The Sun. — London, England, 1845-03-28 00:00:00

munity, complained of the slight which would be thrown on tht midwifery branch of the profession by the pro posed Bill, though none would deny that the midwifery branch was one demanding as much care and attention ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Leiceder, March 25. CROWN CO URT.—(Before Chief Jtkitice TINDAL.) RIOT AND ASSAULT.—.Ia..eph Coithurs* Edward Tal bot Mullins, Henry Roper, Charles Henry Cosse, George Richardson, and Thonw Hibbing, were charged with having on the morning- of Saturday, the 16th day of No vember last, in the parish of Wymondharn, in this county, been guilty of a riot. There were other counts in the indictments charging assaults to have been committed on the persons of Stephen Stokes, William Grooby, and John Lewin. as any other. Mr. LANE seconded the resolution, and it was declared carried. _ _ Messrs. Griffiths, Waite, and Osborne proposed and seconded some other resolutions, which haying been ink led, Mr. Griffiths was called to the chair, and a vote of thanks having been passed to Mr. Wyse, the meeting separated. The counsel engaged for the prosecution were, Mr. Whitehurst, Q.C., Mr. Mellor, and Mr. Flowers. For the defence, Mr. Hill, Q.C., Mr. Humfrey, Q.C., Mr. W. Burnaby, and Mr. Macaulay. This prosecution arose out of an attempt made by some of the officers of the Midland Counties Railway to make a survey of some portion of Lord Harborough's park, called Stapleford Park, for the purposes of an intended line of railway from Syston to Peterborough. The affair made much noise at the time. The facts, as de tailed by counsel, and proved by the witnesses, were as follow :—The Midland Counties Railway having projected a branch line from Syston, a village about five miles from Leicester, to Peterborough, it became necessary to take the levels, &c., of the intended line. The line in question was proposed to be carried through Stapleford Park, the property of Lord Harborough, running at a distance of near a mile from the Noble Earl's residence, but within two or three hundred yards of a cottage which his Lordship had built and embellished at great cost, and in which he nearly always resides. It appeared that a request had been preferred by the Company to his Lordship to be allowed to come upon the park for the purpose of making a survey, but Lord Harborough refused such permission. Some attempt had been made early in the week to make the required survey by the towing-path of the Oakham canal, which runs by the side of the park, but this had been resisted. It would seem that some sort of an un derstanding was come to that no further attempt should be made to complete the survey until the respective par ties bad been before a magistrate; but late on the Friday night preceding the morning in question, information was received by Lord Harborough's agents that the Company intended at an early hour on Saturday to go upon the park and make the required survey. Parties were immediately dispatched to the neighbouring vil lages for the purpose of calling the tenants and labourers on his Lordship's estate into the field to resist the in tended aggression, and some of them arrived upon the ground as early as a quarter to six, where they found the defendants, who, with the assistance of their work people, to the number of 70 or 80, were about to com plete the business they had come upon. They were re quested to desist, and to go about their business. They refused, and thence arose a fight and disturbance, which lasted a considerable time, and in the result Lord Har borough's people remained masters of the field. Many acts of violence on the part of the defendants were de • posed to. A witness named Colson stated that, upon warning the defendants to desist, they said they would go on in spite of him, and he was pushed against and rolled over. The " railways," as the witnesses for the prosecution styled the company's servants, were armed with long pieces of wood, having iron spikes at their ends ; but these were to stick in the ground, and were a part of their business apparatus. Some witnesses spoke to their having bludgeons in their pockets. All the wit nesses for the prosecution denied that they themselves had any weapons beyond walking-sticks, and those only a few, and that their numbers did not exceed twenty or thirty. Mr. Fabian, the steward of Lord Harborough, stated that he arrived in the park a little before seven on the morning of Saturday, and he thought there were seventy or eighty, and from that to one hundred of the " railways" present ; that he heard the noise in the park upwards of half a mile off; that upon coming up he saw Colthurst, and addressed him, saying, " These are most disgraceful proceedings, Mr. Colthurst." He replied, " Mr. Fabian, if you do not wish to be hurt, I should advise you to go away." Mr. Fabian replied, "he thought he (Fabian) had more right there than he had." There was a desperate struggle, but at last the " rail ways" beat a retreat. Then he ordered the gates of the park to be closed, in order that the parties implicated might be identified, and among them were the defendants. In cross-examination, the witness said it had bees called in the newspapers, " the battle of Suxby-bridge:" Does not know that Lord Harborough commanded in chief. Was a general on that occasion, if Mr. Hill pleased to call him so. He sent Skinner over, Lord Harborough's servant, as an aid-de-camp to summon the rank and file to Stapleford. Could not tell their num ber, had not looked at the muster-roll lately. The men who came before the fray was over and those who came after received 2s. 6d. each, and rations on the Monday. There was no artillery. Heard nothing about the cannon of Lord Harborough's yacht until after the day in question. William Grooby spoke to Colthurst " bragging" at him with a staff, having an iron spike at the end, with which he made a hole in his coat, and John Lewins was assaulted and had a wound in his side ; he could not see it, but felt it for weeks afterwards. Many other wit nesses spoke to the noise and tumult that disiinguished the morning of this eventful 15th, describing the " rail ways" as armed with staves, and distinguished by white linen, or ribbon, tied round their arms, the morning not at first being light. Mr. HILL made an eloquent speech in favour of the de fendants, the gist of which was tolow that the parties in question had no intent to commit or provoke any breach of the peace, but they had gone there early in the morning, so that Lord Harborough should be less dis turbed, and the number of men spoken to as being upon the ground arose from the necessity there was for their assistance to work the chains, many being provided to finish the business of the survey. The Clam JUSTICE said it was clear the defendants had no right to have been there, and it was a riot of more than three persons, assembled for a common pur pose, the object being to do that which would or might create a breach of the peace. The jury, however, acquitted the defendants of the riot, and found them guilty of the assault only; and they were sentenced each to one month's imprisonment in the county gaol. WARD V. LORD HARBOROUGH AND OTHERS. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Shrewsbury, March 15. PROCEEDINGS at WASHINGTON CROWN COURT.—(Before the LORD bIIIZI BARON.) Pugh and Syas, the two men convicted last night of stealing in a dwelling-house, were this morning sentenced by his Lordship to imprisonment' with hard labour for twelve calendar months. - _ TIMES.—The consent of Congress to the annexation of Texas is an event so long expected, that the question of its justice has gradually merged in the vision of its certainty. There was a time when the most enlightened and thoughtful men of the Union could venture to en tertain a strong moral objection against it ; and their arguments are on record. It was clear, however, that the mass of the Union, its newest and most active ele ments, were in favour of the measure. Their eyes were always reverting to Texas. Texas unappropriated, like independent Megara within sight of Athens, was the eyesore of the Union ; not but that there are other eye sores to the ambitious gaze of that people. Whatever they see they love, whatever they love they covet, and whatever they covet they ex pect and endeavour to obtain. But Texas was the first thing in their way, and formed the bold foreground of their hopes. Texas adjacent, revolted, independent, still menaced and molested by the weak and impolitic rulers whose yoke it had broken, already peopled and governed by the citizens of the Union, or adventurers of the same language and principles, was an acquisition absolutely necessary, not so much to the happiness as to the very comfort, the ease, the sleep, the digestion, of certainly more than half the republic. The only part of the business, therefore, on which there could be any surprise, would be the particular time and manner which republican wisdom and taste would select for the acquisi tion. To an European understanding there is something quite grotesque in the time mid manner actually adopted. The Congress comes to this momentous decision in the very point of time between the two presidentships. Mr. Tyler completes his career with a determination which he cannot have the smallest share in carrying out, and Mr. Polk will be engaged throughout his whole term in the arduous execution of a project imposed upon him at the first moment of his official existence. We in the old world have long since chastised one another's desires to at least the language of modesty and mutual deference. The President is not overawed by the presence of one . . sovereign power in the length andbread a th of his conti nent. Hence he feels no indecency in expressing, in glorifying every aggressive impulse of the heart. The citizen, he says, must rejoice when a frontier line is re moved, when he can communicate freely, commercially and politically with his neighbours, without the restric tions of trade, or the interference of foreign claims, and foreign politics and morals. When such rejoicings are arguments, then we may reasonably fear for the invidi ous frontier lines of the St. Lawrence, not to speak of that other on the westward of the Rocky Mountains. But other difficulties will arise before that day. Neither democracy nor federation can solve the great problem of society. Government is not so easy a task. The crea ture of a mob election, addressing his creators, may talk in the same breath of clustering all nations in a consti tutional unity, and interdicting moral and religious in terference between the inhabitants of adjacent valleys ; but human nature has assigned less to system, and more to spiritual influences. She wall soon detect the hollow ness of union without unity, and of a political combina tion that aims to embrace the world, while it is afraid to interfere with the grossest social corruptions in its own bosom. CHRONICLE.