The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-09 00:00:00

AILVVAY SHARE bIARKETS.

BTOL, MAT 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—TheRIS
Share Market was lather firmer to-day,
parties having somewhat recovered from their recent want of con-
fidence. The sales are—Bristol and Exeter, Thirds, 11 dis. —North British, Halves, 514—Taff Vale, 130 —Ditto, Quarters, 211%.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market was very dull to-day, and
prices unchanged. The sales are—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire (late C. and B.), guaranteed 6 per cent, till 1850,15 —East
Anglian, ill. Shares, 2—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 424—Lancashire
and Yorkshire, Halves (No. 4), 4% p.—London and North-Western,
12a —Ditto, New Quarters, 3% p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
colnshire (Sheffield and Lincoln), 14% c. dis.—Midland, 66—Ditto,
halves, 121. 6s. 3d. dis.—North Union (B), 152—South-Eastern, and
Dover (No. 4), 13s. 9d. c.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick G.
N. E.
Purchase, 6 per cent. till 1850, 3% dis.
MANCHESTER, Mar 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.— The transactions to-day were as follows:
Sheffield (No. 1),;7 dis.—Leeds, Fifths, 4% dis.—North Stafford-
shire, 5 7-16 dis.—Leeds, 321 Shares, 9 dis.—West Riding Union, 5)
dis.—Dover (No. 4),:6 11-16.

BIRMINGHAM, MAT a.
STOCK EXCHANGE. The following are to-day's transactions:—
Coventry and Nuneaton, 6s. 3d. p.—Eastern Counties, 7% —Shrews-
bury and Birmingham (A). 54 dis.—York and North Midland,
Preference, guaranteed 6 per cent. till 1858, dis.
YORK, Mar 7.
STOCK EXCHANGE —The business transacted to-day was as fol-
lows :—Great Northern, 10% n—York, Newcastle, and Berwick
(Newcastle Extension), 14 —Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 4
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, MAY 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business done in the Stock Exchange to-
day has been as follows :—llartlepool Dock and Railway, 135—New-
castle and (, arlisls, 100—North British, Preference, 21s. 6d.—York,
Newcastle, and Berwick 19%,

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
William Edwin Batley, 29, a post-office letter carrier,
pleaded guilty to two indictments, charging him with
stealing and embezzling two letters, one of them contain-
ing money, and the other a book, the property of the
Postmaster-General.

Sentence was deferred.
Lydia Diron, a well-dressed woman, aged 30, was ar-
raigned upon .everat indictments, charging her with
stealing silk, satin, and Ot.. t. ,1- a tieles of a similar de-
scription, from the shops of different silkinercers and
haberdashers, at Richmond and Hammersmith.
Mr. Prendergast defended the prisoner.
The first case that was taken, was a charge of stealing
20 yards of silk and a quantity of mousseline de laine,
the prop( rty of Mr. Steal, a linendraper, at Richmond.
A police-constable, named Woods, produced the pro-
perty, which he found, with a large quantity of other
valuable articles, in a room at a beer-shop in the Lower-
road, Richmond, occupied by the prisoner. All the
goods had the private shop-mark upon them; but the
prosecutor would not take upon himself to swear posi-
tively that they had never been sold.
The RECORDER observed, that in the absence of such
evidence, he thought the jury would hardly feel them-
selves warranted in coming to the conclusion that the
articles had been stolen.
The jury expressed the same opinion, and returned a
verdict of Not Guilty.
The prisoner was then charged, upon another indict-
ment, with stealing a quantity of huckaback, the property
of Mr. Bryant, another linendraper at Richmond.
It appeared in this ease, that Woods, the policeman,
was on duty near the prosecutor's shop, when he ob-
served the prisoner deliberately take up a roll of bucks-
back, and place it under her shawl and walk off withit.
He stopped her, and she then said that she was only
going; to take the article into the shop to ascertain the
price; and when he attempted to take her into custody,
she made a violent resistance. She afterwards refused
to give her name or residence; but the constable suc-
ceeded in discovering that she lodged at the beer-shop
referred to in the former case. It also appeared that at
the time the prisoner was taken into custody, she had a
large apron, or rather pocket, tied in front of her, which
appeared evidently intended as a most convenient recep-
tacle for any property that its wearer might lay hold of.
Mr. PRENDERGAST, in his address to the jury on be-
half of the prisoner, said he was instructed that she was
a person of respectability and incapable of committing
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actions.

