The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-27 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL CO

NE TV CO UR T.
SENTENCES.—The whole of the cases forall •
been disposed of, niggM-
The RECORDER proceeded to pass the sentences on such
prisoners as had been convicted in the course of the session.
The following prisoners were sentenced to be transported
for seven years :—Mary Rogers, alias Halligan, Georg
Hagman, Thomas Baseke, William Cummings, James El-
good, James Grey Markclair, Edward Light, James Dal,
Joseph Tomkins, John Williams, 22 ; John M'Cluster,
James Mansfield, Edward Cox, Thomas Seager, Eliza
Lamb, James Davis, William Ruddell, Eliza Percival,
Thomas Jones, 19 ; Samuel Robinson, John Smith, 18 ;
Josephs Crannis, Richard Hardy, Mary Ann Harvey,
Robert Isaacs, Thomas White, John Povey, Susannah
Webber, James Whitelaw, Thomas Johnson, William
Billings, James Green, 28 ; Thomas Jackson, alias Bran-
son, Thomas Richards, James Brown, John Campbell,
Henry Waters, James Johnson, Joseph Newman, John
Davies, Robert M'Gee, Henry Entwhistle, and Charle
Canterwell.

John Blewitt and Harry Bell, who had severally been
convicted on two indictments, received: sentence of trans-
portation for seven years on each conviction.
To be transported for 14 years :—Raphael Tolamo,
John Fulford, John Williams, 17 ; Mary Ann Selkirk,
William Bennett, James Grimes, Alexander Allen, William
Davis, William Holmes, William Catling, Thomas Prior,
Eliza Lamb, and James Green, 42. -
To be transported for life :—William Cook, Elizabeth
Yates, John Hamilton, Henry Knight, John Shuttleworth,
and William Winter, alias Garner.
Mary Jones, who was indicted with Matthew Feaks, the
waggoner, for a conspiracy to induce two girls named Veale
to quit the guardianship of their friends in Cambridge, and
to visit London, with a view of resorting to prostitution in
the house of the prisoner Jones, but who was acquitted of
the conspiracy, and found guilty of a count charging her
with keeping a brothel in Lombard-court, Fleet-street, was
sentenced to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for

one year.
Isaac Norton, a respectable-looking old man, a retired
coach and harness maker, who resided at Norwich, and
Samuel Poole, a young man, a baker, who were convicted of
a disgusting misdemeanour, were sentenced to be imprisoned
for two years in Newgate.
Jeremiah Spillawn, convicted of a disgusting assault upon
the person of a female child, was also sentenced to two
years' imprisonment ; and klenry Denham, convicted of a
like offence, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment, and
at the expiration of the period to enter into his own recog-
nizance in 501., and to find two sureties in 251. each, to
keep the peace towards all his Majesty's subjects.
Henry George Thomas was then placed at the bar by
direction of the Learned Recorder. The prisoner was
convicted at the last session of a most violent attempt on
his wife's life. He was, at the conclusion of the session,
sentenced to death, and scarcely any hope was held out to
him by the Recorder. .

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His LORDSHIP now addressed the prisoner, and said that
his case had been submitted to the full consideration of his
Majesty in Council, and it had been judged that, under the
peculiarly aggravated circumstances of the case, the terms
and conditions on which his life was spared should be pub-
licly communicated to him. He would be transported for
life ; but, instead of being conveyed to a colonial settle-
ment, like prisoners convicted of ordinary offences, he
would be carried to a highly penal settlement, where he
must work in a chain gang, and where the very hardest
labour would be apportioned to him, where he could ex-
pect no intermission in his toils, but, under every circum-
stance of misery of seclusion, and of pain, he would wear
out his unhappy existence. It was dreadful to announce
this to a fellow creature, but the humanity of the law, it
was found, could alone be extended to him under these cir-
cumstances.
The following prisoners were next brought up to receive
the awful sentence of death :—George Edward Peacock,
for forging a power of attorney for the transfer of stock ;
Jonathan Holcombe, John Beck, Joseph Longhurst, John
Mahoney, James Davis, and Thomas Lucas, for burglary ;
and Thomas George, for robbery.
The RECORDER addressed them in nearly the following
terms :—Prisoners at the bar, you have been severally con-
victed of offences by which your lives are forfeited to the
laws of your country. The circumstances of your re-
spective cases will be submitted to his Majesty, and what-
ever mitigation, if any, can with justice to the public
be extended to you, will be readily afforded to you by
our beneficent Sovereign. There are cases, however—
and I address myself to one unhappy individual (the pri-
soner Peacock)—which will require the most painful
consideration ; and it will have to be considered whether,
in justice to the commercial community, whether, for the
sake of the general safety of the public, whether, as re-
gards the confidence generally reposed in professional men,
whether, with respect to the enormous sum which has been
improperly withdrawn from its destination, or whether a
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recent Act of Parliament by I%l' the penalty of death is
provided as the consequence of crime of which he has
been guilty be noticed, mercy can t e extended. All that I
can undertake to do is, to promise that no circumstances
of mitigation which may be made known to me shall escape
the notice of our Sovereign. .
Seven other prisoners were sentenced to be imprisoned
for one year, three for nine months, twenty-three for six
months, one for four months, eighteen for three months,
four for two months, one for six weeks, and six for one
month. The Court then adjourned to Monday, Oct. 24.

