The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-12 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

SENTENCES AND SESSIONAL RESULTS.
Appended are the principal sentences and results as
awarded and settled at the end of the sessions:—

BANISIIMEIT BEYOND TILE SEAS.
Seven 'Years—Jane Ord, R. Kerr, W. Watts, l 9 ; J. Crew,
18; T. Wise, 32 ; Charlotte Campbell, 21; Mary Dowling,
42; Eliza Towels, 30; Caroline Anlrews, 17; Maria Ander-
son, 35; Charlotte Marshall. 20; Emily Scilly, Ann Cun-
ningham, 26; G. Morgan, G. Darcy, alias Gibbs, 20; F.
Osborne, 14; W. Dyer alias Avmer, 30; T. Williams, 31 • J.
Haddon, 17; George Moody, 2.6 ; W. Bell, 20 ; George Wood,
12 ; W. Jones, 19; G. Wilson, 19 ; G. Neale, 16; J. Gardner,
36 ; W. Thompson, 16 ; F. Grahames, T. Worwood, G.
Bentliff, 25.
Ten Years—Jane Smith, 22 ; G. Standish, 18 ; F.
Powell, 30. _ . _

Twelve Years—J. Wright, 23.
Fourteen Years—J. Williams, 24.
Fifteen Years—W. Thomas, 21.
Twenty Years—Jane Storr, 32.
IMP IVO NMIINT AND ITS ADJUNCTS.

The undermentioned were sentenced to be confined in the
Houses of Correction for the counties where their offences
were committed for the periods set forth, viz. :
Two Years—G. Sweet, G. Smith, J. Wood, C. Chapman.
Eighteen Months—Ann Dunmore, J. Jackson, E. D.
Hayes, G. Harris, T. Williams, J. Anderson, F. N. Fletcher,
J. Clarke, J. Hackett.
Fifteen Mouths—J. Brown, T. Davis, J. Brown.

Oue Year—Elizabeth Ransom, Eliza Davis, Clara Gre-
gory, Eliza Symons, E. Purkiss, J. Lyons, E. Day, J.
Warren, J. Shaw, J. Ashlin, G. Eslake, J. Lawrence, G.
Shearman, J. Crieke, W. Jones, T. Evans, J. Dixon, J.
Pierce, E. Barrett, H. Kendall, C. Gregory, Catharine Con-
ner, J. Chamberlain, Charlotte Springfield, Elizabeth Staley,
T. Johnson, J. Cox, H. Upton, W. Biggs, W. Bell, W.
Webb, T. Simpson, G. M'Gregor, T. Williams, J. Wilson,
T. Cf. innelley.
Nine Months—W. Brown, IL Framptcn, C. Cartright, J.
Smith, E. Barker, G. Miller, T. Ilallengin, • Emma Cooker,
Eli:. Stevenson, R. Farrell.
Eight Months—W. White, T. Hobbs, T. Smithson.
Six Months—Sarah A. Smith, Sarah Jones, J. Neighbour,
Mary Bailey, Eliza Smith, Mary Sbaw, Mary Galvin, Rachtl
Willis, AEU Bailey, Mary A. M'Lochlin, Charlotte Harding,
Elizabeth Grady, T. George, C. Jones, G. Bryant, H.
Jones, G. Glenn, E. Mats, Baker, J. Muggendge, W.
Carmichael, T. Crawford, J. Thomas Prince, T. Halleghan,
T. Sanders, E. Tomser, T. Mayhew, A. Driscoll, W. J. Ban-
field, C. Mahoney, G. Oliver, T. Ediker, J. Conch, D. Murfitt,
W. Simpson, T. Bartlett, T. Kennedy.
Four Months—G. Smith, N. Watkins, F. Brown, A. Ha-
milton, J. Connell, G. Collins, Mary Perkins.
Three Months—J. Holding, T. George, W. Bullam, J.
Farrell, C. Phillips, S. Moors, W. Stokes, R. Coombs,:
Meads, J. Kelly, C. Jones, H. South, J. A. Durling, C. God-
frey, Ellen Burke, J. Lukford, W. S. Lukford, Sarah Castle,
Caroline Weston, C. Peters, T. Crone;, J. Tomkins, W.
Burke, T. Elliott.
A number of other prisoners were sentenced to minor terms
of imprisonment, and several to be privately whipped.
The grand jury ignored the bills of indictment preferred
against the under-named persons, who were discharged by
proclamation :
Helen Allegatin, Letty Singleton, Edward Hatton, Fred.
Howe, William Howe, Aaron Eden, James Cooke, John
Rogers, John Jones, William Langdon, J. Holmes, William
Hogan, Henry Moon, William Cole, Mary Mockler, Patrick
Mockler, Mary Lynes.
_ The following were acquitted by the petit jury :—J.
James, M. Jewitt, J. Morris, J. Jones, J. Smith, E. Bean,
rani, Donovan, J. Lyons, J. Jones, T. Higgins. Ann
B:r",o,ges Margaret Oxley, William Tallogar, William
man, d• Sutton, John H
George Burr, John Nicholson, Abraham Manger,
Hoare, T. J. Dowling, J. Chap-
man, r..1n148, Henry Colegate, Henry Smallbon Caroline
"wort, Margaret boar
Peter Joy, John Barnard, Eliza
Ann Hyde, James Newitt,
Higgin, William Jolla Hunt, lord, Mary Ann Davis, John
William
mAbghnam Beaumont, William
William Churchill, John Ts: Harrison, Mary Ann Brooks,
Fillmer, Joseph Harris,
6 ; a month, 4 ;
Imprisoned for two months, 9; sixg.weeks,
fourteen days and under (in No
wg4t4), 14 ; privately

