The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-10 00:00:00

FRIDAY

lady's attire as a criterion of the elegance and com-
fort of the Bloomer costume, we believe that very few
who saw her would care about saying that it pos-
sessed much of either of these qualities. It presented
the nearest approximation, in our view, to the riding
habit of a horsewoman, with the long skirts cut off
an inch or two below the knee—their place being
supplied by short wide trowsers, reaching to and
fastened round the ankles, the whole being terminated
by cloth boots. The only thing decorative was a
broad scarf and sash of Victoria tartan thrown over
the shoulders and fastened round the waist;
but the general effect of the whole dress was
anything but handsome. This may possibly be
owing to the wearer, who is rather of a petite
figure, and not exactly cast in the mould of the Venus
de Medici ; but whatever be the reason, very few
ladies (and there were many present) are likely to be
converted to Bloomerism from the specimen presented
for their inspection last night. The material of which
the upper part of the dress was composed appeared to
be dark-coloured cloth or merino, fitting tight
to the shape, the trousers being of black satin.
Mrs. Dexter, who manifested no small amount of
nerve throughout the ordeal to which she was
subjected, cannot be less than thirty-five years
of age, and may be more—but this is a delicate
subject, and we forbear pursuing it. It is unneces-
sary following the lady throughout the lecture,
which she contrived, in the midst of repeated inter-
ruptions, to deliver. Of course she insisted on the
•absolute right of the fair sex to adopt that style of
dress which they conceived to be most conducive to
their personal comfort and convenience, and main-
tained that in tho Bloomer costume—of which she
declared the advantages from personal experience—
there was nothing offensive to modesty. On the
contrary, she avowed that it was both convenient,
modest, and becoming; and expressed her assurance
that it would be adopted by every woman of
good heart and disposition. A cruel wag in the
hall at this point raised a laugh at the expense of the
fair Bloomer, by asking her if she included along with
these "good understandings." Amidst various epi-
sodes of this kind, which every now and then checked
the progress of the lecture for a few minutes, Mrs.
Dexter struggled on and made her bow to the audi-
ence about half-past nine o'clock, amid tremendous
cheering, hooting, waving of hats, &c. With some
difficulty she got off the platform and into a side
room, where we presume she waited till the coast was
clear, though we have little doubt that the groups,
who were gathering round the foot of the stairs lead-
ing to the hall, would not allow her to leave without
a noisy demonstration at parting.—North British

THE GREAT WRESTLING MATCH FOR
THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF ENGLAND, AND
300/, AT ULVERSTON.
(From the Ulverston Advertiser of yesterday.)
At length the anxiously expected match between
the two renowned aspirants to the championship of
the northern wrestling ring has been decided, and
the Ulverston ring has been the chosen arena in
which they met. For a long series of years Ul-
verston has been renowned for holding one of the
most celebrated wrestling meetings in the kingdom.
Here men whose prowess has rendered them celebrated
have met yearly to decide on whom rested the palm of
superiority; and yesterday two of the most remarkable
men in England—not alone for their wrestling capabili-
ties and the ease with which, in the manly back-hold
style, they can throw all other men, but for their gigantic
stature nod formation—have met and decided which is
entitled for the future to the grand distinction of cham-
pion, and the rich prize of 300 sovereigns.

EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1851,

1 POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION- h O USE.
Thomas Allen was brought before Sir Robert W.
Carden charged with having robbed Thomas Young.
The prosecutor said—l came to London from New-
eastle-upon-Tyne in company with the prisoner, for
the purpose of seeing the Exhibition, and on Tuesday
last I left a carpet-beg and a basket, containing wear-
ing apparel and 9/. in money, at the Punch Coffee-
house, in Bishopsgate Without, with the landlord.
The prisoner was with me at the time, and he and I
afterwards went together to a house near Astley's
Theatre, and I went into a shop to inquire for a friend,
and when I came out the prisoner was gone. Upon
my return to the Punch Coffee-house I learnt that my
property had been all taken away.;
Ellen E. Walker—l lire at the Punch Coffee-
house. Between one and two o'clock on Tuesday the
prosecutor and the prisoner came together and had
some refreshment, after which they left a carpet-bag
and basket, and the prisoner said they would call
again for them. About half an hour afterwards the
prisoner returned by himself and left in the bar a
small bundle, which was deposited along with the bag
and basket.
It was proved by one of the servants of the house
that the prisoner called by himself between seven and
eight in the same evening, had some refreshment, and
asked for the bag, basket, and bundle, which were ac-
cordingly given to him.
The officer into whose custody the prisoner was
given said he had found 9/. in money of the descrip-
tion of that lost by the prosecutor upon him.
Sir R. W. CARDEN directed that very particular
inquiry should be made by the police into the case,
which had the appearance of being a very cruel
robbery.
The prisoner was accordingly remanded.
GUILDHALL.
Freiherr von Forster, describing himself as a
Knight of Starkenburg, and adjutant of the Ist
Regiment of Prussian Dragoons, was placed at the
bar before Mr. Alderman Wire, charged with stealing
three Bank of England notes for 201. each, the pro-
perty of Mr. Jordan ; and two notes, one for 101. and
another for 51., the property of Mr. Prevost, of
Ghent, from the York Hotel, New Bridge-street,
Blackfriars.
Thomas Quarterman said—l am the proprietor of
the York Hotel, New Bridge-street. I charge the
prisoner, who lodged in my house, with robbing the
portmanteaus of two gentlemen residing with me. I
don't know any of the circumstances connected with
the charge of my own knowledge, as my wife had
the chief management of the hotel.
Eliza Quarterman said—l am the wife of the last
witness. I remember the prisoner coming to our
hotel on the 19th of September last. He remained
with us about eleven days, and left on the 30th of the
same month. For the first four days he shared a
double-bedded room on the third floor with a
friend that came with him, and when his
friend left he (prisoner) removed to a single-
bedded room on the same floor, but in another
part of the house. There were other lodgers
on the same floor, among whom was a Mr. Prevost
occupying the room adjoining the prisoner's. Mr.
Prevost complained to me that he had been robbed of
a 10/. and a 51. note, which had been abstracted from
his portmanteau, and shortly afterwards Mr. Jordan,
whose room was next to Mr. Prevost's, also com-
plained of a similar robbery, and stated that he missed
three 201. notes. In consequence of this I gave in-
formation at the Fleet-street station, and a detective
officer was sent to the hotel, and prisoner's luggage
was searched. Mr. Jordan discovered his loss on
Sunday, the 28th of September, and prisoner left on
the Tuesday morning following, having previously
paid his bill.
Sergeant Weale, No. 2, of the R division, said—
From information I received I went to Mr. Quarter-
man's Hotel on Monday, the 20th of September. I told
prisoner of the robbery that had taken place, and that
suspicion had fallen upon him, upon which he con•
sented that his luggage should be examined, and as-
, sisted in unlocking his boxes and turning out all his
wearing apparel, but nothing relative to the charge
was discovered. On the following morning, about
five o'clock, prisoner called for a cab, and directed the
driver to convey him to the Dover Railway station.
From further information I received on Monday last,
to the effect that one of the missing notes had been
stopped at the Bank of England, and traced home to
the prisoner, I made inquiries, and found he had made
his way to the Adelphi Hotel, kept by Mr. Radley,
Liverpool. I then ascertained, by means of the
electric telegraph, that prisoner left there by the one
o'clock train on the 6th of the present month to come
to the Royal Hotel, Blackfriars ; but, on inquiry, I
found he had not been there at all. Acting upon
further information I went yesterday to Mr. Du-
hourg's Hotel, in the Haymarket, where I found
prisoner's luggage, and accordingly waited there for
him until he returned home, about seven o'clock in
the evening, when I took him into custody. Mr.
Dubourg objected to my removing the luggage, as
the prisoner's bill was still unpaid, so I locked up the
room and took the prisoner to the Fleet-street sta-
tion, where 1 searched him, and found a purse con-
taining Bs. 6d. in silver and one penny in copper, a
pawnbroker's duplicate of an opera-glass, pledged at
Mr. Whistler's, in the Strand, and another of a gold
watch and Albert chain, pledged with Mr. Edward
Byford, of Liverpool, for 71, in the names of Vignatol
and Redhammur: also a returned paid cheque for
37/., drawn in the name of Dubourg, a gold signet-
ring, a corkscrew, and two knives. I then went
back to Mr. Dubourg's hotel, and searched the pri-
soner's portmanteau, in the presence of May, the
officer, and several other persons. In addition to the
wearing apparel I found two netted bead purses, two
clasp purses, two small jewel-boxes, a leather bag
with clasp, three pocket books, and one sovereign in
money. This is the bunch of keys I received from
the prisoner. There are more than he had luggage
for, and some of them are blanks, while others seem
more fitted for picking locks than for any other
purpose.

