The Sun. — London, England, 1848-01-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, 1.••••• baa LAW INTELITGENCE., COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jan. 17. (Sittings in Banco.) The Court proceeded with the special parer; none of the cases, however, were of such a nature as to be of any interest except to the parties itumeliately con cerned therein. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. John Rafter, aged 17, was charged with having robbed Mrs. Clara Paul of a purse, containing 1 ls. in silver and 9d. in halfpence. The complainant, as she pissed along Hoandsditch on Satur , '.ay evening, found by the sudden absence of the weight of her purse, that it had been stolen, and having seen the prisoner, who had been close to her. run away, informed a gentleman of the fact. Deady, a very- vigilant policeman, who officiates in that most crow:led and turbulent neighbourhood, followed the prisoner and apprehended him and another boy in Cutler-street, where thieves often obtain, even unso licited, assistance from a set of vagabonds on the look out for chances of the hind in the way of participation. The prisoner upon being seized flung a half-crown and several shiflings, which he had in his hand, upon the ground. The amount was exactly the amount of the silver which the lady had been robbed of, and one of the shillings was at once indentified by her. The other boy escaped, and it was believed had the purse in his possession. The two had, no doubt, been in co-operation in the robbery. The prisoner said he saw a oc boy in Ho run unds down ditch whip something out of a lady's pket, and Cutler-street. He followed the thkf, and was about to pounce upon him when the officer apprehended them both. At that moment the thief dropped a quantity of silver and escaped the grip of the police min, who must have mistaken the pursuer fur the pursued. This ingenious account of the business led to some questions from Alderman Moon to the policeman, who stated that it was impossible he could have been deceived. He had distinctly seen the prisoner throw down the silver, and was more anxious to secure him than the boy who had escaped, and who was much smaller. The prisoner, too, upon being apprehended, acknowledged an acquaintance with the other boy, who he declared had r , -en th money which had been thrown upon the grou-d to him. Deady added that the address given by the prisoner was not correct, and, in fact, the more questions were asked the stronger the evidence became. The prisoner said he was a respectable shoemaker's apprentice, but where his master lived or carried on business he could not tell.—Committed for trial. Jac,:b Reinhill, a journeyman baker, was charged with having stolen a cake, value is. 61, the property of his employer, Mr. Purcell, confectioner. The prisoner, who had 25 shillings a week and his board and lodging, hakbeen suspected for some time of dishonesty, an unpUnished instance of which in a place in which several journeymen was employed, was calculated to do serious mischief. He was followed after leaving the premises on Saturday evening, and the cake was found concealed about him. The prisoner said the cake had been made by him on a new principle, and he was taking it home to make an experiment of it with a cup of tea on Sun may morning. He contended too, in defence, that the money he should have saved his employer by taking his meals at home on the Sunday would have exceeded he value of the cake. Committed for trial. Ellen Davy, the servant at a public-house in Tower-street, was charged by Theophilus Perryman, a private in the Royal Artillery. The soldier had gone with a comrade into the public-house, and, after having paid fourpence for beer, dropped his purse, containing four shillings, and left the house. The prisoner was seen by two little boys to pick up the purse, with the contents, and put them in her pocket. The soldier sown re turned to the house to look for his purse, and was told by the landlady that the girl had that and his money, but the prisoner denied that there had been a farthing in the purse. Remanded till Wednesday. G U I LI) HA LL. Mr. Allan, sen., of the firm of Allan, Son, and Co., drapers, St. Paul's Churchyard, attended before Mr. Alderman Gibbs, to answer the complaint of Mrs. Eliza Durham Richardson, the wife of Mr. W. B. Richardson, of Guildhall, solicitor, and of his sister, Miss Richardson, at present residing with him. As there was some doubt whether a magistrate could take cognizance of the matter, there being no statute that applies to the case and there being a doubt also as to the inference to be drawn from the expressions complained of, whether they imputed any indictable offense, which would subject the utterer to an action, or implied a moral offence not indictable, and for uttering which no action would lie, a very , special form of summons was .prepared for this occa sion. It charged Mr. Allan with being guilty of certain wilful misbehaviour, by using and uttering certain abusive, insulting, and threatening words and gestures to the complainants (reciting the words at length), in his open and public shop, and forcibly, and without reasonable or sufficient ground, procuring and compelling them to leave the shop against their will and pleasure, under the imputation, and inducing other persons to suppose and believe that the com plainants were not honest persons, and were not per sons of good name and reputation ; and not having any just grounds or cause of suspicion for such mis behaviour. From these terms it seemed that the question of every shop in London being a market overt and fair, on every working day in the year, was taken to be involved in the matter. A greater number of persons connected with the - Wholesale and retail drapery trade attended to hear the proceedings than the court would hold. Mr. Clarkson attended, with Mr. Van Sandau, for the complainants ; and Mr. Ballantine, with Mr. Humphreys, for the defendants. The ladies, accompanied by a number of friends, were in court. Mr. Ballantine, on behalf of Mr. Allan, said that the facts of the case were known to Mr. Alderman Gibbs, and since Mr. Clarkson bad made the state ment respectir b ee the manner in which the ladies had been treated at Mr. Allan's shop, and upon which the Alderman had issued the present summons, Mr. Allan had inquired into the correctness of the infor mation upon which he had acted (for it was due to Mr. Allan . to state that he did, not act upon anything within his own observation or knowledge, but upon a statement made to him by one of his shopmen), and finding there was no foundation whatever for that in formation, he now felt it his duty to offer to the ladies a public acknowledgment of his error, and of the deep regret he felt for the manner in which he had addressed them. What communication had been made by the shapman to Mr. Allan, it was unnecessary to repeat, for it was clearly an incomprehensible mistake, for if the:e had really been any ground for his conduct, Mr. Allan would not have shrunk from defending it. It was not necessary to make a lengthened statement. Mr. Allan instructed him fully to admit that there was nothing whatever, on the part of the ladies, to justify the course he bed pursued towards them. He was there to state, in the strongest possible manner, after the fullest investigation, that there was no ground whatever for the least imputation on the general cha racter of the ladies, or their conduct in the shop at any time. Mr. All an h av i ng b een m i s l e d by a mis conception of which he was not the author, had in structed hi m to make the roost full and ample apology to the ladies, whose general re4pectabilit,y and conduct on all occasions could not he doubted. F . eeliug that in consequence to unguarded conduct he had put Mr. Richardsen anxious to be me expense, Mr. Allan was hel,,hitreineadis,tl)o defray those expenses to the utmost, and this offer spontaneously, and without env tea-gainin or previous understanding with the geid( men one other side. When a man w as convinced he had committe r da n error, it was his .luty to express his contrition, and he f was instructed t o express Mr. Allan's deep regret curred, owing tn the momenta ry er"hat had oc and to hope the ladies would a mistake of an o th er , am ple apology. accept thi s full and Mr. Clarkson, on behalf of the cornplain a he had intimate d on the last occasi on that thenrt; said be some incomprehensible mistake, and if M w as satisfied he was m istaken, and w ould make Allanan a!nple apology , he should be disposed to ac cept it . That this prompt justice was not rendered to them h ad been a source of great effliction and grief to the ladi es and their friends up to thi s time. But he would n ot now retire from that proposition, but would, on the part of his clients, accept the apology tendered, ac companied as it had been by the promi se to pay their expenses to the last farthing. But he trusted Mr. Allan would 're guarded in his conduct for the future, for, possibl3, if such language and behaviour had been addressed to oilier ladies of less known family, and of less respectability, they would have been irretrievably ruined. Mr. Allan being under a full sense of the wrong he had done, he (Mr Clarkson) would accept the apology and withdra w Mr. Alderman innssaid e summons. so be it. It was a wise ' course on the part of Mr. . Allan, and a kind course on the part of the pro3ecutors. Mr. Humphreys said Mr. Al' the aiiology now offered if b .an would have made ehad Thursday last. been present 01,1 - _ CLERKR iV trp L Samuel 1:,44t4uh Hurley, alias Smith, and Samuel Hurley, their son, well dressed and re spectable looking persons, wero.charged with havino committed several ingenious robbnies. It appeared in 1,., 5t the, feinA le priioner and her son went into the E h , -. 