The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-22 00:00:00

ItiVI9NIN(4, MAItOn sik 1644

COFFEE.—Today there was little inclination evinced
to operate in Native Ceylon, and at public sale 1,348
bags were sold at barely the former ♦alue—real good
ordinary sold at 32s 6d to 335, damaged 26s 6d to 31s,
and pea berry 38s. Plantation is little wanted, and can
be obtained on the private market at rather lower prices.
Three trcs and brls of Jamaica at auction were sold at
29s 6d to 38s for low to fine ordinary.
MoLAssEs.—Prices were lower for West India; and
217 puns at auction were taken in—ordinary St. yin-
cents at 15s to 15s 6d, and middling 163 6d to 17s per
cwt. Privately there was scarcely any business con-
cluded. .

Cocos.—Britisk Plantation is less required, and
holders are inclined to make a slight concession in the
♦alue, notwithstanding the decreasing stock. At auction
820 bags of Trinidad were nearly all taken in, good
dark red at 47s 6d to 48s, middling 475, middling grey
455, and good 46a. The market for Foreign is dull,
prices are looking down, and rule at 32s to 36s per cwt.
TEA..—This afternoon the sales made in all sorts of
Teas were limited in the private market, and prices must
be quoted rather lower for Black and Green.
SPIRITS.—Today East India Rum met with less de-
mand, and is ,B:kd to is 9d were the rates taken for
proof. For Leeward Island the market is quiet, and
proof of plain quality can be obtained at is 10d. Jamaica
is held for full rates, but the demand has fallen off for
all sorts.
RICE.—To-day the sales made privately in East India
were of little moment, but holders refused to submit to
any further reduction: at auction 585 bags of Java sold
at 5s 6d to 9s for sea damaged.
SPICES.—To-day Pimento met with little attention,
and 328 bags at auction were only in part sold at barely
the former ♦alue ; ord aid, good ord Atid, low mid, 4/d,
and mid 40. Black Pepper was dealt in with caution,
and 658 bags 400 robins, were only in part sold at
rather lower rates. Of Batavia Nutmegs 26 cases were
sold at 2s Gd to 2s 7d for good bold limed, which are
lower rates.
SALTPETRE.—To-day the demand for Rough was ac-
tive, and advanced rates were obtained ; there are seve-
ral buyers for arrival—Calcutta 12 to 9 per cent refrac-
tion is worth 32s 63 to 335, and 8 to 3 per cent 33s 6d to
355. At public sale 64 bags went at 35s for 4i per cent
refraction. _ _

INDlGo.—There are sellers of East India at a reduc-
tion on last sales rates of 3d to 4d, yet the sales made
have been trivial in all kinds for every purpose. Of
fine Bengal, the supply is, however, yet scanty, but it is
little required. The dealings in Spanish have been
trivial, although holders are inclined to make a slight
concession in the value for all sorts.

OiLs.—The market has been better supplied with
all common Fish Oils, and the home trade evincing little
inclination to make purchases, prices are depressed
for all kinds. A further falling off is apparent
in the deliveries, and arrivals are upon a more
extended scale. I❑ Seal the sales made privately
are limited in all sorts, notwithstanding the decline
in the value, and a part only of 54 tuns at auction found
buyers. Cod is little required, and can be obtained at
241 lOs to 251; at auction 6 tuns went at 221 to 241 10s.
The market is in a quiet state for all sorts of Southern,
and prices are receding. Of 85 tuna from
America at auction, a part only sold. For Sperm
there is a good demand, and holders display firmness.
At auction 35 tuns were all sold. There are few buyers
of Cocoa Nut, and holders are willing to accept further
reduced rates. At auction 30 tuns from Sydney were
taken in at 43s to 45s per cwt. The value of good and
fine Ceylon is 50s to 525. Of Nut Oil 12 tuns East India
at public sale were taken in at 38/ lOs to 391 per tun.
Olive is held for full rates, but buyers are cautious in
their proceedings, the deliveries are yet exceeding the
arrivals.

