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ten for our wickedness. Let us, therefore, return unto
Him, who is the merciful receiver of all true penitent
sinners ; assuring ourselves that He is ready to receive
us, and most willing to pardon us, if we come unto Him
with faithful repentance ; if we submit ourselves unto
Him, and from henceforth walk in his ways ; if we will
take His easy yoke and light burden upon us, to fol-
low him in lowliness, patience, and charity, and be or-
dered by the governance of his Holy Spirit, seeking al-
ways his glory, and serving Him duly in our avocation with
thanksgiving.' This, if we do, Christ will not only de-
liver us from the 'bitter pains of eternal death,' but will
cause our light affliction, which is but for a moment,' to
work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of
glory' in his evEeasting kingdom, unto which He vouch-
safes to bring us all, for his infinite mercy. Amen."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, October 20,

The Rev. R. P. Burton, A. 8., clerk, now acting as
curate at Somersham, near Ipswich, and formerly of St.
Peter's, Stepney, obtained his final order to-day under
the Insolvency Act. His debts are stated at
4,0461. 7s. Bd., and his credits at 1,0001. He ascribes
his difficulties to pecuniary liabilities incurred for his
brother, Arthur Burton.
A bankrupt of the name of R. Francis Barber, described
as a publican, lately conducting business at the Sir Paul
Pindar, Bishopsgate-street, was adjourned for unsatisfac-
tory accounts.
Mr. Cooke opposed, and Mr. Lawrance supported.
The debts of the bankrupt are not large, but his con-
duct seems to have been ♦ery profligate. He could give
no clear account of a sum of 31. per week charged in
his balance-sheet for extra expenditure. further than it
went in pleasuring, attendance at theatres, and other
nocturnal amusements. He admitted that he frequented
a " private lodging " occasionally, the rent of which he
paid, besides remunerating the person who domiciled
there. The bankrupt's conduct in court was marked by
the greatest levity.

SURREY QUARTER SESSIONS.
The general quarter sessions for the county of Surrey
were held on Tuesday at the Court-house, Kingston.
The magistrates present were E. Penrhyn, Esq., Chair-
man; J. Trotter, Esq., M.P.; J. I. Briscoe, Esq.; Sir R.
Frsederielc, Colonel Challoner, J. W. Freshfield, Esq.;
R. A. C. Austen, Esq.; A. K. Barclay, Esq.; G. Best,
Esq.; C. Barclay, Esq.; J. E Johnson, Esq.; G. T.
Nicholson, Esq.; H. M. Parrett, Esq., &c.
It appeared by the reports of the governors of the dif-
ferent houses of correction that their establishments were
not sufficiently capacious to contain the unusual number
of prisoners committed to them, and that during the in-
tensely hot weather three and four prisoners had been
confined at night in one small cell.
Mr. JOHNSON moved that a committee be appointed to
take the subject into consideration, and report upon the
best means to be adopted to provide adequate gaol ac-
commodation in the county.
The motion was carried unanimously.
Mr. PARRATT said he should be glad if Mr. Sibley,
the keeper of the House of Correction at Brixton,
would give some explanation in reference to the charge
that bad been made against him in the public prints, of
bsving ill-used one of the female prisoners in his charge.
The case referred to will be fresh in the recollection of
the public, as having bee❑ heard at the Lambeth Police-
court, when it appeared that a woman named Maria,
Roast had been kept for 24 hours with her hands hand-
cuffed behind her back.

