The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-11 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The Warsaw papers contain the following address
of the Emperor of Russia to the army :
" My children!—God has vouchsafed to bless your
zeal, your manly bravery, and your untiring perse-
verance amidst the greatest difficulties. My children,
you did your duty; and 10, the insurrection is quelled.
Wherever the enemy dared to oppose you, you over-
came them, and following at the heels of the fugitives,
you brought about an event of rare occurenco, viz.,
the enemy's whole army surrendered to you, and sub-
mitted, unconditionally, to our will. Within two months
we have either captured or taken by surrender 150
standards and 400 pieces of artillery, while above 80,000
insurgents have laid down their arms. Honour and glory
to you! Honour and glory to your victorious leader!
You have again, as you always do, proved yourselves
worthy of the name of the victorious army of all the
Russias. My thanks to you all and each of you. lam
satisfied with you! lam proud of you!
" Warsaw, August 22."

"NicoLAus.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LANCASTER AND PRESTON.
The annual meeting of this company was held at
Lancaster on Thursday, Mr. Bushell in the chair
The secretary read the report, which stated that the
differences with the canal company with reference to
the lease were terminated. The main portion of the
rent had been paid, and by the arrangement with the
Lancaster and Carlisle Company the fair value of
their property was secured. The balance from
revenue applicable to dividends amounted to 19,619/.
The chairman of this company had taken his seat at
the board of the Lancaster and Carlisle Company
The directors recommended the reduction previous to
May next of the annuity of 4,8751., secured to the
canal company. The capital account showed that
465,3311. had been expended on the undertaking. The
revenue account to the Ist of August showed that
20,0291. had been received, and 4101. expended, leav-
ing a balance of 19,6191.
The CHAIRMAN said, on referring to the revenue
account, they would find that there was an actual
balance to their credit of 19,6191. 3s. This was the
balance of revenue received ; but it appeared, on the
other hand, that a final settlement had not been
made with the canal company (the late lessees of
the line). Some demands had been made upon them
by the canal company, and some time would elapse
before these demands could be adjusted. The di.
rectors had thought it advisable in the present in-
stance to recommend a dividend of 3453. sd. on the
whole shares, 235. 6d. on the three-quarter shares, and
Vs. 4d. on the quarter shares. lie believed these figures
constituted, as near as practicable, the proportion of
their last dividend, and would, perhaps, give them a
dividend at the same rate for the one year and two
months. With regard to the capital account, they
would find it was in debt. 149/. 7s. ld., which had
been paid out of the revenue account, and would
have to be reimbursed out of the sale of the coin-
pany's working stock, and then added to that account.
With regard to the reduction of the annuity to the
canal company, it was desirable this should be done
while it could be effected on reasonable terms. Up
to the month of May next the affair might be ar-
ranged for 5,000/. less than after that time. He
should therefore advise the raising of the necessary
amount for the reduction of that annuity.—(llear.)
Ile concluded with moving that the report be received
and adopted.
Mr. HADDEN seconded the motion.

Dr. COWAN believed the miscellaneous property
the canal company received from them in 1842 was
valued at 40,0001., and that it was agreed that at the
end of the lease it should be revalued and the differ•
ence made good, on whichever side it might be. He
was anxious to call the attention of the directors to
this point.
The CHAIRMAN said the directors were quite cog-
nizant of the facts, and would not lose sight of them
Dr. COWAN then adverted to the capital account,
and gave it as his opinion that it ought to be closed
at once, and that the 1,300 Carlisle shares sold by
the directors should have been aided to the capital
account. A sum of 47,0001. or 48,0001.
would have to be raised to pay off the debt to the
canal company:. Now, the best and easiest way of
doing this, in his opinion, would be to call up 61. a
shire on the three-quarter shares, and 21. a share on
the whole shares. There would be a legal difficulty,
he understood, in tho way, but this might be got over
by going to Parliament before May.
The CHAIRMAN entered into explanations to show
that the difficulty of closing the capital account was
owing to the disputed titles to some land purchased
for the company's use, and the parties selling it
hiving since deceased. He would not pledge himself
t'a the shareholders that the capital account should not
exceed 467,0001., but from what he knew of the out-
standing accounts he did not think that sum would
be exceeded. As to calling up 61. on the three-quar-
ter shares, and 21. on the whole shares, Dr. Cowan
was right in saying there would be a legal difficulty,
and one which he (the chairman) was not certain
could be got over by Act of Parliament. He did
not think Parliament would allow them to call 61. on
shares which were created for the payment of 30,000/.
out of the 150,0001. authorised to be borrowed by the
company under their original Acts.
After some further conversation of no moment, the
report was put in the usual form and carried by ac-
clamation.
Mr. MAXSTED then moved that a dividend, in the
ratio suggested by the directors, u
be declared, and the
E. Moss, be
White-
ous
motion was seconded and
passed s
The CHAIRMAN proposed thiatslarilb.e
side, banker, and Mr. W. appointed au•
ditors, at a salary of 51. a year each.
Mr. .Mooltn seconded the motion.—Carried by
acclamation.

Mr. %VILLAIN' next moved a resolution for remune-
rating the directors.
Eventually the sum of 200 guineas was agreed to
be placed at the disposal of the board.
Mr. Hodgson, M.Y. for Carlisle, was unanimously
appointed a director in the place of Mr. Coulston.
On the motion of Mr. HODGSON, 400/. was voted to
Mr. Bushell, the chairman, and Mr. W. Jackson, the
deputy-chairman, of the board, as a slight token of
the esteem of the shareholders for their able extrica-
tion of the company from its difficulties.
The proceedings terminated with a vote: of thanks 1
to the Chairman.

