The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-04 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

H ,1- Majnty honoured Drury-lane The Are with her
presence last night to witness the perform;)nce of a new
afterpiece. Her Majesty arrived soon after nine o'clock,
attended by the Marchioness of Taviaock, Hon. Miss
Murray, Lady Theresa Digby, Viscount Torrinuton, lion.
C. A. Murray, lion. Major Keppel, and Col. Buckley.
Her Majesty honoured Mr. W. C. Ross, A. R A ,
.with
a sitting, yesterday, tor her portrait.
Her Majesty rode yesterday in the riding-school near
Buckingham Palace.
The Duchess of Kent visited the Princess Augusta
yesterday at Clarence House.
The Earl of Clarendon had an interview with the Mar-
quis of Normanby yesterday at the Colonial office. His
Lordship transacted business at the Foreign-office.
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The Russian and French Ambassadors— transacted busi-
ness at the Foreign Office yesterday.
Lord Morpeth is staying at Panshanger, Herts, the resi-
dence of Earl Cowper.
Viscount Howick is staying at Datchct.
The Marquis of Lansdowne returned to Lansdowne
House yesterday, from Holland House, Kensington.
The Lord Chancellor has left town for 11;s residence at
Copse Hill.

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)

These Sessions commenced this morning at ten
o'clock before Mr. Sergeant ANIDREW3 and a bench of
Magiatrates, at the Sessions House, Westminster.
The Calendar contains the names of 9S prisoners.
After the usual preliminaries had been gone through,
the Grand Jury having been previously charged by the
Learned Chairman, railed to perform their duties.

Samuel Evans, alias Young Dutele Sam pleaded guilty
to the charge of assaulting W. Mackenzie, a policeman,
when off duty.
Mr. BALLANTINE, for the prisoner, stated that this as-
sault had been commited at a public-house in the Hay-
market while the prisoner had pleaded guilty from his own
feelings, and had since made every compensation possible
to the prosecutor. In this assault he had been encouraged
by menliigh in rank and station, who were Eli- worse than he;
by Noblemen and Gentlemen who had not in the least as-
sisted him in making compensation to the prosecutor.
After having got him into this scrape, the prisoner, ever
since the assault, had done everything in his power to re-
medy the mischief he had occasioned. He therefore
trusted that he wonld receive the merciful consideration of
the Court.

Mr. DOANE said that he attended for the prosecution.
The prisoner, in a drunken frolic, having been encouraged
by Lord Waldegrave, and other low company with him;
had assaulted the prosecutor and dislocated his should: r.
The prisoner was a pugilist, and he did not mention this
as against the prisoner, because he believed that since the
rural magistracy had put down pugilism, stabbing had in-
creased. The prosecutor had had overtures made to him
to compromise the charge, which he had refused to do. He
thought the Court should be made acquainted with these
cirearnstances.

The CUAIRMAN—SamueI Evans, you have, in pleading
guilty, perhaps acted with as much sagacity as you could
act. Knowing that you were possessed of great bodily
power, you chose for the amusement of yourself and your
companions to exercise that power in assaulting a police
officer. You put his life and body in danger, and you must
abide by the consequences of your act. The only miti.
gating circumstance is, that perhaps you did not intend to
do the injury that you have done. The sentence of the
Court is, that you be imprisoned for three calendar months.
Mr. BALLANTYNE applied to have the estrcat taken off
the prisoner's recognizances.
The COURT would consider of it.

Mary Brown was charged with stealing one shirt, one
sheet, and two towels, the goods of S. Lumbers. Mrs.
Lumbers lives in Ryder• court, Ryder-street, had a sheet,
shirt, and two towels, hanging out in her yard ; she put
them up safe in the evening, and missed them the next
morning. Saw them afterwards in the possession of the
policeman.

• Policeman 138 C, met the prisoner carrying the linen
ploinced, and stopped her.
Mrs. Lumbers swore to the linen being produced as her
property.

The 'prisoner, being called on for her defence, said she
was destitute and had three children.

The CHAIRMAN summed up, and the Jury returned a
verdict of Guilty. The Chairman, in passing sentence of
six months' imprisonment and hard labour, told the pri-
soner she was an old offender, and if she came there again
she would he sent abroad.

Thomas Homan was indicted for stealing two pounds
and a half of bacon, the property of Thomas Bourne.
The prosecutor saw the prisoner and another boy steal
the bacon from his shop and seized the prisoner, who im-
mediately dropped the bacon.
The prisoner in his defence said the other boy bad com-
mitted the theft.

The prisoner's brother was called to speak to his cha.
racter.

The CHAIRMAN haring summed up,
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Sentence, six month's imprisonment and hard labour.