Mr. PARRATT inquired whether it was correctly stated
that the woman had had two pairs of handcuffs on?
The governor replied that it was the fact, but he was
not aware of it. The turnkey, without his knowledge,
had put on a second pair, finding that the first were
much too large.
The CHAIRMAN said that, by rule 80 of the gaol re-
gulations, the governor of a prison had the power given
him to handcuff a prisoner, but it could be only done
when he considered it absolutely necessary, and then he
was bound to report the circumstance, and to make an
entry in his book; and he could not keep a prisoner in
that state over 24 hours without the order of one of the
visiting justices.
Mr. BarscoE said that at all events this rule had been
violated, for the power was only delegated to the go-
vernor himself, and not to a turnkey.
Mr. A. IL BARCLAY acquitted the governor of the
charge of cruelty, but lutist express an opinion that it
was very improper to use handcuffs in this manner, and
he considered it little better than a species of torture.
lie believed that in the present instance, what had been
done was absolutely necessary for the peace of the pri-
son, but he hoped that before long the use of icons in
prisons would be altogether abolished.
In answer to questions put by the Court, Mr. Sibley,
the governor of Brixton, detailed the conduct of the
woman, which appeared to have been of the most violent
and outrageous description.
'The explanations given by the governor appeared to
be satisfactory to the majority of the Court, and a reso-
lution to that effect was carried, the Court at the same
time expressing regret that two pairs of handcuffs had
been made use of; it did not appear that the additional
pair had caused any increase of punishment.

The prisoner being. asked what he had to say, replied,
with an air of great indifference," Nothing at all."
Mr. HENRY—Yon seem to be a very hardened person,
and to treat the matter with great indifference. It is a
very bad case.
The prisoner smiled contemptuously.
Mr. HENRY—I shall remand him for a week, and in
the mean time the officer can endeavour to trace the
watch.—Remanded accordingly.
Bridget Sullivan, who has been several times re-
manded upon the charge of uttering a forged cheque
upon the bank of Messrs. Coutts and Co., in the name of
the Dowager Marchioness of Queensberry, was brought
up for final examination, and Villiers Pearce was placed
at the bar with her, as accessory both before and after
the fact.
The evidence given on the former occasions was re-
peated to-day, and Lady Queensberry herself was in
attendance.
Her Ladyship stated that the cheque produced was
not in her handwriting. She thought she knew the
handwriting, having often received letters in a hand
which she believed to be the same.
Upon this evidence Sullivan was committed for trial.
The case against the prisoner Pearce was then entered
into.

Policeman F 91, said that the prisoner was pointed out
to him on Tuesday night, and he was desired to watch and
apprehend him. Witness followed him to his lodgings,
and there took him in charge. He found a great number
of papers on him, which were now produced.
Lady Queensberry said that she had known Villiers
Pearce by name for many years, but had never before
seen the prisoner, nor had she any means of knowing
whether he was the same person or not. She had often
received letters from Villiers Pearce, and had answered
them, so that a correspondence had existed between
them, from which she could know and swear to his
handwriting. The cheque produced was in a hand
very like his, but she could not positively swear to it.
She had written letters to Villiers Pearce, directed 17,
Kirby-street, Hatton-garden, and also to several other
addresses (some of which her Ladyship enumerated).
A number of letters which she produced were in the
hand of Villiers Pearce. Eight cheques on Messrs.
Coutts' bank, purporting to be signed by her Ladyship,
were now produced, and she gave her opinion that they
were in Villiers Pearce's handwriting. They certainly
were not in hers.
Policeman Thomson, (detective force), said that he had
made inquiries at the various addressee mentioned by
her Ladyship, and had found that the prisoner formerly
had lived at three of them.
Mr. White, a builder, living in the neighbourhood of
Pimlico, said that in July last the prisoners ealled upon
him and made inquiries respecting a house which he
had to let. About the 12th or 14th of August they be-
came his tenants, and remained so ever since. About five
or six weeks ago the female prisoner disappeared,
and he had not seen her since till to-day. They lived
together as man and wife, and he always knew her as
Mrs. Pearce.
This being all the evidence that could be produced at
present against the prisoner, Mr. Bush, who appeared for
the prosecution, applied for a remand.
The prisoner said that be thought there was not suffi-
cient evidence to justify a remand, especially as there
was no distinct proof of the handwriting.
Mr. HENRY thought the evidence sufficient to justify'a
remand, and he would therefore remand the prisoner till
next Tuesday. He thought it advisable also that the
female prisoner should be brought up again on Tuesday.
The prisoner Pearce tken made a long statement of
the manner in which he first became acquainted with
the female prisoner, about six years ago, and of their
subsequent history. About six years ago she became
his housemaid, his wife having just died and left him
with a family of six children, who required her atten-
tion, he being occupied the whole day by his business as
a reporter. He had since fallen into poverty, but had,
nevertheless, retained her up to the time when he went
to the Cape of Good Hope, having a Government situa-
tion there. When he returned he married her, having
previously had two children by her. It was on tha 17th
Juno that they were married. She had made
up a story of having received the note from a gentleman
in the street, in order to prevent his name from being
made public, and his character impugned, on account of
this affair. He was ready to swear that he had not
fogged the note produced, nor any other paper, in the
Marchioness's name. She had acted very kindly to him.
The prisoner was then remanded to Tuesday week.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
James Reid, Thomas Henry Newnam, and John Ca, kr,
three stout fellows, in smocks, leather southwesters, and
smalls, having every appearance of being hard-working
coal-heavers, were charged yesterday morning before
Mr. Hardwick, with fraudulently obtaining money by
means of a begging petition.
Horsford, the Mendicity Society's officer, said, in
consequence of some information a hich he had received
from the butler of the Hon. Mrs. Agar about the pri-
soners, and a description of them, he had been on the
look out for some days, and saw them all three together
yesterday in Leicester-square. The witness followed
them into a house in Newport-street, and heard Reid
say they were collecting money on behalf of a poor
widow and four orphan children, who had been left des-
titute by the death of their colleague, John
Hawkins, a coal-porter, who had been thrown off
a coal barge by the swell of the steamers.
and drowned. They then presented a petition which
the witness took from them, and took the parties them-
selves into custody. The petition bore the genuine
signatures 4
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of the wharf for a sum of 20s. more, which appeared to
be fictitious, When the officer aslied them where this
Mrs. Hawkins lived, they could none of them tell him
anything about her.
John Rouse, butler to the Hon. Mrs. Agar, 1, Dean-
street, South Audley-street, said that Carter, with an-
ether coalheaver, came to the house on the Uth of Oc-
tober, and gave the servant a petition, begging money
on behalf of Mrs. Hawkins, and suspecting there might
he bade them return next morn-
ing possibly
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no'l imposition,nck. He in the meantime spoke to
Iforsford, but the petitioners never came again. They
said they were in the employment of Mr. Kitson, coal
merchant. The witness went to the wharf this morning,
and found that Mr. Kitson had retired from that busi-
ness twelve months ago, and that no accident whatever
had occurred at the wharf.
The defendants severally denied knowing anything
about it.
Mr. MARDWICK sentenced each of them to three
months' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of
Correction.
George Davis was placed at the bar this morning,
charged with stealing a coat from Mr. King's stables,
Union-place.
o'clock yesterday morning,
William Nesmith said
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about Mr. King's stables. He
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the fanlight, and come out 4vith a coat, which in a short
time he put on and made off. He followed him and gave
him into custody.
Mr. HARDWICK committed the prisoner for trial at
the Middlesex sessions.
CLERKENWELL.
Two elderly females, of respectable appearance, named
Schmid and Duple!, were charged with violently assault. ing Mr. William John Smith, the proprietor of the
Hoop and Grapes Tavern, in Cross-street, llatton-
garden ; and also with having used such violent threats
towards him and his wife as to cause them to consider
their lives in danger.
Mr. Wakeling, who appeared on the part of the pro
secutor, stated that within the last two months the
prisoners had taken every opportunity of annoying Mr.
Smith, by going to his house and breaking whatever they
could lay their hands on, and using the vilest language
and threats towards him and his wife. On Tuesday
night they went into the shop, and Mr. Smith having
refused to serve them with any liquor, they both rushed
at him, before he had time to get from behind the coun-
ter, and endeavoured to dig their nails and fingers into
his eyes. They also assaulted Mrs. Smith, and a gen.
tleman named Pettit, who went to assist Mr. Smith, and
swore they would have the life of the latter before a
week. Mr. Wakeling said no reason could be ascribed
for this outrageous conduct on the part of the pri-
soners ; and he called upon the Bench to require them
to find such bail as would protect his client.
Mr. COMBE at once ordered them to find two sureties
each for the next six months, but no person present
being willing to incur the responsibility, they were com-
mitted to prison in default.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Anne Sinner, alias Roffey, alias Turner, the wife of a
German eating-house keeper in Keats-street, Spital-
fields, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton for
final examination, charged with the wilful murder of a
young Irish labourer named Daniel Crawley, by stab-
bing him with a carving-knife.
The evidence now given, which was of a much more
conclusive character than any before elicited, was to the
effect that as George Brown, an acquaintance of the
prisoner, was assisting her in her business, at eleven
o'clock on the night in question, the deceased entered
the shop, and requested to be served with a quarter of a
pound of meat, which witness supplied to him and told
him it came to 2d. The deceased offered 2d., saying
that he had no more, and witness handed the money to
the prisoner, who objected to receive it, as it was a half-
penny short of the price. The deceased, however, in-
sisted upon having the meat for the money he had
tendered, when the prisoner wrapped it up in some
paper, end, placing it on a shelf behind her, called
the prisoner a blackguard, and told him to leave the
shop, as she did not want his custom. During this
altercation another man entered and likewise called
for some meat, which the prisoner was in the
act of cutting for him, when the deceased, who
was leaning forward upon the counter with his head
resting upon his arm, continued his importunity, and
the prisoner, who was much excited, suddenly seized a
large cutting-knife, and exclaiming. " There, you -,
that's your halfpennyworth !" stabbed him in the breast
with it. The prisoner instantly flung the knife out of
her hand upon the floor beyond the counter, and the
deceased, who screamed out
.‘ Oh ! I am stabbed to the
heart, save me, save me 1" and who tightly grasped his
side with both his hands, through the fingers of which
the blood was flowing in
great profusion, was in the act
of reeling to the ground when the witness carried him
to a chair, in which he was supported until the arrival
of the police and a neighbouring surgeon. The surgeon
at once pronounced the wound the deceased had received
to be mortal, and directed his immeshiate removal to the
London Hospital.
Francis Van Spielenberg, a German skin-dresser, cor-
roborated the last witness's evidence in all its essential
particulars, and deposed to some expressions towards
the prisoner from the deceased, which, though not of
such a nature as to induce her to lose all control of her
temper, were of certainly an aggravating tendency.
Mr. Holman, a surgeon of the London Hospital, de-
scribed the nature of the injury deceased had sustained,
from which he gradually sunk for the period of a week,

and then expired. q'
...oe knife had caused an incised
wound.,
- the cartilage of the sixth and seventh
puncturing the pericardium so seriously that it
exhibited extensive inflammation and was filled with
fluid. The cavity of the chest also was gorged with
blood, from three pints to two quarts ; and all the other
structures of the body being perfectly healthy, there
could be no doubt that death was occasioned by the
wound inflicted with the knife produced.
Mr. Caywood Wordsworth, the house surgeon, who
assisted the last witness in performing the post mortem
examination, entirely concurred in the previous wit-
ness's testimony ; and the dying declaration of the de-
ceased having been read over to the prisoner, who, by
the advice of her solicitor, Mr. Bolton, reserved her de-
fence,
She was fully committed to Newgate for trial upon
the charge of wilful murder.

The prisoner, who has throughout the proceedings
exhibited a remarkable degree of apathy, was stated by
Alderman, the gaoler, to have been several times in
custody for various offences, and to have also been sen-
tenced to a long term of imprisonment upon a charge of
felony.
William Charles Clarks a middle-aged man of re-
spectable appearance, described as a watchmaker, was
next placed at the bar upon two charges, the first of
committing a capital offence upon the person of his own
child, Anne Clarke, a little girl 12 years of age, and the
second of a criminal assault, with intent, &c., upon
another of his children, a girl two years younger.
It appeared that the prisoner, a married man with four
or five children, had separated from his wife in April
last, she residing with her children at a house in Bri-
tannia• street, City-road, and he with his father iu
Nelson-street, opposite. Notwithstanding the separa-
tion of the parents, the children were in the habit of
visiting their father, and according to the evidence of
Anne Clarke, the victim of his brutality in the first
case, having gone to see the prisoner about five weeks
ago, he bolted her in his room, land perpetrated the
charge alleged against him. She said she was afraid to
cry out for help in consequence of his being het owe
father, and that he cautioned her not to inform her
mother or any one else, or ho would certainly be hanged
for it. The child's dress, however, having exhibited
symptoms of such a nature as to raise suspicions in the
mind of her mother, she was closely questioned, and a
full revelation of the prisoner's conduct having been
made by the little creature, information was given to
the police, and the prisoner was taken into custody by
Sergeant Lambert, to whom he declared that it was a
conspiracy on the part of his wife, who had threatened
to ruin him.
Mr. Coward, the police surgeon, deposed to examining
the child, and his evidence left not the slightest doubt of
the full capital offence having been completed, accom-
panied by circumstances of great atrocity.
The second charge was preferred by another of the
prisoner's daughters, Sarah Clarke, a child only ten years
of age, and though the circumstances of this case bore a
close affinity to those of the preceding, the surgeon's
evidence did not bear it out to a greater extent than an
infamous assault.

