The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-13 00:00:00

ST. GILES'S DISTRICT.

The numbers were—for Captain Burnett, 21 ; for
Colonel Kennedy, 20. Whereupon the former was de-
clared duly elected.

STAND DISTRICT.
Last night the board of works of the Strand district
held their meeting at the boardroom, 6, Bow-street ;
Mr. J. S. Phillips in the chair.
Mr. C. Few, solicitor, Henrietta-street, Covent-gar-
den ; and Mr. C. Jefferys, music publisher, of Soho-
square, were proposed to represent the district at the
Metropolitan Board of Works ; and on the sense of the
members of the board being taken, Mr. Few received 23
votes and Arr. Jefferys 15, and the former was thereupon
declared duly elected as the member of the Metropolitan
Board of Works for the Strand district.
Mr. F. Lewis,
of
the
board,
Strand, was
unanimously
elected toelerclerk

ST. GEORGE TII E MALTY SOUTawm,K
The vestrymen of thin parish met yesterday et
6
in the large theatre of the Literary Institution, Boro'u.l7
read; fox the purpose of electing one person from the"
bony of vestrymen to represent the parish of St,. George
tke'Arartyr, Southwark, in the new Central Board of
J;Fen4t4 tie Rev.
Rev. W. Cadman, M.A., the rector, in the
:'”Thera was a very full attendance of vestrymen.
' The candidates having been proposed,
'lie Rev. Chairman put the question, when there ap-
peared—

-1
--For Mr. CoHinson
For Mr. Wilson
Majority
... —3
Whereupon Mr. CoDimon was declared to be July
elected.

PARISH OF LAMBETH.
The Chairman announced the re3ult of the poll, which
wd,3 follows :--
Doulton ....................................... 62
Tay10r............. .. . ............ , .... 's4u-
Plews Pleas.... u.
Redhead ......................... 18
Young ...
The Chairman cor.sequently announced Messrs. Doul-

ton and Taylor to be duly elected as their representa-
tives at the Metropolitan Board of Works.
Some routine appointments having been made, thanks
were voted to the chairman, and the meeting dissolved.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—GLOUCESTER, DEC. 12.
(Before Mr. Justice Williams.)
UTTERING FORGED NOTES.

The trial of Mr. John Sampson, a surgeon, for uttering
a number of forged Bank of England notes, at Berkeley,
in August last, occupied the court up to 7 o'clock last
night. Mr. Huddlestone and Mr. Somerset were counsel
for the prosecution, and Mr. Skinner for th• prisoner.
The case excited a great deal of interest on account of
the respectable position and high character enjoyed by
the accused up to the period of this transaction.

The evidence for the prosecution was very volumi-
nous, and went to show that in the last week in August
the prisoner, who had been in practice as a surgeon
n Berkeley for some years, paid away to different
parties and obtained change for four forged Bank of
England notes, and that on being subsequently
taken into custody, another forged note was found
in his possession. The defence was that the prisoner
had received a sum of 50/. in notes from a person named
Evans, who, he alleged, owed him that sum on a
bet on a horse race, and that he received the notes in a
letter sent to him, addressed to the Berkeley-road rail-
way station. The station-master at Berkeley-road and
his sister-in-law, who keeps a public house near, were
called to prove that two letters were received at the sta-
tion for the prisoner, and that, on opening them, Bank
notes were found in them.

The jury, after retiring for about a quarter of an hour,
returned a verdict of guilty.
His lordship, addressing the prisoner, said he had been
convicted of a very serious offence, and for which, a few
years ago, men ended their days upon the scaffold. The
law had since been mitigated in that respect, but still the
safety of the country required that offences of this kind
should be punished with great severity. The prisoner
appeared to have held a respectable station in society,
and to have borne an excellent character, but he (the
judge) could not take that into consideration in mitiga-
tion of sentence. His lordship then sentenced the pri-
soner to 15 years' transportation.
The prisoner bowed his head to the dock, and appeared
surprised at the severity of the sentence.

MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—NorriNonam, DEC. 12.
(Before Mr. Justice Cresswell.)
TER CARLTON MURDER.
Johanna Dutton, aged 33, described as a dressmaker,
married, and well educated, was indicted for the wiiful
murder of her daughter, aged about three years and a
half, at Gedlieg, near Nottingham, on Sept. 24, 1855.
Mr. Boden, with whom was Mr. Bittleston, conducted
the case for the prosecution. Mr. O'Brien was retained
for the defence.

