The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-18 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT

(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
Amelia Shepherd, aged 22, was indicted with unlawfully
concealing the birth of her infant female child on the 2d of
July last. From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner
had been in the employ of a gentleman named Terry, residing
at Islington for upwards of two years. Latterly Mr. Terry
thought she was pregnant, but the prisoner positively denied
it. On the 2d of July, the prisoner complained of a sick head-
ache ; shortly afterwards she was discovered in the water-
closet. On Mr. Terry discovering her there, the prisoner
said she was ill. Mr. Terry replied, this is a curious place to re-
main in then, and desired her to go up stairs, and he would send
for a surgeon. The prisoner said if she did, she would not
see him. A surgeon of the name of Harley was sent for, and
upon examination he discovered that the prisoner had been
lately delivered of a child which was subsequently discovered
in the soil of the water closet, but without any marks of vio-
lence upon it. On searching the prisoner's boxes, no baby
linen was found ready made, but a great deal of new calico
was discovered, which doubtless was intended for the purpose
of making linen for the child of which she was pregnant.
Mr. CLaaxsoN addressed the jury for the prisoner, contend-
ing that the only inference that could be drawn from all that
had taken place was, that the prisoner was totally unaware
that she was about to give birth to a child at so early a period.
Mr. Baron GURNEY summed up, and
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but strongly recom-
mended her to mercy.

Charles Cook, aged 19, a sailor, was indicted for forging
and writing an order for the payment of 3/. los., with intent
to defraud Michael Henry Hart. On the 25th of July the
prisoner came to the shop of the proseentor, who is a sales-
man, residing in Ratcliffe Highway, and represented himself
as the second officer on board the Tobago; that he had
an order from the Captain of that vessel, a gentleman
named Ball, for 31. 10s., a month's pay in advance,
and he wished to have the outfit, if the prosecutor would
change the order. The prosecutor, not knowing the prisoner,
refused to do so at the time, but subsequently, on his bringing
a person named Dalton, who stated him to be respectable, the
prosecutor allowed him to have several articles, to the amount
of upwards of 2/., and gave him the difference in cash. The
order was subsequently discovered to be a forgery, and the
prisoner never to have been on board, or had any connection
with the Tobago.
The prisoner put in a written defence, in which he stated
that he had entered into an arrangement with Mr. Dalton,
who undertook to settle the matter with the prosecutor, which
he thought had been done.
Mr. Justice WILLIAms summed up, and
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Charles Watson, a rather respectable looking young man,
was indicted with robbing, on the 28th July, a gentleman,
named Burke, of his purse, containing 9/. 17s. 6d., at the Hay-
market Theatre.
From the statements of the prosecutor it appeared, that on
the evening in question he was in the dress circle at the Hay_
market Theatre, where he was robbed, of his purse.
An officer, who took the prisoner in custody, discovered a
purse upon him, containing six sovereigns and some silver.
Mr. Burke, the prosecutor, identified the purse as the one
he had lost.

The prisoner (who, according to the statement of the officer,
was a regular frequenter of the theatre), in his defence, said
that he had been in possession of the purse about twelve
months ; that he laid it by for some time, but took to wear it
again about three months ago. The money was his own.
The jury found the prisoner guilty.
The prisoner was again indicted for robbing a gentleman of
the name of Chambers of his purse and fourteen sovereigns, on
the 2d of August.
Green, the check-taker of the theatre, saw the prisoner take
the purse from the prosecutor, through one of the glass win-
dows at the back of the boxes.
The jury found the prisoner guilty also upon this indictment,

