The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-31 00:00:00

THE SUN,

FRANCE.
The Debats has the following article on Ireland :
" If ever Ireland should become English, it will be
when it call be occupied and colonised by the English;
but so long as it shall be inhabited by the natives, it is
probable that a fusion will be impossible. This antago-
nism between the two races is nowhere shown in such
a striking manner as in the administration of justice.
There is no country in which assassinations are so fre-
quent as in Ireland; but in the eyes of the Irish to kill
a landlord is not a crime, because in general he is
either a Saxon or a Protestant. We lately read that in
the space of twenty years nearly thirteen thousand per-
sons had been brought to trial in Ireland, on charges
of murder, and that oat of that number only 260 could
be convicted. This was not owing to the facts not
being clear to every one, but because juries could not
be found to return a verdict of guilty. Either the jury-
men, therefore, morally and tacitly absolve murder, and
only regard it as an act of legitimate revenge, or they
fear, by condemning the murderers, to expose themselves
to reprisals from secret societies. It is, moreover, known
that, according to the English laws, juries must deliver
their verdicts unanimously, so that it is only necessary
for the prisoner to have one friendly voice for the ends of
justice to be defeated. Murder is, therefore, in the eyes of
Irishmen deprived of its character of moral crime; it is no
longer anything but a political act, which is to be judged
in a political point of view. This feeling is so inherent in
them that they carry it with them into every country in
the world. We have an example of this in a trial which
is now before the Supreme Court of the United States.
An Irishman who had fired a pistol at a landlord es
caped to America. The English Government, by virtue
of treaties, has claimed his extradition, and it is probable
that it will be granted. Bat what has up to the present
time relayed it is that the guilty man is an Irishman,
and there are several millions of his countrymen in
America who make common cause with him. These
Irishmen have been already naturalised, and conse-
quently have a right of voting, and, as the presidential
election is rear, the candidates seek for Irish votes at
any price. There has been thus formed in the United
States a party of sympathisers in favour of the
murderer claimed by England. The fact of the
crime is not disputed; only it is wished to be
considered as a political act, or according to
the expressions made use of; in America ' as as iso-
lated act of a lee;r, drama which has its origin in the
conquest of Ireland, and in the confiscation of its soil by
the conquerors.' It is this unextinguishable hostility
of races which in Ireland justifies all the acts of violence
which are called agrarian crimes, and all the insurrec-
tions against the laws. During the last elections there
was a disturbance in which the soldiers, being pelted
with stones, were obliged to fire in self-defence. An
inquest was held, and although it was clearly proved
that the soldiers did not fire until driven to the last ex-
tremity and only in self-defence, a number of witnesses
came forward and swore that they had fired without any
provocation, and the justice of the peace and six or eight
of the soldiers have just been committed by the Coroner_
to take their trials for voluntary homicide. The
ee
witnesses knew that if they had given any other evidence
they would have subjected themselves to the d angetrhotf
being shot. A curious example was lately givenoy a
free-masonary which covers Ireland with an invisible. and
invincible network. A murder was committed in the
open da on a Sunde during the celebration of mass.
The murderers being pursued by the police, took refuge
in the church.
The chief of the police thought himself
sure of being able to recognise them as they were in their
shirt sleeves, but when he entered the church, he soon
found himself compelled to abandon his search, as ell the
men had thrown off their coats; they were all in their
shirt sleeves, and jeered at the police. Ordinary justice
is impossible in such countries, and ander such condi-
tions.'

THE PAST
B UR ND
PRESENT OF THE
ESE WAR.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir,—It is of little use now to inquire whether
any
other plan of operations than that actually pur-
sued by the authorities charged with the conduct of
the second Burmese war would have been more or
less successful. When after a melancholy expendi-
ture of life and treasure we had brought the first war
to a conclusion, we congratulated ourselves at least
on the experience that we had gained. It was said
that a second Burmese war would be " an easy
affair;" that a single vigorous campaign would bring
it to a triumphant conclusion ; •that, knowing both
the temper of the court and the dangers of the
country, we should so shape our measures as to
humble the one and escape the other, by a prompt
attack on the chief cities of the empire—the main
movement being made from the Arracan side by way
of the Aeng Pass.
