The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-06 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Aug. 5.

(Before Mr. sergeant ADAMS, Assistant Judge, and a
Bench of Magistrates.)
A SCENE IN COURT.

William Winfield was indicted for having stolen a
hallsovereigu and other moneys, the property of Char-
lotte Cooper, from her person.
Mr. Banco.] appeared for the prisoner.
It appeared that on Monday week the prosecutrix was
walking down Hanover-street, when she was pressed
closely by the prisoner and another person as they
passed by her. Directly they were gone by she was
,pokes to by a person named Bennett, when she put her
hand into her pocket and missed her purse. The priso-
ner had been set n to put his hand into the prosecutrix's
pocket, take something out of it, and hand it over his
shoulder to the man who was then in his company. The
witness who had seen this was atout to lay hold of the
two men, but he was immediately followed by two other
men who detained him, but he got free trom them by
knocking one of them down. He then caught the pri-
soner and s,,tive him into custody.
Mr. IiLIiTON then addressed the juty for the prisoner,
and contended that it had not been proved that the pri-
soner hail a purse in his possession.
As soon as Mr. Rebton had finished his address,
Mr. WITHAM (who presided during the temporary al).
ence of the Learned Judge) recalled the prosecutrix,
and elicit( d from her the colour of the purse she had
lost.

Mr. 11,EHTCkN rose and said, with some warmth—l
think your Lordship has no right to put any such ques-
tion, the case for the prrliecution having closed; and it
is most unjust towards the prisoner to re-open it again.
Mr. V, rruut—Don't interrupt me, sir.
Mr. IiEBTON—But I will; and I object to your doing
so, and I am convinced that your Lordship would enter-
tain the objection if I were to pursue a similar course.
Mr. WITHAM persisted in putting the question, and
then called the witness Bennett, and also inquired of him
he colour of the purse.
Mr. REBTON—I claim a reply to the jury on the ques-
tions put by the Court, and I must say that the Learned
Chairman has taken a course which could not be pursued
in any other court of justice in England, and which no
superior judge in any of the courts at Westminster would
sulfur counsel to pursue. Mr. Witham has gathered the
weak points of the case from my speeeh for the defence,
when he re-opens the case, putting such questions as
would tend to strengthen the case for the prosecution,
but operating most unfairly against the prisoner—a
course which, with ull respect to the Court, I beg to
~ay is highly improper and unjust to the prisoner. A
few days since I was myself stopped by Baron Alderson,
at Maidstone, on the Home Circuit, for endeavouring to
put a question on cross-examinatim, after having con-
cluded my case. That Learned Judge would not allow
me to do so, and said thaVit was so highly improper that
he would not tolerate it.

Mr. WITEIAM—It shall be done by me.
I3ennet was then called, but he could not tell the
colour of the purse.
Mr. REI3TOII then proceeded to address the jury,
commenting with some earnestness on the conduct of
the Learned Chairman, in having put questions that
were liitt ly to prejudice the case ugainst the prisoner
after the case for both prosecution and the defence had
been closed.

Mr. WITHAN—Sit down, Sir.
Mr.ltt•.nToti—l shall not.
Mr. WITHAM—I say you shall.
Mr. liEuron—l will nor.
Mr. WITHAM-1 will not allow you to comment upon
me pergonfilly.
Mr. REBTON—WeII, then, as I have done comment-
ing, allow the to proceed with my objection. The
Learned Counsel then briefly proceeded with his address
to the jury.
The jury, after a short consultation, returned a ver-
dict of Guilty.
William Combs, a police constable, proved that he
had known the prisoner as a member of the " swell
mob" on the Surrey side of the river for the last three
years, and he had detected him endeavouring to pick
the pocket of an intoxicated man in the pit of the Surrey
Tiwatre.
The CHAIRMAIq said he should have sent the prisoner
out of the country for seven years, but for the assistance
he had received in the commission of the robbery from
his two companions.
Prisoner—l hops you will not do anything of the
kind.
The CHAIRMAN—The sentence of the Curt is, that
you be transported for ten years.

SURREY SESSIONS, Aug 5.
(l 3 More THOMAS PUCKLE, Esq., and a Bench of
Magistrates.)
FREAKS OF CABMEN.—Thomas Humphries, cabman,
was indicted for stealing a half-sovereign from the person
of Jane Smith.
The prosecutrix, an old female, said that she obtained
her livelihood by washing, and on the 16th of July she
proce,ded with a half-aovereiga to a public-house near
the Ekphanc and Castle, and as she entered she saw a
number of cabmen standing in front of the bar. The
prisoner was one of them, and said that he had plenty of
silver, and could give her change. She handed him the
half-sovereign, which he put in his pocket, and on her
demanding the change, he again put his hand in his
pocket and returned her what she considered to bo a half-
80Vk reign; but on looking at it she instantly perceived
that it was not the coin she had given to him—in fact, it
was a counterfeit. While she was endeavouring to get
her own money back the prisoner decamped, bat she gave
inl'ormation to the police, and caused him to be appre-
hended.

