The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-08 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

FELONY AND ADULTERY.— William Watson, a journey-
man tailor, aged 28, was indicted on Thursday for stealing
two shirts, two handkerchiefs, a shawl, a snuff box, and a
tobacco stopper, the property of James Cleringbold.
Mr. CLARKSON stated the case for the prosecution, the
facts connected with which he said were peculiar and el:s.
tressing.
Mr. Cleringbold stated that he liresathNisiv:si.lietilunts);,llt
end-road, and is retired from business. The priso
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been
on
since. He has been married to his wife (a' you;,,
woman) six 3ears. On the 24th of February be left
his borne for an hour in the evening, his is ire being at
home, but the prisoner was notaipnathreel
,Ila°nuc;e tento his
v c' d
ledge. When he returned lie found she had eloped, an
taken away all his best wearing p
s
in money; also articles belonging to his own warcirche.
He procured the assistance of a police-otlicer, and went in
search of his fugitive wife. After going to her parents he
seat to other places. At the hour of midnight he went to
the Bull and Mouth Inn, 'and was shown a bed-room, to
which " a gentleman and lady" had retired a few -hours
before. The chamber door, which was locked in-
side, was broken open, when his wife jumped mit
of bed in her night dreses, and the prisoner lay " snugly
tucked up." A search was commenced, when, amo.,g
other thing:, there were two duplicates relating to shirts
found in his wife's pocket. She said, in the prisoner's
hearing, that he pledged them. The only property of Ids
found in the prisoner's pocket was a snuff-box and a to-
bacco-st3pper, both of which were valued at fi‘c peixe.
Some of the other articles were found in the roorn, Lat
they were mixed up with her own apparel.
The Jury consulted for
the following verdict
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DEATH FROM TIIE USE OF JOYCE'S STOVE,
—On Tuesday an inquest was held in ‘Vappir g on the
body of William Malcolm, a seaman on board the London
a Dundee steam.vessel, now lying in the river, whr se
death, it was alleged, had resulted from tkc U3C of Joye,.rs
patent stove. From the evidence it appeared that the
deceased, who was twenty-three years of age, and a strorg
healthy man, had on Monday night at ten o'clock gone to
sleep in, a cabin in which one of Joyce 'k stoves vr as bur,.
ing. The cabin was eight feet long, six feet with., and
six feet bigh, and had no aperture whatever in it. At
three o'clock in the morning deceased was found in a state
of stupor, and died shortly after. On the door GE ti
cabin being opened, a strong sulphurcous smell vvas per_
ceivable. The stove had been removed from a large
c rhin. A medical gentleman and several other witness.,
attributed the unfortunate man's death to the noxti:
vapours given cut by the prepared fuel which was burnir,
in the stove. Toe Jury returned a verdict that
Malcolm was suffocated by breathing the sulphur alid
noxious vapour arising from the stove in the cabin in
which he was sleeping.
The Allgemeine Zeitung states positively
all reports in circulation relative to the sentence said t.)
have been passed on the Archbishop of Posen are in re
conjecture. The sentence, Whatever its nature may I e
has been transmitted to the King for his approval, atoi
e meantime bas been kept a profound secret by the Judi -
VICE-REGAL HoUsEHOLD.—We have the
tification to announco that the LoridridiyLoiefuttielieraGabra'.;sn-a
pointed Matthew Fortescue, nepihse:vp,
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Dublin Post. Lieutenant.

Our Paris htters repeat that very i:nportant ne-
gotiations were on foot respecting Spain, and that the i►n-
pression that the civil war was about to terminate speedily
oVtli becoming stronger daily,