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London, England, 1851-10-29 00:00:00

EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1851.

and C. Billson, Mirk-lane, City, wholesale coffeo dealers
—J. Birks and J. Jowitt, Huddersfield, Yorkshire,
wholesale tea (lealt-rs.

INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
John Gardner, Portsmouth. grocer.
Joseph Dav•:y, Birdbrook, Essex, cattle dealer.
David Davies, Aberdare, Glamorganshire. haulier.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
A. M'Donald, Thurso, house carpenter, to meet Nov.
3 and 24, st twelve, within Mackay's Hotel, Thurso.
R. Anderson, sen., and R. Anderson, jun., Leith, mer-
chants, to meet Oct. 31, and Nov. 21, at one, within the
Ship Hotel, Edinburgh.
A. Patience, Tarbat, Rosshire, fish curer, to meet
Nov. 3 and 24, at twelve, within the Crown and Anchor
Hotel, Tain.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
Freiherr von Forster, the Bavarian who was con-
victed on Monday of robbing a gentleman staying at
the York Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, was
brought up for judgment.
The RECORDER told the prisoner 'that he had been
convicted upon very clear evidence, and there was
too much ground for believing that this was not the
only offence of the same character that he had com-
mitted. At present, however, he was only convicted
upon one charge, and the sentence for that offence
would be imprisonment with hard labour for 12
months ; but lie must recollect that if he had really
committed any other offences he would be liable to be
charged upon them at the expiration of hia imprison-
ment, and he advised him when he was released to
make the best of his way to his own country.
The address of the Learned Judge was explained to
the prisoner by an interpreter who had been employed
in the case.

Edward Evans, 44, pleaded Guilty to an indict-
ment charging him with stealing a Bank of England
note for 1,0001., and two other notes for 2001. each,
the property of Messrs. Hoare and Co., the bankers.
Mr. BODKIN, who appeared as counsel for the pri-
soner, addressed the Court, and in mitigation of
punishment stated that he had been for many years
in the service of the prosecutors and enjoyed their
confidence. He had made all the reparation in his
power by acknowledging his guilt, and he bad since
rendered all the assistance he could to enable the firm
to put their books to rights and place them in posses-
sion of the actual amount and nature of the transactions
in which he was implicated.
Mr. CLARKsoN, who was counsel for the prosecu-
tion, also addressed the Court, and said that it was
quite true that the prisoner had been looked upon by
the firm as a person of great respectability and in
whom they placed the utmost confidence, and it was
only in the performance of a most painful duty that
they felt themselves compelled to appear as the prose-
cutors of the present indictment. He felt it right at
the same time to inform the Court that it was correctly
stated by his learned friend that since the apprehen-
sion of the prisoner he had given the prosecutors
every information in his power upon the subject of
the charges that were made against him.
The RECORDER said he should like to put one or
two questions to Mr. Hoare.
Mr. Hoare was accordingly sworn upon the noire
dire ; and in answer to questions that were put by the
Court, said that the sum of 1,4001., referred to in the
present indictment, he had reason to believe was not
the whole extent to which the firm had been plun-
dered by the prisoner. He was engaged as ledger
keeper, and had been for twenty years in the service
of the firm, and the utmost confidence was reposed in
him.

The RECORDER inquired if the prisoner bad really
rendered assistance to correct the errors in the books.

Mr. Hoare said that he had done all in his power
to enable them to put the books to rights. A great
many false entries were made in them, and but for
the assistance of the prisoner it would have been a
work of very great difficulty to have traced the dif-
ferent items.

The RECORDER, postponed passing sentence.
Edward Pittard, 29, agent, pleaded guilty to four
indictments charging him with uttering forged
cheques for small amounts to different tradesmen.
It appeared that the prisoner had been in the habit
of going to tradesmen's shops offering goods for sale,
and having succeeded in throwing the parties off
their guard by his apparent position of respectability,
he would purchase some trifling article, giving in
payment a false cheque for a small amount, and re-
ceiving the difference.
The RECORDER, having ascertained that the pri-
soner had borne a good character at a former period
of his iife, and that he had never before been con-
victed of any offence, inflicted upon him the lenient
sentence of six months' imprisonment and hard
labour.

