The Sun. — London, England, 1846-01-08 00:00:00

PUBLIC EXECUTIONS. (From the Acker biserof Tuesday.) Yesterday was a sad and sorrowful day in the me tropolis. A double tragedy of the most dreadful kind was performed early in the morning. The public mind received a terrible shock by the execution of two indi viduals—one at eight o'clock, at the Old Bailey, and the other two hours afterwards at Horsemonger-lane gaol. The first victim of our sanguinary criminal code—san guinary so far as the crime of murder is concerned — was a female. What added to the dreadful character of her death under such circumstances, was the fact of her extreme youth, being only in her twenty-second year. There was, too, something in her person and manner which gave a peculiarly touching interest to her execu tion. She was no h ar d ene d cr i m i na l— in f a ct, in the proper acceptation of the word, she had previously been no criminal a t a ll. It is appalling to think of such an exit from the world in the case of any fellow-being, but to think of a young female, unacquainted with the ways of crime as re gards society, dyi n g by the hands of the public execu tioner, is a doubly dreadful idea. Eftbrts were made by humane persons to obtain a commutation of the sentences of the to a wretched creatures, now in another world. Apart from the abstract abhorrence, whichich every rightly . - censtituted mind must feel at the judicial murder—for it can be called by no other name—of any fellow-creature, there were peculiar circumstances in the case of each which would not only have warranted, but which ought to have insured a departure from the extreme penalty. We need not recapitulate these mitigating circum stances, as we adverted in detail to some of them a few days ago. But though the Home Secretary lent a deaf ear to the reasonings and entreaties of those who sought a com mutation of the sentences passed on the unhappy being, who were yesterday suddenly sent by our laws into the presence of their Maker, it is some consolation to know that the public mind is not in this instance faitb.:tilly re presented at the Home-office. Among the better and more intelligent classes of the community, there was, all Yesterday, but one feeling of horror anti regret at th e tragedies performed at the Old Bailey esnd Horsemonger lane goal. Not one solitary appros;ing voice was to be heard among those whose opinions or feelings are wor thy of respect. The hostility to capital punishments has increased with wonderful rapidity within the last few years. It is still extending at s corresponding ra pid rate. I ts progress is irresistible ; it must eventually triumph. Nor can the day ot' its victory be much longer deferred. Even if the convictions of the public on this subject should not be shared in Downing- s t ree t, i t w ill b e impos sible for the functionaries in that locality to act in defi ance of public opinion. What they will not do from the sense of right and justice, they must do from considera tions of policy. In this reflection there is gronnd for joy. It would doubtless be more grateful and gratifying, were Ministers to sympathise with the feelings, and con cur with the views, of the better portion of the commu nity, on this question ; but since this may not be so, it is no s ma ll sat i s f act i on to know that Mi n i s t ers will eventually be forced to prevent the exaction of death punishments. We refer our readers to the reports of what took place at the execution of the two unhappy creatures who were yesterday hurried by the hangman into the pre menet, of their Maker. What was seen and heard on the occasion was only what are seen and heard on all such occasions. The most revolting absence of all right feeling, was displayed by the immense concourse of persons who assembled to witness the frightful spectacles. The crowd, we are told, who were drawn together to witness the execution of the female, extended to Smith field-market. Then the number of spectators could not have been less than ')0,000. We blush while we write it. Fearfully morbid must be the state of feeling which could prompt human beings to witness such a scene. ft need not, therefore, to surprise our readers to be told, th a t, i ns t ea d o f conducting themselves with solemnity a n d d ecoru m, the most revolting ribaldry were ever and anon indulged in. Nor was the improper conduct of the spectators con fined to words. It was still more strikingly exhibited in actions. At the very mement, we are told by the reporters, when the miserable creature was in the act of being strangled, and during the violent struggles which fellowed the falling of the drop, " several transfers were effected of pocket handkerchiefs, purses, &c." And a correspondent, it will be seen, records some repulsive circumstances that marked the manner in which the ex ecutioner performed his duty. And yet we are told that capital punishments and public executions are necessary as examples to deter from the commission of murder. This, indeed, is the only plea now urged le defence of our Draconian pu nishments. The answer to the plea is furnished in the fact of what occurred yesterday at the foot of the gallows, and what invariably does occur at public exe cutions. No man, we boldly affirm, ever yet learnt, or ever will learn, humanity or morality by witnessing the legal butchery of fellow beings. Such revolting spectacles, on the contrary, have a necessary tendency to debase and brutalise the mind. Thousands have dated their initiatory step in crime to their attendance at public executions. The gallows is the most effective school master which could be employed for bringing to the gallows. Many a young man who was yesterday a spectator of the horrible tragedies at the Old Bailey and Iforsemonger-lane gaol, is now much more prepared for the commission of atrocious crimes than he was when he arose from his bed in the morning. There is one fact connected with the executions of yes terday, to which we ought not to omit referring. We allude to the statements of the reporters, that such was the haste of many who had witnessed the one execution, to be present at the other, that several accidents occurred in consequence. Who can read this statement without being struck with horror ? Not feeling their revolting curiosity satisfied with one such spectacle, they must needs hurry away with breathless eagerness to gloat over another ! But comment on such a fact would only weaken its effect. The naked statement is enough. There are volumes of meaning in it. Though we were to till every column of our paper with proofs of the hardening and brutalising effects of public executions, we could not accomplish our object half so effectually, as it is done by the simple fact we have just recorded. ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE. (From the Time..) _ _ We publish to-day reports of two meetings, at each of which strongly-worded resolutions against the corn-laws were unanimously adopted ; the one held at Newcastle in a splendid building erected for the purpose, and thronged by all the wealth and intelligence of that thriving town and port, and graced by the fervent eloquence of the two best speakers the League has pro duced ; the other held by a party of half-starved agri cultural labourers on a winters night, in the open air, at a cross-road, by the light of a clouded moon and a few Siring candles, in a remote village of North Wilts. It is to this latter meeting that we wish to call especial atten tion. Messrs. Cobden and Bright, and the closely packed four thousand whom they addressed, are well able to plead their own cause, and to en lorce their own views upon a reluctant Legisla ture. They represent wealth and commercial activity, and do not fear to embark both as their stake in the adventure of free trade. But what say the labourers of Goatacre, the representatives of a class for which we are told that protection must be maintained ? Do they meet to protest against a measure which is to involve them and t';eir masters in one common ruin—to reduce corn fields to commons, and assimilate their condition to tbat of the Polish serf ? No. They point to their wan figures and wretched apparel ; they recount their sad attempts to support existence upon the pittance that a " protected" ae,riculture doles out to them ; they compare notes in their misery; and, confident in the value of their own free hands, and persuaded that nothing can add to their pre sent destitution, they unite with the merchants and pitmen of Newcastle in a demand that what is called " protected" shall cease, and that they, the "protected" shall be freed from " protection," and have the opportu nity. of earning a fair day's wage for a fair day's work. It is no light emergency that has brought together these poor men to confer upon their grievances, and to petition for relief. They come of a long-suffering race, and belong to a class which has always been content to exchange the labour of their hands for little more than the means of feeding themselves and their children. They have struggl e d long to le d a o rn t t h h i e s difficult task of making six shillings a for them; they have stinted themselves of clothing and of food ; they have anxiously practised all th e h ard economy of their little households, and weak with in.. anition, and broken-hearted with despair, they proclaim that they can bear this no longer, and that they, too, are ready to throw up the ideal benefits of protection, and to try another system in lieu of that which, for them at least, has brought only famine or the workhouse. Their prayer deserves attention. If protection has pro duced nothing but mortgaged landlords, bankrupt tenanti,:i and starving labourers—and we can adduce the v v iuenct of landlords, tenants, and labourers to prove this fact—then w e sa y, w ith the poor men of Goatacre, as welt as with .the merchants of Newcastle, the manu facturers of Manchester and the citizens of London— Let us try free trade. CLASS LAN's. IT ----- none b:t the ntil within the last few landed gentry %try were returned to Parliament, so years that they had a . Porkry (and embraced it too) of legWating for themselves fleece their stubbornness against the Reform Bill, and th e i r alarm (for it is evident e h e y are alarmed) on account? of te inti-Vorn-law League " manufacturing" votes, as th e l ords sea, choose to call it. They have no liking, it lust ident already, ,of the 72,000!. raised in furtherance of the jPrioeipleread high time that class law-making watoikeatb, free . bade. It is laws, totally abolished. e iraquitous corn . FOOT 11, ACE.