The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-27 00:00:00

MAY 27, 1847.

The Lord Mayor said he certainly thought the public
were greatly indebted to the gentlemen who had brought
so important a subject before him ; and he assured them
that so far as he could render any service to the cause,
he should be completely at their command. He was
glad to find that justice was so willingly yielded to the
Commissioners of Sewers. He knew how warm they
were in the great cause of sanatory regulations ; but
they could not, he declared, do what was necessary, by
compelling landlords to make drains from their houses
to the common sewers.—(Hear, hear.) For the pur-
pose of giving to the deputation an opportunity of ac-
complishing their object, he should appoint Monday
next for holding a Court for the discussion of the merits
of the petion of the ward.—(Cheers.)
Dr. Lynch and the other gentlemen then most cor-
dially thanked the Lord Mayor, and retired.

CAUTION TO EMIGRANTS.
DISMISSAL OF A LIVERPOOL PASSENGER AGENT.
On Friday Patrick Gornley was summoned before Mr.
Rushton, and Sir Joshua Walmsley, to answer a com-
plaint preferred against him of having by means of false
pretences induced Daniel Harrigan to take a passage
for himself, his wife, and two other females to St. John's,
Newfoundland, instead of to St. John's, New Brunswick.
Daniel Harrigan, a decent looking Irishman, deposed
that he arrived here on the 11th of last month, from
Cork, and that in two days after his arrival he went to
the office of Mr. Gornley, who was a licensed passenger
broker in Liverpool. There was no one with him at the
time. He asked Gornley if he had a ship for St. John's,
New Brunswick, and he replied that he had. He then
asked the name of the vessel, and he replied the Sophia.
Gornley asked whether he was going to pay the passage
money, upon which complainant replied that his wife
and two other women, who were going to America with
him, were in town, and that he must acquaint them be-
fore he entered into any agreement. He then asked
whether he could see the ship, to which he replied, no,—
that she was at the Brunswick- dock, and that if he lost
any time he would be very apt to miss his passage in her,
for that in all probability, her several berths would be
engaged before he came back. This conversation took
place about eight o'clock in the morning of the 13th ult.,
and Gornley said she was going to sea at four o'clock
that afternoon. Complainant told him that he should
be back in a very short time, so soon as he should have
gone and acquainted his wife. He then %. ent to hie wife,
and returned to Gornley between nine and ten o'clock
the same morning. His wife accompanied him ; and she
having also ascertained that the ship was going to St.
John's, New Brunswick, and that she would sail that
day, paid 81. passage money for herself and her husband.
Gornley, who did not give any certificate at the time,
told the wife to go at once and see the two other women
of her party ; and the wife having gone and brought one
of the girls with her, that girl paid him 81. more for her
own passage and the passage of her female companion,
to St. John's, New Brunswick. He then wrote and
handed them a certificate, which Harrigan read, and to
his surprise he discovered that, instead of St. John's,
New Brunswick, it mentioned that they were to be taken
to St. John's, Newfoundland. He immediately told
Gornley that Newfoundland was a country to which they
had no desire of proceeding ; but Gornley began to
laugh at him, and said that he could not go to a better
place tha❑ Newfoundland ; that, after discharging there,
the Sophia would go on as far as Pultwash, that then he
would be within thirty-six hours' sail of St. John's, New
Brunswick, and that he should be able to get there very
cheaply. Finding that on the day he paid the money
the vessel had sailed out of dock that very morning, he
offered Gornley 30s. if he would give back the 161.
which had been paid him, and permit him to go where
he liked. But Gornley refused this offer, and Harrigan
found himself deceived. The vessel having sailed, as he
had said, met with an accident and turned back, and
then, sooner than lose his money and passage altogether,
and being unable to see Gornley, although he called at
his office several times, he and the three females went
on board, and set sail on the 18th ult. When she had
been out a few days she was dismasted, and was driven
into Belfast, and there, when all his money had been
run out, and most of his clothes destroyed on board, ho
was obliged to leave the vessel and come over to Liver-
pool to obtain justice.
In cross-examination by Mr. Owen, he admitted that
the captain had given him lib. of biscuit a-day, but he
added that it was very bad biscuit. He also admitted
that himself and his wife had received the sum of 31. at
Belfast, from some parties belonging to the vessel.
Lieutenant Hodder, R. N., the government emigration
agent at Liverpool, deposed that previous to the original
sailing of the Sophia a number of passengers having dis-
covered the deception which had been practised upon
them, came to his office to complain. Their complaint
was that they had taken a passage for St. John's, New
Brunswick, and that it turned out they had shipped for
St. John's Newfoundland. He accordingly wrote a note
to Gornley, desiring him under the circumstances to re-
turn the money, and telling him that otherwise no pains
-holild he spared to punish him. Gornley came to the
office, was very strongly remonstrated with for his prac-
tices, and returned the money in that case to the parties.
He (the lieutenant) had the other passengers duly in-
formed of the destination of the vessel, and the conse-
quence was that when they learned they were going to
Newfoundland instead of New Brunswick, they came to
him i❑ lots with their complaints. The reason, however,
that he could not interfere was, because the vessel had
cleared the Custom-house with 29 passengers-30 pas-
sengers being the lowest number of which the law takes
cognizance. On reaching Belfast, however, it was found
that instead of 30 passengers being on board, in reality
there were 50.

