The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-19 00:00:00

cry out "Don't murder me" and the prisoner say, " You
are not ratrdered yet."
A surgeon at IVetitinster Hospital said he examined
the woman on he: admiesion, and !round that she had
four deep wouilde, two on the face and two on the arms.
They teemed to have been inflicted by a nzir. The
wound en the rri,,:oner was not of a serious character.
Mr. Justice ERLE having summed up the evidence,
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was sen-
tenced to b-i transported for twelve years.
George Rogers, 30, tailor, was indicted for having
committed a ,ape on a girl 12 years of age, named Eliza
Ruse, who was a sex vent in his employ.
After a lengthened investigation, the jury returned a
verdict of Not Guilty.

ußichard NEW COURT.
SENTENCE ON SILL.
T. et,day Sill, attorney, who was found guilty, on
la A, en an indictment charging him with having
obtained money under false pretences, was brought up
before the Recorder, in this court, to receive sentence.
The prisoner declared, in a very emphatic manner,
get be was innocent of the crime alleged against him.
also asserted that the whole case was a well
organised conspiracy by swindlers and thieves,
and that the indictment was supported by
Perjury
of the most deliberate and blackest kind. His
character had mver before had the slightest blemish
uPun it, and in proof of his respectability, ho stated
that
when the indictments preferred against him in the
Queen's
Bench were abandoned, there were present the
kr(4itient of the Council, Mr. Justice Talfourd, and Mr.
Sheridan Knowles,
!ate then who had known him for many years,
...°cl had offered to speak to his honesty and integrity.
went on to advert to the nature of the evidence,
but was interrupted by
The RECORDER who observed that be could not now
deal -
, with the Sects of the case, and it would, there-
Jore b
, e better for the prisoner to confine his remarks
mutteszu having sentence. reference to the mitigation of the
Sill said it was his intention to apply for the post-
linernent of
evidence
he the sentence until next session, in order
t 5
might have an opportunity of disproving the
by affidavit.
on
RECORDER then consulted the other Judges, and
u,s return said, under the circumstances he did not
think„_‘dthe application was an unreasonable one; and ho
Lieu:: 3 therefore allow the sentence to stand over until
eustedeyss.iotl. The prisoner would, of course, remain in

MARLBRO'-STREE (THIS DAY.)
CA.
4' "I°l`l. TO PUBLICANS.—Jane Wells, landlady of
Lea t.i.
a taPcs Public-house, in Compton-street, appeared in
nswer to a summons, charging her with permitting
4-
rrkennesa and disorderly conduct in her house.
, °Y, 187 C stated that on Wednesday, the 11th inst.,
aeon,. ,
i.., 15' 4 quarter to one in the morning, he was on dutyb
bearing;arl 6tr, et, when his attention was attracted y
.7rara great noise p
Rues,proceeding from Compton-street.
nu went to the spot as quick as he could, and saw
moor uf .
of persons in front of defendant's house, the
th, which was open. There was music going on in
coneert-roorn, and the noise from the banjo and bones
paspr„tiTific- In front of the bar he saw 20 or 30 persons,
while and thieves, many of whom were drunk.
hile witness was standing outside a cabman came out,
00 complained that he had been ill-used inside of the
se.
nGineb°orge Giles said he was a cabman, and hired at 13,
in . rland-street, Cumberland-market. On the morn-
-01191 clnestion he conveyed four persons to the Grapes
ahofteires evraabi,tibangdawhen they got out they told him to wait.
quarter of an hour, he went into the
and2o to ;
n -Num° whether he was to wait any longer,
tind. - g°ing sto the concert-room, where hde
iv_ vrstood the parties were, a man, whom he was tol
and
the conductor, came out and said they did not want
and esbtcen there, and forcibly pushed him down stairs,
that truer him several times in the face. Witness added
in saw several persons drunk.
