The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-28 00:00:00

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) 1 THE KENTISH WATERING PLACE•

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice BOSANQUET and Mr. Justice COLERIDGE. )
THE CASE OF ➢ITERS AND POW.
Mrs. Pow surrendered to take her trial at ten o'clock to-
day; Myers was called, but did not surrender.
Angelina Pow was then placed at the bar, and charged with
the wilful murder of her husband, to which she pleaded Not
Guilty, in a firm voice.
Mr. PRENDERGAST stated that Myers, having given notice
of his intention to surrender, he thought justice could not be
done till Myers had surrendered.
Mr. Justice BOSANQUET said that the Court could not com-
pel the parties to be tried together.
Mr. Prendergast appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Phillips, Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Thomas for
the prisoner.
Mr. PRENDERGAST stated the case for the prosecution to
the Jury. The case he was about to lay before the Jury
was one of great importance, and one which, if the pri-
soner was convicted, would be attended with fatal conse-
quences to her. The charge against the prisoner was the
wilful murder of her husband, John Davidson Pow. The pri-
soner and her husband had led a dissolute life for married
people; they had been residing at a house of ill-fame, where
Mr. Pow was much addicted to drinking, and in which he
was encouraged by the prisoner and Myers. His excessive
drinking brought on delirium tremens, of which ultimately he
died. The treatment he had received during his illness would
be the subject of consideration to-day. The prisoner at the
bar, instead of attending to the deceased as a married woman
generally did, left him in the care of other persons, and suf-
fered him to take large quantities of gin. By the direction
of the prisoner medicines were administered to the deceased,
but whether they were of a noxious kind they were left in
doubt, as the bottles had been destroyed. The question for
the Jury was, whether the administration of ardent spirits by
the prisoner had caused the death of the deceased, or whether
it took place from natural causes ? He would show to the
Jury that the prisoner had expressed a hope that the life of
her husband would soon terminate ; there was very little doubt
that at the time of the death of her husband she was keeping
up an improper intimacy with Myers, and had repeatedly been
seen to enter a house of ill-fame in Black Horse-court, Fleet-
street, with him. The Learned Counsel then adverted to
some of the other minor facts of the case, and was about to
call witnesses, when he was interrupted by
Mr. Justice BOSANQUET, who said, as he understood it, the
prosecution did not profess to have ascertained the cause of
death. He wished to know to what the evidence on the part
of the prosecution went.
Mr. PRENDERGAST said he had shortly stated the case to
the Jury, and the evidence he had to bring forward would not
go further than that statement.
Mr. Justice BOSANQUET said that he had read all the depo-
sitions most carefully, and he could not gather from them any
proof of the cause of death. Under these circumstances he
thought it would be uselessly occupying the time of the Court
and Jury with proceeding further with the case.
The Jury then, under the direction of the Learned Judge,
Acquitted the prisoner.
The prisoner was again indicted on the Coroner's warrant,
but, no evidence being adduced, she was again Acquitted.

SKETCHED ON THE SPOT IN WATEE-COLOURS.

Listen, Gentles, while I trace
The features, free from all grimace,
Of s. Kentish watering place.

Ribbed sands whose space all vision mocks,
Stretching 'neath chalky cliffs or rocks,
Where the ladies, grouped in pairs,
Sit at ease in wooden chairs,
Looking at the sea each minute,
And the men who're bathing in it,
Though apparently intent
On some tale of sentiment ;
Scared maid-servants scampering rueful
From the sea's edge with a shoe-full,
While, near them, donkeys, patient hacks,
Trot with boys upon their backs ;
Crowds fast hurrying to the pier
To see the steam-boats, lying near,
Get under weigh for foreign towns,
With lots of Joneses, Smiths, and Browns;—
Flies and vans in long array t.
Standing on the busy quay,
Whose horses look of aspect thinner
Than a poet without dinner ;
Four or five young City swells
Lounging outside their hotels,
And passing judgment frank and free
On each pretty face they see;—
Tars hitching up their spacious breeches
(Which constitute their only riches)
As they pace, just saved from wreck,
Some high-moor'd collier's dingy deck ;
Yachts with tapering masts like willows,
Bobbing up and down the billows,
Whose every motion fiercely jogs
The ladies in them, sick as dogs ;
Eight bouncing brats and their mamma,
With (on the coach-box) their papa,
Crammed in one carriage, drawn, of course,
By one poor, spectral-looking horse,
Rattling along the cliffs to see
Some bit of dandy scenery,
Famed for its views by land and water,
Its inn, its shrimps, and bottled porter;—
Young ladies raffling in bazaars
For fancy-boxes, rings, and spars,
Or listening raptured to such music
As sure would make both me and you sick,
Sung by a syren whose arched nose is
Clear proof of her descent from Moses ;
Others upon the Cliff parade,
By its zephyrs undismayed,
(Though each one takes, as past it floats,
Strange freedoms with their petticoats,
Developing, 'twill make you laugh,
Here an ancle, there a calf,)
Stand, in the gracefullest of slopes,
Staring at France through telescopes:—
Such are the features one may trace
In a Kentish watering place,
To which there's nought I can compare
Save John Bunyan's Vanity Fair,
Where men and women fooled away,
With equal zest, the live-long day.
Sweetest spot unmixed with bitters,
\Vhare all is purest gold that glitters,
Folly never need to roam
While she's got a welcome home,
And can bear herself with grace
In a Kentish watering place