Caroline Gertrude Rogers, 19, a good-looking
young woman, was placed at the bar to receive
judgment.
The RECORDER, addressing her, said that she had
pleaded guilty at the last session of this court to a
charge of forgery, and the offence appeared to have
been committed with great art and ingenuity. The
sentence was respited in the hope that the benevolent
ladies who made it their duty to inquire into the cases
of the prisoners confined in the gaol of Newgate would
have made such a report respecting her as would
have justified the Court in passing upon her a lenient
sentence. He was sorry, however, to find that the
inquiries which had been made respecting her placed
her in a still more unfavourable position, for it ap-
peared that this was not the only criminal offence she
had committed, and the ladies who had bad the op-
portunity of seeing her and becoming acquainted with
her conduct bad unanimously reported that she was
a person having an utter disregard for truth, and that
her word could not in any respect be relied on. He
was afraid that this disregard of truth had been to a
great extent the means of placing her in her present
painful position, and it was clear that she would not
be likely to do any good in this country. The sen-
tence, therefore, he telt bound to pass upon her was
one of transportation for seven years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
William Dubois was charged with having stolen a
watch from Henry Bell.
The complainant, who was evidently inexperienced
in the ways of the town, was addressed in the street
by a fellow who asked him to buy some tobacco, and
then induced him to go into a public-house, into
which the prisoner soon after walked, and some talk
having about the purchase of a watch,
confusion tan ac
was caused, and the prisoner took up the
complainant's watch and ran off with it.
The prisoner expressed the greatest astonishment at
the charge, and said he had never seen the com-
plainant before his apprehension by an officer.—Com-
mited for trial.
Williams, a lighterman, was charged with having
used language calculated to lead to a breach of the
peace to one of the watermen who are in the habit of
rowing the Lord Mayor's barge.
The defendant, it appeared, had been very much
in the habit of casting ridicule upon the rowers of
the Lord Mayor's barge for a great length of time,
and was occasionally assisted in that sort of amuse-
ment by other young fellows upon the water. The
particular mode of annoyance resorted upon the
present occasion was excessively offensive. The City
bargemen wear upon state occasions a peculiar dress
of a very showy description, and the de-
fendant in reference to a particular part of
that dress which is more prominently exhi-
bited when they are occupied in rowing the barge, de-
signated the complainant as " My Lord Bum." The
epithet was not confined, as the plaintiff stated, to the
water service, but whenever he or any other of the
bargemen were met by the defendant " there goes
my Lord Bum" was shouted out, and immediately
re-echoed by the little blackguard boys who were
always ready to join in wounding the feelings of those
who waited upon the City dignitaries. Not satisfied
with costing the indignity of the name upon the com-
plainant, the defendant upon every occasion added to
the provocation by putting his thumb to his nose, and
with the most obeoxious noises " playing Mr.
Snooks" upon every member of the fraternity.
The defendant said the complainant quite misre-
presented the matter, for he was himself remarkable
for giving the offence of which be complained, and
anything' that was said or done to offend him was
merely done in retaliation.
The Loan MAYOR saw quite enough in the con-
duct of both parties before him to induce him to inflict
the penalty of 10s. upon the defendant, to make him
find bail for his good behaviour for six months, and
to assure him that any future conviction would be
visited with heavy punishment.
CLERKEN WELL.
Yesterday Thomas Davies, a powerful looking man,
carrying on a respectable business as a fruiterer and
greengrocer, at No. 18, Vernon place, Bagnigge-
wells-road, was placed at the bar before Mr. Combe,
charged with having violently assaulted Mrs. Eliza-
beth Deborah Davies, his wife, by which her life is
placed in imminent danger.
Sergeant Martin, No. 18 G, s lid that the prisoner's
wife was insensible and unable to speak.
It appeared that the prisoner returned home from
market, about a week ago, when a quarrel ensued be-
tween him and his wife, in consequence of her not
having his dinner prepared for him. After some high
words the prisoner took up a fire-shovel, with which
he struck her on the hand, and inflicted a severe
wound. Mr. Hardinge, of Sackville-street,
was called in, but erysipelas took place, and she was
confined to her bed. The officer here produced the
following medical certificate, viz. :
" I hereby certify that Mrs. Davies now lies danger.
ously ill from erysipelas, produced by an injury on the
hand caused by u blow.
"HENRY lIARDINGE,
" Oct. 27. " 24, Saelmlle•street, St. JlMllesee.
Mr. COMBE ordered that Mr. Hardinge should be
immediately sent for, and he attended in the course of )1
the day, and said that Airs. Davies was perfectly in.

