The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-02 00:00:00

THE SHANNON.- SALVAGE.

This was an action by two steam-tugs, the Tiger and
the Joseph and IVilliam, fora remuneration on account
of salvage services rendered to the Shannon, a vessel of
considerable burden, laden with coals, which, whilst
waiting for some of her crew outside the harbour of
Shields on the 23d of February, got upon a sand. The
master, though in his affidavit he declared that he was
is no danger, and that by letting go an anchor and
waiting for half an hour he could have got off with the
tide, yet accepted the services of the two tugs. The
value of the property was 1,6001.
Dr. Addams and Dr. Curteis were for the salvors, and
Dr. Bayford and Dr. Deane for the owners.
Dr. LusEuriaToze, looking at the general aspect of the
case, and considering that the vessel was on a sand on
which the wind was beating, and that the accident oc-
curred in the month of February, could not regard the
situation of the vessel as one free from the chance of
peril, and from this it had been rescued by steam power,
which, in the first place, was more efficacious, and, se-
condly, more expensive, than other power. Taking these
circumstances into consideration, he should allot 30/. for
the service performed, and as the owners had made no
tender, he gave the salvors their costs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW- STREET.

Mr. T. Spencer Hall, whose name was identified with
that of Miss Martineau a few years: since, in connexion
with certain mesmeric results' applied to Mr. Henry,
the sitting Magistrate, to aid him in suppressing the
public sale of an offensive pamphlet, in which his own
name, and that of the lady above referred to, were used
in a manner extremely annoying and repulsive.
Mr. hall produced a packet of the publication referred
to, having, as he stated, bought up all the man had in
his possession, and promised him more creditable em-
ployment for the future. The pamphlet purporting to
contain certain " astonishing revelations," and startling
" exposures" concerning the practice of mesmerism by
" libertines and hoary-headed debauchees," and other
evil professors of the art, and the outrages committed
upon female virtue by means thereof. Extracts from
Miss Martincau's letter in the Athenceum were given
relative to the command which the mesmerist was en-
abled to exercise over the actions of his patient, and
inferences most offensive to morality were sought to be
established therefrom.

Mr. Hall, who was formerly a professor and lecturer
on mesmerism, added, that he had now no connection
with the science, but was identified with another subject.
lie also held a public situation, and was on that account
the more annoyed at the manner in which his name had
been put forth in these pamphlets.
Mr. HENRY said his attention had been already called
to the publication by the Society for the Suppression of
Vice; but, although it was, doubtless, a most objection-
able production, and very offensive to the parties whose
names were mentioned in it, still it did not appear to
contain ob,cene or profane matter, such as to bring the
vendor under the laws for the suppression of vice. The
party might be indicted under another clause, for sel•
ling i❑ the streets, for which he was liable to a penalty
of 405., but probably the man would desist if an officer
were sent to him from the Court. At any rate, he would
not recommend Mr. Hall to buy up these prints, or re-
compense the party for not selling them; or he might be
treated like the gentleman who, having given sixpence
to an organ grinder to keep away from his house, was
afterwards continually pestered by others, who wished
to be got rid of in a similar way.
Mr. Hall said, the man who carried them about had a
large placard, which was even more offensive than the
books.

His worship sent an officer with a caution from the,
bench, and the applicant then withdrew.
MARYLEBONE.

