The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-24 00:00:00

OF ROME BILL.

Lord J. RUSSELL moved that the House go into
Co-nmittee on this Bill.

Mr. C. ANSTEY opposed the motion, and blamed
the Government for pressing on the Bill with indecent
haste, considering the altered spirit of the times. More
than appeared on the surface was involved in this ques-
tion—not only the pacification but the well-being of
England, in which by this measure they risked a civil
war. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman concluded by
moving that the House should resolve itself into Com-
mittee on the Bill that day three months.
Mr. URQUHART seconded the amendment.

Sir J. TY-RELL believed that the House of Commons
was sitting at the present late period of the year, in
consequence of the long speeches of the lion. and
Learned Member for Youghal, added to which it was
popularly considered that the Noble Lord the Member
tor London was not indisposed to protract the session.
It was also generally considered that it was the intention
of the Government to rule Ireland through the Bishop
of Rome, and that, he believed, WAS the reason for the
introduction of th;s Bill.

CLEFT SITTING.)

CRIMINAL COURT.—('PHIS DAY.)
°Li). coußi.

(Before Mr. Baron PLAIT and Mr. Alderman GIBBS.)
CASE OF POISONING.—The grand jury have ignored the
bill which was presented to them against Mary Spry and
Mary Ann Dore, who are at present out on bail on a charge
of having caused the death of a child by administering poi-
son. They will, however, be tried upon the coroner's inqui-
sition.

Upon the application.of Mr. CLARKSON, this morning, the
case which stood upon the paper for to-day was postponed.
TRANSFEARDIG MARE OF GOLDSMITHS' HALL TO AN
ARTICLE OF SPURIOUS METAL.—Robert Gordon, a man of
colour, aged 40, and described as a jeweller, was indicted for
feloniously transposing and removing the mark of a certain
die used by the Goldsmiths' Company for marking and
stamping silver wares, to wit, from a silver spoon to certain
ware of base metal.

Mr. CLAILICON, in stating the case for the prosecution,
said that it was one of great importance as it involved au
offence of a very serious nature, by which the public might
be defrauded to a great extent. The prisoner carried on the
business of a working-jeweller in Great Russell-street,
Eloornsbury. A gentleman lof the name of Dr. Halley em-
ployed him to manufacture a Scotch purse, or sporral, which
forms a portion of the Highland costume, and the contract
was that the clasps should be made of standard silver. Dr.
Halley called at the shop before the article was finished, and
on seeing it expressed some doubt, from some pe-
culiarity in its appearance, as to the purity of
the metal, but the prisoner assured him that it
was good silver. To make certain, however, that it was
composed of pure metal, he desired the prisoner to have the
mark of the Goldsmiths' Company placed upon it when it
was completed, and the prisoner promised that he would do
so. There was a person of the name of Johnson in the em-
ploy of the prisoner, and the prisoner said to him that it
would be easy to remove the mark of the Hall from another
article and place it on the purse, to which Johnson replied
that he would not do such a thing for 50/. The jury would
find, however, that the Hall mark was afterwards taken from
a tea-spoon, and placed upon the article. When the purse
was taken home, Dr. Halley expressed himself satisfied, and
paid the prisoner 41. 10s. which was the value of it made of
silver. Subsequently Johnson and the prisoner had a quarrel,
and the former went to Dr. Halley and informed him that
the purse was made of base metal. This information led to
an inquiry, which resulted in the present prosecution by the
Goldsmiths' Company.
A number of witnesses were called, whose evidence bore
out the statement of the Learned Counsel. It was stated by
the deputy warden of Goldsmiths' Hall that the mark which
was transferred from the spoon had not been used since May,
1845, and that the mark for the present year would have
been altogether different.
For the defence, which was conducted by Mr. Parnell, it
was contended that Johnson was the guilty party, and not
the prisoner, in proof of which a witness, named Wood, was
called, who stated that he was present when johnson offered
to make the whole article and get it stamped for 183. The
prisoner, he added, consented to the offer, and gave Johnson
103. on account.

Several witnesses were called to speak as to the prisoner's
character.

Mr. BARON PLATT having briefly summed up,
The jury found the prisoner guilty. He was sentenced to
transportation for the period of 10 years.

NEW COURT.

