The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-02 00:00:00

SOU WARK.

Henry Parjitt, a man in the employ of Messrs. Apsley
P. ilati and Co., glass manufacturers, Holland•street,
13111c1criar's road, was charged with 13 tualirig a quanta.)
of cut glass decanters, and other articles, their prop. rty.
Mr. If. 13. Roberts, solicitor, attended on hellcat of the
pri,out•r. _ _

George Wyld, police-constable 94 M, said that on
Thursday evening, about seven u'cl iek, he siw the pri •
sutler lease Meas. 3. Ye-hates premises, and from in'orma•
non lie received he followed hite until he cause to the
cabstand to the Blacktriar's-reat i, when he stoppt d him
,cal asked min to go back to the inatiufactory. lie
rAusscl to do .o, but on ittiess s ruing that he should
take him to the atattim-house, he became alarmed, and
tried to get away. Witness then calLd a cab, when he
saw the pi isomer attempt to talow something away, bui
ne seized hold of his hand and took tram him a valuable
at toilet bottle, which proved to be his masters'
propyrty. Atter he had locked up the prisoner, he
went to his lodgings, and found a great nunr/er
ut di inking glasses of various sorts, several decanters,
aitd schile fancy glasses, which he look away.
When he returned to the station-house the prisoal.
told him that the glass was given to him by ttc_,
pros. tutors' foreman ; but on questioning the latter
he denied giving him tally a few useless articles, which
were atueng them. Wituess here produced the pr.-
verty, when Mr. Wheable, the foreman lu Messts. Pel-
hetes pi etuises, said that he gale the prisoner a broken
decanter and two useless glasses. The other decanters
appeareedi ,tet!l
the
. twine of the goblets were made on
purpo
Cluti, but bad nut been cut.
Such glasses were not made b.) any other manufacturer.
Tile %twits of the property had been taken from the
warehouse over which the prisoner had charge, and he
had ami.le opportunities of carry ing them away Ex various
times. For several days the property had been missed
from the stock, in cotisequence of which suspicion was
attached to the prisoner, and on Thursday evening the
constable had orders to watch him as he lest. Witness
identified the inlet bottle as one mad.- by the firm, and
kept in the stock which the prisoner Ilan charge of.
Mr. Pellatt was in aitentfut.ce, and informed the ma-
gisirate that the firm him besii robbed to a great extent
by his servants, and an example must be mAle.
In answer to the charg-, the prisoner said that the
whole of the glass was g,v,11 to flan at various times by
Wheable, except a sugar basin, winch was his property.
Mr. Z_NECKER said that the Witness had sworn to the
contrary, and, as the case was of mane importance, he
shoula commit him tor trial.

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DEATH OF Ma. EATON, LATE M.P., CAMBRIDGE-
bLIIHE —We have to record the demise of ltichatid Jef-
fo-buu Eaton, Esq., who, up to the day of his dissolu-
tion, represented Cambridgeshire in Parliament. lie
died on ttie 27th inst., egad 46. The deceased was the
son ot the late K. Eaton, Esq., formerly a banker of
aunneuee at Newmarket, and a magistrate for the
county. He entered the army early in life, but on the
t eats of his rather, about two years since, he retired, at
the time holding the rank of Captain, and adopted the
occupation ot his deceased parent.
HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND.—Her
Ma-
jesty intends to leave Cow, s for the West coast of Scot-
land on the 9,h proximo. She will be accompanied by
the GArland anti other small steamers, as she intends to
piss into the German Ocean through the Caledonian
Ca.uat, for wlacti purpose the Fairy and 1.1 mime are too
long. The passage through Scot.laud will occupy, we
underatuud, uiue hours.—liamoshtre Telegraph,

COURT OF_COMMON COUNCIL. f
On Thursday a Court was held fi r the dispatch of '•
business. •

NEW COAL MARKET.
A report was brought irotty the uutc•mittee to whom it
was r •fer, ed t., Hie tom con ‘id, ration the rroprietv of
erecting a more commodious coal market. It stated that
aviiiica►iUu lU the Colunu.ssioners of Customs, that
board had allowed that a temporary building should be
erected on the Custom Uouse Quay for the secionnuuda.
,ion of the public. The report was agreed to, and the
contract was passed under the City seal.

TUN .CUTANE,,US INSTITUTION.

Certain resolutions were transmitted to the Court
from the Institution for the cure of Cutaneous Disetist-2,
expressive of the thanks of the directors for the grant
tiy the Corporation of 100 guineas in aid of the films,
,nd at the same time denying the correctness of the
-tatemeot of Mr. Anderton, a member of the Court, to
-he effect that the private patients of Mr. Starting, the
surgeon of the institution. were allowed !o use the baths
r► aw! for the benefit of the afflicted poor.
Mr. ANDERT N called the attention of the Court to
the remarkable fact, that the resolutions contradicted his
.sse► min, and admitted the correctness of it at the same
-inae in the most effectual manner, by particularly de-
scribing the persons who visit,d the baths, and whom
•i,,hotiv eoul,l mistake for o.her people than Mr. Start
ing's patients.
Time Court showed its sense of the censure thrown
Anon one of its members by at once ordering that the
eesolutions should lie on the table, instead of thr-cting,
tccording to its usual practice in cases in which thanks
~re returned for benefactions, that they should be en-
Ted upon the minutes of the Court.
CITY IMPROVEMENTS.

