The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-02 00:00:00

In answer to a question put by Mr. CLARKSON, this
witness said that Loup was examined as a witness in the
first instance before the Lord Mayor.
The deposition made on that occasion by Loup was
put in and read. It appeared that he then stated that on
two occasions he did sell rope for Cuissell, and he gave
the names of the parties to whom he sold it.
This cloyed the case for the prosecution.
Mr. CLARVION first addressed the jury for the pri-
soner Loup, and the defence he set up was, that there
was not the slightest evidence of his having had anything
to do with the original conspiracy, and that with regard
to the sale of the rope, he hal acted bond fide as the
agent of Cuissell, and had no guilty share whatever in
the transaction.

Mr. BALLANTINE made a defence of a similar character
for 'Seeger, and urged that he had unfortunately come
into the service of two persons who had confessed that
they were swindlers, and that he had merely acted under
their orders, and /Is their servant, in the share he had
taken in the transaction.
Witnesses were called, who gave a good character to
the prisoners Loup and Seager. The former, it ap-
peared, was formerly in the service of a highly respect-
able firm in the Old Jewry, which he left on the death of
the principal, and he then, it appeared, set up in busi-
ness on his own account, in Cateaton•street, and for some
time carried on an extensive business.
The IZEconoEn then summed up, and the jury re-
turned a verdict of Guilty of conspiracy against Gard-
ner, Holliday, and Zieager, and Acquitted Loup.
The prisoners were sentenced—Gardner and Holliday
to be imprisoned in Newgate for eighteen months, and
Seager for nine months.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.
Mr. T. Spencer Hall, whose name was identified with
that of Miss Martineau a few years; since, in connexion
with certain mesmeric results, applied to Mr. Henry,
the sitting Magistrate, to aid him in suppressing the
public sale of an offensive pamphlet, in which his own
name, and that of the lady above referred to, were used
iu a manner extremely annoying and repulsive.
Mr.ilall produced a packet of the publication referred
to, having, as he stated, bought up all the man had in
his possession, and promised him more creditable em-
ployment for the future. The pamphlet purporting to
contain certain " astonishing revelations," and startling
" exposures" concerning the practice of mesmerism by
" libertines and hoary•headed debattchees," and other
evil professors of the art, and the outrages committed
upon female virtue by means thereof. Extracts from
Miss Martincau's letter in the Athenwum were given
relative to the command which the mesmerist was en-
abled to exercise over the actions of his patient, and
inferences most offensive to morality were sought to be
established therefrom.
Mr. Hall, who was formerly a professor and lecturer
on mesmerism, added, that he had now no connection
with the science, but was identified with another subject.
He also held a public situation, and was on that account
the more annoyed at the manner in which his name had
been put forth in these pamphlets.
Mr. HENRY said his attention had been already called
to the publication by the Society for the Suppression of
Vice; but, although it was, doubtless, a most objection-
able production, and very offensive to the parties whose
names were mentioned in it, still it did not appear to
contain obscene or profane matter, such as to bring the
vendor under the laws for the suppression of vice. The
party might be indicted under another clause, for sel-
ling in the streets, fur which he was liable to a penalty
of 405., but probably the man would desist if an officer
were sent to film from the Court. At any rate, he would
not recommend Mr. Hall to buy up these prints, or re-
compense the party for not selling them; or he might be
treated like the gentleman who, having given sixpence
to an organ grinder to keep away from his house, was
afterwards continually pestered by others, who wished
to be got rid of in a similar way.
Mr. Hall said, the man who carried them about had a
large placard, which was even more offensive than the
books.