Mrs. Jackson was then examined for the defence, and
she said that the prisoner had been living with her, at
Hammersmith, for 11 years, and she had known her from
her infancy. Witness provided all necessaries for her,

and she was in the habit of earning mOhiy for herself by
,
giving lessons in music. 'f 4
Mr. PRENDERGAST—I believe Malt m, you know
nothing whatever about the prisoner hiving engaged a
loqing at this-beer-shop? Witness---r knew nothing of
it. She used to be from home occasionally, and I under-
stood that she went to her mother, who resided in Lon-
)n. The witness went on to say that the prisoner hid
complained of pain in her head for several pare, and
lust August she bad an attack of -brain fever, and her
head was shaved, and since that period her conduct
had been flighty and very much altered to what it was
before.

' Mr. John Betts, a surgeon at Hammersmith, deposed
that, in his opinion, since the attack referred to, the pri-
soner had not had the proper use of her senses, and he
said he bad repeatedly observed that her conduct was
strange and eccentric.
The RECORDER asked the witness whether he would
undertake to say that the prisoner was not
distinguishing between right and wrong, or that she was
under such a delusion as not to be aware that she was
going about robbing people.
The wiiness said he could not go so far as to say that
this was the case. capable of
The RECORDER inquired whether the fact of such a
pocket as that which had been produced being made use
of, would not be a proof of so much contrivance on the
part of the party as to be quite incompatible with such
an opinion?
The witness said that a great deal of cunning was fre-
quently exhibited by insane persons.
The RECORDER said he was aware of that, but there
was a great difference between cunning of that descrip-
tion and the contrivance that was manifested in this case
to tactlitate the scberne of plunder.
His LORDSHIP then addressed the jury, and explained
to them that before they could give to the defence
that had been set _up,ila
behalf of the prisoner, they,
must be satisfied not merely that she was a little flighty
in her mind, but that at the time she committed the act
she was incapable of distinguishing between right and
wrong, and it was for them to say, under the circum-
stancts of the case, whether they could conscientiously
come to such a conclusion.
The jury immediately returned a verdict dr Guilty.
The RECORDER inquired of the constable what was
the value of the, property which he found in the posses-
sion of the prisoner?
He replied that about 401. worth had been identified,
but there was a great deal of which no owner had yet
been discovered.
The RECORDER then gave directions that all the arti-
cles which were identified should be restored to their
owners, and that means should be taken to find out to
whom the remainder belonged. He also respited the
sentence upon the prisoner until the next session, in
order that further inquiries might be made respect-
ing her.

NEW COURT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
. .

Michael Kelly, aged 27, a labourer, was indicted for
feloniously assaulting Elizabeth Waters, with intent, &c.
The prosecutrix, a respectable modest young woman,
the wife of a labouring man, living at Hotnerton, stated
that being on her return home at a somewhat late hour,
having been out visiting a brother-in. law, she was met
by the priioner in a sequestered spot near her own
house, when he forced her against a wall, and finally
threw her on the ground, where ho would have effected
his purpose but for her resistance and cries, which being
heard by the police on duty, they hastened to the spot
end found witness on the ground struggling with the
ptisonsr. When taken into custody he said she was his
wife.

The police corroborated the prosecutrix's statement,
adding that they heard her cries for help some distance
from the spot where they found them. When the pri-
soner was apprehended he was very violent.
Mr. ROBINSON, for the defence, said the story was a
most improbable one, and it was most dangerous to con-
vict in such cases upon the unsupported testimony of a
woman of whose previous character they had no

evidence.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
The COMMON SERGEANT said it was an extremely bad
case, and sentenced him to two years' imprisonment and
hard labour. '
Thomas Storey, aged 39, a groom, was charged upon
several indictments with stealing a number of printed
books, some china cups, saucers, glass, a few towels, and
other articles of trivial value. the property of Lord
John Russell, M.P., and Caroline Baker, 29, a spinster,
was indicted for receiving the same, knowing it to have
been stolen.

The male prisoner pleaded guilty, and the woman
pleaded not guilty.
The facts of the case were these :—The prisoners co-
habited together, and the man having been engaged in
his Lordship's stables, and so having an opportunity of
gaining access to the lime, no suspicions were enter-
tained of his honesty. The woman, however, whom
tse-
veral witnesses stated to be very badly disposed, was
taken into custody fir having stolen some things from
their ready-furnished lodgings, and upon the police
searching they found a number of duplicates which
turned out to relate to the property of bis Lordship,
and was identified by his steward. Some of the things,
all of which were pledged in different lots, for a few
shillings, had been in pawn for a length of time, and the
interest had been paid at the expiration of the twelve
months. Not any of the property bad been missed until
the intelligence was brought by the police.
Several pawnbrokers proved the female to have
pawned some of the things, and that she had stated they
had been given to her by his Lordship's bntler, and also
had been heard abusing Storey for not bringing her home
more things.
The jury found her Guilty.
Thomas Price, his Lordship's steward, said that his
master requested him to recommend the man to mercy,
and also to state that it was not his wish that the charge
should have been pressed.
The prisoner Storey said he intended to have redeemed
the things, and had taken them from distress.
The COMMON SERGEANT said the woman was evi-
dently the worst of the two, and sentenced her to
eighteen months imprisonment, and the male prisoner
to six.

