The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-04 00:00:00

THURSDAY

Mr. Andrews, on Irlmlf of Backell, included in this
chwgc, and who:: entire ilanocenee he wcs iosurueted to
urge, on the ground that she had been mistaken for
another woman, who had been really an active member
of the gang, wished the magistrate to accept bail for his
client, for whom two freeholders were willing to become
responEible to any amount; but
Mr. D'EYNcoURT said he had from the first made up
his mind to refuse any bail that might be offered for
either of the prisoners; upon which Mr. Andrews ex-
pressed his intention to obtain a copy of the deposi-
tions, and effect his object by application to a judge at

chambers.
A charge of fraud against Stanbridge was then taken,
in which he had obtained goods from a tradesman at
Chelsea, and absconded without payment, and the depo-
sitions being completed he was committed for trial.
The depositions were next completed in a separate
charge of forgery against the prisoner Walker, in which,
under the fictitious name of llemsworth, he had uttered
a forged bill of exchange for 561. odd to a gentleman at
the west-end, and he was likewise fully committed for
trial, at the same time loudly protesting that he was an
injured man, and that the greater portion of the evi-
dence of several of the witnesses was a tissue of mali-
cious perjury.
The prisoner Lawes, otherwise Dewhurst, was the❑
separately arraigned upon two distinct charges of felony,
the prosecutor, Mr. William Dunkley, a furnishing un-
dertaker in Tower-street, Westminster, declaring that
he could prove several more of the same description
against him. This prisoner's head was enveloped in a
large flowing brown wig, of such excellent construction
that few could suspect it was one, and the prisoner's na-
tural hair being dark, or black, some difficulty was ex-
perienced in securing a sufficient identification. Two
witnesses, a mother and son, whose evidence was most
material, from having seen the prosecutor's property in
the prisoner's possession, were placed in the box, but
though both declared that his general appearance greatly
resembled the person they had so seen, each positively
refused to swear to him, so great was the alteration in
his appearance.
Mr. Lewis insisted that the prisoner's wig .should be
forcibly removed, as the prisoner refused to remove it
himself, a course which Mr. Rickards very strongly op-
posed being done in open court; and it being at length
assented to that the man should be transferred to an-
other room and there subjected to identification, that
course was followed; but on the prisoner and witnesses
returning to the court the trouble was found to have been
useless, the prisoner's head having been so entirely de-
nuded of hair that all identification was out of the ques-
tion. A pawnbroker named Matthews, is the Prince's-
road, Lambeth, however, positively swore to him as
being the person who had pledged two velvet palls and
eight silk cloaks at his shop on the 29th of September
last, in Mr. Dunkley's own name, although he had been
discharged from his service for dishonesty two days
before, obtaining 51. 10s. upon the articles, which formed
a portion of other such property of the value in the
whole of near SOL, and, the evidence being now pretty
conclusive, he was fully committed for trial upon that
charge.
Mr. Dunkley then stated, in support of the second
charge of that kind, that he was in the habit of keeping
a large stock of such valuable goods is a wareroom am
the top of his house, of which the prisoner, while in his
service, had the care, and that, happening, while going
through his stock, to miss a great many expensive ar-
ticles, he complained to the prisoner of the serious man-
ner in which he felt satisfied he was being robbed, and
the prisoner, with much apparent concern for his misfor-
tune, promised to exert himself to discover the thief, and
advised Mr. Dunklry, if he caught him, to prosecute and
transport him. The robberies, however, still went on
without cessation, and the property now produced, of
the value of 101. or 15/, formed a separate portion of a
large quantity so stolen while the prisoner was still in
his service, and was pledged for different small sums at
the shops of various pawnbrokers, who now produced
it, the duplicates fur that, and a number of other articles,
being found in his pockets by Francis, the detective
officer, at the time he eff,cted h►s apprehension.
The prisoner vindictively expressed a hope that the
prosecutor would be himself transported before long, and
made some other observations of a similar purport irre-
levant to the charges against him, but Mr. Rickards said
he should reserve the defence in this case also, and, all
the depositions having been thus completed by Mr.
ilarlstone, the second clerk, the whole of the prisoners
were fully committed to Newgate for trial upon the
charges above respectively detailed, which appeared to
form only a portion of those which might have been es-
tablished, if the eager earnestness which numerous per-
sons displayed throughout the proceedings to give evi-
dence might be taken as a criterion, one gentleman
oudly calling out in the middle of the last cases taken
,hat ho wanted his charge ileard.
CLERKENW WELL.