TALLOW.—Holders of Russian are asking higher rates
on the spot, but the town as well as country trade have
operated with reluctance by reason of the diminished
consumption. The value of fine P.Y. Candle is 50s 9d
to 51s per cwt; these rates, however, are only obtainable
for small parcels. A good demand exists for delivery in
the last three months of the year, and the price is firm
at 465. Town made is little required. Other sorts
realised stiffer rates.

is, to the extent of crime, the probable increase of it,
which I am afraid we witness every day—for after a
recent sessions we have had still a longer calendar,
and a great probability that all the dangerous ele-
ments of society will be called into action for the pur-
poses of mischief, if we do not proceed in real earnest
to prevent the spread of crime. The materials of all
the mischiefs which happen on such occasions are to
be found in the gaols. The first act of insubordi-
nation is to open the doors of gaols and set the pri-
soners free; and those who had been inmates of these
places, so necessary for the protection of society, are
surely the readiest instruments to be employed for
plunder and bloodshed. It is then our duty to con-
sider the best means of diminishing that number,
not only for the protection of the honest part of
society, but to rescue those men themselves
from the danger which they incurred of being swept
away in their attempts at insubordination, and the
misery and distress and ruin of following those dis-
honest trades as a regular occupation of life. That
is what we have most to guard against, to prevent a
temptation from so operating on the mind as to con-
vert them from honest men into men having no other
resources than the plunder of their neighbours. Gen-
tlemen, it is with the utmost admiration I think that
we must see the efforts which are made to reclaim
those who have been guilty of offences ; but, surely,
the great object of all law, and of almost all institu-
tions which have reference to the great masses of
society, is, not to amend and reform only those who
have committed crime, but to prevent the commission
of the crimes themselves. Happy would it be it those
who have been once in prison shall return from it,
firmly resolved nut to return to their evil ways. Far
happier would it have been if they had never
entered into those evil courses which have
brought this advantage on them ; and it would
be much indeed to be lamented if it were supposed
that any advantage derived from an imprisonment
were to become a temptation to others to commit a
criminal offence for the sake of reaching in that cir-
cuitous way to the same advantages. Gentlemen, I
have almost to beg your pardon for making these ob-
servations. It appeared to me that they are not
quite out of place, and that these general reflections,
which must arise in all oar minds in noticing the
general state of the world, impresses on us in the
m0..,t forcible manner the absolute necessity of dimi-
nishing the extent of crime and the number of cri-
minals, for their own security and happiness, and our
own security and the protection of our property and
our lives.
There are 70 prisoners for trial.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, March 20.

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron RoLFB)
MURDER AT ',MlDS.—Michael Stohes, aged 20, a
soldier in the 57th regiment, was indicted for the
wilful murder of Mary Ann Garrad, at Leeds, on the
20th January last.
Mr. Ews (Mr. Boothby with him) stated the
case, and called witnesses, who proved the following
facts :

William Garrad, the husband of the deceased, said
he was a soldier in the same regiment. They were
stationed at the Leeds Barracks, and on the evening
of the 20th of January, witness, his wife, the pri-
soner, and two other soldiers, were in the same room.
The prisoner was doing something to his musket in
the back part of the room, and the others were near
the fire. The deceased asked witness what o'clock it
was, and he took out his watch to tell her, and as he
was putting it back, he heard the report of a musket,
Witness turned round, and saw the musket drop from
the prisoner's hand to the tbor. Witness's wife, who
was standing near him, staggered and fell, saying,
" Lord have mercy on me—what have you done ?"
Witness went up to prisoner and said " What have
you done ? I will load my musket and shoot you."
Prisoner replied load it. Ile took his wife up, laid
her on the bed, examined her person, and found a
wound near the navel. She died at half-past eight
o'clock. It was seven when the musket was fired.

