The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDA Y EVENING,

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TlMES.—Twelve months have elapsed since we
ntroduced to our readers the last remarks of a most
able and intelligent correspondent on the prospects of
our Indian empire. The actual experience of a busy
and eventful year may now be applied to decide be-
tween our deductions and his own, and we are per-
fectly assured that " Civis" will be the first to rejoice
over the practical refutation which his. conclusions
will thus receive. The development of our policy in
the Punjaub has been more uniformly and extensively
successful than even we then ventured to anticipate.
We have no prospect of any difficulties arising from
our increased proximity to Affghanistan. Our ad-
vanced posts have rather conciliated the respect than
excited the jealousy of the Court of Caubul, and as far
as the bias,of that capricious and unstable Durbar can be
credibly ascertained, there appears even an indefinite
desire to bring their relations with us to such a
pass as may secure them some of the advan-
tages which they are witnessing on the other
side of the Indus. We have unquestionably got a
better frontier than we ever had before. We have
not been led along by any fatality of impulse from the
Sutlej to the Oxus. On the contrary, the consum-
mation of our work was even more timely than was
predicted, and the victorious army had been quietly
put upon a peace establisment before its commanders
could have read the apprehensions entertained at
borne of endless and accumulative wars. The reader
tv‘ ill be as well pleased as ourselves to see the com-
munications of " Civis" diverted from gloomy mis-
givings of the future to lively comments on the past,
and though we may regret that it should be so
seldom our good fortune to be enabled to concur
in his remarks, yet we are not sorry to meet him
again on ground where our differences,will be less
serious and our controversy may be more amus-
ing. As regards the character and source of the
Feikli power, we take issue with him at once.
ley no kind of means can we admit either that the
French have made better Sepoy officers than the Eng.
rah, or that if they had, the strength of the Seikh
state was owing in any considerable degree to the
impress of their excellence. On the latter point it
will be sufficient to observe, that the superiority of
the Seikhs was undeniably shown before either
Frenchman or Englishman set foot in Ilindostan.
Hindoos, it is true, they may be called, though
lvlahometans were not excluded by the conditions of
brotherhood under which their military and religious
commonwealth was founded. But they had that
beyond other Hindoos which Cromwell's Ironsides or
Dalfour's Conventiclers had beyond other Englishmen
or Scotchmen. Persecution elicited and strengthened
that martial spirit which the hardy air of the Upper
Punjaub had contributed to form. Animated by
convictions far deeper and more energetic than those
of the dominant or tolerated creeds, they added the
gloomy fanaticism of sectarians to the warlike temper
of mountaineers. Tyranny and persecution consoli-
deted their force, and drove them to mutual defence
and despairing courage as their only hopes. They
became what men will always become who fight
daily for_their lives and their faith. They made head
against the Great Mogul and his Viceroys of
Lahore. They sturdily resisted and finally sur-
vived even the rapid conquests of Ahmed Shah.
Before the great Runjeet Singh had been even heard
of, this oppressed sect had established a firm
dominion in the seat of their original abode ; and
before the first Governor-General left Calcutta, it
was apprehended that the degraded Emperor might
be persuaded to convey his phantom inheritance to
the Seilch federation, and thus warrant a formidable
p river in pretending to our territories of Bengal. It
Was not till the battle of Waterloo had disengaged
the services of a military population that Runjeet
Singh introduced European discipline into his army,
and though we do not deny the value of the sug-
gestions thus received, and especially the true artil.
lery penchant of the Napoleon school, we cannot
allow General Mouton or his predecessors all the
credit of a character which the traditions and dis-
cipline of generations had combined to form.
Still less can we pass without answer the supe-
riority claimed by " Civis " for French over English
in disciplining Sepoys. We should deduce the very
contrary conclusion from the remarkable facts which
supply the means of judgment. The French got
the start of us in every chance, and invariably lost
it. Two discoveries combined to bring about the
conquest of India; the helplessness of the native
armies against European discipline, and the capacity
of native troops for receiving this discipline at
European hands. The French have the credit of
bath. Dupleix first broke the spell of invincibility
which hung over the armies of the " Moors," by
defeating an immense host with a single battalion
and the same commander led half a dozen companies
of well-trained Sepoys against Lawrence before ever
a swarthy face had been seen in an English line.
Yet, unless we had improved upon their own sugges
tions, and shown ourselves superior on this very
grounl, how could we possibly have taken their owe
weapons from their hands, beaten them at every step,
and finally remained in undisputed poss(”sioti of the
gigantic prize ? We admit that very palpable evi-
dence was occasionally left in native troops of their
having been subjected to French discipline, and
our correspondent might have quoted the loss
tt hich the disciplined battalions of Sindiah cost us at
Laswarree, though it is believed that not an officer
was present with them. But though this proves the
i/oo loess of French discipline, it dues not prove the
inferiority of English, which has never been subjected
to a similar trial. Nor was the result either confined
to the efforts of the French or uniformly so successful
in their particular case. Troops trained by Germans
or Italians, or any other Europeans, gave us similar
trouble, and as an example of French failure, we need
ouly recal to the recollection of " Civis" the circum-
rances attending the battalions of the very officer to
whom he has alluded. What became of this force of
6,000 men at M. Raymond's death ? After open
mutiny against the orders of the native Government,
they laid down their arms to six battalions of
our Sepoys, having first offered violence to their
o .vn French officers, who were only saved by our
intervention. But can "Civis" really mean to
a-k, "Where is the English name or monument
rainembereci like those of Raymond or Missy ? "
We are very sure he will be able to recollect the
temb of a greater man than either, to which a sor-
rowing Hindoo will retire from an unsuccessful suit,
and mutely appeal to the memory of the dead for
Veit justice which he conceives is denied him by the
living. Did not our correspondent read the other
day how a veteran of Madras who might have seen
ippoo's cavalry on St. Thomas's Mount, was fol.
]coved to his grave by the whole native population?
Dees he not know that " Sahib Warren nosteris" is
the hero of the ballad minstrelsy of Bengal ? Did
1. never hear stories of Coote ? "It is but a short
time since an old white-bearded sepoy came to present
a memorial to an English officer who holds one of
Cle highest employments in India. A print of
Coots being in the room, the veteran recognised at
once that face and figure which had not been seen for
more than half a century, and, forgetting his salaam
to the living, halted, drew himself up, lifted his hand,
and with solemn reverence paid his military obeisance
to the dead."
CHRONICLE —At a time when the welfare of
)'aly is menaced from within and without by such a
Yetriety of hostile influences, it is pleasing to observe
tee sagacity and resolution with which Pius IX.
yroc,,e(is in his noble task of re-organizing the Roman
:state. The estalalishruent of the national guard was
the first significant step in this direction. That
ricasure not only added immensely to the confidence
reposed in the Pope by his subjects, but abolished for
ever one of the main sources both of the imporel
aid the unpopularity of his predecessors. Nothingl
bid contributed so much to sustain and shield them
in their career of misgovernment as the constant
presence of a foreign mercenary force, and no other
reform could be relied on as permanent until the ex-
tinction of that force was provided for. The settle-
enent of this knotty question gave rise to a general
b..lief that measures of a grander and more corn-
p Thensive character were in preparation.
• ' Nor
did the hopes thus kindled long remain unful-
filed. The formal reconstruction of the con_
constitution was commenced by the publication, on
the Ist and 15th October last, of the decrees for the
a,sernhlneee of a Counil of State, and for the regula-
ti of the- municipality of the metropolis; and the
outline of the new structure may be regarded as com-
peted by the establishment of a Council of Ministers,
as decreed in the mitre proprio of the 29th of Decem-
ber, which we publish in detail in another part of our
paper. The principal feature of this most important
reeasure is the same with that which has marked the
*her reforms initiated by Pius IX.
.The mono -
PaY which the clergy had so long enjoyed of all
tie high offices of administration is put an
end to. Their influence and authority, which must
of course always be at Rome more considerable
tl.an in any other country, is confined within rea-
aco..iable limits. The Secretary of State, who unites
with that office the functions of Minister of Foreign
tfairs and of the President of the Council, must be
a eardioal. All the other Ministries,viz. :=those of
tt e Interior—of Public I n
Agriculture—of
Instruction—of Justice—of
Finance—of Industry_a andgriculture—of Public
R oaks--of \Va.
tn rof Police—may be laymen.
erpre the terms of the mote proprio,
~-,-Tp"tbly from anuenne,iii'vdehs. leasesignesst thisgiveo
o
I.a•sh prejudices,
Ock to Clericalpointto
ttt Izoiriferred from-the absence of any provision to
altrary. except in the case of the Secretary of
P." 1814,
.arPiinie Minister, who, as discharging
riription3 of principal adviser to the Pope, on the in-
-',31 .4ieeests .-of his epiritual as well as his temporal so-
va4igh:,,to-tilcnot possibly be a layman. The
444:/iiki-e,:-;,rea,ste•e will remark that no separate
EPA ieien has been constituted. The
inactions that would appertain to such au office are
zzltrded among the perhaps rather too numerous

