The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-04 00:00:00

PTIVE OF THE VARIOUS OFFENCES

S;,MMARY STATV4ENT, nEscaz:

WITH WHiCH THE PRISONERS SEVERALLY STAND CHARGED. '
cAPITAL OFFENCES. Receiving stolenstectrs 3
3tiirder
highway robbery
Horse-stealing .; 'lLarcenies
Forgery
Ste...ling in d‘relf ag.houses 16 Not surrendering to a com.-
Burglarv-- 5 mission of bankruptcy .... 1
.`(NOR OFFENCES Embezzlement 4
Manslaughter 1 -
Stealing from the person - • 315
Of the above number. 40 ate charged with crimes committed
in the City, and 209 in the County.
The followittg (5 a comparative statement of the respective
age: of the alleged ofrenders
Above 10 years and mrler 20 IOS
20 ....., ..... ... ...... ... no HI
90 4O 35
40
50
CO ,.......• '`io

STATE Or HIS MAJESTY'S GAOL OF NEWGATE,
MADE UP TO TUESDAY F.y
Misoners under sentence of death • 1
Prisoners under sentence of transportation for life • • 12
14 years ....,.. 6
7
Ditto, sentenced to various terms of imprinnnMent, having
I);,•,en convicted of felony, &c. • •N 5
Ditto, for trial at the ensiling Sessions
Ditto, whose judgments are respited 6
Ditto, acquitted on the ground of insanity, but remain dur-
ing Royal pleasure ...... 4
Ditto, committed on a Judge's Warrant 1
Ditto, trvversed and remanded.„., 2

Males 297 Fecnales • 83. I Total 180

IS'I'ANLEY BUXTON.—This novel, by
the author of " Lawrie Tetle' einbraces one of the most sin-
gular plots ever devel,stseA, even in a work of fiction. The cha-
racter of Lady Lrrington, and the fearful acts of her life, are
declared to be based on one of those actual occorrento 'Which
trrActimes surpass the inventions of rerear.te.

CAUTION TO COUNTRY BANKERS.—With-
in the last week a sttspicious-looking fellow has visited several
banks in the County of Kent, pretending some traveller had ap.
point-61 to meet him there about the time he celled, and re_
'quested permission to take a seat and w,%it a little, but in no in-
stance does it appear that his tliend, the traveller, presented
himself. At one bank4iig•-mouse in the Isle of Thanet, where
he took his statitln in this way for nearly half an hour, it was
suggested ;having had enough of his company) the )!etter plan
V-Otild be for him to say where lie was st, and if his friend
called they would inform him wl..cre he might be found, when
the gentleman withdrew, naming a respectable inn in the town
as his head-owarte7s ; he was followed secretly, but, instead of
going to any house of the kind, was observed to enter a low
cheap beer shop. The object of this roan lv strongly suspected
to have been a mere visit of ebterVation as to the banker's
fastenings, with the ulterior view to opening a private running
account with thettl, of no very favourable description. At one
house he expected to meet a Mr. Bentley, and at another Mr,
Person.

I.l;iL ITY.—There is Al set of men in this
strange world of et t 3, who, when they once get on a hobby,
will ride it tO ail manner of excess and absurdity ; and there 11,
perhaps, no word in the language that has hreti Made such a
Cool of as the word utility. It has loci: construed to mean no-
thing but the visible and tangible; nothing but that which has
a direct and posltire tendency to till the belly or cover the back.
Your supet-super-utilitarian Quixote would tear all the fringe
fre!'ti. our curtains, would dash the capitals ATM mir columns,
and the gold from our gingerhmed. When I was a young
man, and• had a little ntepensity to quizzing, which, I now
trust, I have totally subdued, I once asked an old maid, who
was proditionsly wise and sagacious, which was more useful, a
fiddle or a frying.pan.—Tait : And she decided in favour of the
frying-pan ?—Smith : To be sure, she did ; and you will find
that to be the case almost ail the world over, that second-rate
wits and deputy Wise-acres think nothing useful that does not
contribute to the support of life, as if being were of Melt inipor-
tuce than well-being. They speak of the 'aseful and the orna-
mental, as if the one were oerCted to the other, and, as if that
which is ornamental i• dot useful.—Tait's Magazine.