From the opening statement of the learned counsel for
the prosecution, and the evidence of the witnesses, it
appeared that the deceased was the child of the prisoner
by a former husband, and had been for a long time treat-
ed with frequent and gross ill-usage by the prisoner.
The child did not sleep with the other children in a room,
but was put in a passage on a bit of straw and sacking.
The prisoner often wished it was dead, called it "dirty,"
and beat it very cruelly. On the 24th of Sept. deceased
(according to the evidence given by Ann Parey, priso-
ner's servant) was down stairs alone with the defendant,
Mr. Bunton being absent from home, and the other chil-
dren in the garret with witness. Prisoner had that
morning been beating deceased i❑ a most cruel manner,
and, while Parey was making the beds, she heard pri-
soner call to George, one of the other children, to look
after little Polly, who had gone out with her bonnet,
Witness went down stairs, and in a few minutes heard
George say, " Mother, I can't find Polly ; she went out
with you up to the gate." Prisoner told him if he said
that again she would give him a good biding. He said,
" You did, mother, for I saw you out of the garret
window, and yon was close alongside her." She
said a second time she would beat him if he didn't hold
his noise. Mrs. Dutton called witness down stairs
and told her to go and find Polly. Witness said,
"The child must be in some place about, misses."
Witness looked about the place and could not find
her. Came back, and told the prisoner that it was
very strange she could not find her. Prisoner said,
"Do you think she has been near the pond, and fallen
in ? " Witness answered, " No, I never saw the child-
ren in that part." The child was subsequently found in
a pond near prisoner's house. Some suspicions were en-
tertained, and after the inquest the witness Parey re-
turned to Mrs. Dutton, who was in bed, and appeared
very frightened and nervous. Mr. Dutton was also
there. Between nine and ten o'clock witness was i❑
her bedroom settling the children. The door of her room
was about four yards from theirs. Heard Mr. Dutton
saying something like "Did you do it I" or "What made
you do it ? Witness went to listen at the door, which
was partly open, and heard the prisoner admit th 4 she
had thrown the child into the pond, and that after doing
so she (prisoner) regretted it, and tried to get it out, but
it turned right over. Mr. Dutton caught witness li,ten-
ing, and fiuding that she had heard the whole conversa-
tion, tried t• bribe her to suppress her knowledge of the
matter, and asked her if she was going to leave him a
widow and his children orphans. He also said an oath
was nothing.
In cross-examination it appeared that Parey was given
to drink, and was sometimes intoxicated. She had not
mentioned the alleged conversation between prisoner
and her husband before the coroner because she was
" bullied."

The defames was that, apart freai the evidence of
one dissolute woman, there was nothing inconsittent
with the hypothesis that deceased might have gone out
of the house with the prisoner, unseen by her, and fallen
into the pond.
The learned Judge, in summing up, said it was ex-
tremely improbable that a woman would confess to her
husband she had murdered her own child.
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

YORK WINTER A SSIZES—DEc. 11.
(Before Mr. Baron Martin.)
Mr. Baron Marti❑ concluded the business at Durham
en Monday, and having reached York proceeded this
(Tuesday) morning with the trial of prisoners.

UTTERING A FORGED BILL OF EXCHANGE BY A
CLERGYMAN.

