The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-24 00:00:00

LAMBETH-STREET.

On Friday, Mr. Henry John Smith, who has been
twice before examined at this Court on a charge of se-
ducing the wife of Mr. Hunter, landlord of the Grey-coat
Boy Tavern, Greenwich, and also with being concerned
in stealing a quantity of property belonging to the hus-
band, was again placed at the bar for final examination.
Mr. Shaw, a solicitor, appeared for the prosecution,
and Mr. Pelham attended on behalf of the accused. Mrs.
Hunter was also in Court during the proceedings.
Several witnesses were examined, but they did not sub-
stantiate the charge of robbery against the prisoner, and
he was discharged.
He left the Court in company with Mrs. Hunter and a
number of his friends who attended the examination.
UNION-HALL.
Henry Stanhope, a man of gentlemanly appearance,
was charged with threatening to shoot Miss Elizabeth S.
French, the daughter of a retired tradesman at Vauxhall.
The complainant, a young lady of interesting appear-
ance, stated that she had been acquainted with the de-
fendant about four months, during which time he visited
at her father's house, and paid his addresses to her. He
represented himself to be possessed of 3001. per annum,
besides having 9,0001. in the funds ; some suspicion,
however, being excited in" the minds of her family that
the defendant was not the person he described himself,
and as he refused to give any reference or proof as to
his respectability, he was forbidden the house. He,
however, came there in defiance of her family, and upon
a recent occasion he threatened to murder her if she
proved faithless to him, said that he had purchased
a pair of pistols for the purpose, and exhibited some
bullets, which were intended, he said, to destroy her ;
and, besides this, he had taken an opportunity of defaming
hercharacter in the most infamous manner to a gentleman
connected with her family, whom he also vowed vengeance
against, under the supposition that he intended to sup-
plant him in the affections of the complainant. This
statement was fully confirmed by the father and sister
of the complainant. The prisoner could only allege in
excuse that he was highly excited at being denied ad-
mittance to the house. He still refused to give any re-
ference of proof as to his family, but acknowledged that
he had 1001. per annum, which was allowed him by his
father. It was stated by a tailor that he had lately made
clothes for the prisoner, upon being informed that he
-visited at the complainant's house, and that he had been
unable to get paid for them.
au2
nop
doMoinb.r,e.tahConefodgdr
fioeinfteddzincbdtseawhnAoatmvta,
iouotrehuenrett;iel:aris
at
intogtohi
fsetlrhsoaniotsmie.
0, saidetwotni
mk eehehep shoulde threcognisancepeac cai
enl
congratu-
lated Miss French upon having escaped from the artful
meshes which the defendant had endeavoured to throw
around her. _

The defendant was committed in default of procuring
,he necessary sureties.
CROYDON POLICE.

Mr. Wire, the Solicitor to the Licensed Victualler's
Protection Society, attended on Saturday before the
Bench for the purpose of supporting a memorial, signed
by a number of licensed victuallers of Croydon, praying
that the Bench would not allow apoor-rate that had just
been made by the parish-officers to be carried into effect.
Mr. G. Penfold, the Vestry Clerk, attended in support
of the rate.
The memorial was read. It set forth that certain
premises in the Middle-row having been formerly occu-
pied as a beer-shop, and rated at 101. 165., after having
been unoccupied for some time, had recently been rated
at 161., for the purpose of enabling a party, in conformity
with the recent Act of Parliament, to hold them as a
beer-shop, and it was alleged that one of the parish of-
ficers had privately signed a certificate declaring the pro-
perty to be of the value required by the Act, and that by
this means the Act, which was passed for the purpose of
doing away with this class of beer-houses, was rendered
nugatory. The memorialists, therefore, prayed that,
under these circumstances, the Magistrates would refuse
to confirm this portion of the rate.
Mr. Wire addressed the 'Bench at some length, and
was followed by Mr. Penfold on the other side, when the
Bench said they did not think they had any jurisdiction
in the matter, and without expressing any opinion upon
the facts they confirmed the rate.