The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-24 00:00:00

aware that it was possible to mix chicory with pepper ;
but if the hon. gentleman mean to refer by his question
to the mixture of rice with pepper, he begged to say
that he could not allow any thing of that sort. Such a
mixture would be an adulteration, and a deterioration
of the article, which the mixture of coffee with chicory
was not. (Oh, oh I)

were cheerful, it was whilst eating the joint, or "toad in
the hole," which had just come from the baker's. (Laugh.
ter.) The case rested entirely upon the evidence of the
father. His brother Allen had made a very eloquent
speech upon the position and the rights of women ; but
although it might suit the pride of man to call woman
the weaker vessel, they would bear in mind that Anthony
bad succumbed to Cleopatra, and that in nine cases out
of ten the ladies were more than a match for them.
(Laughter.) His learned brother had, indeed, been very
eloquent ; and he had no doubt that the ladies in court
would go away with the impression that his brother
Allen was quite " a-duck of a man. (Laughter.) It
was said that this young lady had great personal charms,
and that being so, some little flirting had very likely
taken place between the plaintiff and defendant, and
this might, perhaps, have ripened into love and mar-
riage but for the interference of that perfect extin-
guisher of all love—an attorney. (A laugh.) The
learned counsel further contended that there was
nothing to show that the time for the marriage was
fixed for October, and that at all events the time between
the 12th and 15th January was not a reasonable time
for the performance of the promise. He, however,
believed the consideration of these matters would be
unnecessary, inasmuch as the jury would be of opinion
that no promise had been made by the defendant to
marry the plaintiff.
His Lordship directed the jury that the two points
for their consideration were—first, whether the promise
had been made ; and, if so whether a reasonable time
for the performance of it had elapsed before the com-
mencement of the action.
The jury expressed their opinion that no promise had
been proved, and a ver4ict was entered for the defen-
dant.

LAW REFORM.
Mr. KEATING wished to ask the Secretary of State
for the Home Department, whether the plan announced
by Government, for the arrangement and consolidation
of the Statute Law, is intended to comprehend any
measures for ensuring greater uniformity, clearness,
and conciseness in the framing of future acts of Parlia-
ment.
Lord J. RUSSELL was understood to reply in the
affirmative. .

THE FOREIGN SECRETARY.
Mr. CAYLEY wished to ask the noble lord the
member for the City of London two questions. He
wished to know in the first place, if it was true that the
noble lord'no longer held the seals of the Foreign-office,
and secondly, if that were so, was the noble lord con-
nected with any office to which a salary was attached ?
Lord J. RUSSELL said it was true that he no longer
held the seals of the Foreign-office, nor did he hold my
office in the Government to which a salary was attached.
Mr. CAYLEY gave notice that on an early day he
should move a resolution to the effect, that o, salary
should be attached to the office of leader of the house.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1853.

the treasurer stated that for two years the defendant had
been receiving Lawton's pay at the rate of 55., while ho
paid him but 4s. per day.
The Assistant-Judge sentenced him to hard labour for
18 calendar months.

There was an indictment against the prisoner for felony
—stealing a carpenter's work bench—but it was not pro-
ceeded with.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

WORSHIP-STREET.—The Rev. J. S. Angley, who
was fined 20s. by Mr. D'Eyncourt, the magistrate sitting
at this court, on the 7th inst., for an assault, and ob-
structing two police-constables, has received the follow-
ing letter from the Home-office, to which he appealed
against the decision of the police magistrate :
" Whitehall, Feb. 22, 1853.
Sir,—l am directed by Viscount Palmerston to inform
you that his lordship has made a full inquiry into the com-
-1 plaint of the police, which you addressed to him on the Bth
inst. Lord Palmerston has considered the conflicting evi-
dence which was given at the Police Court, and is of opinion
that the decision of the magistrate cannot be supported ;
and his lordship has therefore directed that the fine which
was imposed shall be returned to you. Lord Palmerston
directs me at the same time to admonish you that you were
wrong in interfering with the policeman on the spot ; and
that if you thought he had exceeded his duty, and the case
was one which required notice, you should have repre-
sented the matter in writing to his lordship, in order that
the proper and necessary steps might be taken. It was not
at all necessary for this purpose that you should take the
constable's number, as Lord Palmerston could easily have
ascertained what constable was on duty on the spot at the
time.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" H. WADDINGTON."

