The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-30 00:00:00

AVMS I

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.
The Vienna paper Lloyd has the following account
of the late capital executions at Pesth
" The tranquillity and the discontinuance of execu-
tions on the Holaplatz (the Tyburn of :Pesth) has
already had its effects. Most people believed that
justice would not in future stride over corpses, but
that it would walk on the paths of forgiveness and
grwee. Bat on a sudden a xamour was spread in the
town of the executions which were to take place
to-day (20th instant). This rumour found little
credit, for people would not—nay they could not—be-
lieve it. But this morning, at six o'clock, a troop of
horse, with bared swords, mgde its appearance in the
Holzplatz, thus effectually dispelling all doubts as to
the intentions of the military authorities. Shortly
afterwards a battalion of foot appeared and formed a
square, into the interior of which they led the men who
were about to suffer death. The drums were beaten.
Their hollow sound caused our hearts to quake. After
the roll ofdrume the sentences were read. The reading
was long, very long, and justly so, for the documents
were neither more nor less than passports to eternity.
At length the first or the victims was led forward.
He mounted the scaffold. He was a handsome young
man, of 25 years of age. I was informed that he had
awaited his death with the fortitude of a martyr.
When I saw him he was pale and cast down. It was
the manner of his death, it was the execution by the
cord, which drove the iron into Prince Woroniecki's
soul. This young man was an Austrian officer when
the Hungarian war commenced. He left the Em-
peror's service, and founded a Polish legion, of which
he became the commander. Haynau's troops captured
him at zureg, near Szegedin.
" The second victim was M. Abanceurt, who, after
the Polieh movement, had been condemned to 20
yens' imprisonment, and who joined the Hungarian
insurrection, acting as adjutant of General Dembin-
ski. He was more collected than the Prince, and in-
deed he was able to address a few words to the public.
The third and last sufferer was Giron ; he leaves
three children behind him. He commanded
the German Legion, assisted in the storming of
Buda, and so great were his military latenti- and
his zeal, that he was said to be appointed to the
command of the garrison of Comorn. He was cap-
tured at Petetwardein. The dreadful scene closed
with a prayer, in which the soldiers and the public
joined."
Letters from Hamburgh of the 26th inst. state
that General Klapka intended on that day to leave
Hamburgh for London. Respecting the late rumours
of large sums of money which General Klapka is
stated to have taken from Hungary we find the fol-
lowing protest in the Hamburgh papers :
" The Deutsche Reform, of the 25th inst., publishes
the following news from the Constitutionelle corre-
spondent:—
" The fugitives from Hungary have not, it seems,
entered on their expedition to America without funds.
General Klapka has negotiated the sum of 200,000
dollars in this place (Berlin), and obtained bills of
exchange on London for the same.
" As this statement seems calculated to throw a
suspicion on what I did in Hungary, I think I owe
it to my own honour, and to that of my comrades in
arms and exile, to publish a peremptory and unquali-
fied contradiction of the said statement. I and my
comrades have scarcely saved enough to provide for the
next few months. I was not moreover in Berlin in a
condition to do as I liked, for it is notorious that
during my short stay there I was attended and
watched by a commissioner of the police.
" KLAPKA.'

The Journal de St. Petersburgh of the 18th of
October states that Fuad Effendi had a private
audience of the Emperor on the 16th, and was
received in a manner due to his rank and the friendly
relations existing between the two Sovereigns. The
circumstances connected with his mission (the
journal says) have given rise in the newspapers
to the most extravagant rumours. Far from imply-
ing the refusal of the Imperial demands founded
on the treaty of Kutschuk Kaimarje, with respect
to the Polish rebels implicated in the Hungarian
revolution, and who have sought a refuge in
Turkey, his mission is prompted only by the
wish of the Sultan to understand, in an amicable
way, and without foreign interference, direct
from the Emperor, the interpretation to be put
upon the article of that treaty applicable on the indi-
viduals referred to. This direct application of an in-
timate ally to the friendly sentiments of the Emperor
could not fail to be listened to, and the distinguished
reception with which his Majesty has honoured the
Ottoman representative does away with every false
report. and justifies the hope that this affair will soon
be settled to the mutual satisfaction of the two Courts.

AUSTRIA.
(From the Hull Advertiser.)