All this was confidently declared at the time by
the leading statesmen and soldiers of India ; and up
to a certain point, doubtless, they were right. But
it was necessary to the conclusion of the war in a
single campaign that it should be commenced at the
right time. Unfortunately, Lord Dalhousie could
not commence the war at the right time. The rup-
ture with the Court of Amareepoora occurred at an
untoward season. It is true, that when it occurred
we had all the cold weather—all the fighting months
—before us. But the blow could not be struck at
once. It was becoming that political negotiations
should precede military operations—that the Burmese
Court should be allowed a fair opportunity of es-
caping, by timely concession, the castigation which
we were prepared to inflict upon them. No such op-
portunity could have been allowed to them if we had
commenced operations last November.
The attempted accommodation failed. Bat the
attempt was not the leo worthy of a great nation,
because it was unsuccessful. We lost our time—the
loss was in itself a disaster—but we had demon-
strata(' cur unwillingness to plunge into hostilities
which seemed so likely to bear the accustomed fruit
—an uncoveted extension of empire. It was right
that we should display this forbearance. It was ex-
pedient, too, to avoid a collision, if it could be
avoided without any loss of national honour or any
serious injury to our national interests. India wants
nothing so much as peace. Lord Dalhousie made an
effort to maintain it, and, in doing so, he threw away
every chance of concluding the war in a single cam-
paign.
The only alternative, then, left to him was to
defer operations until the commencement of the
cold season of tne present year. This course seems
to have had some advocates in India, but its ad-
vocacy was clearly a mistake. To have sat down
quietly for a year under the insults which the Bur-
mese had heaped, and, under the encouragement of
such forbearance, would have continued to heap upon
us, would have been interpreted by the nations of the
East, and perhaps of the West, into an evidence of
indecision and irresolution,been
would have
nottaken
by our
Fabian policy isopponents. The
In
ttbueniderstood by such a people
as the Burmese.
freaeryes, to delay is to hesi-
tate--to hesitate is to
strike, their insolence Had we delayed to
and
dazde arrogancesbab would have
known no bounds,
_ ave been child
upon to avenge an accumulation of injuries, beside
have
been those already inflicted upon us would
been mere venial trifles. thing to b The chastisement of athvee
Burmese was ae done at once, or not to
be done at all. There map have been objections to
the commencement of military operations at such a
time ; but there were far greater objections ,
to their
postponement.
Of the two evils which lay beforea
him the Governor-General chose the least. Th. cam_
paign was commenced at once, and the close of the
cold season of 1851-5.1 saw it inchoate and imperfect.
Events had belied the anticipations of the soldiers and
statesmen of 189.6, who prophesied that ,the second.
Burmese war would be an " easy to be - -
affair,
ac-
complished in a single campaign. And so the cur-
to this
tain fell upon the first act of the drama. Up
time, if no very striking successes have Modicahieaed,
no great harm has been done. The pe. i 1 ns
have set in, and the troops have been housed n Ran-
goon. At the date of the last advices the rains had
been falling for a month, but the health of the troops
had not suffered. " The soldiers and officers," it
is said, " are as healthy as they would have been
in Fort William." In this, at least, we may see
the results of the experience gained in the
first war. It was not the climate of Rad-
Pon that during our first occupation of that
Place killed so many of our men ; it was not the
"ramissariat One of the ablest members of the
medical prof •
me no
graphyleesdistinguishedtiaaii as a writer on medical topo-
upon in brat". a successful practitioner, when called
opinion of tl'e b?! the local Government to record his
bable effect mate of Lower Pegu, and the pro-
vance by the the health of the troops of an ad-
war, throughout gwilPass,
h declared that in the last
Governor-General's 1,0", he had served with the
goon had not been thed- guard, the climate of Ran-
our ill-fated army endure:re of the sufferings which
the Irawaddy," wrote mr. J.lR`Viewing the Delta of
which I believe has not
been Martin, in an official
report,
,In connexion with its own published,
.g,_eftneral climate, it
latitude, and, in short,• known medical topo-
graphY, its its
stands in favourable comparison With
river. Such I believe to be the gen‘e%j. -of .any known
tallied of it by professional men; and it, opinion enter-
tained
believe
e-
ther with the superior physical character of it, T111:al.
