The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-13 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

Masters Assistants—K. 'l'. N. Pearce, and E. J. Young,
to the Fisgard, flagship, at Woulwich.

The Right Hon. Sir Francis 'l'. Baring, Bart., the
First Lord of the Admiralty, returned to town last night
from Hampshire; and Rear-Admiral Deans Dundas,
C. 13., M.P., returned to town from Minehead, Somerset,
and this morning, accompanied by their colleague,
Captain Milne, with Captain Sir Baldwin W. Walker,
C. 8., the Surveyor of the Navy, ani Lieut.-Colonel
Irvine, C. 13., the Director-General of Architectural and
Engineering Works, proceeded in the Admiralty steam-
yacht Black Eagle, Master Commander Cook, from
Woolwich, to Sheerness and Chatham Dockyards, on
an official visit. We must say we envy not their
Lordships' debut after the late wholesale reductions,
for we cannot anticipate a reception at all
confident, cordial, or welcome. Gradual reduc-
tion by death or superuenuation there could
have been no objection to, but whilst there are so many
jobs and extravagances in the departments repre-
sented by the two gallant officers who accompany their
Lordships—the reformation of which would effect a con-
siderable saving in the navy estimates—we are quite sure
the public will not be satisfied with the sacrifice of the poor
artificer and labourer's daily bread. In the one department,
however, we must admit there has been, from the public
attention which has been drawn to it, some attempt at
correction of waste and abuses; and we are sure there is
not a man more ardent in the work of revision and cor-
rection than Sir Baldwin Walker himself; but in the
other department there is much to commence with, and
the end is interminable. Nothing but an entire change
of system will meet the evils connected with it. False-
hood, trickery, and evasion, are mixed up with tempo-
rising, incompetence, and downright injustice ; and the
first step towards amendment is a searching Parliamen-
tary inquiry, in which we shall be prepared to assist to
the utmost of our power and ability.
The present Admiralty are scarcely responsible for
the monstrous abuses of the system. They are of earlier
origin, but from ,first to last—from the borrowing of
engineer officers from the army to do Admiralty work,
up to the present time, profound ignorance and assump-
tion, as well as reckless waste and the grossest unfair-
ness, have characterised the progress of soldier-civil en-
gineers. There is not a dockyard in the kingdom which
has not suffered from the meddling of these " belted
aspirants," as they were termed by the civil engineer
journal on their appointment, and notwithstanding the
thousands of polled: that have been spent on their tra-
velling expenses to the manufacturing districts in pur-
suit of practical science and experience, it is at length
palpable to the meanest capacity that they are too old
to learn, too conceited to take advice, and too proud to
be persuaded, except to truckle to keep their places. We
are mistaken, however, if the time is not approaching
when the Admiralty, repudiating Ordnance help, and
Ordnance extravagance, whether royal or corporate, will
look to civil architects and engineers for civil services in
their dockyard buildings, basins, slips, and sea-walls; in
a word, that their Lordships will at one swoop clear
away the present useless, incapable, and expensive staff
of unknown names, with pompous initials, and commence
the department de novo.—Herald.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Two girls named Jane Brown and Susan Jackson were
charged with threatening to break the windows of
Messrs. Hitchcock and Co., St. Paul's Churchyard.
The prisoners have only just come out of prison, after
serving a period of two months for a similar offence, and
about twelve o'clock yesterday they went to the prose-
cutors' house with a large stone each, when Jackson was
about to tkrow a atone, but was prevented by the officer,
who took them both into custody.
They both declared that if they got twelvemonths they
would break the windows as soon as they came out.
Alderman HUNTER sentenced them to two months' im-
prisonment each.

MARY LEBONE.
Mrs. Croker, wife of Dr. Croker, M.D., occupying
apartments at the residence of Mr. Paris, 48, Stanhope-
street, Hampstead-road, appeared before Mr. Long, by
virtue of a warrant which had been obtained against
her by her landlord.
Complainant stated that the doctor and his wife had
lived with him as lodgers about three weeks, and that
during that period they had been constantly quar-
relling and making a great noise. On Monday,
the 2d instant, at a late hour of the night, de-
fendant, who was intoxicated, and, as usual, 'violent
in her language, was requested by him, (com
plainant) to be quiet, when she told him she would
be d—d if she would not do him some injury, at the
same time threatening to set fire to the house. Com-
plainant added, that from the state which defendant
frequently got into, he was fearful that she would really
carry her threat into execution; the words which she
and the doctor were in the habit of applying towards
each other were of the worst description, and he should
be exceedingly glad to get rid of them, but they seemed
to have made up their minds not to leave.