The Empesor of Austria hasjust conferred the com-
mand of one of his women-flogging regiments of
Dragoons upon his Imperial Protector, the Emperor
of Russia. We find no fault with the Imperial
regulation. Both the commander and the commanded
are worthy of each other. Nicholas has occa-
sionally base as well as bloody work to do, and the
butchers in cold blood of the brave Hungarians
are just the men to undertake it. We would
not venture to say that the men who assisted in
butchering Count Louis Batthyany and the thirteen
Hungarian Generals, who were murdered at the
same time, under circumstances equally atrocious,
would refuse to execute a similar sentence upon
Francis Joseph, if ratified by their new Colonel,
the Czar. There was a time, and that not far dis-
tant, when Austria was regarded as the natural
ally of England; and when the English people
listened with pride to the report of the occurrence
of any diplomatic event which served to draw closer
the bonds of friendship between the Cabinets of
London and Vienna. But that time has passed
away never to return. The atrocities of old
Radetzky in Italy, and Haynau in Hungary—
and the countenance given to the latter monster of
treachery and cruelty by the Austrian Cabinet—
have rendered Austria infamous in the eyes of civi-
lized Europe. There is not a liberal-minded man in
the British dominions who does not regard the Go-
vernment of Austria with the deepest abhorrence.
Indeed, so strong and so general is that sentiment, that
we believe the rejoicing would be public were it an-
nounced the Emperor was a fugitive, and the Hunga-
riAns masters of every rood of Austria Proper. To
the present rulers of Vienna this may appear an in-
different matter, but it is in reality far otherwise. The
esteem and cnnfldence of the English people was a
possession worth making many sacrifices to preserve
and retain. It was only the fashion to regard Aus-
tria as our natural ally, just as France was looked
upon as our natural enemy. But the atrocities recently
committed by the Court of Vienna—and the proofs
it has afforded us of the folly of trueting to the faith
of monarchs —have extinguished in British breasts
all sentiments but those of abhorrence for the
perpetrators of such crimes. "Put not your trust
in Princes," is a lesson which Austria has taught
to the people of Europe. France, in the
bloodiest days of her first Revolution, did not
exceed the crimes committed by Austria within
the last three months, without even the poor
excuse of a political necessity. With all
their reputed violence, revolutionists are less
sanguinary and less faithless than the wearers of
imperial crovs. Already men are beginning to have
less dread of revolutions than of restorations.
This will bell against monarchs in the long run.
Hungary will not always have the armies of
fhe Czar to encounter ; and if she take the field
a second time, the slaughter of Count Louis
Batthyany, and the thirteen Generals who fought
under her banner, will not be forgotten by that
fiercely warlike people. For our own part, we are
not sorry that we bile got rid of the Austrian Alli-
ance, so far as that Alliance partook of the quality of
a national sentiment. We are happily rid of Han-
over, and therefore no longer mixed up with the petty
politics of German Principalities. The progress of
steam by land and water has further served to destroy
those old geographical positions, a regard to the
maintenance of which was judged essential in the
reign of Anne and the two first of the Georges, to
the preservation of what was then called the "Ba-
lance of Power" in Europe. With the increase
of railways and the abolition of the passport
system on the Continent, very different alliances
will be formed from those of which such volu-
minous records are kept in the cabinets of
Foreign Ministers. Austria, by her corruptions and
her crimes, has for ever separated herself from all
kindly intercourse %S ith the Parliament and the people
of this country. Under the Upas shade of Russian
protection she breathes a poisoned atmosphere, within
the deadly influence of which liberty cannot live,
nor learning flourish, nor the arts develope their
civilizing sway over the minds of a naturally humane
and docile people. The Russian Alliance will
eventually prove the bane of Austria.

WET DOCKS-ALTERATION OF

THE CORK AND PASSAGE RAILWAY.
We are happy to perceive that the necessity for
Wet Docks fa Cork, has bean thoroughly impressed
upon the mind of the public; and that the Har-
bour Board, and the several railway companies, or
their directors, have given their serious attention
to the furtherance of a measure of such practical
utility, and such paramount importance to a sea-
port city which is so admirably circumstanced for
trade and commerce, but which nevertheless, and
in spite of its great natural advantages, cannot
allow any odds to its enterprising and
competitors. That Wet Docks will ere long
fished in Cork, and in the very best situations,
lnot be a rational doubt. It is now under-
.t two docks are decided on—one on the north
Le river, and in immediate connexion with
inus of the main trunk railway of Ireland,
Southern and Western; the other, on the
a of the river, in the Monerea Marsh, and in

connexion with the Cork and Bandon Railway, and,
we trust, the Cork, Blackrock, and Passage line.
The importance of connecting floating docks with the
termini of lines of railway in a country which im-
mensely exports and largely imports, must be
obvious to the most superficial observer, and
needs no words of ours to render it clear
to a demonstration. The vessels in the Northern
Dock would receive the enormous argricul-
tural produce of the many counties through which
the Southern portion of Ireland's great trunk line
runs, and land upon its trucks and waggons the
various articles of foreign import destined for the
consumption of those same counties ; while, on the
other side, the Southern Dock would be of equal
service to the far-lying west of the great county of
Cork, whose vast resources must receive a new
impetus from the completion of that important line of
railway, the Cork and Bandon, which, we fully
believe, is destined to effect immense benefit to the
agricultural interests of the line of country through
which it actually passes, and by which it will be fed.
