The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-22 00:00:00

IN THE MATTER OF JOHN REED ROBERTB.

The insolvent was a surgeon in the Royal Navy, and
applied on his petition to be discharged, which was sup-
ported by Mr. Woodroffe, and opposed on behalf of cer-
tain creditors in Plymouth by Mr. Cooke.
He had retired from the Navy many years ago on
104/. annual half-pay, and commenced practising his
profession in Frankfort-street, Plymouth. his present
liabilities amounted to 1,2001., of which there were out-
standini, debts to the amount of 2351., which would •be
available to his creditors. He also had been entitled to
a reversionary life interest in some property in Chelsea,
after the death of his mother and aunt. In 1837 he was
elected town councillor of Plymouth, the qualification
required for which was 1,0001. above all debts or de-
mands, but since that time he had suffered some severe
losses by a speculation in which he entered into to start
a newspaper in Plymouth.
Mr. COOKE applied-to have at least 17/. 4s. a year ap-
propriated to the creditors,
Mr. COmmissioner BOWMAN said the sum was so small
as to be totally useless to the body of the creditors, and
as the insolvent, had three children, with his mother and
aunt (the latter of whom 'was blind), who sacrificed their
property for him, he could not make any order on the
subject.
Mr. WOODROFFE said there was an " order " presented
to the insolvent as a mark of respect by the Portuguese
Government, the stones of which were found to be coun-
terfeit—(he supposed the jeweller who made it tricked
the Government)—and there was also a beautiful snuff-
box presented to him by the workmen on the Plymouth
Breakwater, in return for many acts of professional
kindness which he had conferred upon them. These
articles, with same others, had been handed;to Mr. Cafe,
the auctioneer of that ourt, and their ultimate value
was found to be less than-81.

Mr. 000 RE said he was instructed by the creditors to
state that Mr. Roberts should not be deprived of testimo-
nials so honourable to him.

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He_ was then ordered to be discharged.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

A well-dressed man, named John Harvey, was
brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having
robbed Mr. Brown, of Aldermanbury, of a diamond pin,
worth about 71., on the day Prince Albert laid the first
stone of the Royal Exchange. The prisoner had been
remanded from Tuesday, in the hope that sufficient evi-
dence might be produced against the thief, who was de-
scribed as a desperate character.
Mr. Brown stated, that, as his wife and he were in
Cornhill, near the Sun Fire-office, a mob got about them.
He endeavoured to pass, and the prisoner, raising his
arm against witness's face, said that he also wanted to
get forward, pulled the pin out of witness's shirt, and
rushed across the street. , There were two persons with
the prisoner, evidently belqnging to the gang. A gentle-
man, who saw what occurred, immediately told witness
that he had lost his pin, and pointed at the prisoner as
the person who had stolen it. Witness then ran after and
seized the prisoner, who struck and kicked, and made a
most desperate resistance, but was unable to get away.
The LORD MAYOR said the prisoner had been at the
bar before.

The prisoner—Never my Lord, I was never appre-
hended before in my life. My solicitor can tell you that
—(A laugh.)
The prisoner's Solicitor—l believe him to be a re-
spectable poor man.
The LORD MAYOR—Oh, yes ! I have no doubt that
he is one of what are called the swell mob. I know his
face, and shall ask the gaoler about him.
Gooch (the turnkey of the Compter) was then called,
and asked whether he knew anything of the prisoner.
" Know him, my Lord ! Certainly I do. He has been
in that, spot before, and is well known as the companion
of notorious thieves."