—So far as the United States Govern ment is concerned, the annexation of Texas is, to em ploy the phrase now so often used to characterise acts of national rapacity, un fait accompli. We confess we are much more mortified than surprised to find this ques tion terminated, like all others in which the Tory admi nistration had to combat the arts or the ambition of foreign and of rival powers, that is, by the total discom fiture of British interests and views, whether dictated by feelings of justice, of security, or of humanity. The question of the independence or absorption of Texas was handed over to the Tory Government as a fair field for the exertion of their diplomatic skill, and of the hun dred means at a government's disposal for the work ing out of its ends. In these the Tory Govern ment has most miserably failed. The American Go vernment have decided upon the annexation of this im mense country, containing 300,000 square miles, and are about to establish over that region their system of slave-cultivation. It was, indeed, a question of life and death to American slavery, which, if confined to its own exhausted soils, must have declined, and met a natural death at no incalculable interval of time, but which now, have secured to it most ample room and root, cannot be expected to pause till it fills the whole territory to the Pacific, and deluges the New World, from which it had -been partly stayed or driven, with its flood of misery and crime. There is, indeed, one glimpse of hope, however faint, and that is the resistance by the Texans, who might reckon in the present state of Mexico on a recognition by that power. But the independent feeling of the 70,000 white citixens of Texas is, we fear, not proof against the augmentation of value which their lands and property would instantly gain by annexation to so powerful an empire. And, especially as Lord Aberdeen or his Envoy are to be the sole prompters and supporters of this independent feeling, there can be small grounds for its maintenance or triumph. It is painful, indeed, to be thus driven to despair, painful to behold, without a struggle, slavery, which we have so long and so extensively, and not ineffectually combated, thus regain what it has lost, and sweep, like a huge sea, in uncontrolled devastation, over a surface of such vast extent. Deplorable as is such a prospect, God grant we may not have to contemplate something worse. HERALD.—The decision of the American State in favour of the annexation of Texas seems to have thrown the good citizens of the republic into a state of phrensy, one division of the republicans being mad with joy and triumph, the other division as frantic with indignation and despair. There may be something in the lex ron scripta of North American politics to account for such extraordinary raptures on opposite sides, but we confess that we cannot fathom the mystery. The admirers of negro slavery may rejoice at the prospect of an accession to the slave-owner's interest, and the abolitionists may dislike such a prospect in a corresponding degree ; but what the decision of the two chambers authorising the' President to annex the Texan territory to the United States, if he can by the means of negociation and 100,000 dollars, has to do with the safety of the American constitution, we cannot easily comprehend. The constitutionality or uncon,titution ality of the proceeding, however, does not properly concern us, and we will not imitate the example of Mr. Jo` :n T y l er by i m p er ti nen tl y me ddli ng i n ot h er peop l e ' s affair,. We have our own opinion of the character and destiny of the A tn.:rican constitution ; but whatev.r our opinion, that constitution will run its course, and it will nut lees rapidly reach the appointed goal of all such systenis, because of prjects like that of the annexation, should the pr: jest take effect. Since writing the above the President's Message has reached us. After the usual rig marole; in the course of which Mr. Polk compliments his own country very warmly at the expense of " European monarchies," he dwells with much satisfaction on the decision of the American Senate in favour of the annexa tion of Texas, and assigns as an excuse for this viola tion of national faith, " that it is desirable to extend the peace policy of the United States." He also asserts, in most unequivocal language, the intention of the Ameri• can Government to take possession of the Oregon. " Our title," says Mr. Polk, " to the country, is clear and un questionable;" and the world is called upon to admire the " peaceful triumph" of such a mode of acquiring ter ritory. On paper, at least, the disputed country is already occupied These are the only intimations in the Message calculated to excited any sort of sensation in Europe. When a man proposes to commit an aggression, nothing is more common than the belief that he is merely asserting a right. There are, however, two words to every bargain. POST.—We publish in to-day's paper very impor tant intelligence from the United States. This com prises, first, the resolution of the Senate confirming that of the Congress with regard to the annexation of Texas; and, second, the speech of President Polk on his in auguration. The Senate, despite of all opinions to the contrary, has agreed to the resolution of the Congress, and Texas, so far as the United States is concerned, is a part of' the Union. The new President has also expressed himself in favour of the proposal. True, an amendment was appended to the resolution of the Senate, but the amendment does not alter the broad fact that the overgrown States of America are willing to sacrifice everything for an addition to their already too wide domain. The news is certainly of a very grave character, and will re quire the utmost attention and care from the Executive in this country. It is true that Texas must be a con senting party to the contract, but it is equally evident that America is determined to use every effort to ac complish her purpose, a purpose which cannot but com promise the interests of this country in the new world, and which may lead to results of the highest importance. The other news will be found of no less interest. The President is determined to support the claim of the United states to the Oregon territory ; and, at the same time, desires peace with all mankind. It is to be seen how both can be maintained. This was an action for assault and false imprisonment, and arose out of the disputes between his Lordship and the Company. The plaintiff is an engineer, and on Monday, the 11th, had gone over to Mr. Fabian's house to ask pertnission to be allowed to carry out a survey on the towing path of the Oakham canal. Mr. Fabian stated he had no orders respecting it, but there was a notice board warning people not to trespass in the park under the penalty of 101. It appeared that Mr. Ward, with his assistant, Mr. Roper, and ten or a dozen labour ing men, proceeded to make his survey, when Dawson, the head gamekeeper of Lord Harborough, rode up and ordered him off. Mr. Ward had at the time a theodolite with him, an instrument used in surveying. Mr. Ward was moving off the ground, when Mr. Dawson, who had stated he should go back to Lord Harborough and ask what he (Dawson) was to do, returned and took Mr. Ward and his whole party into custody, and took pos session of the theodolite. Mr. Ward desired to he taken before a magistrate ; he went with his assistant in his own conveyance, but after they had gone about two miles, Mr. Dawson told them they might go where they pleased. The men were to be taken in a cart, and the theodolite placed therein. These men had not gone far before Skinner, a footman of his Lordship's, rode up, and said his Lordship said " tbey might be all tipped out of the cart, and go to the devil ; but if he found them on his grounds again he would shoot them." The theodolite was pitched into the road, and was proved to have sustained damage to the extent of between 61 and 12/ The CUM? JUSTIOO directed a verdict to be entered in favour of Lord Harborough, as there was nothing to show that he issued the orders in question for the taking of Mr. Ward and his party. Against the other defen dants—namely, Dawson and his two men—he thought there should be a verdict, the jury giving damages as much as would repair the theodolite, and whatever they chose beside for the assault and detention. The jury accordingly returned a verdict for Lord Harborough, and against the other three defendants. —Damages, 8/. There was another case then called on, in which Lord Harborough was plaintiff; but, at the suggestion of the Judge, the Noble Earl consented to withdraw a juror. NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Cambridge, March 25. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.) _ _ Wm. Fuller and Robert Munson were indicted for feloniously setting fire to a stack of straw, the property of Robert and James Chabie, of Toft. Mr. Wor'ledge appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Burcham for the prisoners. It appeared from the evidence for the prosecution that the stack was discovered to be on fire about nine o'clock in the evening of the Bth of June, and the prisoners were seen near the prosecutor's premises a short time before the fire, and met by one of the witnesses coming away from the fire ; and on being asked where they had been to, and what they had been doing, they refused to state, and the witness immediately seised both the prisoners by their collars, and detained them. When before the magistrates the prisoners made false statements, which were used as evidence against them on the trial. Mr. BURMAN addressed the jury for the prisoners, who, after much deliberation, returned a verdict of Guilty against both.