COCKERMOUTH AND WORKINGTON.
A special meeting of this company was held on
Wednesday at Cockermeuth ; Mr. J. W. Fletcher in
the chair.
The CHAIRMAN said the secretary would read the
resolutions they had to submit to the meeting.
Mr. JACOB read the resolutions, which were to the
effect that it was expedient to raise 25,000/. by the
issue of 3,761 preference shares of 61. 13s. 4d. each,
with a guarantee of five per cent., the said shares to
be offered, in the first instance, to the holders of the
original sharer, and, if declined, to those who might
be induced to take them up ; and authorizing
i the di-
rectors to borrow 8,300/., on the best terms t could
be obtained.
The CHAIRMAN said that some of the shareholders
were of opinion that the money might be got for less
than five per cent., but on the whole the directors
thought it better to offer five per cent. The money
was wanted for the pursose of releasing the directors
from their personal liabilities, entered into on behalf
of the company.
The Rev. S. SHERWEN expressed his dissatisfaction
at the conduct of the directors, and the prospects of
the company. They proposed making a branch to
Bridgefoot for the private convenience of a certain
coal proprietor, the chairman of the company. For
his part he would never sanction such an objectionable
measure.

A SHAREHOLDER remarked, that as they were bor-
rowing money at 4 per cent., he thought they ought
not to guarantee more than 41 per cent.
Mr. STEEL said the directors of the Whitehaven
Railway had guaranteed E per cent.
The resolutions were then adopted.
Mr. S. SHERWEN and other shareholders made
strong objections to the construction of the branch to
the Chairman's collieries at the expense of the com-
pany. They said if he wanted a branch to his colliery
the least he could do ,a as to make it at his own ex-
pense.

- The CHAIRMAN said it could be made for 2,5001.,
but declined pledging himself to make it for that sum.
Mr. SHERWEN reminded the chairman that the
original estimate for constructing the main line was
80,0001., and for the dividend 8 per cent. per annum,
and said that no confidence could be placed in their
estimates.

The CHAIRMAN said he felt satisfied that the
Bridgefoot branch would be worth 10 per cent. to the
main line. .

Mr. Moitror thought the branch line ought not to
be proceeded with, unless they had the written con-
sent of the majority of the shareholders.
The Cluainmsx said that course was unusual, and
therefore he would not pledge himself to adopt it.
Mr. HARRIS said there was no occasion to consult
the shareholders further than calling a meeting.
After a sharp and personal discussion on the sub-
ject, the meeting separate 3.

CALEDONIAN.—To day this company open their
Clydesdale junction line for traffic, connecting it
by the existing railways with Ayreshire and Greenock,
and giving them a terminus on the south side of the
Clyde. The line runs from Hamilton to Glasgow,
and accommodates Rutherglen, Blantyre, and other
places.

- EAST LANCASHIRE.-1,000 men are employed with
a view to the completion of this company's line into
Preston.

NAMUR AND LIEGE.—On Saturday the Chairman
of this company, Mr. Andrew Spottiswoode, issued a
reply to the proprietors, who, at the last half-yearly
meeting, in July, passed a resolution requesting him
to retire from the direction. The Chairman, in his
reply, declines to do this, considering it would be a
violation of the trust reposed in him by the Belgian
Government. He states that the terms on which the
larger portion of the loan of 500,0001. has been con-
tracted for on behalf of the company are ruinous to the
shareholders; that the directors, as yet have only
obtained 238,245/. ; and that for 207,977/. of the sum
they have given debentures to the amount of 324,5201.,
being a premium of 116,5431., or upwards of 50 per
cent. This, besides the loss of capital, increases the
interest on the money borrowed to 8 per cent. per
annum, and the result, supposing the debentures fall
due at the end of five years, will be, that for the
accommodation of 326,4071., at 8 per cent., the com-
pany will have to pay a bonus of 179,5931.
WAKEFIELD, PONTEFRACT, AND GOOLE.--The
Methley branch of the above line was not opened on
Monday last, as it was announced it would be, in
consequence of some misunderstanding between the
Midland Company and the directors of the other line.

ADMISSION TO A CATHOLIC

CONVENT.

On Saturday two young ladies went through the
ceremony of what is termed " taking the veil," or
entering upon their noviciate, previously to being
professed as nuns, at the new convent of the Good
Shepherd, the second Catholic institution of the kind
in Hammersmith. One of the ladies, says a corre-
spondent, " whose name did not transpire, is from
Guernsey, and entered as a lay-sister. The other,
Miss Ryder, is highly connected, and as we were
informed, is a convert to the Catholic faith. Amongst
the friends who attended to witness her separation from
the world, were the llon. Mrs. S. Murray, the Hon.
Miss Frazer, and the Honourable Miss Methuen.
Her brother and sisters were also present. Being
assembled at one side of the chapel, adjoining the
convent, and the nuns, about twelve in number, being
ranged at the other both facing the altar, the young
ladies proceeded to turn to the threshold of the sanc-
tuary, where prie dieu were prepared for them, and,
kneeling down, a hymn was chaunted by a choir of
girls from the cloisters to the Virgin Mary, whose
nativity the Catholic Church that day celebrated.
The Right. Rev. Dr. Wiseman (assisted by the Rev.
Mr. Phillips, chaplain to the convent, the Rev. Mr.
Searle, and the Rev. Mr. Guidez) then said a low
mass, at which the two noviciates and the entire
community received the sacrament, and afterwards,
assuming his episcopal insignia, delivered a lengthened
exhortation to them on the necessity of walking
in the footsteps of the blessed Virgin, who, though
the chosen of God, had to bear a life of trials and
anxieties ending in fearful anguish. Bat such was
the love she bore her son, that she would rather have
suffered thus with him than have led a life of ease and
happiness without him. So with them, whatever
offices or duties they might have to discharge, what-
ever trials they might encounter by their own frailty,
they must recollect that they were but the humble
handmaids of God, who would sometimes perhaps
withdraw from them even that very consolation they
felt in loving him and receiving him within their
breasts in order that they might love him for His
sake alone, and look to no earthly reward for doing
so. They would not have such scenes of sorrow and
desolation to weep over as His Messed mother; but
they must not at the same time expect to lead a life
of unruffled tranquillity. They would have to carry
out the commands of God in a manner wholly op-
posed to self-love and the weakness of our nature,
and to yield that obedience to authority which formed
the very essence of the life of the religious state.
The Right Rev. Prelate's discourse (of which this is
merely the spirit) was followed by prayers special to
the occasion and the blessing of the robes, Bce.
The ladies then withdrew to cast aside their
worldly attire—Miss Ryder being dressed as a bride,
with a rich lace veil suspended from her head
(the lay sisters plainly), and returned in the garb of
the order of the Good Shepherd, when they were in-
vested by the Bishop with the veil, as an emblem of
modesty and purity, and to conceal them from the
eyes of the world. They also received from his
hands a rosary to remind them " that they were con-
secrated to the Blessed Virgin." More prayers being
said and hymns sung, they kissed each of their
" Sisters in Christ," and after bowing before the altar,
left the sacred edifice.

