The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-16 00:00:00

TH

CRIMINAL
COURT —(THIS DAY.,
The August sessions of the Central Criminal Court
were opened this morning by the Right Hon. the Lord
mayor, the Recorder, Aldermen Moon, Sir W. Carden,
sad ire, the Sheriffs Cotterell and Swift, and other
civic functionaries.
The first edition of the calendar published this morn-
ing Rave the names of 105 prisoners, being for London,
38; for Middlesex, 46; for Essex, 4; for Kent, 6; and
for Surrey,After the 11.
been e grand jury had selected their foreman, and
worn
The
ORDEn delivered his charge. He said he was
h
-PPY to state that the calendar contained mottling which
rendered
necessary for him to make any lengthened
observations to the grand jury on the general nature of
their d
Tutees, which were most probably known to them
two . only cases calling for special reference were
in number. The first, in which depositions were re-
turnedt against two persons, named Tripe and Mon-
_ague, seemed to be one of considerable
Stream' for
import.
ante,•
it arose apparently out of that vast
of emigration which was now passing from
Our shores to Australia. As many of the persons
who emigrated were, no doubt, of a poor and helpless
class, it became very necessary to put the laws in force
in all instances where anything like fraud was either
attempted or committed upon them. If the charges
Were made out against the accused parties, they would
certainly be guilty of a very serious offence. What form
the case would take he was not informed, hut it would
probably be brought before them in the shape either of
a charge of conspiracy to defraud these persons, or of
obtaining money under false pretences. The substance
of the facts alleged against the defendants was that they
pretended a company had been established for the pur-
pose of assisting persons to emigrate to Australia, and
that vessels had been chartered to proceed to the colony
With emigrants, and that under these representations
they obtained certain sums of money, which were never
returned, and which it was suggested were fraudu-
lently received for their own private purposes,
it never having been their intention to fulfil the pro-
mises they held out. The Learned Recorder then
briefly explained the law as it affected the prisoners
under a charge of conspiracy as well as under one for
obtaining money under false pretences, and recommended
the jury to find a bill in both shapes. The next case
way of a, painful description, being against a man named
Rogers for a rape on two little girls of 11 and 13 years
°f age, who worked in his own house. The only
cittesttell apparently on the depositions was one of con-
sent or no consent. The law generally regarded very
Young females, especially below 12 years of age, as in-
eePable of giving a consent at all. Above that age
the
law required proof of resistance in order to constitute
the Crime of rape; in the case of a full-grown woman,
it being, therefore, absolutely necessary that the grand
or
"'Eamon jury should see that she not only
resistedo but made an early disclosure of the
oucesee- But this rule did not apply strictly to children
Wi_73rTetender age, and particularly such as those who
7 subect of the present inquiry, as they were,
wetter
ruo
more or less,taeivuingg under the control of the roan accused, they
mit thtett°llcs3 mhsistahnocteiss,e to work under his wife. Such
After some further he should advise them to sub-
remitted thefor investigation before a common jury.
grand j
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as thehar Learneddischarge
their Rde cuotiredse. r
CAL. LOSS

.AISIITOUS CONFLAGRATION AND
OF On Saturday a fire of a veryLIFE destructive character,
attended with serious loss of property,
unfortu-
nately, with fatal results to one of the inmates, happenedand,
in the premises occupied b Mr. H. Foyle, known as th'
West Indian Restaurant, ysituate at No. 3, West India
dock-road,
of the K
in aup
Poplar. The first discovery was made
shortly after two o'clock, by a policeman
division, who, p s' g the premise, perceived huge
bodies of smoke issuing from the lower part of the
building. He immerliaoy sounded an alarm by spring-
Ing, his rattle and knocking at the street door. Some
"tae, however, elapsed before the residents were made
sensible of their impending danger, and on reaching
staircase the hot smoke was so intense that it was.
Work of great difficulty for any of the parti' s to reach
the street,. As it was, some were obliged to slide down
the banisters of the stairs, whilst others jumped from
!le top to the bottom of the house. The affrighted in-
Mee, with one exception, managed to gain the street,
hich they had barely accomplished when the flames
took possession of every room in the building, anc•
holyno penetrated the roof, when they ascended so hi,
kjep the adjoinng prorr i ert belongingthe
val of the engines and
tae exertions of the neighbours the fire was extinguished
_out not until the premises in which the disaster origi-
n4ted were destroyed. Fortunately the only damage
done to Mr. Drake's premises was that recasioued by
the hasty removal of his furniture. As soon as the
tubas were sufficiently cooled the firemen searched the
B%me, and in the basement found the body of a led;.;cr,
named James Franks, burned almost to a cinder. The
aeceased, who was a sailor, was only 36 years of age,
and had fallen from ono of the upper floors through the
ratters. The head was either burnt from ,the body, or
"as imbedded in the debris. The remains have been col-
lected together, end await a coroner's inquest. The ori•
gin of the fire is enveloped in obscurity. Mr. Foyle and
also Mr. Drake were fully insured.

