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

MANSION-HOUSE.— Wrn. Cockson, who had under
gone several examinations upon the charge of having
robbed his employers, Messrs. Bowring and Co., of Fen-
church-street, hosiers, of goods of the value of upwards
of 400 t, was brought up for final examination.
The prison, r, who appeared to be about 18 years old,
had been 17 months in the employment of Mr. Bowring,
as errand boy, and during the last twelve months the
firm had been losing quantities of gloves and silk hand-
kerchiefs. Upon taking stock they ascertained that the
property missing was to the above-mentioned amount.
The prisoner was not suspected until his emplopers were
informed that he was in the habit of spending much
more money than he received for the performance of his
duties. He was then called aside and taxed with the
robbery. At first he denied that he had stolen any pro.
perty ; but soon afterwards he acknowledged that he had
stolen about 30 pieces of silk handkerchiefs, worth 521.
IW.
A solicitor, who appeared for the prisoner, endea-
voured to show, by the cross-examination of Mr. Bow-
ring, that the words used by that gentleman to induce
pia client to state all ho knew of the matter referred to
the first admission which the prisoner had made.
Mr. Bowring distinctly denied that such was the case,
and was confirmed by other testimony.
Alderman Hooper said the words implying a lenient
view of the case were, it was quite plain, used after the
prisoner had confessed to the robbery of the thirty
pieces of handkerchiefs, and therefore could not be con-
sidered as containing a promise or an understanding to
remit the accusation.
The prisoner was then committed for trial to Nerrgate.
Margaret Reilly was charged with having attempted
to drown herself in the Thames, near Quecnhithe-stairs.
A watcrman said he saw the prisoner, who appeared
to bo half drunk, run thorn the stops and m2ko an ef-
fort to throw h,- ._lflnLj the water.
Alderman Hooper—And did she get into the water
at all ?
prevented her from reaching
the water.
.s seized her and
Aldorraan Hooper (to prisoner) What were you
about ?
Defendant—Faith, I was half drunk, and it wasn't wa-
ter I wanted to drink, sure enough.
Alderman Hooper—She shall go to the Comptor for
three days.
The de:endant—lt' you send me there I shall lose my
business. lam going to char for a family on Monday
morning at daylight.
Alderman Hooper—Very well, you can come out nice
and
du
to
discharged aMonday,
B and I shall give directions that
daybreak.
Committed.

GUILDHALL. -- Thomas Bushman, a little boy,
scarcely ten years of age, was charged with stealing
cigars from a tobacconists, 122, Aldersgate-street.
butis
company
nbeing served with it they
It was stated in evidence, that the prisoner entered
the shop
with two other boys,
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found fault with it being too large, and refused to take
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case, and on the following day (Friday) they camp again
sahsohped on
for Th
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p
it. After they left some cigars were missed from the
for another pipe, which they also found too largo for
their purpose : but the shopwoman, on seeing them run
away, pursued the prisoner and gave him into custody.
The prisoner said the fact was, he saw the two boys
take the cigars, and told the woman of it, and then ran
after them, but was not able to catch them.
The shop woman said that was not true, for when she
followed the prisoner, she saw him throw away fire
cigars.
The officer said that when he first saw the prisoner,
ho was struggling with the shop oman, and calling out
" Police, police.
Committed for seven days to Bridevvell, and separate
confinemsnt.

iOng:ifirge's-in-the-East, was
a lei who gave his
penny pieces, from the per-
sonDhoaann:i street,
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T addressllA Merp.—infnl.aBrttrienot,Fesncn.
of
N toi.t about,lhe'r
charged with stealing a purse, containing a half-crovvn,
shwheilesPthen seized the boy,
Shadwell.
two
ositllernsc."S'uasnandnathhreAB ley,
It appeared that Mrs. Aley was talkingooawfrhiieenhdhine
King David-lane, Shsdwell, that morning, and the pri.
sonar came behind them, and was in the not of taking
Mrs. Aley's purse out of her pocket, when she felt his
replied,h a n
pocket,d , a n
and , and askeds
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thine
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and, in spite of considerable violence and resistance
on his part, gave him into custody. Mrs. Bayley,
who was in company with prosecutrix, found the
purse and its contents on the ground, close to the boy's
feet.
The prisoner, in defence, said that his hand got into
the lady's pocket by the merest accident in the world,
and that he did not take the purse—it fell out of the
lady's pocket.
piled
The prisoner was recogzed as an old offender, and
Mr. Ingham committed him for trial.
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130 W STREET.—Charles James Clark, described as
a bottled-beer seller, of Minerva-Place, Kennington, was
charged with three separate assaults on the toll-collec-
tors of Waterloo-bridge.
The defendant and his porter were proceeding over
the bridge with a truck, upon which the toll-collector
informed thorn that, by the rules thee bridge,
person could bo passed throunh roadway with the
track, ald that the master or. his man must go through
tho passengers' wicket-gate in the ordinary way,
was no iisputo about the payment of the toll, but de-
fendant persisted in using the carriage way, as he was
in a hurry. Finding all remonstrance useless, Willett
and two other toll-collectors interfered to compel him to
conform with the regulations of the bridge, and the con-
sequence was an assault upon each.
The witnesses stated that the defendant appeared to
be slightly
under the influence of drink.
The defendant strongly denied the latter imputation,
and with respect to the assaults, stated that he was very
roughly handled by the toll-collectors.
Mr. henry told him he had acted very foolishly, but
the collectors must be uphold in the discharge of their
duties. His worship fined him 121. for the three as-
saults, or two months' imprisonment.
The fines were paid.

