The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-09 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, THURSDAY EVENING.—The Marquis of
Lansdowne is to arrive in this city next week. After
a brief stay with the Lord-Lieutenant at the Vice-
regal Lodge, the Noble Marquis is to visit his exten-
sive and well circumstanced estates in the Queen's
count Meath, and Kerry. Lord Lansdowne is one
of the best and most judicious landlords in Ireland.
Even in the present time of difficulty, his rents in
Meath and Queen's county are well paid, because
the land is let for the value, and the tenantry are
thriving and industrious. In some parts of his
estates in Kerry, since the famine, the Noble Mar-
quis has expended a large portion of the rents re-
ceived in the midland counties in sustaining the un-
fortunate people in the over-populated district of
Tuosist, in Kerry; but even in that place, where a
tenant-right has been recognised by Lord Lansdowne,
there have been recently some instances where tenants,
on emigrating, have received as high a rate as fifteen
years' purchasing, as compensation for the interest in
their holdings.
DUBLIN, FRIDAY MORNING.—The Cork Reporter
of yesterday morning, thus announces the arrest of a
Mr. Pennington, chargad with aiding M'Manus to
escape to America. A person named Corcoran had
been previously arrested with M'Manus on a similar
charge
On Thursday morning, Head-constable Roe and
Constable Daniel Cudmore proceeded to the residence of
Mr. Fouhy, ship agent, of White-street, and arrested
Mr. William Pennington, under a warrant issued out of
th 6 police-office, charging him with having aided and as-
sisted Mr. T. B. M'Manus in his endeavours to escape.
When arrested, Mr. Pennington was in bed, and on
dressing himself was conveyed to the Bridewell, from
whence he was brought before the magistrates at the
police-office, this morning, by whom he was forwarded
to Passage for examination."
THE FUGITIVE LEADERS.

The Cork Reporter has the following further de-
tails of the chase after O'Gorman and Doheny:—

" On Sunday last Mr. Shiel, R.M., at Dunmanway,
and a large party of constabulary, made a close search
at the cottage of Dennis O'Leary, Esq., Cool-mountain,
Iveleary, for, it is supposed, Mr. Richard O'Gorman.
" On the night of Monday, several parties of police
Were seen on the look out at Dunmanway, Bantry, and
in the districts between Skibberoen and the former towns.
" On Tuesday night, theiresidence of Mr. John Atte-
ridge, parish of Castlehalen, near Castletownsend, was
searched; on the same night the houses of Mr. Thomas
Doheny, Gurteenasonny, sear Dunmanway, and the
house of Mr. John Doheny, Keelnacher, parish of Kil-
michael, underwent a close examination.
" ARREST OF MR. DOHENT.—ANOTHER 3001. LOST.—
The quiet and orderly little town of Baltimore, which
has enjoyed a profound peace since the period when it
was an Irish borough, was on Monday last thrown into
a state of the utmost excitement and confusion, in con-
sequence of a rumour to the effect that Mr. Michael
Doheny had been arrested on board a hooker
from Cork, belonging to a rather celebrated fisher-
man of Midleton, named Ronan. Crowds flocked on
board the vessel to behold the rebel general,' whom
the police-constables guarded with that vigilance
which might have been expected from 3001. reward and
badges of merit, and promotions innumerable in prospectu.
The prisoner in vain protested that he was not Mr. Do-
heny—the constable produced a Hue awl Cry, in which
his portrait appeared, and every one who heard the de-
scription read bore testimony to its accuracy in repre-
senting a character drawn to life,' not, perhaps, too
glitteringly, bat too truly to be mistaken. Luckily,
however, among the visitors was a notorious character,
Shenaus Lahan, commonly called Bluebeard, who recog-
nized in the prisoner none other than the son of his land-
lord, no less a personage than a J. P. of the county of
Cork, well known in the neighbourhood. Bluebeard im-
mediately proceeded before a magistrate, and having de-
posed that Mr. was not Mr. Doheny, succeeded, after
some difficulty, in persuading the man of law of that fact,
and obtained the *lease of the young masther,' whose
extraordinary resemblance to the individual with, as the
Hue and Cry elegantly expresses it, the ' coarse, red face
—like a man given to drink,' had led to his unpleasant
detention."

THE STATE PRISONERS IN BELFAST.---A sudden
order reached Belfast on Monday evening for the re-
moval of Nlr. Thomas Halpin, one of the state pri-
soners in the House of Correction there, to Dublin.
Mr. Halpin, who had been secretary to the Irish
Confederates all through, has arrived in this city.
THE ARREST OF DR. M'CARRON.

The Freeman's Journal contains the following
curious letter :
"21 Clarence• street, Liverpool, 6th Sept, 1848.

