The Sun.
London, England, 1837-04-04 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—NeRwicH, ArRII. 2.
Yesterday the commission was opened at the Shire-hall
and at the Guildhall, for the county and city respectively,
at the hour of four o'clock, by their Lordships, who were
escorted to their lodgings by the Sheriff for the county, as
also by that for the city. The state of the cause list iz
not yet known, but the calendar already presents a dread-
ful appearance, containing the names of seventy prisoners,
whose offences would certainly fill up the printed list of
the Central Criminal Court. Among others there are
four individuals charged with murder (one of which cases
will occupy a considerable portion of two days, it is said),
three for arson, ten for burglary, three for rape, five for
robbery, one for tbrgery, eight under the game laws, four
for manslaughter, seven for horse and sheep-stealing,
and many for petty offences. These arc in the county,
while there is, we rejoice to say, but one case in the city— '
this, though, is a capital case, being a murder.

CRIMINAL COURT.-MONDAY.

OLD COURT.

John Wrexon, aged 49 ; Bridget IGricxon, his wife, aged
45 ; and Mary Ann Wie.rdn, aged 20, the daughter of
the two first-named priioners, were indicted for wilfully
abandoning and exposing the infant child of the said Mary
Ann Wrexon. The indictment contained five counts,
varying the offence.
Ann Vickery—l am living at No. 10, Lower Sloane-
street, and am acquainted with all the prisoners. The male
prisoner called on me, in the first instance, for the purpose
of engaging a lodging in my house. I let them the lodg-
ings, and they took possession of them on the same even-
ing. This was on the 21st of February. I perceived that
Mary Ann Wrexon was very far advanced in pregnancy,
and she was delivered on the 25th. There was no baby
linen or any /reparation for an accouchement. On my in-
quiring what bad become of the child the mother said that
she had given the infant to a nurse, who lived in the country.
Mr. Batchelor—l am a surgeon. On the 25th of Fe-
bruary I was called to attend the younger prisoner. There
was no appearance of any preparation for the accouche-
ment. I saw all the prisoners there. The child was a
full grown one. On the following Sunday I again saw the
prisoners. The mother of the child was going on well. I
asked where was the father, and was informed that he was
travelling in Germany. On the 27th, not seeing the infant,
I asked the younger prisoner what had become of the child,
when she said it was sent to a nurse at Wandsworth. On
the 29th I again visited her, and not seeing the infant my
suspicions became excited, and at length I gave information
at the station-house, and I subsequently saw the same child
at St. Margaret's workhouse.
Cross-examined by Mr. THOMPSON—The prisoners ap-
peared to be in a most destitute condition.
John Thomas Fisher—l am a constable in the police
force, No. 121, B division, and was on duty on the night
of the 27th of February, in Park-street, Chelsea, about
half-past ten o'clock. I was called to the house of a Mr.
Watson, and I there found a basket, the one now produced,
and which contained a female child. On examining the
basket a letter was found, which was the same as is now
produced.

" TO MISS WATSON.

" As I know you to be an angel, and following the steps of
your mother, I leave my infant for your protection. Have
pity on it, and get it into the hospital. She must be chris-
tened Eleanor Somerville. I trust in the Lord I shall be able
to claim her yet. Do it, and the great and mighty God will
reward you. Your sainted mother, looking down from her
blessed abode, will approve of this act of humanity in her
child."
The letter had no date.

William Henry Jones—l am servant to Mr. Watson,
and on the evening of the 27th of February the house-bell
was rung, and, on opening the street door, I found a bas-
ket, which contained a new-born infant.

Susannah Webb—l am nurse at St. Margaret's work-
house, and I received the child from the police-constable.
I subsequently saw the prisoner, Mary Ann Wrexon, when
I asked her if the child was not to be chistened Henrietta.
The prisoner said, " You mean Somerville," and, bursting
into tears, she said, "It is no use to deny it, for it is my

The RECORDER summed up the evidence at great length,
and the Jury found John and Bridget Wrexon Guilty on
the third count, joined with a strong.recommendation to
mercy, in consequence of the pecuniary diflicultie's in which
they were placed, and the younger prisoner Not Guilty.
Mr. Thompson submitted that the two prisoners must
be acquitted, on the ground that they being indicted for a
conspiracy it could not be sustained ; for in law the hus-
band and wife were but one person.
The RECORDER considered the objection fatal ; and, af-
ter cautioning them as to their future conduct, directed
them to be discharged.
The RECORDER continued trying cases until five o'clock,
when the Court adjourned.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

