The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-25 00:00:00

EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1851.

site side, and the vehicle being upset by the concus-
sion, it was broken to pieces, and c iuld not be re-
paired at a cost of less than 201. While he was en-
deavouring to extricate the animal from the harness,
the prisoner moved away with his instrument, and his
assistant made his escape. Being aware that such a
person as the prisoner was not in a positio❑ to be able
to compensate him for the damage he had sustained,
he considered he was justified in giving him in charge
on public grounds, in the hope that a remedy would
be afforded for the removal of a nuisance:calculated to
endanger the lives of persons having the management
of horses in the public thoroughfares.
Wm. Drinkwater, the lad, said he heard his master
call out to the prisoner before he came up to where
the organ was placed. There was nothing else in
the street by which the horse could be frightened, and
it ran away at such a rate he was unable to hold the
reins. _ _ _

The prisoner denied that any person desired he
would cease playing, and although he had been em-
ployed in the same manner six years about the
streets, no complaint had been ever before made
against him.
Mr. HENRY said it was most fortunate the boy had
sustained no greater injury than the fright occasioned
by the fall, and the prisoner should pay a penalty of
40s. for the public offence, in addition to 101. for the
damage, being the highest sum allowed by law, in de-
fault of which he should be committed to prison for
one month.
A young man named James Brookes was charged
with being concerned with another, not in custody, in
steeling a valuable Norwegian terrier.
Mr. C. Short, residing in Cleveland-row, St.
James's-street, stated that on Friday morning the
female members of his family took a walk in the Green
Park, followed by his dog, which they missed on their
return home, and having advertised his loss, he men-
tioned that a liberal reward would be given to any
person by whom it was restored. The next day the
prisoner called upon him to say that he could have his
property speedily brought back upon the small pay-
ment of 21. 10i., to which he agreed, and after some
further conversation upon the subject it was arranged
that they should meet at the Nag's .head public-house,
in Holborn, to bring the negotiation to a conclusion ;
but witness having purposely broken his promise, in
order to give information to the police, the prisoner
paid him a second visit, in consequence of which he
deposited the reward in the hands of the landlord,
another man being present with the prisoner, and
Sergeant Thompson, F, being on the alert, the prisoner
fell into the trap.
The prisoner said he had only been hired for half-
a crown to carry the dog to the place appointed, and
happened to be present when the money was de-
posited.
Mr. HENRY said it was quite evident the prisoner
was one of a gang who got their living by stealing
dogs in the streets belonging to families likely to offer
handsome rewards for their recovery ; and, as a whole-
some check should be applied to meet such a daring
offence, he should order that the prisoner be committed
to hard labour for six months, and also that the active
part taken by the landlord in the transaction should
be mentioned to the magistrates when he next applied
for a renewal of his licence.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Edward Foy was brought up for final examination,
charged with having committed aggravated assaults
on two persons.
George B aid, 32, George-street, Foley-place, was
at the Swan public-house. George-street, on the 16th
instant, about twelve o'clock. The prisoner was
asleep, and apparently not sober. Suddenly the pri-
soner woke up, and staring about him in a savage
manner, said to a person of the name of Smith, who
was in the room, " You —, I'll bite off your
cheek." To another man he said, " I'll bite off your
nose ;" and to a third he said, " You —, I'll cut
out your liver." The prisoner had a knife in his hand
at the time. The prisoner immediately fastened with
his teeth on the cheek of Smith, and then attacked
the third man with his knife.
Ralph Levy, general dealer, Ann's-place, said while
eating his bread and cheese in the public-house he
missed his knife from his plate. He heard the priso-
ner threaten to bite off the cheek of one man, to bite
the nose of a second man, and to cut out his liver.
As the prisoner was a stranger, witness took no no-
tice of him. Hearing a cry he turned round and saw
the prisoner loosening his teeth from Smith's cheek,
and immediately afterwards the prisoner rushed upon
him with a knife, making a stab at his heart. Wit-
ness stopped the blow with his hand, and his fingers
were cut to the bone in the effort he made to protect
himself. The prisoner made another stab at him, and
witness ran to the fireplace, and, taking up a poker,
struck the prisoner as he was coming again at him
over the arm with force sufficient to break the poker.
The prisoner immediately changed the knife into the
other hand, and pursued witness about the room.
Witness succeeded in striking the knife from the
prisoner's hand, and, then closing with him, held him
until the prisoner was eventually secured.
William Smith said he was in the public-house at
the time the prisoner woke up. The prisoner stared
about like a madman, and then threatened him and
others. The prisoner seized him with his teeth, but
did not bite the piece out. He only made a sort of a
hole. Witness was too much alarmed to notice what
else occurred.
The prisoner reserved his defence.
The prisoner was then ordered to stand committed
to the sessions under the new Act which has recently
come into operation, the 14th and 15th of Victoria,
c. 19, which imposes an imprisonment not exceeding
three years for the offence of wounding under certain
circumstances, doing away with the old law, which
subjected an offender to fifteen years' transportation.
The prisoner having applied to be admitted to bail,
Mr. BINGHAM fixed the bail at two sureties of 1001.
each and the prisoner's own surety in 2001.
The prisoner said this was very heavy bail for a
poor man.
Mr. BINGHAM said he purposely intended the bail
to be very heavy. He considered the prisoner was a
dangerous man to be at large, as there was no saying
when he might not be seiz-d with another fit such as
the one which had brought him into his present posi-
tion.
Reuben Seabrook and John Smith, persons in the
dress of gentlemen, believed to have assumed ficti-
tious names, were committed for trial for indecent
practices in Hyde-park on Thursday.
WESTMINSTER.
William Glenister, alias Smith, a labourer em-
ployed at the Equitable Gas-works, Thames-bank,
was charged wan the wilful murder of Mary Eliza-
beth Reynolds, a child.
Elizabeth Reynolds sworn—l reside at No. 6,
Douglas-street, Vauxhall-bridge-road. I have been
living with the prisoner at the bar as his wife for the
last three months. I had a child, a girl 17 months
old, but it was not by the prisoner. I left it at eight
o'clock last night fast asleep abed, in our room in
Douglas-street, and went out. While away from
home I met some friends, and took some drink, which
so overcame me that I was taken by the police to the
station-house, where I was kept. I was discharged
this morning, and when I got home, between 10 and
11, I found my child dead in bed. It was covered
with bruises and marks of violence. I was going
for a police-constable when I met one coining, and
he returned with me to the house and saw my child.
Mr. BRODERIP (to the prisoner)—Do you wish to
ask the witness any questions ? Prisoner—l don't
know that I have got any to ask her.
James Henry Walker, sworn—l live in the same
house as the prisoner and the last witness. About
half-past seven last night the prisoner came home
and went upstairs. I was in my room, the back
parlour, which is directly under the apartment he oc-
cupies. I heard him take the child out of bed, and
I heard it fall on the floor. It screamed moot alarm-
ingly. At about 12 at night I heard the same thing
repeated.
Mr. BRODERIP—A fall on the floor and ecreams ?
Witness—Yes, Sir. So heavy a fall that it shook me
in my bed. The child screamed very much.
Mr. BRODERIP—Was it immediately after the heavy
fall that you heard the child scream again ? Witness
—lt was.
Witness continued—The fall and the screaming
were again repeated this morning between 5 and 6
o'clock. They were exactly the same as before, and
shortly after that I heard the prisoner go out to his
employment. At half-past 10 or 11 I spoke to the
lodger in the next room to the prisoner's, and she said
there was something the matter. About half-past 10
or a quarter to 11 the last witness came home, and I
called to her when abe got into her room, and she told
me the child was dead.
Mr. BRODERIP—Where was the child ? Witness
—On the bed in their room.
Mr. BRODERIP—Was that the room from which
you heard the heavy falls and the screams ? Witness
—lt was.
Mr. BRODERIP—Did you hear the prisoner say
anything? Witness—About half-past seven last
nighr, when he came home, I heard him say some-
thing. The person in the next room had her door
open at the time he entered the house, and desired
her little girl to shut it, whr I he 'd the er

