The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-11 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

THE HAGUE, MAY 5 —The vessel which is to perform
the voyage from Amsterdam to Vienna, on the Rhine,
the Maine, the Ludwigs Canal, and the Danube, was
built at Amsterdam expressly for the essay. This vessel,
which is called the Marien Zell, is wholly of iron, and is
200 tons burden, and, even with a full cargo, it draws
only fifty inches Austrian measure. If this trial succeeds,
as there is every reason to hope, an immense advantage
will accrue to the commerce of the countries "on the
banks of the Danube, and those of Northern Germany,
which will enable them to send their goods to each other
by this route, which will be much more rapid, and much
more economical than all those hitherto used. The second
Chamber of the States Government, in its sitting, after a
long debate, agreed to the first of the project of law for
modifying the first book of the penal code by a majority
of 32 to 24. On the project of law relative to the fisheries,
on the motion of the President, the Chamber formed
itself, for a short time, into a secret Committee. The
sitting being made public, the discussion was opened
with the above project of law, which was unanimously
agreed to. The discussion of the project on the Dedenie-.
vaart was then opened, and it was almost unanimously
agreed to. The next subject on the order of the day was
the debate on the project of law for the construction of
a causeway between Maestricht and the frontier of the
province of Gelderland. His Excellency the Minister
of the Interior replied to the observations which occur
in the report of the Central Section, respecting the expense
of some portion of this causeway, and defended the pro-
ect of law, which was agreed to by a majority of 40 to 7.
The project of law modifying Chapter 11 of the Penal
Code was agreed to by a majority of 30 to 20.

In consequence of this vote the minister of justice de-
clared, the remaining chapter of Book 1, being closely
connected with that which had been agreed to, the de-
bate could not be continued, and the project of law
must be considered as withdrawn; on which the sitting
closed.

THORN, APRIL 27.—The state of siege in which this
town was placed, in eonseqsence of the disturbances in
Poland, was put an end to yesterday.
POSEN, APRIL 29.—The latest accounts from Galicia
report murders committed by the peasants on the
nobles, among whom are fmnd the names of Zabouski.
Brodski, Dreleban, Monski, Zarunba, Heppert, and
Zentuski.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
On Saturday, Mr. John Clarke, one of the subscribers
at the Hall of Commerce, was brought before Mr. Alder-
man Hooper and Mr. Alderman Farncomb, charged
with uttering a forged scrip certificate or accountable
receipt for the payment of the first instalment of 2/.23.
per share of the capital payable in respect of each of
fifty shares in the Buckinghamshire Railway Joint Stock
Company, with intent to defraud the said Company, the
same purporting to be duly signed by their secretary.
The complainant, Charles Edwards, stated that ho is
clerk to Mr. John William Robins, a sharebroker, No.
29, Threadneedle-street, and that about the 27th of
April last the prisoner came to their office, in company
with a person named Richards, and asked him to sell
some Bucks scrip. He undertook to do so, found a cus-
tomer, and gave the prisoner a check for 58L Oa Fri-
day he was obliged to take back this scrip, as it had been
discoverd to be a forgery, and to hand over to the party
who returned it 1301.
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Mr. AIderm;nFARNCOMB asked how soon it was dis-
covered to be forged.
The witness replied only within a day or two. There
was no apparent difference to a casual observer between
the genuine and the forged scrip, and suspicion was
excited by some person noticing that the printer's name
had been wilfully obliterated by scratching. On the
genuine certificate the printer's address was clear.
He was directed to give the person from whom he re-
ceived the forged document into custsdy whenever he
met with him.

