The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-18 00:00:00

two fields they heard the prisoner calling ;out io tlfErimn
and they stopped for him. When lid 122111 e he
began to cry and to swear, and as he walked along with
them, he said there was one in the company he would " d°
for" before that week was out. Witness ached IN"): Un-
derdown if it was she the prisoner meant, when the ),msoner
said, "No, you b— --
b—, it is you I mean to do, for.
"
The prisoner continued to walk with them, and wi
they had proceeded a considerable distance from the
place where he came up to them the prisoner tried, to
catch hold of her, but Bull pushed him back, aril fold
him to keep his hands off. There were five of them,
and she walked in the middle ; Bull was on her right a.kla,
and the-prisoner on the right side of Bull. Prisoner
.kei.'t
swearing, and after proceeding a little further he again said.
to her, " I will do for; you before the week is out ;" and
shortly afterwards he said to Bull, " It is of no use your
thinking about her, for I will do for her before I sleep to-
night." Bull paid his addresses to her. In about a minute
or two after this the prisoner sprang suddenly forward and
cut her throat on the left side. She knew no nrore, for she
became insensible. Frances LTnderdown, William Bull, and
Obed Everest, corroborated the statement of this witness,
and added that when at the stile before alluded to they iew
the prisoner sharpen a knife on a stone which served as one
of the steps to the stile. The knife was similar to the one
with which the deed was committed, but they could not say
it was the same. The prisoner was then fully committed to
take his trial at the next Maidstone assizes on the charge of
cutting the threat of Frances Sanders, with full intent to
take away her life.

THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE POST-OFFICE.— Taa
consequence of the recent order of his Lordship..the Postmaster-
General, with reference to the early delivery of general post letters
in the metropolis, a variety of alterations are in contemplation, or
have been already' arranged, for the more effective administration
of the subordinate departments. It is said that the majority of-the
City walks will be so " cut," or shortened, that the delivery will be
easily accomplished within the hour, and that the internal duty ; is to
be so arranged that the whole of the inland letter carriers Trill leave
the °dice in St. Martin's-le-Graiad by eight o'clock in the morning.
A rumour is also rife that, in order to effect this change the heads et
siftAtEn of the e whole of the men, departments have advised the abolition of the optional system of pay-
ment on letters posted in the United Kingdom; the separation or.
the foreign and ship letters from the inland; and the complete clas-
e foreign and 'ship letters to be delivered and prepared by a distinct
both general and London district ;
class of senior-mete who may have the option of being drafted front
the_ body for that purpose according to their seniority.
The first was the right
Mr.
tory of Great 'ley, about presentatione to
Alderman Farebrother disposed of by auction, at Garraway'i, of
thefollowing advowso s in
On Wednesday afterno- on,
nof the counties of Essex. Kent, and Suffolk.
the Vicarage of Mint Fey.
it was about 904/.the valuable sinecure Bee-
per is sighs miles from Colchester. The value of
right of presentation to the ItecXysohel
in lieu of tithes, amounted for 9,800/. The nekt *was•the
annum,wincludifig the right of presentation to
contained 1,520 acres, and the
pTahriesrhent charge,
bought for 2,9501. The third property consistedtteidontwo
poplin
was
fbeo3aurrht Canterburye.5perpetuale3Tol4wTha
,The
Tgr irigl3h:tea,on
annual
four
ual valuemiles
estimated
unitedastet.d RectoryaEtd rl.dl,si:lf4n ::Iti:etee whichp
diocese ta,ve ii6oz IFei
to deductions of about 126/. This fetched 5,2001.
MARYLEBONE LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INiiiTtl-
riox.—A dinner of the friends and members of this institution tool;
place yesterday at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street. The Eight
Hon. Lord Brougham presided on the occasion, and was supported
by Sir Benjamin Hall, Bart., Sir C. Napier, Dr. Copeland, &c. The
prospects of this institution, which was founded in 1532, have hitherto
been somewhat of a sombre hue, but at the present time there is a
balance in favour of the treasurer of 427., a circumstance Lord
Brougham stated in the course of his speech to be " unprecedented
in the annals of institutions." The object the committee hafe now
in view is to create a fund for the purchase of premises, and to this
purpose Lord Brougham subscribed 1001., Sir C. Scott and Co., 201.,
Sir B. Hall. 507., Sir'C. Napier, 57., besides many other gentlemen,
whose combined efforts have produced a sum amounting to nearly
500/.
