The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-18 00:00:00

HAMBURGII MAIL

BERLIN, JULY 11.—The wish of the King of Saxony,
on his visit to Sans Souci, to take the opportunity to
visit the beautiful island of Rugen, which steam navi-
gation now makes it easy to do in so short a time, co-
inciding with the intention of Princess Charles, and
her youngest daughter, to take the benefit of sea-
bathing, induced part of our Royal family to make an
excursion to that island. Accordingly, on the Ist of this
month, at half-past six in the morning, his Majesty,
accompanied by the King of Saxony, Prince Frederick
of the Netherlands, Prince and Princess Charles of
Prussia, and the Princesses their daughters, and a
suite, consisting of M. Von Thile, Ministere of
State, Baron Alexander Von Humboldt, the
Saxon Ambassador at this Court, M. Von
Minkovitz, and M.- Von Fabriel, Master of the
Horse to the King of Saxony, left this cityiby the:railway
to Stettin, where they went on board the Queen Eliza-
beth steamer, and landed at half-past eight in the even-
ing, at Putbus. The King and the Prince of the
Netherlands alighted at the seat of Prince Putbus, and
Prince Charles and his family at the apartments engaged
for them for some weeks. Intelligence was there re-
ceived that his Majesty the King of Sweden was ex-
pected the following morning, being on an excur-
sion in the province of Scania, and gladly embraced
this opportunity to give his daughter the Princess
Eugenia the pleasure of again seeing the Princess Louisa
of Prussia, youngest daughter of Prince Charles, with
whom she had contracted a youthful friendship
in 1843. It was therefore resolved to defer
till the next morning . an intended visit to the
Stubbenkammer. The Swedish royal family arrived on
the 2d, and rather unexpectedly, accompanied by the
Crown Prince, who had just finished a tour of inspection
in Scania. The King gaVe a dejeuner to his illustrious
guests, and then went to the Stubbenkammer, where
they passed the night. The Crown Prince and Prince
Charles returned direct to Putburg, the rest of the com-
pany went in the steamer to Arcona,, and thence round
the east coast of the island to Putburg. After having
dined at the residence of the Prince, the King went to
compliment the Queen of Sweden on the birth-day of
her Royal Consort, which fell on the following day, and
with his illustrious guests visited the theatre. The King
passed the night on board the steamer, and, accompanied
by the Prince of the Netherlands, set out for Sans
Souci on the following morning, the 4tb, and arrived at
nine o'clock the same evening.
_ _

Princess Charles and her daughter remained at Put-
bus for sea bathing. The members of the Royal Family
of Sweden stopped till the sth, and Prince Charles ar-
rived here on the 7th. This intended visit of the King
to the island of Rugen gave occasion to • the unfounded
report of a marriage between the Crown Prince Charles
of Sweden and the Princess Louisa of Prussia.

BRUNSWICK, JULY 10. —His Royal Highness the
Duke returned yesterday evening in good health from
his journey to Venice.
MALMO, JULY. 7.—Yesterday afternoon, about six
o'clock, her
.Majesty the Queen arrived here with the
Crown Prince, Prince Augustus, and the Princesses,
three hours after the King arrived with Prince Gustavus.
To-day we expect the Danish Ambassador, Count Von
Moltke, with an invitation to visit 'the Danish Court,
which they will accept, and pass two or thiee days at
Copenhagen. The Queen and Princess will afterwards
pass at least three weeks at the baths of Helsingbord.
BERLIN, JULY B,—The. presence of so eminent a
statesman as Mr. Ducazes gives good reason to con-
clude that political questions are in agitation. It is said
that the increase .of railway communication in Belgium
and France has given such an impulse to commercial
intercourse in various directions, that it appears to
French statesmen to be desirable to approximate to
Prussia and the Zollverein, and that the Duke Ducazes
is here on a mission to that end.

