The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-11 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—Iarch 10.

The March general sessions of the peace for the
county of Middlesex commenced yesterday morn-
ing, at the Court-house, on Clerkenwell-green,
before Mr. Bodkin, assistant-judge ; Mr. Payne,
deputy; Mr. Pownall, chairman, and bench of
magistrates.
The first edition of the calendar contains the
names of 119 prisoners for trial, of whom 21 are
charged with misdemeanour, the rest with felony.
The Assistant-Judge delivered the usual charge
to the grand jury, and remarked that the heavy
state of the calendar was attributable to the cir-
cumstance of a longer period than usual having
intervened since the last session.
George Dixey, alias Simmons, 21, and John
West, alias Leary, 19, were indicted for stealing
two gas burners, value 10s., the property of John
Collins, from a building. They pleaded guilty.
Sergeants White and Boden, detectives, proved
that the prisoners were well known as convicted
thieves, and the associates of equally bad characters.
The Assistant-Judge sentenced them each to
three years' penal servitude.
Leary was a trainer of young thieves, Dixey was
a discharged soldier, and had only been convicted
once. The offence they committed was cutting
down the gas fittings of a public-house in Oxford-
mews, Paddington.
Edward Henry, 59, was indicted for stealing, by
means of a false key, a box, two ear-rings, and
other articles, the property of Lewis Pugh. He
pleaded guilty, and was recognised by Locker, the
prison officer, and by others in court, as an old
thief, his last sentence, to which a heavy term was
attached, being for wrenching bell-handles and bell-
wires from gentlemen's residences. He was sen-
tenced to penal servitude for three years. .
William Samuel Mays, 63, clerk, was indicted
for feloniously embezzling three several sums of
money received by him on account of Thomas Cox,
his master. He pleaded guilty.
Mr. Ribton, for the prisoner, addressed the court
in mitigation of punishment on account of the pri-
soner's long service with the prosecutor—sixteen
years and upwards—and though he had felt it to
be his duty to prosecute, there was every desire that
the prisoner should be recommended to mercy.
Mr. F. H. Lewis, for the prosecution, said he con-
curred in what his learned friend had said, and
joined in the recommendation to mercy on account of
the prisoner's age; but still it was his duty to in-
form the court that although .the sums named in
the indictment were comparatively small, the total
defalcation was near upon £6OO. The prosecutor
was the church furniture manufacturer, whose busi-
ness was carried on in Southampton-street, Covent-
garden, and the prisoner during a long period had
been receiving money, not accounting for it, and
falsifying the books. It was stated that the pri-
soner had spent the money in a very disreputable
manner.

His lordship, after a few remarks upon the serious
nature of the offence, sentenced the prisoner to two
years' hard labour. .
John Durant, 21, shoemaker, was indicted for
stealing a watch, the property of Alfred Bennett,
from his person.
Mr. Platt prosecuted; Mr. Warton defended.
This was an ordinary case of robbery in the street.
The prisoner went up to the prosecutor and snapped
his watch from the guard chain, and got away for
the time, but the prosecutor knew him personally,
and he was taken on a description given of him.
The prosecutor said he could pick him out of 500
others.

Mr. Warton said he could 'not contend against
the evidence of the prosecutor, and the prisoner was
found guilty, and former convictions were proved.
He was sentenced to penal servitude for six years.
William Knibbs, 23, was indicted for stealing two
pewter pots, the property of Charles Wright, land-
lord of the Horse and Groom, Curtain-road, Shore-
ditch.

He pleaded guilty.
The prosecutor said he had lost five dozen pots in
a short period, and police-constable Deeble stated
that the prisoner had been convicted before, and
belonged to a gang of makers of counterfeit money,
for whose purposes these pots were stolen.
His lordship said this was an offence of a most
mischievous character in every respect, and sen-
tenced the prisoner to three years' penal servitude.

THE MURDER. IN RATCLIFF.—RESPITE OF TILE
CULPRIT.—The :public are aware that a wretched sailor
lad, named Patrick Devereux, was convicted on Wednes-
day last, at the Central Criminal Court, of the murder of a
crimp in Itateliff-highway, under very painful circum-
stances. lie had been robbed of all he possessed and
turned into the street, and, in a moment of uncontrollable
excitement at the treatment he had received, he inflicted
the fatal injury for which he was sentenced to (lie. The
case excited the greatest sympathy in all who heard it, and
the jury strongly recommended the unhappy lad to mercy;
and Mr. Baron Martin, who tried him, said that he
should at once forward the recommendation to the proper
quarter, and intimated that he should also give it his sup-
port. It is satisfactory to state that the wretched lad
has been relieved from the capital punishment, and that
yesterday a communication was received by the Sheriffs
directing that he should be respited during her Majesty's
pleasure.
The Electric _Light is now produced by the latent but im-
mense force of the Magnet, precisely similar to that employed
in Herring's magnetic brushes. Dr. nassall says," I regard
them as the most perfect brushes hitherto made, as respects
their mechanical construction and their magneticai action."
They are the remedy for grey hair, neuralgia, rheumatism,
N.B.—Counterfeits are being made. Offices, 32, Basing-
hall-street,
Loudon,

