The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-09 00:00:00

ner was transported from this country in the year 182., and
she was to suffer 14 years' transportation.
The officer who had custody of the prisoner at the trial
stated that she was coovieted in the month of May, 1829,
upon two indictments, on each of which she was transported
for 14 years.
Mr. Coon inquired of the prisoner under what circum-
stances she was married.

The prisoner stated that, on her arrival at Sydney, she was
placed in the asylum where female convicts are consigned. In
the October following she had permission from the Governor
to marry. The banns were put up, when, after the usual time
she was married.

The solicitor's clerk said that his client lived two yearg
with her husband at Sydney, and that he was also a convict,
but had completed his term of transportation. They after-
wards removed to New Zealand, where they kept a public-
house. They remained there five years, when they came to
England a few months ago. The name of the prisoner's hus-
band was Jackson Sparkes, and by his busin"ss he accumu-
lated above 2.,0001. He now resided in Trafalgar-square,
Commercial-road.

Atfield said that the prisoner had left her husband, and was
now living with another man.
The uncle of the prisoner denied the assertion, and said
that she left her husband by agreement a week ago, since which
time she has been living with him.
The solicitor's clerk stated the fact to be that there was an
agreement drawn up between the prisoner and her husband,
by which the latter consented to let the prisoner have 301., of
which 25/. in a promissory note was given to her, and at the
drawing up of the bill (which was to run a month) she was
presented with a 51. note. Since then he had no doubt but
that the husband had given notice where the prisoner was, by
which means she was apprehended. But the question was
how far the husband was liable for having brought the pri-
soner over.

The officer produced the deed of separation between the
prisoner and her husband, and in which it was stated that they
had agreed to reside together as man and wife under and by
virttfe of a certain marriage contract made in foreign parts,
but not legal according to the laws of England. It then
went on to state that, various differences having arisen, they
agreed to separate upon condition of his allowing her 301.,
and that she should not cause him any annoyance in future.
The agreement was signed by.both parties, and attested by
Mr. Abraham Crossfield, solicitor, Whitechapel-road.
The certificate of the prisoner's former conviction was pro-
duced.
The prisoner was remanded for a week.

THE SWEARING IN OF THE NEW LORD MAYOR.
Yesterday Samuel Wilson, Esq., the new Lord Mayor, elected
unanimously by his fellow-citizens, was sworn in at the Guild-
hall with the usual ceremonies. The Guildhall was very nu-
merouslyattended upon the occasion.

On Wednesday night, about eight o'clock, there
was a loud knocking at the door of the Ladies St. Maur, 5,
Hyde Park-terrace, and on the footman opening it he discovered
lying on the step a bundle, which he found to contain a fine
living male child, a few weeks old. It was conveyed in the
first instance to the station-house, on Paddington-green, and
subsequently to Chelsea workhouse, where it still remains.
The dress it had on was a long white frock and a muslin cap
of good quality, and the general appearance of the infant was
such as to lead to a supposition that the parent was not by
any means in indigent circumstances. On Monday last a
well-dressed female, about 35 years of age, having a green
cloth cloak and a green silk bonnet, left a male infant in tl-.•
shop of Mrs. Freeman, 25, Upper Carlisle-street, Lisson-
grove, and neglected to call for it again, notwithstanding she
quitted the place with the expressed intention of returning in
a few minutes. On the 19th of October, a female infant, s.x
months old, wearing a crimson merino pelisse and a lace cap,
was left exposed in David-street, York-place, Bryanston-
square. The infants were both conveyed to the workhouse,
and the parish authorities of St. Marylebone have in each
case off:Ted a reward of three guineas for the acprehension of
the unnatural parent.

The mother of a child which was recently deserted
in the passage of a house in Bedford-row, has been disco-
vered from the publication in the newspapers of the marks
upon the cloak in which it was wrapped. She is a young
Scotch woman, named Margaret Stewart, who, according to
her own statement, made before the guardians of the Hol-
born Union, had been seduced and deserted by a married man,
who refused to contribute to the infant's support, in conse-
quence of which, being in a state of extreme destitution, she
determined to desert it, in order that others might take care
of it in the workhouse or elsewhere. She said she had in-
tended ultimately to claim it. Since the child was deserted
she had obtained a situation as servant, and her mistress gave
her an excellent character. The guardians believing her
statement, have determined not to prosecute, but to pass her
to Scotland. At present she remains in the workhouse.
Yesterday an inquest was held at the Town Hall,
Gravesend, on the body of William Tonges, an aged seamen
of the brig Preston, of Sunderland, who died suddenly while
at dinner, on the voyage to London, last Friday. Robert
Hunter, the master of the brig, stated that on that day the
deceased was in his usual health. He became suddenly ill at
the table, and in less than half an hour was dead. The dis-
tressing incident occurred on the high seas, off the Sunk, in
the Swin, and they brought the body to Gravesend, that the
cause of death might be judicially accounted for. The de-
ceased was sober at the time of the visitation. He had not
been quarrelling with any one. There were no marks of
violence on the body. Corresponding evidence having been
given by the carpenter and mate, the jury returned the ver-
dict, Died by the visitation of God." Another inquest was
held on the body of Simon Beales, an apprentice on board
the schooner Dash, a trader between London and North Yar-
mouth. The body was found yesterday morning by the lock-
keeper of the canal, near Gravesend, almost close to the spot
where it debouches into the Thames. John Scott, the mate,
identified the body, and said the deceased fell overboard the
night before while they were lowering the anchor, off Graves-
end. The witness could not state how the accident occurred,
because it was dark at the time, and upon the same account
they did not succeed in saving the poor fellow's life, although
every possible exertion had been made to pick him up.
After hearing other evidence to the same effect, the jury re-
turned a verdict of " Accidental death."