The prisoner, who said he should decline offering any
defence at present, was fully committed to Newgate for
trial upon both charges.
The greatest disgust and indignation were frequently
displayed by the auditors in a very crowded court, and
the officers had some trouble in repressing their ebulli-
tions of disapprobation.
Police-sergeant Thurston, $3 N, applied yesterday
morning to Mr. Broughton, the sitting magistrate, under
the following very melancholy and somewhat peculiar
circumstances:—

The sergeant stated that on Saturday week last a
young woman, named Margaret Wooster, otherwise
Herring, aged about 24, threw herself into the Regent's
Canal, near the Cambridge-heath bridge, Hackney. She
was, however, taken out in a short time afterwards, nod
brought to a sense of consciousness, and subsequently
conveyed to the Bethnal-green workhouse. She sur-
vived, however, a week only, and an inquest having been
held upon the body, a verdict was returned by the jury
of " Temport ry insanity." Upon the person of the de-
ceased were found Bs. 6d. in silver, and a number of
duplicates relating to property belonging to herself, and
others belonging, as he understood, to that of her master.
At the inquiry he (witness) asked of the coroner and
jury what he was to do with the property mentioned,
and received for answer that he was to retain possession
thereof until he had consulted the magistrates as to its
disposal. Witness had discovered that the deceased had
been a servant in the employment of Mr. Osborn, sofa
manufacturer, No, 212, Nithiteehapel-road.
Mr. Osborne deposed that the deceased had been a
servant of his. He had occasion to absent himself from
home for a short period, leaving behind him his father,
who was upwards of 90 years of age. On his return he
found the deceased had not only robbed his father (who
is somewhat imbecile from advanced age) of all the cash
he had in his possession, but that a quantity of linen and
other portable articles had been pledged by the do-
ceased, whom, on his return, he had also found tipsy;
he therefore requ,'sted that th 3 Magistrate would order
the articles and money found upon the deceased to be
delivered over to him.
116 BROUGHTON said that he could not possibly,
under the circumstances, entertain anything of the sort.
He (Mr. Broughton), however, directed the police-
sergeant to hand over to Mr. Osborne those duplicates
which related immediately to his own property, but
what remained, together with the money, was to be
placed in the hands of deceased's relations, who appeared
anxious themselves to bury the body, instead of the
authorities of the workhouse, where it is still lying.
The sergeant said that Mr. Osborne was in possession
of a bundle which belonged to the deceased. What was
to be done with that?

Mr. BROUGHTON-It must be delivered to the friends,
most certainly.
Mr. Osborne, evidently dissatisfied with the decision
of the Magistrate, then withdrew.
SOUTHWARK.
. _

A few days since an interesting looking young female
was brought ip,) to this Court, charged with making two
very determined attempts upon her life, by throwing
herself into the ;'fiver at Waterloo-bridge. In the course
of the examination it turned out that she had absconded
a short time previously from her friends (respectable
people at Windsor), and had been leading a vicious
course of life in town, which led to the attempts she had
made upon her life. She was committed by the magis-
trate for want of bail, and remained in gaol until this
morning, when an aunt of the unfortunate girl came up
from Windsor, and describing that she had seen an ac-
count of the circumstance in the newspapers, requested
that her niece might be permitted to accompany her
home.

