The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-17 00:00:00

The Robbery

LITERATURE.

Impressions of Life at Home and Abroad. By Lieut.-
Colonel Lord Eustace Cecil. One vol., pp. 277.

Hurst and Blackett.

These Impressions of Life, in various aspects and
in very different scenes, first appeared in a periodical,
and are well worthy of being now reprinted in a
collected form. Lord Eustace Cecil has been no
inattentive observer of men and manners wherever
fortune may have directed his steps. His op-
portunities for observation, moreover, have
been singularly extensive, witness the sub-
jects of some of these " Impressions." Beginning
with " a:Fortnight in Hayti, " in which we obtain
a vivid glimpse of the dark republic on the very
morrow of the revolution, we are conducted in " a
ride in Barbary," on a brief visit to Tangiers, where
we are told "Victoria-street, Rue Louis Napoleon,
and Calle de la Reina Isabella, reciprocate in close
proximity the entente cordiale of their respective
sovereigns." We next investigate " Prison Life in
Paris," and then, in company with an experienced
police detective of either nation, explore the mys-
teries of " After Dark in New York," and the
secret horrors of the " Dens of London." Some of
the chapters of this book, in which education and
the treatment of criminals and the different systems
of Convict Discipline in England and France are
earnestly considered, are well worthy of the atten-
tive perusal of the political moralist and the phil-
anthropist. The last article, "On the Future
Prospects of Younger Sons," is remarkable as being
written by one of themselves, and the levelling views
which it advocates will startle not a few of those
who cling to privileges and penalties of high birth.

The Autographic Mirror. Vol. 11. Lithographed
by Vincent Brooks. Office, 13, Burleigh-street,

Strand.

Almost—to apply Cassio's panegyric—" a more
excellent vol. than t'other !" Not meaning it, by
any means, invidiously, we had all but dubbed it
—Second Best! It is, unquestionably, from begin-
ning to end, very readable, very curious—full of
interest and full of character. But, for that matter,
how possibly could it have been otherwise, looking
at its contents.? Among which we observe—A note
from Mazzini, the champion of the moral dagger.
One from W. M. Thackeray to W. 8., not, of
course, the "W. B." One from Tom Campbell,
the Poet, asking (his apothecary, evidently) for
" some laxative pills." One—a back -hander in the
style of its caligraphy (like Thac'ceray's, for that
matter)—from Douglas Jerrold. A neat little
scrawl from Wm. Etty, the flesh-painter; and
another from Fanny Kemble, the actress, and
daughter, and niece, and sister of actors and
actresses greater than herself. A fac-simile is here,
again, of Thackeray's comic song of " The Three
Sailors"—really the drollest extravagance iu the
shape of a comic song that ever was penned—and
yet reputed to have been originally sung extempo-
raneously ! A billet-doux from Samuel Rogers—a
copy of verses from Thomas Moore a jeu
d'esprit from Thomas Carlyle—a capital, comi-
cal, hilarious, greeting addressed to Compton,
the comedian, by Sothern, otherwise Lord Dun-
dreary. On the same page, a letter from John Bright,
and another from Richard Cobden. An epistle
from Listz, the most marvellous of pianists, and
from Bellini, the most pathetic of composers.
Shelley, the " Poet of Poets," as the Penny Encyclo-
pedia rather extravagantly dubs him—Palmerston,
the Octogenarian Prime Minister—Denon, the
Philosopher—Cruikshank, the Caricaturist—George
Colman, the Dramatist—R. W. Elliston, the light
Comedian—these and a multitude of others are
among the contributors. Conspicuous among the
delightful contents of the volume is a capital comical
pen-and-ink sketch, and a still more capital and
a still more comical letter introducing it by Hablot
Knight Browne, better known (by how many
millions ?) as Phiz, the illustrator of Charles
Dickens and Charles Lever, and ever so many other
less celebrated contemporaries in the world of light
literature. The most portentous scrawl in the whole
volume is a foolscap page of the manuscript of
Wilkie Collins's still uncompleted serial tale of
" Armadale." Blotted—erased—and interlined
almost to distraction ; certainly, we should imagine,
to the compositors' bewilderment. Side by side,
on page 214, we have the sprawling auto-
graph of Augustus Wilby Pugin, and the
exquisite copper-plate handwriting of the late Car-
dinal Wiseman. A letter signed by Napoleon the
Great is followed by fac-similos of the autographs of
his princes, marshals, and generals. Talma and
Sarah Siddons, Nelson and Dundonald, are appro-
priately placed in juxtaposition. Here on one side
of a leaf is Victor Hugo—here, upon the other,
Edmund Kean. L.E.L., Richard Doyle, Brinsley
Sheridan, Harrison Ainsworth—poet, artist, orator,
novelist—jostle one another the while in not un-
welcome confusion. And so the whole of this delect-
able volume, " ever fresh and ever new," runs out
to its close—a volume, if possible, an improvement
upon its predecessor ; certainly quite up to it in
excellence. It confirms us in the impression already
formed by us, and for that matter, too, already ex-
pressed by us, to the effect that The Autographic
Mirror is, without question, one of the most delight-
ful table-books ever published.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week,

Railways.

