The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1852.

Contracts are being entered into for the construction of
masses of rock on a large scale in the open air, whereby
picturesque effects will be produced without the violation
of geological facts and laws, and this section of the Na-
tural History department will prove extremely attractive
from the restoration of colossal extinct animals which
will accompany it. Among the curiosities thus ex-
hibited will be working models of the mastodon, the
glyptodon, the mylodon, the ichthyosanrus, and the
plesiosaurus; and if these do not astonish and amuse the '
multitude we shall despair of the fame of such men as
Professor Open and Guvier. The Raw Produce Col-
lection is attracting great attention, especially in Liver-
pool, where the directors have secured the aid of Mr.
Archer, who exhibited in Hyde-park the remarkable
and complete illustration of imports at that port. With
regard to the space set apart for exhibitors, Mr. Belshaw
who is especially charged with the direction of it, has
just returned from a visit to the principal seats of our
manufacturing industry, and his inquiries go to .prove
that the company may expect to realize a large annual
income from the lotting of stalls. In describing the in-
terior arrangements of the building two other points
remain to be noticed. The first relates to the disposal
of the machinery, which is to be placed in an extensive
basement story formed by the rapid fall of the site for
the building towards the park. Thus a very convenient
arrangement is affected, at the same time that tho
architectural grandeur of the principal fagado is greatly
heightened by the additional elevation. The second
point, and one of much iteportance to the aspect of the
interior, is, that the galleries which ran along both sides
of the nave in the old palace, obstructing the view, are
done away with, and the outside ones are alone retained.
In these will be placed the lighter and more valuable
articles of manufacture, such as occupied them in
Hyde-park.

that he was a carver and gilder, of St. Mary-street,
Liverpool, WAS brought up on remerni, charged with
stealing a quantity of wearing apparel from the White
Bear public house, in King-street, Hammersmith.
On Thursday evening, the 14th inst., the prisoner en-
tered the above named public house, with a carpet-bag l
in his hand, as if he had been travelling, and inquired if
ho could be provided with a bed. Airs. Miaward replied
in the gffirmative, and he was shown to a bedroom next
to one occupied by a young man named Edward Griffith's.
The prisoner slept in the room all night, and in the
morning, shortly before nine o'clock, he came down stairs
with his carpet bag, paid his reckoning without ordering
any breakfast, which was the usual custom for per-
sons to do, and loft the house. No suspicion was then
attached to him, but a few minutes afterwards,
upon Mrs. Millvvard going up stairs to ascertain if
all was right, she discovered Griffiths's box in his bed•
room, which contained his wearing apparel, completely
empty. She instantly informed her husband that
Griffitha' clothes had been stolen, and it was then sus-
pected that the prisoner was the thief. The prisoner
we accordingly pursued and apprehended in the Grove,
walking in the direction of Shepherd's Bush. He was
brought back to the house, and Sergeant Lowe, of the T
division, who had been called, found the carpet-bag
locked. He then searched him, and discovered the key
in his pocket. Upon opening the bag the officer found
two coats, a waistcoat, two silk handkerchiefs, and other
articles, which Griffiths identified as belonging to him.
Tho prisoner was discovered wearing three pairs of trou-
sers, two of which were the property of Griffiths, and
also another waistcoat, belonging to the same person. In
the pockets of the prisoner Sergeant Lowe found a cap,
a cigar case, and gloves, which Griffiths said were his
property. He also said that the whole of his property
was quite safe in his box when he loft his room about
8 o'clock in the morning.
Mr. Paynter committed the prisoner for trial.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.

