The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-29 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.

Mr. Broughton was engaged fur a considerable time
in the investigation of a charge against a young man
named John William Hamilton, aged 26, of causing wil-
ful damagd to the amount of 300/. to the house of Mr.
Daniel Milbank, of 10, Cumberland-street, New-road, by
the explosion of a quantity of gunpowder.
Daniel Milbank said—The prisoner is the son of a
lodger of mine, a widow, who rents my two parlours.
I have frequently complained of his coming to the house,
as I did not approve of his behaviour, and I did not
think his mother felt safe. Last night, about eight
o'clock, as I was employed upon some mosaic work i❑
the front kitchen, I heard a loud explosion, and at the
same moment a portion of the ceiling fell upon my head,
the lathing also fell in, and if I had not got away very
quickly, I might have Bern seriously injured if not killed.
1 beard a moaning and groaning, and found that the
front and back parlour doors were blown off the hinges,
that the sashes of the back parlour window were blown
out, as also a portion of the brick work. The drawing-
room floor was destroyed, and the sash in the back kit-
chen window was shattered to pieces. The shutters of
the front parlour were sent fourteen or fifteen yards across
the New-road, and even up to the attics damage was
done. I calculate that my loss cannot be short
of 3004 by the explosion. Mrs. Hamilton, the prisoner's
mother, was in bed in the front parlour, and I saw the
pillow-case and coverlid burning, but not in flames. The
piste was full of smoke, and I clasped my arms round
Mrs. Hamilton's waist to get her out if possible; but
being nearly suffocated I was compelled to return with-
out accomplishing my object. I made another effort to
release her, and at last conveyed her to the house ad-
joining, where she was attended by Mr. Norton, a
surgeon.

Mr. BROUGHTON.—In what circumstances is she?
Witness—She is a widow lady of independent property.
Mr. BROUGHTON.—Are you aware of any threats
having been made by the prisoner with respect to his
mother? Witness—Yes. Yesterday he was abusing
her all the afternoon.

Mr. BROUGHTON.—Have you ascertained where the
explosion took place? Witness—Yes, sir. It was under
the prisoner's mother's bed, and the wall is quite black,
owing to the explosion of gunpowder. It took six or
seven pails of water to put the fire out.
Mr. BROUGHTON.—Is Mrs. Hamilton injured? Wit-
ness—Yes, sir; she is burned on the side and on the face.
Hawtry, 373 A—l was o❑ duty, and heard a loud ex-
plosion, which I thought was occasioned by gas. I
heard also the screams of a female, and I thought the
house was falling. I opened the door, and met Mr. Mil-
bank with Mrs. Hamilton in his arms. I took her from
him and assisted her to the next door. After that I

went back and found the bed,burning, and everything in
the room in the utmost disorder. I also found a portion
of a powder flask on the floor.
Cox, 138 D—l captured the prisoner at the moment
of his coming up to the door. The house was nearly
shattered to pieces. lie asked me what was the matter
with the house, and I told him there had been a great
explosion; when he said, "Is any one hurt?" I re-
marked to him that I did imt know, and he said, " Oh,
because my mother is stopping here." He rang the
bell, upon which Mr. Milbank, who came to the door,

gave him into my charge for damaging his house with
gunpowder. He alleged that he knew nothing about it.
Mr. BROUGHTON (to Mr. Milbank)—How lately be-
fore the explosion had you seen the prisoner? Mr.
Milbank—l saw him there a quarter of an hour before.
He might, for aught I know, have been there imme-
diately before it took place.
The prisoner, on being asked what he had to say,
made a very long statement, to the effect that he had
been making some fireworks, and that on the night in
question the box, containing the powder, &a., was, con-
trary to his usual custom, left under the bed i❑ his
mother's room; and as to the assertion that he was fre-
quently abusing his mother, that had no foundation in

tact. now the explosion was occasioned he was quite
unable to divine.

The prisoner was remanded till to-morrow (this day
week, when it is hoped that his mother and other wit

nesses will be in attendance.

The Magistrate expressed his willingness to accept
bail for the prisoner, himself in 601,, and two sureties
in 401. each. The prisoner not being provided with the
sureties, was locked up.

WORSHIP

'-STREET.

