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

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY

a master carpenter, aged 6 months, " diarrhcea (36
hours), cholera infantum (24 hours)."
At Sun-alley, in the sub district of Woolwich
Dockyard, on the Bth of August, the son of a la-
bourer, aged 10 weeks, "cholera infantum (4 days)."
At Parron-hill, in the sub-district of Woolwich
Arsenal, on the 7th August, the daughter of a smith
and farrier, aged 5 months, " summer cholera
(2 days)."
At 4, the Orchard, in the sub-district of Ratcliff,
on 9th August, the son of a mariner, aged 3 months,
" diarrhcea (4 days), cholera infantum (20 hours)."
At 1 Church-court, in the sub-district of Shad-
well, on 9th August, the son of a mariner, aged 7
months, " cholera infantum (4 days)."
In Guy's Hospital, on the 9th August, a female,
aged 27 years, died by "poison from lead works" in
which she was employed.
On the 13th August, at 1, Sparm's-buildings,
Camden-town, the son of a clicker, aged 22 months,
" tabes mesenterica (5 weeks)." Mr. Holl, the re-
gistrar, adds, " the street is very badly drained, and
unpaved ; much ill-health arises in consequence. The
houses being below the level of the muddy and un-
paved road and footpath, the slush flows into the pas-
sages and front rooms."

STATE OF THE WEATHER DURING TILE PAST WEEK.
SUNDAY.—The amount of cloud was very variable
throughout the day; cumulostrati and cirrostrati. Showers
of rain fell. Electricity—Positive, and tension moderate
during the evening.
MONDAY.—Three-fourths of the sky were covered generally
with cumuli, cumulostrati, and cirrostrati. Showers ollowedf rai
bn
were frequent; at 3h. 45m. lightning was foy
thunder. Electricity—Negative, and very active during the
morning and afternoon; sparks were shown.
TUESDAY.--The sky was for the most part covered with
cloud until evening, after which it remained clear; cirro-
cumuli and cirrostrati. Electricity—Positive, and at times
negative, with very strong tension during the afternoon;
parks
S and galvanic currents were shown.
WEDNESDAY'—The sky was generally covered with cloud
throughout the day; frequent squalls of wind and rain.
T Electricity—Nothingilu p A
.—They s
kwyaswshown
overcastthroughout
throughoutthe day.
he day.
Rain fell generally. Electricity—Nothing was shown
throughout
ourths of the sky were covered with
cumuli,
and light clouds. Electricity—Nothing
tiD tT.
cumulostrati,_T the
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Fr
wassAttrozDnAtTh.r_ouighheouatinouthe
amount of
cloud was small till after
noon, and the sky Was generally covered during the re-
mainder of the day; cumuli,
1
few drops of rain. El
Thunder was heard during
the afternoon, accompanied with
Electricity—Positive, and very active
during the afternoon;shown. sparks and galvanic currents were

The mean reading of a thermometer placed on the main-
mast, and read each day at 9h. A.M. was 60.2° ; and the mean
reading at 913. P.M. was 58.2°; the mean readings at the
Royal Observatory for the same times were 61.2° and 55.9°
respectively.
The reading of the barometer increased from 29.22 in.
at the beginning of the week to 29.52 in. by 9h. r.m. on the
10th; decreased rapidly during the night to 29.17 in. by
9h. A.M. on the 11th, and to 2901 in. by 9h. P.M. on the
same dy; increased to 29.67 in. by 9h. A.M. on the 14th;
and decreased to 29.46 in. by the end of the week.

