The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-31 00:00:00

POLICE IN TELLI GENCE.

Mr. RAWLINSON said, that if 10,0001. bail were offered he
could not take it. It was a melancholy case; but he had no
odicr alternative than to commit her forthwith to Newgate for
trial.

Mr. Flower—Porhaps, then, as a favour, you will allow the
prisoner to be conveyed to prison in a hackney-coach, instead
of the common prison van, and permit her husband to accom-
pany her ?_

To this Mr. RAWLINSON acceded, and Jones, an officer be-
longing to the establishment, was commissioned to proceed
with them, and to take cart that no communication was held
between the husband and his wife.

WORSHIP-STREET.
, THE HORRIBLE MURDER OF AN INFANT AT HOXTON.—Yes-
terday Jane Reeves, a female about 22 years of age, of dimi-
nutive stature, was placed at the bar before Messrs. Grove
and Broughton, charged with the wilful murder of Ler infant
child. It will be recollected that on Thursday afternoon last
the head and body of a female infant was found in a ditch in
Shepherd and Shepherdess-fields, and that the left arm was
missing. An inquest was held on the remains on Tuesday
last before Mr. Baker, alien a verdict was returned of wilful
murder against some person or persons unknown. Yesterday
on the charge against the prisoner being made, it was stated
by Robinson, the Inspector of the G Division, that a left
arm had been found. Tl)e discovery caused a great sensation
in the office, and the woman had only been in custody a short
time, when the report got abroad, the effect of which was
to cause the office to be crowded.
Inspector Robinson stated that about twelve o'clock that
day he was informed that the left arm of an infant had been
found in the dust-bin on the premises of Messrs. Jones and
Chatfield, linendrapers, Nos. 2 and 3, City-road. He pro-
ceeded there, and was told that while the porter was looking
among the ashes for something he had lost, he found the arm.
Witness, in consequence made inquiries, when, from what he
heard of the situation that the prisoner, who is cook in the
family, had been in, he charged her with the murder of the
infant. She then admitted that she had given birth to an
infant, the remainder of which she said was in the bin. He
therefore searched 'it, but did not succeed in finding any other
part of the child.
The Inspector produced the arm, which belonged to the
left side. The blade-bone was with it. That which had been
cut off from the body which was found, had the blade-bone
removed.
The inspector, ,in answer to Mr. Broughton, said that nei-
ther the prisoner nor any one in the house was aware that any
inquest had been held upon the body of an infant, which was
without a head or arm. •
Mr. BROUGHTON read the report of the inquest, as given in
the paper of yesterday, in which it was stated by a witness
that tho body was found wrapped up in the Weekly Dispatch
newspaper ; the same witness, whose name is Wise, observ-
ing that the preceding night he saw a female, apparently a
servant, near the spot with a basket and bundle.
Mr. Chatfield said that the prisoner bad been with them
five months. She had been suspected, and was charged with
being pregnant, but she denied it. They always take in the
Weekly Dispatch, many numbers of which are lying about.
Mr. BsouciiTori said that it would be necessary to see
if a Dispatch, of the date of that in which the body was
found was missing; and the witness Wise ought to be brought
forward to see if he could identify the prisoner as the person
be saw.

The Inspector added that the prisoner also stated to him
that if the child was then alive it would be three weeks
old. There was a young woman present who slept with the
prisoner, and who informed him that when the child was born
the prisoner went earlier to bed than usual. She, in the
course of that night, heard the noise of an infant, and she
saw such symptoms as satisfied her that an infant had been
born ; but she bad never seen it, nor was she aware what had
become of it.

Sergeant Grove, an officer of the establishment, said that
when the prisoner was in the waiting-room, he observed to
her, " Are you the woman that committed such a horrible
act ?" She then said that she did not cut off the child's head,
but that when she plac?d the infant in the ditch its head
was then on.

Mr. BROUGHTON remarked, that from the state of the arm
the birth of the infant must have been more recent. It
would be necessary to have the body, and compare the arm
with the part amputated ; and a medical gentleman ought to
be engaged.

The inspector said that Mr. Leeson had examined the arm,
and that the prisoner also stated to him that the body was in
the dust-bin.

The Bench consulted together, when
Mr. GROVE said that it would be necessary for them to hear
what the prisoner's follow-servant had to communicate, but he
was not then prepared to state whether she would appear as a
witness. She might be considered as an accessory before the
fact. He then asked her if she could procure bail.
Mr. Chatfield said that she had a father, who mi,sl,t bail
her. She was about to leave his service.
She was then ordered to be detained by the Inspector, who
was to inform her father of the situation she was in.
Mr. GROVZ asked the prisoner what she had to say ? The
prisoner, in a very mild tone, denied what the officer Grove
said, and stated that she was never allowed to go out. She
then said that she put the body in the dust-bin, and did not
know what had become of it. She did not appear at all af-
fected at her awful situation.

She was remanded till Friday next on the charge of having
wilfully murdered her own child.

UNION-HALL.

