The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-17 00:00:00

IN RE JOSEPH VAN MILLENGEN.

The insolvent, in this case, was a foreign Jew, and
applied to be discharged on bail.
It appeared that he had been a bankrupt some time
since, but had subsequently paid 20s. in the pound ; and
although his liabilities, under his present insolvency, were
considerable, yet he represented that he was in possession
of certain property in Sydney and the West Imdies, from
which he thought a sufficient sum would be realised to
enable him to make a similar payment.
The Learned COMMISSIONER ordered him to be dis-
charged on bail, and intimated that the Court would
order an allowance to be made to him of 21. a week, in
consideration of his family.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

A man named John Mapp was ---brought before Al-
derman Hooper, charged with having robbed his em-
ployer of cash to a considerable amount. Mr. Bensfield,
of Houndsditch, stated that the prisoner was a porter in
his employment, who took the opportunity of rubbing the
safe early in the morning by means of a skeleton key,
and that a great deal of the money and the skeleton
key had been found at his lodgings. Robberies of com-
paratively trivial kind had been committed in the house
before, but two or three suspected persons having been
discharged, it was supposed that the security was per-
fect. The prisoner had been drinking during the
previous part of the week, and did not come to his work
until the morning on which the robbery was committed.
Daniel Forrester. the officer, stated that upon being sent
for to investigate the circumstances of the robbery he wz- a
led to suspect, on hearing some matters, that Mapp was
the thief. He accordingly
.proceeded without delay to
the lodging of the prisoner, and, upon seeing him, put a
question to him, which startled him so much as showed
that the suspicion was well founded. Witness proceeded
to search the room, and found in a bag. which the pri-
soner endeavoured to conceal, 231 in gold and silver, and
in a box 261. 10s. in gold, and a skeleton key, which, orA
being applied to the drawer of the safe which had con-
tained the money that had been stolen, atone opened it.
The prisoner said that the money was his own, which he
had saved from the wages he received from Mr. Bens-
field. Mr. Bensfield said that he paid the prisoner a
pound ab week, and that of late the man was much given
to drink and neglected his business.
The prisoner was remanded for a week.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
For the last week or two the time of the sitting Ma- I
gistrate at this Court has been taken up by complaint,
laid by the polio:, in consequence of applications to the
Police Commissioners by the inhabitants against omnibus
drivers, for stopping at the White Horse Cellar, Picca-
dilly, and at the corner of Princes-street and Coventry-
street. In every case the Magistrate has inflicted fines,
varying from ss. to 205., and has, in addition, intimated
to the offending parties, that a stop will be put to the
nuisance, and that in all future cases the highest penalty
will be inflicted.

On Saturday a great number of these cases were
brought before Mr. Hardwick. The drivers pleaded that
the blame did not rest with them ; they were engaged to
drive the omnibus only, and the regulation of the omni-
bus was entirely in the hands of the conductors. They
did not want to stop on the road, or otherwise infringe
the law, but they were compelled to do as the conductor
ordered, or they must submit to lose their places. The
entire blame of stopping at different places rested with
the conductors.

Mr. HARDWICK admitted the force of the argument,
but said he could not allow it to operate, as he was
bound to administer the law as it stocd. The drivers
must enter into some compact iv ith their conductors, or
if they do not, they must still be subject to informations.
The drivers were all fined ss. and costs.
LAMBETH-STREET.

The case of Mr. Henry John Smith, who was charged
last week with seducing the wife of Mr. Hunter, landlord
of the Greycoat Boys' Tavern, Greenwich, and also
stealing a quantity of property belonging to the husband,
was called on for the second time.
Mr. Shaw, a Solicitor, who attended for Mr. Hunter,
stated that since the last examination of the prisoner a
further search had been made at his residence at Brom-
ley, and some towels belonging to Mr. Hunter had been
found there ; but he now wished that the case shoed be
postponed to a future day, fur the purpose of making
further inquiry into the matter, since it was supposed
that many bundles of clothes had been removed from
Mr. Hunter's house.

To this Mr. Pelham objected on behalf of Mr:' Smith,
as the only reason why the case was last time postponed
was to ascertain whether any other property belonging
to Mr. Hunter could be found in Mr. Smith's residence.
It turned out that the only property which could be
found consisted of two napkins used by Mrs. Hunter,
and which any person of ordinary delicacy would not
have taken away. If Mr. Smith should now be remanded,
it would go forth to his disparagement.
Mr. NORTON' told Mr. Shaw if he had any witnesses
to the fact of property having been removed from Mr.
Hunter's, he had better call them.

Mary Ann Maybrook, who had been servant to Mr.
and Mrs. Hunter, was then called. She had seen Mr.
Smith at Mr. Hunter's house ; he came on Easter Tues-
day evening, and slept at the house that night.
Mr. NORTON-PO you recollect whether your master
was at home that night or not ? Witness—He was at
home, Sir. On the Saturday evening following Mr.
Smith came to her master's,.and while there Mrs. Hunter
desired her to cook some lamb-chops for him but her
master coming in when she was about to take .them to the
parlour, Mrs. Hunter told her she must not take them in,
no: must Mr. Hunter see them: This was before Mr.
Hunter forbid Mr. Smith his house: Some time in the
month of July Mr.. Hunter went to Mai'gate. He left on
the Saturday, and en the following day (Sunday) she
observed Mr. Smith walking up and down in front of the
house, and on seeing her he beckoned her to come to
him. She went down stairs for • the purpose of going to
him, and found him in the bar with Mrs. Hunter, and
then went into the public. parlour, where Mrs. Hunter
followed him. This was between five and six o'clock in
the evening. Mr. Smith went out and returned several
times., and left for-good at eleven o'clock.
Mr. NORTON—Did you see if the window-blinds were
drawn down ? Witness—No.