DEATH OF THE DUKE OF HAMILTON.
The premier Peer of Scotland, the venerable Duke
of Hamilton and Brandon, expired yesterday morning
at his mansion in Portman-square. His Grace was
one of the oldest, if not the very oldest member of
the Peerage, having been born in the year 1767, and
consequently he had attained the patriarchal age of
85. He succeeded his father, who was the ninth
Duke, in 1819, taking his seat in the House of Lords
by two titles—the Duke of Brandon and Baron Dut-
ton. His Grace never took any prominent part in
politics. In the year 1810, when 43 years of age, he
married the second daughter of Mr. William Beck-
ford, of Foothill Abbey, whose celebrity in art and
literature will long be remembered. The issue of
this marriage was one son and one daughter. His
Grace is succeeded in his title and estates by his
son, William Alexander Anthony Archibald, Mar-
quis of Douglas and Clydesdale, who was born
in 1811, and who married in 1843 the Princess
Mary Amelia Elizabeth Caroline, daughter of the
late reigning Grand Duke of Baden, and first cousin
to the President of the French Republic. The late
Duke was a Privy Councillor, a Knight of the
Garter, a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the
Antiquarian Society, and President of the Royal
Society of Scotland. By his demise, a blue riband
is:placed at the disposal of the Earl of Derby. The
family is one of great eminence and antiquity in the
peerage of Scotland. The keepership of Holyrood
House is hereditary in it. The second Earl of Arran,
of this line, which title was created in 1503, was
chosen Regent of Scotland in 1542, and was the next
year declared heir presumptive to the Crown. He
was created Duke of Chatelherault, by. Henry 11. of
France, a dignity which he subsequently surrendered
to the French Monarch. The first Duke was be-
headed, having been taken at the battle of Preston
fighting under Charles I. The second Duke was
slain at the battle of Worcester, in the service of
Charles 11. Tae present Duke, who is the eleventh,
has one son, born in 1845, who has hitherto borne the
courtesy title of Earl of Angus and Arran, but who
will now take that of Marquis of Douglas and Clydes-
dale. The Earldom of Angus was created in 1389.
Many noble families are placed iu mourning by the
decease of the venerable Duke.

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO BELGIUM.'
(From the Times )
If we were only to keep as sharp a lookout for enemies
as we do for our friends, the shores of England would,
indeed, be secure from invasion. We trust the public
will have been greatly edified by the account of all the
saluting and blazing at our gracious Sovereign, as she
steamed to and from Belgium. It is difficult to imagine
how the sense of dignity can be gratified by these ab-
surd displays. Had Queen Victoria been a pigeon let
loose from a trap in Battersea-fields she could not have
been more sedulously popped at than during her recent
cruise up and down the channel. A rumour that the
little squadron was in sight was sufficient signal for com-
mencing the display of this sulphurous loyalty. We are
at a loss to conceive what gratification could have re-
sulted to her Majesty from so silly a demonstration. Of
positive results, indeed, we know but two—the waste of
an enormous quantity of gunpowder and the mutilation
of a wretched seaman in the Scheldt.
Were any argument necessary beyond the patent ab-
surdity of the existing custom to recommend so whole-
some a change, it might be found in the fact that, while
our war ships and batteries are giving her Majesty a
series of headaches by the discharge of blank cartridges,
the supply of powder allowed for practising gunnery is
notoriously insufficient. We teach our sailors to fire at
their Queen, but we deny them the instruction which
would enable them to fire with effect upon the Queen's
enemies.
We cannot forget that not many years since a French
ship of war steamed into Sheerness without being sa-
luted :at all, and that when at last the attention of the
authorities in that martial port was aroused to the
presence of their unexpected guests, they had some
considerable difficulty in carrying out the noisy cere-
monial vcith any decency. Surely it would he better to
expend our powder in the instruction of our sailors than
to waste it in so scandalous and useless a manner.

Busides, the custom must be as great a nuisance to
those illustrious personages to whom honour is intended
as it is to the inhzbiLants of those ports which are se-
lected as their usual points of embarkation or return.