sensible, and not in a fit state to be examined or dis-
turbed in any way.
Mr. Comm asked whether at any time during his
course of attendance upon her the had informed him
how the injury on her band had been caused? Mr.
Hardinge—She told me that it was the result of a
blow from her husband. •

Sergeant Martin produced the fire-shovel with which
she was assaulted.

Mr. COMBE (to Mr. Hardinge)—Was she in dan-
ger when she told you it was the result of a blow
from her husband? Mr. Wardinge said she was not.
Mr. COMBE asked if it was likely for her to be at
any time conscious or capable of being examined with
reference to what she hzd said about the assault by
her husband ? Mr. Hardinge replied that he had not
the least hope of her recovery, or that she would ever
be able to understand anything that could be said to
her.

Mr. COMM inquired who was attending upon her 1
Mr. Ilardinge—lier sister, a nurse, and other rela.
Lions.

Mr. COMBE gave instructions that if at any time
th"•re was the least symptom of returning conscious-
ness information should be instantly communicated to
this court, in order that a magistrate might attend to
take her examination.

Mr. Harding() said he would attend to the sugges-
tion of his worship, but he did not expect that she
would be alive on his return to her house.

Sergeant Martin said that information was given to
the police of the transaction, and the dangerous state
of the injured woman, when he was ordered to re-
main in the prisoner's house all night, and yesterday
morning he felt himself justified in taking the prisoner
into custody,

Mr. COMM asked the prisoner what he had to say
to the charge of striking his wife.
The prisoner, who was pale and dejected, and
seemed to feel the situation in which he was placed,
replied, " I deny it ; I did not strike her."
He was then remanded and locked up.
In the course of the day Sergeant Martin applied
for a summons to compel the future attendance of Mr.
llardinge to give evidence, he having threatened not
to attend without a summons, as he would not be paid
else. A. summons was granted.

intestines, and they also contained arsenic, but in
much smaller quantities than the stomach. They
were inflamed, but little if at all decomposed, which
is an important feature in the case. The mucus pro-
duced did not contain arsenic, if it did, it was in such
small quantities as to escape detection.
The Chairman—What is your opinion as to the
cause of the deceased's death ?

Witness—The result of the analyt is leads me to the
opinion that the deceased died from poison, and
that poison was arsenic. The fact of the intestines
not being decomposed is a strong corroborative proof
of the presence of arsenic.
Mary Jarman, formerly Mary Rollinson, daughter-
in-law of the prisoner, since the attempt on her life
has married a labourer named Thomas Jarman. She
said--O❑ Saturday, the 30th of August, I was ill at
home, at Sowley-green, at Great Thurlow. In the
evening I got Mrs. Mitson, a neighbour, to send her
little boy for my sister, Ann Cornell, the deceased, to
attend me. She came about eight o'clock the same
evening. She had for supper at my place a mss of
mutton broth, which I made for myself on the pre •
vious day. She had it about nine o'clock. At that
time she was quite well. I don't recollect whether
she had anything besides the broth. She bad not
taken it long before she became unwell. I made the
broth on Friday, and had some of it on that day and
Saturday morning, but I did not feel any ill effects
from it. I was ill before I took the broth. My sister
was taken very sick, and retched throughout the
whole night.