NUTRIMENT IN SUGAR.—The nutritive properties of
sugar are much underrated in this country. As an aliment,
m e
of months,
grain
portation prevented
Dr. Rush, of Philadelphia, maintains that sugar affords the
who l wholly on 0
fi t
sugar
greatest quantity of nourishment, in a given quantity of mat-
ter,
of any subject in nature. Horses and cattle were fed
at tSt.and
Dom
importationi
from want of ships. During the crop time in the West Indies
all appear fat and flourishing. The cattle fed on the cane
tops become sleek and in fine condition. The negroes drink
freely of the juice, and become fat and healthy. Sir George
Staunton observes, that many of the slaves and idle persons
in China hide themselves among the canes, and live entirely
Domingo
fo r
s o
on them for a time.. In that kingdom, the Emperor compels
his body-guard to eat a certain quantity of sugar every day,
that they may become fat, and look portly. Sugar and rice
constitute the common food of the people, and every kind of
domestic animal is fed on sugar. Plagues,
malignant fevers,
and disorders of the breast, are unknown in the countries
where sugar is abundantly eaten as food. The celebrated
Dr. Franklin used to drink syruP every night before he went
to. bed, to alleviate the agonies of the stone.--Popular
Errors Explained.
The Mayor of Sunderland has appointed Wednesday
next as a general holiday to celebrate the passing of the
Corn and Customs Bill. A public dinner is also to take place
on that day, at the principal inn.
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ASSIZE IN TELLIGEN CE.
HOME ClRCUlT.—Chelmsford, July 17.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PARKE.)
George Hyams, 25, was indicted for burglariously break-
ing and entering the dwelling-house of William Farrer Ste-
vens, at Bulphan, and stealing a gun and other articles, his
property.
Mr. T. Chambers conducted the prosecution.
The circumstances under which this offence was committed
appeared by the evidence to be of a very outrageous charac-
ter. The prosecutor is a farmer, residing near Romford. and
on the night of the 18th of December he was awoke by hear-
ing a noise in the lower part of his house, when he dressed
himself, took a pair of pistols, and jumped out of the window,
and he immediately saw a man, who presented a pistol at
him, and with an oath said, " You you are dead," at
the same instant discharging the pistol, and he was slightly
wounded in the head, He tried to discharge one of his own
pistols, but it missed fire, and he then ran away to obtain as-
sistance, and as he was doing so, the man fired a second pis-
tol at him which fortunately missed him. On his return to
the house shortly afterwards he discovered that entrance had
been obtained by forcibly breaking down a door on the ground
floor, which had been bone apparently with a bricklayer's
hammer, which was found on the premises, and a valuable
gun and some other articles had been stolen. The prose-
cutor could not identify the man who fired at him as his
face was blackened, but the case was clearly made out by
the evidence of an accomplice named George Freeman,
who was one of the party concerned in the outrage. This
man stated, that on the day in question he started with the
prisoner. and a man named Scovell from London, and they
arrived at the prosecutor's house about twelve at night, and
that Scovell then said he would not go any further 'without
getting some money, and he then produced a pair of pistols
and a bricklayer's hammer, and he (the witness) kept watch
while the other two men broke into the house, and he soon
afterwards heard the reports of two pistols. He likewise
stated that Scovell and the prisoner blacked their faces and
took off their shoes before they went into the house, and that
after the pistols had been fired Scovell came out and said,
they must be off, and they all three went away and slept
under,a hedge, and next day Scovell and the prisoner went
back to London.
The prisoner, who appeared to be a hardened desperate
fellow, cross-examined the witness Freeman at considerable
length, and asked him whether he was not the ringleader,
and whether he did not take them down to commit the rob-
bery, and tell them he knew the house, as he had formerly
been in Mr. Stevens's employ.
The witness denied that this was the case, and said that he
should not have watched while the robbery was being com-
mitted if Scovell had not threatened to shoot him if he did
not do so, and he was frightened he would kill him.
The prisoner here exclaimed, " Ah, that's very likely.
You are a pretty fellow to be frightened."
Baron PARKE asked the prisoner whether he wished to put
any other questions to the witness?
Prisoner (in an impudent tone) —No, I shan't ask him any-
thing more • it's no use.
Some other evidence was then adduced, corroborating in
several important particulars the statement of the witness
Freeman.