ants, was early noticed by that distinguished writ utt-
er and
observer, Dr. Francis Buchanan Hamilton, who
and who ascribedreo
visited the country twice,general
comparative 'nealthfulness of Lower au to the g„10.
gical nature of the soil and its . undulating surface,
which in the numerous "
which left no room for stagnation
enl
in'.
manieating branches of the Irawaddy.. An - coin'
pression of the climate, of Rangoon especially,lhas arise,
from the enormous 1,-,-.s of European ife during the
last war; but I believe that I am correct in statingl that
general or local climate formed one of the least of,t the
causes of the exoes4ive mortality
be-
yond a heavier fall of rain during the south-west spaken of, and h.,.... ,mon-
soon, and a cense I (pent y greater deg in Bengal,
humidity in
the at9iphere than generally occurs Bengal, the cli-
m
mate contributed little or nothing to the result. It was
scorbutic disease that destroyed so large a portion of the
European force, and as the powerful causes which Ica
to its development so ere
dwell upon thorn."" well- understood I need not
whit those causes were the reader may
gather
from the following passage in Professor Wilson's
narrative of the war :
"Relying upon the reported facility of obtaining

cattle and vegetables at Rangoon, it had not been thought
necessary to embark stores for protracted consumption
on board the transports for Calcutta, and the Madras
troops had a still more limited stock. As soon as the
deficiency was ascertained arrangements were made to
remedy it; but in the meantime, before supplies could
reach Rangoon, the troops were dependent for food upon
salt meat, much of which was in a state of putrescence,
and biscuit in an equally repulsive condition, under the
decomposing influence of heat and moisture."
Another lesson of the same grievous kind, but not
so terrible in its extent, was taught us 15 years after-
wards, when our British troops occupied Chusan.
Then, too, the climate was said to be the destroying
agent. But it was not the climate ; it was the com-
missariat. These lessons we may hope—we may be-
lieve—have not been thrown away. Another army is
not likely to be poisoned wholesale with putrid meat.
The last accounts represent that provisions of all
kinds, and of the best quality, were plentiful at Ran-
goon, and that the people were cheerfully supplying
us with the produce of the country.
There was something else, too, to be learnt from
the terrible history of our occupation of Rangoon and
Chusan. Swamps are not, at best, conducive to health ;
but houses properly constructed will go a longue
ty
a
towards the counteraction of their destroying
Now, Colonel Bogle, the Commissioner, an officer
of great energy, ability, and experience, one who
es.
knows the countries of Arracan and Pegu well,
and who for many years contemplating the pr o•
bability of a second Burmese war, has been
acquiring every description of detailed informa-
tion most likely to be serviceable in such a
conjuncture, has been exerting himself to provide
fitting house accommodation at Rangoon for the
troops during the rainy season, and his success is
described as complete. The natives are expert
house builders. Their services are always at our
disposal. Materials are easy procurable , and
money, on such occasions, is never withheld. And
so under Colonel Bogle's superintendence a wooden
camp has risen up ; and thus comfortably housed
and protected, neither the falling rains nor the rising
damps can do our troops any grievous injury. There
are months of both, it is true, yet before them, and the
close of the rainy season is most to be dreaded ; but
so fortified against the climate, well housed, and well
fed, our fighting men may bear up against the in-
activity of half a year of rain at the mouth of the
Ira,waddy.
With
Burmese regard,
war,w then,hatthehtaovesaid past and present of the
amounts to this :
It was expedient that the war should have been brought
to a conclusion in a single
campaign. But it could
not be brought to a conclusion
paign, unless commenced at the right mo-
ment,
i• e.—at the beginning of the fight-
ing
season. Lord Dalhousie could not com-
mence the war at the beginning of the fight-
ing season of 1851-53; it would havebeen
to defer the commencement of •
operations until
the beginning of the cold season of
1852-53;
and,
therefore, the war, under the circumstances of which
I have spoken, could not be concluded in • a single
campaign. But although the war has not been, alai
could not be, concluded in a single campaign, the
interval between the two campaigns is not likely
to be (as it was a quarter of a century ago) a disas-
trous one, because our troops at Rangoon are well
fed and well housed, and there is nothing in the
climate itself of the place to destroy our people by
thousands.
Hoping soon to have your permission to say some-
thing further regarding the " future of the Burmese
war," I am, Sir, your obedient servant, M.

