The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-17 00:00:00

, MA Yl7 1848.
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is all very well for those that are independent, as I be-
fore said ; but when it is the other way, it is as well
to 100
re k before you leap. I shall be anxiously looking
for a ply. Trusting you are in the erjoymeut of good
health, with kind regards to Martha,
Susan Gyett. the
"I remain yours very sincerely,
" W. H. CARR.
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breaking
been in plaintiff's 5,.,r vice a
plantiff's servant, examined—Had
Upsdale, hisyear and a halt. Had heard
"little intended wife." The plaintiff
mar-
riage. The little boy was born at apartments taken for
the plaintiff by its father.
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A letter from the plaintiff's attorney was put in, stat-
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his instructions from Mrs. Black to bring the present
action ; and that as its object was the recovery of da-
mages, he would be open on the part of the plaintiff to re-
ceive a pecuniary offer.
This closed the plaintiff's case.
Mr. Sergeant Tau-amp then proceeded to address
the jury for the defendant. The Learned Sergeant
contended that no breach of the defendant's promise was
in fact proved. The defendant had in truth awakened
from that state of unhappy infatuation in which lovers
were generally but too apt to forget the realities of their
position, and seeing the folly of beginning the
world with nothing, he had written the letter
of the Bth of August to the plaintiff. The plaintiff
made no reply to that letter, but a fortnight
afterwards went to her attorney and instructed him
in effect that money alone was what she wanted.
There the matter rested. The plaintiff had sued in her
maiden name in her former action against a nobleman,
en the present occasion by the name of her adoption.
The probabilities were that she had attempted to trade
on her misfortune, and had held herself out as a widow
of a Mr. Black, with a legitimate son provided for, and
the poor defendant, as a railway clerk, had fallen into the
snare. It was not likely that the defendant would have
formed such a connexion had he known the plaintiff's
true position. There was nothing to show that when he
knew of the plaintiff's former action he was aware that
she had been the paramour of a nobleman. In the former
action the plaintiff had recovered 3001. damages. There
was no doubt but that money was now her object, but
she could not expect to recover that sum again, as she
the
had not been seduced a second time. lie hoped
jury would not think this a case for heavy damages; but,
the defendant, it
whatever their verdict might impose on
would be preferable to accepting the plaintiff and poverty
without virtue.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, in summing up, said there
could be no doubt that the evidence established
thatl a
promise had been made, though it
Tnohatt clearly
how
ever, that there had been a breach of it.
ever, was not put in issue by the pleadings. The defen-
dant
relied on the plea of fraud as a discharge of his
promise, and the question for the jury to consider would
be whether the defendant was aware at the time that
he made the promise to the plaintiff that she had had a
child. Of this they must satisfy themselves from the
evidence. Supposing the jury thought that he did not
know of the plaintiff's having had a child, the question
of damages would arise, and the jury must impose such
reasonable damages as the circumstances of the case
might to them seem to demand, taking into account the
defendant's means.

The jury, after about half an hour's absence, found a
verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, one farthing.
This finished the sittings after term at Westminster.

MURDER IN SPITALFIELDS.