WESTMINSTER.—George Stansbury, the conduc-
tor of a Chelsea omnibus, was charged with exacting
more than his legal fare.
Mr. Joseph Robert Nichols, of 6, Globe-place, Chel-
sea, stated that about 12 o'clock on the night of the 14th
inst., he got into the defendant's omnibus at the top of
Sloane-street, Knightsbridge, and rode to Church-street,
King's-road, Chelsea, where the defendant demanded 6d.
and refused to take less. There was a large figure of 3d.
ou defendant's window, and upon complainant stating
that he should summon him for the overcharge, defendant
replied that if he did he would have to pay his day's
work.

Defendant, in reply, alleged that he had not been
guilty of any overcharge, and produced a copy of the
table of fares which were fixed, as required by law, in-
side the omnibus, and which, amongst other things, con-
.
" .

tained the following item—
all fares 6d.

After.- 10 o'clock at night

Mr. Arnold felt reluctantly compelled to dismisi3 this
summons, because it charged the defendant with having
taken more than his legal fare, when, in point of fact,
according to the table of fares inside the omnibus, placed
there as required by law, he had not. He at the same
time thought that placing the large " 3d." ,in the win-
dow, which was not required by law, in a prominent and
conspicuous manner, with the comparatively small cha-
racters around it, was a great fraud upon the public, as
leading persons to infer that 3d. was the fare they were
to pay, there being no time for persons to make particu-
lar inquiry at the time of their getting in. This prac-
tice of small ticketing was extremely reprehensible, and,
had complainant refused to pay more than 3d., and been
summoned for the other 3d., he (the worthy magistrate)
would certainly not have compelled him to pay it.
The summons was accordingly.. dismissed.
Defendant applied for costs for his day's work, but the
magistrate refused to allow it.

MARYLEBONE.-77tomas Mackett, against whom
a coroner's jury has returned a verdict of wilful murder,
was again examined, charged with drowning Eliza Lee.
The former examination had been adjourned for the
production of a bargeman. This witness, Thos. Ducas,
now deposed—l am captain of the Cornelius barge. I
remember the day upon which the alleged murder hap-
pened. I was in my barge on the Regent's canal,Jew's-
harp basin. While in my barge at half-past six I heard
some one exclaim, " For God's sake, Tom, don't ;" and
I think the exclamation came from a female. I also
think I heard the words, " Don't drown me;" but I can-
not be positive about that. The sound seemed to come
from the direction of the Regalia. I have often heard
such cries, and did not leave my barge to see what was
the matter. The night was very foggy.
The magistrate did not deem it necessary to have the
evidence of the witness Ducas given in with the other
depositions, as the prisoners could not have been the
party
to whom the cries of " Oh, don't, Tom," were di
rected, inasmuch as he and the deceased were drinking
tea together at a house in Pratt-street at seven on the
night of the drowning.
The prisoner, who by the advice of his solicitor had
nothing to say, was fully committed.
Mary Anne Griffin, a delicate-looking young woman,
aged 22, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton
for re-examination, charged with the wilful murder of
her male infant, by cutting its throat with a pair of
scissors. The prisoner was housemaid at Mr. William
Hart's, 7, Gloucester-place, Hyde-park-gardens. • Some
particulars connected with the shocking affair have al-
ready appeared in our paper.
Mr. W. F. Cooper, solicitor, New Church-street,
Edgware-road, attended for the prisoner.
Harriett Mitchell said—l am lady's maid to Mrs.
Hart. Prisoner was housemaid there, and I had no
idea that she was in the family way. On Thursday,
January 27, the nursemaid came to me, and in conse-
quence of what she said I went up stairs with her, to
the prisoner's bed-room. She (prisoner was sitting on a
chair, apparently very ill, and much excited. I asked
her what was the matter, but she gave me no direct
answer. From the change in her appearance, I told her
I thought she had given birth to a child, when she said
she had not, she had only miscarried. I told her I was
afraid it was something worse than that ; and at the
same moment I heard a kind of gurgling noise in her box.
I asked her for the key, which, without any hesitation,
she gave me ; and on opening the box, I found a hand-
basin filled with stained cloths of different kinds ; and