Defendant—lt is not at all, likely, your Worship, that
I should think for a moment of setting fire to a house
in which I have uninsured property that I would not
take 2,000/. for?
Mrs. Paris deposed to her baying heard defendant use
most disgusting expressions, and with an oath declare that
she would burn down the place.
Mr. Morley, a lodger, also gavo evidence as to the
utterance of the threat alluded to.
Defendant—Your own wife has gone and sat dos nby
the side of my husband before my own face, and you
know that what I say is true.
Mr. LONG—What do you say to threatening to burn
down the complainant's house? Defendant—l never
said I would do anything of the sort.
Dr. Croker, who had evinced a considerable degree of
excitement during the proceedings, declared that there
was no truth whatever in the statement made by com..
plainant; the fact was, he (the doctor) had by him a
quantity of gun cotton, which he used as a medicine,
having a bad leg, and his wife had used the expression
" take care of that cotton, or it may, perhaps, set fire to
the place;" that, and nothing more, occurred in reference
to any fire, nor was it at any time the intention of Mrs.
Croker to do any mischief:

The MAGISTRATE came to the conclusion that com •
plainant has reasonable grounds Ear fear, and ordered
Dr. Croker to enter into his own recognizance it, 1004
and to find two sureties in 50/. each, for the peaceable
behaviour of his wife for the next three months. The
required bail was given, and the parties quitted the court.
Police-constable Evershed, 409 S, was charged with
having illegally taken Dr. Croker and his wife into cus-
tody, on the evening of the 4th inst., for an alleged dis-
turbance in the street, close to their landlord's dwelling.
The case was heard at this court ou the following day,
when defendants were, after a long investigation, dis-
charged. Several witnesees were now examined, and
defendant, who was considered to have exceeded his duty
in taking up the doctor, but not so with respect to Mrs.
Croker, was fined 40s.

SOUTHWARK.
Daisiel Donovan and Hugh Foley were placed at the
bar before Mr. Cottingham for re-examination, charged
with being concerned, with two other men (not in. cus-
tody), in a criminal assault on Mrs. Eliza Seal, the wife
of a commercial traveller, in Coleman-street, City, and
stealing from her person four shillings, a ring, brooch,
and handkerchief.

A solicitor aitended on the part of the prosecution.

The circumstances attending the alleged outrage en
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upon her person in the stone-yard at Bankside, by a man
whom she believed to be Donovan, and sub%equently by
two other men on board a barge, into which she was
forcibly carried; that when in the cabin of the vessel
she saw Foley there, and besought his protection from
violence, but he refused to interfere, saying that he dare
not do it.

Mr. COTTINGU AM having impressed upon the com-
plainant's mind the necessity for her communicating all
the facts within her knowledge of the transaction, as the
prisoners were planet in a most eerieus eituation. the al-
iete d offence being one of the iewa greve d.,erii4ion as
repected the parts they huff t ken in it, Tee m ges-
trete then proceeded to cia,e,tion her ci seta as to whether
she had been drinking, or was tinier the influence of
liquor when she left her husband's house in the City.
She now stated, that on Saturday night last her husband
quarrelled with her in consequence of her being slightly
intoxicated that night, and turned her out, and that she
went over to Walworth, and slept with her laundress at
that place. That on the following ay (Sunday) she re
turned home, and having rung the bell, she was not ad-
mitted, and then went away and walked about Walworth
until the evening.
Mr. COTTINGEIAM—Did you take any liquor on Sun
day ?—She replied that all she had drank was a glass of
porter—that it was between sev, n and eight o'clock when
she got to the river-side, and was tnere met by the man
who forced her into the stone-yard, and that it was the
same man who carried her from thence after the assault
on board the barge, where the offence was repeated by
two other men. The complainant here fainted away,
and was obliged to be supported, but she recovered in a
short time, and still adhered to the accuracy ()flier state-
ment of what had befallen her, and added that she was
not a consenting party. And when asked why she had
not made an alarm in the stone yard situate very near a
public thoroughfare, she ascribed it to the nervous and
frightened condition in which she was at the time.
The complainant's uncle, by whom she was accom-
panied to the court, was called forward, and he stated
that she was married to his nephew, and had been so for
sixteen years. 'Phut she was a well educated and ac-
complished woman—her father, who died some years
ago, being a man in good circumstances. That for the
last few years she had unfortunately contracted a habit
of drinking to excess, which caused much unhappiness
at home, but that he (witness) never heard the slightest
imputation on her character as a virtuous woman. He
knew that she was a very nervous woman, which was
increased by her intemperance, and his impression was
that a woman in her condition could offer but little re-
sistance to an attack such as that described to have been
perpetrated upon her. That her husband was much
attached to her, but that, in consequence of her hav-
ing fallen into dissipated habits, he had latterly become
negligent and careless of her, lie added, that the first
intimation he had of the alleged outrage was on seeing
the account of it in the newspapers, and that he retained
a legal gentleman to conduct the prosecution against his
niece's assailants.