Mr. John S. de Wolff, the owner of the Sophia,'stated
that he was not aware of the precise number of passen-
gers she had on board, but all he had got paid for were
251 adults. He was, however, aware of this, that at
Belfast he was mulcted in a penalty under the Act, for
the captain having had more passengers on board than
the ship bad cleared with. He had received 56/. in all
for the passengers, and where the vessel was going was
150 or 200 miles from St. John's, New Brunswick.
Mr. Rushton having recapitulated the facts of the case
and said an alteration was about to be made in the law,
which would bring all vessels, no matter what the num-
ber of the passengers might be, under the cognizance of
Lieut. Hodder and the authorities, proceeded to observe
upon the fact that in this case the total number of fifty
passengers had by some one been surreptitiously shipped.
This was not only a great fraud upon Government,
but the vessel had been cleared with twenty nine pas-
sengers, for the obvious purpose of preventing the
source of the fraud from being arrived at. The case
was altogether a most painful one. More calamitous
consequences than those likely to befal the poor
passengers themselves could hardly be conceived;
for, instead of going to a land where their friends
and relatives were waiting to receive them, they were
about to be sent to another country where they
had neither friends nor relatives, and thus pauperism
would be entailed upon them, and it might be death it-
self. Gornley, he said, must pay a penalty of 104, for-
feit his licence, and never again practice as a passenger
broker in Liverpool ; and he trusted that this would be
a warning to persons acting in Gornley's situation, and
there were very few such he was happy to believe ; and
also a warning to the emigrants, whenever the appear-
ance even of fraud was attempted, to go to Lieutenant
Hodder or the magistrates, and they would obtain in-
stant redress. The case was of the utmost importance,
in more points of view than one ; for no fewer than
75,000 emigrants had sailed from Liverpool in the pre-
sent year.
The judgment seemed to give the greatest satis-
faction to a court densely crowded at the time with emi-
grants and parties interested in the affecting tale told by
Harrigan and his friends.—Liverpool Journal.

THE CASE OF INFANTICIDE
IN COVENT-GARDEN.

The adjourned inquiry into this very mysterious and
singular case was resumed yesterday before Mr. Bed-
ford, the coroner for Westminster, at the York Hotel,
Upper Wellington-street.
Mr. Moseley again attended on behalf of the parish
authorities, and Mr. Wolff was present to watch the
case for his client, the person already in custody.
The party alluded to at the late inquiry as " Harry
Hartnell " entered the inquest room before the com-
mencement of the proceedings, accompanied by several
friends.
Mr. Mayhew,:of Carey-street;attended as his legal ad-
viser.

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ready. Mrs. Cleveland said she had not obtained them,
because she was not sure that the child would live.
She gave no reason for saying the child would not live.
About a week before her confinement, on being again
questioned by witness on the subject, Mrs. Cleveland
gave her money to procure two or three articles of child-
bed linen. Witness was sent for on Wednesday last to
attend Mrs. Cleveland, and on going to the house, 9,
Wellington-street, met a gentleman, who said that Mrs.
Cleveland was very bad, but that he did not think
she would be confined before the next day. (The wit-
ness here pointed out " Harry Hartnell' as the party
alluded to.)
Hartnell, on being referred to, here said that he had
been summoned to attend the inquest as a witness, and
if it suited the coroner's convenience he should be glad
to give his evidence as early as possible, as ho had an
important eugagement to attend to elsewhere.
The CORONER said he would take his evidence after
that of the next witness.
The witness Barker than went on to describe that
Mrs. Cleveland was confined on the Wednesday after-
noon; that the baby was taken away by witness, and
brought again to Wellington-street at Mrs. Cleveland's
request the next morning ; that it was left in the bed-
room with its mother for a gentleman to see it, who
would not enter the room while witness was present, as
Mrs. Cleveland said ; that on Lking, the infant from the
bed, after having left it with its mother two hours, it
appeared greatly altered for the worse ; that witness
took it home the same night, and again brought it to
Wellington-street on Friday by direction of its mother ;
that it was left with her for two hours or more, and that
on witness going upstairs at the expiration of that time,