in a bundle close by, was a child wrapped up in two
petticoats and a gown, which the prisoner had on when
I last saw her. I and the nursemaid then took the child
out of the box and sent for a doctor. I laid the child on
the floor, when the head fell back, and I saw a gash in
its throat. The prisoner attempted to stab herself with
a pair of scissors, declaring that she would destroy her-
self. I and the nurse knocked the scissors out of her
hand, and put them away. The prisoner and the child
were on the following Monday removed to the Padding-
ton workhouse.
Susan Burford, the cook, said—At about three in the
afternoon of the 27th of January, I went up to the
room with Dr. Golander. Prisoner was then lying
in bed. The lady's maid had in her lap the child,
whose throat was cut ; it was bleeding profusely.
On the same evening at half-past seven, I went up
again to prisoner, and held the infant till a nurse who
had been sent for came. The prisoner told me that it
was her intention to have killed herself and the child too.
On the next day the nursemaid showed me a pair of
scissors which she had picked up from behind a box.
There was blood upon them, but it has since been wiped
off. I went to. the prisoner once or twice a day after-
wards, and she seemed very fond of the baby. I ob-
served blood upon her petticoat. I did not see any baby
linen in the room.
Sarah Clements, a nurse in the workhouse, and Ann
Ridley, a pauper therein, deposed that when prisoner
was brought into the house she said, " I've done it ; I've
done it ;" but she was unable to account for the way in
which ie child's throat was cut. It lived ten days after
its admission into the workhouse. It took a deal of
nourishment, and swallowed well for many days before
it died.
Mr. Cooper declined to cross-examine either of the
witnesses in the present stage of the proceedings, and, as
the medical gentleman was not present, the prisoner was
remanded till Wednesday next.

CAREER OF A GOVERNMENT EMIGRANT TO AUSTRALIA.
—One of the chief master builders in Melbourne is a
native of Hampshire. He served his time to a cabinet
maker in Ramsey, in that county, and afterwards worked
as a journeyman to a master builder and cabinet maker
at Andover, in the same county, where he got an insight
into the carpentry business. Three years ago he was
.sent out to Australia as a government emigrant. This
was before the gold discoveries. He settled at Mel-
bourne, where he got work at his trade, and earned 8s
a day. He soon saw that housebuilding would be a
profitable occupation, on account of the influx of
strangers, and the want of house accommodation.
He accordingly worked as a journeyman for a twelve-
month, saved up money enough to build a house, by
which he did well, then he built other houses, and did
better. The gold discoveries were then made, and such
was the madness of everyone to rush to the diggings,
shat the Hampshire carpenter found his trade wortll
nothing, because he could get no one to work for him.
At the beginning Of this year he had purchased a large
supply of timber for building houses, but he could not
proceed for want of hands. He, therefore, and four
more persons, went to the diggings ; and in three months
they returned to Melbourne with about 1501. worth of
gold a piece. He now re-commenced business, got
eight or ten journeymen to work for him, whom ho paid
something like 20s. a day each for labour, and is getting
on swimmingly.
imnminHglye.
has
seiasndrelhaatisveths three
c
Hampshire a very handsome sum of money as a present.
Such is the success of a man who three years ago was
assisted by the government to emigrate to Australia.
sent is
a recently married
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o a
LooKING-GLAssBS. The manufacttire of looking-
glasses in France has of late years made a remarkable,
progress. What was originally an object of luxury is
now a matter of necessity. Thus the factory of St. Go-
bain, which thirty years back furnished about 200,000
square feet of looking-glass, has extended its pro-
duction to 500,000 square feet. Its shares, which in
1830 were worth 10,000 f., had risen in 1835 to
30,000 f. The factories of St. Quirin and Cirey, esta-
blished at a later period, and afterwards united to
that of St. Gobain, gllowed the same progress ;
their shares, from 7,500 f., rose to 17,000 f., so
marked was the improvement in the article produced
and so much greater its quantity. In Belgium, the
manufactory of St. Marie d'Oignes presents the same
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medal
consumption,tel
du
ac ni ,
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lastqu ntiexhibitiont y
results. Capitalists from Paris having afforded it the
aid of their funds, it quickly advanced in prosperity,
and the 1,0001. shares are at present worth 1,835 f.
ein
two which de-
livered
years
from 5,000 square metres to 12,000.;
pI narfiisn e
in,
ittlhsBe4por,omanufactory
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English of estab-
lished, obtained the silver medal at the exhibition of
only
LondonlyinB
150, has 1851.
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beheld its This s
als increase establishment, wic
A " CALORIC ENGINE" IN SCOTLAND.—We lea,rn`from
the Dundee A dvertiBer that the
foundry works of that
town were between 1843 and 1845 carried on with a
Calorie engine,