The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-13 00:00:00

PIEDMON T.

CHOZANOWSKY' the well-known Polish General,
has been named by CHARLES ALBERT Chief of the
General Staff of the army.

NAPLES.

Letters from Naples of the 4th inst. state that the
ultimatum of England and France had not arrived,
but that the status quo was maintained in Naples and
Sicily.
The quarantine of seven and fourteen days lately
imposed on vessels from Palermo am\ Malta, and
which was strongly suspected to have had only a
political object, has been removed in consequence of
the remonstrances of the British Admiral.

MARLBRU-STREET—(THIS DAY).
Frederick Herbert, who was formerly a Lieutenant in
the Royal Navy, and who has for some time been vic-
timising the public under the assumed names of Captain
Welsh, Captain Howard, Wm. Corney, Henry Pettin-
gale, was brought up for final examination, charged
with defrauding several tradesmen out of property to a
large amount, by means of spurious cheques.
Mr. John L2adbetter, ornithologist, 19, Brewer-
street, Golden-square, said, on the 21st of July last,
the prisoner came into his shop, and said he had been re-
commended to him by several persons in the trade
as the most likely person to get the skins of humming
birds from. Witness said ho was unwell, and wished
the defendant to defer his call till another day. The
prisoner replied that he ,was going out of town imme-
diately, and would not detain witness ten minutes. Wit-
ness then !showed him a quantity of skins, and the pri-
soner selected sixteen, which came to 6L Witness
packed them up in a box produced, and handed it to the
prisoner. The prisoner then put his hand in his pocket,
and said he had not got sufficient cash, but he would
give witness a cheque upon his bankers. He then wrote
out a cheque for 61, payable at Messrs. Childs,
Temple-bar, and signed his name Frederick Howard.
Witness presented tke cheque the next day, and was in-
formed that no such person kept an account there.
Mr. John Evans, a dealer in curiosities, No, 281,
High Holborn, proved purchasing several of the skins
of the prisoner, for which he paid him IL 17s. 6d. The
skins produced are a portion of those he purchased of
the prisoner.
Several other cases of a similar nature having been
proved, the prisoner was fully committed for trial.

WORSHIP-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
Mary and Elizabeth Binchley alias Broad, and Emma
Jones and Mary Anne Allen, who had acted as their
servants, were charged with having obtained, under
false pretences, from various tradesmen in the metro-
polis, quantities of drapery and other goods to an im-
mense amount.

John Messent stated that on Monday, the 25th ult., ft
person called at the shop of his employer, Mr. Enoch
Jones, linendraper, in Finsbury-terrace, and requested
that a choice selection of family mourning might be sent
immediately to the residence of the elder prisoner,
Elizabeth, in Cavendish-street, New North-road,
as her husband had just expired. Witness ac-
cordingly proceeded there with a quantity of Palmetta
and Coburg cloths, crapes, and other articles, and was
admitted by the girl Jones, who conducted him to a par-,
lour, in which he found the elder prisoner and one of her
daughters, who selected a portion of the goods and
ordered two cloaks and two mantles to be made for them
and sent home by the following Wednesday, as the,
funeral of the deceased would take place the day after.
On taking the latter articles to the house, he received a
further order for a quantity of black ribbon and six
pairs of kid gloves, which he afterwards delivered at the
door to the prisoner Allen, who told him that the ladies
were so oppresed with grief that they were unable to see
him. A fourth order was afterwards executed for
two boas and a muff, and also for four shawls two of
which it was intimated would be selected for the Nov
vents, and the other two returned. An invoice for the
whole of the goods was sent with the last parcel, and
witness was directed to call on the following Monday
for the amount, viz., 231. Bs. Bd., but on reaching the
place, at the time appointed, he found the house shut up.
Mr. George Mattley, landlord of the house in Caven-
dish-street, stated that he let the premises at Mid-
summer last, to a venerable-looking gentleman, who
said he was a retired shipbroker, and having heard ra
few days since that his tenant was dead, he proceeded
to the house to offer his condolence to the widow, and
found that she and her family hadclandestinely removed.
Sergeant Brannan, of the G idivision, deposed that
he proceeded with other officers to a house in Park-roW,
Pentonville, in search of the elder prisoner's son, whom
they accidentally encountered in the street, and took
him into custody upon another charge. He (witness)
afterwards endeavoured to effect an entrance into the
house, but after knocking repeatedly at the deor without
being answered, he made his way through the passage
of the next house, and procured a ladder, which he
placed against the back window of a room on the first
floor, at which the prisoners were standing. On reach'
ing the window, the prisoner Jones pressed with her
whole weight upon the sash to prevent his forcing it up►
but he succeeded in raising it a sufficient height for the
admission of his head, when she instantly seized him by
the hair with one hand, whilst with the other she made the
most strenuous efforts to strangle him by forcing the
window upon his neck, and finding that ineffectual, she
did her utmost to pitch him off the ladder; he, however,
together with Sergeant Dubois, forced his way into the
apartment, where were found several boxes, containing
various articles of haberdashery, &c., about sixty pawn'
broker's duplicates, a flash note of Bank of Elegance
and numerous formal agreements for the occupation 01
houses, in various names, and in all parts of the we"
tropolis.
John Broad Hinckley, son of the elder prisoner. was
charged with having fraudulently obtained a quantity 0f
wearing apparel from Mr. Edwin Kenworthy, a tailor, to
Shaftesbury-htreet, Horton.
The prosecutor stated th.t on Tuesday week last, Pri‘
soner called upon him, and ordered a suit of mourning/
which he requested might be seat to his mother's house
in Cavendish-street, in sufficient time to enable him t 0
wear it at his father's funeral. The order was dull
executed, and the prisoner subsequently called upon
him, and obtained a waistcoat and shooting jacket, the,
latter of which was sent him upon approbation. Witneo
afterwards found that the family had absconded from 08
house they had occupied.
Henry Roberts produced one of the coats which we°
pledged at his shop, a few hours after it had been ob,
tained from the prosecutor.
Several other cases were ready to be gone into again/
the prisoners, but the magistrate thought that enoug'.:
already had been proved against them to justify him to
committing them for trial. At the suggestion of SO;
geant Brannan they were ordered to be brought Pr-
again.

