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London, England, 1847-03-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 8, 1847.

THE PROPAGATION OF THE
POTATO.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
beg to submit to you some important remarks
on a new method of increasing the potato, which promises
to be of the utmost utility.
Ever since the introduction of the potato, now nearly
three hundred years, the general way of increasing them
has been either by planting the small tubers whole, or
by dividing the large ones into two, three, and four sets,
but rarely making more than four sets from one tuber.
The present great scarcity of that valuable esculent, and
my own practical experience in the propagation and
management of plants, more particularly to the procuring
of a great number from some of the tuberous-rooters
kinds, induced me to turn my attention to the subject,
towards obtaining a much more abundant increase from
the potato than the present system gives. I have made
a trial of the method now so successfully practised for
the propagation of the dahlia, as follows:—The roots of
the dahlias are taken up for preserving through the win
ter about the same time as the late-planted potatoes, and
stored from the frost; some of the sorts that are much
in demand and scarce it is now customary to put into
pots in December and January, and to place them in the
hothouse or hotbed, which causes them soon to show th.,
eyes just above the tubers; these are allowed to grow
to about two or three inches in length. They are they:
taken off carefully so as not to destroy the eyes that are
formed at the bottom part of the young shoots; two eyes
are left on each of these shoots, which will give (fount.
the quantity of cuttings, ready to take off in ten to fif.
teen days after the first lot, and every succession of cut-
tings may be expected to be much more numerous. I
have known instances when the almost incredible num-
ber of 500 good healthy plants has been made from one
dahlia root by the above mode of treatment. It will.
perhaps, be as well to mention that, by the old way of
propagating, viz., by dividing the root when in a dor-
mant state, it was scarcely possible to make more that;
six or seven plants.
I now lay before you the result of my experiments
with the potato as far as time has permitted me.
I placed some tubers of four sorts in the hothouse and
treated them in every respect as the dahlias; they made
cuttings quicker, these cuttings rooted sooner than the
dahlias, and by the present thriving appearance of the
tubers, from which some cuttings have now been taken,
I have not the least doubt of their proving as prolific as
the dahlia. Some objections may be started to this
method of propagation in competition with the old estab-
lished system. My present endeavour is to provide in
some measure for the great deficiency of potatoes for this
season's planting, and I am convinced that, to a certain
extent, it will be found to be perfectly successful. I
think my suggestion will open a great field for improve-
ment in the culture of the potato, and may lead to many
experiments ; and some other advantages may be ex•
pected to be made known. I regret this idea did not
strike me earlier in the season, as it would have given
me an opportunity of placing before the public my other
experiments, which are not just now sufficiently matured,
although I feel quite satisfied they Is ill come up to in)
anticipations.
In order that this plan be fully and fairly tested, I
would venture to recommend every gentleman's gardener,
or other parties hiving the opportunity, to commsnee
immediately to make the following trials:—viz., where
they have already planted the tubers in frames for the
first crop, and the tubers have made shoots, or not, the
mould to be taken off carefully, by hand, from one, two,
or:more rows of the sets, so as to expose them, and SOM.
light and pure soil, finely sifted, he put on directly, just
thick enough to cover the sets ; by adopting this mode
good cuttings will be produced, and, if treated ever)
way the same as dahlia cuttings, they will readily takt•
root. On some of the earliest planted sets they will
probably be found, on removing the soil, to have already
made some growth; these should be taken off to near the
sets, they will throw out fresh shoots or cuttings very
soon, anti every attention should be paid to promote the
growth and health of the tubers or sets, such as oc-
er ionally to replenish the soil about them, giving air e'
times to prevent a too rapid growth or the shoots wit?
become weak and succulent.

