The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-01 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1, 1851.

THE

rality and of progress, and the counties represent the
spirit of conservatism.

- There are other points of the great Reform ques-
tion, on which, however, we cannot dwell at present.
We apprehend there would be a pretty general
opinion in favour of the abolition of the Property
Qualification, as a useless and wrong restriction on
the choice of the electors. On the duration of Par-
liaments, opinions would probably fluctuate between
three and five years. A vast majority of Reformers
would advocate the Ballot, as a defence for electoral
independence and honesty against intimidation and
bribery. All these points will be much discussed—
let us hope in a friendly and temperate spirit. The
object to be kept in view is neither personal nor class
aggrandizement, but the fairest, purest, and best re-
presentation of a great people.

TEE DERBYSHIRE MARBLES AND SPARS
IN THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.
The Derbyshire marble is not well represented in
Class 1., the specimens merely consisting of a few black
pieces unpolished, but prepared for the operation of the
turner and his lathe. The mountain limestone of Der-
byshire, it is well known, contains some beautiful
varieties chiefly of black and encrinital marbles, which
give employment to a great meny persons in the neigh-
bourhood who convert them into ornamental articles.
Amongst the mineral manufactures in Class XXVII.
are many beautiful specimens of the Derbyshire marbles
manufactured into tables, chimney-pieces, clocks, ink-
stands, vases, j ars, candlesticks, card-cases, paper- weights,
card-baskets, inlaid chess- boards, mosaics, models of
obelisks, and pyramids, &c. &e. See Nos. 37, 38, 40, 76,
and from 79 to 83, in Class XXVII. for Derbyshire
marble worked up into these various articles. The
Derbyshire alabaster or gypsum is procured from fissures
in the mountain limestone (see specimens in No. 14. 6,
Class I.) The famous Derbyshire fluor spar, or fluoride
of calcium, is a beautiful and interesting mineral also
found in the mountain limestone associated with baryta,
calc spar, and the ores of lead and zinc. The colours
vary from amethystine to violet blue, with many
beautiful shades of bluish and yellowish green ; and
Professor Ansted states that other colours may be arti-
ficially produced by heat and by sulphuric acid. Nos.
37, 38, and 40, in Class XXVII. contain many very
beautiful articles manufactured from the fluor spar.—
Builder.

THE ANGLO—SAXON RACE.
(From the Revue des Deux blondes.)
Of all the races which at this day occupy the scene of
the world the most active, and that which possesses the
greatest weight and influence, is unquestionably the
Anglo-Saxon race. Other nations may be more noisy
and brilliant than England and the United States—they
may exhibit more external glory—hut not one, ,f looked
at closely, can be considered so necessary as both these
people. The Anglo-Saxon race is one of the mostim-
portant spring.; of the great political machine of the uni-
verse; without it it would perish, or be abandoned to
the contempt of the future some of the most important
facts of history, and some of those moral notions which
are most essential to humanity. Without England and
America Protestantism would exist no longer. Had
Protestantism no other support than that of Germany,
we would see it now expiring in delirium and in blas-
phemy amidst the laughter of other nations. Without
the example afforded by England the French revolution
would not only be anathematised, but abandoned as
without reason and full of incoherent extravagances.
Had it not been for England, America would on its
discovery have fallen bank into the barbarism in which a
Spanish vessel found it. It is owing to England that the
glorious discovery of Columbus has not proved useless,
and counts for a great human fact, and for a service
rendered to moral order, and not merely a discovery
interesting to science and cosmology. It is England
who at this day prevents nations from falling upon and
devouring one another, and who maintains the equili-
brium of the Continent by the fear of having to measure
strength with so redoubtable an adversary. Thus her
very egotism is useful, for it protects cur repose. It is
her who crosses the projects of Oriental Europe, and
says to the two Sclavi races—" Thus far shall ye go and
no further." What a destiny ! Her form and power are
absolutely necessary to the moral order of the world.
Let us lay aside all naienal prejudice and patriotic
pride ; many nations of apparently more importance
might disappear, and which seem to be more immedi-
ately interested in the maintenance of modern civiliza-
tion, but there is not one whose death would leave such
terrible results as that of the solitary, the egotistical,
and independent England.

