The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-12 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Nov. 11.

RUSSIAN RAILWAYS.

(From. the Times.)

So the Russian Railway scheme does not go down
with Europe. England won't touch it, and even
France is forced to drop it. There must he either
some very awkward circumstance about the affair
or an unaccountable degree of prejudice for nothing
can be more inviting than the proposal itself to the
raw British understanding. Think of the conces-
sion of 2,500 miles of railway through a great and
flourishing empire, for a considerable term of
years, at an estimate which has the proof of ex-
perience, with the advantage of cheap land, cheap
labour—everything, in fact, dirt cheap. Why
don't people flock to it 7 What are the small shop-
keepers and the country clergy about? Where are
the widows and half-pay officers, the surgeons, and
gentlemen's butlers, the gambling countesses, and
speculative baronets ? This ought to be another
South Sea Company, another Mississippi plantation
scheme. We feel positively ashamed of our country,
and even of France, our usually courageous and
speculative ally. The scrip ought to be now at 5 per
cent. premium. For the nucleus of 40,000,0001.
there ought to be a nebulous tail ofseme 100,000,0001.
paper scrip. The cry should be, " Still they come ;"
still more colonels, still more unprotected females,
still more fathers of families possessed with the
very natural desire to become rich at-once, and to
" heap hot coals" on the head of a fallen enemy.
But no ; an ominous silence is all the reply to a
man who asks us to make the trunk lines of a great
empire on very fair terms. We subscribe our half
or quarter million readily to make a railway from
one little town to another town still less, through
twenty miles of barren sand in the face of two
or three rivals. We run a line from a decayed
town to an unapproachable coast, and back again.
We do it when we know we shall- lose the money
and shall live to want it. But w© have not a
farthing for the Emperor of All the Russias. In
vain do war and peace alternately unfold to us the
boundless natural resources, the immense arsenals,
populous capitals, and enterprising genius of the
empire. So narrow-minded, so home-sick is our
spirit, that we would rather make a railway from
our dear little market town—at least what was a
market town in the reigns of the Edwards, though
it has three railways already—to almost anywhere
else, though we don't mean to go there, than in-
vest a sixpence in a line from Moscow to Odessa.
That is the fact, and why is it. We will try to
answer the question.
_ _ _

The main cause of this unusual hesitation is a
gloomy misgiving that we shall not have fair play.
It seems odd to talk of fair play in the matter of
railways, where there has been so much foul play
hitherto. But people always hope they will be a
match for foul play of the ordinary sort, on their
Own level, and when perhaps there is a wide
debatable ground of play that is neither quite fair
nor quite foul. What if a man should be sharp
enough to get an inkling of foul play, and share its
gains, or at least be aware of its frauds ? All rail-
ways are exposed to the tricks of the market. That
cannot be helped. No doubt there is a very clever,
and indeed very useful class of men, who can run
shares up and down with marvellous dexterity,and
who are usually found to sell in a dear market and

buy in a cheap one ; whereas the fond public is per-
tinaceously addicted to the contrary practice. We
tolerate this. It is fair play, for it is a man's own
fault if he is not wide awake. We tok rate enor-
moe•: Parliamentary expenses. It is only fair play
between company and company. We tolerate a
ruinous price for land. That is fair play, for every
man may fairly get his price for his own property.
We tolerate jobbing directors. It, is the share-
holder who elects them. We have tolerated loans to
new States founded. yesterday iu unknown conti-
nents.. That was more than fair play ; it was a
noble game. What have we not tolerated, so long as
it was only "diamond cut diamond ?" But in this