It was stated that Mr. Brown, who is a very strong
man, completely overpowered the prisoner, although in
the midst of a set of thieves. The gentleman who saw
the pin taken, not having attended the first examina-
tion, the prosecutor,ianxious to get such a ruffian punished,
put an advertisement in the papers requesting his ap-
pearance—nobody answered his call.
The LORD MAYOR asked whether the prosecutor could
swear that he saw the pin taken himself ? Mr. Brown—
I cannot. I missed it, however, the instant I was told it
was gone.
The prisoner's solicitor submitted that there was no
case at all against his client.
Mr. Brown—For the sake of public justice, I hope he
may be punished in some way or other. It is not on ac-
count of the pin lost, but on account of the public, that I
have pursued this inquiry so actively.
The LORD MAYOR—I shall send him to prison for
three months at any rate, and the public are much in-
debted to the prosecutor.
Mr. Paine (of Deptford) Said, that after he had just
stepped out of an omnibus, a gang of fellows, of which he
believed the prisoner to be one, surrounded, and kicked,
and robbed him of a sovereign and a half, and tried to
get his watch. They endeavoured to trip him up, and
knocked his hat off three times. There appeared to be
great fury in the thieves in Cornhill.
A clothesman, named Lazarus Walters, who keeps a
clothes' shop near the Old Clothes'-market in Cutler-
street, and was said to be in good circumstances, was
charged by Mr. Tyrrell, the Solicitor to the Commis-
sioner of Sewerp, for having violated the Act of Parlia-
ment, by obstructing the way in Cutler-street, in offering
his goods for sale.
The constable said he had frequently cautioned the
defendant against the practice, but without effect.
The offence having been clearly proved,

MORNING SUN

Mr. Tyrrell called for the infliction of the highest
penalty of 51., as the defendant wtt,,s prosperous, and kept
a shop in-which he was not satisfied to do business, but
followed the example of the most indigent dealers.
The LORD MAYOR—I shall fine him 21. now, but if
ever he offend again in this way, I shall fine him 51.
The penalty was paid.
GUILDHALL.
A respectable-looking lad, about fourteen years:,
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age, was charged with robbing his employer, :lira -
Thomas Wylder, a tobacconist, carrying on business in
Goswell-street-road.
•
From the statement of the prosecutor, it appeared that
the prisoner's father had been in his employment for
Many years prior to his death, at which time he left
large and helpless family, of which the prisoner WAS the
eldest, and, in consequence of the hih character his
father bore, he took him into his employment, and place('
the utmost confidence in him. Having missed various
sums of money frem the till, his suspicions at length fel-
i
on the prisoner, when some marked money in the drawer,
which was soon afterwards missed, was found upon kin'
At the recommendation of the prosecutor the prisoner
was diKharged, after a severe reprimand from the
Alderman.
Several poor creatures, who were in a state of the
utmost destitution, were brought before the Bench, some
on the charge of mendicancy, and others for breaking
lamps, for the purpose of obtaining food and shelter in
the station-house. A few of those whose health and
strength seemed most impaired, got tickets of admission
to the Hospital, and the remainder were committed for
various short terms of imprisonMent.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Henry Smith, alias Godfrey, was Wolglit up for re`
examination on a charge of having been found in th°
drawing-room of the residence of Mr. Richard Bendel,
of No. 8, New Burlington-street.
oof
Mr. HARDWICK inquired whether there was any Pr
of the prisoner having been convicted of felony.
William Horsford, the head constable employed by the
Mendicity Society, stated, that in Oct. 1826, the Pr'
soner was convicted at the Old Bailey of an extensile,
robbery in Bond-street, and sentenced to seven years,
transportation, but which was commuted to five years
imprisonment on board the hulks. He had previously
been known to the police as a desperate burglar, and ile"
mediately on his liberation returned to his evil courses.
Edward Jones, one of the ushers of Marylebone Pollee
Court, identified the prisoner as having been convicted
at that Court, on the • Ist May, 1841, of robbing hi'
ready-furnished lodgings, and sentenced to two months
imprisonment in the House of Correction. He had sou'
sequently been charged with robbing a gentleinsd! ,
house in Dorset-square, but the evidence was insufficient
to convict him. He Was considered to be one of the 'DOS
expert and daring thieves that infested the metropolis. •
The M.scitsTRATE convicted him under the Police Ate!:
and sentenced him to three months' imprisonment "I_`''
hard labour.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Jeremiah Kelly, a tall athletic man, was brought bet°
Mr. Broughton upon a charge of having violently
saulted his wife, a woman of diminutive stature, who "7
several years older than the prisoner.
From the evidence of the complainant (whose face Wal.
disfigured with bruises) it appeared that at the ttwe of
her marriage with the prisoner, she was in very conliblt:
able circumstances, but he soon squandered away te-
little property in riot and debauchery, and since Per
means became exhausted, he had been in the habit of
behaving in the most brutal manner towards her.
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Wednesday night he returned home in such a drulW"
state that he was incapable of ill-using her as ho rota'
riably did under such circumstances ; but he awoke a,
an early hour in the morning, and commenced a
attack upon her, tearing the hair out of her head, n 6„
swearing that he would murder her. He afterweT7
kicked her out of bed, and on her calling out for a 0 till
1
ante he seized hold of her throat, and corapresscd it e
she, was almost strangled. The only motive he assign
for his brutal conduct was, that she was too old and in°
ugly for him, and he was resolved to get rid of her. La
Other witnesses confirmed the main facts stated by tr
complainant ; when the Magistrate ordered the prisoner
to pay a fine of 505., or be committed for six weeks to "the
House of Correction.

