The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-02 00:00:00

ADMIRALTY COURT, Dec 1.

THE HARVEY.-SALVAGE.:
In this case the vessel had been discovered on the
Matlin Sands, on the 13th of January, and was got off
by the assistance of two smacks and two yawls, con-
taining fifteen men. Ihe owners tendered 701. for the
service, which was refdsed. The value of the property
was 1,360/.

Dr. LUSHINGTON, withoit entering into the facts,
allotted 1201.

THE PRINCESS ALICE.- SALVAGE.

This was a suit to recover a salvage remuneration
for services rendered by the steam-boat Conquest, of
Stockton-on-Tees, to the schooner Princess Alice,
Mom Hamburgh, with a cargo of wheat, which had
arrived off the mouth of the 'fees on the 24th of
April last, and wanted (as alleged on her part) only a
pilot, whereas, on the part of the steam-boat it was
alleged that she had got entangled amongst the sands,
and was in imminent danger, from which she had been
rescued by the exertions of the salvors,' at great risk to
themsels es. The owners of the Princess Alice, admit.
ling that services had been rendered to their ship, con-
tended that they amounted to no more than pilotage
(the master deposing in his affidavit that he had been
decoyed—meaning, apparently, misled—into danger by
signals of the steam-boat), and they had paid 4( la.,
the sun due for pilotage, into court. The conflicting
atatsments of the parties defy all attempt to reduce them
into a consistent narrative; not only were the affidavits,
which were very numerous, more than usually contradic-
tory, but the chart brought in by each party did not
correspond with the other, and both disagreed with the
Admiralty chart. 'ln short, a o
almost every point in dis-
pute,
except the points of the
tajenner and Dr. Bayford winjeastsi;ard for the sal-
f(l4,tid
owners at sater hour, ms
when finished his argument for the
The COURT deferred bearing Dr. Robinson until next
court fay.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
NEW COURT.
(Vefore the RECORDER.)
Maria Carlota Alvez Cabral, aged 50, married, and
Maria Rosa, 35, also married, were indicted for stealing
a ffiooeh,.pd divers articles of linen, valued at 21., the
property of Hester Pitman, in her dwelling-house.
Mr. Bodkin prosectited, and Mr. Parnell defended both
soners.
!The
elder prisoner, who is a singular, masculine-look-
ing woman, is a Mr.tuguese Countess in her own right,
and the younger prisoner was her servant.
The Learned COUNSEL having stated the case to the
jury, called
Hester Pitman, the prosecutrix, who stated that she
keeps a Portugnese and Spanish boarding-house in
Ficsbury-square. The prisoner and her husband were
boarders in the house, and from suspicions she en-
tertained that a valuable gold watch, which had been
lost, had been purloined by either the elder prisoner
or her" servant, she obtained the attendance of Ser-
geant Brannan of the G division of police, and on the
2d of last month, he with her, went up to the bedroom
of the servant, and having, through the medium of a gen-
tleman living in the house, made her acquainted with
the nature of the charge, proceeded to search the room,
where ay found some towels hidden between the bed
and vattress, some sewed up in an apron, and also a
quantity of other articles of a similar nature. They
gun proceeded, to the bedroom of the Countess, and
upon searc,b,in`g her fOund;theial towels wrapped round
her body c the- skill; and also several pieces of soap
hidden iikher bosom and under. her armpits. The ser-
geant oiggrvin 4 her about to conceal something in her
bosom d'her hand, and found it to contain a silver
brooch,: which She (prosecutrix) bad lost some monthe
pretiously>.-

The EirtCOUDER asked whether any of the property