Miles Opened. Receipts.
.---d.-.,..-_,,..--
1865. 1864. 1865 tBB4.

Z Z
Belfast and N. Counties lOO 100 2,005 1.751
Belfast and County Down 49 49 889 783
Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 2,015 1,969
Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1211 7,553 7,14,
Caledonian
Cambrian
Cockermouth K & Penrlth .. 311 - - -
Cockermouth and Workin
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 474 40J
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 6/ 306 199
Cornwall 651 65% 2,119 2.1'6
Deeside l7 17 514 370
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,4 ; 3 1.366
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 1,989 1.765
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 91% 911 3,606 8.26
Furness, &c SU 5 , 3,434 3.236
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrik~&E.l.Jnion
Great Northern 4Ol 865 31.023 32,193
Great North of Scotland 99 99 3,318 3,107
tit. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 711 659 606
3t. Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 387% 882% 8.837 8.178
Great Western 1276 1230 76,424 7 ,414
Hull & Hornsea - 170 -
Inverness & Aberdeen June ll7l 1171 1,591 1,365
Inverness & Perth Junction 1191 1191 1,801 1,617
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,701 1.689
Kent roast 27 27 2,220 1,500
Lancashire & Yorkshire 453 403 56,540 38.526
Limerick and Ennis... 241 241 196 187
Limerick and Foynes 261 261 121 113
Llanelly 461 461 773 • 716
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5l 5 2,4 5 1,995
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 272 2671 24,549 19,40)
London, Chatham, & Dover 72} 721 7,174 6.090
Do. Metropolitan Extension 11/ lOl 3,25) 1.775
Lon., Tilbury, & Southend
ilan.,Sheffieldot Lincolnsh
Ranch. S.Jun.& Altrincham 9* 91 2,928 1.382
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 663% 641 50,767 43,598
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 262 263 5,706 5,257
Monkland 7ll 711 1,91 1,685

nonmouthsh. Rail. & Canal.. 44- 44 2,571 2,912
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 1110 1095 65,771 61,042
North London 9 9 3,930 3.522
North Staffordshire 254 251 9,133 8. 53
Rhymney l9/ 191 997 1,022
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern l3B 138 5,516 6.258
Somerset and Dorset 66 66 1,011 7 4
South Devon
South-Eastern 305 306 29,762 23,307
Taff Vale 57 57 4,975 6,395
Ulster
.....

Vale of Clwyd.
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 3)2 371
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,3.9 1,24 t
West Cornwall 274 274 1,008 1,127
W. flartlepool Harbr.& Rail 524 544 5.163 4 630
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO 10 073 883
Whitchaven Junction l3 13 9 0 1, 00
Whitchaven & Furness Jun.— 35 35 887 1,04
FonEIGN AND COLONIAL.
ikuitrlan B2B sn 35,3;7 3'A 68
Bahia and San Francisco
Belgian Eastern J unction 204 261 44 , 345
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 305 185} 4,765 2,188
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 189 6,193 4,,08
Dutch Rhenish
. •

Eastern 01 France
Eastern lieng,al
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada 1377
Great Central of Belgiu►u 295
Great Indian Peninsula 554
Great Luxembourg 134
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345
Madras.
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant (80
Northern of Canada ...
Northern of France 728
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1967
Paris and Orleans 1616
Recife and San Francisco. &c 7.74
Sends lO5
Do. Punjab, Ace 32
South Austrian, &c .... 1651
riouthern of France 623
Victoria
Welland.

