The Sun. — London, England, 1844-12-19 00:00:00

TEE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MOUNING, DECEMBER put some water on. The prisoner said, " Never mind; there's water yonder," pointing to Mrs. Shepherd's. he put the razor and latherbox in his pocket, and went out, Witness saw the razor afterwards with Mr. Ward. It was the same he had lent the prisoner. Joseph Jones stated that he lived next door to Mrs, Shepherd. Was in the necessary on the Sunday evening. Heard a noise, as of the prisoner sine;lng. He seee.ed to be going to Mrs. Shepherd's. He . stoord down' 'and said " Here goes it • here I will tlie." ti e stooped for a short time, and then rose up, and some thing dropped He opened Mrs. Sbpherd's door, and fell in. Witness went to the plat- o where the prisoner stooped down, and found a, rsi2or. Gave it to Edward Ray. There was sore blood upon it. It was about half open. Witnr_s went into Shepherd's house. The prisoner was 'Weeding from the throat. The surgeon came in a l :Jout a quarter of an hour. Cress-examined—Did not observe the prisoner until he stooped. Could not see if he put his hand into his pocket. - Edward Ward—Received the razor from Edward Ray. Went to the Rob Roy public-house, and found the body of deceased there. Went to Mrs. Shepherd's. The prisoner was lying on the floor with his throat cut. Took him to.the infirmary. There was a blue pilot cP- t in the house, in the pocket of which was a latherb , jx and brush. The coat was much sprinkled with blood ',a the skirts. Thomas Huxley stated that on Sunday, the 7th of July, he was in Bridge-street. It was near ten o'clock. Came up to a man and woman near the cornet of Alfre d street. Heard the man say, " Well, Alice, must we be married ?" She replied, "No, not yet." He said, "You won't?" The woman answered, "No, not these six months, Tom," Wit ness wen t on a b out fif teen yards, and heard the woman cry out, " Oh God, Toni!" She was at the corner of Brigg-street. She was then leaving the man. He came towards witness. Ile walked very quick. She went in the direction of Ar lington -street. Witness spoke to the man, and said, " What's to do?" He answered, " Nothing; good night." When witness first passed them the man had his arm round the woman's neck. He had a blue pilot coat on, anti ho seemed to have iron heels to his boots. The woman had no bonnet. She went in the direction of Richmond-street. The young woman had on a dick dress and cream-coloured boots. Cross-examined—Did not see other people about at the tune. The two persona seemed to be courting. Did not notice anything peculiar about them. Was about five yards past them before he heard anything said. Was not paying any particular attention. Is sure of the words. They were," Well, Alice, shall we be married?" Is sure it was by way of question. When witness heard the words, " Oh God, Tom," thought the 'man had struck her. It seemed to be an expression of pain. Was fif teen or twenty yards off at the time. The man could have gone to Mrs. Shepherd's house, at the pace he was walking, in about ten minutes. Had particularly ob served the woman's dress before he heard her cry out. Was five yards past before he heard the words about getting married. Witness's attention was not particu larly directed towards them. They were talking when witness passed. They talked in the same tone all along. Had observed the: mans boots in passing. Judged they had iron heels from the sound. The man crossed by Albert -street. Thinks he passed over flags, but cannot say. It is not soft ground there. Seemed to have laccup boots. Coal I not see what both parties wore be fore passing them. Had not seen the body of the de ceased before giving his evidence. Saw her the night before she was buried. It was before the Coroner's in quest. Believed she was in her coffin. She was laid out Saw part of the clothes after he had given a descriptii of her dress. Saw her boots and a neckerchief. The clothes he saw were a dark-coloured dress, a crape hami kerchief, and cream-coloured boots. I am sure the word she used was Tom. Will swe-er it was not John. Was about fifteen yards off at that time. Re - examined--Described the young woman's dress before he saw the clothes of the deceased. The man in running away crossed a brick croft. Ann Kershaw—Lives in Brigg-street, Salford. It is a corner house with Albert-street. There is a back window into Albert-street. Saw a man and woman opposite the back window just after the clock struck ten. Both were dressed in dark clothes. Saw their heads. She had no bonnet on. She had a cap. They came in the direction of Brigg-street. They would turn to the left to go into Albert-street. They seemed as if they were quarrelling. The woman made a sudden start from the palings in the direction of Brigg-street, and the maa after her. William Henry Kershaw—ls the son of the last ait ness. His mother sent him to see what the man and woman were doing. Saw the man part from the woman, and as he was running he stumbled into a gutter. That was at thirty yards off, and in the middle of the brick croft. He ran away towards Dale-street. As he ran away she turned the corner, and put up her hand to her throat. Witness went into the house. Heard an alarm of a woman having been killed about a quarter of an hour after. Went to the place where he had seen the woman, and found a pool of blood. Cross -examined—When the man ran away be ran from me. It was about four or five yards from the corner of Brigg-street. I saw them separate. Mary Barlow—Lives in Arlington -street. Saw a woman, about the hour mentioned, passing up Arlington street, opposite Dean's-buildings. She was staggering. She had her left hand to her throat. There was a gurgling sound in her throat. She passed near witness, and put her hand on witness's shoulder with a sort of push. She went up Arlington-street, until she got opposite Mr. Senior's shop, when she fell against tl;e door. Witness gave an alarm, and the woman was taken to the Rob Roy public-house. She had a cap on, and no bonnet. Thomas Barber—Saw the woman fall, and helped to raise her up. She lived about ten minutes. Joseph Chrichton, surgeon, stated that on the Bth o f July he went t o th e Rob Roy public-house, and saw the body of a female. There was a large wound on the throat, about eight inches long, in an oblique direction. The windpipe was severed. That wound was the cause of death. Thinks it must have been inflicted by the right hand of ano th er party. E xam i ned the prisoner at Cook -street on the erening of Sunday. He had a very large wound in the neck. The windpipe was nearly cut in two. He was sent to the infirmary. He was unable to speak. The large blood vessels seemed to have escaped. Cross-examined—It is possible the wound might have been inflicted by the left hand of the deceased. It wa, in an oblique direction from the front of the throat, up towards the left ear. Thinks the course of the wound would have been different if it had been made by the left hand of the deceased party. Cannot speak positively. Mr. Shepherd recalled—The deceased had on a second mourning dress and light boots. Prisoner had on a blue pilot coat. Did not notice his boots. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. JAMES addressed the jury for the prisoner, going minutely through the evidence, and contending that there was nothing in it that could justify the jury in saying, beyond any reasonable doubt, that it was the hand of the prisoner at the bar which inflicted the wound of which the unfortunate woman died. lie urged that from the inconsistencies of the statements made respecting the man and woman described by the witnesses, that there must have been more than one couple seen by them, in itself the most probable thing in the world, in such a town as Manchester, on the Sunday evening. Nor were the prisoner and the de ceased identified as either of them. The dress and ap pearance described were of a kind the most usual and common in the class of life to which the prisoner and the deceased belonged ; and the supposition that they were identified by the fact of their using the names of Tom and Alice, was one based on the most rash assumptions. The only witness on whom the truth of this fact depended was paying, as might be supposed, no attention to th casual conversation of two persons whom he was acci dentally passing in the streets. He was even, by his own account, at some considerable distance before he professed to have heard the names, and his loose recol lection of the conversation would be most likely to be deceived when, once having got the idea th those whom he had seen were the parties in question, he learned that their names were what he had now stated. That this unfortunate woman died from a wound inflicted in her throat was most certain ' • but could they say with certainty, upon this evidence, by whom that wound had been inflicted ? It was possible, on the medical evidence, that it had been inflicted by herself. Could they say it was not ? They would recollect the singular circum stance of the deceased playing with her fingers round the neck of Mrs. Shepherd. Who could tell what sin gular ideas, passing in her mind, had prompted this strange conduct ? Was it not possible that the fact of the prisoner losing his situation, the consequent post ponement of her marriage, a matter of necessity, of more importance to her than to him, might have prompted the rash act. But even if they should think themselves jus tified, amid all these unsatisfied doubts, in coming to tie conclusion that the prisoner really inflicted this in jury on the deceased, was it not clear that on that evening he was not aware of what he was