(Before the RECORDER and Mr. Alderman FAruccomn.)
THE RoDHERT AT MESSRE. NlOUOLliOlito WHARF, LONDoti.
BRlDGE.—William Henry Smith, 36, a respectable-looking
young man, was indicted with stealing thirty-nine boxes
of raisins, and other goods, of the value of 1051., the pro-
perty of Messrs. Nicholson, Besley, and Co., his masters.
Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bodkin were for
.the prosecution,
and Mr. Ballantine defended the prisoner.
From the statement of Mr. CEARRsoN, on the part of
the prosecution, it appeared that the prisoner had been in the
service of Messrs. Nicholson and Besley, as foreman of the
fruit warehouse, since the month of February, 1847. In that
situation he was responsible for all the goods that came into
and went out of that part of Messrs. Nicholson's warehouses
of
that was devoted to the French department. On thel 3iOnth
the
last May the prisoner came to the warehouse
of the
id eh re that
was
morning, and before the.arrialof tohnetphaarttnmersorooingh
hyheosutaseteodf
Messrs. Nicholson. At nine o'clock
'hiamndunutni
to one of the labourers that he wahseuanrdweolfl
plea he left, and nothing more was .
His absence excited suspicion, the stock
taken into custody.
in warehouse of the fruit department was taken, and pro-
perty to the amount of upwards of IC3/. was found to be miss-
mg. In the month of June, Messrs. Nicholson received a
letter from the prisoner, expressing his fears that his absence
had done no good for his character, and expressing a wish to
explain the cause of the deficiency of the goods in the fruit
department. On his interview with Mr. Besley, one of the
partners in Messrs.. Nicholson's house, the prisoner explained
the cause of the deficiency of eleven boxes of raisins by stating
that he had charged the House to which they had been sent
with eleven boxes less than had been sent to
them, and this upon inquiry was found to be the case; but
the deficiency unaccounted for by the prisoner was found to
be so great that Messrs. Nicholson had him taken into custody
and brought the present charge against him.
Mr. Besley and several other witnesses were examined at
considerable length, to prove that the prisoner had received a
great quantity of baskets and boxes of raisins, and other pro-
perty; that lie had not accounted for it, and that it was not
to be found in the warehouse appropriated to the fruit depart-
ment, of which he was foreman.
The policeman who took the prisoner into custody found
in his possession a memorandum-book, in which were
copied three letters, two intended to be sent to Messrs.
Nicholson, in which the prisoner denied that he had been
guilty of the robbery, complained of the loose manner in
which the business of Messrs. Nicholson was conducted, the
facility it afforded to robbery, and stated that as
he had fallen a victim to the system, it was his
determination to leave the country for ever, in order
to avoid the disgrace of a public prosecution.
The prisoner also, in another letter, stated that if he had
committed the robbery he would have done so to a far greater
extent, and that he would have fired the warehouse sooner
than have been discovered.
Mr. BALLANTDIE addressed the jury at some length on be-
half of the prisoner, contending that, although the prisoner
had been guilty of a breach of trust and duty, for which he
was answerable before a civil tribunal, he had not been guilty
of the crime of larceny with which he was charged before the
Court criminally.
Several witnesses gave the prisoner a good character.
The RECORDER summed up at some length.]
The jury found the prisoner Guilty; and
The _RECORDER sentenced him to one year's imprisonment
and hard labour in the House of Correction.

DREADFUL RAILWAY FlRE.—Shortly after two
o'clock this morning a dreadful fire happened at the
Charlton station of the West Kent Railway. It broke
out on the part near the tunnel at Charlton. Messen-
gers were sent to London for the engines and firemen,
and those belonging to the London establishment and
West of England arrived shortly before three o'clock.
Water could not be procured in a sufficient quantity,
and the flames made sad havoc. Plenty of assistance,
however, was at hand, and the sleepers, about 1,000 iu
number, were saved. By five all danger ceased, but the
loss will be at least 1,0001. No cause could be aseer•
taiued for the calamity.