Henry Stone, alias Hamilton, alias Stanley, alias Lyons,
a respectably-dressed middle-aged man, with only one
leg, and Henrietta Stanley, alias Frances Hamilton, alias
Stone, &c., were finally examined, charged by Miss
Jessie Jenkins, of No. 4, Albert-road, Regent's-park,
with having obtained 1/. under false pretences.
Mr. CORRIE said it was an aggravatEA case, and he
sentenced both prisoners to three months' imprisonment,
with hard labour, in the House of Correction.
SOUTH DARK

On Tuesday Timothy Crawley, better known in the prize
ring by the name of the " Bull-dog," was charged with
attempting to force his way into a railway carriage
without paying his fare, and obstructing the officers in
the execution of their duty.
Inspector Cooper, of the Brighton Railway, stated
that in consequence of a prize fight that was to come off
that day at a place called Honley-common, between two
men named Hayes and Jones, a crowd of persons attended
at the terminus that morning for the purpose of going
down by the train to witness the fight. Amongst the
assemblage was the defendant, who, taking advantage of
the crowd, rushed through the barrier from the pay-
effice on to the platform and attempted to jump into one
of the second-class carriages, the door of which, how-
ever, was locked, which he observing, then tried to get
in through one of the windows. He was observed to act
in the way described by Ward, one of the ticket collec-
tors, who knew the defendant again by his having pre-
viously attempted a similar act, and when disappointed,
then actually jumping on one of the buffers when the
train was in modem, at the imminent risk of his life, so
eager was he to be present at the fight. Ward, there-
fore, knowing hia man, as he described it, went up
to him and asked him to produce his ticket on this
occasion, slid that he would then admit him in the proper
way into one of the carriages, without his jumping
thrmigh the window. The defendant, however, in a
surly tone, said that he had none, and when he was de-
sired to quit the platform he refused, became exceedingly
abusive, and by his conduct created much confu-
sion on the platform, so much so that they were com-
pelled to take him into custody.
When the defendant was called upon to know the
reason he acted with such violence on being requested
to show his ticket to the ticket-collector, his reply was
that he had paid his fare to Honley-common to witness
the fight, but that Hayes, one of the pugilists, had the
ticket.
Mr. ATECKF.TT asked him if Hayes was present to
verify his assertion?
The defendant, in reply, said that Hayes was then, ho
aed added that he (defendant) ought
t)
supposed, engaged in the fight with his antagonist on
Morley-common,avebeen present also; he was therefore unable to
,h
produce the witness to confirm his assertion.
Inspector Cooper said that there was no foundation
for the defendants aist.-rtion that he had paid for a
ticket, and that his object was to get down to the scone
of the fight without paying any fare.
The MAGISTRATE sentenced the defendant to pay a fine
of 205., or in default to be committed for 14 days.
The, defendant, being unable to pay the penalty, was
sent off in the prison van to Kingston gaol.

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.
On Tuesday, December 2, 1851 (Sir William Cubitt,
President,), the discussion was renewed
~onthe in the Application
choairfmachinery
to the Manufacture
of Rotating Chambered-breech Fire-arms, and the Pe-
culiarities of those Arms," by Colonel Samuel Colt,
U.S., America, in which the Honourable Robert J.
Walker (late Secretary to the U.S. Treasury), General
M'Neill, Mr. Hodge, and other visitors, as well as a
large number of the members, took part; the processes
of manufacture were described, and the importance of
machinery in a country like America, were labour was
so dear, was clearly shown.
The machines employed were too numerous to be
particularly described; but it appeared that slowly ro-
tating rose cutters were the chief tools used, the various
pieces being held up to the tool, and presented in dif-
ferent directions to the required cutting action, almost
without any intervention of the workman, after being
brought under the action of the machine. For in-
stance, the lock-frame, after being centred, passed
through twenty-two machines before it was completed,
and all the operations bad reference to the arbor, or
centre pin first inserted. The same took place with
other parts; and such a degree of uniformity was ar-
rived at, that the thirty thousand arms constantly in
progress of manufacture in Colonel Colt's works, were
put together from pieces taken promiscuously from the
mass. This advantage of uniformity was very benefi-
cial in active service, as seventy or eighty per cent. of
serviceable arms could be made up from those injured
in action.

In the course of the discussion it was observed, that
the present object of all enlightened Americans was to
promote intercourse between their country and this, their
fatherland—and that this would be more aided by the
amount
labours of civil engineers than by any other class of
men. That
high in h the
acquirement United States,
amongthough e there
of was a
leas
engineers,
there was a greater amount of sound education and in-
genuity among the working mechanics, than generally
existed among the same class in this country.
The aid of 14'Agli •
sh Civil Engineers was claimed in
the attempt to traverse the Isthmus of South America
by a navigable ship canal, for which the American engi-
neers were the pioneers, with the railway now in course
of execution;—and in paying a graceful compliment to
the attention to American engineers on the part of
Telford, and his successors in the profession, it was
stated, that almost every English engineer, of any
talent, who had gone to the United States, even in very
humble posiliona, had, in a few years, attained eminence
and fortune.
The influence of Colonel Colt's arms in the late wars
in Mexico was again flatteringly alluded i
to, and the in-
genuity and perseverance exhibited by him, n the for-
mation and conduct of such an immense armoury, were
highly eulogist d.
At the monthly ballot the following candidates were
duly elected :—Messrs. J. J. Bignell, W. M. Crosland,
J. B. Palmer, C. Sells, J. P. Smith, J. H. Taunton, and
J. Wilkinson, as Associates.
The following paper was announced to be read at the
meeting of Tuesday, Dec. 9 :—" Account of the Works
on the Birmingham Extension of the Birmingham and
Oxford Junction Railway," by Mr. C. B. Late, Aisne.
Inst. C.E.