The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-09 00:00:00

S IVEDE N.

STOCKHOLM AND CHRISTIANA.—M 3 Majesty has
ordered the equipment of a training squadro3
(Uebungsgeschwader). The frigate Josephine Eu-
genia, and the corvette Jarrames are to be ready for
a trial expedition of three months on the Ist of June.
These, with some others, appear to. constitute the
whole of the reported marine equipment of Stockholm.
—Hamburgh Borsenhalle, April 6.

STANFIELD-HALL MURDERS.
The Norfolk Chronicle of Saturday says—" This
wretched culprit appears, as far as we can learn, to con-
tinue to assume the same indifference to his impending
fate which he has; hitherto manifested. As he came from
the dock, and passed through the room, the same leer
that he bad so often put on during the trial passed over
his features; and he said in a blunt tone, Where's my
bat ?' As soon as he had entered the condemned cell,
his first wordis were, Where's my supper? I want my
supper after a hard day's work. I shall now live at the
country's expense.' No refreshment being immediately
ready, he threw himself on the bed. We hear, and sin•
cerely regret it, that he has declined the attendance of
the worthy chaplain. He has admitted that the jury
had no alternative but to lied him guilty as the case was
put before them.' The leading gentlemen of Norfolk have
opened a subscription for Eliza Chestney. The fallow-
ing subscriptions have already been received :—Earl of
Lecester, Wt.; Hon. Edward Coke, 51.; William Bagge,
Esq., M.P., 51.; Lord Huntingfield, 2/ ; Bishop of Norwich,
101.; Dean of Norwich, 3/.; Used Hastings, 51.; Sergeant
Bytes, 5/.; Berney Petro, E,q., 51.; Sir W. Beau-
champ Proctor, Bart., 2/. ; W. Norris, Esq., 21.; F. Ostley,
Esq., 21.; Hon. J. Ashley, 2/.; Earl of Oxford, 5/.; Earl
of„Cadogan, 51.; W. Burroughs, Esq, M.P., 21.; Sir Henry
Darrant, 5/.; Colonel 11. Fitzroy, 2/ ; Sir John Boileau,
51.; Sir Jacob Preston, 31.; Mayor of Norwich, 5/ ; Rev.
Canon Wodehouse, 2/. Her Majesty has intimated her
intention of lending her assistance, to the unfortunate
girl, and has directed a communication to be forwarded
tJ the county magistrates, requesting to be informed
bow her Majesty's pleasure may be most effectually
carried into operation. Amongst the numerous letters
written by Rush to the Recorder, there is one which is
supposed to indicate that he had entertained the idea of
murdering Mr. Jermy as long ago us April 26, 1848. He
is soliciting from Mr. Jermy an answer as to the terms
on which he would let the Fehningbam property to his
mother for eight years. From the context the threat
would only seem to refer to helping the claimants to the
Stanfield , estates ; but the words are, hare nine
children. You have_ completely ruined me, so far as my
own property goes. IF you think I shall not take steps
to ruin you and your family, you never were more de-
ceived in your life, You do not know me yet. Hitherto
I have done nothing but what I have told you of ; but
unless you answer this letter satisfactorily, nothing on
earth shall-prevent me from treading in your steps, and
Raying yonnff in the same most villanous and base ccess
that you have me.' "
An application has been made (according to the Ob.
server correspondent) for the prisoner's execution to
take place on any dew but Saturday, which is market
day. It is said it will entirely destroy the busini as of the
market. This arplicatirin has been refused, and the exe-
cution will take place;on the Castle Bridge on next Satur-
day week. The Castle Bridge fronts the principal eu-
trance, and extends over the old moat and gardens by
which this venerable edifice is surrounded. The bridge
can be seen from a vast distance, the country round
forming a kind of amphitheatre. Norwich fair was on
Saturday held immediately contiguous to the Castle, the
prison in which the murderer (Rush) is confined. Drums,
trumpets, and other instruments have been in full play
all day, whilst the most boisterous sounds of revelry
proceed from the degracted people who are its principal
supporters. One itinerant showman, who has deter-
stotasod ac-
mined to turn the melancholy catastrophe
g
count, has got up a representation of the
murders, with living characters, representin
senior; Mr. Jermy, junior; Mrs. Jermy,Eliza
C he:trail:3Y:
Watson, the butler, and one or two female servants, with
Rush, the murderer; Emily Sanford, and other persona
who figure among the dramatis persons. The exhibition
is one of the most revolting character, but, at the same
time, the most remunerative in the fair, the succession of
visitors during the day having been enormous, although
no one is allowed to remain more than three successive
minutes. An application was made, it is stated, to its
magistrates, to put down this disgraceful exhibition, but,
after some consideration, they declined to interfere. In
the next show is a pantomime, in which Mr. J. B. Rush
figures as Pantaloon. Indeed, throughout the fair the
name of the unfortunate man is turned to all sorts of
purposes, many of them no less revolting than those just
described. All the noise proceeding
from the fair can
who lies in a cell immediately coeti.
be heard by Rush,
gnaw to the road.
Another account states that Rush, on leaving the
dock after the sentence was declared, said to the offi-
cials who had him in charge, "I am thirsty, give me
some porter." He was informed that the prison regula-
tions would not allow him to be so accommodated, but
that he could htlYo 1101110 tea, au alternative which he