Cross-examined by Mr. DEARSLET—Had known
the prisoner three months and twenty days. Pri-
soner lived in the same room. There were nine
persons in that room. Witness and his wife had
been in the same room the whole evening. Neither
witness nor his wife, to his knowledge, had had any
quarrel with the prisoner. He seldom spoke to any
of the soldiers. He was a nasty tempered man and
disagreeable. There was a bayonet wrenched from
him once. At the moment of his being taken the
prisoner was in the act of taking off his jacket. Wit-
ness heard him once telling the other soldiers h• had
asked to be taken into the infirmary, and was re-
fused.

Re-examined—The affair about tire Layonet was
in October last.

Wm. Keenan, another soldier, corroborated the
last witness, and added that the prisoner had been in
the regiment about two years.
Jeremiah' Dooley belonged to the same regiment,
and was in the room when the shot was fired. A
little while before the prisoner had asked witness for
a beeswax rug to clean his firelock with, and he saw
him afterwards cleaning it, the lower end resting on
the table. Witness then saw him straining at the
lock, heard it click, and then raise it to his breast
and fire. He had no doubt that it was intentionally
done.

William Mustard, a sergeant of the Dragoon
Guards, said he was in the guard-room when the
prisoner was brought in, and a sentry was placed
over him. About eleven o'clock Jones, a sergeant of
the guard, asked him if le was sorry for what he had
done and he replied "No."
William Mustard was then recalled—He said Jones
asked the prisoner if it was his intention to shoot the
woman ? He said, yes, two months ago, but he took
a second thought. He asked him if he had any
quarrel with Garrad. He answered, no, he liked
the man well enough, but she had said some words
to him which no one should ever know but the priest.
Jones asked him again when he intended shooting
the woman, and he replied, he had it in his mind
about two o'clock, but he could not get a chance at
that time. Jones then asked him when he leaded the
musket. He replied at five o'clock, he loaded it with
ball cartridge, then thrust it into the armour-rack,
and did not get a chance to shoot the woman till seven
o'clock, when he ran over to the armour-rack and
took it out, and shot the woman. Jones asked him
the secret. He answered, no one should ever know
it but the priest.
_ _

.
Mr. DEARSLBT addressed the jury for the prisoner,
submitting that he was afflicted with homicidal mo-
nomania when he did the act, for which he had no
motive. He had previously attempted suicide, and
could not sleep, and when he had shot the woman he
did not attempt to escape, but delivered himself up,
and these were symptoms of homicidal monomania,
for by the sane criminal every attempt was made
to conceal all traces of the crime, and he denied it
to the last.

Mr. Baron ROLFE having summed up,
The jury, without leaving the box, and after a
minute's deliberation, pronounced the verdict
Guilty.
His LORDSHIP put on the black cap, and, address-
ing the prisoner, said—You have had the benefit of a
full trial, and everything that could be has been
suggested in your favour by your counsel. For
some wicked and diabolical motives which I cannot
divine, vou have deprived a fellow-creature of life. I
should have trembled far the security of society if
the defence set up by your counsel in your behalf
had succeeded. He then sentenced the prisoner to
be hanged, and afterwards buried within the precincts
of the prison.
The prisoner trembled a good deal at the com-
mencement of the trial, but afterwards became
composed. He seemed when first placed in the dock
to assume a wild look, and the twinkling of the eyes
alluded to, but if so he could not maintain it long.
He seemed disappointed with the verdict, and left
the dock with reluctance, but did not change coun-
tenance.

S. Ifershaw and A. Savage, who were convicted on
Saturday of wounding W. Carter, and others, in the
riot at Wakefield, were sentenced to be imprisoned
eighteen months.
J. Child, J. lay, and G. Ranuden, who were ac-
quitted of the felony, but afterwards found guilty of
the riot, were sentenced, the first to four, and the two
latter to two months' imprisonment each.
1/. Canlrill, who was acquitted of shooting at
with intent to murder the Marquis of Normanby's
gamekeeper, pleaded Guilty to an indictment for night
poaching.
His LORDIMIP said, though they had gone out to
kill pheasants with air-guns, he could not forget that
they had two guns with them loaded with deadly
slugs, and one man has lost his life, and another been
seriously wounded, and he sentenced the prisoner to
be transported for fourteen years.
Jno. Lynn, aged thirty-five, bad been found guilty
of a like offence on H. Willoughby's, Esq., estate at
North Grimston, on the 29th of December last. In
that case two shots had been fired at the gamekeeper,
but they did no harm, and his Lordship sentenced
him to the milder punishment of seven years' trans-
portation.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—Exeter, March 20.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PLATT.)