IttejePl3' to the charge, the defendant said she did not
vihc;l4gly Permit drunkenness in her house. The person
T conducted her concert-room had a benefit on the
On that
uesdaY night, and the charge for entrance to the room
way, into casion was sixpence. The cabman forced
.his
Without the room, and as he persisted in remaining
8 Paying the 6d ,he was ejected from the place.
wn_ergeant Thompson', 2 C, said defendant. had; beenil.
bried before by him, but this was the first time he had
been bli e
T. ° gd to summon her.
ne AllusizsuTriteATE cautioned he dfendant to be more
careful •
of cost,. , and dismissed e the charge on payment
4 ofYears f ' EiIIVE IMPOST3R.—James Hall, a lad about 1. 4
age, was charged with begging
1301i° in Hyde-pa
~k
noon
be
549 A stated that yesterday atter-
go e Was in Ilyde-park, when he saw the defendant
treroVo several gentlemen and ladies and receive money
liap,,, fict°- He went up to him and took a
n©
9f
Pennii:r°l3l him on which the following was written in
Please to mother, 0 , Pity a father,
r n poor boy that has neither
twelven, Me, but had an uncle till within this. last
behina °nth, when ho went to Australia, leaving me
felt' m a poor orphan.—The littlest donation thank-
wThre:ceived by the bearer."
~,,",. ,
es_ then took him to the station, where he was
ITV
_and 22d. found upon him.
he nadZIY to the magistrate defendant admitted that
write theth father and mother. No one put him up to
Th® bo„PN'er--lie done it himself.
working.' s P'•trents, who appeared to be respectable
cause to Pe°l3le c. Were in court, and said that he bad no
but they be 'lie had a good home and plenty to eat,
kr. 13,w„ ere sorry to say he was a very bad boy.
-nvered severely admonished the boy, and de-
derstanVi4 into the hands of his parents, with an un-
With ,--4z,ng that his father was to give him a whipping
in th-rod. The money found upon him was put
e poor-box of the court.

- -1) -E AT 1.1 OF . HARTLAND, THE
'Yesterday eveningcijgdlß
r.EDIAN.
W. J. Payne, the deputy
r°dY
inquest
rower, held an
the once celebrated comedian and
at St. Thomas's Hospital, on the
of Mr. Hartland,
Pantomimist, whose death. was caused by the
Portion of a scaffold in Mount-street,
°ridge-rot:0, on Monday afternoon. 331 ef
Waltersatlral iniTngsylef Tyler,
cite-d'an, and Mr. George Knowles, bra' tcher, detailed
the e irticulars of the accident.
It appeared from
111 pa
their evidence that a largo number.
persons had collected just under the scaffaotildpilnengard
question, their attention being attracted by
up .
carriage and four-in-hand which had just drawn op
I)osite Suddenly an alarm was raised that a
.portion of
littbe scaffolding was falling, and the pceroyploefdarapromrs,eodr.
r• Hartland appeared not to hear the 4t all events took no notice of it, and in another moment
WaS struck down by a falling pole, with a plank and
Jigger attached to it. Ho died before reaching thed hthoas-t
I)itki- hThe last-named witness (Mr. Kenaoffwordsi)ngstathteat
had
se„retnained behind to examine the s
be insisted upon putting..
t4o"re_n, and finding that the labourers were very anxious
Ili_ emove the pole and plank,
. name 0
the n them in order to enabtlehehipmolteowaidaecno.mify.
m bl, as on examination he found
' etelY rotten and unfit for use.
111*- John Down, foreman to Mr. Belk, il(' 8,.. .
t et said
„ QPeyintendent of the works in the builder,
' exami
was put
~,,,, „
it (in bed the scaffold after it Mount-street,
as to the pole. ..iu,,
ilia tafe, but ho could not answer . s
, not thi 1. andre,fouEd
It raj 11-. there was anything amiss
not hesitate to
ght be a little but he should
but h,„, rotten
had been
nail •
driven" a dozen men on it to. morrow. A _
With the pole.
where
it into - • ado 'List at the spot d _
ho • It some time ~ J
Hess
and broken, and that might have caused amp
.. Eihd
„,
Seve "-PriaPquent rottenness.
,oid rat persons in court ,said it was a pity the pole
ltry, sot be brought forward for the inspection of the
soial it was thoroughly rotten. Th (3. other evidence having been offered,
Q Jury fo
.3
telded to it „ luau a verdict of " Accidental death," and
tached to
tellsl expression of their opinion that blameat-
that the-II the
The d olßntendent of works for not seeing
The dEjea-°4"ing Wits more secure.
