The Sun. — London, England, 1844-04-08 00:00:00

THE STINI - L'OND 014, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL es 1844, it towards the point like a saw ; with this, and the assistance of an iron shoe-heel, he contrived to dig out the mortar from between the bricks on the side of his cell next the yard, he had made an incision round the bricks about eighteen inch's in extent, and in order to preve nt the work being see n, he had, when " done work," filled up the vacuum thus created by a quantity of oakum, which he coated over with the appearance of lime to look like the other part of the cell. This he accomplished by, it is supposed, scraping some lime off the wall and mixing it with his own water. His intention appears to have been to get into the yard and unhinge the door of the water-closet, which would have assisted him on to a shed to which he could have grasped the spouting of the roof, and by main strength lifted his body upon the roof, from which he would have doubtless descended by some scaffolding poles, forming the various stages of the new wing in course of erection as a prison for soldiers. The keen look-out kept by the gaoler, how ever, frustrated the deep laid scheme, the successful issue of which would, doubtless, have been worked, but for the good watch kept. The prisoner has been put in irons, and two men are constantly with him when in his cell, and will remain with him until re moved for trial either to Winchester or Maidstone. It is supposed he will be removed by habeas to the latter place, especially if the Government prosecute for the Post-office robbery. RAILWAYS.—On Saturday a return was issued of all monies raised under acts whereby railroad companies have been incorporated., from January 1826, to January 1844, distinguishing the sums raised as principal, from the sums to be raised by loan or mortgage. The return contains the names of 121 railways and the titles of no fewer than 250 Acts of Parliament, which passed in the years mentioned, under which the moneys were raised The entire sum was " seventy-nine millions, twenty-six thousand and three hundred and seventeen pounds !" of which enormous sum 57,387,7851. was capital in joint stock, and 21,638,582/. to be raised by loan or mortgage. From May 1833 the London and Birmingham Railroad was empowered to raise 5,500,0001., of which amount 3,500,000/. in joint stock, and 2,000,0001. by loan or mortgage. This appears the largest amount set forth in the return.— Sunday Paper. _i 1 . e i e r n. res . evidence against his employer, neither counsel nor I Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co's, hut he did not kn ow i UNION-HALL. solicitor attended for that prisoner. (j n f to G Iby whom. lie had no idea it was a forgery. The ' William Dear, alias Howard, was charged with pay, rl, 1 i t , l , i l e n ,1s coach ito u. p e e r o s p . .. f i o e r t e o n r i , a Mr. Clarkson, in addressing the Lord -Mayor and 1 notes were g i v en t o hi m by .the f e male prisoner, and stealing a bay gelling, the property of Mr. - Wh w eat- 1 Greenwich. stated Aldermen Pirie upon the subject; .aid that the pri- he afterwards paid them away. goner, Captain ' Simpson, had voluntarily made a Mr. Bush applied,- on this evidence, to have both ss . statement relative to the charge in which he and Read the prisoners remanded for further examination. i that the prisoner was horselseeper in the' ' of were involved, and that Mr. Wontner, the solicitor Mr. Chambers submitted that there was no evidence, , M r . Wheatley, whose service he suddenly . employleft wioth for Read, should he furnished with a copy of that 1 against the male prisoner.--Mr. Bush said there was.; : out assigning any cause about a fortnight statement as speedily as possible, in order that imme- and he should be pseptsecl ss ;ill l'u, ther evisle;sess, Thursda y - night last witness •se- t' s, bay ago. . n diate preparation might be made for the trial, which against him on a future day. . . .....r Lhe gelding sate in his master's stable, and the next mor lin he would in all probability take place in the ensuing The prisoners were both remanded until Tuesday missed it, and found the stable-door had been - g week. It was not the intention of the Counsel for week, and an application to admit the male prisoner open. the prosecution to read that statement to the justice- to bail was refused. Samuel Giddens, a horse-slaughterer, in Green room, but he thought - it necessary to intimate that it MARLBOROUGH-STREET. street, Blackfriars-road, stated that on the morning was their intention to produ ce it on the trial, and to John Kebble bay and James Kebble, two brothers, very of Good Friday, the prisoner brought a gelding accept the offer of Captain S im p son to turn Queens respectably dressed, were brought before Mr. Hard- to his yard, and offered it to him- for sale. When evidence. Under existing c ircumstances, the p rose- wick tor final examination, charged with having questioned as to whom the animal belonged, the pri - cutors applied to the Magistrates to commit t he two stolen, at various times, about ei g ht dozen silk scarfs, soners answer was that it was.the property of Mr. prisoners to Newgate for trial. The necessary course worth about 801., from the shop of Messrs. Higgins Archer, fishmonger, of Dorking, in Surrey, who would be subsequently adop ted to take the de p osition and Son, hosiers, at No. 21, Old Bond-street. sent him to London to dispose of it. The witness of Simpsim, and Mr. Wo ntner should be furnished From the evidence of William Owen, one of the suspecting the truth of the prisoner's statement, pre with copies of the whole of the evidence without delay. assistants, it appeared that the prisoners about ten tended to send out for change of a Bank of England Mr. Wontner did not obj ect to the proposition of weeks ago came into the shop and asked to look at note, and detained him until he sent for a constable Mr. Clarkson ; and the prison ers were both committed, some scarfs. While they were examining a parcel, to give him into custody. Simpson for having feloniously . sunk the ship Colina, one of them claimed an acquaintance with witness, William Harris, inspector of horse slaughterers' and Read for having aided and abetted in sinking her. having, as he asserted, met him at a house in the yards, stated that upon being apprised of thecircum- The statement of Simpson comprehends the whole neighbourhood. The prisoners did not buy anything, stance of the prisoner having offered the horse for of the statements made by the clerk of Read and but they came again the next day and bought a scarf. sale, and his assertion with respect to its being the Page, as to the conversation w hich was re p resented to Shortly at'ter this they again came to the shop, and property of a Mr. Archer, at Dorking, he (the wit have taken place at Ipswich on the subject of the got the scarf exchanged, paying the difference. The ness) immediately started off for that town, to make wilful loss of the Colina between the prisoners, and prisoners continued to call at the shop to see witness the inquiry. He sent back his carrier pigeon with a the details of the plan of scuttling the vessel. The until about a fortnight ago, when, in consequence of note to Mr. Giddens, informing him of the falsehood captain declares that according to the suggestions of some scarfs ha v ing be en m i sse d, s t oc k was taken, and uttered by the prisoner. On subsequent inquiries it Read, who first proposed the p ro j ect of doin g the In• then a discovery was made that about eight or nine was ascertained the horse was stolen, as alrady de surance Company by dropping the vessel, he took the dozen, wor th a b ou t a gu i nea eac h, had been stolen. scribed, from Mr. Wheatley's stables at Greenwich. opportunity wholly unknown to the mate and the rest Inquiry was made, and Police-sergeant Whall, C 16, The prisoner told the Megistrate that his character of the crew, to go below with an augur and bore two was employed to trace out the thief. Having sue- stood well at Greenwich - that he had never been in holes in the Colina's bottom. He also confirmed the ceeded in finding one of the lost scarfs in the hands of trouble before, and that he would bring up witnesses account given by the several boatmen who went to- a pawnbroker, he obtained a description of the party as to his (prisoner's) good conduct. wards the Colina for the purpose of saving her from who pawned them, and this description tallying Mr. COITINGIIAM said that he was bound to send I the destruction which threatened. exactly with the appearance of one of the prisoners, the case for trial, where evidence of prisoner's good It has been stated that there are several other the police-sergeant went to their lodging, and took character would operate on the minds of the Court cages in which it is believed Read was a participator them into custody. and jury.