—Sentence deferred. James Williamson, a boy aged thirteen years, was in dicted for setting fire to a stack of straw, the property of Mr. William Coxall, of Tuft. Mr. Mills prosecuted. The prisoner was defended by Mr. C9uch. . _ _ - Plans for facilitating a passage across either of the two important isthmuses will always be of interest to the commercial public, if in the slightest degree plausible, and hence aFrench pamphlet, issued by the "Cumpagnie de l'lsth me d e Panama , " or the projectors of such a Company, i s wort h a rief notice. The notion seems to be to undertake the double method of railroad and canal to connect the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, the scheme , for the canal being apparently much less matured than . the other. It seems, however, that it would start at the , Bay of Limon, take the direction of the Chagres, and a f ter ava iling itself of the waters of this river, would enter the sea by the valley of the Caimito. The rough estimate of expense is 70,000,000 f., but this does not pretend to be anything like an accurate calculation. The projected railroad would take its origin likewise at the • Bay of Limon, would follow the valley of the Chagres to the conflux of the Trinidad, when it would be put in .. connexion with the navigation, would continue in the valley of the Chagres to the conflux of the Cpo-Que - brado, when it woulacross the Chagres by a bridge, and descending the valley of the Caimito, would finally reach Panama. The expanse of the railroad is estimated at 11,000,000 E, and the plan seems to be, to execute this - first, and during its execution to complete those obser vations which will be requisite for the promotion of the greater work, the canal.—Times. EFFECTS OF THE REDUCTION OP THE GLASS DIITY.—A proposal has been made in Manchester to roof with glass two streets in the neighbourhood of the Exchange, for the convenience of the congregated mer chants. The case turned entirely upon the question whether the stack had been set fire to in point of law, and it ap pearing from the evidence that the straw which had been actually on fire, was a small quantity lying on the ground close to the stack, and not pert of the body of it, to which the flame had not extended, it having been providentially extinguished almost at the moment of ig nition. The Learned JUDGE thought the offence had not been completed within the meaning of the statute upon which the indictment was framed, and directed the jury to ac quit the prisoner. NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool,'March 25. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justine COLTMAN.) The Court was engaged the whole of the morning in trying cases of prosecution on the part of the Mint, against persons charged with making and uttering base coin. Matehew Harvey, aged 50, was indicted for having, in the month of January last, at Bolton, feloniously as saulted one Fr ances G rogan, and violated her person. Mr. Hulton stated the case to the jury. It appeared that the girl who had suffered the vio lence was the daughter of a poor Irish woman, who had come to lodge in the prisoner's house in January, only a day or two before the offence was committed. The mother and daughter both worked in a dandy-room shop in a factory at a short distance from the house. The Thomas Onions was indicted for night poaching in a wood, the property of the Earl of Liverpool, at the parish of Cound, in this county. Mr. Corbett, Ben., conducted the cue for the prose cution, Mr. Neale defended the prisoner. It was shown by the evidence, that on the night of the sth of January, the prisoners, in company with a man of the name of Sankie and another, was found by John Bowen, one of the Earl's keepers, who, with others, was watching in a cover. Sankie presented his gun, and told them to stand off. Bowen struck the muzzle up, closed with him, and disarmed him, firing the gun in the air, to prevent further mischief. Henry Danks, another keeper, was at the same time struck on the head with a stick by the prisoner, and fell on his knee. Recovering himself, however, and being similarly armed, a fight ensued, which terminated in the capture of Onions, upon whose person a hare and some ammunition were found. The third poacher escaped. Verdict, Guilty. Sentence postponed.. TliE SUN, LONDON, rRiDAY IVIOANiNd, MARCH 2 , 8 1 1845. girl was but a little more than thirteen years of age, and ♦as proved to have sustained serious injury. The prisoner, who was undefended by counsel, stated that the mother had been taken into his house from charity. He had children of his own to take care of, and had been deserted by his own wife. Verdict, Guilty. He was called up to receive sentence, when his Lord ship tud him that the law left no discretion VI ith the judge as to the punishment to be awarded for such an offence, and the sentence therefore was, that he be tran sported for life. Judge then went through the evidence, commenting upon all the material portions of it as, he proceeded. The jury, after consulting for a few minutes, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. As soon as the policeman said the prisoner must go to the station•house, as he would give no account of himself, the latter started up, and gave the former such * violent blow in the mouth, as to send one of his teeth down his throat, and to break another. The officer,held the piece of broken tooth in his hand, and said that he had been under the care of the sur geon since he had received the blow, and was unable to attend to his duty. The prisoner, who had at first ridiculed in a very wild tone and manner the charge of having injured the po liceman, and said that the man had lost but a very small part of his tooth indeed, and that the broken head which had been given had led to the violence complained of, seemed to have recovered from the fit of insanity under which he had evidently laboured on the previous examination. He was in a composed state, but no ex planation was made as to his visit to Mrs. Poole's lodging. The LORD MAYOR questioned the female as to any provocation which the prisoner might have received, and she replied that the policeman had merely taken the prisoner by the arm, when the assault was given with great fierceness. The policeman then used his staff upon the head of the prisoner. Thomas Balchin, City policeman 612, confirmed the account given of the conduct of the prisoner, which re sembled that of a man in a state of madness, and The LORD MAYOR ordered the unfortunate man to be committed to prison. CLERKENWELL. Thomas Thomson, James Tapseoit, Geogre Ashley, and Maly Ashley, were placed in the felon's dock, charged with being engaged in the working of an illicit distil lery, and in the manufacture of illicit spirits, to a very large extent, at 4, Turret's-court, High-street, Islington. The penalty was laid at 300/. for each prisoner. It appeared, from the evidence, that information having reached the Excise, on the previous day, that il licit distillation was carried on to an immense extent in the above-mentioned place, William Edward Cart wright, an officer of Excise, accompanied by sergeant North, 17 N, and a body of police of that division, sur rounded the house at eleven o'clock on the pre vious night. Cartwright went to the back door and knocked at it. The female prisoner came to it with a candle, upon which Cartwright said, I am an officer of Excise, open the door directly. Cartwright enforced this demand by exhibiting a brace of loaded pistols. Tapscott then came to the door, and the woman retired. Cartwright said he would break open the door if it were not forthwith opened; but, instead of comply ing, Tapscott commenced barricading the door, which he did effectually. The officers seeing that peaceable en ' trance was hopeless, dashed in a window and jumped in. They had no sooner set foot inside than they were at tacked by a large spotted dog ; one of the police struck it a blow with his truncheon, and the animal ran howl ing out of the house. By this time all the prisoners had ascended the top or the liZnise, where they were cap tured ; one of them had hidden himself in a cupboard, another under a bed. Ashley and his wife boldly faced them—said they were lodgers, and knew nothing about it. The lower part of the house was occupied with the distillery, which, from its sire and construction, was capable of producing between 200 and 300 gallons of spirits weekly. The still was capable of containing between 70 and 80 gallons, and there were five or six large vats filled with attenuated molasses wash, and a tub containing thirty gallons of low wine. There were some spirits in jars, and 130 gallons of other liquid. The fire beneath the still, which was partly full, was burning with vigour, and the smoke was artfully conveyed by pipes into a neighbour ing chimney. The prisoners were all removed to the police station. Connected with this case, and a part of the same sys tem of illicit distillation which is said to ramify through the low districts of Telington, was a charge against a fashionably-dressed young man, named John Smith, for being concerned in th working of an illicit still, at 11, Popham-street, Islington. The evidence in this case went to show that when the police and officers in the above case had safely lodged their prisoners at the station, they sallied out for Pop ham-street, which on reaching they discovered that the inmates had been apprised of their visit, for the street door was open, and the place showed no signs of resist ance or concealment ; they were at an utter loss to know how the information could have been conveyed, for Tur ret's-court was more than half a mile distant, and there they had secured all the inmates ; but they were not ai long ignorant of the mode in which the intelligence w ' conveyed, for, on descending to the lower part of th house, they again