The jury found him Guilty, and the prosecutrix
having recommended the prisoner to mercy on account
of his family,
The COURT sentenced him to three months' hard
labour at Brixton, at the same time intimating that had
cot such a recommendation been given ho (the Chair-
man) would have punished him with great severity.
IlounrNo ♦ FOREIGNER.-Amy Clerk, a brothel-
keeper in Granby-street, Waterloo-road, was indicted
for stealing a purse containing three sovereigns and some
silver feona the person of Joseph Araahle Perron, a
French gentleman.
Prosecutor said he met the prisoner near the house,
and believing from her rtatemmt that she was in dis-
tresF, he accompaniod her home and gave her halt-a-
crown. Another female came into the room, and while
he was standing talking she caught hold of his arms
while the prisoner rohned him of his purse and money,
and they both decamped out of the house. Ile went in
search of them, and not being able to find them out, he
gave information to the police, and the prisoner was Up-
prehended on the following night sitting on the step of
her door. The other woman has not been found.
The jury found ber Guilty, and

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
George 77.oraas was brought bef,ere Sir Peter Laurie
for final examination, upon the charge of having been
concerned with others in stealing a cash-bex
upwards of 601. the property of Anton Schetzinger. pro-
prietor of the Horse and Trumpeter public-house, in
Crutohed-friars.
Upon a former examiratioe, evidence was given to
show that the prisoner and three other fellows hat been
in tho house ou the day of the robbery, that means had
been takea to get the landlord ont of the way for a few
minutes, and that during his abseneo the ebeff 'flier in
the I)2e parlour, in which the cash-box had been kept,
was broken open, and plundered of that valuable deposi-
tory. It was also on that occasion proved that the pri-
soner and one of the men who had been seen with him
on the.day of the robbery, had visited tne house as cue•
tomers several successive days previously, and inrari.
ably occupied a box immediately opposite to the tar-
pa►rlour, from which they could have observed the chef-
fonier and the cash-box.
Mrs. Scherzinger, the wife of the landlord, corrobo-
rated several points of the previous evidence, and said
the prisoner had upon a former occasion come in with
his usual companion, and, when she was alone in the bar-
parlour, endeavoured to persuade her to get him a little
cheese to take the taste of the ale out of his mouth, as
bis employers might smell it upon him and consider it to
be a bad example to the junior clerks of the establish-
meat. As, however, she had neither husband nor do-
mestic near her, she would not stir from the spot, and
the thieves lost that opportunity—a loss which was soon
supplied by a little more exercise of their ingenuity.
Sir PETER LAURIE then read the words used accord-
ing to Act of Parliament by magistrates to prisoners
previously to committal, and asked the prisoner whether
he wished. under the circumstances, to make any ob-
servations?
rATne prisoner—I do. I deny that I know anything
at all of the transaction, and I could have gone away at
the time it appeared the robbery took place. The fact
is I went into the house and called for a glass of ale. I
had been there four or five times previously, and there
was generally a young man with me. On the day in
question I had come from the docks, and there was no
person with me when I entered the house. A tall man
was standing at the bar when I went in. He seemed
to me to be a foreigner, and wore mustachios, and
he asked me how I did, although I did not know him.
The landlord—There was no foreigner amongst the
set.