. -
"Sir,---1 have been credibly informed that some person
representing himself at one time as the brother of Charles
G. Duffy, and at other times as the brother of my hus-
band,
Dr. M'Carron, has been going about this town
raising subscriptions for their defence. Charles Gavan
Duffy has no brother ; and the only brother in the
British dominions of my husband is the Rev. Mr.
M'Carron, Archdeacon of Derry. While on this subject
may I be permitted to allude to the cruel and heartless
course adopted and persevered in by the Government to-
wards myself. I have neither father, mother, sister, nor
brother, save Charles G. Duffy, who is now incarcerated
in Newgate. My husband, Dr. M'Carron, who held a
situation in one of the American steamers, on his last
arrival from New York, finding that my brother was im-
prisoned, proceeded to Dublin a few days before the sail-
ing of his ship, to pay a visit of sympathy to him. With-
out cause or reason of any kind, that we can understand,
he was taken from his bed in the hotel, cast into a
filthy room in Chancery-lane, with a straw bed in one
corner, and two policemen with loaded pistols and drawn
sabres for his companions. After being detained there
for many hours, he was sent to Newgate, and such was
the state of fever that supervened that, with the excep-
tion of a dose of medicine, for three days, as his fellow-
prisoners can testify, he neither ate nor drank.
" Ho wrote, requesting to be confronted with his ac-
cusers, and to know the nature of the charge brought
against him. The Rev. Mr. M'Carron arrived in Dub-
lin, and made a similar application, stating that he was
not a member of any confederate , club, and that in the
year '44 he had tendered his resignation as a member of
the Repeal Association. His application met with a si-
milar fate. The first intimation I had of the imprison-
ment of my husband was a visit from two detectives, who
searched over and examined everything belonging to me,
and took away a large number of his books, and all my
private letters, not one of which contained anything po-
litical. My only brother is now in prison, my husband
deprived of his situation, and of the means of supporting
me, is also the inhabitant of a dungeon, while I, in a de-
licate state of health, am driven houseless and homeless
on the world.

" I shall not injure my own soul by calling for impre-
cations on the heads of my cruel and heartless persecu-
tors, but leave them in the hands of a merciful, just, but
avenging God.—l am, Sir, yours, &c.,

"ANNA MARIA M'CARRON."
DEATH By DROWNING Of A CLERGYMAN. —Tho
Clare Journal contains the following:—" The Rev. Mar-
cus Clark, of Shronell, county Tipperary, and brother
to the late Mr. Clark who was barbarously murdered
about two years ago in that county, was drowned on
Wednesday morning about eight o'clock while in the
act of bathing at Burns's Hole, Kilkee. His body was
subsequently picked up by canoes. The distress of his
unfortunate lady is indescribable."

THE PROSECUTIONS FOR HIGH TREASON.
CLONMEL, SEPT. I.—The Crown Solicitor has
nearly completed his arrangements for the trials at
Special Commissions in this town. The parties cer-
tainly to be tried at this Commission are Smith
O'Brien, Meagher, and M‘Manus, besides a number
of the peasants who had been engaged in the out-
break. The chain of evidence is considered complete
against all the parties to be tried ; but there is a
want of proof to connect Mr. Meagher directly with
the proceedings at Ballingarry.
Regarding Mr. Smith O'Brien, who never in the
least degree resorted to concealment, it is stated
there i▪ s abundant testimony ; and as to M‘Manus
the evi▪ dence of various witnesses implicate him in
the movement of Tipperary in all its ramifications.
But respecting Mr. Meagher, none of the witnesses
for the Crown have identified him as having been
present 'at the scene of the insurrection, and the
general impression is that he was not at Ballingarry
at all. The evidence against Mr. Meagher applies to
other places, and to overt acts before the outbreak
actually took place. M‘Manus, it is said, led the
party who attacked the police barrack at Mullinahone.
When the attack was proposed Smith O'Brien deci-
dedly objected, recommending that they should wait to
be attacked, and erect barricades for defence in the mean-
time ; but M‘Manus harangued the insurgent pea-
sants, who followed him to the barracks where a few
constables were stationed. Smith O'Brien finding his
remonstrances unavailing, followed the crowd, and
succeeded in preventing any actual violence. He
summoned the police to surrender, and gave the men
an hour for consideration, but, in the interval, aided
by some respectable inhabitants of Mullinahone, they
were enabled to proceed in safety to head-quartets in
she district. After Smith O'Brien had left the po-
.±c_e.barrack, he proceeded, followed by the insur-
Keil, to the Mining Company's offices at Slievar-
tdhaat -oecAjornettK correct version of what occurred on
already been published in the
newspapers, although the letter of Mr. O'Brien,
addressed to the directors of the company, threat-
ening the confiscationof the works, under certain con-
tingencies, has not
newspapers. been accurately given in the
All those transactions w.ill. be duly described in
the evidence at the 0
very curio* feature minmission. Buttheroef is one
O'Brien at Ballingarry theth proceedingsnot yet been
Smith
noticed. When he made thtehafetoralayasinto the works of
the mining been
on
day the police
party had been withdralvwnittho tahesactf station of the
ifieineff order. issued
district, (in accordance
Castle,
from the ibnstabulary-office
Smith O'Brien applied to Mr. Culleni,l:Olne of the
chief superintendents, requiring the
Police-station. Mr. Cullen admitted they
at th
of the
was in his possession, but he. refused to give it eup, key.a
he was acting under responsibility as an officer of the
company. Mr. Smith O'Brien then required two
horses, for his scouts, to be forthwith furnished. Mr.
Cullen, the superintendent, peremptorily refused to
furnish the horses ; whereupon Mr. O'Brien observed,
" Mr. Otitilen, you are the servant of the Mining
Company, and I shall not require you to do anything
contrary to your duty to your employers." Mr.