—Tuesday the running match betwe en Allen and Ben Caunt's novice was decided. The pedestrians were matched for 10/. aside, to run 120 yards of road, -- an - 1 the contest was deed to come off at Jem Burn's, the .G rey- The novice had an advanta ge at the hound. 1'111112;n-fields. start, hut Allen strenuously exerted himself, and succeeded i n ~.o mi n g up w i t h his opponent. The struggle was then snails for the goal, and Allen gave evidence of his superiority 13 ; s?ced by running in the winner by a yard and a half. lloanis'rlNo OCCURRENCE.---011 Tuesday, a pri vate in the GOth Rifles, stationed in Dumbarton Castle, on l' ein z relieved from sentry at five in the morning, attempted " 1 himself, by placing the muzzle of his gun to his head, under the Vs c-io, and then - discharging was so r su c cessful —he it. The poor fellow kill himself. 1 . 1 ; .3 ul—he discharged his gun, but did not face. hut in place ofball entered at the lower part of the tended, it came out 404'g up, through the head as he in leaving touched. The victim Ol e g': aase, the brain un life, but desperately wounded, r ea ct was therefore left in the tongue, the nose, and inde e r jaw the greater part of been destroyed. The poor saffer th e,"l,.... l4l mface nearly, have barracks in Paisley, where the 7 been taken to the stationed.—Glasgow Argus. NA of the depot is landholders . F kILMERS' FRIENDS.—At none of th e , meetings just holden has any one of the farmers that they would protect them from ers told the by breaking up their preserves. No ; not one syllabl e li dea e hl treet t; that ! If the landholders really were the " farmers ' % fl e d ,: they would have shown it before now in the deemfr.:tie-IT'; their destructive preserving system. LAW INTELLIGENCE. SECONDARIE'S COURT, Jan. 7. (Before Mr. Secondary PoTTER.) There were only three causes set down for trial, one of which was Richards v. Hargraves. A new jury was sworn for the ensuing six weeks, and several excuses were made of temporary and occasional illness. _ _ The SECONDARY said that he did not consider such excuses sufficient, and the parties would be called on to attend at the Criminal Court, and make their excuses there. WILLIAMS V. MIKE. The plaintiff in this action is a wine-merchant at Edmonton. The defendant is a carman at Whitechapel. The action was on a bill of exchange for 13/.105., and interest 21. 10s., the bill hating been drawn so long ago as November, 1842. The defendant pleaded that he did not accept the bill. A witness was sailed, who deposed to the defendant's hand-writing. He was cross-examined, and said that he had known the defendant since May, 1842. The last time he saw defendant write was in August of that year, when he accepted a bill for witness, which he produced. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT OLD COURT. (Before Mr. JusticePoLLocii, and Mr. Justice EARLE, THE ALLEGED MURDERS ON BOARD THE TORY. As soon as the Learned Judges took their seats this morning on the bench, Mr. BODKIN said, that a person of the name of John stone, who was charged with a series of murders on the high seas, was in the calendar to be tried the present sessions. His Learned Friend, Mr. Jervis, had been re tained on behalf of the prisoner; but he (Mr. Bodkin) had been informed by that Learned Gentleman, that the case for the defence had not yet been fully prepared, and, considering the serious and important nature of the charges preferred —some of them of a very complicated nature—it was the desire of the prisoner that the trial should be postponed until the next session. To this arrangement, the Attorney-General whom he (Mr. Bod kin) had consulted had no objection. The LORD CHIEF BARON—Does any one appear for the prisoner? Mr. BODKIN replied, that Mr. Jervis was retained for the prisoner, but he (Mr. Bodkin) had received a letter from the Learned Gentleman, saying that he could not be present to-day. The LORD CHIEF BARON said that he understood Mr. Jervis's absence was only confined to that day, and that the application for a postponement of the trial had nothing whatever to do with it. Mr. BODKIN observed that such was the fact. The LORD CHIEF BARON said that that should clearly appear, as it was important. Mr. Jervis, but for his absence, would have made the application himself. Mr. BODKIN remarked that he would have done so. The application had been sanctioned by the Attorney- General. The LORD CHIEF BARON—The application is made on the ground that the prisoner is not ready with his defence. Mr. BODKIN—That is the only ground. The LORD CHIEF BARON—As the Attorney-General has considered fit to sanction this application, I will, therefore, remand the prisoner until the next sessions, to be kept in custody until then. The recognizances of the witnesses to be also respited till that time. THREATENING LETTERB.--Henry Joseph KiNerley, youth, aged 15, was placed at the bar on various indict ments, charged with sending threatening letters to several persons in Southwark, threatening to murder Them and set fire to their houses. The letters in ques tion created great alarm at the time, the particulars of which appeared in the daily papers. Great exertions were made by the parish authorities to discover the offender, and they succeeded in tracing the prisoner to be the party. Mr. Bodkin with Mr. Clarke appeared for the prosecu tion. The first case taken was that indicting the prisoner for sending a threatening letter to Mr. Humble, hop factor, 82, High-street, Borough, threatening him, that unless he (the prosecutor) took back into his service John Kitterley, a brother of the prisoner, he should be murdered, and have his premises burned. Mr. Humble was examined, and deposed as to receiv ing, the letter in question, which at the time he received it, put into the letter-box for preservation. Witness had a person in his employment in May last, named John Kitterley, whom he discharged. Edward John Tyler, printer, Finch-lane, deposed that the prisoner was an apprentice with himself and sons. He knew the hand-writing of the prisoner. The letter produced, he had no doubt, was written by the prisoner. This was all the evidence offered in support of this case, on which the Lord Chief Baron remarked, that a charge so important ought not to be disposed of on such slender evidence. More might have been expected, or certainly he should require more to satisfy his mind. His Lordship then addressed the jury to the effect, that such a grave offence, proceeding either from a de sire to extort certain conditions from the prosecutor, or from a wanton wickedness, ought to have been better supported; such a charge, involving such consequences, ought to have been proved in a satisfactory manner. The jury immediately returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The prisoner was then remanded until next sessions on the other charges. CHARGE OF ARSON.-George John Ford, 35, printer, was indicted for feloniously setting fire to certain pre mises in his occupation, with intent to defraud the Impe rial Insurance Company. In another count the intent was laid to be. to defraud Charlotte Owen, the landlady, of the property. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bodkin conducted the prosecu tion; Mr. Ballantine appeared for the prisoner. The Learned Counsel for the prosecution having detailed at some length the circumstances under which the charge was made against the prisoner, the following evidence was adduced:— Mr. John Green deposed that he was agent to the Imperial Insurance Company, and also acted as agent for Mrs. Owen, the landlady of the premises in question, which were situated in Breem's-buildings, Beech-street, Criulogate. The prisoner, upon becoming the tenant, was bound to insure the building in 150/., and he did so in the first instance, and eventually, in November last, lie increased the amount of his insurance to 410/. for stock in trade, household goods, watches, and trinkets, books, Scc., and he also insured for a twelvemonth's rent in that amount. The prisoner at different periods paid the sum of 3i. Os. 6d. for the premium, but the policy was not formally made out. The fire took place on the 7th December, and on the 9th the prisoner came to him and said it was a very bad job, and he wished to know how he was to proceed in making his claim on the office. The prisoner said he had not brought in all the property for which he had insured, and witness then told him to make out as correct an inventory as he could, and he said he would lay it before the directors. At this inter view the prisoner told him he had been on the premises late on the night of the fire, and the reason was, that he had forgotton the keys of his drawers where his razors were kept, and he wanted to shave, as he was going out early in the morning. Cross-examined—The directors do not give any me morandums, and sometimes five or six weeks elapse be f 're they send the policy to the party. He made inq ii riea about the prisoner, and found that he bore an excel lent character. The premises had formerly been merely a carpenter's shop, and was in a very dilapidated con dition ; and he knew that the prisoner had been in the habit of using tar on the roof to keep out the rain. There were remains of furniture in the ruins after the fire. By Mr. Justice EnLE—The prisoner did not give me any estimate as to the amount of his claim upon the office. Mary Tyrrell deposed that she lived with her hus band close to the house that was destroyed. About twenty minutes before twelve at night, on the 7th De cember, they were alarmed by the cry of fire, and on their rushing out she saw flames coming from the pre mises, and apparently from the windows over the gate way. Part of the premises were occupied by a person named Allen as a school. (The witness. then pointed out, in a model that was shown to her, the situation of the prisoner's house and the other premises.) During the previous nine months the prisoner did not appear to be carrying on any business, and she believed, from messages that were sent, that he wished to let part of the premises. About three weeks before the fire the prisoner told her that she need not send any more messages to him, as he was going on a " travelling systern," and after this he would come more frequently to the premises. On the night before the fire took place s she had obser ve d a ver y great light in the prison er ' s room, a g tro which n was completely illuminated, and there was also smell of pitch and tar. Cross-examined —She did not see anything of the prisoner after she had observed the light. She had ob served the same smell about twelve months before, and on her mentioning the circumstance to the prisoner, he told her not to be afraid, for he used tar in his business. Mrs. John Allen deposed that she was a schoolmistress, and resided in Beech-street, near the prisoner. She remembered the fire breaking out at the time referred to by the last witness. On , the 17th November she saw the prisoner in her nephews school-room, and they had some conversation on the subject of an insurance, and the prisoner remarked that if a fire were to take place on the buildings it would be confined to these walls. 