responsibilities of the Secretary of State. Possibly
at a future period it may be deemed conducive both
to the secular interests of the Roman States and to
the efficient exercise of the spiritual jurisdiction of the
Pope, that the ecclesiastical functions which the
Prime Minister will discharge under the present
arrangement, should be separated from the secular
duties, and consigned to a different minister. The
spiritual interests of the Popedom, and the superin-
tendence which it exercises over a large portion of the
Christian. world, are certainly sufficient in themselves
to occupy the whole time and thoughts of the ablest
and most indefatigable of ministers. And it is easy
to conceive that the abilities most requisite for the se-
cular government of the State may not always be found
united with those peculiar qualifications which will be
indispensable in the head of the spiritual admi
tration. We think it likely, therefore, that in the
course of time the offices of secular and of spiritual
Prime Minister will be separated and made inde-
pendent of each other. In our opinion, the more the
principle of responsibility is introduced into the work-
ing of the new constitution, the more clearly the ne-
cessity of this step will be perceived. The secular
Prime Minister will require for the satisfactory dis-
charge of his duties the full confidence of the Council
of State, or deliberative assembly. He will likewise
have strong motives to select his colleagues from
among those most acceptable to the representatives of
the people. If the spiritual Prime Minister have
anything of the like re.ponsibility, it will be to the
college of Cardinals. Without pronouncing on
the policy of declaring that no layman, of
whatever ability, shall ever rise to the office
of Prime Minister in the Roman dominions, com-
prising as it does a very large proportion of the
secular authority of the Government, we may remark
that the Cardinal most acceptable to the Consulta,
and most gifted with abilities for secular administra
tion, may not always be able to act in harmony with
the college of Cardinals. Even though the exclusion
of laymen from the functions of Prime Minister were
continued, the separation of the two offices might be
found expedient. At the same time we acknowledge
there are arguments of considerable force upon the
other side. The spiritual administration of the
Popedom will so materially influence the state of its
foreign relations that it is not easy to discover an
arrangement by which the interests of one department
of the Tope's authority shall never clash with, or be
sacrificed to, the necessities of the other. The settle-
ment of these discrepancies will require much time and
thought, much patience, good temper, and mutual
forbearance, satisfactorily and harmoniously to adjust.
Meantime, the completion, so far, of the fabric of
the Roman constitution is a great work; and will do
immortal honour to the great and enligthened Sove-
reign who has bestowed so precious a boon upon his
people, and set such a noble example to the other
sovereigns of Italy, which we wish most heartily that
all of them, without exception, had the 'good sense
and the resolution to profit by. At Rome the pre-
judices to be overcome and the obstacles to be sur-
mounted were tenfold more perplexing and formidable
than in any of the mere secular states. Pius IX.
has a host of enemies to contend with, of an obstinacy
and malignancy to which his royal colleagues in the
regeneration of Italy are not exposed at all. He has
a powerful body of his own clergy opposed to him ;
and the multitude at Rome, whose sole livelihood
was derived from the corruptions of the Government
and the judicature, are of course much exasperated
by the sweeping reforms that have taken place. The
depth and extent of these corruptions it is difficult for
any one who has not resided at Rome to comprehend
or give credit to.