instance people were asked to put their heads into

a bear's mouth. There was no kind of equality.
We were to subscribe the forty millions and make
the 2,500 miles of railway for a man who held in
his own hand all the conditions of the enterprise,
and could hind or loose them at discretion. No-
body can say how labour may be affected by the
laws of serfdom, by the rules of military prescrip•
tion and service, or by a mere Imperial ukase, in
political. emergencies. No one can estimate the
difficulties anal the expense peculiar to a system of
underpaid and consequently corrupt functionaries,
whose immense powers of obstruction must be. got
over with money. Doubtless the Emperor, if he
wished, could make everything straight for the
railway contractors, and most probably he would
wish, nothing hindering • but what if something
should hinder, or he should not wish ? There is a
terrible feeling of insecurity in dealing with one
who is 'so entirely the arbiter of our fate. Few
Englishmen would endure to act with a man of
whom they could not even complain, and whose
superiority deprived them not only of reason, but
. even of a tongue.
Take, for example, that ruling condition of rail-
way enterprise—the price of iron, to which the
"Hertfordshire Incumbent" calls our attention.
We all know how at home directors have made
fortunes and shareholders have been ruined by the
ups and downs of this one article. Russia has but
little iron of her own ; she has no such demand as
to have developed the production of it, and she
absolutely prohibits sea-borne iron. here is some-
thing approaching.to a jest in such a country invit-
ing strangers to make her iron railways. Pharaoh
refused to find straw for the making of bricks, but
he did not absolutely debar the unfortunate brick-
makers• from getting it where they could. The
speculators, if any ca* be found, who undertake
these railways will have to lay down rails at Mos-
cow itself with bar iron at 221. Indeed iron is so
scarce that throughout the greater part of Russia
the farm horses go unshed, the cart wheels have
no tires, and the ploughshare is of wood, just
pointed with iron. The demand for the proposed
railways would add a tenth to the present con-
sumption, and Russia is not a country like ours,
full of coal, practical miners, and machinery for
all purposes, where the supply of iron can at any
time in a few years be brought up to the demand.
Unless the contractors could supply themselves
with iron from this country they would soon find
themselves ruined, and obliged to leave the un-
finished work in the hands of their taskmaster. It
would not he easy to allow them to import their
own iron for their own purposes without throwing
open the trade altogether. They would want the
iron in many different forms, and in all parts of
the empire at once, not only fir the permanent
rails, but also for temporary rails, for tarts, bar-
rows, and tools, NO special right of importation
would answer so extensive and multifarious a
want. Yet we hear not a word about revising the
tariff, and we know, by our own experience at
home, that financial reform is not to be done in
a day. There are iron lords in Russia as there are
here, and some of them are the richest and most
powerful men in the empire- Not even an Empe-
ror can blow away in a moment the artificial fabr'
on which huge fortunes, noblfetitles, and pectrdta;ye
settlements of all kindscaarredinoaulnded. No pledge
is even offered on this
whequestion, and per-
haps none will be accepted,
enveexut
ne Czar,ce
and perhaps this, may be induced', she
de
sitated, to break it.
Indeed, Russia is in the case of a man whose
theory pf social intercourse is simply.to use his
neighbours—that is, to use the/11f;
for 11:1,1tsioonw, ntoan
con-
venience. To one be goes forc°
0r infer
loan,en otther for his
other for occasional mouser-eel:A in
,
nt-
vote and interest, to anoe_aer for
for advice, to another for his connteno another
difficulty, and, the 'purpose once _ anee in a
answered, he
neglects all the dut;.ee of society till the return of a
similar occasion. Russia has usually aothieo.
to
say to us all, and, d
la
,she
not hesitate to tell , 'she
would prefer oe,r room to our comp.
e anywhere.
Just now, ha we,ver, she wants money, and she
wants rail wtays ; so she puts on her civil locks, acts
the good neighbour, and asks Its just to he so g0,),1
as to help ber. But this is not so easy. There are
difficaltiee in the way, and. those of Russia's own
making, She has created a class interested
in the prohibition of sea-borne iron, and doubt-
less, also many arrangements depending on the
prosperity of that class. Ie feet, we are constitu-
ted for society in its large, constant and generous
sense, not for fits and starts of in 1i tual convenience.
International intercourse ought not to be a series
of great exceptional transaceions in matters of a
situpls, material character. We are clearly meant
to associate on better and more regular term.-;.That
at the Czar should aim at in the first in-
stance. r ,
t him be a better neighboui ; let him
give P !all, unneiehhoiirly
better of ea- of eettin the
and filching a bit of our laud here and '
there a . /eabu •
county c 3 n exchange the produce of the two
3 and levy no more customs than he may
absolutely requirefor the maintenance of his esta-
blishments, and then we shall see our way to do
our part in the construct'on of.
othur extraordinary service 4 , his railwatys or any
he may require.

