The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-22 00:00:00

, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1844.

of Milton," together with the several articles of cutlery,

were his property.
John Partridge, a coachman in the service of the Rev.
Isaac Hall, of Snailwell, in Cambridgeshire, identified
a box coat and some harness, which were burglariously
stolen from his master's stables, in March, 180.
George Townshend, residing at Fordham, stated that
the articles alluded to by the last witness were sold to
him last year by the pnsener, whose sister lived with
him in the capacity of housekeeper.
Superintendent Clarke and Sergeant Brennan proved
that the whole of the property identified by the other
witnesses was found in the possession of the prisoner,

who claimed it as his own.
The prisoner (who declined saying anything) was fully
committed on four distinct cases ; but to afford time for
the identification of a quantity of unclaimed property
which remains in the hands of the police, he will be
brought up again next week.
CLERICENWELL.
George Commodore, dressed in a blue linen smock
frock, and representing himself to be a butcher's boy, was
charged with obtaining, on false pretences, numerous
legs of mutton and sirloins of beef, the property of res-
pectable housekeepers.
Richard Smith, footman to M. Warren, Esq., J.P.,
Montague-street, Russell-square, deposed that between
one and two o'clock in the afternoon of the sth of March,
the prisoner knocked at his master's door, and told wit-
ness, who opened it on his ringing, that he was sent by
his employer, Mr. Kent, butcher, Southampton-row, for
the leg of mutton which had been left there in a mistake
a few minutes previously ; he wished to change the leg
and would bring the right one in a few minutes. Wit-
ness called the cook, who gave him the leg of mutton,
which had been left there by Mr. Kent's messenger. He
never returned, and they were obliged to get another leg
of mutton.
Mr. Kent, the butcher, deposed that he had not autho-
rised the prisoner to take away the leg of mutton, and
had never seen him before. Several of his customers
had been defrauded of joints of meat in the same manner.
Mary Ann King, servant to Mrs. Susanna Francis, a
widow lady, residing at 50, Great Ormond-street,
Bloomsbury, deposed that the prisoner obtained a sir-
loin of beef from her mistress on the 30th of February
last, on a similar pretence as in the former case, alleging
that he was in the employment of Mr. Watling, 21,
Marchmont-street.
Mr. Watling gave similar testimony to Mr. Kent.
Mary Ann Farmer, servant to Mr—Bully, of Bernard-
street, Russell-square, deposed that the prisoner ob-
tained a leg of mutton from her by a like ruse about six
weeks ago.
Sergeant Dodd said the police had obtained informa-
tion of frauds like the present on housekeepers in no less
than fourteen different cases.
Mr. Whiskin, a county magistrate, residing in Upper
Bedford-row, who, on Wednesday week, was defrauded
of a leg of mutton, was on the bench, but could not
identify the prisoner as the person who had committed
the offence.
The Court was crowded with housekeepers and ser-
vants who have been plundered by members of a gang
to which, doubtless, the prisoner belongs. Mr. Ewart,
the salesman, of Newgate-market, was likewise present,
who, we understood, had been defrauded, but he could
not identify the prisoner.
Mr. GREENWOOD committed the prisoner for trial on
the above-mentioned three cases.
Two dustmen, named Eton and Brown, were charged
with the following outrageous conduct:—
Mr: Jenkins, residing at 29, Bedfordbury, and a re-
spectable tradesman residing in Holles-street, Clare-
market, were returning from the funeral of the mother
of the latter, between five and six o'clock on Wednesday
evening last, still dressed in funeral garments,
and were passing in quiet procession through Judd-
street, St. Pancras, when the prisoners, and four or
five other dustmen, not in custody, drove up in dust-
carts, and after breaking the line of procession, one of
the ruffians struck an unoffending female mourner with
his whip. Jenkins remonstrated with Brown, but the
latter struck him in the eye with his clenched fist, and
with such violence as to very much injure and inflame
that.prgan. And, on similar remonstrance, Eton struck
the other complainant in the mouth, so as to cause blood
to flow from it. A'mob of 100 persons soon assembled,
and police-constable, 107 E, with much difficulty se-
cured the prisoners.
The prisoners, in default of the payment of fines, were
committed to the House ofCorrection—Eton for ten days,
and Brown for seven days.
BOW-ST.REE7.