whipped in gaol, 9; pleaded guilty, 40; surrendered, 6;
bailed, 6.

The number of prisoners upon whom the Court sat was
280 ; who were committed as follows :—London, 50 ; Mid-
dlesex, 160 ; Surrey, 46 ; Kent, 13 ; Admiralty, 5 ; Essex,
6.—Total, 280.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York March 9.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron RoLFE.)
Henry Walton, aged 37, stood charged with having on the
3d of December, 1846. at Midgley, in the parish of Halifax,
feloniously assaulted Thomas Greenwood, and violently
stolen from his person 35 half-crowns, and some shillings, his
property.
Mr. Pickering, with whom was Mr. Eastwood. conducted
the prosecution, and the prisoner was defended by Mr.
Alatthews.

It appeared that the prisoner and the prosecutor, who is 1
also a farmer, had both been working for a Mr. Smith, of 1
Hebden-bridge, from whom they had taken out wool to comb,
and the prisoner had been so employed for several years be-
lore the robbery. On the 3d of December Greenwood, toge-
ther with others in the same employ, had brought work to
the factory, and they had there received a 10/. note, which
was to be divided among them according to the several
amounts of their wages. They went to an inn, called the
Shuttle and Anchor, near the factory, and there, being
fatigued, had something to drink. While there the prose-
cutor saw the prisoner enter, and he also stayed some time
drinking. Greenwood did not leave till between eight and
nine, or after nine, and then had about two miles to go from
that place, Luddenfoot, to his residence, which was
near to where the prisoner lived. When about half
way two persons came behind him suddenly, and one
of them knocked him down, when his money
was taken and carried off. The blow was
made with a bludgeon. and inflicted a wound on his head,
which bled much. He was for some time deprived of his
senses, and lay in the road; but upon coming again to him-
self he got up and went to the house of a man named Whit-
taker. It was a little before midnight. Whittaker took him
in, and afterwards conducted him back to the public-house
he had left. Greenwood was positive that the prisoner was
one of the men by whom he had been robbed; said he was
not drunk, though he might be a little "concerned" by what
he had taken, which consisted of two glasses of rum and one
quart of ale, and denied that he had told Whittaker he could
not speak to the persons of those who had robbed him.
In addition to this, Mr. Smith, one of Greenwood's em-
ployers, stated that he had seen both Greenwood and the
prisoner at the Shuttle and Anchor that evening, when
Greenwood was certainly somewhat the worse for liquor.
And two women, living close by, stated that the prisoner
had been at their houses that night, and had left one of them
just before the robbery. To go to his own house he would
have to take the road upon which the prosecutor had met
with the violence.
The wlacle case appeared to depend upon the evidence of
the prosecutor, and whether he had really been sufficiently in
hi., senses to identify either of the robbers, and to recollect
what account he had himself given of the transaction.
For the defence, Mr. Matthews having ascertained from
Smith that the prisoner had been working as a woolcomber
tOr four or five years, and constantly maintaining his family
by his wages, proceeded to examine witnesses to prove an
alibi, and to show that Walton was, in fact, at house and in
bed at the time of the offence. This was spoken to by the
prisoner's sister, and another person who had met him on the
road near his house. In addition to which, Wm. Whittaker.
to whom the prosecutor went that night, swore that he
(Greenwood) had declared immediately after the robbery
that he was unable to say who committed it. He had said
that there were two men who so came behind him, but that
he did not know them. •

After some deliberation by the jury, the prisoner w•as
Acquitted..

