The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-05 00:00:00

CLERKEIVWELL.

James Pennington, an ill-looking fellow, who was
described in the police-sheet as a modeller, residing
at 4, Sidney-street, Somer's-town, was placed at the
bar before Mr. Combe, charged by Martha Pearse,
a young woman with whom he cohabited, with having
stabbed her with intent to murder.

The prosecutrix, whose head was bound up, and
who was in a weakly state through loss of blood,
deposed that on Tuesday night last, at about a
quarter before ten o'clock, she returned home per-
fectly sober, when she knocked at the door, which
was opened by the prisoner. She followed him to
the bedroom on the first floor back, when some angry
words took place between them, and the prisoner was
in a great passion with her because she had stopped
as he said, too long on an errand. She was undressed
and going to bed at the time. He repeatedly swore
at her, and said, " You wretch, I'll do for you," and
then gave her a dreadful blow on her nose, which
caused it to bleed profusely. He then ran to the
table, seized a table-knife, and rushing at her made
a stab at her. She attempted to save herself by
holding her arms up to ward off the blows, and the
knife struck her on the temple, near the eye, and
inflicted a severe wound, from which the blood
gushed copiously, and she became faint and was
taken to the hospital, where the wound was dressed
by the house surgeon.
In answer to questions by the magistrate and clerk
she said, she was about to escape from his violence
when he locked the room door upon her and took the
key out of the lock. It was after he had locked the
door that he stabbed her with the knife. She bled
profusely. Witness called out " Murder" as loudly
as- she could, and also called to the inhabitants to
come to her assistance. On seeing the blood running
from her, and hearing her cries, the prisoner endea-
voured to coax her to be quiet. She then exclaimed
loudly, " For God's sake let somebody come to my
aid," and continued her cries of " Murder," when she
found the key of the door on the chair; having re-
leased herself she ran down stairs, and the police and
neighbours came to her assistance and took the pri-
soner to the station-house. She had cohabited with
the prisoner nine years. He was jealous of her, and
had frequently ill-treated her before, and had been
committed to prison for violence towards her. The
prisoner while confined in the station-house was seised
with a violent fit, and Mr. Skinner, of Aldenham-
terrace, assistant surgeon to the S division, attended
promptly and rendered every assistance until he was-
recovered.

Mr. COMBE asked the prisoner if he wished to ask
the witness any questions ?
Prisoner.—No ; she was drunk.

Allum, 320 S, who apprehended the prisoner,
denied this. She was very much excited and agitated,
and hardly knew what she was about. The witness
heard the cries of " Murder," and saw the prosecu-
trix rush into the street, bleeding and saturated with
blood. He proceeded upstairs, and in the back room
on the first floor found the prisoner undressed. The
room was covered with blood, and he found the knife
(now produced) with which the wound was alleged
to have been inflicted.

Mr. James Morris, house surgeon to the University
C•llege Hospital, deposed, that the prosecutrix was
brought to the hospital at a quarter to twelve o'clock
on Tuesday night, and on examination he found a
wound over the left eye. She had other wounds of
older date on her head and chest, which had been
caused by the prisoner. The wound was not dan-
gerous.
Mr. COMDE cautioned the prisoner that he was not
bound to say anything to the charge ; would he io
so after that caution ? The prisoner said he did not
take up the knife or use it against the prosecutrix.
He was cross with her in consequence of her staying
out longer than she had occasion to do. She threw
a loaf at him while he was in bed.

The prisoner was then fully committed to New.
gate for trial.

LAMBETH.

A decent looking woman named Pomford, applied
to Mr. Norton for some slight assistance. From her
statement it appeared that her husband had been
principal clerk in a mercantile establishment in the
City, but owing to the failure of the firm he lost his
situation, and being unable to obtain another they
became very much reduced in circumstances. She
endeavoured to obtain a subsistence by her needle,
but such were the prices that were at present given
at warehouses and shops that she found it quite im-
possible to earn sufficient to procure the ordinary
necessaries of life. At:present she was engaged in sew-
ing shirt fronts and " dickeys," for which she was
allowed one halfpenny a-piece, and the very utmost
she could do was a dozen in the day, so that she had
to work from six o'clock in the morning until ten at
night to earn sixpence.
Cook, the gaoler, said he had known the applicant
and her husband for some years, and had always
noticed that they had used every possible effort to
support themselves. The husband who was an ex-
cellent linguist, had recently been taken to Ostend,
and the applicant was enabled to exist through assist-
ance from a fund which he was sorry to say was
nearly exhausted, from which she received ls. 6d. a '
week. The work upon which she was at present en-
gaged was paid for so wretchedly that she could
scarcely earn so much at it as would pay her rent;
and he had no doubt from what he had learned of her
that if she got good work she would be well able to
provide for herself.

Mr. NORTON remarked, that he had observed by
the public papers that considerable efforts had been
made by the gentlemen belonging to the Needle
Women's Society to improve the condition of such
deserving persons as the applicant, and the ample
funds recently received by the society he had no
doubt enabled them to extend the sphere of its use-
fulness. In this case he should request the attend-
ance of the secretary of the society, and see what
could be done.
Mr. NORTON here directed the chief clerk to write
to Mr. Roper, the honorary secretary to the society,
to request his attendance before him, with the view
of obtaining for the poor woman some lucrative em-
ployment, and ordered something out of the poor-box
for her immediate assistance.

