The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-03 00:00:00

SENTENCE.

Lord CAMPBELL before passing sentence said it was
right that he should state that the bill of exceptions
merely related to a letter and an affidavit for postponing
the trial, which had been admitted in evidence. The de-
fendants had been all found guilty upon evidence of a
very conclusive character, and he therefore fully con-
curred in the verdict which the jury had arrived at.
The defendants had rendered themselves liable to be
transported for seven years; but, although the case
presented features of an aggravated nature, yet,
under all the circurnstaeces, it was not necessary
for the ends of justice that the law should be pushed to
the extreme point. Still, however, the Court must mark
its sense of these transactions by passing a severe sen-
tence ; and therefore the sentence of the Court upon
Holder Alleyne was, that he be imprisoned in the Mid-
dlesex House of Correction for the term of two years.
Upon D'Arcy he should reduce the sentence to
twelve months' imprisonment in the Middlesex House
of Correction, and taking into consideration the strong
recommendation to mercy which had been made on be-
half of M'Geachy Alleyne, the sentence upon him was
that he be imprisoned in the Middlesex House of Cor-
rection fur the space of six months.
The defendants were then taken into custody.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Charles Richard Burdett I,Valker, alias Gray, alias
2lfeymott, alias the lt,y. Charles Burdett, Matthew.
Matthews, Francis Williams, Richard Law, alias Fre-
derick Dewhurst, Horatio Stainbrilge, alias Ebsworth,
alias Stephens, and Elizabeth Buckle, who stood charged
with having conspired together to obtain goods to a
large extent from tradesmen and others under false pre-
tences, were placed at the bar before Mr. D'Eyncourt
for final examination.
Mr. Lewis attended as before for the London Trades'
Protection Society to conduct the prosecution; Mr. An-
drews appeared for the woman Buckle; and Mr. Ablett
for the rest of the prisoners.
The depositions, which were very voluminous, in the
general charge of conspiracy against the whole of the
prisoners, and also in a separate charge of forgery
against the prisoner Burdett, the particulars of which
have already been detailed in this paper, were now for-
mally completed and read over, and they were all fully
committed for trial.
The prisoner Law was then put to the bar alone,
charged with having stolen several black cloaks, two
palls, and other articles of mourning, of the value of 501.,
the property of Mr. William Dunkley, a furnishing un-
dertaker in Tower-street, Westminster-road.
The prosecutor stated that on the 29th September last
he entrusted the property in question to the prisoner,
who was at that time in his service, with directions to
deliver it at the house of Mr. Harding, a builder, in
Union-row, Clapham. He had occasion on the same
evening to discharge the prisoner, from whom ho received
a letter about a week afterwards, in which he admitted
having pledged the articles at the instigation of a man
whose name was not mentioned, and entreated his for-
giveness. The witness identified several mourning cloaks
and other articles produced as a portion of the stolen
property.
Mr. John Matthews, a pawnbroker, in Richard's-row,
Lambeth, identified the prisoner as having called at his
shop on the 29th of September, representing that he
had been sent by Mr. Dunkley, and pledged the property
for 54 10s.
The prisoner was next charged with having stolen a
quantity of property of a similar description during the
time he was in the prosecutor's service,
was committed
the case
having been conclusively established, ho
for trial upon both the charges.
An elderly man, named John Spring, was charged
his wife, with
with feloniously cutting and wounding
intent to murder her.
Police-considerable N 296, stated thatin
on the consequence
of information he had received he repaired
pre-
ceding evening to the London Hospital, where he found
the injured woman, who was suffering from a severe
wound in the lower part of her person, and having
elicited from her that the injnry had been inflicted by
her husband, with an oyster knife, he proceeded to his
house and took him into custody.
A certificate was produced from Mr. Jackson Kent,
house-surgeon at the hospital, stating that the woman
had received an incised wound in the abdomen, and was
in a state of great danger.
The prisoner, who declined saying anything, was re-
manded for a week.

ENGINE HUNT.—One of the most powerful engines
on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (the
Pyrrhus, No. 92) took Frenck leave from New Holland
station on the evening of Friday week, and made a run of
sixteen miles before it was overtaken by the pilot engine
which was sent in pursuit. The capture was effected at
Great Coates station, within four miles of Grimsby. nese
freaks of railway engines, which have of late become much
too frequent, are occasioned, it appears, by the carelessness
of the drivers, in not properly shutting off the steam. On
this occasion no damage was done, but decisive measures
should be adopted to effectually stop such dangerous pro-
coecliugsv—North British