O'Brien then left the collieries, with his it tsurgent
followers.
One or two of the peasants engaged in :tE e insur-
rection have become approvers, and their di 'positions
are in the hands of the Crown solicitor.
The Sub-Sheriff, Mr. Going, is now prep wring the
summonses for the grand jury, which will be served
to-morrow. The Sheriff is to summon the! members
of the grand pannel, to serve on the petit juri es at this
commission.

The Freeman of this morning contains thl following
letter from Mr. John O'Connell:—

" TO THE REPEALERS OF IRELAND.,

" London, Sept ;., 1848.
" Fellow-countrymen,—What other hope it there for
Ireland but in the Repeal? What other chance is there
for staying, and at length turning back, the nal ,hing cur-
rent of our ruin?

" What else can save the empire? For Ireland's ruin
must drag down with it the mighty fabric which in
times of peril has so often found in her it s stoutest
bulwark.

" Poor-laws cannot save us! They are ating into
the vitality of our last resources, and yet are riot saving
the people. For one family which they hav e rescued
from death to a state, as it were, of life in d eath, five,
six, aye more, have sunk under the tortures of starva-
tion and utterly perished.
" And meantime the owner of land, the hold( )r of land,
and the rate-payer in towns, are all alike beim: g crushed
down by the burden of these poor-laws and the ever-
increasing misery of the country to the same common
level of impoverishment and distress.
" We are told, indeed, that 'industry' and ert ergy,' and
the total and final 'relinquishment of all poll t.; ical agita-
tion' will prove our great and saving remedies.. Energy'
on the part of the employers of labour, industry' on
that of the employed, and the abandonment •of agita-
tion' on the part of all.
"But we are not told by what magic the landowners,
crippled in their means by the reaction of their t enantry's
repeated losses upon them, can so enlarge their expenai-
tura as to furnish employment even to one-hi ilf of the
multitudes in need of it. _ _ .

W" Neither are we told how the farmers are to be in-
duced to spend what little store they may yet have by
them in essaying improvements' in order ti() give in-
creased employment, when the value and fru d t of those
improvements must be even more precarious t han ever,
inasmuch as the necessity of the times is al tarpening
that grasping avidity of the landlord class, so rife and so
desolating in Ireland, and so little checked or b ceded by
Parliament.
" Nor yet are we told how the problem of ir ustaining
and employing the entire people of a populont s country
merely by and in agriculture alone (a problem found, of
course, impossible of solution, even before the late
calamities befel us) can be solved now, when so large a
portion of our agricultural produce is endangered, and
nut a little already gone and utterly lost.
" The abandonment of agitation' will scarr:€ ) make up
for the deficiency of the other means' of becoming
prosperous, to which we are advised by our English
counsellors and their miserable copyists in Ireland. In
truth it would be fruitful but in evils of its o wit.
" The loss of the poor privilege of con sp)aint—the
closing up of the long accustomed vent for our accumu-
lated and accumulating griefs—would make ttur suffer-
ings tenfold harder to be borne, and entail upon t the state
the inevitable peril that embittered feelings any I passions
too closely pent up and repressed might explot le in wild
convulsion and social ruin.

" The horrible system of extermination wou:ild receive
a new-impulse when its atrocities were no longer r dragged
to light by the agency of a popular association. A
similar impunity would encourage the petty tyrannies
and stinging vexations of the people by the little local
despots of the police and magistracy; and the bil,se devices
now at work to enslave our church—to corrupt the edu-
cation of our youth—and to detach—(Blessed, Heaven!
how hopeless the attempt!)—to detach from the people
the priesthood, whom they revere and love, will also be
newly stimulated to a more nefarious activity than ever.
" There is but one thing that could ever snake as even
for a time accept this otherwise most base, most ruinous
council of political silence and submissiveness,—if we
thought—if we could think—if a hope, or the shadow of
a hope, were held out that our quiescence would insure a
merciful dealing to the men (victims of their own mad-
ness certainly, but far more the victims the long and
cruel misgovernment of their country by England) who
now lie nominally at the mercy of the Government, but
really subject to nhatever the ferocious proniptings of
the felon' Tines may make that Government consider
advisable to propitiate the alarmed cowardice of inter-
national prejudice and conscious oppression.
" Yes, we could thus be won to silence toe a time—
thus be bribed to choke down into the throat the cry of
our distress, and the loud demand for our rights.
" We could be content to suffer for a time in silence,
if that silence won for those now in prison that calm,
and full, and rightly -merciful consideration .which ought
to be given to the case of men whose country's cruel
wrongs so fatally stung them into madness I
" It is for the people of Ireland to determine whether
this opportunity for most politic, most blessed mercy,
shall be given to our English masters. If the decision
be for agitation, immediate or more remote, I claim,
whenever the renewed attempt is to be made, that I may
be permitted to brave among the first what are supposed
to be its perils.
" The imbecile malice of my Lord Glengall, and the
threatenings of the absentee Lord Lansdowne, are to us,
Itepealers, but as the idle wind! The great body of the
Irish Repealers—the great body of the Irish people,
have been steady in using no other means to obtain their
rights than those which, if the constitution did not recog-
nize and protect, it would itself be a mockery and a
nullity.
" And we will not lightly surrender what yet remains
to us of the constitution in Ireland.