doing ? They would recollect the strange way in which he was stated to have come to Mrs. Shepherd's singing a foolish song, and stampi - g with his feet in the strange way which Mrs. Shepherd had described. And when they found, as would be clearly shown, that the prisoner was since beyond all doubt, insane—that he had been treated as a lunatic, and been subjected to the restraint of a straight-waistcoat, as the only means of security, it would strengthen beyond measure the probability, that at the time of this occurrence, should they think that he par ticipated in the death of the deceased, he was not ac countable for his actions. The great loss of blood was the most likely thing to produce an interval of sanity. When that depletion was supplied by a generous diet he became insane, an 3 was only restored to sanity by sub mitting him to a rigorously lowering regimen. Ho would call the surgeon of the gaol, and leave them to form their judgment on his evidence as to the prisoner's sanity, contending, however, that in the first place there was no evidence on which they could rely, that it was by his act the deceased came by the injury which caused her death. Mr. Chalmers, surgeon to the gaol, was called, and stated that for some weeks after the prisoner came into the gaol he treated him as any other patient for the wound in his throat. After that time he became morose, irritable, and ill-behaved in his manner. He had been placed on a more generous diet than the prison diet. He became at last very violent and incoherent. Witness thought he was insane, and summoned other medical at tendance, Dr. Fornby. After a joint examination with Dr. Foruby, was still of the same opinion. He was put ina straight. jac k et , and persons appointed to watch him. His diet was r e d uce d, and he is still kept on th e same diet. He remained in that state for nearly a fortnig ht , Thinks he is now sane, b u t wou ld think it his duty- to, watch him for fear of a recurrence of the malady. A de pleting mode of treatment may , produ ce t h e appearance of sanity for the time, insanity being liable to recur when that treatment is abandoned. Cannot from what lie saw speak as to the state of his mind in the July preceding. Hi s 'moan) summed up, and stated that of late years the plea of Insanity had been set up on very weak grounds. If a man showed any peculiarity, any morose ness, had any unreasonable quarrel with his relations or friends, it was made a ground for representing him as insane. To establish that plea, however, they must be satisfied that the party was at the time the offence was committed unable to distinguish right from wrong. His Lordship then went through the facts as they bore upon the question, whether the prisoner had, in fact, caused the death of the deceased. The jury, after a short absence from the box, returned a verdict of Guilty. His LORDSHIP then proceeded to pass sentence upon the prisoner. Towards the close of his Lordship's ad dress, the unhappy man sank back, apparently partially insensible, in the arms of the turnkeys. At the close of the sentence he seemed to wake, as it were, from a dream, and clinging to the front of the dock endeavoured to ad dress the Court, but a few hoarse, unintelligible whispers were all that could be heard; his tongue refused its office, and he was led half fainting from the dock. At the same moment some person at the back of the dock was seized with a fit apparently of epilepsy, and his cries and struggles were appalling. The crowd endeavouring to rush to tilt spot increased the confusion, and it was only , by great exertions on the part of the officers in attend ance that the unfortunate man was carried from the Court, and order finally restored. Durham, Dec. 16. The Commission for this county was opened by the Worshipful the Mayor of Durham, on the l4th inst., and Mr. Justice Coleridge arrived in the evening , and attended Divine s erv i ce a t th e C at h e d ra l on S unday morning. The number of prisoners in the calendar is twenty six, and the number of charges twenty-two, comprising two charged with firing a gun into a dwelling-house, with intent to do some grievous bodily harm ; three charged with rape, one with manslaughter, two (one of whom is a gentleman possessed of considerable resources) with an unnatural crime; six with cutting and maiming, with intent to murder or do grievous bodily harm ; four with forgery, and uttering 5L notes of the Stockton and Durham County Bank ; three with burglary, and two with feloniously receiving the proceeds of the burglary ; one with forging and uttering a bill of exchange ; and one with attempting to sink a ship on the high seas. The crimes are thus all of a highly serious character. The Court was opened this day at ten minutes to eight o'clock. His LORDSHIP, in charging the grand jury, expressed an opinion that the grand jury and others would feel great inconvenience from having to attend the Winter Assizes at this inclement season of the year. The county which he had just left (Yorkshire), however, showed that the course pursued was not without necessity. The advantage of frequent gaol deliveries was great in one respect, that it prevented persons wrongfully charged from being long confined in prison ; but the evil was as great individually in cases where there were few prisoners as in those where many were confined. During last year between 8,000 and 9,000 prisoners had been discharged without conviction, from one cause or another, and at the last Winter As sizes 306 had thus received their discharge. The ground of a long commitment, however, did not at tach in this case, for, with the exception of five, all the rest had been committed to gaol since October. J.His Lordship observed, at some length, on parties procuring themselves to be inserted on the special jury lists, in order to get quit of attendance on the petty juries—a practice which, be said, was much to be deprecated, not only on the ground that it inflicted an onerous and unjust burden on the lower classes of jurymen, but also because it fleprived the Judges of the assistance of men of greater moral and intellectual attainments in some of the more important cases—such as murder, manslaughter, for gery, and the like. The power of remedying this by the magistrates was so difficult as to be almost impos sible. His Lordship then proceeded to remark on the cases in the calendar, but nothing of a general nature was contained in his obse, vations. MANSLAUGHTER AT WINGATE GRANGE COLLIERY.— Jane Shaw, aged 52, was charged with killing and slay ing her husband, Thomas Sliaw, at the parish of Kello, on the 17th of August last. Mr. Otter conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Grainger the defence. In this case it appeared that on the day the unfortu nate occurrence took place, the deceased and his wife had been both drinking in a public-house kept by a man named Anderson, at Wingate-grange Colliery, in which they resided. Some bitter ebservations, indicating a certain extent of jealousy, had been made use of by the prisoner to her husband ; but it yet appeared that she had made some attempts to get him home. On the road he was seen to be bent nearly double and to sink upon a form in a disabled state ; and after he was raised the blood was seen to gush from a wound in his breast, and he fainted. The surgeon called in deposed that he survived for a few days, but ultimately died from an effusion of blood internally, which effusion was caused by the wound already mentioned, described as about half an inch in length and two inches in depth, and likely to be produced by a penknife or a pair of small scissors. Two witnesses deposed to the deceased saying to his wife, after being conveyed home, " You villain, it was not this way when you stuck the gully into me." But a third, the wife of one of the other witnesses, and who had not previously been examined in the case, swore that the expression of the deceased was, " You villain, you know where you put the gully into me." That a person exclaimed it had not been done by a gully, but by a penknife ; and that on his wife hearing this she went to a table in the room and took up a penknife, which she put into her pocket. Much stress was laid by Mr. GRAINGER in his defence on no blood being found in the prisoner's house, no knife with blood upon it, about her or the premises, and no marks of blood upon the person. The wife was tipsy at the time of the unfortunate occurrence, so much so that, on being informed of his state, she said she knew nothing about him, and was going to seek him with a lighted lantern ; and the Learned Counsel suggested that the deceased's death might have been occasioned by falling upon some low palisades in front of his house ; and, although the evidence of medical gentlemen were quite contradictory of this hypothesis, yet the jury seemed to agree with it, and Acquitted the prisoner. The Court adjourned at seven o'clock. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Stafford, Dec. 16. (Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.) MURDER OF SIR THOMAS BOUGHEY'S HEAD-GAME KEEPER.-At nine o'clock this morning Paul Downing, aged nineteen, and Charles Powys, aged seventeen, were arraigned, charged with the wilful murder of William Cooper, at Audley, in the month of August last. Mr. Yardley and Mr. Boughey appeared on the part of the Crown; the prisoners were defended by Mr. Allen and Mr. Huddleston. The facts of the case having been succinctly stated by the senior counsel for the prosecution, a model and plans of the premises where the horrible transaction took place were put in and duly proved. Daniel Colelough was then sworn—He stated, I am a collier. I lived near the deceased, Cooper. On Sunday, the 4th of August, about nine A.M. and about five P.M. he called on me. We went together to Audley Chapel, and left about eight in the evening, when we went to the King's Head, where we remained tilt ten.