The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-10 00:00:00

dant was much more blameable than pro- '
prietary of vehicles or machinery when accidents
arose through the negligence of his servants for
which he was technically and legally liable, for it
would be proved that distinct notice had been given
to the defendant that the machinery was managed in
such a way that the lives of everybody on board was
likely to be sacrificed at any moment. The Learned
Counsel then described the cause of the accident,
which has already been published at such length at
the inquest, and the trial of Haisman, the engineer,
as to render its recapitulation unnecessary here—the
chief cause, however, was keeping the safety-valves
tied down in order to save the steam to effect a
quicker start. The plaintiff had received such severe
injuries that he would be lame for life. The Learned
Counsel then proceeded to call witnesses.
Mr. Hamilton, who was a passenger on board
at the time, briefly proved the occurrence, and that
he afterwards saw the plaintiff at Charing-cross
Hospital.
Mr. Warren, resident engineer at King's-cross
Hospital, proved that so far back as April last, he had
seen the valves tied down which had a highly dan-
gerous tendency, na it rendered the boiler likely to
burst by the undue accumulation cf steam. He left
the vessel in consequence.
Edwards was called—He was formerly stoker
on board the Cricket. His evidence was to the
same effect as that given on the previous occasions,
that he had told Smith that Clarke had tied down the
valves, which he (witness) considered endangered the
lives of the passengers ; but Mr. Smith told him to
mind his own business, for he did not understand
anything about it. Witness said, if Mr. Smith did
not believe him, to send some one who did under-
stand it.
Mr. BRAMWELL objected to this evidence, as de-
fendant had admitted his liability.
The UNDER- SHERIFF held, that in estimating the
damages, evidence ought to be admitted to show
the negligence, and in this case it was quite pro-
per to show that the defendant bad been cautioned.
The witness then, in continuation, said that he
frequently complained to Clark and the captain
(Martin) of the practice, and on one occasion did so
publicly on board, for which he was discharged.
In cross-examination by the jury, the witness said
that it was quite unnecessary to keep the valves tied
down in order to give an impetus at starting, for suffi-
cient steam was generated. The valves were kept
tied down throughout the passage.
Dr. Richardson, surgeon, &c., of Bedford-square,
who proved that he attended the plaintiff after he had
been discharged from the hospital; plaintiff was still
suffering under the injury, and probably would also
do so, as the limb was now subject to inflammation
in the knee and leg. His charges, up to the present
time, were 11/. 15s.
Mr. Hancock, surgeon at Charing-cross Hospital,
was called and confirmed Dr. Richardson, as to the
probability that the plaintiff would suffer pain and
inconvenience for life.
Mr. BRAMWELL then addressed the jury for de-
fendant, and contended that Edwards' evidence ought
to be received with great caution, and that fuller
scientific evidence should have been adduced, as it
might then have appeared that the fault was in the
boiler, and not in the mode in which it was worked.
He also urged that there was good reason to sup-
pose that the boy had added to the exigency by
taking improper and violent exercise.
The UNDER-SHERIFF summed up, and said that
the jury, in estimating the damage, must take care
not to seek to punish the defendant, but to give the
plaintiff a fair compensation for the injury he had
received.

The jury gave a verdict for 2001.
Two other actions by the parents of the plaintiff,
were settled by consent, for 501. each.

SURREY SESSIONS.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before THOMAS BUCKLE, Esq., and a bench of
Magistrates .)
Mary Ann Staines, a middle-aged female, was in-
dicted for stealing 121bs. of pork, from the shop of
Mr. Abraham Beverley, at Wandsworth.
The prisoner was observed handling some pieces of
pork, at the door of the prosecutor's shop, and a few
minutes afterwards she ran away with something
under her shawl. A policeman pursued her, and
brought her back to the shop with the pork in her
possession. She said that she purchased it.—Verdict,
Guilty. Sentence, three months at Brixton.
The prisoner was again tried for stealing a
mackerel from the shop of Mr. Thompson, a fish-
monger, at Wandsworth.
She was also found Guilty, and sentenced to three
months' further imprisonment.
William Saunders, for stealing two tame rabbits
Was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.