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to return home with the child, she found it dead. Wi.
ness burst into tears, and Mrs. Cleveland inquired what
was the matter ? Witness said the child was dead. Nits.
Cleveland replied, " You don't say so ?" A doctor was
immediately sent for.
A witness named Tester was next called. He proved
having seen the party iu custody, known as "Dolly,"
leave the house, No. 9, Wellington-street, between four
and five o'clock on Friday afternoon.
The CORONER here said he was ready to take Mr.
Hartnell's evidence if he had any to offer; but he thought
it right to caution him, before being sworn, that he might
decline making any statement calculated to criminate
himself if he chose to do ao.
Hartnell, having consulted with his legal adviser, said,
after the Coroner's observation, he should decline making
any statement.
The CORONER—Then I understand you to claim the
privilege, because an opposite course may tend to crimi-
nate you ? Hartnell—That is so.
The CORONER—Then I think the police should at once
take you before the magistrate, who will deal with you
as he thinks proper.
This announcement appeared to cause considerable
surprise to Hartnell and his friends, and as they were
about leaving the room in company with Inspector Black,
Mr. Mayhew, addressing the Coroner, said—Then,
Sir, as far as you are concerned, you release Mr. Hart-
nell ?
The CORONER (emphatically)-ob, "no; certainly not.
After some further conversation, Hartnell again
offered to give his evidence.
The CORONER said he would take it, but the witness
must recollect if he were once sworn he would be bound
to answer every question put to him, whether the answers
would criminate him or not.
Again consulting with his professional adviser, Hart-
nell declined to give evidence, and he was removed to
Bow-street, accompanied by several of his friends.
A girl named Davis was next examined. She corro-
borated the witness Tester as to having seen the man
known as " Dolly" leave the house No. 9, Wellington-
street, between four and five o'clock on Friday afternoon.
Ellen Driscoll, servant to Mrs. Cleveland, deposed to
a variety of circumstances, all tending to show that her
mistress had made no preparation for the child of which
she was about to become the mother. She had also
heard her mistress say, the day before her confinement,
that she thought the child would not live.
At this stage of the proceedings the CORONER in-
quired whether Hartnell was present?
Inspector Black said, he had taken the party alluded
to before the magistrate as requested; but as there was
no charge made against him by any person he had been
at once dismissed. Ile left the police-office with his
friends, and he (Inspector Black) had not seen him since.
The CORONER expressed his astonishment at the re-
sult described, and said he thought the inspector himself
must have heard sufficient from the lips of Hannon to
justify his detention.
The jury appeared to regret very much that Hartnell
had been suffered to depart, and several of them ex-
pressed themselves rather strongly on the subject. After
a time the examination of the witnesses was proceeded
with.

Jane Johnson, a lodger at No. 9, Wellington-street,
deposed to having heard Mrs. Cleveland say more than
once before her confinement that she thought her child
would not live, and that " she wished and hoped the
little brute would die." She also said, at another time,
she would not provide clothes for it, as she was sure it
would not live.

Police-constable Dunn, 134 F, presented a letter found
on the prisoner "Dolly," addressed to Mr. Hartnell by
Mrs. Cleveland. The seal bad been broken by direction
of his superintendent. The letter ran as follows:
"Friday, 12 o'clock.
"Dear Mr. Hartnell, —I have this moment received a
letter from Lawson. Come to me immediately.—Yours,
truly, "A. L. CLEVELAND.
" Mr. Hartnell, Portland-chambers,
Great Titchfield-street."
Mr. Lawson, being recalled, added to his former
evidence as follows :—When I declined to have anything
to do with the case, the man Hartnell remarked, " Oh,
then, the child must be born alive; but it can be ne-
glected afterwards."
Margaret Morgan, formerly in the service of Mrs.
Cleveland, proved having heard her mistress say, about
a month since, that the child would be the ruin of her,
and that " she hoped the little would die." On
being spoken to by the witness about providing baby
linen, her mistress also said, " she hoped the little
would never want any."
There being no other witness to examine,
The CORONER proceeded to sum up. The Learned
Gentleman first read over the depositions, and after-
wards remarked on those points in the evidence tending
to direct suspicion against certain parties. He reminded
the jury that the inquiry on which they were engaged
was merely a preliminary one, and that a verdict of
wilful murder being returned against any party by them
would- only have the effect of putting the matter in train
for further investigation. After the very clear and sa-
tisfactory evidence given by Mr. Guthrie as to the death
of the child havingbeen caused by suffocation, he thought
there could be little doubt, taking all the circumstances
into consideration, that the jury would feel the pro-
priety of sending the case before another tribunal ; and,
with these remarks, he begged of them to consider their
verdict.