The prisoner, on being called upon for his defence, merely
repeated his former statement, that the witness Freeman was
the man who planned the robbery.
The Learned JUDGE having summed up,
The jury immediately returned a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. Baron PARKE then sentenced the prisoner to be trans-
ported for 15 years, and he ordered that a reward of 101.
should be paid to Smith, an inspector of the Essex constabu-
lary, and another officer of the same force, for their activity
and zeal in tracing out the case and apprehending the prisoner.
The other man, Scovel, was convicted at a former assize, and
sentenced to be transported for fifteen years.
Patrick Connor, 30, was indicted for feloniously and
maliciously setting fire to the common gaol of Romford, the
said building being said to be the property of the High-
Steward of that place.
Mr. Marsh conducted the prosecution.
It appeared in evidence that the prisoner, who was in cus-
tody upon a charge of deserting from the 18th Regiment,
was taken on the 4th of July from Ilford Gaol under a mili-
tary escort, to be conveyed to the head-quarters of the regi-
ment, and he was placed in Romford Gaol at night for secu-
rity, there being no other prisoner at the time in the
establishment. Very soon afterwards the place where the
prisoner was confined was discovered to be in flames, and on
the door being opened he was taken out nearly suffocated,
and it was ascertained that the straw in the prisoner's bed
had been entirely consumed, and the building was burnt in
several places. Mr. Anderson, the governor of Ilford Gaol,
also deposed that while the prisoner was in his custody he
admitted that he had wilfully fired the place, and also stated
that he had been ill used in his regiment, and he would rather
be transported than go back to it.
The prisoner in his defence said, that on the way to Rom-
ford he bad purchased a box of lucifer matches, and that
after he was locked up he lighted his pipe and fell asleep on
the bed and it accidentally took fire. He said he had served
ten years abroad, and was engaged in the war in China and
other places, and it was not very likely he should wilfully
have set fire to the place when he might have lost his own
life.

Mr. Baron PARKE having summed up, the jury, after a
short deliberation, returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, July 16.

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice CaEiswEr.r...)
Martha Duck, a woman aged 29, late of Scarborough, was
indicted for having, on the 11th of May last, at Newby, un •
lawfully exposed to the cold her infant male bastard child,
with intent to kill and murder the said child.

Mr. Bliss and Mr. Travers conducted the prosecution. The
prisoner was not defeneded by counsel.
Wm. Wilson, assistant to 111 r. Spink, butcher, of Scarbo-
rough, stated that on the 11th of May he was in a field of his
master's, near the road leadinff from Scarborough to Whitby.
From that he could see into a held belonging to a Mr. Watson,
and there he perceived the prisoner walking about. Watched
her for some time, and saw her go into a barn which stands
in the field. She shortly after left the barn again, and
went near to a hedge. Saw her there squat down close by
the hedge, and, on rising, leaVe something like a cloth,
which she put on a bush. Afterwards she walked about for
some time, looking around her, and after that she lay down
for a time in a field belonging to one Hopper. Watched her
further, the witness being under a cliff, but the prisoner,
getting on higher ground, perceived him. He then went
up to her, and spoke to her. She appeared to be large
in the Emily way. This occurred at about 3 o'clock in
the afternoon.

Henry Richmond, another witness, said that be was in
Watson's field at about six o'clock the same evening, and
there heard a noise as of the cry of a child, which;proceedel
from the hedge bottom. A boy who was there and the wit-
ness went and found a male child under the hedge. It was
covered with leaves and grass, and there was some blood
upon it. The boy picked it up, and put it into the hand-
kerchief of witness, who took it to a Mrs. Ireland, living at a
short distance off.