Wee. Beres ford, 56, was indicted for having, on the
4th of Nov., 1848, at Bradford, uttered a forged indorse-
ment of a bill of exchange for• the payment of 1001., with
intent to defraud Samuel Laycock.
Mr. Blanchard and Dr. tower conducted the prosecu-
tion ; Mr. Hardy defended the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence that at the latter end of
October, 1848, the prisoner called at the bank of the
Bradford Banking Company, at Bradford, and said he
was the Rev. Mr. Berestord. He then tendered a bill fur
100/. to Mr. Laycock to be discounted, the manager of
the bank, who looked at the bill, and told the prisoner
that he was a perfect stranger to the bank, and that
bofore the bill could be discounted it was nece-sary
that some one should be introduced whom the bank
knew. The prisoner mentioned Mr. Kaye, of Maning-
ham Lodge, and Mr. J. C. Kaye, of Farfield Hall, his
son, and Mr. Laycock replied that the introduction of
Mr. Kaye, or his indorsement, would be perfectly satis-
factory. In a few days afterwards the prisoner again
called at the bank to inquire if a letter was lying there
for him, and as there was not he went away, and called
again after wards a third time. I❑ the meantime a letter
had arrived, out of which the prisoner took the alleged
forged bill, and presented it to be discounted. In Octo-
ber, 1848, the prisoner was on a visit at Mr. Kaye's,
and also at kis son's, the latter of whom he asked to
discount the bill in question for him for 1001., but Mr.
Kaye refused and never gave authority for his name to
be inserted in the bill. In April last Mr. J. C. Kaye
met the prisoner i❑ Regent-street, London, and said,
" Mr. Beresford ?" The. prisoner replied " Yes," and
Mr. Kaye then said, " I am afraid I shall have to place
you in the hands of the police." The prisoner inquired
Mr. Kaye's name, and on being told it he immediately
said, "Have mercy upon me," and added that if Mr.
Kaye would go with him to a Mr. Moss the money should
be paid to the bank, but Mr. Kaye declined to accompany
him. It appeared that after Mr. Kayo's name had been
mentioned at the bank, the prisoner wrote to Mr. Kaye
thaeking him for his hospitality, and inquiring whether he
(the prisoner) had left a letter at his house. He required
an answer by return of poet, and it was suggested on the
part of the prosecution that he had done this in order to
imitate more effectually the handwriting of Mr. Kaye.
When the bill was presented to Mr. Laycock that gen-
tleman was scrutinising the signature of Mr. Kaye,
when the prisoner stated that he was ill, and had writ-
ten the indorsement in bed, which would probably ac-
count for the signature not resembling very exactly his
usual handwriting. The prisoner then received 991. fia.
in cash, Mr. Laycock retaining 14s. for interest and
commission. A cheque was subsequently sent to the
bank by a Mr. Fayne, for the amount of the bill and
interest, but the manager declined to avail himself of it.
On this feet being stated Mr. Baron Martin said it was
quite immaterial, the question being whether this was a
forged bill or not. It was stated during the trial that
the prisoner is brother to General Beresford, now Adju-
tant-General in India, and the cousin of Lord Decies
and next heir to that title.

Mr. Hardy addressed the jury on behalf of the pr.
Boner.

His Lordship briefly summed up the evidence, and
the jury, after a few moments' deliberation, found the
prisoner guilty.
Mr. Baron Martin, in passing sentence, said the pri-
soner had been most properly convicted, on the most
clear and satisfactory evidence that could well be ad-
duced, of having uttered the endorsement of Mr. Kaye,
knowing it to be forged. And it was highly important
that the people should understand that the station of
life of a man who committed a crime of this sort should
be no protection whatever to him ; and it would indeed
be a subject of complaint by the people of this country,
if, when a person of the prisoner's station committed
such a crime as that of which he had been found guilty,
he should be treated in a different manner, either by
1 the jury or the court, to the meanest person who
might be so charged. The prisoner was a gentle-
man of education and station, and he must know
upon bills of exchange being pre-
served llusiness could not be carrie d on
that the prosperity of this country in a great
most
severe punishment were not
ea re. measure rheo inviolate.tr dependedifth
iu-
flicted for these offences. Within a few years from the
time art which he was now speaking, if the prisoner Lad
been convicted of this offence, as sure as he was standing
there ho would have been executed. There was not a
doubt about it ; but the law had since been altered, but
the alteration had been made upon the understanding
that the judges would do their duty, and would not be
misled from inflicting the proper punishment when an
offence of this kind was brought home to anybody. The
circulation of bills of exchange in this country mast be
protected ; and so far from there being acy excuse, it was
a great aggravation that a man of the prisoner's appear-
ance arid station should go to the bank, where his ap-
pearance would probably deceive, and thereby succeed in
robbing them of a sum of 991, odd. It was no excuse

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EYKIVI.Nri, DECEMBER 13 1855

whatever that when this matter was about to be brought

before a criminal court, some friend came forward and
proposed to pay the amount, and thereby compound a
felony, and prevent his being tried as persons in a lower
station would be. This was a case in which he deemed

it his duty to treat the prisoner precisely ns be would
any other person, and the prisoner best knew whether
or not this was the first forgery he had uttered. The
sentence of the court was that he be transported for the
period of his natural life.
The prisoner, who appeared surprised at the severity
of the sentence, had to be assisted from the dock.

find bail in. Preston, as I am net known to many here.
If you will allow me t return t, 13irr, I shall be enable:l
to produce a satisfactory letter !rum the bishop. It is
really very hard that I should be subjected to this per-
secution. I gave up 6001. a year in the Church of Rome,
and have now been fourteen years a minister of the
Church of England. It was only because there was no
endowment to my church that I came to England to
collect a few pounds towards that object, and it is quite
shameful that Protestants should persecute me in this
manner.