TILE QUEEN V. LATIMER.
At the sitting of the Court this morning Mr.
Crowder and Mr. Cockburn applied to his Lordship
to fix a day for the trial of this case, which, as may
be recollected, is a prosecution at the suit of the
Bishop of Exeter against the defendant, who is the
proprietor of the Western Timer, for a libel.
Mr. Baron PLATT said, he really could not make
any arrangement at present, for so far as he could
see there was no chance of getting away from this
place before Wednesday week, the business was so
heavy.
Mr. COCKBURN suggested that his Lordship might
try the case on his return from Cornwall, or he might
„take the Taunton commission day, or even the day

after that. Both parties were exceedingly anxious
that it should be disposed of.

Mr. Baron PLATT said he would consider and see
what appeared best to be done.
John Wheeler was indicted for maliciously cutting
William Pope, with the usual intents.
Mr. Hay ward and Mr. Poulden were counsel for
the prosecution ; and Mr. Collier defended the pri-
soner.

This was an indictment preferred at the instance of
:he Admiralty.

The prosecutor was a marine, and was on board
General Murray's boat, fastened to the shore, on
the 26th of August last. The prisoner was on
board another boat, coming to the shore to land.
He told Pope to move his boat to let him come in.
Pope told him there was plenty of room. The pri-
soner said if he did not get out of the way he would
cut Pope's boat adrift, and he took a knife from his
pocket and cut the rope and set Pope's boat adrift.
Pope ran forward and laid hold of a shore boat.
The prisoner then said, if he did not let the boat go
he would cut his - hands off, and he made two or
three feint cuts to frighten him, and then cut him
down the arm, inflicting a severe wound. Pope asked
him if he knew what he had done ? but he made no
reply. Pope then went to the infirmary, where he
remained twenty-two days before the wound healed.
It appeared that there was some struggle between the
parties, and that Pope pushed the prisoner back in
the boat before he cut him.

For the defence, it was contended that the wound
was inflicted by accident, and that the prisoner had
not intended to do the prosecutor any injury.
The jury found the prisoner guilty of a common
assault.

Mr. Baron PLATT said the prisoner had already
been in gaol since the 26th of August ; therefore, the
sentence was, that he should be further imprisoned
for one week.

Jane Jenkins was indicted for forging a marriage
certificate, in order to sustain a claim for wages due
to James Gardiner.

Mr. Hayward and Mr. Poulden were counsel for
the prosecution, and Mr. Slade for the prisoner.
It appeared that, by the regulation of the Admi-
ralty, a seaman, when he went abroad, had the power
of directing his pay to be handed over to his wife, or
some other member of his family ; but then it was
necessary that the person presenting herself as the
wife of the seaman should produce a certificate of
marriage. The prisoner was the wife of one William
Jenkins, but she had left him, and had for some time
lived with James Gardiner as his wife. Gardiner
went to sea, and then he prepared an order, which is
termed an allotment, upun the Admiralty, directing
the pay to be handed over to his wife. The prisoner
took the allotment to the pay-office at Devonport, but
it being necessary that she should produce the certifi-
cate of her marriage with Gardiner, she procured the
certificate of her marriage with William Jenkins,
and then scratched out the name of Jenkins, and in-
troduced that of James Gardiner. This certificate
she produced at the pay-office on the 12th of August,
and received 61. for the pay due to Gardiner, who
was then on board the Avenger (since lost) as stoker.
In consequence of some information the prisoner was
taken into custody on the same day (12th of August).
She told the constable that a woman named Humbly,
who had made the alteration in the certificate, had
informed against her because she would not give her
11. She added that she should have been married to
Gardiner if there hail been time. The 6/. so received
by the prisoner was charged by the pay officer to the
account of Gardiner.