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Salisbury, March 9.
CROWN COURT.—( Before Mr. Justice CuEsswiet.L.)
James Russal was indicted for having feloniously set fire
to a certain rick of straw, the property of Eliza Bell.
Mr. Slade was counsel for the prosecution. The prisoner
was undefended.

It appeared that on the night of the 2d February last, a
neighbour of Mrs. Bell's was looking out of his window just
before going to bed, and his attention was attracted to a
in the rick yard of Mrs. Bell, and on looking more pArticii -
lady he saw that one of her ricks was on fire. The fire
flashed up the rick, and the witness saw a man stooping
down under the rick by the fire. On the fire flashing up. as
it was described to do by the witness, the man stood up and
became distinctly visible, the rick not being above 100 yards
from the window. The man was dressed in a pair of leather
gaiters, smock frock, and high-crowned hat. He then ran
away. The witness immediately went to the rick to give
assistance, and there saw a policeman, who came up at the
same moment, and whom he informed as to what he had
seen, and the direction which the man who had been seen by
him at the rick had taken, and also described his dress.
Evidence was then given to show that the prisoner was ap-
prehended between four and five o'clock the next morning,
when he was dressed in the way described by the first wit-
ne.=.s. He was found in an outhouse, lying amongst some
straw, and said, when he was apprehended, that he had been
lying there ever since nine the night before. It was then
proved that the prisoner, who was a labourer and out of
work, had on various occasions threatened to injure the pro-
secutrix, because her bailiff bad refused to give him work,
it was also proved that the prisoner was going towards the
place where the rick was burned just before the fire broke
oat

Mr. Justice CRESSWELL having summed up,
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was then sen-
tenced to ten years transportation.
James Glass was indicted for having stolen two promissory
notes of the value of 51. each, the property of Mark Sawyer.
Mr. Rogers and Mr. Poulden conducted the prosecution ;
the prisoner was undefended.
Mr. ROGERS having opened the case to thej ury.

The jury almost immediately found the prisoner Guilty.
Sentence deferred.

HOME CIRC ULT.—Chelmsford, March 10.

CROWN SlDE.—(Before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.)
William Mason, 20, John Clegg, 21, and WilCant Smith, 17,
three miserable-looking lads, were indicted for feloniously
setting fire to five stacks of corn, the property of Arthur
Sbuttleworth.
Mr. Rodwell conducted the prosecution.
It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor is a
farmer at Upminster, and on the 26th of September, about
one o'clock in the day, he saw that the stacks in question
were safe in the rick-yard, and the prisoners were observed
sitting upon the gate leading into it. Very soon afterwards
the stacks were observed to be on fire, and although the
neighbours speedily rendered all the assistance in their
power the result was that two stacks of wheat, and three
others composed of beans, peas, and oats, worth altogether
240/., were entirely consumed.
The case against the prisoners was that they were upon
the spot at the moment the fire appeared to break out, and
they immediataly made off, without offering to render any
assistance, and were taken into custody a mile and a half
from the place, and upon their being searched an empty
lucifer match-box was found in Smith's pocket. The pri-
soners were entire strangers to the neighbourhood, and it
would seem that they had been begging about the country.
There did not appear to be the slightest motive for the act,
except that it was suspected they had not received much
charity from the persons living in the neighbourhood, and
committed the offence out of a feeling of revenge.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE having summed up, the jury
returned a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners, but re-
commended them to the merciful consideration of the Court
on account of their youth.
His LORDSHIP, in passing sentence, said that he was
always anxious to give effect to a recommendation of mercy
coming from the jury, and he should do so in this case, to
the extent of not inflicting the full sentence of transportation.
but it was absolutely necessary that persona convicted of this
odious offence should receive a severe punishment. In the
present state of the country, and the prospects beTore them,
the destruction of grain was nut only doing a great mischief
to the owners of such property, but to the whole population
of the country, and if the crime should go on spreading, the
consequences could hardly be conceived. He then sentenced
the prisoners to be transported for ten years.
In the course of the day, the grand jury returned two true
bills of perjury and conspiracy against some of the parties
who were examined as witnesses before the coroner, in the
inquiry respecting the murder of the police-constable at
Dagenham. The ti ial will not come on at the present assizes,
as the charges only amount to a misdemeanour, which entitles
the defendants to traverse, and the indictment, therefore, will
not be disposed of until the summer assizes.
CIVIL SIDE.