THE MARIONETTES AT THE FREE.
TRADE HALL, MANCHESTER.
avdvder ems 'icy
There was a capital house on the opening night, and
nothing could be better managed than the deportment,
gesticulation and action of the wooden " manager,
Ur. Albany 'Brown,,, when delivering the initiatory
enthusiastically both the with which elicited great laughter and applause.
speak, too, in terms of high commendation of
; tenure great neatness
donne, who sang the " Deh con to ~
and good effect, and were indeed
costume
of a zotnlecored. The chief tragedian, in the
of Charles Kean, willorn, gave grotesque imitations
unseen
dPeribirt
displays most untiring agil't -
The first piece gives occasioya
hits at actors and (though provoked roars of laughter ;
promisooeli a little nervous in his
whims and caprices. The -L
occasions
Sailor's Hornpipe.
fore many well-planted
..ungenlish.
Mary, how to woo thee," was very ari
e soprani, their
' Tell me,
was the bravura finale to La Sonnambzda
nicely sung. So
giunge ,
- in English, " Ab; do not • (" Ah, non
livingh ou gh army
m iminiature
aset _ e
mingle"), which
was warmly encored. The orchestra isgoo, and
'ad the vocal pieces very nicely. and
accon3pani
fine burlesque Belmbaates
actresses The premier danseur
Furioso was a travestied, or a travestie
invincible conqueror and illustriousen
as that of the
d state chamber in the royal palace
was The gran.
burlesqued ; and never
ure
was really superb in
Greatattention
is paid
furniture and decorations.
' en scene. The pantomimic
throughout to the nuse .
nces showed some
ballet which closed the performs
tswagsorsguecohuas t
rforrnauce of an extra-
wondrous dancing, and the pe
named Saltarello,
ordinary leaper and posturer,
hoop, were most
especially his manoeuvres with a
marvellous. The clown lacks a little of the comicality
which is so much relished in England ; being rather
the Pierrot of the Italian than the clown of t.
be
did
bine
An-
glican pantomime. Harlequin and Columbine
some graceful dancing; and the performances, which
commenced at eight, closed at ten minutes after ten
o'clock—a desirable time, especially when young
people are concerned. The Marionettes promise to
become as fashionable here as they were in London,
where the aristocracy and beau monde, from
duchesses downwards, nightly thronged this little
theatre of ligneous mimes.—Manchester Guardian.
T

areßE CHINESE RAT•BATERS.—The Chinese, who
amon emigrating to California on a large scale, are, it is found,
gst the most ingenious, laborious, economical, and
docile labourers among the mines. They demand less
Wages, and California is so abundantly supplied with rats,
that they than live like Celestial Emperors and pay very
little for their
s tates board. The rats of California exceed the rats
of older just as nature on that side of the conti.
nent excels in bolintifulness of mineral wealth. The Ca-
veryian rats are incredibly large, highly flavoured and
nt. The most refined Chinese in California
havtheme norats hesitatiom in publicly expressing their opinion of
t, ."