"Let me now, brother Repcalers, pray your attention
to the pressing consideration connected with our move-
ment.

"The hall in which of late we met—the adjoining pre-
mises which are hallowed by the recollections of the
Catholic Association—these must speedily be disposed
of, if you are unable to supply funds for their longer
maintenance.

" It is true that our agitation is not of necessity bound
down to one special locality. It is true that we can easily
move elsewhere if Conciliation-hall and the Corn-Ex-
change-rooms must be abandoned. The agitation that
defeated Peel and Wellington, and wrung emancipation
from a hostile monarch and Parliament, had its begin-
nings in a petty back room, hired but for each meeting;
and there is far too much of our old organization re-
maining to think that we shall fall back again so low.
" But, although repeal shall not be found hopelessly
bound up with the fate of Conciliation-hall and the
Corn-Exchange-rooms, yet it were well, if possible, to
preserre them to the people. It is for you, Repealers of
Ireland, to say if this shall be done; we of the com-
mittee have done our part. Of private efforts Ido not
wish to speak; but this much it is well that you should
know, that in what regards the maintenance of the ball
and the adjoining house we, whether in public or in pri-
vate, can, without you, henceforward do no more!
" If within the course of the present month you can-
not come to the rescue, it will become inevitably neces-
sary to advertise and to dispose of, as best can be done,
the scenes of our former labours. Whatever be the pro-
duce of the sale, the yet remaining liabilities of the asso-
ciation shall be first discharged; and then, if any sur-
plus shall remain, it shall be vested in such members of
committee as may choose to undertake the trust,
for the use and benefit of the association when the latter
resumes its sittings.
" I make this announcement with deep grief; but it is
a duty to let you, the Repealers of Ireland, know the
condition to which matters have come by reason of the
political paralysis with which the results of the madness
of a very small portion of the community has afflicted
the whole body politic.

" You can prevent the necessity I announce if you be
so minded. A small, if regular and constant, effort would
be sufficient. But, if division, depression, and distress
indispose your minds to any exertion at this time, the
course of things must be as I say; and when again we
meet in the Repeal Association it must be in a new home.
" Two subjects yet press on me, brother Repealers,
ere I conclude. A worthy descendant of the Duke of
Leinster of '79 and 'B2—a true Geraldine—is in the
field for Ireland ! He does not, indeed, as yet declare
for that full measure of Ireland's rights which his illus-
trious ancestor so nobly asserted ; but his heart is for
Ireland, his high feelings, his generous sympathies, his
sound reason, all engaged in her cause; and we can as-
suredly wish well to him and his high-spirited associates,
although we cannot forego—can never compromise nor
surrender, the great object of our hopes and labours—
the total repeal of tho accursed union!

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept. 8.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FAME.)
IN RE STEPHEN KEEN.

Cr.
:y debtors, estimated to produce
E ;37 bad debts ...
XV property in patents ...
By property in estates mortgaged
:By losses ...
'Trade expenses
Domestic expenses
.By liabilities

" The other matter I can dispatch in still fewer words.
It is the speech which Ministers have this day put into
the mouth of her Most Gracious Majesty. How con-
sistent is it not with the whole sad history of English
mismanagement of Ireland! Distraction, severity, and
distress—distress, severity, and distraction; these are
its Irish topics, as these have been of royal speeches
about Ireland for many a melancholy year!
" And thus it will be to the end of the chapter, if the
terrible winter before us do not complete our ruin, and
blot out the Irish people from among the nations!
" I am, brother Repealers, with great respect, your
faithful, and to the death devoted fellow-labourer,
" JOHN O'CONNELL."

A RAILWAY UNDER WATER.— On the express
train, which left Carlisle at twenty-seven minutes past
one o'clock on Thrtrsday afternoon, arriving at Garstang
about four o'clock, the passengers were greatly surprised
and alarmed at finding the red signals up, and all the
passengers of the penny a mile train, which had pre-
ceded them, out of their carriages, and standing on the
line. On cautiously coming up they found that the rails
in the Barnacro cutting were nearly two feet deep in the
water for the space of about a mile, by which no less
than five trains were prevented from pursuing their re-
spective journeys; and it was several hours before this
extraordinary flood subsided sufficiently to let them
pass, in doing which the greatest caution had to be used.
The water is supposed to have come from the Bleasdale
Fell, over which a violent thunder-storm, accompanied
by torrents of rain, had burst but a short time previous
to the line being immersed in the water.
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THE- SUN, LONDON, 8 ATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1848.

The certificate of the bankrupt, a brick-maker, of
"lillingdon, was opposed by Mr. COOKE, on behalf of
t, 'ie assignees, on the ground that ho had traded in ac-
e, )mmodation bills, and shown an undue preference. The
b inkrupt's debts and liabilities were about 7,0001., and
is assets are small. The capital with which he COB:1-
U teneed was 2,3741. _

His HONOUR suspended the certificate twelve months,
w. ithout protection, chiefly on the ground that the bank-
rt had shown an undue preference to Messrs. Poyn-
ti ar and Co., lime merchants, in assisting them in obtain-
Ftu g nearly the whole of his property.