Robert Johnson, a Scotch volunteer in the Spanish
Legion, and upwards of seventy other volunteers in the
Queen of Spain's service, applied to the LORD MAYOR un-
der the following circumstances, which were detailed in the
presence of Colonel Wetherall, her Majesty's agent in this
metropolis. The applicants were, Johnson stated, induced
by printed, and, of course, official, representations, to enlist
at Glasgow, in the Queen of Spain's service. In those re-
presentations it was mentioned that they were to be treated
and paid according to the British military regulations, and
they engaged to serve one year in Spain, upon condition
of being dealt with according to those articles. They ful-
filled their engagement to the letter, and had in doing so
fought hard in several battles, and at the end of their
term applied each for the large arrears of pay due to them,
and for their discharge and passage home. As men were
wanted very much by General Evans, an urgent request was
made of them to continue in the service, but they resisted all
solicitations, and were consequently sent to St. Sebastian, with
directions to wait there until a vessel for England should be
ready to convey them home, After waiting for a consider-
able time at that place, during which they were again
and again importuned to join the Legion, and as often and
as resolutely refused, they were removed to another place,
where they were actually imprisoned and guarded by a
Spanish sentinel, who had orders upon the least appear-
ance of insubordination to shoot or stab them. Some of

the number, who applied for their discharge at the end of
the term for which they had contracted to fight, became
weary of the imprisonment, which was aggravated by the
infliction of bread and water for 64 days, and consented to
join the Legion again. After a considerable delay the Spa-
nish Government at length sent them off, and they landed
at Portsmouth in a state the most deplorable. From thence
they walked up to London pennyless, and were providentially
received into the House of Refuge for the Destitute in
Playhouse-yard, Whitecross-street.
The LORD MAYOR had on Saturday, upon hearing that
numbers of the Spanish Legion were walking, or rather
hobbling, up to town, sent to Col. Wetherall, to request
that he would apply to the Spanish Ambassador to know in
what way the claimants—for they complained of heavy ar-
rears of pay—were to be disposed of, and the Colonel pro-
mised to represent the case to his Excellency.
Colonel Wetherall, upon hearing the statement, lost no

time in seeing the Spanish Ambassador, relative to the men
who had applied to his Lordship ; but his Excellency felt
the necessity of declining to sanction any payment whatever
to those men, who were officially reported to him as having
forfeited all claim upon the Spanish Government.

Johnson declared most solemnly, that the claim of every
one of the unfortunate men who accompanied him was not
to be denied by any honest man. They had all made the
contract for one year, and no more ; and they had 'acted
upon the printed representation, which gave them the op-
Con of serving one or two years.
The LORD MAYOR should write to the Spanish Ambas-
sador, representing the circumstances, and requesting that
his Excellency would send the men home to Glasgow.
The volunteers then returned, by the direction of the
Lord Mayor, to the House of Refuge for the Destitute,
and his Lordship wrote to the Spanish Ambassador on the
subject.

GUILDHALL.
Yesterday John Wright, otherwise Stephen Wood, was
brought before Mr. Alderman HUhIPHREY, for final exa-
mination, charged with stealing four cows from the vicinity
otChigvrell, on Epping Forest. The prisoner was com-
mitted to Newgate.

HATTON-GARDEN.
:Yesterday Margaret Taylor was finally examined upon
the charge of enticing away Ann Sheppard, five years of
age, and robbing her of her clothes. The property was
traced to have been sold by the prisoner to Davies, a Jew,
in Field-lane, Saffron-hill, and the case being fully substan-
tiated, she was committed for trial.
Another charge was exhibited against the prisoner by
Mrs. Furlong, of No. 1, East-row, City-road, for having
enticed her daughter, seven years of age, away, and strip-
ping her of her clothes. The evidence went to prove that
she enticed the child from her home, and took her to a
private place in Bunhill-row, where she robbed her, and
left her nearly naked. The prisoner denied the charge,
but she was remanded.
Sergeant C. Palmer, 17 G division, stated that the pri-
soner had been convicted of robbery at the Old Bailey, and
sentenced to three months' imprisonment in the House of
Correction. Numerous children have lately been robbed of
their wearing apparel, no doubt by the prisoner ; and other
charges are expected to be brought forward against her.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Yesterday Thomas Walters was brought before Mr.

CHAMBERS, charged with having broken into No. 22, Do
ver-street, Piccadilly, the residence of a lady named Mit
ford, for the purpose of committing felony.
He was fully committed.