The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-09 00:00:00

NEW LOWIT.

(Before the COMMON SERGEANT and Alderman HUNTER.)
CUTTING AND WOUNDING.—A 3 oung man named
TV iilium Mecarthy was indietcd for feloniously cutting
wed wountiug James Clark, r ith intent to •do him
some grievous bodily harm.
The prisoner was a Scotchman, and a few weeks ago
went c ut. carousing with some of his countrymen. They
stopped at a public-house in the suburb!, and over a
game of " putting the stone," indulged very freely in
eating and drinking. They then returned to town, and
dropped into a public-house, kept by the prosecutor,
where the prisoner, aho was quite drunk, became so
gross ar.d ebusive in his language, that Mr. C'ark or-
dered him out. The prisoner, however, refused to go.
and in the course of a scuffle that enste:d the prisoner
used his knife, stabbing the prosecutor in a dangerous
part of the thigh, and doing him other serious iejury.
He was seen by the barmaid to brandish tic
knife, and threatened to do for her too if she interfered;
but after he had stabbed the landlord, a policeman was
fetched, and he was given into custody. The wound was
some two and a half inches deep, and though Mr. Clark's
life was not jeopardizd by the cut, it lad laid him up for
a long time, while one if the witnesses who recede% d a
cut from the same knife in attempting to restrain the
prisoner's violence had been compelled to lie by.
'r h o prisoner, in answer to the charge, said he bad no
knowledge of having used the knife, he was so intensely
drunk at the time; but even supposing he had, ho was
provoked to it by the conduct of the lendlord or some
one in the house. He went thera with some money in
his pocket, a new pair of boots on his feet, and a new
hat on his head. He fell asleep on one of the prosecu-
tor's beer butts, which stood in the front of the bar, and
when he was rudely woke up by the landlord, finding his
money, his boots, his hat, together with his coat and
waistcoat, were all gone, he was naturally exaspe-
rated at his loss, and though he might have resisted the
landlord, he had no recollection whatever of having
stabbed him.

The jury found the isoner Guilty, and
The COURT sentenced hire to seven yearn' transpor-
tation.

7WIRD COURT.

(Before the RECORDER and Aidera an LAWRENCE )
110BBERY BY A SERVANT.—A girl named Thompson,
and a midole-aged woman named Macaithy, were in-
dicted, the first for stealing, and the skcond for receiving
knowing it to have been stolen, a quantity of r•earil,g
apparel, the property of Mrs. Beck, housekeeper to Dr.
Sherlock.

juvenile prisorer bad been in the service cf th.
prosecutor es a maid of all work, but was discharged for
some misconduct. Some things were missed after she
left, and suspicion falling upon her, she was traced to
Baldwin's-gardens, Holborn, where she lodged with
the elder prisoner. A portion of the lost property was
found in the room occupied by the latter, while some of
it had been pleted in her name; and the younger pri-
soner admitted, when taken into custody, t bat she stole
the things at her instigatiur'. This, however, was de-
nied; but when the elder prisoner wn,-, arr( sted she said
tf.e pledged articles were given to Le: by Thompson,
end that admission, c ,uplAi with the confession of the
girt, is' US the evidence now adduced as to her case.
Mr. PAYNE appeared for Mecarthy, and addressed the
jury in her beliif, contending that nothing like crimi-
nality had been established against her. She had borne
an excellent character up to this time.
The prisoner Thompson male no answer to the charge.
The jury acquitted Macarthy, but convicted Thong.—
Eon. Sentence was deferred.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
Henry;Gould pleaded not gui:ly to an indictmcnt
charging him with obtaining, on the 21st of last month,
certain monies by means of false pretences from the
London Dock Compsny.
Mr. Ellis stated that on the day in queitinn he paid
the prisoner 7e. fur three men, himself, Fogg, and
Francis. He put down 7s. for three more, and the pri-
soner, who had been paid his wages, took that up be-
longii4g to Cooper and never paid him, and that consti-
tuted the false pretences.
J ,seph Cooper said he was present wl.en the prisoner
took his money. He had never given him any autho-
rity to take it. The prisoner had never paid him the
2s 4cl. for his wages.
William Fogg, John Nottage, G. Spinx, and Samuel
Egerton, ulso proved the above.
The prisoner said nothing in his defence.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, end
The COURT sentenced him to three months' hard
labour in the House of Correc,ion.