The REMEMBRANCE having announ'•ed that the City
Improvement Bill in the libe to St.. Paul's had passed
,hrough P4rliam,,nt, it w.)s proposed and agr.ed to that
the woik should not be proceeded with until it he deter
:rained from what source the tends r(qtored for carrying
cite improvements into effect were to be raised.
Upon the motion of Mr. lIARRIS,M. the subject was
referred to the Improvement Committee.

THE TWO CoURTS OF. THE CORPORATION.
D. Uty ALLAN, in calling the attention of the Court
to the report of the Coal and Corn and Finance Com-
mittee on the subject of the Court of Aldermen drawing
upon the Chamber for the payment of p-msions and
;therwise'
.exprosed regret that two of the Aldermen,
ins,ead of 'attending the committee, had preferred the
alternative of complaining of the committee in their own
Court,

Mr. R. L. JONES regretted that the report contained
no sugzestion as to the maximum sum to which the
Court of Aldermen might go in voting the money of the
Corporation. He thou,ht, and he hal so expressed
himself in the committee, that it was ridiculous to limit.
the Aldermen to the power at votin:r money without the
coust.nt of the Own to the sum of 1001.., but the ma-
jority of the committee entertained a ►different opinion.
['he Aldermen required the curb reio, but car
tainly not so string. -ot a cheek at.- that which tied them
down to the expetiltiw re of 1001. --(Hear, hear, and cries
~1 " Propose a limit.") He thought the limit might be
set down at 4001.

Deputy CORNET said he doubted whether it was in
the power of the Court of Common Council to restrain
the magistrates in an expenditure which from the
nature of their duties, they might be bound to incur.
He believed the.e was much legal it qairy in-
volved in the matter, and !hat it would be m st
advisable that the two Courts should meet on the sub.
ject. lie then moved that the report be referred baca to
the committee, with instructions to hold a confe•ence
with the Court of ALL rmen rehtive to the vestion.
sir. R L JONES had no objet i n to such a propo-
sition. He wiahed to c..rrect an erroneous notion which
confounded the power of the Aldermen as magistrates
with their power us Aldermen. The authority over
funds for the payment of ?.unss incurred ender their
sanction as magistrates was like that poss?ssd bv ma-
gt6traies elsewhere, but it was to the expenditure
money as Aldermen that objection and opposition vpts
made. and the check was intenittA to be given.—(H,ar.)
Deputy ALLAN ugr,vd to adopt the prorsition 01
Deputy Curuey, and inc mutton was unanimously
agreed to.

-Mr. BURN brought up the report on the duties of the
offices of Comptroller awl Collector of the city's dues
on wines. IL ougv,ested a number of aherari,ms
lAted to increae, the public convenience, and was unani-
mously agreed to.

• THE NEW CITY PRISON.
TheCHAIRstaN of the special committee appointed to
co-operate with the Court of Alderman, and to view
and examine the prisons beleigillg to the City, and to
report their opinion as to the accommodAtion aff .rd,d
to prisoners, the °pp IN nutty tor elas-ifittation and
separate confinement, and whether' there exists any
a,cessity tor amilti,og a ri,vir pri.oa, or entrtrging
or altering the exi.,:ring prisons, with a vi, w to carry
into &fleet improvements in prison dactplin trough,.
uo a report which state,' as follows :—" that in ad
damn to our report presented to this Court on the Ist of
July, in which we stated the setwal proceedings in the
confrrcnce which had taken place between your com-
mittee and the sp-ocial huntnittee of ga,tls of thk: Court
of Aldermen, In relation to the proposed new House
of Correction, with a recommendation that the same
should be built on the City'* ground ut Holloway,
we have now to report that at a further conference it
was mutually agreed that the construction of
the new -prism, should be such as to witnit of its
hcure adaptation to an, mode of discipline that
might hereatter be determined upon, and that the same
sli.uld be constructed for not less than 400 prisoners,
and that tutfieient sleeping cells should he constructed.
We jointly referred it to the Clerk of the City Works to
prepare a plan upon this principle, and to submit the
same to us for cw:sideration. That we have since re-
ceived from him a plan accordingly, eras=e;) anti twanged
as undLr

Fall ADULT MALE PRISONERS.
Four wines, containing 72 each, ea,ll wi vongiist-
ing of three stori,-8. ro accomm,44c.' 2; prl. ()Hers 283

FOR FEMALE POISONERS
One winz„ containing tiir,ostorip,:. to Oiceon3in date

AND FOrt JUVENILE PRISONERS.
A further vtiLg of three atoris, to aecuunodate..