The prisoner had previously been before the Court.
George Willis was charged with stealing certain pewter
pots, the property of John Minte.
Alfred Robinson saw the prisoner in the act of stealing
a pot in St. James's•street, and gave him into custody,
when other pots were found on him.
The policeman who took him into custody produced the
pots found on him.
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John Minte swore to certain of the pots as his property.
The prisoner said that he was obliged to walk the streets
through distress, and picked up the pot in a doorway.
Verdict —G uilty.
The prisoner was again indicted for stealing a pewter
pot, the property of James Nicholls.
The evidence was the same as in the last case. Mr.
Nicholls identified the pots as his property, and the Jury
found the prisoner guilty. lie was also convicted of steal-
ing a third pot, the property of W. Verey.
The CHAIRMAN sentenced the prisoner to three months
imprisonment and hard labour on each indictment.
Thomas Collings was indicted for stealing a pewter pot,
the property of Richard Edwards.
Wiliam Horseman, a Mendicity constable, produced a pot
which he had found upon the prisoner.
Richard Edwards identified the pot as his property.
The prisoner made no defence, and the jury returned a
verdict of Guilty,; and, at the same time, expressed their
decided opinion as to the ill effects produced by house-
keepers leaving the pots outside their doors.
The CHAIRMAN sentenced the prisoner, who had already
been in prison six weeks, to two months imprisonment and
hard labour.

William Nott was indicted for stealing 51bs. of beef,
the property of Thomas Cowell, a butcher of Knightsiridge.
The policemen who took the prisoner into custody with
the beef in his possession, deposed to the prisoner's having
confessed that he had taken the boef from the prosecutor's
shop.
The prosecutor had not missed the beef.

The prisoner offered no defence.
Th.! Jury returned a verdict of Guilty ; and he was sen
tented to two months' imprisonment and hard labour.

Samuel Saunders, an.old man, b 7 years of age, was
indicted for stealing a pewter pot, the property of John
Attwood, a publican, in Ficcadilly.
Isaac Hurst, a servant of the prosecutor's, met the pri-
soner coming out of his master's tap-room, found the pot
on him, and gave him in charge.
The policeman who took him into custody produced
the pot.
The prisoner said he was a porter, and that he took the
pot for the purpose of fetching some milk, and that he
intended to return it.

Two witnesses, one of whom had known the prisoner
fourteen years, gave him a most excellent character.
The Jury found him Guilty.
The prisoner was again indicted for stealing a pewter
pot, the property of William Dawson. The pot had been
found on him when he was taken into custody on the last
charge. His defence was, that he had picked it up in the
street.--'Fhe Jury found him Guilty, and he was sentenced
to three months' imprisonment and hard labour on each
indictment.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire,
and Lady Charlotte Hill, intend coming to town from
Elsthamptstead-park, for the season, on Saturday next.
The Earl and Countess of Hillsborough, Hon. Cap-
tain and Lady Mary Hood, Viscount Hawarden, the Hon.
Miss Maude, and a distinguished circle, are at present as-
sembled at the above elegant seat.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Bute, who are
sojourning at Bognor, are not expected to return to town
until the week after next.

FRIGHTFUL DEATH FROM MACHINERY.-
Yesterday an inquest was held at the London Hospital,
before Mr. Baker, the Coroner, on view of the remains of
John Cosbern, aged 34 years. Thomas Breeze stated
that he was foreman to Messrs. Briggs and Gardner, seed-
crushers, in Primrose-street, Bishopsg,ate-street, in whose
employment the deceased also lived as waggoner. On
Wednesday last, about eleven in the forenoon, while in the
lower part of the premises of his employer, he heard the
loud groans of the deceased, who sass in the loft over his
head, which caused him instantly to run to his assistance,
and on reaching the spot he found him lying on a shaft
which was turned by a steam-engine, and by which a chaff-
cutting machine on the hay. loft was occasionally set in
motion to cut up food for the horses. The deceased, who,
though writhing it, the greatest possible agony, was per-
fectly sensible at the time, told him (witness), " that while
in the act of placing the cat-gut from the shaft to a wheel
by which the chaff-cutter was put in motion his smock
frock got entangled in the former, and rolled him round
between it and the wall"—a space of only twenty-two
inches, so that both his legs were smashed in different places
and several of his ribs fractured. Waite thus rolled about
on the shaft his legs touched a wire which communicated
with a bell that had been constructed and placed under-
neath the loft merely to give warning in case of accident,
and to enable the engineer on its being rung to throw the
shaft out of play so as to stop it, and the engineer on hear-
hie it ring at once stopped it. The deceased was taken
off the wheel and conveyed to the London Hospital, where
he afterwards died. The witness added that the shaft in
question was perfectly smooth, and he was at a loss to ac-
count how the smock frock of the deceased could have got
entangled in it- Verdict—" Accidental death."
SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF A Boy.-Yesterdav
considerable excitement prevailed in the neighbourhood of
Cato-street, Edgware-road, in consequence of the sudden
death of a boy, about ten years of age, named John
Sullivan, residing with his parents in the above street.
It appeared that the boy went to school in the morning in
perfect health, and returned home to his dinner. He had
not been there long before he complained of being sick
and ill. He became so bad that it was deemed advisable
to send for medical aid. A surgeon in the neighbourhood
attended and wanted to bleed him, but the mother would
not consent under any circumstances, to such a proceed-
ing,a nd the poor bey expired in a short time after. In•
formation had been sent to the Coroner, and an inquest
will be held on the body this day.