Mr. NORTON—Was this after your master had forbid
the prisoner his house? Witness—Yes. The witness
then went on to say that she took a parcel which had
been made up by Mrs. Hunter to the foreign grocer's in
Trafalgar-street, Greenwich, and which she said was to
be called for by the gentleman who had been in there
with a lady a short time before, who wrote a note and
purchased some cigars; but the people in the shop re-
fused to take it in without a proper direction, and she
took it back to her master's house. On observing her
return with the parcel her mistress exclaimed, " Good
God Almighty, Mary, you must not let your master see
it;" and instantly took it up stairs and directed it for
Mr. H. J. Smith, to be called for, and sent her back to
the grocer's with it. The witness also took a large par-
cel, as much as she could.carry, made up in a table cloth,
and which, among other things, contained three dresses
belonging to Mrs. Hunter, to Mrs. Buxton's, in Green-
wich, and these she had not afterwards seen. She left
the service of Mr. Hunter on the 24th of July, and she
had not seen Mrs. Hunter since that time.

Cross-examined--Said she recollected Mrs. Hunter
taking cake and wine into the parlour to Mr. Smith, au
stopping there with him for.some time on the occasions
and for this it was that her' master forbade Mr. Smith's
coming tohis house again.. She. had no doubt; she said,
thather mistress, Mrs. Hunter; liked Mr. Smith better
than her husband, and_ oil one occasion she saw Mrs.
Hunter and Mr. Smith on the sofa together, with Mr.
Smith's arm round her waist. She also recollected Mrs:
Hunter going away one Sunday in -the, month Of May,
and stopping out all night, but returned home on Mon-
day evening.
Eliza Durant, the Uar-maid, gave similar evidence.
Benjamin Phillips, a pot-boy to Mr. Hunter, deposed
to having. taken bundles to Mrs. Buxton's, at the request
of his mistress, but he did not know who they were
for, nor did he know the person of Mr. Smith.
These being all the witnesses in attendance, Mr. SnAw
expressed a hope the prisoner would be remanded.
Mr. Pelham complained of the course pursued by the
opposite side, and said the charge of felony endeavoured
to be imputed to. his client was without a tittle of evi-
dence to support it.
Mr. NORTON did not think the prisoner had so much
to complain of, as there was no doubt whatever that any
jury hearing the evidence adduced there on that day
must come to a decision of his being guilty of adultery,
't Mr, Pelham replied that he was not there to defend
his client on a charge of crim. con., hilt on a charge of
felony ; and, however foolishly or immorally he- might
have acted, this was not the proper place to try such an
issue, and as there was no charge before his Worship
affecting the prisoner of which he could take cognizance,
he trusted he would not longer detain him. •
Mr. NORTON could not help admiring the zeal With
which the Learned Counsel (Mr. Pelham) defended his
client, but still, when he recollected the situation he
(the prisoner) had placed himself in, he must not wofi=
der at what had occurred, and that sufficient time shat 4d
be given to the prosecutor to make the fullest inquiries
into the matter.
Mr. 'Pelham observed that the delay was of the most
serious consequence to the accused, inasmuch as he was
suspended from the duties of his office, and another re-
mand might lead many to think that he was guilty of
the charge imputed to him—a charge of which he was
totally innocent and clear.
Mr. NonroN said the prisoner was not charged with
stealing the goods missed by the prosecutor, but the con-
structive taking. •
Mr. Shaw replied that this was the charge.
Mr. Pelham said he had several respeetable indivi-
duals to speak to the high character of the accused, and
amongst them his uncle, who was for many years a
Connnon Councilman and Chairman of the Navigation
Committee.
Mr., NORTON thought that, under the circumstances,
he was bound to give time for further inquiries, and the
accused was admitted on the same sureties who had
been previously bound for him to appear on a future day.
UNION-HALL.

John Williams was brought up, charged with entering
the house of Mrs. Elizabeth White, in Stanhope-place,
Southwark, by means of a picklock key, and stealing a
watch and other articles, the property of that lady.
It appeared that on the preceding night the com-
plainant, while sitting in her parlour after tea, was sur-
prised in consequence of a dog which was kept on the
premises keeping up a continual barking and exhibiting
symptoms of restlessness, every now and then running
towards the bottom of the staircase and looking up, but
not venturing to ascend. As the animal repeated this
several times, the complainant was at length induced to
proceed up stairs, accompanied by the dog, when it
became more noisy than ever, and on entering the room
she at once perceived that thieves had been in the room,
for the plate-basket had been removed from its usual
place, and some china had been taken out of the closet and
laid upon the floor. As there was a strong smell oflucifer
matches in the room, the complainant, apprehensive
that some one was concealed there, and her fears being
increased from the circumstance of the dog still con-
tinuing to bark, she went down to the street-door and
asked for a policecnan, but not finding one, the com-
plainant, seeing a gentleman pass, requested him to enter
the house, at the same time communicating her suspi-
cion with respect to a thief being concealed on the pre-
mises. The gentleman, whose name is Lay, immediately
complied with the request, and having ascended to the
complainant's bed-chamber, on examining the room, the
prisoner was at length discovered lying down at his full
length between the' bed and mattress. When he was
dragged from his hiding place there was found concealed
in his pockets a watch, which had been taken out of the
drawing-room, also several silver spoons, together with
other articles. On subsequent examination of the house
it was discovered that the prisoner must have effected an
entrance by means of a picklock key applied to the
street-door lock, and that, in all probability, he was in
the act of walking along the passage when the dog al-
ready alluded to began to bark, and which ultimately led
to the discovery and apprehension of the thief.
The prisoner, who said nothing in his defence, was
committed.