The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TIJOSIDAV EVENESIO, OCTOBER 23, 1860.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(TRIS DAY.)

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Paid

Closing
Frice.

'Business done

(Belem the Recorder.)
OLD COURT.

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Charles Gault, 33, a well dressed man, pleaded guilty to
stealing five watches, the property of Benjamin Walker.
The offence to which the prisoner pleaded guilty was of
an aggravated character. The prosecutor is a watch-
maker in Liverpool-street, Bishopsgate, and the prisoner
went into the shop and entered into conversation with a
lad named Davies, who had charge of it, and suddenly
seized him by the throat, when one of his companions came
in and emptied a case of watches, and ran off. The prisoner
was, however, pursued and captured.
The Recorder, after commenting upon the serious nature
of the robbery, sentenced the prisoner to six years' penal
servitude.

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LATEST BETTING.

NEW COTIRT,
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
COINING.—John. Cronin and his wife were indicted for
unlawfully possessing counterfeit coin, well knowing the
same to be counterfeit, with intent to utter the same.
Tho female prisoner pleaded guilty.
The evidence against the prisoners disclosed a most ex-
tensive system of fraud. The prisoners occupied an apart-
ment in Pitt-alley, and were supposed to be hard working
people, but from certain information Brennan, the de-
tective officer employed by the Mint authorities,
was directed to watch them. Brennan after having done
so, applied for authority to enter their apartment, and pro-
ceeded there to search the same. On arriving at the
door of the room occupied by them the officers were refused
admission, but Brennan, with a sledge hammer, broke the
door open, and on entering found the female prisoner be-
hind the door, which she had been trying to keep closed.
The process of manufacturing counterfeit coin seemed to
be of a very extensive nature. A galvanic battery,
in which 17s. were found, together with moulds of
shillings, florins, and sixpences, acids, files, ham.
mers, &c., &c. While thus engaged Brennan heard
something fall into a pan of water, and on looking therein
no less than 14 counterfeit shillings were discovered,
which the female prisoner must have thrown there. A
great quantity of counterfeit coin was discovered in dif-
ferent degrees of preparation. The counterfeit shillings
were most of them dated 1855, but two different moulds
appear to have been used in those productions. The male
prisoner was from home when the police entered the place,
and on being informed of what had taken place, denied all
knowledge of the manufacture of counterfeit coin. Brennan
however, searched bim and took from ono of his pockets two
counterfeit shillings, and from another three, all correspond-
ing with those discovered at his lodging, and wrapped up
in a similar manner.

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6to 1 agst Prelude (taken)
Bto 1 agst Golden Pippin (taken)
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14 to 1 agst Maggiore (taken)

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The jury found the male prisoner guilty.
The Recorder inquired if anything was known of the
prisoners ?

Brennan said the female prisoner was well known. Tie
had had her in custody before. In 1851 she was tried in
the Old Court with a man she called 'her husband;
but as she produced a certificate of marriage, which
ho had reason to believe from circumstances that
afterwards came to his knowledge was her sister's, she
was acquitted, as she said she acted under the coer-
cion of her husband. In 185 G she was again apprehended
for the same offence and sentenced to a term of
imprisonment. She was looked upon as one of the most
expert coiners in tke metropolis, and not content with com-
mitting the offience herself, she had instructed her children
in the same practice, and one, if not more, of her children
was at that moment undergoing a long term of imprison-
ment. It was impossible to describe the annoyance she
had caused to the respectable inhabitants in the vicinity of
her residence, and although they had offered the
police the assistance of their servants to abate the
nuisance, such was the state of watchfulness kept
up, that immediately a police-constable approached
the place, signals were given, and everything successfully
concealed. On one occasion he got information that pri-
soner had received an order from the country, and although
the utmost care was taken to prevent her sending the coin
off, she succeeded, and afterwards laughed at the officers.
She was in fact "the worst amongst the bad," and during
the whole of his experience he had never met with a more
dangerous woman.

The female prisoner said it was not true that she had
been before convicted.

Brennan said he was quite sure he was not mistaken.
The Common Sergeant—You have said something about
a " railway order," what do you mean by that ?
Brennan—An order from the country for counterfeit
coin. They receive orders as manufacturers and execute
them. On one occasion it was known that as many as 300
counterfeit shillings had been sent off in one parcel.
The Recorder—Then they are wholesale dealers.
Brennan—Yes, my lord.

The Recorder commented very severely on the offence of
which the prisoners had boen convicted, and sentenced the
male prisoner to six and the female prisoner to eight years'
penal servitude.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

This Day.)

