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for less than one-third of their wholesale value, and
afterwards purchasing the same description of pro-
perty for about one-half its value, and that, too, of
a mere youth, who had given two different names
and two different addresses ; no inquiries being made,
no bill of parcels given, and no receipt required ;
nor, in fact, anything to show the nature of the trans-
action, beyond the witness's deposition. He could very
well understand tyow the matter stood. The pawnbroker,
having got the prisoner in his power, instead of giving
him into custody, availed himself of it, and, by making
a market of the unfortunate youth, encouraged a system
of robbery of employers, which, but for such characters,
would seldom be heard of. With regard to the prisoner,
the evidence was conclusive as to his guilt ; and he
should, therefore, come to the determination to commit
him for trial, and leave it for a jury to decide as to the
effect of a conditional promise on the prisoner's mind
while making a confession.
William Reeves and Edward Holmes were charged with
stealing a couple of tea-chests and one pound of tea,
under the following circumstances :---
Mr. Craney, a tea-dealer of Fore-street, Cripplegate,
missed from his shop door, on Thursday last, a chest of
tea, and suspecting that the thieves, elated with the success
of their first visit, would call upon him again, he availed
himself of a detective officer, who arranged the following
mode of discovering the offenders :—A dummy tea-chest,
with about a pound of tea disposed in it, to look like a full
chest, was placed on the spot from which the missing
chest had been taken ; it was then connected by a string
to an empty chest that was elevated within the door,
and left like the other unprotected. On Friday night
the detective was on the alert, observed the two pri-
soners loitering- about, one of them having a sack on his
arm. They gradually approached the shop door, and
having satisfied themselves that the coast was clear, they
threw the sack over the dummy, and were decamping
with it, when the empty chest came tumbling down
with an alarming noise, and the prisoners were instantly
captured and conveyed, with the dummy and empty
chest, to the station-house. It further appeared that
the prisoners had been seen hovering about Mr. Craney's,
shop on Thursday night, but nothing has been heard of
the real chest of tea that was stolen. The prisoners were
comsa;tted for trial.

BOW-STREET.— Wm. Avis, undertaker of 47,
High-street, St. Giles's, was charged upon a summons,
withlaving made a false statement to the district-regisl
trar of St. Giles's, relative to the death of Diana Tees
alias Avis..

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plying for hire, and he hired the defendant to drive him
to Bethnal-green.
The counsel for the defence contended that there was
not strict proof of a plying for hire in a public place
such as intended•by the Legislature, and it might be a
question whether there was not, in fact, a quasi hiring of
the cabs standing at the place referred to, as they were
there for the convenience of railway passengers only.
Mr. Hammill, after much discussion, said the learned
counsel had, in the course of his argument referred to
the moaning attached by Dr. Johnson to the word
" plying," but the point now in question depended upon
the term " elsewhere," to the plain acceptation of which
he must adhere ; and finding that there was a plying for
hire elsewhere than at the appointed place ; being of opi-
nion also that that was a place of public resort, he felt
bound to convict the defendant. He repeated, however,
that he would gladly, assist in obtaining the decision of a
superior tribunal.
The defendant was convicted in the nominal penalty of
is. and costs ; and similar convictions took place upon
two other summonses for cabs belonging to the same
propietor.
Mr. D'Eyncourt was on the bench, and it was under-
stood that he concurred in opinion with his brother
magistrate.

