The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-21 00:00:00

THAMES.

FELONY BY A CHIEF OFFICER.---T. Gill, late
chief officer of the barque Cumberland, lying in the
West India Import Dock, was brought up for re-
examination, charged with stealing six bags of rice
from the cargo, at. Port Louis, Mauritius.
The particulars of the case appeared in The Sun of
yesterday, It will be remembered that on Tuesday
the captain stated that whilst lying off Port Louis, on
the 12th of March, 1847, whilst the cargo of rice they
had taken in at Calcutta was being discharged, the
prisoner employed the crew to cut open the bags, and
he abstracted the quantity mentioned. He sold it
to a Custom-house officer of the place, and it was
only discovered owing to that officer attempting
to smuggle some rum ashore at the same time with
the rice.

Yesterday Mr. Pelham called Jacob Jackson, the
second mate of the Cumberland, who corroborated the
evidence of the captain.
The prisoner was fully committed to Newgate to
take his trial for the felony.
WESTMINSTER.
George Walker, baker, Union-road, Wandsworth-
road, was charged with abusing and violently assault-
ing Mrs. Charlotte Law, a lady residing at 12, Addis-
son-street, King's-road, Chelsea.
It appeared from the evidence of the complainant
and two witnesses, that she was crossing from Ebury-
street, Pimlico, to the Victoria-road, with a female

friend, named Thomas, residing in Ranelagh-grove,
Pimlico, at about nine o'clock on Tuesday evening,
when defendant pushed against her. She requested
him to desist, and, with her friend, walked on, in
order to avoid him, but defendant followed and

abused them, and after proceeding a few yards, threw
a loaf of bread, which he had in his hand, at them.

The loaf, after bending Mrs. Thompson's bonnet,
struck Mrs. Law in the face with such violence as to

make her nose bleed very much, and leave a alight
mark under her right eye. She was unable to speak
for two or three minutes, but followed defendant, and

subsequently gave him into custody.
Defendant said he certainly came in contact with
the complainant, and was going on, when she slapped
his face. Had she not done this he should not have

thrown the bread at her, which he admitted he had

done. He added that he was a respectable man, with
a family, and should be sorry to hurt any lady.
The lady most positively denied the defendant's
assertion that she had slapped his face.
Mr. BRODERIP observed that he should send the
case before a jury. If he were to impose the penalty of
51., the highest he had the power to inflict, on a man
in defendant's condition of life, he might go away,
after paying that sum, with the idea that for the price
of .5/. he might assault any female he happened to
meet with in the street. It had been distinctly proved
that he had abused the complainant, and had followed
that abuse up by a most unprovoked assault. If those
who had given evidence before him were the wit-
nesses of truth, the penalty he had the power to
inflict was inadequate to the offence of which the
defendant had been guilty. He should therefore call
upon the defendant to find good bail for his appearance
at the Sessions.

The witnesses were then bound over to prosecute,
and bail was shortly afterwards put in by the de
fendant.

MARYLEBONE.

I Mr. Richard Parker, carrier, in- New Inn-yard,
Old Bailey, attended before Mr. Broughton, on a
summons obtained against him at the instance of the
Great Western Railway Company, charged under
168th sec. of sth and 6th William IV., cap. 107, with
having, on Tuesday, sth instant, unlawfully sent, or
caused to be sent, by the said railway, goods of a
dangerous quality, viz., a wooden case, containing
8 cwt. of Lucifer matches, and did not distinctly mark
or state the nature of such goods on the outside of
the package containing the same, or otherwise give
notice in writing to the bookkeeper, or other servants ,

of the company, with whom the same were left at the
railway station at Paddington, for which neglect he
had rendered himself, according to the said Act,
amenable to a penalty of not less than 101.
A case of an almost similar description, in which
Mr. Parker was also the defendant, was decided at
this court on the 13th instant, and, after a con-
siderable deal of discussion, the complaint was dis-
missed.

In support of the present proceeding Mr. Clarkson,
the barrister, and Mr. Justins, from the office of
Messrs. Maples, Stevens, and Co., Old Jewry, at-
tended. Mr. Parker, as before, conducted his own
defence.