The prisoner—I thought he belonged to the house,
and he asked me to go into the common psrlour and have
a glass of ale with him. He spoke quite familiarly to me,
and I went in and drank with him. He soon after-
wards left the room, but I never stirred from the
place till the landlord came in, and there was a noise
about the robbery, but of which I know nothing in
the world.
Sir PETER LAURIE—You are committed upon the
charge brought against you. Are there other persons
in attendance against the prisoner? Storey, the officer,
answered in the affirmative, and called Mrs. Louisa
Berg, of the Two Brewers public-house, in New Park-
street, Southwai k•bridge-road, who slid—The pri-
soner robbed my house on the 3d of June. He had
been there two or three times before the robbery was
committed, and there was always another person with
him. On the Friday before Tuesday, the 3d of June, he
and the other person had been at my house. They went
into the bar-parlour, having expressed a wish for a pri-
vate room. They went into the bar-parlour also on
the Si! of June, and they remained there some time. One
of them had a glass of ale and the other had a glass of
half-and-half, and they also had some cold brandy and
water. Between four and five o'clock they left the house
together. Tue cash box was kept in a cupboard in the
bar-parlour, and it contained 73/. in gold, two 51. notes,
a promissory note for 5/. 55., and a mining share of 51.
The cupboard was locked. I had changed a sovereign
before they came into the house, and I then locked the
door of the cupboard and put the key in my pocket.
There bad been nobody in the room between the
time at which I locked the cupboard and the time during
which the prisoner and his companion were in the room,
but myself and my husband.
Sir PETER LAURIE.—Had the lock been forced?
Witness—No; no violence at all seemed to have been
used. They must have opened the door, I should think,
whh a key. I recollect that the prisoner closed the door
of the room every time after I quitted it.
The prisoner was also identified by a person who, in
the house of the last witness, served him with alts art!
bait-and-half there.
Sir PETER LAURIE—IS the prisoner known as a
plunderer of public-houses? Trew and Huggett, end
other experienced officers of the City police, sail the
man was one of a notorious gang of thieves, who had
acquired wonderful skill in getting hold of publicans'
cash boxed just before the visits of tso brewers and dis-
tillers. To their knowledge upwards of 6001. had been
stolen in public-houses within the list six weeks in the
way described by the evidence; but it was extremely
difficult to prevail upon the sufferers to come forward,
as they were apprehensive of being laughed at for not
benetitting by the constant examples before ther eyes.
1 Sir PETER LAURIE esicl it was quite evident that the
robberies of the present day wets distinguished from
the ordinary practice.; amonat thieves of former times
by their intellectual character. The head worked with
greater vigour than the band.
The prisoner—l do not know what the witnesses in
the la,t case aro alluding to. I Law nothing of cash-
boxes.
William Wesson, in the service of a cooper, said—On
the 24th of May the prisoner came to me at our count-
ing-house when my employ er was out, under pretence of
purchasing a quell tity of hoops. Ho persuaded me to
accompany him from the counting-house to the ware-
house, and there he detained me for some time while ho
appeared to be looking over his pocket-book for the de-
scription of hoops which he was anxious to purchase.
Upon my return to the counting-house I found that the
desks and other places of imagined security had been
broken open, that my watch and whatever cash had been
deposited in the cash-box were absent, and that the
thieves had locked the iron cafe, and taken off the key
with them.
Sir PETER LAURIE said he felt real gratification in the
performance of duties which brought before him accom-
plished thieves, who laid themselves out so completely
for wholesale depredation. At the suggestion of the
officers he remanded the prisoner upon the two last
charges, but directed that the warrant of committal on
the first should be forthwith completed.
GUILDHALL.
Mrs. Foley, alias Sullivan, wag charged with ringing
the changes upon Mr. Cotton, hattsr, of Redcrosse:-
street.
Mr. Cotton stated that prisoner came into his shop
and csked the price of a child's hat. He told her the
expeaso would be 4s. 61, and she said she would deposit
6d., and call for the het in the evening. She gave a
half-crown, and Mr. Cotton gave her es. in chance.
She then said, "Now, I shall have to bring 25." Mr.
Cotton said, " Oh, no, it will be 4s. more," upon which
she said, "I'll not have it then ; give ma any money
back." Mr. Cotton returned her the half-crown, and
she gave him back as he thought the two shillins he
had previously given her. After she had gone, Mr.
Cotton's foreman said, " That woman has been here be-
fore playing off the same game—l'll run after her and
fetch her back." Mr. Cotton examined the money,
and found one of the shillings bad, and which she had
changed while Ito was looking for the half-crown in
the till. Mr. Cotton said it was only three weeks
since the last visit he had had from the prisoner. He
had taken a great quantity of counterfeit money, but
knowing that the law required a double uttering within
a month to be proved to obtain a conviction, he kept
ail the bad money ho was unfortunate to tako for a
month.
This being a very clear case, the prisoner (who de-
nied
everything) was remanded till Saturday, fur Mr.
Powell, the solicitor for the Mint, to attend and prosecute.
MARY LE B ONE.
MURDEROUS OUTRAGES ON TILE POLlCE.—Yesterday
Dennis Hayes, a labourer, was brought before the bitting
magistrate, Mr. Broughton, charged with assaults of a
most brutal and sanguinary nature upon police-consta-
bles, who, in contequeuce of the injuries indicted neon
them, have been pronounced to be incapable for the pre-
sent of doing duty.
Harwood, 161 D, deposed that on the previous after-
noon, as he was going along Praed-street, Paddington, he
received information from a gentleman that a desperate
conflict was going on in Conduit-street, and that in all
probability murder would be committed. lie instantly
repaired to the spot, where he found the prisoner and
another man fighting, and also biting each other in a
most savage manner. Ho at length succeeded in sepa-
rating them, and they went away, but shortly afterwards
returned and renewed the battle, surrounded by at least
50 other persons, all of whom were apparently brick-
la) era' or plasterers' labourers. He (witness) stepped
forward and desired them to desist, when prisoner,
with an oath, dsclarod that he would take his life;
he (prisoner) then knocked him down by a tremendous
blow, and also kicked him on various parts of his person;
in addition to which he and others threw him from the
top to the bottom of an area not loss than sixteen feet
deep; he f'ell upon his side, and was considerably in-
jured, and had he fallen upon his head from to great a
height he might have been killed.
Trceethen, 241 said that having heard that a can-
stable was being murdered by scene labourers, he rushed
forth to give assistance, slid saw the prisoner and two or
three more men kicking the first witness as he lay on
the gretind
Mr. Bnonorerow—Were you assaulted? Witness—l
was, sir; the prisoner and ono of his companions
knocked me down, and after they had kicked my brother ,
offiser into the area, they threw me into it also; the pri- '
soner then jumped down and began heating and kicking
both of us, and many of his fellow-labourers did su like-
wise; for a time I was completely stunned. I and my
brother cificcr at last succeeded in properly securing the I
prisoner; and conveying him to the station.
Mr. BROUGHTON.-011 the road thither wes he quietly
disposed or not? Witness--He was very violent, your
Worship, all the way.
Both the officers said that they were not able to go

