The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-26 00:00:00

Foster, who...had been acquitted, was however again
plr.ced at the bar, and arraigned on the other indict-
ment; but no evidence being offered against her by
Counsel for the prosecution, she was acquitted, nr.d
ordered to be discharged.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

GRETILLR-STREET HOSPITAL.—The LORD MAYOR
said he had received a letter, the publication of which
he had every reason to believe would materially aid a
charity, the utility of which was likely to be put
greatly to the test during the approaching winter.
The_ institution had become more generally known
when the cholera was making its ravages, and the
amount of good which it had accomplished was, he
had good grounds for supposing, incalculable. The
experiment which those who superintended the insti-
tution were now making was one of great extent, pro-
mising great advantages to the public, and he hoped
the public benevolence would exhibit itself in the
hearty support of its object. The following is a copy:—
" Mr LORD,—As your Lordship is ever ready to
assist the cause of true charity with your influential
example, it would be but a false compliment were I to
apologise to your Lordship for now addressing you.
" The Royal Free Hospital in Greville-street (it is
in behalf of this institution I write), was founded in
the year 1828, upon the truly noble principle of giving
free and instant admission to the destitute sick, no
previous letter of recommendation, nor preliminary
form of any kind, is here necessary to entitle the ap-
plicant to attention and relief. The hospital recog-
nizes the claims of all who are sick and destitute, and
asserts itself to be the friend and physician of the
friendless diseased.
" Hitherto the principle has been carried out:(so
far as the funds subscribed would permit) at a house
in Greville-street, Hatton-garden, having between
seventy and eighty beds, and the consideration of the
essential service this small accommodation has enabled
the Governors and officers of this institution to afford
to upwards of 100,000 persons (I quote from the last
Report) since-its foundation, must be matter of sincere
congratulation to them. But the zeal of the pro-
moters of this charity has not been satisfied to per-
mit its usefulness to remain limited, whilst the appli-
cants for its aid increase so rapidly. By an adver-
tisement inserted a few days since in The Sun and
other newspapers, the public were informed that the
Secretary (the Rev. R. E. Packman) had been for
some months previously engaged in a correspondence
with several members of her Majesty's Government,
in the hope of obtaining a grant of some site on
which to erect a more suitable building than their
present hospital, and a sum of money equal to that
which might be subscribed by the public for that
purpose. This correspondence appears to have termi •
nated unsuccessfully ; the Government, though ap-
proving of the objects of the institution, being fearful
of the consequences of such a grant being made a
precedent.
" Notwithstanding this discouragement, the Go-
vernors, upon their own responsibility, and in the
hope of the public's liberal co-operation, appear to
have taken the extensive premises in the Gray's Inn-
road, recentlyin the occupation of the Messrs. Seddon,
and which, happily, with some slight alterations, may
be adapted to the purposes.of the institution.
" Now, my Lord, under the circumstances above
alluded to, the advertisement put forth by the Go-
vernors of the Royal Free Hospital appears to me pe-
culiarly entitled to the favourable consideration of the
charitable. The Governors have taken upon them-
selves a heavy liability without waiting to make their
appeal to the public, lest from the time that would
thus be lost, the winter should have set in before they
should have increased their means of usefulness. This
reliance upon the good feeling of the public will not,
lam sure, be misplaced. It has created so strong an
interest in my mind, tliat, though my means are very
limited, and I have -a young and increasing family, it
affords me much pleasure to subscribe 51. (now in-
closed to your Lordship) in aid of the completion of
the arrangements as to the recently-taken premises:;
and perhaps some notice of the subject by your Lord-
ship in your magisterial capacity, might obtain for it
greater publicity and support.
"In conclusion I have only to add, that I am in
no way connected with
the Hospital, nor do I know a
single individual concerned in its management. My
interest in it arises solely from the Christian principle
upon which it is founded, and the zeal and ability with
which that principle is carried out. In the course of
last winter I forwarded to it, through your Lordship,
a donation of 31., under the signature of ' A Friend
in Need,' in which character I beg again to subscribe
myself."
Mr. Hobler said, that if the Institution received
support commensurate with its efforts to do good, as
testified from its commencement, the community
would receive immense benefit in return.
who had been remanded from
William Edwards,CLERKEIV WELL.
the previous day on the charge of robbing several
medical gentlemen under pretence of wishing to con-
sult them fora "
bad thumb," was brought up for
examination on the only remaining charge against
him, that of '
Mr. F. T. Basire, who stated that he was a resi-
dent pupil of Mr. Phillips, surgeon, of 44, Albion-
street, Hyde-Park. On the Gth of September, at
about half-past one in the afternoon, the' prisoner
rang the surgery bell, which was answered by wit-
ness. The prisoner asked to see Mr. Phillips, and on
being told by witness that that gentleman was not at
home, prisoner said he was willing to wait even for an
hour, as he, witness, would not do, for he had a very
" bad thumb." Witness thereupon invited him into
witness's study, which was also used as a consulting-
room, where witness left him alone whilst he went to
partake of luncheon with Mrs. Phillips in an ad-
joining room. There being but a very thin par-
tition, and merely folding doors between the two
rooms, witness distinctly heard the bolt of the
drawer-lock in the study "click" as if turned by a key.
Witness then sent the footman into the room, telling him
to fetch a book, and to see what the prisoner was doing,
In some short time after this, the prisoner tapped at
the door of the parlour, in which witness and Mrs.
Phillips were sitting, and told witness he could wait
Witness attended him to the door, and was in the act
again in the morning.
him
douwt oNuvhldensa
whom the prisoner returned to the study. They re •
ofn lelottnignegr, Mr. Phillips' came in, with
mained in consultation some little time, and. the pri-
soner left. In about a quarter of an hour after that
witness had occasion to go to his drawer in the study,
when he found that the key was gone and the drawer
locked. In this drawer he kept several articles of
jewellery, consisting of two valuable gold mourning
rings, &c., and on Mr. Phillips opening the drawer
with a key of his own, he discovered that the whole of
the jewellery, of the value of about -161., besides a
purse containing from 12s. to 18s. in silver, had been
abstracted therefrom. Witness had seen all these safe