THE IRONMASTERS QUARTERLY MEETINGS' ,if
BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY.—.A considerable number
the principal ironmasters and coal proprietors of 800 ht;
Staffordshire and East I'Vercestershire assembled in t"-f
Town-hall to-day. There was also a fair sprinkling c'f
persons interested in the iron trade and settlement et
.quarterly accounts from other parts of the kingdom; 1204
the attendance was not more than an average one,lo.
in consequence of the publicity already given to the at,-
sion adopted at the preliminary meeting held at Dittfrnt
a fortnight ago, no person anticipated any alteration ";,
ithe prices of last quarter. None took place. It is net.,
to impossible to state the precise figures, but as neit.r4.
as prices can be asceitained, they may be named a".
the following scale :—Bars, best quality, about 6/. 11;4:
hoops, 71., sheets, Si., and pigs from 31. ss. to 31. Ino
t,
It is satisfactory to know, more especially at the pres,e,7
moluebt,- that the comparatively improved position of "",
iron manufacture is by well-informed people attributes„
not to any sudden railway demands, but to the
quirements of the general trade of the country. 11; is:
as compared with former periods of improvements t'6o
favourable symptom. The settlement of accounts' to.
far as it has proceeded, is satisfactory, and the presPeco.'
of the ensuing quarter, if not brilliant, are at least e
cour
Baging.
LACKWALL RAILWAY.--The directors of this 11.,,0
way intend altering the gauge, and using the locon2e4l 0,
instead of the stationary engine, and the workmen Oat
menced taking up the north line yesterday, prePartoe'
to the alteration of the gauge. The trains now le 0
either end every half hour, instead of every quarter'
heretofore. or
It is not the intention of the Earl of West°, hecl
land to pay London a visit at present. His accorePh%ia
Countess is on the point of departing for Berlin, to)
the Noble Lord.
Madame Dulcken, Mr. John Parry, MM. the
and Hausmann, have performed at concerts, durincor,
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week, with the greatest success, at Reading, Exeter
quay, Teignieouth, Pl}mouth, &e. In conscque,,Lic: of
tes
Miss Nelson's inability to attend the concert at •r4;c90,3
Mr. Ashe came by railroad to London, and eng ;i
Mrs. Hampton, who returned with him ; but she was
taken so unwell on her arrival at Exeter that "cosh
not able to sing. Mrs. Ashe became her locum te_4l,
at an heat's notice, and acquitted herself extritraell

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