BOW-STREET.---(THIS DAY.)
Elizabeth Chub.:Jerlayne, a very decent- looking
young woman, was charged before Mr. Hall with
uttering a forged Bank of England note for
Joseph Abel, shopman to Messrs. Eve and Py-
thian, grocers, &c., of the Strand and Hungerford-
street, said that at about six o'clock last evening he
was serving in their shop in Hungerford-street, when
the prisoner entered and asked for goods to the
amount of 3s. 9d. He served her, and she tendered
in payment the note which he now produced, and
which he immediately suspected to be a bad one. He
marked it, and sent the errand boy with it to a
neighbour, to ask his opinion as to whether it was a
forgery or not, giving the prisoner to understand that
the boy was going for change. In the mean time he
asked the prisoner where she lived. She said at the west-
end, and, after much pressing, added, with hesitation,
that it was at No. 21, Regent-street. The boy returned
with the note, saying that it was bad, but he thought
the prisoner did not hear him. She stood up, how-
ever, and left the shop, saying hastily that she was
going to look for the gentleman who gave her the
note, and the change was of no consequence. Wit-
ness sent the note to Mr. Pythian, at the shop in the
Strand, and he said he had no doubt it was a forgery.
The prisoner returned in about a quarter of an hour.
In answer to questions which he then put to her, she
said that she had no :home in London, having only
come up from Worcestershire- yesterday morning.
She had been walking about the streets nearly the
whole day, and was accosted towards evening by a
gentleman, who asked her to go with him to a house
of ill fame, and he would give her a handsome present.
She went with him, and he gave her the 51. note.
He told her to go to 21, Regent-street, and take
lodgings there, and he would visit her on Friday.
Witness gave her back the note, and she left the shop
with it, but he followed her and gave her in charge
to a policeman.
The prisoner, who was crying and sobbing all the
time she was in the dock, repeated the story she had
told the shopman. Her father was a labourer, living
a few miles from Worcester. She came up to London
to try to get a situation. She had not yet been at
the house in Regent's-street where the gentleman
told her to take lodgings.
The constable who took the prisoner in charge
(P 92) said that she told him she had been at 21,
Regent-street to seek some friends of hers who for-
merly lived there, but she found they had left.
Mr. HALL said it was just possible the prisoner's
story might be true ; but it certainly seemed very
improbable. He would remand her for further
inquiry.
Mr. Freeman, the inspector of notes at the Bank
of England, attended in the course of the day, and
the prisoner was then again placed at the bar. Mr.
Freeman produced the genuine Bank-note of the
same number and date with that produced, as the best
evidence that the latter was a forgery.
Mr. JARDINE (who now heard the case in the
absence of Mr. Hall) remanded the prisoner till to-
morrow.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY.)
YARMOUTH.

The Committee re-assembled at eleven o'clock this
morning ; Mr. Seymer in the chair.
E. Vt'oolmer, joiner, and a freeman of Yarmouth, exa-
mined.—On the morning of the election he went to the
Angel Inn, and was shown into a private room up stairs,
where he found about twenty other freemen, several of
whom he knave. He was admitted at one door, and went
out by another. Both doors were guarded. He was
asked if he was a freeman, and upon his replying in the
affirmative, three sovereigns were handed to him, and
then he was dismissed to go and vote for the sitting
Members. On returning down stairs he observed a great
number of freemen waiting their turns to be admitted.
Curtis Hall, a rope maker, and freeman of Yarmouth,
gave similar testimony. Mr. Coble, an agent of the sit-
ting Members, paid him 31., and he then went and voted
for Lennox and Coope.
Robert Cobb, a shipwright, and freeman of Yarmouth,
deposed to going to the Angel, where he saw Mr.
Wright and Mr. Coble. Mr. Wright told him that if
be would go and vote there would be some money for
him. He accordingly went and voted for Lennox and
CAupe, and then returned to the Angel to receive the
money. Mr. Coble gave him 3/.
On cross-examination, the witness stated that his vote
was objected to, because until the polling day he had
been an inmate of the Yarmouth workhouse.

, William Lincoln Thorpe, twine spinner, and freeman
of Yurmouth, deposed to receiving 31. in the same man-
ner, awl afterwards voting f,,r Lennox and Coope. It
was, h. said, a customary thing for the voters to receive
3/, at the election. When he entered the room he saw a
bowl of sovereigns lying on the table. Mr. Coble
placed three of them o❑ the table, and ho took them up.
Edward Soulsby, a freeman, received 31. Inn Mr.
Coble.

Godfrey Simon, another voter, spoke to going to the
Angel on the morning of the polling day, when 31 was
offered to him. He refused to receive so small a sum,
but Mr. Coble said " I can't give you more than the
rest." Previous V+ entering the room met Mr. Coble on
the 6N,lrs, ~; him, " Mr. Coble, I u:le.. r
stand you are paying otr the back arrears." r,
Mr. Coble
replied, " No such thing; it is for the present time.
You go down and vote for our interest, and I will make