Mr. G. Simpson, surgeon and registrar of deaths for
the district in question, stated that he resided at 6,
Bedford-street, Bedford-square. He saw mutes at the
defendant's door one day in August last, and in a
few days afterwards, called to ascertain who had
died there, with a view of registering the death. The
defendant said it was his wife. Witness had previ-
ously seen the certificate of death given by the medical
man who had attended her, and who described her as
"Mrs. W. Avis, aged 35." Witness asked the de-
fendant if she was his wife, and he replied, "Yes," and
when the' form of register was handed to him to fill up
he entered her name as such immediately. A few days
since a man, who represented himself as being the hus-
band of thedeceased, called upon witness, and requested
to see the register of "Mrs. Tees." He said that his
own name was Tees, and that the deceased was his wife;
but she had for some time past lived with the defendant
as Mrs. Avis. He stated that since 'her death, Mr.
Avis had sought to take possession of some of her pro-
perty, which,' legally speaking, belonged to him ; and,
consequently, he had instructed his solicitor to take pro-
ceedings against him. .
William Thomas Tees then gave the following evi-
dence—Witness was a tailor, living in Great Earl:street,
St. Giles's, and was married to the deceased (who had
lately passed as Mrs. Avis) at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields,
in 1836, by public banns. The defendant was present
at the marriage, and signed the register, being a friend
of the bride. In 1840 witness agreed to separate from
his wife, and two or three years afterwards she went to
live with Mr. Avis. From this time she passed as Mrs.
Avis, except among witness's friends, with whom she
still passed as Mrs. Tees. Both the defendant and de-
(leased continued to be friendly with witness, and his
Arife occasionally visited him up to within six months of
her death. ' After her death Mr. Avis, made a grapple
at her goods, which he (witness) considered belonged to
him, as he was her lawful husband.
Mr. Henry—The only thing that induced you to stir
in this matter, then, was your wife's goods ?
Witness—Exactly so : Mr. Avis has no right to them.
Cross-examined by Mr. Duncombe, the defendant's
solicitor—l know a woman named Rebecca Phillips very
well, and cohabited with her before I separated from my
wife. My wife did not approve of it, because she saw
that I was. " inveigled' into the connexion. I admit
that I married Rebecca Phillips in 1844. I knew that
she was married to another man, and she knew that I
'
was married to another woman • but her friends wished
it, so we were married. I knew it was not right ac-
cording to law. I had lived with her three years
before. I also know Polly Thomas. I will swear that
I never married Polly too ; I. never contributed more
than 51. or 101. towards my wife's support after we
separated, although I knew she was badly off.
In reply to Mr. Henry,
Mr. Jarman, who prosecuted on behalf of the Trea-
sury solicitor, stated that he was not aware of the cir-
cumstances thus disclosed. Mr. Duncombe was con-
tending that his client, who had taken Mrs. Tees into a
respectable home, to live in a respectable way, had only
acted with a view to save her memory from shame ; and
that he thought that the second marriage of Tees
annulled his first, when

Mr. Henry suggested that the case should stand over
a week. The conduct of Tees was no justification for
that of Avis ; but a person in his position of life might
have acted in ignorance under all the circumstances.
The inquiry was accordingly adjourned.
CLERKENWELL.—EIIen Blainey, a smart young
woman, was charged with having set fire to the dwel-
ling-house of Mr. James Cazaly, of No. 3, Derby-street,
King's-cross.

Mi.. Wakeling, who prosecuted, stated, that his client
held a responsible situation at Messrs. Rucker and Com-
pany's, colonial agents, 12, Great Tower-street. The
prisoner, with anotller female had lodged in his house,
but being of filthy habits, and making a practice of going
about almost in a state of nudity, he gave them notice to
quit ; but they obstinately persisted in remaining on the
premises, from which much valuable property had been
abstracted, and the accused being charged with the theft
she became abusive, and committed a gross assault, for
which she was brought to this court. and held to bail to
receive judgment on a future day, under a promise to
leave her apartments within a week, and to afford every
facility to trace the missing property. On the previous
afternoon, Mr. Cazaly's servant was in the kitchen,
when she was attracted by a smell of fire and smoke, and
on proceeding towards the kitchen, she saw the prisoner
running up-stairs, in a hurried and confused manner,
and almost instantly afterwards the lower part of the
dwelling-house was in a blaze, which spread with rapidity
over the whole premises destroying property of great
value. Engines were quickly on the spot, and by the
efforts of the fire brigade the adjoining buildings were
preserved. Suspicion immediately fell upon the prisoner,
who was given into the custody of police-constable
Ruske, No. 40, of the E division.
Several witnesses were examined, and their evidence
went to show that a quantity of straw had been placed
under the stairs of the kitchen, and that it had been wil-
fully set fire to.
Mr. Tyrwhitt, after a patient investigation, remanded
the prisoner, refusing to take bail.