upon duty, and that the surgeon by whom they had
berm examined would bear testimony to that effect.
Mr. BROCCEITON inquired it the surgeon was in at-
tenclanee? and he was replipd to in the negative.
Insper,•tor Porter said that it was Lot usual for sur•
geors tO•no:ne forward, and in fact, they, generally
• speaking., declined to do s(3 Stlrilalnrn'd to 211 C".
Mr. BROUCTITON—Bat, there is not even a certiticate,
sent with regard to the naturo cf.' the hu;7:s which the
have recAved. The history of v.inir, I ser-
i ro:v, is this, that if a surgeon 5.n,.1% e,rtifi:;dt.) he will
receive w.r remuneration; bn: if i2f, is 3u:l=23:AA ar.r.-,:r
Won-, a magl,i,trate to give erid2nee he knows that he
will It p9;A for his troublo.

The 'Megl6:rate In-J d optin tho r.extragn beit:g. Opt^
a in.ist brutal natnre, and whist might it:ve rrsulttA
in the loss of life. 11::1 rclnan4f-d the Fris-mPr Li!'
lionily next, in urger 0 aff3rd tinl:," fur thf) popjr_. to
capture other partioq ocr!erned in the brutal alsunits.
IVES1';11/NSTE I?.

ROBBERY AT CRE)lOll7.ir GARDENS.---George Ch,tnye,
a :3:Ylislily-t?!C,Ffd young man, who was ricogni.,,A
the sergeant of the police van as having been in his care
on a previous occasion, WAS finally examined, charged
with stealing a gold watch from Eugene Eunan, a
French cook, at Cremorne Gardens.
After the first remand of the prisoner, the prosecutor
was on his way to this court to attend the re-examina-
tion, when he was waylaid by two men, one of whom re-
presented himself as the accused's brother, and taken to
some house on the Surrey side of the river, where he was
detained while the Court was sitting, and had a gold
watch and 103., as an equivalent to the value of the one
he had lost, given him, with a promise that if he aban-
doned the prosecution his own should be restored. The
police, however, conjecturing from the absence of the
prosecutor at the remand, and the circumstance of his
being a foreigner, that some trick had been resorted to
to defeat the ends of justice, obtained a further remand,
and summoned the prosecutor, who, notwithstanding
what had occurred, attended and gave his evidence with
much apparent fairness, although not desirous of pres-
sing the matter any further. A watchful eye was kept
by the police for the fellows who had so zealously inte-
rested themselves on the accused's behalf, but nothing
was seen of them.