Mr. SLADE having endeavoured, but without suc-
cess, to stop the case by taking several objections to
the indictment, then addressed the jury on behalf of
the prisoner, urging upon them that the Admiralty
might well have spared this prosecution, for Gardiner,
who had, unfortunately for the prisoner, perished in
the wreck of the Avenger, had treated her as his
wife, and had made an allotment of his wages in her
favour ; and there was no doubt, had he lived, he
would have made the prisoner his wife, for there was
no evidence to show that her husband was now living.
It was clear there was no intention on the part of the
prisoner to defraud any one, and she was ignorant
that there was any wrong in what she had done, be-
cause she had felt that, under the allotment made for
her, she was entitled to the money.
Mr. Baron PLATT having summed up,
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, but most
strongly recommended her to mercy.
Mr. SLIDE then moved in arrest of judgment, on
the ground that the indictment did nut charge any
intent to defraud any person.;
Mr. Baron PLATT said, he would not pass sentence
to-day, but would consult his brother Wightman.
Ann Brown, aged 15, was indicted for setting fire
to a dwelling-house, several persons being therein.
Mr. Mowbray WB3 counsel for the prosecution, and
Mr. Beard for the prisoner. .

It appeared that the prisoner, a poor miserable.
looking little wretch, lived servant with Mr. Ham,
who resided at Tipton, in the parish of Ottery St.
Mary. On the evening of the 24th of December
Ham was alarmed by a smell of fire, but he could not
discover that there was an v fire. On the following
morning the prisoner called her master's attention to
a place in the cellar, where she said the fire
must have been the night
,before. That day being
Christmas-day the prisoner was allowed to go home,
and she did not return till the evening of the following
day. On the morning of the 27th of December,
about seven o'clock, Ham was in his shop. The pri-
soner went into the ishop, and got a lighted candle,
and then took it and went about her work. She re-
turned shortly afterwards and told her master there
was some smoke. Ham went out, but could not see
any smoke in the direction pointed out by the pri-
soner, but upon going round the house saw a fire in
the cellar. In consequence of something that took
place the prisoner was apprehended that afternoon ;
and during the time she was in custody she said that
she had set the house on fire—that she had gone
through the mill stream, and then rubbed a lucifer
match against a stone under the thatch, and with that
match she had set the house on fire ; that she had a
very good place, and had had no quarrel with her
master or mistress, nor had she any spite against them.
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-S7'REET.