- The deceased walked with me home. I arrived there at a quarter to twelve. As we walked home we met an uncle of the de ceased. I went to bed as soon as I reached my house. Shortly after I was called up by the father of the de ceased and another man, named Shuker. I went with them to Cooper's house, and found him lying there dead. Thomas Cooper, the father of the deceased, deposed as follows :—I live in the parish of Audley. I and my son were gamekeepers in the service of Sir Thomas Boughey. On the night of the 4th of August I went to bed a little after ten. I heard the clock strike eleven and twelve. Soon after twelve I heard the report of a gun, accompanied by a loud scream, close to my back premises. My bed-room is in the front of the house. I immediately jumped out of bed, knocked against the wall my neighbour Shuker, and ran down stairs. I 1. • • son lying on his right side with his head in the nd his body in the yard. There was a con siderab é ;antity of blood around him. On finding what had taken place, I called in Lawrence and his wife, and Lightfoot. They came up by the cart-road to the house, and entered the kitchen. I sent for Mr. War burton, who lives at Betley, and is a surgeon ; and I went to Colclough's and Shuker's. It was about four o'clock when I left the house myself. I then sent Shuker to Newcastle, about five miles off, for the police. Before going, however, he called my attention to some foot-marks in a fallow field, which had gone through the gate near Lawrence's garden. They were the traces of two persons, one rather larger than the other. I also observed that where they had come across the pasture field the dew was taken off the grass. The footmarks were in a line from my back pre mises down the field. I could only track them for eight or nine yards. The two lines of steps were about three or four yards apart. There was so much dew that I could see the steps distinctly. I examined the cow-yard as soon as Shuker was gone. I there saw four or five footmarks. Two were very perfect ; a brick was also displaced in the footway. I ordered the footsteps not to be disturbed till the police arrived. I was absent at Betley about an hour. About ten o'clock the police ar rived, Mr. Miinight first. I pointed out to him all the footmarks. I had been in the cowhouse-yard about nine o'clock on Sunday evening, and left the gates closed as usual. Between three and four in the morning I disco vered the one leading into the foldyard open. There were no footsteps in the midden then, nor was the brick at that time displaced. I know both prisoners. On four different occasions I have had to lay informations against one of them, and on one occasion my son was with me when we caught the prisoners poaching ; but I proved the case. The first time was about January last, and the last the 26th of May. The information was heard on the 4th of June. An information has been laid against Powys. My house is eleven minutes' walk from Enoch Wood's. Cross-examined—l came out at the door my son was shot at. Lawrence and his wife came with me after I gave the alarm. Saw Lightfoot on my premises at two A.m. My attention was attracted to footmarks between three and four o'clock. No one had left my house between the two periods. Do not recollect any search having been made up to the time my attention was called to the footmarks. Told Shuker not to say any thing about footmarks or marks on linen. Lawrence's cottage is about 15 or 20 yards from the road. I was never a witness, or made any charge against the pri soner Powys. Ours is a very bad neighbourhood for poaching. The poachers are very bold and daring, and a most desperate set of characters. I have had, during the last two years, to lay many informations against poachers. A fearful and most barbarous murder of a . gamekeeper was committed there about a year ago. My son was not a witness on that occasion. Once he laid an information against Downing. He used to go out and asi but never bin u s . H e was a labourer. I saw Downing whilst in custody, nler h s e p h ok ad e btoettehirmteallbo all a t b h o is ut ibuziner bad.l never not been shooting either on the Sunday, Monday, or Tuesday. William Price—l am a policeman. Was at Hamer end on the sth of August, at Enoch Wood's house, and apprehended Downing there between one and two. I took him to Cooper's house ; took him all along the footpath leading across the field to Cooper's house. I know the field by Cooper's back premises. Go t into that field through a gate adjoining Cooper's garden, furthest from the house. When the prisoner arrived at the pro secutor's house I delivered him over to another man's custody. Saw Powys that afternoon, at three. He was coming up the pasture field. I know Lawrence's house. I live there. I saw Powys above the road in the pasture field. I went to him and took him into custody. Mr. Manight was with me. Made him take off his right boot, which I gave to Mr. M'Kaight. I remained half an hour with him, and went afterwards to Cooper's house. The left boot was taken off in my presence, be fore he went to the house. He walked up to the house across the turf barefooted. James Wright M'Knight—l nth the chief superin tendent of the constabulary force at the Potteries. Went to Cooper's house -at nine o'clock A.M. on the Monday. Saw deceased. Saw footmarks. They were in the midden in the yard ; the other in a gateway leading from a pasture to a fodder field. Cooper pointed them out. They were right footmarks. Observed particularly a footmark in the gateway ; there was the impression of three nails in the front mark ; the centre nail was smaller than the other two ; I had not at that time seen the boot. The footmarks in the midden and gateway were of the same size and shape. I considered them to be made by the same boot or shoe. There were other marks, but not so distinct. Went into the fallow field. I only observed one footmark there. Observed more than one near the gate in the fallow field. There were at least two footmarks in the field ; perhaps as many as of three or four persons. Considered, from the size of the smaller footmarks, that the persons who had been in the yard had gone in that direction. I traced marks up to the hedge, which seemed to have been broken through. I did not trace them any further at that time. Saw a boot taken off Powys. Examined the boot with reference to the footmarks. I think Cooper and Shuker were with me. I compared the boots with the marks. I measured with a twig the impression and boot. Found them exactly to correspond. (The boot was here produced.) I afterwards compared it with the marks in the gateway. Found them to correspond. Was making the comparison when Mr. Hatton arrived. We measured the boot and marks together in every di rection, and found them all to correspond. Made other comparisons at Clemley Park-bank some little time af terwards. Saw marks in a ditch there in a grass field adjoining. Had then another boot from the policeman, Slater, at the end of the field. I saw footmarks at the further end of the field. This witness remained for a great length of time under examination and cross-examination. On his re-exami nation it was clearly proved that one of the footmarks, which was more particularly examined, corresponded precisely with the shoe of one prisoner ; one nail was deficient in the toe of the shoe, and also of the impres sion, and the other nails corresponded in number pre cisely. Thomas Shuker—l am a labourer. Oa the night in question I heard the report of a gun on Mr Cooper's premises, a little after twelve. I got up and slw the de ceased lying there. I went in about four or five minutes after to Lawrence's. I then searched .bout the premises and observed fresh footsteps. I went afterwards to Newcastle for the police. This witness proceeded to describe the direction in which the footsteps went which it would be impossible to render intelligible without a map to refer to. He added, that in the back yard of Cooper's house he saw a small piece of blue paper lying in the yard, near to where the deceased had been lying. The paper was open. On the following day I found two pieces of blue paper partly wedged under a brick in the yard. Cross-examined—Nothing was said to me abou looking for wadding on Monday night. Mr. Hatton inquired on the Tuesday morning about paper or wad ding, and I told Mr. Hatton that I had seen it the day before. Captain Hatton, chief of the constabulary of Stafford shire—l saw Mr. M'Knight at Mr. Cooper's house when I arrived there on the morning of the sth of August. I observed some footmarks and boots, which were pointed out to me. They tallied precisely in every respect. (;The testimony of this witness corroborated in every par ticular the preceding evidence.) Captain Hatton pro duced a single-barrelled gun, which he found in the bed. room of the elder prisoner. It had evidently in his opi nion, been recently used—in all probability 24 hours be fore. He brought also a powder-horn, containing a charge of powder. The horn was stopped with a pledget of blue paper rolled up, of precisely the same colour and quality as that which was used as wadding for the gun. This circumstance, as will be seen hereafter, formed a very important link in the chain of evidence which con nected the prisoners with the crime. Captain Hatton was present when the last witness found two pieces of blue paper in the yard, which had evidently been used as wadding. He then compared them with the pledget of paper twisted up and used as a stopper to the horn found in the bed-room of one of the prisoners. This comparison was repeated in Court, and no doubt could exist as to the pieces of paper found on Cooper's premises having been used as wadding to a gun, nor of their having been torn off the larger piece already alluded to. The gun was found in a drawer of a chest of drawers, locked up and covered over with clothes ; and the witness further stated, that his belief as to its having been recently fired was founded upon the appearance of the nipple and of the cock, which, as every one skilled in the use of fire arms is aware, differs totally from that of the same parts when the gun has laid by for a few days. Mr. 