The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-26 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COUR i.
(Before Mr. Baron PLATT).
STE.ALING FROM THE CUSTOM-HOUSE.—William Strick-
land. aced 37, vie•uallcr, Edward Lewis. ironmonger. 37, Wil-
liam Bonham, 3d, coal.dealer, and Henry Osborne, 38,
victualler, were placed at the bar, the three first indicted for
st,aiing five watches, the property of Joseph Savory and
another, and the latter for feloniously receiving the same,
knowing them to have been stolen.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)

Henry Leycock, apprentice to Mr. Wale, a tin plate worker,
was employed to solder down the box. After fiinishing the
work i e was sent by Strickland (he was po.itive it was Strick-
land), to Black wall for some shrimps, on the promise of having
some brandy and water. He left his tools behind him in the
dock. He believed that Lewis and Bonham were there. Atter
returning he got two glasses of brandy and water, and he
thoueh,- that the persons there were the three prisoners and the
man Turner.
The last witn ss's employer was called to confirm his evi-
derive. He deposed to his apprentice coming home rather
tipsy. He never in his life, when employed by the Custom-
house to unsolder or resolder a case, left his tools behind him.
It would take. twenty minutes to heat an iron after once ex-
tinguishing the fire.
William Skinner, appointer of weighers at the West India
Docks did, in the month of lune, 1d42. appoint Turner,
Bonham, and Lewis to No. 1 shed in the export dock. They
were on duty that day from eight to four. Strickland was one
of the shipeieg officers for that day, and he was on duty, as
appe ,reel by hi, signature.
R. Stephenson, in the service of the East and West India
Dock Company, received three castes, marked A B S in a dia-
mond, No. 1,2, and 3. Thee were sent to No. I dock.
Thomas Hutchins shipped them on the 25th. He believed
they remained two or three days in shed No. 2.
John Haynes depesed that he was an inspector of police, and
had been for some time employed br the Custom House to
endeavour to discover the stolen watches, and in August last,
in consequence of information he received from a person
named Yeomens, he went to the house of the defendant Osborn,
who keeps the Croaked Billet public-house, on Tower-hill.
He went into the bar-parlour with him, and told him- he had
cern, upon very unpleasant business, and that ha had a search-
warrant, which lie sh.,wed him. He had before this told him
wh ►he was, and gave him his card. Having c iutioned him as
to whet sneers h • might give, he asked him whether he had
not s -ld a watch two or three years ago, to a person named
Yeemens, and he said lie had. He then admitted that he had
:he teilow watch to it, and cave it to him, and he afterwards
gave him a sroa! watch. Witness told him he hoped he would
be able to give a satisfactory account how he became possessed
of these watches, and he said he had bought fire of them of a
man who used the hou-e he formerly kept, the Lamb in Lamb's
Conduilest,eet ; a el in answer to questions he said he did not
know his name, nor where he lived. Witness asked the de-
scription of the in in, and he said he would consider about giving
that. He then asked what he had done with the other two,
and he replied he had sold one to his solicitor, Mr. Taylor, and
he did not think he had more than four. Witness asked him
whether it was eie an extraordinary thing for a publican to have
possession of five watches, worth 401. or 501., under such Mr-
cumeancea, and he said they were brought to his house to be
rain el for. After this Osborn said he had no doubt he should
be able to find /he man in the course of a day or two. Witness
afterwards apprehended Strickland, and as he was going out of
the house, he tots his wile to send to Osborn and tell him to
take care of himself. Having ply red the prisoner Strickland
in the station-house, he proceeded to the house of Osborn, and
finding he was not home, he went back to Strickland's, and
found Osborn there, and he said he had been sent for in a great
hurry by Mrs. Striekl Ind, and he then took him into custody.
Cross-exem,ned —A reward of 50/. was offered, but this was
not so much to discover the offenders as to obtain a clue to the
watches. He always knew who the thieves were, but they
could not do anything in the matter without obtaining posses-
sion of the watches. Orierrn admitted at once that he had
sold a watch to Ale. Ye..oteris, suit also to Mr. Taylor, and
the initials of himself and his wife were upon the watches in
their respective use. The Crooked Billet which he at present
uccuales is a large and respectable establishment.
Mary Bicker was the next witness—She merely proved that
in the course of the year 1842 she saw several watches in the
possession of Osborn in his parlour, and that he said they had
been lest with him for sale.