Two lads, named Douglass
victed of stealing 10s. 6d. in silver from the till of 11 r.
Bone, a publican, residing at the foot of Hammersmith-
bridge. and Hurson, were con-

liiirson had been seen to go in, and was taken with
the money in his mouth, and Douglass, who had been
waiting outside, was taken afterwards,
were conveying Hurson to the station.
Ilurson, who had been before convicted, was sen-
tenced to twelve months' imprisonment, and Douglass
to lour. whilst the police

DOVER BAY Aft.EAK.WATER.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—The insertion you gave to the letter of
.Colonel Williams, ILE., respecting Dover Esplanade
In January, and also that relating to Dover Break-
water on Saturday last, induces me to hope that. you
will insert the following in
your journal, so distin-
guished for impartiality.
With all due deference to the professional reputa-
tion which the Gallant Colonel has acquired in a long
a
service, I must say, that he, like too many theorists,
hastily
Theuttravelling of the shingle from west to east, and the
hastily condemns that which is being done, without
even suggesting a more proper mode of action.
serious obstructions thereby caused to the. entrance of
the Dover and Folkestone Harbours, is a readily
admitted fact ; and whilst no obstruction was (sacred
to this eastward progress of the shingle, the mouth of
Dover Harbour was seldom, if ever,
be entered in
safety, especially to vess.3. of heavy tonnage. Many
and erudite were the suggestions to get rid of this
dangerous barrier. The pier formerly known as
Cheesetnan's Head was not only denounced as the
evil source of the accumulating shingle, but it was
actually pulled down ; this only increased the mis-
chief. The shingle further raised its stubborn head
as Cheeseman's was laid low. Then reservoirs, basins,
sluices, and machinery were erected to scour away
the accumulation from the harbour's mouth—great
were the expectations, but small the effects, the shingle
still barred the entrance. Human skill and inge-
nuity were further put upon the rack, when a
sudden and unexpected incident supplied what
science and study had failed to achieve. The
operations of the South• Eastern Railway Com-
pany, in the celebrated blowing up of the
Round Down Cliff, by which a headland of many
acres was formed, projecting several hundred yards
into the sea, were no sooner accomplished than the
Dover Bar begun to disappear, and soon to vanish,
leaving the chalk bed at the entrance to the harbour
as clean as a kitchen floor. This singular circum-
stance has certainly saved Dover Harbour from decay;
but the promontory produced by the fall of Round
Down Cliff being upwards of a mile from Dover to
the west, or shingleward direction, the result would
have been, that as soon as the amassing shingle
rounded the outer angle of this obstruction the ordi-
nary easterly drift would without any doubt again
have called up Dover Bar. But we find genuine
engineering skill taking heed of the laws of nature,
and advantage of the effects of an unexpected Clear-
ance of the shingle, and therefore the present pier is
being erected so close upon the harbour mouth as
will, without any doubt, carry the shingle quite past
the harbour entrance; and from very close observation
of the onward movement of the beach there, we are
convinced that the fears of Colonel Williams as to
the accumulation approaching the end of the pier will
not be realised before a century of years have rolled
away. The Gallant Colonel knows that a bar will
exist at Dover without an obstruction of some sort to
the westward, yet he tells us not what he would
do ; and in order to make his weak case as strong as
possible, he conjures up the original scheme of the
harbour of refuge (projected in those palmy days
immense
amounts even private enterprise spoke lightly of
amounts of capital), with all its enclosed area, its
entrances, the breakwater, and the two millions and
half of money. Now let me acquaint him

that the present operations, consisting of a massive
stone pier extending about 800 feet from the shore, and
having about 30 feet of water at low water ordinary
tides, terminate the present undertaking ; that this
beautiful monument of " engineering skill and a
nation's resources" is distinct, complete, and indepen-
dent in itself, giving those facilities so earnestly
required at that port, which must ever form the main
connecting link between our native land and the
Continent, in lauding passengers at all states of the
tide. Future generations may perhaps complete the
gigantic scheme originally projected, but such, we
can safely say, is uot the intention of the existing
race of men ; therefore Colonel IVilliam6 need have
no jealousy nor fear that the large amount will be
required, whilst the work will be of great national
utility, although he thinketh not.
I have the honour to be, Sir, yours.
May 8, 1849. ALPHA.