encountered the same large spotte dog which had escaped from them in the former place, and which they now made an effort to secure; the animal, however, fought his way through them, darted out at a window and escaped. They knocked loudly at the door, and the prisoner came down stairs, wearing spectacles, and in a peremptory manner asked what they wanted. They told him, upon which he indignantly repudiated their suspicions ; and when they attempted t..) secure him, made a firm and desperate resistance, but was at length overpowered. From the lower part of the house the still had been recently removed, but 160 gallons of the wash was found there in a high state of fermentation, as well as several other vessels contain h, liquor used in the distillation of spirits. A copper had been thrust into the place of the still, but the still 1 tSeif was found in the prisoner's room upstairs, quite warm and damp. It further appeared that the prisoner was frequently seen going in and coming out of the house, No. 4, Turret's-court. The male prisoners were fined 301. each, and the money not being forthcoming, they were each sentenced to three months' imprisonment in the House of Cor r. ction. The Excise declined to press the charge against the woman. if illiam Stokes, aged seventeen, dressed in a light Taglioni, was charged by Jame:, Evers, of No. 5, Old Ivers-street, Hoxton, with having picked his pocket of a silk handkerchief. The prisoner was also charged by Mrs. Maria Dent, of Charles-court, St. John-street, Clcrkenwell, with having stolen her pocket, containing two half-crown pieces and other articles. It appeared that on Monday afternoon the prosecutors were induced to enter an exhibition of wax-work and legerdemain, on Clerkenwell-green, and whilst there they were both robbed by the prisoner, who was observed to throw the handkerchief and the pocket away, on being taken into custody. Mr. Evers and Mrs. Dent identified the prisoner as having been close to them an I fumbling at their persons when they missed their property ; their attention at the time was fixed on the gentleman who was performing legerdemain tricks ; they made an alarm, when the pri soner was given into custody. He threw a pocket hand kerchief, a pair of compasses, and a bottle away, and he dropped Mrs. Dent's empty pocket on the floor. On being searched two half-crowns were found in his pos sr ssion. James Taylor, the proprietor of the exhibition, who described himself as a " comedian," a " legerdemainist," and a performer of " dexterity illusions," stated that he had engaged the place on Clerkenwell-green for the ex hibition of wax-work figures, and he conducted the " es tablishment" in a respectable way. He was performing his "deceptions" when an alarm was made that some persons had been robbed by the prisoner, who was pointed out to him. He immediately jumped over the table before him and collared the prisoner, who threw the handkerchief, &c., under the table, and he dropped Mrs. Dent's pocket. Mr. GawaswooD—What is the price of admission ? Taylor—Only the small charge of one penny. Mr. GREENWOOD—What sort of tricks do you per form ? Taylor—Exactly the same sort as Mr. Ander son, the Wizard of the North. Mr. GREENWOOD—Are you as clever as that per former ? Taylor—l leave that to the judgment of my audience and the public. • There is a great advantage in having a name. Mr. Mould (the clerk) said he had noticed the exhibi tion. Taylor appeared to be an itinerant competitor of Madame Tussaud, for he had already wax effigies of Tawell, Hocker, and Tapping in his collection. Mr. GREENWOOD—Is that the fact ? Taylor—Yes, your worship ; I try to cater for the amusement of the public. It is the duty of managers, and I trust my col lection is not inferior to some of the best. The prisoner, in his defouce, denied the robberies. A person whom he " know'd" was the thief, but he did not like to expose him. He merely went to see the wax work like other people, without intending robbery. He was out of work. Mr. GREENWOOD inquired of the officers whether the prisoner was known ? Waddington and Duke, the officers, did not know him; but on examining his taglioni they discovered that the pockets were out at each side of :he garment, to enable him to put both arms-through the holes, and when in a crowd to use his hands freely with the pockets of parties,• and aft,er extracting the property he could remain in a deliberate position with it in his hands, as if he had not disturbed them from his pockets.--(Laughter.) This, they said, was an old and common trick with pick pockets, and they had no doubt as to his being a thief. The prisoner denied all this, but he was fully com mitted for trial on both charges. BOW-STIIEET. Japes Boabyerwas . charged before Mr. Twyford with stealing a spaniel dog, valued at W., the property of Robert Mortimer, tobacconist, of 14, Duke•street, Lincoln's Inn-fields. _ The prisoner had another dog under his arm, when placed in the dock, of a similar breed. The prosecutor missed his spaniel from his own shop on the night of the 30th of January, and, although he valued it highly (having been offered 3/. for it a short time previously), he took no steps to recover possession of it. Within the last fortnight the prisoner's wife called on him, and said that she knew a " party" who had got a dog exactly corresponding with the one he had lost, and who would give it up on payment of the expenses, &c. He replied, that he should do nothing of the sort, but would give the first man in custody whom he met with it, at the same time affecting an indiff erence as to the loss. On Tuesday the prisoner himself went to pro secutor's house, and said he would be the means of get ting the dog back again if the owner would pay him 15s. Prosecutor's wife said it was too bad, but she would not mind 10s., and accordingly threw four half-crowns on the counter, which he refused to take, alleging that the expenses alone amounted to 12s. 6d. She then said she would pay the money if he produced the dog first, but this he declined doing. He said it was " close handy," and he could fetch it in five minutes, but would not do so until the money was paid. The prose cutor thou interfered, and threatened to give the pri soner into custody, upon which he became very abusive, and declared that " if they took him to Bow-street, he would screw their necks for them." Prosecutor called in a policeman, and, by his advice, the prisoner was given in charge. After conducting him to the police station, prosecutor accompanied the officer to the pri soner's lodgings, which was found to be at 1, Garden's lane, Cow-cross, St. John-street. At this place they discovered a variety of dogs, all of which were taken to the station, but the prosecutor's was not found amongst them. NSU An officer who was at the police-station when the pri soner arrived, proved that, after offering to deliver up the spaniel if the prosecutor would abandon the charge, the prisoner sent his wife to go and fetch it, desiring her " to take it to the owner, whatever might be the conse quences." She went away with that intention, and sub sequently produced the dog, which was instantly identi fied by the prosecutor. The prisoner said he merely picked up the dog in Vere-street, about five or six weeks ago, not knowing to whom it belonged. He hoped God would forgive him if he told a lie, if the Magistrate did not, and that was all. He declared that he had not been out of doors from that time to the present, having met with an accident the very night he found the dog. If picking up a dog in the street was stealing, why of course he stole it, and that was all he had to say about it. Mr. TwYsonD asked how he had come possessed of all the other dogs found at his lodgings? The prisoner replied that he had met with them ho nestly, and could call a witness who was present to prove it. A week or two ago he gave 31. for one of them. The witness alluded to was not forthcoming. Mr. TWYFORD had no doubt of the prisoner's guilt, and therefore fined him 51., in addition to the value of the dog, 21, directing his committal to hard labour for two months in default of payment. The prisoner—Hard labour, indeed! I shall pay the money rather than put up with that, at all events. He was then removed from the bar, and at a later period of the day a companion waited on the Magistrate, and requested a mitigation of the penalty to 51. This request was refused by his worship, and consequently the entire amount was paid, upon which the prisoner was liberated. HOME CIRCUIT —Kingslon March 26. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.) Thomas William Barn* aged 26, coachman, was in dicted for feloniously sending a threatening letter to Mr. John Hurst, with a view to extort money from him accusing him of an unnatural crime. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bodkin conducted the prosecu tion, and Mr. Charnock defended the prisoner. Mr. CLARKSON having stated the case for the prose cution, called the following witnesses : Catherine Bourne deposed that she was cook to the prosecutor, who resides at Clapham-rise. On the 7th of March she received a letter from a boy, which was addressed to her master, and which she shortly after wards gave him. Cross-examined—The prosecutor keeps two other servants, a parlour maid and a man servant. The man servant before the prisoner, who had been in the prose cutor's service as coachman, left from his own notice in December. Mr. John Hurst, the prosecutor, an elderly gentleman, deposed that he was a bachelor, and his sister resided with him. The last man servant he had lived with him for five years, and on his leaving, the prisoner was en engaged as coachman, but finding he was a bad driver, he gave him notice to quit. He asked to be allowed to stop in the place a little I.eiger, and he was to have re mained until the 22d of February, but, in consequence of his disobeying orders, he was discharged on the 12th. Witness received the letter in question on the 7th of March. He believed it was in the prisoner's hand writing, Cross-examined—Witness consulted a friend upon the subject, and showed him the letter, but did not tell him anything about having made use of an indecent expres sion to the prisoner while he was bathing him. The prisoner did once bathe him with a sponge in his bed room. He was discharged for disobeying orders. The witness was cross-examined at some length, and it was admitted that some indecent expression had been made nse of by him to the prisoner while he was bath ing him. Police-constable, 25 P, deposed that he took the pri soner into custody, and told him that it was for writing a letter to Mr. Hurst ; to which he replied, " I did write it ; and Mr. Hurst had better be quiet." Some thing was afterwards said about the letter being anony mous, when the prisoner said that it could not be con sidered anonymous, for he had put his initials to it. The prisoner at the same time said that all he wanted was compensation for his character, or something to that effect. The letter was then put in and read. Its contents were as follow : " Sir—l write to inform you that you have been very unkind, trying to your extreme energies to reflect dispa ragement on my reputation. In retaliation, I shall make known those liberties and diabolical actions you took with me when I was bathing you in your room, what I term —. Some compensation I wish to receive from your hands, in one way or other. I am waiting for an answer at the bottom of Stockwell-lane.