The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-26 00:00:00

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.

PRESTON V. LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEWCASTLE.
UPON TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
Mr. Blass, Q.C., applied to the Court for a man-
damus, upon the directors of the Liverpool,
Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Rail-
way Company to register the transfer of five of the
shares which Mr. Preston had purchased in the market.
The directors refused to register the shares, because
Mr. Preston wanted to use his influence, as a share-
holder, to make the company pay a large demand which
his father had upon them. It would seem that in its
early days the promoter agreed to pay Mr. Preston's
f Ither 5,000/, to withdraw his opposition, as a landowner,
to the proposed line ; and they ultimately found no di-
fficulty in obtaiLieg their Act. When, however, the
panic came, they determined to abandon the scheme
alrogether, and to divide the remainder of the deposits,
amounting to 103. per share, amongst the shareholders ;
but this had not been done, under the Winding-up Act,
and Mr. Preston having become possessed of five of the
shares, he wished to be placed on the register, but the
directors refused to allow that, for the reasons already
stated.--Application granted.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
(Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGE.)
The January acjourned sessions were opened this
morriieg ut Cferken well. The number of names in the
calendar is 74.

John ll'hilde, a teacher of the violin, and dealer in
musical instruments, harp and violin strings, who lately
had a school for the teaching of the violin in Cheapside,
under the name of Signor Giovanni Bctelli, was convicted
at the vacral sessions for obtaining under false pre-
tences goods to the amount of about 401., the property of
his aunt, a manufacturer of harp and violin strings.
On that occasion the question reserved for the consi-
deration of the Court, at the request of Mr. Gifford;
the prisoner's counsel was, whether it was not incumbent
on the prosecution to prove that the pretence upon which
the goods were obtained was false, and, therefore, that as
the indictment stated the false pretence to be that the pri-.
soner said he was engeged to purchase the goods in ques-
tioll for n firm, declining at the time to give ttre name of that
firm, the Learned Gentleman then contended that the
proseeution was required in law to prove that there
existed no such 6rm as alleged or pretended.
The ASSISTANT-JUDGE had had no doubt whatever
on tho subject when he reserved the point. But he had
since taken-further opinion on the question, and found,
as he expected, his own view entirely confirmed. It
was made out in the evidence that the pretence-was false,
and it would have been for the prisoner to show that there
really was a firm connected with the transaction, had
such been the case. The jury had properly found him
guilty, and the Court considered the fraud upon the pri-
soner's widowed and struggling aunt to be one of a very
heartless nature. The sentence was that he be impri-
soned and kept to hard labour for six months in the
House of Correction.

MkUtL B R 01-S T REE r—( THIS DAY.)
INTERFERING WITH A POLICE INbrECTOR. Mr.
Richard Streether, a surveyor, residing at No. 2, Wye-
ham-terrace, Brighten, was brought before Mr. Bingham,
charged with being drunk and interfering with Inspector
What), C division, while in thp execution of his duty.
The Inspector stated that about two o'clock yesterday
morning he was passine, along Coventry-street, when he
saw the defendant andr another gentleman in conversa-
tion with the constable on duty. Witness went up to
the constable and asked him what the gentleman were
talking, about. The defendant, who was very tipsy,
said, " What business is that of yours?" and asked him
who he was. Complainant told him be was an inspector
of police, and desired him to go about his business,
which he refused to do, and gave witness a slight push.
The other gentlemen walked quietly away, and as the
defendant persisted in remaining where he was, com-
plainant took him to the station. The inspector added
that. since the defendant had recovered from his drunken
fit, he had expressed his contrition for his conduct. He,
therefore, did not wish to press the charge of assault.
Mr.,BDIGHAst inflicted the drunkard's fine of 55.,
which the defendant at once paid.
PREPARING FOR A RAINY DAY.—Eliza Morris was
charged with stealing a silk umbrella, the property of
James Miller, who deposed that on Saturday afternoon
he went into a shop in Compton-street on business, and
placed his umbrella by the door, close to where the pri-
soner was standing. On leaving the shop he missed the
property in 'question, and suspecting the prisoner had
stolen it, he went in pursuit of her, and caught her
coming out of a wardrobe shop, where she had been to
sell the umbrella. He then gave her in charge.
Ann .Pollock proved purchasing the umbrella from the
prisoner for ls. 6d.
The prisoner denied stealing the umbrella, and was
fully committed for trial.
PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—Henry Newport, clerk, 112,
Fleet-street, was placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham,
charged with being drunk and furiously driving a horse
and gig, and running over Clara Midhurst, whereby her
life was placed in considerable danger.
Miller, 145 C, stated that about a quarter past eleven
on the previous night he was on duty in Coventry-street,
when he saw the prisoner driving a horse and gig at a
furious rate up the Haymarket. On crossing from the
latter place to Windmill-street the horse ran against a
young woman and knocked her down on her back, the
wheels gig passing over her in a longitudinal
directi of theon.
Witness
ran forward and stopped the
horse, and observing that the defendant was very
drunk he directed another constable to convey
him to the station, while witness removed the female te-
a surgeon's, where it was ascertained: that she had
Miraculously escaped any serious-injury beyond a few
severe contusions on the breast. Her clothes were also
much damaged and torn.
Clara Medhurst said she was crossing the end of.
Windmill-street when the prisoner drove against her
and knocked her dowu. She recollected nothing else, as
she became insensible. She was much bruised, and her
clothes were torn to pieces.
The defendant expressed his sorrow for what had oc-
curred, and said the horse ran away.
Mr. BINGHAM said it had been proved that the- de-
fendaut was drunk, and fined him 40s. for furious
driving, and 3/. for the damage done to the,wornan.
The money was paid.