The Chairman—Where wa• the broth kept 1
Witness—ln a saucepan, on the hob by the side of
the fireplace. _ _

The Chairman—And where was the prisoner ?
Witness—He was in the house the whole evening—
by the side of the fireplace mostly.
Witness's examination continued—Deceased felt a
little better on the following morning, but I don't
know whether she had any breakfast, or, if she had,
what it consisted of. About 11 o'clock I told her to
make a mutton pudding for her dinner. The flour
was kept in a trough, in the usual place, and the
mutton was close by. The pudding was made, and I
saw her eat some of the dough, but none of the meat.
Her two children who accompanied her also partook
of it, and the three were taken unwell very shortly
afterwards. So bad did the deceased become that I
was compelled to get Airs. Chinnery to assist me, and
I sent Thomas Jarman for Cornell, the bmband of
deceased. He came about 5 o'clock, and took her
away in a cart. She was
,suffering much and could
not walk. That was the last time I saw her. She
died about 8 o'clock the same evening.
Mary Philips, a married woman, who lived next
door to the cottage occupied by the deceased at Bar-
nardiston, was next sworn—On the last day of Au-
gust the deceased was brought home in a cart with
her two children. She had been to see her sister.
She was very ill, and could not walk. She was put
to bed, and died about 8 o'clock, two hours after she
had got home. She was sick, and complained
of thirst. I was present when Mr. Baker, the doctor,
opened the body on the following Wednesday, at the
direction of the coroner. I saw him put all back ex-
cept something like a liquid, which he gave me, and
told me to put away, and which was buried in the
garden. (It was a portion of the contents of the
stomach.) The body was sewed up, and on the fol-
lowing Friday was interred.

Benjamin White, an aged respectable-looking man,
who described himself as an assistant and kind of
manager of a chemist's shop belonging to a Mr.
Daniels, of Great Thurlow, was then called, and said
—On the 21st or 22d of August I sold an ounce of
arsenic to the prisoner, William Rollinson.
Mr. Bevan, a magistrate—When you sold him this
ounce of ariianic, did he state what he wanted it for ?
"Witness (somewhat coolly)—No ; really I don't re-
collect, but it must have been something about the
rats and mice.

Mr. Bevan—Then you have not the slightest re-
collection about what he said, excepting that he must
have talked about rats and mice ? Witness—No, I
don't recollect what he said. It is very likely it was
about some mice, for I sold him it so often.

Mr. Bevan—Very often, perhaps. Witness—Yes,
frequently.
Mr. Bevan—How many times ? Witness—l can
scarcely recollect.

Mr. -Bevan—More than twelve times, probably ?
Witness—Yes, it may be twelve times ; so I can't
recollect what was said every time.
Mr. Bevan—What were your instructions relative
to the sale of arsenic ; had you any from Mr. Daniels?
Witness—No, none in particular ; merely to write the
word " Poiion" upon the paper.
The evidence on both cases having closed,
The Chairman inquired of the old man whether he
had anything to say, at the same time enjoining upon
him the usual caution ? The prisoner raised his head,
and with tears in his eyes simply muttered out—
" No, I have nothing to say. I know nothing
about it."

The Chairman then informed him that it was their
painful duty to commit him for trial at the next assizes
for the county, on the twofold charge of murdering
Ann Cornell, and attempting to destroy Mary Rol-
linson, otherwise Mary Jarman.
The old man, who was scarcely able to walk, was
removed preparatory to being conveyed to the county
gaol at Bury St. Edmund's.
The unfortunate woman Ann Cornell has left ten
children to regret her fate.

IRELAND.
PRIMATE CULLEN AND THE TENANT LEAGUE.

