The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-27 00:00:00

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stopped by
Mr. TYRW/lITT, who said, " In that FespeCi I fuliY)
agree with you, and dismiss the information."
Mr. Duncombe thanked his worship, and retired
with the defendant and his Friends.
MARL BORO UGIILS TR BE T.
Ellen Veßey was brought Gefore Mr. Hardwick
charged with having stolen a large quantity of boots
and shoes from the shop of Mr. Frederick Buhle,
shoemaker, Burlington-arcade.
It appeared that the prisoner had been employed
for the last four months as charwoman at the house
in Burlington-arcade. In consequence of information
received by the police an inquiry was set on foot,
and the result was the discovery of several pairs of
boots which had been pledged by a woman answering
the description of the prisoner. Police-sergeant
Gray and Police-constable Mile, C 123, were em-
ployed in the affair, and they succeeded in procuring
such evidence as left no doubt of the prisoner's guilt.
Six pairs of boots and six pairs of shoes were found
in the hands of various pawnbrokers. A great deal
more property was missed.
In defence, the prisoner said the boots and shoes
had been given to her to pawn by Mr. Buhle's shop.-
woman, as Mr. Buhle, according to the shopwoman's
story, left her short of money.
This was denied, and the prisoner was fully com-
mitted.
Edwin Howell, a person of very respectable ex-
terior, was charged with having illegally pawned an
immense quantity of stays, entrusted to him to sell.
Mr. Alexander Vlies, of Elberfeldt, stated that he
was a stay merchant. Being in want of an agent to
dispose of his stays in England, he was introduced
to the prisoner, and having entered into an arrange-
ment with the prisoner as to terms, the
prisoner re-
ceived charge of 252 pairs of stays to dispose of.
This transaction occurred at the end of last year.
Complainant being desirous of visiting Germany,
asked the prisoner to let him have 201. The defend-
ant said he had not so much money by him just then,
but if complainant would meet him in the neighbour..
hood of Leicester-square the following day he would
let him have the money. Complainant kept the ap-
pointment, and received 201. from the prisoner, with
which sum he shortly afterwards went to Germany.
He came to England a few months ago, and having
discovered that some of his stays were selling at
different shops, he made inquiry, and he subsequently
received from the prisoner a card, which made him
acquainted with the fact of the prisoner having de-
posited 220 pairs of stays with Mr. Fleming, pawn-
broker, of John-street, for a sum of money, on con-
dition that they should be forfeited if the money lent
was not returned within six months. The money
had not been returned, consequently the stays had
become forfeited, and this accounted for the way in
which they had got into sundry shopkeepers' hands.
As the defendant had only received authority to sell,
and not to pawn the things, he was given into cus-
tody to answer a charge of illegally pawning.
For the prisoner it was contended that the charge
could not be sustained. The prisoner had pledged the
goods for a certain sum; but then the owner of the
stays had received this sum. Had the prisoner sold
the goods and pocketed the proceeds, he could not have
been sued for the debt.
Mr. HARDWICK looked over the various Acts re-
lating to illegal pawning, and being of opinion that
the point was one which required consideration, post-
poned his decision until next week.
It is already known that three notorious thieves
contrived to make their escape from the lock-
up cell attached to this court the week before
last, immediately on their being fully com-
mitted for trial two daring shop robberies. The
police have been • active in their researches,
but hitherto without success. Some of the par-
ticulars connected with the escape have transpired,
from which it would appear that the whole affair, as
planned and executed, affords another instance of
the adroitness and ingenuity of London thieves.
It turns out that the escape was a planned
matter between the prisoners and their con-
federates. Between the first examination and
the last the companions of the prisoners, it is
reported, contrived to get models of the locks in the
cells, and to provide skeleton keys to open them.
This proceeding was communicated to the prisoners
by one of the confederates, who obtained permission
to speak to the prisoners in gaol, before the last exa-
mination took place. One of the turnkeys saw the
prisoner and this man talking to each other with their
fingers. As this kind of silent communication went
on for some time the turnkey interfered, and turned
the man out of the prison. It was during this inter-
view that the plan of escape was, no doubt, arranged.
As soon as the prisoners were committed and placed
in the cell, one of the gang must have made his way
through the house undiscovered—no very difficult
matter, as the stairs to the cells are common to the
inmates of the house, and must have then opened the
cell and released the prisoners. All parties then got
into the garden at the back of the court, and from
thence over an adjoining wall into the passage which
communicated with the mews behind by a door which
is usually unfastened.