I am under the impression that if from twelve to
twenty cuttings were nut into each store pot in the.
middle or latter end of *April, they would take root ir
ten or twelve days, and when gradually hardened to
bear exposure they could at once be permanently planted
into gardens or fields with as much certainty and in a
similar manner as the turnip, cabbage, &c., are from the
seed beds ; and here I would suggest the propriety of
getting them out as soon as possible in order to proven'
the plants being checked too long, for the success of the
crop of all tuberous-rooted plants depends, in a great
measure, on their free and uninterrupted growth.
In a former part of my letter I expressed regret at not
having had the opportunity of making an earlier trial of
my plan, and that will very likely lead some persons to
inquire how I propose to manage with the young plants
that might be rooted in January and February, and
when they could not be planted in the open ground. 1
beg to add my recommendation for that early time of
the year for the young plants would be either to put
them into large sized pots, or plant them in frames for
an early crop for the table, or to give stock, the tubers
would be ripe in time for re-planting out of doors in
May, making two crops in one season ; and if of a new
and choice sort, I would re-pot the young plant, takt
off the top for another cutting, and keep the young
plant for increasing, and I think it would yield man)
cuttings if encouraged. This method might be pursued
to a great extent. _

And probably this new method of propagation may b.
a means of throwing some light on the much talk..d of
disease in the potato as to its origin ; my impression is.
that it arises from a very minute parasitical plant, whici,
attaches itself to the haulm and fills up the pores of the
leaves and stems, checking the circulation of the sap,
and depriving the plant of all nourishment of the atmo
sphere, and that it is only in remarkable seasons this
parasite vegetates.
From experiments now making I expect some further
important results, which I shall be happy to make known
EDWARD BROWN.
The Cottage, Slough, Bucks.

EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT BY A COLLECTOR OF
CITY DUES.— On Friday, information was forwarded to the
police stations, that Robert Albion Fellowes, who had filled
the responsible situation at the Custom-house of receiver of
wine duties, had absconded. He is charged with having at
various times embezzled moneys to a large amount. A re-
ward of 1001. is offered for his apprehension. The amount of
his defalcations is said to be nearly 7,0001. The discovery
took place under the following circumstances :—ln the course
of the year 1846, the gauger of the city of London, who is
appointed by the Corporation to gauge all the wines that
arrive within the port of London, and who is paid the sum of
4d. per tun, made a large demand, which far exceeded the
amount that ought to have been paid on the duties paid in
by the collector to the Chamberlain. This led to an inquiry,
and a committee was appointed by the Court of Common
Council to inquire into the matter, on which an application
was made to the alleged defaulter to render an account of the
moneys which had been paid to him. The collector refused
to do so, on which he was suspended, and a gentleman of the
name of Scott was appointed pro tent. to the office. The in-
quiry, during the period up to the 11th of last month, pro-
ceeding, on which Messrs. Burn and Selson, who had been
appointed, brought up a report, and in which they recom-
mended that proper legal proceedings might be adopted
against Robert Albion Fellowes for embezzlement, as they
found that the gauger's charge for gauging for 1841, at 4d.
per tun, amounted to 439/., and as the City dues were 4s.
per tun, it showed 5,268/. ought to have been paid into the
(ace of the Chamberlain, whereas only 3,3581. had been re-
ceived, thus showing a deficiency of 1,910/. for 1841 ; the
deficiency for 1842 was 1,7351.; for 1843, 1,749/. ; and for
1844, 1,8181. ; and they also found that the yearly average of
wine imported into the port of London was 9,000 tuns, or
17,000 pipes, and that the defalcations, in round number, was
upwards of 1,800/. a year. The report was referred back to
the committee to amend, which being done, has led to the
present proceedings.
A case of great iniquity was brought last week
before the Court of Assizes for the Vienne, held at Poitiers.
The parties accused were a woman named Meunier, and her
son, by a first husband, tamed Rene Lachaise. The charges
against the latter were for robbery, for complicity with a
young man, named Jean Courlivent, in an attempt to commit
parricide, and, lastly, for the actual murder of the said Jean
Courlivent, in which last crime the mother joined. The
following are the circumstances of this atrocious case :
Courlivent, who is about 24 years old, lived as servant with
a M. Perrault, of Audesigny, but having become too inti
mate with the woman Meunier, and her son Lachaise, both
of whom bore a very bad reputation in the country, the wo-
man having been convicted of a robbery and suffered im-
prisonment in a jail, Coulivent's master discharged him.
Upon his dismissal, Coulivent went to live with Meunier
and Lachaise at Belair, and was induced to sell a piece of
land of his own and purchase, conjointly with the latter, the
house in which the mother and son lived. Under their in
fluence, Courlivent was induced to attempt a robbery upon
his own father, who held a small farm in the neighbour-
hood. He and Lachaise went on the night of the 26th Oc-
tober, to execute their purpose. The dogs, however, by
their barking awoke the father, and he got up and came
down to the yard. The two villains attempted to strangle him,
but his cries brought help, and they fled. During the struggle
the father disfigured the face of the son, and bit him severely
on the thumb, leaving marks which were afterwards found
upon him. The father had too many proofs of the identity
of his son, and the other assassin. They both returned to
the house of the woman Meunier. On the following day
Courlivent left his home and went to a public-house at 111i-
rabeau, where he remained two days in a state of great de-
pression. When the attempt upon his father was mentioned,
he attempted to fix it upon his brother. In the evening of
the second day he returned to Meunier and Lachaise, but
the next morning he was found dead in a wood about a
league from their house, having been evidently strangled by
a rope which ha been stolen from the well of a neighbor.
The crime was not committed on the spot where his body
was found, but from marks on the ground, and the under.
wood and rushes, he had after death been evidently dragged
front the house of Meunier and Lachaise, whose traces were
proved by the marks of the woman's shoes, and the man's
sabots. The chain of evidence against them both in this
murder, and of the participation of Lachaise with Courli-
vent in the attempt upon the father of the latter, though in
greater part circumstantial, was too complete to leave any
doubt of their guilt in the minds of ,the jury, and conse-
quently they returned a verdict of guilty against them
both, without extenuating circumstances. They were both
condemned to death, and the Court adjudged that the execu-
tion of Lachaise should be attended with all the inflictions
imposed by the law upon parricides. Consequently he will
have to walk to the scaffold barefooted in his shirt, and have
hi,: eight hand struck off before being decapitated.— Gal4nani.
THE DEFENCES OF DOVER, DEAL, &C.—The
following is a return of the guns mounted at Dover, Deal.
and the adjoining fortresses :—Deal Castle, four 32-pound
guns, on common carriages; Walmer Castle and Saluting
inti:ntery, eight 36-pounder guns, aed six 6-pounders, on cons-
n carriages; Sandown Castle, live 34-pounders, on coni-
Tirlss), ronnacgoesm;niDonovcearr
I(...Lastelse,. four 12-pounder
guntws
o(oue-
guns, on trey •g ' East
Drive
Field, five 32- Bastion, 32 pounder
Bulwark, threellr dersing platforms; Shoulder of Mutton
ers, on traversing platforms; Bloats,
Guilford Bette pr:euger guns, on common carriages;
; Archclid Fort, Six pszider guns, on traversing plat-
formsplatforms; Citadel, two 12 -pounder TY, three
pounder guns, on traversing
carriages ; Drop Redoubt, th-reu
ter carronstdes, on common,
ing platforms; six 12-pounder pounder guns, on travers-
ing
one 8-inch mortar ; total fort:ll'lr common carriages,
, Over, ikc„ 58 gan5,.....
Dorer Telegraph,

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME ClRCUlT.—Hertford, March 5.

The assizes for this county concluded to-day about one
o'clock. The following are the only cases that possessed any
feature of public interest that have been disposed of during
thee. assizes.

CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Lord DIcEAN and a Special Jury.