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EXECUTION OF I)&111OLLAVD.

ilumollard, whose horrible murders and violeions
of his victims, mostly young women in search 01
service, have been fully reported, paid the penalty,'
of his crimes at the guillotine on Saturday last. lie
was informed at four on Friday afternoon that the
Court of Cassation had rejected his appeal, and that
he would be executed on Saturday morning, Ile
answered quite coolly, "As well to-morrow
later." The chaplain of the prison and the cure (3
Bourg came to visit him a few minutes afterwart;
and he promised them that he would " confess,',
before he died. That expression must be understood
as referring to the sacrament of confession according
to the Romish Church, and not to any public rew
lation of his crimes ; for all the accounts confirm the
telegraphic statement that he made none. At 8115
o'clock his irons were struck off, and he Bennie."
greatly pleased at this relief. He asked to see ht
wife, whom he had hitherto refused to see, to?'
supper with her in the presence of the chaplag,
and was formally reconciled. He spoke to her veil
sensibly, and advised her, if she should obtain
pardon, not to go back to her old home, because she
would be pointed at. When the time came Or,
setting out for the place of execution, he was allowed
to change the prison dress for his own clothes.
ge
picked out the worst for his own wear, and Ph
aside the others, saying they were for his wife. A''
eleven o'clock he left the Bourg prison in a cart,
spread with straw, and, accompanied by the chaPci
lain and two gendarmes, travelled through the det,
of the night, arriving at Montluel at four in Viv
morning. During the journey his conversatio
turned upon the most trivial subjects. He calculated
distances, spoke a good deal of his furniture, and
said that somebody at Dagueux, whose name he
mentioned, owed him several days' work, which
he reckoned up as amounting to 27f. 013 obset:
ving the crowd as he passed through ChAlan3°l3l3
he said, " They are very curious to see me we'a
On arriving at Montluel he was placed in
room prepared for him at the Hotel de Ville,
the lock-up house being out of order. His fir!t
request was to have some fire to warm
feet. A cup of coffee and a glass of sherry were
then given him, which he sipped with much relish,
taking especial care to melt the sugar. On the
cure of Montluel being presented to him, he said
"I know I am very guilty for having followed haa
advice, but I pay for others." After this he was
alone for nearly an hour and a half with the erg'
and the chaplain, and whatever confession he mad•
must have been at this interview. At six &ell
the justice of the peace who had arrested him, an
who was charged with the direction of the ever
tion, informed the two priests that the hour was
approaching. approaching. He afterwards pressed Dumollarii
with many questions, urging him to make auf
confession, but the latter replied that he had 13°:,
thing more to say, and that if he had had any
declaration to make he should not have waited for
that echeance—a mercantile term, signifying the
moment at which a bill is due. He repeated fff:
quently, " I pay for others." He remained VIP'
firm until the executioners made the fatal toilette.;
Then it was observed that his nerves seemed to fill'
him a little. He, however, insisted on walking t°
the scaffold, although a carriage was in readineoo'
His waistcoat was thrown over his shoulders to
keep him warm. He mounted the steps of the
scaffold with assistance, embraced the chaplain'
helped the executioner to take off his coat, and--0°
was over. According to one account there wer°
shouts resembling hurrahs ainong the crowd'
Dumollard's head was sent to the Medical SOW'
of Lyons.

COUNTRY MAIMEI S.

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COLCHESTER—MARM 8.
To-day a better supply of wheat, and late prices nod
but trade rather slow. Fine barley maintains its price,l
inferior sorts rather lower. Beans and peas were both 1"
favour of the buyer.
Wheat, white 548
red ..46s
Barley • 36s
Oats

68s Beans,Mazagan 36s
64s middle & smalf 40s
42s Peas, white 3& 15,;
—s gray 380

RD—MARcu 7.
.day, with a very dull market
t week's rates. Spring e°l/1

Peas, Partridge- 37s 441:
White 39s
Boiling ••• 4ls 41A;
Dun 36s 4u;
Ditto new .. --s ""'"
Beans, Tick, old 36s 410
new 350 cgs
Harrow Ticks 370 o;
new 37s
Mazagan 320 1"'"