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DESTRUCTIVE VIRE I:t MEtirn-----awr.—On Friday night a!:
10 o'clock a:firrcecabrtensik,t/r.osucit
/ betttbe extensive establi,h-
- meat of Vic
Foundry. Tte part of the premErik. uown as the Lugar.
the model room, beneath which the ea
burnt corweriseg
in carrying on the very extensive trade of and oil used
were kept, and fed the flatue, "which .of the foundry
sistible fury. At two o'clock the fir:gheadd with itre-•
suppressed. We regret to record the great In 11.'
t b 46
ri.
perty, and the many disadvautages which ""f pro.
111118 f reE '
not only to the propfietors of the works, but nit'
hundreds of workmen and others employed in thin th''''
established foundry. About three o'cl)ck the c.,43,1')nn
gration was b u1,46d. The damage has. hen „tini::44:,
at B,crool. to 10,0110/. All information on this head. I:
at present is founded on mere surmise. It i- h
/ hog(*
ver, amply covered by insurance.

THE IMAILif OF MUSCAT-THE EXPEDITION

TO THE PERSIAN GULF.

The Imaumat of Muscat, situated at the en- I
trance of the Persian Gulf, extends for about 300
miles along the coast, on the Arabian side, and
nearly as many miles inland. The Imaum has
long been on friendly terms with the British Go-
vernment and the East India Company, and has
experienced the advantage of that friendship in
the assistance which has enabled him to form a
navy nearly equal to that of a second-rate Euro-
pean power, and disciplined by British officers,
who occupy the principal commands in the ser-
vice. The navy of the Imaum commands the
whole trade of the Persian Gulf, while his merchant
vessels are—some of them—the finest that are to
be met with in the Indian Seas. An old enemy
of the Persians, the present expedition may so far
favour his own political objects as to meet with
his hearty approval on the question of prin-
ciple. The aid which he may afford to the
British expedition is of a very important kind.
The city of Muscat and its neighbourhood abound
with provisions of every description, from whence
the expedition may amply replenish the supplies of
its commissariat. There are other important ser-
vices which this Oriental patriarch will, no doubt,
be able and willing to render to the cause.
But, as announced, the proposed scene of mili-
tary operations is far removed from the city of
Muscat and its resources, and the friendly co-
operation ofits liberal-minded inhabitants. The
expedition, it appears, proposes to attack Bushire
—a commercial town situated several hundred
miles up the Gulf, and accessible only by perilous
navigation. We confess that in the present state
of our information we are more inclined to despair
than hope for any great success from the opera-
tions of the expedition. A Government journal in
indicating the probable operations, mentions some
of the difficulties which may be encountered, but
conceals the inevitable dange s. We were glad to
hear for the first time that our Indian officers are
possessed of such accurate charts of the navigation,
and hope the Admiralty may, without loss of time,
supply copies for the benefit of the merchant service.
, But our contemporary omitted to state that the
town of Bushire is only accessible to small boats,
vessels of 300 tons being unable to approach nearer
than six miles to the town ; that numerous sand-
banks interrupt the navigation, which is otherwise
most dangerous, from the prevalence of furious
north-west and south-west winds ; that the climate
at certain seasons is fatal to European constitu-
tions, and that the water, which is bad, must be
carried in goat-skins a distance of sixteen miles.
The British expedition can at least cut off the
commerce maintained by Persia with the ports of
India and China, but is that commerce of such
magnitude that its destruction would be felt as
alchastisement by the Shah ? And if the semi-bar-
barous monarch cannot be brought to surrender by
this process, what are the next possible military
arrangements of the British Government for the
vindication of its honour and dignity?—Advertiser.