—The prisoner was committed accordingly in the profits of dropping vessels, but it did not Police-sergeant Whall, C 16, said, when he appre ' transpire whether any of those cases were to be hended the prisoners they were in bed. He searched prosecuted. Mr. Page has been, all are assured, them when dressed, and found nine duplicates, all.of altogether ignorant of any t ransactions of the kind. which related to portions of the missing scarfs. lie The mate of a vessel, called the Diana, who appeared was enabled, by the help of the duplicates, to ascertain on Friday, the 29th of last month, in pursuance of how between two and three dozen of the stolen scarfs his recognizances by bail, to answer the complaint of were disposed of. Mrs. May, the widow of the deceased captain of that The paw nbrokers came forward and produced the vessel, again appeared, the further hearing of the case goods in their possession, all of which were identified having been adjourned to this day. by two of Messrs. Higgins and Co.'s assistants, Owen Mr. Bozon, the solicitor of Mrs. May, stated that, and Barnes. since the last hearing of the case, he had obtained The prisoners said they would make no defence for further evidence, which would tend to add to the the present.—They were fully committed. suspicion entertained that the s hi p had been wilfully William Burgess, shop naii to Messrs. Stagg and set fire to at St Helena; and he could prove, by the Mantle, linendrepers and mercers, Leicester-square, testimony of a respectable witness, that, in addition was charged with having stolen six silk handkerchiefs, to the property taken possession of belonging to the the property of his employer. late Captain May, the defendant possessed himself of In consequence of a communication made to the a gold watch, guard, and chain, which the de- prosecutors the prisoner was called into the counting fendant denied, upon a former occasion before the house, and asked if he had sent handkerchiefs to any Lord Mayor, the captain ever had. Mr. Bozon one in St. Martin';-nowt to he made up. Prisoner further stated that the evidence which he considered denied that he had, and he was then told his -boxes. most material would, in his opinion, clearly show must be searched, as he was suspected of having that the defendant had acted most fraudulently to- robbed the firm. His boxes were searched, and in wards the widow, and that the case was one which one of them was found two pieces of riband, worth his LordshiP .was bound to send for trial to the twelve shillings. Central Criminal Court, as the whole of the cir Miss Jane Anthony, milliner, No. 18, St Martin's cumstances were most mysterious, and required close court, said the prisoner called at her shop, and investigation. brought six handkerchiefs, which he wanted to have Thomas Fitch, upon being called by Mr. Bozon, hemmed. One of them, he said, she might have for stated that-he lived at Deal, and had been a seafaring an apron. man for 27 years. He was a passenger in the Diana The handkerchiefs were produced, and identified as in March last, and recollected the circumstance of the the property of Messrs. Stagg and Co. captain having been found shot in his cabin on the Mice constable Clarke, C 79, said when he took evening of the 15th of that month. The captain was the prisoner into custody, he remarked to him he buried at sea the following day. Before he was was a ruined man, as his character was now gone. — dropped into th e wav es, and on the evening' he was He was fully committed. found lying dead, witness requested the mate to square Catherine Apperley, a young woman in a miserable the yards and run down to some vessels which were condition, was charged with having attempted to de then close in sight, to have a doctor to see if anything stray herself on Thursday last. The prisoner was could be done for the captain, which the mate refused. seen to throw herself into the Serpentine, about three He also requested him to take the shi p to the Island o'clock in the afternoon 'of Thursday last. A call of Ascension, but to that proposition he would not was made for the Humane Society's host, but before agree, although within sight of the island, and that he it reached the place the woman was dragged out. She insisted upon going back to St. Helena. There was was taken to the receiving -house, and after proper plenty of provisions on board, and the vessel attention - had been p ,id to her, she was sent to St. was quite seaworthy for the voyage to England. George's Workhouse. Witness well recollected the late captain . leaving a Mr. HARDWICK asked her what had induced her to watch, which he believed to be gold, and a guard chain, attempt such a wicked act ?—The woman said she which the mate took possession of, and that after the was the wife of one of the Grenadier Guards, now in captain's death, and the blowing up of the ship at barracks at Winchester. In consequence of her hus- St. Helena, by which the steward lost his life, he band marrying without leave, the commanding officer saw the chain in the defendant's possession. The refued to let him sleep out of barrack; but as her steward, Cox, who was killed by the explosion of the husband was then on duty at the Tower, this was not vessel, kept a journal of everything that transpired on s o grea t a h a rd s hip, as her husband did contrive to board, and the defendant, after that catastrophe, broke allow her a trifle out of his pay, which, with her own open the steward's chest and too k the p a p ers from it. earnings by her needle, sufficed to maintain her. Witness further stated the manner in which the About a month babk her husband's regiment was-sent Diana was blown up at St. Helena, and declared it to Winchester; and as his pay was reduced by stop to be his unshaken opinion that the vessel had been pages for arrears, he had been unable to send her any set fire to. money. She had, in consequence, fallen into a most The LORD MAYOR, after hav in g consulted with fri g htful state of destitution; and after pawning every - Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk, said the case was thing she had, she took the determination of ending rendered an exceedingly suspicious one, and that foul her miserable life by drowning herself. She went play had, no doubt, been perpetrated. lie did not, out for this purpose on Thursday, but her unhappy however, consider that there was sufficient evidence design was frustrated by persons who accidentally to justify him in sending the case to a jury. It was witnessed her proceedings. certainly a case which Mr. Bozon was justified in Mr. HARDWICK ordered the poor creature to have bringing forward, but he should be satisfied with the some refreshment provided for her, and sent for some promise of the defendant to appear, if his presence one from St. George's Workhouse. should be required, upon a future occasion. The woman, in corroboration of her story, produced The defendant declared that there was no ground a letter which she had just received from her husband. for the charge; that he had acted with firmness and The letter was couched in most affectionate terms, judgment, and reliance upon the skill of older persons and the writer mentioned his determination to send throughout ; that the watch-chain was hi s own, and for her to Winchester as soon as he could save a little that he was not aware of any unfair play at all in any money. of the transactions. Lacy, the Messenger of St. George's, soon after- Thus the case has concluded for the present. wards arrived in Court, and he at once took charge of Two very dirty-looking vagabonds were charged the poor woman until she is in a fit state to be again with having picked pockets. . Upon 'one of them, a brought up, when, no doubt, some temporary assistance most filthy red-headed fsllow, a highly scented silk will be afforded to her. handkerchief was foun d. - . QUE SQUIRE.N'S- The LORD MAYOR---HOW did you get this hand- Thomas Pyvis, a sickly-looking youth, was placed kerchief?" Prisoner —I have had it these three at the bar before Mr. Burrell - , charged with having months. broken into the dwelling house of Major Thomas The Loun MAYOR —But how did it become so Henry S. Clerke, No. 4, Brompton-row, and stolen much scented ? Prisoner —How ? Why, easy enough. therefrom a large chest full of silver plate, a gold I always wear scent in -my hair, and I keeps my watch, three gold rings, a diamond bracelef, a suite of handkerchief in my hat, to be sure.