The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-08 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—This Day.

(Before Mr. Sergeant Gazelee.)
Henry Conderot was indicted for stealing goods to the
value of £6O, the property of his employer, M. Alphonse.
The jury found the prisoner guilty.
Mr. Sleigh, the counsel for the prosecutor, said, as the
prisoner's conduct had been eulogised for honesty, ho had
to inform the Court that he had been sentenced in France
to five years' imprisonment for forgery, he being at the time
a corporal in the 7th regiment of the line, and also for 12
months for swindling.

The learned judge sentenced him to 10 years' penal ser.
vitude.

(Before Mr. Payne.)

Edward Welsh was indicted for stealing a watch.
Sergeant Thompson, of the detective force, said he was
on duty one night at the latter end of last month, in Hol-
born, and his attention was attracted to the movements
of the prisoner. He saw him mix in the crowd
of persons who were just leaving one of the places
of amusement, and suspecting his object was robbery he
followed him, but before he got up to him he had succeeded
in taking a watch from the pocket of a gentleman, who had
been fortunate enough to seiz3 him before he could detach
the watch from the Albert chain. He then took the prisoner
into custody, but the gentleman said he could not appear
aga'nst him as he had to leave town on the following
morning. He, however, took the prisoner before the ma-
gistrate at Bow-street, who, as he was a well-known thief,
committed him for trial.
Other witnesses having been examined,

Thejury found the prisoner guilty,

Police-Constable A ckrill, of the F division of police, said
he had known the prisoner for years as one of the worst
thieves in Seven-dials. He had also known him to take
children out for the purpose of committing robbery. He
had been frequently in prison for three and six
months, and although he had had every chance of getting
an honest living he had always told him (witness) when
he cautioned him about the life he was leaoing that he
should go " gunning" whenever he felt disposed.
Judge Payne said it appeared that short terms of im-
prisonment had no effect upon the prisoner, as he found he
had undergone various terms of three and six months. He
had had a very narrow escape of being sentenced to penal
servitude for a long period. On the present indictment he
could not inflict that punishment, but the most severe
punishment he could inflict be would sentence the prisoner
to undergo, and that was that he be imprisoned and kept to
hard labour for two years.
George Dixon was indicted for robbery. The offence
was committed in King's-road, Chelsea, and a number of
witnesses satisfactorily proved the case.
Tho jury found the prisoner guilty.
On the judge asking whether anything was known of the
prisoner,
A police constable said he was present some time ago
when he was sentenced to eight months imprisonment.
Prisoner—Thank'ee.
He was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment and hard
labour.

Mr. GEORGE PEABODY'S last generous act is re-
ported to be the endowment of Yale College with a new
geological cabinet, at a cost of £25,000.
BOLIN'S NEW EDITION OF " LOWNDES'S BIBLIO-
GRAFIIER'S MANUAL."—According to the Book-
seller, the sale of this work has been as yet unremunerative.
This, the Bookseller thinks, is a discreditable fact, and it
recommends every one in the trade, not already provided
'with a copy, to procure one. In this age of literary inquiry
there ought, we think, to have been a considerable demand
among scholars for such a standard work of reference, im-
proved as it has been so notably by the additions of its
present editor. Seven parts have been published, and two
or three more will complete the work.
THE NILE RISING! —lt seems as Punch's
picture of the discovery of the sources of the Nile.
says the Reader, was what Z4dkiel would call "The Hiero-
glyphic." Apparently offended with having had his privacy
invaded by Captains Speke and Grant, o,d Nile is swelling
with indignation. The Times correspondent, writing from
Alexandria on Aug. 19, says—" The Nile is rising so
rapidly as to excite great apprehension; it is already 14 feet
higher than last year at the same season, and it has yet
45 days to rise. The Government Lai despatched by rail
a large quantity of timber and piles to differefit points, to be
ready to dam the gaps in case the tithes give way; and the
inen are employed in raising the banks along the river,"
TAKING THE VEIL.--Hiss Mary Frances Graham,
daughter of Col. Graham, of Cossington, Somerset,
hasjast taken the veil at Connington Nunnery, near Taunton.
The ceremony was conducted with much pomp, the chief
officiating pt test being the Hon. and Right Ray. Dr. Clif-
ford, the Catholic Bishop of Clifton. The young lady was
dressed in pure:white, having over her head a long veil, sur-
mounted by orange blossoms. She declared, in answer to
a series of questions, that, of her own will, and with tt e
consent of her prents, she consecrated herself for ever
,to
Almighty God. The ceremony was witnessed by about JO
persons, many of whom evinced much emotion.—Western
Daily Press.

WASHINGS IN THE RIVULET.—JuIy 12th, 1838.
—What shall we have on this page to-day ? No-
thing has come but the " Song of the Grasshoppers." Lot
US wait till evening. Evening at Twilight.--I write with
a cold hand, on my return from washing my gown in the
stream. It is pretty to wash and watch the passing by of
fish, of ripples, of grass-stalks, of leaves, ot'iallen blossoms
—to follow these, and I know not what besides, with the
current of the water. So many things come to the washer
who knows how to look into the course of this stream I It
is the bath of the birds, the mirror of the sky, the emblem
of lite, a road flowing on, the reservoir of baptisnil-
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