THE QUESTION CF THE DAY.

(Prom the Siecle.)

Although this question has lost much of its im-
portance in consequence of the conciliatory declara-
tion in the Aloniteur, we must address a last word
to our adversaries. There is an'old aphorism, that
to understand people aright you must fancy your-
self in their position. We shall briefly describe the
position which our opponents weuld impose upon
England. Let it he supposed that we (Fleece) had
remained in tho Crimea and the Black Sea, and
that Russia did not execute the treaty of Paris.
Would we consent to del•sgate the execution of that
treaty to a congress ? Would we consent to raise
our camps and withdraw our vessels ? Would
there be found a single public journal that would
dare to advocate such weakness, such an abandon-
ment of all prudence and all dignity ? Assuredly
not. Everybody in France would say with one
consent, " We are in the Black Sea, let us remain
there till the treaty is executed. Let us not run
the risk of having to undertake a new expedition."
But because it is England, and not ourselves, that
is in this position, can we ask her to do what we
would "Lot do if we were in her place ? That is
neither just nor reasonable, and we feel persuaded
that after the first surprise, after having better '
considered the question, those who have taken the
warmest part against England will not persist in
condemning her to pass under the yoke of a Euro-
pean judgment, when she is only acting within the
letter of the treaties. For the rest, the very mode-
rate way in which the 'Meniteur in a few words
explains the nature of the difference will doubtless
have more influence in calming our contemporaries
tbazi the remonstrance which we addressed to them
the day before yesterday.
In order to excite public opinion against our
allies of Inkcrman and Sebastopol, the partisans
of the Russian alliance confound two moral situa-
tions essentially different. They assimilate Eng-
land to Austria. In the first place, the intimate
alliance between England and Austria, which is
held up as a fact in order to throw odium upon the
English Government, can only be believed in by
those who forget everything when influenced by
their passions. There is no serious politician in
Europe who does not know the terrible war which
, Lord Palmerston bas waged against Austria, and
the steady reprisals made by Austrian diplomatists.
Celebrated books have been written before this
hand-to-hand duel, and this is all we need say to
those woo circulate the rumour of an alliance be-
tween. Lord Palmerston and the Government
whose publicist was the Count de Fiquelmont. In
the next place, the moral situation of England and
Austria in the East is not ti,e same. Austria is
not in the Black Sea. Austria did not fight. She
does not occupy the principalities by virtue of a
victory, but in pursuance of a private treaty be-
tween her and the Porte, made prior to the treaty
of Paris ; the treaty of Paris merely fixed the
period for her evacuation of these territories, in
vague terms, aussitot Clue faire se pourra (Art. 31),
and added that the period was to be arranged be-
tween her and the Porte. England, on the con-
trary,
occupies no territory. She had ships in the
Black Sea when Sebastopol was taken ; she keeps
them there ; and, unless the Porte formally calls
upon her to withdraw them, she is perfectly justi-
fied in leaving them there as long as she fears for
Turkey.
This consideration reminds us to supply an omis-
sion made by many of those writers who have pro •
nouuced against England, and who are now called
I to moderation by the Moniteur in the person of
Ii the Coastitutionne/. They completely forget that
after the treaty of Paris there was another treaty
r c?'tied the treaty of guarantee. Now, this treaty,
concluded on April 15, stipulates :—" Art 1. The
I.high contracting parties jointly and separately
guarantee the independence and integrity of the
Ottoman empire laid down in the treaty concluded
at Paris on the 30th of March, 1856. Art. 2.
Any infraction of the stipulations of the treaty will '
be considered by the undersigned Powers as a casus
beili. They will come to an understanding with
the Sublime Porte as to the measures which may
have become necessary, and will without delay
arange between themselves the employment to he
made of naval and military forces." Had our ad-
versaries read the first article of the Treaty of Paris
they would have seen that it is not a question of a
new congress. Each Power guarantees the integ-
rity of the Ottoman empire, not only join* with
the other Powers, but also separately. This is
clearly expressed. Moreover, the word "sepa-
rately' involves each Power to the extent of its
guarantee. England has not only guaranteed that
integrity in concert with France and Austria, it
I has likewise guaranteed it alone, and France and
Austria are in the same position. England does
not require our consent to remain in the Black Sea.
nor Should we require hers in order to protect this
Ottoman empire from any
alliance danger that might
arise.
. have
We repeat that the partisans of the Russian
conduct
obscure. Not •
purposely rendered this question
only have they sought to cast odium
the French
on the
of the rightsof England, but they have caused
press to loco'' ' vieiv the exact notion '
from . .
They
conferred. on France by treaties.
the truth, it have misled
the public. When we seek to re-
establishimt is solely in the interest
is of
days in the position 'oyf
our country,
itself one of t Jest;
guarantee allows to each PEfionnesgtiiel
rate guarantee. ' Enright israntdh'esriTghhettolt.e.tasltieyeyr);oet:
fore, refuee it teAnd , _your , why,
\ 0- have been re-
proached with exaltation. Nevertheless, we reason .
with moderation, and we appeal to the common '
sense of the public. Let those journals which abuse
us enter into a more minute study of the question
1 they will discover their error "
We maintain whet we haete said ,•• t.'
secret intentions of the eltra_ reTec.ing the
Conservatives cf
Europe, and on the necessity of the firmest alliance
between France and England—a genuine allianc-,
in which each Power will preserve its liberty of
action and sovereign independence. The boldness
of the reactionists rcnder A this alliance more than
ever necessary. Since tie peace we have witnessed
the attempt at Neuchatel, the circular
of Prince
Csortscha,koff, the resistance, of the King of Naples,
the Royalist revolution in Sp fin. These events
v,bould teach us prudence, for either they have no
signification or they are the forerunners of.
.other's.the
The intimate union on a footing of equality of
two great Western clarions can, alone avert the
danger. .

