The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-17 00:00:00

THE SUN,

that the House had lately been occupied on Committees
of Supply, and that, he thought, was quite as much
Irish as English business. This evening, particularly,
out of sixteen votes which had to be proposed twelve
were Irish. He could not, at present, fix any day for
Irish business solely.
After a few words from Mr. MONSELL and Colonel
DUNNE, the subject dropped._________

interest is now writing to you, and you will soon re-
ceive a considerable sum on which you did not calcu-
late.' He next made an examination of other people's
faces, and talked in the same vague way. He after-
wards presented his cap, and collected the gratuities
of the company. Waiter!' he then cried. What
shall I serve you, sir?' Some flints.' A plate full
of flints was brought in, and he swallowed five
with a good deal et apparent appetite. ' I also like
five franc pieces,' he observed, and if any one will
be kind enough to give me one, I will swallow it!' This
proposition was received with silence; and at last M.
B— said,' It is easy enough to swallow a piece of 5f.,
and I know a good many people who have devoured
all their fortunes. But you could not swallow a watch,
lam sure.' I will do so, sir, with great pleasure—
give me yours and you will see!' There it is.' The
man took the watch, which was in silver and of a
good size, and swallowed it with ease. After a mo-
ment of surprise and admiration, M. B— observed,
' It is very clever, certainly, but when will you give me
back my watch?' `Never!' Oh, that is too much, I did
not mean to make you a present of itl' But I thought
you did. Besides, could you suppose that I would swallow
a watch for nothing? We played a game—you staked
your watch, I stair, dmy life. lam not yet in safety—
the watch may break in the process of digestion." Bat,
Sir—" Possession is a good title in law, and I pos-
sess. And, besides, how can I give up the watch? Am
Ito rip myself up?' Oh, no; but I will wait." Wait
if you will, but you shall not have your watch.' The
tradesman took the man before the commissary of police,
but that functionary, after hearing all the facts of the
case, declared that he was entith.d to the watch.

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING,

Mons. Her conduct, with respect to the sale, has in-
creased the ill-leeling of the public towards her; whilst
the delicacy of her uufurtunate husband, in persisting to
pay a sacred debt, has caused much compassion for him.
Madame de Bocarme is at present at Brussels, but it is
not true, as has been stated, that she has sought a recon-
ciliation with her husband's mother. The chateau of
Bitremont is under the care of a porter, and is shown to
all visitors. The man takes pleasure in relating all the
circumstances of the murder.

CAPTURE of the CARLISLE HIGHWAYMEN•
The cool desperadoes who have recently been causing
such consternation in Cumberland, by their audacious
pranks, have at length been cap-ured. From the sudden
disappearance of two questionable characters from their
lodgings in Botchergate, suspicion immediately fell upon
them. One of them, named Thomas Tinyon, a weever
by profession, but a poacher in practice, is well known
in Carlisle. especially to the authorities of the gaol ;
the other, Hugh Monteith, about twenty-two years of
age, has been occupied at one time as a gardener in the
neighbourhood of the town, but was dismissed by his
last employers for dishonesty. The capture was rather
neatly effected. Police-constables Snowdon and Ander-
son set off from Carlisle on Sunday afternoon, in a gig,
dressed in plain clothes. They had previously ascer-
tained that Monteith's father lived at Gretna, so they
called there on their way, and contrived to find out that
both he and Tinyon were in Maxwelltown. They pro-
ceeded at once to Maxwelltown, and at half-past one in
the morning, with the aid of a constable from Annan,
they succeeded in capturing both prisoners, though in
different houses of the same street. Each had a temale
accomplice, but the police came upon them so unex-
pectedly that they had no time fur resistance. Mon-
teith made an effort to reach the six •barrelled
revolver, which was near the bed, whilst one
of the constables was securing his clothes; but
a second officer seized him and prevented mis-
chief, for all the barrels of the pistol were loaded with
powder and ball, with a cap on each nipple. In Mon-
teith's pockets were found the watch stolen from the
farmer, and a guinea which the commercial traveller had
thrown to him with other money in his purse. Tinyon
had a brace of pistols loaded, and two boxes containing
bullets and caps. Monteith, when frustrated in his
attempt to reach the pistol, said with an oath to
Anderson, that had he known it was them, he
would have sent three bullets through their bodies.
However, both prisoners were secured and carried to the
county police-station for the night, and the next (Tues-
day) morning they were brought on to Carlisle, where
they will undergo an examination before the magistrates.
It is scarcely possible to estimate the satisfaction which
is on all hands expressed at the timely capture of these
daring highwaymen.