Speaking of the usefulness of the connexion of
railway termini with floating docks, brings us to
the consideration of a matter of very deep interest to
the shareholders of the Cork, Blackrock, and Passage
'railway, and of no small interest to the public of
this city—namely, the unfortunate distance of the
present terminus from the heart of the city, and the
absolute necessity for such a change as would render
the line more available to the public, and less expen-
sive to its proprietary. The present terminus is
at the east side of the Victoria-road, which
is a distance of half a mile from Patrick-
street, and proportionately more distant from remoter
parts of the city. To a short line, an inconvenient
terminus, or one removed so far from the very centre
of its traffic, would be positively ruinous, besides
being most inconvenient to the public, for whose use
and advantage all lines of communication are sup-
posed to be taken, in the first instance. The east end
of the Southern Dock will bound one side of the
Victoria-road, or nearly so, while the terminus of
the railway would bound the other side of the
same road. Between. both, or nearly so,
the entrance into the dock should be made;
and even though two bridges were placed
across this gut, or passage, annoyance and incon-
venience must necessarily ensue
,to the railway com-
pany and their passengers. And supposing the ne-
cessities of the shipping trade were such that an ex-
tension of the Southern Dock, in the Park, were de-
sirable or imperative, it would be almost hopeless to
imagine that the one entrance into the two docks, or
double dock, would be sufficient. The means of ob-
viating all this annoyance would be, to alter the pre-
sent line of the Cork, Blackrock, and Passage Rail-
way, by removing it over to the other side—the
Blackrock side—of the Park, and, taking it back of
the Gas Works, joining it with the Cork and
Bandon line, which has its terminus near Anglesea
Bridge, and in a most important part of the city.
By this alteration and junction, a convenient and
easily accessible terminus could be had, and the busi-
ness of the two companies, whose interests ought not,
and are not, in the least opposed, could be worked by
one staff. In fact, the Cork and Passage line would
be a valuable feeder to the Cork and Bandon, and the
Cork and Bandon of amazing benefit to the smaller
line. The present terminus of the river line cannot
answer ; its distance from the centre of the city would
defeat the main object of its projectors, and the con-
templated advantage to the public, which is, quick
transit between this city and Passage. Much time
would be lost in getting to the railway, which no
after expedition on the railway could by possibility
make good.
We are fully aware that intense jealousy did exist,
and very naturally exist, between the one com-
pany and the other, for a long time; but we are
delighted to know that such a feeling has entirely,
died away, and given place to one of cordial in-
terest, and mutual good-will. Each directory can
boast of men of intellect and sense ; and men who
are likely to combine their strength for a mutually
beneficial object, which the junction of the lines,
and an amalgamation of their interests, would un-
doubtedly be. It would clearly be for the advantage
of both that their expenses of working should be as
small as possible ; and this happy result could be
effected by a common terminus and a single staff.
The matter, as we understand, is now engaging the
serious consideration of the directors of both com-
panies, who are about to be put in possession of all
the necessary details by Mr. Benson, an engineer of
well-known ability and judgment.—Cork Examiner.

so fortunate as to fall in with such a one while on
the threshold of their investigations, it would have
saved them much trouble, as well as have given them
increased confidence in their system of philosophy.
Only two or three simple experiments of a clair-
voyante kind were tried. They were the first we
ever saw which succeeded, and, though not so strange
as some which have been published, they are worthy
of being stated. A watch was presented with the back
towards her, and the dial-plate completely hidden, and
she told the hour to a second. Five minutes after-
wards the watch was presented in the same way, and
the same answer was given. Of course, we expected
that the patient was wrong this time, but no, the
watch, as soon as she had first taken it into her
hands, had stopped, and the fingers pointed to half-
past twelve, just as they did before. We thought
the watch had not been wound up, but found that it
had been so, and that its stoppage must have been
caused in some other way. Not expecting much
from the request, we asked the patient to be kind
enough to mend the watch and set it going, that we
might know how the time was getting on, when she took
it, removed the scales, applied the key as if to
wind it up, and immediately tick, tick, tick went
the watch 'again and has continued to do so up
till the time we write. She was next asked
to look at the Dumfries town clock, which
was at least half a mile distant, and, we need
scarcely say, totally out of sight to the bodily
eye, and to tell the difference between
the time as shown by it and by the watch,
and, after looking for a moment in the proper direc-
tion, her reply was that the watch was five minutes
slow, which must have been true, for three hours
before they agreed, but as the latter hal stopped five
minutes, it must have been to that extent behind.
