The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-09 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

ROBBERY AT A BROTHEL—Yesterday Robert
Wendover, a tall thin man, who wore a shade over
his eyes, aid Thomas Dennis, a short and thick-set
man, wearing a smock• frock, were placed at the bar
before Mr.. Broughton, the Magistrate, on suspicion of
having loo2en concerned in stealing a valuable gold
watch, which was now proved to be the property of
Mr. Bennett, a surgeon, resident in Upper Southwick-
street, Hyde Park.
About noon yesterday the prisoner Dennis offered
a gold watch in pledge for .51., at the shop of Mr.
Peachy, a parnbroker, in Goswell-street, stating that
he had been sent with it by Mr. Richards, of North-
ampton-square. Mr. Peachy detained him in order
that he might make inquiry, as he suspected the watch
to have 'o,_;en stolen, but while he turned his back the
prisoner :ran away, but w2.s pursued and taken back
to the s.:J-lop. He got away again, however, but was
again pursued, and after a hard run and much
enasilig, in the course or which he was lost sight of
for a few- minutes, he was at last found concealed in
a cow-shed, and was given in charge to police-con-
stable 92; G. lie then said the fact was, that he had
not been sent to pawn the watch by Mr. Richards,
but had it from a man with a shade over his eye, and
he mentioned where that person was then to be found.
Policeman 142 G, said that he went to the St. John
of Jerusalem public-house, Jerusalem-square, where
he found. in the top room the prisoner Wendorer, who
had a shade over his eyes, and answered the descrip-
tion which the other prisoner had given. Wendover
being told that he was taken into custody on suspi-
cion of stealing a gold watch, said he would say no-
thing about it till he got to e station-house, where
he made a statement to the sergeant on duty.
Sergeant Ellis, who received the charge at the sta-
tion-house, said Wendover told him that he had found

the watch in Tottenham-court-road, and that he did
not know- what had become of a gold chain which he
admitted was then attached to it. On searching him
a knife and case, now produced, were found upon
•him ; and also a document, produced, which pur-
ported to be the Queen's free pardon from seven
years' transportation.
Mr. Ben nett, the surgeon, now identified the gold
watch, .and. also a knife and. case now produced; and
stated that on Thursday se'n night he went to a place
in Brook-street with a female, whom he had met in
the New-road, and there lost his watch with gold
chain, &c. and also his gold pin, silk handkerchief,
tooth pick, knife and case, and about 19s. in cash.
The prisoner Wenclovcr, who felt his way as he
moved es if nearly blind, now repeated that he bad
found the batch, and sent his fellow-prisoner to pawn
it. He admitted that he had been convicted and trans-
ported, but afterwards pardoned, as shown in the pro-
duced document ; but neither he nor the other pri-
soner would state where they lived.
Mr. BROUGHTON remanded them both.

OCCUPATIONS OF THE POPULA-
TION, ACCORDING TO THE CENSUS

OF 1841.

That portion of the census which relates to the oc-
cupations of the population is only completed as to
27 counties ; those not yet finished being the follow-
ing thirteen, viz. :—Lancaster, Salop, Somerset,
Hants, Stafford, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Warwick,
Westmoreland, Wilts, Worcester, and York. These
13 counties include the principal manufacturing
counties of England—viz., those of Lancashire, York-
shire, Staffordshire, and Warwickshire ; and there-
fore it may 4e presumed, that the proportions ex-
hibited in the other 27 counties will become still more
favourable to the manufacturing and trading portion
of the people, when these great manufacturinc,
districts are included. The proportion of the
various classes in 27 counties in England—viz.,
Bedford, Berks, Bucks, Cambridge, Chester, Corn-
wall, Cumberland, Devon, Dorset, Derby, Durham,
Essex, Gloucester, Hereford, Hertford, Huntingdon
Kent, Leicester, Lincoln, Middlesex, Monmouth
Norfolk, Northampton, Northumberland, Notting.
ham, Oxford, and llutlandshire, comprising a popula.
tion of 28,048,321—are as follow :
Farmers, graziers, yeomen
Agricultural labourers

640,222

Persons employed in trade and other occupa-
tions
Persons returned as of independent means
Residue of population, consisting of almspeo-
plc, pensioners, paupers, beggars, other per-
sons (of course including females not in
trade, and children)

,tal. population
The decimal proportions .of the different classes may
therefore be thus stated :
Farmers and agricultural labourers 8 per cent.
Persons employed in trade and other

occupations
Persons of independent means
Residue of population

1 00• per cen

A ITARD CASE.—It is most probably known to our
readers that in 1830 an order emanated from the Horse
Guards declaring that the widow of no officer who had
served for a less period than ten years should be entitled
to a pension. It is not our present purpose to discuss
the propriety of such an order, so far as it relates to
the widows of those who have entered the service as
commissioned officers, hut we notice the subject with
the most sincere wishes that the authorities at the
Horse, Guards will, upon consideration, come to the just
and charitable conclusion that the case which we now
lay before our readers does not come within the
spirit of the order of 1830—a cold interpretation may
bring it within the letter. The sad case is this:—A
gallant soldier served for twenty-eight years in the ranks
of the 78th Regiment, for twenty-five of which he was
a non-commissioned officer. He rose to the rank of
sergeant-major, serving in the West and East Indies,
and was at length, through the unaided recommendation
of his own merits, promoted to an ensigncy in the 78th
Regiment. From that corps he was removed to the
22d Regiment, and served in the late campaign, under
Sir Charles Napier, in Sinde, where he fell a victim to
that illness which, more than the enemy's fire, thinned
our brave army. At the time of his death this
officer was acting adjutant to a wing of the regiment,
and we are assured that had a vacancy occurred, his
gallant commander, Colonel Pennefather, who has often
spoken of him as one of the best officers and soldiers
he ever knew, would have made him adjutant to the
regiment. The widow of this old soldier and officer ap-
plies for the usual pension ; she is met by the order of
1830, and told that she has no claim, inasmuch as her
husband had not served his Sovereign as a commissioned
officer for 10 years. In the name of common justice, is
this tho fitting answer to give to the widow of a gallant
soldier who, though not promoted to an ensigney until
1838, had been faithfully serving in every subordinate
grade of the profession from 1816? The case of this
widow is still further aggravated by the misfortune of
her having to maintain two daughters by a former mar-
riage of her late gallant husband. Most sincerely do we
hope that the authorities at the Horse Guards may re-
consider this case, which is not more distressing than it
will be disgraceful to the national honour, should -the
just claim of the afflicted widow be repulsed by the un-
feeling interpretation of an order which never contem-
plated such a claim.—Observer.
-The Earl of Iladdington visited sir James Graham
yesterday,