1t appeared, from the evidence adduced, that at twelve
o'clock cn the night of the 14th ult. the prosecutor was
at the gate getting a ticket for the steam-boat, when he
felt a pressure about his breast, and on looking down
observed that his watch had been detatehed from his
guard. The prisoner was immediately in front of him,
with a handkerchief in his hand, which it is corjec.
tured he had used to screen himself from observation
while separating the guard from the watch; and the
prosecutor, who had felt his hand near his pocket, had
no doubt that he had the watch in the handkerchief at
the moment he missed it. He immediately said, "You
have got my watch," when the prisoner, in company
with another, bolted off at full speed. Mr. Smith, a
tradesman at Exeter, followed, hearing the Frenchman
cry out that he bad been robbed, and prisoner's com-
panion tried to trip him up, but did not succeed, and
Mr. Smith c iptured the accused, who immediately began
talking largely about bringing an action, and afilcted to
be immensely indignant at the accusation. The watch
was not found, but it was clearly proved that, while
running, the prisoner passed the handkerchief close to
the baud of his companion in the flight, who appeared
to receive something from it, and then darted off in
a contrary direction. The prisoner gave his address at
Lincoln, but no such person, upon inquiry, was known
there.

The accused, who denied the charge, was committed
for trial.

SOUTHWARK.
Da. Smrrn's VICTIMS.-Emma Smith and Catherine
Skeats, two young girls between 14 and 15 years of age,
who were some short time ago two of the victims of
Smyth, the surgeon, of Vauxhall, who was transported
for committing a rape-on a child, were brought before
Mr. Seeker, charged with stealing four sovereigns and
263. in silver from the person of William Howe, a car-
riage-broker, residing in Newington-causeway.
It appears that on Friday night the prosecutor met
the children in the Waterloo-road, and after treating
them to some gin he accompanied them to a house of the
worst description, situate No. 16, Herbert's-buildings.
While in the house Smith knocked him backwards,
robbed him of hie money, and before he could recover
himself they both decamped from the house. Informa-
tion was afterwards given to the police, and the prisoners
were apprehended on Monday, dressed out in new tluery.
Police-constable 36 L said he apprehended the pri-
soners on Monday evening, dressed out in new clothing
from heal to foot. Smith said, •' You have got me,
but Ito the tin ;" and Skeats said, " A very good jr;s"
too; and I wish I had another haul."

Mr. SECKER—ilave you any knowledge of the chi -
ren? Cou.stabk—Yes, sir. I have kuovrn ih m for
neatly twelve months, roaming about the Watt toe-ro=d
as prostitutes. There are one or two houses in Herbert's-
building.% the occupiers of which entrap young children
and send them on the streets unknown to their parents.
Mr. SEC/U:11-1)o yea know the house which the pri-
soners frequent? Constable—Yes, sir. It. belor,!4i to
an old woman, named Rogers, who is now undergoing a
mouth's imprisonment for having in her possession a
quantity of printed cotton which had been recently
eagles.. She supplied the girls with dresses out of their
immoral earninp. The Weterloo-road is literally
swarmed with young girls, who use those houses and
prowl about at all hours in the night, chiefly for the sake
of plundering drunken men.
Mr. SECKER—Was the prosecutor drunk? Prosecutor
—I was very much intoxicated or 1 should not have
placed myself in such a degrading situation.
The constable infOrmed the magistrate that there
were two children now in court who were companions
of the prisoners, and lived by prostitution.
Mr. SECKEII directed them to be brought forward.
Eliza Smith, who stated her age to be 14, was ques.
tioned by Mr. Seeker, but she was so far initiated in
vice that it was pitiable to witness the offensive manner
in which she answered the worthy magistrate whose
object was to save her from further contamination.
Martha Sullivan, another child, said she Lived with
her father, a looking glass-frame maker, in Lant-strect,
Borough. She denied having prostituted herself in at y
way.
__

Police-sergeant, 22 L, said he saw the prisoners iu the
Waterloo-road every night with the children just exa-
mined by his Worship. In fact, there were hundr:ds
like them, brought up by the brothel keepers in the
neighbourhood; some of the places were awful dens, and
dangerous for any one to enter.
Mr. SECKER said he should commit the prisoners fcr
trial at the ensuing sessions, and should they be con-
victed,it might be the means of saving them from utter
destruction. Ile was extremely sorry to boar that such
an amount of juvenile prostitution was abounding in the
midst of the metropolis, and he should certainly order
that strict inquiries bo made ab3ut the houses men-
tioned by the constable, so that an immediate stop may
be put to the nefarious practice of
.entrapping young
children and bringing them up to prostitution.
The prisoners, who seemed quite unconcerned during
the investigation, stated that they had no knowledge of
the prosecutor's money, or ever seeing him before.
They were committed for trial.