'Witness remarked that wherever fire once began it was difficult to say where it would stop, and as the buildings were very narrow she feared they would all come down. The prisoner repeated that it would be confined to these walls ; and witness then asked him whether he intended to set the place on fire, and he replied, " I hope not," and witness said that if ho did it would be a dangerous experiment. She believed the conversation was began by the prisoner asking her if her nephew was insured, anal she replied that he was not, but that he was on the eve ofeffectino• an insurance, to which the prisoner an swered th a t he wished he had, or that it was a pity he had not. roaCarosinexinagmituherdotTgThherhad been some talk of a rail scribed as being likely. effectingt not aware thatan insurance was de scribed this property, but she was Mr. Alfred Victor Allen pery.increase the value of the pro hp:Cid. that for about six school-room. o ccupied part of the we previous to the fire, 8 Feciatr_school-room about extin guished, of the prisoner as a Saturday before the fire he left On the two o'clock in the afternoon, anpe d rfechtryfisraerewas and everything left been on the prisoner's premises about a fortnightilt had the fire, and he then saw a number o f articles tis:dr the printing busine ss, and several cases for t yp e placed one upon the other, but he did not see whether they contained any type. The prisoner did not appear to be carrying on any business on the premises. The prisoner generally left the key with witness, and he got it from him on the Wednesday before the fire, saying at the time that he wanted to bring iq some furni ture from Highbury, where he resided. On the morning after the fire he heard the prisoner say that he went to his workshop to get the keys to ob tain his razors; and on its being remarked that he did not appear to have been shaved that morning, he said that he had used cold water, but, in witness's opinion, it was evident that he had not been shaved at all. The prisoner then appeared anxious to know whether he, witness, was insured, and on his telling him he was not insured for a farthing, the prisoner said he did not think his own in surance would cover his loss ; and he added that he had furniture on the premises. Witness replied that he did not know of any furniture being there, and the prisoner said he had brought it there himself on the Saturday, and that it came from a person in Tabernacle-walk. The prisoner was then asked what the furniture consisted of, and he said four mahogany chairs, without the cushions. The prisoner next said that he had been at the premises on the Saturday night before the fire with a light, and that in coming out he had stumbled, bat that he did not let the candle fall. The prisoner had, several times before the fire, talked to him upon the subject of his own insurance, and had likewise advised witness to insure his own property, and he told him that he intended to do so. The witness then corroborated the evidence of the former witness, Mrs. Allen, as to the statements made by the prisoner regarding the fire being confined to the walls of the buildings. Cross-examined—Aft er th e fire he observed a con siderable quantity of the remains of printing type, and there were also portions of chairs and other furniture. He did not tell the magistrate that the prisoner repre sented to him that he did not think his insurance would be sufficient to cover his loss. The prisoner expressed a doubt whether his policy was completed, and witness then asked whether he had paid the demands of the office respecting it, and he replied that he hae; upon which witness told him that if that was the case he was perfectly safe. The prisoner did not mention any other furniture than the four mahogany chairs, of which he spoke as having brought them in on the Saturday before the fire. _ _ _ _ _ Andrew Mallett, one of the fire-brigade, deposed that, on the Wednesday after the fire, he examined the pre mises, and found some remains of books saturated with turpentine under the rubbish, which had apparently sheltered them from the water, and they were completely soaked with turpentine. (The witness produced the books, which were handed to the jury to inspect.) Under the books there was a layer of shavings, which I appeared to be covered with coal-tar. There appeared to Le about a sack full in quantity of the shavings. In his opinion, the turpentine could not have come acci dentally upon the books, but they must have been com pletely steeped in it. On the following day witness discovered another sack of shavings, the sack being par tially burnt; and, according to his belief, it was near this spot that the fire commenced. Cross•examined—He ha I heard that a good deal of turpentine was used by printers for the purpose of cleaning the types. Mr. Matthews, a surveyor, deposed that he valued the salvage from the fire, and he considered the type and stock-in-trade was not worth more than 90/, and that the furniture could not have been worth more than seven or eight pounds. . In answer to a question by Mr. BALLA NTINE, the witncss said he considered, that if the prisoner had wished to replace his printing materials that were destroyed, they would have cost him much more than the amount for which he was insured. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. BALLANTINE then made a very powerful speech to the jury on behalf of the prisoner, commenting par ticularly upon the latter portion of the evidence, and arguing that so far from it appearing that the prisoner could have had any motive of gain in the destruction of the property, that on the contrary he could not have re placed the articles that were destroyed unless he had expended a much larger amount than he would have been entitled to receive from the insurance office. Several respectable witnesses were called, all of whom gave the prisoner an excellent character. fir. Justice ERLE having summed up, the jury, after deliberating about half an hour, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The prisoner was then arraigned upon another in dictment, charging him with setting fire to the premises of Mr. Allen, the witness in the former case. Mr. CL/LRKSON said that after the full inquiry that had just been concluded, he should not, as the facts would be precisely the same, occupy the time of the Court by offerieg any evidence. The Company for whom he and his Learned Friend had the honour to ap pear, felt it to be their duty to institute the present in quiry, but after the deliberate decision come to by the jury, they considered they ought not to proceed any furthQr. A verdict of Not Guilty was accordingly returned. NEW COURT. (Before the RECORDER.) Philip Wetzner, a German, aged 33, was indicted for stealing an oil painting and frame, value 31., the pro perty of J. Annis, a pawnbroker residing in the City. An interpreter was employed to explain the evidence to the prisoner. The shopman of the prosecutor stated that in the early part of November last, the prisoner came into his mas ter's shop to pledge something. The picture was quite safe before he entered, but atter he had left a short time it was missed. A pawnbroker, residing at No. 105, High-street, Whitechapel, proved that the prisoner had pledged the picture for 10s. He afterwards came and offered to sell the ticket, but in consequence of some information that had been received he was given into custody. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. It was then proved that on the Bth of April 1844, the prisoner had been tried and convicted for a burglary, and sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for eighteen calendar months. The RECORDER, in passing sentence, said that the prisoner had on the former occasion been sentenced to imprisonment instead of transportation—as he was a foreigner. IL appeared that the leniency then shown had been misplaced, and that he had returned to his old courses as soon as he came out of prison.. The sen tence of the Court now was, that he be transported be yond the seas for the term of ten years. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGE and a Bench of Magis trates.) The January Quarter-Sessions of the Peace for the county of Middlesex commenced on Tuesday morn ing, at Hicks's Hall, Clerkenwell-green, before Mr. Sergeant Adams and a full bench of county magistrates. The calendar contains the names of 115 prisoners for trial, of whom 110 hare been indicted, charged with felony, and five with misdemeanors ; there are also a considerable number of prisoners for trial whose names do not appear upon the calendar. The A;SISTAtiT-JUDGE, in his address to the grand jury, adverted to the subject of abolishing grand juries in this Court, and said that if they made a presentment to him, expressing their opinion of the inutility of that body, he would be most happy to forward it to the proper authorities. Charles Lewis. convicted at this Court during the last session, for stealing a funnel, was brought up this morn ing for judgment, and having received an excellent character, the Judge directed him to be discharged within one hour from that time, as he had already been confined nearly a month. Thomas Miller (8) and henry Rowley (15) were in dicted, charged with stealing a till and the sum of 11 Hs. 6+l, and two canvass bags, the property of Andrew Glass. The evidence of the prosecutor clearly proved the charge. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The Learned ASSISTANT-JUD GE , i n p ass i ng sen t ence , said that the prisoners at the bar were proper objects for admission into Parkhurst Prison, but Sir James Graham had, in his recent correspondence with him (the Judge), expressly directed that that class of prisoners should not in future bo sent to Parkhurst. The boy, Miller, although but eight years old, had been twice previously convicted ; Rowley, had also been previously con victed, once in that Court and once summarily. He had inquired respecting the condition of these boys, and found that their parents had been written to twice since their commitment, but they had not taken the slightest notice, nor had they even .supplied them with a change of linen while in prison. It was a case which he did not know how to treat, lest by doing right he might do wrong. He wished something could be done for youth ful criminals. These poor boys, when they had served their term of imprisonment, would be again turned out upon the public,iind cast upon the town to recommence their old practices. It was quite clear that this system would in a short time inundate the whole metropolis with thieves. The prison at Parkhurst, he considered was first founded for the purpose of remedying the evil, at least so he had learned from communications be had received from the Home Secretary, soon after the prison had been established. These poor children were such as would be benefited by the discipline and instruc tion exereisei there, and moreover placed in a position to earn an honest livelihood, and become respectable members of society. By the existin g or d ers b o th th ese boys were unfit for reception within its walls—one was too young, and the offence of whichthey had been con victed did not warrant transportation, without which he could not recommend them to Parkhurst; however, in the present instance, whether right or wrong, and not withstanding their age, he would sentence - them to trans epxorertactiisoenthfoerirseovewnn d y i e s a c r r s e , t o n n d t i h n e n s e t n h d e i n G g o v t e h r e n m m t e o n t r a must ri Park hurst or elsewhere. There was no other course left for that Court to adopt. He did sincerely trust that some provision wo u ld b e ma d e f or thi s c l a ss of prisoners . : if not, the whol e me t ropo li s wou ld b e overrun with cr ime. The present order with respect to Parkhurst prison would leave it a dead letter as far as the metropolitan district was concerned. Since his appointment to the office of Judge of that Court he had tried upwards of 270 boys, varying from eight to fourteen years of age, yet there was no place of protection, or asylum provided by Government for their reception ; he, however, hoped that the Legislature would adopt some means for stem ming the torrent of juvenile crime, by pointing out punishments suiting the ages of children, and the cir cumstances under which they came Lefore that Court. The sentence was, that each be transported for the term of seven years. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORN) NG, JANUARY 8, 1846. SURREY QUARTER-SESSIONS. On Tuesday the General Quarter-Sessions for the county of Surrey, was opened at the Sessions House, Newington, before T. Puckle, Esq. (Chairman), and an unusually full Bench of Magistrates. Amongst the gentlemen assembled on the Beneh we noticed Lord Lovelace, Lord-Lieutenant for the county ; Messrs. Denison, Trotter, Kemble, and Antrobus, the four Members for the county, and Benjamin Hawes, Esq., M.P. for Lambeth. fßeturns and reports were made by the governors, sur geons, and chaplains of the different prisons and houses of correction in the county, and their present state, but they contained nothing of a peculiar nature, or calling forth any particular observations from 14e Iknch. The visiting Justiees of Horsemonger-lane prison recom mend a classification of debtors confined in that gaol, and that those of them who are confined as fraudulent debtors be put on a certain dietary, provided by the county, and not allowed any extra food or indulgences, procured either by themselves or their friends. THE COUNTY LUNATIC ASYLUM AND THE RECENT ACT OF PARLIAMENT. Mr. FRESHFIELD brought forward a motion relative to the necessity of providing an additional building and necessary accommodation for the pauper lunatics of the county. From the statement of the Learned Magistrate it appeared that the present County Lunatic Asylum, which was erected at an expense of 90,0001, was only capable of affording accommodation for 400 patients ; while by the returns made there were nearly 300 pauper lunatics in addition to those of the Asylum, and which were obliged to be supported at Bethlehem and private asylums, at an expense of Bs. a week, which was much more than they could be maintained at in the asylum. By the Act of Parliament, the Bth and 9th of Victoria, c. 126, the Secretary of State had the power to compel them to provide accommodation for those additional lu natics, and in ord r to prevent such necessity, he ( Freshfield) moved that the Committee of Visiting Jus tices of the County Lunatic Asylum be requested to pursue their inquiries and investigation into the matter, with a view of complyial:, with the provisions of the re cent Act, and that they make their report to the next session. Mr. lIA.wEs observed that by the report presented relative to the asylum, it appeared that only thirteen individuals had been sent out cured, and that there was but little hope held out of the ultimate restoration to sanity of the others. In his (Mr. Hawes's) opinion th. re were a great number of chronic cases in the asy lum, and these the Magistrates had the power, under the Act of Parliament before adverted to, to place:in private asylums, or other places, and by making the asylum that which it ought to be, a place for the cure of insanity, and not the place of safety for confirmed idiots there might, ho thought, be found in the present build ing accommodation, if not for the whole, at least a great number of those county lunatic paupers, who were at present at Bethlehem and elsewhere. Mr. BRISCOE spoke at some length on the question, and thought that as the subject was one of considerable interest to the county, and involving the outlay of a considerable sum of money, that a greater length of time should be given for its consideration than the period from the present to the next quarter-sessions. Mr. Hurrort, in order to meet the objection of the Hon. Magistrate who had last addressed the Court, moved, as an amendment, that the words " next session" be omitted in the resolution of Mr. Freshfield. Colonel Chaloner, Mr. Austin, and other magistrates having addressed the Court on the subject, and it being remarked that if the Committee were not perfectly ready with their report at the next quarter-sessions, it would not be compulsory on them to present it, the re solutien was put in its original form and carried. The discussion on the question of applying, the various prisons in the county to a particular classification of offences was postponed to the next quarter-sessions, upo❑ which Mr. Denison rose to request that due notice should be giTen to the magistrates, so that they might attend on so important an occasion as that of considering the question of expending the enormous sum of 200,0001. to be raised on the county.—(Cries of " No, no.") Mr. Denison contended that the original estimate for building the county lunatic asylum was 55,0001., and this only to accommodate 350 pauper lunatics. The buildings have cost 90,000/., and as there were nearly 300 lunatics unprovided with accommodation, it was not too much to say, in the present times, when the actual cost of a building was at least donble the amount of the original estimate, that the money required for the addi tional building would be nearly as much as that already expended. Then, added to this, there would be a large sum required for additional prison -room, to enable the magistrates to carry out the classification they intended, and therefore he would repeat it was necessary that the magistracy of the county should be in attendance. After a few words in explanation from Mr. Freshfield, and one or two other magistrates, some further routine business was disposed of, and the Court adjourned to this day. POLICE INTELLIGENT CE. MANS lON-11 OUSE. THE G HARDIANS OP THE POOR.—Three young women, ' named Ann Carter, Joanna Smith, and Jane Tam ner, ' were brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having broken a lamp, opposite to the City of London Union, Cannon-street. The policeman who took the women into custody stated, that at half-past eight o'clock on the preceding night, he saw them throw stones at a lamp, and break it. The defendants, upon being severally questioned by the LORD MAYOR, said they had long been in the habit of working bard with a laundress, who had lately left that business, and whose retirement put them completely out of work, and took from them the means of support. They declared that they were well able to earn their own bread, and all they requested was the employment; that they had walked about Ole streets exhausted and hungry, and had, after having in vain attempted to obtain assist ance at the West London Union, applied to the house in Cannon-street, but were told by the person who at tended at the door that they could not see the superin tendent or overseer, by whom their necessities might be relieved ; and that, despairing of help of any kind, they committed the offence in order that they might get food, although they knew that they would get punishment along with it. The LORD NIAYou asked whether the defendants had made application more than once at the West London Union for relief, and to what parishes they belonged: One of the defendants said that she had been born in the very neighbourhood of the City of London Union, and that her parents were dead ; and the other two stated that they came from Ireland, but had no friends there, and if they were sent back to that country they would be just as destitute as they were here, with the additional evil of having much smaller chance of being employed. One of the girls said they had been told, upon calling yesterday morning at the West London Union to beg relief, that they must call again at three o'clock; and upon calling at three, they were told they must call again at five ; and upon calling at five, they were told they must call again at ten in the morning. The LORD MAYOR—And you are willing to work? The defendants—Certainly ; we are well, able, and willing; but what are we to do? We can't perish in the streets, ,gentlemen. The LORD MAYOR said to Alderman Farebrother, who sat with him, and who has often in the same place expressed his hearty condemnation of the treatment to