The prisoner, who seemed perfectly at his ease, said
there was no occasion to have done so, for he was to be
seen every day at the Hall of Commerce, and he was
already in communication with the prosecutors. He had
given all the information in his power to Forrester, the
police officer, and was by his direction in attendance at
the Mansion-house on Friday to be examined as a wit-
ness against the persons there charged with issuing these
forgeries.
Mr. Alderman HOOPER observed that he was now
charged himself in the like manner with issuing a certi-
ficate for fifty shares, and he might give any explanation
he pleased.
Mr. Clarke replied he was content to put the whole
circumstances before the world. He had been made a
dupe of by the person named Richards, who had solici-
ted his aid in getting a quantity of shares. He had no
suspicion the scrip was forged, and ho had not partici-
pated in the proceeds beyond the ordinary profits of a
common agent.
Mr. Alderman HOOPER asked what be knew of Richards.
Mr. Clarke said his knowledge of him commenced, he
believed, in April, or shortly before. The witness knew
very well that, though they went together to the office,
Richards was the proprietor of the scrip, and that the
business was really done for him.

The witness said he did the business with the prisoner.
lie received the scrips from his hands, and gave him the
value for them.

The prisoner observed that he arranged with Richards
to have half the commission. It was useless to deny
that he was well known to be merely the agent of
Richards in this business.
In reply to other quesiions, the witness ststed that

the London and Birmingham Railway': Company were
prosecuting in this case, and that he understood that as
many as 18,000 forged shares were afloat.
The magistrates consulted, and determined to remacd
the prisoner till Tuesday, to be then examined beforo
the Lord Mayor.
The prisoner applied to be admitted to bail, as ho was
in fact a witness for the prosecution.
The magistrate thought the charge too grave to be so
treated.
The prisoner then claimed to have the money found
in his possession, being only a few pounds.
The witness objected. He should claim all the money
found on him, and all the scrips that might be found in
his drawer at the Hall of Commerce, in liquidation of his
loss. He believed as much as 5,0001. had been found or
attached belonging to the prisoners in custody at the
ManNion-house.
The prisoner then gave up the key of his drawer or
box at the Hall of Commerce, and was remanded.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Sarah Lessar, a girl about 17 years of age, was placed at
the bar before Mr. Broughton, charged with the following
unfeeling robbery :
Mary Anne Calff, the wife ofa weaver in Punderson-street,
Bethnal-green, stated that about a month since the prisoner.
who was in a complete state of destitution, applied to her
for assistance, and compassionating her condition, she en-
gaged her at 2s. a week and her board and lodging to look
after her children, whilst the witness assisted her husband at
weaving, which paid very badly. On Thursday, the 30th
ult., she carried out some silk to her employers, and on her
return home found her two little children in the street, her
house left open, and that the prisoner had absconded. Sus-
pecting she had been robbed, she immediately examined a
box underneath her bed, in which she had deposited 181.,
the accumulated savings of herself and husband for a great
length of time, and found that the whole of the money had
been carried off. After a fruitless search for the prisoner of
several days, she, and a lodger of hers named Foy, at length
traced her to a house in Nicholl•street, Spitalfields, and on
accusing her of her heartless conduct, she immediately burst
into tears, acknowledged she had done wrong, and pulled a
handkerchief out of her bosom containing 4L 16s. of the
money. Another part of the 181. she said she bad intrusted
to a man named Daniels to keep for her, who had told her
that he had destroyed and buried it, as it was base coin, and
the remainder she had spent in articles of dress.
Police-constable Alexander produced a large bundle of
women's wearing apparel, entirely new, which he had found
at the girl's lodging; and the prisoner, whose eyes were
greatly swollen from incessant weeping, having declined to
say anything in answer to the charge, was fully committed
for trial.
A tall powerful fellow, named Augustus Fisher, stated to be
a cabman and pugilist, and well known to the police, was next
charged upon suspicion of committing the following violent
assault and highway robbery upon the person of a hatmaker
named Jackson.
It appeared from the evidence in this case, that the prose-
cutor having to take home a beaver hat to the landlord of a
public-h( use in Collingwood-street, Bethnal-green, at a late
hour on Thursday night last, was standing talking to the
' publican, when the prisoner Caine in and asked the prose-
cutor to treat him ; the prosecutor handed him his glass of
brandy-and-water, and after some conversation left the house,
accompanied by the prisoner; but a heavy fall being heard
shortly afterwards by the publican and his brother, they went
out and found Mr. Jackson lying on his back on the pavement
in a state of insensibility, and bleeding profusely from the
mouth, with one of his lips cut through, evidently by a very
violent blow. The prosecutor was assisted into the house,
and, having partially recovered fi om his ill-usage, stated that
the instant he had left the door he was felled to the ground
by a terrible blow in the face ; that the prisoner immediately
took to his heels, and that although he did not see the pri-
soner strike him, the act was so sudden, he was satisfied it
was he who did it, as there was no one else in the street, and
he had been robbed of his purse at the same moment, con-
taining 1/. 155., which was secure in his pocket the instant
before. The prisoner called at the public-house the next
night, and offered to pay for half a pint of gin, but a police-
man was fetched, who took him into custody.
The police gave the accused a very bad character, as the
constant associate of persons of bad repute, and repeatedly
in custody for different offences, and
The prisoner, on being called upon for his defence, ac-
knowledged that he had left the house with the prosecutor
as described; but declared that the latter had sustained the
injuries complained of by falling accidentally, and denied
all knowledge of the robbery, which must have been com-
mitted by two other men who left the public-house at the
same time.