—Obedient ser vant, " T. W. B." _ . This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. CHARNOCA addressed the jury for the prisoner, and contended that all the compensation sought for by him, when he wrote the letter, was the restoration of his character ; and he submitted that there was nothing like a demand of money from the beginning to the end of the letter. He concluded by expressing an opinion that it was the greatest misfortune the prisoner ever had to have entered into the service of such a master. Mr. Baron ALDERSON, in summing up, said the simple facts for the jury to consider were, without any regard to the guilt or innoonice of the prosecutor, whether the prisoner intended to accuse him of au unnatural crime ; and s•vondly, whether, if he did, he intended by means of such accusation to extort money from him. The j ur', after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Elizabeth Woodtsax, 33, was charged upon the coro ner's inquisition with the murder of her female illegiti mate child. Mr. Ryland prosecuted, and Mr. Clarkson defended the prisoner. Eliza Woodman, the sister of the prisoner, who was very much affected while giving her testimony, deposed that she lived with her mother at Reigate, and the pri soner and an illegtimate child, seven years old, also lived with them. On the night of the 11th of February they went to bed at about half-past ten o'clock, the pri soner at the time appearing in good health and spirits. Shortly afterwards witness heard her mother ask the• prisoner where she was going, and she replied that she had a pain in her stomach, and she heard her go out and return in about tea minutes. In a few minutes after this a neighbour, named Knowles, gave an alarm, and witness went down into the garden, and found a female infant lying near the dunghill, wrapped up in a flannel petticoat. It was alive at the time, and was crying loudly. She did not see anything of the prisoner for some time after this, and she was then sitting in a chair and speared to be very ill. Up to this time there had been no suspicion in the family that the prisoner was in the family-way, but witness had no doubt that the child which was found was her sister's offspring. George Wickman, the constable of Reigate, deposed that ke went iu search of the prisoner on the night in question, and found her in a field, nearly naked, mien sible, and he at first thought she was dead. He raised her up and assisted her home. He afterwards found a portioa of the prisoner's apparel under a hay-stack in the field where she was lying. By Mr. CLARKSON—The prisoner had had an illegiti mate child before, but she bore a very good character fur humanity and kindliness of disposition. Mr. Sargeant, a surgeon, residing at Reigate, proved that when the body of the deceased child was shown to him, there was an apron round it, and the strings were drawn round its neck three times, but not sufficiently tight to prevent the child from breathing. The child was alive when he first saw it, but for the want of proper attention it had-evidently lost a great deal of-blood. It died on the Friday followiug, and he attributed the death to congestion of the brain and lungs, partly produced by loss of blood, and partly by the tightness of the ligature round the neck. In cross-examination by Mr. CLARKS" the surgeon said that he had known the prisoner for several years, and he gave her an excellent character for humanity and kindness. When the constable brought her home after the occurrence she was in a state of total syncope. In answer to further questions he said he was not aware whether the child was carried about the streets of Rei gite for some time after it was found, but he said if it had been the case it would of course be very bad for an infant to be so treated. A woman named Wilson was then called to show that the child was placed in her charge, and she said that on the Thursday morning she took the child to the Red Cross, and afterwards carried it back to the house of the prisoner's mother. She said, also, that she took the child back again on the following evening, and it died ten minutes afterwards. The witness, being cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON, said that she knew a woman named Beadle, and that she walked with her while she had the child, but she did not give it to her to carry. She denied also that the woman referred to told her not to say that she had had the child, for fear anything should be said about it. She went near the Blue Anchor beer-shop, but she did not show the child to any one who was there. Mr. CLARLSON pressed the witness to state whether the child was not exhibited to the people in the beer shop, and she would not answer for some time, but at length said that she did not know ; she was not sure. The Learned Counsel, finding he could not obtain a direct answer, at length sat down and gave up the attempt. Mr. Baron ALDERSON addressed the witness, and told her she would have to answer for her conduct elsewhere ; she would not only have to answer for carrying that poor child about the town in the manner she had, but for not answering truly, according to the solemn oath she had taken. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. CLARKSON then addressed the jury for the pri soner, and after contending that the evidence was not by any means sufficient to make out the charge of murder, he was about to proceed to make some ob• servations with reference to the concealment of the birth— Mr. Baron ALDERSON, however, interposed, and said that the Act of Parliament only alluded to the concealment of a dead body, and as the child of the prisoner had clearly been proved to be born alive, no charge of con cealment of the birth could apply to the prisoner. Mr. CLARXSON thanked his Lordship for the inter ruption as it had saved him from addressing the jury upon that point. He then went on to allude to some stringent observations which he said had been recently made by the public press upon the conduct of judges and juries in some cases similar to the present., and he said he trusted the jury would not allow such observa tions to sway their judgments or their conduct, and that they would return such verdict as their consciences die tated upon the evidence laid before them. Mr. Baron ALDERSON summed up, and said that he should be ashamed of the jury if he imagined they would suffer themselves to be swayed by any observa tions made out of Court, and he trusted they would dis miss them entirely from their minds. The Learned MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before the AESITA.NT-JUDGE and a Bench of Magia trans.) THE SPA-FIELDS' BURIAL-GROUND. An indictment was preferred by Mr. Wakeling, on be half of the parochial authorities of Clerkenwell, against the parties engaged in the perpetration of the outrages of public decency at the Spa-fields' burial-ground, which are at present exciting so much attention. The grand jury returned a true bill against Rober, Vinall, William Langford, Francis Green, William Chas Bird, William Green ; Tom Smith, and Stephen Bishop labourers, for opening the graves, removing the dead bodies, destroying the coffins, and interring in the burial ground a greater number of deceased persons than the place could decently contain, in ♦iolation of public decency, and against the public health. The trial, it is understood, will not take place this session, which will have terminated probably before the parties cau have surrendered in due course of law. IMPUBIENT FRAUD. Previous to the rising of the Court, 'and at the close of a trial in which Mr. Horry, the barrister, had defended the prisoner, that gentleman apologised to the Court for the comparatively inefficient management of the defence, as he was not aware that he was retained till the moment that it was called on, when he was informed, to his great surprise, that the proper fee had been given to his clerk, who, upon inquiry, it had been found out, had been per sonated by some individual about the Court, to whom the retainer was given. He had reason to believe that this was not the first time such a fraud bad been per petrated. The Learned Jun.is said that he could not interfere, but the proper way was to identify the party, and indict him for obtaining money under false pretences. William Smith was placed at the bar upon an indict ment charging him with having stolen a pair of boots on Tuesday evening. The prisoner had scarcely taken his place in the dock, ere The chief turnkey informed the Judge that the pri soner had been tried and acquitted in that Court on the preceding day, in the name of " George Cramer," for having stolen two sheets and other articles from his lodgings. The Learned JUDGE said, now his attention was called to the circumstance, he remembered the case very well, The prisoner had given himself up to the police upon his own charge of having stolen the sheets, but when he came before that