The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-17 00:00:00

HOUSE OP PEERS.

The House Robing Rooms, Committee Rooms in the
west front, and the rooms of the resident officers, as far as
the Octagon Tower at the south end of the building—
totally destroyed.

The Painted Chamber—totally destroyed.
The north end of the Royal Gallery abutting on the
Painted Chamber destroyed from the door leading into tho
Painted Chamber, as far as the first compartment of columns.
The Library and the adjoining rooms, which are now un-
dergoing alterations, as well as the Parliament Offices and
the Offices of the Lord Great Chamberlain, together with
the Committee Rooms, Housekeeper's Apartments, &c.,
in this part of the building are saved.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The House, Libraries, Committee Rooms, housekeeper's
apartments, &c., are totally destroyed (excepting the Corn-
mittee Rooms Nos. 11, 12, 13, and 14, which are capable
of being repaired).

The official residence of Mr. Ley (Clerk of the House).—
this building is totally destroyed.

The official residence of the Speaker.—The State Drawing
Room under the House of Commons is much damaged, but
capable of restoration.
All the rooms from the oriel window to the south side of
the House of Commons are destroyed.

The Levee Rooms and other parts of the building,
together with the public galleries, and part of the Cloisters,
very much damaged.

THE COURTS OF LAW.
These buildings will require some restoration.

WESTMINSTER HALL.
No damage has been done to this building.

FURNITURE.

The furniture, fixtures, and fittings to both the Houses
of Lords and Commons, with the Committee Rooms be=
longing thereto, is with few exceptions destroyed. The
public furniture at the Speaker's house is in great part de-
stroyed.
THE COURTS OF LAW.

The furniture generally of these buildings has sustained
considerable damage.
The strictest inquiry is in progress as to the cause of this
calamity, but there is not the slightest reason to suppose
that it has arisen from any other than accidental causes.
Office of Woods, &c., 1 ith October, 1834.

OLD IiAILEY.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Justice GASELEE and Mr. Baron GURNEY.)
William Page, a weaver, aged 22, and Mary Ann Ed-
wards, were indicted for coining thirteen half-crowns on
the 3rd of the present month.
Robert Goose, a policeman, stated that on the 3rd of
October he was in Orchard-street, Westminster, in com-
pany with another police-constable. In consequence of in-
formation they had received, went to No. 47 there ;
the street door was open, but the door of the room, one
pair back, was fast. They forced the door open, and saw
there the female prisoner and a man. The female was at
the table, and the man just inside the door. The prisoner
Page was by the fire-place, with his shirt sleeves tucked up.
On witness laying hold of him he saw a cloth in his hand,
which he put between his knees. He then rose up and
threw something towards the fire, which proved afterwards
to be some counterfeit half-crowns. The prisoner stooped
town to press the towel which he had between his knees,
when there fell from it the half of a mould, which the pri-
soner attempted to destroy. Witness desired him to
desist, but as he still persevered, he knocked him on
the eye, which caused him to drop the towel, when
the other part of the mould fell out. In the mould
was a counterfeit half-crown. In the scuffle both moulds
were broken. On searching the male prisoner he found in
his pocket a good half-crown covered with plaster of Paris,
and in the fire place there were four counterfeit half-crowns
in the ashes. On the fire there was a pipkin containing
white metal in a boiling state, and on the hob there was a
tobacco-pipe containing white metal ; there was also a spoon
on the hob. On the shelf witness found four more coun-
terfeit half-crowns wrapped up.
Samuel Bannister, a police inspector, and Martin Smith,
a policeman, corroborated the statement of Goose.
Mr. Field, the Inspector to the Mint, proved all the
half-crowns to be counterfeit except one. The good half-
crown had been employed in making more than one mould.
This was the case for the prosecution.
Page put in a written defence denying his guilt, and
stating that the metal that was found in his possession he
intended to make into a weight for the door of a pigeon-
house.

The Jury under the Learned Judge's direction acquitted
Edwards and found Page Guilty.
George Bell, a shoe-maker, was indicted for stabbing
Martha Clements on the 26th August last, with intent to
murder her.
Martha Clements stated that some time since she resided
with the prisoner. They had parted for 13 weeks, when
he came to the house she lodged at. Witness was scouring
her room ; the prisoner said, " Martha I am come to mur-
der you, and murder you I will." The shock was so great
that witness did not know what she did ; the prisoner then
stabbed her in several parts of her body with a knife ; after-
wards he tried to stab her in her throat, but could not effect
his purpose. He then went away. Had given him no
provocation before he struck her. The prisoner had ap-
plied before the occurrence took place, to the witness to
live with him again, which she refused. The occurrence
took place in Clipstone-hill, Waterloo-town. Bethnall-green.
Joseph Say resided in the same house as last witness,
and on the morning in question heard screams proceed from
the room inhabited by Mrs. Clements. On going down
there, she said she had been stabbed. Witness saw
the prisoner leaving the house ; and upon his accosting
him and asking him what he had done, he said he had
stabbed a woman, and if he had done it effectually he should
die happy—that it was the girl he loved, and the one he
would die by—that he had meditated it for two months,
and had sharpened the knife that morning for the purpose.
The prisoner was rather intoxicated at the time.
The policeman who took the prisoner into custody stated
that he said it was not done in a drunken frolic, but that
he had meditated it for two months, and was only afraid he
had not done it effectually. The best news he could hear
would be that she was dead.
Mr. Fergusson, a surgeon, described the wounds the
prosecutrix had received, and stated that it was only by
active treatment that her life was saved.
Stephen Laurence stated that the prisoner came to him
on the 26th of August, and borrowed a penny, when he
stated, drawing a knife from his pocket, that he intended to
murder some one that day ; that life he wanted, and life ho
would have.
The prisoner put in a written defence, from which it ap-
peared that he had committed the act under the influence
of jealousy and liquor.
Mr. Baron GtilitilY summed up.
The Jury, without the slightest hesitation, found the
prisoner Guilty.
James Rivingham was indicted for stealing a purse, con-
taining a sovereign and some silver, the proporty of Geoffry
Nightingale.

It appeared, from the evidence, that the prosecutor was
passing through Oxford-street en the evening of the 10th
of October, when the prisoner put his hand into prosecu-
tor's coat pocket, pulled out the purse, and ran off ; he was
pursued, and dropped the purse, and was taken into cus-
tody.—Guilty.
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