The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-10 00:00:00

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DA.

OLD COURT.,
(Before Mr. Justice ERLI, Mr. Baron Mama', and Mr.
Justice MAULS tbi
THE LAMBaTH RAPE CASE.— William Grey Smythe,
rti-
man who was yesterday convicted of a rape, was this 10°.'".
ing put forward for the purpose of being sentenced. di
The prisoner, upon being asked if he had anything I° .s
in mitigation of the offence, said he considered he had be.;
exceedingly ill-used by being convicted upon the testine°4
of a single witness; but it was useless his saying auYt.„b
as he was confident it would have no effect upon the C°2," -„t he
Mr. Justice ERLE, in passing sentence, told him te"fle
had been convicted after a careful and patient trial- 0
stood convicted of an extremely grave offence, and, 11_,,e/ e
given his best attention to the case, he (the Learned Jed
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thought the conviction was a very proper one. IS 00
been urged in the prisoner's behalf that be he
acquainted with the criminal law, and that nost
took care to pursue his nefarious:practices in such a 01.1"-ti• ol
as not to bring himself within its pale. Some of his vleool
he had used fur the purpose of encouraging their comP,lUiipto
and of assisting him to lead others to the path of rule A oil
which he had dragged them. That course he pursued
several occasions without violating the law, but in 00,6 "bol
he was stopped in that course, and upon the servant, we° be
previously assisted him withdrawing, from his emplerioa
was betrayed by his passion into that violence which tip
rendered him amenable to the outraged laws of his eone 04
Then it was that he resorted to the course which warrillan, of
his conviction, and which was characterised by a 100'70
infamy in comparison to ;which brutal bodily violence to
have been mercy indeed. It was clear, therefore, thet rto
guilt exceeded that of almost any '
man who had hi,t,ll/0
stood at the bar to answer for such a crime, and I: tile
the duty of the Court under the circumstances to vile" ailt
offence with the severest punishment. The sentence of hii
Court was that he be transported for the term of ''':
natural life. a ll'
The prisoner and Francis Taylor alias Foreman, age top
were indicted for a misdemeanour, in conspiring to 011
young girls for the sensual purposes of the man. PW
Mr. Payne and Mr. Parry conducted the case for the ,d,
secution, and Mr. Clarkson, with whom was Mr. Ballat,'"

defended the prisoners. astef'
The evidence was precisely the same as that put in 1-
day, and consequently it is unnecessary to repeat it. .00
Mr. CLARKSON stopped the case after the second olnot
had beeen examined, and stated that as the female PP,'"glitli
had been made the tool of her seducer, who was indicteave
her, she was anxious to act upon his advice and wi,th.,-or
her plea of not guilty. She was far gone in the Om" tile
way, and he (the Learned Counsel) hoped the Court o°oo
deal mercifully with her, not only on that account, bet tool
on account of the dependent position in which she
towards the male prisoner while she was in his service; be
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-tr. Baron 141.inswr said the Court of Appeal lt!,,aiso
that the charge imputed to the prisoner was a c'ooo
offence, and if the prisoner pleaded guilty, the Court
deal with the case accordingly.
Upon being called upon to plead again,
The female at once pleaded plead. guilty at°
The man said he could not plead guilty to that w--1,i0.-
was not guilty of, but as it was useless struggling eeljoi
the evidence, he would plead guilty for the sake of
time. It was right that he should state, however, tbileoo
female had acted under his orders; and he hoped the
would deal leniently with her. 104
Mr. Baron MARTIN said, as the male prisoner had 00;
been transportedlor life, it was useless to pass any furtbeforse,
tence upon him. With regard to the female, it sP,P,, sea
that she had been seduced at an early age by the toe',7i. ha
as there was reason to suppose that she had acted un'dia
control and direction, the Court would abstain from Piiii
a severe sentence upon her. The sentence of the Curt Ibo
that she be imprisoned and kept to hard labour I°'
period of two years.
The prisoners were then removed.