11r. James Yeemens proved that he had purchased one of the
silver watches that had been produced and identified, of the
defers Pant Osborn. He said, the transaction took place quite
openly, and the defendant asked and received the full value of
the a-ricle, viz., five guineas.
Tnis was the cage fur the prosecution.
The Learned Counsel for those of the defendants who were
charged as principals, then addressed the jury for their respective
clients, and contended that the evidence of the approver,
tainted 0.3 he was with crime, was quit,t unworthy of belief,
and that. the jury ought not to convict any man upon such
testimony.
Mr. Sergeant JONES made a very able address to the jury
on behalf of his client, won was charged as the receiver. The
wh le of his conduct showed that he had acted perfectly inno-
cently during the whole transaction.
A great many highly respectable witnesses were called to
speak to the character of the defendants, all of whom received
a most excellent character for honour and integrity. No less
than tw-eii.y-Lour witnesses were exa.nined on behalf of the
defendant Osborn.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied.
Itlr. Ha-un PLATT summed up, and the jury returned a ver-
dict of No. Guilty.

POL ICE INTELLIGENCE.
MA A SMN. HO USE.
A young man, named Philip Brinkman, was brought before
Sir Chapman Marshall, locuns -tenens for the Lard Mayor, in
the custody of Harvey, a Metropolitan policeman (4 R),
charged with having pawned a number of gold and silver
watehes entrusted to him to clean and repair. It appeared
from the statement of the constable, that within these few
month., the pri-oner, on the death of his father, a watchmaker
of long standinz and repute in the City, had succeeded to his
business, which he carried on at l?, Union-street, Bishopsgate
On Saturday week, the con,table stared, the prisoner was found
on the steam-b.iat pier at Greenwich, in a state of mad intoxi-
cation, threatening to throw his daughter, a child of about two
years old, whom he had ,ith hi c, into the river. On being taken
tato custody, he resisted violently, and gave one of the constables
sever 11 kicks and severe falls, but was at length overpowered
and taken to the station-house at Greenwich, where, on being
searched. fifteen
.pawnbrokers' duplicates, relating to various
i_luii..._ sB°l4%ll!4l.l.4l€l?,,talches and ether valuable property, were
, --Wino o . , 'W . brought before Mr. Gr tees, on the fol.
acsviiii IolVar;" the, risoner was asked what he was, and to
Whom t be, duplietateitt don him belonged. After some hesi-
tation,. he 11.044 7th Ole was a watchmaker, and that the
.. duplicate; reterrud to Witches which had been left with him to

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THE WEST INDIAN COLONIES.
sr,m, statistical returns have just been laid before
Parliament, in reference to the West Indian Islands
and Guiana, on the motion of Mr. Barkly, the member
fur Leominster, from which we extract the following
particulars :-
A general abstract of the population shows, that, ac-
cording t.) the latest census, the gross total population
o the British West Indian Islands amounted to
888,209, and that the number of slaves since emanci-
pated, according to the compensation returns of 1834,
amounted to 663,899. The gross total of 889,209
was thus distributed :-Jamaica, 181,663 males and
193,800 females ; Honduras, 10,000 souls of both
sexes ; the Bahamas, 12,623 males and 12,621 females
(an extraordinary parity of numbers): Barbadoes, 56,004
maks and 66,194 females ; Grenada, 13,732 males
and 13,191 females ; St. Vincent, 12,600 males and
14,648 females ; St. Lucia, 9,871 males and 11,130
females ; Tobago, 6,152 males and 7,056 females ; An-
tigua, 16,723 males and 19.456 females ; Montserrat,
3,335 males and 4,029 females ; Bermuda, 223 males
and 285 females ; Dominica, 10,788 mates and
11,681 females ; St. Christopher, 10,523 males and
12 654 females ; Nevis, 4,418 males and 5,153 females ;
the Virgin Islands, 3,130 males and 3,559 females ;
Trinidad, 30,713 males and 29,102. females ' • and British
Guiana, 49,787 males and 48,346 females. Of the
377,433 inhabitants of Jamaica, 15,766 are whites,
61,529 coloured or mulatto, and 293,128 black ; 332,922
are natives, and 33,519 Africans ; 51,707 are under 5
years of age ; 47,221 under 10 ; 62,733 under 20 ;
121,309 under 40 ; 68,442 under 60 ; and 25,963 above
60 years of ago...
The occupations of the population are thus enume•
rated :-108 crisis, 26 architects, 61 agriculturists, 13
bankers, 564 ho omen, 1,555 clerks, 1,484 fishermen and
fi-ht'ap,-., 20 571 household servants, 50,653 labourers,
132 192 agricultural labourers, 267 pastors, 104 military
m, n. 97 mariners, 41 miners, 433 merchants, 26 pilots,
:315 policemen, 3987 planters, ;453 professional persons,
1,672 retail traders, 86 surveyors, 544 storekeepers, 640
teachers, 7,399 tradesmen, 10,097 journeymen, 69
tavern- keepers, 948 miscellaneous, and 142,831 gen-
tlemen.