STEAM NAVIGATION.—The Bill just introduced into
the House of Commons, by the Government, "for the regulation of
steam navigation, aid fur requiring sea-going vessels to carry boats,"
, going steamers shall be divided by water-tight partitions; and that
consists of 31 clauses. Its prin ipal proposals are to enact that sea-
-1
sea-going vessels shall be provided with boats, if they be 200 tons or
upwards. A penalty of not exceeding 1011. is to be hicurred by the
owner and not exceeding 50/. by the master, if these provisions arc
not attended to. Customs' cilicers, too, are not to clear ant vessels
not complying. Skinners are to keep to their starboae,Side in
meeting or passing any other vessel ; and steamers within te.rOnlir
of the coast are to exhibit lights at night, under a penalty.Ot ;(1/.
a night ; and owners of steamers not so cs.hibitina them are Illit to
be entitled to compensation for datna,c received in consequence..
Customs' officers are not to clear out vessels except upon the prodne-
tion of certificate of regi.tu. Accidents and losses of Steamers are
to be reported to the Board of Trade ; and in cases of accident that
board may appoint inspectors to report.

ALARMING ILLNESS OF LORD WILLIAM RUSSELL.—
We regret to learn that the Duke of Bedford and Lord John Russell
have received accounts from Genoa, announcing the painful hitellf-
pence of the serious illness of General Lord William Russell. But
faint hopes are entertained of his recovery, and the tenor of the let-
ters from his Lordship's medical attendants have prepared the mem-
bers of his family for the worst. On Monday last further advices
were received, and the reports were then more favourable. It was
the cause of the postponement of the Dowager Duchess of Bedford's
intended series of fetes at Campden Hall. Lord Wm. Russell, it will
be recollected, was many years the British Minister to the Court of
Prussia. •
NORTHERN RAILROAD.—The number of persons in-
vited to the inauguration of the !Northern Railroad who left Paris
amounted to about 1,500. They were to be join.d by the authorities-
of Lille, the Belgians coming from Brussels, and it was anticipated
that 3,000 persons would set down to dinner at Lille. Some papers
give a statement of the immense preparations for this banquet. They
instance the orders for glass and china made at Lille, which were as
follow :-28,000 plates, 600 decanters, 6,000 wine and other glasses.
300 salt-cellars, 30) fruit-dishes, 200 round and oval baskets. 512
round dishes, 140 oval ones, 450 other pieces of gilt china. If the
information be exact, 900 dishes were to be served in the first
course, and a:corresponding number in the others. At dessert it is
stated that there were 180 iced cheeses, and the same namber of
dishes of oranges, strawberries, cherries, and pine-apples; and all
sorts of sweets were in the same proportions. No less ehan 2,400
pounds of ice were said to have been used.
The Liverpool papers and private correVondehts re-
siding in Lancashire join in complaining of the state of PoSt-ofilec
communication with the west of Scotland. Letters posaaal in Glas-
gow In the afternoon of Monday are not delivered in Liv:,rpool or
Manchester till Wednesday morning, that is to say, at the same time
that they are delivered in London.- The cause ,is, it seems, that
letters for Lancashire, at whatever hour they are Posted in Glasgow,:
remain in the Post-office till eleven at night, when the London mail'
is dispatched. This mall conveys them along with the London letters,
and arrives at Parkside and Warrington too late in the etrening of
the following day, for the letters to be delivered in Manchester and.
Liverpool until the second morning after they leave Glasgow. ;The.
.Glasgow steam-boat companies, hoping to remove the evil, united
some months ago in an offer to convey the mail-bags, so as to occa-
sion no loss to the Post-office, and had their plan been adopted, the
letters would have been received nearly twenty-fours sooner than at
present. The offer remained not only unaccepted, but unanswered.
