The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-24 00:00:00

SENTENCES.

The following prisoners, who had been convicted
during the Sessions, were brought up to receive the
judgment of the Court :
Elizabeth Cleaveland, convicted of throwing a quan-
tity of vitriol in the face of a man named George Day,
by which he was dreadfully injured, and totally de-
prived of the sight of one of his eyes.
Mr. Baron GURNEY sentenced her to be transported
for ten years.
The prisoner left the bar declaring she was innocent.
George King
a young man of very respectable ap-
pearance and connexions, was convicted of embezzling
aletter which had come into his possession by virtue
of his
employment as a clerk in the General Post-
office.

Mr. Baron GURNEY addressed the prisoner to the
following effect :--Prisoner at the bar, you were a clerk
in the General Post-office, a situation of great trust and
confidence. You have been found guilty of abusing
that trust, by secreting a letter containing money. You
could not have obtained an appointment to the situation
you held, unless up to the moment you were appointed
to it you had borne a good character. It has been
suggested to me that you are the son of a military offi-
cer, and that he and some other members of your family
have meritoriously served your country ; perhaps it was
on that account you obtained an appointment in the
Post-office. You have abused the trust that was re-
posed in you when that appointment was made. It is
a most melancholy thing to see persons of education
and character abusing a trust so reposed in them ; but
unfortunately cases of this kind occur ses,ion after ses-
sion, and I am sorry to say that offences such as that
of which you have been convicted are by no means on
the decrease. As a warning to others, it is necessary
that the law should be executed to its fullest extent.
Not long since the offence of which you have been
convicted was a capital one, and in all cases of convic-
tion the punishment of death was invariably inflicted
on offenders. Since then the Legislature has thought

fit to lessen the severity of the punishment for that of-
fence, but I much fear that if its commission continues to
be so frequent as it has been lately, that the said law
will be re-enacted. I have carefully considered all the
circumstances of your case, and I find that I cannot
consistently with my duty remit acq portion of the
punishment which the law awards to the offence of
which you have been found guilty, and it therefore
becomes my painful duty to order that you be trans
ported beyond the seas for the term of your natural life.
The prisoner, who heard the sentence without dis-
playing any emotion, then bowed and left the dock.
Gates, convicted of cutting and maiming.
The Learned Judge said his offence was attended
with very aggravated circumstances. Tile crime of
stabbing had greatly increased of late, and must be put
a stop to by the strong arm of the law. He then sen-
tenced the prisoner to be transported for twelve years.

DISCHARGE OF TWENTY-TWO PRISONERS BY PRO-

CLASIATION.

Late on Friday night the following prisoners were
brought into Court and publicly discharged, the Grand
Jury having ignored the bills of indictment preftrred
against them, viz. :—O. Jones, J. Bell, T. Lester, Eliza-
beth Riley, H. Prior, Jane Gee, J. Harris, W. Preston,
J. Berry, G. Murray, J. Davis, Mary Smith, Eliza
Coleman, Mary Ann Lynch, Sophia Baker, otherwise
Frederica August, J. Phillips alias Liveman, Jernima
Ann Snipe, Mary Ann Rogers, Jemirna Coates, W.
Davison, Maria Watkins, and Dennis Murphy.