The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-17 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS.

(Before E. PENRHYN, Esq., and a Bench of Magistrates.)
LAMB STEALlNG.—Wednesday Wm. Scrivens, 23, was
indicted for stealing two lambs, the property of William
Fuller, and in a second count he was charged with killing
We lambs with intent to steal their carcasn.
Mr. Wallinger prosecuted, and Mr. Charnock defended the
prisoner.
The prosecutor is a farmer at Tolworth, and on the night
of the 6th Of October his shepherd left a flock of seventy-
two lambs safe in the fold. The next morning two were
missing, and on a search being made, the skins and head
were found in a ditch in an adjoining field. Suspicion at-
tached to the prisoner immediately, and upon some consta-
bles of the V division going to his house they observed in a
pot a quantity of lam that had evidently been recently
killed, and also four sheeps' kidneys. Upon comparing this
meat with the remains of the joints left in the skins, it was
found to fit it exactly. In addition to these facts, it was
proved that the prisoner had a very peculiar gait, and turned
his toes cut a great deal in walking, and this corresponded
exactly with the footmarks that were observed near the
sheepfold.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty' and the Chairman
sentenced the prisoner to be transported for ten years.
Music LaccssEs.—The Court then proceeded to hear ap-
plications for the renewal of licenses for music and dancing,
and those of the Southampton Railway Arms, at the Kings-
ton station, Vauxhall-ga dens, the St. Helena-gardens, at
Rotherhithe, the Castle Tavern, Richmond, and the Rose-
mary Branch, Peckham, were granted without any obser-
vation. _ _

Mr. Charnock applied, under the recent Act of Parliament,
for a license f,r an establishment to be used as a lunatic
asylum, at Epsom.
'ln answer to a question from the Bench, the deputy clerk
of the peace said that the necessary notice required by the
Act had been given, and the plans of the building had been
deposited in his (ace ; and the Court then granted the li-
cense.
Mr. Richard Pierce. of the Grapes, Great Suffolk-street,
renewed his application for a license to have music and
dancing.
Mr. Knapp and Mr. Corner supported this application,
which was opposed by Mr. Scriven.
It will be recollected that a similar application was made
last year, but the license was refused on account of it ap-
pearing that after a previous refusal by the Court Mr. Pierce
had continued his performances without any license; and the
Court, principally, as it appeared upon that ground, refused
him a license, hut at the same time gave an intimation that,
if the house was properly conducted for the ensuing year,
they would give him one.
Mr Knight, in support of the present application, put in
a petition, signed by the churchwardens, the parish officers,
several of the board of guardians, and four hundred and
seventy of the principal inhabitants of the parish, which
testified to the respectability of the applicant, and the good
order that prevailed in his establishment, and prayed the
Court to grant the license.
Mr. Scriven said, he had a petition, signed by the gover-
nor and deputy governor of the Queen's Prison, and a num-
ber of the inhabitants, praying that the license might not be
granted.
The Court, after some discussion, granted the license.
A similar application was made on behalf of Mr. Harr''s, of
the Salmon public-house, Union-street, which the Court also
granted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Wednesday, a gentleman applied to the Lord Mayorfor in-
formation in what manner to proceed against a person of the
same name, to whom the postman, by mistake, handed letters
connected with railway speculations meant for the applicant,
and who opened and read them. He admitted, in answer to
question) from the Lord Mayor, that the offending person,
who was no other than his own brother,
, had, in all proba-
bility, no felonious intention in opening the letters of allot-
ment ; but he declared that the practice was extremely dis-
agreeable, and niight be prejudicial to him if continued.
The LORD MAYOR said that no offence had been com-
mitted of which he could take cognisance. His Lordship
added that he knew 14ut very little indeed of railroads
beyond the fact that every body was talking of them, and
that when a man lookedtoihne eretoinanaesi
we(spahpyerwhfoart
ha:liade
relief, his agony was sure
met with in every page.
ie ha 1 reason to believe, how-
ever, that although be had no shares in any railway corn-
pang, some portion of the press would have it that he either
was, or was to be, a participator in the advantages arising
from some of the speculations ; for, in an article which
appeared in a morning paper a.
day or two ago, it was
h
asked why the Lord Mayor had stepped forward in the
case of the Direct Loden and Manchester (Ashurst's) line ?
The writer of the article in question had paid him a com-
pliment to which every member of the Corporation knew
him to be not at all entitled ; and lie believed the very re-
port of the
proceedings in the Common Council, on the pre-
sentation of the petitions on Thursday last, would testify on
what very indifferent authority the writer of the paragraph
relied: His Lordship said it might be useful to tho,e whose
letters happened to fall into the hands of persons for whom
they were not intended, to know that the only remedy ap-
peared to be by complaint to the Postmaster-General of the
neg:igence of the servants of the establishment.
MAIILBOROUGH.STRERT.
William Humphries, a solicitor, living at No. 10, Water-
loo-row, King's-road, was charged with having stolen a
number of sovereigns from the person of George Flowers,
hat-dyer, Great Gni Idti ird-street.
Benjamin Caunt, the well-known pugilist, said the rob-
St. martircs.dane, of which house he is th landlord.
bery occurred in the parlour of the Coac and Horses public-
house,
The prisoner and the prosecutor were in his parlour last
evening
sparring and joking with each other. The prose-
cutor was the worse for liquor. He saw the prisoner put his
hand into the prosecutors waistcoat pocket, and take out a
number of sovereigr?. Ile told the.prisoner he would allow
nothing of that sort in his house, and desired him to return
the money he had taken. The prisoner handed the money to
a arson sittiag in the parlour, who contrived to get out of