ence.

THE CENTRAL GAOL OF POISSY
BROKEN INTO AND ROBBED.
Poissy, near Paris, has lately been the scene of
three curious adventures. In the month of No-
vember last a young man, wearing the costume of a
priest, took up his residence in a chateau near the
town. He made a display of the most fervent piety,
and so godly was he that he actually turned the side-
board of the dining-room into an altar, and every
day celebrated mass before it, clothed in the most
splendid robes of the Catholic church. He made
frequent visits to Paris, and on each occasion returned
with valuable articles used in the celebration of wor-
ship. It turned out that he bought these things on
credit, and that he then sold them for whatever they
would fetch. The duped tradesmen, on finding that
they were swindled, got a warrant against him. On
going to the chateau to execute it, the officers of jus-
tice were told by the concierge that the abbe had
gone to Paris, and taken all his keys with him. But
the officers forced their way in, and broke open all the
doors that were fastened. At length they arrived at
a room which was supplied with a formidable
lock, but after some difficulty they contrived to
effect an entrance. They then found a table covered
with the remains of an excellent breakfast, and
several bottles of excellent wine. The pretended
abbe, who is only about twenty-five years of age,
was crouched in the corner of the room. He gave
himself up to the officers, and in reply to the questions
put to him pretended that he should be able to con-
found his accusers. The next adventure is still mere
remarkable—the gaol broken into and robbed! The
money chest of the prison generally contains a
considerable sum, together with the jewels, watches,
and other objects of value taken from the prisoners,
A few nights_ _a_go, a man, taking advantage of the
weather being -dark and rainy; placed a ladder
against the outer wall, and ascended to the top of
lae wall. He then lot his ladder down on the other
side, and quietly descended. The audacity of this
exploit will be conceived, when it is stated that the
wall is watched by sentinels placed only a few yards
from each other. Once within the yard, the fellow
made his way to the offices, which he opened by means
of skeleton keys. He then broke open the money
chest, took out 800 f., re-ascended the wall by means
of his ladder, attached a rope to the ladder, and let
himself down on the other side, getting clear off with
his booty. The third adventure consisted in an
escape from the prison. A prisoner Duval was,
about a week ago, occupied, with some nineteen other
prisoners, in washing linen. The place in which the
washing is carried on is surrounded by high walls.
It is entered from a court-yard, and the entry is
secured by a solid folding-door, which is fastened by
an immense lock, and further protected by an enor-
mous iron bar. Whilst the turnkey to whom the
superintendence of the prisoners was committed was
engaged in making an entry in a book, Duval slipped
to the door, pushed up the iron bar, and by a sudden
jerk forced the lock. He then ran towards the outer
wall, and on reaching it, leaped with extraordinary
agility the top of a railing two yards high, which
was fastened to it. From the railing he, in the
twinkling of an eye, got to the top of the wall, from
which he dropped into a by street, and before he
could be pursued was clear off. A sentinel was
placed within half a dozen yards of that part of the
wall over which he escaped.

IMPORTANT TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS.—An ac
don was brought on Friday against the North British Rail
Company, before the Sheriff's Small Debt Court in
Edinburgh, for damages, in consequence of the railway
train, advertised to start from Portobello to Edinburgh
at five minutes past eight o'clock P.m., passing the sta-
tion at Portobello on the evening of the 6th inst., with-
out stopping to take up the passengers who had paid
for their tickets, and were waiting in order to proceed by
said train to Edinburgh, in consequence of which the
pursuer in said action, along with other two gentlemen,
had to walk on foot to Edinburgh. The agent who ap-
peared for the railway company denied the fact of the
train not having stopped, and maintained that the pur
suer ought to have remained at the station at Portobello
until the next train arrived. The fact of the train
not having stopped was, however, clearly established by
the evidence of four witnesses. Mr. Campbell, advocate,
who at present is acting as an interim sheriff substitute,
found the company liable to the- pursuer in two guineas
of damages (the pursuer having stated that he did not
wish vindictive damages), and one guinea and a penny of
expenses; and remarked that the pursuer, or any other
passenger, was not bound to remain until other trains
arrived, but was entitled to proceed to his destination by
the best conveyance he could otherwise obtain, and that
at the expense of the railway company, on account of
breach-of contract. The Sheriff commended the pursuer
fur having brought said action against the company, as
the interests of the public were deeply involved in the
matter.—Caledonian Mercury.
TUB Pm SECRET.—SO pigs are cannibals ; they
etat, one another Half a pound of bacon and fat is Mr,
llueg xtable's daily allowance for a fattening pig. We have
o
known the use of greaves, but we eanfess we can-
not eat pork so fatted. It is very extensively used in
llampslnre, and has increased every year in price; and
at this moment greaves cannot be had for 20/, a ton.
We used to feed our
faty yard dog upon them, and the leanest
animal would lookand sleek in a fortnight. Is the
use ef greaves known as a manure for turnips ? It has
been used at Beaulieu for years; and the Swedes raised
from this manure surpassinssize and bulk those raised
from guano, bone dust, and superphosphate. A Dorset
culture man pronounced the turnip around Lymingtou
and Christchurch the best in the south of England.—
Ayriculturel Gazette.
CURLING MATCII.—On the 22d inst.,friendly
match was played between the Dalkeith a
eurlifi on the
ngClub,
and the White-dull Club. The match
came
Whitehill Pond with four rinks each side. The ice was
keen on the whole, particularly towards the end of the
game, but it was slightly biassed. The play was excel-
lent on both sides, and during the whole time fortune
seemed much inclined to waver, end for end being almost
alternately lost And won in all the rinks. It vs as decided
that the tja tC 11 should terminate at three o'clock, and
the hopes and fears of both parties were excited till the
very close, ellen on investigating the score, the Dalkeith
Club proved to be victorious by two shots; the numbers
being 75 to 73. This result proves these two clubs to
be at present well matched, the score in their match
on Dalkeith Pond last season, being 1 in favour of the
\yhitehill Club, viz., 57 to 56. The game throughout
the day was contested in a most amicable, though spirited
inn nbeer Edinburgh Advertiser.
T
Price of tag iron has become more firm in the
Gl 6iv market, with some indications of an advance,
owing to the n
out of blast. umber of furnaces that have been thrown