West & of France ~ 101 l

67,V.0 63,434
2,571 1,614
32,5161 23,35.1
21,115 2:,4:,3
6,79
`,:0,874 15,310
5,167 4.404
623 587
11,734 10,522
6,130 5 343
19,; 58 21 3;5

- -
51,760 50.410
793 955

14
828 452
1784 123,313 130,200
1614 71,210 67,990
771 1,357 1, •69
105 1,502 2,489
32 511 257
1527 57,492 51,410
770 28,571 27,687
166 20,422 9,750
2.5 :137 191
931 150,449 .48,368
...

at Messrs. Prescotts' Bank,

Wm. Prendergast and Henry Carman were brought be-
fore the Lord Mayor at the Mansion-house yesterday, to
undergo a final examination upon the charge of stealing
£135 in silver money from a drawer in Messrs. Prescotts'
bank, on the 20th May last.
Mr. Mullens again appeared to prosecute ; Mr. F. H.
Brooks, 62, Borough-road, appeared for Prendergast; and
Mr. Perry, from Mr. Buchanan's office, appeared for Car-
man.

The evidence given at the several previous examinations
has already appeared. The facts of the case are of a some-
what singular character. On the night of the 20th of May
last Mr. Denison, one of the cashiers at Messrs. Prescotts'
bank, previous to leaving locked his drawer, which at that
time contained some bags of silver, amounting to £135, and
upon his return on Monday morning he found his drawer
had been broken open and the money was missing. The
prisoner Prendergast was employed as a porter at the bank,
and slept on the premises in a room adjoining the banking
office, and, from information received by them, Detective-
sergeants Scott and Russell apprehended him two or three
days after the robbery. He then appears to have given
them some information upon which they apprehended
Carman, and the evidence showed that Prendergast was
met by Carman on Sunday morning, the 21st of May,
after which they proceeded in a cab to a coffee-house in
Lambeth-walk, where, having breakfasted, they left a
black leather bag, which was very heavy, with the waitress
to take care of. The prisoners appeared to have.sepamted,
as Prendergast kept an appointment ho had made with a
friend on the previous evening, and while ho was with
him during the day he spent a good deal of money. The
prisoner Carman sent for the bag, and had it taken to a
public-house in Wandsworth, where it was left in charge
of the landlord at the prisoner's request, and was taken
away the next day by Carman's sister and his wife.
The bag was taken to the house of Carman's father,
where, from the evidence of his sister, the contents,
which was silver money, were taken out, and a portion
put into another bag, which was taken away to the
house of another sister, the remainder being loft at her
father's house. After the prisoner Carman was appre-
hended his father became alarmed, and sent for the parcel
of money which had been left with Carman's sister, which
was taken back to his house. Carman's father then applied
to a man named Michie, who keeps a public-house in the
Lewisham-road, to take care of a black leather bag contain-

ing money, as he was afraid the officers might search his
house and find it ; and Mrs. Carman said she had left it at
Michie's house, but whether or not it contained the whole,
or only half the money, could not be ascertained. Accord-
ing to the testimony of Carman's father it would appear
that the bag contained the whole of the money, and that
he left it at Michie's house, and had not seen it since.
Michie, on the contrary, said that it was arranged between
him and Carman, sen., to bury the money in a place called
" The Hollows." The officers having applied to Carman,
sen., for the bag, he referred them to Michie, who, on being
applied to, left them at his house, and, according to his
testimony, went to a place in the Hollows, which had been
pointed out to him by Carman, son., as the place where ho
buried it, and got a parcel which ho found buried there.
When opened by the officers it was only found, however,
to contain £5O odd. Michie declared that was all he had
dug up, and that he had not opened the parcel, while Car-
man, sen., said Michie told him he had taken out £lO.

This, however, Michie stoutly denied. The other portion
of the money was not found, it being a matter of conten-
tion between Michie and Carman as to which of them have
the remainder.

Yesterday Mr. Muliens said the other part of the money
was not found, and the only additional evidence adduced

was that of—

Detective-sergeant Russell, who said that on the morning
of Monday, 22d May, he went over Messrs. Prescotts' bank,
and examined the dust which had been swept up by the
witness Hobby, and found at the bottom of it some pieces
of wood. corresponding with the broken part of Mr. Denison's
till. He took Carman to the station-house, and was fol-
lowed by Scott, who had Prendergast. Scott asked Pren-

dergast, in Carman's hearing, whether he (Carman) was
the man who had induced him to commit the robbery, and
who met him outside on Sunday morning, and he said he
was. Scott then told Carman that the prisoner Prender-
gast said he had induced him to rob his employers, Messrs.
Prescott, of .£135 in silver, and that he took him the tools
to do it with on the Saturday previous, and that he had
met him on Sunday morning when he left the bank, he
having the money in his pockets, and that he (Carman)
took a black bag to put it in, and that they took a cab at

King William-street, when Prendergast took the money
from his pockets and put it in the bag. Carman took some
money from the bag, and they both wont to the coffee-
house in Lambeth. Witness also deposed to having re-
ceived £4 10s. from Mr. Geldhardt.
In answer to Mr. Brooks, witness said Prendergast had
assisted him throughout the case.
This completed the case, and the prisoners were com-
mitted for trial.

