The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-18 00:00:00

GREENWICH.

W. H. Bungard, a police-constable, 247 11, was p'aced at
the bar of the Greenwich Police-court, before Mr. Jeremy,
charged with being accessory to the concealment of the birtk
of a child, of which Caroline Bailey was the mother, in the
parish of Eitham.
The inquiry was instituted at the instance of the Commis-
missioneri of Police, and Mr. Superintendent Melialieu at-
tended to watch the proceedings.
Amelia Baxter, a dressmaker, deposed that Caroline Bailey
resided with her some time previous to and after Christmas
She had made three dresses for her during that period,
and observing an increase in her size, told her of it, upon
which the laughed, and said, " No, you are joking." In
January she observed that she was much stouter. After
leaving her house some tine she appeared as usual. A few
days since :Abe 3aw her again, when she cried and c[nnessed
tier condition. Saw her the last time on Monday, when she
was very ill in bed and could not uvrce.

Rebecca Evans deposed that Caroiinc Bailey came to lodge
at her house on the 10th of January. She remained six wecks
and five days, and lefr. on the sth inst. She appeared to be in
the family way. Said that she came to be confined, and bad
engaged a surgeon to attend her. Two medical men attendol
and examined her. She said she would be confined ;,5n ;t
the Itth of February. Thought. Ale was not eneica:, al-
though appearance:; and fulne,s ~f dress hidicatel it. De.
Davenport adyis,d her to examine Miss Bailey, but she
n'-
lust dto permit her. Her mother washed her clothes. Oa
the let and 10th of January the young woman walked out
with the accused. It was on Saturday and Monday. In the
evening they returned together. She appeared ill, took
• some tea and went. to bed in an hour afterwards. The
ac-
cused remained with her half an hour. She continued un-
well for a few days.
William Carr, surgeon, Lee, near Blackheath, deposed,
that he was sent for on Friday night last, and found her
suffering great pain. She told witness that she bad been
recently confined, and had been very much ill-used. She s.lid
that she had been intimate with a police-constable, by• whom
she became pregnant. The accused had taken apartments for
her to be confined in, at Eltham, and while lodging there shs
went at the accused's request. to take a walk. Retook her into
A field where he used great violence to her person twice. On
his repeating this treatment after a fainting fit, she cried
and said, " Oh, dear," and told him he had taken the child
from her, that she was in a dreadful state, and the ac-
cused partly managed to carry her home. Witness is satis-
fied that she had been delivered of a child ; could not say
whether full grown or not. The injured parts were lacerated
and ulcerated. Doubts that it was a full grown child. Ths
inflammation supervened from violence. Perhaps within six
weeks of her full time. Miss Bailey is about 21 years of age.
Mrs. Evaes was here recalled, and said that, the accused
took the lodging, and said it was for a young woman near
her confinement.

Amelia Baxter was recalled, and in answer to the accused,
said that she went with Miss Bailey to Sidcup, for the pur-
pose of telling him her hard situation, when he gave them
half-a-crown to pay her carriage home. Is certain she was
in the family way and could not walk. Had examined her
person as to that fact, and had also made her baby linen.
Witness told the accused that she was in the family way,
and he replied that as witness was a respectable person he
would believe her.

The accused, addressing the magistrate, said that it was
all false. There had been great deceit all through the
business, and that Baxter was a partial witness. Her
statement was at variance with what she told the superin-
tendent.

Jane Evans, cousin to Rebecca Evans, residing at Eltham,
deposed that Caroline Bailey stopped at her house eiglit
weeks ago, before going to Mr. Evans's. She came home late
on a Thursday night. Witness was in bed. Bailey ap-
peared very ill and greatly exhausted. Said she had been
very ill-used and pulled about by Bungard, who had broken
and torn her stays. Said that she was with child. Ap-
peared so. She had half a sovereign in her hand, and said
that Bungard had given it her, and wanted to take it away
again.
➢ir. JEREMY asked when the young woman would be able
to attend ?

Sergeant Lovell, 15 said he had seen her, and that she
was so ill that she could not be left alone, and could not rise
from her bed.

Mr. JEREMY said, under such circumstances, he should re-
mand the case for a fortnight. There was direct and positive
evidence, at present, of felony. It was, at least, assuming
that character, and was a most serious affair. If the medical
testimony should be corroborated, there would then be no
doubt that a felony had been committed, and would involve
more than the concealment of birth.
The accused here said that he wished Dra. Gillimore and
Davenport to be examined. Those gentlemen and other
persons would prove the charge to be false. He then handed
a long statement in writing to the magistrate.
Mr. JEREMY, after reading it carefully over, said he must
remand the accused until such times as the injured girl
could attend and give ber own statement. As to the state-
ment he had just read, it went a great way strongly to con-
firm the other evidence; the rest appeared utterly irrecon-
cileable.

The accused said he believed that she had never borne a
child, at least not by him.
Mr. JEREMY said, under all circumstances he would re-
mand him for one day, in order to have the evidence of those
persons required by the accused. He would therefore b.
brought up again to-morrow (this day).
Sergeant Lovell said he would warn the parties to attend.