SITTINGS 05' THE NEW COURT OF APPEAL.--The
new Court of Appeal in Chancery will not sit before Michael_
mas term. The judges are styled in the new Act " Lord
Justices." One judge sitting with the Lord Chancellor, or
both judges sitting apart from him, to form the Court of Ap-
peal. The Lord Chancellor sitting alone is to have co-ordi-
nate jurisdiction with the Court of Appeal.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, Sept. 30.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, AUG. 29, 1851.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Lieutenaut-Colonel Gustavus Charles Du Plat, now her
Majesty's Consul at Warsaw, to be her Msjesty's Con-
sal-Gt“.e[ai nG GLnt city.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 20.
The Queen has been graciously plaased to appoint
James Green, Esq,, now British Vice-Consul at Blew-
fields, in the Mosquito Territory, to be her Majesty's
Consul at that port.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 29.
The Queen has heeu pl:.!a:,,d to approve of Don
Althans as Vice-Consul in London for the 1.1,:).•
public ut Peru.

WAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 30.
31 Regiment ot Foot—Surgeon Henry Cooper Reade,
from the 97th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Stevenson, de-
ceased, Sept. 30,
17th Pout—Sergeant Michael Bradford to be Ensigu,
by purch2se, vice Crowe, appointed to the 30th Puot,
Sept. 30.

I.3th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas William Mostyn,
from the 75th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Abbott, who
exchanges, July 16.

28th.Font—Quartermaster Samuel Spence, from the
821 Foot, to bu Quartermaster, vice Cowan, who re-
signs, Sept. 30.

43d Foot—Assistant. Surgeon Robert Browne, from
the 38th Foot, to be Assistant-burgeon, Sept. 30.
75th Foot Lieutenant Charles Compton Abbott,
from the 18th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Mostyn, who
exchanges, July 16.

76th"Foot—Lieutenant Robert Thomas Hear, from
the 26th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Doran, deceased,
Sept. 30.
84th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Lightfoot to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice Mitchell, deceased; Ensign
George F. Tud Whitlock to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Lightfoot, June 26; Ensign Henry Currie,
from the 97th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Tod Whitlock,
Sept. 30.
(Extract from the Dublin Gazette of Sept. 26, 1851.)
Crown and Hanaper Office, Dublin.
In pursuance of an Act passed in the fortieth year of
the reign of his Majesty King George 111., intituled
" An Act to regulate the mode by which the Lords
spiritual and temporal and the Commons to serve in the
Parliament of the United Kingdom, on the part of Ire-
land, shall be summoned and returned to the said Par-
liament," I do hereby give notice, that the Right Hon,
Denis St. George, Baron Dunsandle and Clanconal, has
been chosen by a majority of votes to be the Peer to sit
in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, in the
room of Charles William, Earl of Charleville, deceased.
Dated this 23d day of September, 1851.
C. FITZ-SDION,
Clerk of the Crown and llanaper.
BANKRUPTS.
James Bassett, hotel and eating-house keeper, High-
street, Shoreditch, to surrender Oct. 9 and Nov. 13, at one,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee,
Basinghall street; Jenkinson, Svreeting, and Jenkinson,
Lombard-street.
iVilliam Hayhow, boot maker, Ratcliffe-highway,
Oct. 15, at twelve, and Nov. 13, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-
court, Basinghall-street; Stoddart, Raquet-court, Fleet-
street; Archer, Bloomsbury-street, Bedford-square.
William Marston Whalley, licensed victualler, South
Mimms, Middlesex, Oct. 14, at two, and Nor. 13, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official
assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street; Mahn and
Baynes, Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields.

