The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 28, 1842.

LAW INTELLIGENCE•

OMEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
The Court was engaged the whole morning in
hearing arguments on cases in the special paper, which
turned exclusively on technical points of pleading.

CRIMINAL COURT—(THIS DAY.)
The first session of the present Mayoralty com-
menced this morning before the Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor, the Recorder, the Sheriffs, Sub-Sheriffs,
Aldermen Gibbs, John Johnson, and tither civic
functionaries.

The calendar contains a list of 247 persons, of
whom there are charged as accessories before the fact,
33 of arson, 1 ; bigamy, 2 ; burglary, 4 ; cattle steal-
ing, 1 ; uttering or possessing counterfeit coin, 5 ;
uttering ditto feloniously, 1 ; embezzlement, 9 ; for-
gery, or uttering forged instruments, 7 ; housebreak-
ing and larceny, 2 ; larceny, 137 ; ditto in a dwelling-
house, 5 ; ditto from the person, 15 ; ditto by ser-
vants, 25 ; stealing from. a letter, 1 ; misdemeanour,
10; murder, 2 ; perjury, 1 ; rape, 2 ; receiving stolen
goods, 9 ; robbery, 38. Of these there were com-
mitted from London, 21; Middlesex, 197; Essex, 1 ;
Kent, 10 ; and Surrey, 18 ;--total, 247.
The Grand Jury having been sworn,
The RECORDER in charging them, said that from
the appearance of the calendar which lay before him,
he was apprehensive that the cases respecting which
they would have to inquire would not fall short of
three hundred. There were two charges of rape of a
serious character, and two of murder ; and depositions
also were before the Court in the case of, another
charge of murder. It was not his wish to prejudice
the cases which would come before them, or to antici-
pate the inquiry which these cases
in the Court. He should therefore abstain from corr.,-
menting on the circumstances disclosed in the ?Aepo-
sitions, and the more so as e were to undergo
comment, was not
necessary for the instruction and assisianee of the
Grand Jury, except that he felt it his duty to say
that he thought it Would be ngc.e.:ssary
the two cases of rape,:
'an a three cases of murder
before the Pettit Jura, On these cases, however, he
expressed no 00,
"awn as to the ultimate result of the
rfne
inquiry, for them to put
present calendar was heavy, not only
as rewarded the nature of the crimes charged, but also
the number of the prisoners. He observed that there
were three persons in the calendar charged as acces-
sories before the fact. As that term might be new
to the Jury, he thought it right to explain to
them what the meaning was according to the
definition of Lord Hales. "An accessory. before the
fact is a person who was absent at the time of the fe-
lony being committed, but did yet procure, counsel,
command, or abet another to commit the felony." It
was not enough to constitute an accessory that a per-,
son should have known that an offence was intended,
and had given a tacit acquiescence ; and further; the
procuring and abetting must be continued to the com-
mission of the act. In the case which would go be-
fore the Jury, the: persons were charged as accesso-
ries to the fraudulent drawing out of the Court of
Chancery certain moneys which were not the pro-,
perty of the persons who so obtained therm In this
case some of the parties chat ed did not take so active
a part as others, and it }s' as on this account he thought
it necessary to point out the distinction between mere
misprision and the guilt of an accessory. The Learned
Recorder
lengtk,l-ut on essed the Jury further at considerable
uly on the usual topics of a charge.

NEW COURT.
Commissioners Bullock and Sir George Carroll
took their teats in the New Court at one o'clock.
Frederick Henry Rix, 24, described in the calendar
as a traveller, was charged with a misdemeanour, in
having obtained from his master several sums of
money, as commission on orders, which orders he had
not. really received. The case was one traversed from
last Sessions. The indictment contained three
charges, on each of which the prisoner withdrew his
former plea and pleaded guilty. The proseCutor did
not wish to press the charges. The prisoner received
a good character from one witness. He was sen-
tenced to three months' imprisonment.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
Fuatous DatviNG.—A cabman hamed Thomas
Selwyn was charged with furiously driving his cab
last night in the Strand.
P 48 stated that he was on duty last night between
twelve and one, when he saw tht prisoner driving fu-
riously down the Strand. He drove down the middle
of the street, and right against the back of an-
other cab which was standing in the Strand.
The back of this cab was driven in and
broken to pieces. The horse in the prisoner's cab
was nearly killed by the' concussion, and when the
witness came up the animal was almost doubled up.
The prisoner was in a state of intoxication. There
were two gentlemen in his cab.
The prisoner in his defencd:said that he was sorry
for what he had done.

In answer to a question from Mr. HALL, the pri-
soner said yesterday was the first day of lus driving.
Mr. HALL sentenced him to six weeks' imprisonment.

MARYLEBONE—(THIS DAY).
Mary Ann Webb, a servant out of place, was brought
up, charged on suspicion of stealing a valuable prayer
book, the property of some parties unknown.
George Bishop, 30 D, said that about six o'clock
on Satarday =evening he was called into Mr. Black.
adder's, stationer and bookseller, of 16, Adam-street,
Manchester-square, where the prisoner was disposing
of the article in question. He suspected from her
manner, and the fact of her giving a wrong address,
that she had stolen it, and took her into custody.
The prayer-book was handed to Mr. Rawlinson.
It was beautifully bound in brown morocco, heavily
mounted and clasped in gold,
on touching a spring
the interior of the clasp flew open and exposed a hair
locket with the initials " 11. Ll 3 L. ~ from Frederick,
Sept. 1841 ;" the whole was beautifully finished, and
from the richness of the material and delicacy of the
chasing must have been very valuable. Mr. itawlin-
son hoped that the owners of the property might read
of its recovery in the daily prints, and he therefore
would remand the case till Wednesday first.
The female accounted for its possession by saying
she found it on a seat in Hyde Park.

CLERKEN WELL
An old man, dressed in a seedy suit of black, was
•—(T HIS DI Y.)
charged with begging.
Police constable N 11 deposed, that yesterday
morning, whilst in his own room he heard the pri-
soner exclaiming in the streets that be was once in
the possession of the luxurious enjoyments of life, and
the City. lie was now reduced to beg in the streets
the proprietor of a harness-1/41,4,g establishment in
to save himself from starvation ; he had been soliciting
alms in the 'West-end from the aristocratic and the
wealthy, but had not obtained a farthing; he now
besought of the humbler classes to commiserate him.
Some people threw him halfpence. Witness told him
to go away, but he still persisted, and was taken to
the station-house.
idr. 1.
, and withered; he was what he had to say to the
(11
?--71Niew°p°riis)oansedcirstretched forth an arm para-
lysed besides scarcely able to
walk from a shocking rupture. lie repeated his
statement as to his former respectability ; his horror
charge
of a workhouse induced him to beg rather than go there.
Mr. GREENWOOD said he had no doubt but the
prisoner was a man of no ordinary intelligence, and
did not question his statement of former respectability.
Begging must be put a stop to ; he would sentence
him to 21 days' imprisonment.