The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1853,

Mr. P. Thornton, foremkn at Sheerness yard. We are
gratified to find that the recent inquiries connected with
promotions in the dockyards are likely to prove bene-
ficial to the service generally—as the selection of the
officers above mentioned is another proof that the pre-
sent Admiralty are really in earnest, the two first-
named (Messrs. Cheesman and Lang) being officers of
great experience and long servitude ; and the third (Mr.
Thornton) an officer, whose zeal, alacrity, and general
acquaintance with the routine of fitting out ships at this
yard have been of the greatest assistance to the com-
manding officers, and have frequently been the theme of
conversation in naval circles at this port, particularly in
the case of the Agamemnon, which was fitted out here
' in the most inclement season of the year in a particularly
short period of time. We trust the officers of Sheerness
yard will now come in for their fair share of promotion
—as in consequence of this not being a borough, this
yard has generally been overwhelmed by the nominees
of the members of the more fortunate ports. It would
be an instructive return for some hon. member of the
House of Commons if he were to move for the number
of officers and clerks promoted and appointed to Sheer-
ness yard during the last twenty years, distinguishing
those who were promoted from Sheerness yard and
those who were sent from other ports and inland
boroughs, &c.
Mr. John Cheesman, liner in the mast-house here for
many years, has been recommended to the Admiralty
through the captain-superintendent, on the report of the
professional officers to be promoted to an inspector, vice
Betts, superannuated. -

WOOLWICH, JUNE 7.
APPOINTMENTS.
Captain James J. M'Cleverty (1848), to command the
Terrible paddle-wheel steam-frigate, with engines of 800-
horse power, commissioned this day at Woolwich.
Captain Thomas P. Thompson (1847), to the Vestal,
26, on the West Indies and North American station,
and at present at Havannah, under the command of
Captain C. B. Hamilton.

Commanders—James A. St. Leger (1848), to the
Coastguard ; Woolcombe, to command the Styx paddle.
wheel steam-sloop, on the East Indies station, whither
she recently went from the Cape of Good Hope station.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—Anne Mack was brought up charged
with cutting and wounding Mary Ann Fitz with a razor,
'with intent to do her some grievous bodily harm.
The prosecutrix said that about half-past nine o'clock
on Monday evening she was at the corner of Oxford
Arms-passage, in Warwick-lane, when the prisoner came
up and asked if she had anything to say to her. Prose-
cutrix replied that she had not, and the prisoner then
said she (prosecutrix) was wanted down the passage.
She asked who wanted her, but the prisoner refused to
tell her, upon which the prosecutrix declined to go. The
prisoner immediately drew one hand from under her
shawl, and threw a quantity of pepper into her (prose-
cutrix's) eyes, and then, with the other hand, she .pro-
duced an open'razor, with which she endeavoured to cut
prosecutrix's throat. She, however, succeeded in parry-
ing the blow with her hand, which got frightfully lace-
rated, and several of the fingers were cut nearly off, but,
notwithstanding, the razor wounded her slightly in the
neck and on the breast, and cut the clothing that covered
her shoulders. Prosecutrix bled very much, and she was
taken to the hospital, where she had her wounds dressed.
She had had no quarrel with the prisoner beyond having
seen her in her own (prosecutrix's) room on Sunday
night, and told her to quit it immediately.
Thomas Bailey said he saw the prisoner and prosecu-
trix struggling together in the street, and observing an
open razor in the prisoner's hand, and the prosecutrix
bleeding, he interfered, and the prisoner allowed him to
take the razor from her, and he afterwards gave it up to
the officer at the station.

Susan Marshall, the housekeeper at the Smithfield
station, said she searched the prisoner, and found on her
a door key and a razor case. The prisoner told her she
bought the razor in the morning for the express purpose
of cutting the prosecutrix's throat, and that she pur-
chased it in St. Paul's-churchyard.
The prisoner, in her defence, said that the prosecutrix
followed her about on Sunday evening, and called her
"a good for nothing ---," and told every one that she
wished to stab her, and she (prosecutrix) wanted her to
do it, and that was the reason why she tried to cut her
throat. She was also instigated to do so by the prose-
cutrix accusing her of seducing her (prosecutrix's) hus-
band.