EiIIIGRATION FROM PLYMOUTH.
During the last four or five days no less than ten
ships, of very considerable tonnage, and with nearly 3,000
emigrants, have been in the port of Plymouth, all bound
for Australia or Van Diemen's Land. The following
are the names, destinations, &c.:—
Sea Park, Captain Spedding, Port Philip, Government
emigrants, in charge of Dr. R utter, with 325 souls on
board, sailed on Saturday.
Australasia, Captain M`Pherson, Hobart Town, Go-
vernment emigrants, in charge of Dr. King, Mr. and
Mrs. Tucker, of Stonehouse, teacher and matron, 200
souls, sailed on Saturday.
Posthumous, Captain Heard, for Port Philip, passen-
ger-ship, in charge of Dr. Hunt, 190 souls, sailed on
Sunday. This is one of Messrs. Marshall and Edridge's
ships.
Elizs, Captain Pain, for Port Philip, passenger-ship,
in charge of Dr. Cleeve, 300 souls, sailed on Sunday.
One of Messrs. Marshall and Edridge's ships.
Prince Alfred, Captain Smith, for Port Philip and
Sydney, passenger-ship, in charge of Dr. Maxwell, with
230 souls. This fine vessel, the property of Mr. Pope,
has not yet sailed.
Blackwell, Captain Maerlie, for Port Philip, pas-
senger-ship, in charge of Dr. Field, 200 souls. This
ship takes 25 needlewomen, sent out under Mr. Sidney
Herbert's plan, Mrs. Thomas matron. Sailed on Tues-
day. One of Messrs. Green's splendid ships.
Windermere, Captain Ross, for Port Philip, passenger-
ship, in charge of Dr. Hooper. Among the passengers
in this ship is Mr. Carlyon, son of Colonel Carlyon, of
Cornwall. 180 souls.
General Hewett, Captain Gatenby, for Sydney, pas-
senger-ship, in charge of Dr. Casterton. 190 souls.
Belonging to Messrs. Tindall.
Hydaspes, 800 tons, Captain Reid commander, Dr.
Silver surgeon superintendent, taking about 270 souls,
Government emigrants for Sydney.
Northumberland, 900 tons register, Captain J. W.
Gell, belonging to R. Green, Esq., of Blackwell, sailed
from Plymouth on the 16th iastant for Melbourne. She
has upwards of 160 passengers, many of them for the
gold diggings, and nearly 40 needlewomen, sent out
under the auspices of the Hon. Sidney Herbert's com-
mittee. Among the chief cabin passengers are Mr.
Octavius Phillpotts, son of the Bishop of Exeter, and
Mr. Noel, son of the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel. The
h
ship is in excellent order, her management and dispatch
was in the hands of Mr. Wilcocks, of the Barbican.
Bombay, one of the largest emigrant ships that ever
left this port, is now in the Sound, and will sail in a day
or two. This vessel is a two-decker, and formerly be-
longed to the royal navy.
All the above vessels are under the management of
Mr. Wilcocks.
The influx of shipping of this particular class has
made the watermen of Sutton Harbour and the trades-
men in the vicinity of the quays more than usually busy.
It has also imposed heavy duties upon the officers of
emigration at this port, but upon few harder duties than
the voluntary ones undertaken by the Rev. T. Cave
Childs, the incumbent of St. Mary, Devonport, in visit-
ing the several ships and giving the emigrants the benefit of his counsels and instructions, and where re-
quired the advantage of a distribution of books.
Among the vessels now loading for Port Philip and
Sydney, from London and Plymouth, is the Cleopatra, a
screw-steamer, of 1,500 tons, and 300-horse power. She
is dispatched by private enterprise, and will take passen-
gers at 80, 55, 40, and 35 guineas.—Plymouth Paper.

EXPERIMENTS on the POISON of the TOAD.