MANSION-HOUSE.—EIIen Reynolds and Sarah
Hazeltine, very respectably-attired women, were brougl.t
before Mr. A lderwan Salomons for further examination
upon the charge of having picked the pocket of Mrs.
Clifford, a la •y res ding at Hoxton, of her portmanteau,
containing 17s. 6d. in silver, on the sth inst.
It will be recollected that at the last examination the
prosecutrix said that on the day in question she entered
one of the Wellington omnibuses, and was immediately
followed by the two prisoners, Hazeltine sitting next to,
and Reynolds opposite her. During the journey one of
the horses fell, and while the prosecutrix was
looking through the window and witnessing the
attempts to get it up the cunduc!or observed that Hazel-
tine wa. pressing very closely against her. On the arri-
val of the omnious at Cornhill, the prisoners alighted,
and the suspicions of the conductor having been arrested
by the hasty manner in which they made off, coupled
with what he had seen going on inside, he asked the
prosecutrix whether her purse was safe, and upon her
telling him that it had been stolen he ran after the pri-
soners and caught them just as they were entering
Leadeuhall-market, and gave them into custody. They
then strongly protested their innocence of the charge of
robbery, and declared solemnly they had never seen
each other before they accidentally met in the omnibus.
They offered a most violent resistance to the officer who
took them into custody, and refused to go to the station-
house unless permitted to ride in a cab. A cab was con•
quently bade, and directly t prista era entered it the
puree of the prosecutrix was found upon the ground, by
the side of the vehicle. It also transpired in the course
of the examination, in answer to a question put by tle
magistratt, that, although the prisoners denied all know-
ledge of each other, yet one of them paid the fare of
both.

Mr. Lewis now appeared on behalf of Hazeltine. Rey-
nolds was not defended.