William Wickens Holman, draper, Bath, Oct. 15, and
Nov. 13, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards,
official assignee, Sambrook court, Basinghall-street;
Mardon and Prichard, Newgate-street.
Pearce Manasseh Hadley, corn merchant, Cardiff,
Oct. 15, and Nov. 12, at eleven, at the Bristol District
Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol ; Bevan,
Bristol; Greenway, Pontypool,
Robert Hunter, linendraper, Swansea, Glamorgan-
shire, Oct. 14 and Nov. 11, at eleven, at the Bristol
District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Leman
and Humphries, Bristol.
John Williams, iron master, Cadonton juata Neath,
Glamorganshire, Oct. 14, and Nov. 11, at ,aleven, at the
Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol;
Brittain and Sons, Bristol.
George Marshall Bass, grocer, Louth and Horncastle,
Lincolnshire, Oct. 15 and Nov. 12, at half-past twelve,
at the Leeds District Court. Carrick, official assignee,
Hull; Lawrance, Plews, and Boyer, Old Jewry Cham-
bers; Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
John Heywood and James Heywood, provision mar-
chants, Liverpool, Oct. 15, and Nov. 4, at eleven, at the
Liverpool District Coilit. Cazenove, official assignee,
Liverpool; Doige, Liverpool.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS.

James Peacock, butcher, Crawley-street, damden-town.
James White, plumber, Trafalgar street, Walworth-road.
James Dale, clerk, Church-street, Old Kent-road.
John Costar, lodginghouse-keeper, Cambridge-terrace,
Mg ware-road.
William H. Meek, silversmith, Brick-lane, St. Luke's.
Montgomery Hunter, ensign in the 18ch Regiment of
Beegal Native Infantry, Jarmyn-street, S:. ,J--rrs's.
G. Newman, stakile. keeper, Grove-road, St. John's-wood.
William Ackers Smith, attorney-at-law, Denbigh-street,
1301 grave-road, Pimlico.
11%,,'"7 Lack, pig yober, Underwood-street, Mile-end
AYie,i-town.
/ft:al(l.'",!:a jiarrt tt accountant, Strand.
NLint,setll, surveyor of inland revenue, Lleref;.;rd-place,
Th .1'11441.
heul4sißtkzitt:i.nailkman, John-street, Portland-town.
Richard ChrisO rteied
Mark Metcalf: lt oZ
Alexander Pinder
Thomas Smith LIB maker, Manchester.
lieigham, brewer, Norwich.
, tzller. Liverpool.
to. cksmitb, Salford.
Thizaas Gibson, f4r::_innkeeper, Ipswich.
John Green, glau a,Z, Huveoat, Lancashire.
Hannah Hoggard,
harnsliire. blacksmith, dealer, Hull.
/Idwinstowe, Notting-

Charles Holt, ale dealer, Manchester.
Job Shottin, assistant to a pawnbroker, Heaton Norris,
Lancashire.
William Edward Waddington, currier, Barnsley, York-
shire.
Felix Webb, needle pointer, Studley, Warwiekshirp.
William Woolfurd, stuff presser, Appel'.ley-bridge,
Yorkshire.
William Reynolds, farmer, Pitney, Somersetshire.
John Rose Holder, commission agent, Ferry-side, Car-
marthenshire.
Samuel Newell, retail brewer, Birmingham.
James Woodward, grocer, Lichfield.
Rees Jones, jun., grocer, Abertillery, Monmouthshire.
James Babb, general shopkeeper, Halberton, Devonshire.
William Cook, farmer, Plumstead-common, Kent.
William Henry Leigh, attorney-at-law, Blackburn,
Lancashire.
Thomas Copland, commercial t raveller, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne.
Daniel Burton, printer, Bradford, Yorkshire.
Nicholson Marshall Robinson, builder, Brumley, York-
shire.
Thomas Files, dealer in boots and shoes, Walcot, Somer-
setshire.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.

J. Curd, Grove street, Camden-town, choesemonger,
Oct. 30, at twelve—E. Harratt and J. Bland, Hunting-
dun and Godmanchester, builders, Oct. 23, at twelve.
In the Country.