A petition is being drawn up, praying his Majesty
to mitigate the sentence of death passed on Caillot.—Jersey
Advertiser.

The shouts of " No, no," which are now so fre-
quently heard, with ether unseemly noises, in the House of
Commons, were formerly punished by the House with great
severity. In a debate which took place on the 4th of March,
1658-9, a Colonel Morley having uttered a cry of " No, no,"
Mr. Knightly observed, " It is a high breach of privilege for
any man to cry No ;' I 'nave known divers sent to the Tower
for saying less. It is a breach against the gravity of the
House." Sir Arthur Haslerigg—a man of no mean authority
in those days—" concurred in this statement of Parliamentary
privilege, and agreed that it was very irregular to cry No,
" It does not appear, from Burton's Cromwellian Diary,
vol. 4, page 4, where this debate is given, that any punish-
ment was inflicted on Colonel Morley for his negative infrac-
tion of the privileges of Parliament on that occasion.
A native of the village of La Reid, in Belgium, who
was drum-major in the army of the Netherlands in 1828, is
now at Parma, and has grown to the immense height of eight
feet four inches.

The deputies of the Commercial Union, who met
at Munich, have separated ; and their report on the manufac-
ture of sugar from beetroot has received, it is said, the atten-
tion of the French Government. Two gentlemen from France
have been sent to visit the manufactories at Nymphenburg and
Schleissbeim, both of which are to carry a new plan of manu-
facturing into operation next month.
ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.—About two o'clock
on Saturday afternoon, Mr. G. F. Stansbury, Miss Anderson,
and Mr. Daly, all of the St. James's Theatre, took a wherry
at Vauxhall stairs, for the purpose of proceeding to Hunger-
ford. After the boat passed under the bridge, and had got
opposite the London Company's Gas-works, the wherry struck
on a sunken barge, of which, until that moment, the water-
man (Bartlett) was quite unconscious. Fora few seconds he
held the wherry in a steady position, with the fore part of it
resting on the barge; in an instant after the wherry was in-
undated, and the parties precipitated into the river. At this
moment
Aliss Anderson and Mr. Stansbury sunk, while Mr.
Daly, by an extraordinary effort, succeeded in leaping from
the sinking wherry to another which came alongside; mean-
while Mr. Stansbury (who does not swim) appeared at the
surface of the water, bolding the sleeve of Miss Anderson's
dress near her shoulder ; the dress gave way and she again
sank. By the praiseworthy exertions of Bartlett and another
waterman, named Hallam, the parties were rescued from their
perilous situation. It is to be regretted that due precaution
had not been previously used by the proper authorities to pre-
vent the possibility of an accident, which, were it not for Di-
vine intervention, must have proved fatal.
HAMBURG, SEPT. 20.—A letter from Warsaw
of the 16th
Sept. says—" News has been received here to-
day of an accident that has befallen the Emperor Nicholas, on,
his journey between Pensa and Tamboff, in the neighbour-
, hood of the little town of Czembor ; the horses ran away, the
carriage was overturned into a ditch, and the Emperor had a
severe fall, in which his left shoulder was dislocated. His
Majesty was obliged to stop at Czembor. The last accounts
of his Majesty's health are entirely satisfactory."—Haraburgh
Paper.
On Wednesday last the wife of Joseph Monks,
Cropper-street, was delivered of three sons, two of whom were
born dead. The father is a journeyman tailor, and is a coin-
plete cripple, nature having forgotten to furnish him with- legs.
On receiving this addition to his family, he wrote a note to his
employer, of which the following is a copy :—" Dear Siri—
Be so very kind as to oblige me with the loan of 305., as my
wife has got her bed of three sons, and two of them is' dead."
—Liverpool Mercury.
THE JEW DANDO AGAIN.—This individual, 'so
noted for going into coffee-rooms, getting a hearty meal, and
walking off without paying for it, made his appearance, on
Wednesday morning last, at the St. Dunstan's Coffee and
Ale rooms, 183, Fleat- street, and ordered a breakfast, consist-
ing of eggs, w',ich he requested might be lightly boiled, coffee,
tea, hvt roils, &c. After a hearty repast, he was departing,
when the landlord politely dropped him a hint touching the
payment. The fellow said he would call after seven o'clock in
the evening, and pay, as the forenoon was a Jew's holiday;
but the host and hostess were not to be diddled with impunity;
and they detained his hat (a shocking bad one), and then
kicked him out of the room, after having drenched him with,
cold water.
The incessant rains and chilling winds have destroyed
all hopes of an abundant hop season.- The
picking has vie_
cipally commenced with a view to save the bops from total.
destruction. The duty is down to 180,0001., and the proslrret
is very gloomy.—Kentish Gazette.

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