The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-06 00:00:00

Mr. HALL (to the witness)—Have you got the
copy which you made on the spot ? Witness replied
in the negative.
Mr. HALL said that in that case his evidence could
not be received.

Sandroek, the superintendent, was about to speak
to the witness, when he was ordered to be quiet by
Mr. Thomas, who then asked if there were any other
witnesses.

Sandrock called Thomas Whitehead, T 53, who
corroborated the statement of the last witness, and
also produced a paper.
Mr. Thomas—What paper is that ? Witness--A
copy of one I saw in detendant's window.
Mr. Thomas—Was it made on the spot Plt was,
and I have had it in my possession ever since.
Mr. Thomas now contended that this paper could
not be read in evidence, as no notice had been given
to his client to produce his original, in order that it
might he compared with the constable's copy.
Mr. HALL offered to give him time to go home and
fetch it, but to this

Mr. Thomas also objected, as being irregular.
Mr. HALL said that being the case he was of
opinion that the summons must be dismissed.
Henry Lyalls was summoned for a similar offence,
And his case was dismissed for a like reason.

Captain Loch, It.N., who is distinguished in the
dispatches of Sir Hugh Gough and Sir W. Parker, is
son of James Loch, Esq., M.p..
THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAQUE.---The Council of
the League is about to commence the erection of a
building in which to hold its public meetings, there
being none in Manchester sufficiently commodious for
that purpose. The site has been given by R. Cobden,
Esq., M.P., and is situate in Peter•street, Peterloo,
Manchester. It will be 50 yards by 35 yards, and is
to be completed so as to enable the League to hold its
intended great meeting immediately before the meet-
ing of Parliament.--Liverpool Chronicle.
CHINESE TAILS.—On the subjugation of China by
the Tartars an edict was issued, requiring the whole
nation to shave the front of the head, and. to plat the
residue of the hair into a tail, the length and size of
which is considered in China a great mark of mascu-
line beauty; in consequence of which great quantities
of false hair are worked up with the natural hair, the
ends being finished off with black silk cord. To the
lower orders it is a useful ornament. I remember,
on one occasion, to have seen a Chinaman flogging his
pig along with it; while on another the servant was
dusting the table ; and when their belligerent propen-
sities are excited, which is not often, they will twist
each other's tails round their hands, pulling with all
their strength, and enduring the most horrible torture
until one or the other cries out peccavi.
The Independent of Brussels states that on Satur-
day last cries were heard in the apartment occupied
by Mademoiselle Crecy, an actress in that city, and
that a few minutes afterwards a medical man was
called in to attend a lady, whom he found lying on a
sofa, bathed in blood. It would appear that wounds
had been made in the head and hands of the sufferer.
the person thus injured is Madame Royer, who, after
a sharp discussion with Mademoiselle Crecy, was at-
tacked by the latter, and wounded as stated above.
Mademoiselle Crecy was interrogated the next day by
the Juge d'lnstruction, and the wounds, it was stated,
were given with a steel leaf,-cutter. The matter, how-
ever, says the Beige, will probably terminate in a
complaint before the Correctional Police. •
The musical world will learn with regret.the death
of the octogenarian Signor Ferrari, once conductor of
the opera, and preceptor to the late Queen Caroline
and Princess Charlotte.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
?MANSION-HO USE:
Thomas Shocker, a tailor, John Feltham, and
George Sutton, his journeymen, and Ann Sutton,
were charged before the Lord Mayor under the fol-
lowing uncommon circumstances :
Inspector Waller, of the City police, stated, that
at five o'clock on Sunday morning information was
brought to him that the shop of Thacker, the tailor,
was broken open and plundered of considerable pro •
perty. He soon ascertained that a broker had been
put in with a distress warrant, and had seized the
goods in the shop, and that the broker had been in-
duced to leave the premises on Saturday evening, and
in his absence the whole of the property was removed
by a sort of conspiracy amongst the prisoners. One
of them borrowed a key of a neighbour, with which
the door was opened at a late hour. The witness,
upon making particular inquiry, learned that Felt-
ham had removed the goods to a house in Clerken-
well, and the former went thither and found them.
When he asked Thacker what the goods were worth
of which the shop had been robbed, the answer he
received was, that they were worth 801., but he had
good reason to suppose they were not worth more
than between 301. and 401., so that, if he did not
happen to succeed in his search, Mr. Thacker would
in all probability have raised a row about being plun-
dered of much more property than had been in the