We lament to have to announce the death of Mr.
Cash, of cholera. He died at Hastings on Wednesday
evening, and is the second of the Brighton directors
swept off by the prevailing fatal epidemic. Mr. Cash
was the chairman of the late Eastern Counties Court of
Inquiry.

lITDROPHOBIA AT ARDSLEY.—In our last we
(Leeds Mercury) gave exclusively the particulars
of two distressing cases of hydrophobia at the village
of Ardsley, where two promising young men had
been sacrificed to the horrible madness occasioned by
the bite of a dog in a rabid state. Wo are now
enabled to furnish our readers with the particulars
of the inquest hold upon the body of one of them,
Frederick Arundale. The evidence adduced was
that of William Arundale, who deposed that he
was the father of the deceased, who was eighteen
years old. That ten weeks ago he was bitten by a dog
on the upper part of the left arm, and on the fore-
finger of the right hand. The dog afterwards bit
two others before it was destroyed, and ono of the par-
ties had died mad a fortnight ago from the effects. His
son did not begin to complain until the previous
Monday ; before which time ho ' had been quite
comingo tol
well, the wounds haling healed. His son was
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first seen by two a
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London for a doctor, at his own expense, to try it, if
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witness and his friends were willing. His son was not
agreeable at that time; he got worse, and on Wednesday
Mr. Slatter saw him, but he died on the day following
Sarah Arundale, the mother of deceased, stated that
she went with him several times to a person named
Dixon, a farrier at Wakefield, who told her he could
cure him, and he gave him a red powder to take in some
water and beer, and dressed his wounds until they were
healed. Her son was so bad on the day of his death
that it took from four to six men to hold him in bed.
Verdict—" Deceased died from Hydrophobia."
A LIsERAL Bartor.—The Society for the Pro-
motion of Christian Knowledge has promised the sum of
2,0001. towards the establishment of a theological insti-
tution in Colombo, for which purpose the Bishop of
Ceylon has paid 2,000/. out of his own pocket for pur-
chasing a site for the building, and has also promised to
devote 2001. a year from his income during his epis-
copate.

SURREY ADJOURNED SESSIONS, Sept. 10.
The adjourned sessions for the county of Surrey
commenced this morning, at the Sessions House,
Newington- causeway, before Thomas Puckle, Esq.,
and a full bench of magistrates. The calendar con-
tained 43 prisoners for trial, but very few of them
were of any importance, excepting one or two rob-
beries in the street, which have lately become so fre-
quent in the neighbourhood of the court. The grand
jury having been sworn, the Chairman remarked that
the calendar was not very heavy, and he was ex-
tremely glad to say so, as at that time of the
year they generally had a large number of prisoners
for trial.

Arc IMPUDENT .SMASHER.—WiIIiam Smith, 33,
was indicted for uttering five half. crowns at the house
of Joseph Rutter, the landlord of the Swan Inn, at
Chertsey, with intent to defraud him.
Mr. Robinson was retained for the prosecution.
Mary Rutter, the wife of the prosecutor, said that
on Monday, the 6th of August, the prisoner came to
the bar window and asked for half a quartern of
gin, for which he gave a new half crown, which
she put into the till. Prior to that she had not taken
any coin of that description. The prisoner left
the house and returned twice, when he partook
of two half-pints of beer, which he paid for with two
similar coins, which she also put into the till. In the
evening, when her husband came home, she emptied
the till, and on looking at the half crowns she had
some suspicion of them, and on showing them to her
husband, they were all found t) be counterfeit.
The barmaid of the prosecutor said that on the fol-
lowing morning the prisoner came into the tap-room
and called for a quartern of gin, for which he gave a
half-crown. She gave him the change and he went
away. He came back in the evening and had some
more beer, when he tendered another half-crown.
Witness looked at it, and having some suspicion she
called Mr. Rutter, who instantly discovered that it
was a counterfeit. She told him from whom she
received it, when the prosecutor entered the tap-room
and gave the prisoner into custody.
Mr. Powell, the inspector of coins for the Mint,
proved that the whole of them were counterfeit, and
cast in the same mould.
In defence the prisoner said he had only one half-
crown when the prosecutor collared him, but after-
wards acknowledged having two.
The jury found him Guilty, and the 'Cold sentenced
him to twelve months at Brixton.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Yesterday John Basin, of 34, Montague-street,
Brick-lane, was charged with stealing a hat in the
Roman Catholic Chapel, Moorfields, under the follow-
ing circumstances :

Bartholomew Higgins, of White-alley, Moorgate-
street, said that on Sunday morning he attended mass
at Moorfields' Chapel at eight o'clock, and while he
went up to receive the sacrament the prisoner took
advantage of his absence and walked off with his bat,
which cost him 123. Gd only a short time since.
Patrick Vaughan, of Goodman's-buildings, Went-
worth-street, said that he attended the chepel at the
hour named by the last witness, and saw him go
towards the altar. No sooner did he leave the seat
than the prisoner went and took the hat which
Higgins had left behind him, and, as an exchange,
placed his own old hat in lieu of it. Witness followed
him out, and asked him whose hat he had got, and he
replied his own. The policeman was called, and the
prisoner given into custody.
Alderman Cum .Lis asked if such tricks were of
frequent occurrence ?—Vaughan replied that they
were.

Edward Knight, 2, said he received the prisoner in
charge about nine o'clock, when near the chapel. He
said that his own hat was in the chapel, and that he
Lad been a long time out of employment.
Alderman CHALLIS—Did he say he took it in
mistake ? Knight—He did not.
Alderman CHALLIS—Did what be said leave an
impression on your mind that he took it for the pur-
pose of selling ? Knight— It did.
The prisoner, in defence, said that he unfortunately
got intoxicated last Lord Mayor's Day, lost his situa-
tion, and had ever since been out of employment. He
hoped the Alderman would deal leniently with bin,
and he would never be guilty of the like again.
Alderman CHALLIS sent him to prison for one
month.