Mr. Justice CRESsysti stated that it appeared to him that
a very important question would be raised in it, as to whether
any larceny had been committed; but he should not stop the
ease, but let it go to the jury, and, if necessary, reserve the
point for the consideration of the fifteen judges.
Mr. Mark Sawyer, a millwright, living at Cheveril, stated
that he had occasion to make a remittance to a Mr. Ormond,
of Milksham, and Mr. Rawlings, of Trowbridge. He ad-
dressed two envelopes to those gentlemen. He gave them
to his wife with two 51. notes, with some instructions on
paper to the postmistress to obtain a post-office order for si.
for Mr. Rawlings, and one for Mr. Ormond. The notes were
shown to him two days after.
Mary Sawyer, the wife of the last witness, proved taking
the notes and the envelopes to Mrs. Dutch, the postmistress
at Cheveril, and also the paper of instructions.
Mrs. Dutch proved that she received the notes, envelopes,
and instructions from Mrs. Sawyer. The Cheveril office was
a sub-dice t, Westbury, and the prisoner was the letter-
carrier from Westbury to Cheveril. She gave him the two
Si. notes with the envelopes and instructions, directing him
to get post-offiee orders for them, and put them in the enve-
lopes and send them. She then asked him if she should put
them in the Cheveril letter-bag. He said yes, and she did
so, with the letters, wrapping up the notes and envelopes in
the paper of instructions. She then tied up the bag, which
was one kept for the convenience of the postmistress, that
the letters should not become mixed. The letter bill was
also put in the bag. The prisoner had authority to open the
bag at Bretton. This bag was then put into a pouch, which
he wore around his shoulders, with another bag. It was no
part of her duty to obtain post-office orders for persons, nor
was it the duty of the prisoner to carry instructions to obtain
such orders.

Miss Hurd, the niece of the postmistress at Westbury, was
then called, and stated that on the morning of the - the
prisoner came to the Westbury office with the letters. He gave
her his pouch, saying, " There are two 5/. notes in the Cheveril
bag for post-office orders for Mr. Sawyer." The witness, on
looking into the pouch, found that the Cheveril bag was not
there. She told the prisoner this, and he said, "Then lam
a ruined man." He then said that he had been taken ill
en the road to Bratton that he had opened the pouch to look
for a piece of paper which had been wrapped round some let-
ters which had been given him to post, and he supposed he
had dropped the Cheveril bag out. He then went away,
saying he would go back and see if he could find it. Some
little time after he returned with the Cheveril bag, and gave
it to witness. The letters were all right, and corresponded
with the writing in the letter bill, but the notes were not
there. He then held up two envelopes, and said he had
found them by the side of the bag. They were twisted up,
and he said he had found them in that state, and there was
nothing in them. Upon this Warner, an inspector of police,
was sent for. The prisoner was then asked by the inspector
how he came to lose the money. and he gave the same ac-
count of the transaction as he did to the last witness.
The inspector told him that his story was inconsistent,
and asked him to allow himself to be searched, which, after
some hesitation, he consented to. He was searched, but
nothing was found on him, and he then took the inspector
to the place where he said he had stopped on the road.
Nothing, however, was found there. He was then taken to
the station.

A policeman was then called, who stated that he saw the
prisoner's wife's son on the morning after the prisoner was
taken up. He went to the lock-up-house, where his father
was confined. He then went away, and returned in about
half an hour; he then spoke to the witness, and gave him
two five-pound notes, which were produced.
Edwin Orchard, the son of the prisoner's wife, was then
called, and stated that he carried the prisoner his breakfast
in the lock-up-house. His father-in-law told him to go
home and ask his mother for two five-pound notes. and carry
them about a mile out on the Bratton road, put them down
and then bring them back and swear that he found them.
He did so—did as he was requested. He then went to West-
bury, and gave the notes to the policeman.
Mr. Sawyer was re-called, and identified the notes which
had been given to the policeman as those he had given to
the prisoner.