THE LATE FATAL AFFRAY IN SHOE-LANE.
Last evening a public meeting was held at the Li-
terary and Scientific Institution, Leicester-place, Little
Saffron-hill, "to consider what steps were necessary
legally to effect Mr. Long's release from prison," that
individual being one of theewitnesses in a recent police
case, which was characterised in the bills convening the
meeting, as a " brutal police outrage in the City." Lord
Dudley Coutta Stuart, M.P., was announced to take the
chair, but his Lordship having sent an exco:.:e for his
non-attendance, Mr. W. Browno was called upon to pre-
side, and in opening the proceedings, be observed that
at a meeting recently held on Clerkenwell-green, it was
agreed that a memorial should be sent to Sir George
Grey, requesting him to offer a reward for the apprehen-
sion of the policeman who it was stated was guilty of
the "murder" of William Hogan (in a disturbance
which took place a short time ago in Shoo-lane). The
reply of the Home Secretary was to the effect that be
(Sir George Grey) had received the memorial in refe-
rence to the death of Willism Hogan, and that he had
forwarded it to the Lord Mayer, together with the letter
accompanying it. This communication, it was con-
tended, left the memorialists in the same position which
they held before they addressed the Home Secretary;
and the chairman now urged that it was the duty of all
true friends of freedom to make every effort to promote
the ends of justice in this importaet matter. Several
persons afterwards addressed the meeting in language
strongly condemnatory of the conduct of the police, and
suggesting the necessity of further agitating the ques-
tion in order to effect the release of Mr. Long, who, it
was said, had been imprisoned for the purpose of pre-
venting him from giving his evidence against the police-
man alleged to have caused the death of William Hogan.
A resolution was passed condemning the course adapted
by the police authorities in not causing an investigation
to be made in order to identify the policeman. Other
resolutions of a similar tendency were also carried, and
it was agreed that the cause of the deceased Hogan
and
ought cause of every lover of justice and baulani!y.
La
ought to be taken up by the public, more especially,livuis
working men, who were bound to protect their own
de.
and property. In the various speeches
livered, the rights of the labouring clessewshwiechre:s-trong7
advocated, and it was ultimately proposed
.tha.
meetings should be held upon the subject In a central
part of the city of London. A collection was made at
the doors to pay the expenses of the movement.

-------
ADVERTISEMHNT..--.NERVOUS AFFECTION. -- 'Phis
class embraces a wide range, and the unhappy soilerers en-
dure more anguish, and receive less pity from those around
them, than from any other class of disorders; this in son-a,
measure may be Recounted for simply because the symptorns
are not so strongly defined as in other disorders; inderai in
some cases no syinptotns are recognised, and, therefore, the
hasty conclusion is jumped at, that all the ailtueuts of the
patient are imaginary, and not worthy of notice. There is
no class of diseases requiring more kindness and care. Tyro
or three of Old Parr 's invaluable Life Pills Will speedily
re-
animate the spirits, improve the digestive powers,' and re.
store the whole nervous system to a happy, and natural state.
.N
Sold by Messrs. Barclay and Sons, arriagdon-street ; Ed-
wards, St- Paul's Church-yard ; Sutton and Bow Church
yard; Sangar, 151, C 0..,
OxfQrd-street ; and Hannay and Co..
Oxford-street.