—(Laughter.) silver, including ear-rings, bracelets, brooch, &c., and —Committed for three months to Bridewell. other articles of jewellery. GUILDHALL. -. "The evidence of several witnesses who were ex . Thomas Howell, James Mahon, and J o hn Skinner, amine! went to prove that on the evening of the 29th three young men, having the a pp e arance of mechanicsult., about five o'clock, Major Clerke left hi his re-i- were brought before S i r Joh n Key, charged with deuce,. giving e he footboy orders to follow hiei to s club-house with his bag, that he might dress fore breaking into the harnesSeinaker's room at the Oxford art The boy did as he had been ordered, and the , P Inn, Warwick-lane, and stealin g eight pairs of coach y. presumption is that the perpetrator of this daring and traces, a knife, and two pair of pincers. extensive robbery had watched the proprietor and his The prisoners were remanded. male servant from the premises. Shortly after they BOW-STREET. had left the place, the cook thought she heard a noise, John &inner Francis, a young man of military tip- but supposing it was caused by th e kitten, p aid no pearance, wearing mustachios , and who was stated to attention to it, but on hearing the hall-door shortly have been formerly an officer in the Cape of Good afterwards slam too, she became alarmed, and her Hope Rifles, and Mary Ann Browne, a young woman, suspiciOns that the -house had been robbed were very fashionably attired, and who was stated to be the sho - ttly afterwards confirmed. O n the return of the daughter of a clergyman , were brought up in t he footbO l at eight o'clock, she proceeded with him to custody of Inspector Pearce , of the A division o f P o - examine ' the house, and on entering the Major's room lice, charged with having feloniously uttered a forged th found that the plate c hest, which was usuall y cheque for 1901., purporting to be signed b y the kept there, had been carried off, and that an Dowager Lady Nelthorpe , with intent to de fraud attempt had he en made to force open several in Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., the bankers, in Lo - Loin- drawers in the room. They also discovered bard-street. that an upper sleeping apartment hail been visited, Mr. Bush, of the Society for the Protection of the whole of the locks on the drawers forced, and a Bankers from Forgery, attended on the part of the gold Geneva watch and other valuab l e s stolen. On prosecution ; and Mr. M. Chambers, the barrister, at- their return to the Major's room they discovered a tended as counsel for the prisoners. hat which had been left by one of the rubbers, a skele Thomas Evison stated that he was a cashier in the ton key which opened the street door, and by which house of Messrs. Smith, Payne; and Co. He recol- hadeffected the thieves an entrance to the premises, lected that the cheque produced was presented there a small file, a jemmy, and a candle. The police were for payment on the 9th of January last, but he could in, ' examinationofthe called who, on not remember by whern. .The Dowager Lady Nel . anion hat the robbery must have been committed thorpe kept an account with Messrs. Payne, Smith, r b p so ' n ons intimately acquainted with the re and Co., and the cheque purported to be signed by !Les ' e and ra the as usual in such matters, dire p cted her. Witness could not tell by whom it was pre theieinquiries as y to any servants who had been re sented, but on a reference to the books he found that discharged. They ' cently ascertained that prisoner, it had been paid in Bank-notes. after a service of five months, had left the Major's The Dowager Lady Nelthorpe s tated that she re service in Januar3 • being subject to fits, and was an sided at River-hill, near Sevenoak s, in Kent, and ha , d inmate in St Thomas's ' •1 , but they had every also a town residence in King - s treet, St. James s. Hospital, to reason believe, in consequence of some communica- She kept an account with Messrs. Smith, Payne, and tion made to them, that he went in and Co., the bankers. The cheque produced was not out othe f establishment whenever he thought signed by her, neither had she authorised any person fit, and had an ample opportunity of corr.- to draw or sign it. She knew the female prisoner, matting the robbery •which ; added t o , tale water who was introduced to her in t he month of October, man at the coach-rank at Knightsbridge, on a visit to 1842, and she remained at the house of witness until the hospital, said that he had every reason to believe the month of December following-. During her stay that prisoner, with a female, hired a cab on the even there she had frequent opportunities of seeing_ witness ins of the 29th ult., and placed a large chest inside it. write, and had no doubt also seen her sign cheques. Under these circumstances of strong suspicion, added She represented herself to witness as friendless, hope to others about to be detailed, the prisoner was taken less, and in absolute want of clothes. into custody by Bradley, a constable of the B division, Elizabeth Mason, of Ranelagh - gr ove, Pimlico, to whom he said, without any leading question's being stated that the two prisoners formerly occupied apart eut to , him, " s he supposed he was taken about the ments in her house for about five mon ths, Iv at a rent of fajor spoons." 15s. a week, They lived together a s man and wife, James Millet', the Major's footboy, proved that and went by the name of Francis • they left the prisoner had been in the habit of coming to the house apartments in February last. In the lanuary previous to visit the servants. He never eaw prisoner wear the female prisoner told the witness that she was going a hat the one found on the iremises. to take some money out of the Bank of Englend, and suchas • 1 • Ellen Merited, formerly in the Major's service, soon after that she paid the amount of rent due with a 51. Bank of England note, which witness subee- 'where the plate chest was proved that prisoner knew ept, and at the . time he left the . service abused the quently paid away to Mr. Cafe, the auctioneer, in k Great Marlborough-street. Witness believed the Major, and said he would serve him out. Benjamin Pelliss, 28 G, produced the plate-chest. body of the cheque produced to be in the handwriting On Saturday week he was on duty of the female prisoner. wells-road, and saw a - woman whom he knew to be a Susan Luff, a milliner, i n Regent-street, had seen bad character and •moment afterwards, on . pass, a n a . the female prisoner write, and also believed the body crossing the road, she said to him, "You are wanted of the cheque to be in her handwriting. here," and pointed out the plate-cheat, which was Inspector Pearce stated, that in consequence of in t ' d . the road formation he had received, he went to Kingston on s aning h on t on examination was only found to con c es . . Thursday last, and at ten o'clock at night succeeded The the others b • tam a few trifling articles, . in apprehending the prisoners at the lodgings they M Clarke said that he had a character with the occupied there. The male prisoner at first said the . ajor from Lade 11. Chisholm, but he was so sullen female was his wife, but afterwards admitted that she pri.soner he y was obliged to discharge him. He was not. The female declared her innocence, and and violenthimthatfur a month before he entered the ser vice, great anxiety to know what account her ": paid vice, and fora month afterwards. companion had given of the transaction. The prisoner declared that he was in the hospital Sergeant Kendall, of the A division, stated that on the 12th of March , an d had onl y been out once after the male prisoner had be en p laced under his ~urimiddle lng th e of the d ay. lie denied all know charge by the last witness, he said that he knew the lhdge of the robbery. cheque in question had been present ed for p a y ment at lie was remanded until Friday next. EXECUTION of JOHN LAWRENCE FOR MURDER, AT HORSHAM. The sentence of execution passed upon Lawrence at the late Lewes Assizes for the murder of Mr. Solomon, the chief officer of Brighton, was on Satur day morning carried into effect, at the usual place of execution on the top of the county gaol. From the character of the offence, and the circumstances under which it was committed, there was not the slightest chance of any remission of the sentence, and from the time of his conviction the wretched culprit evidently prepared for the fate which awaited him, and ap peared anxious to make all the atonement in his power by a sincere repentance. Although the prisoner admitted the justice of his sentence, yet, up to the very last moment, he persisted in declaring that he was not actuated by any mali cious feeling towards the unfortunate deceased, but he says that, at the moment, a sudden and uncontrol lable impulse impel'ed him to seize the poker and give the deadly blow, and he said that, if he had consi dered but one moment, he should not have committed the act. He has all along declared that he could not tell what possesed him at the moment, but the thought to kill the deceased suddenly came across his mind, and he could not resist it. The Rev. Mr. Allen, the chaplain of the gaol, who has heel con stantly with the prisoner since he has been at Hors ham, repeatedly asked him whether he was actuated by any feeling of malice towards the deceased, And the culprit in the must solemn manner always made the same statement relative to the melancholy trans action, and also said that at the time he struck the utpw, he could lia.dly tell whether it was aimed at Solomon or any other person. The pri -oner, although only 24 years old, appears to have passed his life in one long career of vice and crime. Although of respectable connections at Tun bridge Wells, at an early age he was in the habit of frequenting beer-shops, where he became acquainted with the most depraved characters. He then went to work upon the Brighton Railway, and the scenes of vice and profligacy which he there witnessed corn pleted his ruin. After this he went home to his parents; and being intrusted with a cheque for 251. he appropriated the proceeds to his own use, and set off ts Brighton, accompanied by a young women, with whom he had cohabited ; and the money being soon spent he was reduced to distress, and then com mitted the offence of