This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. Justice CRESSWILL having summed up, the jury
found the prisoner Guilty.
Mr. Justice CRESSWELL then said that the impressioa on
his mind was, that he ought to reserve a point for the con-
sideration of the judges on the question of whether the pri-
soner was not a mere bailee, and not a servant to the pro-
secutor, and therefore could not commit a larceny of the
property; and it was clear that it was no part of his duty as
letter-carrier to take the money from the prosecutor and
carry it to the postmistress. He however would consider
the point.
William Harrell, a strong, athletic, resolute-looking man,
of middle age, was indicted for robbery with violence,
Mr. BALL conducted the prosecution,
The prosecutor, an old man of the name of Roger Watts,
stated that he was a shoemaker by trade, but that he was
also employed to collect rents. On the day of the robbery
he bad been out collecting rents, and in the evening went
into a beer-house in the parish of Keovil with money. con-
sisting of two or three sovereigns and a good many shillings
and sixpences. There were several persons in the beer-house
who appeared to be conducting themselves somewhat riot-
ously, and to have alarmed the old man a good deal, for he
asked a person who was there, whom he happened to know,
to accompany him home, for fear there should be any dan-
ger, and then ordered and paid for a quart of beer, to be
drunk by the other men at the house. This person did ac-
cordingly accompany him a short distance, when he left
him and went back. On his way back he met the prisoner,
one of the persons who had been left at the beer-house, and
said to him, "So, William, you didn't wait to have the beer.'
The prisoner said," ll—n the beer," and walked hastily on.
Shortly after this he must have knocked down the prosecutor
and robbed him. The prosecutor swore that he knew the
man who knocked him down, and called him by his name,
saying, " William Harrell, if you rob me, don't murder me."
He then became insensible for some time, and when he
came to himself he fi amd that all his money was gone ex •
cept one sixpence. The prisoner was afterwards seen at a beer-
house at Bath, in the po..session of a good deal of money, and
when be was afterwards taken into custody he had upon him
one half-sovereign and a great many shillings and sixpences.
He had been in regular work till ately, but for the last week
or so he had been out of employ. It appeared by the cross-
examination that the prosecutor had been drinking in the
course of the day, but ho swore that be knew very well what
he was about.

Chief Justice Wilde got through the list of causes by two
o'clock to day, the only case which was likely to occupy any
time having been referred to arbitration.
77eursday, March 11.
THE CASES OF POISONING AT CLAVESING.

Sarah Cheslenm was indicted for the wilful murder of
Joseph Chesham, her son, by administering him a quantity
of arsenic. _ _ _

Mr. M. Chambers, Mr. Wordsworth, and Mr. T. Cham-
bers, were for the Crown ; Mr. Sergeant Jones and Mr.
Charnoch for the prisoner.
After the evidence bad been offered, recapitulating the
facts of the case, which have already appeared before the
public, the Learned Judge summed up, and the jury returned
a verdict of Not guilty.

MIDLAND Cl itC£ll I:—Lincoln, March 9.
CLOTHING V. JAMES.
This was an action to recover 100/., the value of a horse
sold under a warranty of soundness.
HumfreY, Q.C., and Mr. Waddington, were for the
plaintiff ; and Mr. Whitehurst, Q.C., and Mr. Macauley,
were for the defendant.
The plaintiff is an extensive horse-dealer at Grantham ;
the defendant breeds and sells horses, hi 4 residence being at
Nottingham. The horse in question (a hay gelding) was
sold at Nottingham fair for 1004, but the morning after his
arrival at Grantham he coughed and showed symptoms of
disease, and died in three months from the time of sale. There
was nothing in the case to distinguish it from the common
run of such cases, there being the usual quantum of hard
swearing in opposite directions.
The jury retired, and after an absence of four hours, came
into court, the foreman intimating that there W 23 no proba-
bility of their agreeing to a verdict.
One of the jury called out, "We are nine to three, my
Lord."
Ultimately it was agreed the jury should be discharged
from giving a verdict.
ACTION FOR SLANDER—LIE V. JACKSON.
Mr. Humfrey, Q. C., and Mr. W. H. Adams were for the
plaintiff; Mr. Whitehurst, Q. C., and Mr. Wilmore appeared
for the defence.
The plaintiff (Mary Lee) is about fifty yeare of age, the
sister of a respectable farmer, occupying about 400 acres.
The defendant is also a large farmer, in whose service the
plaintiff had been for five years in the capacity of house-
keeper. Upon some slight quarrel she left, and at the time
the slanderous words were spoken, she was in the service of
a Mr. Foreman. In the autumn of 1845 she was on her
way from Boston to Limerick by the packet-boat, and com-
plaining of being unwell from the heat of the vessel, the de-
fendant, who was on board, said, "A glass of gin would do
Miss Lee good." Plaintiff replied, that if she wanted such a
thing she could get it, as Mr. Collard, the packet-master,
soldi t. He then said, " You have been drunk scores of times
in my house, and have carried stones after stones of bacon
of mine by this very packet." These were the words com-
plained of. The defendant simply pleaded the general issue,
not guilty.
Mr. WHITSHURST characterised the action as a trumpery
one, which ought to be laughed out of court.
The LEARNED JUDGE observed, in his summing up, that
the plaintiff was entitled to some damage for the attack made
on her character, the jury would say what.
Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, one farthing.
(Special Jury.)
HUNTLRIF, CLERK, 0. RUSSELL LND ANOTIIRR.

Mr. C. SANDERS addressed the jury for the defence, and
submitted that it was a question of identity, and that they
ought not torely upon the uncorroborated testimony of Watts
on this point. He also called a witness, who gave the pri-
soner a good character for honesty.

This was an action brought to recover damages for the
dilapidation of the rectory a Biubrook, in this county. The
action was brought by the present rector against the exe-
cutors of the late incumbent. The defendant had paid 2001.
into court, and denied further damage.

The case was of no interest except to the parties concerned.
There was conflicting evidence as to the amount of damages
between the plaintiff's witnesses, one of them putting it
below the amount paid into court.
The jury found for the defendants, a point being reserved
of the counts as to waste.

OXFORD CII?C —Oxfiord, March 10.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice Maut.E.)
Cave was indicted for the murder of Hannah
Treadwell, on the 4th August last, at Harley, in this county.
Mr. Carrington and Mr. Piggot conducted the prosecution,
and Mr. Keating the defence.
The facts appeared to be these :—The prisoner, who was a
married man, had carried on for some years an improper con•
nexien with the deceased, who was a widow, and latterly in
very reduced circumstances. She and he frequently quar-
relled of late, and she was in the habit of following
him through the village, and importuning him
for money, and abusing him. She, further, was
jealous of him, and was constantly making imputations
against sonic of the neighbouring women. On the morning
in question the prisoner, who had a small piece of ground
outside the village, was going out towards it with a gun,
which he was in the habit of carrying in his hand; and he
unfortunately met the deceased, who immediately commenced
making one of those jealous charges against him, in reference
to whom he had spoken going along.
to a neighbour's wife,
A scolding quarrel was the result., and she followed him
through the village, and into a path leading to his ground,
and they were seen no
i more for some time, until a shot was
heard in the direction n which they had gone. He was seen
returning soon after through the street in a hurried and ex-
cited manner.
Two men went in the direction in which the
shot was heard, and found the deceased on a bank about 15
feet higher than the pathway, quite dead. There was a gun-
shot wound under the chin, which completely severed the
carotid artery, and produced a.most immediate death. A
constable and some neighbours went to arrest the prisoner,
mid he at once said, " I have done I must suffer the law
and it will be a warning to others. The prisoner's gun was
hund loaded, and on being asked why he had loaded it a
second time, he said he had done so for the purpose of shoot-
himself, but on consideration he
.thought it would be better
to have time to repent. The prisoner gave different ac-
counts of the transaction. He once said that they were
quarrelling as they went along, and he meant to have knocked
her down with the gun, but it went off he knew not
how. Another time he said, "It was all her doing; she was
telling such lies about me, and throwing stones at me. The
other day she threw a stone at me, and cut my lip. As I
was going along the path, she followed me on the bank,
abusing me. I stepped up the bank, intending to knock
her down, but I could not reach her, and 1 turned the gun
and shot her. Ido not know how it was I pulled the
trigger."
Mr. KEATING having addressed the jury for the prisoner,
His Loinisiiip summed up, and the jury, after about ten
minutes' deliberation, returned a verdict of manslaughter.
His LORDSHIP, in passing sentence, said the jury had put
a merciful construction on the facts given in evidence, in
thinking that the prisoner might have had such provocation
as would reduce his offence to the crime of manslaughter.
It was, however, a most aggravated case, and deserving of
the most severe punishment the law awarded to the crime
of manslaughter, and the sentence should therefore be trans-
portation for life.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
SOUTHWARK.
Henry Smith and Thomas King, young men in a state of
destitution, were charged with stealing a pair of trowsers
from a tailor's chop in Tooley-street.
The prisoners were observed together lurking about a
tailor's shop in the above street, and being watched by a
policeman, one of them was seen to take a pair of trowsers
from inside the door, and give them to his companion. They
were in the act of making their escape when they were pur-•
sued and taken into custody.
In defence the prisoners said they were starving. and that
they were compelled to steal. A small trifle of money being
found upon one of them, in accounting for it he said that he
pawned his shirt to procure a lodging on such a severe night.
Mr. SICKEL said that it was lamentable to see two stout
respectable-looking young men placed in such a position, and
averring that they committed the offence through distress.
Such a defence was no palliation, for if they were reduced to
su2h a condition as they described, they would have obtained
at all events the shelter of a workhouse ; or they had another
alternative rather than be dishonest, namely, to enlist in the
army. The Magistrate then committed the prisoners for trial.