THE EAST INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO,—A gen-
tleman of the name of Mr. James Brooke has started an ex-
pedition to explore the East Indian Archipelago, in his own
yacht, and we believe entirely at his own private expense.
He has probably sailed by this time, but we may waft our
best wishes after him. The object of the expedition is the
acquisition of more accurate knowledge than we yet possess
0 that vast region ; its geography, its natural history, and its
inhabitants. We scarcely know enough of it yet to be aware
of our prodigious ignorance; but we certainly know enough
to make us ashamed of our apatby and incuriosity in having
learnt no more. Let us hope that this reproach will now
be wiped off. The field of inquiry is wide enough for many
such expeditions as Mr. Brooke's, and for many years
to come. if conducted in the spirit of thorough re-
search. Our charts of that huge ocean give no con-
ception whatev-r of its island wildernesses. Ships sail for
days together through a region which seems all blank and
'pen sea on the chart, yet without ever losing sight of some
one or more insular specks And unlooked for scenes (we
speak from personal knowledge) open at times on the view or
gradually enclose the mariner in those regions of luxuriant and
eternal summer, such as no fancy can depict without borrow-
ing images from old poetic fable. But the larger islands only
are permanently inhabited by man ; thousands and tens of
thousands, in small clustering groupes, though all crown( d
with a verdure which seen s indicative of boundless fertility,
are in the primeval state of nature—toe wild and savage for
the skill or industry of the roving and uncivilised natives of
the Archipelago to relaim. Of the animal or vegetable pro-
ductions of these islands, we know literally nothing ; and even
of the Celebes, Moluccas, Borneo, or Papua, we are deplo-
rably ignorant. We could heartily wish that some of the
public money, which has been so abundantly expended on
hazardous and almost profitless voyages to the North Pole, had
been devoted to the geographical investigation of those far
more accessible and more promising fields on which Mr. Brooke
has now entered.—The London Monthly Miscellany.
THE CORPORA TlON.—Only think of a project of
voluntary Reform in the Corporation of Dublin ! When all
parties agree—the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel,
as well as Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell—that Cor-
porate Reform must be granted, out comes Ex-Sheriff Jones
with a motion for appointing a Committee of " their dirty Ho-
nours," with a view of saving the Legislature the trouble of
passing a Bill on the subject I The Ex-Sheriff got his Com-
mittee, but, although bursting with the importance of his pro-
ject, he contrived to keep it to himself. On being asked whe-
ther the Corporation was to be opened to Catholics, he said
that point was still to be considered ; whereupon Mr. Mallet,
and others, stated that, sooner than be " amalgamated with Ro-
manists," they would have the Corporation dissolved altoge-
ther. These are the Tory Reformers of the nineteenth cen-
tury—Dublin Evening Post.
On Monday last two men and a boy were found
dead in the neighbourhood of Hayswater, about a mile and a
half east of the little village of Hartsop, under the hill called
High-street, betwixt Kentmere and Ullswater. They were
discovered by a shepherd's dog, which gave tokens to its master
of having found something unusual, and on his approach to
the spot the melancholy scene presented itself to bis view.
They proved to be three persons of the name of Huddleston,
Maegeary, and a son of the latter, a lad about thirteen ; the
first a tailor, belonging to the village of Stavely, near Kendal,
the elder Macgeary, a small farmer in Kentmere. It appears
they had gone early on Saturday morning to angle in the m•un-
tain tarn of Hayswater, which abounds with fish of an excellent
flavour, and it is conjectured that they sat themselves down in
the midst of a heavy snow storm, and being overcome by
drowsiness had sunk into sleep and fallen victims to the incle-
mency of the weather.—. Lancaster Guardian.

IMPORTANT DEClSlON.—Yesterday, a hackney
coachman wearing a ticket, No. 2,305, was summoned before
Mr. Minshull and Lord Montford, at Bow-street Police-office
for charging more than his legal fare. It appeared that he
had been called from his stand to take up a passenger, but be-
fore entering the coach it was discovered that one of the front
glaz,se3 of the vehicle was broken, and the person by whom it
was called on perceiving this refused to enter it. The coach.
man insisted on having a shilling, which he said he was en-
titled to upon leaving the rank, whetber Iv. proceeded further
ov am. His demand was refused at first, but the shilling was
afterwards given him, and he was sitimmoned to repay that sum.
Mr. Minshull, after consulting with Lord Montford, said that
he did not conceive a person, although he called a vehicle was
bound to take it if he discovered that it was incomplete, and
in this case he tinaight that the driver ought not to have plied
for hire when he knew that the window was broken ; he, there_
fined him one ;billing and costs, and ordered him to repay the
shilling which he had illegally charged.