The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-12 00:00:00

DIABOLICAL MURDER.

A most atrocious murder has been committed during
the week. A poor and very old woman had been em-
ployed for many years as a letter-carrier between New-
bridge and the parts adjacent, and on Wednesday evening
she left Newbridge with the letter-bags as usual. No-
thing more was seen or heard of her till the next morn-
ing, when her body was found in the river, and upon
examination it was found that her head had been
most dreadfully beaten, and that she must have been
dead before she was thrown into the water. It
would seem that the perpttrators of this horrid deed
expected to have obtained a rich booty, as it. was the
day on which the money (upwards of 3,0001.) was
usually sent up to one of the works to pay the
.men.
On this occasion, however, it fortunately happened that
a special messenger had been sent down and had taken
the money with him. There is not the slightest clue
upon which a hope can rest for the discovery of the
murderer.

It is said that the people on the hills, being now fully
persuaded that all capital punishment is done away
with, these things will Lot be unfrequent, as they care
not for secondary punishment, thcir observations being
that they work so hard here that transportation cannot
place them in a worse condition.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

SENTENCES, &c.

Transportation for Life—John Smith.
For Fifiecn Years—J. Brown.
For Fourteen Years—George Tilt, Emanuel Moses,
Ellis Caspar.
For Ten Years—J. Lovegrove, Timothy Regan, Mary
Ward. Sarah Mears, Charles Willian.s. Mary Baker, Ed-
win Hubbard, George Rooney, Mary M'Carty.
For Seven Years—James Fisher, W. Marriott, Na-
than Nathan, John Lloyd, George Costin, Frederick
Horne, James Whit'', Henry Reeves, Thomas Smith,
William Williams, Thomas Isaacs, Mary Swanwick, John
Mahoney, George Wnite, W. Watson, Thomas Upton,
Ann Smith, W. Maynard, W. Argus, W. Brown, W.
Jordan, Thomas Jones, Margaret Watson, John Jackson,
Mary Ann Watts, Ann Brown, Letitia Jackson, Eliza
Gifford, Jane Jackson.

Imprisonment and Hard Labour iu the House of Cor-
rection : . _

For Two Years—W. Clayton, Ann Smitb.
For One Year—Eliza Clifford, George White, J.
Stroud, G. Hammond, Mary D'Arcy, John; Patterson.
For Nine Months—Robert Davis, J. Toomes.
For S;x Months—John Buries, Mary A. Powell, W.
Rowland, J. Read, Alexander Hillman, Eliza Harley,
Charles Taylor, Daniel Ashmore, Robert Brand, Charles
Workman, William Thomas, Edward M'Cabe, Henry
Hobbs, William Jones, Henry Smith, Henry Brown, Ed-
ward Reeves, Mary A. Kemp, J. Raddburn, Sarah Hum.
phreys, William Thomas, Ann Curtain, Frederick Walter,
Mary Wells, James Bruce, and William Whittle.
Foy Four months.—J. Gould, W. Johnson, Mary
Brewer, and Alice Abrams Abrams (connected with the
gold oust robbery),
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two months; one for six weeks; fourteen fer one month;
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•
mong the medals that are to be struck comme-
morative of the Queen's marriage, are two, the size of the
penny and the halfpenny, by Air. Alfred Stothard. The ob-
verse has the heads of the Queen and Prince Albert, executed
in a bold and effective style, with a very happy success in like-
ness. The reverse has the inscription, "Ob Nuptias Celc-
bratas, Feb. 10, 1840," within a wreath of oak leaves.