The patient was taken out of her strange sleep in the
usual way, quite unconscious of the glimpse of the
spirit world she had obtained herself, and the gleams
of its glory she had radiated on the unsalved eyes of
others.

A GLIMPSE of the SPIRIT WORLD.
(From the Dumfries Standard.)
If animal magnetism and its cognate wonders be
realities and not idle dreams, they afford strong de-
monstrative evidence of the existence of a power
purely spiritual, which operates independently of, or
at least dominant over, the earthly tabernacle in which
it is enshrined. We have been privileged to witness
extraordinary exhibitions of this nature which excited
in our minds wonder, delight, and deep solemnity;
and we cannot at all sympathise with those who
talk lightly of such subjects, or who would sum-
marily dismiss the overpowering evidence which
demands for them a place in the recognised phenomena
of mind. The things which we have recently seen
and heard in connexion with mesmerism are, we
believe, in some respects peculiar, though they only
form a part of that wonderful world which it opens
up, and which every one almost has had an opportunity
of more or less seeing for himself.
Without asking or expecting the assent of such of
our readers as have not had such opportunity, we
proceed to state what came under our own observa-
tion a few nights ago, and which is so strange that it
will scarcely be credited by any except those that are
conversant with mesmeric revelations. The patient
in this instance was a female, who fell into a state of
coma by unconsciously fastening her gaze upon a
particular object. She had never been in the state
before, so far as is known; at any rate no attempt
had been made till this time to elicit from her any
manifestations of a magnetic or phreno-mesmeric
kind. When the trial was now made it was com-
pletely successful. Benevolence, Cautiousness, Tune,
Mirth, Order, Veneration, and other organs were in
turns excited, and brought forth prompt and beautiful
responses. Exhibitions of this kind, though marvel-
lous enough, the public have been long familiar with,
and we certainly would not have recorded this case
had it stopped here ; but, quite independently of the
design of the operator, new and more wonderful
performances were exhibited,: such as we believe
have never before been witnessed. Ic so occurred
that in exciting Benevolence the finger of the operator
unwittingly touched Imitation, and it is supposed by
those present, that the display which ensued was the
result of the activity of this organ. From th at time,
and during about half an hour afterwards, the patient
became like a self-acting machine, operating with
her own fingers on her own faculties, and bringing
out the most extraordinary manifestations. Placing
the tip of the finger on the top of the fore-
head, she with her left hand pulled out from her
pocket a handful of money, and with expressions of
pity gave it to the imaginary claimant upon her
benevolence ; and this impulse was so strong, that
it could not be abated till the finger was somewhat
forcibly removed, and the faculty checked by the
operator bringing that of Caution into play. The back
part of Alimentiveness was then touched by the
patient, without the slightest suggestion from any
one, and an unmistakable expression of the features
showed that water was wished for; when it was sup-
plied it was swallowed greedily. The finger, in this
instance, had also to be removed, but no sooner was
this done, than it was again placed near the same
spot above the temple, and a loud cry for " plums "
was the consequence. In order to satisfy this peremp-
tory demand, the key of a press was asked for, when
the patient, as if to awaken her memory, transferred
her finger from the inner part of Alimentiveness to
Eventuality, and searched her pocket for the key re-
quired, and gave it to her servant. The next organ
excited by herself was Locality, accompanied with the
striking remark to the aforesaid domestic, " Oh, I
have got a fine place for you." The centre of the
right eye-brow (Colour) was next touched, and the
appropriate exclamation made, "That gown of your's
is not a nice brown, and you must get it dyed over
again; and you should also get that light shawl made
darker in colour." In a similar way Time and Tune
and Mirth were excited ; and after that a display we
had never before heard of, which, for want of a
better phrase, we would call a manifestation of
Despondency. It was produced by the patient
placing her finger immediately above the right eye-
ball, and pressing it upwards against a part of the
roof of the eye-brow nearly equidistant from Colour
awl Locality. She had been laughing heartily a
little before, but now was transformed into "a Niobe
all tears," and in the expressive language of Scrip-
ture, " lifted up her voice and wept." What
renders all this overpoweringly marvellous is
the fact, ,for which we vouch, that the in-
dividual who thus exquisitely phreno mesmer-
ised herself, is in her waking state profoundly
ignorant of phrenology, and could not, at the present
moment, tell the position of one out of the ten or
eleven organs which she called into activity by her
spirit-guided touch. We may also state, as worthy
of remark, that the only faculty which the ,operator
asked her to excite, was one whose precise seat he had
forgotten, namely,Acquisitiveness. quisitiveness. In
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it was, our previous acquaintance with phrenology,
acquired after considerable reading and observation,
received an exactitude it never possessed before, from
the communications of this mesmeric patient—herself,
when in a normal state, being, as we have said,
totally ignorant of the science. It is scarcely too
much to say that, if Gall and Spurzheim bad been

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice MAULE and Mr. Justice
CRESS WELL.)