LAMBETH-STREET.
On Thursday a respectably-dressed and modest-looking
female applied to Mr. Henry for his assistance under the
following somewhat singular circumstances.
The applicant stated that she had had the misfortune
to have had an illegitimate child to a gentleman, wolf;
her latterly applying to the father to do something '`,)
his boy, he told her that he had some considerable
doubts, from his advanced age, whether the child wag
his ; but if the applicant would swear that he was lu:
father, he would at once adopt the child, and make --
handsome settlement on the boy by will.
Mr. HENRY replied he had not th 6 power of admie;
tering a voluntary oath, but would endeavour, under tit
peculiar circumstances, to have the abject of the °P,i
plicant accomplished in another way. The Learee„
Magistrate then directed an officer to go for the reliArill
officer of the hamlet of Mile-end Old-town, and in a sh'ir
time Mr. Seabon made his appearance. Mr. Henry el-
plained the matter to him, and Mr. Seabon, who is re-
markable for his kindness and humanity in the discharg°
of his disagreeable duties, at once consented to put the ko
case in a train which would oblige the applicant legacy
swear to the father of her child.
At this juncture of the proceedings a jolly-looking old
fellow elbowed his way through the crowd in the Cow"
and presenting himself 'opposite to Mr. Henry, gave the
Magistrate to understand in rather a low tone of voic°
that lie was the individual to whom the honour of 13!,.;
rentage was alleged., and said that all he wanted was
have some scruples which he entertained in the , matter
set at rest, having had some misgivings arising from e"
advanced age.
Mr. HENRY told him Mr. Seabon would do whet vrronuer;
cessary in the matter, and the old gentleman left the
with his frail companion in the utmost good humour'
UNION-HALL.
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sa.
lsatma tpe,
with
hdae viel
stitu-
of being taken into custody and committed to gso
rather than be starving about the streets.
It was given in evidence that the defendants int,elYe,
tionally smashed a gas-lamp in the presence of a pallet°
man, who took them into custody and conveyed thou
the station-house.
The prisoners' account of themselves was, that tkeit
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had come up from Hertfordshire to look after work, i.;.
not succeeding, they were reduced to the greatest ",,1
tress ; had pledged all but what they had on their bac'Ait
which was scanty covering for such weather, and tb
hunger prompted them to commit an offence to be taaebe
into custody, for that a gaol' was preferable to
starving about the streets.
The Magistrate having given directions that f°ll,
might be given to the poor fellows, who seemed mu to
in want of it, then committed them for a few days "
prison, in order to pass them to their native place.
GREENWICH POLICE. • lit
On Thursday, Mr. Grove, after disposing of the 111&,
charges, inquired of Harris, one of the officers of .1-0
Court, how the poor man Vezey, who was broughtat,
this office on Saturday, fared ?—Harris replied -,_,.tPpo
agreeably to the Magistrate's directions, he had
for
Vezey, under his care, and supplied him with money
victuals to relieve his pressing necelsities. .He also Pt
aided him with a lodging, but he got so ill on Sun&Y 0
to be obliged to keep his bed.
Mr. GnovE remarked that if the poor fellow died the
parish officers would have something to answer for. or
Mr. Warman, the relieving-officer, shortly after 1,,,A
tered the office, and in reference to the case said he Ile
visited the man, whom he found unable to sit up hi.
sent one of the medicgl officers to see him, and fro him
report he thought the better plan would be to send
into the house at once.
Mr. GROVE said he' had just received a letter front
the Poor.law Commissioners, inquiring if the report thir,
appeared in the newspapers was correct. lie
Grove) had ordered a copy of the depositions in the
case to be sent, as a matter of courtesy, to the Boar'
Guardians, and in the event of their neglecting to talc-0
any notice of the matter, it was his determination t.rt
have reported it to the Poor-law Commissioners. '„
had, however, fallen under their notice; for there weal;
report of any such case in any paper, however humble jj,,
might be, but what the Poor-law Commissioners to°
notice of, and with regard to the one in queetion
had instructed his clerk to say that it was as correct 66
such a report could be. Mr. Grove further said thte
after the office was closed on Saturday, Mr. Strongerrti;i
relieving officer of Greenwich, on which parish V 1 he
had a settled claim, was applied to to take him low
house, but he refused to do so.
Mr.' Warman said that was not the case with him' •
He had used his judgment in the matter, according t°4
directions given by the Poor-law Commissioners to
lieving officers, and although Vezey did not belong to %
district, he felt it his duty to send him into the house. -
Here the conversation terminated.