The prisoner thanked the Alderman, and was then
removed.

MARY LEB ONE.

DONATION FOR THE POOR-BOX.—Yesterday Mr.
Broughton requested the reporters to give publicity
to the following :
" Kenmore, N. 8., Sept. 7, 1849.
" Sir,—l enclose a cheque for 5/. for your poor-
box, to be applied towards the relief of sufferers from
cholera. You may make what use you think best of
this note. Probably the insertion of it in the public
prints will operate as a memento to those who, like
myself, are taking their pleasure at a distance from
the pestilence, to think of their poor neighbours
whom they have left behind.
" I have the honour to be Sir, your most obedient
servant, "J. A. M."
(The writer, who gave his name, requested that his
initials only should be given.)
CHOLERA.—A person, who stated that he resided in
Edward-street, Cumberland-market, addressed the
sitting magistrate, Mr. Broughton, in order to ascer-
tain from him how he should act under the following
circumstances :
Applicant set forth that, on the previous morning,
a man died at his house of Asiatic cholera, leaving a
wife and five children. There was no money left
behind wherewith to bury the deceased, and appli-
cant had, since the death, sent three times to the
parish authorities, in order that the body should be
removed by them ; but as yet no notice had been
taken of the matter. He considered that it was a case
which should be promptly attended to, and he had
therefore lost no time in soliciting his 'Worship's inter-
ference.

The worthy MAGISTRATE directed one of the war-
rant officers (Crosswell) to proceed instanter in a cab
to the St. Pancras workhouse with applicant, and there
make knows what had transpired at this court.
WESTMIIVS7'ER.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—James Summers, described
as a butcher, living in Stockbridge terrace, Pimlico,
was placed'at the bar, charged with stealing 1611., in
sovereigns and half•sovereigns, from the residence of
Mr. Richard James, of 8, Victoria-road, Pimlico,
cheesemonger.
Mr. Robinson attended for the prosecution, and
Mr. Solomons for the prisoner.
The circumstances of the case, as detailed by Mr.
Robinson in his opening, and by the witnesses in their
evidence, are briefly these :—The prisoner had been
for a great length of time on terms of intimacy with
the prosecutor, and was formerly in his service, but
left three years ago, since which time be repeatedly
visited at the house, and was treated as a friend. Tll3
accused, who had had ample opportunities of observ-
ing where Mr. James kept his money, called at his
house on the 16th ult., while the prosecutor was
engaged in counting 3631. in gold, and inquired, in
the course of conversation, what he was going to do
with it, when the prosecutor replied that he was
going to lay out 400/. in the Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cent. Consols. Prisoner having intimated that he
could not do so very advantageously atprescnt, inquired
whether the prosecutor would step out and take some
refreshment with him, and the prosecutor having put
the gold away in its usual place went out with
him. On his return the prosecutor separated 1631.
from the remainder, the former of which he left on the
cupboard-shelves,
in a
bag, which where h?
he h?udsueapollirited among some
keptit,andthe
residue
papers, locking the whole in the cupboard. On the
following day the prisoner again came to the house
and stated thel
object of his vi-it to be, to finish some

work in the kitchen, he having some time previously
undertaken to paint and whitewash it for the prose-
cutor. In the course of the afternoon Mr. James
went down to see how the work progressed, but, to
his surprise, discovered that nothing whatever had
been done. On the same evening the prisoner came
again with the same excuse for the visit, and likewise
left without doing the required work. On the 27th
ult. the prosecutor discovered that the 1611. in gold
had been taken from the cupboard, the lock of which
bore marks of having been forced ; and on the pri-
soner coming to the house that evening, the prose-
cutor informed him of his loss, when the prisoner
recommended him to say nothing about his loss,
as he couldn't identify any of the money, and as
it would go forth to his tradesmen, and they would
be afraid to send goods in. Prosecutor having
replied that he had no fear on that score,
as he owed nothing, the prisoner left. On Thurs-
day the 6th instant the prisoner again came to the
shop, when, in the course of some general conversa-
tion, the prosecutor asked him for a sovereign h 9
owed him, to which prisoner replied that he could
not pay him the whole, but would bring him a part,
and in the course of the same afternoon the accused
again presented himself at the shop, and handed pro-
secutor a half-sovereign, which he immediately iden-
tifiad as one of those forming a part of the 1611. stolen
from the cupboard. He was enabled to identify it
by some marks which he had made on it with his
teeth, he having observed, while counting the gold up,
that looked rather dull, and thought that it might
be a counterfeit. The prosecutor made no observa-
tion to the prisoner when he received the half-sove-
reign from him, but immediately communicated with
the police, who had been for some days engaged in
endeavouring to bring the offender to justice; and
Sergeant Loom, 11 B, apprehended the prisoner on
Saturday night, at a skittle-alley, where be had for
some time previously kept an eye upon him, and
observed that he was rather List' of gold. Loom, on
the occasion of taking him into custody, told
prisoner that he was aware of Mr. James's robbery,
end asked him if he had any money about him, to
which he replied, only sixpence ; but on the officer

proceeding to search him at the station-house, he
pulled out seventeen half-sovereigns of the Queen
Victoria coinage, those stolen being neatly all of a
correspon'ling description, and some silver. Ile then
pretended that it was his mother's money, which upon
inquiry, before he had time to make any communica-
tion, turned out to be false.
Added to the above chain of circums!ances was
the testimony of Matilda Franklin, the cook at Mr.
James's, who deposed that on the occasion of the
second visit of the prisoner, on the evening of the
17th ult., she saw him coming clown stairs on tiptoe,
holding his pockets with his hands, and observed him
go out the private way, which was contrary to his
ger.eral habit.
Mr. Robinson having asked for a remand for a few
days, with a view, it possible, of obtaining further
evidence,
Mr. BRODER'? remanded the accusal, who made
no defence, for a weak.
Bail, on the application of prisoner's solicitor for
his appearance, was refused.
LAMBETH.