NY 1: LECTE,IC TELEGRAPH.
L. 50 PLATE (Last Three miles of B. C.)

Somersault
Weatherwitch 2

Thunderbc.ll
Brown Duchess 9
Man Friday
Four ran. Won easily.
£5O PLATE. R.N.

P retend ant
Twilight
Ten ran.

Count Kisseleff, before leaving Paris, gave ex-
planations to M. Thouvenel in reference to the
interview at Warsaw. According to these expla-
nations, the object of the understanding of the
three Courts is, without departing from the system
of nonintervention, to agree upon the principles
for the regulation of their conduct in the face of
certain eventualities. Count Kisseleff, as well as
Count Pourtales, protested in the most explicit
manner against the supposition that the object of
the interview is to resuscitate the Holy alliance.
LONDON SCOTTISH VOLUNTEERS.—This body
marched out for the first time since the vacation on Satur-'
day last, and after a circuit through Bayswater, halted for
refreshment at Paddington-green. The corps is about 850
strong, and, in the absence of Lord Elcho, and Sir David
Baird (the Major) in Scotland, it is under the command of
Captain Mackenzie, the senior captain. The boxing and
fencing class has begun with great spirit. Mr. Benedict
will commence a class this week for singing Scotch songs
in a " marching chorus." More than 200 candidates for
admission into this corps have been refused because they
are not " connected with Scotland by birth, marriage, or
descent," which is one of the fundamental rules of the re-
giment. It is in contemplation to form a " Volunteer
Medical and Ambulance Corps" in London.
THE FRENCH TREATY AND BRITISH SHIPPING.

—The secretary of the Sunderland Shipowners' Society has
received the following note from Mr. Cobden. in reply to a
communisation ou the subject referred to :—" Paris, Oct. 16,
1860.—Sir,—In reply to your letter, I beg to say, for the
information of the Shipowners' Society of Sunderland, that
the negotiations in which I am engaged here do not em-
brace the question of the French navigation laws. That im-
portant question remains wholly unaffected by the provisions
of the Commercial Treaty. I mention this because I saw it
erroneously stated in a report of a society of shipowners
that the treaty had perpetuated the present navigation sys-
tem of this country. Under these circumstances, Ido not
think that the suggested deputation of shipowners to Paris
could at this moment be productive of any result in con-
nection with my negotiations with the French Govern-
ment." . . .

VA
DANGEROUS CHARACTER.—Captain R. Atkin-
son, of the barque Granton, from London for Colombo,
reports :—" 16th inst.—Weighed from Gravesend ; John
Moorcroft, A. 8., down below in a state of drukenness.
Arrived in the Downs 17th, at 5 p.m. On ordering John
Moorcroft to come en deck, found him in a state of delirium
tremens, and unable to do his duty, making use of threaten-
ing language to all on board. 20th. At 2 a.m., said man
came on deck, with a knife in his hand, threatening to be
the death of all hands unless he was put on shore. He
jumped overboard, and one of the men saved him by going
down the cable chain; secured him below in his berth,
when he was heard to say that he would set the ship on
fire. Considering him of unsound mind, and dangerous to
be on board the ship, at his own request sent him on shore
by the first boat that came alongside."
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A NOVEL SCENE.—A wedding took place yester-
day at the church of St. Marylebone, which was particularly
interesting on account of its novelty. Tho happy couple
(Mr. Alfre Thomas Maxwell and Miss Rosina Paxton) are
both deaf and dumb, and the ceremony was performed in
the finger and sign language by the Rev. Samuel Smith,
chaplain of the Association in Aid of the Deaf and Dumb.
We believe this is the first time in this country that dacty-
lology and pantomime have been brought into use on such
an occasion. Several of the members of Mr. Smith's deaf
and dumb congregation were present to witness the cere-
mony.
STRIKE OF MASONS IN BRISTOL.—The master
builders of Bristol, anxious to terminate the prolonged dis-
agreement between the operatives and themselves, through
which a large number of men have been thrown out of em-
ploy, invited the men to select six of their body to meet a
similar number of the masters jointly to arbitrate on the
questions in dispute under the presidency of a chairman to
be mutually agreed upon. This proposition was declined
by the men uness they were allowed to appoint the chair-
man. To this request the masters could not accede, and
having exhausted all means to bring about a fair and equit-
able solution of the differences between the men and them-
selves the solution of ,the difficulty appears as far off as
ever.
CIVILITY REWARDED.--Two young women, who
about eight years since were assistants in the shop of
Mr. Fletcher, hosier, of Wine-street, Bristol, last week
received.the agreeable information that they were legatees
for £lOO each, free of legacy duty, under the will of an ec-
centric old lady of Crewkerne, lately deceased, for " civilities
received from them on visiting the shop in which they were
engaged." A clerk in one of the branches of Stuckey's
Banking Company is also remembered to the extent of .E. 500
for his " politeness" in picking up and handing the old
lady a bundle of notes which she accidentally dropped in the
bank.