At Worship-street Police court, yesterday, Sarah
Rogers, charwoman, was placed at the bar, on suspicion
of having been concerned in the murder of a little boy
between six and seven years of age, named Henry
Lazarus, who had been found dead in Spitalfields that
morning, having been most inhumanly murdered, for the
mere sake of the clothes that were stripped from his
person.
sensation
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la
ton extraordinary
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neigh-
bourhood of Spitalfields.
David Lazarus, the father, a Jew dealer, living at No.
26, Tenter-street, Spitalfields, deposed that the de-
ceased, who was six-and-a-half years old, was safe in
the house at half past nine on Monday night, and a
quarter of an hour afterwards was sitting on the door-
step, while the other two children were playing about
outside. At ten o'clock they were called in to go to
bed, but only two entered; and the deceased was no.
where to bo found, and was not again heard of until
yesterday morning, when he was found dead in the
neighbourhood, and stripped of his clothing. His
clothes were a cord jacket and trousers, and a striped
silk handkerchief round his neck, and all the things had
a fresh and new appearance.
Abraham Lazarus, a relative, living a No. 14 in the
same street, said he saw the child at five o'clock on
Monday evening, dressed as described, and on his being
missed was about all night with the father and others in
search of him. Soon alter seven yesterday morning he
was called into an adjoining yard by a neighbour's ser-
vent, and ther•e, under a beard placed siantinz against
the wall, found the body of the child quite dead, and
stripped of all the clothing except the shirt, the stock-
ings, and the handkerchief. lie had evidently been
strangled with the handkerchief, which was twisted
round the throat, and secured with four or tire tight
knots. The face was discoloured, the eyes nearly start-
ing from their sockets, the tongue protruding from the
mouth, and partly cut through with the teeth. The
body was then cold and stiff. The witness said he
afterwards kept a look out in the neighbourhood of Pet
ticoat-lane, thinking it probable that the clothes might
be taken there for sale, and about half-past nine he
found the prisoner at the corner of White's-row, sur-
rounded by a crowd of at least 100 persons. The pri-
soner exclaimed, that at the station-house she would
tell who had bought the child's clothes, and should thus
be able to clear herself. He had not said a word to her
about the clothes, but he then accompanied her to the
station, where she asserted that a person in Frying-pan-
alley had bought the clothes.
Police constable 207 H said, he was with the last
witness when the prisoner was taken to the station-
house. On the way thither, she told him that a Mr.
Lyons, in Frying-pan-alley, bad bought the clothes that
morning.
Mr. Abraham Lyons was now examined, and said he
had never seen the prisoner before, that he knew of, and
he assured the magistrate that he had not purchased any
clothing since Monday.
Two women (named Fleming and Shermocaenn)tp oriwo.
avhneadyt
that they heard the prisoner telling several persons in
the Tenterground that the person whom she named had
bought the murdered child's clothes from a woman at
seven o'clock that morning. They gave information of
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BATTERSEA STARCH-WORKS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,---Perceiving in your paper of to-day a paragraph
headed " Destructive Fire at the Battersea Starch-
works," in which it was stated that the entire building
was gutted and the stock wholly consumed, we shall feel
obliged by your at once correcting this error. The facts
are simply these :--We have eight stoves in connexion
with our manufactory, detached from the main building,
and so constructed that a fire in any one of them cannot
communicate to any ether part of the works. One of
these stoves took fire on Monday night, and its own
destruction alone resulted, the works themselves not
having been touched. The damage has been but trifling,
and our manufacture has not been delayed a single hour.
We must request of you the insertion of this letter, that
the anxiety of our numerous friends may be at once
allayed.

•
We are, Sir, yours, obediently,
ORLANDO JONES AND CO.
Battersea, May 13.

SALE Or RARE ENGLISH COINS. The three
days' sale of the rare collection of English coins formed
by the late Stanesby Alchorne, Esq., of the Mint, was
concluded Monday by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson,
the auctioneers, of Wellington-street., Strand. The fol-
lowing lots were deserving attention:---A penny of
'William the Conqueror, sold for 11. 13s. A noble of
Henry IV., very rare, sold for 10/. Iss. A quarter noble
of Edward IV., well preserved, sold for 21. 14s. A.
sovereign of Henry VIII. sold for 21. 16s. A crown of
Queen Elizabeth, in good condition, sold for 3 guineas,
A rial of the same monarch, considered one of the fines.
in existence, sold for 214 ss. A rial, or fifteen-shilli shilling
piece, of James 1., sold for 161. 10s. A twenty-shill'ng
piece of Charles 1., struck at Oxford in 1644, sold If%
14/. ss. A unit, or broad, of the same king, struck in
1645, sold for 121. A Carlisle shilling, strock to c0n;_e1.1.651/,l:oaltd.
memorate the siege of that place, sold for 4dla.
a sixp,,,o of Oliver Cromor
tern for
Queenell Anne, v r
for 71. A pattern for a halfpenny
rare, sold for 21. ISs. A pattern for a five-pound iee
of Geo. 111., by Tanner, date 1768, excedingly rare, and
finely reserved, sold for 241. 53. The other coins were
equally valuable, and sold well.
SALE OF THE UNIQUE LIBRARY OF W. R
EYToti, .
EsQ,The sale of the unique collection of books
of W. King Eyton, Esq.,:F.S.A., was on Monday com-
menced by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, the au
t,: oneers, of f Wellington-street, Strand. The books e-
forming this collection are principally what are termed
privately printed works, and of the greatest rarity. The
binding also is of the most sumptuous description. Alan
of the books are printed: upon vellum, and being they
only copy so printed are exceedingly rare. One of the
~Babell; a satirical poem on the Proceedings of the-
General Assembly in the year 1692," sold for 25/. The
nits will extend over a priod of eight clays.
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