The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-04 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.-(THIS DAY.)

William Wales and John Howe, two young lads,
were placed at the bar on a charge of stealing a
number of books, the property of Mr. Lambert, sur-
geon, 28 A, Devonshire-street, Lisson-grove.
The complainant stated that while walking down
Paddington-street yesterday afternoon he saw a
copy of " Don Quixote" in 4 vols. in an old bookshop
window, and looking at and identifying them
as his property, he went home and found that
they had been stolen from his study. He
sent for a policeman, and called his errand-
boy Wales and his mother into a room, when he ques-
tioned the former about the property. The boy was
cautioned by the police-constable not to say anything
to criminate himself, but his mother requesting him to
speak the truth, he said that he had admitted Howe
into the study, who took the books away and soldthem,
and gave him 4d. as his share of the proceeds ; acting
upon this information, the other lad, Howe, was also
taken into custody:
Ann Marchant living at 44, Paddington-street,
identified Howe as the party who had sold her the
copy of Don Quixote for 2s. (the published price
was 2 guineas). She did not know the value of the
work, which the prisoner said was his own.
Police-constable Clinton, 116 D, was informed by
Mr. Lambert of the robbery, and acting upon the in-
formation received from Wale 3, he went to 33, Devon-
shire-place, and took Howe into custody. The pri-
soner produced a volume of the Gardener's Magazine,
which was also Mr. Lambert's property.—The pri-
soners were committed.
The preceding prisoners, with another lad named
James Haman, were also charged with stealing a
double-barrelled gun (a real Manton), the property
of same complainant.
The prisoner Wales had confessed in presence of
the policeman and complainant that they had taken
the gun out one day for the purpose of shooting, that
they had broken it, and that Howe and Haman had
afterwards stolen it. _

The prisoners had nothing to say, and were fully
committed for trial.

CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DA Y.)

Yesterday Denis William Chord, a fashionably-
attired young man about 19 years of age, was charged
by Mr. Henry Storer, the proprietor of a surgical
establishment in Grenville-street, Brunswick-square,
with assaulting and threatening the life of his master.
Mr. COMBE, who presided, seeing the respecta-
bility of the parties, advised them to settle it. Messrs.
Lewis and Alderson, the professional gentlemen en-
gaged on either side, retired and endeavoured to do so,
but ineffectually.
Mr. COMBE refused to hear anything further than
merely the actual threat and assault, but it
transpired, that in consequence of a fire
which took place in Mr. Storer's house, and
which consumed his library and all his private papers,
a very bitter quarrel ensued between him and his
apprentice. Mr. Storer deposed that the latter called
him " liar, felon, and thief," and held his fist to
his face, threatening his life. He likewise shook
a night protector at him, aid used very menacing
language. It was evident there was some deadly
cause of enmity between them, but Mr. Combe re-
stricted them from going into it, although the parties
seemed anxious for the fullest investigation. The
matter ended in the defendant being bound
in his own recognisances to keep the peace, until the
Sessions, at which he seemed most indignant.
Soon after his going home he took a quantity of
poison, and this morning it was communicated to the
inspector en duty at the station-house that he was a
corpse. The friends of the unfortunate young man
are highly respectable. His body lies at Grenville-
street, awaiting an inquest.

Bentley's Miscellany for this month is a glorious
Number. Alfred Crowquill's Philosophy of Fight-
ing" is a rich piece of humorous satire, illustrated by
the author's wood-cuts, which are first-rate things.
Let any body look at the pot-valiant in this series of
combatants, and if he can refrain from a burst of hearty
laughter, he must, indeed, be of a saturnine mood.

The narrative called " A Campaign with the Christi-
nos," abounds in the most stirring incidents of military
adventure; wherein the wild, the reckless, and the heroic,
are mingled with the strange humours of a soldier-of-
fortune's life. But the gem of the Number will be
found in Albert Smith's irresistibly droll history of
Mr. Ledbury's Adventures in Paris ;—a ludicrous

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account of the mishaps, distresses, pleasures, and
mystifications of a cockney in the French capital.
The author's great fund of humour, which is as rich
as that of Boz, is admirably seconded by Leech's
graphic designs, of which the spirit, comic feeling, and
character, equal even the best productions of Cruik-
shank.