BILLINGSGATE MARKET.
FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
When any great public building, public market, or
public thoroughfare, &c., is to be raised to the foun-
dation for re-construction, it is invariably the custom
that most of the material
mfaotdhrteee mtwnhopioletdothr
besatteerhryweuh
places
iul building
dearewcere ets
db T; a
withht
ae unsi
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either already prepared, or easily accessible, before
previous commencing
to
preparationspull a r asunder
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time might be lost in the re-construction of the build-
ing,
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to
transactbusinessi
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where
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thatbeing
t that partew edo fmat h w
ye
not
tbne
allowed
like a wilderness of ruins with scaffoldings, &c.
Billingsgate, as a public market, it appears, must
t
ba
be
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three
and he
three-quartersgeneral
a
It s just
year
sincenow
the demolition of old Billingsgate market and the re-
construction
Lower
T ham oe
Thames-street,
st
three newet, i t one
mayye
on its ssieteencothrnamt
a commenced;
and at the present day, on viewing the market from
deal of work has to be performed be
before its final com-
pletion.
It becomes rather an awkward affair at times to
lay aside an old machine, and wait until the materials
for the re-construction of a new one are manufac-
tured. An Irishman, who depended pretty much
been
the ready use of a good musket, seems to have
been aware of that fact. When Pat wanted his
musket renewed, he went to a gun.smith and said, in
accents as broad as his countrymen are famed for—
" Arrah, my honey, this musket of mine requires a
new stock, a new lock, and a new barrel ; but I must
have them almost immediately." The gunsmith
having plenty of the material on hand already manu-
factured, of course was very soon able to supply
Paddy with an entire new musket. There was a
Scotchman, too, who could not get on without a
sharp-edged instrument; he went to a cutler and said,
" Please, sir, this knife of mine requires a new handle
and a fresh blade ; but as I can't well do without a
knife I will just keep this one by me until you have
completed one exactly similar to it, or you may im-
prove upon it if you can." Billingsgate-market may
be assimilated to an old boot, that bad been given to
a cobbler with directions to put on it a new top, new
front, new heel, and new sole; but the artist has not
yet been enabled to finish more than the top, heel,
and sole—the front building next to Thames-street
has yet to be erected.
The reasons for the market not being in a more
forward state after such a lapse of time, it is difficult
to conjecture; but there are other public grievences
and eyesores in and about the market that ought to be
exposed.
That part of the building facing the river has been
finished now upwards of nine months, but the rudely
constructed, unsightly gangway at the middle of the
quay is still there, thus preventing the vessels from
being properly berthed and arranged along the quay,
and thereby prevent confusion.
The old grievance that the oyster smacks lay in one
tier alongside of each other, stretching right out into
the middle of the river, obstructing a passage for
barges, &c., is this day as prominent as it was three
years ago.
Another grievance that should be exposed is the
unwarrantable filthy state the market has been kept
sintaotefdlattoe.be
in the shellfish-market, is not yeten iginiea, situate below
Ttbhoe
16-horsereason assigned for this neglect is
fair working
order. When it is so it will heave up a stream of
water through the fountain that will fill the large
basin which stands in the middle of the market in
about ten minutes, besides driving a large fanner
which is to ventilate the shellfish-market. The ex-
pense of keeping up this engine it is supposed will be
about 1,0001. per annum. As regards the reason as-
signed about the engine not yet being in working
order, it is correct enough, it having been inquired
into • but that is no sufficient reason why the market
is allowed' to remain unscrubbed and unwashed for
several days together during summer weather; water
might be carried from the river in buckets, if no other
method is conveniently at hand.
Another eyesore that seems to puzzle a good many
visitors to Billingsgate is the row of houses that stand
betwixt Darkhouse-lane and the market, and which
it was supposed would be pulled down, and thus leave
an open space for carts and waggons to stand, and
prevent the overcrowding of Thames-street. It
would seem that instead of those houses coming
down, they are making erections and building about
them, which has all the appearance of an intention
that those houses are to remain as they are for a
number of years at least. After all the expense that
will have been incurred in reconstructing Billings-
gate-market, unless the whole of those houses which
stand betwixt Darkhouse-lane and it aresweps,e„ thetaway,
and an open space left for carts, waggons,
market itself will be but a very poor looking affair to
the eye, nor will the inhabitants along Lower
Thames-street be relieved in the smallest degree
from their present grievance, an overcrowded state of
the street in the !lamming and great confusion.

URES FOR 1852.
;UBT.