Mary Dias, a young woman of 18, was charged with
robbery.
The prisoner had, from motives of compassion, been
taken into the service of a poor woman named Wiley, the
wife of a weaver in Wellington-street, Bethnal•green, on
Saturday, the 18th inst., and on the following Monday
was found to have absented herself. As she did not re-
, turn, the prosecutor suspected that she had absconded
altogether and robbed hor, and upon examining her
drawers discovered that her husband's watch, his best
suit of clothes, two cloaks and two shawls belonging to
herself, and a number of other articles of wearing appa-
rel, in the whole of more than 71. in value, had been
stolen. She gave information of the robbery to the po-
lice; but before they bad time to apprehend her the pri-
soner was brought to the station-house in Spitalfields
and delivered up to the police by her own father, who
charged her with robbing her mistress, an accusation
the prisoner stoutly denied; but on the prosecutrix
being fetched by a constable and confronted with her she
remained silent, and Mrs. Wiley identified the very
bonnet on her head as her property also, although she
had not previously discovered her loss. It was then
traced that she had pledged the greater portion of the
stolen property on the Monday morning at the shop of
a pawnbroker named Cocksedgs, in Church-street,
Shoreditch ; the watch for 165., one of the cloaks for
10s., and some other portions of the property fur other
amounts.

The prisoner, who regarded her position with much
indifference, declined offering any defence, and the de-
positions having been taken, she was fully committed to
Newgate for trial.

LAMBETH.
Yesterday being appointed for the further examina-
tion-of Frederick William, alias Captain Routledge, the
court, between the hours of one and two o'clock, became,
as on the former examinations, much crowded, but, to
the great disappointment of those who attended to bear
the further evidence, he was too ill to be removed from
prison, as will be seen from the following certificate,
which was handed to Mr. Norton:—

"I hereby certify that William Routledge is danger-
ously ill and confined to his bed in the hospital of this
gaol. " W. Helms,
" Surgeon to the Surrey County Gaol at
Honetnonger-lane.

" Jtlrl. 27."

Mr. Robinson informed the magistrate that since the
last examination of the prisoner, Sergeant Quinnear and
constable Melville, the officers engaged in the case, had
traced the whole of the notes sent by Mr. Johnson, of
St. Helen's, Lancashire, to the prisoner on the 7th of
December last, to take up a bill for 2131. 169., and due
on that day, to Routledge's possession, and this testi-
money, together with the production of the bill itself,
would complete the evidence in the case of Mr. Johnson.
He (Mr. Robinson) would be also prepared on a fu-
ture day to show that the acceptance to two bills of ex-
change, which had been sent by Routledge to a trades-
man at Macclesfield, were forgeries, and this, in his.
(Mr. Robinson's) opinion, would be a clear case of
forgery.

small ledger, found in a secret drawer at the pri-
soner's residence, and in which he kept a minuto ac-
count of his daily, monthly, aed annual transactions, was
produced to the magistrate. From entries in this book,
all of which were in the prisoner's handwriting, it ap-
peared that in the year 1835 (the commencement of the
book) the prisoner's receipts amounted to 1,2051. 2s. 6d.;
in 1836, 1,0281. Bs. Ild.; in 1837, 1,535/. 2s. 6d.; in
1838, 1,0251. 14s. Bd.; in 1839, 5021. 35.; in 1840, 1,6971.
19s. 3d.; in 1841, 759/. Gs. 6d.; in 1842, 6101.; in 1843,
615/. 155.; in 1844, 5741.; in 1845, 1,140/.; in 1846,
6351.; in 1847, 336/4 in 1848, 3891.; in 1849, 1391.; and
in 1850, 437/. In another part of the book the receipts
for 1839 wero stated to be 4,7611; in 1840, 5,8081.; in
1841, 5,037/ ; and in 1842, 5,900/. From memoranda in
the book itoutledge attributed the great disparity and fall-
ing off of his receipts in particular years to the exposures
that occasionally followed the application of some of
his dupes to a magistrate or the officers of justice. So
keenly did itoutledge feel the force and effect of these ex-
posures, and particularly the exposure by a weekly
paper of himself and his gang, that he went to the ex-
pense of getting a lengthened circular printed, in which
he attacked in the most 'vile and filthy language its pro-
prietors and conductors. Among the prisoner's accounts
were found those of a fashionable West-end tailor, from
which it appeared that in 1836 he paid 30/. for an uni-
form worn by him on the occasion of his being presented
at Court to the late King William IV., when he was re.
presented as Captain Routledge, of the Somersetshire
Militia. In the leger containing the above accounts
there was found an engraving, which appeared to have
been cut from some newspaper, of the prisoner in full
uniform, and as he appeared at Court.
Mr. NORTON inquired if the solicitors to the Bankers'

Association were corning forward to lend their aid
in the prosecution, which would be one of some diffi-
culty, end requiring the aid of a practised lawyer?
Mr. Robinson replied that Messrs. Bush and Millions
were merely solicitors to the London Bank<Ts' Associa-
tion, and as no attempt had been made to defraud the
London bankers, and as it could not affi:ct the bankers
in the metropolis in any way to have bills of exchange
made payable at their houses even by swindlers, those
gentlemen would not give any directions to the solicitors
to the association, or interfere in the matter. Mr. Ro-
binson added that, in reply to some communications
which had been made to persons, from whose letters,
found amongst the prisoner's paper, it appeared they
had had transactions with Routledge, he received an-
swers from attorneys, threatening actions and all sorts
of pains and penalties, if he dare disclose the names
of their clients as connected with the prisoner or his
transactions.