DUBLIN, TUESDAT.—Driven to sheer desperation
by the lack of funds, the Executive Committee of
the Tenant League have dispatched a foraging party,
consisting of four priests and Mr. Lucas, of the
Tablet, to scour the country in search of contributions.
Drogheda was the first scene of operations, and here
the "questors" did themselves the honour of waiting
on the Primate, " by whom they were most graciously
and favourably received." " His Grace" came down
to the tune of a pound sterling, and, what was more
to the purpose, he furnished the forages with a letter
of mark, which must, of course, prove of invaluable
service towards the raising of the required levies.
The document was intrusted to the charge of the
Very Rev. Mr. Dowling, and reads as follows :
" Drogheda, Oct. 27, 1851.
"Dear Sir,—l cheerfully add my mite to the col-
lection now commenced, which has for its object to
aid in obtaining legal relief for the suffering agricul-
tural population of Ireland. Their case is sad indeed.
Every man endowed with Christian charity must feel
a deep interest in it. It is most desirable to have the
matter brought in a full and satisfactory manner before
Parliament, with the view to get some measure adopted
by which the rights and interests of both proprietors
and occupiers of the soil may be regulated and pro-
tected. It is clear that the present state of things has
been most detrimental to both landlord and tenant, and
it is undoubted that the country will be irretrievably
ruined, unless the Legislature will adopt some wise
and just measure to save it.
" Wishing you and your colleagues every success'
in your charitable endeavours to assist the poor and
oppressed, I have the honour to be, your obedient
servant,

" ;',.1 PAUL CULLEN.
" Rev. Mr. Dowling, P.P., Clonmellon."
ENCUMBERED ESTATES COMMPSION.
The long sales vacation terminates this day, and
to•morrow the residue of the estates of Mr. Gustavus
Lambert, situated in the county of Westmeath, will
be brought under the judicial hammer. The rent-
roll of the property is about 1,000/ per annum, which
will be offered in a number of small lots, and, as the
locality is favourable, it is anticipated that fair prices
will be realized.

THE EXODUS.
The Waterford Chronicle contains the following :
_`l 'We anticipated, months past, that the amount of
emigrants would increase. In support of our opinion,
we regret to state, that the steamers Victory and
William Penn were crowded yesterday with nearly
500 Irish, destined to the free land of the west.' The
respectability of the emigrants surpassed any we have
seen before, and their anxiety to quit this unfortunate
and doomed country was evinced by the cheering
which they gave when leaving our quay. We have
seen letters from some of the emigrants who sailed for
Callao, South America, from London, in the fine ship
Louisa, at the end of April last. They arrived there
on the 20th of July, after a most pleasant voyage.
The news they contain is most cheering, and three
weeks' experience of the climate has made a most
favourable impression on them. One of the letters
concludes by saying,—` We have nothing to complain
of but the absence of our friends and the ignorance of
the language, but we will soon overcome such diffi-
culties.' This party numbered 180 persons, under the
superintendence of Mr. James' Grace, of Carlow, late
supervisor of inland revenue, whose entire family ac-
companied him.
EXAMPLE FOR LANDLORDS.

Under this head the Tipperary Free Press an-
nounces that Captain James Power, who lately
became the purchaser, under the Incumbered Es-
tates Court, of the Kilmore property, has, after a
careful review of its condition, come to the conclusion
that the rents were allotted far beyond what the
altered circumstances of the country rendered it pos-
sible to pay, and accordingly he reduced the rent of
tenants who paid 2/. ss. to 11. 59., and those who
held at 1/. 16=. to 1/. per acre, at the same time in-
forming his tenantry that of the Year's rent due in
November he would only demand one-half. To those
who desired to emigrate, he liberally promised as-
sistance, and in some few instances his offer was
accepted.

STATE OF TRADE.
The following is extracted from the weekly com-
mercial report of the Freeman's Journal :
" The improvement visible la.t week has not been
maintained this. Less business has been done, prices
are barely supported, and there is no desire to specit-