Andrew Creen,Who has been so frequently men-
tioned in our reports of this court, and against whom,
at each examination,, fresh evidence of his swindling
practices and impositions has been given, was again
placed at the bar before Mr. Henry.
On this occasion Mr. Clipperton, the solicitor, and
Mr. Nicholay, one of the trustees of the London
Association for the Protection of Trade, attended with
other members of the managing body, some of whom
had been themselves bitten by the prisoner.
The cases already established, it will be remem-
bered, have been charges of felony, preferred for ob-
taining money and goods under false pretences (prin-
cipally in connexion with the supposed Parliamentary
Chronicle), and now another kind of offence was im-
puted to him.
M. Soyer, the celebrated cook of the Reform Club,
stated that, a few weeks ago, the prisoner and his son
called upon him at the club, and, representing him-
self as the editor and proprietor of the Parliamentary
Chronicle, which had an immense circulation, re-
quested a copy of his (M. Soyer's) work, with the
view of noticing it in his journal. Witness pre-
sented him with a copy. Afterwards, as witness was
talking to his friend M. Volant, about advertising his
" Parochial Kitchen" in the papers, the prisoner
observed that his printing-office was close to
Printing-house-square, and he would be very
happy to take the advertisement there for him
to the Times. Witness then gave him 1/. for
the advertisements, besides 103. for one in a weekly
paper, and 10s. for one in the Parliamentary
Chronicle, the two latter of which never appeared.
The one sent to the Times did appear in the next
day's paper, but the prisoner called on witness, and
said that, unfortunately, the sovereign he (M. Soyer)
had given hint was a bad one. Witness did not be-
lieve this, but took the bad one which the prisoner
pretended to return to him, and gave him another
good one, subsequently ascertaining, on inquiry at
the Times office, that the advertisement had never
been paid for at all. By these means, therefore, M.
Soyer was defrauded of 41., besides the copy of kis
work and some soup, which the prisoner and his son
requested the honour of tasting, and were favoured
with by the courtesy of that gentleman.
Mr. Dobbs, hosier and glover, of 4, Princes-street,
Westminster, identified the prisoner as the person
who, in the name of Henry Arnold Green, desired
goods to the value of 8/. to be sent to his house, 3,
Curaon-street, May-fair, where they would be imme-
diately paid for. When the prosecutor's lad arrived
with the things, the door .was answered by the pri-
soner's son (dressed as a footman), who took the
goods from his hands, and sent him back for a pair of
straps which had been ordered, and said he would
then have the money paid to him on his return.
Neither the prisoner nor the money, however, was
ever after seen.

Upon these charges the prisoner was again re-
manded till Saturday.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
James Parker, a journeyman tailor, was brought
up for further examination, charged with having
stabbed Mary Ritchie and her daughter in several
places, with a shoemaker's knife, whereby their lives
had been seriously endangered.
The daughter, who has since been delivered of a
child in the hospital, is still in such a doubtful state
as to be unable to come forward to give evidence.
Mary Ritchie, an elderly woman, living at 26,
Dudley-street, said the prisoner had been acquainted
with her daughter for about eighteen months. On
Saturday, the 19th of February last, the prisoner
came in with her daughter, and asked leave to lie
down on the boards of the floor. She refused to give
him permission, and the prisoner went away. On

Sunday morning, about ten o'clock, she heard her
daughter scream. She went out of the room and
saw her daughter coming up stairs, and the prisoner
near her, he having apparently been ill using her.
The prisoner wanted to come into her room, but she
told him she would not lot him beat her daughter,
and the prisoner then went away. In a short time
afterwards witness heard a knock at her room door,
and on going to see who was there she found the pri-
soner, who said he wanted to speak to Eliza, meaning
her daughter. Witness said, " You shan't knock her
about ;" immediately on saying which, the prisoner
rushed at her, and pulled out a knife. She called out,
" Oh, my God! he has a knife." The prisoner in-
stantly attacked her with the knife, stabbing her in
the left side. She tried to get away, but the prisoner
again stabbed her near the abdomen, and she then
contrived to get out of the room. 'Witness afterwards
saw her daughter Eliza bleeding furiously from a
wound in the head. Witness was conveyed to the
Hospital, and had been under medical treatment over
since.

Mary Ann Walker, a lodger in the house, heard
some persons having high words in Mrs. Ritchie's
room on Supplay morning. Shortly afterwards a
screaming and scuffling took place, and she ran up
stairs and saw the prisoner striking at Mrs. Ritchie
with a knife, which he had in his hand. Mrs. Ritchie
got away from the prisoner, and went down stairs.
Her daughter Eliza tried to pass the prisoner in
order to go out of the room, but the prisoner pre-
vented her, and stabbed her violently in the head.
The prisoner again stabbed her in the back. The
prisoner then threw the knife out of the window.
John Calverley said he lived at IS, Compton-street,
which is close to Dudley-street. On Sunday morn-
ing he saw a knife hurled through the air by some
one. The knife lodged on the roof of an adjoining
house. Witness got it, and found the blade was
stained with blond. It was a shoemaker's knife.