Thomas Bunney Midge, a young man of respectable
appearance, surrendered to receive the judgment of
the Court.
The defendant was convicted, in February last, of
uttering forged orders for the delivery goods; but
upon a point of law that was reserved, judgment was
respited.
Mr. Justice CRESSWELL, in passing sentence, said
that the prisoner had been convicted of uttering forged
tasting-orders for wine at the London Docks, his only
object apparently being to obtain a small quantity of
wine; and a question arose whether this was an
obtaining of goods sufficient to satisfy the require-
ments of the statute, which question was reserved for
the consideration of the Judges. That point had since
been discussed in the Court of Appeal created by a:recent
statute, and the Judges were unanimously of opinion
that the conviction was a proper one, and that the
offence came within the statute, and he quite con-
curred in that opinion. It now, therefore, became
his duty to pass a judgment upon that conviction, but
as the Dock Company did not wish to press the case
vindictively, and were satisfied with having obtained
the opinion of the Judges upon the point of law, the
sentence would not be a severe one. The property
taken was no doubt of small value, but still it was a
very mischievous offence, so far as the Dock Company
were concerned, and it was to be hoped that this
conviction would have the effect of deterring others
from repeating it in future.
The defendant was then ordered to be imprisoned
in Newgate for one month.
William Harris, 30, clerk, was indicted for felo-
niously uttering a 51. forged note of the Bank of
England, with intent to defraud the Governor and
Company of that corporation.
Mr. Clarkson and Sir J. Bayly prosecuted, and
Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Huddleston defended the
prisoner.
This trial occupied the Court the whole day, but
the facts lay in a very small compass, and the nature
of the case will be better understood in the form of a
narrative than if the evidence were to be given in
detail. It appeared that on the 21st of August a
person, alleged to be the prisoner, accosted a girl of
the town, named Mary Anne Bird, in the Kingsland-
road, and after some conversation he accompanied her
to her lodging in Essex-street, in that neighbourhood,
where he sent out for some liquor, and gave a Si.
note in payment. The liquor and hange were ob-
tained at a public-house in the same street, and the
moment the man obtained the money he made some
excuse and left the house, and the note soon after-
wards was discovered to be a forgery. In this case
the girl stated that she had known the prisoner
before, and she swore positively to his identity,
and two other persons in the house confirmed her
testimony ; and it appeared that the witness Bird,
upon seeing the prisoner in the same neighbourhood
a few days afterwards, immediately recognized him as
the man who had given her the forged note, and gave
him into custody. In order to show the guilty
knowledge of the prisoner, evidence was adduced to
prove that upon:four other occasions, and under ex-
actly similar circumstances, he d passed other
forged notes, and in every case the parties swore
positively to the identity of the prisoner, and ac-
cording to the evidence of the Bank Inspector the
whole of the forged notes were struck from the same
plate. It appeared that the prisoner, when he was
apprehended, asserted that he was innocent, and said
that with regard to one of the days that was men-
tioned as that on which one forged note had been
uttered, he could show that he was at another place.
The witnesses were all cross examined at considerable
length by Mr. Ballantine, but they persisted in de-
claring their positive belief that the prisoner was the
man who uttered the forged notes.
Mr. BALLANTINE, on behalf of the prisoner, con-
tended that there had been a mistake as to his iden-
tity. He said that he was a highly respectable man,
who had for many years been in the service of a
most respectable firm in Throgmorton-street, and on
this account alone, he said, would be a very unlikely
person to commit such-an offence. His employer had
so high an opinion of his integrity that he was
willing to become bail for him to any amount before
the magistrate, and, notwithstanding what had occur-
red, he would be ready again to take him into his
service if he was discharged on the present occasion.
He reminded the jury that the case for the prosecu-
tion merely rested upon the evidence of prostitutes
and brothel-keepers, whose evidence ought at all
events to be regarded with great suspicion, and he
said that, to strengthen the doubt which this would
reasonably occasion, he should produce evidence to
show taat, at all events, so far as regarded one or two
of the transactions, they were certainly mistaken as
to the prisoner being the man who had passed the
notes.
Several highly respectable witnesses were then
examined, ho made out a most satisfactory alibi
with regard to the Bth and 21st of August, on which
days the prisoner was alleged to have passed a forged
note in the way described. The evidence appeared
so conclusive that
Mr. CLLRKSON rose and said, that after the testi-
mony that had been adduced he did not think that on
the part of the Bank of England he ought to proceed
with the case any further. At the same time he must
remark that he was rather surprised that these wit-
nesses had not been produced before the magistrate.