WESTMth STEIN.--('f HIS DAY.)

ATTEMPTED MURDER.—Charles 111‘Catfey, Theresa
liLs wife, and Ann Webb, t, ere enarged before
Mr. Burrell with having so severely iejured and wounded
John Alley, a mulatto, as to place his life in considerable
jeopardy.
1 arpeared, from the evidence of a policeman, that
on Friday morning last he was attracted to No. 2,
Wond's-place, Chelsea, by hearing cries of "Murder,"
and upon entering the house he found the mulatto
(Alley), who cohabits with Webb, and is a lodger of Mr.
Cuff: y, bleeding profusely from a number of gashes in
the head. Immediately after this he became insensible,
and while in that state the female, Mrs. Caffey, attacked
him with her fists, and caught up a large sea-shell to
throw at him, but was prevented by witness.
Mr. W. Cummings, an inspector of the B division,
stated that the mulatto was brought to the station, on his
way to the hospital. in a truck. The whole of the upper
part of his body and face Is as covered with blood, and he
appeared as if dead, and witness had bim immediately
conveyed to the hospital. When the prisoners were
brought in they all exhibited bruiees and other marks
of violence, and had blood about their persons. The
two female prisoners were drunk.
Webb said that she bad lived with Alley for a couple
of years as his wife; that he came down in a violent
rage, and, of er attempting to stab her, gave her an in-
jury i❑ the head, and that she men ly stood in her own
defence. She added that Alley would have murdered
her, but for the interference of the male prisoner
Nl.Caffey. Theresa M'Caffey declared that upon the
interference of her husband to restrain Alley's violence,
the latter knocked him down with a saucepan, and she
tock up the shell and struck him en the head with it to
make him !nose his hold of her husband. The male pri-
s„mer, M'Cuffey, declared that he had been jumped upon
by Alley, and violently ill-treated. Webb had a black-
eye and a wound on the side of the head, the female,
lleCaffey, had aa• eitused face; cud the man, as before
stated, exhibited symptoms of having been engaged in
some severe struggle. The injured man wore earrings,
and one of those was discovered on the floor with some
flesh adhering to it. _

The prit•onere, owing to the injured man being sff
not out of danger, were remanded to this day week.

THE PLYMOTTII MURDER.—The prisoners, Bar-
tholomew Harrington and Timothy Donovon, were brought
into the Hall on Monday and placed before the bench, there
being a very large attendance of the inhabitants to hear the
decision of the magistrates. The Mayor said the bench, after
giving the important case their best consideration, had una-
nimously resolved to discharge Dopovon, if he would under-
take to remain in Plymouth for six months, to answer any
charge that might be brought against him ; and he was dis-
char:ed on that condition. The prisoner Harrington was
committed for trial at the Devon assizes on the charge of
being concerned in the murder of William Ambrose.
FIGHT BETWEEN A FALCON-HAWK AND PART-
RIDGEs.—A few days since, as a tenant of Mr. Bingham's
of Boddington, was engaged in one of his grounds, he dis-
turbed a brace of partridges, one of which, after, a short
flight, alighted under the hedgerow in the same field, and
the other topping the fence fur the moment disappeared,
when a falcon-hawk, almost as instantaneously, was seen to
poise and drop over the same spot where the first bird had
fallen. A fight immediately ensued, which had scarcely
commenced when the other bird came to the rescue, and
with his mate boldly took side against their powerful enemy,
which latter, after a few rounds of hard fighting, actually,
retreated a couple of yards, when, again returning, he re-
newed the contest, but seeing he was watched, a second
time made a more distant retreat. Then one of the part-
ridges also took wing, the remaining bird being picked up
quite dead, with a deep and severe wound on its breast of
an inch in length. The hawk for the moment was again
seen to hover over the battle field, but, missing its prey,
finally decamped. There can be no doubt that, had the
hawk not been interrupted, he would have killed both birds,
notwithstanding the determined boldness with which they
met and encountered their wily antagonist.—Cheltenham
Examiner.

ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT BY THE ASSISTANT
OVERSEER OF WAKEFIELD.— Much sensation has been
created in Wakefield during the last few days by the appre-
hension of Mr. John Plince Hesselton, assistant overseer of
Wakefield, on a charge of embezzling various sums of money
belonging to the parish, by a systematic falsification of his
books. Mr. Hesselton was elected to the office about four
years ago, at a salary of 701. per annum, and the Guaran-
tee Society in London is named as having been bound in the
sum of 5001. as his security. Ile has been well known in
Wakefield for many years, was a leading member of the
Mechanics' Institute, and one of its most active committee-
men. He was examined at the Wakefield Court-house on
Monday, before J. Houldsworth, Esq., and other magistrates,
and on the application of Mr. Macdonald, the chief of police,
he was remanded for a week. The amount at present found
deficient is said to be very considerable—much beyond the
sum fur which the Guarantee Society is bound ; but respect-
ing the truth of this rumour nothing authentic has yet been
made public, though it is alleged that the overseers and ex-
aminers have discovered a large deticiuncy. M. ssrs. Austin

and Manwaring, the poor.law auditors, ware in attendance
in court, but the case was not gone into at all, the prisoner
being remanded until Monday next. Such is represented to
be the depressed state of Hesselton's mind that it has been
deemed prudent to observe a strict and constant watch over
him in the prison.—Manchestor Guardian.
CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL. —Yesterday a general
meeting of the governors of the above institution was held in
the board-room for general busines., Downes, Esq., in the
chair. The annual statement of the operations of the hos-
pital for the year just ended, showed that 19,105 indigent
sick persons were admitted on the books for relief, at a cost
of 2,4:101. 3s. 11d., of those 1,210 were in-patients, and
17,895 were out-patients. Of accident cases there had been
2,766, of which 643 were to dangerous as to require to be
immediately admitted as in-patients. The above numbers,
with the cases reported in former annual statements, make
a grand total of 186,863 sick and nerdy individuals who have
partaken of the advantages of the institution from its com-
mencement in 1818.
ST. ANDREW'S, WELLS- STRE LT.—Last Sunday
two birds, dressed up as a pope and a cardinal, were set
loose by some unknown person during the celebration of
Divine Worgliip.

MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED.)

BLACKVOOD

Ebony for January contains, as usual, a variety cf
and entertaining contributions. As a sort
of leading article we have a chapter entitled rather
"The Currency Extension Act of Nature,"
in which we fancy we can trace both the manner and
the arguments cf Mr. Alison, the historian. Sir
Edward Bulwer Lytton furnishes Naga with
another instalment of his "Novel; or, Varieties in

. .
glish Lite." The incident which reduces Doctor
Riccabocca to the stocks is deliciously conceived, and
told with the truest appreciation of plcasanteric. In
a paper headed "Biography," Miss Strickland ob-
tains an encouraging panegyric on the initial volume
of her very remarkeble " Lives of the Queens of
Scotland"—a work which promises to vie in merit, as
well as in popularity, with her celebrated " Lives of
the Queens of England." All that is here said in com-
mendation of her research appears to us to be equally
merited in regard to both those great products of
erudition. " The Lay of the Niebelung,-n" is ana-
lysed in a clear and judicious criticism. Where the
humour or point of the political satire called " Addi-
tional Chapters from the History of John Bull" lie, we
cannot for the life of us conjecture. The whole contri-
bution seems to us as witless as it is unquestionably
coarse and exaggerated. It may be very funny, per-
fin,s, to designate Mr. Cobden by the soubriquet of
"Dick Deviledug " (a name borrowed, by the way,
from the " Sybil" of Mr. Disraeli), but the fun of
the thing is to ourselves utterly invisible. So like-
wise throughout the whole of this heavy and laboured
piece of facetiousness. Surprised as we are to find
a prose contribution so totally devoid of merit as the
one here particularised in the usually brilliant pages
of Blackwood, we are yet more amazed to see in its
leaves (adorned of old by Delta, and B. Simmons, and
Miss Barrett, and Thomas Hood), such insipid twad-
dle in the shape of versification as the lines on
"The Voice of Nature." A schoolboy in the fifth
form ought to undergo flagellation if he could
perpetrate nothing better or more original. For-
tunately the readers of the January number of
Blackwood are in some measure compensated for
this effusion by some fine stanzas, bight " The
Message of Seth," by our old favourite, Delta.
Basides the . contributions already particularised,
the current number of Maga contains one on
" Hungarian Military Sketches," and another on
"British Labour and Foreign Reciprocity."

EXHIBITION OF 1851.

ORDER FOR FITTINGS, TO BE FILLED UP BY

TIIE EXHIBITOR.
TO BIESSRS. FOX, HENDERSON, ♦ND CO., BUILDING,
HYDE-PARK.

Please to prepare the space allotted me in the building
(counter and shelves) according to the accompanying
plan; cover the same with (calico, velvet, cloth, Itc.), and
(prepare glass cases); and I will discharge the coat of
doing so when compirted.
Exhibitora' signature

Address

Note—The Executive Committee, upon i.:ceiving a
request and a copy of the plan and instructions sent to
Mews. Fox, Hend«rzon, and Co., are prepared to send
a certificate that the fittings have been completed, to
those exhibitors who rcay not be able to superintend the
work themselves.

er Alajeit;,'s Commissioners having decidod that ex-

idhitors will be expected to arrange and fi, up the spaces
specqvely allotted to them in the building, and provide
cases fur articles that [nay require protk ction from
dust, &c.. Messrs. Fox, Henderson, and Co, the con-
tractors for the building, have to announce that they
are prepared to receive and unpack articles for exhibi-
tion, take charge f the packing-cases, fix work, and keep
in order tre;.chinery and models—to supply glass cases,
stands, &c., of particular kinds, to furnish and fit open
cases or shelves, and decorate stalls according to the
ishes of the exhibitors, on conditions and at prices to
be agreed upon, and of which estimates will be given on
application—and to afford every facility generally in
those arrangements which devolve upon the exhibitors
themselves, and respecting which they are permitted
by the Commissioners to exercise their own taste and
judgment.
Foreign commissioners, local committees, and exhi-
bitors are rt questd to communicate their wishes as
early as possible to Messrs. Fox, Henderson, and Co.
Exhibition Building, 11) de. park, London,

Jan. 1, 1851.

A HEAVY SENTENCE.

At the general Quarter Sessions held at Reading last
week, Robert Dace, 22, a well dressed young man,
who bad been a teacher of music at Abingdon, was
indicted for having stolen .a gold pencil-case.
Mr. Carrington conducted the prosecution, and Mr.
Wiliams defended the prisoner.
From the evidence adduced, it appeared that on the
3,1 of August the prisoner visited the house of a Mr.
James Morris Davis, for the purpose of tuning a
pianoforte. He was left alone for some time in the
room where the pencil-case was. He left as usual,
end on the following morning it was missed from the
workbox where it had been deposited. About the
middle of the month the prisoner offered it for sale to
a Mrs. Bickinsall, and she bought it of him for 10e.
Some days after he had sold it he applied to have it
returned, as he feared that " the person from whom
he had had it Lad come by it dishonestly." The
police the❑ got a knowledge of the affair, and the pri-
soner was apprehended.
Mr. Williams, after addressing the jury on behalf
of the accused, callcd a lad named IV heeler, who
had been emp!oyed at the railway Hotel, Did-
cot, and he stated that on the 10th of August the
prisoner came into the smoking room. A strange
man, who wore a frock coat and green and black plaid
trousere, was present, and inquired if any one in the
room wanted to purchase a pencil-ease. lie pressed
the prisoner to buy it, w'ao eventually bought it for Bs.
Mr. Carrington having alluded to the inconsis-
tencies in Wheeler's statement,
The Cheirman (Lord Barrington) summed up
the evidence, and the jury, after a short deliberation,
returned a verdict of Guilty.
Evidence was then gone into of two previous con-
victions for felony, upon which the prisoner had been
sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.
The Chairman, in passing sentence, observed that
the defence the prisoner had adopted was a most abo-
minable one, for he feared that the lad had been in-
duced to state anything but what was true. The
Court did not think that the prisoner, occupying such
a position as he had, would be likely (having been
previously convicted of felonies) to reform and become
an honest man. They therefore deemed it necessary
to inflict a severe sentence, and that was that the pri-
soner be transported for the term of his natural life.
The prisoner seemed astonished at the sentence,
and a general feeling of surprise appeared to be felt
by the crowd which had assembled in the court.