The Frightful Murder at Isleworth•

IsLEwoRTH, Friday.

This afternoon Mr. James Bird, coroner for West Mid-
dlesex, held an inquiry at the Royal Oak Tavern, Worton-
lane, Isleworth, into the circumstances of the murder of
Ellen Dossett by her husband, Daniel Dossett, on Wed-
nesday evening last.
It was stated that the accused still lived, and could an-
swer by signs any questions put to him, but that there was
no chance of his ultimate recovery. He has made no state-
ment as to his motive for the murder of his wife.

The jury having proceeded to view the body of the de
ceased and the paddock whero she was murdered,

Mrs. Diana Randall was called—She said she resided in
a cottage in Baker's lane, Isleworth, and she knew the de-
ceased, who was a laundress, living in the same lane.
Alfred Randall, a youth, said that he was the son of the
first witness. On Wednesday evening, a little after eight
o'clock, he was standing in the meadow next Mrs. Dos-
sett's drying-ground, in Baker's-lane. He saw the deceased
and Mr. Dossett lying on the grass in the drying-ground,
near to a place where there were clothes hanging up. Mr.
Dossett had a razor in his hand, and witness saw him cut
his throat. They were lying side by side at the time. The
man was at the woman's right-hand side. He rolled about
when ho had cut his throat, and he rolled over to his wife.
Ho then got upon his knees, and spat up blood; then, ris-
ing, he staggered over towards the hedge, along the river
Colne. There was some man there who went away when
the accused waved his hand. Dossett then jumped into the
Colno and crossed it. Witness then got into the drying-
ground, and there found Mrs. Dossett lying on her back
with her throat cut. She was dead, her throat being
dreadfully cut. Some men came into the field and re-
moved the body.

A Juror asked who the man was that was on the farther
bank of the river, and to whom the accused waved his hand.
The witness said that he did not know.
The Coroner said that after this evidence was published
most probably witnesses would come forward who could
give very important evidence.

The witness said that he did not hear any quarrel be-
tween Mr. and Mrs. Dossett. Witness was walking
towards the drying-ground, when he suddenly caught
sight of them on the grass.
Inspector Searle said that Mrs. Randall could prove that
when she brought the deceased's infant to her no one was
in the house but Mr. and Mrs. Dossett.

The Coroner said that that evidence would be merely
negative.
Henry Friar, Worton-lane, said that on the evening in
question he was on the banks of the Colne when a stranger
shouted out to him, " Run round the bridge ; a man has
cut his throat." Witness then went to the drying-
ground, where he found Dossett and the deceased lying side
by side. Dossett was lying on the right arm of the deceased,
who was quite dead, her throat being cut. His throat was
cut too, and was bleeding very much. A razor lay between
the heads of Dossett and his wife. Witness said, "Dan,
do you know what you have done ?" He got up on his
hands and knees, took up the razor, and then looked round
and saw witness. He got upon his feet, and followed
witness two or three yards, making a dreadful noise and
groping out with his hands as if he could not see. He
came forward to witness, who was afraid when the man
came after him looking so dreadful. He then turned sharp
round, went over the hedge, and got into the Colne. Wit-
ness then went to deceased and found her quite dead.
Inspector Searle said that there were four children, one
of them an infant in arms, left by the deceased. They were
at present in the care of Mrs. Randall, but as she could not
maintain them, he wished to know what had best be done
with them.

The Coroner said that the only course would be to send
them to the local workhouse.

The Court was then adjourned to give time to the police
to procure further evidence.
It was stated that Mrs. Randall kindly volunteered to
take calm of the little baby of the deceased, and two other
neighbours agreed to take two of the remaining children.

The deceased is stated to have been a native of Bath, and
to have been about 35 years of ago. The injuries inflicted
upon her by her murderer were of the most dreadful cha-
racter. Her head was nearly cut off, her right arm and the
palm of her hand were wounded, showing that she endea-
voured to ward off the strokes of the razor, but it was evi-
dent that the poor woman was suddenly assailed, and had
not time to make any protracted resistance. Her death must
have been instantaneous.