The deposition taken at the last examination having
been read over, the witnesses were cross-examined by
Mr. Lewis, who did not succeed in at all shaking their
testimony.

Mr. Rawson, the beadle of Lime street Ward, said
—On the sth inst., as I was going into the entrance to
Leadenhall-market, I saw the policeman, Tanner, holding
Reynolds round the waist. The couductor ran about
20 yards and seized Hazeltine by the ar,n, and brought
her back to Tanner, who asked we to take care of her,
he himself, holding Reynolds. Hazeltine said to me,
" I'll go with you," and she took my arm. We then
passed through the market to Cullum street. I a ked
two persons whom I knew to keep a look-out, and see
that the p:isoners did not tLrow anything away as we
were taking them to the station-house. In Cullum-
street Hazeltine let go my arm and said, " I'll not go
any further." She then took hold of the handle of a
door of a coffee-house and attempted to get inside, but I
prevented her. She ca:led out to Reynolds, "Ellen,
don't go any forther." She then began to scream and
kick and light, and attempted to bite me. I took her
up in my arms and carried her into Fenchurch-street,
when she declared she would go no further unless she
bad a cab. I accordingly bailed a cab that was passing.
She then threw hsraelf upon the ground and commenced
screaming very violently, and it was some time before
she emit! be got up. Directly after the prisoners were
placed in the cab the purse was found on the ground by
its side.

By Mr. Lewis—A great crowd had collected when
Hazeltine refused to go any further except in a cab. She
did not say, "I will take your arm and go quietly ; I
will not go through such a crowd as this."
Reynolds—"Tuis good lady (Hazeltine) did not know
my name, although she called me ' Ellen.' "
Mr. Alderman SAlomonQ (to the witness)—This is a
very important inquiry. You know the serious position
in whch tne pritoners are placed. Are you sure that
Hazeltine sail, " Ellen, don't go any further !"
WimesB—l think " Ellen" was the name she called

her. She called her by her Christian name.- It was
" Dlen," to the best of my belief ; but I will not swear
positively to the name.
J. W. Tanner, constable, No. 658—The conductor
gave the prisoners into my custody, and I asked Mr.
Rawson to assist me in taking them to the station-house.
As soon as I ha,i taken Reynolds into custody she
turned round and called Hazeltine a d--
Reynolds.—Oh, you false swearing man. I'm not in
the habit of using coarse language. (Laughter.)
When the cab was called Hazeltine disengaged her
right hand from my grasp. When the prisoners were
got into the cab the purse was found on the ground just
under the door of it. Hazeltine was searched at the
station-house, and in her reticule were found a half-sove-
reign, and ls. 6d. in silver, and a silver watch. Both
prisoners refused to give their address.
Mr. Lewis addressed the magistrate, and said that
Hazeltine's story was that if Reynolds picked up the
purse it was without her knowledge. The prisoners, he
submitted, were not shown to have known each other
before the day in question, and they had refused their
address because they did not wish their friends to know
the unfortunate situation in which they were placed.
Mr. Alderman Salomons.— I consider this a very im.
portant inquiry. The main facts of the case cannot be
shaken—namely, that the two prisoners were engaged
apparently in a common object, and whether they were
really so engaged, and ought to he treated alike, must be
determined by a jury. I, therefore, in the ordinary
course, must ask them whether they wish to say any-
thing in answer to the charge. I shall treat this as a
very serious offence, because, looking at the prisoner
whom you (Mr. Lewis) defend, her air is quite that of a
lady, and calculated to impose upon persons travelling
by omnibuses. It is our bounden duty to protect as far
as we can the highly respectable class of persons who
travel by this useful mode of conveyance. Robberies in
omnibu es have lately increaser! to a most alarming ex.
ten r, and the seriou • duty devolves upon a magistrate
not to treat these cases summarily, but to send them for
adjudication before a superior tribunal.
Toe prisoners, who, after the usual caution, said they
sciould reserve their defence, were fully committed for
trial.