It is with sincere sorrow that we have this day to
class amongst our local intelligence thb unexpected
failure, and to an immense amount, of the most enter-
prising merchant that Plymouth has had for many
years—one who, by his own industry and energy, had
laid the foundation of a " rich estate," and whose
generous dealings had acquired him universal esteem.
—Plymouth Journal.
TARIFF CATTLE.—About 50 head of beasts of the
Spanish breed, which have recently reached this coun-
try from Corunna, have been turned into the rich pas-
ture lands in the vicinity of Highgate. These animals,
taking them on an average, run large, but are not in the
very best order; nevertheless they are mending apace
since they have been introduced into the fields near
London. There has not, as yet, been allowed sufficient
time for the beasts which have been imported hither to
excel in quality ; but an evident improvement is tak-
ing place in their appearance each passing week, and
there can be but little doubt that they will eventually
meet with a good demand in the market, and that ere
Christmas they will recommend themselves more
favourably than they have hitherto done.
MELANCHOLY CASE.—Mr. Carter, the Coroner for
Surrey, took an inquisition yesterday, at the Wind-
mill, High-street, Lambeth, respecting the death of
Sarah Shearman, aged 12, who was burnt under most
deplorable circumstances on Sunday morning. It ap-
peared by the evidence of the mother that she had been
for some time in the most heartrending state of poverty.
The room in which the accident happened had but two
old chairs, a table, and a mattress ; in fact, the house
in Calcite-court was miserable in the extreme. On
Sunday morning, at nine o'clock, she went to see a
person of the name of Rose, in Guy's Hospital, who
has since died. Her husband deserted her about eight
years ago, and she has for some time been living with
Rose. Soon after she had left home a person of the
name of Ascott heard dreadful screams issuing from
the house, and upon going to the first-floor he found
it full of smoke, and he could not enter. He went to
the next floor, and creeping on his hands and knees,
opened the window, and let out the smoke. He then
went back, and found the deceased lying on the mattress
enveloped in fire, and burnt almost to a cinder. Mrs.
Shearman said she had left her other children in care of the
deceased, as she had often done before, and from what
another child told her, the deceased had been broiling
the head of a red-herring, when her frock caught fire.
A Juror said, it was dreadful to read the accounts of
the deaths of children by fire. The Coroner remarked,
this was a most pitiable case, for one of such extreme
destitution he had never witnessed. A verdict of Ac-
cidental Death was returned, and the Coroner made a
present to the mother out of his own pocket.
DEATH THROUGH FRIGHT.—This morning, at about
half-past seven o'clock, an elderly lady, residing at
Austin-friars, in the City, was being driven at a rapid
pace toward the railway station in Euston-square,
from whence ahe intended to proceed to Birmingham.
In descending the very awkward-hill near the Bag-
nigge-wells Tavern, the horse stumbled and fell, the
driver was thrown off, and both shafts broken ; and it
was a mercy that the cab was not precipitated to the
pavement, which at this spot lies nearly four feet be-
low the level of the road. All that the poor old lady
could utter, when another cab was procured, was to
be driven hack to Austin-friars, where she arrived
almost speechless, and by half-past nine a paralytic
stroke terminated her existence.
MISS MARTINEAU.—The disinterested and truly
noble conduct of tins lady, in refusing a pension so
kindly and delicately and properly (as things go)
offered her by Lord Melbourne, before he went last
out of office, has suggested to us the idea of proposing
a public subscription throughout the kingdom, to be
entered into by the working classes and others, ad-
mirers of the writings, principles, and character of
Miss Martineau, as an acknowledgement of her just
claims on the people, and acting on her own well and
justly laid down rule, that for services rendered to
the people, the people themselves ought directly to
pay. And the people, we make no doubt, will pay,
readily, cheerfully, and abundantly. Whatever may
be their faults they are not ungrateful. in order that
this proposal should be carried duly into effect, it is
only necessary that it should be taken in hand by some
known and responsible parties. Miss Martineau's re-
sidence in this neighbourhood seems to . place a pecu-
liar obligation on us to begin the work, and we are
authorised on behalf of three gentlemen whom we
know, to subscribe 3/. as a beginning.—Tyne "Pilot,
It was rumoured in 'Westminster Hall yesterday
morning, that in consequence of the appointment of
several Learned Sergeants as Commissioners under
the New Bankruptcy Bin, Mr. Sergeant Merewether
having been appointed Town Clerk of the City of
London, and the death of Mr. Sergeant Spankie,
that shortly a number of Learned Counsel will be
elevated to the dignity of Sergeants at Law.
A new religious sect, much more strict in discipline
than the Methodists, has just been established at
Geneva. They are said to be a sort of St. Simonians.
They are obliged to hold their noisy meetins outside
the town, not being able to proeuxe aphice within
the walls,