The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-27 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
(SATURDAY.)
Poisomons CANDLES.---Mr. Blackmore attended
before the Lord Mayor on behalf of Messrs. Francis
Tacker and Co., wax and tallow-chandlers, to hear his.
Lordship's decision as to receiving the oath and de-
claration of Messrs. Tucker and Co., that they never
had used arsenic in making composite or any other.

candles in their manufactory.
The LORD MAYOR said he had come to the resolu-
tion that he had not power to receive the declaration ;
upon which
Mr. Blackmore stated, that in consequence of the
doubts expressed by hiS Lordship at the former hear-
ing, he had been instructed by his client to lay a case
before the Solicitor-General, who, on the perusal of it,
had written the following opinion :
" I am of opinion that the Lord Mayor would not
be justifiedin taking the prFR Eoposed declarations.
D. THESIGER.

"Temple, 23th Jan. 1845."
CLERKEN WELL.
BIRIIT-AL TREATMENT DT A SCLIOOLMASTER.—A
man named Michael Donovan, the master of the
Roman Catholic charity school near Clarendon-square,
St. Pancras, was brought before Mr. Greenwood, at
five o'clock in the evening, charged with unmerci-
fully beating a lad nine years of age, who kad been
committed to his protection.
Before the evidence was given the boy's back was
exhibited, which presented a frightful spectacle, being
covered with bruises. A medical gentleman present,
a total stranger to all the parties interested, proceeded
to examine it, and declared that the child had been
treated in, such a way as was calculated to produce a
disease of the lungs to one of so tender an age.
The complainant was then sworn, and said that on'
Thursday night, after he had retired to rest, his
master came to his room, where there were ten other.
boys who had retired to rest, and in consequence of
his being discovered with his stockings on the de-
fendant beat him with a strap, and, inflicted the in•
juries he had received.
Mr. Gums WOOD asked the little fellow how many
stripes his msster, gave him ?-11e said he did not,
know. •
Mr. GREENWOOD—Is your father here? . Boy—
Xo ; he is in Bn'stol.
Mr. GkaultwooD--,-Where is,your mother? Boy
—She is dead, Sir.
Mr. GREENWOOD (to the defendant)—This ib a
serious charge. 'What have you to say ? Defendant
—The boy had been often told not to go to bed with
his stockings, and he knew that it was against the
rules. He was found with them on on Thursday..
night; and having been told of it, I gave him two
stripes 'with kstrap. He then got under the bed, and
I called him many times to come out. He would
not, and I pulled him up, and gave him two stripes

more.
Mr. GREWIMOOD observed that the boy's back was
in that state that he would not exercise summary
jurisdiction,-and he would send him to be tried before
twelve of his countrymen. The worthy magistrate
then ordered that some of the intelligent boys that
were in the same bed-room as complainant should be
brought as evidence to-morrow (Monday), and the
defendant was held to bail until that day.
BOW-STREET.