A YORKSHIRE RAT.—A man named Joseph
Holmes, of Hunslet, near Leeds, last week laid some poison
in the cellar of the house in which he lived for the purpose
of destroying a rat. The bread and butter upon which the
poison was laid vanished three times in succession, but the
rat still remained. At length the rat was caught and killed
by a very valuable terrier dog, the property of Mr. Holmes,
and in three hours after the dog died, as if from the
effects of strychnine. It is supposed that the rat instinc-
tively detected the poison, and had recourse to the expe-
dient of wiping the butter and poison from the bread upon
its fur.
A memorandum in the census returns of Florida
is rather peculiar. The registrar says :—" Among the slave
inhabitants I have found but one in my district whose age
exceeds 100 years. This person is a negress named Cox..
nelia Leslie. She informs me that she is 125 years of age.
She was born in the state of Georgia, at a place called Silver
Bluff; has a distinct recollection of the war of the Revolu-
tion, and remembers the siege of Savannah in 1778, when
that city was taken by the British. This woman is remark-
ably healthy and strong, and walks half a mile regularly
every Sunday to attend church. She is the slave of her
own son, who is a free negro."
A curious affair recently occurred in Douglas,
of which the _Manx Sun gives the following version :—An
elderly lady, when on her sick bed, presented a pair of
stays to a female friend who had been frequently her com-
panion in her hours cf illness. The present was at that
time thought hardly, worth receiving, but, not to offend
the old lady by refusing the offered present, the stays were
folded up in paper and placed aside. The old lady died,
and after her death, on the stays being examined, there
was found stitched in them a lot of Bank of England notes.
The notes were cut in halves, and one set of half notes was
stitched down on each side of the stays.
HORRIBLE MURDER OF Two CHILDREN AT
BRADFORD.—About ten o'clock on Sunday night. Mrs.
Margaret Gowland, the wife of an attorney's clerk, named
John George Gowland, cut her own throat and those of her
two children, Elizabeth Jane and Ann, aged two and four
respectively. She is living, but the children are dead.
Jealousy is said to be the cause. Her husband was taken
in custody. He states that on going home about 10 o'clock
he found the door locked, and the house in darkness ; he
knocked several times before the door was opened ; on en-
tering, he struck a light, and then discovered his wife sitting
on the bed with her throat cut. The bed was also co-
vered with blood and the children lying dead with their
throats cut. He called in assistance, and several surgeons.
The poor woman was removed to the infirmary. She was
rather better yesterday morning. She states that she cut
the throats of her children, and then her own. Yesterday
(Monday) Gowland was discharged from custody, as his
wife states she alone cut the throats of her children. The
neighliours also say he came to the door at 10 o'clock, and
had to knock a long time. She is rather better, and speaks
calmly and collectedly. Gowland is a native of Sunder-
land, and was receiving a guinea a week. His home con-
sisted of one room, and is a wretched abode. The dreadful
tragedy has created great excitement.
RAILWAY COLLISION NEAR MANCHESTER.—An
alarming collision took place a few minutes before 12 o'clock,
yesterday noon, on the London and North-Western Rail-
was', between the Longsight and Ardwick stations, near
Manchester. A passenger train to Manchester having
stopped at the Ardwick station that tickets might be col-
lected, a second train of empty luggage waggons which had
been following had also to be brought to a stand in the
rear of it. While the two trains were standing there a pas-
senger train, which had left Macclesfield for Manchester at
10.15 a.m., came up and ran into the empty luggage train
at a speed of about 10 miles per hour. The signals were
on, and why the Macclesfield train was not pulled up in
time will be a matter of serious inquiry for the railway
officials, but the only reason assigned at present is the slip -
periness of the rails and the consequent miscalculation of
the driver. The collision was severe, the rear carriage of
the luggage train being smashed to pieces, and the engine of
the passenger train being thrown off the fine. Fortunately
the ballast on the line at the point of collision, which is a
viaduct, is a soft deep loam, and owing to the depth of this
lo em, and to the fact that the passenger engine ran upon.ne
wheel of the luggage waggon embedded m it, the tra_i
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was brought to a stand in a distance of about ten yraota
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