1). ,0f Mr. Gi.Orge Dixie, draper, of High-street, r.nd purchased one handkerchief, and as oi , " was le:IA/log the premises she purloined two more, with which :;lie made a hngy retreat. She w as ip stantly followed and given itto the custody of Dubar, 253 N ; but it was found that she had as dexterously parted - with them as she had stolen them. She, however, was given into custody ; and on being brought to this court she was remanded, in conse quence of two new coats having been found in her possession for which she could not account. The officer soon afterwards discovered that they had been stolen from the shop of Mr. Moss, Gosweli-street. The male prisoners subsequently called to make in quiries after the woman, and on Sunday morning Sergeant Brennan, one of the detective force belonging to the N division, with Dubar, followed them in disguise, and eventually took them into custody at their residence, Norfolk-street, New-cut, where several other coats were found, together with nume rous duplicates referring to wearing apparel. Joseph Loader, foreman to Mr. Moss, said that on the afternoon of Wednesday, he was standing at his master's door, when the younger prisoner and his mother accosted him, the latter remarking, " Why, you are the young man I used to buy my Eon's coats from ;" adding, that she was then going into the City to purchase one. Having assured her that he could deal with her as cheap as any one else, she, with her son, entered the shop, and after he had tried on up wards of sixty, he selected one, and paid a deposit of 23. Gd. on it. Two of the coats produced are his mas ter's property ; but he did not know they had been stolen until the officers showed them to him. Mr. George Dix, clothier, of Hampstead- road, iden tified one coat that had been taken from hii stock under precisely similar circumstances. The prisoners were fully committed on the two last named charges, the woman and her son for stealing, and the other for receiving, and on other charges they were remanded. They declined making any defence. THE Poor-nox.--The magistrates of this court that kfully, on behalf of the poor of this district, acknowledge the receipt of the second half of a 5/. note from "E. P., per Messrs. Call and C 0.," one guinea from " H. M. P.," and 121. from "J. J. H., per Messrs. Gosling and Sharpe," which sums have been applied according to the request of the several donors. WESTMINSTER. . 7 ohn Wood alias John White, a man having the appearance of an omnibus conductor, was finally ex amined before Mr. Broderip, charged with entering the dwelling-house of Mrs. Emily Lewis, 27, Gros venor-place, and stealing six 51. notes, and some sovereigns, a dove composed of brilliants, other valu able articles of jewellery, and a number of coins. The accused is well known to the police, lie was tried and convicted of felony in 1846, at the assizes at Kingston, and subsequently absconded, after hav ing been admitted to bail upon a charge of stealing some valuable documents from Leatherhead Church. The depositions of the several witnesses were taken at full length, from which it appeared, that on the the evening of Sunday week, Mrs. Lewis went to a party in Lowndes-street, leaving her house in charge of Johanna Kelly, her servant. In about an hour after the lady's departure, a man, having the appear ance of a cabman, c ame t o th e h ouse , an d a ft er ring ing the bell violently, told the servant who opened the hall door to him, that her mistress had been suddenly taken ill at her friend's house, and that she (the ser vant) was to go to her immediately. As the fellow mentioned the number of the house at which she was visiting, the servant entertained no doubt of the truth of his statement, and at his suggestion hastened down stairs to put on her bonnet and shawl. While she . was so occupied she thought she heard a footstep in the passage, and on her return up stairs was about to enter the drawing-room to see that all was right, when the man called out to her that if she did not make haste he must go without her. She accordingly hur ried to the hall-door,where the man was standing stamp ing his feet as if to warm them, and left the house with him, closing the door securely after her. The fellow after leading her up one street and down the other until she became breathless, suddenly desired her to stop while he ran over the way. He crossed the road and turning a corner stooped down, in order to escape her observation. She then, for the first time, sus pected that something was wrong, and followed him, but he set off at full speed, and she soon lost sight of him. She sat down exhausted, after a vain endea vour to overtake the fellow, near St. George's-place, Knightsbridge, where she was found by a constable of the B division, named Carmoody, to whom she narrated what had occurred, and acting upon his ad vice, accompanied him to her mistress's house, in front of which several persons were at that moment assembled. It seems that during the servant's ab sence a gentleman named Collaviero, a friend of Mrs. Lewis, who had been staying in London a few days, and who had some valuable property deposited in the house, endeavoured to enter with the latch key, but finding, to his surprise, that the door was fastened, rang the bell repeatedly, when suddenly the door was quickly opened, and out rushed the prisoner, knocking the gentleman down. Mr. Collaviero jumped up and collared the fellow, when, to his surprise, he saw him drop two valuable shirt-pins, a number of papers, and a pocket-book containing six Si. notes and other valuables. The prisoner struggled violently to escape, but the opportune arrival of the policeman and the servant precluded the possibility of his doing so. He was taken into the house, when a very valuable bracelet, which had been safe a short time before on Mrs. Lewis's toilet-table, was found on his person. A dove, composed of brilliants, and a Si. note, some sovereigns, and valuable coins, are still missing. Mr. Collaviero's travelling-bag had been cut open, and the pocket-book and jewellery belong ing to him stolen therefrom. The most extraordinary feature of the case is how the robbers not only be came acquainted with the circumstance of Mrs. Lewis being from home, but the actual address of the friend to whom she was upon a visit It is sur mised that some person prowling about the house must have heard the orders given to her coachman, she having left her residence in a carriage. Proof having been given of the prisoner's former conviction, Mr. BRODERIP asked the accused what he had to say ?—The prisoner replied, " It's all a mistake, I picked the bracelet up in the street." Mr, BRODERIP observed I commit you to take your trial for the daring burglary at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court, and added to Mr. Moran, an inspector of the B division, who conducted the case, "Mind, he must be indicted for the breaking out." The witnesses were then bound over to prosecute. In consequence of a private communication made by the inspector the prisoner was ordered to be again brought before the magistrate that day fortnight. MARYLEBONE. James Pickett, for years past well known to the police, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton for further examination, on the charge of having stolen a silver cream. ewer, the property of Dr. Drum mond, Gloucester-place, Portman-square. The evidence given upon the first occasion relative to this case appeared in our paper of Tuesday last. An additional witness, Mrs. Henderson, wife of Cap tain Henderson, living next door to Dr. Drummond, now came forward and gave such testimony as fully justified the magistrate in sending the matter to be decided upon by a jury. A second charge was preferred against the prisoner, and it was clearly shown that on the very day when the robbery at Mr. Drummond's was effected, the pri soner went down the area at the house of Mr. Isaacs, 30, Dorset-square, when he lifted up the kitchen window and stole a silver spoon, with which he made off. He had once been tried at Kingston assizes for felony, and had two or three times been summarily