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Wm. Dunn, the cook of the ship, was next examined—He
deposed to the main features of the evidence already given,
respecting the scarcity of provisions when expecting to reach
Ascension. The witness, in addition, said the crew were very
discontented, the captain having refused to run for a sail that
was in sight. French he recollected coming to him in the
poop with his knife sharpened, and said if the captain
touched him he would run it into him. Witness pro-
posed that the captain should be taken and
confined till they reached an English port. Reason,
in reply to French, said they could manage it without
murdering the captain. The next day they fell in with the
French barcrie. He told the captain what passed on the
23d, because witness heard that French had informed the
captain that he (the witness) intended shutting him in the
poop and murdering him. The witness then went on in cor-
roboration of Reason, Lee, and Cone, being subsequently put
in irons, the particulars of the death of the former, and as to
having signed the log-book, stating that Reason had diedin a
fit. He signed the log-book entirely from the threats of the cap
tarn. The witness was cross-examined at some length with
the object of showing that the Ivitness had freely stated that
Reason had died in a fit, and that he had heard the crew
threaten the captain's life. On these heads no material
point was elicited, otherwise than already given, though he
stated he had some words with the captain respecting a
woman on board, whom the latier accused him of living with.
James Glover, the steward, followed in examination, and
deposed as to the cutting and stabbing of Reason on the
night in question. His evidence was mainly in confirmation
of that of Yelverton and Julian.
Henry Slack was next called, who briefly deposed to hav-
ing heard Reason called into the cabin by the captain on the
evening before his death.
Henry James Stephen, a boy, the son of the female
passenge-, Mrs. ThompsGn, was examined as to the captain
threatening when in Faval to " kill them all," and also as to
the death of Reason. Ho did not see Reason struck, but
raw him after his death. He had two wounds on his
breast.
James Sinclair, the carpenter, was called, but counsel for
the Crown declining to put any question to him,
Mr. JERVIS examined him at some length His evidence,
which in substance was the same as that given be-
fore the magistrate was to the effect—that the
men were very discontented, and had threatened
among themselves to do some bodily harm to the
captain, and that Reason and a man named Curteis were
going to take the ship to America. The captain, on hearing
these reports, became ve.-y excited, and on the same even-
ing he chased several of those whom he suspected round the
deck.

Cross-examined—Witness did not hear the parties referred
to threaten the captain ; he only heard French and Yelver-
ton tell the captain that these threats had been held out.
Witness put Reason, Lee, and Cone in irons, and shackles on
their neck. by the order of the captain. They were much
cut and bleeding at the time.
Peter Curteis was called, and denied that he had ever
threatened the captain's life, or heard the crew say that
they would take the ship to America, as had been allege"
He saw Reason go dawn into the cabin on the night before
his death, and he was one that helped to bring the body up
next morning. On going down to fetch it, he saw the cap-
tain standing over the body with the pant of his cutlass in
the body.
Cross-examined—Witness never told the captain that
Rambert wanted the men to go aft and take his life. What
he told him was, that Rambert wanted the men to go aft
and make the captain fast.
This closed the case for the prosecution.
After some consultation, it was arranged that Mr. Jervis
should address the jury in the morning, on the opening of the
Court.
One of the officers of the Court was then sworn to take
charge of the jury till the morning, and the Court adjourned

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Yesterday two person-, named John Morley and Sarah
Thomas,were brought betore the Lord Mayor, one charged
with having in a great variety of instances Gbtained
goods from warehousemen under false representations,
and the other with having received and pawned 'the
goods. Each of the prisoners was said to be but nine-
teen years of age.
Mr. Waller, from the firm of Ashurst and Son, solici-
tors, attended for the prosecution.
Richard Goodwin, a person in the employment of
Dollfus, Meig, and Co., of No. 1, Friday-street, ware-
housemen, stated that the male prisoner called at the
warehouse on Friday, at one o'clock, and said he came
from Messrs. Badham and Gaunt, of Walvvorth, and
wanted for them some pieces of goods upon approbation.
Witness requested him to look in again, and it would be
ascertained whether the articles he wished for could be
supplied, and he accordingly called in about twenty
minutes, and selected three
,pieces of cashmere. The
firm in whose name the young man applied was known
to the prosecutors, but Morley was not known, and the
warehouseman who exhibited the goods was taken off
his guard by the statement of the latter, that he had
just been getting goods at Morrison's. The witness
gave him the parcel of cashmere and the invoice pro-
duced, and as some suspicion was entertained of him,
followed him through several streets as far as a court in
Gray's Inn. lane, where he disappeared.
On his cross-examination witness said he had never
seen Morley before that occasion, and he knew nothing
of the female prisoner. _ _ _

Mr. James Gaunt, of the firm of Badham and Gaunt,
of Walworth, stated that Morley had lived in the house
about three years, as an apprentice, 'and about three
weeks ago absented himself. Witness understood from
him that he had formed a connexion with a female, but
did not know that the fema'e prisoner was the person.

