The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-06 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

Up to the hour of going to press the business of this
Court had not commenced, owing to the grand jury
sending in no bills of indictment.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
A foreigner, whose name was not ascertained in con-
sequence of his pertinaciously refusing to understand the
questions which were put to him, and who had the ap-
pearance of a servant of the higher class, was charged
before Mr. Hall with obtaining money under false pre-
tences from several hotel-keepers.
George Hill, hotel-keeper at Spring-gardens, stated
that, on Saturday afternoon, between three and four
o'clock, the prisoner went to his (witness's) house to take
lodgings, as ho said, for a foreign gentleman, his master,
whom, he said, he was about to bring to that hotel in a
cab. Having taken the rooms, he asked witness if he
would lend him half-a-crown, for the purpose of paying
the fare of the cab, as his master had no English coin.
Witness gave him the money, but having some
suspicions of his character, he desired the waiter to
watch him. The waiter followed him to several other
hotels, where, it appears, he -made similar applications
with the same success. But one of the hotel-keepers,
to whom it was suspected he intended to apply, having
been warned in time by the waiter who was watching the
prisoner, gave him in charge.
Several cases of a similar nature were gone into ; but
Mr. Hall, considering the evidence too scanty for con-
viction, cautioned, and discharged the prisoner, and the
prosecutors left the Court with manifest discontent.

SOUTHWARK.—(THIS DAY.)
Elizabeth Griffiths, servant at the Suffolk Arms,
Tooley-street, was charged with robbing her employer.
It appeared that money had been frequently missed
from a shelf in the bar, and, for the purpose of detecting
the thief, some penny pieces were marked and placed
there. On Saturday lest the prisoner being noticed to
leave the spot was subsequently searched, and several of
them were found in her possession.—She was remanded.

LAMBETH.—(THISDAY.)
George Mason, alias Fowler, a young man, was charged
with stealing a basket of wearing apparel, of the value
of 6/., on the 9th of November.
Susan Lowe, a laundress, stated that on the evening
in question she employed the prisoner to go with her to
carry a basket of clothes to St. Martin's-lane. The pri-
soner walked exceedingly fast, and Mrs. Lowe desired
him to go slower ; but when opposite the Marsh-gate he
contrived to give witness the slip, there being a great
crowd, and she never saw the prisoner or the clothes
again.
James Brooks, an active constable of the L division,
apprehended the prisoner in Chelsea workhouse.
Mrs. Lowe said she was very poor, and had to support
her aged mother. She had been compelled to make good
the loss.
The prisoner denied all knowledge of the robbery.
The prisoner was then remanded, to give the constable
time to find where the clothes had been pledged.

CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.)
George Salisbury, a powerfully-built man, was charged
with the following savage conduct:—
On the previous night ho was creating a disturbance
in bpencer-street, Clerkenwell. Police-constable 29 G
repeatedly directed him to go away. The prisoner com-
menced an indiscriminate attack on several persons who
were quietly standing by—two he struck on the face,
and seizing the finger of a third in his mouth, crushed
it between his teeth. The officer then took him into cus-
tody. 153 G swore he was knocked down twelve times
by the prisoner ; 170 G that ho was knocked down
three times.

The prisoner was sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JAN. 6.—Wind S. to S.W., fresh breeze, and
fine weather, mild.
DEAL, JAN. 4.—Wind W.N.W., very light. 5. W. to
W.S.W., moderate. 5. Arrd. Helvellyn, Tullidge,' Sin-
gapore; Alexander, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Arab,
Hobart Town; George Home, Deshent, South Seas ;
Orleana, Cameron, and China, Livesay, Calcutta ;
Orynthia, Moulmein; Eliza Scott, Beal, Ichabo©; Wool-
sington, Johnson, and William Alfred, Culverwell, An-
tigua ; Prince Albert, Saber, New York ; American
Lass, and Alexander, St. John's, New Brunswick; Aria,
Quebec. Sld. Aurelia, Sydney ; Eliza, Sierra Leone ;
Planet, Jamaica; Caroline, St. John's, New Brunswick;
Arrow, Madagascar.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 4 AND s.—Wind W.-s.—Arrd.
William, Rowe, Quebec.
OFF MARGATE, JAN. s.—Carrara, Mailler, Mauritius;
Pearl, Bowles, St. John's, New Brunswick.
COWES, JAN. 4 and s.—Wind W.—Arrd. Daphne,
Gjohne, Bahia.
SOUTHAMPTON, JAN.s.—Arrd. Forth steamer,,Nevett,
West Indies, left Bermuda 21st ult.; William Lushing-
t on, Gill, Quebec, with loss of one of her masts.
POOLE, JAN. 3.—Arrd. Copia, Jarvis, Ichaboe. 5.
Hearts of Oak, Cook, Newfoundland ; Velocity, Ham-
burgh, for Newfoundland.
OFF SWANAGE, JAN. 3.—Wellington, Wilson,
OFF TORBAY, JAN. 3.—Wind S.W.—Robert and
Louisa, Voss, Havannah.
DARTMOUTH, JAN. s.—Wind S.W. to W.S.W.—Sid.
about thirty sail of coasters eastward.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. s.—Wind S.W.—Put back, Sophia,
for Newcastle, with loss of sails and mainboom, and
other damage, having been in contact with the Pandora,
Cunningham ; True Blue, having been in contact with a
brig, name unknown. Sid. The IVindbound.
OFF THE WlGHT.—Danae, Forster, Porto Rico, for
Hamburgh.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 5.—A schooner is ashore on the
Horse Bank, near Southport.
MAURITIUS.—Arrd. Phlox steamer, Liverpool and
Cape of Good Hope.
OFF ICIIABOE, NOVEMBER.—DonegaI, London.