The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-09 00:00:00

HATTON GARDEN.

ALLEGED MURDER.—Yesterday, James Daws, a drover,
was charged on suspicion of having murdered Ann Sams,
his wife.

On Monday night last the prisoner returned home, and
finding his wife absent he went to bed, and she shortly after-
wards came home in a state of inebriety, when the prisoner
quarrelled with her, and after beating her he turned her out
of the room, when he made use of threatening language
towards her. A heavy fall and groaning was heard, when
the landlady of the house took a light, and proceeding up
stairs she found the deceased lying down, with her head un-
der her body, and completely doubled up. She was ques-
tioned as to what ailed her, but making no answer the land-
lady laid hold of her hand, which was cold, and she was
found to be quite dead. On examining her person, her
head was dreadfully injured, and there were marks of
violence.

Mr. LAING remanded the prisoner until the result of a
post mortent examination was known.

LAMBETH-STREET.

APPLICATION TO ADMIT MRS. CANNING TO BAIL:—
Yesterday Mr. Loney, the solicitor of Mrs. Canning, and
who has been employed for the defence of Edwards, Wee-
don, and Laccassagne, for the outrage on Mr. Gee, waited
on Mr. WALKER, and requested to know if he would ac-
cept the required bail for the appearance of Mrs. Canning
at the Clerkenwell Sessions, to meet the charge on a bill
of indictment found against her, without requiring the no-
tice of twenty-four hours. Should his Worship consent to
his request, he would produce two respectable and respon-
sible persons, to whose security he felt satisfied there could
not be the slightest objection raised.
Lee, the officer, here handed to the Bench the warrant
he held for the apprehension of Mrs. Canning, which
charged her, " Maria Canning, otherwise Maria Edwards,
with unlawfully conspiring and agreeing together unlawfully
to obtain of and from one William Gee divers title-deeds,
securities for money, and moneys, and in furtherance and
according to the said conspiracy, unlawfully, forcibly, and
maliciously imprisoning the said Mr. Gee for the space of
four hours." The warrant required that the defendant
should put in bail herself in 801., and two securities in 40/.,
and that twenty-four hours' notice of such bail should be
given to Mr. Gee.
Mr. Walker, after reading the document, remarked
that he had no discretion whatever in the matter, and
therefore the terms of the warrant of giving notice must be
complied with.
Lea, the officer, said that Mr. Gee, previous to his leaving
town, had deputed him, Lea, to receive the notice of bail
required, so that he might make the necessary inquiries as
to their solvency, &c., and it therefore would not be ne-
cessary to lose time in serving Mr. Gee personally with the
notice, as required by the warrant.
Mr. Loney observed that an application had been made
to the Chairman at Clerkenwell sessions on the day before,
to admit Edwards to bail, and though it was opposed by
Mr. Bodkin, on the part of the prosecution, he, the Chair-
man. consented to receive his own bail in 801., instead of
500/., which had been demanded, and two sureties in 401.
each, instead of 250/. Mr. Loney, after saying he would
see and consult his client, Mrs. Canning, alias Edwards, as
to the bail in her case, left the office.

SURREY SESSIONS, JULY 8.

(Before R. HEDGER, Esq., and a full Bench of Magistrates.)