Tt* eetilecial in his 70th year.
, y been fitted out
already other things, we observe that two vessels Among
August)says
Purpose of check.
the French fis e
tha t y ones drive-fra(P)
14e b• It w Ing the encroachments of .
not to be
the 0,11 °bid thus at New Brunswick, for the exphrerss.
mpetabr that the
Ilieutorie of
, the provincial e gra as
ter i!'"where g* press,
e of the trouble .Aralne rdleceadn,sare. judging from
elghbo wen, the sole cans
St. Lawrence,
Nra, th urs on the other side of the
well as the officiall dwocitub-
mugtbbib ell. anxious desire for reciprocal tradebwifithsbeurs.,
ed with their opposition to the Frerie
the
pro-
-1,,j4,_ 3lt will be seen that the inhabitants of
,p4tZi _ are particularly desirous,
Esoa on the subject, that the Americans should
aottuDaell.tiding to the French, from it
4,02,01 the waters thereabouts • but at the same . time, they
o ad-
iltditcioonntintouethtoe
ofUthe shore, &e.,
it wef.. in the way of trade; while, on the other hand it is
from
the L.l•established fact that they reap many
perquisites f curing
' ' whom they derive . .
fis, Aoulnericans, by the sale of produce, the right o
number
board of
in addition to which a very large ttir .‘,4le gain a livelihood by being employed onl
well
itiat tceills: IheY seem to understand pened y
toesta e,Withdrawal of the American fishermen from their
t▪
hiat... really be an almost insurmountable loss to them.
••••00 •-p"st ARRIVAL OF SHIPPING IN THE THAMES.
thatlCuesday a larger number of vessels arrived in the
,riveir
there has been known to come up in one day for some 3 ear-,
the a, having been no fewer than 244 vessels of all classes,
terqsgregate tonnage of which exceeded 36,600 tons, en-
to be 121.ards at the Custom-house. This unusual influx is
ihipmaattributed to the late heavy gales, during which the
ari,',', g were compelled to seek refuge in roadsteads and
vie,slts along the coast until the weather moderated. AL-
lap ell cialnuethe outports state that several vessels are bound
0 I.
vOmn..
erovdo,TTAL OR A SERGEANT OF POLICE.--At
4, esat i„4 ',.,_ettY Sessions on Tuesday, Thomas Morris,. a IT-
Ala wife "le P div6ion of police, was committed for trial, with,
111aii • - and daughter on a charge of stealing a considerable
neAtity of household'furniture.
vi,7st_thunderstorm broke over Manchester and, its
o.uourhood on Tuesday night, soon after ten otc.lobko,
la4niAl
w'flnleiinetitilourr,(l,ll7Bi.th great violence till bear mitig gh -.1,-d
Ingle inB almost incessaan'itl thunder exceed-
aliettubion„,:z
oefxeee
.ingly ~ is , ,
thol,( °‘l,l and of long continuance. The lightning struck a
11104 rl'er at his door, and rendered him insensible for a
tune, but be recovered subsequently.
sILAc-
Thtlr
_, Auunst.--.A.SSAULT BY TFIII
ag,tiossLaY last the grand jury at Liverpool found a true
1...
MAYOR.—On
4z01,,i ' Mr• W. H. Hornby. Mayor of Blackburn, for 1.? 1'
blt„,anour in striking, on the previous Saturday, Mr. Thos.
Z't,,...:7:ale,cliairitaa of, the East Lancashire Railway (Arian;
47,.
•a vioie.nt blow on the left cheek. A bench warr..1.11..r
~..,tinvnat ed.iately afterwards granted, calling upon "
ei,,,',_41.t. o hod sureties to keep the peace, and to answer the.
,ZzgeB. bat may be preferred by the prosecutor at the next
bitz, .
Plae, '...-,xUL ACCTI)ENT.=—A deplorable t-vent took
4as a
oaatvlir,est on the "12th on board the frigate Uranie, used
100:seiyoatt•u.ttha?atoitoebl.lurrrsDete,00:•yoinedgrywtoliisueidifidorouidnbgtfiuoilf.mtehne,
tgwuon
of
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