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debt he had found elve men there who would believe
him on his oath.
Sarjeant Pocock said he found that the prisoner's cha-
racter was a very loose one. She was going to live with
a soldier, and had partly furnished a lodging with the
proceeds of this robbery. She had followed the soldiers
to Winchester, and had been sent back by a subscrip-
tion of some ladies, and her character was anything but
respectable.
Mr. O'Brien wished to know if any inquiry had been
made as to the character of Simmons or Miss Deane as
to morality ?
Mr. Witham said almost every one knew that Sim-
mons's character was bad ; Miss Deane's certainly was
not good, but that was no excuse for their servants to
rob them. The sentence on the prisoner was, that she
be kept to hard labour for 12 calender months.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

CLERKENWELL.—THE GOLD DUST ROBBERY.—
Mr. David Crackowe, surgeon, of Windsor-terrace, City-
road, again appeared upon his recognisance before Mr.
Corrie, charged with having harboured and assisted his
son Aaron Crack° we, who stands convicted and Sen-
tenced to seven years' transportation, for having been
concerned in the gold dust robbery on board the Lady
Flora, Australian vessel.
Mr. Parry, the barrister, instructed by Mr. King at-
tended for the prosecution ; and Mr. Robinson and Mr.
Rumsay for the defence.
George Gore, second mate of the Lady Flora, who
was brought up in custody, was again sworn, and gave
a circumstantial account of his visit to defendant's house,
but his evidence was not confirmed by other testimony.
Mr. Parry pressed for a committal.
Mr. Robinson contended that there was not sufficient
to warrant a remand, and suggested that his client's
own recognisances would meet the case on a future day;
and, after considerable argument,
Mr. Corrie ordered the defendant to put in his own
recognisances in 1001. to appear and answer the charge
in a week.

SOUTHWARK.—A SECOND CANNON.—Yesterday
Daniel Driscoll, a strong-built, powerful-looking fellow,
who is a complete terror to the police in this district,
having been several times in custody, and recently suf-
fered six months' imprisonment for assaults on the
police, was brought before Mr. Combe, charged with
committing a brutal attack on John Avery, who is unfit
for duty in consequence.
The prisoner had a severe wound on his head, which,
together with his shirt and waistcoat, was covered with
blood.
The complainant stated, that on Sunday morning,
between one and two o'clock, he was on duty in Vine-
street, Tooley-street, a place inhabited by the most dis-
orderly description of Irish, when he saw the prisoner
making use of bad language in the middle of the street.
He told him to go home and not disturb the neighbour-
hood, when he made use of dreadful threats towards
him. Knowing him to be a desperate character
he was about to turn away for assistance when the
prisoner suddenly struck him two blows, the first of
which nearly stunned him, and the second knocked him
down insensible. Witness produced a certificate from
Mr. Odling, the divisional surgeon, showing that he
had several contusions on his legs and body, and was
unfit for duty.
In answer to Mr. Combe, witness said he neither pro-
voked the prisoner nor struck him, but merely told him
to go home.

sergeant Hart, 26 M, stated that shortly after 1
o'clock on Sunday morning,
he was passing Vine-street
with another constable in private clothes. He saw the
last witness fall down, and the prisoner grasping him
by the collar, and beating and kicking him. When
they arrived, the complainant was insensible. Witness
and the constable who accompanied him seized hold of
the prisoner and directed other constables to pick 65
M up, and carry him to the surgeon's. They got the
prisoner half way to the station-house, when an im-
mense mob collected, and endeavtoured to rescue him.
Within 100 yards of the latter place he believed that
some of the constables were compelled to use their trun-
cheons, but not until then. To secure the prisoner they
were obliged to strap his legs, and so violent was he to-
wards the officers who assisted in securing him, that in
self-defence they used their truncheons.
Rowe, 110 M, said he was with last witness in private
clothes at the time mentioned, and on seeing Avery fall
he went to his assistance. While doing so, the pri-
soner's mother came up and seized him by the hair. He,
however, got away from her and laid hold of her son, and
while he was getting the handcuffs out to secure him,
the prisoner kicked him and behaved so violently that he
was compelled to strike him with them. That was after
witness was knocked against the waterbutt. He did not
see any other person strike prisoner, but he was so vio-
lent that some of the constables might, for their own
safety, have used a truncheon.
It was here stated that there were six or seven con-
stables near the station-house, endeavouring to get the
prisoner there, but they were surrounded by a number
of Irish, who threw stones, and attempted to interfere
with the police in the execution of their duty.
Mr. Combe said, that there appeared to have been
sufficient constables to convey the prisoner to the
station-house without using such violence.
Inspector Branford informed his worship that the pri•
soner was a very powerful man, and had only recently
been out of prison, where he had undergone six months
hard labour for a similar offence. He was, in fact, a
second Cannon, who was tiansported for nearly murder-
ing Dwyer, a constable of the P division.
Mr. Combe said, the prisoner had met with a good
deal of ill-usage somewhere, both from the constables'
truncheons and the handcuffs, or he should most cer-
tainly have committed him for trial. He should, how-
ever sentence him to two months' hard labour at
Wandsworth.
The prisoner, who seemed agreeably surprised at his
worship's lenity, thanked him, and laughingly leaped
out of the dock.