ORRIBLE MURDER: "
AUGUST 5.--This part of the kitigthan -hes
n the •scene -cf .a, deliberate and revolting
The _perpetrator
.of the atrecions deed is -a
imed John Mickleburgh, who occupies shoat
acres of:lend in his own right in the neighbour-
hood of Thraudeston, a scattered viliage and parish in
the Hartistaere Hundred, three miles and a half north-
west of this town. Ho is a married inan and has three
children, the eldest of whom, a girl, ie 14 years of
age. The unhappy creature who perished was a single
woman named Mary Baker, who for two years and'a
half had been in the ssrvice of Mickleburgh as a ga-
' neral domestic servant. Although he was married,
and his wife and family lived with him under the
same roof, it was evident that he had formed a strong
attachment for the girl, and from .his representations
it • would seem that an improper intercourse • had
existed between them. The girl, however, wes ge-
nerally considered a welleondvxted person, and nothinif
was ever sewn up to the perise to t 1.41 t.raAcal affair
that would tend to phew that she gave Nal aoY eneou-
ragernent. O Thursday leg a lsrge (male fair, with
shows and booths., was iwid in the village, mid Mary
Baker obtained permiesien from her ieistress to attend
it, it being a general his! ley ansoug the domestics iu
that pert of the country. ti et visited her sistere.a
married werrisn named Pri:lich, who, in the course of
the afternoon, accompanied her to. tile fair. A events
ma: enamel Boatman joined, kh
-^eln, anti was considered
t 9 he.the desiea4ed'e sweetheart, 2.Lieldeburgit having
learned where, she bad gone, e.lso ei,ftee the fair. IA;
foinaddiee and followed her about,- and seemed highly
incensed at her talking. with ties Young man Boattnaa.
Wishing,, however, to conceal his feelings from limit-
man, he invited him with the deceased into a booth,
kept by a per Son named Eastatigh, where he treated
them to brands. and water and wine, and while there
the deceased's sinter, Mrs. French, and her husband
came in, whom lie was also acquainted with, and
called for more wine to treat them. He solicited the
young Mari Boatman to drink more freely than he
did, apparently With a view of making. him intoxi-
cated,
and so
obtaining possession of the girl. Boat-
man, however, resisted his entreaties, and between
six and seven o'clock left the booth in company with
the deceased. Before (14itting. Mickleburgh asked the
1 deceased what time her mistress expected her home.
She replied, "About half-past nine o'clock,
leaving her" and, after
they had gone Mrs. French followed them,
husband drinking with Micklehurgh. Some time
transpiring, and French not coming home, his wife
returned to the booth, where she waited until they
came out. Mickleburgh then addressed her, saying,
" Tell Mary (meaning the deceased) to get home by 9
o'clock. 1 will be in the meadow (alluding to one ad-
jacent to his farm) just before nine, as! want to see
her." He appeared much excited, and she understood
that if the deceased girl did not meet him he would
be revenged. He parted with them and went in
another direction of the fair, while Mrs. French and
her husband proceeded to a public-house kept by a
man named Barrett, where the deceased and her
sweetheart (Boatman) were regaling themselves.
Within a short time of .Mickleburgh parting with
the Frenches he went to the stall of a hawker in the
fair and purchased a stiletto knife, with a blade some
four or five inches in length and protected by a spring
back. In the course of the next half-hour he visited
the house where the deceased was. There was a sort
of village frolic going on, and all were enjoying them-
selves, the company amounting to about forty or fifty
people. What followed will be best gathered from
the unfortunate girl's own statement, which was taken
by a magistrate shortly after she bad received the
fatal injury. She said—" I was sitting in this house
alongside of William Boatman, with whom I had been
keeping company, and my sister, Clara French:
About eight o'clock in the evening my master came in,
exclaiming, a Ah, Mary, I see you. I made no reply,
nor did I observe anything in his manner to excite
alarm. He left the room immediately, and returned in
about two minutes, and without saying a word he came
up to where I was sitting and plunged a large knife in
my side. I did not feel it until he drew the knife
oute when he said, c Now, Marv, you have it now.'
I saw the knife in his hand. Boatman was sitting by
my side ;ill the time. I recollect nothing more until
I found myself upstairs in bed. I solemnly declare
there has been nothing improper between me and
Mr. Micklebnrgh." Most of the persons in the room
witnessed the occurrence. He was instantly seized.
He offered not the :lightest resistance, nor did he
evince the least emotion at the fearful act he had com-
mitted. He said that he had had his revenge, and
all he regretted was that his arm had not been
stronger, as he would have given her four inches
inure of it, and he hoped he had finished her and she
would die. The peer esia survived but a very few
hours. The point of *4 stiletto.- had entered the
oxity theattamaeli to-theetittent of four or five
inches, dividing all the vial parts.
Yesterday the prisoner, John Micklehurgh, un-
derwent an examination at the Town-hall, hefire the
roc, T. Lee French and a full bench of magistrates,
on the charge of murder. lie was wretchedly de-
jected, and fainted during the course of the pro-
ceedings.

Mr. PAT.:wrn attended to watch (hi., evidence for tha
pri4oner.

The principal witnesses exatnine►l were the young
man William Poatinaa, Mr. and Mrs. French, end some
other persons, but the only additional tact that came
out in their statements wag, thzt the prisoner went
into one of the out-houses after he toti first entered
the room of the public-house and hut !!Pen the de-
ceased, and deliberately opened the knife. As before
observed, h 3 returned to the apartment, arid plunged
it into the unfortunate girl. The shawl, gown, and
etays which she wore at the time were produced, and
they bore holes in them corresponding in size with
the blade of the knife.

Sayer,aiice. used hawker, proved selling
the prisoner the knife between six and seven o'clock
on the evening of the murder. He wassober at the
time.