IN RE CHARLES HUMPREY, JUN.
The bankrupt, who carried on business at Cambridge
as a banker, and also at Camberwell. as a merchant,
ci one up for his last examination. Subjoined is an ab-
tract of his balance-sheet, from the 9th of November,
T. 844, to the 31st of July, 1848:—.

X s. d.

Dr.
T o creditors unsecured
E iitto holding security ...
L iabilities on bills ••• ..• •••
o sundry creditors of the late firm of
Charles Humfrey and Son, bankers, of
Cambridge ...
... 12,865 1 8
'o Messrs. Grote, Prescott, and Co., who
hold mortgages on the real estate of
the late C. Humfrey, sen. _ _
'o capital ...
o profits of trade

... 7,840 17 0
... 6,360 13 6
840 4 6

6,583 6 4
693 1 11

8,623 0 10

£43,770 5 9

... £l2O 0 0
... 1,494 9 11

... 5 0 0
... 4,500 0 0
... 6,430 16 8

... 8,050 11 0
... 1,916 15 8
... 20,252 12 6

£43,770 5 9
Among the unsecured creditors, to the amount of
18,665/. Is. Bd., are J. and B. Barsham, Cambridge,
:1501.; executors of Mr. Cambridge, 5201.; Sarah Cliff;
358/.; William Collin, 5151.; Henry Collin, 1831.; Chas.
LEyres, 659/. ; John A. Frere, 215/. ; Carner, 453/;
`Wm. Hall, 5591.; Lambert Hotckin, Kensington, 690/.;
Henry Philip Hudson, 7081; Robert Peters, 203/.; Arch.
Surnton, 3851. ; Wm. Talbot, 1,206/. ; F. Thackeray,
.204/. ; Charles Thurnall, 3941. ; Robert Willes, 8451. ;
John Whitehead, 2001.; Thos. Worsley, 5341.
No opposition was offered, and the bankrupt passed
his last examination, with an intimation from the Com-
p lissioner that he should review the circumstances at-
tendant upon the bankruptcy, when the bankrupt came
tip for his certificate.

green silk purse, containing a half-sovereign and 9s. 6d.
in silver.

Complainant stated that on the previous evening she
and three other ladies went out for a walk as far as
Hampstead, and on the Heath they hired fuur donkeys
of the prisoners. After riding about for some time
they alighted, and sent into the gardon of a tavern in
order to obtain some refreshment; she almost imme-
diately afterwards missed her purse and money, she
therefore gave the prisoners into custody.
In answer to the magistrate, complainant said—While
riding upon my donkey I pulled up to give sixpence to
a poor woman, but she did not come "close enough to me
to rob me. I know that after I had relieved her I re-
turned my purse to my pocket. The donkeys remained
outside the gate at the tavern, and so did the prisoners,
who were waiting for us to come out.

IN RE TEETERS AND TREVERS.
The bankrupts, who had carried o❑ business at Wal-
worth, as builders, applied for their certificates.
Ilis HONOUR postponed the certificates, and said he
would not allow the bankrupts to apply again until cer-
tain property was given up, which they had assigned to
their relatives by bills of sale.

Police-constable 75 S said that the prisoners were
searched at the station, but that neither the purse nor
cash was found.

Mr. BROUGEITON (to Brown)—What is your answer to
this charge ? Mr. Brown—l'll tell you all about it,
your worship. The ladies got on the donkeys, and I
and my mate drove them as nicely as possible for a long
while ; they were all smoking cigars while they were
mounted, and we had cigars too ; they also paid for four
or five pots of strong ale, which we drank among the lot
of us, and besides that they were kind enough to pay for
a lot of biscuits for the animals. On the way one or two
of the ladies tumbled right off into the road, and he had
the trouble of picking 'em up and clapping 'em on the
saddle again. I know nothing about the " pus " nor the
money.

Mr: BROUGHTON—This seems to be a very curious
story altogether. (To the officer)—Did the ladies appear
to have been drinking ? Officer—Yes, sir ; they were
certainly rather elevated.