stealing the carpet, which even tually led to the murder of the unfortunate deceased, and the forfeiture of his own life. The wretched man stated that for three days before he stole the carpet he had been continually drunk, and that when he com mitted that offence he did not know what he was about. The prisoner's mother, it appears, is married to a second husband. He has written to her, and received answers several times since his condemnation, but she was in such a state of mind as to render her quite unable to support the trial of parting with her wretched son. The prisoner's uncle and a younger brother went to the gaol on Friday evening; but, at the request of the prisoner, the parting with them was deferred until the following morning. The conduct of this brother during the time he has been in the town has created an universal feeling of disgust. Ever since he has been in the town he has been almost continually drunk, and on the Thursday night before the execution of his wretched relative he spent the evening at a beer-shop, where fiddling and dancing was going on. In answer to an observation made by Mr. Loader, the governor of the gaol, as to whether he intended to see his brother executed, he replied that he certainly should do so. Very shortly after the culprit's conderimation his fortitude returned to him, and he expressed an anxious and apparently sincere desire to atone for his past crimes by a full and sincere repentance, and on Friday he expressed a strong wish to receive the Holy Sacrament. The chaplain at first rather dissuaded him from so doing, but at length, believing him to be sincere and truly penitent, he acceded to the pHs soner's desire. R was after this that the prisoner's uncle and brother called, but the culprit not being then in a state of mind to receive them, requested, through the governor, thiat they should not distutb him at that moment, but come to him in the morn ing. The brother at first said he should not come any more to see him, and it was only at the earnest request cf Mr. Loader that he at length consented to accompany his unsle in the morning. When not engaged with the chaplain, the culprit has almost inces ,antly occupied himself in writing, and he has sent letters to nearly all his old abandoned associates earnestly entreating them to avoid their present course of life, and to refrain from the conduct that lead to his destruction. The culprit had his sup psr at the usual hour on Friday night, and went to bed about ten o'clock, and slept souedly until the next morning at seven o'clock, soon after which hour the chaplain was in attendance upon him. Mr. France, the under-sheriff of the county of Sussex, had arrived on Friday evening, and, as a great crowd was ex pected, by his.di roc-ions barriers were erected, in order to prevent accidents from the pressure of the people. Saturday morning the prisoner's uncle and his brother came to take their last leave of him in this world. The culprit bore the scene with great firm ness, and he appeared more concerned on account of his brother than for himself, and he entreated him in the most solemn manner to alter his course of life, and avoid the miserable condition to which he had re duced himself by his misconduct. The brother ap peared very much affected, and he promised to reform his evil way of life and go home with his uncle, who, at the dying request of the culprit, promised to provide for him. From this time the culprit prepared himself for the fatal moment, and he repeatedly expressed his desire that it had arrived, as he said he was quite ready to die, and he trusted he should be forgiven his sins. The officers of the sheriff arrived at the gaol soon after eleven o'clock, and about a quarter to twelve the culprit was pinioned, and he was shortly after wards led along the passage of the gaol to the drop which was erected upon the temporary platform made for that purpose. He walked with a firm step, and mounted the ladder leading to the scaffold without any assistance, and then gazed calmly round among the crowd. The Rev. Mr. Allen asked the miserable man whether he had anything he wished to say, and he replied that he had not, and at the same time again declared that, although he suffered justly for killing a fellow-creature, he had no enmity against the deceased, and that he was not conscious of what he was doing when he struck him with the poker. He then shook hands with the reverend gentleman, and expressed, in the warmest terms, his gratitude for the kindness he had received from him, and also from Mr. Loader, the governor of the gaol. All the arrange merits were now completed, and at a given signal the drop fell, and in less than a minute the miserable culprit had ceased to exist. Although the crime of which Lawrence was con victed created a good deal of excitement in the neigh bourhood, and, indeed, throughout the whole county, where the unfortunate deceased was generally re spected as an active and excellent officer, very few persons, comparatively, were present at the execution , notwithstanding there was a great cattle fair in the town, which, of course, attracted a . number of strangers. Preparations had, however, been made to prevent accident in the event of there being so great a concourse of people as was expected; and Inspector Hughes and seven men of the A division of Metro politan Police were engaged to superintend the arrangements. It is now nine years since there has been an execution in thiscounty ; and it is rather re markable, that the last man who was executed, for four daring burglaries, was brought to justice mainly through the exertions of Solomon, the unfortunate deceased, who, no doubt, at the time, little anticipated that the next execution would be that of his murderer. The body, after hanging an hour, was cut down and placed in a shell, and at ten o'clock on Saturday night, according to the terms of the sentence, it was interred within the gaol. that pu' lie opinion will prevent a repeti ion of the r or.., b oy , 1_,.401, A lO erior of whit:h the Allail has been guilty in ,his par- ; • .kt• ci tieu'ar. -- ~- -,.---,- T,•ii'. FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES). BRITISH FUNDS. Bvnk Stock ..... ........ ..... 1i:9% Indian Stock — ra. -, r er Cent. 1ted,..... ..... .. 419% Ditto Bonds - 3 pet Cent. Cons. ...... ... I t 0 Ditto Oil Annuities 3)6 per Cent. Rei .... ..... 102% Ditto New Annuities — New 3)6 per Cent...„..... 103% iEx. Bills, 1,0001. 130 — pm.. :New S per Cent............. 1 Ditto 500/ ..... -Long Annuities to expire 1 Ditto 5ma11........ Jan. 160 12% 'Bank Stocit for Acct.... i'll)2 Oct. 1859.....- ,Consols for Acct...„..... 99% Jan. 1860.....„ 'lndia Stock for Acct.... 293 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per Cent .... ..... Portuguese, 5 per Cent — Belgian, 5 per Cent........... Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian Bonds . ....... „..... 80 Prussian, 5 per Cent Buenos Ayres, 6' per Ce-it... Russian, 5 per Cent — Chllian, 6 per Cent ............ Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1824 ............. ......... Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent 93 Ditto, Deferr& 15% Di nish,'3 per Cent ....... ..... French, 5i er Cent....... —I --ei Greek, 18 5.5 per Cent...-. Exchange —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per Cent ..... ... French, 3 per Cent. —f. --c. Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837...... ..... Dutch, 2% per Cent...-. 6.i % Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent... _,.., _ Ditto, 5 per Cent lOO% .._ JOINT-STOCK BANKS. The now number of the British and Foreign Re view contains an article under the title of " Coin an :I Currency." The article, instead of discussing fully and fearlessly the question of banking, which occu pies so much of public atte ntion at this moment, prin cipally consists of a retrospect of the history of bank ing in England. So far, however, as the writer's views can be discovered from the casual references to the principles on which the business of banking ought to be conducted , he concurs with us in the opinion that the joint-stock banks have been of the greatest service to the country, and that any attempt on the part of the Government to interfere with them ought to be resisted by every constitutional means. 