BAKERS' OPERATIVE SOClETY.—Weduesday night,
I at 7 o'clock, a meeting of journeyman bakers, at
which
there were above a thousand present, was held at the White
Conduit House Tavern, for the purpose of taking into con-
sideration what steps should be adopted for the purpose of
shortening the hours of labour. Mr. 'l'. Wakley, M.P.,
presided. Mr. Ives moved the first resolution, which was
to the effect that night labour was highly injurious to the
parties employed—that it prevented them from enjoying
those physical and mental benefits which fell to the lot of
other classes of society, while the system also was destruc-
tive of the domestic happiness of all persons connected with
the trade. Mr. Williams seconded the resolution, which
was agreed to nem. con. Mr. Heed moved the second reso-
lution, which was, in effect, to pledge the meeting to carry
out he objects they had in view. The resolution was agreed
to unanimously, when, after a few speeches the meeting
brAte up.
SIIOOTERS% BILL- ROAD.—In consequence of the few
carriages which now pass upon the high Dover-road, orders
have been given by the trust to reduce the width of the
carriage way. The roadsmen have taken off three feet or
more un each side from Shooters'-hill to Welling.
.By this
operation the inhabitants have sustained considerable incon-
venience. The foot paths have baen destroyed, and the
contest between the men and the occupants of houses, who
c.)mp,ain of an inroad on private property, is carried on with
great asry•rity.
We stated last week that several tons of china, glass,
and ,arthenware had been packed up at the Palace, ready
for removal. One portion of these has since been removed to
London; and the domestics hays commenced packing the
dining-room furniture.—Brighton Gazette.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 12, 1847.

BANK RETURNS.

(From the London Gazette.)
Au Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth
-Tietoria, ::ap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank
Notes, of the several Banks of Issue in England and
Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur-
day, the 27th day of Feb., 1847 : Average
PRIVATE BANKS. Amount.
Abingdon Bank, Abingdon—lvoapp and Co 24,595
Andover Bank Andover—Heath and C-. 2. 15.745
Ashford Bunk, Ashford—Jemmitt and Pomfret 9,515
Aylshain Bank, Aylsham—R. and E. Copeman 5,019
Aylesbury Old Bank, kylesbury—Rickford
and hunt
Baldock Bank and Baidock and Biggleswade
':a k, end Lindsell... 35.947
Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple—azake and Co. 13,225
Basingstoke and Odihart Bank, Basingstoke—
Cole, Seymour, an,3 .
liedtrad (Sank, Bedford—T. Barnard
Bedford and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford—
'fa Halfhead, and Co.
BOW (Hey Bank, Bewdley—Nichols, Baker, and
Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford
Bank, Bicester—Tubb, Wootten, and Co 25,887
liirmingham Bank, Birmingham—Attwoods,
Spooner, and Co 23,550
Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming-
ham - Lewis, Moilliett, and Co 15.950
Bland ad Bank, Blandford—Bastard and Oak 8,575
Boston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co 63,850
Boston Bank, Boston—Gee and Co 16,555
Bridg cater Bank, Bridgwater—E. &J. Sea!ey 9.343
Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Harford, and Co. 38.234
Brosele,,, and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and
Broseley Bank, Broseley—Messrs. Pritchard 22,697
Buck ina ham Bank, Buckingham Bartlett,
Parrott, and Co.
Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Market
Bank, Bury—Oakes, Bevan, and Co.
Bail ury Bank, Banbury—Gillett and Tawney. 40,790
Banbury Old Bank, Banbury—Messrs. Cobb... 48,453
Batt_ City Bank, Bath—Meger and Son .. 3,910
Bed'Ordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton
Buzzard—Bassett and Grant 35,688
t3inningham Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and
Lloyds
Bradtord Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—lL
and A. Harris
Brecon Ohl Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co 61,073
Bridport Bank, Bridport—S. and W. E. Gundry 23,496
Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West,
and Borrer
Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington—
Harding, Smith, and Co
Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds—
,J. and Co.
13romsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms-
grove Bank, Bromagrove—Rufford, Biggs,
and Co.
Oambridge Bank, Cambridge—Mortlock and
Sons
Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam-
bridge—Messrs. Forsters
Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and
Co
Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—Morris and
Sons
Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—Messrs. La Coste
Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round, Green,
and Co.
Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex
Bank, and fladleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester
—Mills, Bawtree, and Co
Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co
Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little and Wood-
cock

41,045

8,572

13,818

.... 25,524

City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co
Craven Bank, Settle—Birkbecks and Co.
Christchurch Bank, Christchurch—Tice, Welsh,

anti Co -
Cardiff Bank, Cardiff—Towgood and Co
Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon-
mouth Ohl Bank, Morita( uth Bank, Brecon
Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank,
Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co.
Derby Bank, Derby—Messrs. Evans
Derby Bank, Derby—Smith and Co.
Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak
Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co
Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Hugbes,