somewhat reluctantly accepted. Shortly afterwards he
said with composure, " This is a troublesome world."
On the Rev. Edward Postle, one of the county magis-
trates who committed Rush in the first intance, passing,
the murderer recognised the reverend gentleman through
the bars of the cell. He exclaimed, "Is that you, Postle?
I have a clearer conscience than you have now. He
was asked whether he would avail himself of the spi-
ritual service of the Rev. Mr. Brown, the chaplain of the
Castle. Ho replied "Oh no, not at all. I can do
without him while lam here." He remains in the cell
in which he was placed immediately after his committal,
and he will remain there until the day appointed for his
execution. He is very reserved—a portion al-
ways of his character—and will enter into no
communication with the officers of the Castle, except
so far as is necessary to convey to them his wants. The
only person who has visited him since his conviction is
his solicitor; no member of his family has made an ap-
plication. A rumour was circulated to-day that Rush's
el, lest daughter was dying in consequence of the shock.
Inquiry was made by our reporters amongst those
farmers and others who had come from Wymordham to
the market, and they fully confirmed the statement.
His daughter is represented to be a fine young woman
about twenty years of age. There appears to be no
reason to doubt the truth of the statement. The mur-
derer empbys himself by walking, up and down a small
yard attached to his cell, and when be does speak, he
makes some jocular remark about his wish to get out of
the world, and that he would not be the only one who
had to complain of the troubles of this world. At
times he whistles, and at others remarks upon the
discordant noises proceeding from the fair outside.
One of the county magistrates made the following re-
mark t) oar reporter this morning:—" Rush says he
has bilked Sir George Grey, the Commissioners of Bank-
ruptcy, the judges in civil actions' in which he was con-
cerned, and everybody else with whom he has had com-
munication; whether he will bilk Mr. Calcraft, the
executioner, remains to be seen." It is an undeniable
tact that he has squandered away the whole of his chil-
dren's property which was left to them by their mother.
He was left one of the trustees in the mother's will, but
finding that he had not sufficient command of the money,
forged a codicil, in which unlimited powers were given
him to employ the money as he pleased, and containing
this singular provision, that no questions as to the rea-
sons of this codicil being executed should be asked. All
the money has been spent, and the future condition of
the family must be truly lamentable, an ejectment
from the farms having been served. Yesterday he
attended the chapel, and conducted himself decently
during the performance of Divine service. Indeed he
always observed the outward characteristics of a reli-
gious man. When Lerner and Jermy attended his house
at Felmingham, all joined in family devotion, even at the
time he was making his arrangements for the perpetra-
tion of a series of the most revoking crimes, and for fix-
ing them upon the men who were kneeling with him in
united devotion. In his house aas a box designed for
the collection of money for a society in London, called
" The Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the
Jews," and to this he invariably called upon his friends
to contribute. Notwithstanding the remark of the
Learned Judge, that "neither morbid sensibility, nor
the idle curiosity of the world will be allowed to pry
into the secrets of the murderer's cell," hundreds of per-
sons unconnected with the culprit are stated to have
made application to have but a moment's view of bim, so
much interest does the murderer excite. This applica-
tion has been in all cases very properly refused, and the
prison regulations have been carried out to the fullest
extent. Every precaution is taken to prevent him making
an attempt on his life.