convicted. These facts were sworn to by constable 12 M. The prisoner was sent for trial upon both charges. WORSHIP-S7'REE7'. Mr. John Findluter, relieving officer of the White chapel Union, and John Waterman, gatekeeper of the workhouse, appeared before Mr. Hammill to answer a charge of having violently assaulted Margaret Layton, a middle-aged woman of colour, when ap plying to them for assistance . The complainant (who, it appeared, had been a slave at St. Helena during the period of Napoleon's exile there, but at the passing of the Emancipation Act came over to this country, and was married to a copper-plate printer) stated that for a considerable time past, in consequence of her husband's inability to _procure constant employment, she and her family of four children had been reduced to extreme priva tion, and compelled to apply to the parish for relief, which had been afforded them to a trifling extent h a o n u d ie w .l a o 3 until within the last weeks, when it had been alto gether discontinued. On Tuesday se'nnight, between nine and ten in the morning, she went to the work ant rind later, a renewed application for subsistence, demanded her business.' l ushered at e i r n two who, r i o n o m a v ewherery harsh hfo manner,und the he would be kind defend books, that she mightrefusedgo She told him that she wished enough to insert her name in the before the Board, but which he peremptorily send her husband inste to d do, and desired her to o re at!end, her husband was iambi: 't She told him that ordered her to quit the She declined and he then upon his to do so, and was again claimsurgrnagt:hteordes.n towards p , an and, the door. r g . h ereb y tion, when he suddenly the arm, thrust her torcibly He then called the other defendant, who c p au as g s h a e her to round the waist and carried her along the the outer door, through which he was forcing her, when her foot came in contact with the lower step, and to save herself fr om in j ur y b y fallin g she endea voured to grasp the rails, but was prevented by the defendants, and thrown forward violentl y u p on her hands and knees into the street, and fell heavily upon the pavement. - Upon being assisted up by another pauper she felt extreme pain in her side and ankle, from which she found that the skin had been torn off, and her band was bleeding profusely from a deep gash across the ball of the thumb, part of the flesh of which had been cut out. She where her wounds were dressed, and .I . le still remained anou p t roceeded at once to the London ll, Ap i tal bli.hment. Tatient of that esta , 1. . . In answer to a question from Mr. HAMMILL, as to whether the woman who had witnessed the assault was in attendance, Rowland, the warrant officer, intimated that she had not obeyed the summons which had been served upon her, and that he had little doubt, from her being a pauper herself, that she had purposely kept away from fear of giving umbrage to the parish officers. In answer to the charge, the defendant Findlater said that he had repeatedly enjoined the woman, at previous visits, to produce her husband, but she had refused to comp'f;, and caused so much disturbance, that he had been more than once obliged to send for the police to remove her. On the occasion in ques tion, he also used his best efforts to induce her quietly to withdraw, and was ultimately compelled to eject her, with the assistance of the other officer, but they had used no more violence than was abso lutely necessary to effect that object. He was wholly at a loss to account for the wound she had sustained in the hand, her husband having stated, at his subsequent examination before the board, that the hospital surgeon had pronounced it to have been in flicted with some sharp cutting instrument, and he could positively affirm that there was no such instru ment about that part of the premises to which the woman had been admitted. Mr. HAMMILL said that it was the bounden duty of persons in the situation of the defendants to exer cise the most patient forbearance towards the poor objects who presented themselves for relief, and it could scarcely be wondered at if the latter were occa sionally rather importunate, when it was recollected that they were driven there under the pressure of utter destitution. He considered the defendants had not here exhibited that humanity and command of temper which they ought to have exercised, but had used such an unwarrantable amount of violence, that he felt it his duty to send the case before a jury, and should direct the depositions to be taken, and order the defendants to find bail for their appearance at the sessions. SOUTHIVARK. Mr. Ayres, en;;;;;,Fleetstieet, and Nelson square, Southwark, was summoned before Mr. Cot tingham to show cause why he refused to pay 121. 14s. 7d , due by him to the Phoenix Gas Com pany, Bankside, for gas supplied to him in Nelson square. On the part of the defendant it was contended that the demand was excessive. He had lately taken ex tensive premises in Fleet-street, and removed the greater portion of his business there. Since his re• moval from Nelson-square, he stopped burning three lights, but still the company charged him just the same as they did when he used seven. He remon strated with the collector, requested the attendance of the inspector, to examine the meters, but no person came near the premises. Letters were sent to the secretary on the subject, but although they were answered, no inquiries were made on the subject. All Mr. Ayres wanted was a fair understanding, and not to pay more than he was indebted to the company. Mr. Noble, the collector, said that every attention had been paid to Mr. Ayres, and his meters properly examined, but still he objected to pay the demand. The gentleman who attended for the defendant de nied that such was the ease. To show that the com pany was wrong, they charged 41. 17s. a quarter for seven burners, and the same for four, until the Christmas quarter, was little more than two pounds. All they required was common courtesy from the company, and no litigation. Mr. Noble said that the accounts were sent in ac cording to the meter. Mr. Ayres had been in the habit of burning gas all night, which was the reason of the account being so large. The defendant denied burning gas all night on any occasion. The fact was, that when he reduced the number of the burners the company sent for the old meter, and placed a new one there, at the same time making an error in the number of cubic feet burnt. He also objected to the summons, which specified that the amount had been applied for seven days prior to its being issued. Such was not the case, the whole amount had never been applied for before. Mr. COTTINGHAM asked whether he had any proof of that ? Complainant replied that he had. He handed in a card left by Mr. Noble for 91. 17s. on the 6th of January. He also received a letter from the secre tary for the same amount on the following day, threatening proceedings. Now the summons was for 121. 13s. 7d. Mr. COTTINGHAM said that the summons must fall to the ground, but still he thought the Gas Company would afterwards bring evidence to substantiate the claim. Defendant said that Mr. Ayres considered that the amount was exorbitant, and it was only on publin grounds that he objected paying the demand. lie certainly must have the summons dismissed, on the ground of informality. Mr. COTTING HAM accordingly dismissed the sum mons. William Paine and William Watkins, two well dressed men, were brought up on remand, charged with stealing a large quantity of Wellington boot fronts, from the warehouse of Messrs. Hackblock and Company, tanners, Bermondsey. A few days ago the prisoners were detected in secreting a number of boot-fronts in their pockets, and given into custody just as they were leaving the warehouse. They had been there on previous occa sions, and represented themselves as tradesmen, and requiring a great quantity of goods. They were, however, observed, on leaving the place, to have their pockets filled with goods, which induced some neigh bour to warn the prosecutors of their customers. Mr. Barton, a leather-dresser, now came forward and said, that Watkins had robbed him for twelve months of 2/. and 31. worth of property in a similar way. He was afterwards tried and transported for seven years. The prisoner Paine handed in a document, setting forth that his family were starving, and that it was his first offence. Mr. COTTINGHAM said that he could not take any notice of the paper handed to him. It was clear that they had plundered the prosecutors to a great extent, and from their system it was, no doubt, that other tradesmen had been served in the same way. lie asked the officer whether there were any other parties in attendance to charge them. The officer replied, that if they were remanded for a few days longer there would be, as several trades men thought that the prisoners would not have been brought up until Wednesday. Mr. COTTING HAM said that, under those circum stances, he should remand them until Wednesday. In the meantime the officer would be able to get evi dence about Watkins's transportation. On being removed from the dock, Watkins de clared that such an allegation against him was false. Roberts, the man who was charged last week with stealing a pint pot from Mr. Cleggett's, the Rose and Crown, Leadenhall-market, and Mr. Dooley, of the of the Old Bailey, waslbrought up for re-examination. Mr. Binns attended on his behalf, and informed the magistrate that, for the last four years, he had been in great distress. He had known him for seve ral years, and that was the first time he ever knew him to be charged with dishonesty. It appeared that the prisoner had been seen by some people who lodged in the same house with him, erasing the name of publicans' pots. Information was given to Wild, a policeman of the M division, who went to the place, and found three pint pots se creted under some old rags. He was committed for trial on three cases. BENEVOLENCE. — The magistrate received, on Sa turday, '2 . 