The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-01 00:00:00

NEWGATE.

The following interesting document has been ordered
to be printed and circulated amongst the City:Magistrates
by the Court of Aldermen:—
A statement of the number of prisoners in her Ma-
jesty's gaol of Newgate on the Ist of January, 1846,
and the number committed during the year; r Iso show-
ing how they hare been disposed of.
Males. Females. Total.
In custody on Jan. 1, 1846 ... 96 19 115
Committed to 31st Dec. inclu-

sive, under 17 years of age... 255 41 ? 2733
Ditto above that age... ...1,911 326 S ;

Total ... ... 2,848
283 of whom have been in Newgate before.

Of whom there hare been executed ... •• • 2
Removed to Millbank Prison ... „. ... 483
Removed to Horsemon;er-lane Gaol . . •.• 11
Removed to the House of Correction for London 245
Removed to the House of Correction for Middle-

sex ••• ••• ••• ••• ..• •••
Removed to the House of Correction for Essex
Removed to the House of Correction for Kent ...
Removed to the House of Correction for Surrey
Fined and discharged ... ••• ••• •••
Discharged, having been imprisoned pursuant to

sentences
Discharged upon bail ... ••• •.•
Removed to Lunatic Asylums ... •••
Discharged, having been acquitted •••
Discharged, bills not found ••• •••
Discharged, having given evidence ...
Pardoned and discharged...... •

Remaining in custody on the Ist January, 1847
(males 86, females 21) ... ..• • ...

Committals increased this year, 142 ... .• 2,848
A statement of the number of persons convicted at the
Central Criminal Court in the year 1846, specifying

their offences and sentences:—
Accessory before the fact ... ... ... ... 3
Arson 9
Assault to rob •.. ••• ••• ••• •.• 5
Bigamy ••• ••• ••• ••• •• • •••
10
Burglary ... ••• ... ... ... ... 45
Coining ... ... ... .. ... ... 3
Coin (feloniously uttering, counterfeit) ... ... 21
Curtilege breaking and larceny ... ..• ... 1
Cutting and wounding, with intent to murder, &c.
120
Embezzlement
Forging and uttering forged intruments ... ... 35
Horse stealing ... ••• ••• "II ••• 7
House-breaking and larceny 41
Larceny, larceny person, and larceny servant ... 1,313
Larceny in a dwelling-house above 51. ... ... 74
Letter stealing from Post-office ... ... ... 5
Letter, sending a threatening ... .•• ... 2
Manslaughter •8
Menaces, demanding money with ...
... 7
Receiving stolen goods ... ... •.• ••• 33
Register, making false entry of births and death
Robbery ... ... ... ... ... ... 37
Shopbreaking and larceny ... ~. ... ... 2
Stamps, having in possession forged ... ... 1
Warehouse breaking and larceny ... ••• •• • 3

Of whom there were sentenced—
To death* ... •••
Death recorded ... ••• •••
Transportation for life •••
twenty years •••
- fifteen years ..•
- fourteen years
- ten years
- seven years ~.

IMPRISONMENT IN NEWGATE AND THE HOUSES OF

CORRECTION.

For three years ... • •
For two years ••• •..
For eighteen months •••
For one year ...
For nine months ...
For eight months ...
For six months
For four months ...
For three months ...
For two months ...
For six weeks
For one month and under ...

Fined ... ... ... ..
Discharged on recognizances
Judgment respited ... ..

. 2,050
W. WADHAM COPE.
` Of whom one has been executed.

Total

THE DUKE OF ORLEANS AN

THE FORTUNE-TELLER.