'larding, one of the Coroners of the county, proved that, in his opinion, he entertained not the least doubt but that the boot taken off the elder prisoner had made the impressions noticed near the house, each of which was most accurately and carefully measured by him and by several other parties. In fact, too high an encomium cannot be passed upon Captain Hatton, and the police under him, for the great care and pains evinced by them in the investigation of the case, and the detec tion of the prisoners. Thomas Furnival—l know the Samson colliery, and recollect the Audley wake Sunday. I was at the col liery about four or five o'clock. I saw Powys and Smith there; the former had a gun with him, which he was " ramming down." He then went down by the wood. Hannah Sinister, the wife of Charles Sinister, of Leycet, in the parish of Madeley—l know the Samson colliery. I live about 200 yards from it.. I remember Audley wake Sunday. Between four and five that after noon I heard a gun go off. I looked out and saw Powys, Smith, Burgess, and Harding. They were op posite my door. Don't recollect which had the gun. James Smith—l remember the Sunday of Audley wake. I know the prisoners and the last witness, Mrs. Sinister. I live at Leycet. I was in company with Powys, Burgess, and Harding on the afternoon of that day. None of us had a gun. We were at Enoch Wood's till a late hour in the evening. I got home at a quarter to twelve. I Nat saw Powys about eleven. Downing was in his company at that time. George Madders—My father is a butcher at Ormer end. I know Charles Powys. I saw him on the even ing of Audley wake Sunday. James Smith was with him. He asked me to get him some powder and some caps from Burgess's. He said I waa to fetch them in a pocket handkerchief. I did not fetch them, because a little lad had just died in the house, and I could not for shame go. Downing lived close to my father's house. I saw him one day washing his hands, and he said he wished he was washing them " in William Cooper's heart's blood." Cross-examined—Dowing was at home when he said this. It was the day Mr. Cooper caught him in Audley wood. It was more than a week before ill* wakes. I said nothing of it until a month after the wakes. Thomas Bolton, a collier, living at Audley-end—l was at Enoch Wood's on the night of the wakes, about eleven o'clock. I saw Powys there, and Downing too. He was with James Smith. Powys said something to Mr. Wood. I went away in the direction of 'Alsager's Bank. I passed the Gresley Arms, kept by Mrs. Jones. When there I heard the sound of a gun. The sound came from towards Betley. I heard a scream at the same time. Robert Weatherley (police-officer).—l remember Audley wake Sunday. I went to Ormerend that night, and left Audley after clearing the public-houses, at a quarter before twelve. I left Wood's beer-shop as the clock struck twelve. I afterwards went to the Gresley Arms, and to Silverdale. While going along I heard the report of a gun in the direction of Cooper's house. This was nearly half an hour from the time of leaving Wood's. I sent the two lads, Furnival and Bolton, to school, by order of the chief constable, about three weeks ago. At a late period of the evening it became apparent that the case for the prosecution could not be closed for some hours further ; and his Lordship, after directing that the jury should be kept in safe custody, adjourned the further investigation of the case until nine o'clock to-morrow morning. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (Before Mr. Justice WIGIITMAN and Mr. Baron RoLFE.) THE BANK OF ENGLAND FORGERY. -------- --- William Burgess, the young man who stands charged placedd ahpnr e i mi f ds r o. a an u ve d Tewrrs t hir h ,teeh e dti oin ß nt dht a phia n leeet k tamddt e he f e ' cent E ko: n i g n l and conjunctiono f s , oo with forgin g th e name of O xenford to a b ank trans f er, to , t h w s a e s v e y r e a s l t yesterday prisonereaon n t i a n in d e i c dd m ads e , n mo t na p n a r y e f da e sa r yr six e d p a a cs g ot a ,u i na n ti s sd t , and assist Joseph Elder, or some person unknown, to personate the owner of certain shares of public stock, of the value of 8,2001., with intent to defraud one William Oxenford thereof. In the remaining counts the parties alleged to have been defrauded were the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. The Hon. Stewart Wortley, Q.C., Mr. Adolphus, and Mr. Clarkson appeared for the prosecution ; and Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Charnock for the defence. The prisoner, on being called upon for the purpose, pleaded Not Guilty. Mr. BODKIN then made an application to have the trial postponed till to-morrow morning, on the ground that the prisoner's counsel had not had sufficient time since the delivery of their instructions to examine into the facts and circumstances of the case. The briefs were only delivered late on the preceding Thursday, and the Learned Counsel were therefore quite unpre pared to defend the prisoner at this early period. Mr. STUART WORTLEY urged that sufficient time had been allowed the prisoner to prepare for the defence, and said he was rather surprised that the delivery of the in structions to his Learned Friend had been deferred to so late a period. It would be an inconvenience to the numerous witnesses who were in attendance for the pro secution ; but if their Lordships assented to the post ponement, of course he could not object to it. Mr. Baron ROLFE, after consulting with Mr. Justice Wightman, acceded to the application of the prisoner's counsel, and directed the trial to be brought on at ten o'clock this morning. Elizabeth Smith, 21, Catherine Edwards, 20, Wil liam Palmer, 21, and Sarah Bing, 24, were indicted for robbing George Martin upon the highway, and were also charged with using personal violence to the prosecutor at the time of the commission of the robbery. George Martin, the prosecutor, deposed that, on the evening of the 25th November, he was in the Wa terloo-road, about ten o'clock at night, when he met the prisoner, Smith, who asked him the way to the Elephant and Castle, and he directed her the way to go. While he was speaking to her the prisoner Ed wards came out of the side-door of a public-house close by, and struck him on the eye and knocked him down. He got up and laid hold of Smith, and a struggle ensued, and they fell down together, and while they were upon the ground he felt her hand in his pocket, and when he got up he missed ten and fourpence. He called out that he had been robbed, and had hold of Smith to secure her, when Palmer and Byng came up, and Palmer shoved him on one side, and the women ran away across the Waterloo road, while Palmer ran off in another direction. He afterwards saw the prisoners in custody, and identified them as the persons who had acted towards him in the way he described. The prosecutor, in answer to questions from the Court, admitted that he had been drinking before the occurrence took place, and was not sober, and as there was no corroboration of his testimony, the jury ex pressed their opinion that the charge was not clearly made out, and they therefore acquitted the prisoners. The prisoner, Palmer, was then indicted for felo niously cutting and wounding Daniel Martin, a police-constkble. This charge arose out of the former transaction. It appeared that the constable, Daniel Martin, having received information of the robbery, was induced to seek after the prisoner, but, in his attempting to ap prehend him, he made a violent resistance, and drew a knife, or dagger, and attempted to stab him, inflict ing, in the attempt, a slight wound on his person. