The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-17 00:00:00

MAI?YLEBOIVE.

Two very gentlemanly-looking young men, of remark-
ably good address, and who refused to give their names,
were charged with having obtained various sums of
money from the nobility and gentry at the west•end.
Lord Hanry Cholmondeley, upon whom an unsuccessful
attempt had been made to obtain money, occupied a seat
on the bench.

Oswald 'Moseley, Esq., and Mrs. Bochin, gave evidence
of begging-letters having been sent to them, together
with a long list of subscribers, most of whose names
turned out to be forgeries. The prisoners, it was dis-
covered, resided at 56, King-street, Soho, where they
lodged together under the respective names of Montague
and Ryson. It appeared that Montague was known to
the Mendicity Society as connected with similar prac-
tices, for which he had been convicted in 1841. At the
prisoners' lodgings a box was found containing a " Court
Guide," and a vast number of envelopes and letters ad-
dressed to persons in the higher rank of society, and
also a book, in which was pasted genuine signatures of
dukes, earls, clergymen, and others.
The prisoners, on being called upon, said they were
sorry for what they had done.

They were reminded till Saturday next, to give time
for tracing their system of imposition, which it is be-
lieved has been practised very extensively.

LAMBETH.

As Mr. Norton was about to leave the bench, a feeble-
looking old man, named Alexander Elder, entered the
witness-box, and applied to the Magistrate for his in-
terference to have him admitted into Newington work-
house. From the poor man's statement it appeared that
he had carried on business for some years in Aylesbury-
street, Clerkenwell, as a master baker, and that on the
death of his wife in 1816, himself and his four children
became possessed of 5,000 L, in which his wife had pre-
viously a life-interest. One of hi 3 children died a minor,
and two of the others got their shares of the money left,
and a portion remained for his third child, who was a
daughter. The last child had been made a ward in
Chancery ; and by the trickery of two or three design-
ing persons she had been plundered of every penny ; and
not only this, but the applicant, in endeavouring to pro-
tect her, had been incarcerated fifteen years, six years
and upwards in the King's Bench, and nearly nine in
Horsemonger-lane. On Monday fortnight he obtained
his discharge, but so accustomed had he become to the
walls of a prison that, when walking about in the public
streets, he was seized with a giddiness, and was in
momentary dread of falling head foremost.
Mr. NORTON inquired what he wanted done for him,
aged he replied that he had been to the Clerkenwell
Workhouse, in which parish he had a legal settlement,
but they refused to take him in without a regular pass;
and the parish of Newington had also some objection to
take him in, as they thought Clerkenwell ought to do
so without the necessary pass.
Mr. NORTON direete.l one of the summoning °facers
to accompany him to Newington, and to request that the
applicant might be taken in and passed in the regular
way.

ASHBURTON.—A few days since, while a workman
was engaged in cleaving a pollard-tree, at Grange Farm, he
found, concentrated in the trunk, a cannon-ball, weighing
4 lbs.. On the aboVe farm are the remains of some ancient
buildings, which formerly belonged to the old Cistercian
Abbey of Buckfastleigh, which was funded in the year
1137, by Etherwerld, the son of Williatn Pomerai, in honour
of the Virgin Mary. From the appearance of the tree, which
has undoubtedly stood for centuries, the ball was shot into it,
during a bokubardment of the abbey, during the. monastic
ware.