The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1.863,

traced by the Federals, elicited from Mr, Cobden the same
public reprehension which he has justly lavished upon a
not dissimilar enormity perpetrated elsewhere.

EAST TENNESSEE.
The menacing 'attitude of the four antagonistic armies
which occupy East Tennessee—the Switzerland, as it is
called, of the Confederacy—is still maintained, and nothing
more is known than that General Buckner has withdrawn
his forces westward, and occupied a position nearer to
General Bragg, whereby he has left Knoxville open to the
Federals. Whether the Federals have availed themselves
of the opening thus offered to them at Knoxville I am not
in a position positively to state, but the impression here is
that such a movement would not be to their advantage.
The difficulties of General Rosecraus, operating as he now
is at a distance of 100 miles from his base, and in mountains
which greatly resemble the Jura range, must necessarily be
excessive. With the eyes of the Confederacy steadfastly
fixed, as they are at this moment upon Eastern Tennessee,
it is not believed there is danger in that quarter. Vague
threats of danger to Mobile from a portion of General
Grant's army are heard at intervals; but Mobile can cer-
tainly, if justice is done to it, take care of itself. Mean•
while, along the Mississippi, upon both banks, active em-
ployment for General Grant will not be Wanting. Rumours
of considerable activity on the part of General Pr in
Arkansas, of the organisation of endless guerilla light bat-
teries on both sides of the great river, of revived hopefulness
in the State of Mississippi, of an unabated spirit of resist-
ance in every corner of the south-west, might well shake
the confidence of a mightier power than is wielded by the
Federals, if reason or jad gent had any influence upon
their counsels. Nor, putting aside the stubborn resistance
of Charleston, have the Federals had much lately to encou-
rage them elsewhere. In Western Virginia a warm en-
gagement in the neighbourhood of the White Sulphur
Springs, between a force of 2,000 to 3,000 Confederates
under General Sam Jones, and a not dissimilar force of
Federals under General Averill, resulted on August Wand
27 in the unmistakable defeat of the latter. The details of
the capture by Captain Wood of two Federal steam-vessels
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subjects seem to occupy the most prominent places. Pro-
fessor
Archer, the active local secretary of the meeting, and
the head of the Edinburgh Industrial Museum, contributes
a paper on "the Industrial Features of Edinburgh.'' The
recent progress and present condition of trades and manu-
factures of various districts of Scotland form the subjects of
numerous papers likely to be of considerable interest,
In the other division of this department discussions are
likely to arise on various points of international law,
the importance of which is being daily demonstrated by
the course of public events. We may mention a paper by
Mr. James Anderson, Q C., likely to deal with several of
these points ; and also one by Mr. R. D. Chalmers on the
capture during war of private property at sea. An interna-
tional patent law, an international decimal system, and an
international congress and tribunal for the prevention of
war, form the subjects of papers which have been contri-
buted to this department.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—Sept. 24.

OLD COURT.

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an unprotected infant, of which you were the mother, and
whatever may have been the real facts of the case there was
not sufficient evidence to satisfy the minds of the jury, and
they acquitted you of that offence. You were afterwards
tried for an assault upon the child, and of that you were
found guilty. It is plain that there was a succession of bar-
barous and inhuman acts on your part which I do not say
caused the child's death, but which undoubtedly led to and
accelerated it. It is impossible to pass over an offence of so
grievous a nature. I can well conceive the sufferings you
have endured since the commission of this offence, and I
know that yon have been treated by the authorities with a
humanity which you failed to show towards the infant
whose death you have unquestionably hastened. The sen-
fence which I feel it my duty to pronounce on you is that
you be imprisoned for 18 calendar months.
Earlier in the day Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Ribton, the pri-
soner's counsel, made an earnest appeal to the judge to re-
spite the sentence until after her confinement, she being now
pregnant. They had been induced, they said, to make that
application in order to save her the unspeakable distress of
mind consequent upon giving birth to a child in a gaol, and
to prevent the stigma that would attach to the infant itself
from that circumstance during life.
Mr. Orridge, counsel for the prosecution, said he had been
instructed by the parish authorities from a sense of duty, and
he left the latter entirely in his lordship's hands, having no
desire to press unduly on the prisoner.
Mr. Justice Byles said he had consulted the principal offi-
cers of the court, and had not found there was any prece-
dent for such a course as had been suggested. Further than
that, he had spoken to the surgeon of the gaol, and knew
when her accouchement might be expected to take place.