This last assertion, however, was flatly contradicted by the
publican and his brother, and
Mr. BROUGHTON, who considered the prisoner's conduct
replete with suspicion throughout, ordered him to be bruught
up again next week for the completion of the evidence.
A respectable looking woman, who gave the acknow-
ledgedly false name of Anne Brown, but is known to be the
wife of a commercial clerk in a wholesale house in the city,
was then charged with stealing a woman's bedgown, value
9d., from the shop of Mr. Smith, a pawnbroker, in Piffleld-
street, Holton.

It appeared that the prisoner at four o'clock on Thursday
offered in pledge a piece of calico, and was requested to go to
another part of the shop with it; she did so, and the bed-
gown was missing from a number of others to which it bad
been pinned at the spot where she had been previously stand-
ing. This being communicated to the shopman attending on
her, her pledge was refused, and she was followed out into the
street, and then requested to go back again. This she also
readily did, but on reaching the door she pulled the bed-
gown from beneath her cloak, and, delivering it to the shop-
man, asked for forgiveness, and requested that her husband
might be sent to, who, she said, would immediately pay the
value of the article. This was of course refused, and a con-
stable being procured, she was 'delivered into his custody.
She had been in the habit of frequenting the shop for six
months, and, although different articles had been repeatedly
missed about the time of her visits, no suspicion had before
been entertained of her, from her apparent respectability.
The prisoner, in defence, declared that a woman had pre-
sented her with the bedgown at the pawnbroker's door, and,
although she protested it was of no use to her, the woman
persisted in her gift, and while she was deliberating what to
do with the article, suspecting it might not have been honestly
come by, the shopman came up and gave her in charge.
Mr. i.inGuGirrorr intimated that she must offer that defence
at the sessions, and ordered the depositions to be taken, and
the prisoner committed for trial.
SOUTHWARK.

John Conolly, a young man of hitherto bad character, was
placed at the bar, charged with assaulting and robbing a Miss
Georgiana Peterson of a parcel containing two silk gowns.
The complainant stated that at half-past eight in the
evening, as she was walking near the leather market at Ber-
mondsey, with a parcel containing two silk dresses, in her
hand, she was suddenly struck by some person from behind,
and knocked down. She screamed out, and at the moment
she saw the prisoner, who snatched the bundle out of her
hand, and, having threatened her if she called out, then ran
away. The complainant added that she afterwards saw the
prisoner in custody, and also had her property restored.
A tradesman, named Beckern, stated that he was at a
short distance from the leather market, when he heard a
shriek, and immediately afterwards saw the prisoner running
with great swiftness in the direction of Snow's-fields. Wit-
..

ness pursued him, in the course of which he saw him throw
away a bundle, and he was eventually secured near Snow's-
fields. When taken into custody, he asserted that on hear-
ing a cry of" Stop thief" he ran after the culprit, and was
close at his heels, when he (prisoner) was accused as the real
thief, although he was as innocent, he could declare, as a
babe unborn.