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Jan. 26.
(Sittings in Banco.)
The only matters before the Court to-day were
demurrers, and the points raised were of no public
interest.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before Mr.
Justice COLTMAN.)

BARRIS V. POSTER.-BREACH OF PROMISE OF

MARRIAGE.
Mr. Edwin James and Mr. Hawkins were for the

---- - - --- - -- --- ---- ---
plaintiff; Mr. Sergeant Wilkins conducted the de-

Mr. EDWIN JAMES, on opening the plaintiff's case,
said the present was an action brought by a person,
though in a low sphere of life,lyet he trusted the jury
would hear the facts of the case, and which he was
instructed that he would prove in evidence. It was
one of the most cruel and heartless cases ever sub-
mitted to the consideration of any jury. The plaintiff
was the daughter of humble persons in Roydon, in
Essex. She and her sister, not wishing to be a
burden to their family, came to London, and went as
servants, the plaintiff to a lady in Holborn, and her
sister to a family in North Audley-street. The defen-
dant resides in Clerkenwell. On the 28th Nov., 1844,
the plaintiff's sister obtained from her master two
tickets for Astley's Amphitheatre, where they went
to the pit of the theatre. They met the defendant
with two other friends. He invited them to,
have some refreshment. They at first declined, but
subsequently took some porter and brandy and water.
He accompanied them over Westminster-bridge.
The plaintiff's sister proceeded on her way to South
Audley-street, and defendant accompanied the plain-
tiff home to Holborn, when he left her. He subse-
quently called on her, and they went to her sister's,
when he promised to marry her, and made the most
honourable proposals to her. . The defendant not
finding it convenient to call on plaintiff, at Holborn,
made her leave her place and take a situation near
him, so as to give him more frequent opportunities of
seeing her. He then made her return to her parents,
where he went frequently to see her. He there re-
newed his vows of attachment, and declared his
intention of marrying her. He would call on his
Learned Friend to point out one act of indiscretion
on her part; though in an humble sphere of life she
might not have the sympathy which the conventional
order of the higher classes of society afforded, yet he
was sure the jury would by their verdict give that
compensation which her outraged feelings demanded.
He would not trespass on them at any further length
but to state one fact, though the defendant had violated
his solemn promises. Defendant got married on the
13th of September last, and what was the effect on
his unfortunate client would be best described by the
witnesses he would call before them. He would not
trespass further on them. He felt confident that the
jury would give such damages as the justice of the
case demanded.
Sarah Harris, sister of the plaintiff, recollects ac-
companying her sister to Astley's Amphitheatre. In
the pit they met the defendant with two others. On
their leaving the house, defendant touched witness on
the shoulder, and invited them to have some refresh-
ment. They at first declined, but subsequently
agreed, and they had some porter and brandy and
water. 'Witness went home to South Audley-street,
and defendant went home with her sister, where she
lived with Mrs. Barker, a milliner, in Holborn. Her
father kept a public-house at Roydon, in Essex. In
about a week after defendant and her sister called on
her, and he then acted towards her as if she was to be
his w ife. He subsequently took them on a Sunday
to Woodford, in Essex, when he invited her to be
present at his and her sister's wedding, and said he
would not permit her to be in service any longer.
Plaintiff then left her place in Holborn, and went to
reside in the Minerva-road, Hackney, at her aunt's.
Subsequently he recommended her to go home to
Roydon, to her father and mother. She did so,
and while there he frequently went to see her. After
an absence: of two months she returned to town, and
went to lodge with a Mrs. Thompson, Goswell-street,
Gosvrell-road. About the beginning of September he
advised her to go down again to Roydon, which she
did, and to return on the 12th. 'When she returned,
hearing of his marriage, she became deranged, and
was reduced to a most pitiable state.
Mrs. Sarah Thompson resides in Goswell-street.
The plaintiff lodged with her for eighteen months.
The defendant used constantly to visit her, and drive
her out on a Sunday. She occupied a front parlour,
with a sofa-bed. On one occasion, when defendant
was going to drive her out, plaintiff expressed her
apprehension about the horse not being quiet, and
some accident might happen to him. Defendant told
her not to mind, as if anything happened to him she
was provided for. On another occasion she was ill,
and said that she thought she should die. The de-
fendant replied, " Oh, no, dear Eliza, you wont die
until we go to church together." When she heard
the account of his marriage she fell into hysterics,
and it took two men and herself to hold her, and her
mind became affected ; previous to which, from
the state of her health, she was obliged to consult
a surgeon.
Mrs. Jane Turner knows plaintiff's family fourteen
years. After defendant's marriage she called en him,
and inquired what he meant to do for the poor girl ?
He said he would allow her as he did before. On her
calling subsequently, to effect an arrangement, he said
he would do nothing for her, as some person had written
to his wife, and informed her of the *hole transaction.
There was nothing elicited by the cross-examination
of this witness.
Mrs. Jfine Harris, mother of the plaintiff, stated