Mr. Miller, surgeon, of Eye, stated, that he had
made a post mortent examination of the deceased.
He found a punctured wound about half an inch
long, and between four and five inches in depth, at
the lower part of the left side of the chest, between
the eighth and ninth ribs. it passed into the spleen,
and into the mesentery. It caused death.
John Baker, a police-officer, stationed at Mendle-
sham, deposed that be was at the fair. About eight
o'clock in the evening he was informed that a young
woman had been stabbed. Went to Barrett's house,
and found the prisoner seated by the side of John
French. He told him that he was charged with stab.
bing the deceased, and took him into custody. Pri-
soner said, " You may take me and do what you like
with me. I have done what I intended to do, and I
hope I have done it effectually ; had my arm been a
little stronger I would have given her three or four
inches more of it. I have always done what I liked
with her since she has livcd with me." Witness be-
lieved he was tipsy at the time. When Sillett,
another officer, came up, the prisoner said, " Ah!
Sillett, you may take me," He repeated the wish
about the strength of his arm, and said, "I mean for
revenge." He stated that he went to a stall in the
fair and purchased the knife ; he gave 2s. for it.
He added, that he then went to Barrett's, and when
he got into the house MBry Baker, the deceased, said,
"Ah ! master, here am I." Prisoner answered, " Ab,
you shan't be long before you have this piece of steel?
He then went into the back-house and opened the
knife. When it was open it was like a dagger. ll°
also said, "If I have not killed her now I hope she
will die. If she don't come to my proposals .1 baye
got the best brace of pistols the world can produce,
He added, that on the Wednesday night
wife went to Diss Mary slept witn him.
wif., came to see him al-. the station-hou:fnaonowut•T*.oLu4.
o'clock in the morning. He said to her,
or two ago
before his
know all about it ;
ness searched
Writ
this would not have occurred." •
-ft. Prisoner replied
him, and found a large clespluu ,
if you had died a Year
"That is not the knife I did it with; it was no., aro I

enough for her."
The evidence do pin m
g, the Bench fullY Comitted
the prisoner for trial at the. nest assize. The Coro-
ner': jury came to a similar determination, and re-
turned a verdict of 'Wilful murder."
-

establishedo n Saturday
by
..---- a.
held of the schools—.
an examination
wanad Bszley. cotton-spinners of Manchester.
Messrs. Gardner ENTERTaislvors T° "7"x-PEOPLE.
41 lwe , near Bolton.
in cone
and was highly
tion was conducted chiefly by P• 1 ' C rd-
.oa with their works at It' T ii
•Ic ram Gard-
ner,
creditable both to the
The esawritondon,
7etem of tuu'or
tnecare'bEerssqqan:cil the pupils; the F •
-Atilarielylinotrortihgeh- v-hi his that
Schoois, -hias'piroveed most
Borough
-ers in arithmetic, physical
anr political geograpow, astronomy, history, &c., were OE-
-1 ecidingly ready and characteristic. and elicited repeated ap-
probation. The compaux, consisting of upwards of 1,(413
spirteocwesostfendi.b_
workpeople, and several gentlemen of the neighbourhood.
then sat down to tea. The spacious lecture-room was decorated
aficr the most elegant taste. Appropriate addresses were
then delivered by Tborriae llaaley. I:sq., one of her Majesty's -
Commissioners fir the Great Exhibition, who occupied the
chair, and by Talessrs. Richard GardneraMalcom. IZ,:at‘as, Pater
Ainsworth, Dr. Watts; anti Mr. Uonrilir, from Charleston,
17.8. After many loyal and philanthropic toasts bad been
enthusiastically responded to. tbliowad by the splrited per-
termaueos of the Avorkpeople's baud, the guests withdrew.
with hearty expresaions el gratification at the sight cf the
employers and tire iaaphyed tlwa mertieg on terms so linami-
cable and laudable. Tim scboote, together with library
Yrd rear
news-room, were ereetuxi -.lye years ago, by Messrs.
end Bazley, at a cost of upwards of 5,0001.
1.01,A. AGAIN....-We read in the A.c.rse-mblee Natinuok
crowd of pro-
-" A strange scene attrac'ed vastyesterdcayllain
e i ps Elva &s. In a
meanders to the Rond•Point
in
nit
irediwornen assailed each
dashing equlpage, two elegantly fr,.
and then eat to work
• g but po.rae,
other ia language aaythin faces. In a short
. . ss
nails in each- other's.
with their fists and .- ,
;ere considerably damaged.
time both toilettea and featug
wearsvelivanquie
led,
uttered loud
At last one of them,
liniiin, ntlemcn wenttis'ted,
to her essistanve
cries of distress, and Corn ,lerhon
arra
champagne had lea
The victorious 4
1811... el from the carriage, aud the deflate
strength, was exPe
~hman to drive he to her hotel. She
lady ordered the coa-
y by her adventures in some cot' r
" known to the Pub be . . a .
ll-
• When the people learnt N,llo she was-the -4
of Getman.) '
expressed -di;As 1 1 e Was not more tlihtil in the now
surprise,
-science of byziag•

a~^~{