Tiverton
Canterbury 26
805t0n....
Stourbridge 3O
Eccles
Lincoln
Westbury

When made up in I From what
''LACES. General Post-office' port die- When
due.
London: I patched.
America (by Brit. pkt.)N,Aug. 20 .. 'Liverpool .. Aug. 26
America (by U.S. pkt.) N'Aug. 18 .. • • Liverpool .. Arrived
America (by 'U.S. pkt.) MI Sonthampt. Aug. 23
Australia (via South-
ampton) M Southampt.
Ditto (via Marseilles) N 'Dover ..
I)itto, via C. of G. Hope N !Plymouth.. Nov. 30
Africa (West coast).. N 14th of the month ',Plymouth Aug. 26
Alexandria* ........ Nll9th & 30th of mo.' Dover .. Aug. 18
Belgium .. •• N! Daily .. .. ..Dover .. Daily
Brazil .. . • .. Mi9th of the month ;Sonthampt. Sept. 16
Buenos Ayres • • .. M,9th of the month (Southampt. Sept. 16
California(viaChagrer) Dl'2cl & 17th of month Southampt. Sept. 1 i
Cape of Good Hope Nll4th of August .. Plymouth.. Aug. 26
Cape do Verde Nl2d of the month ..IPlymouth.. Aug. 26
Constantinople* .... Ni7th 17th 27th of mo Dover .. Aug. 20
Central America .. bl,2d & 17th of naon. Southampt. Sept. 1
Channel. Isles NlMon., Wed., &Fri..Southampt. Tn. Th.Sst
Chili Ml2d & 17th of mnth (Southampt. Sept. 1 ._
Franco .. M t Nil'vvice daily .. .. 'Dover • • Twicedaiii
Greece* • • • . • N 7th 17th 27th of roo Dover Aug. 20
Hamburgh N, Tuesday Sc Friday London .. Tues. Sat.
Holland .. .. Wednes. & Battu% London .. Men. Thur
HonduraS .. •. N 17th of the month Southampt. Sept. 16
Ireland M& N Twice daily .. Holyhead.. Twicedally
India(via Southamp.) M 20th of the monti' Southampt. Aug. 28
India (via Marseilles) N th& 2Ath ofmonth Dover ..
India, viaC. of G. Hope N 15th of month Plymouth.. Aug. 26
Mauritius .. N 15th of month Plymouth.. Aug. 26
Mediterranean (via
Southarrpthn) M 20th of the month Southampt. Aug. 28
Mediterranean (via
Marseilles) .. N Bth& 24th ofmontb Dover
....
~eILICO ••
• • • • • M2d of the month.. Southampt. Sept. 1
'-`ll
a •• •• 9th of the month Southampt. (Sept. 16
Matta* 7th,17th,1,
••• 9th27thl Dover Aug. 28
Napless & 30th of month
PaPtd Stet:is •• N sth 15th 25th °free Dover •• Aug. 22
Peninsula •• •• th 15th 25th ef mo Dover .. Aug. 22
Peru ▪ • • •• M 7th 17th 27th of mo Southampt. Aug. 26
Tuscany* • " •• M2d & 17th of mntb Southampt. Sept. 1
Fr*ennich The mails
vtoiathlimMeo2danotrif tehse
thmouinthmar..lSoedu(ths,aniarpet.
West Indies •• N sth 15th 25th of mo Dover • • Aug. 22
West Indio' (swept M 17th of the month Southampt. Sept. 1
Havanna & Nes/gm
conveyed by

four o'clock P. 3,1
ALTERATION OF ------------NI
anßdO2lll.4oCrn.:h, .aSwTs
iElhlii
I.h—efrlVtouerbenerbe
been
informed that the LiverpoolAlAsiS
thato the letters dispatched reasonat as-
d dispatchedisp a t c h e d
at
tt
tneeneno,,
clockan dat
o for
the mid.day delivery,ten
earotthe afternoon delivery ;
P.M.lsoisme considerationeo should have
mail, which
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alteration
asifwill
ifioirbtehiins atlitmereataietnL'iver
correspondents In the
aevtoterreLratrireiers to effect
unless the Post-
master- tbheo sfoe
for
Li dispatched al
et t 2te.4ros,
but we conceive that, however advantageous
Pe laterltiwe parties
wowoahne post
haveegi
an early delivery, and thus enable those sto receive
their letters in time to answer by the mail' at ten o'clock.—
Chester Courant•
nboeretnhl:aaGdndefn which
thoseith
THE REMUNERATION OF A VOCALIST. —Du • 0
the trial of John Fawell, for highway robbery, in this jinn'
a curious piece of inforThomas
came into possession or th '
Court_ The prosecutor, T Weldon, who was robbed of
6'. fid. on his way home on a Sunday morning, described
himself as a vocalist, singing at free and easies at the
rate
of a penny per pint on all the ale that was drunk by the
cuBt°l3lero.—Fork gerald.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE•

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Aug. 18.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Lord Chief Justice

CAMPBELL.)
Alice Shaw, aged 23, was indicted for the wilful
murder of her new born child, at Liverpool, on the
25th of March last.