at her daughter had been eight years i❑ service

London. Her husband was a stnall farmer, kept a
beer-shop, and occasionally worked as a labourer, at
10s. a week. The defendant, when he used to come
after her daughter, promised her marriage in her
presence.
Mr. Sergeant WlLKists addressed the jury for the
defendant, and begged of them to look at really what
the case was. Here were two girls, who went by
themselves to Astley's without a protector; meet the
defendant and two friends, utter strangers to them ;
accompany them to a gin palace, take brandy and
water, and the plaintiff permits a strange man to
see her home; continues an intimacy with him, goes
to theatres, lives for 18 months in Mrs. Thompson's A
house without business ' • visited constantly not only ,
by the defendant, but also by his friends; goes and
sleeps at his house, and also sleeps out several nights.
How she supported herself it was not for him to say,
but he appealed to the experience and common sense
of the jury, and he was sure that, being guided by
them, they would give the plaintiff compensation for
any it jury she sustained, if any, by the conduct of
t he defendant.
The Learned JUDGE told the jury that they must
be satisfied of a breach of promise, and the question
of damages was solely in their province. His Lord-
sllip having read over the evidence, said he would
leave the case in their hands, and he had no doubt
but that they would come to a just conclusion.
The jury retired for two hours, when eleven entered
the Court, and said, that they had all agreed but one.
His LORDSHIP said that he regretted he could not
assist them ; they then retired again to see and prevail
on their felow-juryman to agree with them, and after
five and a half hours' consultation, returned a verdict
for the plaintiff.—Damages, 401.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Several young females were brought before the
Lord Mayor, charged with having, some of them,
smashed windows, of considerable value, in the neigh-
bourhood of the Mansion -house ; and others, with
having threatened and violently attacked officers of
the unions.
Three of the women, Catherine Sullivan, Mary
Sullivan, and Catherine Walshe, who appeared to be
very dangerous customers, were watched by a man
whom it has been found necessary to appoint to keep
an eye to the conduet of the refractory vagrants and
paupers who congregate about the Mansion-house.
He judged that they had a mischievous intention,
and he apprehended the three with a basket of large
paving -stones, which must have been brought from
some distance, and which, they acknowledged, were
intended for the windows of some of the exten3ive
buildings in the vicinity, as the manner in which it
had been found necessary to wire the windows of the
Mansion-house, protected the glass of that structure
from their attacks.
The women said they came from the county of
Cork, and that being out of work and out of pocket,
they were resolved to get locked up, during the cold
weather, in prison, where they would be much more
comfortable than they could be in Peckhem Union.
The case of the other females charged before his
Lordship were of the ordinary kind. They had
thrown stones at and beaten and,threatetied to dispatch
the union officers, and they gave no small evidence of
their power over the English language in the com-
pliments which they thought it becoming to pay
to the chief magistrate of London. It has been
seldom that even at the Mansion-house the furious
abuse used in the course of yesterday has been
equalled. All the women charged vowed vengeance
against the plate-glass windows, the union officers, the
police officers, and the Lord Mayor and his brother
Aldermen.
The Lord MAYOR said it was with great pain he
observed that the conduct of numbers of the old de-
pendents upon parochial bounty was become quite
intolerable. Within the last twelve months the win-
dows of the Mansion-house had been broken over and
over again, and when at last some protection was
afforded, the offenders began to throw large paving
stones through the windows of the counting-houses and
banks close to the building. In one day 151. worth
of plate-glass had been broken in the windows of
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith, immediately oppo -
sited to the door at which prisoners and applicants for
charity entered. On one occasion a gentleman in
that house was struclein the breast with a stone flung