W. H. Boon, Plymouth, ironmonger, Oct. 23, at half-
past ono, at the Hall of Commerce, Plymouth—T.Pear-
son, Cann House, Devonshire, merchant, Oct. 23, at
half-past one, at the Hall of Commerce, Plymouth—
Betsy Daw, Lumborn Mills, Devonshire. Oct. 23, at
half-past one, at the Hall of Commerce, Plymouth—J.
Bowes, Liverpool, ale and porter dealer, Oct. 22, at
eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Merrell, Walcot,
Worcester, cattle dealer, Oct. 23, at half-past eleven, at
the Court, Birmingham—T. Davis, J. Glossop, and J.
Brankley, Morris Mill, Lancashire, dyers, Oct. 23, at
twelve, at the Court, Manchester.
NOTICE OF CERTIFICATE.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
W. Williams, Ashford, Kent, contractor, Oct. 22, at
twelve.

the 12th inst. the prosecutor, 162 H, was on duty in
Brick-lane, Spitalfields, and that on passing the end
of a court in Glasshouse-street the prisoner, who was
standing there, struck him, and then, picking up a
brick, threw it at him, but fortunately missed bis
object, and the brick having broken on its fall to the
ground the prisoner picked up one of the halves and
was about to strike the prosecutor with it, when that
person ran up and at once took him into custody;
but the prisoner appears to have made up his
mind that if taken his opponent should have a
hard fight for it, and so a desperate struggle en-
sued. In the progress of this struggle the prosecu-
tor's truncheon came out of his pocket, and therefore,
as soon as the prisoner had succeeded in partially re-
leasing himself from the officer, he contrived to seize
the truncheon with which he commenced a fearful
attack upon its owner. The prisoner having, to a
certain extent, disabled the officer, effected his escape,
and the constable had been from that morning under
the medical treatment of the surgeon to the 11 division
of the police force, and had not as yet been able to re-
sume his duties. It further appeared that the prisoner
after his escape from the prosecutor had accompanied
a woman to a brothel in Brick-lane, and that while
there he produced the truncheon, and boasted that he
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by the prosecutor, that during the earlier part of the
struggle the prisoner had threatened to put three
inches of steel into his body.
Mr. WITHAM having summed up the evidence,
The jury at once returned a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. WITHAM thereupon sentenced the prisoner to
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Mary Ann _Keough, aged 30, was indicted, charged
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provision for the child. The mother, unhappily, gave
way to intemperate habits, and having been accused
of having abandoned and deserted another child which
she had had, be had deemed it a prudent act in refer-
ence to his own child to take it from her care and
place it out at nurse. Subsequently to this proceed-
ing, in consequence of the annoyances he had received
from the defendant, ho had, under advice, placed the
child in the workhouse. The child was now three years
of age. About two years ago the defendant assaulted him,
and for that violence she had been committed, but he had
on that occasion abstained from prosecuting, with the
hope that the mere committal would act as a salutary
warning to her. The example, however, had failed
in its effect, and he had therefore been made the sub-
ject of the woman's annoyance at least fifteen or
sixteen times since that committal. On these occa-
sions the defendant had threatened that she would
"do" for him. Upon the 19th of the present month
he went out, but had not proceeded above 100 yards
before the defendant caught hold of him by the collar
and struck him several severe blows on the chest and
shoulders. Not approving of this proceeding the
prosecutor returned home, whither he was followed
by the defendant and the mob her conduct collected.
The defendant and the mob remained in the front of
his house, creating a great disturbance, for nearly two
hours, and this was not discontinued until he had
called in the aid of a policeman, to whom he was com-
pelled to give the defendant in custody. She was in
due course taken before the magistrate at the Thames
Police Court, and by the advice of that learned
gentleman it was that this indictment had been pre-
ferred.

The defendant now urged that she had not been
permitted to see her child since it had Leen taken from
her care, and that she had heard that it had become
emaciated, and was, in fact, reduced to a perfect
shadow in bodily appearance. She added that the
prosecutor was spiteful to her because the child's
nurse had summoned him for money due for the
nursing.
The prosecutor admitted that he had been sum-
moned, but explained that the nurse had not been paid
in consequence of some misunderstanding. The
whole of the claim had since been paid. In reference
to the defendant's statement as to the present condi-
tion of the child, that was utterly untrue ; for having
heard the reports which the defendant had put into
circulation on the subject, he had made regular in-
quiries as to the condition of the child, and the replies
had been most satisfactory. If, therefore, the defen-
dant's assertion as to the emaciated state of the child
had been true he should have ascertained the fact,
and, of course, would then have adopted steps for its
recovery.
WyrlrAm then left the case to