MI .ES V. YURRAY•

This was an action to recover damages for an assault al-
leged to have been committed by Sir Robert Murray, a ma-
gistrate for this county.
Mr. Montagu Chambers appeared for the plaintiff; and
Mr. Sergeant Shee was for the defendant. _

This case arose out of an action that was tried at the last
assizes, and which has since been several times befcre the
public upon the application for a new trial. A man named
Beadel brought an action against Sir Robert Murray for
false imprisonment, on having given him into custody on sus-
picion of stealing some fowls; and the result of that action
was a verdict for the defendant. It appeared that, shortly
after the trial Beadel and some of his friends, among whom
was the present plaintiff, had been regaling themselves at a
public-house in the village, near Sir Robert's residence, and
as they were passing by one of them blew a horn, and sonic
other discordant noises were made, and it was alleged that Sir
Robert had come out, accompanied by some of his servants,
and made an attack upon the party, and committed the 23-
unit complained of upon the plaintiff.
Lord DENMAN, in summing up, said he lamented that a
gentleman in the position of the defendant should have acted
in the manner alleged, even although he might have re-
ceived some provocation. That was no excuse tin- an act of
violence from a gentleman who, by his position, ought to set
an example of forbewl.nce.
The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict for
the plaintiff.—Damages, Is.
His LORDSHIP, subsequently, upon the application of Mr.
Chambers, certified that there was ground of action, so that
the plaintiff will receive his costs.

he. The neighbours assembled and sent for a constable ;
but Mr. May, one of the surgeons, with singular tact gad
presence of mind went down stairs and forbid the con-
stable to interfere till he should know on what charge the
prisoner was to be apprehended, and then returned up stairs
ar.dp in the presence of the prisoner, Mr. Rusher and Mrs.
Martin said to her " It is an unfortunate thing you (lid this.
What could be your motive for doing it?" To which she
replied, apparently in amazement at such a statement, " I
did it !" and then added, "It was he did it." Thereupon the
prisoner went up to the head of the bed, and said, " Jenny,
will 3 ou swear I did it?" and she said " Yes, I will." Mr.
May then told her to be cautious as to what she was saving
as the charge was a serious one against Mr. Smith, and told
the latter that a constable was waiting to take him into cus-
tody; whereupon he observed, "This is a sad job for me;"
to which Mr. May replied that if he was innocent of the
charge he would have no difficulty in proving himself so
before the magistrates. lie was then conveyed to Bridewell.
She remained at his lodgings confined to bed till the next
Monday, when she left to attend before the borough magis-
trates. These gentlemen having heard her evidence, and
that of the medical men and of the persons who were in the
house at the time of the occurrence, and the prisoner's state-
ment, which was to the effect that she had inflicted the
wound herself, dismissed the charge. This decision did not
give universal satisfaction, and a subscription was raised in
the town to conduct the case to a hearing before a jury. A
true bill was found by the grand jury on Tuesday; and the
prisoner, who was at large, and pursuing his employment in
the tax-office since his release by the magistrates, at once
surrendered to take his trial.