25., from " P. H. H.,1 through the hands of Messrs. Gosling and Sharp, for the poor box of that Police Court, which the donor wished to be ac knowledged in the newspapers. LAMBETH. Henry Wennian, a stick manufacturer, was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott, on a charge of receiving and disposing of a watch and gold chain, well know ing them to have been stolen. It will be recollected, that in the month of October last, a young woman named Mary Ann Turfit, who had been committed from this Court, was found guilty, on apparently conclusive evidence, of stealing a silver watch and gold chain, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment and hard labour at Brixton House of Correction. Nearly a month after her con viction, and while undergoing the punishment awarded for her alleged crime, a little urchin, the son of the prosecutrix, made a full confession that he was the thief—that his uncle, Henry Wenman (the present pri soner), had disposed of the property for 505., and that he (the lad) had spent the money. The lad, whose name is James William Ward, in consequence of this confession, was apprehended, and subsequently pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey, when he was sentenced to seven years' transportation. Since his conviction the lad has made some disclosures to the chaplain of Milbank Penitentiary, involving his uncle in the alleged guilt of receiving the silver watch and chain with a guilty knowledge, and keeping '2l. s s. of the money received for them himself, and this circum stance led to the prisoner's apprehension. The first witness called was Mrs. Harriett Ward, sister to the prisoner, and mother to the youth who has been sentenced to transportation, who deposed that on the 9th of October last her father had placed with her a silver watch and gold chain, to get a glass put into the former ; and ois the 11th, two days after, t she met her br o th er , the prisoner, and asked him home t o h ave some tea. I n th e course o f th e n i g ht somew at watches , h e dis putesdaniffde faarwretohinstennere,es witness, between opening her English husband and an d } b , r r o e t n h n e h r about h watch,in order which to w settle as n the of equ a e stion, produced her pecu liar and remarkable description. She held the chain in her hand, when the prisoner laid hold of and at tempted to open the watch, but, observing he had some difficulty in doing so, she requ es t e d him to desist, telling him-it belonged to herlather, and with a vulgar expression ha desired" he;ALtrcke. iti LONDON, TUESDA Y _EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1848, away. On that night her boy Jem went out ; with the prisoner, wittn he was going, saying he should go to see him a little way home. On the fol lowing evening Miss Turtit came to her house to tea, and at that time the watch was safe, hut in less than ten minutes after she was gone it was missed, and having no doubt that she it was who had taken it, she gave her into custody on the following day, and her conviction and sentence to six months' imprison - ment followed. The testimony of this witness was proceeded in to considerable length, and from her further statement it appeared that though she had seen the prisoner while the young woman was under examination at this Court, and on the day of her commitment for trial, he had not disclosed the fact of her innocence, though he must have been thoroughly convinced at the time that her son had taken, and he had disposed of the property, and it was not until the day of Turfit's conviction at the Old Bailey that he had ::cknovvledged the guilt of her SOD "Jem." She further stated, that she was cer tain, both from his own character and the disclo sures made by het son since his conviction (a part of which was, that he had received only five shillings out of the money received for the watch and chain) that the prisoner had induced her son to commit the offence. In reply to the Magistrate, the witness said that she heard something said by her daughter about the confession of her son's guilt, before she gave him into custody. Mrs. Ward further said that it was her in tention to haVe given the prisoner into custody as well as her son, but as :he had stated h e had given her son the whole of the money he received for the property, and as the officer did not think it necessary to take him she did not persist in her original inten tion. A little girl; the daughter of the last witness, cor roborated the statement of her mother as to the pri soner seeing the watch the night before it had been stolen. Mr. F. Pate, a shopman to Mr. Sangster, the stick manufacturer in Fleet- street, deposed to having pur. chased the watch and chain alluded to from the pri soner, on the .16th of October last. The prisoner told him he had got it in exchange from one of his customers. _ . _ _ Mr. Wenman, the prisoner's father, was the next witness, and after the oath was adminstered to him in the usual way, the prisoner objected to his evi dence being received, on the ground of his being an Atheist; but this the father solemnly denied, and after the exchange of some angry expressions between father and . son, the former identified the watch and chain produced as his. The prisoner entered into a lengthened statement in his defence;' said that the charge was brought through mere spite and malice, and declared that he had sold the watch for the boy upon his representation that his mother wanted the money for it, and that he gave the lad the whole of the money. Mr. ELLIOTT remarked that the evidence before him proved the fact that the prisoner, when disposing of the watch, bad given a false account of it, and it was also clear that the prisoner was perfectly aware of the fact that the young woman was perfectly innocent of the charge alleged against her on the day she was taken into custody, yet -it was not until after her con viction and sentence to six months' imprisonment that he disclosed the extraordinary fact. Mr. Norton had already taken some trouble in the case, and was ac quainted with the whole of the circumstances and he should therefore remand the prisoner for further exa mination on one of his (Ur. Norton's) days. Mr. Young, the assistant-superintendent of the South-Western Railway Company, applied to Mr. Elliott, at the request of the directors, for an order to remove the prisoners, Jones and Fleming, in custody on suspicion of causing the death of David Markland, to Woking, so that they might be present at the coro ner's inquest, to be holden that evening, to suggest any questions to the coroner or jury, or make such statements as they might deem beneficial to them, under the circumstances in which they were placed. Mr. ELLIOTI replied that he had no power to give such an order, that authority being vestel only in the Secretary of State for the Home Department. Mr. Young asked if it was likely the governor of Horsemonger-lane Gaol, in whose charge the pri soners were, would sanction their being taken down to Woking in proper custody, the directors being anxious that they should be present to hear the evi dence against them. Mr. ELLIOTT replied that he did not know, but Mr. Young might wait on Mr. Knox and ask him the question. Mr. Young said he would do so, but soon after returned and said the permission was refused. THE RECENT FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. The inquest upon the body of the unfortunate man, David Markland, who met with his death under pe culiarly shocking circumstances, on Friday evening, commenced yesterday before Mr. C. J. Wood, the Coroner for West Surrey, at the Railway Inn, near the Woking station. . The company was represented by Mr. Dalrymple, one of their solicitors ; Mr. StOviri, general superinten dent of the • traffic; Mr. Gooch,.