'There is a very decided and general impression in the monetary circles of the country, that Ministers contemplate some important changes in reference to the constitution and powers of the joint-stock bank ing companies. The impression, we fear, is too well grounded. Deputation after deputation from the directors of the joint-stock banks have, within the last few weeks, waited on Sir Robert Peel, with a view to learn his intention in relation to these esta blishments. Not an atom of information on the sub ject could be elicited from him. He shrouds his designs in the deepest darkness. The conclusion to which the joint-stock banking companies have con sequently come is, that he doe s meditate some inva sion of their powers and privileges. If he do in any way assail these associations, he will soon discover that he never committed a greater act of folly for himself, as he could not contemplate one more fraught with evils to the country. It will be strange indeed if, instead of curtailing the exclusive privileges of the Bank of England, as every one expected he would when the question of a renewal of the charter came to be d'scussed, he should bring forward a measure for abridging the resources and impairing the useful ness of the joint-stock banks. Though the Premier persists, in defiance of all the entreaties for information, of those who are most in terested, in concealing his intentions either as regards the colossal corporation in Threadneedle-street or the joint-stock banks throughout the country, the period is at hand when he must make an unreserved revela tion of his plans and purposes. Immediately after the Easter recess he is to make an exposé of his intentions and measures in reference to the question of the cur rency. Until then, we suppose, we must wait with phi losophical patience. One feature, we have reason to be lieve, in hisfuture banking policy, will be to deprive the joint-stock banks of their right to issue notes of their own, and to confer on the Bank of England the ex clusive privilege of making paper issues. There is something so evidently fraught with the most serious mischiefs to the monetary interests of the country, in any scheme of this kind, that did not what seems to us irresistible evidence .of the fact crowd upon us from all quarters, we could not believe that such an idea had ever entered the Premier's mind. To with draw from the joint-stock banks the privilege of issuing their own notes, will be in many, perhaps the majority of cases, the same as if these banks were to be annihilated by Act of Parliament. Sir Robert Peel professes to be a great stickler for maintaining vested interests : if he carry his understood intention into effect, he will earn for himself tbe unenviable re putation of having committed a wholesale robbery of the shareholders in joint-stock-banking companies. Divest them of the right to issue their own notes, and you despoil them at once of their property. Their main source of profit lies in their having a paper issue of their own. It was on the faith of such right being continued that they commenced business; without it business could not, in many instances, be carried on without incurring a ruinous loss. Consequently, should the Premier persist in his understood purposes, the joint-stock banking business will receive a blow, from the effects of which it will never recover. Nor will the injury in the supposed case be con fined to the shareholders : it will be extended to and deeply felt by the public. The infinite service which the joint-stock banks have been able to render to the country, has been chiefly through means of their privilege to make issues of their own paper. The country knows, and is forward to acknowledge, the services of the joint-stock banks. But for them the national distress would, in times of pressure, have issued, in all probability, in a national bankruptcy. They alone, on repeated occasions, have neutralised the injurious effects of capricious contractions of the currency, on the part of the Bank of England. To deprive the joint-stock banks of the right to issue notes of their own, and to place, as it is sup posed the Premier means to do, the entire paper cur rency of the country in the hands of the monetary monopolists in Threadneedle-street, would be one of the most audacious anti-free-trade deeds ever perpetrated. It would be the grossest outrage and greatest insult to the country, which ever Toryism committed in the days of its unresisted do mination. The country loudly complains of the extent to which it already suffers from the caprices of the Bank of England ; and Peel purposes to place the nation still more at the mercy of that gigan tic establishment. The cry everywhere is—in Eng land, Scotland, and Ireland, for an abridg Dent of the present powers of the Bank ; and Peel purposes to confer upon it much more enlarged and important powers than ever. The country calls, in the spirit of free-trade principles, for an extinction of the mone tary monopoly so long enjoyed by the Bank ; and the Premier intends to make that monopoly greater than before. This is progress in free-trade principles with a vengeance. It is the crab-like progress of going backwards. But will Ministers succeed in carrying out their currency projects? It will be passing strange if they do. We have too much faith in the omnipotence of public opinion, when fairly and fully expressed, to suppose that any Government will be suffered to an nihilate the joint-stock banks, merely to play into the hands of a corporate band of monopolists, who are ambitious of possessing an exclusive control over the currency, and the consequent monetary destinies, of the country. Of this we are certain—that the most vigorous and determined opposition which Peel has had to encounter on any measure, is now in the ; course of organisation on this question. — Advertiser. of SHARES. Birmingham and Derby (100 paid)... ..... .. ........ 6 2% Birmingham and Oloucester (100 paid) 96y4 24 Ditto New (17% daid) Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) 7 1.4 Bristol and Gloucester ( 3,1 pain) Eastern Counties (23 paid) ...... Great North of England (100 paid) 99 Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Half Shares (50 paid) Ditto Fifths (12 paid) 1 ,.% 233 Gr..nd Junction (100 paid) . .... Harwieh !Braithwaite) ( 2 p a i d Harrowgate and Knarestioro . 3 paid)......... 3% Lancaster and Cardsle ( 5 pai ) 7% London and Brighton (54) paid) London and Blackwall (161. Ids. 4d!) t % Norwich and Brandon ( 11 2 paid) 7i Rouen and Havre (g p ) 31 South Eastern and Dover ( 50 paid) , S tras bourg and Bale (14 paid) H York and North . Midi and (50 paid) HI Ditto New (25 paid) ....ern.... .......... .. York and Scarborough Branch (..) Q paid ) ..... SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. GLOBE.—The Times of this morning has the fol. lowing diatribe against the tendencies of the age we live in :—" For legislating upon utilitarian principles, —for embodying in public enactments, made for the benefit (!) not of the law-givers but of others, — the detestable morality of Hobbes and Hume and Gibbon ;—for realising in practice that species of poli tical morality which holds that man is no more than an impersonation of capital—a mere representative of so much labour,'—that charity is only a falsifica tion of economy,—and that that benefit of the governed,' which it is universally conceded ought to he the object of every Goverment,—is nothing else than the highest possible state of productiveness' to which the aforesaid subject multitude may be brought ;—for legislation of this sort, we say, give us the days of Kin.. William and Queen Victoria, for certainly never before,' since England was a nation, has this sort of thing been more consistently carried out within the walls of Parliament." Would that any spark of the dry light of intellect of Hobbes or of Hume—would that any vestige of the painful and diligent research of Gibbon—were in deed, as the Times most monstrously alleges, " con sistently carried out within the walls of Parliament." Of course we have nothing to say of the religious Scepticism of these highly distinguished men—no thing except what Bacon, perhaps, might have said — that they had better have left religion unreasoned about—have left faith in possession of her rights, and reasoned where reason could hope to arrive at posi tive and practical conclu ions. But that a slap-dash piece-work plasterer of diurnalism should flatter him self that he can smear over the great names of Hume and Gibbon—that he, in his Puseyite muddle-headed miss, can obscure all their genius has enlightened — that' he con consign to reprobation all that distin guishes modern times from the middle ages—is truly , to concentrate a whole revived Order of Jesuits in his own little person ! Vite, site, morbleu ! - Eteienons les lumiCres— Et rallumons le feu! It is very true that neither Hume nor Gibbon, nor any close thinker, nor conscientious researcher of the last century, traded in clap-trap sentiments. The fitter prototype of Times newspaper philanthropy was the hollow-hearted, selfish, canting Rousseau—the caricaturist, by dint of exaggeration, of every exalted sentiment—the exemplar of every human depravation which (self-induced) cerebral derangement alone could excuse. But when the Times was "pitching into" the direction impressed on legislative intellect in these our degenerate days by the still surviving influence of the great minds of the last century, why had it no word of abuse for Turgot ? Because there are names which even the Times dare not desecrate. Because the Times, in the thickest haze of its recent High Church inspirations, has probably a sort of glimmering idea that in Turgot it would fall foul of a statesman who demonstrated practically, in twelve years of unob trusive provincial administration, the wisdom of the modern economical principle of " promoting the highest possible productiveness" by admitting the utmost pos sible fi'eedom of industrial and commercial transactions. No, no !