The jury consulted together for about half an hour,
and then returned into court with a verdict of " Wilful
murder against Anne Cleveland and a person named
Hill, alias Dolly.'"
The Coroner immediately issued his warrant for the
apprehension of Cleveland, who will, of course, at pre-
sent remain under the surveillance of the police at her
own house. The other accused, it will be recollected, is
in custody.

THE TRIPLE MURDER AT MIR-
FI ELD.

The examination of the two murderers, Michael
M'Cabe and Patrick Reid, apprehended a abort time
since on suspicion of being the perpetrators of this ap-
palling crime, took place on Saturday last, at the Court-
house, Dewsbury, before Mr. Joshua Ingham, chairman,
and Messrs. J. B. Greenwood, John Hague, H. W.
Wickham, and E. B. Wheatley. The court was crowded
during the investigation, and the excitement which the
dreadful occurrence bad occasioned appeared in no
degree to have subsided, numerous parties remaining
outside the building and in the neighbourhood during
the whole of the investigation. The accused have
been carefully watched since their arrest, and have been
kept in separate cells. M'Cabe is stated to have mani-
fested considerable uneasiness and restlessness since his
removal to the station at Dewsbury, but on his being
brought into court he maintained the same calm de-
meanour which ho preserved at his first examination
before the deputy-coroner. He was placed in the dock
in the long brown overcoat which he wore at the time he
was taken into custody, and on the left arm were placed
several pins, to mark the places from which had been
cut pieces of cloth, for the purpose of ascertaining whe-
ther the marks on his clothes were or were not really those
of human blood, and which were submitted to the inspec-
tion of Mr. West, of Leeds. Reid, who is a much younger
and more athletic men, was also dressed in the dark green
and buff waistcoat which he was sworn to have had on
on the morning of the murder; and on his left arm. im-
mediately on the round of the shoulder, and the inner
part of the wrist, were similar marks placed, to denote
the spots whence the cloth had been cut for the chemist's
inspection. He appeared almost indifferent to the pro •
ceedings, and was defended by Mr. Haxby, of Dews-
bury, with whom he communicated but once, and that
was during the evidence of the principal witness against
him. The most important witness was Benjamin Hor-
ton, a hawker and dealer in rags and pots, who lived in
Mah-lane, Mirfield, and who said, that as he was passing
down the road leading from M'Kinaell's house, by the
Baptist Chapel, close to that of Mr. Wraith, he acciden-
tally turned his head, and he then saw Patrick Reid at
the lane end, near Mr. Wraith's house, and from which
one immediately fates iutu his threlliu6 by the back
yard. He could not speak as to whether he was going
to the house, but he had his head turned that way, as if
about to enter by the kitchen door. At the 'same time
he saw M`Cabe about ten yards off APKinnell's garden
corner, walking towards Reid and Wraith's house. He
could not speak as to what distance was between
them; but he passed on, and a shower of rain almost
immediately overtook him. In his cross-examination,
he said he had known Reid personally for some time,
but not his name, before the murder ; and he knew
M'Cabe well. He did not see their faces, but he spoke
to their dresses and person, and swore positively that
they were the two men he had seen in the locality de-
scribed. The magistrates, after a short consultation,
remanded the prisoners until next Saturday, for further
examination. M'Cabe said he wished to account for
blood being on his basket by stating that ho had pur-
chased some hearts and liver at Huddersfield a short time
before, and carried them home in it. He was allowed by
the bench to have an interview with his wife, in the
presence of the constable. Thus, at present this 4yead_
fill crime is involved in mystery. There is other evidence
to be adduced, with respect to the key of the unfortunate
victim's door, found in the well, a centre-bit, since dis-
covered, and other matters connected with a long chain
of circumstantial evidence to connect the accused with
the commission of this fearful crime ; but the rumours
are too vague and contradictory to warrant publicity.
The adjourned examination takes place before Mr. G.
D. Barker, Deputy Coroner, this day, when it is ex-
pected the testimony of Mr. West and other witnesses
may throw additional light upon the affair.

ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB,
The entrance for the Grand Challenge Cup, given by
the Royal Thames Yacht Club, open to all Royal Yacht
Clubs, closed at ten o'clock last night, at the Piazza
Coffee-house, Covent-garden, and were as follows :
Yachts. Tons.
Secret ... ••• 25 Owners.
J. Vir. Smith.
Prima Donna ... 25
•••
Ino Captain J. L. Ives.
..• .•• 25 Zuleika, EL Gibson.
Challenger 2
•••
••• ••• 2
20 Morris King.
Fradgeley.
Antagonist 25
Of these, all belong to the Royal Thames Yacht:Club
except the Challenger, which is of the Harwich Club. The Meteor steamer will, as usual accompany the
match for the accommodation of members and _ their
friends. The race will take place on Tuesday, e sth
of June.