The facts in dispute must be gathered from the following
report of the evidence bearing upon them :
Mr. KEATING, in opening the case for the prosecution,
said, that as the only object of those who instructed him was
to elicit the truth and to vindicate justice, he would call
every witness whom he was aware of as knowing anything
of the matter, and even put in evidence the statement made
by the prisoner in his own exculpation before the magis-
trates, though it could not be submitted to the jury by him
under any circumstances in the present inquiry.
Jane Morris, after stating the circumstances of her con-
nexion with the prisoner up to her arrival in Reading, said
that after she had found him out here, and met him, they
had remained on good terms till he went to his lodgings on
the evening of Wednesday, the 20th of January last. "At
first," said she, "he did not speak to me. Afterwards he
asked me, had I got a lodging at Cavershara ? I told him I
coul t not. He then wanted me to take lodgings at an inn
for the night, and wanted me to go early. I complained of
being faint. He ordered up a glass of water. I said he ought,
knowing my weak state, to have ordered a cup of hot coffee.
He said the water was good enough for me. I said, this is the
way you wanted to starve me at Manchester, but a friend
enabled me to find you out. He pressed me to tell him who the
friend was ; I told him it was Mr. Bradbury, who lodged in the
' same house with him at Bury,and who gave use money to come
up to him. some time after that he said, lam determined you
shall go.' I had put my bonnet on the table before then. On his
saying that, I said nothing. lie then attempted to put on
my bonnet; I would not let him, but told him I would go
presently. He said nothing, but took my glove and cuff off
the table, and threw them on the fire. The glove was burnt.
I took the cuff off. It was then a quarter past eight o'c:ock.
He said he had no doubt it was nine. He then put his arm
across the mantelpiece, and laid his head upon his arm. I
was sitting at the time. After a time he turned round and
said twice, Will you go ?' I arose from the chair. Ile
seized hold of me and threw me backwards. I felt some-
thing pass across my throat. He afterwards thrust a hand-
kerchief into my mouth. I felt something pass across my
throat a second time. I struggled and moved the handker-
chief from my mouth with my left hand. I felt blood
trickling dossn my bosom, and cried out. On my crying out
he dragged me from where I was standing, near the fire, and
threw me on the floor, and knelt on my chest. I should say
it was impossible for him to ring the bell. I saw no razor in
the room. I heard the prisoner say I did it myself. Upon
my solemn oath that is not true."
' Cross-examined—The prisoner left a dressing-case and
razor at Manchester. I brought the razor to Reading, be-
cause it was his favourite razor, having been his grand-
father's. I brought the strop and other articles also. I
gave him the razor a few days after I first met him. He
gave me 30s. since I had come to Reading. He did not put
any :money that evening in my basket. There was a half-
crown, a sixpence in silver, and fourpence in copper in
it. With one hand he seized my right hand at the wiist and
pressed it against my chest, and threw me back against the
table, and then inflicted the wounds. The witness was cross-
examined at great length as to the mode in which the wounds
were inflicted, but no material contradiction was elicited.
She gave very firmly and unhesitatingly point blank contra.
dictions to questions as to whether she told a Mr. Martin that
she kept the razor to protect her, or a Mrs. Cray that she
kept it to cut her corns, or that she once flourished it in the
presence of Mrs. Cray, with a menace that if she found a
Mrs. Smith, or any other woman, at Mr. Martin's, she would
—, meaning she would use it; or that she told Mrs. Mar-
tin that he had tied her hands behind her back before he cut
her throat, or that he cut it while he was putting on her
handkerchief, or that on the Saturday subsequent to the
Wednesday in question, after Mr. May had come to see her,
she told him she bad a pain in the head from having been
thrown hack on the floor by the prisoner, and in the chest
from his having knelt on her, and that when that gentleman
left she burst out laughing, and told Mrs. Parr, the nurse,
that the fact was she had been out on the landing to over-
hear what they were saying about her, and, hearing some-
body coming, she ran into bed, and in doing so knocked her
head against the boards.
Re-examined—The prisoner in holding her wrist hurt it.
The mark was there when Mr. May came.
William Martin, a tailor, residing at 26, West-street, proved
that on going into the room he saw the prosecutrix lying on
the ground with her eyes closed, and apparently unconscious.
He afterwards heard her say "he did it; He did it." He was
not sure he heard the bell ring.
Eliza Martin, the wife of the preceding witness, confirmed
him generally.
Cross-examined—Heard the bell ring. On going into the
room found Jane Morris lying on her back. There was a
holland spread over the carpet. The blood from the wound
was already on the holland. She wished to save her carpet,
and therefore begged of the prisoner to apply a handkerchief
to the wound. He, at her request, pinched up the wound
• with his finger. She could not say whether there was blood
• on his hands when she went into the room. Jane Morris
L afterwards told her that the prisoner had tied her bands
behind her back before he cut her throat, and afterwards,
again, that he did it while he was putting on her handker-
chief. She saw blood on one of Jane Morris's wrists.
Reexamined—She could not say when or where she first
mentioned the statemants made to her by the prosecutrix.
James Robert Cottell, an apprentice to William Martin, on
going into the room, saw blood on the prisoner's hands.
Could not say whether this was before or after the prisoner
had been stanching the wounds.
Mr. May, a surgeon in Reading, after proving what we
have already mentioned above, went on to state, that when I
he observed the prosecutrix on the ground there was no
blood on her hands, nor was there any when they undressed
her. He observed it particularly, as his attention was called
to her ring. Nor was there any blood on either of her
wrists. There was blood on the prisoner's hands. Two days
afterwards Ise saw a bruise on her wrist. It was a bruise
of about two days' standing. A bruise does net show itself
at first. This was such a bruise as might have resulted
from an injury inflicted two days before. On dressing the
large wound they discovered a second, slighter than the first.
This had not cut much deeper than the skin. The large wound
was on the right side of the throat, and made by a cut from
right to left, and was deepest at the right or upper end. It
was improbable, but not impossible, that the wound was in-
flicted by herself. It was more probable that it was in-
flicted by anether. She appeared to be in a weakly state,
independently of the wound—such a state as a person would
be in who had recently miscarried. Had examined her feet.
There was no appearance of her ever having had corns.
Cross-examined—lf the prisoner held up Jane Morris in
his arm while inflicting this wound it would be very difficult
for him to inflict it.
Re examined—But, supposing that he with his left hand
caught her by the right wrist, and, pressing it against her
chest, forced her backwards against a table, and he, while
so facing her, had a razor in his right hand, there would be
no difficulty in inflicting such a wound; and, as there was
no spring or purchase at the back of the razor, he would cut
rather backwards—from right to left--than forwards, from
left to right.
Mr. Rusher, a chemist and druggist in Reading. on going
into the room saw the prosecutrix lying on her back. The
razor was three or four yards from her left-hand side, and
bloody on the blade and on the handle. There was blood on
the floor near it—such a quantity as might be supposed to
fall from a bloody razor thrown there. He took up the razor
and placed it on the pianoforte, and was: he believed, the
first person that touched it after it left the hand that inflicted
the wound. lie particularly observed Jane Morris's hands.
There was no blood on them. There was blood on both the
prisoner's hands. The prisoner was holding a handkerchief
to the wound. When the prisoner, in the bed-room, asked
her would she swear he did it, her answer was, " You know
you did it."
The razor was produced, and the prisoner's statement be-
fore the magistrates was put in and read. The substance
of this was, that he repeatedly begged her to go away—that
she herself threw her glove and cuff, and also a handker-
chief, on the fire; that she wanted to get back the razor ;
that he refused to give it; that she at last promised to go
if he would give it back to her; that he at last, after much
importunity, gave it; that she stood for a while before the
fire, apparently preparing to go; that he suddenly heard
her scream and cry " Murder," and saw her falling; that he
met her, supported her in his arms, rang the bell, laid her on
the ground—that the persons in the house then came in, and
that the wounds were inflicted by herself.
At the close of the case for the prosecution,
Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD (with whom was Mr. Selfe) put
in her examinations taken before the magistrates, and again
cross-examined her on discrepancies between her statement
then and to-day.
Mr. KEATING having re-examined the witnesses,
Mr. Sergeant TALFOUxD then proceeded to address the
jury on behalf of the prisoner. The Learned Sergeant's ad-
dress occupied nearly two hours.
Several witnesses were then called to prove the affirmative
of the questions to which we have already stated the pro-
secutrix, in her cross-examination, had given point-blank
contradictions. These witnesses were all in humble life.
Not one of them was shaken in cross-examination. One of
them,
Mrs. Parr, proved the affirmative of the last of those ques-