The Lords of the Admiralty will arrive here to-mor
row morning to commence their official inspection. On
Wednesday evening their Lordships personally patronize
a ball in aid of the Seamen and Marines' Orphan
Schouls, at Hollingsworth's rooms.
The Niger, 14, screw.sloop, Commander Heath, wont
out of harbour to Spithead on Friday evening, and ship-
end her ammunition yesterday, prior to sailing. It has
eitherto been supposed that Jack would desert his ship
unless his wages were kept in arrear. That such is not
the case has been proved by the fact of the Niger having
loft this port without a single " straggler," although paid
down to the 30th of September. This is, we believe, a
very rare case. The Niger may be manned -a7ith an
unusually steady crew, or she may have unusually popu-
lar officers; but at any rate it augurs well for the new
system of monthly payment to the seamen of the fleet.
The Sappho, 16, Commander the Hon. A. Cochrane,
was inspected, and her crew mustered by the Port-Ad-
miral, and exercised in gunnery by Captain Chads, C. 8.,
yesterday, prior to her sailing in the evening to be paid
off at Chatham.
The Termagant, 24, screw-frigate, Captain Giffard,
left Spithead this afternoon for Queenstown to endeavour
to make up her crew.
The Arrogant, 46, screw-frigate, Captain Fremantle
will haul out of the fitting basin on Monday.
The Oriental Queen,convict-ship, which lately touched
at this port for convicts for transportation, and which
arrived at Plymouth on Sunday last, carries out a total
of 280 felons, mostly on tickets of leave, and a draught
of the 11th Regiment, consisting of Ensign Petrie and
49 men, commanded by Major Reid, 99th Regiment.
Her destination is Van Diemen's Land.
The threo.decker, Marlborough, on the stocks in this
dockyard, is ordered to be named the Windsor Castle.
Mr. H. Davy, Assistant-Master-Attendant of this
dockyard, died on Thursday.

PLYMOUTH, OCT. 24,

Her Majesty's steam-vessel Dee, 4, Lieutenant Com-
mander T. C. Smith, arrived from Woolwich on Friday,
and having taken her coal on board, was placed at her
sailing moorings on Saturday. Sho is appointed to sail
to-morrow (Monday) for the Cap° of Good Hope.
Her Majesty's frigate Alarm, 28, Captain G. Ramsay,
went up harbour on the 22nd. Her crew will be paid
off on Friday, the 28th inst,
Tho General Screw Stsam Navigation Company's
mail-packet Hellespont, Captain W. Watts, arrived here
on Friday, and is appointed to sail to-day with mails for
Sierra, Leone and the coast of Africa, having been taken
up for the voyage by the Royal African Mail Steam-
packet Company, preparatory to the completion of thoir
own ships.

SHEERNESS, SUNDAY, 8 A M.
liar Majesty's ship Ganges, 84, launched at Bombay
in 1821, is undergoing extensive repairs, and will be out
of the shipwrights' hands in January next. Although
built of teak her stern frame is rotten, and will require
to be replaced by a new one.
Her Majesty's ship Howe, 120, is reported to be com-
pleted in her repairs by the Ist of April next year, at
which period she will have been in dock nearly two
years.
Her Majesty's screw line-of-battle ship Agamemnon,
91, Captain Sir T. Maitland, will be fully rigged by the
naidOto of November, and ready for sea by the 28th of
December, a month earlier than previously intended.
For this purpose the hands at present employed on the
Granges, 84, and the Miranda steam-sloop, are to be
taken off, and, together with all the available force of the
dockyard, set to work on her. A portion of the seamen
of the London, 90, advanced ship, are daily employed in
her equipment. She is entering men slowly and is some
400 short of her complement. When ready for service,
sho is to have none other than the best Welch coal,
which, causing but little deposit, is better adapted to
her tubular boilers than coal procured from the north
country. Another ship of the same class is ordered to
be built on the same slip from which she was launched.
Her Majesty's paddlewheel steam-vessel Tartarus,
Lieutenant-Commanding R. 11. Risk, will have made
good her defects in a few days, and will be ready for
sea by the first week in November.
Her Majesty's ship Superb, 80, has been removed from
abreast Chatham dockyard to moorings lower down the
Medway.
The Chatham, yacht to the Captain Superintendent,
Peter Richards, C. 8., arrived yesterday with moneys for
the public service, and returned to Chatham in the after-
noon.
dsehr-ipin London,-Chief.
° who
The officers and crews of the Waterloo, Agamemnon,
London, &c., were mustered on Friday by the Hon.
Montagu Stopford, Flag-Captain to Vice-Admiral the
II
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Con
inap
Majesty s
has been at Portsmouth during the last few weeks raising
men, has returned to his duties on board.
Two large anchors on the plan of Mr. J. Aylen, Mas-
ter-Attendant, are ordered to be forthwith constructed
at Chatham-dockyard.
i Lieutenantj e e n eGor Percy, Gordon,,
The usual members of the Anchor Committee are in
daily deliberation on the subject of their report.