DESECRATION Or THE SannaTH.—Yesterclay Mr.
Norton received a letter calling his attention to the
proceedings carried on during the Sunday in Batter-
sea-fields, and " New Point at Camber well," which
the writer described as a gross desecration of the
Sabbath. Having read the letter, Mr. Norton in.
quired if there was any one of the inspectors of
police belonging to the Camberwell division present;
and being informed that Mr. Robinson, the super-
intendent of the V, or Camberwell division, had just
entered the clerk's room, lie requested to see him.
On entering the court, Mr. Robinson was mule
acquainted with the nature of the communication,
and asked what he thought was meant by the " New
Point at Camberwell ? Ile replied, he had no doubt
the place alluded to was a tea-garden of considerable
extent, which had been recently fitted up, and to
which a great number of persons were attracted,
particularly on the Sunday afternoon and night.
Mr. NORTON—Is this garden attached to a public-
house or tavern ?
Mr. Robinson—No, sir, not to a public-house, but
to a beer-house.
Mr. NORTON—Are there entertainments of any
sort given there ? Mr. Robinson—On the week-day
evenings and nights there is music and dancing, but
on Sundays I believe the only amusement is going
through a maze; 61 is paid for entrance; but this, I
understand, is allowed in the charge for refreshments.
Mr. NORTON—What is the character of the per-
sons who frequent this place? Mr. Robinson—There
are a great many prostitutes, and a numerous
class of persons who live on them go there, as well as
a number of servants, y oung men and women ; and I
feel bound to say I entertain strong doubts whether
it is a proper place for the resort of modest females.
Mr. NORTON—Then what is the character of the
person who keeps the place ? Mr. Rob:nson—He
is or has been the proprietor of a number of brothels.
He applied to the Commissioners for the assistance of
the police, but his application was refused.
Mr. NORTON—I should think so, indeed. In my
opinion the very last thing that should be interfered
with is the rational amusement of all classes ; but
this is a place which must, if not pro-
perly conducted, be at once put down. The parish
of Camberwell has been, in my ophdon, the best con-
ducted of any parish in the metropolis, and such a
nuisance and evil as that just established cannot be
permitted to exist; and I therefore request, Mr.
Robinson, as a complaint has reached this court of
the proceedings there, you will cause inquiries to be
made as to the management of the place, and mention
the result to me on a future day.
Mr. Robinson promis,Jl to comply with his Wor-
ship's request, and here the matter ended.
THE POOR•IIOX,—Mr. Norton received from S. S.
G. a communication enclosing the half of a .5/. note,
and also a second communication with the remaining
half of a W. note, No. 831,157, date July 14, 1849,
fur the benefit of the sick poor.
SOUTIIIVARK.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY BY A FEMALE.—Jade TV kite,
alias Evans, a tall masculine-looking, fashionably.
dressed young woman, was brought before Mr.
Seeker for further examination, charged with stealing
a silver watch and pencil-case from the person of Mr.
John Smith, a gentleman residing in Trinity- square,
Southwark.
Mr. Binns attended to defend the prisoner.
It appeared from the statement of the prosecutor
that on the afternoon of the 21st of August he had
been to Fulham to transact some business, and he
returned to London-bri Ige in an omnibus about
twelve at night, when he proceeded along High-street
on his way home. Being rather thirsty after the
fatigue of the day, he entered the Three Tuns tavern,
and partook of a glass of stout, and as soon as he
came out of the latter place he saw the prisoner pass
him, followed by two men. He walked along, and
turned up Trinity-street towards the square, and as
he was crossing Swan-street the prisoner suddenly
seized hold of him, and snatched his watch and
pencil.case from his waistcoat pocket. Before he
could recover himself, two men came up to him and
struck him, and prevented him from makirg any
alarm. They then all made their escape. He pur-
sued them fur some time, but was unable to find any
trace of them. He instantly gave information to the
police, and gave a description of the prisoner, which
ultimately led to her apprehension.
In cross-examination by Mr. Binns, witness said
he was perfectly sober when he entered the Three
Tuns, and he knew that his watch was safe then, as
he looked at it to compare with the clock in the
public house. Witness had said that he hoped she
would get off, as he did not wish to be kept from
business. He never said that he was mistaken as to
the prisoner, fur he was sure she was the person who
robbed him.
Sergeant Blandford, 12 M, said that he received
information of the robbery, with a description of the
prisoner, on the 2d of August. Knowing her well,
he kept a look-out for her, and on the evening of the
sth instant he met her in the Borough, when he took
her into custody. The prosecutor was immediately
sent for, when he identified her. IVitness had seen
her in the Borough on the night of the robbery with
two men, whom he knew well as her associates.
Mr. Binns contended that the prosecutor and the
policemen werd both wrong, as he was instructed to
say the prisoner was some distance from London on
the night in question. He called
William French, a general dealer at Norwood, who
said that the prisoner had lived with him as his house-
keeper for six months. She remained with him until
last Wednesday week, when she left to visit a friend
f'n London. lle was certain that she was not in Lon-
don on the 21st, of August.
Sergeant Blandford said that he not only saw her
on Monday evening previous to the robbery, but she
was seen on the same day by another policeman in a
pawnbroker's shop.
Wright, police-constable 63 IV, said that he had
known the prisoner for some time in the Borough.
Three weeks ago he saw her in Mr. Barnett's, the
pawnbroker, in the Circus, Blackfriars-road, redeem-
ing some article.
Mr. SECKER said that if such was the fact gross
perjury had been committed by French, whom he
should direct to be looked after. lie was determined
to fully investigate the charge ; therefore he should
remand the prisoner, to give the constable an opportu-
nity of making inquiries in other quarters.
She was accordingly remanded. The police were
directed to make every effort to find the men.
CLERK EN WELL.