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to be transported for fifteen years. John Greenhall, 32, was indicted for obtaining goods by a forged order. It appeared that the prosecutor is a shoemaker, named Fribe, and the prisoner went to his shop with a written paper, purporting to come from the Rev. Mr. Hall, the Vicar of Hayes, in which the prosecu tor was requested to send six pairs of boots by the prisoner, in order that Mr. Hall might select a pair that would suit him. The boots were given to the prisoner, and the paper was soon afterwards found to be a forgery. The prisoner was convicted, and sentenced to be kept to hard labour for two years. The Court adjourned soon after four o'clock, and it was formally announced in the course of the day that there would not in future be any evening sittings. MARLBOROUGII-STREET. Tuesday Mr. James James, saddler, No. 8, Bentinck street, Berwick-street, was summoned before Mr. Maltby, by Elizabeth Heslam, for an assault. The complainant, a good-looking Yorkshire girl, said she had lived with the defendant as servant for some weeks, during which period her master had made many amorous overtures to her, all of which she had rejected. Her master had also offered her money on several occa sions—first a shilling, next half-a•crown, and lastly a sovereign, which, acting under her mistress's sanction, who was put in possession of the defendant's proceedings, she consented to receive. On Friday last her mistress was sent for to attend her father, who was very ill, in order that she might remain all night. Before her mis tress left home she (complainant) told her she did not like to remain alone with her master in the house, but her mistress told her not to mind, but to take clre how she allowed anything improper to occur. As soon as her mistress had left the house, the defendant came into the kitchen, and, after placing himself in a chair, began to pull her about. She resisted, and the defendant then got up and shut the door. The defendant gave her a sove reign, which she took, and he proceeded to attempt further liberties. The defendant was only induced to leave off his improper behaviour, on complainant telling him that some one was coming. As soon as complainant got rid of her master she called one of the boys, and told him she was going out of the house, and should not re turn all night. Complainant accordingly left the house, and did not enter it again until the next day, by which time her mistress had returned home. She immediately told her mistress of her master's behaviour, and also made her acquainted with the fact of his having given her a sovereign. Her mistress told her to keep the money, as nothing was freer than a gift, and then sent for her husband, that he might hear the charge against him. A soon as the defendant entered the room, com plainant said she began to tell the particulars of his con duct to her on various occasions, but the defendant would not let her proceed, for he shook his fist at her in a me nacing manner, and then took her by the back of the neck and pushed her violently out of the place. Com plainant, at the suggestion of her mistress, applied for and obtained a summons for the assault. The defendant, in reply to the charge, said there was no truth in the girl's story. He had never attempted to take liberties, nor had he given her money at any time to induce her to comply with his solicitations. The fact was, that the girl came to him with a message from her mistress that she wanted a sovereign. He had given the girl the sovereign, and the girl had then gone out and had stopped away the whole night. Having ascer tained that the girl's mistress had not seat to him for the sovereign, and being very much irritated the next day when the girl made her appearance and trumped up a story to his wife, in order to cover her misconduct, he certainly did push her out of the house. Mr. MALTBY asked the defendant if he positively de nied having ever acted improperly to the girl ?—The defendant declared he never had touched her, or made improper proposals to her. Complainait—You know you have, many and many a time. When mistress was out the other day, did you not try to get at me in the bedroom, but you could not because I had locked the door ? Your worship, he never could pass me when I lived in the house without pulling my frock or laying hold of my neck. I was so disgusted with his behaviour that I told mistress about it. Mr. MALTBY—You say the defendant gave you money, and you took it ; for what purpose did he give you this money ? Complainant—He pretended to pity me at first. He said I was a poor girl, without friends, and if I wanted to buy myself some clothes he would give me money. He told me he would give me a sovereign any time I liked, and that he did not care about spending a hundred pounds to obtain anything he had set his mind upon. I told my mistress everything he said to me. The defendant called an errand boy as witness, but no thing of any consequence was elicited. At the suggestion of Mr. Maltby, the defendant con sented to send for his wife. The wife, who has much the advantage of the com plainant in point of personal attractions, entered the Court and was examined. It was quite apparent that great reluctance on her part existed to state any matter unfavourable to her husband. She denied that the com plainant had taken out the summons at her request. She admitted, however, that the complainant had told her about the money offered by the defendant, and the de fendant's declaration about spending 1001. to have his mind. She also admitted that she had told the com plainant to take all the money offered to her. Mr. MALTBY said he was satisfied that the complain ant's statement was true, and he should therefore inflict a fine of 5/. or three months' hard labour. The defendant immediately paid the meaey. A Lieutenant-Colonel, who writes from Tunbridge, sent 11. for a poor distressed needlewoman, named Ed wards. 51. was put in the poor-box, at the request of the members of the Stock Exchange, being part of the money subscribed for an impostor named Carr, whose case ap peared under the head of Thames police. It was stated that the subscriptions for this woman and her family ex ceeded 2201. Brompton-row, Michael's-place, and the Fulham-road, to Stamford-bridge ; thence southward along the Kensing ton canal to the river Thames ; and thence along the said river to the south side of Westminster-bridge, as aforesaid ; this, from and after the 28th of December instant, shall constitute a police-court division, and be assigned to the police-court now established in Queen square, Westminster, until the erection of a court-house on the north side of Vincent-square, Westminster, and immediately upon the completion of such court-house the said police-court shall thenceforth be holden at Vin cent-square, by the name of the Westminster Police court. MARYLEBONE POLICE-COURT. From the Victoria-gate, Hyde-park, in a line running eastward along the boundary of the district assigned to Marlborough-street Police-court as far as Tottenham court-road ; thence along the centre of the New-road to the corker of Upper Seymour-street ; thence northward along the boundary of the district of the Clerkenwell Police-court to Maiden-lane, near the North Cemetery ; thence south-westward to Shoot-up-hill ; thence to and including Kilburn ; thence to Westbourne-green (in cluding the same) ; thence along the Green-lane and Pickering-place to Queen's-road ; and thence along the same to Victoria-gate aforesaid, after the 28th of De cember instant, shall constitute a police-court division, and be assigned to the police-court called Marylebone Police-court. MARLBOROUGH-STREET POLICE-COURT From the Victoria-gate, Hyde-park, in a line running eastward along the boundary of the park to Oxford street; thence along the said street (including both sides thereof) to Regent-street ; thence northward along the centre thereof, and of Langham-place, Portland-place, and Park-crescent East, to the New-road; thence along the centre thereef to Tottenham-court-read ; thence along the boundary of the district assigned to Bow-street l'elice-court, as far as Hyde-park-corner ; thence along the centre of the Knightsbridge-road to the park gate opposite the Camden Arms public-house ; thence along the boundary of Kensington-gardens, including Ken sington-palace and gardens, to Victoria-gate aforesaid, from and after the 28th of Dec. inst., shall constitute a police-court division, and be assigned to the police-court called MarlbOrough-street Police-court. CLERKENWELL POLICE COURT. From the boundary c f the City of London in Type street, in a line running north ward along the boundary of the district of the Worship-street Police-court to Stamford-hill ; thence westward along Hanger-lane to Hornsey-lane, and along the same to Maiden-lane ; thence along the same to Camden-road ; thence along the centre thereof to the Red Cap public-house ; thence along the centre of High-street, in Camden-town, and of Upper Seymour-street, to the New-road ; thence along the boundary of the district assigned to Bow-street Police-court to the boundary of the City of London on Holborn-hill; and thence along the said City boundary to Bunhill-row aforesaid, from and after the 28th of Dec. inst., shall constitute a police-court division, and be assigned to the police-court called the Clerkenwell Police-court. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before the AssisTAXT - JUSGE.) The Court resumed its sittings yesterday at the usual hour, for the disposal of the remaining cases of felony. This day was also appointed for hearing the charges of misdemeanour and indictments fur nuisances. A very respectable-looking young man, named Francis Baggs, was indicted for stealing a coat, trousers, and other articles of wearing apparel, and a gold ring, the property of Thomas Chaplin. It appeared that a person named Doughty was the proprietor of one of those establishments styled " Tem perance Coffee-rooms," where balls used to be given, and the admission to which was 3d. In his cross-examina tion the prosecutor stated, that although his house was a Temperance-house, yet there were persons who attended at the ball, if they desired a " small drop " of anything stronger than coffee, might, upon handing the money to the waiter, have whatever they wanted brought in to them. The prisoner was one of those who patron. ised the Temperance balls, and happened, on the night when the articles named in the indictment were stolen, to be at one of them, when he was perceived to come out of the room where the articles were. Some time after he was accused of the theft, and his lodgings searched, when a portion of the property was dis covered there. Mr. PAYNE, who appeared for the defence, commented strongly upon the evils which arose from those gather ings, which were improperly called temperance balls, where a number of young persons were assembled, and where, although temperance was professed, there was an unlimited supply of spirituous liquors allowed, by which the unwary were intrapped. The Learned Counsel called several witnesses to show that the articles had been left with the prisoner's mother as a deposit for rent. The jury retired, and, after about half an hour's con sultation, returned a verdict of guilty. The Learned JUDGE said it was evident the prisoner had, like hundreds of other young persons, been ruined by these •" threepenny hops." The sentence of the Court was, that he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour, in the Honse of Correction, for three months. Thomas Henry, a middle-aged man of respectable ap pearance, was indicted for stealing a quantity of mouse line-de-laine, the property of Mr. Alworthy. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the Court sentenced the prisoner to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. John Wall was indicted for stealing a quantity of car penters' tools, the property of Jacob Western. The prosecutor and prisoner were fellow-workmen, and during the temporary absence of the former to his dinner the latter took away the tools, which he pledged for a small sum at a pawnbroker's in the neighbourhood. The prisoner, in his defence, said he merely took the thing by way of "a lark," and intended to return them again. The jury having returned a verdict of Guilty, the prisoner was sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labour. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. Richard Sargood, the driver of an errand cart, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having been instrumental to the death of a man named Dean, in Threadneedle-street, on the evening of Tuesday. One of the City policemen stated that the cart in which the prisoner had been driving, at a little after five o'clock on Tuesday evening, came in contact with some stones which had been laid in the carriage-way of the street, and turned over upon a poor man who was drawing a truck, and crushed his head in such a manner as to cause his death. A boy, who was in the cart, was thrown out with great violence by the collision, and had been taken to the hospital in a very desperate condition. G. W. Home, a person employed in the Hall of Commerce, stated that he heard the noise of the collision, and upon going t o th e s p o t o b serve d the deceased under the cart. The head of the deceased was completely smashed, and the prisoner was doing all he could to render assistance, and appeared to be greatly excited and agitated by the dreadful occur rence. The deceased was taken on a shutter to the hospital, but after breathing about three times he died. The LORD Masou--What stones are these with which it has been said the wheel came in contact ? Witness—The stones with which they are paving the footway. _ _ The LORD MAYOR—Were they on the foot-way ? Witness—No; they came off the kerb in the car riage -way. The LORD MAYOR—Was the prisoner sober at the time ? Witness—Certainly he was. The LORD MAYOR—Was there room for the pri soner to pass where the accident happened without touching the truck which the deceased was drawing? Witness—There was. The LORD MAYOR—How, in your opinion, did it happen ? Witness—l am of opinion, that in endea vouring to keep clear of the truck, the prisoner came in collision with the stones, which he did not see. The prisoner stated that he was going at the time at no quicker rate than about five or six miles an hour, and not seeing the stones, which were piled up in the carriage-way, he avoided the truck, and came in contact with the stones. Thomas Kyte, one of the labouring men employed by Mr. Chadwick, the surveyor, to repair Thread needle-street, stated that he had placed the stones in the street, and they might have projected into the carriage -way about two feet, but there was a great deal of room for all vehicles. _ The Loan MAYOR—I do not see that I can allow you to be sworn, as your statement is calculated to affect yourself. Mr. J. K. Gallen', a gentleman connected with a commercial-house in the City, stated that he witnessed the collision. The prisoner's cart was going at the rate of about six miles an hour—a quicker pace than he should wish to travel in the City. He saw the cart overturned, and thought at first that it was occasioned 14y the falling off of the wheel. My friend afterwards thought the accident was occasioned by the wheel coming in contact with the stones, about half a yard higher than the pavement, and appeared to him to be sufficient to eause the overturn. The LORD MAYOR—Under the circumstances, I am disposed to take bail for the appearance of the prisoner on a futuie day ; but I must order Thomas Kyte, Mr. Chadwick's man, into custody, for it apt pears to me that he has been the cause of the death o this poor man. The boy, too, has suffered greaf injury. It - was stated to his Lordship that a summons had been paned by the p o li ce on th e preceding day to the principal engaged in repairing the street, in conse quence of the obstruction, which had since been so fatal. The LORD Mmroa—yes, I know that a summons has been issued. Bail was then given for the appearance of Sargood, and Thomas Kyte was taken into custody and re manded till Friday. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE POORS i .BOX.—The Lord Mayor acknowledged the following contributions to the Mansion-house poors'-box :—The Fishmongers' Company, 10/. ; H. S., a lady, per J. Shaw, Esq., 51.; he Mercers' Company, 101. MARYLEBOIVE. Tuesday, Philip Baker, a gunner and driver of the Royal Artillery, stationed at Woolwich, was brought up in custody and placed at the bar before the sitting magis trate, Mr. Rawlinson, charged with the following outrage : M'Kay, a constable, in the employ of the London and Birmingham Railway Company, deposed that on the same morning, at a quarter past nine, the prisoner came very drunk into the booking office at the Euston-square station, and insisted, although he bad not taken a ticket, to pass through to the platform, with the view of going by the train ; he was told that he was not in a fit condi tion then to be allowed to enter either of the carriages, when he became extremely outrageous and abusive, and kicked witness with great force upon the groin. Inspector Challenor said that hearing of the assault which had been committed upon M'Kay, he caused the prisoner to be conveyed to the Phoenix-street station house, and while the charge was there being entered in the book by Sergeant Shaw, he suddenly seized hold of a poker, exclaiming, " Now I'll let you know who I am," and would in all probability have seriously injured him (the inspector) had not a man on " reserve" duty closed in upon him and wrested the poker from his grasp. The prisoner's excuse for his conduct was that he had partaken too freely of drink. He hoped the magistrate would be as lenient as possible. The MAGISTRATE fined him 405., or, in default of pay ment, a month's impi4onment. QUEEN-SQUARE. Tuesday, Sarah Smith, a middle-aged woman, un derwent a lengthened examination on several charges of robbery. Prisoner had been for the last four or five years en gaged as charwoman at the houses of several respect able persons at Chelsea and Brompton, and availed her self of the opportunity so afforded to plunder her em ployers to a considerable extent. Information of one of these robberies having been given to the polies •sergeant Skelton, of the B division, he went to the house of the prisoner, who had the reputation of being a very poor woman, and there found upwards of 501. in gold and silver, an acknowledgment for 1101. lent by her to a friend, a gold watch, some gold rings, and a great deal of property of various descriptions, among which were many articles identified by her landlady, and some of those who had employed her. Mrs. Elisabeth Ball, of 4, Queen-terrace, Marlborough road, Chealsea, said that the prisoner had been employed by her twice a week during the last twelve months. She had missed property at various times since the prisoner had been in the habit of coming backwards and forwards to her house, and identified six handkerchiefs, a pair of gloves, and other articles produced, as amongst the things she had missed. 