The jury, who returned a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. WITH AM said, the Court were not desirous of
dealing harshly or oppressively with the defendant.
It was necessary, however, that the peace should be
preserved. At the same time, it was not to he endured
that the prosecutor should be made the object of con-
stant annoyance at the will and pleasure of the de-
fendant. With the view, then, of compelling her to
maintain the peace the Court would order the defen-
dant to enter into her own recognisances i❑ the sum
of 201. to come up for judgment when called on. The
defendant therefore must clearly understand that, if she
repeated her system of annoyance of the prosecutor she
would be called up for judgment, when her reward
would be an imprisonment for six months.
The defendant having entered into the required re-
cognisances was then liberated.
Margaret Emma Simpson, a respectable-looking
woman, who had pleaded guilty at the last sittings
of the sessions at Westminster to an indictment
charging her with having stolen a gold ring set
with brilliants, of the value of 201., from the shop
of Mr. Waylett, 233, Oxford-street, now came up for
judgment.
The prisoner, after she had pleaded, stated that she
enjoyed an independency of 601. per annum, arising
from landed property; that she had an account at
Coutts', and that she had two sisters in Edinburgh
who were in affluent circumstances.
Upon this statement the prisoner was remanded for
the purpose of inquiring as to the truth of her state-
ments. She refused, however, to afford any further
information to the officers, so that they were unable
to test the truth of her assertions. With regard to
her statement that she had an account at Coutts', that
proved to be untrue, for the answer to the inquiry at
that establishment was, that such a person was " not
known" there. _ _

Mr. NI, ITHAM now sentenced her to imprisonment
for six months and hard labour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
80117-STREET.

Levi Langley, a youth employed as pot-boy at
the White Hart public-house, C4stle-street, Long-
acre, who had been charged on suspicion of stealing
321., was brought up for examination.
The landlord, Mr. G. Williamson, had secreted
the money (consisting of two cheques, a 51. note, and
four sovereigns) behind some bottles. One day last
week the bag was missing, and as no one had access
to the key of the cellar except the prisoner, he was at
once suspected and given into custody. le was ex-
amined at Bow-street on Saturday, and it was sug-
gested that the boy must have watched his master at
the time he was secreting the mone as in no other
way could the robbery be accountedy, for. The pri-
soner persisted in his entire innocence of the charge,
but he was remanded till yesterday. In the mean-
time Sergeant Thompson, one of the most useful
officers in the F division, was employed to investigate
the matter. Having been directed to the spot where
the money was deposited, he commenced searching
the shelves and bins in that portion of the cellar, and
soon discovered traces of the bag and cheques, which
had been dragged away and mangled by the rats.
Same of the fragments had been scattered about, and
a sovereign had been carried to a considerable dis-
tance, but the whole of the property was fortunately
discovered.
Mr. JARDINE, after examining the cheques, &c.'
remarked upon the singularity of the case, and ordered
the prisoner to be discharged.
filling the office of till
cashier in the establishment of
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
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who Oxford-street, tr
James George Spencer, a young man of very re-
spectable connexions, and
Mr. Burton, furnish-
ing ironmonger
was charged with
having robbed his employer to a considerable extent.
prisoner,Theprotested his innocence, Was
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remanded fora week.

MARY LEBIVE.
One of the officers attached D
to the court brought
up a woman named Anne Davis, who for some time
past has cohabited with a stone-mason at 6, hloly-
neux-street, Lisson-grove, for cruel treatment of one
of her children, a little girl, by burning her with a
red-hot poker.
The defendant, who carried in her arms an infant,
seemed to be about 40 years of age; she was very
respectably attired, and her countenance certainly did
not betoken a cruel disposition.
The sufferer,
a sickly looking child, was led in by
a young woman who had taken a very praiseworthy
interest in the distressing affair.
Mr. LONG read the warrant to defendant, which set
forth the nature of the charge of cruelty against her,
when
Defendant eagerly and imploringly said, " I did it
in the heat of passion."