Noble Johnson, shoemaker, 25, Dudley-street, said
on Sunday morning about ten o'clock, the prisoner
came to him and borrowed a knife to cut the sole off
one of his shoes, as he said. The prisoner said the
knife was not sharp enough, and witness sharpened it
at his request. The knife now produced is the knife
witness lent to the prisoner.
Police-constable Gurling, F 18, said he saw a great
mob of persons in Dudley-street on Sunday morning,
and the prisoner was among them, with his hand
bleeding. On learning what had occurred, he took
the prisoner into custody. The prisoner did not say
anything until he got to the station-house, and then
he said, " Am I to die ?.because, if I am, I'd die for any
woman who is false."

The prisoner, when required to make his defence,
stated that he went on Sunday morning into a shoe-
maker's shop, to borrow a knife, for the purpose of
cutting the sole from his shoe. The shoemaker
handed him a knife, having previously given it a rub
to sharpen it. He went over to Mrs. Ritchie's house,
to see the girl Eliza, whom he had been living with.
Eliza swore she would have his life, for keeping com-
pany with other girls, and bhe made a " grab' at the
knife to stick him with it. Being in a passion, he got
the knife free, and in so doing he cut his fingers. He
then stabbed at Eliza, and her mother coming to
assist, he stabbed her too, and then threw away the
knife.

The mother here said this was not true, as the pri-
soner stabbed her first.

The prisoner's present defence is very much at vari-
ance with the story he told when first examined.
The prisoner was fully committed on this charge.
He is to be brought up on the second charge when
the woman is well enough to give evidence.
LAMBETH.
After the night charges had been disposed of,
William Males, George Lowers, Henry Brown, Ho-
bert Archer, Anthony Finlay, Henry Rowe, Sa-
muel Morgan. Henry Davis, William Barrett.
George Payne, James Taylor, Thomas Howlett,
Samuel Maney, Thomas Walker, William Brigdon,
Benjamin Prophett, Davis A. Duffy, Thomas Hen.
sey, John Denmorei Robert Webster, William
Bailey, Joseph Burdon, Thomas Briant, John Wit•
Hams, and George Smith, were placed at the bat
before Mr. Elliott, for further examination, on •
charge of feloniously breaking into, and plundering
the shops of Mr. Thomas Gray, the pawnbroker, and
other tradesmen, in Southampton-street, Camber-
well, and Thomas Smeed and Alfred Butler were
also put to the bar for the first time, and charged
with a similar offence.

Mr. Humphreys attended as the solicitor to Mr.
Gray for the prosecution ; and Messrs. Game' and
Binns for four of the prisoners.
Mr. Robinson, the superintendent of the P division
of police, in whose district the outrage occurred, was
also in attendance to watch the proceedings.
Mr. Humphreys, addressing the magistrate, said
he attended on the part of Mr. Gray, who was as
anxious as any citizen and Englishman to protect the
rights of his country and to maintain its laws ; but
as he (Mr. Humphreys) begged to suggest that as
this was not a prosecution of an ordinary character,
and that there was mixed up in the offence something
like an attempt, though he would admit a futile
effort, to overthrow the Government, the Crown
should be called upon to prosecute. Had the case
been one of an ordinary description, Mr. Gray
should not have shrunk from his duty ; but under the
circumstances, and Mr. Gray being already a sufferer
to a considerable amount, upwards of 1,0001., he
(Mr. Humphreys) did not think he shoull be indi-
vidually put to the additional expense of a prosecutor.
On a former day he had offered a similar suggestion
before Mr. Norton, and that magistrate entirely con-
curred with it, and expressed it as his opinion, that
the law officers of the Crown should prosecute. lie
(Mr. Humphreys) had carefully looked over the
evidence already given against the prisoners, and it
being his opinion that there was sufficient to send
them all before a jury, he begged to recommend that
the prisoners be further remanded to give an oppor-
tunity, in the event of the Government prosecuting,
for the Treasury Solicitor to be present, and not, as
in ordinary cases, take it up when it was finished by
the magistrates, but attend the examination and follow
it onward.