Sir Chapman Marshall committed the prisoner for
trial.

MARYLEBONE. —William Earl, a watchmaker,
9, Caledonian-road, Islington, was charged with having,
by false pretences, endeavoured to obtain 501. from the
London and North-Western Railway Company.
William Gardner, railway porter at the Leighton Buz-
zard Station, said that on the sth of May the prisoner,
with another man, arrived by train from Dunstable. He
came up to witness, and said that he wanted to leave a
carpet bag. Witness asked him if he wished to book it
He replied that he did, upon which witness gave him a
ticket. He and his companion then left him. They bad
with them also a blue bag and a box. The prisoner re-
turned and asked for his bag. Witness gave it to him,
and received the ticket. The prisoner remarked that he
believed there was a train to Bedford at 20 minutes past
twelve o'clock. Witness stated that there was not.
The prisoner then put the carpet bag, the blue bag, and
the box near the scales on the platform, and asked for
the ticket. In the hurry of business witness gave him
the ticket, but omitted to take the carpet bag, as he
ought to have done, and which he should have placed in
the office. Witness after this went to dinner, leaving
the prisoner and his companion on the platform. He
was relieved by Hall, another porter. The down tram
to Leighton Buzzard was due at half-past one o'clock.
On witness's return, that train was in sight. At that
time witness saw Hall take the blue bag and the box
across the line for the down train. The prisoner and
his companion also crossed the line, and one of them
had the carpet bag.
By Mr. Humphreys—No complaint was made by the
prisoner or his companion as to the carpet bag being
missing. The first time I heard of one being lost was
on the following Sunday, the Bth ult.
Mr. Beresford said that on Wednesday, the 19th ult.,
he went to 9, Caledonian-road, and found there a man
of the name Gwyn, a police-sergeant, in the service of
the company, at Oxford. It had been previously ar-
ranged that he should be in the house. He was taken
into custody by witness on the assumed charge of felony,
for stealing some carpenter's tools in the country. Gwyn
was in plain clothes. Witness went into an inner room
at the back of the house, which is a coffee shop, and was
admitted by the prisoner. Witness there observed two
carpet bags, which the prisoner admitted was his pro-
property. After some conversation with the prisoner,
witness told him that he should take him into custody
for attempting by false and fraudulent representations
to obtain 501. from the North-Western Railway Com-
pany.

Wm. Hall, the porter, said that on the down train
alluded to appearing, the companion of the prisoner
pointed to the luggage near the scales, and took the
carpet bag. Witness put the blue bag and the box into
the luggage van.
Edward Varney, porter at the Oxford Station, said
that on the day in question the prisoner alighted from a
down train. He gave witness a carpet bag, and received
a ticket. He then stated to witness that he had booked
a bag at Leighton similar to the one he gave witness,
for which a ticken was given to him ; and that he subse-
quently applied for it, when it was gone, and all the
satisfaction he could get was that, when it was found, it
would be sent to him. A man named Hanns, two days
after, produced the ticket, and had the bag.
Mr. John Simonds, Pembroke-street, Oxford, watch-
maker, said that the prisoner called upon him on Thurs-
day or Friday, the 6th or 6th of May. He asked for
employment, and said that he had lost a carpet bag, in
which were all the implements of his trade, with his
wearing apparel. He asked witness if he could not pro-
ceed against the railway company for compensation, and
observed that the contents of the bag was worth 501.
Witness said he would refer him to a solicitor, with
whom the prisoner had a conversation upon the subject.
He (the solicitor) wrote a letter to the secretary of the
company. [The letter was produced, the purport of it
being that the prisoner required compensation to the
amount of 50/. for the loss of the carpet bag and its con-
tents] In a few days after the prisoner called upon him
and observed that he had settled with the solicitor, but
was afraid there was no chance for his carpet bag. The
solicitor, a few days alter, made a claim upon witness for
the expense incurred on account of the prisoner.
By Mr. Broughton--It is not usual for workmen at
the watch and clock trade in the country to have tools of
their own. The prisoner showed me an inventory of the
articles which, he alleged, were in the carpet bag. Some
of them were most entraordinary tools, such as I have
never seen. The price of an ordinary set of tools would
be about 30/.