Mr. NORTON remarked that he did not think he (Mr.
Robinson) had much to fear from such threats, and
adjourned the further examination of the prisoner to a
future day.
In the course of the day Mr. Games, as the prisoner's
solicitor, applied to Mr. Norton for an order to the of-
ficer Melville to givo him a few pounds more out of the
76 sovereigns found in the prisoner's drawers, and which
appeared to be all the ready money he possessed at the
time of his apprehension. Mr. Games said that out of
the 5/. his Worship was so kind as to order him at the
first examination, he had given upwards of 3/. to his
client, and as the prisoner was at present in a dangerous
state of illness, and required necessaries beyond the gaol
allowance, he trusted his Worship would order him (Mr.
Games) a few pounds more.
Mr. NORTON, under the peculiar circumstances, or-
dered the officer to hand three sovereigns more to
the prisoner's solicitor, which Melville at once com-
plied With.

THE ARMY.
The service has lost two other distinguished general
officers, Lieutenant-General the Eton. Otway Trevor,
Colonel of the 31st Regiment, and Major-General Fea-
ron, C.B.

General Trevor served with the Coldstream Guards
in the Peninsula, and commanded the regiment at Sala-
manca ; he was also present at Talavera and Busaco,
and was appointed to the colonelcy of the 31st Regiment
in 1847.

General Fearon served long in the West Indies, where
he was wounded; he was subsequently employed in Hol-
land and on the coast of France and Spain, the expedi-
tion to Quiberon, attack on Ferrol, and the Egyptian
campaign in 1807, and the campaign of 1814-1815 in
Italy, including the surrender of Naples and Genoa. He
ako commanded the 31st Regiment on board the Kent
East Indiaman when she was burned in the Bay of Bis-
cay in 1825, and was employed upon the staff in the
East Indies until his promotion to the rank of major-
general.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
Commander Donald Fernandez (1838), on the retired
list under the Order in Council of 1816, died on the 24th
instant at Southampton, in the 81st year of his age. He
served 13 years afloat from his first entry into the navy
in July, 1790, as midshipman of the Assistance, Captain
Lord Cranstoun. He was confirmed a lieutenant in
February, 1797, and in that month served in Lord St.
Vincent's action. Ho was subsequently much engaged
with the Spanish gun-boats and batteries near Cadiz.
For a few months in 1803 he commanded the Speedwell
brig, and for a short time was employed in the sea feu-
cibles. By the death of Commander Fernandez an out-
pension of Greenwich Hospital becomes vacant.
Sidney B. Broome has been promoted to be acting
gunner.

Amphitrite, 26, Captain Frederick, went out of Ports-
mouth harbour yesterday morning, saluting the Ad-
wirers flag when off the Spit Buoy. The westerly wind
is detaining the vessels at Spithead; but the American
packet to New York sailed on Monday night in defiance
of the foul wind.

PRIZE MONEY FOR THE HYDRA STEAM•SLOOP.—Mr.
Woodhead has given notice to Commander Skipwith and
the officers and company of th© Hydra steam-sloop, that
the account sales of the proceeds arising from the capture
of the slave vessel Fidalga, on the 14th of July, 1849,
will be registered i❑ the High Court of Admiralty on or
after the 3d of February next.
PRIZE MONEY FOR THE SPY.—Mr. Woodhead has
given notice to Commander Western and the officers and
crew late of the Spy brigantine, that the account salts
of the proceeds arising from the capture of the slave
vessel Estrella, 23d of August, 1849, will be registered
in the High Court of Admiralty on or after the 7th of
February next.

APPOINTMENT.
WOOLWICH, JAN. 28.—Second-Master—John Waye
(1850), from the Calliope, 26, at Devonport, to the
Bloodhound, at Devonport. fitting as a tender to the
Samson steam-frigate, for service on the coast of Africa.
The Right Hon. Sir Francis T. Baring, First Lord
of the Admiralty, has returned to Whitehall to-day
from Andover.
The Cyclops steam frigate, Captain Hon. George F.
Hastings, was paid off to-day, on her return from ser-
vice on the West Coast of Africa. She was paid off all
standing, and is to be again commissioned at this port.
Two men, one named Donald Dunkin, and the other
Charles Leegrove, belonging to the Resistance troop-
ship, were brought before the magistrate at the Wool-
wich Police-court, on Saturday, and fined 1001. each for
smuggling cigars.