-superintendent of the locomotive department; Mr. Beattie, superin-, tendent of the carriage department ; and Mr. God son, superintendent of the passenger department at Vauxhall. Mr. Games, the soliciter,Attended to watch the case on the part of Brownsmith, the second guard, who was brought up on Saturday before Mr. Elliott, at Lambeth, and discharged from custody, as there was not, in the opinion of the worthy Magistrate, sufficient evidence to warrant his detention. In answer to a question from the Coroner, Mr. Dalrymple stated that information of the ac cident had been given to the Railway Commissioners, but it did not seem that any one appeared on their behalf. The CORONER then very briefly addressed the jury on the object of their assembling. Having stated such facts as have already appeared in this journal with reference to the melancholy accident, he went on to observe, that at this day, when railways had be come the ordinary and most usual means of transit from place to place, and when hundreds and thousands of persons were compelled daily, and almost hourly, to place themselves in the hands of railway companies and their officials, it became the bounden and impera tive duty of the companies to take every necessary precaution, in order to prevent the occurrence of acci dents; it was their bounden duty to lay down certain rules and regulations for the guidance of their ser vants, and it was equally the bounden duty of those servants strictly and impli,itly to obey those rules and regulations; and those rules and regulations should be entrusted only to persons of known character, so briety, and trustworthiness. The jury must not imagine from there observations that he was prejudging the case, or presupposing that there hail been any wilful neglect on the pert of the servants of the company. He knew nothing of the case beyond what he had seen in the newspapers. This was a subject into which the jury would have to inquire. If the servants of the company had disobeyed the rules laid down for their guidance, if they had been guilty of any wilful or culpable neglect, they would be chargeable with an offence for which they would be liable to be sent before another and more compe tent tribunal than theirs. That, however, was for the jury to decide. He did not think it would be possible to conclude the inquiry that evening, for, amongst other reasons, he understood that two per sons had _been examined before the magistrate of Lambeth-street, and that they had been remanded. He thought it would be desirable that those persons should be before the jury, and certainly before the inquiry terminated he should make application in the proper quarter to that effect. The jury then proCeeded to view the body of the deceased. On their return, The following witnesses were examined : Mr. David Nicholson, surveyor and builder, of Wandsworth, having identified the' body of. the de ceased, said—l was a passenger by!the six o'clock train, which left Southampton on Friday evening. Qn coming down the inclined plane of the Frimley embankment, about a mile and a half or two miles from Woking, we came to a stand-still in conse quence of the engine being out of gear. I retained my seat for five minutes and then got out. It was a clear moonlight night, and we could see, I suppose, three miles in the rear. I ascertained that Brown. smith, the under-guard of the train, had been sent back with a signal-lamp to stop the train behind us. I saw the usual three signal-lamps on our train, one centre and two side lights. I returned to my car riage, and, firiding that we did not get on, I again got out and went to the locomotive, the axletree of which was out of orde - r. I think we had been stop ping a quarter of an hour or. twenty minutes, when I saw a white light approaching us at a considerable distance. Mr. Young told me that this was probably the goods train,.but that the guard was far enough ahead to stop it. The t ugine-driver (Markland) was under his engine with another man ; he appeared to be driving a pin, connecting the coupling-iron or the axle. Whiting, the guard, was kneeling down hold ing a light to Parkland, who was underneath ; the stoker, who had before been under the locomotive, had got out as the train was coming. I heard the deceased say to the guard, " By the time your pas sengers are seated I shall be all right," and I re turned to my seat. I had scarcely seated myself when a tremedous crash occurred. I was thrown violently forward. My lip was cut, a piece of one tooth was broken, another was thrust on one side, and I grazed my knee. We had a great power of steam on our engine, which may have prevented the de ceased from hearing the noise of the approaching train. I afterwards saw the deceased lying across the rails. He was quite dead. The train, after a short delay, proceeded on its journey, and was brought to Woking. The train that ran into us was, a long luggage train, with a great number of carriages. Th e deceased was au old servant of the company, and I k„ understand he leaves a wife and four children. I uppose it was from five to eight minutes after the lu.4.gage train was seen before it was into us. By the Foreman—l have no doubt that the red light was capable of being seen if the driver and the stoker of the luggage train had been on the look out. I had no means of judging whether the luggage train had slackened its pace when I saw th lights the second time; I thought it had stopped when I got into the carriage a second time, or I should not, of course, have resumed my seat. The train I was in consisted of six or seven passenger-carriages, a truck next the engine, and a truck, or guard's van, in the rear. Re• examined—l saw that Brownsmith had a light in his hand when be left our train to meet the luggage train; but I did not observe whether it was a red one. Mr. Behan, of Southampton, a passenger by the train, had, like the last witness, resumed his seat in the carriage when the luggage train ran into them. The witness said he felt a sensation as if the carriage behind him was lifted up. He was thrown forward violently, but escaped unhurt. It was not a very clear night, but sufficiently clear to perceive a light at a considerable distance. . . Mr. William Young—l am assistant-superinten dent of the South-Western Railway. I was travel ling by the train in question on Friday evening, and Zn it stopped I got out. I saw the head guard (Whiting) and the engine driver (Alarkland). I inquired whether the accident would detain the train long, and the deceased replied that it would not. Brownsmith was sent back to stop the luggage-train, and I assisted in holding a light to the deceased and the stoker (Calvert), while they were under the en gine making the necessary repairs. The deceased told me I had better send for a pilot engine, and I sent off a platelayer to Woking for that purpose. We had been waiting twenty-five minutes, I suppose, be fore we heard the noise of the advancing train. It must have been a quarter of an hour or 20 minutes previous to that that the under-guard (Brownsmith) had been sent back with a light to stop it. The usual red signal lamps were attached to the last carriage of our train. When I heard the train ap proach I requested Mr. Ward, a pay-clerk at the Nine-elms station to run down the line, and he did so. I followed him. I got some little way down the line, and then heard a shouting, and then the whistle of the approaching loco motive. The luggage train went by us; it was going at a great rate. I will not undertake to say at what speed it was going. I was about fifty , yards from the passenger train when the luggage train ran into it. The deceased was killed by the collision. The train was due at Woking at eight o'clock ; it was as near eight as possible when the train came to a stand-still at Frimley ;we were then about two or three miles from the Woking station. We were not much after time. A copy of the printed rules of the company was produced by the witness, from which it appeared that the under-guard (Brownsmith), who was sent to stop the luggage train, was bound to have been provided with six fog signals, and to have used them. This was not done, Brownsmith having ad mitted to witness that he had not used the detonating signals. The persons travelling with a luggage train are the guard and breaksman, the driver and stoker. The guard should be in the carriage next the engine ; the breaksman in a carriage at the rear. The CORONER—What are the regulations as to keeping a look out ? Witness—The engine-driver and fireman must both keep a sharp look out forward, and use their breaks and stop the engine:as soon as a signal is given. Every guard, by rule 30, is also bound to keep a good look out, and be prepared, on signal, to apply the breaks. William Jones was the engine-driver of the luggage-train, and Lewis Fleming the stoker. The guard's name was Fortescue, and the breaksman was William Hudd. The CORONER said it was important that Jones and Fleming should be present, either as witnesses in this inquiry, or to hear the evidence that might be given affecting themselves. He did not