William Millman, police-constable 95 B, sworn—
From information I received I went to a back room
on the first floor at 6, Douglas-street, this morning. I
found the rno-her in the room crying, and the child
lying on the bed, which was on the fluor, covered with
a piece of sack. I lifted up its frock and saw it had a
great msny bruises on it. Seeing it had no shirt on,
such as children usually wear, I searched and found
one saturated with blood. I also found the prisoner's
shirt near it, partly tucked under the bed, covered
with blood in parts. I found large places of blood
upon the floor, as though something had been dashed
down upon it; and there is also blood upon the
clothes the prisoner has on. I took the prisoner at
the Equitable Gas-works, as he was about leaving at
one o'clock to-day. The child's mother went with me
and pointed him out as he left the work.. I told
him I should charge him with the wilful murder of a
child at 6, Douglas-street, when he observed what he
had to say would be said at the station-house. When
he arrived there he stated that he lett work last night
at half-past five o'clock, and went and had some beer
with some of the rest of the men, and whe❑ he went
home he was drunk, and fell over the child and didn't
know any more about it. There were a dozen places
with blood when I saw the bed-tick at the prisoner's
house to-day.
Mr. G. Pearse, of Regent-street, Westminster,
surgeon, sworn—l was called by the police at half-
past two o'clock this day to 6, Douglas-street, and the
officer Milleman showed me a female child lying on
the bed, which I examined.
Mr. BRODERIP—What was the reiult, sir, of your
examination ? Mr. Pearse—l found the left
arm and right leg broken. Tnere were 15 or 16 se-
vere contusions on the body and extremities, an in-
cised wound under the right eye, and nearly the
whole of the head and lace, on the right side particu-
larly, was one mass of severe bruises. The face ap-
peared to have been recently washed. There was
blood in the mouth and nostrils. The bruises on the
body appeared to have been inflicted many days pre-
viously.
Mr. BRODERIP—Were the itsjuries on the bead and
the fractures recent ? Mr. Pearse—They were.
Mr. BRODERIP—What, in your opinion, was the
cause of death ? Mr. Pearse— L'he severe contusions
on the right side of the head would be sufficient to
cause the death of an infant.