The witness stated to the Judge that there was no regu-
lar footpath by where the child was found. It was found at
about 200 yards from the barn. Saw no people at work near
the spot.
Mrs. Ireland said that she received the child from the last
witness, and observed that it was newly born, and that the
navel-string was not tied. She gave it a little gin and
water, and then delivered the child to another woman, by
whom it was suckled, and it was subsequently taken to the
Scarborough union workhouse, Newby township, being
within that union.
Mr. Thomas Dunkerley, the master of the workhouse, said
that the child was brought there by Anne Pexton, Mrs. Ire-
land's niece, and Smallwood, the overseer of the township.
The infant had severe fits for some days after it came, but it
was still living.
Richard Roberts, superintendent of the Scarborough police,
had taken the prisoner on the 14th of May. Told her what
for. She told him that she had not had a child for 10 or

11 years.
Mr. William Henry Wilson, medical officer of the union,
examined the prisoner after her apprehension. She had
then been delivered of a child about a week. Mr. Cross, the
surgeon, saw her, and told her he was grieved to see her in
that situation, and then she said that the child was hers.
Witness asked her where the after-birth was, and she an-
swered that it was in the field, and said that she had severed
the navel-string of the child by tearing it with ber fingers.
Mr. Richard Cross, surgeon, deposed that the prisoner told
him she was on her way to Suffield, a village about six miles
from Scarborough, at the time it occurred to her. Her
regular residence was at Suffield. The field in which she
was seen, and where the child was found, was not the nearest
way from Scarborough to Suffield. It would be a great dis-
tance round to go that way. Witness had before attended
prisoner, and in October last she was in a state of pregnancy.
The prisoner was convicted —Sentence deferred.
Jane Briggs, a handsome and respectable-looking young
woman, was tried upon an indictment charging her with
having, on the 3d of April last, at Eastrington, in the East
Riding, endeavoured to conceal the birth of her infant female
child, by putting the dead body of the said child into a pond,
and thereby secretly disposing of it.
Another bill of indictment had been preferred against the
prisoner, charging her with the murder of the same child,
but that bill the grand jury ignored.
Mr. Temple, with Mr. Dearsley, appeared to conduct the
prosecution, and Mr. Bliss to defend the prisoner.
The prisoner, it appeared, was a daughter of a farmer at
Eastrington.. She was married about five years ago, but
about threeyears back her husband left her to go to America.
On -the 12th of May, in the forenoon, awitness, Ann Jackson,
was crossing the foot-path which leads through a field
called Samuel Hill's close, in Blacktoft, which field lies near
the prisoner's father's house, and had formerly been in his
occupation. The witness saw a bundle in the pond, which,
having taken it out, proved to be the body of a female infant,
wrapped and sewed up in a piece of cloth or blanket. At-
tached to the bundle there was a brick, fastened with a
piece of cord. There was also the piece of a bedgown, and
an old silk apron, forming part of the wrapping round the
body. The body, with the clothes, were given to Mr. Raines,
surgeon, of Newport, and by him to Thomas Rennison, a
farmer, of Blacktoft, who placed them in a stable, where they
were locked up for safety.
Mr. Raines stated that the appearances of the child, though
the body bad become decomposed, were healthy. It was a
fine child; the lungs floated, and the stomach was empty, but
healthy. He was of opinion that the child had not died a
natural death. There was extravasation of blood externally
on the chest, and he considered that to have been caused by
some blunt instrument during life—by a blow, and not by
pressure.
Mr. Hill, of South Cave, surgeon, agreed in the views ex-
pressed by Mr. Raines. The prisoner had been examined by
the latter gentleman' on the 15th of April, when he ascer-
tained that she had had a child within a month or six weeks.
She told him that it was a still •born child, but she did not
know when, and had thrown it into the pond naked, and
with nothing attached to it. She then mentioned no per-
son's name o him.
Matthew Maguire, superintendent of police, stated that
he took the prisoner on the 15th. He found her in aw un-
occupied house at Eastrington, along with two other women
(Ann Norwood and Mrs. Huddlestone), where she was at
work, assisting the other two to clean the house. • When he
told her he wanted her, she ran to the front door and palled
two cloths from her breast, and threw them down. Being
told the charge, she first said that she had had no child,
and afterwards that the child was still-born,4nd that she
had had it by the pond in Sam Hill's closer The body
she had put into the pond she said. Witness found in the
house a piece of blanket, which appeared to be a part of that
found with the child's body. Took the prisoner to the
Howden-station, and there cautioned her that she had
better' not say any more to him about the matter;
• but slie Would— speak; observing- to . him. that' ;.she
was in the habit of talking, even to herself, and

