The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-04 00:00:00

LAATBETH.

Mary and Louisa Moore, sisters, were charged, the
former with stealing, and the latter with receiving, a
quantity of property.
It appeared that the prisoner Mary had got into the
service of Mr. Kedge, a draper, at Brixton, by means
of a false character, and immediately on entering the
service commenced a system of plunder. On Sun-
days, when going to church she used to freight herself
with a quantity of property, which she carried to her
sister, who received it from her. On the day befure
she was given into custody on her way to church,
when a quantity of property belonging to her master
was found upon her.
Both prisoners were remanded to a future day.
HAMMERSMITH.

Three young men, named Frederick Thomas,
Frederick Butler, and Thomas Livermore, were placed
at the bar before Mr. W. F. Beadon, the sitting ma-
gistrate, for final examination, on a charge of stealing
from the residence of Frederick Pratt Barlow, Esq,,
No. 24, Kensington-square, a quantity of valuable
property, and a fourth young man, named Joseph
Hollis, was also finally examined, on a charge of having
received a portion of the same.
The depositions were most voluminous, and occu-
pied nearly three hours in taking. The substance of
the evidence was as follows :—Mr. F. P. Barlow has
been absent from home for the last sixteen weeks,
during some repairs which have been going on, leav-
ing Mrs. Mary Boland, the housekeeper, in the house,
to take care of it. The prisoners Thomas and Liver-
more, were workmen employed in the house, the
latter as plasterer, for six weeks, and the former as
paper-hanger. On Saturday, the 18th instant, Mrs.
Boland asked. Thomas to come for an hour on Sun-
day, the 19th (next day) to mind the house while she
went out, which he promised to do. On the Sunday
forenoon, the prisoners Thomas and Livermore met
at the lodgin;s of the prisoner Butler, and there the
robbery was concocted, Butler saying it would be a
good chance to get in. All three left there about one
o'clock, and Thomas went and stayed in the house
for about an hour, when Mrs. Boland returned, and
after he hail had tea he left. About half-past
five o'clock Livermore returned to Cottage-court,
with a bundle, and said they had got in, and he
had left Butl-r under a bed at Mr. Barlow's, and
Thomas had let him (Livermore) out at a side door.
The bundle contained a satin scarf and handkerchief,
three knives, a pair of trousers, a telescope in a red
velvet bag, a valuable Masonic jewel. Butler and
Livermore soon afterwards came home with the rest
of the plunder, consisting of shirts, a shooting jacket,
three waistcoats, shoes, trousers, shirt studs and pins,
a gold chain, and other articles. On the Monday
evening the prisoner Livermore brought the fourth
prisoner Hollis, a hawker of writing paper, living at
No. 3, Pye-street, Westminster, to whom the things
were sold, with the addition of a pipe and about a
pound and a half of cigars, when Hollis told Liver-
more he ought not to have kept the pipe, as it would
be sure to betray them, and he broke it into three
pieces across his thigh, and threw them into the fire.
On Tuesday Mrs. Boland missed the timepiece from
off the library mantelpiece, and from an examination
of the premises which resulted, a number of shirts and
the other property already named, which belonged to
Mr. Arthur Pratt Barlow, one of the sons, was also
missed. The matter was then placed in the hands of
Serjeant Hogan, No. 23, Lowe, No. 63, and Brad-
shaw, No. 130, three active officers of the T division,
who succeeded on the Friday in apprehending all the
prisoners, and subsequently in recovering the major
portion of the property.
The first three prisoners declined making any de-
fence, and the fourth prisoner (Hollis) declared his
innocence.

All the prisoners were fully committed to New
gate for trial.
THAMES.

