The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-01 00:00:00

THURSDAY _ EVENING,

GUILDHALL

John Barker alias Murphy, was brought up on
remand, charged with defrauding Henry Joseph
Brock, glass manufacturer of Bartlett's-buildings.
It appeared that in July last a person, named
Samuel Turner, applied to Mr. Brock for some goods,
and referred him to a Mr. Stanley and to the pri-
soner, who gave the address William-street, New-
ington-causeway. On being applied to, the prisoner
stated that he had known Turner for ten years, that
he was moat respectable, and that he would be secu-
rity for him to the amount of 2501. The prosecutor
then drew two bills for 1001, and 1501., which were
accepted by the prisoner.
Mr. Lewis now appeared for the prosecution, and
said that he charged the prisoner with a conspiracy,
with Stanley and Turner, to defraud the prosecutor.
There was in point of fact no such person as Stanley,
that being a name assumed by the person in question.
At the last session at the Old Bailey five persons were
convicted for a conspiracy to defraud tradesmen, and
this very so-called Stanley was the referee of several
of them. With regard to Turner he had obtained
3001. worth of goods from Mr. Brock, the greater
part of which were immediately pawned. The police
would have both Stanley and Turner in custody in a
few days if there was a remand. He could also prove
that the prisoner's name was not Barker but Murphy.
George Quinnear, the police sergeant, said he bad
no doubt he should soon be able to apprehend Turner
in consequence of information he had received in the
last twenty-four hours. He had ascertained that part
of the goods obtained from Mr. Brock had been
pledged by the prisoner's daughter. He had known
him for ten years, and knew he kept a beer-shop in
Charles-etreet, Brandon-street, \Val worth, in the name
of Murphy.
The prisoner said the charge was only a trap to get
him taken in execution, the sheriff's officer having
been in wait at the office ever since he had been in
custody.
The case was again remanded.
-ROW-STREET.
been
Edward Charles
nearl Mastorton, a young 'man who has
y five years a clerk in the General Post-
office, was charged with stealing two letters contain-
ing money, the property of the Postmaster-General.
The prisoner is a married man, having six children,
the youngest being under ten years of age, and his
father held a confidential situation in the 'Foreign-
office for many years.
Mr. Peacock, Jun., attended to conduct the prose-
cution.
John Forbes, a messenger employed,in the inland
department of the General Post-office, in which the
prisoner was a clerk, stated the cause by which on
the morning of the 31st inst. he traced the possession
of the purloined property to the prisoner.
Mr. George Graham said that, being informed by
the last witness, be went to the prisoner as he about to leave the office, was
requesting he would ac-
company him to a private office adjoining, which he did ; and after the letters were found
upon him by the officer, he said, " I am sorry you see me in such
a position; I don't know what I shall do. This will
be the death of my wife. I belong to one of the Most
ra.rootablo Lmilies. I don't know what could have
induced me to do so, except that it cv2B infatuation." The prisoner having received the usual caution, ad-
mitted the truth of the evidence as to the finding the
letters, and was ordered to be remanded after
,the
witnesses were bound over to protecute. It was stated
that his salary was 901. a year.
WESTMINSTER.
James Chiserton, the proprietor of the Duke of
appeared to a sum-
accommodation eh him with neglectitig to afford proper
to two soldiers quartered upon him.
thereind. w
Marlborough beer-shop, Chelsea,
for two privates of the Rifles, and was
George Sutherland, a sergeant of the Bth Hussars,
stated that on the 231 ult. he served a billet upon de-
fendant's
wifethey would have proper accommodation.
tfoenlddantht
men, to inspect
In an hour or two afterwards he was sent for, in con-
the bed upon which they were to sleep for the night.
He found it was not fit for any person. It consisted