... 400
Tho prison to oceupl. a:te ei;;ht aereF, aid th,
sm4ll triangular pica Of ground on th, numh ther.-‘of
to he. retaioed for any purpose which way her, atter be
d.•terminvd upon. .

" Twit Loth Committees having . duly consi&red the
said plan, and hear:l th, cl-i k of the works in ex plan.ttion
thereof, unanimously approve the same. and we recom-
mend it to this Honourable Court for adoption subject to
such modifications. if any, as may after further conside-
ration be deemed 4-xpedient, provided that no steps be
Liken until the estLiatte of the expense of such Dew
[louse of Correction be reported to this Court, and their
sanction had tbi-reto."

The report was agreed to without di.eussion;
A•Jj urned.

11133 bust of Mr. R. I. Jones, by Mr. Relines, which
w 43 a few dap ago pliced in tit 3 Court, oppoShe to that
of the highly re4pected Alderman Watchman, attracted
great admuation.

HORRIBLE MURDER IN HULME.
ANCHICSTeB.SATUADAY 417T.:“NuON.—A few minutes
after ten o'cleek thie (Sc-urday) inoi nine, infoi,eation
reached our office that two children of tender ages had
been barbarously murdered by their tether, in L ird
street, lluhne. On hastening to the spot immediately
after the receipt ot the inteligence, we found the itielan-
choly story too true, and learned that the wretched per-
petrator of the sad tragedy had also nearly murdered
his wile, the mother of the tvo children. It appears
that. tie murderer is labouring under some &restful
hallucination ef mind, caused by the want of employ-
ment, and his consequent inabiliry to support his wle
and family. The inalie of the murderer is Joseph
Spec cl, a man about 34 years 01,1, who is by ti ado a
stripper in a cotton mill, and who, until -, short time
b C..rtstmas, worked at the mill ot Messrs. Pooley,
Ile is stated tu nave been a a.-bet, weedy, sled iedwtrious
and tor, aught that app. 'firs to the contrary, hes
been a good .husband met an afr ctionate father. He
has been out. of einpl,ltuent. however, :411(.0 before
Christmas, and this seems to have induced a lowness
of spirits, which, them is reason to believe, lifte turned
the poor fellow's brain. About ten luck this
morning, or a short time before. his wife, it appears,
left the home. to procure a supply of wat-,r for her
usual Saturd.;y's c'eatni,g and for domestic purpoars,
leaving her husband at home in charge of the two chil-
dren, who at the time were in bed. Urged, no doubt,
by poignant grief at the prospects before him, tiie
wretched man scorns to have seiz,..l opportunity of
carrying his intentions into ‘ff,ei., fer on th, wife's re-
turn home, almost itutuedively, lie found her tfsprings
lying on the bed with their threats cut, and quite dead.
As aeon as she returned he appears to have attacked
her, evidently with the most murderous intention, for,
from ail we have been able to glean, he made a savage
onslaught upon her, armed with a heavy iron hainm, r.
Of the particulars which followed little is at present
known, as the wife, though still aye and sensible, is in
far to. clang. Nits a
.conchtiori to be questioned. That
he meant to niurder.her as well as the children is. how-
ever, sufficiently evident, as hestratoi way left the house
aced went to the police-station in Ja kson s- lane, where
he surrendered himself. to Sub•inspeetor Lightfoot, and
stated that he had just murdered his wife and two chil-
dren.

The house is at the present moment in the charge of
constables 38 and 70 D divi.icins of pollee. The mn
hansell has been retnoveci to the divisiona I°lm-scallop,
Town Hall, Chorhon upon-Mcdh:ck. fits clothes are
poor and ragged, and, are spiced with bind in many
places, especially his shirt and trousers. M.st likf ly he
will be brought up tor examination at the Borough Court
on Monday.—Manchester Courier.

DETERMINED SUICIDE.—On Saturday e%Pning a
length.u,ed inquiry was institut-d before Mr, Baker. at
the Yorkshire Grey, High-au eet, Whitechtpei, relative
to the d-ath of James Hughes, aged 42, who blew his
head off with a horse pistol, at his lodgings, No. 2,
George-yard, Whitechapel. It appeared that the de-
' ceased was the owner of several houses, and that he had
been in her Majesty's sea-servii e, in which he log his
right leg. In the cot:r.le Of the last six months he had
emb.irked in various hOuse-building speculations, in con-
sequence of which he became invols, d ,a pecuniary din-
cuities, the v ff-,ct of which led him to hat,i!s of into al-
perance. On I'hursday last, ab .ut three o'clock in the
afternoon, a female named Ellen Lyons was talking to
decewed's wife, when they Leari the repot t of a pistol
in the kitchen. She went there, and on her way an t
d •ceas-d's daughter, who was covered with blood, and
who exclaimed "Father is dead." On going in the
n she follon deceased on a bid, with a hone pistol
which had been recently discharged, tightly grasptd in
his hand. The upper part of his hvad wqs blown away,
the brains and skull being all over the room. Deceased's
daughter saw her father put the pistol to his mouth
wbilat he discharged it. Verdict—Temporary Ihsauity.