tions, as given above.
Cross-examined--Was appointed by Mr. May to attend as
nurse on the prosecutrix. Never told Mr. May what the
prosecutrix had so stated to her, because she had never since
been able to see him till last Saturday, and then could not
speak to him. She went on the Saturday after the Saturday
on which the prosecutrix had made that statement to her
to his house, and saw his servant, but could not see him.
Was certain she had not seen him since that Saturday, the
23d of January, till last Saturday.
At the close of the evidence for the prisoner,
Mr. May was recalled, and swore that he was attending on
the prosecutrix on the Sunday and Monday after the occur-
rence, while she was at Martin's house, and saw Mrs. Parr
li there in attendance as usual, and that Mrs. Parr never said
one word about this statement to him.
Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD replied on this evidence.
Mr. KEATING replied on the whole case.
Ills Lotinsnw Commenced his summing up by observing,
that though he would not presume to say that the magis-
trates were wrong in dismissing this case, yet thanks were
due to those who enabled the prosecutrix to bring it before
a jury; for, of all the cases he had ever seen, it was the one
which was most proper for decision by the verdict of a jury,
His Lordship having read through the evidence in detail, and
commented upon it,
The jury consulted for about five minutes, and then re-
turned a verdict of Guilty on the second count—for cuttipg
and wounding with intent to disable.
His LoaDsmr, after observing that the verdict met with
his entire approbation, sentenced the prisoner to ten years'
transportatioe.