DREADFUL MURDER.
One of the most cold blooded murders we ever had
to record in this neighbourhood took place about
twelve o'clock on Saturday night, at Tootal Bridge,
on the Bury road, about a mile and a half from Bol-
ton. The victim is a poor man named J. Schofield, a
weaver, residing at Undershore, and about forty-nine
years of age. He was on his way home from the
Hare and Hounds public-house, on the Bury road,
in a state of intoxication, and when he got to Tootal
Bridge he was attacked by two men, who demanded
his money. He told them he had none. They then
rifled his trousers pockets, but found nothing ; some
,copper in his coat pocket having escaped their notice.
The villains, apprehensive that he might create an
alarm in the neigbourhood, then determined to throw
him over the bridge. The battlements are at least four
feet high, and he struggled with the men but in vain.
He begged, however, that they would let him
drop down, so that he might have a chance
of escaping with his life. This they consented
to do, and put him over with his feet first.
When hanging over the bridge, he got hold of the
coping-stone, and kept himself suspended for a second
or two, but the murderers struck his hands with

a bludgeon, or something of the sort, until he could
hold no longer, and the unfortunate man fell to the
ground, a distance of fifteen yards. He fell on the
Bury side of the brook, close to the water. He was
nearly killed by the fall, and lay there until five
o'clock on Sunday morning, when he was discovered
by a person passing on the road. He was removed
to a neighbouring house, and although in a dying
state was able to give this account of the treatment
he had received. The men, he said, appeared like
" navigators ;" but the only description he could give
of them was, that one was tall and the other rather
short. The unfortunate man lingered until noon on
Saturday, and it is most extraordinary that no in-
telligence was conveyed to the police until after his
death. The murderers, therefore, had ample time
to escape; and any information which the dying
man might have been able to give respecting
these desperate villains was unfortunately lost.
When the deceased was found his pockets were
turned out, and the back of one of his hands
was much bruised, where he had been struck
when clinging to the parapet of the bridge.
From inquiries that have since been made it appears
that two men, answering the description given of the
murderers by the deceased, were seen upon the road
that night, and that they attempted to /rob three
gentlemen near Bury. It is said that about eleven
o'clock the same night Mr. Robinson, who lives on
the Bury road, near Bury, was driving home, accom-
panied by two friends, and that two men, apparently
excavators, presented pistols at them, and ordered
them to stop. Mr. Robinson, however, galloped on,
and as the villains did not fire, he and his friends
escaped, and reached Mr. Robinson's house in zafety.
The other person who is said to have seen them is a
collier named Slater. About one o'clock on Sunday
morning he was passing the Tonge Fold toll-bar,
which is about half a mile distant from Tootal Bridge,
in the direction of Bolton, when he was stopped by
two men, answering the description of the murdered
man. They asked him how they could get into the
toll-bar, and Slater, not liking their appearance,
went round the house on pretence of seeing if the
inmates were up, and took the opportunity of escaping
over the fields.—Manchester Guardian. ,