JULY l7, 1851.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, July 15.

DIVIDE N DS.
At the Court, Baainghall -street.
E. Bliss, Birbican, City, bru-,bratker and w,rehouse-
man, Aug. 7, at one—R. Milt's, London, merchant, Aug.
5, at past one—B. Peach, Graves,end, dinc,unt
broker and c,mtnission agent, Aug 5, at one—R. Cop-
Lod, Union-street, Whitechapel, linendraper, Aug. 5,
at one.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BO il'-.5.1REE7.
Yesterday two 3 eung men named William 11.7ezzell
and 7 homas George Young, late clerks in toe pet office
at Gravesend, were brought up on warrants and placed
at, the bar before Mr. Henry, charred with stealing a
letter containing two 101. arid one 5/, notes, the property
of the Postmaster-General, a discovery of which was
made under peculiar circumstances.
Mr. Peacock attended for the prosecution; Mr.
Woutner and Mr Hebler appearing for the prisoners.
Mrs. Role Anti Priaree, of Bitterne. near Senhanap•
ton, r-tuted that on the 13th of September she wrote a
letter to her hu9band, who was then at Grevesend, en-
citeing the notes in question, the dates and numbers of
which she had previously tskea in her memorandum-
book, whicri she delivered to her sun to post, and it
never arrived at Its destination.
Thomas Walker, assistant to Mr. De Castro, who
keeps a pest-office receiving hose at 65, leiceudilly, said
that on the evening of the 13th of November he re
ceived the 51. mite produced in payment of three sheets
to postage-stamps from a man res, :editing the pritemer
Young, who gave the name of J. Pnaren, of Southamp-
ton, which witnees wrote on the note; and having handed
trim the change he went awn}. The coat worn by him
was of a peculiar style. and similar to the one shown to
him by the constable by whom the prisoners were ap-
prehended.
Mr. Charles Cauves, postmaster at Gravesend, said
that a letter posted on the day to question at Bitterne,
would arrive at Gravesend at mid day on the following
day through the General Post-office. He had no recol-
lection or seeing the letter, bus had it arrived it would
have been stamped by the prisoner Young, and sorted
by witness or another chok. The other prisoner who
made the necessary official declaration was in his service
urid was in the habit of being frequently in the post-
office. The prisoner Young resigned his situation, and
the other was appointed as his successor. On the 21st
of November the inspector-general came to Graveseee
for the purpose of inquiring into the loss of missing let-
tera on which occasion witness's house was searched.
Ellen Veller, in the service of Mr. Barton, 7, Bruna•
wick-place, Brunswick square, Brighton, said—ln about
six weeks after the prisoner Muzaell received his appoint-
ment, my sister (who was his wife) died in October,
1848, while I was with her, and iu about twelve months
after I was married to the prisoner at Aldgate
church, and lived with him until six weeks back.
Seven weeks ago he left home, remained absent a
week, and on his return I asked him where he had been,
and with whom, to which he replied that I had no
claim upon him, that he should go were he liked, and
with whom he liked, and then lett the house; telling me
I might sell the furniture, and do wee I pleased with
the money; in consequence of whice I disposed of the
furniture and went to Brighton, where I obtained the
situation alma?). mentioned. In the early part of Sep-
tember, I recollect the prisoner bringing me two 10/. Batik
of England notes, telli; g me to get change for them; and
on a:king why he did not do so himself, he replied,
" They were Tom Young's, and he had an objection to
it for certain reasons;" which caused me to observe, that
if Young got them honestly, be could get change him-
selt. He again brought me the same notes in a week,
desiring I would go to London and get change, which I
also refused, there being something wrong about them,
when he said, "If I tell you where I got them will you
go?" Upon which I consented, and he said. " You don't
mean it; you only want to know where I got them;