We are requested to state that after Saturday, the
21st August, the issue of tickets from the Lord Great Cham-
berlain's-effice for viewing the House of Lords, &c., will be
discontinued until the meeting of Parli ment.
DINNER TO MR. F. PEEL, my —The electors of
Bury will give a dinner to Mr. F. Peel, M.P., on the Bth
proximo. Sir James Graham, Mr. Cobden, and Mr. Bright
are among the guests invited.
Accounts from Spa state that the health of Meyer-
beer is every day improving. The iliustrious composer is
ori
actively engaged in a new orat •
, which is to be per-
armed for the first time at o" • 1 festival at
Birmingham.the next musca

CITY IMPROVEMEN TS.
The works connected with making the new street
from the west si,:e of Queen-street to the south side
of the Cathedral of St. Pant's, in continuation of the
recently made street from Cannon-street to the east
si ie of Queen-street, are proceeding rapidly under
the auspices of the Improvement Commissioneas con-
nected with the Corporation of the city of London.
From Queen-street to Bow-lane the houses on the
south side of Little St. Thomas the Apostle, have
been removed, and the pavement and carriageways
laid, the new street being thirty feet wide in the road-
way, and upwards of twenty feet in the causeways.
This improvement is very striking, and gives to the
street, even in its present incomplete state a noble ap-
pearance. Four of the plots of ground on the south
side of the new street, at this spot, have been taken for
building purposes.
Along the south-side of Basing-lane, the whole
of the premises have been removed, including the
ancient " hostlerie," long known as " Gerard's
Hall." This celebrated building was renowned
for its antiquity, and its " crypt" was always
considered to be a curious relic by those inte-
re-aed in the trehmelogicel history of the city of
London. At the present moment workmen are em-
ployed in removing the structure, which is open
to all who desire to catch a last glimpse of the
truly elegant and substantial masonry of five cen-
turies ago. Behind this building stands the Church
of St. Mildred, Bread-street, which it has been
erroneously stated is to be taken down. Such a pro-
ceeding, in fact, has never been contemplated, and this
venerable edifice wilt form, so far as present arrange-
ments go, at least, the angle of the two new streets,
the one from that point to St. Paul's, and the other
to Earl-street, Blackfriars.
Most of the parties in Little Friday-street, Friday-
street, Great and Little Distaff-lanes, Carter-lane,
and St. Paul's Churchyard have been settled with as
to their claims for compensation, by the Corporation,,
but five or six other claimants remain for hearing
until after the summer recess, so that it will be at
least Michaelmas before they receive their final no-
tices to quit the premises, and Christmas before the
line of street from the statue of King William, at
Eastcheap to St. Paul's Churchyard is opened to the
public.
Connected with this great work, of so much im-
portance as it will readily be conceded to be to the
citizens of London and the general public, perhaps
some few statistics as to the cost of a portion of it,
gathered from authentic sources, may not not prove
altogether uninteresting From the several reports
of the committees we glean, that in prosecution
of the powers vested in them by the Act of Parlia-
ment, 13 and 14 of her present Majesty's reign, for
continuing the improvement from Queen-street to St.
Paul's Churchyard, they bad received claims from
freeholders, lessees, and occupiers of property, to the
amount of' 113,090/. 103., which claims, after long
and laborious examination on the part of the com-
mittee, had been settled at 85,538/. 103. The
remainder of the claims for property on the line
including several houses in Great Trinity-lane, re-
quired for the cross street to Earl-street, Blackfriars
(with the exception of a small number of houses in
Old Change), have also been disposed of at a sum
considerably less than that demanded, so that upon
the whole the settlement may be regarded as very
satisfactorily adjusted. It is expected that the entire
cost of the purchase of the interests of all parties in
this new line of street will not be less than half a mil-
lion sterling.
Besides these arrangements, the committee have
completed the purchase, during the past year, of pro-
perty from the east side of Lawrence Pountney-hill
to King William-streeet, for 42,9641., the sum
claimed being 67,0621. 103. 3d.; for the improvement
in the neighbourhood of Ship Tavern-passage, Grace-
church-street, for the sum -of 2,7411. 10s., the claims
being 5,7381. 103. 7d.; and for the purchase of the
Waxchandlers' Hall for 4,0141., claim 6,5001. A
treaty with the parish of St. Martin Ongar, for
widening the entrance to Martin's-lane, Cannon-
street, has also been effected, on terms satisfactory to
all parties, agreements being entered into also with
the parish of St. John the Baptist, Dowgate, for set-
ting back the railing of their burial-ground to a suf-
ficient extent to complete the line of improvement in
that neighbourhood; and with the parish of St.
Thomas Apostle, for improvements connected with
their burial-ground in Queen-street. With regard
to the improvement so long called for, at that dan-
gerous spot, the corner of Fenchurch-street and
Gracechurch-street, proposed to be effected by the
removal of the parish church of St. Benet Grace-
church, it is to be regretted that the committee are
compelled to state, "that, after repeated meetings
with the parishioners, they have not yet been able to