Court yesterday, the jury, in the absence of conclusive testimony upon the subject, had declined to place implicit credence in the prisoner's statement as to his guilt, and therefore they acquitted him. Some further inquiry was then made, when it ap peared that the prisoner had been discharged from cus tody about four o'clock yesterday afternoon, and that he was again in custody at six o'clock upon the present charge. The JUDGE said ho presumed the object of the pri soner was to get transported. He was certainly adopt ing the right course to gain such a consummation. The turnkey said, that the prisoner was tried and convicted at the Central Criminal Court in August last, when he had been sentenced to four months' imprison ment The prisoner pleaded Guilty to this indictment. The Learned JUDGE said it was quite manifest that the end the prisoner had in view was to get himself removed from the country. The sentence upon him was, that he be transported beyond the seas far 7 years. This was the third felony—for one he had already under gone four months' imprisonment, the second he had ac cused himself of, and to the third he had now pleaded guilty. The prisoner remained throughout as if totally un concerned at the proceedings, and walked off with the officer with an expression of satisfaction upon his coun tenance. (Before the ASSISTANT -JUDGE.) At the sitting of the Court yesterday a number of indictments which had been preferred by several of the parish authorities of the neighbourhood of St. George's, Hanover-square, and others, in the west end of the metropolis, against persons for keeping houses of ill-fame were heard, to which the parties implicated pleaded, in most instances, guilty, and were allowed to depart the Court, after entering into recognisances to abate the nuisances. There were also several indictments for keeping disorderly houses in the liberty of the Rolls tried, in which Mr. Ballan tine appeared on the part of the inhabitants by whom the indictments were preferred, and which were in most cases disposed of in a similar manner. Thos. Williams was indicted for stealing a shawl, the property of James Godson. It appeared that the prosecutor kept a large draper's shop and was in the habit of placing his articles outside his shop. door for sale. Oa the 18th of this month, about one o'clock in the afternoon, the prisoner was observed loitering about the premises, and finding tho polioc-mtan off the beat, he made a snatch at several of the articles hanging up, but succeeding only in getting one shawl. He was stopped by a gentleman who was passing at the time. The prisoner immediately knocked his captor down and brutally assaulted him, kicking him in the most dreadful manner while he was on the ground. A verdict of Guilty being returned, the Learned As sisTAtcr-Jupor: said he had considerable doubts whether he ought not to transport the prisoner. Ho.vever, he shouid give him one chance more. The prisoner was then sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour in the Hon of Correction. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSIO.N-HO U SE. A young man, named .Robey t Smith, who was in the employment of Mr. Lawrence, tea dealer, of No. 12, Ni cholas-lane, was brought before'the Lord Mayor for final examination, charged with having plundered his master. Mr. Lawrence stated that the prisoner had been in his employment as porter about seven weeks. On Saturday, witness having had reason to suspect the prisoner's in ' tegrity, watched him, and soon afterwards found in his greatcoat pocket some green tea, and directed one of the young men to have an eye upon him. As he was going out, witness asked him what he had in his pocket, to which he replied," Nothing," Witness then said that he had some green tea ; and he declared that it was his first offence, and he begged to be forgiven. In his trousers were found four quarter-pounds of tea, and three two ounce packets of tea in his trousers pockets. Since that time his lodgings had been searched, and two packages of tea, weighing 31b. 3 ounces, 41b. of roasted coffee, and a two ounces of c h oco l a t e , an d th e sum quantity of coffee lying loose, about Atilbs., several The evidence of Nlr. Lawrence was corroborated by o p f ae l k l a l. g l s Os o . f i w n g c( o )a hl, were fou n d. William Lovett, police-constable, No. 421, and the prisoner was committed for trial. John Shergood was charged with having stolen a qua g n h t - i s ty tr • of et. tea, William Kangessier, porter to Mr. Russell, stated that on Thursday last he went with his truck to deliver some parcels in the City. After having delivered a parcel in the Minories, he went to Hou n d s di tc h, w h ere h e h a d to el the property o f M r . R usse ll, grocer , High-street, Bo deliver another ; and he asked the prisoner, who was a stranger to him, where the house was to which he was going. The' prisoner followed, and directed him, and, n d t uc in 7 i c t o h n t t h ai e n p in a g re l e 2 l lbs. weight of tea, value run away with the two packages whilst he w produced 21. 15s. 6d. Another witness stated that - he saw the prisoner take the packages off the truck, and start off with them; and City policeman No. 050 deposed that he followed the prisoner, and apprehended him with the property in his possession. The LORD MAYOR—Do you wish to say anything in answer to this evidence, prisoner? The prisoner—Why, my Lord, the man asked me to mind the truck, and I was only going to take the tea to the gentleman as pur chased it, and had a right to it. Where was the harm in that ? The prisoner was committed for trial. Henvich Siebrieyht was charged with having robbed another foreigner of a good deal of property. Pintas Weinburgh, a dealer in coral, residing at No. 152, Houndsditch, stated that he had been at his present lodging about eight days, and that the prisoner came to lodge at the same house about four days after his ar rival there. On Saturday last the prisoner left the house in a clandestine manner, and the moment he was gone witnessed missed his carpet bag, CU. with clothes and a top coat. A pawnbroker of Wiiitechapel-road produced part of the clothes which had been stolen, and stated that they had been pawned by the prisoner. City policeman No. 642 stated that he found the pri soner on Tuesday morning at the office of the Hanove rian Ambassador, applying for his passport, took him into custody, and found in his possession a pawnbroker's duplicate for some of the articles produced. Witness afterwards, upon searching the lodging of the prisoner, found the carpet bag and the rest of the property pro duced, which was identified by the prosecutor. The prisoner was committed for trial. Thomas Mobbo was charged with having committed one of those street robberies now so frequent. On Monday evening a carman, named William Jor dan, left his cart in Bishopsgate-street a few minutes, to get a meal, and upon his return missed his tarpaulin, which cost four guineas. Upon going into Artillery-lane he met the prisoner carrying the tarpaulin on his back. The prisoner dropped it, and ran off upon being ques tioned. • The prisoner said it was all a mistake, as he was mis taken for a man of a very different character indeed. The prisoner was committed for trial. The Lord Mayor was engaged for a length of time in hearing cases of petty larceny, a species of theft which has abounded in the City to a wonderful extent, particu larly within the last few months. In fact, very few charges of any importance or interest have been under investigation during the present mayoralty at the Man sion-house; and his Lordship has been generally en gaged in adjudicating in cases which, although of ordi nary occurrence, require just as mush time and attention as cases of the most serious nature. A strange flighty fellow, named Richard Wagainff; was brought befor e th e Lord Mayor for a second exa mination, charged with having committed a misdemea nour. He bore the mark of a constable's staff upon his skull, fram which blood had fallen, and covered the front of his shirt. Susannah Poole, wif e of a porter, stated that, between 11 and 12 on Wednesd a y morning, she went to market, having fastened the bedroom and locked the parlour door of the lodging she occupied. On her return she found, to her great surprise, the prisoner in the par lour, striking a lucifer-match on the hearth-rug, and she observed a candle lighting in the bedroom. To her in quiries what brought him there he made no answer, and she sent fora policeman, and gate him into custody. SOUTHIT'ARK HEARTLESS ROBBERY OF A PARENT.—DanieI Law rence, a young man, the son of a wheelwright, was charged with robbing his father of six sovereigns and a half, under the following circumstances:— The father, an aged man, stated that by dint of hard work he had saved up six sovereigns and a half, which he deposited for safety at the bottom of a box, which he kept in his bedroom ; but on Monday he discovered the box had been forced open, and the whole of his savings taken, which were intended to have kept him out of the workhouse. Finding his son had left home and pro ceeded to Greenwich fair, when he returned from that place it was ascertained he was the person by whom he had been robbed, and that the money was nearly all ex pended in profligacy at the fair. The poor man seemed to be very much affected while giving his evidence, and admitted that it was not the first time he had been robbed by his son. Policeman 178 said that he went into a coffee-shop that morning, near the Surrey Theatre, and observed the prisoner with some women exhibiting money, and throwing it about as if it was valueless. That under the impression the money was improperly come by he took the prisoner into custody, when he at once confessed that the money was taken from his father, under the circum stances already described, the greater portion of which he had squandered away in dissipation at the fair. The prisoner expressed his contrition for the offence, said that he was led astray from the paths of honesty by bad companions, whom he should for ,ever renounce, and that he should alter his conduct in future. The Magistrate characterised the conduct of the pri soner as bad in the extreme, and that he should stand re manded. WANDS WORTH. ROBBERY BY • SERVANT.