On the arrival of the steam 'ship United States at
Southampton, on Friday last, it was reported incorrectly
that the steam-ships America and Hermann both reached
New York on the 4th inst. The tact is, that the America,
which sailed from Liverpool on the 22d ultimo, arrived at
New York on the 4th, at noon; and the Hermann, which
loft Southampton at midnight on the 20th, arrived on the
sth, at seven o'clock, A.X.
WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY EVENING.--On Saturday
next, the 26th inst., his Royal Highness Prince Albert
will enter his 29th year, and the day will be celebrated
at her Majesty's marine residence, in the Isle of Wight,
with more than ordinary effect. A rural and marine
fete, similar to that given in celebration of the Duchess
of Kent's birthday last week, but on a more extended
scale, will be given ; and to guard against the discom-
fort of wet and windy weather, like the present, a num-
ber of artizans in the Lord Chamberlain's department,
at Windsor Castle, have been busily engaged for some
days past in repairing and refitting a number of tents
and marquees recently brought from the Pavilion at
Brighton ; and they were to-day sent off to Osborne by
the South- Western Railway.
AMENDMENTS TO INDICTMENTS.—An Act of Par-
liament has just come into force (11 and 12 Vict., c. 49) by
which permission is given to amend indictments on the trials
where there is a variance in writings produced and the recital
in the indictment. It is declared that there has been a great
failure of justice in the absence of suchpermiseum.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
ECCLES RACES.—MONDAY.
The Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, with 20 added, one
and a quartet (5 Subs.), was won by Mr. Green's Clara,
yrs (Flintoff), beating Billy from Brigg, 4 yrs, Gr: aid
Seignior, 5 yrs, and five others, easily.
The Gentlemen's Purse of 25/., added to a Handicap 1f
ma
soya. each, one mile and three quarters (6 Subs.), was W°
in two heats by Mr. W. G. Hobson's Billy from Brigg, 4 y.ro,
Bst 61b (Abdale), beating Little John, The, Grand Seig' uOrf
lOst, and three others, easily.
The Pony Race was won by Red Rose, beating three other 1.
BASINGSTOKE RACES.
The Innkeepers' Stakes of 3 sow. each, and 15 added, 'Or e
mile and a quarter (6 Subs.), were won in three heats by it 4
Williams's Rosaliuda, 4 yrs, Bst 10Ib, beating Moodkee,
yrs, Bst 101 b, Sultan, 4 yrs, Bst 10Ib, Hippona, 3 yrs, 7st 1013 Jf
and Royalty, 5 yrs, 9st 81b.
The Hackwood Stakes of 5 soya. each, and 30 added, of le
mile and a quarter, were won in two heats by Mr. Sadl eita.
Faith, 3 yrs, Est 131 b, beating Frank, 5 yrs, 9st Ilb, Prosi lec
5 yrs, 7st 131 b, and four others.
The Selling Stakes of 4 sovs. each, and 20 added, one
and a half, over hurdles, were won in two heats by Dar*
Haligan's Ploughman, aged, lOst 41b, beating Bella D. 03111
9st 121 b, and Arkwright, Oat 31b.
YORK AUGUST MEETING.—WEDNESDAY.
The Dundas Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 30 added .;
three yrs old, Est 81b; four, Bst 21b; five, Bst 91b; si: t an ,
aged, 9st; mares and geldings allowed 31b. One mil aan a
a quarter. (8 Subs.)
Mr. Meiklam's Inheritress, aged ...
Mr. Payne na Philosopher, 4 yrs ... ..• 2
Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas; for three yrs old, 7st 9 ,L
four, Bst 12lb ; five, 9st 41b; six, Ost 71b; and aged,
91b. Two miles.
Mr. Pedley's Cockermouth, 3 yrs ... -••
Mr. Woffenden's Raisthorpe. 4 yrs...
... •••
The Prince of Wales's Stakes of 10 soya. each, and 50 add, !ill
for two yrs old colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 21b; wines
21b extra. T. Y.C. (34 Subs.)
Mr. Payne's Farthingale ... •••
Lord Zetland's Ellen Middleton ...
Nine ran. Won cleverly.
The Colt Sapling Stakes of 50 sovs. each, 20 ft; for fail°
yrs old, Bst 7lb each. One mile. (10 Subs.)
Mr. Bell's Velox
••• ••• ••• •••
Mr. J. Moore's Old English Gentleman ... ..•
Match, 100 sows., 25 ft. Half a mile.
Mr. Holmes's Mysticle, 2 yrs .. •.. •••
Mr. W. H. Dawson's Snacks, 2 yrs, 7st 111 b 2
The Ebor St. Leger Stakes f 25 sovs. each ; with 100 I sovs'
for the second, and 50 for the third; colts, Bst 71b; fiu Utah
Bst 31b; winners extra. Two miles. (61 Subs.) Lord Stanley's Canezou ,
Mr. B. Green's Flatcatcher •••
Lord Chesterfield's Distaffina ..• •• •• •••• 3
Lord Stanley's Canezou won in very clever style
length, Distaffina a very bad third. Run in four mir
six seconds. After the race the winner was backed at 4
5 to 1 for the St. Leger, and Bto 1 offered against Flatcat
The Lottery Stakes Plate of 251., added to a sweeps of
sovs. each, for three-years. old and upwards, the seco ud
save his stake. One mile. (8 Subs.) Mr. Bowes's Man in the Moon, 3 yrs, Est 81b (Charlton) l
Mr. Meiklam's Otterburn, 3 yrs, Est 31b
Mr. Padley's Lady Mary, 3 yrs, Est llb .
The following also started but were not placed
Osborne's gr c by Robin Gray, out of Queeu of CartJai fge,:
3 yrs, 6st 81b—Mr. Scholey's Chesterfield, aged, Bst 31b---,
Mr. Peart's Ennui, 5 yrs, Bst.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Lady Mary, and 3to 1 eget Mau in
the Moon. Won easily by a length. Run in 1 min. 52 off'
The Knavesmire Stakes was no race.
LATEST BETTING.
EBOR HANDICAP.
6 to 1 agst Meaux (t)
9 to 1 agst Ellerdale
EGER.