arrange the matter," so that the subject still remains
under consideration.
As to the " Clerkenwell Improvement," the '.state-
client made by the committee may tend, in some de-
gree, at least, to explain the cause of the delay in the
prosecution of the works, which has of late been the
cause of no small amount of remonstrance on the part
of parties occupying property in that locality. The
committee remark that " they were occupied for a
considerable time in the early part of the year with
the detail of the arrangements between the Corpora-
tion and the Commissioners for the Clerkenwell Im-
provement, for carrying out that measure in their
stead, and having alternately agreed upon the same,
Bill was brought into Parliament during the last
se-sion for the:purpose, which passed both Houses, and
received the royal assent on the first day of August,
1851, and was referred to the committee for execu-
tion. Under this Act they, in the first instance,
directed the comptroller, City Solicitor, and City
architect, to ascertain the outstanding claims
against the Commissioners, that they might be ad-
justed, and the books, papers, and docu-
ments belonging to them were handed over
to the committee, who referred the whole to
11r. B. Scott, principal clerk to the Chamber-
lain to examine the accounts delivered in by the late
Commissioners. Mr. Scott subsequently reported
that he found the same in a very incomplete and un-
satisfactory state ; whereupon the committee were
compelled to meet from time to time to afford the
officers of the late Commission an opportunity of
supplying evidence as to the correctness of the state-
ments put in by them. Ultimately the committee
were enabled, upon the receipt of satisfactory reports
from their officers, to sign warrants to Messrs. Bur-
chell and Parson, the solicitors of the late Commis-
sioners, and to the other parties having claims on
them, for payment of their respective accounts out of
the fund created by the Act of the 13th and 14th
of Victoria, cap. 103, authorising the raising the sum
of 88,0001. for the purpose. The claims upon the
Clerkenwell Commissioners, at the time the Corpo-
ration undertook the formation of the street,
amounted to 41,4651. 3s. 2d., which the committee
discharged. Notices were then given for the imme-
diate purchase of premises used for slaughter-houses
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and other offensive trades, &c., the committee feeling
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the Court in September next.
The committee having also obtained powers, by
another Act of Parliament, which received the royal
assent on the 17th June, 1852, to " widen and im-
prove the north end of Dowgate-hill, Threadneedle-
street, opposite Old Broad-street ; the south-east
corner of Mark-lane, and part of the north side of
Great Tower-street," the same will be forthwith ex-
amined, and the claims disposed of. Of these there
are four houses, &c., in Dowgate-hill, parish of St.
John the Baptist upon Welbrook ; ten in Thread-
needle-street, nine in Finch-lane, nine in Spread
Eagle-court, four in Mark-lane, and three Great
Tower-street. The removal of this clump of build-
ings has long been needed, and will open out a
spacious thoroughfare from the Royal Exchange to
Bishopsgate.
It is not expected that the newly proposed street,
from Earl-street to Bow-lane, which will obliquely
intersect the new Cannon-street West, near to the site
of the late Gerard's Hall, will be carried out forth-
with, though there., is no doubt but that that im-
provement will be ere long effected. The public may
be assured also of the fact that, immediately after that
work is accomplished, the line will be continued east-
ward to the Mansion-house, se that eventually there
will be a direct communication from Whitechapel to
Blackfriars-bridge, without there being any necessity
for heavy vehicles passing along either the Poultry,
Cheapside, St. Paul's-churchyard, or Ludgate-hill,
after the alterations are completed and the improve-
ments effected.—Morning Advertiser.
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LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST
RAILWAY.
Traffic—Week ending Aug. 14, 1852 ... £12,811 10 8
Traffic—Week ending Aug.
.16, 1851 15,630 3 10
Total of the half-Sear, to this date, 1852 ... 100,417 1 2
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1851 ... 106,034 17 4
Total number of Passengers—Week ending
Aug. 14, 181)2 ... 83.792
...£10,722 19 S
2,088 11 0

Passengers ...
Goods •••

Total... £12,81110 8
Total miles open, 1852, 173 ; ditto, 1851, 173%.
London Terminus, Aug• 16, 1852.

LIVERPOOL, S
This morning, at 10 30,
the British and North Am
for New Yolk, with a fair com-
plement of passengers and a
for New Yoik, with a fair com-
plement of passengers and a full carge, besides the usual
AT
ants in this steamer, as was
mails. Mr. Baring did not go o
expected. TlRDAerYican steam -ship Asia took her
departure from the Mersey,
AGRICULTURAL
ACCIDENT AT THE SHEFFIELD •
SHOW.—We regret to state that Mr.
l sustained a
of Beverley,
of
agricultural implement maker, two reaping
' the trial
serious accident, on Tuesday, during
,bout in the field
machines near Attercliff. lie was riding t
unguarded
Cresskill, the eminent
mounted on a fine spirited horse, when in an,
moment the animal shied and threw him.
eld Paper.
that Mr. Cresskill dislocated his shoulder.—SloeA bottle-nosed shark, weighing upwards of 1 cwt.,
was brought on shore on 1 hursday, at Brighton) it LaYirig
been entangled in A fialliD t 4
g-ne . V. e understand