Yesterday John Brown, a powerful looking young
man, an ex policaman, was placed at the bar before
Mr. Combe, charged with the following daring and
violent outrage on the police :
It appeared from the evidence that on Sunday
morning, at 'ten o'clock, the prisoner was drunk and
fighting with another man in Cromer street, Bruns-

wick square, when Sergeant Graysmank, 8 E, inter-
fered, and the prisoner became exceedingly violent,
and swore that no policeman should take him. He
seized the sergeant by the throat, knocked him down,
and attempted to choke him. Carter, 124 E, came to
his assistance, and was obliged to use his staff to
extricate him from the prisoner's grasp. The prisoner
then fought, bit, and kicked at them like a madman,
until Pratt, 136 E, arrived to their assistance, on
which the prisoner gave him a violent kick in the
stomach, which laid him prostrate in the greatest
agony. He kept the officers at bay, swearing that he
would serve them out, as he owed them a grudge.
He succeeded in knocking down Graysmank, whom
he kicked about the head and body until be was
nearly insensible. On his way to the station•
house he resisted desperately, until several other po-
liceman arrived on the Tot, and it required the united
efforts of eight officers to secure him in the station-
house. The whole of the officers attended, and exhi-

bited severe wounds and bruises, especially Grays-
mank, Carter, and Pratt, who were stated to have
been so much injured that they were rendered inca-
pable of performing their duty.
Mr. ComBE asked the prisoner what he had to say
to the charge ? Prisoner—l was drunk, and I do not
recollect anything that took place.
Mr. ComnE—lt is very convenient, no doubt, for
you, an ex-policeman, to nearly murder constables.
You ought to know better ; if you do Rot, you must
be taught. (To the officer)—What do you know of
the prisoner's character? Graysmank said he was
discharged from the dice force three years ago, and
since then he had bepen convicted of violent assaults
on the police. He wa3 a desperate character.
Mr. COMBS said he was a complete savage, and he
sentenced him to on? month's imprisonment in the
House of Correction with hard labour, for the assaults
upon Graysmank, Carter, and Peatt, making the
whole three months' imprisonment.
Two thieves, named Costello and Green, were
charged with pelting the police with stones.
It appeared that when the above officers were
taking the prisoner Brown to the station-house they
were followed by an immense crowd, who pelted

stones, hooted at them, an 3 called out fora ro:eue
the prisoners were taken in the act at throwing I.irge
stones.
They were sentenced to fourteen days' imprison-
ment each.

'WORSHIP-STREET.
UTTERING FORGED NOTES.— William Harris,
young man of respectable appearance, described as a
solicitor's clerk, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Arnold, charged with having uttered a .5/. Bank of
England note to Mrs. Martha Wilton, living in Essex-
street, Kingsland-road.
A young woman, named Mary Bird, stated that
Ole lodged at the house of Mrs. Wilton, and had
been intimately acquainted with the prisoner for
upwards of a twelvemonth. On the evening of the
21st ult., while passing down the Kingsland-road she
met the prisoner, who invited her into a public-
house to take some refreshment, but she objected to
do so, and proposed that he should accompany her
home for that purpose. The prisoner accordingly
repaired with her to her lodgings, where he sent out
for half-a-pint of brandy, in payment of which he
handed a .5/. note to her landlady, and requested her
to bring him the change. The latter procured the
liquor, and returned 4/ 18s. 6.1. to the prisoner, who
left the house almost immediately, and they were
subsequently apprised by the barman of the public-
house, who had given change for the note, that be had
ascertained it to be a forgery. She saw nothing more
of the prisoner until last Saturday evening, when she
met him in the neighbourhood, and at once charged
him with having passed a forged note to her landlady ;
to which he made no direct reply, but seemed anxious
to elude her, and turned hastily down an adjoining
street. She followed him closely, however, and kept
him in conversation till a policeman made his appear-
ance, and she was about to give him into custody
when her intentions were anticipated by the prisoner,
who gave her in charge for annoying him in the
streets. On reaching the station house, however, she
communicated all the circumstances to the inspector
on duty, who ordered her immediate liberation, and
detained the prisoner upon the present charge.
Adelaide Doudney, a fellow lodger of the last wit-
ness, deposed positively to the prisoner being the
person who uttered the note, which was produced in
court, and identified by the landlady as the same she
had received from him.

William Williams, barman at the Carpenters'
Arms, Kingsland-road, and three other witnesses,
through whose hands the note had subsequently
passed, were examined as to its identification ; the
last of whom, a corn factor, named Johnson, proved
having present_d it with other monies at the Bank of
England, where he kept an account, on the 28th ult.
Mr. James Barton, a clerk at the Bank of England,
proved that the note in question was a forgery; and
two other t?/. notes, produced by persons in court,
and which formed the subject of further charges
against the prisoner having been also handed to the
witness for inspection, he pronounced them both to be
forgeries.
Sergeant Teakle, of the II division, produced six
other forged 51. notes, which he stated had been ut-
tered to different tradesmen by a person whose de
scription exactly answered that of the prisoner, and
he fully expected that he should be able on a future
day to establish numerous other cases against him.
Mr. Vann, who appeared for the prisoner, ex-
pressed his intention to reserve the defence, but
trusted the Magistrate would admit his client to bail,
as he had been for many years in the set vice of an
eminent professional firm in Throgmorton-street, the
principals of which had always entertained the highest
opinion of his integrity and general character.
Mr. ARNOLD said that he must dreline to accept
bail after the statement he had just heard from the
officer, and he should order the prisoner to be re-
manded fur the production of other charges agtinst
him.