THE ~ SOULT AND WELLINGT
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no eclipse of his glory shall take place in his day. Iniiiols
Sun of August sth, he has given two beautiful inecla":l-.0
of Marshal Soult and the Duke of Wellington, execute“ol
the new style of engraving, and worth at least five shilli°
each as works of art. As The Sun has hitherto outstil;
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news, and public spirit, so he has left immeasurably ill, *ble
rear, all the efforts which have been made to effect a sale

newspaper pictures.—Sheffield Iris.
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has achieved another triumph in newspaper illustratiwo
The Double Sun, received on Tuesday, is ornamented o'
medallion heads of Marshal Souk and the Duke of the
lington, of surpassing beauty. Those who have see" the
executed-portralt engraving of the Queen. U' 54,
Golden Sun, will form some idea of the spirit, corrtc.toen,
and finish of these beautiful specimens of art. Mr:. VI;
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Only a few weeks have elapsed since we directed Pdsolt
attention to an exquisite piece:of workmanship connect', IV
the printing department, by the spirited Proprietor °'apd
SIM, Mr. Murdo Young, when he published a strikiligitie,
beautiful medallion likness of her Majesty (4"V sod
toria, in his Journal, which was partly printed in g''',eriP
we have now the pleasure of stating, that since thatZi"o,
a double sheet of 7'/,e Sun has been published, eol'ilr„ste4,,
very correct medallion likenesses of those two c'ele.". 0"
heroes of the present age—the Duke of. Welliniftol'o:4
Marshal Soult, accompanied with cortrous and inter: )ter.
memoirs of their eventful lives. By this spirited
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price of one shilling, with the well finished Partrilit el°
those renowned warriors, who for many years ktl
' world awake. The likenesses may be cut out Irrotirilf
paper, for the purpose of being framed ; and riero bf
they would not demean the parlour of any gentienla
being exhibited as ornaments.—Guernsey Comet.
LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS .11`:
DEAL, Auo. 27—Wind W. S. V. fine, —Carae ,d°l-411011;
River and proceeded the Windsor, Nesbitt, for 1,11;a re'
Egham, Finley, for Cadiz. Cams down the River sc yerfr
main the Protector, Cobb, for Demerara • Grant, Pa
for ditto ; Derwent, Riddell, for Hobart Tow;n.
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 27—Wind W , fine.—Passed I).;er
Victoria, Stromberg, from Uleaborg. Sailed the PI f°C
Argyle, Bristow, for Madras; Ber.kshire, Clarksa•
Bombay. old°
PLYMOUTH, Auo. 27.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Sula •sco
f'f'
Collings, from Odessa. Sailed the Julia, Bickford, /or
Edward's Island. gns
FALZIOUTit, AUG. 26.—Wind variable, ligb.' bre,ezel,,9o
fine.—Arrived the Gateshead, Park, from Odessa. Pi;ll4.
the Nonpariel, Allen, for Alicant ; Mabella, for 'Longs& 0°
Forsojet, Dahl, for Hayti. Speaking- Lille brig Lily,
Liverpool, from Taganrog for Falmouth,. out ninety da.Yl,''esA
the 16th instant, lat. 38 N., long. 12 W., },y th() Gates- ,
Park.„ ,•fe'
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 27.—Wind W, N„ W iron'
the Wilton Wood, from Monte Vide, ; .111;y -Lasca_f',iio
Africa ; Neptune, Parker, from Newfoundland ;
Maid, from Smyrna ; Dama, IZabot, Senegal ; F. 40711/
Searchwell, from Archangel. Off port, Royal
the Mediterranean. sli
OFF BEACHY HEAD, AUG. 27.—The Congr eo, from
vannah. sot,
COWES, Ace. 27.—Arrived the Rober., and Msrg
from Pillau. h from
SUNDERLAND, AUG. 26.—Arrived the Tagus, Scolt"Vd",
Quebec ; Wave, Davis, from Archangel., Off port, o°oo'
of Wellington, from Arehangirl ; Osprey, Berry, fro
11'
I Favourite, Wake, from 01,2 g-a.