Elizabeth Parker, who described herself to have been
formerly in the service of the Marquis of Sligo, was tried
on two indictments, charging her with robbing children by
very ingenious means. She was also detained for stealing
several articles from the person of Eliza Evans, in the
parish of St. James, to accomplish which it was alleged
that she had administered a quantity of opium to the child,
previously to the commission of the. robbery.
The trial of the prisoner excited infinite interest, as it
appeared she had been carrying on her dishonest practices
for a considerable length of time in and about the environs
of the metropolis.
Mary Summerfield, a girl of ten years of age, on the
morning of the 4th of June was sent from home with a bas-
ket, containing some money and other articles. On the
way to Long-lane she was met by the prisoner, near St.
George's church, who asked her to convey a small basket
which she held in her hand, and which she said contained
two shirts, to a Mr. Williams, who, she described, lived at a
pawnbroker's shop in Suffolk-street. The child expressed
her readiness to oblige her, upon which the prisoner, pulling
a ring off her finger, said that it was her wedding ring, and
desired her to get seven shillings lent upon it, as it was
pure gold. The prisoner then told the child to leave the
basket in her care until she came from the pawnbroker's
shop, adding, at the same time that she should wait at the
corner impatiently for her return. The child did as was
directed ; but on her return back to the place where she
had left the prisoner, the bird had flown. The prosecu-
trix here detailed her trouble of mind on finding that the
prisoner had gone off with. the basket, and her dread of
going home after what had happened.
When the prisoner was called upon for her defence, she
said that the prosecutrix was quite mistaken as to her
identity, that she (the prisoner) had been brought up in
the family of the Marquis of Sligo from her youth, and had
come over here from the county of Mayo to join them, but
finding that the Marquis had gone to Jersey, she was on
the point of leaving town when she was taken into custody
on this charge.
The Chairman summed up, and the Jury, after a short
deliberation, returned a verdict of Guilty.
The prisoner was tried on a second indictment for a si-
milar offence, and found Guilty.
The Chairman sentenced her to be transported for 14
years.

The Coast Guard eAablislintent cost the country
last year the enormoto sum of .).E.,387/. 9s. 2id.

tormed yoit.in mine of the 3d inst. that the Princes of
,-ia and Wallachia had their audiences of the Sultan on
the Ist of the month, but could not, for want of time, enter into
the details of the ceremony. It took place at the new palace
at Beshik Tash, on the Bosphorus. As they and their suite
had arrived here in the uniforms the Russians gave to the
native corps formed by them in the principalities, a dress
which is not distinguishable from that of flee Russian troops,
the public mind here was on the alert to ascertain whether
they could make their appearance before their liege lord in
such an attire. A discussion, it was known, had taken place
between the Princes on the propriety of altering their dress on
tnis occasion. The Russian Charge d'Affaires, to whose
wisdom the decision of this delicate question was referred,
decided that, as the mask was not yet to be cast aside, it
would be little in accordance with the part his Court had re-
quested them to act at Constantinople to appear before the
Sultan in the garb of Russian generals ; he recommended that
orders should be laid by, that Turkish fess should be substi-
tuted by chakoes, and that epaulettes and uniforms should
be enveloped in the hermanee or Turkish mantle. This
last farce, which Russia has got up to throw dust in the eyes
of Europe, is a worthy sequel to the comedy of the evacuation
of the principalities. The Sultan, whose private feelings on the
occasion were not very enviable, performed his part, like all
the actors in the piece, to admiration. He naturally felt that
he was called on to invest with the highest dignities men who
are nominees of Russia, and who are indebted for their ap-
pointment to their devotion and subserviency to his enemy's
interests. On their entering the presence-chamber the Princes
prostrated themselves before the sublime throne, and were al-
lowed to kiss the Imperial toe, a favour never before granted
to any of their predecessors. The Sultan pkldressed to them
several questions on desultory topics. As the Prince of Wal-
lachia had been unwell, the Sultan inquired with interest into
the state of his health, assuring him that it would give him
great pain were he prevented, by a return of illness, from en-
joying himself at the festivities given on the occasion of his
daughter's marriage. He presented them to his two sons.
When they approached to kiss their feet, the youngest boy be-
gan crying out aloud, a circumstance which, to the supersti-
tious Turks, appeared of the very worst augury. In the Sul-
tin's presence the Princes received the mantle of investiture,
richly embroidered and fastened with a diamond clasp. Mou-
chir Ahmet Pacha buckled on each of them a magnificent
sword, covered with brilliants. They next received their de-
coration, on which the Sultan inquired why they did not wear
the orders they had received from Russia? Were they not
aware that he was on the best terms with that Court?