11;s.! Sarah King, of No. 1, Hive-street, Chelsea, baker, stated that prisoner had lodged in her house for eighteen months, but had left some time prior to her ap prehension. During the whole of that time she (witness) was continually being robbed of bread, flour, linen, and other articles. She identified some knives, spoons, and silk cord, and, to the best of her belief, a wedding-ring pro duced was the one she had lost, and which prisoner pre tended to assist her in looking for at the time, express ing much sorrow for the distress she exhibited on the occasion. Mr. Todd, of No. 3, June-street, Chelsea, builder, proved that prisoner bad been employed at his house, but had been sent away three months ago in consequence of repeated losses. Prisoner had thrown suspicion upon a girl who was in his service, in consequence of which the latter was discharged. He identified three pieces of satin paper, a silver pencil case, a gold snap, and other articles. Sergeant Skelton proved finding the articles above spoken to by the several prosecutors in prisoner's room. Mr. BOND inquired whether there were any other pro secutors in attendance? Skelton replied that the lady who owned the gold watch was not present. He had a reticule belonging to another lady, who did not wish to prosecute. Prisoner was then committed for trial on the three eases above stated. On the application of prisoner's professional advisers (Mr. Miller, a barrister, and a Mr. Williams), the former of whom had cross-examined the witnesses, without eliciting anything favourable to his client, 201., was or dered to be given over to the prisoner out of the money found in her rooms. NEW REGULATION OF THE POLICE-COURTS. The Gazette 'of Tuesday contains ;; Order in Council putting in force the Act of last session " for Regulating the Police•courts in the Metropolis." The following is the new arrangement of the various districts BOW-STREET POLICE-COURT. From the boundary of the City of London at the Temple-stairs, on the Thames, in a line running along the said boundary as far as Holborn-hill ; thence west ward along Holborn, including both sides thereof to King -street ; thence northward along the centre thereof, and of Southampton -row and Woburn-place to the New road ; thence westward along the centre thereof to Tottenham-court-road ; thence southward along the centre thereof, and of High-street, Great and Little St. Andrew -streets, and St. Martin's-lane to Trafalgar square ; thence westward, including the said square, to Pall-mall, and along the centre thereof, and of Cleveland row to the boundary of the Green Park ; thence along the boundary thereof, and of St. James's Park (including Buckingham Palace and grounds) to Storey's-gate ; thence along the centre of Great George-street and Bridge -street to the river Thames, on the north side of Westminster-bridge ; and thence along the said river to the Temple-stairs aforesaid ; this, from and after the 28th of December instant, shalbconstitute a police-court division, and be assigned to the police-court called Bew street Police-court. QUEEN-SQUARE POLICE-COURT. From the Thames on the south side of Westminster bridge, in a line running westward along the boundary of the district assigned to Bow-street Police-court, as far as Hyde-park-corner ; thence along the centre of the Knightsbridge-road, and of Queen's-buildings, WORSHIP-STREET POLICE-COURT. From the boundary of the City of London in White chapel High-street, in a line running eastward along the boundary of the district of the Thames Police-court to the river Lea ; thence northward along the Northern and Eastern Railway to High-bridge ; thence westward to Stamford-hill toll-gate (including the same); thence southward to and along the centre of Kingsland road to the Regent's Canal ; thence westward along the same to Ashley-crescent ; thence along the centre thereof, Vaughan-terrace, and Shepherdess-walk (including St. Luke's workhouse); thence along the centre of Bath street, of Bunhill-row, and of Type-street, to the boun dary of the City of London ; and thence along the same to Whitechapel High-street aforesaid •, from and after the 28th day of December instant, shall constitute a police. court division, and be assigned to the police-court called the Worship-street Police-court. THAMES POLICE-COURT, STEPNEY. From the river Thames at Tower-stairs, in a line run ning along the boundary of the City of London to White chapel High-street; thence eastward along the centre thereof and of Whitechapel-road and Mile-end-road to Globelane ; thence along the centre thereof to the southern side of the Eastern Counties Railway ; thence eastward to the Hackney-cut ; thence southward along the same to Bow-bridge ; thence along the river Lea to the river Thames ; and thence along the said river Thames to Tower-stairs aforesaid ; from and after the 28th of December instant, shall constitute a police-court division, and be assigned to the police-court called th:, Thames Police-court, Stepney SOUTHWARK POLICE-COURT. From and after the 28th day of December inst. be removed therefrom to a certain building lately erected in Blackman-street, Southwark, in the parish of St George the Martyr, in the county of Surrey, and within the metropolitan police district, and shall be henceforth there holden by the name of the Southwark Police court ; and that the space included within the following boundary, the same being within the metropolitan po lice district—that is to say, from the river Thames on the south-east side of Waterloo-bridge, in a line running southward along the boundary of the district assigned to the Lambeth Police-court, till it meets the boundary of the Greenwich Police-court district ; thence north ward along the said last-mentioned boundary to the river Thames ; and thence along the said river to the south-east side of Waterloo -bridge as aforesaid, shall constitute a police-court division, and be assigned to the police-court to be called the Southwark Police-court, as hereinbefore mentioned. LAMBETH POLICE-COURT. The police-court now established i❑ the parish of St. Mary, Whitechapel, and known by the name of Lam beth-street Police-court, shall, from and after the 28th day of December instant, be removed therefrom to a certain building lately erected in Kennington-lane, parish of St. Mary, Lambeth, in the county of Surrey, and within the metropolitan police district, and shall be thenceforth there holden by the name of the Lambeth Police court ; and that the space included within the following boundary, from the river Thames, on the south west side of Waterloo-bridge, in a line running along the centre of the Waterloo-road, the London-road, the New Kent-road, and the Kent-road, to the boundary of the district assigned to the Greenwich Police-court ; thence westward along the said boundary in a straight line to the boundary of the Wandsworth Police-court district ; thence along the said boundary to the river Thames ; and thence along the said river Thames to the south west side of Waterloo-bridge aforesaid, shall constitute a police-court division, and be assigned to the police-court to be called the Lambeth Police-court. DISCOVERY OF A LONG CON CEALED MURDER. CHESTER, SATURDAY.—A considerable sensation was produced here this morning by the arrival of two police officers, one from Parnell, in Warwickshire, and the other from Alcester, who severally repre sented to Mr. Hill, the superintendent of the Chester police, that they were in search of a man named James Crowley, of Parnell, charged with the wilful murder of William Titsley, also of that place, as far back as the 25th of December, 1842. In consequence of in formation supplied by the officers in pursuit, Mr. Hill sent some of his men to the Black Dog public-house, where the party in question had been staying for some time. He had, however, removed to a lodging on the Eaton-road, leading to the seat of the Marquis of Westminster; but it was ascertained that his trunks and other moveables had recently been taken to the Castle and Falcon, a small public-house in Watergate-street, kept by a person named Mary Jones, at which place he occasionally called for refreshments, and, on inquiry, Mr. Hill was given to understand that he (Crowley) was expected there at about noon to-day. Accord ingly two officers from Parnell and Alcester, accom panied by two of the Chester police, repaired to the house at the time specified, and there found Crowley seated with a glass of ale before him. It was known that he was always provided with pistols, and there fore due precaution was used in apprehending him. He was seized by each arm before he was at all aware of the presence of the officers, who then in formed him of the nature of the heavy charge alleged against him. " I admit it !" he at once exclaimed ; and, subse quently, as they were placing the handeuffs upon him, he added, " I am a dead man." He was forthwith taken before the mayor and magistrates; and on being searched, thirty-six sove reigns were found upon him, together with a double barrelled pistol. The weapon was not loaded; but a paper, containing a number of balls, and a flask of powder, were found in one of his pockets. It appeared by the statement made before the ma gistrates, that the prisoner had formerly resided with his parents at Parnell ; but, in consequence of his violent conduct, his father had forbidden him the house, at the same time providing for him a small cottage in the neighbourhood; and allowing him 1/. per week and a horse to ride on. Notwithstanding this arrangement, however, the father having still reason to dread some fatal act of violence on the part of his son, had one of his farm-servants, named William Tilsley, sworn in as a special constable for his (the Lather's) protection ; and on Christmas-day, 1842, the family and a party of friends having just taken their seats at the dinner table, the prisoner's mother suddenly started up, and said to her husband, "For God's sake, go up stairs; there's James coming across the field with his gun to shoot some of us." The old man accordingly hurried from the apartment, and the prisoner, who had been seen by his mother through the window advancing in the way she described, went round to the back of the house, and thrust the muzzle of his double-barrelled gun through a pane of glass. In the meantime Tilsley went out to expostulate with the prisoner, who, on seeing him, retreated a few paces, exclaim ing, "It's you, is it ?" and at the same instant fired at the unfortunate man, and shot him dead upon the spot. He then shouldered the gun, and was heard to say as he walked away, " I've another charge for somebody else." No one ventured to stop him. He went home, saddled his horse, rode to Tring, and there left his horse at an inn, took the train, but stopped at the first station, where he bought a pair of spectacles to disguise his person, and was heard of no more until a few days since. He has, it appears, be en in the United States in the interim , but has resided ever since March last in Chester. A Woman with whom he has recently cohabited in a fit of jealousy betrayed him. The prisoner, after having been duly cau ti one d , signed the following declaration:— " I have to say I am guilty of what I should do again to-morrow. I did shoot the man in open day I think I did my duty." He was ordered to be taken to Warwick, where ht3.