The poor child, Ellen Davis, having replied satis-
factorily to questions put to her by the worthy magis-
trate as to the nature and allegation of an oath, was
then sworn, and she deposed as follows :—I am eight
years and a half old. The defendant is my mother.
Yesterday fortnight my sister gave me some cocoa to
drink, and because I took it at her bidding my mother
scolded me and burnt me on my bottom with a red-

bet poker ; after that she made me take off and wash
my clothes; before I did so, and while I was quite
naked, she beat me with a cane, and wealed me, and
also kept pinching me.
Mr. LONG-At what hour was it she burnt you
with the poker ? Child—At six in the evening, and
at about seven she tied me tightly to the bad-post
with a rope round my waist. When my father (the
man living with defendant) came home she loosed me
for a time, and then tied me up again, so that I was
obliged to lay upon the floor under the bed all night.
My legs were tied together in the first instance, and
so were my hands, but my hands were loosed when
my father returned. I was secured tightly to the
bed-post the whole of the next day by cords, my legs,
but not my arms, being then confined.
Mr. Fell (the chief clerk)—Were you supplied
with any food during the time you were tied up as
you have stated ? Child—Yes, Sir, a little. On
Tuesday morning my mother gave me some milk and
water and a little dry bread for my breakfast. I bad
the same for dinner.

Mr. LONG—When were you untied ? Child—On
Wednesday morning.
Mr. LONG—Who then untied you ? Child—My
mother.

Mr. LONG—When did you first tell anybody about
what had happened to you ? Child—On the next
Friday, when I left the house and went to Kew to
my grandfather and aunt, who live there. (It was
here stated that the parties she alluded to were no re-
lations, but that, as she had formerly been• at nurse
with them, she had been in the constant habit of
speaking of them by ;.:_a appellations named.)
➢lr. LONG—How did you get to Kew, my little
girl ? Child—l was taken there on the top of an
omnibus.

Mr. LONG—Has any doctor attended you for the
injury you have received? Child—No, Sir.
Mr. LONG—Can you now sit withuut pain ? Child
—Oh no, I cannot.
➢lr. LONG (to defendant)—Do you wish to ask
this child any questions
Defendant (to her daughter)—llow many times
have you run away ? Child— S::!veral times, mother.

Defendant—And why have you done so ? Child
—Because you threatened to give me a good hiding.
Prisoner—l have always treated you as well as I
have the rest of my children.
Mr. LONG—Then if you have done so, you must,
according to what has appeared before me, have used
all your children most cruelly.
Mr. Fell—You don't beat them all with a red-hot
poker, do you ?
Defendant made no answer to this question.
Emma Gibson was the next witness—l live at 4,
Bryanstou-place. On Saturday morning last, in
consequence of something which I had heard from my
brother, I went to the defendant, and asked her if
she had heard anything of her child, when she said
she had not, and that she should not trouble herself
to look after her any more. I told her I thought she
had better go to the workhouse to see if she WAS
there, as it was such a wet night, when she said she
would not do anything of the sort, and she should be
glad if the child was out in the wet and lying under
a hedge. She told me that she had given her a good
beating with a stick and burnt her bottom with a
poker, which she had taken red-hot from the fire.
She did not consider it would have been any sin to
have " put away with it" if nothing bad been found
out respecting it. On Sunday I went to Kew and
examined the child's person, when I found upon the
right side of her posteriors the marks of a burn, as if
caused by a red-hot poker, as described ; it was as
broad as three of my fingers and as long as my hand ;
it was very sore and inflamed, and is so at the pre-
sent time. The poor child cannot yet sit without ex-
periencing much pain.
Mr. LONG, after making some suitably strong and
feeling remarks upon the flagrant nature of the offence,
remanded the defendant till Thursday (to-morrow),
upon which day the depositions, which will be then
completed, will be read over formally by Mr. Fell,
and the accused will then be committed to take her
trial.

At 5 o'clock the was conveyed away in the Govern-
ment van to the House of Detention, Clerkenwell.

WORSHIP-STREET.