could not help it. She then went on to contradict her
first statement, saying that her reason for having made it
was, that the child being John Norwood's, she did not
want to briug him into trouble, as she loved him as well
as her husband. The child, she then added, was born in
her father's house on the 3d of May, and John Norwood
came to the house and into the room soon afterwards. He
took the child to the window to look at it, and then told her
it was dead, and that he would take it away, and asked
her if she had anything in the drawer to lay it in. She told
him there was some in the drawer. He then wrapped the
child up and took it away under his coat, saying that she
might trust to him: that he would have it buried, and that it
was all right.
The man John Norwood had afterwards been apprehended,
but was discharged.
Ann Norwood, sister of the man abovementioned, con-
firmed the constable's evidence as to the conduct of the pri-
soner at the house where she was apprehended. The piece
of blanket found at that house had been brought there by
the prisoner. The witness lives with her brothers, John
and William Norwood. John was at home on the 3d of
May. He went to bed at ten o'clock that night, and did not
again go out.
Margaret Ward, dressmaker, of Eastrington, stated that
she lives in a house near that of prisoner's father. On the
3d of May, between six and seven o'clock in the evening,
saw the prisoner pass by her house, which is on the road
from Eastrington to Sandholme, wearing a silk cloak, and
carrying a basket. She went in the direction of the pond in
question, which is but a short distance out of the road.
The defence offered by Mr. Buss upon these facts was
founded on the supposition that all the prisoner had said in
her second statement might really have been the truth, and
if so, the Learned Gentleman contended there was no evi-
dence in the rest of the case to convict her.
The prisoner was convicted.—Sentence deferred.
The causes tried on the civil side have hitherto been of

little public interest, but there are more than the usual num-
ber of special juries to come. Many of the common jury
cases have been struck out of the list, owing to the absence
of attorneys or witnesses.
Mr. Justice Wightman, in the absence of 'other business to
go on 'with, was engaged. this afternoon in trying prisoners.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Yesterday a man named William Slater, clerk in the
house of Keen, Tebbutt, and Kippin, of 122, Wood-
street, warehousemen, was brought before Alderman
Gibbs, upon the charge of having embezzled sums of
money which he was instructed to collect from customers
to the firm.
Mr. It. Hughes, of Nos. 70 and 71, Chiswell-street,
Finsbury, stated that on the 10th instant, the prisoner
received, on account of the above firm, the sum of 281.
ls. 6d., from him, and signed his name in the book for
the amount, the signature answering as a receipt for the

money.
Mr. J. D. Anderson, also a shopkeeper in Finsbury,
stated that on the same day the prisoner received frona
him the sum of 121., on account of Messrs. Keen, Teb-
butt, and Co., and signed his name for the amount, as
a receipt.
The prisoner, who it was stated had embezzled a
larger sum, which was paid to him by another concern,
was then remanded till Saturday week.
John Lye was brought up charged with stealing a
cloak, a shawl, and a coat.
The prisoner was seen in company with an accom-
plice, looking about for something to snatch at. A gen-
tleman's carriage, which stood near Cripplegate Church,
presented an opportunity. The companion of the man
at the bar whipped the three above-mentioned articles
out of it, handed them to the prisoner, and away they
both ran down Cammomile-street. The sudden and dis-
heartening cry of" stop thief" had the effect of checking
and separating them. The prisoner dropped the pro-
perty, but was apprehended in his attempt to cut through
a lane. _ _ _

The prisoner said he was as honest a man as it was
easy to find, but unfortunately for the reputation he was
entitled to he was poor, and while he was looking about
him for employment, a man who was running threw the
articles across his arm, and in his confusion he thought
it was his business to run after the person who had
given him the job, so after that man he certainly did go.

:-(A laugh.)
It was stated that the prisoner dropped the articles
the moment the pursuit was commenced.
The prisoner—Yes, I certainly did. I knew nothing
of the party that threw them over my arm, and how
could I tell whether he came honestly by them or not ?
—(Laughter.) I wasn't going to take away things by
chance in that sort of a way.
Committed for trial.

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