The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-21 00:00:00

NAME OF RAILWAY.

Aug. 15
14
13
12
17

Amiens and Boulogne . • • •• • • • • •- •• • •
Aroroatii and Forcer ••••••• • • • • • • "
Chester and Birkenhead . • • • • • • • • • • • •
Dublin and Drogheda• • •• • • • ••• • • • • •
Dublin and Kingstown • • • • • • • • • • • • "
Dundee, Perth, and Aberee? •••• • ••
Edinburgh and Glasgow •• • •••• • • • •
Eastern Counties and North Eastern ••
East Lancashire ...... •• • •
..astern Union .• • . • • .............• • •
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • • • • • •
Glasgow and Greenock.• • • .....
Great Sour ,d Western • • • • • • • •
Great Western, &c • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
' Ipswich and Bury ..... • • • • • • • • • • • • • -
Lancaster and Carlisle • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
London and North Western, &c..
London and Blackwell.. • . • . •• • • • • ••
London and Brighton
London and South Western . • •
Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc..
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
Maryport and Carlisle • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Midland; Bristol, and Birmingham....
Midland Great Western (Irish) • • ....
Newcastle and Carlisle. • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Newcastle, Berwick, and North Shields
North British .. • • • • • • • • ...• • • •••• .•
Paris and Rouen ••••• • • •
Preston and Wyre .. • • • • .....
Rouen and Havre .. • • • • • •
Shrewsbury and Chester • • • • ........
South Eastern and Branches • • • • • • • .
South Devon • . • • • ... . •• ........
Whitehaven Junction
York and Newcastle .•• • • •••• •• • .
York and North Midland . •.........

682
334
807
1,002
1,252

4,704
13,077
1,137
1,217
2,819
1,4 :8
1,731
21,542

1,698
49,115
1,406
10,660
10,889
2,525

685
23, t 93

900
2,702

2,333
2,949
9,793

4,174

519
10,978
1,530
1,522
800

933
1,142

417
4,735
8,984

398
2,261
1,241

13,408
9,322

20,543

46,285
1,496
9,830
8,181
10,157
1,932

5 1 s
20,903

2,227
540
1,575
2,127
8,129

10,168
1,145
1,248
749

7,476

IS DAY

CRIMINAL COURT.—(T
(Before Mr. Justice ERLE,
CoxreestNa * MURDER.—On the Learned Judge
taking his seat on the bench this morning, John Ramsay,
described as a cheesemonger, aged 29, was placed at the
bar charged, upon his own confession, with the wilful
murder of Henry Williams in the Minories, 2 years ago.
The prisoner is a decently dressed, unhappy looking
man.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clarke appeared for the prose-
cution, and Mr. Clarkson for the defence.
Mr. BODKIN minutely stated the case against the
prisoner. The facts have so lately appeared before the
public, that it will only be necessary to give a mere
synopsis of the s:atement of the Learned Counsel, and of
the evidence adduced in support of it. The prisoner and
the deceased, it will be recollected, about two years ago,
had been drinking in the neighbourhood of the
Tower. They left the public house together, and
took a hackney coach in the Minories, for the purpose
of conveying them home to their residences, in the
neighbourhood of Gray's Inn-lane. They stopped the
coach in Redcross-strt et, and had something to drink.
ile then drove them to Gray's Inn-lane, where they got
out. They were both tipsy, and he noticed that one of
them had a wound on his eye. He found blood on the
cushion. A polict man who came up at the time they
were entering the coach in the Minories, declared that
both were utmost in a helpless state of intoxication, but
neither seemed to have sustained any injury. The body
of the deceased was examined by Mr. Fogarty, a
surgeoe, in the neighbourhood of the deceast d's re-
sidence, Constitution-road, Gray's Inn-road, and he
found a severe wound over the orbit of the eye, which
t.enetrated to the brain, and had caused death. Such a
wout,d might have been caused by the terule of an
umbrella. Two umbrellas were found in the hackney
coach, and the ferule of the one opposite the deceased,
for the handle was downwards, was etsvered with blood,
which had trickled downwards, which the Learned
Counsel, said was an important tact in favour of the pri-
soner, as it led to the inference that the deceased had
fallen forwat d, and that the ferule had penetrated into
his head. This witness stated that if the blow had been
inflicted by a man, using an umbrella for his weapon,
that the wound would have slanted ue wards. The wound
in the deceased's head was straight. Dr. Quain, who
was also examined, spoke to the probability of the
wound having been so inflicted, but its infliction would
cause an immediate loss of the voluntary powers. 't he
blood might not flow half an hour after. Certainly a
wound of the kind would have prevented a man from
getting out and in as he did in Whitecross-streFt. It
will be recollected that the prisoner whilst
intoxicated,
or whilst labouring under the eff,cts of intoxication,
positively stated that he murdered the deceased, and
that he committed the deed by a heavy blow on the head
of the deceased, whilst lying on the ground insensible in
the Minories. On reflection, however, he recanted, say-
iing. that, when he made the statement, he was suffering
from delirium, and that he did not know what he was
about.

Mr. Justice ERLE, who had stated that a careful
perusal of the depositions had led him to the conclusion
that the case against the prisoner could not be main-
tained, and who had requested that the nature of the
wound the deceased had received might be explained,
here interfered, and left it to the jury to say, whether,
in their opinion, the prisoner was guilty or not guilty of
the offence imputed to him.
The jut), returned a verdict of Not Guilty, and the
prisoner was discharged.

BOW-STREET—(THIS DAY.)
William Wilson, a respectably-dressed young man,
who is said by the police to have been well known under
the name of Mitchell some years ago, was charged with
using indecent language to a lady in an omnibus, and
afterwards assaulting the conductor, to whom the lady
appealed for protection.
He attempted to excuse himself on the plea of intoxi-
cation; but
Mr. HENRT mild not pay the least attention to any
such defence. He would inflict the highest possible.
fines, namely, 51. for the assault, and 21. for the in-
decent language, or, in default of payment, two months'
imprisonment for the former offence, and one month for
the latter—making, in all, 7L, or three months' im-
prisonment.

WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
Last night, a scene was enacted at the Britannia
Saloon, Hoxton, which almost beggars description. The
parties engaged in it were, with the exception of one
individual, severally fined or imprisoned.
It appears from the evidence of Butler, and other in-
dividuals connected with the theatre, that a disturbance
took place at about halt-past nine o'clock in the gallery,
and the parties engaged therein were ejected. One of
them, named Rawlings, on his being secured and taken
into custody, through mete vindictiveness, called
out, when near the pit entrance, at the top
of his voice, "Fire S tire Witness could not
distinctly swear that he was the individual that
actually gave the alarm of fire, but he was the person
pointed out to witness as the one who so ceeataitied
himself. The scene which foliated the cry of fire can
be better imagined than described ; shrieks were fol.
hewed by groans, the latter proceeding from individuals
who had teen fallen upon by per:on4 who had iet them-
selves drop from the gallery, and bonnets, shawls end
hats were seen flying in all directions ; and but for the
good management of the proprietor, Mr. Line, and his
assistants, fatal consequences would inevitably have been
the result. Several were severely bruised.
Mr. Lane, the proprietor of the edtablielmet, was