Madame, on being questioned by the magistrate, said
she was not in the habit of smoking cigars when in Lon-
don, but she thought there was no harm in indulging in
that way when out for a little recreation in the country.
She further said, that, in regard to what had been said
respecting the ale, that the donkey-drivers drank the
greater portion of it.
Brown said it was no such thing, and that the ladies
took quite as much as their share of the " lot."
Jones, the usher of the Court, said that Madame's face
was grazed, and it was evident that she had had a fall,
as had been described.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.
John Dolby, a practical chemist, carrying on business
at 289, Strand, appeared before Mr. Jardine to answer
a complaint preferred against him by Mr. Ebenezer Wild,
a wood engraver, residing in the same house, for having
exposed a chemical preparation close to his room, at the
top of the house, by which the health of his wife and
c.hildre❑ were dangerously affected.
The further hearing of the case was adjourned on
Thursday evening, for the purpose of having this com-
pound (which emitted a most offensive effluvia) analysed
by some competent person, and the defendant was or-
dered to enter into his recognisance in the sum of 1001.
to attend again.
The complainant stated that on Wednesday morning
he left home on business, at which time the family were
in the enjoyment of excellent health, and in tho course
of the afternoon he was met by his son in the Strand,
who informed him that the infant, only nine weeks
old, and its mother, were suddenly taken seriously
ill, in consequence of the shocking diuvia caused by
the defendant ; upon which he hurried home, and
discovered a white saucer on the landing-place near
to his bed-room, the contents of which appeared to be
ignited, and the smoke and smell were moat intolerable.
His wife was at the street door, to which she had gone
to recover her breath, having the infant in her arms in a
dying state from exhaustion. The other children were
not able to stand, and each of them was gasping for
breath. lie took possession of the saucer, and having
wrapped it in paper, took it to Dr. Walker, 101, Drury-
lane, but not being at home, his assistant examined the
contents, 511(1 said that the greater part was assafostida,
at the same. time directing him to keep the children in
the open air to prevent them from being suffocated. The
defendant's servant informed him that his master di-
rected him to place the saucer close to the bed-room
door, for the purpose of suffocating the family, or com-
pelling them to give up the apartments. Witness im-
mediately demanded of the defendant why he had
acted in such a manner, and he admitted that he
had conducted himself in a very proper manner
since he became his lodger, and, making a laugh
of the matter, said that his wife had called Mrs.
Dolby one of the "scum of the earth," for which
he was determined to get them out of the house.
The defendant said he had no such article as assafce-
tida on his premises, and the reason'why he used the
chloride of lime, which was in a concentrated form, was
to purify the foul air coming from the rooms occupied
by the complainant ; besides he wanted to get rid of the
family ; and as the fumes of his laboratory were not
offensive to him or his wife, he could sea no reason why
the lodgers, to whom he had given notice to quit, ob-
jected to them.
NEI% JARDINE said he could see no justification for
placing noxious ingredients on the landing-place for the
sole purpose of annoying the family of a hardworking
and industrious man.

Mr. Hooper, chemist and druggist, of Great Russell-
street, Covent-garden, who had been sent for by the ma-
gistrate, said that the matter produced gave out a gas,
but not of such a character as to prove fatal, unless per-
sons were confined for a considerable time in the same
apartment. He considered that it was not chloride of
lime, as it had ignited.
Mr. William Miller, professor of chemistry, in the
King's College Hospital, said that, at the request of the
court, he had examined the article sent to him, and it con-
tained phosphorate of lime and phosphate of cusium, and
he considered that if it was placed on a staircase next to
an inhabited room, it would be not only extremely dis-
agreeable, but also injurious to health, although there
were other gases more destructive. It was not used for
the purposes of health or cleanliness, but was rather a
chemical curiosity than anything else. In the course of
half an hour such stuff might make a child very sick.
The defendant said that in the manner he had used it
he would not mind taking two gallons of it.
Mr. Henry Davies, 14, Clarendon-square, Somers-
town, surgeon, proved that he attended Mrs. Wild in her
last confinement, and left her and her family in perfect
health about a week back. Yesterday morning he was
again sent for, and he found her in a weak state, from
excessive flurrying, and it would be some time before she
would be restored to health. The eldest boy was also
very ill, complaining of his head, and appearing very
heavy. The entire of the children, who were kept in a
very clean and neat condition, were more or less indis-
posed, with the exception of the infant, which appeared
not to suffer much. All the children ware evidently
affected by a tainted atmosphere, which might have been
caused by noxious vapours such as might be caused by
chloride of lime disengaged.

Mr. BROUGHTON was of opinion that the case was not
strong enough against tho prisoners, and ordered their
discharge.

THAMES.

Mr. JARDINE, havitig ascertained that the complainant
wished the case to be sent to the sessions, said he would
at a future day commit the defendant for the misde-
meanour; and, as it would be only just for him to procure
the opinion of some practical person to explain what the
stuff was composed of, he should allow him to enter into
his own recognizance in the sum of 1001. to appear.again
in a week.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Louis Prevot, who described himself as an interpreter,
preferred the following charge against M. Aimable De-
lafolie, the proprietor of the Boulogne Hotel inLeicester-
pl ace.

Two notorious smashers, named William Grainger and
George Fuller, who have lately transferred their busi-
ness to the vicinity of Stratford, were brought up by
Police-constable Benton, 381 K, charged with having
passed a counterfeit half-crown on a publican at Bow.
The constable, who was in plain clothes, observed them
going into several houses, and, being aware of their cha-
racter, watched their proceedings. When they left the
house of the complainant, Benton went in and asked
whether they had tendered him any money, and he re-
plied that he had changed a half-crown for them. lie
then found that it was bad one, and the prisoners were
taken into custody.
Mr. BALLANTINE—Where is the half-crown? Ben-
ton—l beg your Worship's pardon, but it is not to be
had. I marked it on one side and gave it to the ser-
geant, but somehow or other it cannot be found.
Sergeant Waters, who took the charge, said the coun-
terfeit half-crown had been placed on the table in the
charge-room. He had occasion to leave the room for a
short time, another constable being in charge of the pri-
soners, and on his return the half-crown was gone in a
most mysterious manner. One of the prisoners had been
observed to approach the table, when he no doubt con-
trived to swallow the half-crown, for he immediately
afterwards asked for a draught of water.
Pack, 37 H, said the prisoners were well known, having
been before in custody for similar offences, and Grainger's
capacity of swallowing half-crowns had been frequently
tested. On one occasion he snatched one out of the
hands of an officer and bolted it.
The prisoners, who made no defence, were remanded
for the attendance of the solicitor` to the Mint.