The receipt of the wooden case at the station Was
proved by one of the company's porter, t ) whom it
was delivered, at the station, and who a so3rtained by
the smell what it contuined ; it was addre'ssed to Mr,;
A. Brown, Bridge-street, Bristol; the word piano
was also marked upon it.
The answer to the charge was, that when the case
was delivered at defendant's office for transmission by
rail, it was stated to contain hardware, and no taw
picion whatever was entertained with regard to there
being lucifers in it; in fact the question was put at
the time of its being received at the defendant's office,
and a reply was given in the negative.
Mr. Clarkson argued the case at some length, and
contended that the defendant by his servants had not
exercised that care and diligence which it was his
bounden duty to have done, and that therefore the
magistrate could not do otherwise than convict.
Mr. BROUGHTON went through the evidence pro
and con. with great minuteness, considering the
matter to be of considerable importance to the public,
and ultimately came to the conclusion, that in the pre'
sent instance no gross neglect, or guilty knowledge
on the part of defendant, had been proved.
The summons was therefore dismissed.
A man, who gave his name Thomas Collings, Was
charged with having been concerned in a daring rob'
bery of watches, &c., on the 21st ult., at the shop '34
Mr. Morris, 7, Margaret-terrace, Harrow-road.
Some particulars of what took place on a former 00"
casion have already appeared, relative to the appreheo:
sion and committal of Charles Silvester, the actual
perpetrator of the robbery, who, on the afternoon of the
day in question, was found in Mr. Morris's parlour.
He was collared and asked what his business was there;
upon which he struck him (Mr. H.), and effected
his escape by the front door. A small cart ice;
near at hand, towards which he (Silvester)• ran, and
threw away, close to it, a handful of watches. PI
was pursued, and the person in the vehicle jumped
down saying that he would do all he could to secure
the thief. Three watches and a gold case were picked
up close to the cart, and Silvester was ultimately car
tured at a marine-store shop, at the very moment
when he had thrust three silver watches and a chair),
the property of prosecutor, into a basket which Wes
upon the counter.

Evidence was now adduced which clearly went 0
show that the prisoner Collings was the man who Wlis
in the cart at the time when some of the watches well
thrown away by Silvester, of whom he volunteered
to go in pursuit; he was taken into custody last
Tuesday night, by Garforth, 151 L, who, from We
description he had of him, apprehended him in the
Waterloo-road, as he was coming out of a public"
house.

A solicitor for the prisoner, cross-examined th°
various witnesses for the prosecution, but did not elicit
anything favourable to his client.
The prisoner, as an accomplice of Silvester in the
robbery, was committed for trial.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, OcrosEß 20.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—No improvement can benoted in thig
market, prices are again lower, and we close at the followia
quotations—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and -Cheshire,
Great Western, Quarters,
.4 dia.—Huddersfield and "art;
ohester (paid up), 243 c.— Lancashire and Yorkshire
M. and L.), Fifths, % dis.—Ditto, Fifths (late West Ridwf
Union), 3% c. dis.—Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, I "
dis.—London and North-Western 14I%—Ditto, Quart,e,,,
"a
(A and B), 2 c.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, th
Preference, % dis.—Midland Stock, 1014 c.—Sellt.
Eastern and Dover, No. 4, Thirds, 2/. 18s. 9d. C. dis°-
Vork,Newcastle, and Berwick, Extensions, No. 2, % c. d.il.
Ulster, 6% p.

MANCHESTER, Ocrossx. 20.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, NottiOr
ham, and Boston, 1% n.'dis.—East Lancashire, New Qum,
ters, 1 13-16 n. dis.—Hull and Selby, Halves, 481/4---isr
cashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 1% dis.—Ditto, 32L Shin
dis.—London and North-Western (Manchester and 1311,;
mingham), Quarters (C), 21/; p.—Manchester, Sheffield. irn7
Lincolnshire, Preference, Yki dis.—Midland. par—Ditto, s"
Shares, 4% dis.—North Staffordshire, FYI dis.—South-E 55
ern and Dover, 241,4 c.—Ditto. No. 4, 3 dis.—York, NCR'
castle, and Berwick, Extension, No. 2, % n. dis.

LEEDS, OCTOBER- 26.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—East Lancashire, NI
63/4 dis.—Ditto, Quarters, 375. die. —Great Northern,
dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 255. die.—Ditto
(West Riding Union), 635. 6d .n. dis.—Leeds and Thirslro
20;4, dis.—Ditto, Preference, 355. s. dis.—Midland, 101—"
North British, Thirds, j dis.—Ditto, Quarters, 265. di S'
—North Staffordshire, 345. 6d. dis.—N orth- Western, 51.
6d. n. dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, No. 2, 166'
3d. dis.