The complainant was recalled, and, in answer to Mr.
Cottingham, she said, that she did not go into any pub-
lic-house with the man who had forced her into the stone-
yard, neither before nor subsequent to the outrage ; that
if such an assertion was uttered by any person it was
wholly without foundation. That when in the cabin of
the barge, she was held down while the two men perpe-
trated the outrage, and it was then she called upon Foley,
who was present, to protect her, but he refused on the
ground already mentioned. She was confident that she
was assaulted by three men.
Robert Bell, being sworn, stated that he was in the
employ of Mr. Chandle, a pipemaker at Bankside. That
on Sunday evening last he was in the " Welsh Trooper"
public-house, Bankside, about eight o'clock, and was
called out by Foley. He (witness) walked a short dis-
tance, and met Donovan and the complainant walking
together. That he looked at them and saw them go
down the stone yard together. Witness returned to the
Welsh Trooper again, and in about half an hour from
the time he first saw the parties he saw them come into
the public house together, and Donovan called for a pint
of half-and-half, which they drank between them.
Mr. COTTINGHAM—Did any other person see the par-
ties in the public house together? Witness—Yes, Miss
Garnett, the landlord's daughter, drew the half and-half
for them, and must have seen them drinking together.
The witness added that Donovan went out first, followed
by the complainant, who had a handkerchief tied round
the upper part of her face as if to conceal a black eye.
Mr. COTTINGHAM—Who paid for the half-and-half,
complainant or the prisoner Donovan? Witness—The
latter paid for it.
Mr. COTTINGHAM complainant)—You have heard
what the witness has stated upon oath ; is it true?—
Complainant—It is not true.

Biliceman 104 M stated that, about half-past nine
o'clock on the night in question he saw Donovan and a
woman, whom he believed to be the complainant, walk-
ing together on Bankside. The latter held a handker-
chief up to her face, as if she was anxious to conceal it,
when he approached them. Knowing Donovan, the
latter stopped to speak to him, and wanted him to have
some gin, which be refused, while the female walked on
alone. Donovan then proceeded after the woman, and
witness went on his beat. About half-past ten o'clock
the same night witness was informed of the alleged out-
rage upon the complainant, and he saw her, and she
then informed him of it, and said that her assailants had
robbed her of 45., a handkerchief, ring, and brooch. She
pointed out Donovan as one of her assailants.
Foley said that he saw no person but Donovan in the
barge with the complainant, and as she complained of
being cold i❑ the cabin, he (Foley) went ashore to get
a light and some wood to make a fire to warm her.
Donovan said that at present he declined saying any-
thing.

COTTINGIIAM said there was no doubt a most
gross outrage had been perpetrated on the complainant,
and that he should take ears that the whole of the cir-
cumstances should be thoroughly investigated, in order
to bring her assailants to jintioe. For this purpose he
should remand the prisoners until Monday, and gave
directions that the publican's daughter and other wit-
nesses should be in attendance.
WESTMINSTER-
Peter Van Neirop, a Dutchman, was charged with
having feloniously assaulted and wounded two persons
named Thomas Murrell (father and son), who, in conse-
quence of the serious nature of the injuries inflicted,
were unable to attend before the magistrate.
Sarah Murrell stated that she resided with her family
in Duke-street, Chelsea. At a little after 11 o'clock on
the previous night she was sitting in one of her apart-
ments, which were up•stairs, when she was suddenly
alarmed by hearing her husband (Murrell senior) cry
out " Murder!" Her son, who had been sitting with her
immediately hastened downstairs, and she followed,
when she saw the prisoner, with an iron candlestick in
his hand, strike her husband twice on the head with it,
and a great deal of blood flowed from the wounds. On
her son interfering in his father's behalf the prisoner at-
tacked him also, and inflicted two severe wounds, one
upon the side of the face near the ear, and the other on
the upper part of the head. The poi ice were called,
and the prisoner was given into custody.
In reply to an inquiry from the clerk who took the
depositions,
The witness stated that the prisoner eacupied the lower
part of the house in which they lived, and added that
she believed that the cause of the difference between the
prisoner and her husband which led to the violent attack
complained of was, that her husband had solicited the
accused not to fasten the street door until the return
home of his daughter and one of her brothers, who had
gone to Cremorne Gardens that evening.
The police produced a very heavy iron candlestick, the
foot of which was much battered; they also handed in
the following certificate:—

"April 12, 1849.
"We certify that Thomas Murrell, the lather, and
Thomas Murrell, his son, have received several severe
contused wounds on the bead, and are not in a fit state
to attend before a magistrate.
"A. COOPER GARDINER, }
" BENJAMIN S. HOPwIDE., Surgeons."
The prisoner, in reply to the charge,, complained, in
broken Eaglish, that he always liked the atreet.door to
be closed at an early hour; but the Mu..rmlls were so ir-
regular in their habits that, notwithstanding all remon-
strances, his wishes were not complied with. There was
also continually much disturbance and unpleasantness
caused by them, and, on the present occasion, he was
pulled about and pushed down two or three times before
he touched the parties.

Mr. BURRELL-, after perusing the medical certificate,
remanded the prisoner for a week.

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