but if you wean it I will tell you." He then said that
Tom Young took them out of a letter at the Gravesend
Post.office, and upon asking him where the 1 tier came
from, he replied Bitterne. I then asked If there were
two tens in it, and his anseer was there was also a five,
at the lame time saying "Will you go now ?" and I
told him to take them back to Youeg, that be might
return them to the p-reou to whom they belonged;
but he said he was not such a feel, and to k thew
away. I heard noteing mere of them for some
weeks, and ou ',eking tear what became o; them, he said
they were at the office, and that be and the other pris .nor
had them aleernvely. Ott the occasion of some gentle-
men trout Lo,dou coming to search the house ot the
postmaster, when I examined the prisoner's waistcoat
eoeket, h. ea,ait. the effiee, [ discovered two 10/
notes, den d 6 ti June, 1850. noel having put th'ena into a
box, asked him en his return what, I should de with
them, should I burn them? He replied that ee waisted
rem Young, to have the al, he having lett the Post-office
set vice; and by his directions I took them to Sheptieria's-
bush, where Young was livine with a woman, and he
said it was all rient. In a few days after Muzzell had
two sheets of postage stamp=, end on asking where he
got them, be said tro u Fota Y ;wig, ho changed the
51. note at Charing; cross for them, and brought 40a.
down to him. At the time the prisoner said I had ro
claim upon him he said that he had searched the law
batiks and found that, though he was morally, he was
not legally m traded; and upon my mother putting some
questions to him upon the subject after the marriage
toek piece, he said it ears quite legal, although some en-
tertained Pusey he notions on such mutterer.
Mr. Wontner took a preliminary objection to the wit-
ness giving evidence on the ground that she was the
wife of the accused.
Mr. HENRY said that by the sth and 6th William IV.,
chap. 54, s- c. 2, all marriages celebrated after August
31, 1835, were null and void within the prohibited degree
of affieity, and therefore her evidence could not be ob-
jected to on such grounds.
Mrs. Anne Cauves recollected the inspector-general
coming to Gravesend, and causing her husband's house
to be searched, on the evening of which day Muzzle was
in the office. On his knocking at the door, witness told
him that the family was in great distress in consequence
of such proceedings, asking him if he knew anything
about it, and he replied, " Indeed, I must go home fur a
quarter ot an hour," which he did, and returned in half'
an hour.
Matthew Peake, a constable attached to the Post-
cffice, said that on the 3d instant he apprehended
Muzz9ll at the Post-office, Gravesend, and having ex-
plained the nature of the charge, he said, " Tis true,
Young gave we some stamps, which were for a debt."
On searching him, he found the letter produced,
which he said he had received that morning from the
other prisoner. The next day he took Young into
custody at 5, Mount-pleasant, Ramsgate, and on telling
him what it was fur, and the other had received stamps
from him, he braid, " Well, that's your friend ;" and an
the superintendent of police asking if ho had given the
stamps, he said, " I'm not going to answer that ques-
tion." He was then conveyed to town, and on the way
admitted that he had lived at Shepherd's-bush, and that
Mrs. Muzzll had been there to see him.
The prisoner Muzzell denied having ever had the notes
in his possession; and Young having reserved his de-
fence, they were fully committed to Newgate, bail being
refused fur their appearance at the trial.
MARY LEBO.NE.
ROBBERY BY FEMALES AND CLEVER CAPTURE OP
THE GUILTY PARTIES.—June Jones, Mary Bryant
(nd Charlo.te Danby, were placed at the bar, before the
sitting magistrate, Mr. Broughton, charged with having
been concerned in stealing 41 yards of cotton print, the
property of Mr. Gear, 19, Sey aiour place, Camden-town.
Cleake, 85 5, a very active officer, deposed that, at
five on the previous afternoon, as he was on duty in
Park-:.trees, he saw the prisoners walking together, and
