The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-09 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.—Yesterday John Hodgson, John
Edwards, and John Cramp, three butchers, were placed
at the bar, the first named person upon a •charge of stab-
bing, in a dangerous manner, a poor man named George
Marget, and the two latter with assaulting him.
The complainant, who was too seriously injured to pre-
fer the charge in person, went last night to a shop in Gil-
bert's-passage, Clare-market, to purchase something for
supper, and was on his return home, when the three per-
sons charged came behind him, and one of them drove his
hat over his eyes with a blow upon the crown of it. The
hat was afterwards knocked off his head, and upon his re-
monstrating with the prisoners, the complainant was told
by a butcher who was passing, to pick up his hat and go
quietly home. The complainant took the advice, and was
proceeding toward his lodging, when he was again over-
taken by the prisoners, and one of them (Hodgson) ran
into a shop, where he procured a knife, with which he pur-
sued the complainant and stabbed him in the thigh.
Hodgson denied that he was the person who inflicted the
wound, and declared that he was killing a sheep at the
time the act was committed.

The MAGISTRATE told him, that in the event of the
wounded man's death he had better be prepared with evi-
dence to prove the fact to the satisfaction of a Jury. For
the present he must go to prison, to wait the issue of the
injury.
The defendant Edwards was then ordered to find bail for
the assault ; but as it appeared that Cramp had acted more
as a peace-maker than any thing else, and had endeavoured
to defend the wounded man, he was discharged.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—A foreigner of re-
spectable appearance, who gave his name Constantine
Steck, who has been some days in custody, charged with
stealing a bronze ink-stand from the auction-rooms of
Messrs. Dawson and Cafe, in Marlborough-street, was
brought before Mr. CO ANT for final commitment to New-
gate upon that charge.
The prisoner was fully committed on Messrs. Dawson
and Cafe's charge.
There were a number of curious documents found also
on the prisoner ; some of which showed that he was an
occasional public lecturer at the Crown and Anchor and
other places, on morals and religion. He had with him
passports in the French, German, and Russian languages,
and in each of which countries he had, he said, been a
resident.

MARYLEBONE. —Caroline Cooper, a young girl,
was charged with obtaining a sirloin of beef, and a shoul-
der of mutton, from Mr. Richard Wing, a butcher, at No.
5, Middle-row, St. Giles's, under a fraudulent pretence.
The 'prisoner acknowledged her guilt, and was sent to
the New Prison for trial.

WORSHIP-STREET.—A considerable portion of yes-
terday was occupied in the final examination of Rowley
and Castles, for arson, in Shoreditch ; O'Brien, for steal-
ing 100 sovereigns from Mrs. Murphy's lodging-house, Gul
stone-street, Petticoat-lane; and in the further investiga-
tion of the case 'of Rowe and Cottrell, for a robbery on
Skirrett and Johnson, at the Lion and Lamb public-house,
Golden-lane, on the sth Nov.
In the first case the following evidence recently obtained,
was added

Mr. J. Smith, principal clerk of the Union Fire-office;
proved an insurance of 8501. effected by Rowley last Mi-
chaelmas, on his shop in the London-road, which esta.
blishnient was furnished from his house in Shoreditch.

In the second case, Mrs. Murphy, who again most dis-
tinctly swore on the cross to the robbery, added, that the
prisoner, in effecting his escape from the house, knocked
her down with the shaft of a knife, and wounded her hus-
band in the eye with the same point of the instrument ;
also, that she had been seven years in collecting the sum,
chiefly by keeping a lodging-house.
That the prosecutrix had communicated the secret of
possessing 100 sovereigns, previous to the day of the Tob-
hery, was sworn to by Margaret Hedger, wife of a cow-
keeper in Dorset-street, Spitalfields ; and the fact of the
prisoner taking money out of the house on the night in
question, was corroborated by Margaret Murphy, daughter
of the prosecutrix, whom he (prisoner) called to hold a
light while he poured a number of sovereigns from a purse,
or bag, into his breeches pocket, but she thought they were
his own.

The prisoners, in both cases, were fully committed to
Newgate.

THE MARKETS.

CITY MARKETS, JAN. 8.

PLANTATION SUGARS.—There has been a good
attendance of buyers at market this morning, but
the business done up to the present hour has not
been very considerable; the Importers are very
firm in their prices, some ask 'an advance. A public
Sale of 120 hhds. Barbadoes went off briskly, and
at higher prices than Jamaicas could be bought
for in the market; 5,627 bags Mauritius Sugar for
public Sale to-morrow are on show this morning,
which may have prevented the buyers from purchas-
ing to any extent in the Raw market, wishing to
know the result of it first.

FOREIGN SUGARS.—Very little doing.
REFINED SUGARS.--There has been a good deal
of business doing in Brown Lumps, 80s. a 81s.;
also in crashed for the Mediterranean; the Grocers
have likewise been buying the descriptions suited to
the home trade freely, and have given full prices.
CoF FEE.—A small parcel of Foreign by Public
Sale this morning, sold at abotkt the previous market
prices, viz., good ordinary St. Domingo rather
broken, 385., and good ordinary Brazil 38s. 6d. a
395. by private contract, there is scarcely any thing
doing. ti
FRUlT.—There is no alteration in the prices of
any description at present.

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK.