The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-18 00:00:00

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GREEIVIVICIL

W. H. Bungard, a police-constable, 247 It, was placed at
the bar of the Greenwich Police-court, before Mr. Jeremy.
charged with being accessory to the concealment of the birth
of a child, of which Caroline- Bailey was the mother, in the
parish of Eltham.
The inquiry was instituted at the instance of the Commis-
znissioners of Police, and Mr. Superintendent Mallalieu at-
tended to watch the proceedings.
Amelia Baxter, a dressmaker, deposed that Caroline Bailey
resided with her some time previous to and after Christmas
last. She had made three dresses fur her during that period,
and observing an increase in her size, told her of it, upon
which she laughed, and said, " No, you are joking." In
January she observed that she was mach stouter. After
leaving her house some tim2 she appeared As usual. A few
days since she saw her again. when she crie,l and confessed
her condition. Saw her the last time on Monday, when she
was very ill in bed and could not move.
Rebecca Evans deposed that Caroline Bailey cam's to lodge
at her house on the 10th „f January. She remained si.'c weeks
and five dais, and left ,n the sth inst. She appeared to be in
the family way. Said that she came to be confined, and had
engaged a surgeon to attend her. Two medical men atteuded
and examined her. She said she would be confined abovt
the 14th of February. Thought she was not enciente, al-
though appearances and fulness of dress indicated it. Dr.
Davenport advised her to examine Miss Bailey, but she re-
fus, dto permit her. Her mother washed her clothes. Oa
the Ist and 10th of January the young woman walked out
with the accused. It was on Saturday and Monday. In the
evening they returned together. She appeared ill, took
some tea and went to bed in an hour afterwards. Tne ac-
cused remained with her half an hour. %he continued un-
well for a few days.
IVilliam Carr, surgeon, Lee, near Blackheath, deposed,
that he was sent for on Friday night last, and found her
suffering great pain. She told witness
.that she had been
recently confined, and had been very much ill-used. She aid
that she had been intimate with a police-constable, by whom
she became pregnant. The accused had taken apartments tier
her to be confined in, at Eltham, and while lodging there she
went at the accused's request to take a walk. Retook her into
a field where he used great. violence to her person twice. On
his repeating this treatment after a fainting fit, she cried
and said, " Oh, dear," and told him he had taken the child
from her, that she was in a dreadful state, and the ac-
cused partly managed to carry her home. Witness is satis-
fied that she had been delivered of a child; could not say
whether full grown or not. The injured parts were lacerated
And ulcerated. Doubts that it was a full grown child. The
inflammation supervened from violence. Perhaps within six
weeks of her full time. Miss Bailey is about 21 years of age.
Mrs. Evans was here recalled, and said that the accused
took the lodging, and said it was for a young woman near
her confinement.

Amelia Baxter was recalled, and in answer to the accused,
said that she went with Miss Bailey to Sidcup, for the pur-
pose of telling him her hard situation, when he gave them
half-a-crown to pay her carriage home. Is certain she was
in the family way and could not walk. Had examined leer
person as to that fact, and had also made her baby linen.
Witness told the accused that she was in the family way,
and he replied that as witness was a respectable person he
would believe her.

The accused, addressing the magistrate, said that it was
all false. There had been great deceit all through the
business, and that Baxter was a partial witness. Her
statement was at variance with what she told the superin-
tendent. _ _

Jane Evans, cousin to Rebecca Evans, residing at Eltham,
deposed that Caroline Bailey stopped at her house eight
weeks ago, before going to Mr. Evans's. She came home late
on a Thursday night. Witness was in bed. Bailey ap-
peared very ill and greatly exhausted. Said she had been
very ill-used and pulled about by Bungard, who had broken
and torn her stays. Said that she was with ckild. Ap-
peared so. She had half a sovereign in her hand, and said
that Bangard had given it her, and wanted to take it away
again.
Mr. JEMMY asked when the young woman would be able
to attend ?

Sergeant Lovell, 15 R, said he had seen her, and that she
was so ill that she could not be left alone, and could not rise
from her bed.

Mr. JEMMY said, under such circumstances, he should re-
mand the case for a fortnight. There was direct and positive
evidence, at present, of felony. It was, at least, assuming
that character, and was a most serious affair. If the medical
testimony should be corroborated, there would then be no
doubt that a felony had been committed, and would involve
more than the concealment of birth.

The accused here said that he wished Drs. Glillimore and
Davenport to be examined. Those ..entlemen and other
persons would prove the charge to he false. He then handed
a long statement in writing to the magistrate.
Mr. JEREMY, after reading it carefully over, said he must
remand the accused until such times as the injured girl
could attend and give her own statement. As to the state-
ment he had just read, it went a great way strongly to con-
firm the other evidence; the rest appeared utterly irrecon-
cileable.

The accused said he believed that she had never borne a
child, at least not by him.
Mr. JEREMY said, under all circumstances he would re-
mand him for one day, in order to have the evidence of those
persons required by the accused. He would therefore be
brought up again to-morrow (this day).
Sargeant Lovell said he would warn the parties to attend.