A little more than sixty years since, a fortune-teller I
in Paris was roused from his bed at the dead of night by
a loud knocking at the door. On opening it he perceived
standing before him a man muffled up in an ample cloak,
with a large hat slouched over his face. " What do you
want ?" said the fortune-teller, somewhat alarmed. The
stranger answered sternly, "If you are what 3 ou profess
to be, you can tell me that—" " I can tell nothing vt ith-
ont my cards," replied the other. They both walked in,
I and the fortune-teller having shuffled his cards. and laid
them out, after a pause, observed with a tone of deference,
" I perceive lam in the presence of an illustrious person."
" You are right," said the stranger ; " and now tell me
what it is I wish to know." The fortune-teller, again
consulting the cards, answered—" You wish to know
whether a certain lady will have a on or a daughter."
"Right again," said the stranger. After another pause,
the fortune-teller pronounced that the lady would have a
son. On which the stranger replied, "If that prove
true, 3ou shall receive fifty pieoes of gold—if false, a good
cudgelling." A few weeks after about the same hour
and in the same manner, the stranger re-appeared, and
before he could speak, the fortune-teller exclaimed, "You
find I was right." I do," said the stranger ; " and I
am come to keep my promise." So saying, he produced
a purse of fifty louis and departed. The stranger's mode
of proceeding seems to have been designed to put the
fortune-teller's skill to the severest test. The circum-
stances of his coming alone, and at such an hour, make
it probable he had not communicated his intention to any
one ; whilst his carefulness in concealing his person and
face, and his extreme caution to afford no clue to the
discovery of himself or his object by conversation, were
admirably calculated to render imposition impossible.
The history of the case is this. I have heard it about
seventeen years since, from a gentleman in Paris, who
learned it from Volney, the celebrated traveller in the
East. Volney had it from the fortune-teller himself,
who applied to him for some Syriac expressions. On
being asked for what purpose he wanted them, he con-
fessed his trade ; and Volney finding him a remarkably
shrewd person inquired of him the story of his life. He
said that when he was young, he had a great turn for
expense, very slender means, and an inveterate repug-
nance to anything like drudgery. After long puzzling
himself to discover some mode of life by which he could
unite certain profit with continual amusement, he deter-
mined to set up as a fortune-teller. He commenced by
taking a lodging in the obscure quarter of the Manes,
and practising in a small way in that neighbourhood,
where the blunders of a beginner would not be of much
consequence. At the same time, he never failed to be
in daily attendance about Court, and spared no pains to
make himself familiar with the personal appearance and
private history of every person of the least note there.
After two years of practice among the small, and of
study among the great, he thought himself qualified to
commence business on a grand scale ; and haying, by
bribery of a servant procured a proper customer, he tried
his art in his new sphere with great success. his fame,
and of course his gains, increased rapidly, and it was
when he was in his zenith that the adventure above re-
lated happened. He explained it thus :—Whilst
shuffling his cards, he purposely let two or three fall,
and, in rising from picking them up, he contrived to
catch a glimpse of the stranger's countenance to discover
that he was no less a person than the Duke of Orleans,
afterwards Philippe Egalite and the father of the present
King of the French, who was actually the child in ques-
tion. He took not the least notice of the discovery he
had made, but pretended to ascertain the fact by the
contemplation of his cards. Having overcome this diffi-
culty, his practised acuteness made the rest easy to him.
It was publicly known that the Duchess was near her
confinement, and he had heard the Duke was anxious to
have a son ; he therefore confidently guessed the object
of his visit, and after the manner of his tribe hazarded
the prediction which he thought would insure him the
most liberal pay. He did not expect the proposed alter-
native, which obliged him to be on his guard, and he
had actually only just returned from learning the news
at the Palace, and was scarcely in bed, when the Duke
arrived, whose faith must have been confirmed by the
fortune-teller's anticipation of his intelligence.—The

ENROLMENT OF TUE DOCKYARD WORKMEN AT
PEMBROKE FOR THE DEFENCI OF THE PORT AND ARSENAL.
—The code of regulations from the Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty was received at Pembroke Dock-yard last
week by the Captain Superintendent, by which all the
workmen between the ages of eighteen and fifty-five are
invited to enrol themselves in a corps to be called the
Royal Dock-yard Battalion, and the Battalion is to be
trained to the use of the small and heavy guns for
the defence of the arsenal, and drilled for that purpose for
two hours each day from the Ist of April to the Ist of Sep-
tember. All riggers, lightermen, hoymen, and sailmakers, to
be trained, in addition, to the use of guns in the dock yard
launches and Stn-boats. In furtherance of this object Cap-
tain Superintendent Falcon issued an invitation to ar-
tificers, labourers, and apprentices, to come forward
at once to enrol themselves for this patriotic purpose. He
energetically called upon all having the character and feel-
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