The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-17 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

F. G. Swift and C. G. Swift, stock makers, Addle-
street, Wood-street—W. Thomlinson and E. Robson,
farmers, Hesket, Cumberland—Jas. Park, John Wemyss,
L. Chalmers, John Park, J. Lovie, G. Walker, J.
Walker, and J. Webster, Fraserburgh Ship and Boat
Building Company—H. Williams and P. Williams, silk
mercers, Chester—W. Weedon, J. Barker, and A. 11.
Codner, London (so far as regards W. Weedon)-0.
Jenner and C. Jenner, mealmen, Chelsea—R. Hind and
R. Clarke, brass founders, Carlisle—T. Phillips, T. W.
Cooper, and R. Rough (so far as regards R. Rough)—T.
Penny and G. J. Penny, painters, Berkeley-place, Con-
naught-square—W. T. Hesketh, 11. Hesketh, and E.
Hesketh, corn dealers, Manchester (so far as regards E.
Hesketh)—D. Reddin, M. J. Reddin. and E. Reddin,
contractors, Castle-yard, Holland-street, Blackfriars-road
(so far as regards D. Reddin)—G. S. Chapman and C.
T. Chapman, eating-housekeepers Bishopsgate-street—
T. Mellersh, H. Marshall, and H. Mellersh, attorneys,
Godalming, Surrey—C. Green and E. J. A. Dimsdale,
merchants, Coleman-street—J. Shuttleworth and H. W.
Godwin, boatwrights, Lincoln—M. Davis and H. Aaron,
dentists, Bristol—R. W. Cronk and W. Tapley, drapers,
Seal, near Sevenoaks, Kent—W. Beeby and T. Brown,
slate merchants, Maryport, Cumberland—J. F. Cork and
J. L. De Carle, coach builders, New Bond-street.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. . _ _

ROBERT CRAWFORD, farmer, Greenock, Aug. 23
and Sept. 13, at twelve, at the office of Dunlop and Neill,
Greenock.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the
week ending Aug. 13, 1844, is 325. 7id. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY. )
MANSION-HOUSE.
A young man, named John Tennyson, was brought
before the Lord Mayor, charged with having robbed
Mr. Thomas Dunster, of Gun-street, Spitalfields, of a
pocket handkerchief.
The prosecutor said that as he was passing through
Petticoat-lane he felt somebody busy about his
pocket, and on suddenly turning round saw his hand-
kerchief in the prisoner's hand. He immediately
collared the thief, but was surrounded by a gang of
fellows, evidently the companions of the man with
whom he was engaged, and if it had not been for the
police, who ran to his assistance, he entertained no
doubt that his life would have been endangered, as,
amongst the crowd, he saw several most desperate
vagabonds, and there appeared to be gathered together
about 150 persons.
The prisoner—My Lord, the gentleman is all in
a mistake. He happened to fall up against me, and
when I turned about he produced the handkerchief,
and said I had robbed him of it, though I never thought
of such a thing since I was born.
Several of the policemen stated that they had fre-
quently seen the prisoner in the company of thieves;
and Gooch, the turnkey of the Giltspur-street
Compter, recognised him as a customer.
The LORD MAYOR observed that the prisoner was
just the sort of person who ought to be sent out of
the country.—Committed for trial.
Mr. George Deacon, a person who was said to be
very respectable, was brought before the Lord Mayor
upon the charge of having caused great disturbance
in Mark-lane and its neighbourhood by addressing
the passers-by in the language of Scripture, and dis-
tributing amongst them hand-bills, containing a most
extravagant rhodomontade about his former business
of a farmer and breeder of cows and sheep, and his
present occupation of promoter of the religious ad-
vantages of his fellow-creatures.
The LORD MAYOR asked Mr. Deacon whether he
belonged to any business ?—He replied, no. I am
disposed to do nothing but to serve the Lord by ad-
vancing the interests of his creatures.
The LORD MAYOR—What money have you about
ou ? Mr. Deacon—Oh ! I have as much as I want.
Ihave twenty sovereigns, at any rate.
The LORD MAYOR—I am told by your uncle that
he has reason to believe that you have a great deal
more.
Mr. Deacon—l have no more than I shall require
to answer my necessities in doing the work to which
the Lord has called me.
The LORD MAYOR—But you must know that we
cannot permit such interruptions to business as your
conduct has occasioned.
Mr. Deacon—lf the Lord requires me to do it how
can I, his humble servant, refuse to obey. Oh, no, no.
The uncle of the defendant declared that the poor
man was harmless, and disposed to perform generous
actions, and that no doubt he would attend to the
direction of the Lord Mayor.
His LORDSHIP having addressed the defendant in
a very kind and soothing manner, obtained from him
a promise that he would, if possible, serve the Lord
without preventing his creatures from saving them-
selves.
The defendant, who was supposed to have nearly
1001. about him, then retired in company with his
uncle.