Quarterman here said he had communicated
with Mr. Radley by telegraph, and received in answer
a letter, which he produced, stating that the prisoner
had been staying at the Adelphi Hotel, and that on
Sunday last the prisoner entered the apartment of a
Mr. Wombwell while that gentleman was at church.
Application was made to the Prussian Consul and the
detective police, but as the prisoner had paid his bill,
and Mr. Wombwell had gone into the country, he set
every one at defiance, and refused to open his port-
manteau on any account. Several tavern bills were
found on him, but the heads of them were torn off, so
that they afforded no clue to his previous movements,
and he was therefore allowed to depart.
Daniel May, a detective officer of the City force,
said—On receiving information of the robbery at the
York Hotel, and the numbers and dates of the missing
notes, of Mr. Jordan, I went to the Bank of England
and stopped them. On Saturday last I heard that
one of the 201. notes had been stopped, and, accord-
ingly, after some difficulty, succeeded in tracing it to
Mr. Quick, of Fenchurch-street, and from him to Mr.
Willis, of Armley, near Leeds. I went down to
Leeds, and asked Mr. Willis to account for his
possession of the stolen note, and that gentleman
stated that he was staying► at Anderton's Hotel,
Fleet-street, on Sunday, September 28, when, about
half-past eight o'clock in the morning, a foreigner
(answering the description of the prisoner) came
in and called for breakfast, for which he tendered a
201. note in payment, and, the waiter having no
change, he (Mr. Willis) changed the note for him.
He also gave me a description of the notes he gave
the prisoner in change, and which have since been
presented at the same hotel. The numbers of the two
missing 201. notes are 24,774 and 17,798, and both
dated July the 9th, 1851. The number of the 101.
note is 92,103, and that of the 51., either 65,868 or
72,899, also of the same date.

William Henley said—l ant a waiter at Anderton's
Hotel. I know the prisoner at the bar very well.
On Sunday, the 28th of September, I supplied him
with eggs and coffee for breakfast, which he finished
in about a quarter of an hour, and then taking out
his purse, from which he produced a 201. note, he
expressed a desire to pay for what he had had. I
opened it to see the amount, but not having sufficient
change, I returned it to him, when Mr. Willis, who
was. sitting at the same table, said, " That's just what
I want, to relieve my pocket of this gold." I left Mr.
Willis to give prisoner the change, and on my return
prisoner paid me 2s. for his breakfast and 6d. for my.
self. I never saw prisoner before. He spoke very
good English when he asked for eggs and coffee.
May and Weale then applied for a remand of this
case, as they were in possession of certain particulars
that led them to believe that the prisoner had been
carrying on a regular system of depredations of this
nature both in the hotels on the Continent and those
in this country. His tavern bills, however, showed
that he had always appeared in the same name and
assumed the same rank.

Alderman WIRE said, from the contents of Mr.
Radley's letter he considered it highly important that
further inquiries should be made. He was very de-
sirous that the Prussian Embassy should be applied to
to ascertain if prisoner really held the rank of adju-
tant in the Prussian army, and how he came to Eog..
land. He would remand the case for as long a period
as the law would permit him, and he hoped that the
officers would exert themselves to have all the wit-
nesses ready for the next bearing of the case.
Remanded for a week.

THAMES.
Wilhelm Balser, a German, appeared before Mr.
Yardley, for the second time, on an adjourned sum-
mons, charging him with assaulting Catherina
Diebiel, a girl aged 16 years, whom he brought over
to this country, and was in the practice of beating
very frequently, and not allowing her sufficient food,
because she was unable to sell a sufficient quantity
of brooms to satisfy the cupidity of her brutal task:
master.

The Rev. Dr. Cappel, the minister of St. George a

German Church, who was unavoidably absent when
the case wil3 before the nugistrate on Tuesday, now
attended the court.

Mr. YARDLEY said it was desirable that the girl
should be sent back to Germany as soon as possible,
and before he consented not to punish the prisoner
he must sae that was done and the money was paid.
If the prisoner did that his punishment would ho
merely nominal. To enable him to do justice to the
girl he would keep the punishment suspended over his
head, and if he did not perform what he promised it
would be a very severe one.
The prisoner, after some conversation with the
Rev. Dr. Cappal, promised to pay over to the rev.
gentleman 21.105. for the girl's passage over, and 51.,
the balance of wages due to her, in a fortnight.
Mr. YARDLEY said he would give him a fortnight
to raise the money, and ordered him to enter into his
own recognizance in the sum of 201. to appear before
him again on the 23d inst.

The girl said her master had detained a Bible given
to her by a German lady.
Mr. YARDLEY—That must be restored to the girl
at once.