Popular tradition has from time immemorial at-
tached a poisonous influence to the toad, but no well-
marked case of severe injury having been caused by this
animal, modern enlightenment repudiated the notion
of the toad being a poisonous creature, and referred
the traditional account to prejudice against the toad
simply because of its ungraceful aspect. Neverthe-
less, unlucky dogs who might chance to bite a toad
demonstrated by the rapidity wherewith the unsavoury
mouthful was dropped, that popular rumour originated ;
in something better founded than mere prejudice or
aversion. All doubts as to the poisonous nature of the
contents of the skin pustules of the toad and salaman-
der lizard
two French
are set at rest by the recent experiments of
with
ztraench philosophers, INIAL Gratiolet and S. Cloez,
tivaee demonstrated by inoculating various animals
dere cutaneous poison of toads and salaman-
dowed with 2 substances in question are en-
gerous qualitzell-marked and exceedingly dan-
these gentlemen. 8. The first experiment of
tortoise, which, having prosecuted on a little African
the toad-poison:in oneog of
feen inoculated with some of
the limb supervened, and sit.!_ hinder feet, paralysis of
of eight months, thus derntoinils.existed at the expiration
local poisoning by the agent. trElting the possibility of
whether the poisonous material
ln
spoiled
to determine
the gentlemen above mentioned poiled by keeping,
' of the poison on the 25th procureda about 29
grains
placed it aside until March 16 April, 1851, and
having , 1852, they •
culatedgoldfinch with a
a .. little of this material.
The bird almost imtneniately died. Subsequently
the investigators succeeded_ inertin. eliminating the
TOM. the matters with
• nous principle f
poise iated in th kin-pstules
which it is awn- ,„..and
when thus purified its effect%
they found that
intense than before. Like most of
are greatly more ,
organic poisons, the active
principle known very stron,„,
in its character a•
principle of toad-venom 13 alkaline
slightly soluble in '
almost insoluble in water, .ether,
MM. Gratiolet and S.
and very soluble in alcohol.
Cloez are at this time occupied in collecting a large
make known
amount of toad-venom, and will shortly
hich are
the result of their further investigations, w
calculated, in the opinion of the investigators, to
throw considerable light upon the nature and action
of the poisons of hydrophobia, of serpents, of conta-
gious diseases, and animal poisons generally.

POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—Minor Money
Order offices
will be opened at the undermentioned place." on
• the respective
1 • dates named :—Kidlington, Oxfordshire, Sept. Saltash,
'
Cornwall, Sept. 1. N.B. Postmasters are informed that
Cadington is now served from Plymouth instead of Tavis tock
:
The list of Money Order offices must be corrected ac
-
1 cordingly.
I CAPTURE OF AN AMERICAN BANK-NOTE FORGER.
A. man named Murphy, an American-born subject, was
1 brought before the magistrates of the Head-office of Police
7. Iriday, charged with forgery of American bank-notes.
=hilll)Reara that in Jane last he called upon an engraver in
s FiY, and agreed with him to execute a plate for the notes
advised him to go
equired! The engraver acquiesced, but at once informed
the !magistracy and the American Consul of the matter, who
on with the work, and that when the
proper time arrived they would be enabled to catch the de-
, linquent at full k. This the police very cleverly accom-
plished.—about Oft
possession were found a
Y notes were worked off, and in Murphy's
quantity of American gold and silver
I coins, and a . pistol loaded with ball. He was remanded for
further examination. His object, no doubt, was to pass the
forged notes upon the numerous emigrants leaving Dublin.—
Dublin krati•

LONDON,

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Aug. 30
(Before Mr. Commissioner LAW.)
His Honour heard a number of bail cases. In. one
case the insolvent, John Siely, had been a wine -no en-
chant, and kept an office in Hungerford-marke V for
registering and granting bets on horse-racing," the
bail was allowed. In another case, a young in in was
in custody on account of a 501. bet on the :Derby.
The bail was allowed on notice to be given.

IN RE HOCKLEY FREDERICK WOOD.
This insolvent applied for sureties. The appl iication
was opposed, and several objections taken, which
were overruled. It appeared that the insolv, sat had
an allowance of about 501. a year from his father, Mr.
Thomas Wood.
Air. Commissioner LAW accepted the bail i a 4001.,
and the discharge was ordered till the hearing.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE..
MARYLEB ONE.
Yesterday Thomas Scott (an American), b tit ler to
Mr. Matthew Forster, M.P. for Berwick:- upon-
T weed, and who resides at I3ellsise-house, Fla ro pstead
was brought up in the custody of Lockerby, 180 S,
and placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, seharged
with having plundered his master of plate to toe value
of upwards of 250/. ; and it will be seen fro ra what
transpired in the course of the inquiry that betting
upon horse-races had led the prisoner to perpetrate
the robbery.