CORONERS' INQUESTS,
DEATH OF MIS. THOMAS ',IOIINSON, LATE
AL-
DERMAN OF ALDGATE WARD. —Yesterday an inquest
was held before Mr. Baker, at the Brunswick Arms,
Homerton, cm view of the body of Mr. Thomas
Johnson, aged 86, late alderman of Aldgate Ward,
who died of an attack of diarrhoea. Mr. T. Ewens,
City visiting missionary, No. 4, Queen's-road, Homer-
ton, said that the deceased, whose residence was at
the Charter-house, on Thursday last came on a visit
to his family. He used to suffer from an affection of
the chest, and on Friday, as he felt pain there he took
a pill. In the evening he was seized with diarrheee,
for which, about twelve o'clock, he took some brandy
and water. But he got no better. About six o'clock
on Saturday morning he was seen by Mr. Howell,
surgeon, who was unable to check the progress of the
disease, and he died about three o'clock on the after-
noon of Saturday. At this time of the year the de-
ceased was in the habit of passing a month with his
son and niece at Homerton. Verdict—" Natural
death." Deceased twice attempted to be elected Lord
Mayor.
ADJOURNED INQUEST ON WILLIAMS, THE CHARTIST
CONVlCT.—Yesterday afternoon Mr. Longhorn, the
deputy-coroner for Westminster, resumed and con-
cluded the inquiry which was commenced on Setur-
day, into the circumstances attendant upon the death
of Joseph Williams, who died on Wednesday last, in
the Westminster prison.
Mr. F. Atkinson, the barrister, and Mr. Fitch, a
solicitor, attended to watch the proceeding for the
friends of the deceased ; and Captain Williams, one
of the inspectors of prisons, was also in attendance.
William Bates, a warder of the prison, stated
that he received the deceased into his charge on the
14th of July; on the 28th of August he complained
of illness—of constipation of the bowels. The prison
surgeon saw him, and ordered him some gruel for
dinner and supper, in addition to the bread-and-water
diet on which he was then kept. Williams was, at
that time, under solitary confinement, inflicted, as
witness believed, for a breach of the prison rules, in
refusing to work. Witness had him in charge up to
the Ist of September. His solitary confinement was
to extend over six days, and special directions were
given by the magistrates that he should have bread
and water for his diet. He did not fulfil the whole
term of his sentence, his punishment being remitted
as soon as he complained of illness, on the 28th. On
the 29th he said he was better, and he was then re-
placed in solitary confinement, on a bread-and-water
diet.

On his cross-examination by Mr. Atki;lson, witness
stated that the surgeon had ordered Williams extra
diet long before he was placed in solitary confinement.
Williams used to be permitted to occupy his own
cell, and was exempt from labour, as his friends paid
ss. a week for his exemption. That paym&nt was at
length discontinued, and the prison rules were con-
sidered to be broken. The exemption from work on
payment of ss. weekly was a privilege granted to
political offenders.
Mr. Thomas Crea, the deputy governor of the
prison, stated that Williams refused to pick oakum
when ordered to do so by the magistrates.
On being questioned by Mr. Atkinson,
Mr. Crea stated that on Monday, August 20, he
was directed to give the prisoner a pound of oakum to
pick, which he would not undertake to do. When
Williams came to the prison he was very much at-
tenuated, but afterwards he increased in weight.
The surgeon of the prison (Mr. Lavres) expressed
his opinion that solitary confinement would not have
the effect of producing looseness of the bowels ; it
would rather tend to constipation. Williams died in
a state of syncope, induced by an attack of Asiatic
cholera.

William 'Williams, the father of the deceased, said
he saw his son on Wednesday, the sth inst. Ile ap•
pearcd in a very low state, and said he was very ill
through starvation. His exclamation was, "lam a
dead Mall; it no cholera, but cold and starvation."
The Conoska having directed the attention of the
jury to the facts detailed in evidence, a deliberation
of about half an hour took place.
The jury returned as their verdict—" That the pri-
soner died whilst in a faint produced by cholera ; and
they recommend that the infliction of a bread•and-
water diet for so long a period be for the present
discontinued."

Williams, it will be recollected, was convicted for a
seditious speech on Clerkenwell-green, in conjunction
with Fussell, Looney, Vernon, and other Chartists,
about fourteen months since.

THE ALLEGED BURYING ALIVE IN CAMDEN TOWN.
—At an inquest held by Mr. 11. M. Wakley, in
Camden Town, the worthy Coroner expressed a strong
desire that a statement relative to a servant in the
employ of Mr. Brown, cow-keeper, Camden-town,
having been buried alive, which appeared in a report
of an inquest held by him on a soldier in Regent's-park
Barracks, and which was published in the daily
journals, should be contradicted, as it created the
greatest alarm and excitement amongst deceased's
relatives and the inhabitants of Camden-town. At
that inquest a person, who he imagined was a juror,
but who it subsequently appeared was a sp?ctator,
said that the man had been buried alive, that his
widow had the grave and coffin opened, and that she
found her husband on his face, his knuckles fright-
fully lacerated, and the coffin full of blood. Mazsrs.
Bird and George, the medical attendants, and his
widow, assured him that there was not the slightest
foundation for the statement, and that as no doubt
was entertained of deceased's death his grave was not
opened. The man had eaten a quantity of oysters,
which gave him cholera, of which he had died, and
he was speedily buried. lie had no control over
newspapers, and therefore was not accountable for
their reports. The Coroner again expressed a hope
that, in order to allay the excitement and pain created
by the report, the daily journals would contradict it.
The jury repeated a similar hope, and the conver-
sation dropped.
A KEEPER MURDERED BY A MANIAC.—Last
evening Mr. 11. M. Wakley held an adjourned in
quest, in the Kensington Workhouse, on Maurice
Pickett, a keeper over the lunatics in the workhouse,
aged 62.

On the 27th ult. WlllHri
lunatic, was nduiicteet to the workhouzie. ;()
desperate that the strongest jacket and leg bolts had
to be put on. The following Friday morning John
Holday, an assistant, was awoke by a noise in the
lunatic ward, when he saw Wheeler armed with a
blackthorn stick, and struggling with another lunatic.
He instantly hurried to deceased's bed, whom he
found insensible and covered with blood. He then
called 'the watchman. The moment the latter en.
tered, Wheeler rushed at him with his stick, but the
watchman overpowered and secured him. Wheeler
by some means got rid of his straight jacket and bolts.
As soon as he was secured, deceased was removed to
the infirmary, and attended by Mr. Runney, the
house•surgeon ; but, although everything was done to
save him, he died on Monday, the 3d inst. Wheeler
was conveyed to the Peckham asylum, where he still
remains in a most infuriated state, threatening de-
struction to all around him.

..
The jury returned the following verdict :—" De-
ceased died of a fracture of the t,kull, but by whom
caused there was no evidence to prove."

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PLYMOUTH, SEPT. B.—The Penguin packet-brig ar-
rived this morning from Falmouth, and :sent up harbour
to refit.

The crew of the Linnet were paid wages at the office in
the dockyard this morning, and the brig sailcd this
afternoon for Falmouth.
The Board of Ordnuce having granted the use of
tents for cholera patients at Tavistock and Beer Afton,
they were on the 6th inst. forwarded to those towns from
the gun-wharf.