—it has not besn philosophical scepticism (dangerous as we allow that is, when pushed into re gions where positive truth cannot be arrived at by process of mere reasoning)—it is not philosophical scepticism that makes legislative inroads on social abundance and happiness. We wish our legislators had some of the wholesome scepticism of Turgot— some of his aversion for all presumptuous dogma tism, whether philosophical or priestly. The name of - Turgot will be ever identified with all the ra tional conquests of the spirit of modern improve ment. In his own days he stood aloof, on well-con sidered and high principle, from all those clique and coterie influences on which lesser men lean so instinc tively. Turgot was a man of no party, and rio philo sophical sect. The men of sects and parties of course took this exceedingly ill in him ; and could not under stand how any one could be amongst them, and not of them. His friends amongst the philosophes reproached him for not being of their mind : and he reproached them in turn with the foolish attempt to impose a com munity of opinions, and thus assume responsibility for those of each other. He detested all esprit de corps (philosophical, not less than priestly), because he found, says his congenial biographer, Dupont de Nemours, that even amongst men otherwise estimable, the sort of fanaticism inseparable from that spirit seldom fails to alloy the love of truth and justice which Turgot preferred to everything. The morality sects the most scrupulous is never so good as that of honest individuals ! In this spirit of clique and coterie Turgot besides found this serious inconvenience —that it. tended to excite animosity and prejudice in sosiety at large against those little exclusive sects and societies which formsthernselves in its bosom, and thus retarded the succesi of the good intentions of thoSe Nyli,:rn their zeal excited to form these confederations. " It is the sprit of sect," he said, " that provokes the spirit of persecution." It is certainly true that neither Hume, nor Gibbon, nor Turgot, would have told the labouring popu!ation that law could get them twelve hours' wages for ten hours' work. Turgot never would have• admitted into our cos me colonial arrangements a fifth quarter of the globe as it were (if we may use the Iricism), and charged our colonial estimates with grants-now for South or West Australia—and now for New Zealand—at the very time of declaring we will not take the corn our colonies can send us ! STANDARD.—The zeal with which the opposi tion journals pursue the misrepresentation first started by the Dubtin Evening Mail, proves that the letter, imputed falsely to Sir Robert Peel by the Irish jour nal, possesses more than a local interest. We shall he excused, therefore, by those least interested in Irish affairs, if we return to the subject. The utter falsehood of theDublinEvening Mail's story is proved by a passage in the Dublin Statesman of Wednesday the 4th inst., which the Dublin Evening Mail of the following Friday has not ventured to contradict . .The Statesman is a journal of nearly the sa me political character as the Mail, but the fact that the Mail has not ventured to deny that its " appalling cotinnunicatiee'' was a hoax, or to contradict the assertion that its friend and prompter, Mr. Frederick Shaw, had denounced the utter falsehood of that com munication, is decisive. We repeat what we said on th • '22d of March, " There was not one word of trutla in it." The purpose of the falsehood, by whomsoever invented, is apparent by a passage of a l a ter number of the Dublin Evening Mail (March 29). The falsehood, then, was invented for the purpose of thawing the Ministry—a purpose which men may think legitimate or not, but which certainly does not justify to moralists the use of falsehood as a means, and will scarcely justify to politicians of enlarged and patriotic views the formation of an anti- Saxon alli • ante in Ireland, the arrangement which the falsehood was intended to promote. As we are speaking of a resort to illegitimate means, it may be proper to note a very irreverent and disgusting parody which the Dublin Evening Mail of Friday has thought fit to publish with reference to the matter of which we are speaking. The Mail does not, as we have 6aid, venture directly . to support the veracity of its " appalling com munication" of March 20, but it presents a parody of the third chapter of Daniel, in which Sir Robert Peel acts the part of Nebuchad nezzar, and the Archbishop of Armagh (Lord John Bevesford), and other prelates a nd cler gymen are made to represent, Sha,drach, Meshach, and Abednego. We feel scarcely at ease in shortly describing such a thing—and we hope that it is as disagreeable to the most Reverend Archbishop as it is td us. About twenty-seven years ago Mr. Hone • was prosecuted for publishiug some paro dies upon the Liturgy, and none of them was so offensive in form as this —none of them could be so . indecent as a parody upon the Holy Scrip tures themselves. The Liturgy, beautiful as it is, is still but the words of man, but the Holy Scriptures are not the words of man. We certainly would not wish to see prosecutions like that of which Mr. Mae was the object repeated ; we much prefer trust ing to the effect of public opinion for the preventing of such offences as his, 'and we have little doubt ANOTHER JACK SHEPPARD. There is at present in Portsmouth gaol a young man named John Smith, alias George Baker, whose deeds as a burglar, though not so extensive in their nature, are quite on a par as re gards management with those performed by the Ainsworth immortalised Jack Sheppard. This candidate for Government patronage is by trade a bricklayer, and apparently about 19 years of age, slim in make, with a small head and hard features, with a simplicity of expression, which, but for the strong est evidence, would go far towards impressing an ordinary jury with an opinion of his incapacity for the performance of such deeds as we are about to mention. His first exploit in this locality was breaking into the house of a clothes salesman , named Byerly, situate in Hanover-street, Portsea ; this he accomplished on the evening of the sth March (Sunday), by removing some bricks in a systematic and workmanlike way from the outer wall of the dwelling; the hole thus made led into a passage communicating with the shop. But the thief was not rewarded with a rich booty— merely a few articles of wearing apparel and carpenter's tools, with which he got clear off, notwithstanding the bundle they formed was a very large one. He decamped to Southampton, and there offered some of the articles for sale; but Southampton becoming un comfortable, he returned to Portsmouth with some of the articles from Byerly's on his person, which were re cognised by a local police-officer, as those described by Byerley as having been stolen from his house. '1 he prisoner was lodged in gaol, and brought up be fore the borough magistrates on Thursday the 14th of March, when, the evidence being very conclusive, he was committed to take his trial at Winchester next assizes. On searching the prisoner, at Portsmouth gaol, about 30s. in silver and halfpence were found upon him, which led the authorities to suppose that he had been robbing some till at Southampton during his short stay, which circumstance being published in a local paper, speedily brought two persons from Southampton, who recognised the prisoner at once as the man who had entered the house of Mr. Maurice Batchelor, called the Queen Charlotte, in Simnel street, Southampton, on the night of the 10th of March. In this case the prisoner had secreted him. self in the house, and remained concealed until the in , mates were all gone to bed, when he stole forth, and after arming himself with a cleaver and a carving knife, proceeded to the till, which he broke open and emptied of its contents; he then collected what other property h . e could, with the assistance of a lantern, which he found in the kitchen, and made good his escape. The money and property was the same as found upon him when captured by a local sub-inspector of polioe who searched him. These desperate robberies be coming known through the local press, on Thurs day evening last a sergeant of local police from Greenwich arrived at Portsmouth gaol, and asked to see the prisoner. He was conducted to his cell by Mr. Hunt, the Governor, and immediately identified the prisoner as the noted George Baker, who, with three others, already in custody, have been the terror of the peaceable and loyal good men of the western part of Kent. They have committed no less than three burglaries, and one sacrilege, all in the neigh. bourho3d of Lewisham. At one of the houses broken into a booty of 2001. rewarded their desperate exer tions; they broke open the Post.office, cut open the mail bags, and scattered the letters about, and stole others supposed to contain money. The Portsmouth prisoner has also, in emulation of his celebrated pro totype, made a bold stroke at an escape from the bo rough gaol. He had possessed himself of a piece of iron hoop- about six inches long, which he sharpened upon the stone sink of the pump in the yard, and notched LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, April 6. Mr. Commissioner Holroyd heard a number of in solvent cases under the new Act IN THE MATTER OF JOHN SLEIGH. The insolvent, who has the charge of the telegraph tHazelmere applied for his final order. H e was opposed on the part of a creditor named Bridger, and supported by Mr. T. B. Hughes. The complaint was, that the insolvent was in a con dition to pay his debts, and it was prayed that the petition might be dismissed. It wai urged on his be half that he only wanted time, and would set aside 301. a year for his creditors. He required protection from law proceedings. Mr. Commissioner Ho',not' thought that, as pay ment was the object in view, the case should stand over to amend the schedule, and for the insolvent to make a distinct proposal to pay a yearly sum. The case was adjourned till the 11th of May, and the " protecting order" from all legal proceedings enlarged until that day. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, April 6. Mr. Commissioner Law sat specially to hear the following bail case. He afterwards heard two short motions, and on its rising, the Court adjourned fur the Easter 'Teem, to the 12th instant. FRIENDLY ARREST.-IN THE MATTER OF JANE DIMOND. The insolvent, who - had been a tavern-keeper in New Ormond-street, applied from the Queen's prison, to be discharged on sureties. It was admitted that the insolvent had been " friendly" put into gaol, in order that her property might be divided among her c reditors, instead of one creditor getting the whole under an execution. The insolvent now attended with her bail, and they were accepted in the sum of 1501. The discharge was issued instanter. This case affords an instance of expedition. The insolvent had only been in prison a few days; the schedule was filed on the Ist instant, and the libera tion on bail obtained on the present occasion. SITTINGS OF TIIE COURT. The present sittings have been fixed to the 11th of May, and the Court is'appointed to sit every day, two days being devoted to bail cases. There has of late been an increase of business ; last week upwards of 40 schedules were filed. A recent decision under the new Act in the Court of Bankruptcy, will, it is ex pected, give an accession of business to this Court, as it has been held that a trader who has taken the benefit of the Insolvent Debtors' Act must insert his former debts, and, as a trader, is only allowed to an amount of 3001., very few who have been relieved will be in a condition to avail themselves of the new provision. There are rumours in circulation respect ing an amendment of the law of debtor and creditor, and it is thought that the Government will shortly bring forward a measure on the subject, especially in reference to the law of insolvent debtors. LONDON SESSIONS. The Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the City of London commenced on Saturday morning, before the Lord Mayor, the RecoMer, Aldermen Lucas, Fare brother, Gibbs, and Sir J. Duke. The business, beyond several parochial and other appeals, consisted prin cipally of cases of assault. A young man came to apologise for the absence of a gentleman who was summoned on the jury, and who was not in town when the summons was served. The Recorder said that this was the second time the gentleman had kept away ; the Court, therefore, ordered that he be summoned to attend at the Old Bailey, where he will have a fortnight's employ in stead of two hours. Thomas Moore was indicted for an assault on Robert Cheil, on the 28t11 of November last. Mr. PAYNE said that this case verified the correct ness of the old proverb, " Two of a trade can never agree." The two parties keep booking-offices in Old Change, and arc rivals to each other. The prosecutor is employed to receive at his office plate and other valuable packages directed to the Castle at Windsor, to which place they are conveyed by a carrier named Gutterill. It appeared that the defendant received a quantity of luggage, directed to her Majesty, and employed another carrier instead of the person whose name vs as on the direction. Words arose between the parties, and the result was that Mr. Moore kicked Mr. Cheil, and did him considerable injury. The prosecutor said he had a warrant from the Lord Chamberlain's office to receive plate and other valuables to be forwarded to Windsor when her Ma jesty holds her Court at the Castle. On the day named Lord Seaford sent a load of trunks directed to be sent by Gutterill through the booking- office of witness. Mr. Moore got hold of them by hailing and gammon ing the carman, and this he did often. On the day of the assault witness went to the King's Head, and Moore stood at the bar. Witness said to him, " Well Tom Moore, you are not content with robbing me, but you must rob another man." The prisoner then came up and kicked him on the hip, and he was kept from business several days. The jury found the defendant guilty, and the Recorder adjudged him to pay a fine of 51. to the Queen, and enter into recognizances in the sum of 401. to keep the peace for one year towards all her liege subjects, and especially towards the prosecutor. Sally Mood, a young woman who has been before the Aldermen nearly 100 times during the last two years, on charge of " smashing the glaze," and some times of human kinds, was indicted for assaulting George Crawley, the turnkey at Bridewell. The Common-Sergeant stated the case, and George Crawley stated that, on Lady-day, he was in Smith field-bars, when Sally came up, and gave him a violent blow on the faco. He had been in the police seven years, and frequently took her in custody. She had teen fifty-eight times committed to Bridewell, and often forgiven without a committal. Crawley was fully confirmed by a witness, who was saluted on his cheek with her "bunch of fives." The prisoner said that she never struck Crawley, but she called him a mean fellow, because he was having a love affair with a lady in mourning in a court, and she considered it not right. In answer to this, it was proved that there is no court in that thoroughfare, and that Crawley was walking alone. The sentence was that she be imprisoned one month, and enter into her own recognizances to keep the peace for two years towards George Crawley, and, the consequence of a breach of them was fully ex plained. The prisoner is a well-behaved person when sober, but mad when she gets gin. She is scarcely ever out of prison a week together. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. ..----. - _ CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY TO SINK THE SHIP COLINA. —There was a great assemblage of persons in the justice-room and the avenues to it, in consequence of the under s t an di n g that William Read, the shipowner, and William Simpson, the captain of the Colina brig, which was the property of the former person, would be brought up for final examination on 3, t h i e carihnaerlgnesuofrahaving c o o , p n a s n pr conspired y i of to t de hes fra um u d o f t!ie it2so Alliance i„by 1 sinking that vessel off Holland. The examination was appointed t o t a k e place at th ree o'clock, in conse quence of . tila" n navoidable absence of lir. Clarkson till that hour. . The Lord Mayor and Sir John Pirie sat upon this occasion. Mr. Clarkson and M r . B o dki n a tt e nded upon the part of the prosecution ; and Mr. Wontner, the solicitor, appeared for Read. As it was generall y understood that Simpson would be admitted as Queen s 'Mk: LATE COACH ROBBERY. OXFORD, APRIL 6.—Richard Elliott, who de• scribed himself as a cigar -merchant, residing in Bell street, Paddington, and who has been. in custody since the night of Monthly, the 18th of last month, on a charge of being concerned, with two others, not yet in custody, in robbing the Defiance OxfOrd coach of 1,500 sovereigns, wss, fur the first time, publicly taa mined in the house of the Governor of the prison, by Dr. Marsham and Captain Shepperd. The prisoner, who is a share -visaged man, of rather fair complexion, and about thirty years of age, was smartly dressed, and is evidently a sharp and active fellow. Previous to the examination being entered on, Mt'• Ballantine, who appeared for the prisoner, applied to the Magistrate, and requested that some friends of the accused, who had come from London, and who were very anxious to hear the nature of the charge against the prisoner, as they had been kept in the dark about it, should be present. It was also but fair to inform the Magistrates that he, Mr. Ballantine, also intended calling some of those as witnesses to speak to the character of the prisoner, to show who and what he was. Dr. MARSIIAM replied, that at present be did not see the necessity of calling witnesses as to character, as the que.,tion before the court was one of fact. He refused the application: but said he had no objec tion to the depositions taken at the former examina tions of the prisoner being react over, and it would be then open to him, Mr. Ballantine, te make such ob _ _ servations on the ease as he might think proper. The deposition of Mr. Robert Hair, clerk in the , banking-house of Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand (who was not' present), was the first read. It was to' the effect that the witness, from instructions he had received, on Monday, the 18th of last month, counted out 1,500 sovereigns, and, after weighing them, put them into a bag and