As they were leaving the dock,
Mrs. E. Ashman, of No. 132, Union-street, Borougb,
stepped into the witness-box, and said she had a charge
to prefer against Hazeltine. She was then sworn, and
said—About two m nths ago I got into a Wellington
omnibus in the Borough with the intention of going to
the Bank. Hazeltine upon that occasion sat opposite ens
and a companion of hers, who sat by my side robbed me
of my purse, COD taininglo sovereigns and 7s. My pocket
was cut through and my purse was abstracted while I
was giving my child the breast. Hazeltine and her com-
panion left the omnibus together on ita arrival at Lon-
don-bridge. I positively swear to .Hazeltine as being
the person who Fat opposite to me.
Mr. Ald. Salornons— How did youknew the prisoners
were in custody ?

Witness—My hustand read the account of the charge
just disposed .t in the newspapers, and adv'sed me to
come here. Directly I saw Hazeltine I identified her.
Mr. A!d. Salornons said he did not think Mrs. Ash.
man bad made out a sufficient case to justify his calling
upon Hazeltine to answer it, and added, the former ap-
pears to me to be one of those public cases that ought to
be prosecuted by the city, and therefore I shall direct the
City Solicitor to prosecute. The unfortunate victims in
these cases belong to the best classes of society—they are
the most industriou+, and they are those who can least
afford to lose their property.
The prisoners were then removed from the dock.
J. M`Donall, an Irish labourer, was charged with
steeling 71b. of leaf tobacco under the following circum-
stances :

Mr. Cattarns appeared in support of the prosecution.
Mr C. Fowler, a tide-waiter belonging to the Cus-
toms, said—Th7 prisoner was employed as a lumper on
board the Diana steamer, which has recently arrived
from Amsterdam and is lying in Brewer's-quay. In
consequence of information I received I had the prisoner
searchei, and, between his skin and his clothes, from
tiro soles of his feet to his neck, I found secreted 71b. of
leaf tobacco, wnich I produce, and which corresponds
with that I was en,„aged in removing.
Mr. Alderman Salomons—What induced you, pri-
soner, to secrete this tobacco?
Pr;soner—l took it for my own use, my Lord.
(Laughter.)
Mr. Alderman Salornons—Why did you put it next
your skin ? '
Prisoner—To keep it warm, my Lord, It's all the
better for being kept dry. (IL crdased hughter.)
Mr. Alderman Saloruons—Has the prisoner been
here before ?

Partri 'go ( he gaoler)—No, Sir.
Mr. Alderman Salomons sentenced the prisoner to six
weeks' imprisonment with bard lab.•ur.
Pris yonr Lordship be so obliging as to order
my etr•pl .yers to pay mt. my wages for my day's work
yesterday ?
Mr. Alderman gllomons—No ; you have forfeited
your wage., and you may think yourself lucky in not
being sent for trial at the Oil Bailey.
Mr. Alderman Salomons requested that the press
would acknowledge the receipt of 2/. for the poor-box
from " Nic. N."

BOW STREET.—A younq man, named Joseph Hob-
son, lately in the employ of Mr_ Robert Kerr, solicitor,
Chaucery-ians, was brought up on remand on several
charges of embezzlement.
Tne prisoner, who had been in the habit of receiving
money& 4oi Mr. Kerr's account, suddenly disappeared a
few days back, and subsequently a letter was received
from him, acknowledging that he had appropriated
variout sums of money, of which he enclosed a list, and
promising repayment. Mr. Kerr, however, gave infor-
mation to the police, in consequence of which the pri-
soner was apprehended. Three cases were selected for-
prosecution.
Mr. Elliott, of the firm of Elliott and Pierce,
tors, Chancery-lane, proved the payment to prisoner of
a stun of Si. 7s. 7d ; Mr. Ellis, also a solicitor, of Jewry-
street, a slim of 51. lOs. 4d. ; and Mr. Chamberlayne, a
third solicitor, of Tottenham-cour -road, a sum of 2L.
some odd shillings. None of them were paid by till 3
prisoner to Mr. Kerr.
The wisoner flftred no defenc,., and
Mr. Jardine c•JrnmittA him for trial on the three
charg,,r.