think it right to proceed further until he had made an application urging the necessity of their being present. The jury concurred ip the view taken by the Coroner. Mr. Young, in reply to the foreman, said that when he saw the luggage train epproaching, the stoker and driver were both standing on the engine, and looking ahead. A juryman—Supposing the guard of the luggage trrin had seen Brownsmith's signal lamp; how would he have communicated the fact of the danger to the engineman and stoker ? Witness—The guard has a signal lamp, and if the fireman and stoker kept a good look out, as they ought to do, they_would see the lamp, and stop the train. It was stated that a period of six weeks or two months must elapse before Fortescue would be in a fit state to be examined. The CORONER said it would be his duty to adjourn the inquiry from time to time until the jury had before them every person whose evidence they thought to be material. The inquest was then adjourned until ten o'clock on Thursday morning next. (LATEST PARTICULARS.) Upon making inquiry at half-past eight o'clock last evening in the accident ward at St. Thomas's Hospi pital, the reporter was informed that the unfortunate man Thomas Fortescue, the guard of the goods train, had been in an insensible state at various intervals during the day from the severe loss of blood resulting from the injury to his arm, and that it was deemed necessary to delay,the amputation of the limb (which was most fearfully crushed) until he had somewhat rallied. However, at eight o'clock last evening he had much improved, and seemed to have rallied con siderably. At the time above-named Mr. M'Murdo, one of the senior surgeons to the hospital, who had the care of the unfortunate man, discovered that mortification cf the arm had presented itself, and such being the case, the removal of the limb was considered absolutely ne cessary, as the only chance of saving his life. The poor fellow readily assented to the operation, which was performed on the bed in the ward by Mr. M'Murdo, who took the arm off just belOw the shoul der joint. Fortescue bore the operation with much fortitude. The other injuries about his person are progressing favourably. At nine o'clock last night he was of course in a very weak and exhausted condition, and at present he remains in a very uncertain and precarious state. The man Thomas Calvert is as well as can be ex pected, and is going on comfortably. The former has a wife and five children dependent on him for support, and his wife was only confined three days before the accident, thus leaving the family in the greatest distress. The two house surgeons (Messrs. Hubbard and Hartnall) remain in constant attendance on the un fortunate men, and tie whole of the officials con nected with the institution are unremitting in their several duties. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTII, SUNDAY. —We have received letters from the squadron at Malta, dated January 2, each descriptive of the awful loss of the Avenger and her crew, but they throw no more light upon the cause of the melancholy catastrophe than the documents fur nished by the Admiralty. The arrival of the packet puts us in possession of letters from our friends in Sir Charles Napier's squadron : " Dec.l3l.—The English packet of the 27th arrived. "Jan. 2.—The Scourge steam-sloop, Commander Wingrove, left to- day for Madeira with dispatches for the Queen Dowager. "Jan. 3 —The squadron shifted topgallantmasts and jib-booms; the Howe, 120, Captain Sir James Stirling, performed the manceuvre in 49 minutes ; the Queen, 110, Captain Bruce, 72 minutes ; Cano pus, 84, Captain Moresby, 76 minutes ; the St. Vin - cent, 120, Captain Dacres (flag), 89 minutes. After wards unbent sails. _ _ _ " Jan. 4.-lie Alert, 6, Commander Hugh Dunlop, after a refit, sailed this day for the coast of Africa. "Jan. .s.—The packet arrived from Gibraltar with the sad intelligence of the loss of the Avenger, com manded by Sir Charles Napier's step-son. The awful fate of the captain and crew has created a mournful impression amongst us ; few of us but had friends in the vessel ; the admiral's feelings I will not touch upon. We are all too much distressed to offer comment. You will, doubtless, have received ere this the particulars of the dreadful wreck from your Malta correspondent. " 7th. A Court-martial assembled this morning at nine o'clock, by signal-gun from the flagship, to try the carpenter of the Amphion, screw-ship, 36, Captain W. J. Williams, on a charge of drunkenness. The Court comprised Captain Fairfax Moresby, C. 8., Pre sident ; Captains Sir James Stirling, S. C. Dacres, and W. H. Hall. After a patient investigation of all the circumstances pro. and con., which lasted five hours, the Court declared the charge not proved, and recorded the prisoner fully acquitted. "9th. The Terrible and Stromboli steam-frigates are daily looked for. Conmander Rogers, late First Lieutenant of the St. Vincent, goes home in this day's packet. Squadron all well. "We shall be all adrift one of these days for the want of serviceable anchors to hold us." The Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Lord A. W. Beauclerk, remains at Spithead. The Styx steam-sloop, Commander Chads, employed in the suppression of the slave trade, made her 13th capture on the Bth of November, and sent her into St. Helena fur adjudication. The following are the promotions and appointments of the past week : PROMOTION. Lieutenant—Thomas E. L. Moore (1843), of the Plover, to the rank of Commander, and to proceed in command of that vessel round Cape Horn, and to Behring's Straits, in quest of Sir John Franklin's ex pedition. CAPTAIN GLASCOCK, R.N. This worthy man, and an excellent servant of the public, did not, as stated, die of apoplexy, but of over-work. In fact,' his life was sacrificed to his duty. Just arrived from a three years' command upon the Syrian coast, he was dispatched to Ireland, in the capacity of an administrant of the Government relief last year ; and there he was attacked with severe dysentery. This, combined with over-exertion and intense bodily and mental labour, it was which brought his valuable life to a close, and left a wife and two female children unprovided for, except by the or dinary pittance of an officer's widow. Captain Glas cock was a public benefactor as well as a public ser vant. His "Naval Officer's Manual" is a text-book in the navy ; and his naval novels have been the delight of thousands in this and other countries. In fact, his life was one act of devotion to the public and private good of his countrymen and his fellow-creatures. Is it to be borne, then, in a rich country like Eng land, that the children, the female children of such a man and such an officer,Shotild be left unprovided for.? When the Pension List shows the sisters of sub-secretaries of the Treasury, the mothers of peers, and the sisters of ex Cabinet Ministers, in the enjoy ment' of the public bounty, is it too much to require that a helping hand should be held out to the daughters of one of the bravest sailors and most in telligent authors that this kingdom can boast of? For bid it, Heaven.—Observer. , DEATH OP THE EARL OF MORAL—The demise of this Nobleman took place at Darnaway Castle, Moray shire, late on Wednesday night. The deceased, who was in his 77th year, had for severa l y ears been in delicate health, and having been attacked with the prevailing epidemic, it became evident he could not long bear up under it. The deceased, Francis Stuart, besides his titlo of Earl of Moray, was also Baron Stuart l77l, ; s u l c i c . Te succeeded ed L o rhd i s Donne and Baron St. Colme; in the peerage of Briton, L l7 ie 9 u 6 ien ß an ar t on of Stuartiiginh soire of Castle father, Francis, ninth E arl, 1810, married (first), 1795, as b t o le rn LUcy, daughter of the late Major-General John Scott of Ba,lcombie, who died 1798; (second), 1801, Margaret Jane, daughter of Sir Philip Ainslie, Knt., who died 1837, and has iss ue, b y his first marriage, Fran c i s L or d Donne, born 1795 ; Hon. John, born 1797 ; b y his second Archibald Stuart, of Grantully, Bart.; Lady Margaret Lady Anne iCharles, born Grace,bornBmllBBi marriage, jr o l r 9 i ; ahgne H Lon June, n Lo u isa, born d . Archibald, ae o , born 1807; 1813; 1810 H ; il o ° n . e Lady Jane, born 1802, married 1832 the latee. George, born s 2 14. B By the zi d io e r a a th y hire has beco me vacan t. THE VERDICT ON THE EUSTON of the Noble ear l STATION the A c c Lord- Lieutenancy i nENT.—It dues not appear to have occurred to the jury, that it was their bounden duty to make every effort to obtain " sufficient evidence" of how the wall fell: for, so far from doing so, they omitted taking the most ordinary and obvious means of arriving at the truth. A further investigation is, not merely most detirable", but shoal be insisted on.