delivered them to Robert Quint, a porter employed in the bank. The deposition of Robert Quint, the person alluded ' to by the last witness, was to the effect, that after re. ceiving the sovereigns from Mr. Hair, he put thou into a small box, which he deposited in a blue bag, secured at the mouth with a string. He then got into a cab, and drove to the Gloucester Coffee-house, Ox ford-street, to deliver it to Hobson, the driver of the Defiance Oxford coach. When he arrived at the Gloucester Coffee-house, the coach had not got up, but after remaining a few minutes in the passage, it sr riie-d, when he delivered the bag to Hobson, and saw • him put it into the front boot. The time he had to wait for the coach was about five minutes, and all this time the bag lay by his side in the passage. Joseph Hobson, who was in attendance, was here called, and being sworn, his deposition taken on the 29th of Alareh was read over to him. He deposed , that he was coachman of the Defiance Oxford c,,achs which travels between that place and London. On Monday, the 18th of last month, at about ten o'clock - in the morning, he called at the banking-house of Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand, and signed a receipt for 1,5001. sovereigns. He subsequently returned to the Belle Sauvage, on Ludgate-hill, and left there with his coach at twelve o'clock, when he had one lady on the front seat. He then proceeded to the , Bell and Crown, Holborn, where he took nIY( another lady, who also got upon the front i seat. He next drove to the Regent-circus, where he took up a lad and a man, both of whom sat 00 the front with the two ladies. He then proceeded to the Gloucester Coffee-house, where he saw Quint, the porter at Messrs. Coutts's, who gave him a blue bog and this he placed in the off side of the front Seil t amongst other things, but put it near the bottonl. lie then took up a man (who took the box s eat), who saw him place the line. in the boot. Thi g man was stout, about 5 feet 9 in. in height, and wore an old-fashioned blue great coat, and had no luggag e ' Before reaching Knightsbridge the man on the bos • told him a person wanted to go with him, whel l . Elliott, the prisoner, came out of a gin-shop, B' ° ' up on the dickey, and said he was gob* to BensoP ; At Hammersm;th he took up another man, who g°: on the back part of the coach, and a woman, and 0 : Cranfordsbridge he took up another gentleman. At Cranford•bridge he saw the bag in the boot fi f er ' and he did not thi n k th a t any thi ng was t a k en o ut °) the boot till he reached Benson. He changed hor_ first at Hounslow, next at Longford, then at Salt-bill when a lady got down ; next at Ealy B o tt om , then 11 " Henley Bottom, and next at Benson. Here • Shrub, whom he had taken up at Cranford-brids l . 4 , and the prisoner Elliott, got off. The former had $ carpet bag, which was given to his boy, and wito.ee, went into the Crown Inn, where he stopped to recelr , the prisoner's fare. He gave him change for a sovereign''' . and he pressed witness to have a glass of ale, which 0 : , (witnee3) took. Before this a lady got out at Sal t % hill, and a passenger at Henley Bottom. When reached. the Crown Inn, Benson, it was a quarter Po .. seven o'clock, and he on that occasion, as well as otW places at which he had changed horses, left the On arriving at the Old Bank, at Oxford, he look" for the bag delivered to him by the porter of Moss °. Coutts and Co., but could not find it. He then drol to the Vine Inn, in the High-street, where the con finally stopped, and then again look e d f or it, ou„ found it was gone. He then asked the passeng e r who sat on the box with him and the others, if till saw any person take it, and they all said they did 0L In his cross-examination by Mr. Ballantine, witness said that the man whom he describea'r riding with him on the box, and who had obserir him receive the box and put it in the boot, was eat tered as a " gent." on the way-bill. He did know what became of him, nor had he seen 4 , 1 t since. He kne4 all the females that were with P i as passengers but one, and he believed they wet respectable persons. At Benson he was away fry his coach about five minutes, and was also off. his O: ( ", at the five other places he had previously chaor k ; horses at, as well as at Knight s b r id ge , w h en h e took W . prisoner up. He did not see the prisoner take thing away from the coach at Benson. Mr. Ballantine here remarked on the 'extreL singularity of th e w it ness g i v i ng a rece ipt for d 1,500 sovereigns at the banking-house•of the MO' Coutts' two hours before he received them. ,__ , The other witnesses examined were is illiam man, a servant in the employ of Mr. Shrub, Carr, horsekeeper at the Crown Inn, Benson, , Carter, landlord of the same inn, and a female >kf , vent, named Pierce. cst The prisoner was then remanded till a future e t° GREAT BRITAIN STEAM-SIIIP.— -ow -ow • Of t o, tide on Thursday night and Friday morning, at r Cumberland basin gates, was to the height of frotap 36 feet, probably higher than any we shalt:. have De7i i f the autumnal equinox. It was by . the .tom: Thursday that the Directors of .the. Gres& Steam-ship Company' had hoped - to . haw .0 4 the Great Britain down :the river. At a Isla, ing of the board of Directors of the Dock Conir l w on Monday last, art solution was pissed that ise ° • j of the correspondence which had taken place betty' • that Board and the Directors of the Great We s or - Steam-ship Company, respecting the removal of Great Britain, be transmitted to the Board of 'T with such explanations as may be deemed necessorto elucidate the position of all parties. By this it w,i 1 1 40, seen that nothing has yet been d one t o re li eve the u- 0 A Britain from her embarrassing situation.. The fl ts s i ti i Mercury states that the 'William Milnes,_ in. po hi i ig through the smaller lock o f Cumberland-basin, 'wig upon the walls, and, the tid e e bbi ng , h er bottoto . , rg o forced out, and the greater p ar t o f h er va l ua ble c'ot was lost. This occurred in the *autumn of 1813. . remained for some weeks,' wedged' in, . the spring ' l O O successively flowing over, and it was thought she Ow 10 have to be broken up; at length, however,.. she Nws' f t• tricated, underwent very costly repairs, and wa s " - - moved to another port. - T - D ---- The di tt 110$' ,lINER..OUT.- A Auer-out mum. come most passionate love for children. He must. so conlY4 himself that when his name shall be announced e l of child in the mansion shall set up a yell—a scram p 4 rapture—shall rush to him—pull hiscoa t-tails—cll his back—twist their fingers in his hair—snec" watch from his pocket ; and, whilst they rend his /1 %04 Saxony—load his shoulders—uncurl his wig"; e t" threaten instant destructien to his repeater, the ° l ot, out must Stifle the agony at his heart and his P e t boj and to. the feebly-expressed fears of the manul l ' coo the " children are 'troublesome," the diner-out mut t big into every corner of his face a look of the most set delight, and with a very chuckle assure the 0 404 parent that " the little rogues are charming!" -- - '' Meadows' Heads of the People. • BIRTHS. t od 6 On the 2d inst., Mrs. George P. Putnam, of Eustotr oc i ' of On a son. the 3d inst., at Goodrest Lodge, near Resdin. - lady of Bulkley J. M. Praed, Esq., of a son. I #ll' On the 4th inst., Mrs. T. P. Turner, Bedford-row, of still-born. ,0 On the 4th inst., the wife of F. H. Dickinson , ftck ' Upper Harley-street, of a daughter. MARRIED. ttik On the 10th of February, at the Cathedral, Cala- 0.11, Udny, Esq., Civil Service, to Annie Lydia, second 011' of Samuel Tomkins, Esq., of Lombard-itreet. .40 0.11 r„ On the 2d inst., at Southwick, Hants, 'William ‘'', l oo'" Raper, Esq., 111,8., to Mary, daughter of Charles Wiwi' Esq., Controller of her Majesty's Customs, ltaxat___g___--de' ------ , • DIED. On the 29th ult., John Gould, Esq., solicitor, street, Queen-square, aged 74. ..40 ..ru" On the 31st ult., at Gainford-place, Barnsbnss4,. Islington, Mrs. P. Alan, widow of the late G. Altano4 o On the Ist inst., at Warminster, William "Ly . e '-'' , 0 Esq., aged 30. A ti S • to 6. N thumberlan. _ ..„ On the 3d inst., at Eglingham, or . o wl, Venerable Edward Thomas Iligge, Archdeacon of ' , J u tt ed I to On the 3d inst., at Worthing, John Bradley. s(l ''d A tie On the 3d inst., Frances Margaret Davies, eldest 15. 0 106 of Captain Chandler, 17th Lancers, aged ~,r . r of Glouce4.6l. On the 10th inst., Agnes, eldest child of Mr. 11 ' . , ica of Cheapside. On the sth inst., Emily Susan, only daughtet of Cllst Baker, Esq., of Endsleigh-street. --...w.••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••.••!•••••••••••••11 .••••••••-•••••••••••••..".....• • London : Printed and Published by MURDO Vit o. 111 No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun 00.ce, Strand, in the Precinct of ' the Savoy, In the C 4" Monday, April 8, 1844.: bier, ti request Whieh , •, • Of Attoi ..1111 - as ordi tourum • • 4 , -1 4 Vu ritir I4 stitut I.llk ye a etbra nu • LORI Chair. ~ ~~ " ""14 a OPpc E and Cl uUnix 2 Sth of SEli (situ ate 4 PPurt kilns ' `wee a t v '4lo , ettitte, Apply kneis e. 'me 6. %et. 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