The policeman who apprehended Morley found in his
pockets several papers, amongst which was the invoice of
the goods procured from the prosecutors.
The policeman who apprehended the woman said he
took her into custod) when she called to see Morley at the
Compter. lle accompanied her to a house in Bell•court,
Gray's Inn-lane, in which they lodged, and lived tole
ther as man and wife, and found there some articles of
dress, which were identified as part of the goods which
lied been procured in the manner above stated, by
Morley. She stated to him that Morley had sent,word
to her to destroy all the dresses and the duplicates.
The landlady of the house in which the prisoner re-
sided said the female prisoner rented and took the lodg-
ing for herself and her husband, as she called Morley,
on Monday week. Both prisoners had been frequently
seen returning home with parcels.
The prisoners were remanded, as several other cases
are to be investigated. _ _ _

A lad, named John Jansen, was charged with having
embezzled several sums of money, the property of his
employer, Mr. Waller, newsvender, of Staining-lane.
Mr. Waller had been seriously injured by the vile
conduct of the prisoner, who appropriated to his own
purposes the money given to him for the purchase of
newspapers for the customers of the house, as well as
received sums for which he never accounted, Mr. Wal-
ler declared that he could not guess to what an extent
he was likely to suffer by such flagrant wrong, hut an
appeal made to his parental feelings by Mr. Duncombe,
the prisoner's solicitor, completely overpowered the poor
man, and he abandoned the prosecution.
The prisoner, who wept bitterly, was of course dis-
charged.
A sailor, named William Harper, was fined 1001. for
having in his cabin twenty-two pounds weight of tobacco,
on which the duty had not been paid.
RAILWAYS —The Lord Mayor regretted to say that
he hid received a communication relative to the deplor-
able condition of a number of poor men, who whatever
accusation might be made against some persons who
meddled with railway speculations, certainly ought not
to be sufferers. He meant the surveyors of the projected
lines of railroads over the country. His communicant
mentioned that the contest between the condition of
many of the surveyors while the mania was raging, and
their prestnt state was really horrible, for he knew
many who after the cruelly laborious work they had
undergone, and the difficulties of every kind they had
to encounter, could not prevail upon the engineer by
whom they were employed, to Day them a farthing of
what they had through much desperate hardship earned,
and they were glad to get refuge in miserable
rooms, and to obtain the comfort of a cup of
coffee. ,An appeal had been made to the Chief
Magistrate on the subject, and he was requested
to devise some means by a hich the poor sufferers could
be assisted in their efforts to obtain restitution. But
what could the Lord Mayor do? It would appear that
railroad difficulties were only just commencing, and that
the responsibilities of some persons were likely to be
ruinous to their credit, and carry with them a long train
of calamities in which multitudes would participate.
A gentlemen, who stated that he eves aware of the
existence of a great deal of distress amongst humble
tradespeople, in consequence of the speculations in rail-
roads made by their customers, declared, that in some
places people were afraid to give credit to the amount of
a few shillings.
The Loan MAYOR said, that in the cases to which he
alludel, he could only refer the applicants to the active
offices of a solicitor, or to the society established for
protecting patties having valid claims. He took the
opportunity of stating that he, with great pain, had
seen a paragraph, which had been copied from some
Sunday newspaper into the daily press, representing
that several members of the Court of Aldermen had
found it necessary to leave the country, in consequence
of certain liabilities arising from railway adventures.
He did not believe that ill-natured report. He was
constantly in the habit of seeing his brethren in the
pr rformance of their duties, and there certainly were
not absent from town more than usually absent:el them-
selves At this time of the y ear.

THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.

The hllowing are the material portions of Major-
General Pisley's report to the Lords of the Committee
of Privy Council for Trade en the fatal accident of the
20th of January, on the South-Eastern Railway, occa-
sioned by the falling of a bridge under a goods train.
(This report was yesterday issued by order of the House
of Lords.)
"Railway Department, Board of Trade,
Whitehall, Jan. 23.

" My Lord—The fell of an occupation bridge of the
South-Eastern Railway, undermined by the floods, about
one o'clock A.M. on the morning of the 20th instant,
whilst an up goods train from Tonbridge was passing
over it, whereby an engine and tender and two goods
waggons were precipitated into the road beneath, by
which the engine-man was killed and the stoker injured,
having been reported by Mr. Herbert, Secretary of the
Company, in his letter received at this office on the 21st
instant, I. proceeded yesterday to inquire into the cir-
cumstances by the 11 30 A.M. train.
"The bridge that gave way, situated about a mile to
the westward of the Tonbridge station, and 120 yards
beyond the third bridge over the Medway, was twelve
feet wide, built with substantial brick abutment walls
supporting iron girders, bearing strong transverse planks
and longitudinal sleepers on which the rails rested. Mr.
Barlow informed me that the foundations of these walls
were sunk to a sufficient depth in compact gravel, be-
neath a stratum of a still more compact sort of natural
conglomerate about four feet thick, on which a paved
roadway under the bridg? was formed. The ground ad-
joining to this bridge, on the east side of that road and
south of the railway, afforded ballast of good quality,
which was dug on the spot, and used by Mr. Hoof, the
contractor, Or keepieg the railway IA repair, and is