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and Suns, Manufacturing Silversmith, No. 14, Cornhill,Ll,
don, opposite the Rank of England, submit the prices of t 0
following SILVER TEA and COFFEE SERVICES. 'ad
Cottage Pattern is plain, standing on shell feet, the tee *.,to
coffee-pots with a flower ornament on the lids. The 1411.%:68
Pattern is richly embossed with flowers and scrolls. The IDP'
of either is new and elegant

COTTAGE PATTERN. I ICING'S PATTERN.
a. g.
Strong Silver Tea-p0t..... 12 0 Strong Silver Teapot ...... 12 10
Ditto Sugar Basin 616 Ditto Sugar Basin 110
Ditto Milk Ewer. 410 Ditto CreamEWer,b, 0
Ditto Coffee-pot. 15 0 Ditto Coffee.pot.,,',
Complete £3B 6 Comeete .........
A variety of upwards of fifty Tea and Coffee Services felt
be seen in the Show-rooms, where may be selected every st,p,to
of Silver requisite for the sideboard or plate .chest. PamPP
of prices, illustrated with sketches of the various articles, graft,
and forwarded postage free to any part of the kingdom. its
B. SAVOR and SONS, No. 9, Cornhill, London, 011P°1
the Bank of England.

BIRTHS.
On the 7th inst., at Rome, the lady of George Russell Nil°.
Es
On q., o
the 20th inst., in Upper Woburn-place, Mrs. Ite""
of a syn.

MARRIED. "Arto
On the 13th inst.,
_at St. George's Church, Hanover-sq.; th
Thomas..l. Pettan, Esq., to Marg..ret, youngest daughter 0'
late Richard Waring, EN., of Belfast. sq 11'
On the 19th inst., at Newton Valence, Hanto, the asp
Farquharson, Vicar of Tarrant Monkton, Dorsetshire, to t'
riet Maynard, eldest daughter of the Rev. T. hnow.

DIED. sing'
On the 17th inst., at his house at Hawkhills, near El, ate.
wold, Jona!han Walker, Esq., late of Verham, near Rotherantlo,
On the I4th inst., at Woodhall, near Asking, C
rine wife of the Rev. J. S. Wood. Jo et
On the 14th inst., at St. Helier's, Jersey, Elisabeth
wife of Captain Hector Downie, First West India Regoliez

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