p.-rcri‘ed that Jones bad something bulky concealed
beneath her we ek. fie watched clo ely as tar as High-
street, when Dariby having celled a cab, they all entered
therein, when, just as the driver wa• about to close the
do er, he (witness) went up and asked Jones what she
hid got, to which she replied "Notoing." He lifted up
her cloak, and, on finding that she hail a roll of print,
questioned her as to hew she became possessed of It,
acid her reply was, " It is my own, and I shall not give
you Piny further information." Bryant and Danby said
that the statement was correct, and that they saw her
purchase the goods. Witness, atter being threatened by
the prisoners that they would " muzzle" him it he did
not be off, at length forced his way into the cab, and by
his directions the driver of the vehicle made the best of
his way to the Albany-street station-house. The pri-
soners were then locked up, and soon afterwards witness
ascertained that the print belonged to Mr. Gear.
o,her evidence was gone into, from which it appeared
that Bryant and Denby had a short time before the die-
eevery of the robbery gone to Mr. Gear's shop, at which
quantity of blonde and edging, and
they bought a small
it was imagined that, while the assistant was engaged in
serving them, Jones had taken the opportunity of making
off with the print, which, with other articles, was placed
just within the doorway. It was missed shortly after
Bryant and Denby left.
'the MAGISTRATE Observed that the eenduct of the
constable iu the affair was highly creditable to him on
the score of tact and intelligence, and he made on the
charge sheet a remark in writing to that effect, in order
that it might come under the ceimmissioners' notice.
The prisoners stand committed fur trial, but will be
brought up again next Wednesday, and in the interim
due inquiry will be made as to whether there are any
former convic,ions against them or not.
SERIOUS CHARGE.—As late as six o'clock a dissipated-
lookitz man, named John Papworth, was placed at the
bar on the serious charge of having wilfully set fire to
furniture in his lodgings,
to the danger of all the in-
mates of the dwelling, situate at No. 4, Selby-Place,
New-road.
It appeared from the evidence that between twelve
and one o'clock on the same morning the prisoner came
home the worse for drink, and began to knock the fur-
niture about. At four o'clock Mrs. Yennyead, who lives
oAt
in the next room to him, found that her apartment was
full of smoke. She jumped out of bed, and on opening
prisoner's door, exclaimed, a For God's sake, Papworth,
what are you about?" The place
w:taesr andthe p
then allut in u
a blaze;t.
but he (prisoner) fetched so
ten o'clock in the morning he was taken into custody by
Westlake, 333 S, who found upon the hearth the remains
of a table, some boots, lasts, a brush, and other articles,
all of which had been partly consumed by fire. The
mantel-shelf was also much charred.
The prisoner, who admitted that he was drunk, and
said that he merely made a fire to dry his trousers by,
was remanded.
WESTMINSTER.
EXTENSIVE
.ROBBERIES AT THE PALACE AT WEST-
-3
tchael Connor, an Irish labourer, who
Palace
ards of seven years employed at the new
estminster, was charged with unfixing and
has been
.t
carrying off a great quantity ot expensive moulding
from the windows of the Speaker's apartments.
Polici—conetrible Miilemun, of the 13 division, stated
that he stopped the prisoner, in consequence of some in- ,
formation he had received respecting him, in ht. Anne's,
Westminster, between five and six on the previous night,
arid tumid 841 b. of int.t.d concealed open his person. He
inquired where he got it from when the accused replied
that he found it at the new Houses of Parliament, where
he was at work. After securing the prisoner he went to
the new Houses of Parliament, and there he found that
41 window had beetf(with the ter.ceptio,n of a small puree
to which that foundttp,:k pri.oner fitter;), coalo,k.
stiippeu el a suit i I iraciai In etdiug receatiy invented
for opening mid closing the fanlights.
Mr, R, Lamprell, clerk of the works at its new Pa- I