ADMIRAL DUNDAS AND THE REPRESENTATION OF
GICEENIVICIL—AdmiraI Dundas on Saturday issued his fare-
well address to the electors of Greenwich. He says:—" Her
Majesty having been pleased to confer on me the command
of the Mediterranean Squadron, it becomes my duty to in-
form you that early in the next session of Parliament it is
my intention to resign into your hands the trust you have
for so many years been pleased to honour me with, that of
being your representative in Parliament" The Gallant Ad-
miral proceeds to say, " Great have been the retrenchments
and reductions in England and Ireland since you have had
the Parliamentary franchise, and liberal principles became so
well rooted in the public mind, that the late Sir Robert Peel
was enabled to carry measures having for their object a
cheap and steady price for the food of the people, a law so
sensible and just that I trust it may never again be taken
from them. Peace also has been preserved—public credit
mairitained—slavery abolished—and most of those fervent
hopes we formed together at my first selection in 1832, have
been gradually realized." He then concludes, " From all of
you I have ever had a kind and hearty reception; to me,
Greenwich has indeed been a Sailor's Home,' and my
feelings of regard for you can never be effaced. Accept,
then, my best and warmest wishes for the future welfare
and prosperity of the inhabitants of Greenwich, Woolwich,
and Deptford."
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ROBBEEY or CHURCH PLATE.—EarIy on Friday
morning the parish church of Knowstone, Devon, was sacri-
legiously entered and plundered of the whole of the ancient
sacramental plate. Amongst the articles is a massive paten,
the gift of Queen Elizabeth, date 1576; another of William
111., date 1695. The value of the articles is upwards of
300/. A large reward is offered for the discovery of the per-
petrators of this sacrilege.

SERIOUS CAB ACCIDENT.—Last evening, shortly
before ten o'clock, as the driver of a cab was letting out a
fare at the corner of Duke-street, Oxford-street, the horse
suddenly darted off at full galop across the road, when it
came into collision with an omnibus, and so violent was the
shock that the horse fell down dead on the spot, and the cab
made a complete summerset, with its wheels upwards.
The omnibus, which was one of Crawford's cheap Padding.
ton vehicles, had several passengers both inside and outside,
and we regret to say that the violence of the concussion
completely stove in a portion of the offside of the omnibus,
and as we heard, dangerously wounded a female sitting in-
caiupdalltyhrbeoeyosf,
side. `The
conve-
nienceprin
of the outside passengers was completely broken off
railing at the top of the omnibus for the
An immense mob
twbuy'eermteh,teha rssohwwo
ke
am,r,ei
tahinn
immediately congregated, and several policemen were
six(lftrrema te
informed,
lesereniNoc' euens tl
yop the ground, rso,
quickly An the spot, to whom great credit is due for their
praiseworthy exertions in removing the injured parties to a
neighbouring surgeon's with the greatest possible promp-
titude.