The complainant, as well as the witness, were recalled,
and, in reply to the prisoner's assertion with respect to his
having been in pursuit of the thief when he was taken, they
contradicted it, and both added that they had no doubt he
was the man.
The prisoner was committed.

BALLOON ASCENT, and ACCIDENT

TO MR. CHARLES GREEN.
The rather novel sight of a balloon ascent was wit-
nessed here on Tuesday afternoon, some speculating
gentlemen having engaged Mr. Charles Green, the well-
known aeronaut, for the occasion. The event being one
of great rarity in Ipswich, drew together an immense
concourse of persons, who crowded the Old Grammar
School-yard, from whence the ascent was made, and the
streets and open spaces in the vicinity ; the towers of all
the churches, and every rising piece of ground in the
direction the balloon was likely to take, also had their
quota of sightseers, many of whom, not content with
natural optics, sought the aid of telescopes to watch the
progress of the aerial locomotive through its native
element. The process of inflation commenced early
or Monday afternoon, a pipe having been laid
for that purpose from the main in the adjoining
street, and was continued until four o'clock the
following day, when Mr. Green deemed it
expedient to ascend immediately, as the length
of time occupied in filling the balloon had materia:ly
weakened the power of the gas. Every preparation being
completed, the intrepid voyager took his seat in the car
for the 321st time, amid the cheers of the assembled mul-
titude. The ropes were quickly loosened, and the ma-
jestic machine rapidly rose, and took a northerly direc-
tion, passing over Mr. Blogg's brewery, the roof of
which it barely cleared, owing to a gust of wind that
caught it at the moment. The weather, which through-
out the previous night had been exceedingly stormy,
cleared up at midday, and at the time of the ascent was
remarkably fine saving the squally state of the wind,
so that the balloon was in sight for some time.
After remaining in the air for about half an hour,
Mr. Green accomplished his descent in a barley field
at Otley, about nine miles distant, and with the
aid of some villagers quickly packed up the balloon,
intending to return direct to Ipswich. Owing, however,
to its being fair day here, there was not a convenient
vehicle to be got, so that he was obliged to make shift
with a small spring cart, into which the apparatus was
thrust, Mr. Green seating himself on the top. About
half way home, the seat board, which had been lying
loosely on the package, gradually slipped off, and getting
between the spokes of the wheel upset the cart, and threw
Mr. Green out, the balloon, a mass of silk and cordage,
weighing upwards of 4 cwt., falling upon him. In this
condition he lay for some time, the driver being unable,
without great difficulty, to remove the machine alone.
As soon as the unfortunate gentleman was extricated from
his painful position, he was . brought to the Coach and
Horses, Brook-street, and Mr. Sampson, surgeon, was
called in ; but, happily, it was found he had sustained no
material injury, beyond some severe bruises. He was
immediately bled and put to bed, and in the morning
had so far recovered as to be able to get up and walk
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and immediately clapped his hand up to his waistcoat
pocket to prevent the abstraction of his
watch. In this he succeeded, but only at the expense of the chain,
which was safely secured by the daring perpetrator of
the theft, before he had time to turn round an see who
it was.—Suffolk Chronicle.

DISGRACEFUL SCENTE.—A pitched battle was fought
in the meadows en Sunday evening last, near ten o'clock, between
two female combatants, Mary Ann Good and Maria Cheedle, for the
sum of one shilling. Two men, professing to be their " lovers,"
acted as seconds on the occasion 1 Many rounds were fought, and
no doubt it would have continued A great length of time, but far the
appearance of a policeman, which compelled them to make off,
They are, however, far from satisfied with having degraded them-
selves to this extent. To show still further their lamentable de-
pravity, they have already made another match, witiett Is to come
et on -Mgt- Wildttye—.l/lOWnfikigt MOM.