sequence of the complaint of the two
of two small mattresses placed next to each other,
apparently stuffed
consisted of a small thin blanket.
withb
iwr.
straw,hicAßNOLDth doird something
innorttu ierxeadc tol yf
whetherthat e meet,
kind. The covering
The sergeant replied there were some thin rags,
tolerably clean, but they were light, ets there was little
were no sheets.
of them, and a small thin rug, or something in place
of it. The wen, in consequence, did not sleep there.
Witness told the landlady about the bed, and she raid
if they did not like it they might go without.
Police-constable George Close, 221 13, said that he
also inspected the bed. It was quite clean, but ap-
peared very hard.
Defendant, in reply to the charge, asured the
magistrate that a sitting-room and
Abed-room, the
former with a fire in it, were offered the two sol-
diers, who conducted themselves in a very offensive
manner. The bed them
elves
which be was in the
habit of letting nihtl to mechanics or others who
might need a lodging; and SO far from the sheets
being thin or worn out, they were nearly new, and
put on clean for the soldiers. They rang the bell two or three times for coals in the midst of defend-
ant's business, and wanted a shilling and a pint of
porter given them, and were very emich
put out be-
cause he refused to accede to their request.
Mr. ARNOLD inquired whether the bed had been
slept in about the 25th ult.
Defendant replied only a night or two
by two hard-working men, whoe previously
xd tives perfectly satisfied, as also had manpry othesseers.hemse Indeed
be and his wife bad slept on the bed formerly, and it
had been let all the season at a Shilling per night
up to the night before last. Surely it was not ex-
pected that a man was to ;
give up his own feather
bed to two private soldiers billetted
upon him. There
was, as he bad said before, a ; of
pair nearly new clean
sheets upon the bed besides two blankets, and the
bed was quite good enough for respectable hard
working men, and he thought for soldiers too.
Mr. ARNOLD expressed some doubt whether beer-
shop-keepers were liable to have soldiers billetted upon
them, and adjourned the case for a few days, when, he
said, if defendant liked to produce any witnesses in
his behalf, he would hear them.
SOUTHWARK.
John Stowell and Thomas Stowell were on Saturday
week last examined at this court on charges of per-
jury, conspiracy, and subornation of perjury, alleged
to have been committed by tham, and a man named
John Howson Garnett, at the 'Southwark County
Court, in an action brought by John Stowell, person
a
connected with the metropolitan stage departme,
against Mr. Kennett, the landlord of the Hoop ant nd
Grapes Tavern, Broadway, Westminster, to recover
301. 10s. on two 10 U's for money lent. The action
was tried before a jury, and Kennett, having proved
that the money had been paid, a verdict for him was
returned. He accordin-i-
-g y charged the three parties
above named with wilful and corrupt perjury, and
conspiring together, by making false oaths, to extort
money from him under a false action,
The particulars of the case were fully reported at
the time, when Mr. Combe, the magistrate, held the
two Stowells to bail in 501. each, to atewer the charge
at the next sessions. Garnett absconded, and a war-
rant was issued for his apprehension, but the officer
had not been able to find him.
Mr. Kennett, accompanied by his solitor, Mr.
Preston, now attended the court, and informed the
magistrate that at the termination of the examination
of the Stowells, on Saturday the 13th, a warrant was
placed in the hands of Guest, one of the officers at-
tached to the court, for Garnett's apprehension. That
officer had been very indefatigable in his exertions,
but Garnett could not be found. Believing that he
was either kept out of the way by some parties, or
secreted in the metropolis, Mr. Kennett had offered a
reward of 51, for his apprehension, as he was deter-
mined to bring all parties to justice. Mr. Kennet
Wroduced a handbill, a number of which he had for-
arded to the Metropolitan police stations, and dip