I
... 2
•••,

1
•••
•••

3 to 1 agst Dough
5 to 1 agst Remembrance

ST. 1.1
5 to 2 agst Springy Jack
4to I.agst Justice to Ire-
land (t)

5 to 1 agst Canczou
11 to 2 agst Surplice
8 to 1 agst Flatcatcher

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CHOLERA.
POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
On Friday afternoon, during the delivery of his in tr
resting and important lecture upon the Asiatic Chole re'
tracing its connexion with the electric condition of "LI:
atmosphere, Mr. isham Baggs suggested a means 0.7
which the mortality caused by that great scourge of ithe
!sou'
by century might be very materially diminis '
by which, indeed, in the instance of many hundred s
terrors might be altogether evaded. The mode el
plained by the lecturer is one so peculiarly simple,
yet so obviously efficacious, that at the first moment: Pi'
suggestion of it almost amounts to "an
suit to one's understanding "—the effect
of
surprise experienced by those who heard it. es.„
Friday afternoon was only comparable to t
depicted, by Hogarth upon the features of the 8; Pam
nish courtiers when Columbus made the egg stand sal 011
the table. Yet, preposterously simple as the expedi
of Columbus was, it had never occurred to any one he",
fore the great navigator flattened the broad end of PP
egg upon the mahogany. Mr. Baggs then props st
that those whose fortunes admit of the expenditure stati
escape from the ravages of the Asiatic cholera 14
taking up their residence in some elevated locailiti,
as not one single case of the epidemic Me
ever been known to have occured upon O.
top of a mountain, whereas in fiat countries, in vall
and especially is the neighbourhood of water, the not'
talky has been enormously great. Beyond this, the
learned gentleman observed that the track of the
cholera can be calculated with the utmost degroe of
precision, and diet consequently the most certain tuteng
of avoiding the chances of death from this partiemlar
disease would be to shun those towns and cities wiaiat
the cholera must inevitably traverse, In teptimon:f of
the accuracy of this assertion,. we need °W?/
refer to the speech recently delivered in th
House of Commons by Lord Morpeth, in which
it was shown from authentic statistics that the coiarse
pursued by the cholera was very nearly identical in °yell
respect with that followed by it on the occasion of tile,
last visitation. Among the more ingenious portions tA,
the lecture in question, was that in which Mr. Bago
developed one of the most beautiful theories of Jus4ol
Liebig; and it must be acknowledged that the foruner
investigator carried out the views of his illustrious call'
temporary by a singularly simple process of ressonixt6
In every man's blood, said he, there is a certain quantisi
of iron, and Liebig believes this iron to be an agent
the arterialization of the venous blood. He supponee
that the dark venous blood contains the iron in the for im
of protoxide, and that, in passing through the lungs '0
this protoxide becomes peroxide by tille
absorption
oxygen in the process of respiratio p•
Supposing this to be correct, Mr. Baggs maintained tb tt
theuparteries,ing of
a corollary of extreme interest necessarily follows. T
venous blood containing protoxide of iron must fr'fl
that circumstance be magnetic, and the arterial bluoill
containing the peroxide must, on the contrary, be did'.
magnetic. The circulation of the blood therefore in thin
condition, he argues, constitutes a continuous relativ
movement between conducting and magnetic matter,'
and must consequently give rise to the generation al
magneto-electricity, which • currents will be, doubtlen
found upon investigation to fulfil most important physi",,
logical functions. The remarkable character of the lecturer
now being delivered by Mr. lsham Baggs impresses us oat!
the more forcibly with a sense of the usefulness of such 0"
establishment as that of the Royal Polytechnic Institte
Lion; and the arguments of the lecturer, applying tbe_
they do, so immediately to the sanitary condition of tho
people 01 these realms, call in an especial manner lot
the attention of the Government.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
, AUGUST 23.
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRONCOWES REGATTA. '
PRINCE ALBERT'S CUP.—The Flirt, Enchantress, api
Capricorn, started this morning at eleven o'clock, tb
Capricorn appearing to have the lead. There was
nice breeze from the westward, and the vessels ran tif
nearly together; the Flirt got round the Nab half •
minute before the Enchantress, and one minute and I
halt before the Capricorn. In beating down, she 0110
so much that she rounded the vessel off Yarmouth stiven
minutes before the others, and arrived at the starting
vessel at twenty-four minutes past eleven, the otherg
being considerably astern, indeed not in while we write
Daniel Corke steered the Flirt, and, as usual, w°3l
the Cup.