WORSHIP-STREET.—CHARGE AGAINST A SCRIP-
TURE READER.—Yesterday, Joshua Mull, a middle-
aged man of very respectable appearance, describing
himself as a Scripture reader at St. Thomas's Church,
Bethnal-green, and residing in Kittisford-place Hackney-
road, was brought up in custody before Mr. Tyrwhitt,
charged with indecent conduct in the London-fields, in
the presence of a nursemaid and children.
Mr. Ashley, who was retained for the defence, de-
scribed his client as a person of position in society, and
contended that the evidence was altogether of too incon-
clusive a nature for reliance to be placed upon it. He
should be able to prove incontestably that the prisoner
was not only a married man, but one wholly incapable
of such conduct as that attributed to him, and for which,
moreover, no possible motive could be assigned. The
learned gentleman then called.
The Rev. W. Williams, minister of St. Thomas's dis-
trict church, who stated that the prisoner had been both
the organist and a Scripture reader at that churchlor a
considerable time past, and that during the whole of the
period he had been so acquainted with him he had never
heard the slightest imputation upon his conduct, much
less one of indecency, but that, on the contrary, his be-
haviour had been marked throughout by uniform pro-
priety.

- Mi. Tyrwhitt said, that every one acquainted with
criminal proceedings must be aware of the painful feel-
ings such charges as these must inevitably excite, and
more especially where, as in the present case, a person
employed as an assistant-reader to a clerical minister,
and receiving from that gentleman and others of un-
doubted respectability a truly excellent character, was
charged with an offence of such a thoroughly disgraceful
description. He had not the slightest hesitation in deal-
ing with tho prisoner as a rogue and vagabond, and or-
dering him to be imprisoned for three months in the
House of Correction, and kept to hard labour.

THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE

CRYSTAL PALACE.

Last evening a meeting was held at the Crystal Tower,
Norwood, in order to promote a subscription for the
widows and children of the men killed by the recent
accident at the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. It was
expected that Lord Dudley Stuart would have taken the
chair, but the noble lord sent a letter in which he stated
that he found a change of scene and air was absolutely
necessary after the severe labours of the session, and
that he could not attend, but that he should be happy to
join in any subscription for the purpose in view. Mr.
Wilkinson also sent a letter expressive of his regret that
he could not be present. Mr. Alcock, one of the mem-
bers for East Surrey, also wrote in similar terms. A.
letter was also read from Messrs. Fox and Henderson, in
which those gentlemen stated that they sympathised
deeply with the widows and orphans of the unfortunate
men, and fully appreciated the efforts being made
in their behalf, but they regretted that they should not
be able to come to the meeting. Mr. Thomas Nunn,
the landlord of the house, who, it appears, had organised
the meeting, was called to the chair. He expressed the
deep sympathy he felt at the calamity. The men who
had been so suddenly killed had only a few evenings pres
viously been at his house, and were enjoying themselves
in harmless songs. Their fate had excited deep cota-
miseration. He was happy to say that a subscription
had been made for them at the house of Mr. Masters
(the Crystal Palace Hotel), and about 401.0 uosre I
500/f.
Ivy
been raised for them. Mr. W. S. North ,utions.
house, Blackheath, then moved several
They stated the deep sympathy of the
and impressed
relatives of the men who were killede,
t.hen
opinion that a subscription should
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they would each devote only the price of half a pint of
• ale a week to the purpose, in one year a sum of 5001.
might be raised in that way alone for the widows and
orphans of these unfortunate sufferers. Mr. Thomas
Ruston, churchwarden of bulwich, seconded the resolu-
tions, and said that among his neighbours at Dulwich,
and also at Camberwell, deep sympathy was felt for the
sufferers. The resolutions were unanimously agreed to,
and a committee was formed to carry out the objects of
the meeting.
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CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN.
—The chairmanship declined by Lord Lonsdale ham been
accepted by Mr. Benson, who occupies it io lien of
General Anson, resigned.