The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-15 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

ROLLS COURT .-(THIS DAY.)
The Court was engaged the greater portion of the day with
consent petition's, after which his Lordship proceeded to dis-
pose of the remaining short causes.

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VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Vice-Chancellor WIG RAM.)
SHARI` r. TAYLOR.
Mr. Sharp and Mr. Follett having concluded the arguments
fur the plaintiff yesterday, Mr. Burge addressed- the Court
this morning on behalf of the defendant. The papers in evi-
dence in the cause are very vo:urninous, and it is expected that
his Honour will take time to consider his judgment.

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_ONI)AII.IES.-(T HIS DAY.)
Mr. Secondary JAMES sat in Guildhall te-day. •
Several undefended actions were taken:first.
The opposed cams possessed no features of general interest.

INSO LVENT CO URT-(T HIS DAY)
A number of unopposed cues were taken durint, the early
part of the morning, in the hearing of ullich not the slightest
feature of general interest transpired.

RE STA NSLEY.
This case had been already before the Court, and adjourned
for the:purpose r,f inserting the names of Messrs. Whitbread
and Company, the brewers, who had bad various transactions
to the amount of nearly 3,0001. w ith the insolvent, who was
the proprietor of the Cloudesley Arms tavern.
The amount of debts appearing in his schedule was con-
siderable, while any assets that might be available to his cre-
di'ors were comparatively trilling. He was arrested at the suit
of the Secretary to the Equitable Gas Company, and shortly
after,.7ards disposed of his interest in the Cloudesley Arms.
Mr. Commissioner HARRIS (addressing Mr. Morrell, the in-
solvent's attorney) said that it appeared from the schedu!e that
there 'had been transactions with the Messrs. Whitbread,
amoun.ing to nearly 3,000/., yet there had been no means takr n
to procure the attendance of any person from that firm. He
trusted Mr. Morrell would act more cautiously in future, when
the interest of others were placed in his hands.
Mr. Mor.-o:1 said the omission was entirely owing to the
negligence of his clerk.

Commissioner I-Immix—The consequences of such
negligence always fall upon the Attorney. I understand you
have already felt its effects, in the course pursued by this
Court a short time back, and until I see mote attention I can-
not express any regret at the circumstance. The further
hearing of the case mu.t stand adjourned until the attendance
of some person on behalf of Messrs. Whitbread can be pro-
cured, and the special balance-sheet amended. -

