The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-27 00:00:00

TOWN-HALL, BRIGHTON.

Wm. Treherne, who was, on Monday, charged with
stealing four 51. notes of the Bank of England, orMr.
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 preiions
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 father 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 did not change a Si.
note in payment for his railway ticket.
Samuel Aldridge, a drayman in the employ of
Messrs. Trayton and Pagden, brewers, Epsom, stated,
that, on the day of the robbery, he returned from
Eastbourne, where he had been spending a week's
holidays with his friends, and on entering the Brigh-
ton terminus for the purpose of taking a ticket for the
half-past six up train, be saw a young man, whom he
now recognised as the prisoner. He saw the prisoner
take a third-class ticket, which he paid for in silver;
and he (witness) then took a third-class ticket also,
and they rode in the same carriage together as far as
Croydon, when witness left in order to go to Epsom.
Mr. Paine—Did you, in the course of conversation
with the prisoner, tell him -where you were going to ?
Witness—l told him I was going to Croydon, and
thence to Epsom.
Are you quite certain that the prisoner paid for
his ticket in silver, and not in a note ?—Yes, quite
certain.
Witness added that he never saw the prisoner be-
fore he met him at the station, and had never seen
him since he left him at Croydon. Prisoner's father
and another gentleman found him out at Epsom by
inquiring for him last Wednesday.
The MAGISTRATES said the evidence was so con-
tradictory, that some testimony ought to be given to
Aldridge's respectability.
Aldridge said his master's son lived at Mr. Tamp-
lin's, in Brighton. Mr. Pagden was thereupon sent
for, and on his arrival said the witness had been in his
father's employ for between three and four years.
Greene still adhered to his statement with regard
to the prisoner ; and neither he nor Mr. Caffin re-
membered Aldridge taking a ticket.
The MAGISTRATES said the evidence was so can-
tradictory that they must leave the decision upon it to
a jury.
The prisoner was therefore committed for trial at
the East Sussex Adjourned Sessions, in December
next. Bail was taken for his appearance, himself in
2001. • and his father, an upholsterer, in Oxford-street,
and Mr. Joseph Goodman, landlord of the Plough,
Crown-street, Soho, i n 1001. each.

THE OLD TOLBOOTH STEEPLE.
(From the Glasgow Argus.)
The renovation of this ancient tower has of late
been the subject of various paragraphs in the news-
gapers. During the disastrous reigns of the later
Stuarts, Glasgow Tolbooth was frequently tenanted
by the victims of their tyranny—the Covenanters of
the West were in great numbers immured within its
dungeons, and not a few who had been confined there
ended their days on the public scaffold. Of these in-
mates, many interesting tales might be told ; but to
enter upon such a field would be travelling beyond otr
purpose—and to make any reference to the history of
the prison, so far as regards its criminal records, is
still farther from our intention. 'VT are not sure of the
fact, but there is some reason to believe that, in 1725,
when the Shawfield riottook place, even the Magistrates
of the city were placed within the precincts of the Tol-
booth. Certain it is, that on that occasion they were
taken prisoners to Edinburgh, and stood trial before the
Lords of Justiciary for mismanagement, if not some-
thing worse, in connection with the riot, when they
were all honourably acquitted. To this riot, never-
theless, the city is indebted for the impost on ale and
beer, which was raised, in the first instance, to reim-
burse Mr. Campbell, of Shawfield, for the loss which
he had sustained. Apart from its actual history,
however, the Tolbooth of Glasgow has been made
ever memorable by Sir Walter Scott, in his novel of
"Rob Roy," where he represents the outlaw and
Bailie Nicol Jarvie as holding, unknown, at the first
to each other, interviews-with the unfortunate Owen.
Every reader must be familiar with the descrip-
tion of the worthy Bailie thundering at the identical
door which forms the subject of our notice, while the
Dugald Cratur kept ward and watch within, and with
the graphic and interesting account of the scene in the
prison, where the Bailie became aware of the pre-
sence of the fearless freebooter. The old Tolbooth
was erected in 1603, and there is no reason to doubt
that the present is the door originally erected. In
1812 the gaol was, sold to the late Dr. Cleland for
8,0001., being about 45/. the square yard for the
groun; and when that building was taken down,
the tower, and of course the, doorway into the prison,
were left untouched. There are no records showing
that any repairs had taken place on this portion of the
building previous to 1812.

ANINFURIATED OX.—On Tuesday morning great
terror was excited by an over-driven ox, which was
making its way through King
William-street to-
wards London-bridge. Crowds followed the animal,
and as it reached the bridge it attacked a man, whom
it tossed up, and so injured, that he had to be
carried to the hospital. It then continued its on-
ward course in the direction of the Borough, where
it was captured, after having injured a woman and
a child. On the same day-, a drove of oxen, under
the care of a boy not. exceeding fourteen years of
age, greatly frightened the passengers of Holborn by
the constant rushes they made on the flagway, and
the animals would no doubt have done some harm,
had not another drove come up at the time, which
they immediately joined, and proceeded quietly along
with them. _ _ _

A Magistrate waked a negro if he could read. " Yes,
massa, a little,"
said he. "Do you ever use the bible ?"
inquired the us,lice. " Yes, massa, I strap my razor
on him"