BOW-STREET.
Charles Lamb Dowden, lately an actor at Sadler's-
wells Theatre, was brought up, having been reman-
ded, charged with forging and uttering several bills
of exchange, purporting to be drawn on Mr. Thomas
Hanger, and accepted by him.
The prisoner was the nephew of the person whose
name had been forged. In March last the prisoner
called on Mr. Edward Wells, who keeps an inn near
to Sadler's-wells Theatre, and asked him to cash an
order for 9/. His uncle, he said, allowed him so
much a year, but as hi 3 uncle's pension would not be
due for a few days, he had allowed the prisoner to
draw upon him at a short date. Upon this represent-
ation, the witness cashed the order. When it had
run out he presented it for payment at the address
mentioned in the order, but it was dishonoured, as no
such person as Thomas Nagger lived there. Upon
this he went to the Surkey Theatre, where the pri-
soner had been engaged, and there saw him, and told
him that the order had been dishonoured. Upon this
the prisoner expressed his astonishment, and said he
would take up the order in the course of the day.
He did not do so, and the witness heard nothing of
him until he was taken into custody.
There were several other cases of a precisely simi-
lar nature against the prisoner.
The old man, the uncle of the prisoner, whose
name he had forged, is upwards of ninety years o"
age, and is bedridden, having been ill for a consider.
able time.

Mr. TWYFORD remanded the prisoner until next
Friday, in order that he might attend at the old man's
bedside to take his deposition. It is, however, much
feared that the old man will not survive until the day.
The prisoner was then committed on the several
charges of forgery, but was ordered to be brought up
again on Friday next.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A A.TEMBEIR or THE Tunr.—George Martin, alias
Toby, a powerful man, who called himself a jockey
and gentlemen's bet-maker, was summoned before
Mr. Hardwick, for having cruelly beaten Richard
Parrott.
The parties lodged at No. 14, Shepherd's-market,
where some differences . occurred between them.
About six weeks ago the defendant attacked the com-
plainant outside of the house about half-past twelve
o'clock at night, knocked him down, broke his leg,
and hammered his head against the pavement. The
landlord of the house came out, and succeeded in put-
ting a stop to this ruffianly attack by seizing the de-
fendant by the throat and dragging him out. While
the complainant was resting on a step of the door, the
defendant rushed at him and renewed his violence.
The bystanders interfered, and the complainant was
protected from further injury. As it was discovered
that the complainant's leg was broken he was re-
moved to the hospital, where he has been confined
ever since.

The landlord of the house, named Rowe, corrobo-
rated the statement of the ferocious violence displayed
by the defendant towards the complainant.
In reply to the charge, the defendant said he had
been jockey boy in the service of the Duke of Cleve-
land and afterwards of the Earl of Pembroke. Re-
cently he had picked up a living by going about for
gentlemen to see horses entered for the different races,
and to form a judgment of their chance of winning.
If bets were won on information which he furnished
them, he received a gratuity ; if they were lost he re-
ceived nothing. With respect to the assault, a quar-
rel had occurred, and a fight had ensued, in which the
complainant got the worst.
Mr. HAanwicic said nothing could be more cowardly
and unmanly than for the defendant to beat the com-
plainant's head on the pavement after he had broken
his leg. He should inflict a fine of 41. for the assault,
or six weeks' imprisonment.
CAUTION TO HOTEL-KEEPERS.--Mr. Dick, pro-
prietor of the Blue Posts Hotel, Haymarket, was
summoned by the police for having his house open
after the hour prescribed by the Act of Parliament.
Police-constable Gray proved that he went into
the defendant's house at twenty minutes past twelve
o'clock on Saturday night, and found three persons,
men and women, taking refreshment at the bar.
He went up stairs and found several other persons
having supper.
Mr. Dick said he was willing to admit the cor-
rectness of the statement of the police. His house
was an hotel, and frequented by company of respec-
tability. Parties who attended the Opera, after the
performance repaired to his house for supper and
refreshment. As the utmost decorum and propriety