The Rev. Dr. Cappel—l beg to express publicly
my thanks to your Worship for your kindness and
the great attention you have paid to this case.
HAMMERSMITH.
William Harris was charged with shooting at and
seriously wounding Sergeant Earthy.
Police. constable Henry Bayley, T 250, stated that
on the previous evening, about eight o'clock, he and
Sergeant Earthy were returning from East Acton to
the Uxbridge-road, down a lane, and when about 300
yards down they saw two men standing close to the
hedge with their faces covered with something black.
Earthy seised one, the prisoner at the bar, by the
collar, and pushed up his mask and said, "What are
you at now ?" The prisoner instantly sprang back
about a yard, and fired a pistol at Sergeant Earthy,
who fell, but they had both seized hold of the prisoner
at the moment he fired off the pistol, and witness and
the prisoner both fall in the struggle. Earthy then
called out that he was shot. The prisoner then got
loose, and drew out another pistol, which Earthy
seized hold of by the barrel. The prisoner, however,
got it away, and presented it at witness's breast and
pulled the trigger. The pistol missed fire, and wit-
ness instantly struck it out of his hand with his staff.
The prisoner, being disarmed, said he would offer no
further resistance. The prisoner's companion got
away. Sergeant Earthy is severely wounded in the
thigh.
it further appeared that the prisoner and his com-
panion are the men who attacked a gentleman last
week, and tied him to a tree, and robbed him of his
watch and money, &c., and that they have also
committed several other offences about that neigh-
bourhood.

The prisoner, who said nothing, was remanded to
Thursday next.

SHIP NEWS.

GRAVESEND, OCT. 9.—Wind, S.S.E., moderate.
Arrived—Elizabeth, from Ceylon; Centaur, from
Algoa Bay; Miranda, from St. Michael's; Hastings,
from Calcutta; Neptune, and Emma, from Dantzic;
Emanuel, from Sweden; Henry Martin, from St. Peters-
burgh; William Stovold, from St. Andrew's; Frances,
and Geelong, from Calcutta; Jane Morison, from
Callao ; Nestor, from Calcutta ; Waterville, from
Mauritius; Prcciosa, from Norway; Ocean Queen, from
Gottcnburgh; Endeavour, from Dantzic; Great Britain,
from Callao; Clymene, and Duke of Wellington, from
Calcutta; Favourite, from Dantzic; Cameron, from
Trinidad; Thomas and Elizabeth, from Havannah;
Margaret West, from Batavia; London Packet, from
Norway; Batavier, from Rotterdam; Elbe, from Ham-
burgh; Concordia, Attwood, and Earl of Auckland,
from Rotterdam; Rhine, from Ostend; Fame, from
Calais; Baron Osy, from Antwerp; City of London,
from Dunkirk; Ranger, from Rotterdam; Tiger, from
Tonningen.
Sailed—lpswich Lass, for Denia; Conch, for Tone-
riffe; Speranza, fur Trieste; Hobe, for Konigsberg;
Prince of Waled, for Sydney; Vallisnerie, for the Cape
of Good Hope; Soho, for Antwerp; Governor von
Ewyck, for Antwerp; Menai, for Calais; City of Rot-
terdam, for Dunkirk; Sir E. Bankes, for Havre.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.
Star of the East, from Dublin for Constantinople, on
the 13th September, in lat. 41 N., long. 10 W.
Bombay, outward-bound, on the Bth of August, in lat.
46 N., long. 23 W.
Jane White, off Hull, steering for the eastward.
Commodore, from Cardiff for Genoa, on the 10th of Sep-
tember, in lat. 40 N., long. 11 W.
Hampden, from New Orleans for Liverpool, on the 11th
of September, in lat. 35, long. 74.
Liverpool barque, steering for the eastward, in hit. 42,
long. 62.
Dominica, from Queenstown, on tho 9th of September,
off St. Paul's.
Elizabeth brig, from Bideford for Quebec, on the 11th of
September, in Ist 46 N., lon. 48 W.
Lord Dufferin, from Liverpool fur Sydney, on the 3d of
August, in lat. 3, long. 30 W.
Owen Glendower, from London from Bombay, on the
13th of August, in Ist. 9 N., long. 26 W.
Zephyr, of Halifax, for the Clyde, on the 27th of Septem-
ber, in lat. 43 N., long. 40 W.
James Alexander, from Calcutta, on the 11th of August,
in let. 31 S., long. 12.
Belie, from G►asgow for Calcutta, on the 30th of Au-
gust, in tat. 2 S., long. 21.
Marion, from London for Bombay, on the 9th of Sep-
tember, in lat. 15 N., long. 26.
Euphrates, on the same day.
Heart of Oak, from London, on the 2d of October, in
lat. 46 N., long. 22 W.
Swift, of Shields, bound for St. Andrew's, New Bruns-
wick, on the 12th of September, in lat. 50, long. 21.
Elspeth, from Ceylon for London, on the 25th of Au-
gust, in lat. 38 N., long. 39 W.
Elgin, bound for the southward, in lat. 7 N., long. 21 W.
Tropic, from London for the Cape of Good Hope, in lat.
8 N., long. 21 W.
Hopewell, from Liverpool, for Monte Video, on the
same day.

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