Mr. BALIANTINE said they were in attendance,
but as the Bank brought forward a great many cases
and the evidence only applied to two of them, it was
thought advisable not to produce the evidence until
the trial.
Mr. Justice MACIA observed that he did not see
any ground for supposing that the witnesses for the
prosecution had committed perjury. It was evident
there had been a mistake.
The jury then returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
There were four other indictments against the pri-
soner, but they were of course not proceeded with.
NEW COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
James Mackey, 20, a sailor, was indicted for cutting
and wounding Samuel Cotton with intent, &c.
Mr. Mellor prosecuted.
The prosecutor, a police-constable, stated that
whilst on duty, on the 6th of October, in Ratcliffe-
highway, at about one o'clock in the morning, he
saw the prisoner pursuing a man whom he had
wounded in the face. He then had a drawn knife in
his hand, and upon the officer following him he cut
him most seriously in the arm, and it was not until
after a most desperate resistance that he was secured.
The medical evidence proved that had the wound
been any deeper death must have followed.
The jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced
to ten years' transportation.
Lawrence was indicted for stealing a cart valued
at 181.
The evidence against the prisoner was, that on the
18th of July he went to a person named Bellen, at
Shoreditch, and borrowed the cart, as he stated, for
his uncle, a Mr. Rollins, in the Curtain-road. The
cart, not being returned, was traced to Woolwich,
where it had been sold for 51.
The jury found him Guilty.
There was a second indictment, for stealing a hand-
barrow, under similar circumstances.
He was likewise convicted upon this charge, and
sentenced to two years' imprisonment.
Frederick Mills, who was convicted last week in
this court of uttering forged checks, was brought up
for sentence.
The RECORDER sentenced him to six months' im-
prisonment and hard labour.
THIRD COURT.
(Before Mr. BULLOCK.)
Catherine Kinnes, 26, widow, was indicted for wil-
ful and corrupt perjury before Mr. Walesby, one of
the justices of the peace for Middlesex.
The prisoner pleaded Guilty.
Mr. 13A.LLAIITINE, who appeared for the proecu-

tion, said that the charge against the prisoner was of great poverty, being a widower left with a large fa-
an extraordinary kind, and had been instituted by the milt', and he wished to recommend him to mercy on
churchwardens and guardians of the parish of St. that account.
James, Westminster, to deter others from attempting Mr. BULLOCK then sentenced him to be imprisoned
impositions of a similar character. The prisoner had three weeks in Newgate.
presented herself at the workhouse and asked relief
for three children, which she alleged she was unable
longer to support, she being their aunt. The result
was that the parish relieved the children, and sub3e-
quently removed them upon her oath. Suspicions,
however, having been aroused, an inquiry was set on
foot, and it then turned out that the children were
her own, and that she w was living under circumstances
of a disreputable nature, and was not in the state of
poverty be represented.
She was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.
Mark Isaacs was indicted for assaulting John
Courtoy and fracturing his jaw.
Mr. Ryland prosecuted, and Mr. Parry defended.
The facts of the case disclosed a very gross outrage
on the prosecutor. It appeared
.that a Mrs. Nathan,
residing in Catherine-wheel-alley, had preferred a
bill of indictment against the prisoner, the trial of
which was to come on at the Guildhall Sessions, and
the prosecutor had been subpmnaed as a witness,
which so raised the anger of the prisoner that, meet
ing him coming him out of a public-house with his
wife, he struck him a blow that knocked him down ;
he then kicked him about the head with such fearful
violence that he broke his jaw, and the result was that
he had been confined from that period (the 16th of
August) down to the present time in the London Hos-
pital, and was in all probability injured for the rest
of his life. What made the case worse was that the
prosecutor's wife and family had been rendered quite
destitute in consequence of the prisoner's brutality.
The prisoner, after the act, seemed to glory in what
he had done, and boasted of having sent one b— to
the London Hospital with a broken jaw, and
threatened to serve one of the witnesses in this case
the same.
The defence set up was, that the prosecutor was
drunk, and that prisoner had been first assaulted.
Several witnesses having been called, they dis-
tinctly proved that the prosecutor had pulled off his
coat and first commenced fighting with the prisoner.
Mr. RYLAND upon hearing this withdrew from the
prosecution, and the prisoner was Acquitted.
John Preston, 26, sailor, was indicted for unlaw-
fully assaulting Wm. Martin on the high seas.
Mr. Parnell prosecuted, and Mr. O'Brien defended.