MEXICAN AND WEST INDIA MAILS.--AS much
anxiety may be felt respecting the non-arrival of mails from
iilexico, we have made inquiry and find that the Great
Western arrived at Vera Cruz, and landed there the outward
mails as usual, after which she proceeded to Tampico, where
she arrived at five o'clock in the afternoon of the 3d Decem-
ber, and there being but one hour of daylight left, the mails
were landed, and some passengers and specie embarked.
In the middle of the following night, however, a viclent
" Norther," or Gulf gale set in, when for safety the ship
weighed and stood out to sea, the wind increasing gradually.
Through all the next day it continued to blow with un-
diminished strength, and when the packet stood in towards
Tampico, the bar was impassable. At night, on the 4th
December, the ship stood out to sea again. On the morn-
ings of the sth and WI steamed in again towards the bar,
but the storm continuing, and the surf on the bar render.
ing it still unapproachable, the Great Western at length
bore up to return to Vera Cruz; but on the 7th and Bth of
December, there being no appearance of any abatement in
the " Norther," the barometer remaining as before, and it
being eight hours beyond the proper time for leaving Vera
Cruz, the captain proceeded to Jamaica, and thence to St.
Thomas's, The Trent experienced such heavy storms on
her outward voyage in November, that she was forced back
into Torbay, and did not finally reach St. Thomas's till so
long after the appointed or estimated time, that the usual
fortnightly dispersion of the inter-colonial steamers had taken
place, with the exception of that for Porto Rico, slacmel,
Jamaica, Havannah, and Honduras; and, consequently, the
West India colonies, with those exceptions, would receive
their 17th of November and 2d of December outward mails
by the same delivery.
ENTOMOLOGICAL SoclaTr.—The usual monthly
meeting of this society was held on Monday evening, G. R.
Waterhouse, Esq., president, in the chair. Mr. T. A.
Preston was balloted for, and elected a subscriber to the
society.. Mr. Douglas exhibited, on the part of Mr. T. H.
Allis, a specimen of the rare .•• europterous insect Drepanyp-
terys Phalcenoides, taken by him at Bowness. Mr. S. Stevens
exhibited some splendid specimens of the rare Dynasies
Jupita from Columbia; also a foreign Bonilla., with the
larva-case of a Tinea attached to its head. Dr. Wallich
read a translation from the elaborate Danish work of
Scbibdte on the insects and other animals inhabiting the
caves of Carniola : among the insects were some found in
the darkest parts of the caves totally destitute of eyes.
Papers by Messrs. Walker, Dallas, Douglas, and Stainton
were also read.

RUMOURED ARRIVAL IN LIVERPOOL OF CARDINAL
WisEmax.—A rumour prevailed yesterday that his Emi-
nence Cardinal Wiseman bad arrived, per the London train
of the previous evening, in Liverpool, on a mission to Dublin
and Armagh. Credence was gained to the report by the fact
that a gentleman resident in Liverpool had ridden from the
Crewe junction with the supposed Cardinal, and bad seen the
" illustrious" stranger received at the railway station by
the Rev. Dr. Brown, " Bi,hop of Liverpool." It turned out,
however, that the gentleman mistaken for his " Eminence "
was the Rev. Dr. Moore, Principal of Oscot College, near
Birmingham.—Liverpool Courier of yesterday.
THE I3xuTltll MUSEUK—Yesterday the Alu,euv)
was re-opened to the public; it will continue open every
rdonday, Wednesday, and Friday, from ten till four o'clock,
until the 31st of April, and, from the 7th of May until the
31st of August from ten till seven o'clock, and for the re-
mainder of the year from ten till four. The works not yet
being complete in the western galleries, the Assyrian anti-
quities still remain in their temporary place of deposit in the
basement. The celebrated Great Bull of Nineveh is also for
the present placed in the vestibule. The idea of erecting a
wall in front of the Museum, facing Great Russell-street, has
been abandoned. '1 he building is now to be enclosed by an
ornamental iron pali'fac'e, having a central and two other
lodges, fronting each wing.
ERRATA —ln our leeding article of yesterday on
strikes among ccKilininers, the word "principle" was 'nis-
i:tinted fur "principal;" and the strike of 1644 was described
as causing " a loss to the collieries, in wages,
.of 31)0,000‘."
What was meant was that it had cost the colliers, and not
the collieries, that sum in wages,