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The Lord Chancellor has issued an order appoint'
ing F. A. Warburton, Esq., barrister-at-law, an AssiO"
taut-Registrar in Mr. Commissioner liolroyd's court, ill
consequence of the prolonged and serious illness of Mr'
Millar, the registrar, who bas been ill for four months
past. This is the third instance in which an assistant/
registrar has been appointed under the Act.

THE CHARTISTS AND IRISH CONFEDERATESP.:
Another large meeting of these parties was held I* s'
night at the South-London Chartist Hall. The ChaiS
man observed, that according to the Attorney-Genel
it was sedition to repeat at one meeting any sedition;
language that had been spoken by other speakers at 01
previous meeting. There were, he went on to SSW
70,000 men out of employ in London, but the Charles'
would cure this, and all their other grievances
Taw'
the measures of Messrs. Hume and Cobden would prof-
wholly inefficacious. The proceedings at the mei:4og
were of no general interest.

On the 7th of June, at Mussoorie, the lady of Cap 'a
Renny, Bengal Engineers, of a daughter.
011 the 19th inst., at Old-square, Birmingham, the wife of
V. W. Blake, Esq., of a son.
On the 19th inst., M Tvier-
rs. Vickers, of Trinity-square, -cs hill, of a son.

On thol9th inst., rt Wells, Somerset, the wife of to"
Bernard, Esq., of a son.
On the 21st inst., at Grafton-place, Jane, the wife of 11C
Sanger, Esq., of Essex-court, Temple, of a daughter. ,A
On the 22d inst., at High Holborn, Mrs. F. W. P. Fit"
a daughter.

At Ladyland-house, AyMARRI ED.
rshire, on the 18th inst., et
Robert W. Wilson, to Janet Glasgow, youngest daugh
the late W. Cochrane, Esq., of Ladyland.
On the 21st inst., at Fulham, Lieutenant F. L. Cottoi
R.N., to Louisa, eldest daughter of John. Goodered, xitn"
Elysium-villa, Fulham.
son
At St. John's Church, William Neville, Esq., r) " cos
of Mrs. James Raymond Barker, of London, to Fran d
Mary White, eldest daughter of the late C. V. White, an
granddaughter of T. White, Esq., banker, of the said

MI'S
On the 13th inst., Mr. James France, of the its
Camden, Great College-street North, Camden-town,.alir` eds.
most deeply and sincerely regretted by his family AnCt ttleD
On the 22d of June, at blussoorie, Eleanor Joseputel.i.s.
infant daughter of Capt. and Mrs. Benny, Bengal Engie`—i,,f
On the 16th inst., at Glasgow, Anne, youngest daughter
the late T. Cole, Etq.
On the 21st inat., at Fulham, John F. Waller, Esq., 0-
f oth office of Woods. &c., aged 30 Joe, son of John Waller, ra..o
cashier of the said office.
On the 21st inst., at Hampstead, accidentally droWll,4'
Charles Edward, aged 11 years, the youngest son of Wahl'''.
Hughes, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn. 6.5 r,
On the 2zd inst., tat Manning-street, BermozidSey, ab— • -
Sarah Jessica, relict of the late Cecil Becket, 'Esq.; former
of Devonshire-street, Queen-square. -

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