The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-16 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
A man named Fawcett was charged with having most
dangerously assaulted his daughter, who appeared to be
about 18 years of age. The poor girl had not been able
to move from the hospital to which she was conveyed on
the 25th of March, until Saturday, and two attendants
were obliged to wait upon her.
The girl, who reluctantly appeared against her father,
stated that he suddenly rose between twelve and one
o'clock in the morning from the bed in which he had
lain down dressed, and ran after her mother for the pur-
pose of beating her. The mother escaped, but the wit-
ness unfortunately happened to be in the way, and he
kicked her in the front of her person and on the hip.
She had, in consequence of his desperate violence, lost
the use of her legs and been subjected to frequent faint-
ing fits, and for a considerable time her life was believed
to be in danger. He had struck her mother upon a
former occasion, and she attributed the attack to the in-
fluence of strong liquors.
The prisoner, in answer to the Lord Mayor, said it
appeared to him to be nothing but a dream when he was
told that he had kicked his daughter. t lie had no idea
of such a thing at all, and he deeply regretted it.
The LORD-MAYOR said the case was too serious a one
to be passed over or decided upon by a, magistrate, and
ordered the defendant to be bound over to attend the
next session to answer the complaint.
GUILDHALL.
Robert Payne, of 33, St. John's-square, Clerkenwell,
in the employ of Mr. George Dollond,, of St. Paul's
Churchyard, optician, was charged with. stealing a num-
ber of object-classes for telescopes, besidos a quantity of
spectacle glasses.
Alderman Grins committed him for trial, and the
depositions being made out, he was ccuveyed to New-
gate.

THAM ES.
John Spooner, a cab driver, was brougka before Mr. J.
T. Ingham, charge d with causing the dea.t h of Mr. Henry
Hunter, a master butcher, and robbing him of four
sovereigns.

It appeared that at nine o'clock on 'Thursday night
police-constable 113 K had his attention called to the de-
, ceased, who appeared to be drunk and incapable of taking
care of himself, in the East India-road,. Poplar. The
deceased was removed to the station-hourk3 in Poplar, and
locked up in one of the cells, where he n as occasionally
visited by Sergeant Yeoman, the officer fin charge of the
station. About two hours afterwards Yeannan heard the
deceased breathing very hard, and upon looking at him
ho appeared to be in a dying state. No tN me was lost in
sending for medical assistance; the unfor t unate man was
brought out of the cell and placed before 'it he fire, and the
stomach-pump was used to dislodge tilt; contents of the
stomach, which smelt strongly of spirits. The surgeon
remained with the deceased for five houtrs, and he was
carefully attended to during the whole c.f. the night by
Yeoman and others. At seven o'clock t ,n the morning
of Friday he appeared to be getting bettaer, and Yeoman
was about to send him to his own home, when a
sudden change for the worse took place. The surgeon
was again sent for, but the man was bey.a nd the reach of
human aid, and expired two hours afterwr ards. Inquiries
were then made by Inspector Holmes, of the K division,
and it was ascertained that the deceased was a butcher,
who had latelyjopened a shop in Poplar ew Town, and
that he had been to Loudon on Friday upon business,
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picked up by the policeman, suspicions vos :re entertained
that the deceased had been improperly e slt with. The
cabman was sought after, and taken in to custody on
Saturday afternoon, and the present char gr was preferred
by Mr. William Hunter, a poulterer e n d salesman of
Leadenhall.market, and the brother o f the deceased.
Among other suspicious circumstances ainst the pri-
soner, it was stated that he left the deces is ed in a helpless
state in the East India-road, and allowed -him to ride on
the box alongside of him. On reaching t 3e White Horse-
gate, in the Commercial-road, the coTherttor demanded
the usual toll, and the deceased fell off die cab into the
road, and was seriously hurt by the fa 11. There were
two men inside the cab, and the whole ps :rty were in a
disorderly state, and appeared to have en drinking to
excess. The deceased was lifted on to ti se cab after his
fall, and it drove away at a rapid rate, b at not before the
turnpike-man took the number, and lon ks d very parti
cularly at the prisoner, that he might be al de to identify
him again. The prisoner stoutly denied.. :that he was in