ROYAL MARINES.—The orders to recruit to the
extent of 1,500 men have been issued by the Admiralty, and
communications made to that effect from the several divi-
sions to the officers employed on the reeruiting service; the
standard of height is to be reduced. A union flag is ordered
to be issued to each recruiting party. and will be displayed
at the officer's quarters in the different towns. There is not
o be any increase of officers this year.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.)
TIIE LATE ROBBERY AT TILE CATHERINE WHEDL, IN THE
BOROUGH.—William Burficld, a porter, was indicted for
stealing, on the 27th of January, a pocket-book, containing
bank- notes to the amount of 3001., the property of Francis
George Shaw Skipp.
Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Wilde attended for the prosecution,
and Mr. Clarkson defended th,s prisoner.
Mr. BALLANTINE having opened the case, proceeded to
call witnesses.

Francis Skipp stated that he recently resided in Finchley,
and had since been in the Queen's Bench Prison, from which
place he bad come that morning. On the 26th of January
he had received 3001. He was then staying at Drummond's
Hotel, and his brother-in-law, Mr. Last, was staying with
him. On that day they left the hotel at four o'clock, witness
having previously deposited his pocket-book, containing the
money, in his left boot, and strapped the trowsers down.
About five o'clock on the succeeding morning they arrived
at the Catherine Wheel in the Borough, where they asked for
beds. The prisoner let them in and informed them that there was
only one room unoccupied, to which they were shown. Wit-
ness sat down at the foot of the bed and asked the pri-
soner to pull off his boots. Last, who was much intoxicated,
was then at the other side of the room. Witness felt his
boot, and found that the pocket book was then quite safe.
The prisoner pulled off his left boot, and witness observed
him stoop for a second. He jumped up almost immediately,
said he had left the gate open, and left the room, and at the
same time witness discovered that his pocket book was gone.
The prisoner returned in about five minutes, and witness then
told him that he bad lost his pocket-book, and that there
fore he (prisoner) must hare taken it. Prisoner said, "Do
you mean to say that I robbed you? because it you
do you may search me." Witness took prisoner's cap off;
but was not allowed to search further, the prisoner
saying, " Keep your hands off me, don't be after putting any-
thing in my pocket." Witness said that he should call a
policenian,'On which the prisoner called up his master. The
landlord, Mr. Gunder, said he was quite satisfied of the ho-
nesty of his
.servant. After some time passed, witness went
out and Cared a policeman or two, who searched the room,
but- not- persons of those present. On leaving the Ca-
theripe Lieel for the station-house, witness and his brother-
in-lawz Walked in front ; the prisoner was nearest the shops.
At the station-house the prisoner was searched, and nothing
found on bun. Witness and Mr. Last were also searched, at
the desirp of Mr. Gunder.

Mr, 6.Altxsox cross-examined the witness at great length,
and be was also re examined by Mr. Ballantine, but nothing
material was elicited.