On the following day the Princes waited on the Greek Pa-
triarch, and were anointed according to the rites of the or-
thodox church. In the evening a handsome dinner was pre-
pared for them by Halil Pacha, where were invited all the
principal men of the empire.
Having related to you the drama of the presentation of the
Princes, I cannot conclude my letter without a few observa-
tions on the able policy of Russia in her apparent cession of
the provinces. It was necessary for her to support, by some-
thing like fact, her declaration of disinterestedness, yet the
moment was too pressing to allow of her to relax for_one mo-
ment in the impulse of her forward course. She had occupied
the provinces for upwards of three years, she had formed there
a body of ten thousand men, supplied them with arms
and artillery, and appointed to their command officers
devoted to her : she had abolished coraes and arbi-
trary exactions, which kept the country in a state of ex-
haustion, she had put an end to those vexations of the
aristocracy which exasperated the people without strengthen-
ing them, while she increased their real power, and conse-
quently their attachment to herself, by the condition of the
new constitution. She now passes the provinces to secure
Silistria : she withdraws her troops from these provinces while
she extorts a new and menacing frontier in Asia, and by the
same insidious act prolongs the slumber of England and France,
and calms the apprehensions of Austria. Certainly not the
least able portion of the manoeuvre was calculating apparently
with justice in deceiving Europe by such a device. Besides
this, Russia acquires other no less important advantages. She
has an advanced-guard supported at the expense of Turkey.
She has a well-affected population on her immediate frontier;
she prevents it from being irritated against the exactions and
faults of her governors, and she leaves the faults to be com-
mitted, or which she can cause to be committed, on the shoul-
ders of Turkey, while in reality, by the selection of individuals
to act as Princes, by the military organization, by the sanatory
regulations, the provinces are as absolutely a possession of
Russia as any regular incorporated province. There on the
same side has she completed, by one method or another, her
moral defences against aggression—Poland is prostrated—the
provinces are well affected—the flank is strengthened prepara-
tory to occupying the centre inlet of the Dardanelles.
It should be remarked that the state of the provinces was as
bad as it was well possible to be. They were the arena of all
the conflicts between the two empires—the objects of constant.
intrigues ; tyrannized over by the most corrupt of all degraded
castes—the Greeks of the Fanar ; consumed by a profligate
native aristocracy, and submitted to a monopoly of corn, by
the prohibition of its exportation except to the capital. Other
countries may furnish examples of misery and oppression flow-
ing from corn legislation, and other countries may have had
less generous motives of interference than Turkey, which was
the desire of keeping at a low price the food of the poor ; but
whatever their motive, interference had here as well as else-
where produced the most deplorable effects, and gave Russia
an admirable opportunity of a glaring abuse to be turned to
her account, and abused resources to be drawn forth, just for
as long as it was convenient for her to flatter. The freedom
of exportation will henceforth be burdened only with the sup-
plying of a certain portion to the Government stores, thereby
having in constant readiness depots for the next occupation.
His Majesty's ship Scout arrived here yesterday from Alex-
andria, with despatches from Major Campbell.
The Smyrna post has not yet arrived, though it should have
been here on the Bth—this circumstance has produced the
greatest uneasiness among the merchants, in consequence of a
report having been spread that a Tatar arrived this morning
with despatches to the Russian legation, that a dreadful fire
had destroyed the Custom-house, as well as the greater por-
tion of the Frank quarter.
The exchange on London is 974.

CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 6.—The festivities on the occasion
of Salihe Sultana's marriage came yesterday to a close. No-
thing has been spared during the fifteen days consecrated to
their celebration that could add to the entertainment of the
conspicuous guests who, at the Sultan's invitation, flocked
to Constantinople from all parts of the empire, or con-
tribute to the amusement of the people. The rope-dancing,
equestrian feats, fireworks, and illuminations, have in con-
sequence been very gratifying to the population of the capital,
a population whose child-like simplicity is pleased with
trifles, and well deserves some extraordinary recreations.
The mass has been called the opera of servant-maids ; but in
Turkey, where the boisterous pastimes, the religious pomps,
and the theatrical entertainments of Europe are wanting, the
forms of religion afford neither shows to please the eye, nor
sounds to fill the ear. Amusements are so rare, that the de-
light felt by all classes on the occasion is easily to be ac-
counted for. Even to a European, whose fastidious taste can
only be pleased by strong excitements, the sight was novel
and interesting. The lines of green tents for the troops, lining
the summits of the picturesque banks of the Bosphorus, the
tents of the grandees (some of great splendour) pitched on
the declivity behind the new palace of Beshik Tash, seemed
to restore to the Turks their nomade character and simple
primitive habits—a strange contrast with our manners and
ideas—pachas and mollahs dining in their open tents, while
native musicians sang to the accompaniment of their national
instruments ballads recording the events of former days, or
agile dancers moved to the lively sounds of castanets, the
population standing in circles around them, or circulating
freely about.
At night the illuminations, with such a charpente as the
shores of the Bosphorus, presented a line of light which ex-
tended with the windings of the canal from the sweet waters
at the extremity of the Golden Horn to Bujukdere, a distance
of about 18 miles. The illumination of the Seraglio point was
equally brilliant and chaste, and as you descended the Bos-
phorus, seemed to spread like a palace of light in the midst
of darkness, now resting on the earth, but approached by
the long avenue of the illuminated canal. Every night the
Seraglio presented a different figure in its centre and prin-
cipal compartment—a ship, the imperial cipher, the Sultan's
ten-oared boat, an immense star, a passage from the Koran,
an imitation of Mosaic. These changes were sometimes
effected during the evening. This mode of illumination,
which is truly Turkish, might well be adopted by Europeans ;
it is as follows :—A frame from 20 to 40 feet high is erected
in front of the building to be illuminated ; on the transverse
beam small pullies are adjusted, through which lines are
passed, to which the lamps are made f. st at the proper dis-
tances, and admit of being raised or lowered with the greatest
ease, according to the outline of the figure or sentence or be
formed. These lines resemble the warp of a web. Great ex-
tent can thus be given to the illumination at little cost. The
rapidity with which a figure is transformed into another is sur-
prising ; in order to facilitate the metamorphosis every line
has marks, indicating the height to which it is to be raised, ac-
cording to the exhibition intended. Every eminence can be
taken advantage of—chimnies, minarets, trees, steeples—and
great room for the display of taste in the selection and variety
of the figures may thus be obtained. Though to the eye of an
European the fireworks appeared but poor specimens of pyre-
techny, yet the originality of several of the exhibitions could
not but agreeably excite his surprise. Among other things, a
shark, 40 feet in length, swam on the surface of the Bosphorus,
and whilst pursuing smaller fishes, poured from its gaping
mouth, eyes, and nostrils, torrents of
_liquid fire. A sudden
explosion metamorphosed it into a boat, adorned on all sides
with blue lights.
It may be asked in Europe, if Turkey has nothing more
important to attend to at this moment than giving in mar-
riage—if millions of money could not find better employment
than fireworks, banquets, and festivities—if time, so valuable
at all times, so invaluable now to Turkey, might not be bet.
ter employed than in the encampment of Dolmabakshe ?
Still this marriage feast has not, I think, been without some
good effect. After the want of administrative union through-
out the empire, perhaps the
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and the want of points and objects
greatest barrier inr Turkey to formation:°nottheonly the chief men
of opinion. In the encampment of p olmabakshe have
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from the greater portion of the
empire. There, without any
occupation or immediate purpose,
their time has been spent in paying and receiving visits the
news of each district, the general state and prospects of the
country, have been the naturally prevailing
the more freely entered into from the nature of Turkish inter-
course, which is never so numerous that the sentiments of any
one individual i 3 unknown to the rest. I was myself present