The Brightman emigrant-ship, +of 600 tons burden,
Captain C. G. Cowley, bound to Australia, having
grounded at Wonhing, on her passage from London to
this port, was on Thursday, through the instrumentality
of Messrs. Luscombe, Driscoll, and Co., I heed in charge
of the dockyard authorities. The Spartan frigate was,
in consequence hauled out of the north deck yesterday
(Friday) morning, and the Brightmem hauled in. The
Government artisans were employed a few extra hours,
the water pumped out of the dock, and the bottom of
the Brightman (which ship draws fifteen feet) was care-
fully examined, alien it was found that only a small
portion of the copper of her false keel had been rubbed
off. That trifling defect having been made good, the
water was again admitted, and this morning the Sir
Francis Drake steamer, Captain Sadler, towed the
Brightman from the dockyard to her sailing moorings in
the Sound.. By this judicious arrangement the emigrants
were spared the great inconvenience of landicg and re
embarking, the expense of unloading cargo has been
saved, and the tedious and unpleasant delay caused by
the other modes of examining a ship's bottom completely
avoided.

Wind—Easterly; smart braze and fine weather.
WOOLWICH, .SEPT. 10.—Commodore Henry Eden has
joined from leave, and hoisted his broad pendant on the
Fisgard frigate.
Mr. Richard Graves, shipwright at Woolwich dock-
yard, has been appointed carpenter to the expedition
which sailed on Friday last from Bristol to survey the
Lagoons in the Bight of Benin, under the charge of Mr.
Ferdinand Struve. A large flat-bottomed boat has-been
built and fitted out with every necessary convenience fo,
the purposes of the expedition by Mr. Thompson, of
Rotherhithe, and was forwarded by railway to Bristol.
The Bosphorus, belonging to the General Screw-pro-
peller Shipping Company, arrived at Liwrpool from
London on th 3 7th instant, after an excellent passage
making the voyage to Liverpool from the Downs in
three days and two hours. She left the Downs with
moderate wind ahead, which continued till off' the Lie
of Wight, when she had a fair wind to the Land's End,
and her average rate of speed t, that poict was ten knots,
having made 310 miles in rather less than thirty-one
hours. At the Land's End she experienced a strong
north-easterly wind, against which she steamed in
gallant style.

A very interesting trial of speed took place on the
river on Thursday last, the 6th of September, between
the Manchester and Sheffield steam vessels, having bows
and Stern alike, and fitted up with excellent deck ac
commodation, being intended to run between Hull and
New Holland, to convey the passengers of the Manches
ter, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway acrosi the
Humber. Messrs. Robinson and Russell built the Man-
chester, and also fitted her with her engines. The
length of keel of the Manchester is 167 feet, and her
breadth of beam 22 feet, and she is fitted with oscil-
lating engines of 150 nominal horse power, the cylinders
being 4 feet diameter, and the stroke 4 feet 6 inches.
The Sheffield was built by Mr. Smith, of Gainsbo-
rough, and her length of keel is 150 feet, with a breadth
of beam of 22 feet. Her engines were constructed by
Messrs. George and Sir John R,.nnie, under the superia-
tendance of Mr. Humphries, now chief engineer at
Woolwich Dockyard, and they are on the oscillating
principle, of 156 horse-power, with cylinders 4 feet
diameter, and 4 feet stroke. Both vessels arrived at
Blackwell about twelve o'clock, when Mr. A. Robinson
went on board the Sheffield, and requested that the race
should commence from Erith instead of Blackwell, as
was at first intended. This was agreed to, and the
Manchester started, followed at about three boats'
length by the Sheffield. When opposite Erith the
Sheffield had to stop twice in consequence of craft in the
river, and the steering becoming jammed in the sheave.
When the Sheffield arrived at Erith the Manchester was
about a mile ahead, and instead of stopping there for the
former, as Mr. Robinson proposed, she went on straight
ahead, and from Erith to the Nore light gained nearly
another mile. When the Manchester rounded the light,
Mr. Fowler, engineer to the railway company, and um-•
pipe of the race, ordered the Sheffield to turn, which gave
her a start of nearly two miles, and that distance was in.
creased all the way to Blackwell, and she was three
miles and a half a-head of the Manchester when she
arrived at the Brunswick pier. Taking the race as com-
mencing at Erith, the Sheffield beat the Manchester by
about a little more than half a mile, a very close race
considering the distance run by the vessels. The engines
of both worked well—those on the Sheffield making 35
revolutions per minute, with paddle-wheels 18 feet in
diameter, and floats 11 feet by 11 feet. She had no hot
bearings nor any accident whatever, and kept blowing oil
steam both going and returning. The average speed at-
tained was nearly 16 miles an hour. The Manchester
left the river for the Humber on Friday last, and the
boats are highly creditable to their constructors.

NEW ARMAMENT of the FRE NC H
FLEET. •

(From the IVautica- I
_Standard)
Seven first-rates, to carry 112 guns, viz , four 80-
pounder howitzers (a); six howitzers (6); six 50-
pounders (c); twenty-two 30-pounders (d); twenty-
eight 30 pounders (e); thirty-four 30:pounders (f);
twelve 30-pounders (g).
Twelve second•rates, to carry 90 guns—four 80 -
pounder howitzers (a); six howitzers (h); s x 50-
pounders (c); twenty-two 30-pounders (d); twenty-
eight 30 pounders (e); twenty-eight 30-pounders (j).
Eleven third-rates (new model), to carry 82 guns—four
80-pounder howitz rs (a); six L Avitzers (b); six 50-
rounders (c); twenty 30-pounders (d); twenty-six 30-
pounders (e); twenty 30 pounders (f).
Firs third-rates (old model), to carry 80 guns—four
80-pounder howitzers (a); four howitx.rs (6); twenty-
six 30 pounders (d); twenty-eight 30-pounders (e);
eighteen 30-pounders (g).
Four fourth-rues (new model), to carry 74 guns—
four 80-pounder howitzers (a); four howitzers (6); four
50-pounder guns (c); twenty 30 pouEdkr guns (d);
twenty-six 30-pounders (e); sixteen 30-pounders (f ).
Eight fourth-rate ships (old model), to carry 70 guns—
four 80-pounder howitzers (a); twelve 30-pounders (g);
twenty-four 36-pounders; thirty 18-pounders.