Mr. Preston prosecuted, and Mr. Monk defended
the prisoner.
It appeared that the prisoner had been housemaid
in the family of a gentleman named Ripley, residing
in Abercrombie.square, for about five years. No sus
picion was excited that she was in the familyway.
On the morning of the 25th of March she was at
breakfast as usual, and went upstairs to attend to her
duties. When the servants called her down to din-
ner they received no answer, and on going up stairs
they discovered the prisoner lying on the floor of one
of the rooms insensible. Mr. Nottidge, a surgeon,
was immediately ca led in, and discovered that she
had been recently delivered of a child. In an adjoin-
ing bedroom the newly-born body of a female child,
with a flannel handkerchief wrapped round its neck
and the tongue protruding, was found in a wash
basin. Oa a post mortem examination of the child
the lungs were found to be congested. In the opinion
of the surgeon the child had been born alive, and had
died from drowning.
Mr. MONK, for the defence, contended that the test
of the child having been born alive—that its lungs
floated, was now explcded, and there was no satisf,:c-
tory evidence to show that the child had ever lived.
Assuming it to have been born alive, there was no satis-
factory evidence that the prisoner had caused its
death, as she might have become insensible while at-
tempting to clean the child.
His LORDSHIP summed up, directing the jury that
if they were not satisfied that the evidence was con-
clusive as to the main charge they must acquit her,
as there was no evidence to support a verdict of con-
cealing the birth.
The jury found the prisoner Not Guilty.
James Ill'Donald, aged 18, and John Man nor,
aged, 18, were indicted for a garotte robbery on James
M`l"wne, at Liverpool, on the 23d of April last.
Mr. Simon prosecuted ; the prisoners were un-
defended.