George Last gave somewhat similar evidence.
James Hall, 101 M, observed'a cab stop on the morning of
the 27th January, at the Catherine 'Wheel, from which Mr.
Skipp and the last witness descended, and passed within the
gate. In about half an hour, witness was called in, and in-
formed by Skipp that he had lost his pocket book, and would
have the house searched for it. Mr. Gander said he should
not allow his house to be searched, as it would disturb the
lodgers. Witness then recommended Skipp to bring two
more policemen, and he did se. Mr. Skipp said "it was no
use searching the prisoner, as he (Mr. Skipp) had done so
already." Some of the rooms were searched, and they after-
wards walked to the station. The prisoner and witness
walked first, the prisoner being on his right hand side. Mr.
Skipp and Mr. Last, with a policeman, followed, and Mr.
Gander came after. They preserved the same order in passing
the top of Adams- court.
By the Learned JUDGE—A complaint was lodged against
him for neglecting to search the prisoner at the Catherine
Wheel ; but the decision on that complaint was deferred until
the trial was over.

Henry Assister, 30 M, sail, that the prisoner told him
when walking to the station that he had been searched.
John Slielley Yates,' inspector, produced a pocket-book
Landed to him by a person named Munro, containing four
501. and one 100/. notes. The prosecutor and Last were
sober when the charge was taken at the station-house.
William Munro, employed at the Phtenix Gas Company,
received the pocket-book from a person named William Cox,
and handed it over to the last witness.

William Cox, servant to the Phoenix Gas Company, was
passing down the Borough at a quarter to six o'clock on the
morning of the 27th of January, and kicked against the
pocket-book, which lay about the middle of the pavement,
nearly opposite Adams-place, and in the way from the
Catherine Wheel to the station-house.

Mr. CLARKSON addressed the jury for the prisoner, and
contended that nothing was shown bringing home the charge
to him.

Mr. Justice COLTMAN summed up, and the jury retired to
consider their verdict. After an absence of half an hour,
they returned into Court with a verdict of Guilty.—Sen-
t once deferred.

The Learned Judge then sentenced the prisoner to be im
prisoned for six calendar months.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STREET.

A man named Yarnell was charged on the police sheet
with stealing a quantity of paper, valued at 31. 18s., the
property of Mr. John Knight, paper-hanger, of No. 190,
Brick-lane, Spitaltields.
From the evidence of police-constable Hanway, 118 G, it
appeared that a man named Munro, was this last week tried
and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for robbing
Mr. Knight, the prosecutor in this present instance, of a
quantity of valuable paper. Munro was duly conveyed to
prison, where he at once made a communication to the
authorities there, implicating Yarnell. The subject of the
communication was transmitted to the Recorder, who or-
dered that Yarnell, who is described as an oilman, of No. I,
Earl-street, Finsbury, should be immediately taken into cus-
tody and conveyed before a magistrate. Twenty-two rolls
of paper, valued at between 91. and 10/. stolen property, had
already been discovered.
Munro, it appears, was in the habit of calling with a horse
and cart at various paper-stainers, with an order from Mr.
So-and- So, for a quantity of paper, which was delivered to
him at once, when he was met with on the road by Yarnell,
who eased him of his booty.
The prisoner was remanded, in order to have time for fur-
ther investigation.
Tfiz CASE OF L.tTITIA HANRAN.—It will doublessly be
gratifying to many of our readers to learn, that the case of
the young woman, Lfetitia Hannan, the particulars of which
appeared in The Sun of Thursday se'nnigbt, has been
attended to by several distinguished, benevolent individuals,
and the result has been that she will be enabled to carry
into effect the laudable design she had in view, viz., that of
opening a school on her own account.
Mr. ARNOLD, in announcing further donations, said that
the envelope of one of them contained a recommendation for
her to apply to the Governess's Home Society. He (Mr.
Arnold) had instituted inquiries respecting her, and the re-
sult was so satisfactory that he would be happy himself
personally to recommend her.

The Magistrate then desired Hayward, one of the warrant-
officers of the Court, to give her the necessary assistance, in
the pnrchase of those articles required for the purpose of
carrying into effect the object desired, and the recipient,
having thanked the worthy magistrate for the assistance he
had rendered her, left the office.