house at all.
The LORD MAYOR—What sort of a fellow could
the broker have been to neglect the business he was
sent to do ?—lnspectof Waller said, certainly a man
with very little brains, for he was induced by the
journeymen of Mr. Thacker to go to a house at the
West-end of the town on Saturday night for the pur-
pose of hearing a " slap-up" song, and while he was
enjoying himself the mischief was done.
John S. Wintertiood, agent to Mr. Gadsden,
produced an inventory of goods which he had seized
in Mr. Thacker's house for rent due to the landlord.
He left a man named Montague Billing in possession,
after he executed the warrant, and he had never be-
fore known the man to forget his duty.
Billing said he had been put in possession on
Thursday, and he remained in the house till Saturday
evening, when George Sutton told him of a first-rate
crack song at the Grapes public-house in Compton-
street, and prevailed upon him to go there and enjoy
the treat. He locked the door and left all safe, as he
thought. Between twelve and one o'clock on Satur-
day night, he and Sutton returned to the city, but the
latter slipped away, and witness, at a very late hour,
found that all the goods had disappeared.
Miss Susan Elley, whose family resided next door
to Mr. Thacker's house, stated, that at about half-past
eleven o'clock on Saturday, the prisoner Feltham
knocked at the door, and asked to be accommodated
with the hall-door key, which happened to fit the lock
of Mr. Thacker's shop. As witness knew him to be
one of Mr. Thacker's journeymen, and suspected no-
thing whatever, she handed the key to him, and he
went in.
It was clearly proved that Thacker and Mrs.
Sutton were aware of the transaction.
A gentleman of the bar attended upon the part of
the prisoners, and submitted that what had taken
place did not at all amount to felony ; or if there had
been evidence to prove that a felony was committed
there was no ground for charging Mr. Thacker, whose
property the goods were. In fact, the whole transac-
tion arose from the misconduct of the man in pos-
session, who ought never to have quitted the premises
until the debt was satisfied, and who the moment he
left the house gave up the landlord's claim and autho-
rity. It was quite impossible that a man could be
charged with having been a party to a burglary in his
own house, and therefore Mr. Thacker ought at once
to be dischanged.
The LORD MAYOR begged to be allowed to enter-
tain a very different opinion on the subject. The man
in possession had been enticed away from the house,
on which occasion he had betrayed great weakness,
and during his absence the house was robbed. It was
quite evident that Mr. Thacker connived at the busi-
ness. The goods which were taken away were not
his, for they were seized for rent.
The next door neighbour o' Mr. Thacker said he
heard that person some time before the affair occurred
declare be should not be surprised if his house were
some night broken open and plundered of his goods.
The LORD MAYOR said it was very probable if the
Inspector had not followed up this case with judg-
ment and energy, Mr. Thacker would have made up
a forcible story aginst others for the commission of a
robbery to which he was himself a party.
His LORDSHIP then said he would admit all the de-
fendants to bail with the exception of Teltlitim, who
had removed the goods.
BOW-STREET.
BLASPHEMOUS PUBLICATIONS.-Thomas Patterson,
a bookseller, residing in Holywell-street, Strand, was
summoned before Mr. Hall, for exposing to view a
certain profane paper, on Wednesday the 30th ult.
Mr. Thomas, the barrister, conducted the defence,
and contended that the Act of Parliament was enacted
merely to prevent persons carrying boards about the
streets, on which were engraved prophane and blas-
phemous writings, likely to attract a crowd and ob-
struct the
_thoroughfares, and that a man's shop-
window could not be considered a thoroughfare. He
was, moreover, of opinion that a Police Magistrate
had no jurisdiction in such cases.
Mr. HALL said that he .apprehended the Act was
not necessarily confined to the public streets, and a
man had no right to expose anything blasphemous in
his window; for he might thereby attract quite as
large a crowd as any one with a placard on the foot-
way pavement or in the carriage road. He was of
opinion that he had jurisdiction, and therefore ordered
the case to proceed.
Sergeant Kerr, F 12, was then sworn, and said, I
was on duty on Wednesday the 30th ult. in Holywell-
street, and seeing a great crowd outside the defendant's
window, I crossed over to see what it was about. I
then noticed in the window a profane paper, in writing,
of which this is a copy.
Witness was about to read a paper he held in his
hand, when he was stopped by. Mr. Thomas, who asked
him what paper that was ? Kerr—lt is a copy of the
paper I saw in Mr. Patterson's window.
Mr. Thomas—Did you make it on the spot ? Wit-
ness—l made a copy in pencil, and wrote it out fair
after I got home.
Mr. Thomas contended that this paper could no
be read.