EVENING EDITION.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1839.

ITEDNI3DAY.
Subscription Plate of 501. : for three years old, 7st ; four
years, Est, 71b, ; and five years, 9.it. T. Y. C.
Lord Stradbroke's Fifer, 5 years
Mr. Rayner's Minima, 3 yrs.—
Mr. Howe's Seamander, 3 yr.
2to 1 on Minima. Won by two lengths.
The Column Stakes of 50 sews. each, h. ft. ;:for three-]ear
old colts, Bst 71b. ; and fillies, Bst. 41b. ; those by untried
stallions,or out of untried mares, allowed 3lbs, ; if both, slbs.
(20 Subs.)
Duke of Portland's f. by Tiresias (m. untried) (Nat.) I
Mr. Batson's c. Boother to PI-nipo, by Emilius ............
Lord Exeter's Bosphorus, by Reveller (m. untried) ...... ..• 3
Lord Exeter's c. by Reveller
Mr. Cooke's ch f. Romaike, by Rowton (h. untried).. 5
Betting-7 to 4on Souvenir, 4to 1 asst Bosphorus, and 4
to 1 agst Brother to Plenipo. Won by half a length.
Mr. Thornhill's b. c. Ephemeron received forfeit from Lord
Suffield's Sphynx ; Bst. 71b. each. R.M. 20, h. ft.
Lord Suffield's b. f. Alms asst Colonel Anson's b. f. N's"
narde ; Ist. 71b. aach. A.F. 200, h. ft. Off by consent.
Tuesday Night.
ARRIVALS.—Dukes of Portland and Rutland, Marquis of
Exeter ; Lords Jersey, Verulam, Lichfield, Albemarle, Godol-
phin, S. Osborne, G. H. Bentinek, Stradbroke, J. Fitzroy, C.
Manners, and Villiers ; Sir D. Baird, S. Graham, and J. Shel-
ley ; Lady Chesterfield ; Hons. General Grosvenor, G. Anon
(and Lady), G. S. Byng„J. Villiers, Villiers, Grimston,
H. Ron., W. Rous, and W. Fitzroy ; Colonel Peel; Me""'
C. (and Mrs.) Wilson, Thornhill, Thornhill, jun., Portman,
Etwa.ll, 111. P., Watts, Bowes, M.P., Gardnor, Payne, Gre-
vale, Clive, Cotterell, Delme Radcliffe, Hunter, Crommelifi,
Worrell, Foulis, J. Bayly, Dolphin, Irby, Sloane Stanley,
Hawker, Newton, Newton. jun., &c.
The weather from an early hour this morning was miserable
in the extreme ; a strong easterly wind, with alternate storms
of snow, hail, and rain ; fortunately a change, favourable for the
sport, took place about noon, but the wind was consistently
violent and cold to the close of the day ; as a natural consequence
the heath was not very numerously attended.
The following are additional details of the races decided
Oatlands.--Caravan, now under new and more fortunate Co-
lours, made play at a good pace from beginning to end, and won
by ten lengths. I 'wish-you-may-get-it seconded him through'
eut, and might, had it been prudent, have made the finish &
little nearer ; but Chapple, on finding at the Duke's Stand that
the game was fairly lost, eased her in the run to. Daedalus and
Caroline Elvina were beaten off a long way. I-wish-you-mar
get it was van'd part of the way home the same afternoon.
Tuesday's Riddlesworth.-7 to 2on Ilderim. The Leeway
filly made play at her best pace to the bushes, where Ilderim,,
who had been second to her, went up, took a decided lead, ana
won in a canter by three lengths. The Priam filly was "no-
where."
100 SOlr. Stakes.—The Advance colt cut out all the work to
the cords, where Joanna and Boa challenged. A tolerably
good race home ended in Joanna winning by a length, and the
other two making a dead heat for second place. Boz seemed
very much inclined to run out towards the end.
100 Soy. Sweepstakes.—A slow-run race, but all in favour
of Flambeau, who made all the play, and won easily by three
lengths.