Locke, and Co
I)iss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co
Doncaster Bank, Doncaster—Leatham, Tew,

and Co.
Doncaster Bank and Iletford Bank, Doncaster—

Cook and Co.
Dover Union Bank, Dover—Latham, and Co
Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton-
on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse, and
Co
Devonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and Nor-

man
Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank,

11,367

2,920

17,185

21,526

49,914

31,57

22,111
3,568

24,147

43,593
45,369

9,460
20.280
73,700

2,282
6,396

8,319
12,777
38,499

26,668

18,333
10,453

11,905

57,13

79,238

10,24

Dorchester—Williams and Co.
East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster,
and Co. 107,319
East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hutton,
and C 0...........
Essex Bank and

44,925

. 50,704
Bishops Stortford Bank,

Chelmsford—Walford. and Co. 60,545
Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co 32,850
Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk-
beck, and Co.
Varringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far-
ringdon—Barnes and Medley 8,330
Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight 13,334
Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co 6,204
Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and
Keen
Grantham Bank, Grantham—Kewney and King 17,528
Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon... 11.987
Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0.... 25,817
Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder,
and Co.
llerefbrd City and County Bank, Hereford—
Matthews and Co.
Hertfordshire Bank aad Ware Bank, Ware—
s. Adams and Co.
Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull
—Smith, Brothers, and Co.
Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting-
don—Rust and Veasey
Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co
Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead—
Smith, and Whittingstall
Iloniton Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co.
I le rtfo rd shire, Hitchen Bank, Hitchen--Sharples
and Co.
Ileri!ford Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross
anti Lrchenfield Bank, Hereford—Morgan,
Hoskins, and Co
Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co.
Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk,
Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley
Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich—
Alexatlders an 3 Co.
Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall,

and Mercer
(Union and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J.

33,004

Davies and Co
ICuighton Bank, Knighton—J. Davies and Co
Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank,
Knaresborough—Terry and Co
ICendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson,

18,566

22,864

19,810

53,48
5,70

23,631
15,617

39,766

23,618
19,080

:8,548

17,648

22.736
5,402

20,572

and Cc,.
Kettering Bank, Kettering—Gotch and Sons
Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C

44,455
9,195

Miry, y and Son
Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and Co
Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W.Williams, Brown,

5,521
51,844

and Ca.
Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and

35,490

543
27,109
40,072
18,886
80,899

Congleton Bank,Leek—Fowler,Gaunt, and Co.
Lcetester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby
Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co
I,;,:hfleld Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green
Linco.in Bank, Lincoln—Smith and Co
I.4landovery Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando-
very —David Jones and Co.
: oughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle-
tons and Cradock
Lymington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St
Barbe
Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis
—Gurneys and Co.
Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis—
Massey and Co.
Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst
and Co
‘tanningtree Bank, Manningtree—Nunn and Co
Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts
Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl-
borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank,
and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner
and Pinckney
Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank,
Marlborough—Ward, Merriman, and Hillier 11,189
Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and
Wi11iam5.........
Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co 16,413
Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial
Bank, Abergavenny—Baileys and Co 25,673
Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon
Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank,
and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth
—Bromage and Snead 15,609
Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport
—W. Williams and Sons 8,771
Newark Bank, Newark—Godfreys and Hutton 27,907
Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and
Newark Bank, Newark—Handley, Peacock,
and Co
Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny and Slocock 34,531
Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham-
mond, and Son,.
,1. ,
Norfolk ancPcufrolk Bank, Diss—Taylor and
•
Dyson •i 2,, 2,780
Norwich Crciinti Bank, Nor wich—Harveys and
Hudsons;. i ;,‘. 44,680
Norwich., -'s Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur-
, . .
69,525
neya art a. a'
V
Nottinkli#o ;and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not-
tirigharaHart, Fellows, and Co
Nuneat44l;' think, Nuneaton—Craddeock and
5,308
Co .:.-„i::,'
Naval tank, Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and
C 0..... .... . .............................
New Srrum Bank, Sarum— Hetley, Everett, and
Co
Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co 28,655
Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os-
westry—Croxon and Co 14,060
Oxlord Bank, Oxford—J. and R. Morrell 13,673
Oxford jld Bank, Oxford—Robinsofi, Parsons,
and 'Th0mp50n...........
Old Bank Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge
Wells Cld Bank, Tunbridge and Tonbridge
%ills- and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge—
Beeching and Sons

20,71

7,205

4,370

41,782

14,578

11,720
6,888

14,755

8,15:5

10,352