in the drawer a few moments before the prisoner's
arrival, and he could swear that no person save the
prisoner, Mr. Phillips, and the footman, as before
mentioned, had entered the room in the interval. He

had traced the two mourning rings to the possession of
a pawnbroker, with whom they had been pledged by
or at the instance of the prisoner.
Mr. Phillips said he saw the prisoner at the time
mentioned by the last witness. The prisoner told
witness he had injured his thumb in a frolic with some

companions on the previous night. On examining
the thumb witness's impression at first was that it was

an old dislocation.

(It was stated on a former occa

sion that the prisoner has the power of dislocating
his left thumb at will, which is by no means an un-
common thing). Witness finding that he could make
nothing of the alleged " bad thumb," recommended
the prisoner to go across to St. George's Hospital,
permitting him to use his name to the house-surgeon,
and telline, him that probably that gentleman might
be able to detect what he (witness) could not. As
the prisoner was about to leave, witness asked him to
whom he (witness) was. inciebted for the honour of
the introduetion ?—(A laugh.) To which the pri-
soner replied he was recommended to come to witness

by a man named Davis, of Prague-street, a person
whom of course witness had not the slightest know-
ledge of.
William Chapman,
footman to Mr. Phillips, con-
firmed the evidence of Mr. Basire as to his being sent
into the study while the prisoner was there. Witness
found him sitting close by the drawer belonging to
Mr. Basire, apparently " whistling for want of
thought," and with his back towards the window.
He seemed to be quite unconcerned about any thing.
The prisoner declined to say any thing in answer
to this charge. He also declined, although good-
humouredly pressed by Mr. Mould, to edify the Court
by showing how he "did the trick" of dislocating
his thumb at pleasure. He was fully committed for
trial, and left the bar smiling with affected indiffe-
rence ; as, on the previous occasions. • • . .

TOWN-HALL, BRIGHTON.
Win. Treherno, who was, on Monday, charged with
stealing four 51. notes of the Bank of England, of Mr.
Marchant, landlord of the Crown, in this town, was
brought up again this morning for re-examination,
when the whole of the evidence taken at a previous
examination, an outline of which appeared in this
paper a week ago, was read over. From the respecta-
bility of the prisoner's connections, his fitther having
carried on the business of an upholsterer in Oxford-
street, London, for many years, his case excited a
great deal of interest, and the Court was crowded.
Mr. Paine, of the firm of Paine and Atherly, now
attended for the prisoner, and cross-examined the
witnesses for the prosecution at great length, but
without eliciting anything material. He then, in a
short address, commented on the meagreness of the
evidence as to identity, and called a witness, in
order to show that the prisoner (lid not change a Si.
note in payment for his railway ticket.
Stimuel Aldridge, a drayman in the employ of
Messrs. Trayton and Pagden, brewers,-Epsom, stated,