A considerable degree of excitement prevailed in the
neighbourhood of this court in consequence of its having
been known that Thomas Duch, a labourer employed by
the parish of Paddington, was to be brought up for re-
examination on the heinous charge of having attempted
to poison Jane Duck, his wife.
She occupied a miserable apartment in White Lion-
place, and the prisoner had for a long time past ill used
her in a most shameful manner. On Wednesday after
noon, the 24th ult., she poured out three cups of tea, one
for herself, the second for the prisoner, and the other
for her child; she sent the latter out fur a small quan-
tity of milk, and having waited at the street-door till she
came back, they both entered the room and sat down;
she put milk into each of the cups, when the prisoner,
either by accident or otherwise, upset his, upon which
she poured out another fur him, and he drank it; she
then drank her own cup, which had about it a very
strange taste, so much so, as to induce a belief that poi-
son had been mixed therein; she emptied what remained
into a basin, and finding something still adhering to the
inside of the cup, she took both of the utensils to a che-
mist, who, upon smelling them, expressed a belief that
they had in them opium.
Other evidence was gone into upon the first inquiry,
stating that Pollard, 125 D, took into custody the pri-
soner, w ho, on bring told what he was charged with, de-
clared his innocence, at the same time asserting that if
any poison was in a cup, it must have been put in by his
wife for the purpose of destroying him; and he also al
leged that a short time ago, as he bad every reason to
believe, his wife had put poison into a herring, of which
she was extremely anxious that he should partake.
At the station-house he feigned illness, and he wished
to have the stomach pump applied to him, but it was
quite apparent that. there was no necessity for any ope-
ration of the sort.
Yesterday the following additional evidence tending to
criminate the prisoner was adduced:—
William Lee, shopboy to Mr, Moore, chemist, Brown-
street, Edgeware road, deposed that on one day last
week, a man whom he believed to bo the prisoner, came
to the shop and asked for a pennyworth of opium for
the purpose of smoking. He was not served with it,
and he went away. Witness watched him, and saw him
go into the shop of Mr. Grant, another chemist, in Nut-
ford-place.
Prisoner—.l never saw that boy before.
Mr. Howard, assistant to Mr. Grant, said that upon
one occasion last week a man came in and asked for a
pennyworth of opium, which he said was for a pain in
the head. He was served with about eight or ten grains,
and he thee went away. He could not swear that the
prisoner was the person.
Mr. BROUGHTON—WouId that be sufficient to de-
stroy life ? Witness—lt might in some cases of deli-
cate constitution.

The wife (a poor sickly woman with an infant in her
arms) went into many particulars relative to the un-
happy lire which she endured for a long while through
the ill usage of her husband, and mentioned various
fasts not give❑ by her at the first inquiry, mahy of
which had a tendency to show his (prisoner's) guilty in-
tention.

Thomas, 60 T, (one of the officers attached to Ham-
mersmith Police•court), said, that upon several occa-
sions while the parties were: located in the districtiof
the eourt in question, the poor woman had complained
of being cruelly treated by the prisoner, for the ap-
prehension of whom a warrant (here produced by the
officer) had been granted.
The prisoner, on being asked what he had to say,
denied his guilt altogether with regard to any attempt to
poison his wife, but admitted that he had not behaved
well to her lately; he launched out into bitter invectives
against his former landlord, who had sold his bed from
under him.

The Magistrate, after carefully reviewing the whole
of the evidence adduced in this as yet very mysterious
case, remanded the prisoner till next Wednesday, at the
same time giving directions to the constable to take th•
cup and basin t• Dr. Leeson, at St. Thomas's hospital,
in order to ascertain if by analyzation at the present
period further information may be gained.
WORSHIP-STREET.

George Freeman, a porter in the employment of the
Eastern Counties Railway, was charged with commit-
ting a series of deptedations upon packages and parcels
transmitted through tho goods' department of the above
company.
Mr. John Phillips, warehouseman in the service of
Mr. Thomas Buxton, a commission agent in Wood-
street, Cheapside, stated, that for some time past various
hampers of goods they were in the habit of receiving
from the house of one of their principals, at Norwich,
named Geary, had been found, upon reaching their
warehouse, to have been broken open in the course of
their transit by railway, and robbed of part of their
contents. Repeated complaints of these depredations
had been made to the railway authorities, but they bad
been unable to obtain a clue to the offender until "about
three weeks since, when a bale of goods, consisting en-
tirely of gloves and braces, was also discovered, upon
being received from Norwich, to have been previously
opened, and that the whole of twelve parcels it contained
had been broken into and a quantity of the goods ab-
stracted from each, and one parcel stolen altogether.
lie had since been shown a pair of braces by one of the
railway officers, and he felt satisfied, from their make
and appearance, that they had formed part of one of the
parcels in question, with the remainder of the contents
of which they exactly corresponded.
James Sparks, inspector of gatekeepers at the goods'
station, deposed, that having been directed to keep a
vigilant eye upon the porters as they left the premises,
he watched the prisoner as he was going through one of
the gates, and having noticed that his jacket. protruded
much from something bulky beneath it, he iisisted
upon searching him, and found him in possession of a
dress coat, which had never been worn, and had the
maker's label still attached to the collar. Ho afterwards
searched the prisoner's lodgings, and there, amongst
other articles, discovered the braces identified by the (
last witness.