were observed, he really thought some little indul-
gence ought to be extended towards him.
The police admitted that the parties in the house
appeared to be persons of respectability.
Mr. flannwicK said the public might possibly
suffer some inconvenience in not having the means of
procuring refreshment after the performances of the
theatre ; but the Act was peremptory, and he was
bound to put it in force. If an indulgence was ex-
tended to well-conducted houses, other houses not so
well-conducted would claim the same privilege, and
thus the very evil which the Legislature sought to
remedy would be created to a great extent.
The fine of 20s. was then inflicted.
The next case was against M. Da6ourg., the well-
known restaurateur, in the Haymarket.
The evidence was similar to the previous case, and
the penalty was the same.
Mr. Baker, the late superintendent of the C division,
accompanid by Mr. Beresford, the new superinten-
dent, came into Court, and, addressing Mr. Hard-
wick, begged to be allowed, on his retirement from
the police, to express his grateful thanks for the
kindness and assistance he had invariably met with
from every Magistrate who had sat on the bench, and
to beg for a continuance of the same advantages to
his successor.
Mr, HARDwicx said he was pleased at the oppor-
tunity of expressing his satisfaction at the respect
and attention which the officers of the police had in-
variably paid to the suggestions of the bench. Such
a good understanding was calculated to render the
administration of the law by Magistrates more secure
and more respected, and at the same time to add to
the efficiency and the respectability of the police force.
The parties then retired.
UNION-HALL.
Yesterday Sarah .Bagley, who it will be recollected
assumed the dress of a sailor to accompany a young
midshipman to sea, and who was charged with having
absconded from home, taking a quantity of clothes
and also some money belonging to her father, a letter-
sorter in the Post-office, was again brought before
Mr. Cottingham, having been remanded from Wed-
nesday, in order to have inquiries made with a view
of discovering her paramour.
The girl's father said that she still maintained the
same silence with respect to giving any information
as to the person who inveigled her from home, as she
did on the former occasion ; the only circumstance
she divulged being that he was a midshipman in the
navy, but as to what ship he belonged she refused to
tell. He added that he was willing to overlook all
that had occurred, if she promised never again to
assume the disguise of the other sex ; that he had a
comfortable home for her, and that he and her mother
would receive her with open arms.
Mr. COTTINGHAM in vain endeavoured to extract
from the girl the reason of her having quitted home
under such extraordinary circumstances, and he pro-
ceeded to put several questions as to her acquaintance
with the man whom she said, on the last occasion
when she was brought up, had promised her a berth
on board his ship to go up the Mediterranean.
She said in reply, that she went to Dover with him,
and that he took her on board his ship, which was
lying in the docks there, and that she walked on board,
and that he was called "
Ned
" by his shipmates ; that
when she returned on shore, he took her into a pub-
lic-house, desiring her to wait for him, but he never
returned, and she was obliged to make the best of her
way back to London ; that she afterwards met him in
town, when he promised to take her to Italy, and
marry her, and she prepared to go with him in the
garb of a sailor, to work her passage, and to make
him fulfil his vows when they got to the end of their
voyage.
Mr. COTTINGHAM said that he now believed the
accused had been telling a great many falsehoods, for
it was absurd to suppose that there were men-of-war
lying in the dock at Dover; that she had prevaricated
a good deal in her story, and that he supposed she
was anxious to make a noise and excite the astonish-
ment of people by acting in the manner she had done.
She must get rid of the romantic nonsense which was
' floating in her brain of her inclination to act the part
of a heroine in following her lover in disguise to Italy,
and instead of reading such balderdash as she was in
•, the habit of doing, attend to her domestic affairs—to
stop at home at the house of her father, who was a
respectable man, and held a responsible situation, in-
stead of playing the fool, which would assuredly end
in her destruction. The Magistrate, having cautioned
her as to her future conduct, consented to liberate her
on her promise to accompany her parents home, to
which she agreed : and she was accordingly given up
to them, and they left the Court, she having pre-
viously doffed the sailor's togs and dressed herself in
her own clothes.

HAMMERSMITH.
ROBBERY OF THE WINDSOR. COACH.—Yesterday
a respectably dressed young man, named Frederick
Fleming, described as an omnibus conductor, was
brought up before Mr. G. Clive, the sitting Magis-
trate, in the custody of police-constable Puddiford, T
127, charged on suspicion of having been concerned,
with two others not in custody, in stealing a port-
manteau and a box containing jewellery and other
property, to the value of nearly 2001., from Stacey's
Windsor coach, on the Bth instant, at Kensington.
Evidence having been given to show that the pri-
soner was the only outside passenger when the coach
stopped at Kensington, that he was seen in a sus-
picious position there while the coachman was setting
down a lady, and that the portmanteau had dis-
appeared,
The prisoner, in answer tb the charge, protested
his entire innocence. He waa, he said, the brother of
the proprietor of the Chertsey and Chobham coach,
with which he came up on the day in question to
Kew-bridge, but it there became very heavily loaded,
and he got off and came up by the Windsor coach.
Mr. CLIVE said the case was one of strong sus-
picion. It would be necessary to have the attendance
of Mrs. Batchelor ; for which purpose, and to give
inquiry, he should remand the pri-
stoimneerfour furtherntilThu rsdaynext.