LAMBETH.—SamueI Cooper, a saddler and harness-
maker, and Sophia Ann, his wife, were placed at the bar
on a charge of stealing 304 sovereigns and a silver hunt-
ing watch, the property of Mrs. Harriet Ann Clark, an
aged lady, lodging at No. 3, Hill-street, Walworth.
Some weeks ago the prosecutrix, who had been for-
merly housekeeper, to Mr. Peto, a medical gentleman,
who, at his decease, left her all his property, was at-
tacked with a malignant fever, and engaged the female
prisoner to attend on her as nurse. The opportunity
thus afforded the latter of getting into the good graces
of her patient, she turned to such a good account, that
prosecutrix not only talked of leaving her the whole of
her property, but actually made a will in her favour.
Soon after the prisoner managed to get the stays gene-
rally worn by Mrs. Clarke, in which there was sewn up,
in different compartments, 420 sovereigns, a certificate
for 1001., vested in the Three per Cent. Consols, and a
savings bank book for 201. These • stays she wore for
sevciel days, and when apprehended by Serjeant Quin-
.near 1 P, ehe acknowledged that such was the weight
of the stays with its golden stuffing, that it made her
quite ill. Mrs. Clarke having partially recovered, de-
manded the restoration of her stays, and on that day
(Saturday) week, the stays were restored, and the whole
of their eontents, as alleged by the prisoners, were also
handed to her. The prosecutrix, believing that the
female prisonei had only disturbed one of the com-
partments of the stays, acknowledged' that all was
right, and lent thirty sovereigns to the male pri-
soner. On subsequently examining the stays, it was
found that all the gold was gone, and that all the
female prisoner returned was 116 sovereigns. The
prosecutrix subsequently gave information of the rob-
bery to, the police, and the prisoners were apprehended.
On the. male prisoner there were found twenty-three
sovereigns and a silver hunting-watch belonging to the
prosecutrix, and which he was also charged with steal-
ing. The prosecutrix being so ill as not to be able to
attend, the prisoners were remanded.
THAMES.—SamueI Morley, aged, 27, a stout ath-
letic fellow, and who was described as a stonemason,
was charged with burglary, and also with cutting and
wounding William Brooks, police constable, 364 K.

WORSHIP- STREET. —Samuel Staller, a journeyman
butcher, was charged, in conjunction with a man named
George litation, with having carried on a long continued
system of plunder at the premises of the first named
prisoner's master, Mr. Philip Sharpe, a carcass butcher
in Portugal-place, Bethnal-green.
The prosecutor stated that the prisoner Stoller had
lieen in his service as foreman for the last five years, and
besides a liberal amount of weekly wages he was allowed
as perquisites the proceeds derived from the blood of all
the cattle that were slaughtered on the premises. He
/
had been in the habit for some years of disposing of the
blood to the other prisoner, who was accustomed to call
twice a week to convey it away in casks, which he
brought with him for that purpose. For a considerable
time past, however, the suspicions of witness had been
excited against both the prisoners, in consequence of the
serious diminution which was constantly taking place in
the stock of meat in his shop beyond the amount of his
average sales, and feeling satisfied from further observa-
tion that they were acting together to plunder him
by wholesale, and carry off their booty, under cover of
their private traffic, he resolved to keep a sharp look out
on the occasion of Matton's next visit, and concealed
himself on the preceding morning, with that object, in a
'mall apartment, which commanded a view of the shop.
Ho had only been there a few minutes when the prisoner
Staller made his appearance, and, after cautiously
glancing round to ascertain that he was not observed,
hastily detached two shoulders of mutton from the
hooks to which they were suspended, and instantly
made off with them in the direction of the slaughter-
hems°. After a short interval witness followed him there,
and found him with the other prisoner, who exhibited
the utmost confusion and trepidation at his sudden
appearance, but quickly recovered himself, and, on being
questioned, coolly answered that he had merely called for
some blood, which he had just der,osited in his tub.
Feeling convinced that his statement was a gross fabri-
cation, as there was no blood to be found that morning
about the premises, witness at once looked into the cask,
at the bottom of which he Was astonished at observing a
quantity of meat, for which he was utterly at a loss to
account, as there was no apparent apperture besides the
bung-hole to 'allow of its admission. On examining the
head of the cask, however, he discovered that it was
ingeniously furnished with a moveable cover, on raising
which he found inside, not only the two shoulders of
mutton which the prisoner, Staller, had taken out of the
shop, but a joint of beef and a hand of pork, which had
been purloined from other parts of his premises.
Mr. Pelham, who appeared, on behalf of the prisoner
Matton, submitted that there was not sufficient evidence
i
to
to
,inplicate his client in tlie robbery, but
sc fr,r theM . HamrAill considered that there could be no doubt
their
complicity, and ordered them both to be re-
manded
emnpletion of the depositions.
Re''Ta2+l Tlrtlliams, a cab-driver in the employ of Mr.
inon;,Y.
iitjurgess Rolfe, appeared upon an adjourned sum-
the, preP°llesaooliarge of unlawfully plying for hire upon
33, the railway Mr.•
company for
citor for the complainant.
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Mr. Barringer,
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PLANS LODGED AT BOARD OF TRADE.