The prisoner, unable to find bail, was removed in
custody,

INQUEST ON MDLLR. JULIE.

On Monday afternoon an inquest was held by J. Till-
monde, Esq., at the Guildhall, Plymouth, on the body
of Mdlle. Julie, the actress, whose death, the result of
burns received on the stage of the Plymouth Theatre,
has already been reported. The jury, after having
viewed the body, and inspected the scene of the fire,
heard the following evidence-- _ _

Winnefred Henderson, nur,e, said—Oa Tuesday, 20th
November, in the evening, I was called on to attend
deceased. She was much burnt from the hips down to
the ankles, from her shoulders to her wrists, across her
shoulders and chest. Mr. Fox and Mr. Whipple, sur-
geons, attended her. At one time she seemed to ral.y,
as if she would recover, but on last Thursday morning
the symptoms became worse, she became convulsed, and
yesterday she died about half-past eight in the morning.
The surgeons were constant in their attendance on her,
and she had every requisite for one in her situation. On
Thursday morning I dressed one of her wounds a, usual,
but since that time she was in such racks of pain that
her wounds could not be dressed.

John Riley Newcombe, lessee of the Plymouth Thea-
tre, said—The deceased was 19 years of age last birth-
day ; she was by profession a dauseuse, and first appeared
on the Piymouth stage on Monday evening, November
19th. She danced in an introductory ballet entitled the
Woman in the Wood. She was very well received. On
the following evening she was to dance between the
pieces. Her dress was tarlatan. and she was to perform
a dance she had herself arranged in the morning. She
came at the left side entrance. There was a group
formed on the front part of the stage by ladies with
scarfs, and the deceased bad to pass through the group
under the scarfs on the points of her feet. At the back
part of the stage there was a row of gaslights running
from the left to the right, to give effect to the scenery.
Those lights burned in green chimneys, and the light
was allowed to rise to about half the height of the
chimney, because, had the light risen above that point,
the bright light would have prevented the desired
effect ; outside the row of lights, and towards the
audience, was a board or fence 22 inches in height,
which separated the lights from the persons on the stage.
When she entered, she stepped back a short distance
from the group to give impressment to her advance. She
stooped before springing forward, and in doing so her
dress caught fire at the gas-lights. I was then in front
of the house. I saw her on fire. I rushed immediately
behind the scones. When I reached them I found she
was on the stage, but I understand she had previously
left it. I threw her down, and lay on her to keep her
down. The flames had by this time expended them-
selves. She was taken to my private room. I sent
three cabs in different directions for surgeons, and one
brought Mr. Whipple, and Mr. Fox also came. They
both saw her in my room. Her person was very much
burned, although Mr. Fox at the time said the wounds
were more superficial than he bad expected to find them.
She was removed to her lodgings, in George's-place,
where I have seen her several times every day. Every
attention has been paid to her by the medical men and
nurses ; three of the la ter attended on her alternately
day and night, and one of them was had specially from
the Mount Edgcumbe ward of the South Devon Hos-
pital. The day after she was burned I telegraphed to
her ?nether in London, and she arrived in Plymouth the
same night. I went to the office to telegraph the same
night the accident occurred, but it was too late then to
do so, and Mr. Radcliffe did it for me at an early hour
the next morning. Her mother did not leave her
daughter's bedside from the time of her arrival till yes-
terday morning. Deceased was engaged with me for
one week, and on the 26th Nov. was to have been iu
Dublin, there to fulfil an engagement. There was no
occasion for her to have retired so far back on the stage
to go through the dance. I cannot acconnt for her
doing so. I noticed on the previous evening that she
danced very wildly, and with extraordinary power. I do
not think it is possible that the lights could be better
protected. I went to Drnry-lane Theatre lately, and
noticed the stage arrangements there. The lights are
in a similar position as in my theatre, only that where I
have one light, in the London theatre there are 20.