.FORTIFICATIONS AT GRAVESEND.—The new fortifi-
cations on the site of, the burial-ground of the chantey, erected by
Aymer de Valence, are rapidly proceeding. The men, whilst exca-
vating, a few weeks since, for the foundations of ,thc magazine in the
centre of the fort, discovered many of the skeletons of its former oc-
cupants. The original chapel., though cased over with modelet brick-
work, is still standing. It is now converted into the military hos-
pital. In the recent alterations necessary to such conversion, parti-
tions, &C., were removed, which then developed its original shape ;
it was 59 feet long and 17 feet 7 inches in breadth, within the walls,
and was covered with a cove roof, probably originally lined with
boards. The height of the edifice from the floor to the highest point
of the cove was about 16 feet. For the additional defences now con-
structiug at Gravesend there will be required 15 32-pounders of 56
cwt. on carriages with dwarf traversing platforms. On the opposite
shore of the Thames the fortifications arc likewise being greatly in-
creased and strengthened, and there will be required for the addi-
tional defences at Tilbury Fort 50 32-pounders of 50 cwt, each, on
carriages with dwarf traversing platforms, and 19 32,pouriders of
33 cwt., on iron carriages, making a total of 69 additional gala for
Tilbury Fort.
CAPTURE OF A RAILWAY SWELL MOB PICKPOCKET:,
—Nonwten, WEnNEsDAT.—One of the gang of the swell mob pick-
pocket, who have recently committed such extensive depredations
on railway passengers, was captured yesterday at the , Norfolk Rail-
way terminus of this city, and examined before Mr. J. Bells" the.
Mayor, and other magistrates, charged with picking the pocket, of
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711.LionrditeAtetesonne,
‘3,la.lsa
dr, oefsWsedelsas-
a gentleman, and his right hand was adorned with a ring, valued at
10/. He gave tile name of John Williams, on being placed at the
(blea,r,,ceataida,slntaetededithainpipseelLto
arrived that morning by the early train, the firmer belie; in :liceta the natipvraosoefe uGtloa;gaari t liFerp''ralisotheeer
attend-
anceahlald-
on several ladies belonging to his Lordship's family' When the
train reached the terminus the butler proceeded to assist the ladies
in alighting from the carriage. and while so employed he clt some
person jostling against him. apparently at the rockets of MS ofmt-
behind. On quickly turning round he saw the prisoner with' his
pocket book. He immediately seized the hand, when the prisoner
instantly dropped the hook and a coat, which he had over his arm,
on it, and the prosecutor, in altemptieg to Dick is up, lost his grasp
of the thiet, who at once darted off, leaving his coat behind. The
prosecutor immediately raised a cry of " Stop thief," and scarcely
had the delinquent got beyond the doors of the station before he Wits
captured by one of the railway police.
DREADFUL ANI FATAL ACCIDENT.—W oucESTURe
TOEsDAT Shocking occurrence has this, arnedrit,tiodounalii
hap-
pened within a few miles of tilt's, city,
leshalnvea been been In a moment hurried into eter,e'ta,w_ll:tiordeitaby:`:Fde
dangerous condition. From the inform- I,las elapsed between
of the post, it ap-
terwabne.eledurtroeigieeleanefin
ascertained
igthlettairarniadhsttedartaendiar"
ere driving a
pears that two persons, names not yet se ee
ree miles
spirited horse in a gig along the Spetchley road, about
theheaceshidaertnt ianderre d"e-phaa:rtUr,.
n 1 and
from this city, and near to the Spetchley station of the Brix, .ae
taatinelonngthtebehoz.nrsaeti tbeootbkrefr
overthrew the gig, which Is terribly shattered, and one of the unfbr-
illilerrilansenhabtmpßrbacilee:daeyd,
tunate passengers was thrown with such violence to the ground that
he was kilted on the spot. His companion also has received some
very severe injuries, and was bleeding profusely when the messenger
was dispatched for surgical assistance. Immediately on the occur-
atedin lhe deatln
occur-
rence of the accident the maimed person and his ill-fated companion(
were taken to a house adjoining, and a servant of Mr. R. Berkeley
was dispatched post haste to this city for surgical help.
devteerninining
in haotna
nts Friday
ot
heevfeonilinn
following
, nang
FATAL PUGILISTIC ENCOUNTER.—A prize fight MU,
of one ote, Southamptontheco Thefight origi-
nated in a low beer-shop, the resort of the worst class of "
and the deceased was the challenging party. navVies7
The amount of thee
stakes was about 305., and it is said the surviving
unwillingly forced into an acceptance of the challengecombatant wad
personages, some of whom have figured as principals by certain
ring, and by whom the money was subscribe in the prize
ter. The fight took place a mile or two from the for
this
fatal
encoun-
site side of the River Itched ; and
wards of an hour and a half, the after a combat, which lasted up-
senseless. He was removed deceased fell heavily, and became.