The prosecutor, Martin, who is a harmless looking
lad, stated that he was a seaman on board the barque
Atlantic, and that on the 6th of last March, whilst
lying off Malta, the prisoner, who was mate, came
up on the deck and said he had been sleeping on his
watch. Prosecutor told him he had not, but he imme-
diately took up a handspike from the windlass and
struck him over the arm with such force that the limb
immediately fell powerless. The prisoner said, "D—
-you, you young rascal, I've caught you, have I?"
The violence of the blow caused prosecutor to fall
with much force against a chain cable, by which his
face became very much bruised and injured. Pre-
viously to that, whilst at. Gibraltar, prisoner told him
to fill a cistern, and because he did not do it quickly
enough he took the bucket, a canvass one, from him,
and beat him about the head with great force, until he
fell down and much injured himself by the fall. Upon
another occasion, when he did not get the water quick
enough, prisoner took him by the left ear, and swung
him by it with much violence on to the deck. Upon
the occasion of one fall through the prisoner's violence
prosecutor had his nose broken.
The other evidence given was a corroboration of
the above' and also went to show that other acts of
brutality had been practised on the poor lad. When
the vessel came into dock the prisoner refused to let
the !ad come ashore, but in consequence of some in-
formation that had been given police-constable 73, of
the Tbames police, went on board, and there asked to
see the lad, who came up, and then made the same
statement he now did, when the constable asked why
he had not come on shore and made his complaint to
a magistrate. He said the prisoner had given him
orders not to leave :the ship, saying it was the cap-
tain's command. The constable immediately ascer-
tained that this was an untruth, took the lad ashore
and had him examined by a surgeon, who said that
his arm had been broken at some period of his life,
and that he had lost his hearing from the injury done
to his ear. The evidence upon the point of the broken
arm not being clear,
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty upon the two
other counts.
There was another indictment against:the prisoner
for kicking and beating John Brennan, another lad on
board the Atlantic.
To this the prisoner pleaded Guilty.
The COURT ordered the prisoner to be imprisoned
three weeks, in addition to that which he had already
suffered.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STREET.
John Bailey, a young man of respectable appear.
ance, was placed at the bar before Mr. Hammill,
charged with having, under fraudulent representa-
tions, obtained a quantity of manufactured goods, of
the value of 201., from Mr. James Cousins, a currier
in Luke-street, Finsbury.
The prosecutor stated that in the month of May
last the prisoner, with whom he had previously had
some dealings to a trifling extent, and who at that
time carried on business in Shoreditch, called at his
warehouse and purchased goods to the amount above
stated, in payment for which he proposed to give him
a bill at three months' date, accepted by his mother-
in-law, whom he represented to be a widow lady
residing at Dalston, and possessed of considerable
freehold property in Yorkshire. He required time
to consider the proposition ; and having in the in-
terim ascertained that the mother-in-law really lived
where he had stated, and was reputed to be a person
of respectability, he executed the order upon the
terms he had offered, and paid away the bill in the
course of business ; but, upon the expiration of the
term for which it was drawn, it was returned to him
dishonoured, and he immediately proceeded to the
house of the acceptor, to whom he exhibited the bill,
and on asking if the acceptance was in her hand-
writing, she returned an evasive answer, and told
him she would see the prisoner and make it all right
in a few days. Upon calling on her again, however,
at the end of that period, she intimated that it vs as
not her intention to take it up, as she was a married
woman and not legally liable for the amount, and at
the same time called forward a respectable looking
person, who stated that she was his wife, and that
tkey had been married for several years. The
prisoner had in the meantime relinquished his busi-
ness, and removed into another neighbourhood, where
he wa's followed by the witness, who demanded
payment of the bill, which he promised to make in a
few days, but he failed to fulfil his engagement, and
witness therefore obtained the assistance of Evans, an
active detective officer of the G division, who ulti-
mately took him into custody.
Mr. John Alford, a master-carpenter and builder
in Holly-street, Dalston, proved his marriage to the
mother-in-law of the prisoner, the ostensible acceptor
of the bill, at Stepney Church, about eight years since,
and said, that if she had ever signed her name to
any bill or other instrument, it was entirely without
his knowledge or authority. The acceptance in
question was handed to the witness, who stated that
he did not believe it to be in the handwriting of his
wife, hut, on inspecting a second bill, which it was
alleged that the prisoner had passed to another trades-
man, he recognised the endorsement as her signature.
Mr. Ashley, who attended for the defence, closely
cross-examined the witnesses, but without eliciting
anything favourable to his client ; and
The prisoner was remanded for a week, but the
Magistrate consented to accept substantial bail for his
future appearance, which was shortly after found.
The MAGISTRATE requested the reporter to acknow-
ledge his receipt of the undermentioned additional
contributions for the benefit of William Jones, the
gunsmith, whose case has been several times men-
, tioned in this paper :—Mr. T. H. Piper, of Exeter, a
Post-office order for 1/. ; W. P., 53.; and M. E. M. in
postage-stamps, 11.