* will undergo further examination. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, DEC. 18.—Wind E.S.E., light breeze 0 4 cloudy, weather mild but damp. SWANSEA., DEC. 14.—S1d. Golconda, Valparaiso. Mu:ono, DEC. 16.—Arrd. Queen of the Isles, 111, don, fur Barcelona, leaky, with loss cf sails, &c. LEITH, DEC. 15.—S1d. Barossa and Columbus, Ichs b°l6 Sownwarrox, DEC. 17.—Sld. Trent steamer, Indies. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 17.—Wind S.S.E.—Acrd. Dabs% Watson, London, for Port Philip ; Ann Mills, Ken l34 Quebec ; Flora, Baker, Newfoundland, FALMOUTH, DEC. 17.—Wind S.S.E., strong gale s s , - ; 16. A vessel, bottom up, was passed in lat. 47, ion. St vi the Anne, arrived here. PENZANCE, DEC. 15.—Arrd. Ceres, Gijon, for 1 01- don, with loss of bowsprit, &c. Goons, DEC. 16—The John Barry, of Whitby, Int. to London, put back yesterday, leaky, and must "'" charge to repair. 4 1 . CLYDE, DEC. 16.—S1d. Rowley, Demerara ; SuP el Mobile. LEITH, Dim 17.—The Oberon, Addie, from 1 11111 ,f Gothenberg, put back to the Road, 13th inst., wi th "". mage to sails, rigging, &c., baying experienced le% severe weather on the coast of Norway. Thn Eleono„ Pauline, of Copenhagen, from Callundberg to iltw: foundered about 100 miles from the coast of Nbroill' crew saved by the Oberon, Addie. lIMIXSDALE, DEC. 12.—The Scotia, of Bretnell Speymouth (with bones) is ashore on the sands s t east side of the harbour ; crew saved ; vessel not no' damaged. • ‘ ,.„ A r , lIOLYHZAD.—Arrd. Invoice, .Rawlings, DO' Binley, Frazer, Rio de la llache. 11 11 . LIVERPOOL, DEC. 17.—Wind N.E. moderate. --- ks llebe, Weight, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sld. 0,.„ Leinster, Ceylon ; Jackson and Thomas Bat' to n. Ichaboe; Archelaus, New Orleans; Corromando, the Demerara(packet), Consistance, to Demerara' 17, 0 fire 15th inst. off the Kish Light, and was run sau" near Dublin and went to piec4; crew saved. ra t WEXFORD, DEC. 15.—The Victory, Davis, from 2 7 Madoc to Chepstow, was driven ashore 13th inSt7 ; miles to the northward, and expected to become ovr''' one man drowned. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. FORTSMOU7II, TUESDAY.—A court-martial, 1; prising Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8., Preside Pr. Captain Mowbray, of the Victory; Captain Rowley, of the St. Vincent, Flag Captain of the r7r e i Commander Wii2cox, of the Excellent; Comme,° Smith, of the Syren and Mr. George L. Greet Deputy-Judge-Advocate of the fleet, assem bled 5 p morning by signal gun, on board the Victory , ; the Capt. Mowbray, to try Mr. George Bellis, mate Excellent, at the instance of Captain Sir T. of that ship, on a charge of having left the deck del, his watch (the dog watch), on the evening e,, n4 f 7th instant. Captain Sir Thomas Hastings, mander Lowe, Lieutenant Moorman, Lieut. 310 Mr. Gough, mate, and two private arines,all °D o i Excellent, appeared for the prosecution, and Ol e ic evidence to prove that the prisoner left the during his watch on the evening above-mentione e cy went to smoke in the galley, which was the WP substance of the charge ! Defy Mr. Archibald Low, of Portsea, and reux, of Portsmouth, attorneys, conducted t ne fence. The case for the prosecution closed at tl . l to o'clock, when the prisoner requested three boaiof prepare his defence. This was demurred to as 7bie too long, when the prisoner, by the advice e io , counsel, reduced his required time to two 13 .' 0 0 (The prisoner was only informed on Saturday t hee he would be brought to trial.) The court We .41 cleared, and re-opened at two o'clock, when a P l O.. excellent defence was entered into by the lega l , tlemen above-named, which went to prove that s ip Bellis, the prisoner, was not in charge of the 1 0 . at the time he was declared absent from the deek• o e has generally been supposed that the Excellent' h ip ? the beau ideal of a well-disciplined line-of-batt le." d e' where the strictest order and regularity in ever ® the partment were observed and enforced; but, fr°°;inett nature of a portion of the evidence, we are le e . bet to believe the Excellent does not so well deser%fter name as is generally supposed. The court,' sot hearing the whole of the evidence on both all,' 00 what the prisoner had to allege in defence (h was e P il f Olf witnesses), was of opinion that the charge p ie nis, proved, and adjudged him, the said Mr. Georg e '''. list to be severely reprimanded, and to remain on th; fot . of mates two yearalonger than the usual term promotion. The royal yacht Victoria and Albert is co/130.012' all but her ventilating apparatus, which is being, fit er under the superintendence of Dr. Reid. It i t l i ef petted she will leave the dock and make trial o' speed after her alterations in a few days. her ;„ The St. Vincent, 120, progresses rapidly a . " le refit in dock. It is expected she will be -b leave in about two months. achtt The Dwarf, steam-tender to the royal Y„besd alongside the Dryad hulk, having a n ew the fitted ; she lost her former one by running ini: ni et, George, Isle of Wight and Southampton OP lying at the Victoria-pier, last Wednesday: po ol The Siren, 16, Commander Smith (b), 1 . 5 re to be paid off on Friday. The works of the new steam-basin are rePid i t e o gressing. The foundation-stone is expected t° about a month. ne etea °1 The HarlegLin and Pelican are hourly exr a 0— Spithead with treasures from Singapore, a l l from Liverpool, as has been erroneously state - • MARKET NEWS.-(YESTE CORN EXCHANGE. 10 ° ' The supply of English Wheat offering was bu t 1itn ., 1 01 6 For the finest qualities the demand was rather ovrted., while the value of all other kinds was steadily sutripsi! Foreign Wheat was in fair request, and a good,u 00 was doing, at previous figures. Barley was 311 .01 I request, at fully previous rates; but in 31 11 4 - e nothing was doing. Oats, Beans, and Peas, 5 5 I ' Monday's quotations. __.„ ARRIVALS. il iP- ,, Wheat. barley. 3. 0 160 a 1 9 0 . g. 7 ..... 21 1V1811..... ..... 1,140 qrs. • 1,310 co -1 qrS. 40 0# F0reign........, —. Milt, ONO GM wirrrzczcsimm. tonsi f6 The supply of Meat here was, on the whole , 00 s prf while the demand w as so m ew hat inactive , tiotot vious rate& Beef, from 2s 10d to 3s 10d ; Trot' s 3s to 3s 10d ; Veal, 3s 4d to •4s 4d ; 611 2s 10d to 4s per 81bs. by the carcase. COAL MARKET. iVi Price per ton at the close of the market Caradoc, 29s.—No arrivals since last day. 1 .. 0 1 u' , A STATE OF TRADE.—To-day we have m" - .. a . i limited business, and last Tuesday's prices W e '" , ported with difficulty ; this applies both. ° .„041,e; and yarn. The closing of the continental ' - o f l!:i by the ice in the rivers, is one great eall e . 0 0P " present dulness ; to which we may add 1 ."" a ../, ‘ quietness of the present season of the i,iL d b; ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, DEC. 16.-- nth " ti C 0" been an improved demand for goods to-day, 110 00 4 ; derably more have been sold at former price s ' f la mand for wool is also increasing, and prices P 0 A , 'lv the advance.—Manchester Guardian. mi 0 ii CITY Nost-FREEMEN—As this subject 7,, 0 1et0 rise to much anxiety amongst the mercantile mil e o - ir may be useful to know, that in 1828, similar aPP ot O t t for to the wholesale and mercantile firms to tak e ° r od f, freedoms were made, and an association then loil resisting the pretensions of the City, which c i)e vised to be unfounded. A BIRTHS. A. CP - On the 16th inst., at Mount-street, Park-lane , .-- ,ilb sto of Enniskillen, of a son and heir. On the 14th inst., the wife of the Rev. JN.--" 11. r- ory .- 6 Christ's Hospital, of a son. On the 15th inst., at Bryntirion, near ISTrelt_ bellb _ m ph Wales, the lady of Captain E. Jones, of a daught%iorY On the 16th inst., Mrs. Clifford Craufurd, Ulla"' 0 00' Camberwell-grove, of a daughter. o , of eg, ' S On the 16th inst., at Eltham, Mrs. H. R. B a a - A,, , of - On the 16th inst., in Kensington-square, the / l Harper, Esq., of a daughter. _ I ,. il ce MARRIED. , „ g ip- d eb' On the 10th inst., at St. Margaret's Church, it PI" bert Cobbold Perry, Esq., to Matilda, o n o f Or' ter of the late Thomas Lincolne Barker, EiCk' .' place, both of that town. ON On the 12th inst., at the parish church, Tottenhooke F. Robins, of Tokenhouse-yard, solicitor, to Marltor daughter of William Trewheela, Esq., of Stoke S e DIED. Lso On the 16th inst., at Hampton Court Palacetrowf Culling Smith, daughter of Garret, Earl of )I°l%lo e]nco, On the 24th of September, at the Cape of G0 04 ,45 0 ' Anne, wife of Arthur Grote, Esq., of the Bengal vl At Brompton-row, Mr. David itigge,aged wh ite, 9 fr On the 4th inst., at Woolderingfold, James „„,, iao On the 7th inst., at Ballymacoll, Meath, 141116.-- 1 gerald, youngest son of Baron de Robeck. Lag On the 11th inst., at Edinburgh, the Dowag er „ d ire say, of Balmain, widow of the late Sir A. Rain„ sed Yor' o On the 12th inst.., James Kierman, Esq., o f m -- I,or mons On, and late of South Lambeth, aged 87. anvia . IS t° the 12th inst., at Dover, Henry Pitm , ..---'' rack-master, aged 88. Diallt i * 00 011 On the 12th 9 inst., at Woolwich, Major Jolla ~... 0. On the 14th inst., Mrs. Ward, relict of the 11- 00 Ward, of Plaistow, E ss ex, aged 86. ge e On the 14th inst., Mary Jacintha, the wife of Esq., Duncan-place, Islington. g k S ebi c 'f i l. 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