GAROTTE ROBBERY IN LOND,clock, the followiON.—On Friday
n
gross outrage and robbery was committed upon the person
of Mr. Hackle, of No. 24, Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square. Mr.
_
morning, at the early hour of near one oclock, g
rHhueculmilea,tiNsvmho iNsveasdrveatnucroedmign
hyoemares,tahnroduggrheatthlye
ab
square at a slow pace, having a roll of music in one hand
and an umbrella in the other, when, near the corner of
affloivcete-nd
Charlotte-street, he was suddenly pounced. upon by. three
men, two of whom having secured his arms and drawn his
head back by means of gripping his throat, prevented his
awmitebid
giving any alarm by placing something over his mouth,
while the third proceeded to rifle his pockets. Fortunately
Mr. Iluckle only bad ss. 91, which they took, as also the
silver spectacles he wore ; but on looking at the roll of paper,
and finding it music, ono of them exclaimed " Let the old
butler keep that and his umbrella." They then started off. It was some time before Mr. Eluekle recovered from the vio-
lencetheeoubidestreocofghniiseewtahyetmhietuhelry.hobeler:
confidentvueuryckniceuzehlsoniehe
to which he had been subjected, when finding be was
laa
dhee
actually plundered him, and describes all three to have been
dressed in the garb of stablemen.
SPANISH NAMES.--A Spanish journal give
following singular names as those of two
071p/oyes is the
n th Finance department at Madrid :—Don Epifanio Mirurzu-
e
rurduudua y Zengotita and Don Juan Nepomuceno de
Burionagonatotorecagogeazeoecha. The journal, in quoting
the name of the latter of these hon. gentlemen, would have
done well to have given some directions as to the pro-
nunciation.

FAILUIZES.—The failure of Messrs. Donald Mackey,
lladow, and Co., East India merchants, has been announced.
The firm have two houses in India, one at Calcutta and the
buta
arethey express a hope that these may
stand.
small. Messrs. Dow, Wilson,
and. Herriraan, wholesale
_grocers, have suspended at New
'York; and a Ur, Cileadie ,urt79k At Orleans.
other at Mou l
ei
nbi;l
Their

LOSS OF THE AMAZON.
OFFICIAL INQUIRY—(THIS DAY.)
An official inquiry into the iosi of the Royal Mail
steam-pncke,t the Arnezrin, by the Board of 'iirade. was
commenced this morning at the Privy Coup cil Office,
in Downing-street.

The inquiry was
,conducted by Captain Be echy and
Captain Waikent

The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceeding; made a
few preliminary observations with reepe'tl to tho
dreadful nature of the loss, in the course of which ho
observed that the present inquiry would be, entirely
public and would bo conducted in the fairest possible
manner. He also stated that, in consequence of several
important witnesses being absent in Scotland, that part
of the inquiry relating to the construction of the boilers
and vossel, and the general efficiency
not be proceeded with to day, of the CLVVY, would
Captain Corrie, the:Admiralty inspector of mail packs is
at Southampton, was first exarninQd and ho described the
construction of the vessel and boilers, which no consi-
dered to be perfect.

AugustusM‘Guinnes, the storekeeper on hoard the
Amazon, gave similar evidence to that alrealy placed
before the public.
Isaac Roberts, boilerman, the next witness, deposed
to the sudden outbreak of the fire, a,-id the
utter impossibility of
t getting it under. ir,-.4) said,
that as far as nis observation extended every
effort was made to arrest its progress. His opi,lion of
the cause of the fire was that there was no metai: cover-
ing between the bulkhead end the boiler. The bulk-
head had become so heated and dry that if a red-hot
pricker had come rgainst it it would have ignited.
With regard to the ship which passe'd ner;•,r the
burning wreck, he stated that when het saw
it it was about half waY between the life-b:At in
which he was and the wreck. That was about a mile or
a tulle and a 'nalf. They shouted to the•ship, but no an-
swer was made, and she did not show any light. There
was nothing in the boiler chimneys which induced him
to think they were unusually hot. He was not aware
of there being any more than en ordinary dogrel: of heat
eat the bottom of the funnel near the deck. Es never
heard any one remark that the chimneys were very hot.
wiiii,m Nutter, water-tender, who had been four
years in the company s fervice, said, when he to tat saw
the fire it was coming from between the boiler and the
deck, where the coal-sacks were kept. He was at this
time in the engine-room; the heat became so g eat that
in a fe,v minutes afterwards ho Was obliged to leave. •
He was the last person who lett the engine-rooni.
[The examination of this witness Was proceeds nz when
our report left.]