List of Plans lodged in the Railway Department,
Board of Trade, 2ah and 30th November, 1852 :

ENGLAND.

Ambergate, Notts and Boston, and Eastern Junction
Railway, Extension to Nottingham.
Albert Dock and Railway.
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway,
Extension to Leacombe.
Birkenhead Dock Company, Branch Railway.
Blyth and Tyne, and Tynemouth and Morpeth Railway.
Bognor Railway.
Bideford Extension Railway.
Bedale and Leyburn Railway.
Birkenhead Railway. .
Boston and Midland Counties Railway and Dock.
Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway (additional

lands).
Bayswater, Paddington, and Holborn-bridge Railway.
Barnet and Willesden Railway.
Carlisle Canal and Port, Carlisle Railway.
Chatham and Canterbury Local Railway.
Cornwall Railway, Branches.
Chard Railway, Extension to Taunton.
Corris, Machynlleth, Aberdovey, and Towyn Railway.
Cheltenham and Oxford Union Railway.
Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway.
Darlington and Barnard Castle Railway.
Darenth Valley Railway.
Denbighshire Railway.
Devon and Dorset Railway.
Dorchester and Exeter Railway, Coast Extension.
Dean Forest, Monmouth, Usk, and Pontypool Railway.
East Grinstead Railway.
Exeter and Exmouth Railway.
East Lancashire Railway, No. 1.
East Lancashire, No. 2.
East Anglian Branch Railway.
East and West India Docks, and Birmingham Junction
New Works.
East Kent Railway.
East and West Surrey Union Railway.
Eastern Counties Railway, Stratford to Woodford.
Eastern Counties Railway, Manningtree to Harwich.
Eastern Counties Railway (No. 1), Woolwich Extension.
Great Northern Railway, Bedford Branch.
Great Northern Railway (No. 1).
Great Western. Junction Railway, Deviation, &c.
Great Western Railway, Station at Birkenhead.
Great Western and City Junction Railway.
Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester ; Monmouth and Forest
of Dean Railways. .
Hull and Holdernesse Railway.
Isle of Wight Railway.
Kingroad Harbour, Docks, and Railway.
Llanelly Railway and Dock, Extension to Llandillo.
Leeds and Bradford and Halifax Junction Railway
Branches.
Llandilloes and New Town Railway.
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway ; London-
bridge Station and Crystal Palace Branch.
London and North-western Railway, Branches to Stour-
bridge.
Lewes, Uckfield, and Tonbridge Wells Railway.
London and Westminster Thames Railway.
London and North-Western Railway, Deviation of Old-
ham Branch.
London and North-Western, Tring to Oxford.
London and North-Western, Northampton to Har-
borough.
London and North-Western, to Shrewsbury; and Branch
to Oswestry.
London and North-Western, Branches to St. Albans
and Amersham.
London and North-Western, Colebrooke Dale, &c.
London and North-Western, Crewe to Shrewsbury, and
Primrose-hill to Wimbledon.
London and North-Western and Buckinghamshire Rail-
way Connecting Branch.
London and Mid-Western Railway.
Leamington, Warwick, and Stratford-upon-Avon Rail-
way.
Lynvi Valley Railway Deviation.
London (City) and Finsbury (borough) Improvements
and Railway,. City Terminus, and Stations.
Lewes, Uckfield, and Tonbridge Wells Direct Railway.
Mancheseer and Southport Railway Deviation.
Monmouth Railway and CJanal, Railway Deviation.
Midland (Leicester and Hitchin) Railway.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, Barns-
ley Branch.
Mid Kent Railwsy.
Montgomeryshire Railway.
Norwich and Spalding Railway.