Mr. Beresford produced a. mahogany box, and a red
morocco case which contained a quantity of watch-
maker's tools, that were found in the bags taken by him
at the prisoner's lodgings. He also produced a suit of
clothes.

The prisoner was remanded to have the depositions
taken. Bail was required, himself in 1001., and two
sureties in 601. each.

WESTMINSTER.—CharIes Cooper, a boy only 11
years of age, was charged with robbing his mother.
The prosecutrix, a respectable-looking widow, com-
plained, with terrs in her eyes, that she was reluctantly
compelled to bring her son before the magistrate. It
was impossible to keep him at home, or anything that
could be disposed of. She had no sooner turned her
back than he made away with every article he could lay
his hands upon, and having disposed of every other port-
able thing, had absolutely disposed of the saucepans in
which she cooked food for her family. If she trusted
him with money to fetch any thing, she never saw him
again until he had spent it ; and she really did not ktiow
what to do with him.

The accused, who heard his unhappy mother's state-
ment without exhibiting the slightest concern, was re-
manded.

THAMES.—Two lads, named George Lee, aged 17,
and William Bottomley, 18, of Collingwood-terrace,
Bethnal-green, were charged with violating the person
of a girl named Frances Brown, aged 14.
The prosecutrix stated that she was a servant, but
now living at home. About fifteen minutes before ten
on Sunday night she was knocking at the door of her
home, when the prisoner and two other lads came up
and pulled her away from the door. She told them to
go away but they would not, and forced her into Globe-
fields, Mile-end-road, about half a mile distant, where
they behaved very rudely to her, and-tried -to throvi her
on the grass, but she resisted them, and they forced her
against a wall and asked her to walk farther with them,
which she refused to do. The girl then described the out-
rage committed upon her, and said Lee first violated her
and then Bottomley and another lad in succession.
There was a fourth youth present who did not
molest her. The prisoner Lee then saw her home to
her mother's door. It was one o'clock when she reached
home, and she hesitated about going home At such an
unseasonable hour, but Lee said the longer she stopped
the later it would be, and she had better go in at once.
She then went into the house. On the following evening
she made known to a female in the 1-40 use how she had
been treated by the prisoners, and that person told her
aunt of it.
In answer to questions by Mr. Yardley, she said she
passed a great many persons on the way from her pa.
rent's house to the field. She did not speak to any one.
The prisoners and their companions had hold of her
arms, and forced her along.
Mr. Yardley asked the girl repeatedly why she had
not spoken or called out to some of the numerous per-
sons whom she passed on the way to the field, but could
not obtain a single word in 'imply.
Lee, after receiving the. usual caution from the magis-
trate, said that nearly every word spoken by the girl was
false, and that she waa a consenting party to the whole
transaction, never making the least resistance, or calling
out to any one; that she passed several police constables
on the way to the Reid, and selected her own road, ad-
vising him and his companions to pass by a church where
the bobbies (men-ning the police) would not see them.
She was just knocking at her mother's door, and he and
three others went rip to her. She said " Halloo, George,"
and called him away, and said, " Have you seen Harry •
Bottomley," his Fellow-prisoner's brother, and he said
"Yes." She the n told him that she had been with
Harry Bottomley in the fields, and had some nice butter
cakes in her pock( it ; and she also said that a particular
intercourse had to ken place between her and Harry Bot-
tomley. She then walked along with him and the others
to Globe-fields,
place.
a- ad freely consented to all that took

Mr. Yardley
soner Lee's state
fuestioned the prosecutrix on the pri-
'Jment. She admitted that he saw her
home after leav
back to Wy.
viously taking the field, and that she had been pre-
'a walk with Harry Bottomley. Moss,
not in custody
gavem2d., and she gave
her
...iottommey. Oho ran away two or three