in by one of the old retainers at the union. Indeed,
he had reason to think that, within the last two
months, the loss sustained in glass by the banking-house
alluded to amounted to upwards of 701. No doubt the
window-breakers resorted to that favcurite occupation
from the preference they gave to a felon's gaol over
an union workhouse, upon the ground of more gentle
treatment. That was a dreadful state of things, when
the poor deliberately committed offences in order to
be better treated than they could expect to be in their
simple character of paupers. It was quite impossible
that such a state of things could be suffered to exist,
and he hoped the Legislature would at once interfere
to prevent the continuance of such desperate mischief
as was daily occurring. His Lordship then sentenced
each of the offenders brought before him to the full
extent of the Act, and ordered that the Irishwomen
should, when their imprisonment shall have termi-
nated, be instantly shipped for Ireland.
The LORD MAYOR begged to acknowledge the
receipt of 1/. ls. from D. W. and D.; 51. ss. from
J. 8., and the second half of the 51. note from the
Hon. .aliss - for the poor-box.
MAILBOROUGH-STREET.
Charles Everard, assistant to Mr. Daniel Bax,
tailor, Regent-street, was charged with having plun-
dered his employer of a large quantity of property,
consisting of coats, silks, velvets, &c., and Thomas
.Everard, his brother, was also charged with having
received part of the property, well knowing it to hare
been stolen.
Police-sergeant Wells stated that on Thursday
afternoon he received information that a person had
left a parcel. in a shop in Wardour-street, under sus-
picious circumstances. He proceeded to the shop and
examined the bundle, and finding that it contained
three new coats, he determined to ascertain if the man
who left the bundle again made his appearance,
whether they were his property. About ten o'clock
the prisoner came into the shop and demanded the
bundle he had left there in the morning. The bundle
was given to him, and he was about to leave the shop,
when he (witness) came forward and requested to be
informed of the contents of the bundle. The prisoner
answered, clothes ; and when further pressed, he said
they were coats, and that he was a tailor. The prisoner
afterwards said he had obtained the coats from his
father's house, but without, his father's knowledge.
Witness said he must take him to the station-house,
as he was not satisfied with the account he had given
of the property. On their way to Vine-street, the
prisoner said it was no use concealing the truth any
longer. The fact was, he was in the employ of Mr.
Bax, and that he had taken the coats from Mr. Bax's
warehouse. Witness afterwards went to the pri-
soner's lodgings, 16, George-street, Hampstead-road,
and found a number of duplicates relating to coats
and other property. In the prisoner's room witness
found a kind of ticket with Mr. Bax's name on it,
which had been cut from the back of one of the coats.
The tickets on the backs of the coats found in the
bundle had been removed.
Elizabeth Garrett said she lived with her mother.
who kept a chandler's: shop, 7, Wardour-street. On
Thursday morning the prisoner came into the shop,
and made some trifling purchases, and paid for them.
He asked permission to leave a bundle there for a short
time, and permission was granted. As the prisoner
had not called during the day, information of the
occurrence was given to the police, and the result was
as the last witness had stated.
Mr. Bax said the prisoner had been in his service
as assistant for about four years. The prisoner was
entrusted with the keys of the shop, and had access to
the stock. The eight coats now produced, worth 151.,
were his property, also the silks, velvets, and serge
now produced.
The prisoner Charles Everard made no defence, and
was fully committed.
The evidence against Thomas Everard was to the
effect, that one coat had been left at the Yorkshire
Grey, in Piccadilly, and another found in the pri-
soner's h-use, both of which were sworn to be the
property of Mr. Bax.
The prisoner was fully committed on the charge
of receiving the coats, knowing them to have been
stolen.

WORSHIP-STREET.
A well-dressed middle-aged woman, named Sarah
Lee, was charged before Mr. Arnold with having
committed the following artful and systematic fraud
upon Mr. John Hagan, a nurseryman, at Upper
Clapton.
it appeared from the evidence, that about six
months ago the prisoner introduced herself to the wife
of the prosecutor, to whom she told such a plausible
tale of her respectability :and, expectations, amongst
which she mentioned that 1110 'was upon the point of

coming into possdssion of 7,000/. from an uncle a
Kensington, that the latter was induced to receive her
into her house, and treat her in every respect as a
member of the family. The
,prisoner continued to
reside there upon these terms, without having paid
anything the whole time, uotie about the 3d of Sep-
tember last, when she exPresAed her, wish to Mrs.
Hagan to send for her father and mother, who resided
at Dover, and establish them in a house which she
represented as her own property, and at the same
time handed her a sovereign to defray their expenses
to town. Witness gladly accepted her offer, but
shortly before the arrival of her parents the prisoner
left home, under the pretence of receiving some divi-
dends at the Bank, and never afterwards re-
turned, and upon subsequent inquiries in the
neighbourhood, it was found that she had
obtained the sovereign alluded to from a tradesman
in the neighbourhood, and also a second one, in the
name of the witness and her husband, who, she as-
serted, had sent her to borrow them. They had since
instituted inquiries at Kensington, and having ewer-
trilled that she had no relative residing there, and
that her entire statement was a pure fabrication, ob.
tained the assistance of the police, who ultimately
succeeded in tracing her to another lodging, where
they took her into custody, and received from the
landlady the duplicate relating to a shawl, which the
prisoner had borrowed from the witness on the morn-
ing of her departure.
Police-constable 87 N stated that, upon capturing
the prisoner, she made an acknowledgment to him of
the correctness of the charge, and, from information
he had since received, he had no doubt, if she were
remanded, that he should be able to establish several
other cases of a similar description against her.
When called upon for her defence, the prisoner de-
clared that she had obtained the money by the authority
of Mrs. Hagan, to whom she after Wards handed it, but
the latter positively denied the allegation, and the
prisoner was ordered to be remanded for the produc-
tion of other cases.
The Magistrate announced his receipt of the fol-
lowing additional subscriptions for the relief of Mrs.
Charlotte Thomson, which were requested to be
noticed in the public papers :—From "R. H," one
half of a 51. note; " E. S. V., one half of a 51. note;
"F. 8.," 51.; " M. C.," 1/. ; and from Lieut. Oakes,
a cheque upon Messrs. Coutts, the bankers, for 21.
The magistrate has also received -51. for the poor box
from "R. P.; and 11. froni " 11.. P. N. ;" 21. 2s.
from Mr. Pigott, of the Travellers' Club; and 10s.
from " N. L.," for a poor widow named Margaret
Ives, the particulars of whose distressing case
we have before noticed. _ _ .

