The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-11 00:00:00

Mr. COTTINGUAM said, in that case he must be
under the painful necessity of committing him to
prison. _ _

The complainant doubted the magistrate's autho•
rity, and slapping his own forehead uttered several
incoherent expressions; on hearing which,
Mr. COTTINGFIAM directed that, for the com-
plainant's safety, after the threats he had made
against his own life, he should be committed to the
county gaol in default of bail.
The two prisoners were ordered to be remanded
until Friday.

LAMBETH.
Alfred Marsh, the young man who has been in
custody since Saturday week, on a charge of wilfully
and maliciously setting fire to the dwelling-house of
Mr. Bailey, a commercial traveller, residing in S wan-
place, Swan-street, Old Kent-road, was again placed
at the bar.
The prisoner, who is respectably connected, was in
custody in June last on a charge of firing a loaded
pistol at Miss Louisa Ralph, the step-daughter of
Mr. Bailey, a young woman to whom he was vio-
lently attached, and to whom he was a short time
before about to get privately married. The parents
of Miss Ralph having discovered the object of the
young couple at once frustrated it, and this led
to a bad feeling between the prisoner and Mr.
and Mrs. Bailey. On the evening of Tuesday
fortnight the prisoner met Miss Ralph by
appointment in Shoreditch, and rode with her
in an omnibus to the Borough, where she was
to have met her mother ; there he got out, and in a
few minutes after met Mrs. Bailey. This was about
nine o'clock, and soon after the prisoner was seen in
Swan-place, close to the house of Mr. Bailey, and at
ten o'clock the house, which had been broken into by
the back way, was found to be on fire in two places,
the one having no communication with the other.
The flames were, however, fortunately extinguished,
after doing damage to the amount of about 201., and
before they had reached the adjoining houses. In
addition to the evidence already given,
Mary Ann Buller, a married woman, deposed to
having seen the prisoner close to the house of Mr.
Bailey a very short time before the fire was discovered.
Mr. ELLIOTT remarked that he had carefully read
over the whole of the evidence in the case, and found
in it many points to strengthen the very strong sus-
picion against the prisoner. In the first place, his
meeting Mrs. Bailey and her daughter must have
satisfied him that both were from home. Again, his
being seen quite close to the house of Mr. Bailey im-
mediately before the discovery of the fire, though he
had denied the fact when apprehended, and his sleep-
ing from home on the night in question, were cir-
cumstances of a highly suspicious character. The
case, however, required the fullest inquiry and inves-
tigation, and in order, therefore, to give the officers
the fullest opportunity to make that inquiry, he should
remand the prisoner.

WESTMINSTER.
Yesterday Edward Camfield was charged with
being concerned, with others, in a desperate attack
upon Mr. Fitzgibbon, the proprietor of the Elephant
and Castle, Great Peter-street.
On Saturday night a man named Reardon was
making a great disturbance in Mr. Fitzgibbon's
house, when he requested him to leave, and on his
refusing to do so laid his hand upon him to put him
out. Reardon resisted violently, and threw Mr. Fitz-
gibbon, and on his attempting to get up inflicted a
very severe blow under his right eye, and followed it
up with others in rapid succession. Mr. Fitzgibbon
succeeded in getting him out of the house, and W 1.19
preventing his again entering, when defendant (Cam-
field) dragged the landlord out of the house, and he
was furiously attacked by the two men, and some
others of their party. lie was repeatedly knocked
down, and whilst on the ground was kicked on the
body and head in the most brutal manner by Reardon,
Camfield, and the others. The firstnamed was taken
into custody upon the spot, and, at the request of Mr.
Fitzgibbon, was held to bail to answer an indictment
at the sessions. A warrant was then applied for by
the complainant, upon which the defendant Camfield
was apprehended. On the occasion of Mr. Fitzgib•
bon's first appearance his face was much lacerated and
swollen from the injuries he had received.

Defendant denied the charge, and said ile could call
a witness.

Mr. BRODERIP said an opportunity would be
afforded him of doing so at the sessions. It was the
wish of the complainant that the case should be dis-
posed of there, and defendant must find bail for his
appearance.—Bail was put in.

COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS. Yesterday money was
easier, business somewhat more lively, and the re-
opening of the Royal Bank was looked forward to as a
matter now beyond doubt. Shares in that establish-
ment, under the arrangement described in the proceed-
ings of the meeting on Saturday, were in requeq ; and
if a popular character could be given Jo the manage-
ment, there is no conceivable amount of support which
would n( t be forthcoming if required. There is a strong
feeling against t!epositors expecting six per cent., or
even five, any longer than their money is wanted for
purposes immediately subservient to present movements,
for which time the higher rate may be justifiable ; but
the bank should always hold the option of payingofr
the amount as soon as practicable, or payinrg
ordi-
nary interest, as it is deemed impossible f
to flourish again till discounts return to o
theirfra d onlye ever
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toured level. Every day brings Fie o
mostriofof anthdeegvielrsouosf
inordinate speculation,—one of
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Tuesday.
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LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY
t has •et been received from
BANK.—No positive report
the deputation to London, buttisu
numbernderstoodthoeyf
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progressing favourably. A considerable
preference shares havete been taken
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to the public, probably by advertisement.—Mundester
Guardian.

The solicitor, however, in reply, stated, that both
the family and friends of the boy were averse to his
liberation at present, for reasons which it was ob •
viously unadvisable then to state, and would prefer
his being detained in safe custody until the whole
matter had been finally disposed of.
The Rev. Mr. Goodchild was understood to sug-
gest the same course, and
Mr. Haaram.r. having immediately assented, the
prisoner was removed in the van.
SOUTH WARK.
Mary Ann Rogers, a brothel housekeeper, in Her-
bert's-buildings, Waterloo-road, and Eliza Wiggins,
a woman of the town, were charged with stealing 101.
from Mr. Robert Thompson, who described himself as
collector in a mercantile house in the City;
The complainant stated, that having been at a party
the preceding night he indulged in too much wine,
and on the way home had the misfortune to meet with
the prisoner Wiggins, by whom he was induced to
take more, which rendered him incapable of knowing
what he was doing, and in that condition she accom-
panied him to the house of the other prisoner in the
above locality. That in the morning when he awoke,
on finding himself in such a place, he immediately
examined his trouser's pocket and missed a consider-
able sum of money, and accused Wiggins of stealing
it. She however denied the charge, and he called a
policeman into the house, where he had not been long
before Rogers, the other prisoner, handed him a 10/.
note, which she said she had picked up in the room
where the parties had slept. At this stage of the
examination the complainant fell down in the witness
box in a fit, and was obliged to be carried out into the
open air, where he soon recovered, but on again
entering the court he had another attack, and it was
found necessary to send for the police surgeon, who
pronounced that the symptoms under which he la-
boured were produced either by the immoderate
quantity or bad quality of the drink he had taken
the previous night. The complainant, however, re-
covered from the second attack, but he appeared to
be in a state of great nervous excitement.
The policeman, Coombs, who was called into the
house, was next examined, and he stated that on
hearing the complainant give the alarm that he had
been robbed he entered the house where he had not
been long before the prisoner Rogers said she had
found a 101. note in the room where the complainant
and the other prisoner slept, and gave it into his
hands. That he (the policeman) made a further
search himself, and in the yard, covered over with
loose gravel, he found four sovereigns and some silver,
which had all the appearance of having been recently
concealed there. The policeman added, that he then
took both the prisoners into custody.
The complainant said that he missed six sovereigns
more, and that he could not state with accuracy what
sum he had when he first went into the house, but
he knew that it was considerable. In answer to some
questions by the magistrate, the complainant said he
was collector in a mercantile house in the City, and
that a portion of the money of which he had been
robbed belonged to his employer. He added, that he
was a married man, but that he declined to give his
address or to disclose the name of the firm by which
he was employed. He again became so exceedingly
ill that it was found necessary to have him taken into
the yard at the rear of the court for fresh air, and as
he continued in the same condition,
Mr. COTTINHAM considered it the most advisable
step to have him taken home by a policeman in plain
clothes, in order that his family might not be alarmed
When this was proposed, the complainant at once
assented, and they had scarcely quitted the Court
before the complainant attempted to run away from
the policeman ; but being overtaken, he was brought
hack again, and on the way frequently exclaimed that
he was determined on destroying himself. The ma-
gistrate having been made acquainted with what had
transpired, questioned the complainant, and his
answers were of such a nature as to induce the sup-
position that he was labouring under mental delusion,
for he expressed a determination to put an end to his
life the first moment he had an opportunity, and ad-
mitted that he had given both a wrong name and ad-
dress, adding that nothing on earth should induce him
to disclose either.