which persons who had no vice but poverty to be up• braided with were subjected, that it was most difficult for a magistrate with any heart at all to restrain his indignation at hearing such statements, for which he believed there was unquestionable foundation. It was quite evident that the three young women before him were not such persons as should be sent either to a prison or a workhouse. He believed they were able to work, and lie had no reason to doubt their willingness, but all signified nothing. At the places appointed for dis pensing relief to those who were sinking under want an d fatigue there were kept porters, who, like bull-clogs, growled and snarled at their appearance, and whose principal recommendation was doubtless their capa bility of terrifying the deserving objects of public sympathy. Alderman FAREBROTHER said he fully agreed with the Lord Mayor in his Lordship's observations upon the hard treatment to which the poor were exposed, and he reprobated the palpable neglect by which their well founded claims and demands upon parochial bounty were met. The case before the Lord Mayor seemed io be calculated to impress upon any humane officer the ne cessity of making inquiry into its merits in a peculiar manner, and of affording protection and refuge until the result of such inquiry should be ascertained. He (Al derman Farebrother) thought it would be advisable to issue a summons to the superintendent or overseer of the \Vest London Union to attend Guildhall Police-court, in which district the house was situated, to answer to the coin. plaint. The LORD MAYOR-1 shall Fend a summons to him to attend here, for I have no idea of transferring a case of this kind to an office in which a magistrate with views wholly at variance with mine upon so important a sub ject may sit to adjudicate. I found occasion the other day to make some observations upon the manner in which the affairs of the City of London Union have been transacted; to the utter carelessness and contempt which seemed to prevail amongst those in power when investi gations should take place into the alleged condition and claims of applicants. I have received a letter from the board of guardians professing to be an answer to these observations, but it is no answer at all. Of that, how ever, hereafter. I have now only to declare that nothing whstever shall either coax or intimidate me from the performance of such a duty as the conduct I. every day see proofs of in the treatment of the poor imposes upon me in my capacity as chief magistrate of this City. Alderman FAREBROTUER.—I fully agree with you in the expression of these sentiments. We unfortunately see in our experience as magistrates afflicting instances of the punishment of poverty as a crime. These three girls appear to me to be strongly entitled to our com passion, and the keeper of the Giltspur-street Compter will receive instructions to take care of them until the necessary inquiries shall have been made. THE RULES AND BYE-LAWS FOR THE REGULATION OF THE WATERDIEN AND LIGHTERMEN OF THE RIVER THAMES.—The LORD MAYOR said he considered it to be necessary, in order to give mutter of so much im portance to the community the greatest publicity, and to do away with the possibility of excuse upon the part of those whom the new steam-vessel regulations were particularly to affect, that he should read the most essential rules and bye-laws which had been pissed by the Court of Aldermen, and allowed by Baron Platt. His Lordship then read the regulations which im posed penalties upon over-crowding steamers, and upon dangerously rapid transit through the river. The sub stance is as follows : " That no steam or sailing boat, navigated for hire or gain between Yantlet Creek and Windsor, shall be licensed to carry more than one passenger, except children under the age of seven years, and the crew, for every four superficial feet of the deck, to be measured within the gunwales, deducting from the gross admea surement one-tenth part thereof for the companions, skylights, steam-chests, &c., upon the deck. And if any violation of this rule take place, the person in command shall forfeit and pay, for every passenger exceeding such number, any sum not exceeding forty shillings. " That if any person act as master or captain without being licensed, he shall forfeit and pay any sum not ex ceeding 51. for each trip." " That no steam-boat of 200 tons burthen or upwards, registered tonnage, shall be navigated westward of George's-stairs, Deptford, at a greater speed than at the rate of six miles in an hour with the tide, nor more than four miles in an hour against the tide. And that no steam-boat of less than 200 tons burthen, registered tonnage, shall be navigated westward of Clcove, ai a greater - speed than at the sor miles in an hour with the tide, to ,r more than seven tildes in an hour against the tid , , such distances respectively to be computed and ascertained by the marks of ad measurement set up on the shore of the river by the Corporation of the City of London; and if the master navigate, or permit to be navigated, the vessel at any greater rate or speed, he shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding 5/." The LORD MAYOR observed that there were other rules, which provided in an especial manner against care lessness or negligence of those having the care of the lives and property of the public, and he belived and trusted that the strict observance of the whole would produce a very great change for the better cn the great highway of the Thames. He assured the public, that in evety case of complaint made before him, they would find their interests zealously attended to, and there would be no deviation from the important course he had. from the moment ha became a magistrate, determined to follow. GUILDHALL, A young man, who refused to give his name t the sts tion-house, but whose name is believed to be Hew?' Bushell, was brought before Alderman Moon, charged with uttering a forged cheque, purporting to be drawn by Lord Ducie, for 3751., on Messrs. Child, Tem ple-bar. David Cross, a porter, stated that, between one and two o'clock on Monday afternoon, the prisoner came to him at the Castle, in Portugal -street, and asked him to carry a letter, addressed to Mr. Biggs, or Briggs, of No. 39 a, Wigmore-strcet. When he reached the house he asked if Mr. Briggs was within. The servant said he was, and took the letter up stairs to the gentleman. In about five minutes she returned with the answer, ad dressed to Messrs. Child and Co.,- with directions to give it to the gentleman from whom he brought the letter. Witness returned to the Castle, and after waiting a short lime the prisoner arrived. Witness gave him the letter, and he, without opening it, returned it to witness, and asked him to take it to Messrs. Child's. Witness asked him if it contained a cheque. The prisoner said it did. Witness asked him what kind of cash he should bring for it. The prisoner made a memorandum for him on paper, and witness went to the banking-house. He was de tained there nearly an hour, and then a letter, addressed to the Right Hon. Lord Ducie, was delivered to him to be given to the gentleman from whom he had the cheque. He returned to the Castle, but the prisoner was not there. He waited about an hour, and then found one of Messrs. Child's clerks was also waiting, by whose direction he went again to Wigmore-street, and left a message that he had got the money, and had been waiting some time at the Castle, and was uneasy at having the money in his care. He also said if Mr. Briggs would come to the Castle at ten the n ex t morn i ng, he would give up the money to him. Witness then returned to the Castle, and between nine and ten o'clock in the evening the pri soner came there, and he gave him into custody, accord. ing to the instructions he had received. Mr. Alderman MOON asked if the cheque was forged ? The solicitor to Messrs. Child said it was, It was a resemblance to Lord Ducie's handwriting, and some cor respondence was found on the prisoner relative to rent due from his sister, showing that he was acquainted with his Lordship's hand. The ALDERMAN asked if there was any evidence from the house in Wigmore-street? The solicitor said inquiry had been made there, and it appeared that s person who it was thought would prove to be the prisonsir, had taken a lodging at that house on Monday, and was there at the !ime the porter arrived with the letter, so that he must hare mqnaged to travel at a speedier rate than the porter, but did not hurry to get back at the Castle before him. Alfred Mortimer, clerk at Messrs. Child's, produced the cheque, which ran as follows: " London, Jan. 1, 1846. " Messrs. Child and Co., " Please to pay Mr. Briggs or bearer the sum of three hundred and seventy five pounds. " DUCIE." This cheque was offered by the porter to another clerk, who passed it to him for his opinion of the hand writing. Witness also doubted it, and desired that it should he comp ared with his Lordship's last cheque, his Lordship keeping an account there. The comparison satisfied them the cheque was forged, and witness having entered into conversation with the porter, a clerk was dispatched to mconnoitre the Castle. A fictitious pnrcel was then made up as if containing the money, and a messenger was directed to watch the porter, for it was not then certain that he was not a party implicated. Wit ness went to the Castle, and afterwards to the house in Wigmore-stree t. The prisoner declined making any answer to the charge at present. Mr. Alderman MOON remanded the prisoner Saturday. Mi W-STREET. Two boys oef 15 to 16 years of age, named O'Leary and Donovan, were charged with stealing a " sleeved waistcoat," the property of Charles Sairen, a navigator, employed upon the sewerage repairs now going on in Charlotte -street. Bedford-square. It appeared that the prisoners were observed dodging about by one of the navigators who Ives at work at the sewers, and that, having suspicions of their object, ke watched them, and saw O'Leary take up the waistcoat (which had ben left with some other waistcoats, coats, &c., belonging to the workmen), and run away with it. He ran after him, and saw him pass it to Donovan. He caught them both, and gave them into custody. Charles Ssesiren, the owner of the waistcoat, identified it as his property. The prisoners being asked if they had anything to say, answered suillenly that they had not. They were committed for trial. Mr. Joseph Bowers Gray, a surgeon, of St. James's