His worship sent an officer with a caution from the
bench, and the applicant then withdrew.
MAR YLEBONE.
A considerable degree of excitement prevailed in the
neighbourhood of this court in consequence of its having
been known that Thomas Duck, a labourer employed by
the parish of Paddington, was to be brought up for re-
examination on the heinous charge of having attempted
to poison Jane Duck, his wife.
She occupied a miserable apartment in White Lion-
place, and the prisunei had for a long time past ill used
her in a most shameful manner. On Wednesday after-
noon, the 24th ult., she poured out three cups of tea, one
for herself, the second for the prisoner, and the other
for her child; she sent the latter out for a small quan-
tity of milk, and having waited at the street-door till she
came back, they both entered the room and sat down;
she put milk into each of the cups, when the prisoner,
either by accident or otherwise, upset his, upon which
she poured out another for him, and he drank it; she
then drank her own cup, which had about it a very
strange taste, so much so, as to induce a belief that poi-
son had been mixed therein; she emptied what remained
into a basin, and finding something still adhering to the
inside of the cup she took both of the utensils to a che-
mist, who, upon smelling them, expressed a belief that
they had in them opium.
Other evidence was gone into upon the first inquiry,
stating that Pollard, 125 1), toile into custody the pri-
soner, who, on being told what he was charged with, de-
clared his innocence, at the same time asserting that if
any poison was in a cup, it must have been put in by his
wife for the purpose of destroying him; and he also al
leged that a short time ago, as he had every reason to
believe, his wife had put poison into a herring, of which
she was extremely anxious that he should partake.
At the station-house he feigned illness, and he wished
to have the stomach pump applied to him, but it was
quite apparent that there was no necessity fur any ope-
ration of the sort.
Yesterday the following additional evidence tending to
crimin de the prisoner was adduced:—
William Lee, shopboy to Mr, Moore, chemist, Brown-
street, Edgeware road, deposed that on one day last
week, a man whom he believed to be the prisoner, came
to the shop and asked fur a pennyworth of opium for
the purpose of smoking. He was not served with it,
and he went away. Witness watched him, and saw him
go into the shop of Mr. Grant, another chemist, in Nut-
ford-place.
Prisoner—l never saw that boy before.
Mr. Howard, assistant to Mr. Grant, said that upon
one occasion last week a man came in and asked for a
pennyworth of opium, which he said was for a pain in
the head. He was served with about eight or ten grains,
and he then went away. He could not swear that the
prisoner was the person.
Mr. BROUGUTON—WouId that be sufficient to de-
stroy life ? Witness—lt might in some cases of deli-
cate constitution.
The wife (a poor sickly woman with an infant in her
arms) went into many particulars relative to the un-
happy life which she endured for a long while through
the ill usage of her husband, and mentioned various
fonts not given by her at the first inquiry, mahy of
which had a tendency to show his (prisoner's) guilty in-
tention.
Thomas, 60 T, (one of the officers attached to Ham-
mersmith Police-court), said, that upon several occa-
sions while the parties were: located in the districtiof
the eourt in question, the pour woman had complained
of being cruelly treated by the prisoner, for the ap-
prehension of whom a warrant (here produced by the
officer) had been granted.
The prisoner, on being asked what he had to say,
denied his guilt altogether with regard to any attempt to
poison his wife, but admitted that he had not behaved
well to her lately; he launched out into bitter invectives
against his former landlord, who had sold his bed from
under him.

The Magistrate, after carefully reviewing the whole
of the evidence adduced in this as yet very mysterious
case, remanded the prisoner till next Wednesday, at the
same time giving directions to the constable to take th•
eup and basin t• Dr. Leeson, at St. Thomas's Hospital,
in order to ascertain if by analyzatiou at the present
period further information may be gained.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Gorge Freeman, a porter in the employment of the
Eastern Courties Railway, was charged with commit-
ting a series of depredations upon packages and parcels
transmitted through the goods' department of the above
company.
Mr. John Phillips, warehouseman in the service of
Mr. Thomas Buxton, a commission agent in Wood-
street, Cheapside, stated, that for some time past various
hampers of goods they were in the habit of receiving
from the house of one of their principals, at Norwich,
named Geary, had been found, upon reaching their
warehouse, to have been broken open in the course of
their transit by railway, and robbed of part of their
contents. Repeated complaints of these depredations
had been made to the railway authorities, but they had
been unable to obtain a clue to the offender until about
three weeks since, when a bale of goods, consisting en-
tirely of gloves and braces, was also discovered, upon
being receiv, cl from Norwich, to have been previously
opened, and that the whole of twelve parcels it contained
had been broken into and a quantity of the goods ab-
stracted from each, and one parcel stolen altogether.
He had since been shown a pair of braces by one of the
railway officers, and he felt satisfied, from their make
and appearance, that they had formed part of one of the
parcels in question, with the remainder of the contents
of which they exactly corresponded.
James Sparks, inspector of gatekeepers at the goods'
station, deposed, that having been directed to keep a
vigilant eye upon the porters as they left the premises,
he watched the prisoner as he was going through one of
the gates, and having noticed that his jacket protruded
very much from something bulky beneath it, he insisted
upon searching him, and found him in possession of a
dress cost, which had never been worn, and had the
maker's label still attached to the collar. He afterwards
searched the prisoner's lodgings, and there, amongst
other articles, discovered 4he braces identified by the
last witness.
Francis Edwards, packer to Messrs. Hyams and Co.,

Evidence was then adduced to show that Loup dis-
posed of the greater portion of the second quantity of
rope obtained from Mr. Grey, and it appeared that, upon
one occasian, when he was offered 355. a cwt. for the
rope, he declined to take that sum until he had consulted
his principal, and he afterwards consented to take the
sum offered. He stated to the person who purchased it
that he did not know who the maker was, but he sold it
for a gentleman who had advanced money upon it, and
he made out the invoices in the name of " H. Cuissell,"
who, he said, was his prineipal.
Kibb!ewhite, the constable, was then recalled, and be
said that when he served the summons upon the prisoner
Loup to attend as a witness, he told him that ho knew
very little about Conseil, and that the sale of the rope
was the only transaction he had ever had with him, and
he added that he knew nothing whatever of Holliday or
Gardner.