t the Commercial-road at all nn Them:icy night. but his
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then as he did on Thursday night.
Inspector Holmes said, if !he prisoner was remanded
he should be able to produce evidence to sustain the
charge of ill-usage and robbery.
Mr. Immix asked if a coroner's inquest had been
held?—Mr. Thompson, the beadle and surnnaoning-offi-
err of Poplar, informed the magistrate that the jury
would not meet until Monday (this day).
Mr. INGUAM then said, he should remand the pH•
sower, and that the most suspicious circumstance
against him was that he had denied having driven the
c,b on Thursday night, when the fact was clearly es-
tablished.
The prisoner, who was very boisterous, asked if bail
would he taken?
Mr. Islcriam—No, certainly not. I can't accept if
bail in such a serious case as this.

RICHMOND.
Saturday being appointed for the re-examination of
Miss Lydia Dixon, a teacher of music, and the daughter
of an eminent solicitor now deceased, who stood charged
with stealing property of all descriptions from trades-
men at Richmond, the vestry hall, where the magistrates
sit, was crowded to excess, and the greatest interest
seemed to have been created by the publication of the
previous examinations. The bench was an unusually
full one, Sir T. N. Reeves being the chairman. Two
letters had been received by the bench, one from Mr.
Betts, a surgeon at Hammersmith, who stated that he
had been frequently in the company of Miss Dixon,
and had always considered her conduct strange and
eccentric, and had also attended her for brain
fever for seven weeks. The other was from Mr. R.
Tapatell, of the lower Deptford road, Rotherhithe, ex-
pressing his conviction that she had been of an unsound
state of mind for a lengthened period, her brain being
affected through her long illness, and requesting the ma-
gistrates not to commit her for trial until they had satis-
fied themselves as to the state of her mind.
Inspector Beard informed the bench that he had, since
the remand found another lodging the prisoner had oc-
cupied at Hammersmith, where a quantity of fresh pro-
perty had been found.
Several fresh cases were then gone into, and after a
lengthened examination the prisoner was again remanded.
The property found at the two residences of the pri-
soner, at Richmond and Hammersmith, is of the follow-
ing description:—Cards of lace and fringe, rolls of silk,
satin and satinets, poplins, mousselines de laine, cash-
mere and cottons for dresses, black satin shawls, woollen
plaid, cashmere, Paisley, boas, victorines, and muffs, 50
rolls of valuable ribbons, bonnets, gloves, stockings, 30
pairs of women's boots and shoes, pieces of flannel, calico,
linen, umbrellas, parasols, hair combs and brushes, a
great number of wigs and fronts, lace shawls, veils and
falls, cap fronts, artificial flowers, and a vast number of
other things, sufficient to stock a bazaar, and nearly all
of which will be identified, the prisoner not having •t•
tempted to remove the private mark.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS,
LIVERPOOL,
M APRIL 14.
STOCK Exchastua. —The Share Market has been very dull to-daY,
and few transactions have taken place. The sales are—Birkenhead,
Lancashire, and Chester (late C. and B.), guaranteed 6 per cent. till 1850, 15—Ditto, 221. Shares, 7% die. —Lancashire and Yorkshiro.
Fifths, 3% c. dis.—London and North-Western, New Quarters, 4%
p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Preference, 10%—Midland,
Lancaster, and Swannington, 158 c. —Ditto, Halves, 9 4 c. dis
North British, New Preference, % p.—North Staffordshire, c. WS.
—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 percent. till
1850, 335. 9d. dis.

BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day have been As fol-
lows
bergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 4% dis.—North Staf-
fordshire, 3% dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B), 3% South Staffordshire, 3% dis.