ROYAL REGIMENT of ARTILLERY
The exertions of the recruiting parties to raise men for this
gallant corps are now attended with contiderable success, and
numbers (.f fine young men are weekly joining at head-
quarters at Woolwich, from various parts of the country, to
acquire a knowledge of the duties of artillerymen.
The following circular tro,morandum has just been issued
for the information of the officers, non-commissioned officers,
and men of the regiment, and those intending to enlnt in
that branch of her Majesty's

Deputy Adjutain-denerars Office. Woolwich, 31arch 13.
" The Master-Oeneral anti Honourable Board of Ordnance, by letter
dated the I Ith of March, 1546, S 361, have directed her Majesty's
warrant, dated 19th of December, 1845, to be extended to the Royal
Artillery, by which rewards for the greater encouragement of meri-
torious sets ice, and for good conduct of non-cominissione4 officers
and soldiers, are provided tor; it is desirable that these benefits be as
extensively circulated as circumstances will permit.
" Of the advantages conferred, an annuity in addition to pay for a
certain numbers f sergeants ; the service, combined with good conduct,
entitling soldiers to good-conduct pay is considerably reduced; thus, on
completing five years' r.ervice, with two years exemption trom the de-
faulters' book, one penny per die m,s added to the pay of the soldier, and
for every subsequent five years' service, extending to thirty years, a
similar Increase takes place, the maximum rate being Gd, a-day ; and
the good•conduct pay enjoyed by the soldier Is carried with hint to
the pension list, so that in proportion of length of service and good
conduct he may realise a pension from Is. to is. Gd. a-day.
" The particular attention of officers, non-commissioned officers,
and men on the recruiting service, is called to this subject, that they
may explain to the peasantry the improved condition of the soldier
while serving, and the certain provision made for him when no longer
fit for her Majesty's service.

H. D. ROSS, Deputy Adjutant-General."
In addition to the advantages to the non-commissioned
officers and men of the Royal Artillery alluded to in the
above circular memorandum, it has been decided that one
sergeant and eight men are to be added to each company of
the present nine battalions, and that the tenth battalion will
be raised according to the increased strength of the present
companies. The number of companies of the Royal Artil-
lery at home and on foreign stations amount to seventy-two,
which will give promotion to seventy-two non-commissioned
officers, and the same number of men will be promoted from
the ranks, in addition to those required to form the tenth
battalion.

TOTAL LOSS OF THE BARQUE
FRANCIS SPAIGHT.
TWENTY-ONE LIVES LOST.
(From the Liverpool Standard.)
The ship England's Queen arrived in the Mersey yester-
day afternoon, from Bombay and the Cape of Good Hope,
which latter port she left on the 19th of January. This is
the latest arrival from the Cape, and to Captain Shedding.,
the commander of the vessel, we are indebted for the Cape
.f Good Hope and Naval Shipping and Mercasstik ,Gazette
of the 9th of January, conveying the following melancholy
intelligence of the loss of the I'raucis Spaight
During the night between Tuesday and Wednesday last
it blew a violent gale from the northward, and at six A.m.
on Wednesday the squalls were very severe. At half-past
eight the wind came more to the westward in a hard squall,
accompanied with torrents of rain, when the barque Francis
Spaight, of 366 tons, from Manilla to London, was observed
driving towards the strand, and an attempt was unfortu-•
nately made to set the mainsail, which brought the vessel's
broadside to the shore; and in this position, with the main-
sail aback, she continued to drive until she struck the ground
near the Slave Lodge, about a mile from thevillage of Papers_
dorp, when, in consequence of being broadside to the beach,
she rolled heavily, the sea occasionallybreaking over her
decks.

A whale-boat and a surf-boat were sent from Cape Town;
the whale-boat succeeded in getting alongside the barque',
and a line was thrown over the vessel by the rocket appa-
ratus. The moment the boat touched the aide, the crew of
the barque, who appeared to have lost all presence of mind,
rushed into her, when she was tilled and capsized, and sad
to relate, the captain and fourteen men of the crew were
drowned, together with four men of the boat's crew, named
Thomas Williams,William Taylor, John J ukson, enArlu
Norton.

A surf-boat and another boat were also sent from the
North Wharf, by Messrs. T. and J. Sinclair; both boats
cap.ized, and two men, named Dollio and Parker, were
drowned.
The following are the names of the crew saved, viz., James
Robertson, carpenter, and John Aneod, seaman.
Captain Patterson and the following men were drowned,
viz. :—Thomas Haydon, mate ; Magnus Smith, second mate ;
Henry Hiatt, steward ; David Evans, Edward WDonald,
George Hutchings, John Smith, of Leith, John Smiths of
Edinburgh, and William Widder, seamen; William Rymes,
cook ; John Mittin, Thomas Beddoe, William Hall, and.
Richard Parker, apprentices.
The vessel is broken in midships and is a total wreck, and
very little of the cargo will be saved unirkiured.
The manifest and mail have not yet been found, but so
far as it has been ascertained, the cargo consisted of sugar,
hemp, tobacco, cigars, rattans, and sundry other articles.

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PoPrILAR KNOWLEDGE.—If knowledge be in itself
of oprr,ien that
a good, the fuller the measure of it the better for the possessor, us
ewtteearrethsatirlonngoly„
matter whether he be of the higher or the lower, the learned er the
itipachrtsb,
unlearned caste. For oisurnootwnn
superficial knowledge ....Owedge, and
all must agree that inaccurate knowledge is worse than none at all
Hence we are no friends of what is commonly termed popular litera-
ture ; that is, literature fit only fur the ignorant, Which finds sad
leaves them so. We may be told that their Capacities will not
admit of higher teaching—a libel On COMM.IIII sense I Complaisantly
as we may regard our own mental superiority, we may rest assured
that most literary subjects may and should he made as intelligible to
the peasant, if he can read and refleet, as to our noble selves, But,
unluckily for popular improvement, they are not made intelligible.
Books of elementary instraCtion are often written without method.
And generally abound in unmeaning conventional terms, and we call
everybody ignorant that flees not understand them. The maxim,
"Every man a motithful and no man a bellyful," has been current,
long enough I more so within these fifteen years than at any formeZ
, p.riod, and Its yews we new fairly, begin to dispute.-40oneum.

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