EXTRAORDINARY CAREER OF THE
CONVICTED FORGER, W. H. GIBSON.
Perhaps the annals of forgery furnish few such in
stances of an entire and systematic abandonment to a
life of infamy as that of William Henry Gibson, who
created such a sensation in Scarborough last season
as Captain Gordon, and was sentenced by Mr. Baron
Alderson, at the late Durham assizes, to be transported
for ten years, on his own confession, for having
forged a cheque for 301., on Messrs. Kirkland and Co.,
London. The prisoner, whose real name is William
Henry Gibson, is thirty-five years of age, and was
born in Essex. He was most respectably connected.
His maternal grandfather was rector of Cricksey and
Athorn, and at his death left property to the amount
of above 8,500/. to his daughter, the prisoner's mother.
The subject of our sketch was apprenticed to Mr.
Byles, surgeon, Spitalfields. At the early age of eigh-
teen he married the daughter of a respectable stationer
in the City, b v whom he had five children. His appren-
ticeship finished, Gibson seemed to have abandoned
himself to the most unprincipled and reckless courses.
Forgery and seduction became familiar to his hands
—the latter in its most revolting form, because prac-
tised upon those to whom very tender ties, both by
blood and by marriage, gave peculiar claim to his
protection from anything that could sully their
honour or destroy their peace. Suffice it to say, that
among his victims, subsequent to his marriage, may
be numbered first a very near relative to his wife ;
second, his own cousin, a young girl of eighteen—she
was enceinte when he was apprehended ; besides
a Miss B—, the daughter of a gentleman in
affluent circumstance a. In thinking of these astonish-
ment is blended with pity. He forged his father's
tame to a large amount. He next introduced himself
as Captain W. 11. Gib 01 to Mr. Will Boucher,
solicitor, whom he induced to discount a bill to which
he forged the name of his father-in law. He like-
wise forged a letter showing him to be entitled
to 2,0001. In January, 1847, he was committed
to prison for debt, and after an incarceration of
two or thr e months he feigned madness, and so
successfully as to obtain his release. In March,
1848, we still find him wearing her Majesty's
uniform, and he was now dashing about in high life
as Colonel St. George. Under this cognomen he en-
gaged apartments in a boarding-house near St.
James's-place, London. He speedily effected an in-
troduction to a lady ; the acquaintance ripened into
a warmer feeling. He at length proposed, and was
accepted ; he paid her the most flattering and-assiduous
attentions, and every where accompanied her as her
future husband. She drove her own carriage. On one
occasion, just after he had gallantly handed her to her
seat, and was himself about to follow, a fellow tapped
him on the shoulder, and said, " Colonel St. George
you are my prisoner for 7501. of debt, and 541. costs."
" Indeed," replied the colonel, looking just as little
disconcerted as possible, " that's a bad job, particu-
larly as I have but 4501. in my desk. However, I
suppose I must go to prison, as my pay will not be
due for a fortnight." His betrothed, who had not
been an uninterested listener, now interposed, and
offered to assist him in his difficulty. He expressed
his thanks, and the lady gave him 3751., which was
handed to the officer. The whole transaction was
nothing but a well conducted plan to obtain money.
" The Colonel' shortly afterwards attempted to swindle
1,000/. from his unsuspecting and kind-hearted
inamorata. He pretended that he had undertaken to
lend 2,0001. to a friend. Ile actually persuaded her
;o give 1,000/, whilst he himself was to furnish the
other 1,0001. This lady repaired to her solicitor, to
instruct him to sell out so much stock for her; but
he, after conversing with his client, became suspicious
of our gentleman, who made his exit. This is be-
lieved to have been his last adventure previous to his
appearance at Scarborough as the dashing Lieut. W.
H. Gordon. There he embarked on a similar adven-
ture, in which he displayed equal finesse, but which,
fortunately for society, has at last, it is to be hoped,
interposed an effectual check to his unprincipled
career. Thi sentence of ten years transportation was
passed upon him.—Lincolnshire Chronicle.

THE CHURCH MOUSE'S PETITION.

(From Punch.)
Oh! hear a reverend captive's prayer,
In durance vile that lies,
Nor let a Bishop's heart be shut
Against a Debtor's cries. •
For here, my Lord, immured I sit,
Behind this•prison grate,
Cast at thy suit in costs, whose sum
Exceeds my small estate,
If e'er thy breast has horror felt
Of bigot's stake or chain,
Let not thy persecuting ire
Seceding SHORZ detain.
Oh! do not yet more deeply stain
Thy somewhat dingy lawn,
Nor triumph that so poor a prize
Within thy toils is drawn.

The free donations of my flock
My scanty means supply,
And why should thine intolerant heart
My pulpit's use deny?
The cushioned desk and sounding board
Were made for all and each;
Let every clergyman enjoy
The common right to preach,
The well-taught theologian's mind
Man's conscience wilt respect;
Regard all creeds with liberal eye;
And hope for every sect.

Should e'er the times, as some forebode,
Of faggot and of flame
Return, and Smithfield, as of yore,
Its mitred Tictims claim;

Thou feel the zealot's rage;
Beware, my Bishop, lest, in turn,
And, being roasted, call to mind
SHORE in his dungeon-cage!
Or, though thou too the martyr's fate
May'st not be doom'd to share
For once let pity bid thy heart
A prostrate victim spare.
So, in thine ever stormy See,
May peace at length be found;
And harmony and concord dwell'
Where strife and wrath abound.
So may'st thou never go to law,
Thyself the coat to bear;
Thus in thine own hot water boiled,
And csuzht in thine o.‘,n snare.

The Right Hon. Sidney and Alm Herbert have
gone to Wilton House, near Salisbury, for the holidays,
to stay with the Countess Dowager of Pembroke and the
family circle located there.