The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-22 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

Margaret Murray, aged 16 years, was yesterday
brought before Mr. HALL, charged with stealing two
shawls, value 103., the property of Bridget Mullins, her
fellow-servant, and with setting fire to the house of Mr.
James Biggs, No. 2, Bow-street, her master.
It appeared from the evidence, that about ten
o'clock on Saturday night last, Mr. Biggs and his bro-
ther were going up stairs to bed, and on passing the ser-
vant's bed-room, observing a dense smoke issue from it,
they entered and found the sheets and bed on fire, They
instantly called up the prisoner and the other servants to
help in extinguishing it, and while they were engaged
in ascertaining how it originated, the prisoner went
down stairs and left the house, taking the two
shawls with her and other articles of wearing ap-
parel that had been laid on the bed in the early part of
the day. On the following morning a child knocked
at the door with the shawls in her possession, saying
that she had been told by a girl, who gave her a penny,
to leave them for Mrs. Mullins, and a policeman being
sent for, the child accompanied him to the corner of
Brydges-street, where the prisoner was waiting for her,
and she was given into custody. The prisoner had
been several times up stairs during the evening with a
lighted cand!e, and although it was usual for her to
take a lantern with her, to prevent accidents occurring,
she neglected to do so on this occasion. The fire
teemed to have been put under the mattress, and not to
have caught the furniture by the negligence of some
person who had been in the room at the time.
The prisoner said she would not have left the house,
but she was pushed into the sticets by Mrs. Mullins,
and she knew nothing about the fire.
Mr. HALL said that the evidence as regarded the
arson was not quite conclusive, and the prisoner should
be committed for trial for the robbery.

George Marshall, a plumber, and Richard Horn-
castle, a printer, were charged by Efiza Braham, an un-
fortunate woman, with committing au unprovoked
assault upon her.
The complainant stated that about two o'clock, she
was passing towards Fleet•strcet, through Temple Bar,
when she met the defendants in a state of intoxication,
and without uttering a word to them, Marshall struck
her a violent blow on the back which knocked her
flown, the other defendant, when she recovered herself,
&so struck her twice on the back, and being stunned by
the injury she had received, he threw her into the
carriage. way.

Robert Follet, a master bootmaker, who happfined
to be passing at the time, proved that the only offence
he thought the complainant had offered was. passing in-
side the defendants, as she proceeded through the Bar ;
and seeing they had acted in such a brutal manner, he
secured one of them, while the policeman, who also
witnessed the assatilt, tcok the other into custody, and
conveyed them to the station-house.
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The defendant Marshall sail that be felt his watch-
guard pulled, and he thought it had been done by the
complainant, or he would not have interrupted her ; and
the other defendant said she laid hold of him as he
passed her.
Mr. HALL ordered them top iy a fine of 4/. each, or
go to prison for six weeks.
The defendants were unable to procure the amount,
and they were removed from the bar.

TURKISH FRONTIERS, SEPT. s.—Letters
from Salonica say that the Governor, Namik Paella, to
the great jay of the people, is deposed, and ordered to
Laressa, ar.:ll;ucceeded by Omer Riche, who has live? at
Salonica for some time -cithout public employment. The
treaty of London of 15th July, has made an unfavourable
impression in all Albania and Macedonia, and in conse-
quence of the general apprehension that the Russians may
occupy Constantinople, has excited much sympathy for
Mehemet Ali. Properly speaking, this is only the vcxa.
tion of the opponents of reform; who in these province's
form the majority, whom that treaty deprives of all prospect
of a change to be effected through Mehemet Ali. We
learn from Constantinople that the Government has or-
dered the chief of the corporation of butchers at Con-
stantinople to have 5,000 oxen and cows in readiness ; it is
believed that they are to be intended for the supply of a
Russian or a Prussian army, which is said to be daily ex-
pected in the Bosphorus.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR PRINCE LOUIS'S
TRIAL.-The doors of the Luxembourg Palace will be
guarded by two military posts, one composed veteran
sous-officiers, the other consisting of a troop of the line.
In the interior of the garden sentinels will be placed at a
distance from each other of 20 to 30 paces. Commencing
with Monday, each of the casernes of the Municipal Guard
of Paris will furnish a contingent of men to reinforce the
permanent guard ; and the effective force in the Rues de
Tournon and des Gres will also be strengthened. The
Municipal Guard will, as at the Conciergerie, he specially
destined to watch over the prison of the Luxembourg.
The palace of the Luxembourg is at present guarded by a
formidable array of troops of the line. These are formed
in battalion, and provided with cartouches. The Prefec-
ture of Police will continue to be guarded throughout the
entire trial by 300 of the Municipal Guard, mounted as
well as on foot.—Temps.
MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK.—It is our pain-
ful duty to announce the melancholy loss of the schooner
Mary, Captain Burnell, on Wednesday afternoon last. It
appears that the Mary sailed from Newport in the morn-
ing of that day laden with coals for Bridgwater, the wind
blowing a strong gale from the N. W. ; when near the
tail of the Gore sand it is supposed that a sea struck her,
in consequence of which she became unmanageable and
Went down ; all on board, five in number, (including the
captain's son, a child eight years of age), belonging to
this place, met a watery grave. The vessel belongs to
Mr. Kinsbury, of Taunton.—Somerset Gazette.
For several years past it has been a matter of
complaint that you could not leave a letter at the Exeter
Post-office, after the box was closed, without payment of
a fee of twopence, which was latterly altered to one
penny for the first portion of the time, and threepence for
the last, no matter whether you were indifferent whether
the letter went one post or another, you were compelled
either to take the letter away and bring or send it again, or
else pay the pence. If you complained, Paul Measor, Esq.,
Postmaster, read his official eath or detailed its stringent ob-
ligations, of which he evidenly stood in no small awe, and you
either paid the pence or took your letter away, you must have
been a savage to trench upon the obligations of that solemn
vow by which Paul's pence were levied. Times arc now
changed. Dr. Bowring chanced to come to the office
with a letter " too late," and finding the practice be im-
mediately wrote to Lord Lichfield ; a mere statement of
the fact was sufficient, Lord Lichfield volunteered to be
Paul Measor, Esq.'s Pope, absolved him from his oath,
and directed that a letter-box should be open for the CON..
venience of the inhabitants, and a great convenience it is,
and one which we ought to have had years ago._ Western
Times.
The stearn-ship Caledonia, Captain R. B. s
forest
at
Cle-
land, left the river Mersey on Saturday afternoon, at three
o'clock, on her first voyage, wits her Majesty's mails for
Halifax and Boston. Lieutenant George Bury, R. N.,
has the charge of the mail-bags, as the Admiralty agent.
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Caledonia has
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pass
Glen-
strathfarar, killed a brace of stags, cne upwards of nine-
teen stone, His Lordship and party have had abundaot
Spurt siuce tin commeflotaleut of the sewn.