Istrostartox ON THE POOR BY RETAIL COAL-DEALERS.--Ygg.
terday a poor woman made an application to the sitting Ma-
gistrate relative to an alleged imposition practised upon her in
the sale of coals.

The applicant stated that she went to a coal-dealer in Gay-
wood•street, Lambeth, and ordered a half-hundred weight of
coals, the price for which was the same as prior to the ex-
posure of the coal monopoly before the Lord Mayor. When
the article came home, suspecting that the dealer had sent
her short weight, she had the coat weighed over again, and
discovered that the half-hundred was exactly seven pounds and
a half deficient. The applicant added that she as well as
many of her neighbours felt severely the present high price of
coals, and although they had heard the Lord Mayor did so
much in reducing the price, yet they did not know where to
go to get the article as cheap and good as those with which
the Mansion-house fires were lighted. If she could be put in
the right way of getting good and cheap coals, she should be
ever obliged to her informant, as also would be her poor
neighbours.

The MAotsTRATE told the applicant that he could not give
her the information by whom the coals wert supplied to the
Mansion-house ; but with respect to her complaint of the de-
ficiency in the weight of those which she had purchased of the
coal-dealer, the way she must proceed was this—she should
call on the inspector of weights and measures for that dis-
trict, and give him notice of what had occurred, and he had
the power of not only seizing all the weights in the coal.
dealer's possession, deficient in measure, but the latter had
also subjected himself to a heavy penalty.
The applicant having thanked the Magistrate, intimated her
determination to act upon his advice.
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_.iISS ARDOE'S NEW WORK.—We are requested
o state that the new work entitled " The Romance of the
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The River and the Desart," &c., in 3 vols. post Bvo., was
published this day by Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-
street, and may now be had at all the libraries. Mr. Colburn
has also just published " Pictures of the World at Home and
Abroad," by the author of " Tremaine," and " De Vere," 3
vole.—" Horace Vernon ; or, Life in the West," a new tale of
Fashionable Life, 3 vols.—Mr. Theodore Hook's " Gurney
Married," a sequel to " Gilbert Gurney," 3 vols.—Captain
Chamier's new naval novel " Jack Adams, the Mutineer," 3
vols.—and " The Only Daughter," a domestic story, edited
by the author of " The Subaltern," 3 vols.
FEBRUARY.—The second month in our calendar,
like January, was added by Numa Pompilius, called by the
Saxons, Sol Monath, signifying the return of the sun This
month is represented by a man in a dark sky-coloured dress,
bearing in his hand the astronomical sign of the zodiac called
Pisces. The Saxon pictural characters appear to have been
different, as their representation was a vine• dresser pruning
trees ; or, sometimes, a man with his jacket buttoned, warming
his hands by beating them against his body, in token of the
inclemency of the season.

having been declared by the Learned Judge invalid, and the
widow condemned in costs.

The Learned JUDGE, was of opinion that there was no ground
for the sentence of the Court below, which he reversed; and
pronounced in favour of the will.

BO TV-STREET.
On Monday Mr. J. Ruywood, of the Horse and Groom
public-house, in Bedfordbury, attended with his solicitor, Mr.
Barton, before Mr. TWYFORD and a Bench of Magistrates, at
this office, to answer the complaint of Inspector Musgrove, of
the F division—" for that he, Ray wood, being a person
licensed to keep the said ale-house, did, on the 19th day of
January instant, unlawfully and knowingly permit and suffer
gaming in the said house—to wit, the game called bagatelle,
against the tenor of his license, &c."
Mr. TwYFora) dismissed the complaint, in the absence of
proof that the play was for money or money's worth.

1I1A1?Y 4EB 0 IV E.
Yesterday William Reed, aged nineteen, and John Drishel,
a young man about thirty, were placed at the bar More Mr.
RA wuNsoN, the former charged with stealing a silver watch
and a quantity of linen and silk goods, the property of his
master, Mr. Charles Burch, mercer, of 17, Vere-street, Ox-
ford-stret, and the latter with receiving the same with a guilty
knowledge.
The younger prisoner acknowledged his guilt, and his com-
panion admitted purchasing the shirts and other property, nut,
as he said, knowing them to have been stulee.
They were both remanded till Tuesday.
On Tuesday a well-dressed young married female, far ad-
vanced in pregnancy, arid whose friends are highly respect-
able, was placed at the bar before Mr. RAWLINSON, charged with
the following felonies :
The prisoner's husband, who holds a confidential situation at
Messrs. Broadwood's pianoforte manufactory, was in attend-
ance, and appeared overwhelmed in grief at his wife's siltation.
Mr. Flower was engaged in her behalf,
The charge against her was, that she had stolen from a peg
in the passage of the house in which she lodged, a cloak
longing to the landlord. She confessed her guilt to a policeman.
The evidence being finished against the prisoner, who wept
incessantly, but said nothing,
Mr. Flower begged that his client's situation would be taken
into consideration, and that she might be released on putting
in good bail.

ADDRESS OF THE COMMITTEE OF
THE CHURCH-RATE ABOLITION SOCIETY I
TO THE PEOPLE OF GREAT BRITAIN.