The number of inhabited houses with land in Jamaica,
amounts to 9,406 ; the number of sugar estates is 644,
coffee plantations 671, and farms and other settlements
22,703.
The population of the Bahamas is subdivided into
2,992 male and 3,070 female whites, and into 9,374 male
and 9.275 female coloured persons. 3,695 are employed
in agriculture, 1,690 in manufactures, and 2,544 in corn-
marcial pursuits.
The whole population of the Windward Islands (Bar-
badoes, Gienada, and Cariacou, St. Vincent, St. Lucia,
and Tobago) amounted on the 3d of June, 1844, to
213,305 souls. Governor Grey informs Lord Stan-
ley, in his dispatch of the 4th of October last,
that the whole may be estimated at 225,000, instead
of 213,305, some of the returns falling short of
the actual numbers. The number of acres capable of
being brought into cultivation is perhaps 500,000, of
which little more than a quarter, or 130,000 acres are
actually cultivated. Society throughout the islands is
in an orderly and peaceable state, property rests secure.
and the laws, except those of St. Lucia, where there is
a cru 'e and imperfect medley of the old French loi civile,
with English ordinances, are simple, certain, and equita
bl'. The ciinare every where improves in salubrity as
cultivation advances. In Barbadoes, Governor Grey
says that the climate is as healthy as that of England.
Deliberate reflection and calculation have led the Go-
vernor to the conclusion, that if capital be allowed to
flow into the Windward Islands, gradually and steadily,
anoth-r twenty-five years may swell the population to
500,000 souk, arid increase the quantity of land in cul-
tivation to 400.000 Per s, and the export of sugar to
100,000 tons, or nearly half the preseat consumption of
the wholt) of the United Kingdom. The total popula-
tion of Barbadoes is 122,198, of whom 30,000 (in round
numbers) ore employed in agriculture, and 28,000 in
trade and husincs,. Of Granada the population is
28,293 ; of St. Vincent, 27,218 ; of St. Lucia, 21,001 ;
of Tobago. 13,208.
Of the Leeward Islands, Antigua numbers 36,405 ;
Montserrat, 7,635; Bermuda, 509 ; St. Christopher,
23,177 ; Dominica, 22,469; and Nevis, 9,571.
The census crated a considerabe sensation in Nevis
am' ngst the negroes, and many absurd conjectures were
set afloat as to its obj-ct.
The matter was at leegth clearly explained to them
through the mrdium of the clergy, or otherwise the feel-
itig of the Population might have broken out in violence.
The wl ole population of the Virgin Island amounts to
6,659, and that of Trinidad to 60,319. Govenor Light,
writing from Demerara, says that the Creole population
on a s:eady increase in Guiana. The total population
on the 31st of December, 1844, amounted to 103,950,
which shows an increase from natural causes during
that year of 1.226. The number of emancipated pea-
santry now living in thier own own dwellings in Guiana
is estimated at, at least, 19,000. The number of eman-
cipated negroes now become freeholders,and holding plots
of ground as such, amounts altogether to about 2,940.