BATTLE BETWEEN AN ADDER AND A CAT.—Some
week or ten days ago, the shepherds of Aulduhuine
and Belnaboddach, while conversing together near a
" sheiling" in which one of them has his summer quarters,
had their attention arrested by a cat engaged in sundry
eccentric gymnastic movements at a short distance off
amongst the heather. On a nearer inspection it was found
that the adversary of puss was a large adder, plenty of
which abound about the upper glens of the Noughty, where
this encounter occurred. The cat having a bad chance of
being worsted in the fight, or being. stung to death, its
owner put an end to the encounter by killing the adder
with a walking-stick. The uncouth reptile measured two
feet three inches iu length, which is the common dimen-
sioue of this speciss.--Banffilifro /ma

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The Return of Her Majesty from Scotland.

BAL3IORAL, June 15.
The Queen drove out yesterday morning, accom-
panied by Princess Helena, and visited the Loch-
nagar Girls' school.
In the afternoon her Majesty went out, accom-
panied by Princess Helena, and attended by the
Duchess Dowager of Athole and Miss Bowater.
The Duke of Argyll had the honour of dining
with her Majesty and the royal family.
WINDSOR CASTLE, June 15.
The Queen, with their Royal Highnesses Princess
Helena, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, Prince
Arthur, and Prince Leopold, left Balmoral at 2°_,
minutes before one o'clock yesterday afternoon and
posted to Aboyne, where a special train was in
readiness to convey the royal party to Windsor.
Her Majesty left Aboyne at half-past two yester-
day afternoon, and arrived at the Castle this wall-
ing at nine o'clock.
The suite consisted of the Dowager Duchess Qf
Athole, the Hon. Mrs. Bruce (who attended her
Majesty as far as Perth), Miss Bowater, Major-
General the Hon. A. and the Hon. Mrs. Gordl
Lord Charles Fitzroy, Major Elphinstone, Mr. Buff'
Mr. Sahl, and Dr. Brown.
The Countess of Caledon has succeeded the
Dowager Duchess of Athole as Lady in Waiting
l° . I
The Hon. Caroline Cavendish and the Hon. Fr,
Macdonald have arrived at the Castle as Maids 0'
Honour.

The Prince of Wales.
The Prince of Wales went to the House of Lords
yesterday.
His Royal Highness afterwards rode on horse-
back, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel:
In the evening the Prince of Wales, accompanieu
by the Duke and Duchess de Brabant, went to the
Italian Opera, Covent-garden.
BANQUET TO LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR 111/1
ROSE, G.C.B.—Last evening Lieutenant-General
Sir Hugh Rose, G.C.8., late Commander-in-Chief in
Ind
was entertained by the members of the United Serricl3.
Club, at a grand banquet at the Club-house in Pall-011
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge gave the fe
lowing toasts :—" Her Majesty the Queen," " His itcf,
Highness the Prince of Wales and the Royal FaraPJ't
" The Army and Navy," which was followed by toter
of toe
esr
of the evening, " The Health of Sir Hugh Rose, Itf
which "The Health of his Royal Highness the Duke °,
Cambridge" was drunk with all honours. Shortly ant
wards the Royal Duke and company adjourned to tll
saloon for coffee. The party separated shortly after
o'clock.

The Duke of Northumberland and Lady Lou
Percy have arrived at their house in Portman-square' fro

Torquay.
The Earl and Countess of Yarborough arrived
town yesterday from Brocklesby, Lincolnshire.
.nner
Viscount and Viscountess Ashbrook had a '..-
party last evening at their residence in Belgrave-squilci
Among the guests were the Marchioness of Ormond°
Lady Mary Butler, the Earl and Countess of Be The'
Lord Tumour, Lord Duusany, the Right Hon. Sir
and Lady Fremantle and Miss Fremantle, Mr. andll„e° 1
Mrs. Fellowes and Miss Fellowes, Mr. and Mrs. itl/40
Cure and Miss Cure, Mr. Neave, Mr. Winn, Mr. Brab°c"
Mr. Agar, &c. Varl
Lord and Lady Chelmsford entertained the
T, ay
of Shrewsbury and Lady Gertrude Talbot, Lord and
Colchester, Lord Hotham, Lady Howard, Lady Louisa —oa
Miss Moncrieffe, the Right lion. C. B. Adderley, gr,52:1-
Miss Adderley, Hon. Granville Howard, Hon. B","-fr.,
Thesiger, lion. Edward Crofton, Colonel Taylor, A`
and Mrs. Taylor, and Major Wombwell, &c., dinner
°
Thursday evening at their residence in Eaton-square.