The prosecutor, on being sworn, said—The prisoner
has been my butler for nearly sixteen years, :and the
care of the plate was intrusted to him. He did not
sleep in the house. On Friday night last I missed a
valuable Highland dirk from my " Museum-room,"
and on the next morning, in consequence of informa-
tion which I had given at the police-station, some
officers called upon me with the view of properly in-
vestigating the affair. At five o'clock on Saturday
the prisoner, who had been absent since Friday night,
returned, and on my asking him what he had done
with the dirk, he said he knew nothing at all about
it. A great deal of plate having also been missed he
was questioned respecting it, and he denied all know-
ledge of that, but he afterwards admitted that he had
made away with it, alleging that he was willing
to make good the loss, or using words to a similar
effect.
Police-core table Lockerby, 180 S—On Saturday
evening, between six and seven o'clock, I and In-
spector Byron went to Mr. Forster's, and the pri-
soner was told that wp had come about the dirk, but
that he need not answer any questions unless he
should think proper to do so. Mr. Forster mentioned
to him that he had lost the dirk, to which the pri-
soner replied that he knew not where it was, and that
he had not been in the room where it was kept for the
last three weeles. Prisoner then left the apartment
in which this conversation took place, and on his
return in a fee i minutes, Mr. Forster told him that,
in addition to the dirk, a large quantity of plate was
missing. Pri toner gave up the key of the plate-
chest, which, was in a room at the top of the house,
and on my going up with him to the apartment,
accompanies', by the inspector, the chest was unlocked,
when I desired him to take out the plate which was
there • he did' so, and on the articles being examined,
I read over to him a list of the property which bad
been abstracu!d. He declared that he knew not
where any of the things were with the exception of
a rosewater dish, a wine dish, some labels, and
a few other articles enumerated by him, and
which he told me was downstairs. (The list alluded
to was hanee d by Lockerby to the
magistrate,
and it appeaeT d therefrom that among the plate stolen
were 36 table -forks, 24 table-spoons, together with
waiters, ladle s, &c.) I went below with the pri-
soner, who st:e.,rched the pantry, and at length ad-
mitted that b e could not find any of the things which
he told me he should there meet with and would
readily give 'ap; the rosewater-dish has since been
found in the house, after the search which had been
made, as I h eve stated. I went to the dining-room
with the prix ooer, and, on Mr. Forster coming in at
my request, I told him that none of the apticles upon
the list had teen met with, and he (Mr. Vorster) then
gave the pris oner into custody. In my presence the
prisoner, afte r being duly cautioned, told his master
that ha had nis de away with the plate ; it was a bad
job, and he 'A '3;3 very sorry for what he had done.
In his box in the pantry I found twenty duplicates
for plate, upon which he bad raised 1001. 12s. On
the way to the station-house the prisoner said to me,
" I have been. I t good servant to Mr. Forster for six-
teen years, anti this is the first dishonest thing I have
committed."
Prisoner her a shed tears, and said, " Mr. Forster
has been to me the best and kindest of masters."
Lockerby fu: 7ther stated that in the possession of
the prisoner h e, found several betting-office tickets,
and there could be no doubt that he (the prisoner) had
for some time p ast been addicted to the attractive and
demoralizing pi actice of laying wagers on matters
connected with the turf.
The desk an c l some other articles which had been
pledged were p• reduced, and identified by Mr. Forster;
and, in order ti afford time to procure the attendance
of fourteen o a ter pawnbrokers, the prisoner was re-
manded till S, et uday next.
1 V ORSHIP-STREET.
Yesterday .14 remiah 11'Grath, a well-known ath-
letic prizefighte: r, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Hammil, upon two distinct charges of aggravated
assault and rol eery.
About a mo n th ago, or perhaps rather more, Mr.