CI-TRIOUS DISCOVERY.—As two men were
tNging the high mounds on Warley-common, bear Brent-
wood, they observed before them thlt the earth suddenly gave
way, and sunk to a depth of about two feet. Fearful that the
day of retributlell had arrived, and the world was again return-
ing to its primitive state, they fled "like dust before the wind." Soon, however, being convinced of their rnista!se, it became
evident that terra firma did not forsake them. " Calling all
their courage up," they beti3 immediately returned and speedily
commenced heaving out the monld, when, to their no small
astoninment, they discovered a deep well, encircled with
What afterwards appeared to be Roman bricks, " and many
therein were human skulls," bones, and pieces of broken ar.
mour. Warley-common kliOwn to the historian as a Roman
encampment ; It is, therefore, very generally supposed that, as
there leas a decisive battle fought thereon, this Well, or hole,
has been, no doubt, a place for water in time of emsrgency,but
afterwards converted into. a cabin for the dead."

HORRIBLE CASE OF MURDER AND SUP-
Posen 1N...N1T-v.—About a fortnight since the wife of a labotiret
named Padley, residing at Ne' Bolingbrott, was delivered of
a child, and a day or two rftcrwards, in the absence of her
husband, who was chlployed in the fields, she took the little
innocent, atm' threw it on the fire! where it was in a short time
Wally consumed. Upon the return of her husband she told
him that some strange beggar.woman had been in the house
during his absence, and stele tile child. She afterwards, how.
ever, varied in her account, and on Friday last confessed the
dreadftil Mull. It is strongly suspected that she is deranged,
aml females have kept watch by her ever since to prevent her
laying violent hands upon herself. Her we,iknos prevents her, for
the present, being taken into rustody.—Belfast Northern Whig.
We have se'dom had occasion to detail a
more horrible or affecting circumstance than the following.
An imbecile lad named Henry Wright, son of the keeper of the
lock-up house in the village of Sanquhar, having on the even,
ing of Thursday last got intoxicated, his father thought proper
to confine him in one of the rooms. Next morning the lad,
looking through the iron grating of the window, and observing
a girl pass with a shovel full of live coal, called to her to give
him a light to his pipe ; the girl complied. Whether from ac-
cident or intention, a quantity of straw caught fire, and com-
municating with some beds in the cell, in an instant the whole
was in a blaze, and the unfortunate youth was enveloped in the
flames. His cries soon led to a discovery of his dreadful situa-
tion, but his father being out of the way with the key, all of.
Parts to afford him effectual assistance were unavailing. Una.
ble to escape from the scorching flames, his arms and head were
in vain stretched through the iron grating, while cans of water
were thrown upon him from without. When at last his father
arrived, he was carried out literally roasted, several parts of his
body being entirely consumed. On Tuesday he was still in
life, but no hopes are entertained of his recovery.—Ayr Adver-
tiser.

ASSAULT ON A FEMALE AT CHELMS-
PORD.-011 Thursday evening, Mrs. Leslie, the wife of a highly
respectable brandy-merchant, residing in Springfield lane, was
assaulted and ill-treated by a man near Galleywood.common.
The man accused of this miscreant conduct is named John
Hills, a native of Springfield. On Friday he was taken to the
Shire-hall; but as the sufferer was too ill from the treatment she
had received to attend, the proceedings were merely formal,
and he was again remanded. He was saluted by hooting and
hisses as he passed down the street. On Saturday he was fi-
nally examined, when Mrs. Leslie stated, that on Thursday
afternoon she was proceeding across the fields to Galleywood.
common to visit a friend, and when within one mile of a cottage,
the prisoner came up to her. He seised her and made use of
brutal language. She begged of him to let her go, and offered
him money and a parcel she had with her. He threw her into
a ditch. Prisoner, after various acts of cruelty, perpetrated a
capital offence. Witness's shrieks and moans at length brought
a woman to see what was the matter, and the prisoner ran
away. Mr. Leslie proved the dreadfully exhausted state both
of mind and body in which his wife was when brought home.
Mr. Leslie and the constable went in pursuit of the prisoner,
whom they found about four miles on the Danbury-road, but

lie was so desperate that they could not take him. After a des-
perate encounter, in which the prisoner was twice knocked
down, he was secured. _.He then said, " I have done enough
this time ; I shall be hung." The prisoner seemed totally care.
less as to the charge. He is a man of most repulsive aspect.
Mrs. Leslie is a woman of very 'weak and delicate constitution.
The prisoner was committed for trial at the assizes on the capi.
tat charge.—Esser Mercury.

EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.-Al-
though the circumstance we are about to relate may stagger
the faith of ninety-nine out cf the hundred of our readers, we
can assure them that it is literally true. Many of our readers
are aware that the body of John Thomas, who murdered Ellen
Bancroft, at Eyerton, was sent to Liverpool for dissection, and
is now undergoing anatomical examination at our Royal Insti-
tution. A cast was made from the head by Mr. Clements, of
Bold-street, in whose possession it is at present ; and it is an ab-
solute fact that, since the cast was completed, the hair of the
head and the beard have visibly and palpably grown, having, no
doubt, taken root in the plaster of Paris. It is a well-known
fact that the human hair, which grows from a root like that of
vegetables, will continue to increase long after life is ex-
tinct, and that the beard, which has been close shaved imme-
diately after death, will grow again for some days. Now,
in the instance we have been relating, there can be little
doubt that the plaster mould applied to the face of John Thomas,
for the purpose of taking a cast, must, when drawn of the
face, have plucked out the roots of the hair with it.
The cast which was afterwards formed from that mould
was soft, moist, and warm, and continned so for a sufficient
time to permit the hair to spring from the roots, until the
moisture was expended and the plaster had cooled and
heardened. The surgeon who acted as demonstrator on the
dissection has assured us that he shaved the head close im-
mediately before the operation, and that the hair has in the
corresponding parts of the cast evidently grown. If we are
asked why so singular a phenomenon has never before been
noticed or recorded, our answer is, that there is one circum-
stance connected with this case which may serve to explain
the matter. - In general, when casts are taken of deceased
friends, the .face is smeared with soap and oil, in order that
the plaster of the mould when taken off may not injure or
disfigure the flesh or features. No snob precaution was taken,
it seems, in this instance, and the plaster consequently adhered
sore tenaciously than usual to the face, plucking otf with it,
as we have already stated, the roots of the hair of the head, and
of the beard,—Lirerpopl Mercarg,

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

Conunissiena by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Derby.
The Right Hon. Henry Manners Lord Waterpark ; Sir W.
Boothby, Bart.; Sir FL Griesley, Bart.; Sir C. Colville, Knt. ;
Sir F. Darwin, Kut. ,• R. T. Bateman, Esq. ; A. S. Bateman,
Esq ; J. Balguy, jun. Esq.; J. Beaumont, Esq. ; T. Bent, Esq.;
J. Roden, Esq. ;J. Broadhurst, Eq., W, Bagshatve, Esq.; J.
H. Barker, Esq. ; J. R. B. Cave, Eaq.; C. Clarke, Esq., tti
be
Deputy Lieutenants, March tl4.
• •
Commitsion by the Lord LieUtenant of the County of Anglesey.
royal Anglese'v
W. B. Pariton, Gent., t,2": be Second Lieutenant, vice H. Jones,
promoted, Fab.

Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the West Riclint of ine
County of York, City, and County of the ',;ity, of York.
2d Regiment cf west York Militia.
C. J. Brandlint, Lsq., to be Major, vice Priestley, resigned,
March n.

Yorkshire. Hussar Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry.
Cornet J. Hodgson to be Lieutenant, vice Cros,e, resigned ;
Cornet D. Cayley to be ditto, vice Fairfax, promoted; Cornet
R. S. Gascoigne to he ditto, vic.P 'F. 0. Oascolgne; promoted G.
Anne, Gent., to be Cornet, vice HodgsOn, promoted; R, T. Lee',
Gent., to be d'Ato, rice Cayley, prornoted, March O.

13ANKRUPTCIFS '2-I'ERSEDED.
WILLIAM MAYELL, High-street, Exeter, jeweller and
11E RY DEA N, Nel3oll-street, GrPenwich, tobacconist.
NATHANIEL 'mom AS, Manchester, upholsterer.
BANKRUPTS:

JAMES A 1.111 REY, Hatttor. -gar& riv ener, to sur-
render April 11, at May 15, at ten, at the Court of
Bankt-tiptty, raokney, Bedford-row.
JOSEPH B ADCOCK, Shrivenham, Berkshire, linen-draper,
April 19 and May IS, at two, at the Bush Tavern, Bristol. Bush
and Prineaux, Bristol ; Holmes, Frampton, and Loftus; New
Inn, London.
RICHARD THOIr_rTON, Horsham, Sussex, common-
brewer, -Arra :9 and May 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
repty. Bousfield, Chatham-place, London ; Lamb, Horsham.
JAMES BEARD, Marple Bridge, Derbyshire, corn-dealer,
April 21, 24, and May 15, at two, at the York Hotel, Manchrster.
Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple. Lendrn ;
Bullack Smithy, Derbyshire.
ROBERT E141.T.5,, Clreliester, Gloucestershire, mercer, April
13 at wit anti May IS, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
-
Ti,leard and Miller, Old Jewry.
JAMES MERCER, Thrapston, Northamptonshire, innkeeper,
April 14, and May 15, at eleven, at the White Hart Inn,
Thrapston. Sanders, Hart-street, Bloom&?nry.square, London;
Archbould, Thrapston,
ROBERT 13/3.1.1Ti ND, St. John-street, Clerkenwell, lapidary,
April VA, at one, and May 15, at ten, at the Bankruptcy Court.
Spyer, Broad-street-buildings ; G. J. Graham, official assignee,
Coothall-buildings.
HENRY TOON, Cornwall-road, Waterlon-;•ondi gicker,
April 6. and May 15, at eleven, at the BankruptCy Court. Wil-
loughby, Clifford's-inn; g. Green, King's Arms-yard, official
assignee.
SA M tJEL, HO RSFA LL, Sowerbridge, Yorkshire, dyer,
April IS, and May 15, at ten, at the Office of Mr. Holroyde, Hac
lifax. Jacques, Batty; and Edwards, Coleman-street; London ;
Holroyde, Halifax.
JOSEPH W ATH. EN, Itoilbdrough, Goucestershire, clothier,
April 93 awl May 15, at eleven, at the Golden Cross Inn, Cains-
cros:. Blower, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, London; Croome and Son,
Gloucestershire.

DIVIDENDS.
R. D. Deniford, Chipping Norton, OY,fordShire, draper, April
26, at half-past ten, at the C*.tart or eleven, Wotitiruffe,
Ramsay, Essex, rattl-dealer, April 24, at at the Court
of Danitruptcy—H. Graves and W. S. Gooding, Strand, tailors,
April 26, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy—M. Andrew,
Crown-court, Threadneedle-street, insurance broker, April 26,
at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy—J. Cliorley, Little
Bell-alley, Coleman-street, woollen:Alt-age:, April 26, at half-past
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy—lt. S. Prettyman, Regent-
circus. ottfotd-street, linen-draper, April 26, at. half-past twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy—T. Moffat, Goswell-street, St.
Luke's, blue-manufacturer, May I, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy—A. Cuthbert, Great Scotland-yard, navy:agent,
May 2, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy—A. Ryder, Budge-
row, warehouseman, April 23, at Iwo, at the Court of Bankruptcy
IligOired, Finsbury-square, merchant, April 26, at one, at
the Court of Bankruptcy—W. Battams, Hardingstone, Nor-
thamptonshire, grazier, April 27, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy—C. Robertson, D. D. Milligan, and It. M. Danzell,
Fenchurch.street, merchants, April 26, at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy-,T. Hodgstin, Nicholas-lane,
insurance-broker, April 27, at the Court of Bankruptcy—
H. Downer, Fleet-street, ironmonger, April 25, at eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy—E. Pegg, Shoreditch, linen-draper,
April 30, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy—W. Dennison,
Toxteth Park, Lancashire, merchant, April 19, at one, at the
Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool—FL Rishton' Preston, money-
scrivener, April 27, at one, at the office of Messrs. Shuttleworth
and Hopkins, Preston—J. \Vatkinson, Manchester, calico-
printer, April 26, at two, at the King's Arms, Manchester—J.
Marshall, Watling-street, silk-manufacturer, April 27, at nine,
at the York Hotel, Manchester—W. Dean, Abbey-mills, Dui',
ham, worsted-spinner, May I, at twelve, at the Waterloo Hotel,
Durham—J. E. Eyles, Cnntetbury, ha, ter, April 'X, at eleven, at
the Cotirt of Bankruptcy.—W. J. Cooling, Bidborough-street,
Judd-street, master-mariner, April 26, at half-past two, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
CERTIFICATES, APRIL 21.

W. Ivory, St. Mary-at-Hill, victualler-.T. Oldhant, Manches,
ter, calico-printer— W. Wright, Wenrock Basin, Shoreditch,
engineer—J. Bai)ard, Brighthelwstone, tobacconist--T. M.
Moses, Stockton-upon-Tees, joiner.