WESTMINSTER.—SERIOUS FBAIt OF DING.=
About two years ago Georgina Chatten, a young, sboi my-
licking, married woman, was committed from the H im-
merainitla Police-court, for violently assaulting her b tut-
band, Tames Chatten, coffeehouse proprietor, 5, Midi Ile-
row, South, Knightsbridge, with a pair of fire tat gs.
She ‘,•43 sent for trial at the Central Criminal Cot irt,
but released upon the intercession of her husband, v 'ho
took her home on her promise of amendment. ;Ere
many %seeks, however, had elapsed, she stabbed him w ith
a larxe carving knife, and then beat him with her fist
vhlle
the blood was streaming from the wound she Lad
19r1,'eteti- She was then again committed to the Cen-
tral Cour*:, and by the renewed interpEitiun of her 'him-

band, only received six months' imprisonment. A
second time be took her home with no better success
than before, for in *May last she was again placed at the
bar of the Old Bailey, aid only then; received another
sentence of six months, which e pired 'yesterday, but
owing to a circumstance which had transpired she was
again placed under arrest. She bad from time to time
corresponded with her husband's family, and his sister
having recently received the following letter, placed it
in his hands :

"My unfortunate career, and greatly to be feared still,
is not yet at an end, for should I be left to wander the
streets by him who has sworn at the altar to protect me,
the wife of his bosom, and mother of his only child, I say
our career is not at an end, for one or both of us shall die. I
was never more serious in my life than at the present mo-
ment, and I hope they will hang me and not transport me."
As her period of imprisonment expired yesterday morn-
ing, Mr. Ceatten applied to Mr. Paynter, and subse
quently to Mr. Arnold, to have his wife again appre
hended, and a warrant having been granted by the lat er,
she was taken into custody on leaving Tuthill-fields
Bridewell yesterday merninit, and brought to tf;ie *court.
Mr. Chatten produced the letter, which he identified
as being in his wife's handwriting. In consequence of
what had previously transpired, he swore that he feared
she would do him some fuither injury.
Defendant entreated that she might not be sent to
prison again, and observed that although the avowal
was to her shame, she had committed the acts of violence
with which she ha l been previously charged while under
the iefluence of liquGr. Her husband knew that when
'sober she was both a good wife and mother, and she
though'. he was treating her very hardly.
Mr. Cua ten intimated that he bad done everything
for her that kindness could suggest. On the last occa
sion, after her conviction, he got a memorial to Sir G.
Grey signed by al his neighbours, with a view of re-
ducing the period of isonment, and he bad previ-
ously gone to the expense of en ploying counsel to get
her off.

Defendant repeated that what she bad done had been
under the excitement of liquor.
Mr. Arnold remarked that she could not avail herself
of that excuse with respect to the letter now produced,
which had been writs en after some months' confinement
in prlinn, where she could not have obtained liquor. She
bad added to the words " one or both of us *trail die,"
'I was never more serious in my life ;" which diu not
look at all like violence of temper only proceeding from
drunkennes..

Defendant declared she was not aware of the harm
she was doing, She had not the least intention at the
present moment ot injuring her husband, and it was very
hard to be again sent to prison. Her health was
suffering materially from her confinement.
Mr. Arnold said he felt, after the repeated acts of ex-
treme violence she had c.nnmitted, and the little control
she could exercise over her temper, it was necessary for
her own safety, as well as for her husband's, to cad upon
her to find sureties to keep the peace, as it might other-
wise end in a more serious matter. He then ordered her
to find bail in 401. for her good behaviour for the next
six months. In the course of the afternoon bail was put
in, and an arrangement entered int for the separation
of the parties.