WORSHIP-STREET.

The complainant said he was standing near the Hotel
de l'Europe, in Leicester-square, when a cabman, with a
fare inside, asked him where the Prince of Wales Hotel
was situated. Being in the position of commissionare
to that hotel, he volunteered to show the way. While
thus piloting the cab, he had occasion to pass the de-
fendant's hotel, vt hich was next door to the Prince of
Wales. The defendant was at the door, and seeing the
business he was upon, he rushed out and pitched into
him in Old English fashion.
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rivalry, an arrangement had been entered into between
the respective proprietors, by which neither was to in-
terfere with the other's business. The complainant,
however, in defiance of the entente cordiale that had
thus been established, was in the habit of touting about
Leicester-square for fresh arrivals, and had succeeded by
this means in diverting visitors from the Hotel de
Boulogne to the Prince of Wales. It was because the
defendant thought that the complainant was in the
exercise of this unfair vocation that he went out to re-
monstrate. He admitted he did strike the complainant,
but then he had been, as he said, "vary terrible provki."
The cabman proved that he had applied to th&tom-
plainant to direct him to the Prince of Wales.
Mr. HARDwicx said, even if the complainant had
been guilty of the conduct attributed to him, the - daed
fendant would not have been justified in making
an
attack on him. But the evidence showed that this was_
not the case, and therefore the offence was aggravated.
He should fine the defendant 405.—The money was
paid.
quan-
tity of dressed and undressed meat in his possession,
tor of Mivart 's
prisoner, it appwho had been in his establish-
ment many
eared, was
the property of Mr. Mivart, the proprietor Thomas Cotterill was charged with having a
Hotel, Brook-street.
The •
Mr. Mivart's servants, husband to one of
years, and on this account Mr. Mivart was
reluctant to press the charge with severity.
Tho deft ndant was convicted of the unlawful pos-
session, and was sent to prison for ten days.
MAR yLEBONE.
James Brown and Edward Lamb, both of them don.
key-driver,, were placed before Mr. Bruugh on, charged
with having rubbed Madame Casenova, a dashingly-
attired French lady, residing iu 4teicuter-aquare, of

Richard Bailey and Thomas Saul were finally ex

amined before I\lr. Arnold, charged with having stolen
thirteen dozen of prepared skins, the property of Mr. J.
11. Heckman, an extensive furrier in John-street, and
Chicksand street, Spitalfields.
It appeared that the skins in question had been depo-
sited by some of the posecutor's workmen in a large
store-room in Thrawl-street, near his warehouse, on
Saturday, the 2d inst., and in the course of the same
evening it was discovered that the place had been forci-
bly entered, and the property in question, together with
a large quantity of other peltry, carried off. Suspecting
that the plunder would be promptly conveyed to Petti-
coat-lane, to be disposed of, the prosecutor dispatched
his foreman on the following morning to make inquiries
there, when he was informed by the wife of a small
furrier, named Isaacs, that a sample of such skins had
been offered to her husband that morning by two men,
who promised to call with the bulk in the course of an
hour. While the foreman was in conversation with Mrs.

Isaacs, the prisoners made their appearance, cam ing a
large package, which was dropped as soon as they caught
sight of them, and darted away in different directions.
Upon opening the package, it was found to contain thir-
teen dozen of the skins, which he conveyed back to his
master's premises, and gavo information to the police,
which ended in the apprehension of the prisoner Sawl
on the same afternoon. The capture of the other pri-
soner was effected under rather curious circumstances
by Police-constable Gifford, who had taken him into
custody with another notorious thief about three weeks
previously, for attempting to pick pockets at White-
chapel. On that occasion the prisoner contrived to
effect his escape from the officers, but the handcuffs

with which hi; wrists were secured were returned to
the station•houso by a little boy, who told the inspec-
tor, with great apparent artlessness, that he had
picked them up in the street, and as he was wholly
unacquainted with the nature of such implements, he
thought it best to hand them over to the police; but
the supposed innocent had only been a short time dis-
missed, with a compliment upon his honesty, when he
was brought back upon a charge of picking pockets, and
having been identified as au accomplished young thief,
he was subsequently committed for three months to the
House of Correction. The officer Gifford had been since
engaged in constant efforts to effect Bailey's apprehen-
sion, but without success until Sunday evening, when he
was accidentally met and secured after a long chase;
and on being conveyed to the station he was recognized
by the prosecutor's foreman as the man who had endea-
voured to dispose of the skins in conjunction with the
other prisoner.
In defence, the prisoner Bailey denied all cognisance
of the robbery, in which he was confirmed by the other
prisoner, who declared that he had employed him to
carry skins, without telling him how they came into his
possession.
They were both fully committed for trial.
Mr. ARNOLD announced his receipt of a donation of
15s. for Sarah Ladd, from "F.W.L."
CLERKEIV WELL