Margaret Willis and Eleanor Shannon, two women
of notorious character, were charged with decoying
three boys into a house of ill-fame for the purposes of
robbery.
William Miles, 13 years of age, the son of a me-
chanic in Spring-gardens, Mile-end New-town,
s'a'ed, that while passing through Brick-lane, Spital-
fields on the preceding evening, in the company of two
other boys of much the same age, they were stopped
by the women at the bar, who addressed them in dis-
gusting language and tried to induce them to accom-
pany them home to their lodgings. They all of them
refused to do so, and were hurrying away to escape from
them, when the prisoner Willis suddenly snatched his
cap off his head, and ran with it into one of the houses
in an adjoining court. He followed her into the pas-
sage, and entreated her to return him his cap, and she
promised that she would do so if his two friendecame
and asked her for it also. lie accordingly returned
to the other boys and persuaded them to go with him,
and all of them went into one of the parlouri, which
the prisoner Willis had entered ; but the moment they
got into the room the prisoner shut and locked the
door, and then, turning sharply upon them, exclaimed
in a menacing manner, " Now, if you don't show me
all the money you've got you don't go safe out of this
place." They were all very much frightened, and
the witness pulled out of his pocket all the money he
had, consisting only of sixpence in silver and some
halfpence, and the instant the prisoner saw it she
seized him by the arm and violently forced it out of
his hand. She then robbed the second boy of all the
money he had in a similar manner, but, en finding
that she could not get any from the third youth, as
he had no money about him, she grasped hold of the
poker, and, opening the room door, told them that
unless they instantly left the house and went
quietly out of the neighbourhood it would
be the worse for them, as she would dash their brains
out. They were too glad of the chance of escape to
make any disturbance, and all three hurried out of
the house together, but on turning into a neighbour-
ing street, encountered a policeman, to whom they
related the way in which they had been robbed, and
the officer having gone back with them to the house,
took into custody both prisoners, whom witness at
once pointed out to him.
George Eason, 15, and George West, about the
same age, the two boys who were in the company of
the first witness at the time in question, gave a pre-
cisely similar account of the treatment to which they
had been subjected, but Eason's evidence went par-
tially to exculpate the second prisoner from the more
serious part of the charge, by stating, that although
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outside of the house while it was being committed. Sergeant Jackson, of the H division, deposed to the
two women being pointed out to him by the youths
as they had described, and stated that the house in
which he had effected their apprehension was the re-
gular resort of some of the worst characters in the
district. On telling them the nature of the charge
against them both prisoners earneAly assured him
that they had not a farthing about them, but on the
road to the station he SAW Willis attempting to get
something secretly out of her mouth, and he allowed
her to do so, but as soon es she had got it into her
hand he forced it away from her, and found it to be
the sixpenny piece produced.
Both prisoners stoutly denied the charge, and Wil-
lis declared with the greatest effrontery that the
money taken from her by the officer had been volun-
tarily presented to her by one of the youths in con-
sequence of her permitting him to accompany her
home; but

The MAGISTRXTE did not credit her story, and,
after directing Shannon to be discharged, as he did
not think the facts against her sufficiently crimina-
tory to insure a conviction, ordered the other woman,
Willis, to be committed until that day week, for the
completion of the depositions against her.
A powerful fellow named Woodward was then
charged with the following savage attack upon a poor
woman, who is now in the London Hospital from the
injuries she had sustained.
A married woman named Harris, living in Dorset-
street, Spitalfields, stated that she and her sister, the
woman the prisoner had maltreated, entered a public-
house, late in the evening, to meet a friend of theirs,
and, on going into the parlour, were followed by the
prisoner and some other men. They took in with
them a potfull of beer, which they passed to a young
man named Baker, and Baker passed it to the wit-
ness's sister, but, the instant the vessel was returned
to the table, the prisoner exclaimed that he would
not have any of them drinking with him, and,
seizing up the pot, hurled it at her bead with such
force that she instantly dropped from the blow, her
head was laid open with a fearful gash, and the blood
poured from the wound in such profusion that she was
obliged to be conveyed to the hospital, of which she
was still an inmate.
The prisoner pleaded circumstances of aggravation,
as he considered them, but was ordered to be remanded
until the result of the injuries the woman had received
could be ascertained.

decent liberties with her, and said he would be her
protector—nobody should ever hurt her. She in-
formed her mother and father, who gave the prisoner
into custody.