It appeared the prosecutor was a pig and cattle
dealer, and about 12 o'clock on the night of Friday,
the 23d of April, he was proceeding towards his lodg-
ings in Upper Milk-street, when he was attacked near
there by five men, who seized him by the throat and
pinioned him. Having prevented him from ranking
any resistance, they robbed him of 1451. in gold and
notes, upwards of 1001. pound of it being in sove-
reigns, after which they made off.
The prosecutor, who is an Irishman, knew the men,
who were also Irish, by sight, and afterwards identi-
fied the two prisoners, who were apprehended at
Ormskirk, haying changed there one of the Si. notes,
which was proved to have been paid to the prosecutor
by a man in Birmingham a few days before in a pur-
chase of some pigs.
The prisoners, in defence, said they found the pro-
secutor lying drunk under a lamp-post, and his
money lying beside him.
The jury found the prisoners Guilty.
His LORDSHIP' in passing sentence, said it was
shocking to think how prevalent the crime of which
the prisoners had been found guilty had become in
this part of the country, and it was necessary to make
an example of them. The sentence of the Court was
that they be transported for fifteen years.
John Dowd was indicted for having, at Liverpool,
on the sth of April, murdered Thomas Conway.
Mr. T. Atkinson and Mr. Hibbert prosecuted, and
Mr. M'Oubray defended the prisoner.
It appeared, that on Saturday night, or early on
Sunday morning, the sth of April, the prisoner and
the deceased had a quarrel in Albert-street, Toxteth-
park, the orign of the quarrel not being clearly
known. Both were drunk, and began to fight.
After having fought three or four rounds fairly, as
described by several witnesses who were present, the
prisoner was seen to pull a claspknife out of his
pocket, open it, and then return it into his pocket.
He then again challenged the deceased to renew the
fight, and two or three more rounds were fought.
A woman named Mary Holland interfered, and per-
suaded the deceased to fight no more. The deceased
then walked towards his home a few yards, when
he was followed by the prisoner and stabbed in the
side. The prisoner then walked sharply off, but was
followed and taken into custody by a policeman.
When apprehended he denied all knowledge of the
matter. The deceased was immediately taken to the
Southern Hospital, where he died shortly after-
wards of acute inflammation produced by the wound.
His dying declaration was taken, which in substance
stated that he and the prisoner went into a whiskey-
shop, had some drink together, and quarrelled ; that
they then went out and began to fight, and fought
several rounds, when be refused to fight any more,
and the prisoner stabbed him as he was going away.
They were both drunk at the time.
On the case being closed for the prosecution,
His LORDSHIP asked whether the counsel for the
prosecution, after this evidence, could contend that
the facts amounted to more than evidence of the
crime of manslaughter, which he thought could not
be denied by the Learned Counsel for the prisoners.
Both Counsel having assented to this view, by the
direction of his Lordship, the jury found the prisoner
Guilty of manslaughter.
He was sentenced to be imprisoned for two years
with hard labour.
Sabrina Mooney, aged 22, and Mary Mooney, her
mother, aged 60, were indicted for the murder of the
female infant child of the younger prisoner at War-
rington on the 9th of July last.
Mr. Monk appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
John Cross, assigned by the Court, defended the
prisoners.
it appeared that the two prisoners lived in a court
court, at 'Warrington, and that for called Grimes•
some weeks prior to the 9th of July last the younger
prisoner was observed to be stouter than usual. On
the night of the 9th of July, about eight o'clock, the
younger prisoner was observed to go into the privy in
the yard, she having previously been brought home
in a cart ill. A short time afterwards cries of
a mother, mother," wers beard to proceed from the
privy, and a neighbour bearing them told the elder
prisoner that her daughter was crying out for her.
The mother went into the privy, and was seen after-
wards leading her daughter away. She consulted a
neighbour about her, telling her that her daughter
had been taken with a violent haemorrhage for the
first time for nine months, in consequence of a cold she
then got. The prisoner was put to bed, but, suspi-
cion arising, the privy was afterwards searched, and
in the eon, deeply imbedded, a newly-born infant
child was found. On examination, the umbilical cord
was found to have been broken, and the lungs ap-
peared to have been inflated, and from other appear-
ances the surgeons called in were of opinion that the
child lead been born alive. The lungs crepitated and
floated, and part of the roil was found in the bronchial
tubes.
Mr. Caoss, for the defence, urged that the elder
prisoner had evidently gone only to assist her
daughter, and that the daughter had been taken in
labour in the privy, and the child had fallen into the
soil. As to the daughter, however she might be
liable to the charge of endeavouring to conceal the
birth of bey child, she was not on the evidence guilty
of the charge imputed to her.
His Low:Lem'. summed up, and
The jury found the younger prisoner Guilty of
concealment of birth, and Acquitted,the elder prisoner.
She was sentenced to be imprisoned for six calendar
Prius Court an action for damages in a
months.
Inn t 0
Nisi
collision case between two vessels at sea occupied the
greater
part of the day. The case was very un-
interesting.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(The trial of James Betteridge and Charlotte Webber,
continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
Evidence was adduced as to the character of Bet-
teridge.
the evidenee,
The Learned JUDGE thou summed p
and the jury Acquitted both the prisoners.

agent, was indicted for obtai
n
NE W COURT.
Daniel Jackson, 35,
de
ing by false pretences o
f li.obert Hendry mason'
various sums of money with intent to cheat and
fraud him.
paper published at that place
Mr. Charnock and M.r. Wool.lett prosecuted.
The prosecutor, who is proprietor of the Greenwich
Observer, a monthly
several, for which he paid
stated that the prisoner engaged himself to him as
at:
advertising agent to c.ollect advert.sements at 20 per
cent. He brought him
him his commission, but after. he had been with him
Ins commission before their
some short time he brought him several advertisement
from some townsPeopole o.f Dartford and Greenwich,
for which he paid him
publication. Upon for payment
prosecutor applying.
having
medenthtse fpnerrmsoinngs and
the
be found that the sevhearvailngadcvaenrvtiasses
subject of the charg® had been ordered not to be in_
serted, the prisoner
received special orders from them not to insell the
advertisements which he had brought. to them,
cut them from some of the local journals in which
they did advertise.
The jury found him Guilty.
Some documents were banded up to his Lordship
stating that the prisoner bad been guilty of a simile;
offence towards the proprietors of the Maidstone
Journal.
The COURT sentenced him to six months' imprison-
ment.
James _Bradshaw, 26, labourer, was indicted for
the manslaughter of Alfred Lowman, at Barking, on
the 4th of July.
Air. Ryland prosecuted, and Mr. Clarkson de•
fended.