Mr. Tyrwhitt was occupied a considerable time in
hearing charges against young thieves who were appre-
hended at New Bartholomew Fair, New North-road, Is-
lington, for attempting to pick pockets.
Mr. TYRWIIITT inquired of the officers who it was
that got up the fair?—An inspector of police replied
that two men, named Crawford and Lowe, engaged the
land upon which it was held, and paid 401. for the use
of it. They afterwards let it out in allotments to persons
who paid so much per foot for the parts they occupied,
and were allowed to erect theatrical and other booths.
The land belonged to a respectable builder in Islington,
and ever since Monday last, on which day the fair com-
menced, it was the greatest nuisance to the neighbour-
hood.

Mr. TIAWIIITT said he was surprised that something
was not done to prevent the nuisance. The fair was
perfectly illegal, and must be a great annoyance to the
public, if he might judge from the numerous thieves and
ruffians that had been brought before him, charged with
offences there since Monday last.
Mr. Mould, the clerk, said that these fairs were held
all over the country. The persons who got them up
were clearly liable to indictment for the nuisance.
Mr. TYRWHITT concurred, and said that the authori-
ties of Islington ought, for the peace and respecta-
bility of their parish, to use efforts to put down such a
nuisance. _ _

No less than twenty young thieves were committed to
the House of Correction, with hard labour, for various
terms; and numerous vagabonds and roulette tables, and
other gambling implements, were brought up by the
police, and committed, some for six weeks, and others
for two months each, to the Liouse of Correction, with
hard labour.

was merely lent on hire ; and this being the case, how
was the prisoner to return it ? Witness—By a Queen's
messenger, on the day after that upon which he said he
was to be presented.—(Renewed laughter.)
Mr. Gunn—Well, and was it returned by a Queen's
Messenger ? Witness—Certainly not, sir ; nor by any
other messenger. We have not seen it since, nor can we
find out where it is.

Mr. Simpson next deposed to the prisoner's ordering
from him a galvanic battery and an electrifying machine,
representing himself at the time to be in business at
Hamburgh, and his wanting them for shipment to the
Cape. The prisoner introduced himself as the acquain-
tance of Mr. Nesbitt, who kept a highly respectable
school in Kennington-lane, and by whom he had been
previously employed as a teacher of the German lan-
guage. The representation proved to be untrue.
Edward Butt, apprentice to the last witness, said that
on taking the goods he saw the prisoner, who told him
that he had not money by him to pay for them, but that
he had a foreign bill, and should take additional goods
from Mr. Simpson to its amount. The prisoner told him
he might take away the goods if he thought proper.
Mr. George Webb, pawnbroker, 207, High Holborn,
produced an electrifying machine, pledged with him by
the prisoner for 355. on the very evening on which it
had been delivered by Simpson's apprentice.
Attley, the officer, gave evidence as to the duplicates,
and other articles found at the prisoner's lodgings.
After which, the prisoner's attorney addressed the
magistrate at some length, contending that the trans-
action with the latter amounted merely to one of credit.
That the second charge of the portmanteau fell to the
ground; and that the prisoner, in having offered Mr.
Simpson's apprentice to take away the goods, had re-
lieved the case of all legal criminality.
Mr. ELLIOTT remarked that there could be no doubt
that the first case was decidedly one of fraud; and as
regarded the case of Mr. Simpson, it would be a ques-
tion for a jury. He should again remand the prisoner.
SOUTHWARK.
Henry Good, a well-dressed man, was brought before
Mr. Cottiagham for re-examination, charged with being
concerned with four other men (not in custody), in as-
saulting and robbing a Mr. Palmer, in Blackfriars-road.
It appeared that on the morning of the 26th ult., be-
tween two and three o'clock, the complainant was walk-
ing along Blackfriars-road, near Little Surrey-street,
when he was attacked, knocked down, and while on the
ground robbed of all the money he had about him, to-
gether with his watch, by four men. They all escaped
at the time, but on the following night the prisoner was
taken into custody in the Borough-road from the de-
scription given of him by the complainant.
Witnesses were examined on behalf of the accused,
one of whom, his landlord, swore that he was at home at
eleven o'clock on the night in question, and did not go
out again until nine the next morning; and this state-
ment was confirmed by a little boy with whom the pri-
soner slept the same night.
The prisoner was committed, but the magistrate con-
sented to take bail for his appearance, himself in 1001.,
and two sureties in 501. each.

Two women of the town, named Gorman and Sullivan,
were also placed at the bar for re-examination- on a
charge of highway robbery.
It appeared that on Tuesday night last a Mr. Turner
was walking along High•street, when he was accosted
by the prisoners, who finding that he was not inclined
to accompany them, knocked him down, and emptied
his pockets of their contents. Gorman was pursued
and taken into custody, but the other prisoner got away,
and was not apprehended until the succeeding night.
The prisoners were committed.