The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-18 00:00:00

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&loners of Metropolitan Police, I ahall be most h'adY to do
all in my power in assisting your iiordship.—l have the
honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's obedient sers7ant,
JAMES GRAHAM.
The LORD MAYOR, after having made further inquiries
into the case, directed that the pauper lunatic should be
taken care of at Dr. Warburton's Lunatic Asylum, at the
expense of the City of London, until he should coitsult
his brother magistrates upon a question so deeply affeot.,
ing the interests of the City, into which paupers from
parishes all over the country are daily crowding, and
occasioning enormous expense. His Lordship observed,
with reference to the peculiar case of the poor lunatic,
if such a course as the British Consul had taken were
to be looked over by the authorities of the City, mulstfs-
tudes of destitute objects, whose claims upon this country:
were at any rate questionable, might be sent over upon
the authority of an officer, who ought to very cautious
of interfering in a matter so likely to prove expensive and
harassing. In Kerr's case there was not a human being
in England, of whom the parochial authorities had cog-
nizance, capable of giving evidence respecting the claims
his parents might have had upon any parish, so that it only
appeared to be necessary for the friends of a pauper to,
induce a Consul to believe that the object they wished te,
serve was the child of English parents, and the burthent
was politely and quietly transmitted to England. Some!
short time ago, some girls who had been taken from
Nottingham to a lace-mill near Paris by the proprietor,
were sent back to England in consequence of a fire
which destroyed the manufactory. They were imme-
diately thrown upon the Lord Mayor, but as they could
tell upon what pariah they had claims, the difficulty of
disposing of them was soon surmounted, and they were
received in Nottingham at once ; but in the present in-
stance the difficulty of dealing with the subject was ex-
treme, and there required the deepest consideration the
magistracy could give to it.
GUILDHALL.
Mr. Bury, a gentleman residing in the Hounslow
road, applied to Mr. Alderman Sidney,f or a summons
against the landlord of the Goose and Gridiron tavern,
St. Paul's Churchyard, for refusing to accommodate him
with refreshments last Sunday morning, he being a.
traveller, the landlord being bound to receive travellers,
and the Police Act, which requires the alehouse to be:
closed from midnight on Saturday night till one o'clock:
on Sunday, making an exception in favour of travellers..
Mr. Alderman SIDNEY asked him how far he had
travelled on this occasion 1 The applicant said thirteen

Mr. Alderman SIDNEY thought that riding so short m.
distance did not entitle him to be deemed a traveller-
He might have got a good breakfast before he came out,
and then he might have fasted till one o'clock without-
much suffering.
Mr. Bury replied, if the Alderman would travel thir-
teen miles on the top of an omnibus on a cold morning,
hh would find out that he required a warming when be
Mr. Alderman SIDNEYsaid that was Wis
not rising a little earlier.
Mr. Bury pressed fur the granting of the summons
and he would have the matter discussed at the hearing.
Mr. Alderman SIDNEY said he was advised that the
Gag-e and Gridiron was not the sort of house which was
compelled to receive travellers. It was not an inn, for
it had no stables, and the liability to entertain travellers
attached only to innkeepers.
Mr. Bury said he should like to try the question, and
hoped the Magistrate would not refuse granting the
summons.

Mr. Alderman SIDNEY replied, that he should refuse
it ; for if the landlord appeared there was no law by
which he could deal with the offence. A traveller's
remedy for the refusal of accommodation was only by
action, if he could prove special damage by being forced
to seek accommodation at a considerable distance.
The summons was therefore refused.
IV OR SHIP - STREET.
A genteelly-dressed middle-aged woman, who gave
the name of Grace Holcombe, was placed at the bar
before Mr. Broughton for final examination, charged
with having stolen several articles of female wearing
apparel of trifling value, the property of a woman named
Brown, the keeper of a house of bad repute in Marsom-
street, Hoxton New Town.
The prosecutrix stated that about a fortnight since, at
a late hour in the evening, the prisoner, who was an
entire stranger to her previously, was brought to her
house in a state of intoxication in a cab by two gentle-
men, who stated that she had just sustained a serious
accident. and wished to remain in privacy for some time
till she recovered from the injury. As this statement
was corroborated by the appearance of the prisoner's
face, which was bleediug profusely, she consented to re-
ceive her as a lodger, and the prisoner continued to re-
side there for more than a week, during the whole of
which time she remained in a state of constant in-
toxication, and was in the frequent habit of drink-
ing a whole pint of gin at a single draught. The
prisoner's thirst for drink was so insatiable,
that although she had received a sum of 30s.
on the Saturday after she had been brought to witness's
house, the whole of it had been dissipated by the follow-
ing Monday, and the witness having missed several
trifling articles of apparel during the remainder of the
week, suspected that the prisoner must have purloined
them, and kept a sharp watch upon her actions. Her
suspicions were at length confirmed by discovering that
one of the missing articles was upon the prisoner's per-
son, and she accused her of stealing it, which the pri-
soner strenuously denied, and quitted the apartment ;
but that and another article having been shortly after-
wards discovered in the water-closet, which the accused
had entered, she called in a policeman and gave her into
custody.
At the first examination, the prisoner, who was ex-
ceedingly agitated, and appeared to be completely
crushed by her degrading situation, protested her inno-
cence with great earnestness ; but, having declined to
give any account of herself, or to farnish any clue by
which her friends or relations could be discovered, the
magistrate ordered her to be remanded, that the officer
who had taken her into custody might have an oppor-
tunity of making inquiries respecting her ; and
Police-constable Millgate, of the N division, now
stated that from information he had derived from some
letters and documents which had been found in the
prisoner's possession, he had proceeded on the pre-
ceding day to an army agent's at the west end of
Own, and there ascertained that the name the prisoner
had given at the police-station was wholly fictitious,
that her connexions were of great respectability, and
that she was, in reality, the wife of a colonel in cne of
the West India Regiments, who had been compelled, in
consequence of her dissolute conduct and habits of
drinking, to discard her, but had agreed to allow her a
separate maintenance of 30s. a week, which was regu-
larly paid to her through the hands of her husband's
army agents, on condition that all personal communica
tion between them should cease for the future. The
constable added, that at every place at which he had
made inquiries respecting her he had received a precisely
similar account of her depraved conduct, and that when-
ever her money was paid to her it was invariably dissi-
pated within two or three days in the manner described..
It was by no means satisfactorily proved that other
persons might not have had access to the place where
the stolen articles were found ; and
Mr. BnououToss, after severely commenting upon the
melancholy spectacle which the prisoner presented in
comparison with the station in society she had formerly
filled, said that he was of opinion the charge of felony
had not been sufficiently made out to justify the pri-
soner's further detention, and he should therefore order
her to be discharged.
The prisoner, who endeavoured to hide her face from
view as much as possible, was then liberated, and hurried
out of the Court.
CLERKEN WELL. .

