The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-12 00:00:00

LAMBETH.

John Jones, a young fellow, whose friends were said
to be highly respectable, his father being barrack-mas-
ter at Cork, and Elizabeth Pearce, who had deserted her
lawful husband and home to beguile her hours with her
fellow-prisoner, were placed at the bar for final exami-
nation on a charge of robbing their ready-furnished apart-
ments.

From the evidence it appeared that the prisoners oc-
cupied a furnished apartment in the house of Mrs. Pesh-
ley, in the Waterloo-road, where they passed as man and
wife, and the landlady having some misgivings from their
manner, that all was not right, took occasion in their
absence to examine their room, and found it stripped of
nearly all the bedclothes and other movables. The pri-
soners, by some means or other, got a hint of the dis-
covery made in their absence, and did not return home ;
but information having been given to the police, they
were apprehended on the charge, when the duplicates
for the missing property were found upon them. Their
friends have managed to take out a number of the ar-
ticles pawned from the pawnbrokers', the latter having
given them out without either duplicate or declaration,
rather than have to appear as witnessess in the case.

There were one or two other charges against the pri-
s o
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prisoner had previously lodged, spoke to his proper con-
ductuses the male
while with them, as well as the respectability of his
friends.
Mr. ELLIOTT convicted the prisoners in the penalty
of 51. for the unlawfully pawning., together with the
value of the articles pawned, or in default of payment to
stand committed to the House of Correction for two
months each.

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CIARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER AGAINST A POLICE..
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named John Serle, in the county goal near this town,
wh cut-
lassbingThomas captured
Bygrave, one of the county police
force, in
usedb by
Thomas
e,w was the subject of a coroner's inquiry on the 6th
inst. The evidence showed that the officer had exer-
cised much unnecessary violence towards the deceased.
Early on the morning of the 22d ult. the deceased and
his two sons were seen walking into the churchyard at
Bishop's Stortford. They were carrying a sack, appa-
rently half filled with flour, and Bygrave and another
constable followed them. On seeing the officers, they
ran away, but on the policeman coming up to them, they
attempted to resist being captured. Bygrave received a
serious blow on the arm from a bludgeon, and the three
again made off. The deceased, being a bulky man, could
not make so hasty a retreat as his sons, and finding the
police were upon him, he proceeded to make a more de-
termined resistance. Bygrave drew a cutlass, and, ac-
cording to his statement, intended to have struck him on
the arm with it ; it however fell on his head, and in-
flicted a serious wound. He was removed to the county
gaol, and died on the 3d inst. Mr. Davis described death
to have been caused by erysipelas, which might have oc-
curred without the!wound. Capt. Kelly, the superintendent
not allowed to wear cutlasses ; they were called in about
of the police, informed the coroner that the officers were
twelve months ago. After some considerable discussion
on the conduct of Bygrave, in the course of which the
jury very much deprecated the way he had used the
sword to the deceased, they worded their verdict to the
effect that the deceased had died from erysipelas, and
although it might be possible that it was induced by the
blow inflicted, the medical testimony was not sufficiently
strong to lead to the suspicion that the disease entirely
arose from the blow. If it had been such, it would have
been their duty to send the constable for trial on a charge
of manslaughter. The jury added that they were of
opinion that he had displayed excessive zeal rather than
want of duty.
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.-111r.
RECEPTION OF THE
J. K. Walker, the private secretary of the President, ap-
peared at the entrance of the main aisle, and the door-
keeper announced
" A Message from the President of
the United States." Mr. Walker bowed, and when he
had resumed his upright position, said :—° Mr. Speaker
—I am directed by the President of the United States to
deliver to the House a message ha writing." Before the
long and anxiously-looked-for document was conveyed
to the table, and while on its way thither, there were
cries of " Let's hear what he has to say about the
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war." "Go ahead witk it." " Now for. the news."
The clerk broke the envelope, and, lo! there was
press,ats ewas tplaced
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Message. However, he preferred reading from a
printed copy; and having previously turned over the
pamphlet, length,
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table, and immediately nearly all the members left their
seats, and wont in that direction to procure copies. Some
of those who remained in their places cried out, " Bring
me one ; two, if you choose." The Speaker rapped, and
requested gentlemen to preserve order.—(Flow could
they under the circumstances 7) The pages were seen
running over the hall with copies of the
hands :—" Bring up some this way, boys," said one ;
" furnish
us first," remarked another. All being sup-
plied, tranquillity was restored, and gentlemen leaned
backed in their seats to read the Message, keeping pace
e wherein with the clerk. In the claus • erein the name of
" Jackson" is mentioned as having said the wrongs of
Mexico should no longer be endured, the clerk, by mis-
take, read 'Jefferson," llalf.a-dozen corrected him by
crying out " Jackson," " Jackson said that." The clerk
proceeded, and when he came to that part about the
permission granted to Santa Anna, by Commodore Con-
nor, to pass the blockade and go into Vera Cruz, there
was suppressed laughter and cry of " Oh !"