NEW COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
Alfred Smith, a young man, was indicted far obt
large quantity of meat under false pretences.
It appeared that the prisoner went to a meat salesnittil°
Newgate-market, and represented that he had been eel roil':
butcher in Somers-town, who was well known to the o
Po tI
cutor, for three sheep. No suspicion being attached r.'
prisoner, the carcases were supplied to him, and it /id, 00
till some days afterwards that the truth was discovertnt
being apprehended the prisoner denied the charge, °-
identity was distinctly proved by the witnesses.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty. Of
There were several other charges against the prisone-
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similar character, but they were not pressed. ceo
The RECORD'S. sentenced him to imprisonment fora I

SOCIETY OF ARTS.—The eighteenth ordinarY g I
ing of the members of this society was held last eveidl?,, 06
their Rooms, John-street, Adelphi; Sir J. P. Boileau UYo
chair. A discussion, ci mmenced at the last eneetiaise
various points connected with the construction of clot ot'
watches, was resumed by Professor Cowper, and andotiT
gentlemen essrs. Loseby-, Frodshama, Vulliamy, sn,irhect;
gof experience in this department of art. L'oe r„f
versation chiefly turned upon the most desirable sw7iiit.„"
the teeth of pinions in watches; and the exact AO P';
power to be applied in giving motion to the machiaslnsi(4
Hall and other gentlemen maintained the general Pt—gl
that those watches in which the vibration was producer
the smallest possible power, would keep the most c
time; but Mr. Frodsham, while admitting that this leosei
almost universal opinion of scientific watchmakers, 011'40'
that his own experience convinced him of the desirabPso
employing a much greater intensity of power. Mr.l3Shiliq
made some interesting observatidns in proof of the possle-ticl
of constructing watches sufficiently correct for all Pr.sthell
purposes for sate, at a much lower rate than had hi
been found practicable in this country. In Arneric,toe
Switzerland, watches could be made and sold much c;');teird
than in England, which he attributed to the greater,,,- 0
gence and better scientific education of the workx--Ito
those countries, to the large number of females enlPll,ste
this occupation, for which he contended they were P,'".boaf'
larly adapted, and to a very minute subdivision of
The proceedings then terminated.
Diet,lll
SINGULAR CHINESE SENTENCE.—Mr. Vh;
lately made a communication to the Asiatic Society
don, descriptive of a mode of punishment peculiar,'
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criminal code of the Celestial Empire. A Chinese nieg,'- et,
accused and convicted of having killeChis wife, vi-0e',,,;6
tenced to die by the total deprivation of sleep. Viet l'of
tion took place at Amoy. in the month of June lei es
es.,o
condemned was placed in prison, under the survei",7ol9t
three guardians, who relieved each other every 11,"0.et
hour, and who prevented him from taking sleep file&
day. He lived thus for nineteen days without havisseigliAl
for a single minute. At the commencement of the. grr"
day his sufferings were so cruel, that he begged, aS
favour, that they would kill him by strangulation. 10014
THE NORTH AMERICAN MAILS.— Lifileopts
WEDNESDAY.—The United States' mail steamer Pac.,1„110110
tain Nye, sailed to-day for ew York, with the es**-tesP:,s,
and 22 passengers. Commencing with to-day, tbalnes- d0;„0
of this line will sail hence twice a month on the Wef'nritild-i1
and, alter the 16th inst., from New York twice a wet; y
the Saturdays, up to the 19th July, after which * fiere • r
three times a month. The Cunard line of steamers s.ta
yertised to leave Liverpool weekly, commencing feorao
day last, and from America on Wednesday the 234 Pat
SUICIDE BY ntussic AClD.—YestercleY paerl$,
inquiry was gone into before Mr. W. Carter, the Or Gip
the Marlborough Arms Tavern, Westmoreland-plate dello
berwell, into the circumstances connected with
,r29,,.,10%
of Mr. William Augustin Dubourg, chemist, age.., tefr",e
destroyed himself, as was demonstrably proved, u‘,4,oloe,fs
prussic acid. The unfortunate man left behind '-dietr'io
ral letters, one addressed to the coroner, assignirJgAboati
of mind as the reason of the terrible act he Was ",000"„i
commit. The jury returned a verdict of temporal
Few qualities are more popular among the /010411 j
mankind than that of an easy temper.—Eliza Cesh'‘
e • t'
It was currently reported at the clubs Ye otgee
that the vacant regiments would be conferred uP°:
General Loftus, Major-General Lightfoot, C. 8., 40 of
General Brown, C. 8., the Adjutant-General rig° r
MUSICAL Gossip.—Verdi has sold the collolisti;
his new opera, Rigoletto, to the well•known masic.Pd of t.
Recordi, for 30,000 f., reserving to himself one-thin prrs
e
profits from the sale for ten years.— A young Veil A1i1.4
donna, Mdlle. Croce, has made her debut at the P'
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Belisario, and with complete success. M.
MCIIIII "WPaglit itmalio amiably wkes