street, and recently carrying on business in Holborn, was charged with forging a signature to a post-office order for It. Mr. Peacock prosecuted on behalf of the Post-office, and Mr. Ballantine appeared for the prisoner. Mr. Daviis, a clerk in the money-order-office, produced the order, the advice respecting which he described as having been received from the post-office, Newark, on the 29th of August last, the amount being issuable from the Rev. A. Tatham, of Southwell, and payable to Mr. G. L. Hillas. George E.. Hall, a clerk in the money-order• office, de posed that - the money-order produced, granted by the post-office a c Newark, was paid by him on Sept. 2 last, to the perso n who presented it, but of whom he had no recollection. It was signed according to the book, which he had examined before paying the money. The usual entry had teen made by him in the paying-book. Mr. Gecerge L. Hillas, of No. 12, Sidney-place, Bromp ton, a surgeon, deposed that he lately carried o n business ixt Holborn, where he had been in practice for many years prior to October, 1844. At about that time he disposed of his business to the prisoner, to whom: he gave up the possession of his house, N. 114, High Holborn. When in practice there he lead a patient, the Rev. A. Tatham, who, he believed, nt present resided in Southwell, Newark. In consequfoace of a communication recently received from him, relative to a small sum still owing to witness, he applied to the General Poet-office, where the money order prseduced was shown to him. He be!ieved that the order was intended for him. The signature was not in his ha ndwriting, and he never authorised any person to sign it in his name. He had frequently seen the pri soner write, and had corresponded with the prisoner in writing, and was of opinion, front his kaowledee of the prisoner's style, that the receipt was in his handwriting. Thomas Hillas, the son of the last witness, who had frequently seen the prisoner write, deposed that the signature! to the order was in his handwriting. In September last he had some conversation with the pri soner, ita the course of which he (witness) remarked, that a post-office order had been presented and a forgery committed; upon which he said, "it was very easy to commit. a forgery of that kind, for a person had only to mention. the name of the party sending the money." Cross-examined—Had no recollection of the prisoner's saying,. "You had better go and have the matter investi gated set the Post-office." Could net tell whether this took place in September or October. Mr. Drew, the assistan t, was in the shop at the time. Mr. (G. Garnett, of the Isle of Wight, stated that he was an assistant to a chemist and druggist, and knew the pr;esoner at the bar, by whom he was formerly em- , ployed, at 114, High Holborn, having entered his ser vice in. March last, and remained till July. Knew the prisoner's writing, and identified the signature to the order ses his. o aei alludedmo d the fo p rt his so t Mr. :Peacock here applied to his Worship for a remand. h n e ecrl s is e e r hn i it o g u ithhs the fullest e m fsup p l e o l ee r st t .nrive lk ee i s r to . i therg.:l3ai i ti l o l a n n c. t a i s n e e n briefly n r i sd e p t l oc y k i i ability :and character, awl adverted to the payment by him of 8501. fur the business in Holborn, and 2,000/. since then, for a business in St. James's, proving that he was abc.ve temptation. Under these circumstances, he trusted his Worship would allow bail. Mr. JARDINE declined to accept bail, and remanded the prisoner to Tuesday next. SOUTHWARK Mrs. Ellen Thaw, the wife of a snuff and tobacco inanufreturer, in Tooley-street, was placed at the bar before Air. Cottingham, charged with committing an assault on her husband. The complainant, who exhibited a wound on the side of his nos e, near his left eye, stated that on the pre ceding night when he went home, he found his wife up stairs preparing to go to bed. On his entrance into the room where she -was she commenced abusing him, and he endeavoured to appease her, and to prevail on her to go to b ed, but she refused, and continued to make use of opprobrious language towards him. As he was desirous of tranquillising his wife, he permitted her to go on without answering her, but this seemed to increase her passion, until she at length flew at him like a tigress, got him do own on the floor, and began to jump on his body until his cries brought their daughter to the room. and she perceiving what was going forward, called for a policeman, who rescued him from further violvnee. The complainant declared that his body, from his neck down wards, was bruised in a frightful manner, owing to the violence of his wife; that in the presence of the police man she snatched up a pair of scissors off the table, and in the height of her passion made a thrust with it at his (complainant's) face, the point of it penetrating the side of his nose in such a manner, that had it been a quarter of an inch higher it must have entered his eye. He added that upon a former occasion he was compelled to have his wife taken into custody for acts of violence to wards him. Policeman 156 M stated that when he was called into the house on the preceding night, on his entrance into the room where the parties were, ho saw the complainant lying on the floor, and his wife. the act of j umpmg upon his body. He (the policeman) im me di ate l y pro ceeded to his rescue, and with much difficulty dilived the prisoner away, she at the time being in a frantic state with imssion. The complainant appeared to be very severely hurt. and complained of being bruis, d ail over the body from the violence exercised towards him by his wife before he was rescued, but nevertheless he did not Seem anxious to give her into custody at first. They all wo-nt down stair s i n t o t h e par l our togeiho-, and while there, the complainant having merely uttered the words that he was cruelly treated by his wife, she snatched up a pair of scissors, and before be (the police man) had time to prevent it, she ran at her husband, and thrust them at his race, the point of which entered the side of his nose, as already described. The witness added that he then secured Mrs. Taylor, and conveyed her to the station-house. Mr. CornigGaAm having expressed his surprise at the violence displayed by the prisoner on the occasion, in quired the cause of her having displayed such ferocity, as it might be termed, towards her husband, whom she might have killed on the spot, or at all event 4 have in jui ed for life by thrusting the point of a . pair of scissors into his face. The complainant in reply said that he ascribed her change of temper to religious delusions under which she was labouring, and she was impressed with a notion that he was a sinner—did not attend to his religious observances, and on that account she was constantly taunting him with his impiety, and would frequently break out in loud denunciations against him, and pro cei'd so far with her vengeance as frequently to assault him ; that his wife having the advantage of him it p• int of strength, availed herself of it, and that he had been a severe sufferer from her violence of temper. The wife contradicted the greater part of what had been stated. Her husband, she declared, was addicted to vice ; that on the night in question she had merely ex pressed a wish to invoke the Almighty, and that being thwarted by her husband, and in fact abusive words arose between them, and he struck her, and she resented the blow. Mr. COTTINGRAM-But you resented it with a venge ance ; for it appears by the evid ence y ou not on l y got him down, but jumped upon his body, and afterwards attacked .him with a pair of scissors, with which you ;night have endangered his life. As it is you have severely injured him, and it is my duty, for your own sake, as well as that of your husband, to impose such a restraint upon you as will prevent both of you from the effects of such blind fury, and that will be by adjudging you to find two sureties of 201. each, and }ourself in 401., to keep the peace for six months. The Magistrate added, that as the defendant's mind seemed to be affected by strange delusions, the complainant had batter employ some medical gentleman to examine her on the point, with a view of having her placed in a situation where she might be properly looked after, and means adopted to effect her recovery from such a painful condition of mind. Emma Austin was charged, under Lord Ellenborough's Act, with cutting and wounding William Maxwell, a lighterman, on the preceding night. The complainant, who had the upper part of his face covered with adhesive plaster, stated that on the pro• ceding night he went into a coffee-shop, in the Waterloo road, to take some refreshment. That while he was sitting drinking a cup of tea in one of the boxes, the prisoner entered the room with a dog following her. She walked into the same box where defendant was seated, and taking up the animal in her arms placed it on the table. He requested she would make the dog go down, at the same time saying that the table was not a proper place for the animal. The prisoner refused to comply with the request made, when the complainant expressed his determination to turn them both out of the box. She swore that if he attempted anything of the kind, she would thrust a knife in his eye. Some angry words then occurred between them, during which the complainant gently removed her from the box. He then sat down, and commenced drinking his tea, when the prisoner rushed at him, and aimed a blow at his eye, which missed it, and took effect at the right angle, close to the organ of sight. The moment he received the blow, the blood streamed down the side of his face from a wound which he was not aware then was inflicted with a knife. He immediately rose from his seat, and uttemptei to seize the weapon out of his as sailant's hands, in doing which, the front part of his trousers was cut through, but fortunately he sustained no injury in the abdomen. He added that the wound at the side of his eye was afterwards dressed by a surgeon, who said that, had the instrument entered the eye, it must have killed him on the spot. Mr. COTTINGIIAM said, that the charge against the prisoner, from the deliberate manner in which she armed herself with the knife, after being turned out of the box, and after the complainant had sat down and commenced drinking his tea, was of the most serious character, and that it was only providential she had not killed him. The case was one of such an aggravated description, that instead of dealing summarily with it, which would be a punishment quite inadequate to such an offence, he should at once commit the prisoner for trial to the Central Criminal Court. The prisoner, who merely denied that she had stabbed the complainant, was then committed for trial. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Edward James Dell, a young man of shabby genteel appearance, whO was described on the police charge sheet as having 6 11116 place of abode," was charged with stealing two shawls from the shop of Mr. William Stent, of No. 261, Oxford-street, hosier, under the following circumstances:— The prosecutor stated that between nine and ten on Tuesday night the prisoner ran into his shop, and snatching up from off the counter the property in ques tion, rushed into the street and ran off. He was pur sued by one of the sbopmen, and on his (the prosecu tor's) going out directly afterwards he found the shawls the prisoner had taken lying on the footway pavement opposite to the next house. The prosecutor's shopman stated, that on seeing the prisoner run out of the shop with the shawls in his hand he pursued him, calling, " Stop thief." He threw threw down the shawls as he run. He (witness), after following him through several streets, came up with him in Regent-street, and gave him into the custody of the police. On the way to the station-house, he said he hoped the owner of the shawls would not prosecute him. Mr. MALTBY (to the prisoner)—You have heard the charge against you, do you wish to say anything in answer to it ? Prisoner (despondingly)—No, Sir, its all true that is said against me.—He was committed for trial. IRELAND. CROWN PROSECUTION. DUBLIN, JAN. s.—lnformations were this afternoon sworn before the Hon. Mr. Justice Burton, at his resi dence, in Stephen's-green, against Charles Gavan Duffy, Esq., proprietor of the Nation, at the suit of the Queen, for the printing and publication of an alleged wicked and seditious libel. The article on which the informa- tions are founded is that in reference to railroads being an incapable mode for the transportation of troops. The affidavit of proprietorship was, at the same time, sworn by Charles Vernon, Esq., the Register of News papers in the Stamp-office ; and all the documents were subsequently lodged with the Clerk of the Crown. It lies with the Attorney-General to decide in what way he will proceed, whether by ex-qfficio information or indictment ; and it is probabl e that this decision will be announced at the opening of the Court on Monday, the 12th inst., being the first day of term. REPEAL ASSOCIATION. The weekly meeting of the Association was held this day, Mr. Edmund Burke in the chair. Mr. O'CONNELL wished, before commencing the busi ness of the day, to make an observation with regard to the " gutter commissioners " of the Times, and he did so the more readily as it was the last time he intended to notice these individuels. He wished it to be un - derstood that, in making the reflections he felt it his duty to make on the last day of meeting, with regard to the conduct of the reporter of the 'limes, that he did not attack that gentleman in his capacity of re porter, but merely as an historian. To show the animus by which these gentlemen were actuated, he had only to state a simple fact. In Mr. Russell's description of his (Mr. O'Connell's) property. he drew a contrast between the cottages and mode of cultivating the land on his estate, and that of a neighbouring property, which he supposed to belong to a Mr. O'Sullivan. He described these cottages as being " clean, commodious, and well kept," and the lands " in a better state of cul tivation," than on the O'Connell property. Now, the fact was, that those cottages and lands were his. It was unnecessary for him to make .any comment on the fact: it spoke more forcibly than any terms he could make use of. The Honourable Gentleman then handed in a large nul.ber of remittances, including 411, the renewed subscriptions of the members of his own immediate family; likewise 1621. 10s., the January dividend on the repeal fund invested in the Three and a-Half per Cent. Stock. In reference to a letter from Drogheda, enclosing rent, he observed that no thing could possibly give him greater pain than to see Sir William Somerville removed from the representation of that town, but they should work out the principle they had solemnly adopted, not to return, at the next election, any but Conciliation Hall repealers. If Sir William Somerville would join the cause of nationality his acces sion could be received by the universal people of Ire land with the utmost delight. In the anticipation that that high-minded Irishman would see the necessity of adopting that course, he would keep Drogheda open longer than any other place in Ireland, in the ardent hope and expectation that he would in the meantime come over to the opinion of his constituents, and become a Nationalist. Mr. O'CoNNELL again rose and said—Now we begin a new year —(Cheers.) Hancel Monday, and hurrah for the repeal.—(Cheers.) He trusted in Providence that the present year would be the last of their struggle' and the first of complete success, and that it would not draw to a close till they witnessed a Parliament in College-green, and Ireland under the fostering care of a domestic Legis lature. They would look to the past only for instruction end to guide them in their future proceedings. It *as necessary to furnish the people of England with a history of their struggle, and to show them that they had done what loyal and constitutional men should do, and if they did not succeed the fault was not theirs. The Honourable Gentleman then proceeded to give a history of the repeal dress s gl b e y cl m tir o i t n r4 the past y ear , a nd concluded his ad- Irish peopl e t o aser exertionsies o resolutions,f the ca u pledging pe t a h l e renewed , and detailing the modus operandi for carrying on the agitation with greater vigour than ever. The Honour able Gentlemen also moved that the Secretary be directed to write to the Repeal Members of Parliament, urging upon them the necessity of an immediate con ference, for the purpose of deliberating what course they ought to pursne on the opening of the sessi on . For his (Mr. O'Connell's) part, he was determined to go over to Yarfianient, and use his best exertions in en d-ayouring to procure for the people of England the abolition of all restrictions on feed, and then he would call upon them to unite with him in endeavouring to procure measures of amelioration for the people of Ireland. After the transaction of some unimportant business, the rent of the a eek was announced to be 4771. 14s. The meetint:* then arikirned. CHARGE AGAINST MESSRS. LABERTOUCHE AND STAFFORD. At College-street Police-office, this day, informations i• were taen against Mr. A.b.? , 1 Lahertotiche, stcelibri and notary publie, whose failure recently occitrred ,t ' n e d charge of fraudulent appropriation, not having purc hs ' stock in accord a n ce w i t h a wr i tten or d er , the tryt e e l i having been dep os it e d for the purpose. Bail was P„ . 0 1 by Mr. Labert ouc h e . Hi s partner, M r. S ta ff or d, has.'d yet surrender e d t o th e comm i ss i on o f b an k ru ptcb ° Ol it is suppos e d h e h as gone to T r i n id ad, w h ere the r held some property. LLOYD'S SH t I' PING. LONDON, JAN. 7.—Windsoutherlr, light and hazY• fro DEAL, JAN. 6.—Acrd. Lady L ou i sa , Chi na. Arrive , ' tv , the ri ver, Isabella Wats on , Thom psi. n. Port Philip; st. Sergeant, Sydney, New South Wales; Sandwich, Lucia. Put back, Blundell, llawell, Calcutta. rcll BinsiroL, JAN. 6.—Arrived a vessel from Prince Ed A sr e a ; es , Island. Sld. Gambia, Lov e ll, Af r i ca ; C ongo , P ar ker, Lr ' CAERNARVON, JAN. I.—Arrd. liindoo,`l St. John's,N', l3 l . /i s; LIVERPOOL, JAN. 6.—Aml. Litherland, Freeman, "; Fatin - a, Wilson, Calcutta; Hermes, Donough, Buenos A) r , - . std. Oct. 29; Rival, Burnet, Maranham; Tay,' In n r is: Shakespeare, Rose, New Orleans ; South Carolina, .‘" (12 la ditto; Amherst, obinson, Pugwash ; Andromeda, El° " n - r e; Bache. Sld. 6, Tarn O'Shanter, Marienburg, Sing%o, Fanny, Wheeler, Cape of Good Hope Isabel, AL"''„ o :. Arica; Theresa Jane Disney, Maranham; Warree, Da ruing, Africa • United , Kingdom, Fost er , D eme rara; Is a ' a ii Rabbs, Trinidad; Coronet, Bute, Mobile • Abigail , v nor i Charleston ; British King, Houghton, ditto. O il od. Fatinia, Calcutta; H ermes , Buens Ayres. A head -b° o marked "Caroline l e S ure, " and some pieces of wrec k, j o s particles of cotton sticking to them, have been was h ' . shore at Southport. CLYDE, JAN. 4.—Arrd. Y eoman , Ki ng, S t. John's .$1(1, Brunswick. Jan. 5. Five Sisters, Ritchie, Demerara. Argaum, Tait, Calcutta ; Lady of the Lake, Savannah. Corn.—Arrd. John H a ll ett; Ch r i stopher, oe STRANRAER, J. 6.—The bark N orman an d the sch, cr l ot Severn, both of Belfast, h ave put i nto D romore (the O r a( in a sinking state, and b o th w i t h muc h damage), eii,D4 been in contact. A scho oner , name un k nown, f ro m m e to Islay, is on shore in the Bay of Luce. SHEERNESS, JAN. 6.—The Clarendon, Tyall, for Lon- Bombay, was towed into the harbour yesterday, to r e r t jo damage, having been in contact with the Kelso, i Downs. tt°' PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 6 —The Black Nymph, Rogue , ,, te o; London to Constantinopl e, h as come i n t o h ar b our to lig ht makes water above water line. ~,i. FALMOUTH, JA N . 6.—The C a lyp so h as b een survey.w is discharging. te SCILLY, JAN. s.—The Leonie, Damoing, from Chor e° so i Liverpool, missed stay s i n St. Mary's Sound yesterdaPo went on the rocks ; assisted off on the flood, after CL away her masts, leaky. q o fee MILFORD, JAN. 3.—A: piece of Baltic oak, of about in length, was picked uo on Newgate Beach, in St. fee Bay, on the Ist inst. Two pieces of bulwark, about a blur long and 1 inch thick, with a union-jack, an ensign, ; ie l peter, and a burgee, with the No. 399 in the latter Ptj oP on it, and some short pieces of d ec k pl an k , were pick:" fit under St. Anne's Light yesterday. A boat, about 2° ol long, clinch built, fitted for two masts and mizen, large travella aft, and seven thwart , was p i c k e d up at '„br ton Weir on the 21st ult.; the word " Milford," nesrlY terated, - painted on . , I CARRICKFERGUS, the JAN. stern r 4.