One of the jurors suggested that a wire gauze might
be used to cover the light.
Mr. Newcombe said that could not be done, because
it would have to be so thick tc be of any effect, that it
would obscure the light.
A Juror—Why not have a wire guard across the
stage ?
Mr. Newcombe observed that it would be an awk-
ward thing to have a wire-work between the scenery
and the spectators ; besides, it would impede the move-
ments necessary in the shifting of scenery, which had
to be done very rapidly.
The Coroner —Was any person the cause of the de-
ceased being caught on fire ?
Mr. Newcombe—l cannot attach blame to any one,
either in the arranging or setting of the scenes.
The Coroner—Could not the fence in front of the gas
lights have been raised higher ?
Mr. Newcombe—The screen is 22 inches high, and
WAS used as a part of the sea shore scenery ; it would
appear to the audience to represent 20 or 30 yards of
ground, and if it were made higher it would, in appear-
ance, extend the ground too far. I think the event was
purely accidental. The green glass chimneys are nine
inches in height, and the screen is a foot above that ; the
lights are also a foot behind the screen.
Alexander APOlown, carpenter at the Plymouth The-
atre, said—l have been accustomed to theatres for 30
years, and the lights in the Plymouth Theatre were very
properly protected, much more so than in many other
theatres. No other better plan could be adopted, in my
opinion, by Mr. Newcombe.
By Jurymen—l had a (laughter burnt i❑ Edinburgh
just in the same way, but not so severely. The lights
were well protected.
This was the last witness called.
The Coroner, in directing attention to the evidence,
said the great question for the jury to consider was,
whether the death of the deceased was occasioned by
the negligence of any person whatever. If they thought
any person was guilty of culpable negligence in the
matter they would place him on his trial ; hut, if not,
then they would return a verdict of accidental death.
It would also be in their province to make any sugges-
tion they pleased to Mr. 1-Teweembe with respect to pre-
caution against the repetition of such an accident for the
future.

Mr. Newcombe said he should be happy to listen to
any suggestion of some practical way in which to guar,'
against such accidents. He always, when in town, vi-
sited the scenes of the London theatres, to observe if
any improvements in arrangements, &e., had been made,
because when he saw an improvement he endeavoured
to introduce it into his own establishment. In reply to
the coroner, he said it was hardly his province to inter-
fere with the dressing of the ladies, or dictats the mate-
rial. They would wear light dresses. It was well
known that if the dresses were steeped an alum and
water after being "got up" they would not be liable to
ignite, but the corps de ballet, while knowing the effi-
cacy of this precaution, refused to adopt it, because they
said it spoilt the colour and set of the dress.
The Coroner said the steeping of their dresses in alum
water ought to be insisted on.
The jury consulted, and returned a verdict of "Acci-
dental death."

A subscription list is still open for the pecuniary assist
ante of Midi°. Julie's family.

Sporting Intelligence.

WOLVERHAMPTON RACES AND STEEPLE-

CHASES.

WOLVERHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

Weather permitting, this meeting will take place on
Friday and Saturday next ; but, should the frost con.
tinue, it will be further postponed to the Monday and
Tuesday following.

EXTENSIVE SEIZURE OF TOBACCO.--At a special meet-
ing of the magistrates at Halesworth, on the 30th ult.,
George Butcher jun., of Wenhaston, corn and coal
merchant, and 'William Forman, of the same place,
were charged by William Weale with having evaded
certain payments due to the revenue on 1,4201b5. of
unmanufactured tobacco, valued at 4041. 4s. 9d. The
principal witness was a farmer named Blomfield, at
present a prisoner in the county gaol, Ipswich, who had
been induced by the defendants to assist in removing the
tobacco to a barn, from which it was afterwards taken
away by Butcher and another. After a long investiga-
tion the magistrates, having deliberated for a conside-
rable time, convicted the prisoners in the penalties of
7791. Os. with costs ;In default, nine months' imprison-
ment. The whole of Ihe tobacco seized weighed 1,420
lbs, the duty on which would be 3s. per lb , and 5 per
cent. extra, the treble value of which the Customs
claimed, viz., 1,2121. 14s. 3d.—Bury and Norwich
Pont
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Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
East London
Grand Junction .... • • 4'. per ent. 50 0 0 all
Kent .... • •
Lambeth ......
New River Company 21.103. - -
Southwark & Vauxhall Si, per cut. 100 0 0 89%
West Nfiddiesei
BRIDGES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company, per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
X s. d. X s. d.
liiingerford .... • •
Southwark
I)itto New of 7% p.c. 11. per cent. 30 0 0
Waterloo ..... .... _.. 100 0 0
Ditto Old Ann. of 81 11. 14s. Bd. 60 0 0
Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. 10s. 4d. 40 0 0
Vauxhall
DOCKS.
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Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
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East and West India.. 6/. pr tent. stock.
East Country • .
London .... ,
Ditto Bonds 4l. per cent.
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outhampton
Victoria .......• • l5l, percent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 b%