OUTRAGE OF THE JESUITS IN

THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE.
The French ship Arche d'Alliance, which, with its
band of Jesuit missionaries, had been lying in Port
Jackson for several weeks, suddenly sailed on Good
Friday, the 21st inst., having taken on board about
thirty of the South Sea Islanders who, for the last
ten or twelve months, have been in the service of Mr.
Boyd, by whom, as it is well known, they were
brought from the Loyalties, and who had succeeded,
beyond his expectations, in training them to habits of
usefulness and industry. By various arts, and the aid
of a plentiful supply of cocoa nuts, they were Mel.
napped by the Arche d'Aliiance's company of Jesuits,,
at whose instigation they took from Mr. Boyd's stores,
the bedding clothes, cooking utensils, and various
other necessaries, with which they had been supplied
by him. Upon being apprised of this audacious act
of the French mission, Mr. Boyd, through Mr. J.
Robinson, requested the interference of Archbishop
Polding, representing to his Grace that the men were
useful servants, and that they were under engagements
to Mr. Boyd, who would, however, have no objection
to allow two or three to proceed with the Arche
d'Alliance if their services as interpreters were de-
sired by the mission. Mr. Robinson further ex-
plained, that this " island labour experiment" had.
every prospect of success ; that many of the Sydney
householders had engaged, and been much satisfied,
with the services of the men ; and that, as a very im_
portant step in the difficult problem of colonization, it
was desirable that the attempt to interfere with, and
kidnap the people in Mr. Boyd's employ should_ be
abandoned. Dr. Polding declined to interfere in the
matter, on the ground " that he had no contre,l over,the
French Mission ;" and Mr. Robinson tbereunon ob-
tained, from the magistrate of the water police, war-
rants for the apprehension of the men who had been
enticed on board the ship, then on the eve of sailing.
Before these warrants could be executed, Captain
Marceau set sail, waiving the usual form of clearance,
defying the authorities of the port. This officer's con-
duct will of course be represented in the proper quarters
and, in so far as he is concerned, full redress will
doubtless be obtained ; bet as regards the audacious
outrage by the Jesuit missionaries, it may be ad-
visable to consider the matter in some other form than
a tedious and, but too probably, unsatisfactory officiPA correspondence.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKF,TS.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 4.
STOCK EXCHANOR.—There has been a dull and languid
demand at our market for shares this TorJrning, without,
however, producing any change in prices.. The sales are—
Caledonian, Preference, Na dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire,
Fifths, 41% dis.—Ditto (late West Riding Union),
5% dis.—London and North- Western, 1091% c.—Ditto,Fifth News, Quarters, lBs. 9d. c. dis.—ManchesNr, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire, Quarters, No. 1, 9 ,i`i c, dis.— Ditto, Eighths, 71% dis.--.
Ditto, 10/. Preference, 91. 16s. 3d.—Midland Stuck, 83--
Ditto, New Halves, 10/. Bs. 9d. c. dis.---North Union ( A),
197i/2—South-Eastern and Dover, 231Lc.—Dit to, IST O. 4,
Thirds, 6/. 16s. 3d. c.---York, NewcasAle, and Berwick (G.
N. E. Pur.chase), 1% dis.
MANCHESTER, Ocr. 4.
STOCI ExctrAwais.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 9% dis.— Caledonian, Pre-
ference, 7‘3 dis.—East Lancashire, Preference Quarters, par—
London and North-Western, Quarters (C), 114 p,_mar,,,,
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 104 Preference, 934
dis.—So ath-
Ditto (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 13% dis.--North Stafftrd-
shire, 6 13-16 dis.—Shropshire Union, 3%
BIRMINGHAM, OCT. 4.
Xastern and Dover, No. 4, 6 13-16 dis.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The share market has been prostrate
the last few
71 dayss. 9d. The
Nor salesth are—Shrewsbury and Birming-
ha
HULL, O
m (A), . 3. Staffordshire' * 61. 2s 6d. dis.
M 4. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Hull and Selby,
Half Sha res, 48London and Brighton, 27—North British,
Extension (scrip), Wales, 20s. 3s. 9d.—Ditto, Thirds, 978.—North
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an individual who formerly figured
the
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BIRTH
On the Ist inst., at Rochester,.%
the wife of Captain Nedham, Royal Artillery, of a son. W.
On the Ist inst., at Manchester, the -wife of Capt. Blessiter,
unattached, of a daughter.
On the Ist inst., in Moray-place, Edinburgh, the Hon. Mrs.:.
Ferrand, of a son.
On the Ist inst., at Twyford-lodge, Sussex, the lady of L.,
A. Harrison, Esq., of a son.
On the 2d inst., at Beccles, Suffolk, the wife of the Rev-
H. N. Burrows, of a daughter.
On the 2d inst., at Harrington-square, Regent's-park, the
wife of W. H. Wyatt, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 2d inst., at Bengal-place, New lient•road, Mrs. F.
Vink, of a daughter.

E.
On the 19th ult., at StMARRI.
Paul's D
Church, Halifax, Mskjor
William Robinson, of the Royal Engineers, to Ellen Martyr,
daughter of James Walton Nutting, Esq., of Halifax.
On the 27th ult., at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Robert R.
Christie, Esq., son of the late D. Christie, Esq., of Montagu-
square, London, to hiugusta Isabella, daughter of William E.
Amiel, Esq., R.N.
On the 3d inst., at Little Portland-street Chapel, Edward.
Enfield, Esq., of ie Royal Mint, to Honora, youngest daugh-
ter of J. Taylor, Esq., F.R.S., of Sheffield-house, Kensington.
On the 3d inst., at Kingsbury Episcopi, Mr. J. Pullman,
of Greek-street, Soho-square, to Anne, youngest daughter of
R. England, Esq., Kingsbury, Somerset.

DIED.
On the 25th ult., at Bridgnorth, aged 73, Harriet, relict of
the late Lionel Lampet, Esq.
On the 28th ult., at Bath, John Templeman, Esq., aged 92.
On the 29th ult., at Clevedon, T. R. Andrews, Esq., of
Lark-hall-grove, Clapham.
and
On
Ilford, Essex,a the 30th ult.,
ged 48. Mr. J. Boards, of Commercial-road East,
lane On thekha Ist
m inst., John Watherston, Esq., aged 58, at R. Pec.
On the 2d inst., at King-street, Cheapside, Mr. Edward
Eglinton, aged 23.
On the 2d inst., at Ryde, Isle of Wight, R. Walford, Esq.
On the •:.d inst., at Burgate, Canterbury, Mrs. Thomas
Laslett, aged 47.
On the 2d inst, Elizabeth Phillips, the only surviving child
of Mr. E. R. Phillips, of Great Titchfield-street, Portland-
place.
At the Angel Hotel, Edmonton, Frances Anne, the wife of
Mr. T. Roche, aged 29.

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Middlesex, Thursday, October 5, 1848.