.
THAMES.
James M'Cabe was charged with stealing a large
quantity of type, and other materials used in a print-
ing-office, from the premises of Messrs. Teape and
Son, printers, Little George-street, Tower-hill.
Mr. G. T. Woodward, overseer in the prosecutor's
establishment, said that the prisoner came into their
service on Tuesday afternoon, the 18th instant. His
wages were 335. per week: His earnings last week
were 21s. 6d. only, which was paid to him on Satur-
day night. The prisoner was suspected of robbing
the firm and taking away type on the first night he
was employed in the printing-office. On Monday
night the other compositors missed type, and went
after the prisoner when he left the premises,
but he contrived to elude their vigilance.
On Tuesday night he accosted the prisoner
when he left the printing-office, and told him
he wanted to speak with him, and that he had a
strong suspicion he had been stealing letter (the
technical word for type). The prisoner hesitated,
and said, "Do you ?" He was taken back to a
warehouse on the premises, and at the time his hands
were covered over with a handkerchief, and there was
a bag in his hand which contained' brass rules and
leads of various lengths. Witness told him he was
afraid it was not his first offence, and the prisoner
begged that he might be taken into another room
away from the officer. His reqbeet 'was complied
with, and he then admitted he had before taken away
letter and materials, and begged that his employers
would be lenient with him, on account of his wife
and family. The officer, Childs, was then called in,
and the prisoner was searched, and 301bs. of letter of
different founts, leads, rule, reglets, and other ma-
terials, was taken out of his pockets. Amongst it
was a page of long primer set up and forming part of
an auctioneer's catalogue, a page of brevier, and a
quantity of " pie" (loose type). He afterwards
accompanied Childs to the prisoner's lodgings, in the
neighbourhood of the Caledonian-road, Holloway,
where a circular piece of type metal, weighing 201bs.
which had been recently melted down, was found in
a cupboard. Some letter half melted was imbedded
on the top of it. The prisoner admitted that it was
the produce of what he had stolen on Monday.
The prisoner made no defence, and was forthwith,
committed for trial.

PROFESSIONAL BREVITY.—When Mason was pre-
paring the case of E. K. Avery, and had examined
about two hundred witnesses, somebody called to see
him. The legal gentleman sent word that he was occu-
pied and could not be interrupted. " But the man is a
witness—a Methodist minister." " Call him up," said
Mason. " Well, sir, what can you testify ?" " I have
had a vision ; two angels have appeared to me and told
me that brother Avery is innocent." "Let them be
summoned !" said Mason, as he resumed his work.—
Boston Athenaum.