ROYAL REGIMENT of ARTILLERY
The exertions of the recruiting parties to raise men for this
gallant corps are now attended with considerable success, and
numbers of tine young men are weekly joining at head-
quarters at Woolwich, from various parts of the country, to
acquire a knowledge f the duties of artillerymen.
The following circular memorandum has just been issued
for the information of the officers, non-commissioned officer,
and men of the regiment., and those intending to enlist in
that branch of her Majesty's service:—
" Deputy Adjutant-General's Office, Woolw !eh, March 13.
" The Master-General and llouourable Board of Ordnance, by letter
dated the 11th of March, 1546, S 31i1, have directed her Majesty's
warrant, dated 19th of December, 1515, to be extended to the Royal
Artillery, by which rewards for the greater encouragement of meri-
torious service, and for good conduct of non-commissioned officers
and soldiers, are provided for; it is desirable that these benefits be as
extensively circulated as circumstances will permit.
" Of the advantages conferred, an annuity in addition to pay for a
certain ntunber of sergeants ; the service, combined with good conduct,
entitling soldiers to good-conduct pay is considerably reduced; thus, on
completing five years' service, with two years' exemption from the de-
faulters' book, one penny per dit as is added to the pay of the soldier, and
for every subsequent five years' service, extending to thirty years, a
similar increase takes place, the maximum rate being 6d, a-day ; and
the good-conduct pay enjoyed by the soldier is carried with him to
the pension list, so that in proportion of length of service and good
conduct he may realise a pension front Is. to Is. 6d. a-day.
" The particular attention of officers, non-commissioned officers,
and men on the recruiting service, is called to this subject, that they
may explain to the peasantry the improved condition of the soldier
while serving, and the certain provision made for him when no longer
fit for her Majesty's service.
" IL D. ROSS, Deputy Adjutant-General."
In addition to the advantages to the non-commissioned
officers and men of the Royal Artillery alluded to in tha
above circular memorandum, it has been decided that one
sergeant and eight men are to be added to each company of
the present nine battalions, and that the tenth battalion will
be raised according to the increased strength of the present
companies. The number of companies of the Royal Artil-
lery at home and on foreign stations amount to seventy-two,
which will give promotion to seventy-two non-commissioned
officer.= and the same number of men will be promoted from
the ranks, in addition to those required to form the tenth
battalion.

TOTAL LOSS OF THE BARQUE

FRANCIS SP AIG lIT.
TWENTY-ONE LIVES LOST.
(From the Liverpool Standard.)
_

The ship England's Queen arrived in the Mersey Yester-
day afternoon, from Bombay and the Cape of Good Hope,
which latter port she left on the 19th of January. This is
the latest arrival from the Cape, and to Captain Sheddings,
the commander of the vessel, we are indebted for the Cape
of Good Mile and Naval Shipping and Mercantile Gazette
of the 9th of January, conveying the following melancholy
intelligence of the loss of the Francis Spaight:—
During the night between Tuesday and Wednesday last
it blew a violent gale from the northward, and at six A.M.
on Wednesday the squalls were very severe. At half-past
eight the Mod came more to the westward in a hard squall,
accompanied with torrents of rain, whentbebarqueobFsrearnvceids
Spaight, of 366 tons, from Manilla to London, was
driving towards the strand, and an attempt was unfortu-
nately made to set the mainsail, which brought the vessel's
broadside to the shore; and in this position, with the main-
sail aback, she continued to drive until she struck the ground
near the Slave Lodge, about a mile from the village of Papen-
dorp, when, in consequence of being broadside to the beach,
she rolled heavily, the sea occasionally breaking over her
decks.
A whale-boat and a surf-boat were sent from Cape Town;
the whale-boat succeeded in getting alongside the barque.
and a line was throws over the vessel by the rocket appa-
ratus. The moment the boat touched the side, the crew of
the barque, who appeared to have lost all presence of mind.
rushed into her, when she was filled and capsized, and sad
to relate, the captain and fourteen men of the crew were
drowned, together with four men of the boat's crew, named
Thomas Williams, William Taylor, John Jackson, and Charles
•Norton.

A surf-boat and another boat were also sent from the
North Wharf, by Messrs. T. and J. Sinclair ; both boats
capsized, and two men, named Dellis and Parker, were
drowned.

The following are the names of the crew saved, viz., James
Robertson, carpenter, and John M'Leod, seaman.
Captain Patterson and the following men were drowned.
viz. :—Thomas Haydon, mate ; Magnus Smith, second mate ;
Henry Hiate, steward ; David Evans, Edward M'Donald,
George Hutchings, John Smith, of Leith, John Smith, of
Edinburgh, and William Widder, seamen; William Rymes,
cook ; John Mittin, Thomas Beddoe,
William Hall, and
Richard Parker, apprentices.
The vessel is broken in midships and is a total wreck, and
very little of the cargo will be saved uninjured.
The manifest and mail have not yet been found, but so
far as it has been ascertained, the cargo consisted of sugar,
hemp, tobacco, cigars, rattans, and sundry other articles.

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