W ANDSW ORTll,—Willianz Read, the master of a
Band craft, and living at the waterside, appeared to
answer a charge of assaulting William Purvis, of 62,
Tower-street, Westminster-road, an assistant sheriff's
officer, whilst in the execution of his duty.
The complainant now proved that on Wednesday
evening he was put in possession by a Mr Glover, on his
warrant from the sheriff, as also under a county court
process by Mr Goff, the under-bailiff. That at six
o'clock the defendant came to him, and told him he must
leave, or he would turn him out. He explained to him
that his proceeding mast bo by intorpleader, and the de.
fondant left him alone till eleven at night, when he for-
cibly ejected him down stairs, kicking him at the same
time. lie sent for Mr Groff, who brought a police con-
stable, and ho apprehended the defendant.
Mr Paysiter said the assault was clearly proved, and
he must pay 3L, or go to prison fur three vr:eks.
lIAMMERSMITE—A respectably attired young
man, who gave the name of George. Oiivcr, mild gated

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SHEERNESS, SUNDAY, 8 A
in 1821, is undergoing extensive repairs, and will be t
of the shipwrights' hands in January next.' Althoughou
to bo replaced by a new one.
bunilterofMt:aj
Her Majesty's ship Howe, 120, is reported to be com-
pletedin 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
middle of November, and ready for sea by the 28th of
Dee,,Tab,r, a month earlier than previously intended.
For this purpose the hands at present employed on the
Ganges, 84, and the Miranda steam-sloop, are to be
taken off, and, together with all the available force of the
dockyard, ant to work on her. A portion of the seamen
of the Lmdon, 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,
she is to have none other than the best Welch coal,
which, c!..using but little deposit, is batter adapted to
her tubular boilers then 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. H. Risk, will hare 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.
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
Hon. Josceline Percy, C. 8., Commander-in-Chief.
Lieutenant Gordon, her Majesty's ship Landon, who
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, Mae
tor-Attendant, aro ordered to be forthwith constructed
at Chatham-dockyard.
Tho 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
assistant-master-attendant at Portsmouth dockyard, vice
henry
Davy, deceased.
The Princt S 3 Alice, Dover mail steam-packet, Second-
Mater Rutter, lett Woolwich on Friday evening last to
resume her duties on the Dover station.
The Dover iron paddle-wheel steam-vessel of 90-
horse power arrived at Woolwich on Friday evening
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 iust
returned from Africa, and not Lieutenant Philip gau-
marcz, of the Terrib!eosho has been appointed to the
Victoria and Albert.

LAW REFORMS.—The first day of Michaelmas
Term, when the new 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 reference to the working of the new
system. Such anxiety is not gronndless. The impend-
ing alterations relate not merely to the practice in the
courts, 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 mode 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 the opportunity of considering the effect and
operation of the rules which ho will be required to ob-
serve.
MURDER, AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—WEDNES-
BURY, SATURDAY.—A shocking tragedy has just been
perpetrated here, a married woman having drowned her
child, aged 15 months, in a tub, and afterwards made an
attempt on her own life by hanging herself. The cir-
cumstances were investigated last evening, by Mr.
Hinchliffe, 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
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
his work, but could not find his wife. After looking
about the house, he discovered her hanging from a hook
in the pantry by a handkerchief, which she had tied
round her neck. He cut her down, and found her in-
sensible, but by prompt surgical assistance she was re-
stored. Almost immediately afterwards the deed body
inchesael beanall
i placed.
about
beoi
ug tThe tub was a
left the childh
and 1 foot 2 inch')
in diameter. After the mother had been taken into cus-
tody,of Smith's little child was found in a tub of water, over
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Mrs. Chowle, a neighbour, asked her how she
could do such a thing as kill .her child ; to which she
in the brewhouse, playing with its chair, while I went
to the cistern for water. When I returned, I found
it in the tub, with its bead downwards. I pulled him
out, but ho 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
examined Weduesbury, having• the prisoner on the
ei ening of the alleged murder, gave his opinion that
she wee labouring under temporary insanity. The jury,
after a charge from the coroner, returned a verdict of
murder" against Sarah Smitb.

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