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

GUILDHALL..--(THIS DAY.)
THREATENING LETTRRS.— Richard Bates was placed at
the bar, under the following circumstances :—A gentleman, re-
siding in Newgate-street, deposed that he received a letter of a
most disgusting nature, stating that a report was in circulation
in the Borough, respecting the character of the witness, and im-
puting to him an unnatural offence. The letter (which is unfit
tor publication) went on to state, that if the witne!s would com-
municate with the writer, he would devise means for the sup-
pression of the report. In consequence of this letter, the
witness sent for an Inspector of Police, and showed him
the letter ; and he advised witness to answer it,
which he did, and addressed it, as directed in the
letter to be called for at the Post-office, High-street, Borough.
The letter was left at the Post-office, and directions were
given to the Postmaster to give the person who called for it
into custody. Yesterday evening, about a quarter past seven
o'clock, the witness was sent for by the Postmaster, and on his
proceeding to High-street, Borough, he found the prisoner in
custody. The man was then taken to the Station house.
John Green, an assistant at the Post-office, High-street,
Borough, deposed that the prisoner came last night and in-
quired for the letter in question, and witness said if he would
wait a few minutes he should have it. Witness then sent the
boy for a policeman, but he could not fin .t one. The prisoner
said he would call again, and left the shop, but witness tollowed
him and gave him into custody.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that he knew nothing
isbeut the letter addressed to the prosecutor, and he had been
requested by Li per Sell to call at the Post-office and ask for a
letter that was lying there.
The policeman who took the prisoner into custody stated
that the prisoner had been searched, and several letters of the
same nature as those received by the prosecutor were found
upon him.—The prisoner was remanded till to-morrow.
John Cook was placed at the bar, charged with picking the
pockets of John Anderson, under the following circumstances.
The prosecutor stated that he lived in Hemlock-court, Cary-
street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, and the prisoner was a resident in
the same house. Last night he was in a public-house in
Drury-lane, and he saw the prisoner there, and recog-
nising each other they entered into conversation.
Shortly afterwards a friend of the prisoner came in, and they
all left the house together. When they got into Lincoln's Inn-
fields the strange gentleman proposed that they should take a
cab and ride as far as the Strand, which proposition was
acceded to. On their arrival in the Strand the stranger
got out of the cab and disappeared, and on the
cabman requesting the amount of his fare, the pri-
soner said he had no money about him), and
the prosecutor was obliged to pay the cab hire. The suspicions
of the prosecutor were by this time aroused, and they prompted
him to feel in his pockets' and he then discovered that his
money had been extracted, together with his pocket. handker-
chief and pocket-book, containing memoranda and duplicates.
On further examination he found that a large brooch he usu-
ally wore in his cravat had also disappeared. The witness said
he was perfectly sober. He immediately gave the prisoner
into custody.
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'The prisimer, in his defence, said that he was invited by the
prosecutor to take a ride in the cab, and he had no idea that he
was to pay for it. The robbery he knew nothing about.
He was remanded till Saturday, to obtain further evidence.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
Five young women, named Jane Knight, Ellen Ealing,
Phothe Baldwin, Ellen Ralph, and Mary Ilorrinton, were
charged with being disorderly arid creating a disturbance in
the workhouse of St. George's in the Fields.
' Mr. Buckstone, the master of the workhouse, the rubicun-
dity of whose vitage has not a whit decreased since we had
the pleasure of last seeing him at this Court, stated the charge
with a great deal of digni'y and complacency. He said that
on Sunday morning in chapel, but before the commencement
of the sermon, the prisoners at the bar, who vos always wery
refractory, commenced singing a song respecting of the earth-
quake; after the service was over they tore up the pavement
stones in the yard, and threw them at the watchman; the pri-
soner Ealing, moreover, excited the other girls to their work
of destruction by clapping her hands, and saying " Go it my
girls, that's your sort."
Airs. Sarah Penny, the matron of " the house," proved the
statement relative to the singing in chapel.
A decrepid old man, dressed in the workhouse garb, who
was denominated the watchman, stated that Jane Knight said
she would smash him, if he went nigh her or by her ; she
swore she would smash him to pieces, and demolage him. The
other girls also, with the exception of Baldwin, took up stones
and threw at him, from one of which he received a severe blow
on the temple. Baldwin advised the girls not to throw stones
at him, and said it was a shame to hurt the old man.

Richard Provu, an inmate of the workhouse, corroborated
the statement of the watchman, and said he recognised Knight
and Ralph as being particularly active. _ _

13uck;tone stated that Baldwin, Ralph, and Ealing had all
been in prison before fur disorderly conduct.

The prisoners were then called on for their defence, and as
they all said something, we present our readers with their
statements.