William Charles Hitchin, 23,'clerk, and Benjamin
Henry :,11ayer were indicted for feloniously conspir-
ing together to defraud Robert Peacock Gloag and
others of various goods and chattels.
Mr. Payne prosecuted, and Mr. Parry and Mr.
M'Mahon defended.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner
Mayer, having taken a place at 11 A, Wellington-
street, Strand, called upon the prosecutor and ordered
a quantity of things, which were sent to his lodgings,
17, Southampton-street. Upon obtaining the offices
in Wellington•street circulars were issued announc-
ing the opening of the " Liberal Loan and Discount
Society," and a painter sent for to do up the place.
The whole firm consisted of the two prisoners, but it
would seem that the painter having some suspicion
that all was not right from the fact of never having
seen any one else but the two prisoners, and having
heard much talk about the firm, refused to finish the
job he had commenced, and some information having
reached the ears of the prosecutor in this case, inquiry
was made, and it was found that the prisoner Mayer
had run away from his lodgings in Southampton-
street, and had given up the offices and sent back the
key by the Parcels' Delivery Company. The result
was that Trew, the City officer, took them both in
custody, and on the road to the police-court Ilitchin
said to Mayer, " It is your tongue that has brought
this on me.
The defence was, that there was no evidence of
acting in concert, and that, however improper their
conduct might have been, still it would not support a
charge of conspiracy.
Mr. BULLOCK, in summing up, said, that was the
only point for the jury's consideration.
The jury acquitted the prisoners.
Jane Sinclair, 46, widow, was indicted for con-
spiring, by false pretences, to obtain from John W.
Webb and others various sums of money.
Mr. Robinson prosecuted.
The Learned Counsel stated the following case to
the jury :—The prisoner went on the 29th of August
to the shop of Mr. Clark, a pawnbroker, in Long-
acre, and there offered what to all appearance seemed
a gold ring for a pledge, asking 2/. on it. Mr. Clarke
tested the ring, and finding it to be only a thin plating
of gold upon a metal body, and filled in with pewter,
told her so, and also told her that if she attempted to
pledge it anywhere else she would be liable to a pro-
secution. He then sent a man outside of the shop to
follow and watch her movements, which he did, and the
moment she came out he saw her joined by a man who
was waiting outside, and they proceeded to four other
pawnbrokers, into each of which the woman went,
whilst the man waited outside. The pawnbroker's
assistant having in each instance been into the shop
before her, each of the rings which she had obtained
fresh from the man were tested, and she was warned
that they were not gold. The prisoner having ban
to the shop of the prosecutor on a previous occasion,
and again coming to attempt to pawn one of the rings,
she was given into custody. She said she had re-
ceived the rings from her husband, but this turned
out to be false, and from information obtained by the
police it was ascertained that she formed one of a
gang of notorious "duffers" who had been for years
imposing upon the pawnbroking trade with spurious
jewellery, and in some instances she had obtained as
rings which intrinsically were not
much as 11. upon rin
worth 2s. 6d.
The prisoner, who was undefended, did not offer
any defence.
The jury found her Guilty, and she was sentenced
to one year's imprisonment and,hard labour.
Robert Merston, WS attorneys clerk, was indicted
for obtaining by false pretences the sum of 1/. ss.
from Mr. J. G. Wenstone.
Mr. Mahon prosecuted, and Mr. Prendergast de-
fended.
The evidence of the witnesses went to prove that
the prosecutor, who is a bootmaker living in the
Waterloo-road, had the misfortune to have a son get
into the hands of the police, in connexion with two
other men, for stealing a glass. The prisoner is one
of those pests that may always be found hanging
about our courts, and who, under the guise of being
solicitors' clerks, manage to swindle the friends of
those who get into trouble out of money to conduct
the defences of the prisoners. The prosecutor's son
being committed for trial at the last month's sessions,
at Clerkenwell, a person named Butcher mentioned
the prisoner to the prosecutor as a man who would
be able to undertake the defence, and the result
Was that prosecutor had a conversation with him,
and he said the fee for counsel would be 1/. 3s 6d.,
which, with his own fee, made up the sum men-
tioned in the indictment. This was paid upon the
strength of the prisoner stating himself to be a
solicitor. The prosecutor having occasion to leave
town was surprised on his return to find that his
son had been tried and convicted, and that not any
counsel or attorney had moved in the matter ; all
that had been done was, that the prisoner had men-
tioned to Mr. Mellor's clerk that he should want to
retain him.
Several witnesses were called, who gave him a pre-
vious good character.
The jury found him Guilty, but recommended him
to mercy.
The prosecutor said he understood that he was in

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