The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-13 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. PUCELE, the Chairman, And a Bench of

Aairuategirsstrueststn for the count of
)
Sessions . y
The General Q
Surrey commenced yesterday morning at the Sessions
House, Horsemonger-lane.
The calendar contains the names of 87 prisoners.
The grand jury having been sworn, and the Learned
Chairman having briefly addressed them On the na-
ture of their duties, retired, and shortly afterwards
re-entered the Court, having found several true bills.
Daniel Ireson, stated in the calendar' to' be 4,5
years of age, but who looked older, was indicted for
stealing, on the 13th of July last, seven new
fir hop-
poles, the property of Thomas Baker, at Farnham.
The prosecutor is a cultivator of hops, residing at
Farnham, where he possesses three hop-fields. 4,
the month of March last the prosecutor had pureilksed
some hop-poles, marked in a peculiar manner with
red paint, and having purchased more than he re-
quired for - immediate. use, he deposited 300 .of them
in a hop-ground which he occupied, and which ad-
joined the cottage of the prisoner. On the morning
of Saturday, the 23d of July, the prosecutor's son
went to his father's hop-ground, and saw the prisoner
with some hop-poles on his back. On seeing the
prosecutor's son, the • prisoner made off, and young
Baker, seeing foot-marks, tracked them, and came in
sight of the prisoner again. He called to the pri-
soner, who ran away, and Baker lost sight of him in,
a piece of wheat. Baker then traced the foot-marks
back, and found they led to the heap of poles on his
father's ground: He then traced the foot-marks hack
again, and found they led to a hedge, under which he
found seven poles, which lie identified as his father's
property. When he saw the prisoner the second time
the prisoner had got rid of the poles which he was
carrying when young Baker first saw him.
On his cross-examination, young Baker admitted
that all the poles sold by the person of Whom his
father had purchased them, were marked with red
paint, in the same manlier as those belonging to his
father.

A person named Warner, who was at work in an
adjoining field, had seen the prisoner on the morning
in question in Mr. Baker's hop-ground, walking
towards the heap of poles.
Mr. LOCKE addressed the jury for the prisoner,
and contended that there was no case whatever made
out against him, and no proof that the poles found
under the hedge were the property of the prosecutor.
The CHAIRMAN having summed up,
The Jury found the prison Not Guilty.
KEEPING A DISORDERLY HOITSE.---Ivaae Crick,
aged 40, convicted of keeping a disorderly house at
Croydon, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment,
and ordered to find sureties for his good behaviour,
himself in 1001., and two sureties in 2„31. each.
It appeared that he had previously been snmmarily
convicted before the Magistrates, and fined al., on
which occasion he had promised to abate the nuisance,
but had not done so.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)

GUILDHALL.

William Clements, a boy of about 15 years of age,
was placed at the bar ckarged with highway robbery.
William Lewis, a respectable-looking little bow,
stated that he was passing through Smithfield last
night, about eight o'clock, with a friend, when the
prisoner and three other boys came up to him, they
knocked him down, and severely beat him, andforci•
bly took a silver ring from his cravat. The prisoner
was given into custody, but the other boys escaped.
The officer who took the prisoner into custody said
that this was a very common occurrence.
The father of the prisoner said that the boy WaS a
very hardworking boy, and he had not left home at
the time more than three minutes.

Mr. Alderman Hoormt said as his father spoke so
well of him he would give the boy another chance,
and commit him for a week only.

Elizabeth Atkins, a woman very far advanced in
pregnancy, was committed to take her trial on twenty-
one different charges of theft and swindling.
MARYLEBONE.

Lawrence Tinier, a cab proprietor, was placed at
the bar on the following charge
Sergeant 34, on the London and Birmingham
ilailwav, stated that the defendant drove one of his
cabs, which contained a passenger, is at the Euston_
square terminus, and after the fare had alighted he
refused to drive off, or to make way for another cab,
which was waiting to draw up. He (the witness)
caught the reins and took the cab outside, when de-
fendant got so very violent that he, with the assist.'
ance of a brother officer, took him to the station. On
the way they passed the cab stand in Seymour-
street, and defendant called upon the cabmen there
to rescue him. Witness was tripped and fell, and but
for some of the metropolitan police, who Came up,
would have been probably injured.
Policeman 88, L. & 8., corroborated last witne&s's
statement.
Mr. 11 AWLINSON said that this was a very aggra-
vated case, and fined the defendant 40$.
Samuel Hughes was charged with being drunk, and furiously driving along the Edgevvare-road, to the
danger of the lieges.
Two witnesses proved that defendant was racing
his cart at the rate of fifteen miles an hour, until be
ran against a hay-cart, which broke his own to
pieces, when he was taken into custody.
The Magistrate fined him 20s.

UNION-HALL.
William Wade, a youth, was charged with robbing
his mother of some silver spoons, a 13:'ole, and several
other religious books.
The mother, with tears in b'er eyes, stated that she
the ninth. time he haci
was compelled to appear vgainst her son, this being•
upon the
cupboards, and 1
-- r°•')...)ed her of considerable property.
him,
Broken open her drawers and
dismory of the robbery, and accused him a it,
present occasion when she made the
ililfingsl: objected be br.inediatelv struck her a violent blow, and
knocked her down, threatening to put an end to her
if she proceeded against him. She 'added,- that al..
though she had been so infamously treated by oft
i‘prisoner,fr.i,
RyAlsi, she wassaid that
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appear
she WOVild day
have cause to repent it.
against such an incorrigible son,
The mother having afterwards altered her deter-
mination, he was committed.

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the late Alderman of h
On the evening of the 20th ult., Mt.
scaEsslu'llentyienplgvheenhwtimoo,fut with "his pack ohoundts up theilam
KesnaWreiths-
and, on reaching the premises of M
asked why the hounitr,
intohi his residence. Immediately
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plied that he was versy Wells,
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and, using very violent language~
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prevent them from going into his grounds, but be had
done all he could. Upon this Mr. Wells continued to;
abuse the complainant, andnaid he would lick a hundred
Puppies such as the complainant. The complainant then
became indignant, and dared him to strike. Mr. Wells then
struck hint a violent blow with his fist in the face,
Mr. Wells said it was entirely complainant's fault,
in threatening and exciting him, by calling him several
disgraceful names, in support of which he tendered the*
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evidence of Mr. Powdich, a gentleman who was presei
at the time. Mr. Powdich said that Mr. Wells, uric.,
seeing the hounds in his premises, first went up
said
•
reasoned with the complainnnt, who returned a 'ver
coarse answer, when Mr. Wells threatened to lAir j thi,
dogs if they came on his premises again. C0n44,,;,,,,it
then used very strong language, jumped off his.tc.rse, and
dared sir. Wells either to touch him or his dogs, where-
upon the defendant went up4lhml said, " Do you mean
it ?" Complainant replied, " Yes," and Mr. Veils being
very mucli pro Toked and insulted, then struck com-
plainant. The Chairman said both parties were greatly
to blame. He was sorry to see two gentlemen in such a
predicament ; at the same time, under the circumstances,
1 and as the complainant had greatly provoked..llfr. Wells,
he should dismiss the ease.
A CARGO or PIIILOSOPHERS.—A capita story his
just reached us from Dudley, touching the recent aquatic
excursion of certain distinguished savans, from Birming-
ham to Dudley. Having to pass through one of the
canal locks, where boats are required to register certain
particulars of the freight, &c. (to facilitate the collection
of the proper dues), the following entry was made rela-
tive to one of the learning laden barks :—"
,Draught,
13 inches ; weight, al tons ; cargo, philosophers. '