Thomas Fraser, a seaman belonging to the New
York packet-ship, Prince Albert, was charged on a
Custom-house information with being on board that
vessel with 6Glbs. of Cavendish tobacco in his pos-
session, the same being in a package less than 5001bs.
weight, by which he had incurred a fine of 1001.
Mr. Pelham appeared for the prisoner, who pleaded
not guilty.
It appeared that Mr. Richard Keefe, a tide-
surveyor, received information that an attempt would
be made to run contraband tobacco from the Prince
Albert, and he went on board soon after her arrival
on Saturday evening, and upon entering the fore-
castle he found the prisoner with his hand on a bag,
containing part of the contraband goods he was in
search of. The prisoner, believing the officer to be
the person who was to fetch the tobacco, exclaimed,
"Is it all right ?" "It is," replied the officer, put-
ting his hand on the bag which contained 661bs. of
the best Cavendish tobacco, subject, like all tobacco
of foreign manufacture, to a duty of 9s. sd. per lb.
The officer seized the tobacco, whereupon the pri-
soner, who was taken all aback, stammered out that
he knew nothing about the tobacco at all. Fraser
was immediately taken into custody.
Mr. Pelham asked the officer if he knew the to-
bacco to be foreign ? Mr. Keefe—lt is. Such to-
bacco is never manufactured in England, and it is
seldom imported, except by smugglers, in consequence
of the very high duty.
Mr. Pelham—Do you know if it is part of the de-
fendant's sea stock ? Mr. Keefe—What, 661 b.? I
know it is part of a capital stock of tobacco.
Mr. Pelham said he knew it would be futile to
offer any observations to the magistrate, and he would
petition the Board of Customs, who alone had the
power of mitigation.
Mr. YARDLEY fined the prisoner 100/., and in de-
fault of payment committed him to the House of De-
tention till the same was paid.
Maurice Hardy, an Irish labourer, was charged
without an information with smuggling 21b. 6oz. of
Cavendish tobacco from the Prince Albert. It was
found concealed about his legs, under his stockings,
as he was leaving the dock, and the magistrate fined
him 255., and in default committed him to prison for
ten days. Another seiaure of 201 b. of Cavendish
tobacco was made on board the Prince Albert.

George Fidler, aged fourteen, was brought before
Mr. Yardley, charged with beating Elizabeth Fidler,
his mother.

The young ruffian was proved to have frequently
beaten his mother, and it was stated that he had been
sent to prison twice on account of those assaults.
On Wednesday and Friday last he beat his mother in
a most violent manner.

Mr. YaanLET said be should again fine the pri-
soner 31.. and in default of payment commit him for
six weeks to the House of Correction.

ILFORD PETTY SESSIONS.

(Before 0. MAsiiiTEß' Esq., and a full Bench of
Essex Magistrates.)
Three women, named Mary Nokes, Jemima
Staines, and Eliza Mudbribge, were placed at the
bar yesterday, charged with stealing a certain quan-
tity of wood of the value of 35., the property of her
Majesty.
Thomas Lavers, one of the keepers of Waltham
Forest, stated that in consequence of depredations in
the forest, her Majesty's Commissioners had issued a
notice cautioning people not to break down the trees.
On Monday, the 20th of December, he was on the
look out in the forest, when he heard a cracking of
the bushes, and on going in the direction saw the
three women pulling down a holly bush. He ordered
them off. They pretended to go, but in a short time
after he again saw them, having a bush in their
p )ssession seven feet in length. He then took them
into custody.
The CHAIRMAN said the offence must be put a stop
to, and fined Nokes, who had been four times before
in custody on a similar charge, 14s. ; Staines, who
has been three times, 11s.; and Maubridge, 7s. In
default of payment the two first were sent to Ilford
House of Correction for 14 days, and the latter for
seven days.

CONSUMPTION.—Sir James Clark, physician to the
Queen, enumerates, as the exciting causes of consump-
tion, " long confinement in close, ill-ventilated rooms,
whether nurseries, school rooms, or manufactories;" he
also says, " if an infant born in perfect health, and of
the healthiest parents, be kept in close rooms, in which
free ventilation and cleanliness are neglected, a few
months will often suffice to induce tuberculous cachexia"
—the beginning of consumption. Persons engaged in
confined close rooms, or workshops, are the chief suf-
ferers from consumption: thus, of the 233 tailors who
died in one district in London, in 1839, 122 died of dis-
ea,es of the lungs, of whom 92 died of consumption. Of
52 milliners, dying in the same year, 33 died from dis-
eases of the lungs, of whom 28 died from consumption.
Dr. Guy reports, that in a close printers' room he found
17 m.n at work, of whom three had spitting of blood,
two had affections of the lungs, and five had constant
and severe colds. After reading these sad facts, who
can deny that the chief cause of consumption is the
respiration of bad air?—Ventilation Illustrated.

PLIGHT FOR LIFE.—On Tuesday, as a flock of
Christmas geese were being driven down the High-
street, Edinburgh, for slaughter, about forty of them
suddenly soared into the air, to the great amazement
and cmisternation of the persons in charge, and pursued
their course, at varion, altitudes, towards the Canongate.
Many of them, from their great weight, were soon com-
pelled to descend, were promptly secured, but a few
of the younger and more active birds winged their way
over the houses, uati were speedily lost is the distahee,

