The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-01 00:00:00

GUN-BOATS FOR THE NEXT CAMPAIGN.

The ship building yards of Liverpool, since the termi-
nation of the seven years' war, have been restricted to
the construction of vessels of commerce, if we except the
troop-shins Resolute and Assistance, built this year by
Mr. Laird for the Admiralty. Mora warlike prepara-
tions are now perceptible in the Liverpool and Birken-
head building-yards of that gentleman, in the shape of
six cr seven wood gun-boats,
of massive appearance, but
which are evidently to be of light draught of water. They
are being rapidly proceeded with, and will no doubt be
completed by March.
On the Ty
n'', Messrs. T. and W. Smith, of St. Peter's,
have received as order to build six floating batteries, to
be ready in April. They will be exceedingly strong, and
their timbers will be made two feet thick of the best oak
and nine inches of iron plata. ley have nearly all
been laid down.

t ,e
Wi:IIDSOR GREAT
SALE OF ROYAL CATTLE IN WI
unlor Great Park took
The sale of oxen fed in
the homestead
the hammer of
PARS.—
The
in the
place on Tuesday afternoon,
Messrs. Buckland and Son, at
Royal Park meadow, near Winthor,
Scotchother
twitlastand-
log the very unfavourable state of the weather there was
a large attendance of buyers from London r,
parts. The stock consisted of 73 superior hornaencld
oxen, rising five years, which bad been carefully selected
from the first breeders in Scotland, by Peter Geekie,
Esq. Fifty-five of the oxen were very fresh, and fit for
stalling. There were also 18 fine heavy Dumbarton
oxen, which have been feeding upon cake for some time
past, and fit for the butcher. The stock altogether
fetched excellent prices. Forty of the stall-fed averaged
161. ss. each. Fifteen fresh beast realised 191. per
head, and the pet Durnbartons averaged 271. 78. The
sale realised 1,2501. Ti,is is the first sale of cattle in
Windsor Great P:,rk which has taken pace by the an.
thority of the Corutnisioners of her Majesty's Land Re•
venue,

Her statement that she came from Ftintshire, where
she ►ived as nursery governess, appears to be true. She
was there in the service of Mr. Fenton, of the Queen's
Ferry Wire-rope Works, who had an excellent character
with her from the matron of the Liverpool workhouse,
but ho dismissed her for telling extraordinary falsehoods.
Mr. Fenton says also that he has reason to believe that
she was connected with a case in which her husband had
been convicted for bigamy and transported. A letter
from Limerick shows that she is a married woman,
having been there married to a soldier about three
yeere ago.
There have been received the depositions of a case in
which, on the Ist of last month (October), ehe appeared
before the Mayor of Chester, and charge i three men with
robbing her of a carpetbag as she was eutelirg the town
from the railway station on the previous Monday. Tes-
timony waa given teat one of the men was not in the
town at the lime, but the woman was so positive in her
identification that both he and another was summarily
convicted and sentenced to three months' imprieoninent.
She represented to the Chester bench that the robbery
of which she complained bad reduced her to a state of
destitution, and that she had no friends nearer than Bir-
mingham, to which the megistrate4, pitying her condi-
t;on, paid her fare. Her proceedings at Birmingham
have been a,ready published. The gentlemen who, she
said, gave her 4/. at the Birmingham Railway station, is
the Rev. J. A. Morris, of Hampton, who states that out
of compassion for her apparently destitute state he took
her t:) a coffeehouse and gavo her a meal and ls.
In the yeas 1852 she was in Bath, where, on the 28th
of April, she, under the name of Agnes Hentans, charged
a young man with robbing her as she was returning from
the post office. The accusation failed, and she was
charged with perjury, committed at Bristol, but was dis-
charged for want of sufficient evidence. In Scotland,
:waver, she was not quite so successful, for at Greenock,
in the latter end of May, she was convicted of a false
accusation, and sentenced to three months' imprison-
ment.

The superintendent of the Dublin Metropolitan Police
identified her as having practised her extraordinary and
dangerous calling, which would seem to be at length
stopped, for as far back as 1849, when in Dublin, after liv-
ing upon the charity of the police for some time, she was
committed for three months for imposture. She is proved
to hare committed perjury in various other parts of Ire-
land, where she was twice convicted of felony. From
Ireland she would seem to have found her way to Ken-
dal, in Westmoreland, which place, after making the
acquaintance of the police, she left as for Glasgow ; but
postponing her visit there she appears to have gone to
Leede, where she managed to obtain a livelihood during
a. twelvemonth by alleging that she was the daughter of
a certain revcrand doctor, whom sho had loft on account
of the precise bent of her religious conviction. In Der-
byshire the came imposture was successful, until con-
fronted with her reputed father at an hotel at Leeds she
was compelled to confess that she had been acting a lie.
By her too indulgent entertainers in the north she was
all )wod to leave that locality unpunished ; and still
alleging that she was a Roman Catholic, choosing rather
to leave home than to obey her father's injunctions to
attend a Baptist chapel, she was for some time iu Kent,
but afterwards the old tale of having been suddenly made
destitute by the loss or theft of her purse was again
taken up.
The neighbourhood of the court was thronged by
crowds of persons as the woman was brought in, and in
the interior of the court were persons of considerable
county standing. When she entered she appeared to be
nearly fainting, and'veater and additional air had to be
supplied to her. Afterwards she broke out into par-
oxysms of rage, and uttered similarly repulsive language
to that which she adopted on her first examination, and
which was so strong a contrast to her former dulcet
notes and seemingly guileless expression. During the
has continued
clothes and performing
t otcyn the county
i
other wild
gaol,week shetearing h
freaks.
Although in f rm of law she was remanded, yet vir-
tually she was committed on the charge of perjury
against the two boys at Wolverhampton, her presence
at the court next Wednesday, in so far as it may relate
to that case, being desired only that the depoiitione
may be prepared according to legal requirement. Be-
sides the evidence referred to ab we, testimony addi-
tional to that produced last week was brought forward
to show that at the time of the alleged robbery the boys
were at least a mile from Wolverhampton.
In her cross-examination of the Rev. Mr. Morris and
other witnesses she manifested a c 'nsiderable acquain-
tance with the law of evidence, putting no questions
which had not a direct bearing upon her own case.
When Mr. Leigh read over to her the long list of offences
of which she was suspected, and which proved the accu-
racy of the statement which we hare made above as to
the extent of her journeyings, she said that to have been
so great a criminal she must sure be a " fallen angel."
Through the whole of her examination she has manifested
the utmost aversion to the scrutinising gaze of strangers,
and when she was about to be removed from the court
yesterday afternoon adopted a novel and somewhat
startling expedient to avoid it. While the officers were
calling out, " Clear the court," and the crowd were
upon tiptoe to see her pass out, she suddenly sprang
from the chair upon which she was sitting, and skipped
across the table placed in front of the bench appropriated
to solicitors and reporters, and leaping almost over the
heads of their worships wen disappeared by the pri-
vate entrance appropriated to the magistrates. When
beyond the " vulgar gaze" she appeared contented,
Soon afterwards she was taken in a cab to the rail-
way station, and thence back to the county gaol at
Stafford.