Mr. BRODERIP—Is it your opinion that the child
met its death from violence ? Air. Pearse—lt is.
Mr. Pearse added that he had not yet had the op-
portunity of making an internal examination of the
body. There was a great qu entity of blood effused
from the mouth and nostrils, probably caused by the
rupture of some vessels.
Mr. BRODERIP (to the prisoner)—lf you wish to
say anything in answer to the charge, lam quite
ready to hear you. You need not say anything unless
you like. Have you anything to say The prisoner,
who appeared throughout to treat the matter with the
most perfect indifference, and never exhibited the
least emotion at either the details or production of
the clothes covered with blood, nor attempted to cross-
examine the witnesses, although invited to do so, re-
plied—" All I've got to say is, after I pit home I
don't recollect anything as I done ; I recollect only
picking the child up, and falling down on it two or
three times. I had been out a-drinking with the other
men all the evening."
Mr. BRODERIP—Is that all you have to say ? Pri-
soner—l don't recollect what I said or done.
Mr. BRODERIP—It is my duty to remand you on
the charge of wilful murder until Thursday next.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, Oct 24.

--
At the Court at - Windsor, the 231 day of October,
1851, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council. This day the Right Hon. Edward Adolphus
St. Maur (commonly called Lord Seymour) was, by com-
mand of her Majesty, sworn of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the
Board accordingly.
At the Court at Windsor, the 23d day of October,
1851, present, the Qunen's Most Excellent Majesty iu
Council. It is this day ordered by her Majesty in
Council, that the Parliament, which stands prorogued
to Tuesday the fourth day of November next, be further
prorogued to Tuesday the fifteenth day of January next.
At the Court at Windsor, the 23d day of October,
1851, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty
in Council. Whereas by an Act passed iu the session
of Parliament held i❑ the second and third years of her
Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act for regulating the
Police Courts in the Metropolis," it was amongst other
things enacted that it should be lawful for her Majesty,
with the advice of her Privy Council, to alter the num-
ber of magistrates appointed to any of the said Court,;
and whereas it wai declared by en Order in Council,
dated the eighth day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty, that it is expedient that the number
ef magistrates should be reduced to twenty, as vacancies
among the said magistrates shall occur; and whereas by
the same Order her Majesty, by and with the advice of
her Privy Council, was pleased to order and direct that
a vacancy then existing at one of the said Courts
(that is to say), at the Southwark Police Court,
,hall not be supplied ; and whereas it has been
found that the number of the police magis-
trates cannot be reduced as is proposed in
the said recited order without detriment to the police
service, and her Majesty IlaS ben advised that the va-
cancy at the said Southwark Police Court should be
filled up; her Majesty, therefore, is pleased, with the
advice of her Privy Council, to order and direct, and it
is hereby ordered and dkrecf,ed, that the said Order in
Council, of the eighth day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty, reducing the number of the said police
magistrates, be rescinded and repealed.
And the Right lionouttable Sir George Grey, Bart.,
one of her Majesty's principal secre.aries of state, is to
give the necessary directions herein accordingly.
W3l. L. BATHURST.

GN OFFICE, OCT. 21.
The Queen ba4FOREI been pleased io approve of Mr. E. L.
Montefiore as Consul at Port Adelaide for hi. Majesty
the King of the Belgians.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
Valentine Holmes us Consul at Belfast for the United
States of America.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
Alexander Sheffield as Consul at Demerara for the Re-
public of Venezuela.
The Queen has also been pleated to approve of Mr.
William Pryor as Consul at Halitax, Nova Scotia, fur
the tree Hanseatic city of Hambargh.
WHITEHALL, OCT. 22.

The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Wil-
liam Cw,ar to the church and parish of Tranent, in the
presbytery and county of flatidington, vacant by the
death of the Rev. tobert Stewart, late minister thereof.

CROWN OFFICE, Om 24.