DRURY-LANE
On Saturday the great English tenor, Mr. Sims
Reeves, made his first appearance, for the season, in
Fra Diavolo, and never has the bandit chief houn re-
presented, either vocally or histrionically, with
such skill, dash, versatility, and effect. The be wailful
serenade, "Young Agnes," was delivered with such
exquisite tenderness, and such delicate expression,, as to
take the house by surprise ; the audience were, en-
tranced into that ecstatic silence which proves more the
powers of a singer than would do the most
vehement applause, until the conclusion of the seronade,
and then uprose from thousands of voices one sh ant of
encore, followed by applause the most, enthusiastic. The
other great tong of the part is of a different charac-
ter, bat it was rendered by Mr. Sims Reeves with
equally just appreciation of its requirements with great
energy and with infinite gusto. Never have we heard
the far-famed "Proudly and wide my standard flies"
more effectively rendered than it was on Saturd: ty by
Mr. Sims Reeves. The part of Z^.rlina was suit ;ained
for toe first time by Mrs. Sims R Deves,
(late Miss Emma LI/combo), and she achieved a p e.rfect
success, more' realising
the very favourable ant itipa-
than
tions which had been formed of her from her per-
formance in lia ydee at Covent-garden some two
years since. "On yonder rock reclining," Iva ad-
mirably sung, and the celebrated dressing scene
was a perfect gem. Mr. Whitworth made an. ex-
cellent Lord Allcash, and Miss P. Horton is far. and
away the best Lady Allcash who has yet app eared.
Mr. Manvers as Lorenzo, sang the music allottvad to
,
him with much sweetness. The performance was ,com-
pletely successful. At the fall of the curtain there was
a loud call for Mr. Sims Reeves, who came forward and
bowed his acknowledgments; on his retreat the call was
renewed, and he re-appeared with Mrs. Sims Peeves,
Miss P. Horton and Mr. Whitworth, and then thf Ire was
a loud call for Mr. Bunn, who appeared and atAnow-
'edged the compliment. The theatre was crowded.

THE DOOMED DESPOT.
The saying of the ancients, that ,e the gods strike, those
with madness whom they doom to death," seems singu-
larly applicable to Louis Napoleon, whose mad career
becomes daily more desperate. Where it will end, or
to what new acts of outrage he may be impelled, by the
success that has up to the present time attended his
lawless deeds, time and Providence alone can ;tell. It
is, however, supposing the French nation to be the veriest
slaves on the Lee of the earth if they suffer much longer
the frightful tyranny of this maniac despot. Th e intel-
ligence of his proceedings to which w© refer our readers
is a tissue of flagrant acts of violence, of the no/ ption of
every social right, and of the total subversion of. all law,
save the absolute will of a dictator, enforced by the
bayonets of an omnipotent soldiery, by whose h clads the
liberties of France have been dro'ncd in the 'blood of
her children. The President knows that his despotism
can only be maintained by the troops, who are t o France
what the Prastorian Guards were to the Roman, empire,
and he hopes by bribing largely to retain his popularity
with them. For this purpose he has robbed th a Orleans
family, and will go on robbing and rifling all who come
within his grasp, to pay his brigands, until his career
shall be cut short by the indignation of his c ountry, or
no longer able to bribe them, they
turn upon :him, and
sacrifice him to their fury.—Sunday Paper.

_ESTORATION OF LAMBETH CHURCH.—Arrange-
ments have been made for re-opening the parish church of
St. Mary, Lambeth, which has for some months; past been
undergoing a thorough restoration, on Tuesday,, the 3d of
February. The Bishop of
officiate in the morning, and Winchester has um jertaken to
the Venerable Archdeacon
Robinson, D.D., Blaster of the Temple, in the evening.
There will also be a series of services during the remainder
of the week, which will be conducted by the Ar clibishop of
Canterbury, the Bishopef
London, the An thdeacon of
Wordsworth, Surrey, the Rev. Canon
D. D,, am Rev. Dr.
Jell, the Rev. F. G. tilemfield
the Rev. R. D. James. , the Rev. John Ja c kson, and
ANOTHER CENTENARIAN.—Died on the I Ith inst.,
at his farm at Greanan, upon the estate of Gler ifintaig, Mr.
Alexander Cameron, at the great age of 100 years. He
never had any sickness during this long life, wwithin a
as in full
possession of his faculties, and
went about un, ti:
day or two of his death. He was,
we believe, a descendant
I
of the original familey of Letterfinlay ; and he an d his fore-
fathers have held the farm, in
Possession of which ho died,
for probably eight centuries.— Inverness Courier.
Tug MUMMY.—The Council of the Bociety of
Antiquarians of London having appointed a committee of
four of the fellows of the society to
the ecelesiastic found in the chapel of St. Stephen., the mem-
examine the ::remains of
bers of the committee attended on Firday, under an idea that
they would be permitted to make a full and pEoper ex-
amination. The order, however, given them by 'Dlr. Barry,
was merely such as has for some days been supplied to the
public, and did not enipower them to unwrap the body. It
-stated that Lord Seymour
was
y further research could be mademustgive his consent ere.
The committee,g .
athnerefore, could do no more at present than seczure for the
covere
society
d. a correct drawing of the remains as they were dis-