—Builder. APPOINTMENTS. Rear-Admiral—The Hon. Donald Hugh Mackay, to be Commander- in-Chief at Cork, vice Sir T. Ussher, deceased. Commander—Robert J. Otway, to study at the Steam Factory, Woolwich. Lieutenants Richard H. Risk (1844), late Secund Lieutenant of the Birkenhead, -to command the Lucifer steam-vessel, of 180-horse power, at Sheerness; A. C. May, S. F. Douglas, and A. Butler to the Wellesley; H. Ilannant, J. M. Jack son, and D. Spain to the Havannah. Masters—C. 1. A. Noddall to the Wellesley ; J. B. Hilliard, to the Havannah; W. H. Thompson, to the Victory. Paymaster and Purser—W. Reeve, to the Welles ley; W. P. O'Brien, to the Havannah. Chaplain—The Rev. Philip Somerville, to the Ganges. Acting-Master—W. Smithett (additional), to the Ocean, for service in fitting the Banshee, new Holy head packet, which he will command. Second Masters—G. Gilpin, to the Wellesley ; Martin Roberts, to the Adventure; R. L. Cleveland, to the Hercules ; Walter Clark, to the Ocean. Clerks—R. Munday, to the Havannah ; N. Giles (in charge), to the Plover ; Richard Batchelor (in charge), to the Bonetta; John S. Lindsay, to the Plover; Franklin Bellamy, to the Prince Regent; W. B. Gordon and G. F. Grigor, secretary's clerks, to the Wellesley. Assistant-Surgeons —R. P. Chapman, to the Torch ; John C. Inglis, to the Jamaica Hospital ; D. W. Stephen, M.D., to the Victory. Midshipmen—W. H. Fenwick, to the Victory ; Sidney Woolrige to the Wellesley ; John Telfer, to the Queen. Naval Cadets—C. D. Claghill and Charles Nunn, to the Havanna ; R. B. Abercromby and Arthur Salway, to the Wellesley ; the Hon. Henry Corn wallis Eliot, to the Prince Regent; J. C. 'Wells, to the Wellesley; John Coles, to the Sealark ; C. E. Slaughter, to the Inconstant. Master's Assistants—John Thompson, to the Bonetta; J. G. Mitcheson, to the Swift; T. 11. James, to the Ocean. THE LOSS OF THE AYENGEE. Jan. 17.—The following letter from Mr. Larcom (the gunner) to his wife, residing at this port, des cribing the loss of the Avenger, differs in some par ticulars from the statements made by Lieutenant Rooke:— _ _ " Malta, Jan. 4. " I take this most welcome opportunity of writing a few lines to you to tell you I am safe, after suffering the most dreadful shipwreck ever known, The Avenger ran on a reef of rocks on the night of the 20th of December, about ten o'clock. I was in bed at the time, but was awoke by . the shock. I jumped out . of bed and began to feel for my clothes, but a very heavy sea striking the ship hove her entirely on her beam ends. I ran on deck without my clothes, when I was ordered to get the cutters lowered, but there was such a dreadful sea that not a man would clear away the boats. At last some of the officers, together with myself and the captain's steward, lowered cne of the boats, and myself and seven others shoved off fr om our ill-fated ship with hopes that we should be able to render some assistance to our dear and lamented shipmates, but I am sorry to say without success. We had hardly shoved off from the ship when the mainmast went over the side, taking with it the funnel and mizentopmhst, which fell in -board and must have killed a number of men. A minute or so after this the foremast and bowsprit went, leaving the ship a total wreck in less than twenty minutes. All this time the wind and sea were driving our little boat away from our ill-fated ship, which we lost sight of in less than an hour and a half, and in this time the wind blew a gale; and I then began to inquire N% ho was in the boat, when, to my sorrow, I found that I had not a man in the boat who could do a thing. It must have been nearly twelve o'clock, when it came on to hail and rain in such a way that I thought we should have been sunk; one moment we were on the top of the mountain wave, the next seemed the bottom of the sea. Expecting every second to be our last, we were all praying for daylight, and at last it came, bringing to our gaze all the horrors of the previous darkness. I then took a glance at my ill-fated com panions. Oh, what a sight to see! four of the eight lying lifeless, or nearly so, at my feet, the wind still increasing, and the sea running mountains high,which broke over and nearly filled us a great many times. At last land appeared right ahead, and our little boat was tearing through the sea. We made out the land to be the coast of Barbary ; we were forced to run right for the land; if we had not we should have assuredly been lost. It was now about ten o'clock, and I found my eyesight and strength leaving me. Our boat was nearing the shore at an amazing rate, and when within a few hundred yards of the land our little boat was capsized, when four sank to rise no more ; the other four reached the shore and fell senseless on the beach, or nearly so, but coming to our senses we got up and commenced walking, we knew not whither. At last we fell in with an Arab, who took us to his hut and gave us some warm milk which brought us to our right senses, when we tried to make him understand we wanted to get a place where we could get a vessel to take to the assistance of our lamented shipmates. We got a vessel ourselves after travelling 100 miles, which we did in two days with our faithful Arab for a guide, but I am sorry to say when we got to the place where our ship ran on shore she was gone down and every soul had perished, being in all 256 persons." The Avon steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Cator, left on Saturday for Cork,__ to be employed under the orders of Rear-Admiral Mackay, the Com mander-in-Chief. The Nautilus, 8, Lieutenant- Commander River, arrived last night from a cruise for the protection of the fishery on the coast of Sussex. We have had a smart gale of wind to-day, with squalls and heavy rain, varying from S.S.W. to S.W. At 5 P.M. wind S.W. by S., fresh breezes and squally weather, with rain, and every indication of bad weather continuing through the night. PROGRESS IN CIIRSTER.—A. • correspondent of the Builder at Chester writes as follows: —We are proceed ing with the sewerage of the place as fast as the funds placed at our disposal will allow, and I think it can be shown cheaper than in any other place. We are now engaged in cleansing our courts, alleys, &c., and in removal of all nuisance likely to prove injurious to health. An improved system of cleansing the streets has also been suggested, and we are carrying out an im proved mode of paving, both of which, if generally adopted, will also be conducive to health. A cemetery company has also been formed. We are trapping all our street gratings, and our sewers we are ventilating by passing the rain water-spouts into them, which, if not the most effective way, is the cheapest. It is useless to trap sewers unless you afford the means for the escape of the noxious gases generated in them. We want a better and cheaper supply of both water 411c1 gas. LOSS OF lIER MAJESTY'S BRIG SNAKE. (From the United Service Gazette.) 'MOZAMBIQUE, SEPT. 10..—You will be sorry to hear of the total loss of her Majesty's sloop Snake, which now lying, with her side open from the port gangway down to the keel, on a coral reef about six miles to the southward of this anchorage. After vi4ting Zanzibar and Anjuan, or Johanna, we were returning to this port, when, on the after noon of the 26:h ult., if I remember correctly, we made the land somewhat to the northward. We stood off to the eastward fur the night, under easy sail, and-the next day found that the set had driven us upwards of 50 miles to the southward. The wind was from the southward and westward, with a tre mendous set directly in the contrary direction. The latter baffled our endeavours to reach the port during the next two or three days. At sunset on the 29th, the outer (or eastermost) one of the small islands off Mozambique was observed to bear about north. 1 1 , Vhen these islands ceased to be visible, owing to the coming obscurity of the night, the Snake steered N.N.E. so as to pass a couple of points outside of all. But the tremendous set I have mentioned, together with a flood tide, driving us in towards the land, the N.N.E. course we were steering became in fact a N.N.W. one ; in consequence of which, at 7h. 45 m. P.M., we found ourselves aground, unfortunately, just at the top of high water. As the tide receded the vessel heeled over till she reached her bearings, when she settled down with her deck at an angle with the horizon of between 30 deg. and 35 deg. Being a weak vessel, her butt-ends started, w'ien her lee or port side immediately filled. As, even th'en, it could scarcely be credited that the current had set us to the westward to the extent I have described, doubts began to arise as to the islands we had seen at, sunset being in reality what we had taken them for. Hence a painful anxiety existed during the long night we had before us, for we were perfectly aware that had we to take refuge on shore at any distance from Mozambique itself,. we could only have main tained a precarious footing by constant hostility with numerous and warlike tribes, not unprovided with fire-arms. There was some apprehension, also, lest the ship should fall over altogether on her beam ends, or the masts go by the board, neither of which could well have taken place without the loss of life to some, and severe injuries to others. But lam truly happy to be able to add, that no one has lost his life, or been hurt in any manner ; indeed, we have not had a death on board since we were put in commission, now nearly twenty months ago. From the inclined posi tion of the ship nobody can live on hoard, and the crew are accommodated on shore abreast of her, at the distance of about two miles, in excellent tents, made with the sails and some spars. They are busy in saving stores, &c., and will, probably, be removed to this place in a few days, the Governor having removed the soldiers from the San Domingo barracks to make room for their reception. The,French barque-corvette Voltigeur, of 20 guns, arrived here on the 7th inst. As there is no British man of-war in the Mozam bique Channel, I believe that, if none arrive here be fore the end of the month, merchant vessels will be taken up to convey us to the Cape. P.S. Sept. 18.