died on Saturday. Deceased
to his lodgings in the town, where ha
whose name is Travers,
lly
bruised about the face and body, "sqt:twThe.
jury was empanelled before boroughthea
nd
enirnonaer,dread
Mr. Cosewell, on
Monday, when the medical gentlemn who had attended him wax
examined, •and the inquiry was adjourned until Wednesday, the
Medical man being ordered in the mean time to make a post martens
examination of the body.
BADGER HUNT AT STREATHAM.—FOT some time
Past great destruction has been made in the poultry yards az
Streatham, without any clue having been obtained to the delinquent.'
although It was surmised the thief must be a dog or other animal,
from the blood and plucked
feathers generally found near the hen-
roosts. Some feathers having been found near a stack of' wood the
pile was removed, and on getting near the bottom, out bounded what
at first appeared to be a fox, and which took refuge in a field of rye.
Pursuit was shell made in the standing crop for the fugitive, and
terminated in the capture of a full grown badger, which was subse-
quently ascertained to have made its escape from a beer-shop in the'
neighbourhood.
SPANISH FOOD.—On Wednesday the ware-rooms o£
the tariff brokers in Monument-yard contained
bitten of no less than one hundred and t an interesting exhi-
wo sorts of Spanish meats
and fruits brought over by the P
Madrid, from Corunna. The meats comprisedenshiar
nearly
vessel the;
poultry preserved in its simple state, and in theeariliTtlevecfivslTesarioaftythoee
country, with several kinds of vegetables, prepared in the most ap-
proved Spanish fashion. The specimens are sent over but as it
sample of the productive capabilities of Spain, to test their applica-
bility to English tastes and fancies, and 114 case of a demand, Spanish
enterprise and capital are prepared to famish them in any quantity.
TESTIMONIAL TO MR. ROWLAND HILL.—A public din-
ner was given on Wednesday at Lovegrove's West India Dock Tavern,
Blackwell, to celebrate the presentation of a national testimonial to'
Mr. Rowland Hill, for his services in suggesting and 'carrying into
execution the system of uniform penny postage. In the Absence 'of
Sir G. Larpent, who was prevented from being present by domestic
affliction, Mr.. Warburton, M.l'., occupied the chair, and did the
honours of the evening. After the usual legal toasts, letters or
apology were read from Lord Ashburton, Lord Radnor, and several
other noblemen and gentlemen of influence favourable . to. the cause
of Post-office reform. The secretory also read the financial
statement of the result of the subscriptions set on foot throughout
the country for presenting to Al •
_- r. Rowland Hill a testimony et
national gratitude. From that statement,
It appeared ,that
sire subscriptions amounted
in gross to upwards of 15,000 j. e
and that, deducting 2,000/
• for the expenses incurred, there re-
mained for the benefit of Mr. Hill the amount of' 13,000/..
The Chairman then gave the health of Mr. Rowland Hill,
which was very warmly responded to by the highly: reepectables
party of gentlemen present on the occasion. In Acknowledging the
toast, Mr. Hill expressed, in very suitable terms, his sense of the
country's munificence towards him for his serviaa. He entered into,
a minute history of hie proposition, the manner of its reception, anti'
the results which its partial adoption had realised. He contend:al.
from those results that had scheme been telly adopted Ills cakes-.
lations would have been borne out, raid while abstaining from emit.
ing any aspersions on the present Government for depriving hiraof
the opportunity which the originality of his suggestions merited, b,o
exix ssed continued confidence in the future development Of hiS
plans. Mr. Dillon, Mr. Aldus, Mr. Leaf, and several other speakers
followed; and, after an evening very pleasantly spent in the enjoy
ment of Mr. Lovegrove's refired cookery aurl choice wines, the
party returned by specie! train to town: The whole
arrangements;
were excellent, and the studious attention to the palates of
was not a little heightened by the beautifid position of the
guelitg
and the fine view Whiell it COhlMaildE of the the tavern..
fig couatry. -,Ter sot tte tlig:0121c1