TRIPLE MURDER AT BRUSSELS.
BRABANT COURT OF Assizes.—The Triple assas-
sination and robbery, committed at 13, Place St.
Gery, Brussels, at the residence of M. and Mdlle.
Evenepoel, on the evening of September 2, 1847.
The Procureur-General, attached to the Brussels
Court of Appeal, set forth that the Court, by its de-
cree of January 12, 1848, has sent before the Court
of Assizes of the province of Brabant the two follow-
ing persons :—Francis Rosseel, aged twenty-nine
years, cabinet-maker, born at Zedelghem (a little
village of Western Flanders, two leagues south-west
from Bruges) and domiciled of late in Bruges ; and
William Vandenplas, aged twenty-seven, without any
profession, formerly a baker, born at Vessem (a little
village in Brabant, about two leagues from Louvain),
and domiciled of late in Brussels. Both are accused
of crimes enumerated in articles 295, '296, 297, 302,
304, 381, 382, 384, 59, 60, and 62 of the penal code.
In consequence, the undersigned Procureur- General
has drawn up the present act of accusation, in which
the following facts and details appear:—
Mademoiselle Evenepoel, her brother, and two
female servants, Marie Desaiii and Anne Smeets,
inhabited the house No. 13, Place Saint Gery, Brus-
sels. The house was separated from the street by a
court-yard, in which a small laundry and one of the
kitchen, entrances were situated. Mr. Evenepoel's
'coachman, Cornelius Morens, took his meals in his
master's house, and slept in the stables in the Rue de
la Digue, where his employer's horses were kept. On
the 24 September last, Morens came as usual to the
house, to take his supper, between half-pest nine and
ten P.M. Having rang three times at the street en-
trance, without having received any answer, he
observed that the door was on the latch. lie then
entered into the court-yard and saw the servants' lamp
burning in the kitchen. He took up a small lamp
and went towards the laundry, in order to saw souse
wood for the use of the house next morning.
On entering, he perceived the dead body of one of
the servants on the ground. Terrified at the sight,
he ran out out of the house and alarmed the neigh-
bours, who soon called the police. It was then dis-
covered that a triple as-assitiation had been committed.
The mangled bodies of the two servants were found
in the little laundry, and that of Mdlle Evenepoel in
the dining-room. At the buttons of the court- yard
and near the house door their were pools of blood,
fragments of skulls, and portions of brains. From
those places to the laundry two parallel tracks of blood
were clearly visible. Mdlle. Evenepoel's body was
also covered
.with blood. According to the report of
the medical men, the two servants bad their skulls
beaten in by strokes of a hammer, and those strokes
were so violent and numerous that the brains of Anne
Smeets were reduced to a species of clammy sub-
stance. They had also received several wounds by
means of a sharp pointed instrument, and principally
in the jugular veins and vertebral canal. Mdlle.
Evenepoel perished in the same manner. She had
her skull broken and a very large wound which
divided the jugular vein and carotid artery, and
which appeared to have been made by a long poniard
with a broad sharp blade.
The marks of footsteps in the house indicated the
presence of two eersons who had forced open various
pieces of furniture in several rooms, and who by
means of a carpenter's chisel had endeavoured to open
the lower part of M. Evenepoel's secretary. The
authors of the crime carried cif numerous gold and
silver articles ; amongst others, six watches, 945
Dutch florins, in gold pieces of the respective value
of five and ten flerins ;. arid seventeen Dutch pieces
of three silver florins each. The latter were taken
from M. Evenepoel's secretary. Neither in the front
court-yard, nor in the garden behind the house,
were any traces discernible of scaling the walls,
housebreaking, or false keys; that it was clear so the
murderers had introduced themselves by the gate of
the court-yard. The crime must hare taken place
between half-past seven and nine P.M., as the widow
Drabbe, who had been sent to Mdlle. E.'s with an
errand 'from the sister of the latter, Madame Key-
molen, had executed it at half-past seven, and
conversed with the cook, who opened the door for
her.
A quarter of an hour later, the postman came to
the house and rang three times,:without receiving any
answer, and about half-past eight the sweetheart of
the cook, a young man, named Dauckaerts, knocked
four times on the wall corresponding with the little
laundry. To this summons, which, it was under-
stood should always announce his arrival, no reply
was made ; and he then went away, after observing
that there was a light in M. E.'s room. Finally,
about 9 sem., or a little later, the servant of Madame
Renard who lives at No. 14, next door, observed, in
passing before M. E.'s house, a person open the
exterior entrance, put his bead outside and immedi-
ately withdraw it ; but owing to the darkness which
prevailed, she could give no description of the person
and the authors of the crime had not left behind any
marks which might serve to identify them. The
examination of the wells, the cisterns, the water-
closets, and the river Senne, which surrounds the
Place of St. Gery, produced no result ; and the arrest
of all persons who had been convicted of crimes during
the foregoing two months and a half was equally in
vain. At last, an observation which escaped the lips
of a person named Silvestre, an inmate of a prison in
Brussels, set the .authorities on the track of the guilty
parties.
During the month of August, Sylvestre encoun-
tered Vandenplas, with whom he had become ac-
quainted in prison. The latter complained of his
miserable condition, observing that " he did not know
from what wood he could make an arrow," (in other
words, that he was totally without any pecuniary re-
sources). Ile and Vandenplas took a turn about the
town, and met Rosseel, to whom Vandenplas made a
statement similar to the one above given. Rowel
replied that he knew a good piece of business; that
there was a barrow full of money in the house, but
that there would be a risk of losing one's life. He
added that he had already procured a passport. Ros-
seel and Vandenplas then agreed to meet at a certain
place on the next day. It was afterwards ascertained
that Rosseel had, in fact, obtained a passport for a
foreign country, on the 20th of August, 1847, and
that he had formerly inhabited a house belonging to
Mdlle. Evenepoel.
The information thus elicited lei to the arrest of
Rosseel and Vandenplas, on the 16th of November
last. At the house of the former at t3ruges, the police
found five watch glasses, corresponding in form and
dimensions with the glasses of the watches stolen on
the evening of the 2d of September Other circum-
stances soon arose to increase the suspicions enter-
tained with respect to Rosseel, who confessed his
crime a few days after his arrest, and designated
Vandenplas as his associate. Rosseel was conveyed to
Bruges on the 22d of November, and pointed out the
place in his house where the works of the five gold
watches were secreted. Before that time the police
had discovered three silver coffee spoons, a pair of
diamond earrings, a diamond ring, a gold bracelet
clasp, two gold watch chains, five gold pins, and
other valuable articles, all of which were carefully
concealed in his house, and were recognised by M.
Evenepoel, and by Madame Kermoylen, as well as a
little brooch which Rosseel had given to his servant,
a girl named l3erckmans. The other stolen articles
were sold by Rosseel at l'Ecluse (a Dutch hamlet
near the Belgian frontier, three or lour leagues from
Bruges), to a woman named Leenhouts, and to a Jew
named Abraham Levy. The produce of the first sale
was 89f. 24c., fifty of which he sent on the following
day to Vandenplas. In the letter which the former
sent to the latter, he stated that he had only received
50f. on account, but that he would lend him those
50f., and promised to send 50f. more on the following
week. He added, that he could not force people
(ik kan de menschen viet forcereen). Although Ros-
seel declared that the money came from the woman
Leenhouts, on the 27th of September, and that on
the following day he had forwarded the 50f. to Van-
denplas, the latter continued to assert that Rosseel
owed him that sum for bread, which he had furnished
to him whilst residing in the Rue des Cailles, in
the beginning of the year 1847. It was proved, how-
ever, that Rosseel's baker, at that time, was a man
named Wettering, who supplied him with three or
four loaves every day. The boy who carried out
bread for Vandenplas, had never served Rosseel,
although he had another customer in the same street,
and Rosseel's name was not found in the book in
which Vandenplas inserted the names of those who
took bread on credit.
On the Bth of October, the articles sold to the Jew
Levy realised 740 francs. Vandenplas had arrived in
Bruges on the sth and 6th of that month, and had
left on the 7th for Landeghem and Somerghein (be-
tween Ghent and Bruges), in company with a cuiras-
sier arid a young girl. On the morning of the 9th
he returned to Bruges, accompanied by the female,
after expending all the money he possessed, and after
having pawned his umbrella for 3f.
Ile had previously told a woman who kept a public
house that he was going to Bruges to receive the sum
of 6501. It was on the Monday that Rosseel bad
gone to I'Ecluse, and it was on the following day
that Vandenplas pawned the umbrella. Yet on the
very same evening he had about him between 4001.
and 500 f. Before going to bed he drank two bottles
of wine, and, on the next day, he had five more at
Landeghem, where he redeemed his umbrella, and
then returned by railway to Brussels. He had pre-
viously accounted for the possession of the money in
different ways to different persons to whom he had
spoken on the subject. It is clear, however, that Van-
denplas had shared with Rosseel the produce of the
sale of the stolen articles, as well as the money taken
from M. Evenepoel's house. His extreme poverty
before the commission of the crime, and his subse-
quent extravagant expenditure, leave no doubt on
that subject.
On the sth of September he went to the kermesse
at St. Gilles, one of the faubourgs of Brussels, with
two young girls, and in their company drank three
bottles of wine. On the 12:1 he proceeded in a vigi-
lante, to the kermesse of Vilvorde, invited the garde-