtship short ? Witness—

Eight or nine months.
By the JUDGE—Her mother was dead some time be
fore her marriage.
Re-examined—She was an assistant in the shop. I
knew her there for some time before her marriage.
Plaintiff is now what you term a vocalist and wine-mer-
chant.—(Laughter.) He has been in the wine trade
about a fortnight.
Mary Laxton, landlady of the Black Bear, Cambridge
—I remember plaintiff and wife coming about October,.
1841. They had a bed-room, and sat with me and my

family in the bar. I have a niece living with me. They
used to leave at the end of every term at first, but in
May, 1842, they came to live here altogether. I never
saw anything but happiness between them. She quitted
my house on the 29th of May, 1843. I missed her early
in the morning Her husband was absent. Defendant
used to come and sit in my bar for hours. He saw plain-
tiff and his wife there. After Mrs. Sutton left defendant
did not come as usual.
Hannah White, niece of the last witness—l lived at
at the Black Bear, and knew the plaintiff and his wife.
They lived happily together, and were kind and affec-
tionate to each other. About a month after Mrs. Sutton

left the house, Mr. Preston said he had been to Scotland
with her. He came into the bar and spoke of. it of his
own accord. He said he had been to Scotland with her,
and had called to see a young friend there, Miss Gray,
who was a beautiful creature.--(Laughter.)
Cross-examined—l never saw the black beating tiis
wife. I have seen him going to strike her, but he
stopped. I have got vinegar and brandy for her. She
drank the brandy—(Lnughter)—but not the vinegar—
she bathed her forehead with it—she was faint. We put,
no brown paper on with the vinegar. She was faint be-
cause she had had a dispute with her husband. I also
applied some vinegar to her arm. I never said I had
seen her so knocked about that she could not feed her-
self. She is a good-looking person, and used-to dance
most weeks.

John Chapman—l own some houses at Chesterton,
Preston hired one between 'Midsummer and Michaelmas,

1843, at 71. a-year ; he said it was for a person of a rather
delicate constitution, out of the low part of Huntingdon-
shire, who had some little property of her own to sup-
port her. He brought a female to live in it, a goodish-
looking person, about twenty-four or twenty-five. I never
heard him say who it was.
W. H. Meedle, jeweller, Hyde Park-street, Bayswater
—I knew plaintiff and his wife, and saw them married.
I came to Cambridge last January, and called on Mr.
Preston, by direction of the plaintiff, at his house at
Barnwell. I said " I believe you are living with, or
keeping, Sutton's wife ?" He said he didn't know any-
thing about it. I asked him if he chose to give her up,
and he said no. I afterwards went to a house at Ches-
terton, en the same day. I watched the house, and saw
Mrs. Sutton at the window. She appeared to be living
there. I saw two persons through the blind in the bed-
room, and afterwards there was no light.
Mr. Sergeant BYLEs submitted that there was no case
for the jury.
His LoaDsruP thought there was not much evidence,
but it was a question for the jury.
Mr. Sergeant BYLES then addressed the jury for the
defendant. Who were the parties in this action ? The
plaintiff's wife was a shopwoman in Burlington Arcade,
a great thoroughfare, where a great many shops were
kept by a great many pretty women. Black Sambo
entered Burlington Arcade one fine afternoon, like
other distinguished people at the West-end, Mr,
Dyce Sombre, for instance ; walked backwards and
forwards, and was struck by the charms of Isa-
bella.—(Laughter,) An invitation to tea followed,
and then there was a wedding. Who gave the lady
away ? The Professor of the " Polka."—(Laughter.)
There was no accounting for tastes. Now, the plaintiff
was black and woolly, yet if he treated his wife well
she might no doubt feel affection for him. But what
was to be thought of a husband, black and woolly as he
was—(Renewed laughter)—and who therefore ought to
have been peculiarly careful about his wife, leaving her
in a place like Cambridge, totally unprotected ? What
was to be thought of a man who took his wife to the
Black Bear—a most appropriate name truly—(Laugh-
ter)—and left her there fur months together, allowing
her to dance every week with young men frequenting
the house ? He contended at some length that there
was no evidence to prove the charge of a criminal inter-
course, and called on the jury in conclusion to give a
verdict for the defendant.

The Learned JUDGE summed up, and after a short
consultation, the jury returned a verdict for the de-
fendant.

THE IMPROVEMENTS IN THE QUEEN'S PARK.—
Although the formation of a carriage drive from the
Watering-stone by Holyrood, the foot of Arthur-street,
the Echoing Rock, Samson's Ribs, Duddingston, and
across the eastern edge of Arthur's Seat to Parson's-
green, was commenced about a year and a half ago, the
progress, in consequence, we believe, of the want of funds,
has been less rapid than was desirable. A good deal,
however, has recently been accomplished. An excellent
roadway and footpath have been formed between the
Watering-stone and the stile at the north-end of the
walk round Salisbury Crags ; and that portion between
the foot of Arthur-street and the road leading to
the Powder Magazine is now nearly completed.
One intermediate marsh between these two portions not
having been yet drained, the junction of the two parts,
now almost finished, cannot be effected till the operations
connected with the drainage are completed. We under-
stand the drains will be commenced in the course of the
ensuing month, and that this important link in the com-
munication will be completed with as little delay as pos-
sible. The portion finished under Salisbury Crags is now
exquisitely beautiful,and daily attracts crowds of persons
who take an interest in the work. The wall running
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the surface smoothed and sown with grass, already form-
ing a rich and verdant carpet.—Edinburgh Paper.
CAUTION TO PARENTS, - Two children were
brought to the Dispensary, Barnstaple, on Tuesday last,
each of whom had got a cherrystone in his ear. The
first was a boy from Tawstock, to whom the accident
had happened on the preceding Sunday, and several
abortive attempts had been made to get out the stone,
by which the ear was very much irritated, and it was
not without much difficulty that the surgeons at the
Dispensary succeeded in extracting it. Scarcely had he
been relieved when the second cam, into tl.o housc, aid
in his case also, which had only just occurred, extraction I
was perfumed.—Somerfet Gazette.