Wolf Pleisner. a German jeweller, was proceeding
home through 4J ornmercial-street,Whitechapel, at a late
hour at night, when he was accosted by a woman of
notorious char a cter, named Elizabeth Williams, who
inveigled him into a house up a court in Keate-
street, Spitalfie slds. There he became so frightened
at the aspect of the place that he offered the woman
money to let hi n go, but she locked the door and de-
manded ,still mt sre of him. He tried to get out of the
room, but she t hrust him back, opened the door ajar,
and
powerful fellow 3 rushed in and instantly felled him to
po called out loudly as a signal, upon which two
the ground, wh ere they held him while the woman
rifled his pocki ,ts, from which she took his purse,
containing two sovereigns and some silver. Mr.
Pleiser resisted. this robbery as well as he could, and
shouted loudly " Police" and " Murder," but the
most powerful of his assailants grasped him by the
mouth to stop 13 is cries, and, having dragged him by
main force aloi mI g a dark passage, flung him headlong
into a cellar at the rear of the house about 7 or 8 feet
in depth. Tht ••e he lay, stunned, bleeding, and help-
less, for a cons i derable time, but upon recovering his
senses groped a bout the cellar until he found a ladder,
or rather a peen don of one, up which he scrambled,
and got back is do the room where he had been first
maltreated. :Übe room was in entire darkness, and,
not knowing is ow to find his way out, he indiscreetly
again commenced shouting for the police, but the
instant he ha I given this intimation of his escape
from the cell ar the whole .of his assailants re-
turned, and, after beating him about the face and
body with g teat severerity, flung him out into
the street. The woman was afterwards appre-
hended, and now stands committed for trial, but
both her male 3 confederates successfully evaded the
police until the 3 night of the 21st inst., when the pri-
soner M'Grath , with a gang of other fellows, set upon a
printer named Smith, of Kingsland, whom he plun-
dered of his wi etch, and struck so violently in the face
as to partially stun him. For this offence he was
examined abou t a week since, and, as may be recol-
lected, was re. manded to prove a former conviction
against him ; but while being looked at by several
detective officer s in court, it struck one of them that
he bore some re semblance to the description given by
Mr. Pleisner of the most brutal of his assailants, and
that person was therefore apprised of the suspicion.
Yesterday morning Mr. Pleisner attended, and the
prisoner was placed in a cell with six or seven other
men, to give him a fair chance of escaping detection ;
but the moment Mr. Pleisner caught sight of him he
unhesitatingly selected him from the rest, and was so
positive in his identification of him that he could, as
he stated, have picked him out from 500.
The prisoner stoutly protested his innocence of all
implication in the first-mentioned assault and rob-
bery, but expressed his intention to reserve his de-
fence upon the second, and the depositions of the wit-
nesses having been taken by Mr. Hurlstone, the
second clerk,
therbko,h echwaare
was fully committed to Newgate for
trial upon
THAMES.
Yeaterday Robert Cuthbert, aged 38, a printer, of
greatly agitated,
No.before
8, Middle Storer-street, Stepney, was brought
re Mr. Yardley, charged with stabbing Mary
Lawson, and
attempting to murder her.
The complainant, a fine young woman, who was
and her mother o
and on said
the prisoner was her half-
brother,somn Saturday afternoon he came home in-
toxicated.wrouspecthing
time afterwards he looked very wild,
ao,naanfdtse,erved him go to a knifebox in the
after this her mother and self began
kitchen.
to prepareSteo
mother out of the kitchen,ngs e'
tended something
was about to follow her
that the prisoner in-
his foot and attempted to 11wronenhthe prisoner put out
herw round
ddown, but failed
the
floor.the wsaihset
then
to do so. He then seized
made an attempt to throw her on
discovered he had a tableknife in his hand, and hen
forced her head back and drew the knife across her
throat. She screamed aloud for help, and laid hold of
The prisoner appeared quite mad
the blade of the knife just in time to save a wound
being inflicted in her throat, but in doing so cut her
eyes glared horribly, and he ground
hard toget
his teeth. She struggled away from him,
several stabs at her back. The
on which h© made
the point, and and
dnd furious,se verel y.
his
effect intended. Her clothes,
however, did not take the
point.. The prisoner
if the blade of the knife
knife, fortunately, was rounded at point, and the,
however, were pierced, as .
continued jobbing at her w
had been made with a tapering
who heard her screams,
peritinhgthe knife as hard as he
was able, until two gentlemen,
In answer to questions by Mr. YARDLEY the wit.
came to her assistance and rescued her from his grasp.