WOOLWICH, OCT. 23,
APPOINTMENTS.

Surgeons—William Robertson, M.D. (1843), from the
Hogue screw steams-hip, at Portsmouth, to the Leander,
50, at Portsmouth; James G. Buchanan (1846), to the
Impregnable flag-ship, at Devonport.
Master James Tonkin (1832), at present serving in
the Waterloo, 120, flag-ship, at Sheerness, is appointed
wveierh on mail Friday
evening last to
assistant-master-attendant at Portsmouth dockyard, vice
Henry Davy, deceased.
Thestc r
steam-packet, Second-
Ma
resume her duties on the Dover station.
The Dover iron paddle-wheel steam-vessel of 90-
horso power arrived at Woolwich on Friday evening
Princess
lAefltic We' °
Dover
from the river Gambia, on the coast of Africa. The
Dover was brought home in charge of the chief-engineer,
and there are only four other white persons on board,
the remainder of the crew being all Kroomen.
It was Lieutenant Thomas Saumarez who has lust
returned from Africa, and not Lieutenant Philip gau-
marez, of the Terrible, vsho has been appointed to the
Victoria and Albert.

LAW REFORMS.—The first day of Michaelmas
Term, when the navy course of procedure in the Court
of Chancery comes into operation, is rapidly approach-
ing, and some anxiety is felt both by professional men
and by suitors with roterenee to the working of the new
system. Such anxiety is not groundless. The impend-
ing alterations relate not merely to the practice in the
court!, but they also transfer the direction of the details
of a suit to the Judges sitting at Chancery in substitu-
tion of the present Masters in Chancery, and yet to the
present moment no general rules and orders for regu-
lating the form and usode of procedure before the Judges
so sitting at Chambers have been promulgated. The
practitioner is left without chart or compass, and will be
obliged to act in working out a new system without
having had thn opportunity of considering the effect and
operation of the rules which he will be required to ob-
serve.
1110RDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—WEDNIIII..
BIM; SATURDAY.—A shocking tragedy has just been
perpetrated here, a married woman having drowned her
child, aged 15 mouths, in a tub, and afterwards made an
attempt on her own ife by hanging herself. The cir-
cumstances were investigated last evening, by Mr.
Ilinchlitre, the district coroner. A number of witnesses
were examined, and the following is the gist of their
testimony : The alleged murderess, Sarah Smith, is the
and
the found
dead
bodyr
wife of a moulder, employed at the ironworks of Mr.
George Adams, of this town. On Saturday evening last,
about five o'clock, Smith, the husband, came home from
footinch!
his work, but could not find his wife. After lookinz
about the house, ho discovered her hanging from a hook
After had
the beanmot h e
rplaced.
had
been
taken tubi t
o ve
in the pantry by a handkerchief, which she had tied
r oun d herAni
me coks.t
immediately
ecdni
at herte
ly afterwards
down,
fnd h
win-
sensible, but by prompt surgical assistance she was re-
stored.somf
asmall Smith's
one— littlef o child 8
in
owl
ess foundiin
in
height, a tub of
o
water,
2 over
sho a
iwnhdiciahmaete.
rtea-tray
cus-
tody, Mrs. Chowle, a neighbour, asked her how she
could do such a thing as kill ,her child ; to which she
replied, "I will tell you all about it, I left the child
in the brewhouse, playing with its chair, while I went
to the cistern for water. When I returned, I found 11
it in the tub, with its head downwards. I pulled him 11
out, but he was nearly gone. I felt afraid, and I put
him in again,
and went and hanged myself." She
afterwards repeated this statement, and denied that
she had killed the child. Mr. Bailey, a surgeon, of
Wednesbury, having examined the prisoner on the
evening of the alleged murder, gave his opinion that
she was labouring under temporary insanity. The jury,
after a charge from the coroner, returned a verdict of
murder" against Sarah Smith.

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