North and South-Western Railway, Branch to Hammer-
smith.
Nuneaton, Leiceser, and Hitchin Railway.
North and Souti-Western Railway, Hampstead and
City Junction.
Norwood, Streatlam, and Wanstead Railway.
Newport, Aberga7enny, and Hereford Railway, Devia-
tions, &c.
Newport, Extensim to Brecon.
Newport,. Extensim to' Swansea.
Newport, . Extension to Taff Vale.
North and. South 'Vales Railway.
Oxford, Worcester; and Wolverhampton Railway, Alter-
ations, &c.
Plymouth,. Tavistcck, Okehampton, North Devon, and
Exeter Railway.
Portsmouth Railway.
Regent's Canal, Linehouse Dock.
Rugby, Southam, tnd Banbury Railway.
Redruth and Chasewater Railway.
Swansea Vale Railway.
Severn and Wye Railway, and Canal Extension and
Alteration.
South Wales Mineral Railway.
St. Ives and West Cornwall Junction Railway.
South Midlands Union Railway.
Stamford and Esseadine Railway.
Stockton and Hartepool Railway, Haswell Branch. 1
South Devon and gavistock Railway.
Severn Railway.
Sunderland and Leads Northern Junction Railway.
St. Helens Canal and Kenbury Railway Branches.
Staines, Wokinghan, and Woking Junction Railway.
St. George's Harbour and Railway.
South Wales Railway, Monmouthshire.
South-Eastern Railway, Reading Extension.
South-Eastern Rai.way, Greenwich Extension to North
Kent.
South-Eastern Railway, Lewisham, Croydon, and Brom-
, ley Line.
South-Eastern Railway, Stroud and Maidstone.
.Southampton and Andover, and Salisbury and Basing.
stoke Railway.
South Derbyshire Railway.
Shrewsbury and Aberystwith Railway.
South and. West London Railway.
Shrewsbury Iron Bridge and Bridgenorth Railway.
Torquay and South Devon Railway Extension.
Tamar Valley Railway.
Tynemouth Docks and Morpeth and Shields Railway

The policeman's head was bandaged, and he appeared
in a very weakly condition.
Mr. Ingham directed the constable to be seated, and
he then deposed, that on the morning of Saturday, the
20th of November, at half-past two o'clock, as he was
passing the Piggot Arms public-house, in the East
India-road, Poplar,- he found the side door ajar. It led
into a yard at the back. He pushed the door open, and
laid hold of the prisoner by the collar, and was imme-
diately struck by him. A struggle ensued, and he
sprang his, rattle, on which another man emerged from
the house; ran past them; and made his escape. He
struggled with the prisoner, and they were up and down
several times. At last the prisoner struck him a tremendous
blow on the top of the head with a life preserver; it laid
bare his skull. He staggered, but 'kept fast hold of the
prisoner, who followed up the blow by others. He was
struck four or five times over the head with the same in-
strument, and also -upon the face. He fell against the
wall, and upon recovering himself, caught the prisoner
by the waistcoat. The prisoner struck him again, and
dragged himself away, leaving part of his waistcoat
behind him. Witness dropped a portion of the waist-
coat, and pursued the prisoner, and called out " Stop
thief." He was bleeding very much at the time, and
soon became exhausted. The prisoner was stopped by
another constable, and soon afterwards he returned to
the yard of the public-house, where part of the prisoner's
waistcoat, and his hat 'and handkerchief, were found.
The'prisoner said they were his.
In answer to a question by Mr. Ingham, Brooks said
he was confined to his bed for eight days, and was still
under medical treatment.

