The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-26 00:00:00

hunting after me at my Chambers in Half-Moon Cres-
cent, with some long-legged rascal to arrest me."
Directed to "old Gass, mosaic.jewellor, Regent-street."
flu reading fit' these letter,; wa..; fc.llDv, c,l by rotr-:
laughter.) The insolvent was subsequently taken to
Hatton-garden police-court, on a charge of assault, when
Duke, the officer, got the duplicates of the jewellery and
plate, and subsequently handed them over to witness.
The Counsel for the insolvent endeavoured to rest his
defence upon insanity, but the Commissioner, seeing no
grounds for the plea, ordered him to be remanded for
eight months. •

IN RE THOMAS GRIFFITHS.
The insolvent, whose case had been heard before Mr.
Commissioner Law, and was reported in The Sun, was
called up for judgment.
Mr. Commissioner LAW said, in this case the insol-
vent had defrauded his creditors and contracted debts,
without the most distant chance of repayment. In one
instance he had dealt with a firm which kept two sepa-
rate establishments in different parts of the City, and
after running in debt at one for a large sum, he went to
the other, and, without stating who he was, contracted a
still larger sum there. The sentence of the Court, there-
fore, was, that he be further imprisoned for the term of
twelve calendar months from the date of his vesting order.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
CLEI?KENWELL.
Yesterday Richard Kerrison, aged twelve years, was
placed at the bar, charged by Charles Luff, tobacconist,
of Well's-place, Islington, with having stolen nine cigars.
It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor, that
the prisoner was connected with a daring gang of young
thieves, who prowled about the neighbourhood of Isling-
ton and committed the most impudent depredations. On
Monday night last witness left his boy, eleven years of
age, in the shop, and whilst there the prisoner, with a
gang of other juvenile desperadoes, was observed lurk-
ing about. At length the prisoner and four of his com-
panions rushed into the shop, pushed the boy down,
whilst they made an effort to seize the till. The pri-
soner made a snatch at a bundle of cigars, which he took
from the counter, and the whole of them ran out of the
shop. An alarm was made, and witness immediately
pursued them and overtook the prisoner, whom he took
into custody, and handed him over to a policeman. The
prisoner, on being pursued, threw the cigars into the
road, which were afterwards found by a passenger and
returned to witness.
Richard Horren, errand-boy to the prosecutor, iden-
tified the prisoner, and gave evidence in confirmation of
the above statement.
Inspector Jervis, of the G division, recognised the
prisoner as an old offencler in petty thefts, who had been
in custody before although so young, and he was at that
Court about a fortnight ago.
Mr. COMBE asked the prisoner what he had to say
to the charge ?
Prisoner (crying)—l was sent into the shop by a big-
ger boy—he told me to go in.
Mr. COMBE convicted him summarily, and sentenced
him to two months' imprisonment in the House of Cor-
rectien.

QUEEN-SQUARE.
Yesterday Robert Bligh, the keeper of a beer-shop in
Queen-street, Chelsea, appeared to a summons charging
him with haying assaulted the police and obstructed
them in the execution of their duty.
Luke Buck, 73 V, stated that on Thursday morning,
the 20th inst., between one and two o'clock, he heard a
noise in defendant's house as though a number of per-
sons were there. The door stood ajar, and on pushing
it open he observed a number of persons in a back room,
where there were glasses and pots, as if they were drink-
ing. In a moment defendant came from within, any.
asked witness what he did sneaking about there, and
struck him three or four times on the head. A police-
serjeant came up, and seeing that defendant was intoxi-
cated, they thought it advisable to leave the house.
Sergeant Ligne, 5 V, said that as he came up he
found the constable, who informed him that he had been
assaulted.

Defendant, in reply, declared that the whole charge
was false, and had been concocted at a rival beer-shop,
for the purpose of injuring him. He never struck the
policeman, nor did he even see him, until, hearing a
noise in the passage, he came from a room behind the
bar, and saw him strike his son.

The son and a person named Watson were called, who
both swore that the constable had not been touched by
defendant ; but, on the contrary, that he had struck the
son twice over the head.