Mr. BA!Entine denied the charge on the part of his
client.

Mr. COMM said there was quite sufficient evidence,
and he fully committed the prisoner for trial.
Bail was accepted for his Appearance.

DREADFUL MURDERS AND SUICIDE
BY A FATHER.
A most distressing affair occurred yesterday morn-
ing about eight o'clock, in Wyndham road, Camber-
well, which produced the most intense feeling in that
usually quiet locality (a brief account of which ap-
peared in The Sun of yesterday). The perpetrator
of the dreadful tragedy bears the name of Faucett.
Ile had recently commenced business as a grocer and
cheesemonger, at the corner of George-street and the
Wyndham-road. On inquiry, it has been ascertained
that the lives of two of his own children have been
sacrificed, and that a third child has been so dread-
fully wounded as to render its chance of recovery ex-
ceedingly doubtful.
From the intense excitement prevailing in the
neighbourhood, it was extremely difficult to obtain
accurate particulars, but the following may be relied
upon as authentic, to which is subjoined the report of
the surgeon, Mr. King, of Addington-place, Camber-
well-road, who was first called in to attend the victims
of their misguided and doubtless maniacal parent,
and also the latter, who had become his self-
murderer.
Faucett, it seems, had lately purchased the business
of a Mr. Stockham, and only commenced on his own
account the day previous to the lamentable occurrence.
Nothing particular had been observed in his conduct
indicative of insanity. Yesterday the shop was opened
at an early hour, and several customers were served
by Faucett. Just previous to breakfast-time he called
to his wife, and said he wished her to take two letters
to the post-office, and on her return to call at Mr.
Lewis's, a baker, and purchase some dcugh, to make
a cake for the children. Previous to leaving the
house she gave the children their breakfast. After a
quarter of an hour's absence she returned home, and
was surprised to find the shop door fastened on the
inside:; and, being unable to obtain admittance by that
entrance, she proceeded to the private door. On
knocking, the door after a short lapse of time was
opened by her eldest child (a girl about nine years of
age), from whose throat blood was at the time copi-
ously streaming from two frightful gashes. Upon
rushing into the house, she was quite paralysed on dis-
covering her youngest child, a boy, aged one year
and nine months, lying on a bed in the back room of
the first floor, with his head nearly severed from bis
body, and of course quite dead. She then proceeded
to the back parlour, and discovered another of her
children, a girl, between four and five years of age,
also lying a lifeless corpse, a deep wound having been
inflicted in her neck, completely dividing the main
arteries. The distracted mother ran back to the shop
of Mr. Lewis, the baker, who, accompanied by several
persons, proceeded to the house. They, on hearing a
slight noise, went into the back kitchen, where the
murderer was seen leaning over the sink, and on ap-
proaching to apprehend him, it was found he had in-
flicted upon himself a wound in the throat from five
to six inches in length. He was immediately con-
veyed into the back garden and laid upon the ground,
but before surgical aid could be procured be had ex-
pired. Mr. King promptly attended, and gave it as
his opinion that the two younger children must
have died instantaneously. The eldest girl, who
opened the door to her mother, had received two
severe wounds, one on each side of the neck,
her life having been preserved only by the desperate
resistance she was able to oppose to the attack of the
murderer, and the providential return of her mother,
whose knock alarmed the wretched man, and thus,
for the present at least, saved the life of one of his
intended victims. At this moment it was that
Faucett rushed into the kitchen, and completed his
atrocity by terminating his own existence in the
manner already described. The weapons with which
the horrible crime was committed were a knife used
in his business for cutting bacon, a carving knife, and
an ordinary table knife, all of which appeared to
have been previously sharpened. The struggle be-
tween the father and the surviving daughter must
have been one of the most desperate description, as,
in addition to the wounds inflicted on her neck, her
hands and arms are dreadfully mutilated. On inquiry
at six o'clock P.m., the reporter ascertained that the
symptoms of the surviving child had taken a more
serious turn, and that considerable danger was to be
apprehended. The house is at present in possession
of the police, and will so remain until after the
inquest.