Evidence was then given that an attempt had been
made to enter the public-house. The window-shutters
of the tap-room had been wrenched open, and there was
a mark, as if made with an iron-bar, between the two
shutters.

Inspector Holmes, of the. K division, said that the
prisoner was a returned transport, and since his return
to this country had been convicted of felony and sen-
tenced to nine months' imprisonment and hard labour.
The prisoner made no defence, and Mr. Ingham fully
committed him for trial for burglary, and also for wound-
ing Brooks with intent to murder him, and prevent his
lawful apprehension.

Direct. •
Vale of Clwyd Railway.
Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway.
Waveney Valley Extension Railway, to Beccles, &c.
Warrington and Altringham Junction Railway, Altera.
tion, &c.
Warrington Railway, Extension to Stockport.
Wimbledon and Croydon Railway.
Wellington and Severn Railway.
Woodford Railway.
West Cornwall Railway, Branch.
West-End of London and Crystal Palace Railway.
Worcester
,and Ilereford Junction Railway.
Worcester and liereford Railway.
Yarmouth and Lowestoft Railway.

SCOTLAND.
Ayrshire `and Galloway Railway, Extension to Ayr, &c.
Aberdeen Railway, Alteration of Road.
Ayr, Maybole, and Girvan Railway.
Caledonian Railway, Connecting Branch.
Caledonian Railway, Branch and Goods Station.
Crieff Junction Railway.
Edinburgh' and Glasgow Railway, Connecting Branch
with Caledonian.
Forth and Clyde Junction Railway.
Glasgow and South-Western Railway, Branch to New-
ark and Carlisle.
Glasgow, Earlwood, Busby, and Eaglesham Railway.
Hawick and Carlisle Railway.
Inverleithen and Peebles Railway.
Jedburgh Railway.
Monkland Railway, Branches, &c.
North British Railway, Edinburgh Terminus.
Peebles Railway.
Scottish Midland Junction Railway, Branches.

IRELAND.
Ballymena, Ballymorny, Coleraine, and Portrush June.
tion Railway.
Belfast and Ballymena Railway, Extension to Cooks.
town.
Banbridge, Dublin, Newry, and Belfast Junction Rail.
way. •
Cork and Bandon Railway Extension.
Cork, Middleton, and Youghal 'Railway.
Dublin and Wexford Railway..
Great Southern and Western Railway, Glanntire Exten.

sion.
Kilkenny and Great Southern and Western Railway.
Limerick, Ennis, and Killaloo Railway.
Limerick and Foynes Railway.
Londonderry, Enniskillen, and Sligo Railway.
Londonderry, Coleraine, and Belfast Railway.
Lough Foyle and Lough Swilly Railway.
Newry and Enniskillen Railway, Extension in Newry.
Rosscrea and Parsonstown Railway.
Tralee and Killarney Railway.
Wexford Junction Railway.

THE VALUE OF LOUIS NAPOLEON'S LlFE.—Very re-
cently proposals for a very large amount of assurance on
the life of Napoleon 111., and on terms in advance of
those charged for ordinary lives, have been made to some
cif the London Assurance Companies. We are informed
that none of the proposals have been entertained, not-
withstanding the friends of the Emperor, strangely
enough, offered rates only charged in cases where the
lives of parties are diseased, and whose longevity cannot,
hi eenSecounce, reach the ordinary period of a healthy-
human existence, which circumstance would seem to in-
dicate that they, at least, are apprehensive that the life
of their friend is but of small pecuniary value ; whether
from defective health, the pursuits of the Prince, or from
the pregnant danger and cares of thenfatlyew-founded
Empire, it is not easy to determine.
London Assurance offices have declined to assure the
life of Napoleon the Third, even at exorbitant rates, only
charged for dying men, is strangely significant of the
small commercial value of the Emperor's life.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—The Rev. Mr. Howson,
fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, who was thrown
from his horse on Tuesday evening, died that same
night, in less than twelve hours from the accident. He
was only Art 27 yearn-of we,- - -

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6, 1852.

FRANCE.

An Imperial decree dated 2d inst., declares the
present extraordinary sitting of the Legislative
corps closed. The same decree convokes the Legis-
lative Chamber for the 14th February, 1853.