The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-25 00:00:00

UNION-H 4 LL.

ROBBERY BY A SzavANT.--Richard Ho/yoak a confiden-
tial servant, in the employ of Mr. Sturge the large ship-
owner, was charged with robbing his employer.
Mr. Sturge stated that the prisoner was formerly a seaman
on board of one of his ships trading to the South Seas, and
owing to his good behaviour witness latter y employed him at
home to superintend his warehouse, containing Honduras
mahogany, and a material for the manufacture of a new de-
scription of wax candles. Latterly various articles were missing
from the stores in this warehouse, and suspicion having been
excited against the prisoner, his house was examined, and in it
was found a considerable portion of the stolen property.
Committed.
John Thomas was charged with breaking a window in
Christ-church workhouse for being refused admission.
The master said that upwards of eighty vagrants collected at
the gate the preceding night, and out of that number as many
were admitted as the ward would contain. Th. defendant
being one of those excluded for want of room commenced
breaking the windows.
He• was committed for five days, and to be passed.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Thomas Drew, a demure looking elderly man, de-
scribed as a tailor, was -charged before Mr. Bingham,
'under the following circumstances :
. A policeman of the 'N. division stated that he was
passing an unoccupied house in Sheperdess-walk, City-
,r9ad, at turlale hour op, ',Wednesday ni4ht, when he heard
affirbi!ookiri(l,6‘wg'.n ,the :Cellar he
perceived the
_prisoner, who, on being' asked! what 'he
wanted thei-e; .soid lic vas a tramper,--iind being without
any place of`reNge,-he"had- taken up his quarters there
fur the night. ."-Ain turning. his; into the cellar,, -
'less observed a woman's bonnet lying at the prisong's
feet, "Whkli the, prisonpr_said, belopged to his wife ;
and tit -the. „s
.-same moment. a woman darted out of
the cellar, and scampered off, leaving her soi-
disant Benedict to his fate. The prisoner was con-
veyed to the station-house, and on his way thither he
confessed that he been allured by the blandishments of
the cockatrice who had left him in the lurch, and begged
witness to let him gti, for if the affair reached the ears
of his wife, he would never hear the last of it.
The prisoner who appeared thoroughly ashamed of
his conduct, was about to stammer out some explana-
tion, when .

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Mr. Bisnuftm.toldhim that the circumstances of the
case required no elucidation, and he had much better
remain silent. The inconvenience he had suffered was a
sufficient punishment for his folly, and he might go his
way and endeavour to make his.peace with his wife.
The prisoner was then discharged. • .

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The rioters arrested at Chaurkat, near Clermont, as
engaged in the unlawful and violent bpposWon to the census,
have undergone their trial before the Court of Assizes for the
Puy-de-Dome. The number arraigned was 30, of whom 10
were acquitted, and 20 convicted of different degrees of offence.
Of these four, one of whom was a woman, were sentenced to
hard labour at the hulks for from eight to six years, nine to close
confinement for from eight to five years, five to simple imprison-
ment for from three to one year, and one, by default, to hard
labour at the hulks for ten years. After these were disposed of,
the Court, on the requisition of the Advocate-General, pro-
notineed sentence on seven who were involved in the riots at
Clermont, against whom judgment had been pronounced in de-
fault, viz....0n0 to death, one to hard labour at the hulks for life,
and the rest to close confinement for from ten to six years.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE DURHAM AND SUM
DERLA ND RA ILWA Y. —On Monday last, as Mr. Thoma
Halliwell, clerk at the Durham and Sundcrlund Railway station,
at Shincliffe, near Durham, was engaged in lowering goods
into a.warehouse beneath the station, the board on which he
stood gave way, and he was precipitated to the bottom, a depth
of about 20 feet, and his head came in contact with the ground,
which caused instant death. Mr. Hallivvell was a highly re-
spectable man, and a local preacher in the Primitive Methodist
Society, and has l. ft a wile anti a large family to mourn his
loss. One of his children was playing within a yard or two of
the spot where he fell.— Tyne Mercury.
A STRAY MONKEY.-IVednesday morning one of
the tenants of Daviot, in this county, informed his proprietor
(Mackintosh, younger of Mackintosh) that a strange-looking
animal had been seen in the neighbourhood, and was at that
moment in pursuit of one of his children. His wife and
neighbours were in a state of the utmost alarm, and dared not
approach tke creature, which grinned at them like an evil
spirit ! On repairing to the spot, the animal was indistinetly
seen in a bush at some distance, and Mackintosh immediately
fired at and killed it. The strange visitant that caused so much
terror proved to he a fine old monkey, in excellent condition.
Where the wanderer had strayed from to that comparatively
secluded Highland spot could not be ascertained.—lnverness
Courier.

Count Mole, says the Commerce, dined at the
Tuileries on Saturday. In the evening, the King sent for
Marshal Soult, and Messrs. Guizot, Teste,and Cunin-Gridaine.
The man and two women who were arrested the
other day at Havre, on board a vessel .beund for Monte-Video,
just as it was setting sail, :have been proved to be parties who
had circulated forked notes at Ilonflour, where the women had
kept an upholsterer's shop. The maa was their shopman.
Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford will preside
at the approaching festival dinner of the Shipwrecked Fisher-
men and Mariners' Benevolent Society.