- YORK, APRIL 13.
STOCK Rxcn.sayoz —The business transacted to-day was ag
1401
Shrewsbury
lows :---Great Northern, 101. 18s. 9d.—North Staffordshire, 14—
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A). 6—Ditto, Preference, York Newcastle, and Berwick, 23N,—Ditto (Newcastle Extension), 17 "
3s. 9d.—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 6%.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, APRIL 14.
STOCK Exclialibx.---The business done in the Stock Exchange to-
day has been as follows : —Hartlepool Dock and Railway, 134--
North British, 141,4—Ditto, Preference, 23s.—York, Newcastle, and
Berwick Extension, 17%.

GLASGOW, Aran, 13.
SToca EXCHANGE.—The following are to-day's transactions
Caledonian, Quarters, 6'4—Ditto, Preference, 111. Gs. 6d.--Ghtsgovf
General Terminus, 12—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 4 yi —Q18.4-
gow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 37—Ditto Halves (No. 1), 6% _Ditto
(go. 2), 7—North British, 14%—Ditto, Preference, 238.

FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE AT BAYSWATER.---011
Saturday morning last a fire of a very distressing chit-
racier, in which an aged female was burnt to death,
happened at No. 10, 13urk-place, Bayswater. The pre'
mises were in the occupation of. Mrs. Mary Forester, •
Swiss lady, who, it is to be regretted, was burnt almost
to a cinder. It appears that about eight o'clock in the
evening, some persons living opposite discovered the
lady
making to the front window with the whole of her wear.
ing apparel on fire, and the flames were mounting over
her head. Before she had time to reach the window she
fell from exhaustion in the middle of the floor. The,
neighbours having apprised the inmates of the house of
what they had witnessed from the outside, they made te
the room occupied by the deceased. Upon entering the
same a most distressing scene presented itself, for in the
middle of the room was to be seen the unfortunate lady
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lying on the floor, with the whole of her wearing apparel
not merely in a general blaze, but the flooring of the
room was also burning most furiously. Owing to the
exertions of the residents in the place, the fire was ea'
tinguished, but not until Mrs. Forester was burned to
death, and some considerable damage done to the furni•
Lure and contents of the building by fire and water. A 0
inquest will be held on the body this day, which may
probably show the origin of the fire.
The FIRE IN WHITEFRIARS.—Tbe fire which 0'
curred on Saturday morning last was attended with 0
much greater destruction of property than was at fire
supposed. Only a fortnight ago Mr. Gadsby had a fount
of new type, weighing eighteea cwt., placed in the
building which has been destroyed. Ile had also
another fount, weighing one ton, of nonpareil, which,
with 60,000 sheets of paper bearing the penny stater,
has been wholly destroyed. Two printing presses, One
valued at 1501. and the other at 1001., have likewise
been rendered worthless by the heat of the fire. For',
tunately the machine room and more valuable portion of
Mr. Gadsby's stock were protected by means of stroao,
party walls; if such had not been the case, the loss
property would have been fearful. As it was, flotilla
in the building where the outbreak began was saved'
An inquiry has since been made with a view of learning
how the fire began, but without success. Not so much
as a conjecture can be formed. The following is a cop):
of Mr. Connorton's official report as sent to the West of
England Fire-office:—No. 2ii, Bouverie-street, Mr'
Gadsby, printer, building destroyed, estimated loss about ,'
2,000 i. ; stock in trade destroyed, supposed loss 2,000,,'
No. 25k, ditto, Mr. Gadsby, roof of premises damaged
by fire, and stock by water and removal, supposed lost
about 5001. No. 25, ditto, Mr. Laylard, stock damage's
by removal, supposed loss about 1001. No. 20, Temple'
street, damaged by water, &c., about 501. No. 19, date,
similar damage.
THE BRISTOL MIIRDERESS.—It has now beendefinitely fixed that the execution of the! convict Saran
Harriet Thomas, for the murder of her mistress, bliss
Jefferies, at Bristol, will take place on Friday next over
the lodge door of the gaol. Her manners remain palle'
the same as immediately after her conviction, altkougP
she is somewhat more restless and anxious. The Beg'
Mr. Swete, the chaplain of the gaol, is unceasing in bis
attention to her, and visits her thrice daily, for the purl
pose of assisting to prepare her mind for the awful
change which awaits her. A report has been circulate,'
in Bristol that the wretched girl has made a full confer
sion of her guilt to the reverend chaplain, bat it is 111'
together destitute of truth.

`Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inlaid
Revenue, had an interview with the Chancellor of 00
Exchequer on Saturday, at his official residence i°
Downing-street.

Earl Grey has returned to town from a visit to Earl
Spencer.
EADVERTISRMENTI—An Abscess in the Breast
Cured by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— About three year!
since Mrs. O'Flaherty of Mill-street, Cork, accidentill
bruised her breast, for months afterwards the pain increase
and the part became fearfully swollen • various applicatiool
were tried without giving the least relief. Ultimately as at
scess formed, discharging a great quantity of humour, whic!'
debilitated her constitution to an alarming extent • at till!
stage a lady strongly recommended her to try Holloway
Ointment and Pills, having witnessed their good effects ell
former occasions, which advice she followed, and these fins
medicines answered most satisfactorily, for the wound was soots
healed, and her health is now completely renovated.— Sold bf
all Druggists and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 344,
Strand, London.

Bon-road
On the 6th inst., at Addison-road North, Notting-hill, kW'
Joseph Wilkinson, of a son.
On The 10th inst., at Milford-house, near Ferrybridge, the
wife of Benjamin Crosland, Esq., of a son.
03 the 11th inst , at Hastings, Mrs. Dixon, wife of Captain
Matthew Dixon, H N., prematurely of a son, who only suv
vived an hour.

On the 11th inst., at Fulham place, Maids-hill West, the
wile of A. Batson, Eso., jun., of a daughter.
On the 12th inst., at Gloucester-terrace, Hyde-park-gar'
dens, the wife of D. J. Maitland, Esq., of a daughter.
At Rodmarton, near Cirencester, the wife of the Rev. J'
S. Haygarth, of a daughter.
On the 12th inst., at Gosport, Mrs. Morgan Thomas, of gi
daughter.
On the 13th inst., at Devonshire.place, the lady of J.
Gandolfi, Esq., of a son.

MARRIED. -
On the 1 lth inst., at St. Mary's Church. near Tor nay'
Lachlan Hector G. Maclean, Esq., Captain H. M. 49th 10t 1
to Mary, eldest daughter of the late George Whitehead,"
Babbicombe, Esq.
On the 11th inst., at St. Thomas's Church, l'' endletooi
William Leaf, Esq., of Leaf-square, late her Majesty's Consul
at Catania, to Jane, eldest daughter of R. E, Cunliffe, Esq''
of Belle Vue, Pendleton.

DIED.
On the IRh inst , at Kemp-town, Brighton, aged 75'
William Hazlewood, Esq. late of Slaugham-park, Sussex.
On the 6th inst.. Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Chaplin'
late of the Ceylon Regiment, aged 79.
On the e6th ult., at Gibraltar, Sir John Home, Bart., of
Blackadder, of her Majesty's ship Sidon, aged 19.
On the 3d inst , on board the Ellenborough, at sea, Lieat''
Colonel Arthur Charles Gregory, 98th Regiment.
On the 7th inst., Anne Jane, the daughter of J. B. Glegg'
Esq., of 'Withington-hall. Cheshire.
On the 12th inst., at Hanover-crescent, Brighton, Barbara'
the wife of the Rev. S. Clarke, aged 78-
On the 12th inst., at Titley, near Kington, Herefordikirfl
Anne, the wife of Captain F. P. Sanders, Adjutant 80.
Radnor Militia;aged 28.
On the 12th inst., George Jupp, eldest son of Mr. Joseph
Jupp, of Regent-street, and Turnham•gretn.
On the 2th inst., at Wandsworth-common, Surrey, Scr.
Saunders, Em., aged 68.

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