Mr. BURNELL made no comment, but at once dismissed
the case.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT on the
MERSE Y.—LO SS of FOUR LIVES.
A melancholy disaster occurred upon the river
Mersey, opposite Liverpool, out Sunday morning
last, by which, we regret to state, four boatmen
belonging to the port were suddenly hurried into
eternity.
It appears that the four unfortunate men in
question were the proprietors of a boat termed "a
speculating gig," which generally plies for hire
near the docks, and is of the kind frequently en-
gaged by news agents and others for bringing
papers, letters, &c., from the vessels. As several
ships were expected to come in on Sunday, the
four boatmen proceeded with their vessel towards
the rock, speculating upon meeting some ships,
and of being engaged to land either passengers or
documents. With one sail up, the tide running
swiftly, the water exceedingly rough, and the
wind 'rather high, they had proceeded as far as
Egremont, about half-way to the Rock lighthouse,
when the boat suddenly upset, precipitating the
boatmen into the foaming waves. The accident
occurred not far from the shore, within sight
of spectators, and not a great way from where
one of her Majesty's revenue cutters and a
ship (the Siddons, New York packet) lay at
anchor. The boat turned keel upwards, and for a
short time none of its ill-fated crew were per-
ceptible. At length two of the poor fellows were
observed grappling with the boat, and they suc-
ceeded in getting upon its bottom, from which,
however, a wave suddenly dislodged them, and for
a few minutes they were seen swimming in the
water. The crews of the revenue cutter and the
other vessel, on witnessing the accident, immedi-
ately launched their boats, but on nearing the scene
of the disaster they were almost swamped, and
compelled to return. They succeeded in throw-
ing out a hand-buoy, which one of the men
clutched, but shortly relinquishing his hold, he,
with his companions, sank to rise no more. The
men, it is said, were all swimmers, but the wea-
ther was so inclement that animation was so far
suspended by the immersion as to render them
incapable of exertion to save themselves, which
accounts for the hand-buoy rendering no service.
On the shore, just opposite to where the melancholy
affair happened, there is a large avenue, or cutting
through a hill, which faces Bidston. From this
avenue an immense body of wind frequently issues
from the neighbourhood of Bidston, and it is sup-
posed that an unexpected gust from that quarter
was the cause of the accident. None of the bodies
were picked up. They will doubtless be carried
out to sea, and at the end of nine or ten days they
may probably be found at some distance from Li-
verpool.
The body of the unfortunate woman, Mrs.
Powell, who was drowned in the collision of steam-
boats during the late fog on the Mersey, has not
yet been found.
Signals of distress were hoisted off the Bidston
Lighthouse on Sunday, which caused some appre-
hension. Two of the steam tugs and one of the
life boats immediately went round the Rocks for
the purpose of rendering assistance, when they
found the Fergus from Apalachicola, at anchor off
he Bell Buoy, totally dismasted, having come in
contact with a vessel off the Skerries. No lives,
it appears, were lost ; but both vessels received con-
siderable injury. The Fergus has been towed into
por

MELANCHOLY DEATHS OF A MOTHER AND
CHlLD.—Yesterday afternoon Mr. Payne held an in-
quest at the Commerial Tavern, Sherborne-lane, City,
on the body of Elizabeth Lindsey, aged 38. In our im-
pression of Thursday last appeared the report of an in-
quest on the body of deceased's infant, the probable
cause of whose death was exposure to cold in travelling
by railroad from Bristol. At that inquest deceased was
to appear as a witness, and whilst waiting to be called,
in a room next to that in which the inquest was held,
she suddenly expired. On the assembling of the Jury
last evening Mr. Payne and the foreman read several
letters from relations of deceased. By them it appeared
that she was a native of Hereford, and had married
about eleven years ago a travelling groom, whose domi-
cile was at Ackworth, near Pontefract. Five years ago
he left her, and has not since been heard of. She sup-
ported herself by nursing sick persons, and in September
last, without assigning any reason to her husband's re•
latives, she left Ackworth, and proceeded to Bristol,
where, about a month ago, at her aunt's house, she gave
birth to an illegitimate child, now, as well as herself, dead.
On account of her seeming neglect of the child on her
arrival at the above tavern from Bristol, on Sunday
week, and the agitation she manifested when she found
that an inquest would be held on the body of the infant,
the Jury considered that they could not come to a satis-
factory decision unless a post mortem examination of the
body were made. Adjourned for that purpose to Thurs-
day next.

UNHAPPY COINCIDENCES.—.it is remarkable
that all the English monarchs, who have wedded French
Princesses, have met an untimely end ; Edward the Se-
cond, who married Isabella ofFrance, was murdered in the
most cruel manner by Gourmay and Dlontravers, at Berke-
ley Castle. Richard the Second, married also to a Princess
named Isabella, was killed by Sir Piers Exton, and
accomplices, at Pomfret Castle, or, as thought by Hume,
starved to death there Henry the Sixth, who married
Margaret of Anjou, killed in the Tower, as it is said, by
Richard Duke of Gloucester ; and Charles the First,
who married Henrietta Maria, daughter of Henry the
Fourth of France, beheaded in front of the Palace at