SECOND COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
Wm. Pottage, 20, clerk, pleaded guilty to indictments
charging him with feloniously forging upon a certain bill
of exchange, for the payment of money, the acceptance of
one Wm. Bew, with intent to defraud, and also with felo-
niously forging upon two bills of exchange the endorsement
of John Henry Weston and Edward Weston, with intent

to defraud. -
Mr. Poland, who appeared for the prosecution, said the
charge against the prisoner as that of having forged bills
of exchange, and the circumstances were these :—The pri-
soner went some time in the present year to a loan office
kept by a Mr. Welfare and gave a bill for £5O, which pur-
ported to have been drawn by Mr. Henry Weston and en-
dorsed by himself. That bill was discounted by Mr. Wel-
fare. When it bec?..me due the prisoner went to Mr. Wel-
fare and asked him to allow it to stand over. This was
refused, and then the prisoner brought another bill, drawn
by himself, and purporting to bo accepted by Mr. Bew, and
with the proceeds of the second bill he paid off the £5O upon
the first. He was asked to get the second bill endorsed by
Mr. Weston also. He took it away, brought it back with
the name of Mr. Weston endorsed under that of Mr. Bew,
and upon subsequent inquiry it was ascertained that both
these signatures were forgeries. The first bill, in fact, was
forged as well ae the second. Though this was the serious
nature of the prisoner's offence, yet Mr. Welfare, who had
been acquainted with him for some years, was anxious, as
far as he could, to recommend him to the merciful conside•

ration of the Court,
Mr. Sleigh, who was engaged for the defenee, expressed
his belief that the case was one entitled to merciful onside-
ration. The unhappy young man at the bar was a person of
respectability who at one time held a good position in
society. He unfortunately became a partner with a gentle-
man ; that partnership was dissolved ; he was unable to
obtain a settlement, and he was reduced in consequence to
the very verge of destitution. Under his (the learned
counsel's) instructions he had very reluctantly pleaded
guilty, because he alleged that he had so intention to de-
fraud at the time he negotiated the bill transactions with
Mr. 'Welfare. Those who had known him for years would
bear testimony that he had always been an honourable young
man. Still, there was no doubt that in this instance he had
violated the law, but, after all, his offence did not come
under the category ot a commercial forgery.
Witnesses to character having been examined,
The Recorder passed sentence. Ile observed that there
were circumstances connected with the case which induced
him not to inflict a harsh punishment, although the forging
of bills in a great commercial country like England was de-
serving of penal servitude. As it was, he believed the jus-
tice of the case would be met by sentencing the prisoner to
18 calendar
be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for