Mr. SECILER immediately granted the request, and
gave an order for the girl's liberation, and on her pro-
mise not to repeat such a rash act in future she left the
Court with her aunt. ,

.I?ieliard Smith, an adroit young thief, was charged
with the following impudent robbery:—
It appeared that on the preceding day the prisoner
entered a tradesman's shop, in the Southwark Bridge-
road, and, asking for a trifling article, took advantage of
the momentary absence of the woman who was serving
in the shop, jumped over the counter, and pulled out the
tilt He was in the act of " bolting" out of the shop
with the till when the female, coming in at the moment,
seized the prisoner, and a struggle ensued, during which
the closed the door and held him until a policeman came
up, into whose custody she gave him.
The prisoner was committed for two months.
Margaret Scott, a masculine-looking woman, was
charged with attempting to rob a gentleman named
Price.
The complainant said that in walking near St.
George's Church the preceding night the prisoner
wanted him to accompany her home. He refused, and
at the moment he felt her attempting to get his watch
out of his waistcoat pocket. Ile tried to get from her,
and in the struggle she fell down, and, on recovering
herself, swore she would get two of her men to give him
a good hiding.
In the course of the inquiry complaint was made of
the number of female thieves infesting that thorough-
fare, who were assisted by their bullies, always on the
alert to assault and maltreat those who attempted to re-
sist them.

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The prisoner was committed for a month to bard
tabour.

LAMBETH.
Mr. James Galway, a cheesemonger in a large b
way
of business in the W alworth road, and who is said to o
a man of considerable property, was
.placed a. t the bar
before Mr. Elliott, on a charge of Wing had in his pos-
session a parcel containing 71 pairs of expensive gloves,
part of a bankrupt's stock, that had been
stolen
from
the shop No. 17, Regent-street, on the night of thel4th
of February, 1844.
Mr. Games appeared for the prisoner.
Mr. Inspector Haines, of the detective force, deposed
that on the night above-mentioned property, amounting
to 6001., and consisting of gloves, silk stockings, shawls,
and other articles, were carried away from the shop, No.
17, Regent-street West. He had been employed to trace
the property, and discover the thieves, but up to Thurs-
day last ho could find not the slightest trace of either.
On that day, however, Mr. Wright, landlord of the
Horse and Groom, High-street, Newington, delivered to
him a parcel which he said had been left at his house by
the prisoner about 18 mouths before, and which contained
71 pairs of the stolen gloves. On the following day the
prisoner called upon him at Scotland-yard, and address-
ing him said, " I understand you received a parcel of
gloves from Mr. Wright last night ; if you want me for
them, here I am." Witness told him he did not want
him just then ; upon which he replied, " You can have
me at any time." He then went away, and witness did
not see him again until the evening before, when he told
him to be in attendance at this Court at eleven o'clock
this forenoon, and he was in atttendance accordingly.
In reply to the questions of Mr. Games, the witness
said, that instead of avoiding an investigation of the
circumstance, he expressed his perfect readiness to attend
at any time and place he (witness) wished. When the
prisoner called upon him on Friday morning, he said,
that nearly two years ago a parcel had been brought to
his house during his absence from home, and left there ;
the parties leaving it having also left a message that they
would see him at Wright's. On examining the parcel,
and finding that it contained a quantity of gloves, silk
stockings, and other property, he on the followinc, day
carried it to Mr. Wright's, directing that if the
partiesb
who left it should call, they were to have it. On seeing
the parcel in his (Mr. Haines's) possession, the prisoner
declared it did not contain half the property that had
been in it when deposited with Mr. Wright.
Mr. Wright was next called, and deposed that he was
landlord of the horse and Groom, Iligh-atreet, Newing-
ton, and that about eighteen months ago the prisoner,
whom he had known for four or five years, left a
parcel at his house, the contents of which, from the
paper being partially torn off; he believed to be gloves.
Witness said nothing whatever of the parcel being in
his possession until last week, when he and the pri-
soner had a quarrei, and the prisoner accused him
w,th being a receiver of stolen property. He, iu conse-
quence, sent for Inspector Haines on the following day,