, ,TIIB LBICRSTRIL BANK ROI:MEM—On Friday,
Richard Elliot, who stands charged with being con-
cerned in stealing the sum of 1,0711. 16s. 10d., during
the transfer by railway to London, the property of
Messrs; Pares and Co., Leicestershire Joint-stock
Banking Company, was bronght before Mr. Jardine
for final examination.
Mr. William Bradley, 41, Stafford-street, Birming-
ham, gun Maker, said that in the month of September
last he received the letter produced by post, enclosing
the sinister halves of two 5/. Bank of England notes,
and an order for a double-barrelled gun, two single-
barrelled guns, and six pair of pistols, amounting to
121. The numbers were 49,760 and 92,011, and
having completed the order he sent the goods to Mr.
Moore, care of Mr. Draper, Globe Tavern, Hatton-
garden, but he never received the corresponding half
notes.
Mr. James Ball, clerk in the service of Messrs.
Smith, Payne, and Co., bankers, stated that on the
14th of September he received from. Messrs. Pares
and Co., of Leicester, the . corresponding half notes
spoken to by the last witness.
Mrs. Jane Jones stated that in September last.she
was housekeeper in the service of Mr. Draper; at the
Globe Tavern, and recollected a person coming •to
request that a letter addressed to Mr. John Moore
might be received there. She afterwards took the
letter and a box directed to that person, but as the
than wore a fustian coat and a different dress from
the prisOner; she could not positively swear that he
was the person.
Mr. JARDINI ordered the prisoner to be committed
for trial.
CIIARGO or BURGLARY.--A young man named
Thomas Coffee, described as a painter and glazier,
was placed at the bar, charged with stealing from the
Feathers public-house, in Great Wild-street, Lin-
coln's Inn-fields, the sum of 901. in gold, 8/. in silver,
a quantity otcOpper money, silk handkerchiefs, silver
spoons, and a silver watch, the property of George
Mason, the landlord.
The prosecutor's wife stated that the prisoner had
been her lodger for a week, having resided in the
house previously to her husband taking the premises.
About eight o'clock, on the night of the 26th of De-
cember, she wanted to go to her bedroom, but found,
after repeated attempts, that the staircase door was
fastened, which she concluded was done by her hus-
band, who was not in the house at the time. About
twelve o'clock her husband opened, it, and having
gone' nto the room he found that the box had been
broken open, and all the property it contained taken
away. The same evening the prisoner borrowed ss.
from her husband, and then went away, leaving three:
suits of clothes behind him. Ths prisoner had heard
a conversation between her and her husband about
going to the distillery with the money that had been
stolen, and she never 3101 him again till he was in
custbdi. • •
The prisoner denied having overheard any such
conversation.
Constable Thompson, F division, said he traced the
prisoner to No. 2, Vine-court, Clerkenwell, where
he apprehended hiin in a back room. Three keys
were found upon him, one of which opened the box
from which the property was stolen, together with 53
pawnbrokers' duplicates. He knew the prisoner to
be a returned transport.
Mr. JARDINE ordered him to be remanded for a
week.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
DARING STREET ROBBRRIES.—Sarah Smith was
charged with having robbed a barrister named Hethe-
rington of his purse, containing three sovereigns and
some silver. •
Inspector Plume told Mr. Hardwick, the sitting
Magistrate, that the prisoner had been brought into
the station-house by a police-constable, and that the
complainant had made the following charge against
her :—He said •as he was passing down Regent-
street the previous evening, he was accosted by the
prisoner, who persisted in walking by his side,
although he desired her not to annoy him by her
company. When near Glasshouse-street, two or
three men, whom he had every reason to believe
were in league with the prisoner, cattle up to him,
and crossed him in such a manner that he was obliged
to remonstrate, upon which he was suddenly knocked
down by one of the party. He was much injured
on the knee by the fall, but he succeeded in giving
the prisoner into custody, as she was not able to get
away sa expeditiously as her presumed confederates.
The complainant made his charge in the usual way,
and promised to attend in the morning at this Court,
but he had failed to make his appearance.
A German got into the witness-box, and said the
prisoner had robbed him of 191. a few months ago
under similar circumstances.
Mr. Hannwrcx. said this was a class of offences
that appeared to be very much on the increase.
Persons of respectability were accosted by women of
loose character, and then, at the first convenient
of portunity, they were set upon and robbed by men
who were acting in collusion with the woman. He
should remand the prisoner until Thursday next, in
order to procure the attendance of the party who had
been plundered.
Thursday, a gentleman, whose name did not trans-
pire, but whose appearance indicated great respecta-
bility, applied to Mr. Hardwick for advice, under
these singular circumstances :
He had got into an omnibus at the west end of the
town a short time back, but, as the vehicle, was in-
conveniently crowded, he alighted after proceeding a
short distance only. To his surprise, he was suddenly
seized by a lady, who was also a passenger in the
omnibus, and accused of having, in company with
another person, robbed a friend of hers in an omnibus
on the previous day. In vain he assured her that she
had made irmistake ; she persisted in the charge, and
eventually gave him into the custody of a police-
constable, who took him to the station-house. Here,
however, the lady's positiveness deserted her, and she
admitted that she had possibly been mistaken, refusing
therefore to proceed further in her charge. He was
released, and naturally feeling annoyed at what had
occurred, he had determined to make application at
this Court for an assault summons against the lady,
who had laid hand on him in order to detain him.
Mr. HARDWICK said the occurrence was one, no
doubt, of a very-unpleasant character, the case being
clearly one of mistaken identity, but be did not think
he was warranted in granting a summons for assault,
The remedy of the applicant was by action.
The applicant said he did not wish to take that
course, and retired.
MAnYLEBOI V E.
MYSTERIOUS ROBBERY or PLATB.—On Friday
John Simms, driver of the cab No. 1,190, was charged
with having stolen a considerable quantity of silver
plate, the property of Captain T. Culler, who, a short

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