—I have nothing particular to add since the foregoing was written. The whole of the crew were removed here on Monday last, the 13th instant. I have reason to think this will reach you before the original, as that was sent via Zanzibar. It was found impossible to get the guns out by means of the lower masts, as their inclination had already caused an immense strain on the weather rigging, the heart of which was gone ; and, owing to' the surf, it was found impossible to rig a derrick on the bottom, consequently the saving of the guns is for the present given up. But a Portuguese man-of-war schooner is going out on Monday morning, manned by a portion of our crew, to watch the breaking up of the vessel, now near at hand, and, if possible, to pick up some of the.guns. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, J . A.w. 17:1 STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire Junction, 31/. Shares, 6% dis.—Ditto, (late C. and B. ), 5 per cent. in 1847 and 1848, and 6 per cent, in 1849, 16% c.—Ditto, 221. Shares, 5 per cent. in 1847 and 1848, and 6 per cent. in 1849, 7 1 4, dis.— Great Northern, 6 dis.— Great Western, Halves, 59 c.—Huddersfield Canal and Railway, Thirds, 3 4 dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, % p.—Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 1 ,4 London and North-Western, 153 1 /—Ditto, Quarters, New, 6 1 / g p.—Midland, 114—Ditto, Halves, 1 1 4 dis.— North Bri tish, New Quarters, Scrip, par—North Staffordshire, par— Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, Preference (guaranteed 8 per cent.), 3 p.—South-Eastern and Dover. No. 4, 1 % div. York, Newcastle, and Berwick (N. and B. Extensions), No. 2, 2 3 / p.—Ditto, G. N. E. Purchase, 1 3 / 4 p. MANCHESTER, JAN. 17. STOCK ExctrAxam.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lana, shire, and Cheshire Junction, 5% dis.—Eastern Counties, 16 n.—Great Northern, 6 dis.—Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, Thirds, % n. dis.—Lancashire and York shire, 321. Shares (late Extension), n. dis.—Ditto (West Riding Union), 2 13-16 —London and North-Western ( Man chester and Birmingham), Quarters (A), 4 p.—North Staf fordshire, par—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 13-16 c. dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 1 11-16 dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, Extensions, No. 2, 2 18-16 ct LEEDS, JAN. 17. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales :are—Ambergate, Notting ham, and Boston, i 2% dis.—Eastern Counties, 16—East Lan cashire, New, 1 / 2 dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire ( West Riding Union), 575. 6d. dis.—Leeds and Dewsbury, Halves, 545. n. tlis.—Leeds and Thirsk, 15% dis.—London and. South-Western, New Scrip, Thirds, 2s. dis.—North British, Halves, 12—Ditto, TM. ds, Is. 6d. p.—North-Western, dis.—.Seut h. liaitern and Dover, No. 4, 355. dis t —York, New castle, and Berwick, Extension, No. 1,4% p.—Ditto, Pre ference, 1 p. - Ditto, No. 2 (New Berwicks), 2 3 / 4 p. HULL, JAN. 17. STOCK EXCHANGE —The sales are—Ambergate, Notting ham, and Boston, 6s. 6d.—North British, 264—Ditto, Quar ters, ss. 6d. dis.—North Staffordshire, % dia.—York, New castle, and Berwick, No. 2 (New Berwicks), 2% p: It is with deep regret that we have to record the' death of our fellow-townsman, James Carry,. Esq., which took place yesterday morning, at his residence, Mont pelier Spa-buildings, in the 76th year of bis age. The name of James Curry is one which has obtained a na tional celebrity in days gone by. A poet himself, he was the intimate friend and companion of Tom Moore; the bard of Erin. He was one of the famous brother-- hood of " Kilkenny Boys," and mixed largely •in the events which took place in Ireland preceding and at the time of the Union. Under the old regime he was clerk to till Linen Hall, Dublin, and enjo3 ed, up to the time of his death, a pension of 8001. per annum, granted him on the abolition of that office. As a poet and a friend of Ireland, Mr. Corry will be long remembered ; as va arm-hearted and benevolent man he will be long and deeply regretted. There are few, who had the pleasure of his acquaintance, who will not receive the intelligence of his loss with the exclamation, " Alas I poor Corry." —Cheltenham Examiner. Viscount Palmerston has returned to Broadlands,. near Romsey, from town. The Noble Viscount and V.scountess are surrounded by a select circle. Lord and La y Ashley hive joined the party from Brighton. Vitico int a] d Viscountess Jocelyn, the Honourable 4Viliiam Cowper, and Mr. R. M. Milnes have also• • arrived there. his Lordship comes to town to-morrow . for the Cabinet Courcil, and her Ladphip and estab-' ishmerwt remove to London at the close of the present week for Vl° season. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—IIOLLOWAT'S OINTMENT AND . PILLs are Producing Immense Sensation in the Bahama IslawN.—A letter recently received from Mr. Frede rick Williams, of Nassau, states—" I know of many here that have tried Holloway's Ointment and Pills, and. who have derived the greatest benefit from their use; one case in rartieular, a lady, whose foot was in such a dreadful state that to save her life amputation was deemed mccsscry, and yet she regained the complete use of her limb by these celebrated medicines." Any wound, sore, ulcer, abscess, or bad leg, even if of 20 years' standing, will readily heal by their application.—Sold by all dealers in medicines, and at Professor I,lolloway's Es- - tablishment, 244, Strand, London. • BIRTHS. On the 12th inst., at Church-hill, Woolwich, the lady of Benjamin Wilson Pidcock, Esq., of a son. On the 13th inst., in Oxford-terrace, the wife of William G. Chapman, Esq , of a daughter. On the 14th inst., at Coppice-row, Mrs. James Tidmarsh, of a daughter. On the 14th inst., the wife of John Taylor, Esq., of Ely place, of a daughter. On the 14th inst., at Powis-place, Great Ormond-street, Mrs.. Thomas Yate Lee, of a son. On the 14th inst., in Choster-square, Pimlico, Mrs. Ed mund Hammond ; of a daughter. On the 14th inst , at Claverton Manor, near Bath, Mrs. Vivian, of a girl. On the 15th inst., at Marine Parade, Brighton, Mrs. F. Genge, of a daughter. On the 15th inst , in Hamilton- place, St. John's-wood, the wife of Samuel Phillips, Esq., of a son. On the 14th inst., in Tavistock-square, Mrs. Rowland Neate, of a daughter. MARRIED. • On, the 4th inst., at Dundee , David Martin, E sq ., Rose angle, to Mary Anne, daughter of the late Robert Law, Esq., banker, Dundee. On the 13th inst., at All Saints' Church, Norwood, Surrey, the Riv. Alexander henry Bridges, to Caroline Matilda, e ldest daughter of Christopher Hodgson, Req., of Great Dean's-yard. Westminster. DIED. On Thursday, the 13th inst., at Brecon, in the 66th yedr. of his age, Thomas Batt, Esq , late' surgeon of the Royal Fusiliers, and Coroner for the county of Brecon, In December last, at Westgate-court, Canterbury, John Cates, Esq., aged 8(1. . On the 10th inst., in Albany-road, Camberwell, Mr. C. Whitworth, aged 58. On the 13tii inst., the infant son of Alfred S. Wigan, Esq., of Michael's-grove, Brompton. On the 13th inst., Jane, relict of the late Augustus Bohte, of Sackville-street. On the 13th inst., Edward, eldest son of the late James Wetenhall, Esq., aged 34. On the 13th inst., at Southampton, Julia Loveday, youngest daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Mundy Wood, aged 9. On the 14th inst., Mr. Bancroft Butterfield, of Bucklers bury, aged 49. On the 15th inst., in Cadogan-place, Elizabeth, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Verner. On the 15th inst., in Upper Grosvenor-street, Mrs. Dawson, wife of the Right Hon. George R. Dawson. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, at No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the count► of Biiddifsex, Tuesday, January 18, 1848. ~~ S ~ r. - R ie .yam