POST-OFFICE ORDERS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Allow me in few words to call your atten-
tion, or the attention of the Post-4*e authorities, to
the delay which exists in the country in obtaining
payment for Post-office orders. I have myself,
during the past week, in two instances, received Post-
office orders, when, on sending my clerk to obtain the
money, the answer has been, " we have not yet ob-
tained advice ;" " advice is not forwarded by first
post."
Now, surely, Sir, in a commercial country like
this, an unnecessary delay, which subjects the public
to such uncertainty, trouble, and expense, is far
behind the age, and ought not to be tolerated one
moment. It is a trouble and expense (and also vexa-
tious) for merchants or tradesmen thus to send their
clerks out to be disappointed. The disappointment,
sometimes, is by no means of a simple nature, but
calculated to lead to confusion ; for when a clerk
leaves a counting-house with an arranged list of pay-
ments and receipts, some of which include (or depend
on) the Post-office orders, the non-payment of such
orders affects the whole of his arrangements.
The very idea of a post order being obtained, taken
home, forwarded to the correspondent,
.received by
him and presented for payment—ail this before the
master at the one office gives advice at the other
office, is surely monstrous.
I can account for such a thing only by supposing
that there is some necessity, or some policy, in so
doing of which lam ignorant.—l am, Sir, L
yours,
D A ETH.

Gloucestershire, Sept. 25, 1847.
P.S.—My order received to• day (Saturday) must
be kept over till Monday, so that my correspondent
cannot receive my receipt till the 28th for that which
he paid on the 24th; and suppose I were travelling,
I should be detained here three days. This letter is
also transmitted to London, and will, no doubt,
appear in your paper before payment.

HORRIBLE TREATMENT OF A
WIFE BY HER HUSBAND.
(From the North British Mail. of Friday.)

Yesterday, a most revolting case of cruelty and
barbarity, on the part of a husband towards his wife,
was discovered by Mr. George Campbell, one of the
sub-inspectorsftohre
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ha cmhm ther. poor for Grelacesgho.ewd:
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an named George Fay, in South St.
dis-
covered F
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wifeand ocnonernmedinlinngathweapterrets,esse,t,hwe
where
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according to her statement, she had been kept by her
husband ever since May last. The dimensions of
the closet were only 3 feet 10 inches by 2 feet 11
inches, and the height 10 feet. The poor creature was
in a most wretched condition, being li.erally covered
with filth and vermin, with scarcely an article
of clothing on her person, and in a half-famished
state. The inhuman monster was given into the
custody of the police, as well as a girl named Margaret
Hume, the servant, and two lodgers, named Alex-
ander Hume and Alexander Holland, who are charged
with being accomplices in the offence. Every care
and attention was paid to the unfortunate woman by
Mr. Campbell, and it is expectel she will shortly
recover from the effects of her long and close con-
finement. The affair is undergoing official investi-
gation, but we have not as yet ascertained the cause
which induced Fay to act in this way towards his
wife, but we trust that all parties concerned will
meet with a punishment commensurate with such
brutal conduct.

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.he suffered so much as to be
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ENORMOUS SUSPENSION-BRIDGE IN HUNGARY.—
The Pesth suspension-bridge over the Danube, designed.
by Mr. Tierney Clark, and now nearly completed, is
1.200 feet long, in three spans ; the centre span being
600 feet, the side span 300 feet each. The chains are
being made in England ; the granite for the piers was
brought in immense blocks, some of them from twelve
to sixteen tons weight each, from Linz, in Upper Austria.
.The contractor for the cofferdams, &c.,rovaa an Eng-
lishman, as were the principal workmen, and all
tl.e machinery has been supplied from this countty.
The total cost of the bridge, as we understand, wilt be
600,0001.—The Builder.