Yesterday John Horne, a young man engaged-as money-
taker at Drury-lane Theatre, was placed at the bar before
Mr. Jardine, charged with embezzling various mined money
received by him for and on account of Mr. Alfred Bunn, the
lessee, his employer.
Samuel Spencer, who had been engaged for three months
in the theatre as checktaker, stated that he knew the prisoner,
who had been in the capacity of moneytaker for the last two
months. On the 15tk inst., when he was passing the pri-
soner's box leading to the gallery;he addressed him and said,
" We may as well make a shilling or two to get a glass of
grog," which witness understood was to keep back a portion
of the money taken at the doors, but he replied he would
have nothing to do with it, and passed on to his check-gate.
A few minutes before the house opened he came to the box
in which witness was sitting, and said he would send him up
four large round checks, which were used for half-price, and
which he was :to keep in his pocket, but the witness refused
again to have anything to do with them, and the prisoner
went away, a third person having come up at the time. The
next night, being stationed in the same gallery, the
prisoner again invited him to take some checks, but he
refused, saying, he could not think of committing a breach
of confidence, and on the following Monday morning
having communicated the circumstance to Mr. Parsons, the
box book-keeper, he received directions how to act in future,
and being again stationed at the gallery door, as the prisoner
passed, he said he wished he could bring him to his senses,
and upon witness asking "Do you think it's all right ?" the
prisoner said, " I think it is," and then he assented to the
proposal. The prisoner then told him he would send him
up some round checks after the run of admission was over,
at the same time directing him to put them into his pocket,
as he received them from persons passing into the theatre,
and give them to him. Before the half-price commenced
on that night twenty checks were presented by persons
who had paid the prisoner, and witness put them into his
pocket instead of the check-box, which was kept locked,
and at, the conclusion of the performance he gave them to
the prisoner, who said it was all right, at the same time
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having gone to drink together, witness asked him if a similar
plan could be adopted, and the prisoner replied " Yes, in the
pit ;" but he did not thinkpursuing such a course. On the
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asked. by a censtable for them, he gave them up; and di-
rectly the prisoner was taken into custody. Witness in-
formed Mr. Parsons every morning of what had taken place,
and he delivered to him the moneys in the same state he had
received them.
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offices to the prisoner, shortly after 8 o'clock, and desired he
would bring his money and check-box to Mr. Bunn's room.
The receipts were then found to he 5/. 10s., which account
st Parsons,
witness
on Monday, proved that ke went with an
having explained the directiens he had given
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tallied with the remainder of the first-price checks; but i n
examining the half-price checks which should not have been
used, there appeared a deficiency of 31, the last witness hav-
ing 20, and the prisoner 8, on his person, with three which
were found in the box, the money for them not being ac-
counted for.
The prisoner said he would reserve his defence; and the
witnesses being bound over, he was fully committed for trial
at the Central Criminal Court.

DISPUTE BETWEEN FRENCH and

ENGLISH SAILORS AT MARSEILLES.
MARSEILLES, ?saner( 14.—This- case came on yester-
day before the Court of Police Correctionelle. The
chief witnesses in support of the prosecution were Capt.
Mottet, master of the Laurentine French coasting ves-
sel, his mate, hie only seaman, his apprentice, and his
cabin boy.
The prisoners were the first mate of the Romulus
English vessel, second mate, and two seamen of the same.
The Counsel for the complainants addressed the Court.
The Procureur du Roi next addressed the Court. He
exaggerated the pretended wrong on the part of the
English; the injury sustained by the French in their
persons, their ship, and their trading intereetss With
this address the proceedings of the day close 4 aid were
resumed this afternoon.
M. Rey de Forests being called on for the defence,
proceeded to expose the perilous position of the
Romulus during the gale, Hid the necessity the captain
was under of seeking a refuge for his ship. He
proved, from his having succeeded in occupying it,
that the position he had attempted -to take up was
practicable ; and he inferred that so injury had re-
sulted to the complainant's vessel from the fact of none
having been proved. He inferred that Captain Esson
had not infringed any of the regulations of the port,
from the fact that, if he had, it would have been the
duty of the captain of the port to prosecute him, which he
would have done, but which he did not; and he logically
concluded, that the manoeuvre which Captain Esson had
executed was agreeable to the usages of the port, and
the position he had assumed lawfully acquired, from the
captain of the port's confirmation of the same, in spite of
the appeal, complaints, and remonstrances of the plaintiff
But, independently of the above, the counsel for the de-
fence was enabled to lay before the Court the captain of
the port's own opinion of the case in question, as far
as his jurisdiction extended, and which completely
exonerated Captain Esson of all blame in the course he
had pursued.
The judgment and sentence of the Court were as fol-
lows :—" Considering that there was evidently an infrac-
tion of the regulations of the port, added to the aggra-
vating eirsumstances of a violation of domicile ;
considering that a struggle ensued, in which blows were
dealt on both sides, and wounds inflicted on the Captain
and his cabin-boy ; and considering that these acts con•
stitute a misdemeanour, punishable under the 311th
article of the Code Penale, the Court decrees and sen-
tences the two mates of the Romulus to a fine of 16f.
each to the Etat Civil, and one months' imprisonment ;
and the two men of the same ship to ten days.' imprison-
ment, besides 500 f. fine for the benefit of the captain of
the Laurentine, and all the costs of the prosecution, to
the charge of the ship Romulus."

LONDON Issmurtox.—On Wednesday last a con-
versazione was held in the library of the Institution, when
a good collection of objects of interest was exhibited. Mr.
Bell lectured in the theatre, and illustrated the admirable
economy of means, exhibited in the animal kingdom, in those
cases where the peculiar wants of certain species are sup-
plied, not by the existence of new and special organs, but by
the adaptation of those which are common to the entire
group ; as when the member, which in one case constitutes
the hand of a monkey, under other devalopementa becomes the
wing of the bat or the fin of the fish. There was a very fall
attendance of proprietors. The neat and last meeting of the
kind is on Wednesday, April 17.
CHANGE or THE IRISH MAIL PacKETs•—The day
is officially announced as the 12th of April for the long-ton-
t/11101*i Change in Vas lioara of 010 snail packets fading.