John Harold was charged with being an accomplice in
robbing and assaulting ;Mr. John Webb, a gentleman
residing at 18, Goswell-street.
The prisoner, who is a thick-set able fellow, was at
once recognised by Inspector Thatcher, as a distin-
guished member of a class of vagabonds called "Tam-
pers," fellows who go about from one public-house to
another inciting or challenging " fiats to fight, and
when they fight robbing them. Mr. Webb had received
a sum of money from the Treasury, and was at nine
o'clock on that morning driven to the Blue Coat Boy
tavern, in the City-road, by a eabman named Dame. He
was standing at the bar there taking some refreshment,
when the prisoner came in; the prosecutor, in a jocular
mood, asked several present to toss with him, and did
gamble a little. The prisoner perceiving Mr. Webb to
bo in a generous humour, made a very distressing state-
ment, assuring him that his wife and two children were
in great misery, that he lived by selling fowls, but had
not now a penny to go to market with. The prosecutor
compassionated his sad condition, and gave kim ss. Soon
after, the prisoner, perceiving Mr. Webb to be very
merry, proposed that they should adjourn into the tap-
room and toss. The prosecutor went accordingly, and
soon after a crowd of the prisoner's associates, to the
number of about twenty, collected. It was then pro-
posed by one of them that Mr. Webb should fight the
best man in the room for half a sovereign. Mr. Webb
agreed, and a man named Mason accepted the challenge.
The prosecutor had in his right-hand pocket 28/. in gold,
of which fact the prisoner was aware, for Mr.
Webb had pulled it out in paying the cab .
man and in staking the bet, which was deposited
in the hands of one of the party, the prisoner, who
seemed so needy a few minutes before, staking the half.
sovereign for Mason. The pugilists " set too," and werta
sparring, when one of the party (Mr. Webb could not;
say that it was the prisoner) came behind him and dealt
him such a blow as felled him. He was no sooner down.
than the prisoner rushed upon him, and thrust his left
hand into the prosecutor's pocket ; the prosecutor seized
his hand ; one of the party told he prisoner to " mug'"
him (beat him on the head), and the prisoner pummelled
him accordingly. Mr. Webb's right eye was invisible,
and the parts about it greatly inflamed. Mr. Webb cried
out " Will you see a man robbed ?" but no help came.
A poor painter named Massey, who was at the bar.
hearing the prosecutor's cries, peeped in, saw what was
going on, and ran for a constable. When the constabl 3
came, the door of the tap-room was fastened on the
inside ; but having at length obtained admission, he cap.
tured the prisoner, who exclaimed " that it was all over.
Mr. Webb had been robbed of three sovereigns, and wet
suffering great pain from the contusion on the upper part
of his head.
Tho prisoner cross-examined some of the witnesses
with great coolness and adroitness.
Mr. Comm: commended the poor painter highly for
his conduct; and, after giving the usual caution to the
prisoner, said he would send him for trial.
The prisoner thereupon became very indecorous in
his conduct, lolling about the dock and jeering the spec-
tators in the body of the Court.—He was fully com•
mitted for trial.
Mr. Ambridge, a surgeon, residing in White Lion.
street, Clerkenwell, was placed in the dock on a charge
of passing two brass medals to an unfortunate girl re•
presenting them as half-sovereigns. The charge wail
not read aloud, and the prosecutrix did not appear.—•
He was discharged.

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