PORK FOR THE NAVT - The
L
of her Majesty's Treasury have caused o r
Mr. Corn ewall Lewis
.—ds Corn raissioners
to desire the Commissioners. of Customs to give the necessary
directions for permitting the delivery, free of thity, of 213
barrels and 27 tierces of salted
Pork, which have arrived by
the ship Fairy, from St. Malo, into her Majesty's. victualling Deptford, the same
stores, at
of the naval department. being intended for the service
SUPPOSED SUICIDE.--0a
Saturday niig tit, Mr.
Baker held an injuest at the
Black Horse, Kingsland-road,
en view of the body ot
Hannah Tollury, aged ..:3, a single
woman, who was found on Thursday afternoon last, in the
Canal, near
dWhitmore-bridge, Hoxin. It ape
peered that the decease•
_was the daughter of a tysidesman in
Stratford, and that she
.thad formed the acquaintance of a Y., who, under a promise odmarriage,
man of some respectability,
succeeded in her seduction,_ whens she
became a m other. The
child was not affiliated, and i,
-a was left its sole support.
She was under the necessity of 4
ggin into service, when she
got a situation. She left it suddenly
heard of again till her body Was
on the 6th instant, and
was not
found in the Re-
gent's Canal. For several days
vice she was frequent 3 hl r heard cr ' i
previous to leaving her ser-
Yin n her room, and on
being asked the reason, sh.echstated g it was the heartless
conduct of her seducer w,, i had rendered her melancholy.
Verdict, " Feand Dead
ha. s arrived at the Earl of
H
Lord Brooke, M.P.,.
_l_riosinLlVarck Castle, where
Warwick's Carlton-gardens,
f
the Noble Earl is staying. Lord El°clhdBhiwiP's
place i with Miss harteris, daughter o
the e°' 14 "PeCtedmarriage
to take
Cn
town the second week in nsuin
g month.
The German journals.
,announce the death of M.
Swedish diplomatist,
Frederick Samuel von Silversto pe, a
who, also, for some twenty years, directed the Theatre Royal
by this gentleman
at Stockholm. The musical library left
is said to be interesting and valu . P
-., CO/11nris, _
other items, many manuscript compositions 14.- niauygdna.moug
PAUPERISM IN THE PERRAGE.--072 dit that a cer-
tain Noble Lord, closely connecteder with a ducal house, is
about to apply in forma pauperis f the annual
allowance to
which decayed Peers are entitled, from a couponfund, said
to be in existence,-and exclusively senerted by themselves,
though an application of the present nature has not been made in the memory of the oldest (political) hiliabitant._
Advertiser. .

SUD"
NDEN DE
P AA
PERTH OF Ma. CLEMENT, OF Tu—
n " OB-
SERVEREOn Saturday falfOrplation.
was for
warded to Mr. Baker, the coroner, of the sudden death of-
Mr. Clement, proprietor of tbe Obserr nAtsPaper, under
circumstances which render a coroner's_iner
qn-e-8"t necessar. It
Widower,
appears, upon inquiry, that the deceased, who was a
ulna tempera-
of advanced age, very corpulent, and of. sang
ment, walked home to his residence in r„
4 v (Jou-terrace,
Hackney, on Friday night, apparleinn ITh in
good health, and
supped as usual, but was taken ill
be was tound lying
e night, and about
safer' but too late
five o'clock in the morning
it is I.lPposecl, resulted
6. dead upon
the floor of his room. Dr. Wallis wassent
to rer.der effectual aid, death baying,
from apoplexy. Mr. Baker has appointed th;
-s day (Mon-
The deceased
day) evening for the holding of his inquest.
was a most benevolent man, and has !eft Many sincere
friends, who knew his worth and deplore his loss.
REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE.-7A- Very common
superstition exists among sailors against sailing on Friday,
to which the loss of the Amazon will, to believers in lucky
and unlucky days, afford confirmation strong es ho,y
i writ,
as that ill-fated vessel put to sea on Priday, the 2d of
January.
.
The batons of the Marshals of France, Which are
so much envied, are formed of a round
piece of deal, 30 cell_
tirnetres in length, and from four to tive centimetres in
diameter, covered with velvet, with gold stars, and a gold
ornament at each ecd, on which are engraved the words,
Terror belli decus pacis." According to the ordonnance ,of
Aug. 10, 1836, the marshals carry no other arms but this
I baton as a sign of their bumior 6.9 aim a Ell 4 sword,and
a
brace of pistols.