—The Elizabeth, f rom VO e D haven to Londonderry; was on shore at Knee Island , Lame, 2d inst., but expected off next tide. frO BAY OF Luc; JAN. 4.—The Stewarts, Stewart, de Drogheda to Islay, was driven on shore in the Bay Ye ater 1 1 0 STRANOFORD, JAN. 3.—The Jane Gunning went 00 1 1:110 during a heavy gale at Portaferry, 30th ult., but got ° following da, after partly dischargi ng, without damag,Aber SHIELDS, JAN. 6.—The Velocity stehrner, hence to Been, grounded on the Scaf, 3d inst., got off this mortl iP° parently without damage. - • • COWES, JAN. s.—Sld. Caledonia, Batavia. ea di e; SouTrumprox, JAN. 6.—Arrd. Tweed stmer, West MARKET NE W S.-(YESTERDAY CORN-EXCILA.NO E. e 0 Since Monday the arrivals of English Wheat, coast wi it s well as by land carriage and sample, have been again and of very middling quality; yet the demand for v o article to-day was by no means active, at, t a id previous quotations. there was rat h er more O i l 1 1 for the finest qualities of f ree F ore i gn W hea t, buy I no more money. In Corn under lock, scarce. d i i# speculative sale took place. The b es t M a l t i ng Bar 9111 again scarce, and quite as dea r . G r i n di ng and distioli sorts, which formed th e b u lk o f th e rece i pts, hung ,;e,jio on hand. The Malt trade rated tolerably steady, and r e io were well supported. In Oat s a f u ll average businetjd doing, at late rates. Beans, Peas, and Flour con2ta' very little attention. FP 'l ;if Oats 2,862 qrs. . 1 j 1,010 3,010 I 970 • Malt, 2,100 qrs. HITECHELP I . Foi each kind of prime meat we had E a Z very steady - e ve], at full rates of cur renc y. L i other qualities, comport' little was doing. Be e f, f rom 2 s 10d to 3s 8d; Mutton , 33 to 4s 6d ; Teal, 4 8 4d t o 5 s 4d ; and Pork, 38 10d to per Elbs. by the carcase. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barlay. 2,920 'qrs. 6,980 qrs. English ..... Irish ....... Foreign .... .. 3,050 SIGNS OF THE TlMES.—Potatoes were mu in AY to o pleby market, on Saturday l as t, a t sevenpence e•soob What will be their price before next June ?—earlisie."'"ol POSTAGE ON N EWSPAPERS TO AND FAO° the BRAZIL2.—The following notice was issued on Tuesday, Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, and branch ell'„ c ,: e ir " General Post-o ffi ce, January, 1846. Her Alajesty's tbre o ment having ascertained that a charge for postage b''' o th' re-imposed by the Brazilian office upon newspapers frej ri d United Kingdom delivered by th e pos t i n Brazil, viiol° newspapers addressed to th a t coun t r y w ill h erea f ter be „,vi, c e 'l to a charge of 2d. e a c h, w hi c h must be paid in Newspapers received f rom B raz il will be also c h a rgesv'' a rate of 2d. on their delivery in the United KingdoU Majesty's brig Penguin, for the Brazil mail of the 61" tY Letters and newspapers in time on Wednesday evenine 7th inst." [ADVERTISEMENT.] —DEFECTIVE SIGHT . ot y HEARING RELIEVED, Instruments and Spectacles sent I'y country by post, 39, Albemarle-st ree t, Piccadilly, Nelerr vented Spectacles, Powerful T e l escopes , O pera Gl asse s, 06 scopes, &c.—Patronized by hi s M a j es t y t h e Ki ng o f Has , her Grace the Dowager Duchess of Bedford, their Grace d Archbishops of Canterbury, York, and Dublin, the Dt e ol , Devonshire, Norfolk, Argyle, Marlborough, and Man.„clisto Bishops of Exeter, Lincoln, Cork, Elpbin and F.J.,00 , Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, Oculists and opt'? have invented Spectacle Lenses upon a new ce rl ,„,' ssr, lion. Immediately they are placed before '"` s lo' Sect vision, either by day or candlelight, 00 0 mist and dullness which appe ar b e f ore the eyes is a' 00 removed, and every object becomes dear and distinct, 101 l the most aged defective s i g ht b ecomes bright and btu ,41/ and is brought to its youthful, nateral, and original state." the most Powerful A c h romat i c Telescopes, Opera °ln, Microscopes, Invisible an d a ll ki n d s of Acoustic Instru'j for relief of extre me d ea f ness. Caution—Messrs. S. ar'ith° Solomons, Opticians, are not in any way connected g ;;$0 1, person of the same name in their immediate neighbour nor in any pa r t o f t h e country. To prevent mistake,;4o cautious, and observe—Only to he had at 39, Albemarle-sole Piccadilly, oppo s it e th e Y or k H otel, and 25, South „ street, Edinbur g h. Nothing could be better devised than Nicoll's os gistered I'aletot to suit the ever-varied nature of ou r clilf forming, as it now d oes , not on l y the sine qua non °, 000 railway travell er , b u t i s equa ll y so adapted for any gentle, taking out-door e xerc i se . I t may b e said distinctly to. 111$ the costume of the ni ne t eent h century, if that is neditil called marked which is only conspicuous for an unpr eteil e e and graceful bearer, the wearer feeling so mute 4t „ Certainly as an over-coat it i s patronised highlylord P $ OO a general public favourite, being so peculiarly EnglishLl avoiding all foreign e xtravagance of style. It must be knowledged as a vast i mprovement ever the old great associated in our remembrance with an uncemfortable s. tion of tight buttonings, which, from its veiy clunle, w r ia defeated its object, the warmth of the person, as inter l with the proper circulation of the blood. The priticip l pit are black, blue, brown, and olive; also the clerical trulvit called Oxford, and can be had o f th e patentees, or o%ti the most respectable clothier s ou t o f L on d on. Every w'wjill paletot is three guineas, and is stampted in the lining d the words, "Registered 6 and 7 Vic., cap. 65. H. J. ztin Nicoll, 114, Regent-street, London. ,041, ACCEPTABLE PnEsENTs.--The present is h allo 00 by one of the most delightful offices of fri en d s hi p and affect e pi the interchange of gifts as remembrances of the donorst,p. tokens of thsir esteem for th e rece i vers. The most Or; / priate present becomes the first subject of consideratiti fj ' r l merely useful one can afford n o ev id ence of taste, while rept. sent possessing no claims to utility, shows a want of jtulP i t 11 1 To combine these requisites, a more fitting souvenir 0 0 °0 suggested than Rowland's Toilet Articles, the Macasor it inf Kalydor, and Od or .t o, eac h of i nfa l l ib le attributes. In are: 01' and sustaining luxuriant silken tresses, Rowland's Maestola` of is highly an d un i versa ll y apprec i ated; Rowland's Kalld°r,olY preparation of unparall e l e d efficacy in imp rov i ng an d beal Eying the Skin and Complexion ; and Rowland's Odeon', Pearl Dentifrice, is invaluable f .r its beautifying and Pr e pp ie vative effects on the Teeth and Gums. The august pat r Lito conceded by our gracious Queen, and th e severa l Soveri.plii of Europe, together with the be au ti es w hi c h adorn the.ciii.bi of princely and regal magnificence and the confirinab°4 experience of the infallible efficacy of these cr ea ti ve rain/ 1 4 01 specifics, have charact er i se d them with perfection, an d them a celebrity unparalleled. [ADVERTISEMENT.]--DOCTOR BINNS AND 1 .- I°- WAY'S OIN TMENT. —Doctor Binns, who is one of the n , cipal physi c i ans i n t h e island of Jamaica, has expressed .14 self in th e f o ll ow i ng manner respecting the surprising nee-rislf, properties of Holloway's Ointment :—" I made roan,' fe rs' of thi s Oi ntment in cases of Chronic Ulcers, which I . sf years experi ence i n t h e W est I n di es taught me to consiu e o o incurable. lam now happy to say that in all cases it A , really and truly efficacious. Signed, E. BuisTs, M.D. C' 1 0 01; Sol Holloway's Ointment w ill cure b a d le gs, however pi, standing ; likewise the most obstinate cases of Kings , e pot or Scrofula. Sold by all me di c i ne ven d ors, and at P r o Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. ,4 BIRTHS. On the Ist inst, at Ebley, Gloucestershire, the wile --_ p Leversage, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daughter, still-bo' „. On the Ist inst., at Lee, Mrs. Walfroth, of a son; fie' On the 2d inst., Oval, Hackney- roa d, M rs. F re d er i c k of a daughter. 0 3 WI IIIII On the bth inst., at Epsotn, the wife o f A r th ur Woods, Esq., of a son. DP * On the sth inst., in Che s t er - street, Grosvenor-place ' George Scovell, of a son. ii On the sth inst., at Kendal-place, Vassall-road, Mrs. Job H. Golding, of a son. gri On the sth inst., at Woburn-place, Russell-square , Henry Nash, of a son. 00 0 On the sth i ns t., at R oo d -lane, Mrs. W. Williams, of:11.3:„.' MARRIED 0 00 On the 6th inst., a t Clif ton C hurch, Henry Austin P„ p Di., second s on o f J o h n B ruce Prvce, Esq:, of Duirry ro o Nicholas, Glamorgan, to Annabella;only (laughter of Bi c Beadon, Esq. London: Printed and Published by 111URDO YO,, I) „ 1 Ig 4 i No. 112, St ran d , P r i nter, at 714 e Sun Offiee, ,f„"' a tl° Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the V - Middlesex, Thursday, Jsumary 8, 1846, II O rAL ?".rof e , toelatro lo p 4or B ub, Leet Will be 14. tore be Rey by Di , r rofe 0 sevy eral p, zlci ktti /Z t at Yer, tte : zit s Yin; () th ralls a d d qh,„ IC T 4 X L tia,d Incline 14 ' I S. At the r. Wet -Lasic, co +Ye, and I', JOG S CI It a 111 1)44 tt y, lice T AS TE] t ,. Rt h kn r „,, k,ltn ee siy,...ors 01 Ap ri :j sr the r p~ optet su O the e t i . 01,k, of Tw, 0, 4 4t),„,_ T 41 ' tly the ,414!-,Tug,pters of r esenta NtiZneitts at above-n qs n Westn t t ', l ;t g orough ar,,, te !',atid Li /:''Orset 1 1 1, k e n Toh am BRry rrOW aT :, r oN v incia tt.,4 ankrroviaeia ttr, ank of c Ba nk Of: . of Irel t o[ E °gland K. nfiland , arve Ys a g, 4., Aeon, te,:f h 3 eXand C rO and c Etto I San lit Ma W ' 4 * Atki n " Wes° l e t rs c )1 * Co' n.t ton ett' w -At te _ ' 3', 1 1 .4 4. ,At • )114' tsc t les, E ki ' F . otoi: ti nir of Z iar Y, 11 f ron )k % t he rer— the.`e Sh kr t e T i x t:kotton Nt t that best 4 4 , th e t kotir lti( el [ t 3 ll Fi eo a l ,B Zei ft lai he 5 q4 444 or, kI tY, 1 41,1 er thethe Ba' DIED. • ..„,et On the 30th ult., at Cambe rwe ll . E m il y F rances, r arni - child of the late Walter J. Miller, Esq. E 0 On the 21st of. November, 1845, at Futtyghur, in thed Indies, Fanny Sarah, th e d aug h ter of Major A u cbir . rucker, C. 8., of the 9:11 Bengal Light Cavalry On the-4th inst., at Saville-place, Mile-end-road' le° Susan Sebire, aged 79. 1 , .. tol l° On the 4th inst., at Gloucester-place, Kentia , - , o r. Charlotte Ellen, youngest daughter of Mr. Mil es LancicotA On the sth Inst., a t H en d on, Mary Anne, the I . daughter of J. S. Ta nquera y , E sq. 011 the sth inst., Ed war d Winckworth, Each of CO Y ' Hall, Hillingden. _....."--'