THE CHOLERA CURED byETHER.
The Courrier des Etats- Unis quotes the following
from the Gazette des HOpitaux :—" M. Bruno Taron,
surgeon-major of the Ottoman army, and formerly
inspector of health in Bulgaria, Syria, &c., was a
physician at Marseilles at the time of the second
period of the prevalence of the cholera in that city
in 1837. In the midst of his care of his patients and
his service at the hospital be was one day himself
seized with the epidemic and had no doubt of the
symptoms. The following is M. Taron's description
of his situation It was midnight, I had been in
bed an hour, when suddenly a general chill seized
me. This chill was soon accompanied by vomiting
and other symptoms of the cholera, including the
cold sweats. An hour after, these were followed by
violent cramps in the extremities.' These are cer-
tainly symptoms of cholera. M. Taron was alone,
his family having fled from the scourge, and he had
no servant. lie found himself without help in the
middle of the night, overpowered by the disease, and
by the terrible certainty of a near approaching death,
and without any remedy, he says, but a large bottle
of sulphuric ether which happened to be in his
chamber. Having no other resource, I seized this
large bottle,' says M. Taron, and I inhaled it
freely. Immediately my respiration, which had
been oppressed because snore free, and I felt a sen-
sation of relief and general comfort. After-
wards the perspiration, which had been cold and
wearisome, became warm and gentle. The functions
of my senses were soon suspended, and I slept pro-
foundly. All these happy ameliorations took place
promptly under the influence of the inhalation of
sulphuric ether. I slept without pain or disturbance
for six hours, after which I awoke feeling all over
me great weakness. I had unconsciously been in a
perspiration through the night. This day and the
following I had some blackish alvine evacuations.
My strength retuned by degrees. I was completely
cured.' M. Taron finished his letter by confessing
that not knowing at the time the power which is
exercised by ether over the nervous centres, be did
not attribute to this agent the honour of his sudden
cure, but that he referred it entirely to one of those
fancies, those caprices of nature for which it is im-
possible to account. It is a pity, adds the Gazette des
Il6pitaux, that the observation of our brother should
be isolated and unique, but it is important, as being
the first point from which experiments may start.
Heaven grant that we may not have an opportunity
among ourselves for experiments of the% kind.
The Gazette du Midi says, that a physician of Mar-
seilles, a friend of the editor, has confirmed by his
testimony the observatious of M. Taron. Experi-
ments of this kind have been made with success in the
countries of the East, where the disease had made its
first ravages. Academies of medicine will doubtless
gather positive information on this subject, and order
new trials with all conditions which may render them
decisive for science.

DREADFUL DEATH FROM STAR-
VATION IN PRISON.

A long investigatibn took place before Mr. Bedford,
on Saturday, in the IVestminster Bridewell, as to the
death of George Brown, a prisoner, aged 30, who
died in that prison, under the most shocking circuin-
stances.

Mr. John Mathison, the clerk to the prison, stated
that the deceased was admitted on the Bth December,
having been sentenced to six weeks' confinement and
hard labour, by Mr. Hardwicke, of Marlborough-
street police-office, for having in his possession six
loaves of bread supposed to have been stolen.

George Lockyer, one of the warders of the gaol,
deposed that he received the deceased on the day
stated. He appeared starved, and witness gave him
some gruel and a loaf of bread, and placed him in a
warm room.

Other warders gave their testimony in succession,
and they were also surprised at his attenuated form.
He was put on first-class diet. He made no com-
plaint, and slept in the infirmary ; neither was he put
to work.

Ferguson, another of the warders, said, that at
seven on the morning of the 30th, one of the infirmary
warders called to him, and the deceased was found to
be lying dead in his bed, as if asleep.
Mr. John Lavies, the surgeon to the prison, said,
that on the 10th of December he saw the deceased, as
described by the other witnesses. He at once said to
him, "➢iy poor fellow, you are half starved;"
and the prisoner replied, " Indeed I am."
He immediately ordered him the first-class
diet, to be kept in a warm room, and to have
every possible attention. On the 26th of December
diarrhoea came on, and he was ordered beef tea and
arrowroot, which he had, but he died on the 30th.
On a post mortem examination of the body, he found
no disease existing, but the integuments and muscles
were entirely absorbed, as though ho had been
starved.

The CORONEIL—What, then, was the cause of
death ?
Mr. Lavieg—l hare no doubt at all that he died
from starvation.

The jury consulted for a short time, and then re-
turned the following verdict :—" That the deceased
died from want of food previous to his admission to
that prison." And the Foreman further said, the
jury could not separate without tendering to Mr.
Lavies their thanks, on the part of the public, for the
great kindness and attention he had paid to the unfor-
tunate prisoner.
Mr. Lavies thanked the jury, and said he had been
five hours in the prison that day attending the nume-
rous sick in the infirmary.