NEW COURT.
Nothing of any interest occurred in this Court this morning,

HANOVER, AUG. 9.----In the country we see cheer-
ful countenancees. The harvest is good, and the price of corn
is rising. Wheat is in demand for exportation from Bremen
to America. The crop of wheat is the best of all. Rye was
here and there rather thin, the barley injured by the mildew ;
and the crop of hay was the worst, in consequence of the cold
and dry weather. Potatoes promise to prove a most abundant
crop.— German Paper.
CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 29.—Ferick Aclirned
Pacha, the Ottoman Ambassador to the Imperial Austrian
Court, sailed on the 21st, for Trieste, on board the frigate
Tariri. Bahri Emerie Effendi, the principal Secretary to
the Legation, with part of the ambassador's baggage, goes to
Vienna by way of Semlin. The Austrian Vice-Admiral,
Count Dandobo, who has been detained in the Dardanelles by
contrary winds, has, since the 13th of this month, arrived this
morning on board the Venere frigate off Kum-Kapar, near the
Seven Towers, where he waits for a favourable wind to pro-
ceed to Bujukden. —German Paper.
BRUSSELS, AUG. 14.—His Majesty returned to
Lacken from the camp at Bureahloo, on Saturday evening.
Accounts from the camp of Bureahloo, dated yes-
terday (the 14th), inform us, that on the preceding day it had
been announced to the army, in the Order of the Day, that the
King of Naples and the Prince of Salerno would arrive at
the camp. It is said that the Princes are expected at the
beginning of next week..—Brussels Paper.
The Minister of Finance informs the public, that
Messrs. Rothschild, Brothers, are commissioned to pay, at
London and Paris, the interest of the loan of thirty millions of
francs, issued at 4 per cent., on the 26th July last, which in-
terest, according to Art. 3 of the Royal Decree of the same
month, may be applied for in'those two cities on the Ist of
July every year.—Brussels Paper.
SHEFFIELD FILE TRADE.—Mr. Andrews, As-
sistant Overseer, stated to the Magistrates that he had re-
ceived information from the master file-makers in Sheffield,
that the different parishes in England might send as many boys
as they thought fit, as apprentices to the file-making trade. This
order, it appears, has originated out of a late turn-out of the
journeymen file-makers ; and as there appears no likelihood of
any adjustment of the dispute being effected, the masters have
resolved to take a number of boys.—Sheffield Paper.
PERTH.—A considerable sensation was created in
the " Fair City" last Friday, by the Arrival of Earl Spencer,
better known to our readers as Lord Althorp, Chancellor of
the Exchequer, and leader of the House of Commons during
the Grey Administration. His Lordship had come to Dundee
that morning by the Forfarshire steamer from Hull, and in-
tending to pay a visit to Lord Lynedoch, he arrived at the
Salutation Hotel hereabout two in the afternoon. The Noble
Earl was met by Lord Lynedoch and Mr. Graham. After
walking from the inn to the post-office, where he made some
purchases, his Lordship proceeded in his Noble Friend's car-
riage to Lynedoch Cottage. His Lordship remained at Lyne-
doch till Tuesday, when he left for Brechin Castle, the seat
of Lord Panmure.
The subscription to the monument of the late M.
Carrel, of the National, by the last report amounts to 8,674 f.,
or about 3474
BIRTHDAY OF THE DUCHESS OF KENT.—Yes-
terday was the birthday of the Duchess of Kent, when her
Royal Highness entered her 51st year. At an early hour
the Royal standard was hoisted on the tower of Kensington old
church, and the morning was ushered in by a merry peal.
At five o'clock her Royal Highness's tradespeople dined to-
gether at the King's Arms Tavern, and in the evening the
High-street was one blaze of light, nearly every house being
illuminated. The houses of her Royal Highness's town trades-
people were also illuminated.
Four young ladies, students in the female depart-
ment of Missisippi College, having recently completed their
studies, have been honoured with the degree of Graduate.
Colonel St. Just, the Military Governor of Malaga,
who lately lost his life in the riots at that place, was nephew
of St. Just, of the French Convention.
The New York papers mention that Miss Frances
Wright had been mobbed at Philadelphia, for attempting to
deliver a lecture against the State Bank on a Sunday.
A pauper, who died last week at Brinstead, in the
Isle of Wight, was found to have hoarded up no less than
7001. in hard cash, while professing to undergo all kinds of
privations.
Shakspeare's plays are in course of translation into
the Dutch language in blank verse. Macbeth and The Tem-
pest have been translated by Mijn Hoer Moulin, and he is now
engaged upon Othello.
POTATOE BEER.—M. Balling, professor of che-
mistry at Prague, has succeeded in making an excellent beer
from potatoes. It is the colour of wine, is very strong, and
very agreeable to the taste.
CONFIRMATION OF THE BISHOP OF ELY.—Dr.
Allen, the late Bishop of Bristol, was confirmed, at twelve
o'clock yesterday, at Bow Church, Bishop of Ely.
The obelisk of Luxor is to be moved by means of
an apparatus worked by four capstans ; it is to be advanced in
a straight line to where it will meet the axis of the place.
There it will be received upon a turning platform, which will
place it in the direction to be followed by it, until it arrives at
the pedestal. These operations are conducted by M. Lebas.
—Paris Paper.
An Englishman, Mr. made a bet of 100 f.
with a fellow-countryman, Mr. T--t, that he would make
the complete tour on foot of Brussels, where they both re-
sided, in 45 minutes. The distance is 8,000 metres, or 8,750
yards. He accomplished his task on Friday in 42 minutes, but
was so exhausted that his life is in danger.—French Paper.
The Memorial de l' Allier states, that at the begin-
ning of this month, as a man was felling a tree in the forest of
Pomay, near Moulins, he saw something glitter in the trunk,
which he at first took for a snake, but, on nearer examination,
found it to he a gold snuff- box. He took it to the Procureur
du Roi, and on inquiry it was found that the box had been
stolen a dozen years ago, with a considerable sum of money,
from M. Villefort, an avoue at Moulins. The robber had
been condemned for the offence, and died at the hulks several
years ago.

A reward of 1001. is now offered to any person or
persons who can give information, by which the mysterious
murder of John Finn, labourer, of Moulton (whose body has
not yet been discovered), may be brought to light. Fifty pounds
is offered by Government, and the other fifty by the parish.--
Boston Herald of Tuesday.
At the last sitting of the Academy of Sciences M.
Arago announced that a celebrated Danish watchmaker had
invented a watch which at the end of the day indicates the
mean temperature of the 24 hours,