—Eder Gilbert, a genteel looking young woman, 19 years of age, was charged with committing several robberies whilst in service as house maid in the family of Lionel 011iver, Esq., of Wimbledon common. It appeared that the prisoner went into the service of the prosecutor on the 13th instant, with a character alleged to have been given her by Mr. Mount, of 55, Lower Grosvenor-street. She had not been in the situa tions week before the family had occasion to regret her introduction into the house, and they determined to get rid of her as quickly as possible. On Tuesday week the prisoner, seeing that she would be discharged, gave her mistress notice that she intended to quit her service in a month. Mrs. 011iver informed her that she could leave then, and she would pay her wages up to the end of that week. These terms did not suit the prisoner, and she would not accept them. The next day she sent her box by the coachman to town. On Friday Barbara Stretton, the cook, missed a night-dress ; she asked the prisoner it she had seen it, but she denied all knowledge of it. On the following day the cook acquainted her mistress of her loss, and it was then discovered that several pairs of French shoos and satin slippers, lace collars, and other articles of baby's attire, were missing. The pri soner was taxed with taking these articles : she first declared her innocence, and then admitted that the pro perty was in her box in London. She begg,d earnestly for forgiveness, and said she would restore all the arti cles. The prisoner was discharged from the service, and went off to town. The box had been taken by the coach man to the town residence of the family in Half-moon street, and thither Mr. 011iver:at once proceeded, lest prisoner might get the box away. The prisoner having given up the money and property, was suffered to take her bee away. On the day subsequent to the prisoner's d-parture from Wimbledon, the cook discovered that she had been still further robbed. Several lace collars, a gown, some pieces of ribbon, and other property had been taken from her boxes. Having mentioned this to the family, she was instructed to go to town and give the prisoner into cu,tody. The cook procured the services of Police constable Mount, 128 C, and they proceeded to gether to No, 8, Snead's gardens, Piccadilly, where the prisoner was lodging. The constable took her into custody, and upon searching her box found the cook's lace collars, ribbon, and gown ; she was wearing one of the collars at the time of her apprehension. He alsdifound in the box a pair of mosaic gold ear-rings and a gold brequet seal, the property of Miss Diana 011iver, besides other valuable articles belonging to the family, who, however, declined to prosecute, leaving the prisoner to be dealt with for the robbery of her fellow servant. The prisoner, who said she would reserve her de fence, was fully committed for trial. Mr. PAYNTER desired the constable to make some in quiry respecting the genuineness of the character which Mrs. ()Myer had received with the prisoner. DISGRAOMPUL EXPOSURE.—CaroIine Bradford an , l Charlotte Young, two respectably-dressed girls, about 18 years of age each, the former evidently esicetwie, were charged on a summons with assaulting ,Mr. John Stone hill, a pattern-designer, residing at Somers -town, Wand,- worth. The complainant, who is about forty years of age, stated that on Good Friday evening he was in the parlour of the Plough public house, Wim bledon, enjoying himself with some frienes, when the defendants, and another woman whom he did not know, came into the room, and commenced making certain charges against him. He sat stili and sa id nothing, The charges were to the purport that he had seduced Caroline Bradford. After a time he rose from his seat for the purpose of leaving the house, when Caroline seized him in the front, Charlotte attacked him on the right, and the unknown lady on the left. 'Between them they pinned him to the wall, and shook him so that he thought all his clothes would have tumbled off. He at last contrived to slip out of their clutches, and ran out of the house, the women following him, crying " Stop him, stop the villain 1 " A solicitor, who appeared for the defendants,' cross examined the complainant, and compelled him, with the magistrate's interference, to acknowledge that he had kept company with the defendant, Caroline Bradford, that ho had seduced her, and promised to marry her when his wife had been dead a twelvemonth, and that he had deserted her after he had ascertained that she was enceinte. Mr. VAYNTER said the conduct of the complainant was both disgraceful and cruel, but still the law %vita bound to protect him. The defendants must enter into their own recognizances, and not go near him again. The defendant Bradford had her remedy elsewhere. THE SALT-HILL MURDER. AYLESIIIIRY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—In the course of yesterday evening, it was intimated to the condemned man, John 'Lovell, that the final event was close at hand. Upon being told that he may regard the remaining interim between himself and eternity more as hours than days, he seemed somewhat 6hocked, and an ex clamation escapkA . him ; yet he did net inquire the precise day. There can be no doubt but that tie clings to iu some degree, notwithstanding the resignivion which he evinces. He certainly- had not prepare d him self fur so early a day as Friday, but his self-command soon returned. Taw,ll has not at all maintained the character he assumed before his condemnation. Prior to his trial there was a degree of briskness, cheerfulness, and confidence about kiln, which hai a h , Aly departed since. The people about him term him " a wonderful man," consider him to possess excellent abilities, and ad mire his conduct. 'rue behaviour which he has ex hibited since his committal, and more especially sub sequent to his conviction, is said to be more and more studiously correct, than while in the world. This morning the culprit's wife and her daughter, Miss Cutt'orth, together with the brother, Mr. W. Ta well, arrived to take their final farewell. The prisoner had prepared several memoranda for his wife. His wishes were committed to paper with great method avid accuracy. Minute commissions were set down, and various small and outstanding accounts were mentioned. There is a chapel at Sydney upon which he has laid out MI or 8001., and to this he has given much attention. He at one time resolved upon making this property a present to the Society of Friends; but he has now de termined that they shall only use it rent tree for a cer tain period, and upon condition of their keeping it in repair. This and other matters were all adjusted, and having mentioned a trifling debt or two, he congratu lated himself upon not owing a penny, and remarked, that if anything further should come across his mind, he would commit it to paper. Upon this, as upon ail former occasions, he never alluded to his crimes, nor in any of the numerous and long epistles which he has addressed to his wife, and to others of his family, has he men tioned the circumstances of the murder. The subject is one which he has always avoided. When pressed to' reveal all that he knew concerning it, he always answered, " I am not prepared—l am not prepared ;" at the same time leaving an impression that something in the way of an explanation or confession would ulti mately appear. Mr. Wilcox, of Berlthatnpstead, urged him to confess so earnestly, that after his departure he expressed a disinclination to see his reverend friend again. There is a reason for supposing that Tawell will write some kind of confession, if he has not done so already, and deliver it under seal to the chaplain, or the governor of the gaol, to whom he is very gratefully attached. This gentleman will sit up with him all night previous to his execution, and every possible precaution will be observed in order to prevent his carrying out a design which is regarded as probable outside the prison only—that of his destroying himself. Within the gaol, no such notion has been for a moment entertained. The latter part of the visit of Mrs. Tawi 11 was spent in devotion. Her husband prayed earnestly and elo quently. Miss Cutfortla was deeply affected, and wept f oot! nearly all the time. Mrs. Tawell was rel? - abandon all hope or intention of seeing bun or having some vague expectation of a favourable c o to r nication from certain personages to whom petipt been sent. This evening Tawell w ill be trard the chaplain that Friday morning ends his earth'Y Independently of any confession of the murderttoo extraordinary disclosures will be made relatil4 fate of John Tawell. [We shall give full particulars of the executO Empress) is our Afternoon Edition of this day CASE OF ALLEGED MIJRO' :(From the Derby Mercury.) , Jog In our last paper we briefly stated tits' 0 10 Hawksley, farmer, of Whittington, a village 0 1 .,°. 00 of north of Chesterfield, was appr e hend e d on susr l w ,c‘ having murdered Mrs. Green, his motherin -is Thursday, the 13th inst. till On Wednesday, the prisoner was brought ti r )lel' Borough Cpurt, before E. G. Maynard and John nell, Esqs. The examination was private. led' A number of witnesses were examined, wh° 4 l mony made out a case of grave sus pi c ion, and t he soner was committed to take his trial for murder. ER' SUICIDE OF THE SUPPOSED MUILDEB ho rtli The examination terminat e d a t f ou r o'clock, s"41013. after which the prisonor was taken back to the t l , :i" by At six o'clock he lwas seen a live, and as us se 'o, the wife of the keeper, but at a quarter to on Mr. Hollingworth (the keeper) entering the bapget found him hanging by his neckcloth to one of the of the door. He was immediately cut down, b ° proved to be extinct. MARKET NE WS.-(YESTER" -- NAT ALIZLILSITB. in , 0 , SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 103 to 4 1 'nsi ful ditto, 4/ 12sto 5/4s • fine Upland do., 515 s to 5/10s; nor, Hay, 4/ 103 to 61; Oat Straw, 1/ 183 to 21; Whe at ;IA 2/ to 2/ 2s per load. A limited supply, and a stead Pie at full prices. t r , 41W 1 CuMBERIAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 15 1 0101; useful ditto, 41 16s to 5/ 4s ; fine Upland ditto, Si 5s to 0; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 5/ 17s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 18s t o 0; Wheat Straw, 2/ is to 2l 3s per load. Trade steadif above quotations. O' WHITEcHAFEL.---Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ to r, $ 5 0 useful ditto, 4/ 15s to 5/ 4s ; fine Upland ditto , 2.11 5/10s; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 61; Oat Straw, 11 185 40/ Wheat Straw, 2l to 2/ 2s per load. SupPIY good, and trade rather dull. SWAT MAZZETS. hid ° SOUTHALL, MARCH 26.—For the time of year we shed fair average supply of fat stock on sale to-day. Pril n n uot' and Lambs were in steady request, at fully last wee- 1 1;0F tions. In other kinds of stock comparatively littl e ic t i was doing. Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 10d ; Mutton, 2 l ; $l , 4s 6d; Lamb, 5s to 5s 10d ; Veal, 3s 10d to 4517"00, Pork, 3s to 3s 10d per ins. Supply—Beasts, 60 ; and Lambs, 2,968 ; Calves, 37 ; Pigs, 57. e m oderate * In ROMFORD, MARCH 26.—0n1y aWe had 9 11 1. es of stock here this morning, yet the general demand at 01! active, without any material alteration in prices. eti e 2s 8d to 3s 10d ; Mutton, 3s to 4s 4d ; Lamb, 5s 811* Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; and Pork, 3s to 38 8d Ie" 1 65 Sudkling Calves, 18s to 29s ; Quarter-old Store Pi r.,„ 1 511° 19s; and Milch Cows, with their small Calf, 16 r" , each. trettoll , ; LEWES, MARCH 25.—Beef, from 2s 10d to 49; r por k, to 45 6d ; Lamb, 5s to 6s ; Veal, 4s to 4s 6d ; and tatb to 3s 6d per 81bs. Supply but moderate, and Ulu" dull. CORN AVERAGES. Cet i n 0 r dibl GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISII c ßetu rl . 6 For the Week ended March 15,1845, made up from the Ao d Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Entlan' 61 per Imperial Quarter. Wheat ..... 41s 5d I Oats 2ls 8d Bean , " 3 5 " Barley • ..... 32s 4d 1 Rye •• • • I • •• • 30s "5d Pease •• • • VERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEEO' AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX Weeks Wheat. Barley. Oats. Rye. Be la. ' ending : Feb. 15.... 45 4f 32 3 21 7 30 6 35 0 •3 5 22.... 45 2 32 4 21 7 29 2 35 e 3 5 ; Mar. 1.... 45 0 32 3 21 7 32 6 3 4 lb. 8..•. 45 0, 32 2 21 7 30 5 3 4 , 35 15. ~ 45 1 32 2 21 4 31 1 3 4 22.... 45 5 32 4 21 8 30 5 34 vg,„* wSE , 4,I IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF TIIE 3 4 ij Wheat Barley •• 32s 3d I Rye •• •• 30 8d I Pease .• DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. • o' Wheat .• •• 20s Od Oats . Gs Od I Beans •••°:„ 111 Barley ...... Gs Od I Rye •••• 103 6d Pease • • THE FOUNTAINS IN TRAFALGAR- SQUARIL"-- • iioo lo-, day at one o'clock these fountains were put in, s oPe r ;:e an experimental trial, which attracted a e i'n e° l - some hundreds of persons. Several experimen t rb have been made previously to test the works, wh c nut brill been ascertained to be complete, and they we re ` l , tba operation yesterday at the same hour. Althougdoolf water will ascend to a height of 40 feet, thejets 1° 4 . 1 1:6 6° suffered to play to a height of from six to eight ' - i 5° with a greater ascent the water is driven by t h e se l4- t rl r lll/ i a considerable distance across the square. Th, ; ,o 0 ' are made with a view to ascertain the oonsurnPii-oir4 water, and the disersing jets with the water Oboi from the mouths or the do!phins into the basin,s,,po very pleasing and ilp , vel effect. The fountains will "jolt in operation constantly as soon as the basins Uri rersbcia they having got out of order, and the eem ent .nsh't cracked in many places from imperfect viorkra""oco The fountains are to play for 10 hours each dal' being the contract with the engineers of the wori‘ s „' cistern from which they are supplied at the toP,'-'n, of engine-house in Orange-street holds 37,000 gli b :, - 1 41 1 . water, and the higher main at the top of the tower e, supply of the Government-offices about 20,0000' 1" i - o f THE SCOTTISH HOSPITAL-0 niVednesdalt $ o va o'clock, a General Quarterly Court of the Govertl(49loll supporters of the Scottish Hospital was held at tb „e ° ice of the corporation, Crane-court, Fleet-street , to r:-eOO the report of the past quarter. Dr. Websterlnfroat chair. Major Adair, the secretary, read the reP rt l e ve ci which it appeared that in January there had been x3 1 0,' 1 of 297 ::icoteh poor, in February 318, and in March 0 o an aggregate expense of 721/. 2s. 6d., that a ball o pt s 6151. 4s. had been placed in the banker's hands, a rl ft , O t t in pursuance of a recommendation of the last Co me dies Relief Committee had resolved to advise the that tv_Ao officers to give wine and other nourishing di et re' s ' nec.ssary to the sick poor. The minutes being OPP u pOC I of, Mr. Noble moved p a resolution of condolence)tooot the death of the Honourable Mr. Fraser, o ,f S , $ „..Yr." brother of General Lord Saltoun, one of the vn o lf• sidents. The resolution was agreed to 11131113 f i sine° The Court, having gone through other routine bt broke up. f i a v Pig II POWDER- MILL EXPLOSION.—On Tues-,.. -- -.10 -1 about half-past 11 o'cloek, an explosion toosj,„jgest one of the powder-mills belonging to Sir Henry -Peel and situated on Ewell-marsh. Fortunately the con' no men at work at the time, and the damag e fined to the blowing off of the roof. These the , ate of frequent occurrence, and it is s eldom can be satisfactorily accounted for. .tseihe rit a. ° DEAD WEIGHTS.—There was an adverihmoten the Times, the other day, for a couple of r f,,, o tine in e We understand that Sir R. Peel answered the M ot - lel v v . " ment, offering Sir James Graham and Lord ° l, '" - sit the advertiser as a couple of millstones whiel i p ß u e ' /1- Peel, would have no objection to part with. -- tv ` e lo c eeci n ,," ACCIDENT TO AN ELDERLY MAN.--- 0 " Of afternoon, as a man named Dodsworth, 1 5 Y e ;,, -- n th e was crossing Oxford-street, he was knocked tin; l' h e i horses attached to the waggon of Messrs. Par k is rig; Old Bailey, and one of the wheels passed nce r rree m ed leg, \, hich was so dreadfully smashed by the pits' g " -# that on hit being conveyed to St. George's." °s ` i putatiou of the limb was found to he necessary'. sus o°l° BIRTHS ~. On the 17th inst., at Stockwell-common , 3111 ' Thorne, of a daughter. ths ibdi of R. On i t On tih h .e e s2 l . 90Jttahhckijoisi lust., ~ of a son. , f 11°In a a ri t scg Elm Lodge Elstree, Hots, 0 Byron, Esq., jun., of a son. oulsdon, ;um'', the sr— ° „at I W l ' On the 21st inst., at Skinner-street, Snow'-hll' 11.4 Lutwyche, of a son. , / shill' On the 22d inst., at Kennington, the wife 0, -- of Davis, Esq., of a daughter. v . I btle' On the 20th inst., at Charterhouse, Mrs. A' '' 'Pr a daughter. v. ~ (4 On the 21st inst., the wife of John Leeson , 0 bury-square, of a daughter. , , park' On the 21st inst., at Cumberland-place, Reg ( g i: - * v :O W" Hon. Lady Butler, of a son and heir On the 18th inst., at Clifton, the lady f l ' ' 11. i4l lO ° .eil,,- Esq. , of a son. On the 19th inst., in Albemarle-street, the wir e 01." 00 Coningliarn, Esq., of a s.,n, still- born. Oa the 19th inst., at Eastbourne-terrace , • - bei wife of W.l' Gadttil, of a son. r IS f il it On the 19th inst., at Camberwell, the wife o' P. t 40° Esq., of a son. ' puller, 0' $ - 0 0 , On the 24th inst., at Grosvenor-s uare, 3 01 . , Cent .° 1 iOn the 24th inst., in Sloane-street, g the lad,' c ; -1 rtddingt°l3' Colonel Tronsou, of ' a son. t -ren)' On the 24th inst ,at Stamford-hill, t he lady Oldham, Esq., of a son. E. *' . VARR/E/./. ilseP f On the 22d inst., at St. James's, Bermon r. ,p 1 to lie' Jones, of Great Russell-street, Bedford-sq uar cl.' ~.e, of youngest daughter of th e l a te John Galen -" GO re - f mondsey. gr et ° On the 22d inst., at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, ,vght Barrett, of Tottenham-court-road, to Elizabeth, '4l,,oltir Mr. Redgrave, of Great Queen-street, Linuollf73l,ll,ll, of ! t oe , On the 17th ult., at Edinburgh, W. G. Canr , so . held, county of Ayr, North Britain, to M. A 111 1" lA. 00 1 only daughter of the late John Henry Menzi s ' op, Dicks'ol`l' On the 19th inst., at Trinity Church, Isling s' e _ to 0 Palmer Goddard, Esq., of Longton, Staffordshiro'd.tort youngest daughter of J. M‘lntosh,F.sq. , uf Ric"l2 i,' Islington. ow, ior On the 20th inst., at St. Saviour's Church , 6, o f 1., 11 ,0 Mary Ann, second daughter of William 11° 11°e _ of ( . 11. street, Borough, to Mr. Edward Lewis BlackinsP,' church -street, London. DIED. On the 18th inst., at Brighton, J. C. Strode , E ., 94 . ‘OO O, 6 , 1'1 1 ,1°4 On the 18th inst., at Rossall Hall, Ebeneser yttieslll;roh son of E. R. Le Mare, Esq., of Belmont, Cheadleti- tt's i '' ( On the 20th inst., William Maiden, Esq. , ° i §ter' 4 Essex. aged 79. g l a ns he oa ti On the 20th inst., at Burle-hill, near t he c o r. Thomas Potter, Knight, Justice of the Peaee4,cb el ,oo )s# of Lancaster, and Alderman of the borough 0 1 „f ror' . relict of the late Earl of Portmore, aged 69. w oo , , On the 20th inst., at Bath, Frances, Countess 00,0 On the 22d inst., in Nottingham-place, 3faie' r flo'' O . 34th Regiment. j . ,lsi a e l ;` On the 21st inst. at Great Cumberland -street' . . 1 William Fraser, aged 53. On the 19th inst., in Eaton-square, Bliss --glilmerith_fiii ri .: On the 20th inst., at Cadogan-places of the late Lawrence Wright, Esq., of Mottrani c olt , . (i i On the 20th inst., at Brent Lodge, !tendon, ..' Or William Burls, Esq. chelsopo. C 1 3 , 7 1 01 torv gard ° On the 19th inst., at Cork-street, Burling Jane, only daughter of Mr. J. 3farkwell. -- f ig )0 111 / 4 0 ' t i• London : Printed and Published by M- - I necet No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sus to v' Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. - Bliddleas. Friday, blarch 28, 1845. ~.._... ReorAi R Domestics Lifn and Friday. I Ex periments, exhibiting bea tRYSIOSCOP NATIVITY is VIE WS. ACI Person of an i liodel of th other working Experiments t C OPE. Sce. HEAT r from ' 4 ak IiDEEN or F.,01 qouti, ~..-4beraeE , —" 1 ligi l'ettQ Cr il , °tic 'tidert i Aber 10 ti