tributed about the metropolis, which he considered
would likely be the means of finding him. He is
about 45 years of age, five feet five inches in height,
shabbily dressed, and was last seen in Thomas-street,
Oxford•street.

LAMBETH.
A middle•aged female, of gipsy appearance, was
placed at the bar on the following charge of im-
position :

Sarah Stamp, a simple-looking country girl, deposed
that on Saturday last the prisoner, at about one
o'clock in the afternoon, came in front of her master's
house and stood opposite the kitchen window, and, be-
lieving her to be in want she gave her some broken
meat. While doing so the prisoner asked if she wished her
fortune told, saying she would tell her fortune truly.
She (witness) at first refused to have her fortune told,
but the prisoner having repeatedly pressed her, and
declared she would tell her nothing but the truth, she
consented to give her a sixpence to have ber fortune
told. The prisoner then came down into the area,
and, pulling out some cards, told her (witness) to put
a sixpence on one of them. The prisoner also said
the witness must hold 4s. 6d. in her hand, and she did
so. After a little, the prisoner said she must put the
money on the cards, and on her doing so, she (the
prisoner) took it, and put it into ber mouth.
Witness asked her for the money, but the prisoner
said she could net give it her hack until
after three o'clock, as she bad to take it to her
master, Mr. Churchill, that she had a licence
to go about telling fortunes, and that she had a half-
sovereign for a girl at Clapham. common, who had
called a policeman to give her into custody for impos-
ing on her by telling fortunes ; but she presented her
licence to the constable, who on seeing it told the
girl she must be the loser of the money. The pri-
soner then went away, and she saw nothing more of
her until Tuesday, when she called again, and asked
her for 4s. more, saying that she wanted that amount
to make up the half-sovereign for the young woman
at Clapham, and that she should return and pay her
the Bs. 6d. Witness, feeling a dread and horror at
the awkward position she had placed herself in, gave
her the four shillings, but subsequently communi-
cated the whole of the circumstance to her master,
and on her calling that day, at twelve o'clock, the
prisoner was given into custody. In reply to the
questions of the magistrate the witness said that the
prisoner told her her fortune, which was " that a
dark woman was very envious of her ;" that she must
be aware of this " dark woman," and that she would
shortly receive a letter with some money.
Mr. ELLIOTT remarked that there was no class of
offenders productive of more evil than that to which
the prisoner belonged, and commited her to the tread-
mill for three months.

THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.
EVIDENCE OF CAPTAIN AUSTIN, C.B.
The Chairman (addressing Captain Penny, who
was present) said—Before we commence the pro-
ceedings I must inform you the committee have de-
termined on allowing you to be present during the
examination of Captain Austin and his officers. We
think it is rather a stretch of fairness, as no accusation
is brought against any of the officers in your expedi-
tion ; but it is proper that all parties should be in a
position to correct any misrepresentations that may
be made, and we therefore allow you to be present.
The Chairman (to Captain Austin)—Are you pre-
pared to go into your evidence now ? Captain Aus-
tin—l am perfectly ready to answer any questions
that may be proposed to me, reserving the privilege,
which I may hereafter have occasion for, of referring
to my notes and to documents, some of which I shall
refer to with great reluctance if it become necessary.
With that privilege I am ready to go into the exami-
nation.