Mr. ELLIOTT replied that he did not quite agree with
Mr. Humphreys, that the attempt was to subvert the
Government, but at the same time thought that it was
quite a proper case for prosecution by the Crown.
Mr. Robinson said he had been requested by Mr.
Mayne, the Commissioner of Police, to state that
they (the Commissioners) would put the case in a
proper train for the Treasury solicitor to prosecute.
Mr. ELLIOTT directed the superintendent to inform
the Commissioners, that if they did not communicate
with the Treasury solicitor, to the end that he might
be present at the next examination, he (Mr. Elliott)
should.

A number of fresh witnesses were called, whose
testimony considerably strengthened the case against
the prisoners.

One of the witnesses, Ann Brown, said she saw
the prisoner Payne in front of Mr. Gray's shop, with
a thick bludgeon in his hand, and striking the win•
dow with the weapon, exclaiming, "Come on, my
brave boys, we'll have our liberty."
The prisoners, after a long investigation, were ri•
manded to a future day, but some strong evidence to
prove an alibi having been given for Joseph Burdon,
that person was admitted to bail, as was also Henry
Rowe, who is only eleven years of age.
The majority of the prisoners are mere youth'.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—Last night, at a quarter
past eleven o'clock, a man threw himself from the pa-
rapet of Blackfriars•bridge into the Thames. He was,
however, rescued by William Neary, one of the piernren,
and conveyed to the house of Mr. Cheshire, the Glazier.'
Arms, Water-lane, whose humanity has been taxed
with five similar deplorable acts of indiscretion within
the last month. A fter great efforts, under the direction
of Dr. Hutchinson, the wan was restored, and said his
name was Thornton, that he was a watchmaker from
Bristol, and that he had had no food lately. No money
was found in his clothes.

EDUCATION OF NSatio CHILDREN.--Yesterday a
public meeting was held at the Literary Institution, in
Cadogau-gardens, Sloane street, Chelsea, the Marquis
of Chohnondeley in the chair, in aid of the Ladies' So-
ciety for Promoting the Improvement of Children of
Negroes and People of Colour in the British West
Indies. Resolutions in accordance with the meeting
were supported by the Bishop of Oxford, the Bishop of
Antigua, Sir E. N. Burton, Bart, M.P., and the Rev
Dr. Burgess. • •

!Lard.%
On the 17th inst., Mrs. James Johnston, of Botolph• hum
Lower Thames-street, of a son.
On the 17th inst., at Cleveland-row, St. James's, the wife
of the Rev. Charles D. Brereton, M.A., of a son.
On the sth inst., at Rome, the wife of Calverly Bewieke,
Esq., of a son. •
On the 17th inst., in Palace-street, Norwich, the wife of J.
J. Blake, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 17th inst., the lady of G. E. F. Hatch, Esq., surgeon,
Cambridge-terrace, South-street, Greenwich, of a son.
On the 18th inst. at Bolton Hall, the lady of W. 11. 0.
Powlett, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 19th inst., at Balham, Surrey, Mrs. Thomas Ken-
nedy, of a son.

On the 19th inst., at Westbourne-crescent, Ilyde-park,
Mrs. Frederick Chinnock, of a daughter.

.Yd itICIEI).
On the 15th inst., at Fearn, Rosshire, Alexander Simpson,
Esq., to Cecillia Gardner, oldest daughter of George Middle-
ton, Esq.

DIEM.
On the 18th inst., at Cardiff, the Most Hon. the Marquis
of Bute.
At Paris, Eliza, the second daughter of le Due do Stae.
poole, aged 23.
On the loth inst., Mr. George Stephens, aged 46.
On the 16th inst., at Greenwich, Charles Rowland Parker,
Esq., aged 73.
On the 17th inst., at Brighton, Mary, the wife of Charles
Stanbridge, Esq.
On the 17th inst., at larpole Rectory, Northamptonshire,
the lion. and Rey. Thomas Lawrance Duudas, aged 73.

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