Mary Horrinton said—Please yer wertship, hafter chapel we
vos a playing at hop-scotch, vich I had a bit o' brick and made
a cross in one of the beds, the hold man cums hop yer wert-
ship, and Le says you d—d b—h if you don't be hoff, l'll cut
you in two vith the stick, vich he made no more ado but he up
vith the stick and cut me and the other gals hover the hams.
Jane Knight, who laboured under a slight defect in her
speech, plunged at once is medics res, and said he hit me
over the h-a-arms and I hit him on the heed, and Mr. Prous
called me a b—y w—e. Besides, they d-d-don't give me no t-tea
and sugar, vich I'm two-and tw-tw -twenty and is ti-ti-tied to.
Mr. Buzkstone explained that thove who were above 21
were allowed tea and sugar, tot he had the power to stop their
allowance if they behaved improperly.
Ellen Ealing said, I never throwed a stone.
Ellen Ralph said, 1 only eaved one stone, and that didn't
touch the old man, it fell just by his feet ; Sal Higgleton was
the worst, and she aint brought up at all. He tells my friends
that rye boon to prison, and hinders me from going out and
getting a place, vich I might easily do.
Phoebe Baldwin, who was in vain endeavouring to draw out
a tear, said in a drawling tone of voice, interspersed with fre-
quent sobs—Please yer Wership (sob), I never heaved a stone
at all (sob). I said I had a father of my own, and should not
like him to be thrown stenes at (sob). Oh, yer Wership (sob),
do look over it this time, and it shall never occur again • in-
deed it shan't (sob). The master always fixes on me, I didn't
know what for, and is always telling me I shall go to prison.—
(Sob, soh, till interrupted by the gaoler. )
Mr. HALL said the conduct of the prisoners was most scan-
dalous ; and having given to each a severe admonition, sen-
tenced them as follows :—Jane Knight, to be imprsoned six
weeks; Ealing and Ralph, each to be imprisoned one month,
Horrinton, twenty-one days, and Baldwin, ten days, in the
House of Correction.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(TIHS DAY.)
EMBEZZLEMENT BY A FEMALE. AT TILE PANTHEON
BAZA A It. —Fanny Vernon, a young female of respectable and
prepossessing appearance, was committed to take her trial at
the ensuing Sittings of the Central Criminal Court, charged
with feloniously embezzling and secreting certain sums of
money, received, by her for and on account of Mrs. Elila
Essex, her employer.

It appeared that the prosecutrix bad a stand in the Pantheon
Bazaar, and that the prisoner had been- in her employ for
between eight and nine months, and such entire confidence
was placed in her integrity, that the sole management
of the business was at intervals entrusted to her. flow.
ever, circumstance's arose which threw suspicion on
her, and which ult'mately led to the detection
of her haring on Saturday last received two sums of 15e. each,
and on 'Monday the sum of 45., in payment for articles pur-
chased at the counter, and of which she had rendered no ac-
count to the prosecutrix. The extent to which she may have
carried this system of peculation cannot be ascertained, as the
pro'secutrix kept no account of her stock.

The prisonei., on her knees, and crying bitterly, most ear-
nestly implored for mercy. The prosecutrix said she had no
vindictive feeling against her, but she thought it her duty to
bring this case forward as a warning to others. The prisoner
had been treated by her with great kindness.
Mr. 111..wrsv said it was a case that precluded leniency.
The prisoner had most infamously abused the confidence re-
posed in her, and proved herself to be the most dangerous, be-
cause secret, enemy of her best friend.

UNION-HALL—.(THIS DAY.)
Edward Cashman, a man with a severe wound on his head,
from a blow of a policeman's staff, was charged with breaking
into the premises of Air. Passenger, glass-manufacturer, in
Union.street.

Mr. Passenger stated, that having had information that the
premises were to he broken into, he sat up all the previous
night with the policeman to watch for the burglars. At three
o'clock in the morning the prisoner and another man were seen
to get over the gate at the rear of the premise's, and began un-
packing a crate containing decanters, for removal. The police=
man rushed forward to secure the men; both of whom made a
desperate resls,ance, and before, the prisoner was taken it was
found necessary to use a staff, with which he was struck over
the head, and knocked down.— The other man escaped, but
being well known he will soon. be in custody.
The prisoner's defence was that he got over. the wall (seven
feet high) for a necessary purpose.—He was remanded.

The railway cuttings are proceeding fast both east
and west of Ashford, and extensive preparations are being
made for carrying on the works with all possible speed. A
great many men are at present in employ, which number is to
be considerably augmented as the spring advances.— Canter-
bury Journal.