Chairman—The first qtiestion the committee wish
to put is in reference to your opinions respecting re-
ports contained in your letter of the 11th August,
1850, as to Adam Beck. Do you continue to consider
that the exarninition'at that time was a full and suffi-
cient one, and do you still entertain the same opinion
as to that story ? Captain Austin--I do, precisely.
I consider that everything was gone into, and that
every one who was present agreed that the conduct of
Adam Beck was most discreditable.
Chairman—To what circumstances do you allude
that have not been detailed in reference to Adam
Beck ? Captain Austin—Everything has since been
borne out by the conduct of Adam Beck.
Chairman—What do you allude to ? Captain
Austin—l allude to his stopping back, and to what
passed when he was landed, which Captain Omman
ney can speak of better than I can—to his conduct
when with Sir John Ross. He was a man in whom
no faith could be placed, from his irregular conduct,
and I believe drunkenness. I think he was about the
worst description of a civilized savage I ever saw.
Chairman—Do you consider that from Ponds Bay
on the south, to Cape Warrender on the north, have
been properly searched, and all the points as far as
Lancaster Sound ? Captain Austin—Yes ; I believe
it has all been thoroughly examined.
Chairman—And you extend that answer both north
and south as far as Lancaster Sound ? Captain
Austin—Yes ; I believe that from Ponds Bay to Port
Leopold has been thoroughly examined. Searching
and examination are two different things; this coast
has been most satisfactorily examined.
Chairman—Do you consider that the whole of the
south coast as far as Port Leopold and Ponds Bay has
been thoroughly examined ? Captain Austin—Yes,
most thoroughly examined.
Ch-irman—What were your proceedings after pass-
ing Port Leopold ? Did you get to Cape Riley and
find the first traces of the expedition ? Captain Austin
—We proceeded to Cape Riley, rounding Beechay
Island. where I was detained.
Chairman—Give an account of your further pro-
ceedings. When did you receive information of the
discovery of Sir John Franklin's winter quarters ?
Captain Austin—The moment I reached the fast ice
at Union Bay where the vessels were lying, Com-
mander Phillips came out 'and assisted in leading
Resolute in, and from whom I heard of the graves.
I was up all night, and was unequal to go on shore.
At length Captain Penny and I went together to the
graves, and then considered that here were the winter
quarters.
Chairman—ln fact you discovered undoubted
traces] of the missing expedition? Captain Austin—
I saw that there were traces of the expedition having
wintered there.
Chairman—What was the next step you took ?
Captain Austin—l accompanied Captain Penny and
some other officers to the top of the hill at Beechay
Island ; while there we went to a cairn, took it down,
and examined it to a certain extent, but not in a way
we were satisfied it should be examined. We then
returned to the ship. Both of our searches were made
at this cairn. Nothing do I recollect being found at
this moment more than a few shot. I beg to hand in
my report.
Chairman—ln paragraph Bof your letter to the
Admiralty of the 14th of July, 1851, you state that
you consider that the departure of the expedition was
somewhat sudden ? Captain Austin—Yes; lam of
that opinion. There were a number of coal bags and
other materials left about, which it is not probable
would have been left unless the missing expedition
had gone away suddenly, or if they had been prose-
cuting. There was a great deal of burning material,
coal bags, and other things, which evidently proved
to me that they had gone out rapidly, or were not
advancing.
Chairman—What quantity of coal bags was there ?
Captain Austin—Perhaps a dozen altogether.
Chairman—All empty ? Captain Austin—Yes. I
brought away four. There might have been more
than a dozen.

Chairman—What were your further proceedings
afterwards? Captain Austin—l will go on with my
narrative. .1 proceeded as far as was in my power. I
will explain what I mean by the word power. I con-
sidered it was my duty to go to the westward, looking
to the westward position as being one of difficulty,
and that if anything should have
to be done in the
Wellington Strait I could return ; and further, that it
was necessary then, from what I saw of the state of
the ice, to be prepared for making arrangements for
the forthcoming season for action, the present season
of navigation being evidently closing very fast. As
soon as possible after opportunity offered we proceeded
to the westward.

Admiral Fanshawe—When you speak of proceed-
ing to the westward, was it in pursuance of your
orders to use every possible exertion to get to Mel-
ville Island? Captain Austin—Yes, most un-
doubtedly it was. I used every every exertion to
get to Melville Island.

Captain Austin continued his narrative—We were
stopped at the south end of Griffith bland, and there
the expeditions were together, with the exception of
that of Sir John Ross in the Felix. After reaching
this spot Captain Penny came on board, and con-
versed upon the matter fully, the subject being the
operations that should now be entered into to insure
the accomplishment of our object, at the same time
offering to convey Captain Penny or one of his officers
to examine an apparent lead to the south-west. I
refer to my circular which I addressed to Lieutenant
De Haven, in command of the American expedition.
I think you will find that Captain Penny did not
receive it.

Chairman—ls it dated the 11th of September,
1850 ? Captain Austin—Yes, it is. The substance
of it was a conversation between Captain Penny and
myself when he came on board.
Chairman—You had better read it, and it will be-
come part of the evidence.
Captain Austin—The substance of this circular
was gone into in conversation with Captain Penny.
Captain Ornmanney came on board, and there was a
question about some dark clouds in the south-west,
near Cape Walker. Looking to the state of the ice,
which was drifting to the southward, and the weather
generally, I thought it would be anything but the
duty of an Arctic navigator to proceed. Captain
Penny's vessels were moving about from orie pert of