Fellow- Countrymen I—More than two }ears have elapsed
since we first addressed you upon the subject of Church-rates.
Nobly did you respond to our appeal I In a vast number of
narishes you resisted the imposition of the odious tax ; you
held 74-rest public meetings in almost every district of the coun-
try ; you appointed 419 delegates to represent you in the
general meeting convened two years ago in the metropolis;
}on sent up to the House of Commons 2,328 petitions, with
674,719 signatures, praying for the complete extinction of
Church-rates
Again we appeal to you I Church-rates are not abolished.
Whether they will ever be abolished depends mainly upon
yourselves—upon your union and vigour, and perseverance in
opposing them.
What is the present state of the question? Look at it in
reference to Parliament. Two years kick the House of Com-
mons declared, after a discussion of almost unexampled dura-
tion, that Church-rates ought to cease. The majority by
which this resolution was carried we.; thought insufficient to
enable the Government to prosecute their measure for the
abolition of Church-rates with a prospect of success. A Se-
lect Committee was then appointed to inquire into, and report
upon, the plan of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. That
Committee reported the evidence adduced before it, and has
asked to be re-appointed to receive further evidence. It is the
intention of the Government to move fur its re-appointment.
There can be very little doubt that the Select Committee
will be re appointed ; or that, considering the nature of the
evidence already adduced, the Report of that Committ, e will
substantiate the calculations of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
If, turning from Parliament, you direct !your attention to
the country generally, you sec Cbureb-rates everywhere op-
posed. You see strife and bitterness engendered by the im-
post. You see ministers of religion in fierce conflict with their
parishioners.
You see the terrors of the Ecclesiastical Courts
arrayed against religious, peace-loving men. You see goods
seized under warrants of distress, and sold to buy the elements
of the holy sacrament. You see your friends and neighbours
=kW in enormous costs, am!, for conscience sake, immured
in common jails 1
Fellow Countrymen pay long is this state of things to
continue ? Shall another Session of Parliament pass away, and
no remedy be applied ?
You have been patient, forbearing. You had petitioned for
the extinction of Church-rates. Your claim was founded injus-
tice, and sanctioned by religion. The House of Commous ad-
mitted the validity of your claim, but it has not yet been conceded.
It was considered necessary to discover some fund out of which
the expenses hitherto defrayed by Church- rates should be dis-
charged. You did not oppose the interposition of that in-
quiry, although you might have done so with perfect con-
sistency. Your patience and forbearance ought to have se-
cured the respect and good-will of the supporters of Church-
rates, and yet, from the time of the appointment of the Select
Committee, Church-rates have been exacted with increased
severity !
We would now most respectfully, but most urgently, im-
press upon you these three considerations :
First. All parties are anxious that the question should be
settled without further delay.
Secondly. The surplus to arise from an improved system of
managing Church property must be applied to the expenses
hitherto defrayed by Church-rates, or else to some national
purpose.
And, Thirdly. Any attempt to settle this question by draw-
ing upon the land-tax, the consolidated fund, or any other
branch of the national revenue, would be an incalculable
aggravation of the evil.
Brethren of the Church of England !—We wish not to in-
terfere with the worship or the discipline of your Church.
In all the good which she effects as a religious communion, we
do rejoice, and will rejoice. It is our desire to be on terms of
gocd fellowship with all her members, and to unite with them
in all high and holy enterprises for spreading the Gospel of
peace. But your Church, by her secular power, oppresses
us, and we ask for relief. We consider the imposition of
Church-rates as a burden and a grievance. Your Church is
rich, and does not require these rates. Then why exact them
from conscientious Dissenters from her communion ? You
believe she is founded upon scriptural authority. Then why
distrust the provisions of the Divine founder? You have con-
fidence in the affection of her disciples. Then why employ
force to maintain her worship and her buildings ? Is not your
Church dishonoured when she employs the broker, and in-
vokes the aid of the 'Ecclesiastical Courts? Can you, with
quiet consciences and holy feelings, partake of the memorials
of the death of Him who is our common Lord, when they are
purchased with unwilling or forced contributions?
Protestant Dissenters I Upon you the circumstances of the
present times have devolved responsibilities of no ordinary
character, and which demand from you decision, energy, and
perseverance If you believe your principles to be true; if
you believe that compulsion for the support of religion, or of
religious establishments, is opposed to Scripture, and injuri-
ous to the highest and best interests of man ; it is your solemn
duty, by every means which religion sanctions, to oppose a
system which is abhorrent to the principles you maintain, and
the religion you revere.
Fellow Countrymen I Members of the Church of England,
and Protestant Dissenters ! We call upon you to unite in re-
sisting the imposition of this unrighteous burden, the exaction
of this unjust impost, in every parish in the land I Combine for
this purpose. Urge upon your representatives the necessity
of an immediate and satisfactory settlement of this vital, this
vexatious, this agitating question 1
RICHARD PEEK, Chairman.
T. H. BOYKETT, Secretary.
Patriot Office, London, Jan. 20, 1839.