months.
John Smith, 24, sawyer, and Joseph Pemberthy, barge-
men, were indicted for stealing one cask and 50 gallons of
turpentine, the property of Sir Charles Price and others
and Joseph Charles Harrison, oilman, Queenhithe, was in,
dieted for receiving the same, well knowing them to have
been stolen.
Mr. Giffard and Mr. Starling conducted the case for the
prosecution ; Mr. Sergeant Parry and Mr. F. 11. Lewis de-
fended Harrison ; and Mr. Ribton defended Smith. Pem-
berthy was undefended.
It appeared from the statement of Counsel and the evi-
dence in the case that on the 24th of June last a quantity
of goods, among others a cask of French turpentine, was
ordered to be conveyed from the premises of Sir Ralph
Charles Price, at Elariars-bridge,
in
Navigation Company s vessel down the river. The cask
was lowered with the other goods into a lighter. It weighed
,ekf
4 cwt., and as it appeared to be lying one of the Steam
safe is the lighter it
was not considered necessary that it should be watched. On
the 25th of Juno it had disappeared. It was stolen on the
night of the 24th or early on the morning of the 25th.
Shortly after the robbery was effected the prisoners Smith
and Pemberthy were found dealing with the property, sell-
ing it and receiving money for it. They were seen lurking
about in the neighbourhood of the wharf where the lighter
was moored. The cage against Harrison differed entirely
from that against the other two prisoners. His offence con-
sisted in receiving the property with a knowledge that it
had been stolen. He carried on business as an oil and colour
man in Queenhithe, somewhere opposite the residence of
the Lord Mayor. IS concern was not very extensive, as
was proved by the circumstance that he only employed a
boy in his office. In consequence of information received
by the police the officers visited his premises and found the
cask of turpentine in his cellar. Persons passing along the
street could see the end of the cask for several days after it
was received, when another cask containing petroleum was
placed over it; but it was contended that this visibility did
not tell in favour of the prisoner, inasmuch as the identifi-
cation of the cask from the footpath was a matter of utter
impossibility. It was alleged by the learned counsel, but
the statement was not afterwards borne out in evidence,
that Harrison said he had in the first instance given £l6 for
the cask, and afterwards that he had paid only £l2 10s. for
it, the real value being £25 ; and the question of his guilt
turned mainly upon the question as to the parties from
whom he had purchased it. The counsel for the prosecu-
tion relied upon the fact that he was Alleged to have bought
it from the other two prisoners, who were known to be
acting as labourers about the docks, and for a sum of money
Y about half its actual value, for proof
amounting to
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purchased it with a knowledge that it
bad been dishonestly obtained.
At the close of the case for the prosecution
Mr. Ribton addressed the jury on the part of Smith,
submitting that there was nothing approaching to evidence,
certainly not sufficient to warrant them in finding him
guilty.
He then called witnesses to character.
Mr. Sergeant Parry submitted that no evidence what-
ever had been adduced in support of the charge against
Harrison.
The Recorder, having carefully looked over his notes,
agreed in opinion with the learned sei ieaut. On the con-
trary, he said that the opening statement of the learned
counsel for the prosecution was unsupported by the testi-
mony of the witnesses, because it now appeared that the
prisoner never had made any declaration to the effect that
he purchased the cask either for £l6 or for £l2 10s.
Mr. Sergeant Parry el,served that there were several per-
sons in court who had known llarrison all his life, and who
were willing to bear testimony that he had sustained through-
out a most irreproachable character. Tho Lord Mayor, for
instance, was ready to come forward and give evidence to
that effect.
The Recorder—lf it had been proved that he knew the
exact position in life of the other two prisoners, from whom
he is said to have made the purchase, it would have made a
great difference in the case.
Mr. Sergeant Parry—But there is no evidence that he
knew anything whatever about them.
The Recorder—Undoubtedly there is not.
Under the direction of the Court a verdict of Not Guilty
is the case of Harrison was here taken, and the prisoner left
the court with his friends.
The other two primers were found Guilty of the rob-
bery, and several previous convictions were proved against
Pemberthy.
The Recorder senten3ed Pemberthy to sis, and Smith to
five years' penal servitude.
Claude Cele, 16, a ofxyant, was indicted for felonieudY

setting fire to a rick of stubble, the property of Wm. Gid-
dinge, of Smith Minnie.
At the time of the fire the prisoner was discovered at
about 20 yards' distance from the rick. At first be denied
that he was the incendiary, and endeavoured to throw the
blame upon a man with a straw hat who was seen to cross
the fields, but subsequently he acknowledged the offence,
and said he had been driven by the force of the pangs of
hunger to consume the property. When apprehended he
requested the officer not to let his father know anything
about hie being concerned in so disgraceful a transaction.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The Recorder asked in what capacity as a servant the
prisoner had hitherto acted?
Prisoner—As a gentleman's page.
The Recorder thought the case a strange one, and inti-
mated that some inquiries would be made into the prisoner's
circumstances and family connections before sentence was
pronounced. He then respited the judgment until next ses-