The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-06 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

Yesterday, a married female, named Mary Shepherd, was
charged before Mr. BROUGIITON and Mr. TWYFORD, the sit-
ting Magistrates, with wilfully damaging a quantity of silk en-
trusted to her to wind for Mr. Wadden, a manufacturer, by
throwing oil and water over it.
Eliza Ford, Mr. Wadden's forewoman, saw the prisoner
endeavouring to conceal something from her view, which was
found to be a small mug, containing fluid for " spirting" upon
the silk ; and, upon examination of the silk, which she had
to wind, and which was now produced, there was no doubt
that the liquid had been used upon it. This was stated to be
a dishonest trick frequently resorted to by the workpeople, as
it gave them a double advantage, rendering the silk easier to
work, and adding to its weight ; at the same time, however,
it proved exceedingly injurious to the property.
The Magistrates convicted the defendant under a clause in
the Silk Act, and sentenced her to pay a fine of 405., or to
be imprisoned one month.

She was committed in default of payment.
On Monday evening, soon after Mr. BROUGHTON had taken
his scat on the Bench, a Gentleman, owner of several houses
in tho. City-road, entered the Office, accompanied by a hand-
some female, dressed in widow's weeds, and entreated of the
Magistrate to extend his protection to the latter under the
following circumstances :—The Lady, whose name was stated
to be Jones, had lately taken a small tobacco and snuff shop

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in the,City-road ; but the fame of her good looks and some* Ito
ports disadvantageous to her character, which were alleged
have been maliciously propagated, bad the effect of eauine,
the nightly assemblage of a crowd about her shop windows
the great annoyance of the inmates and the serious obstruetto
of the footpath. The Paddington omnibus men,
So famed fe
their civil and chivalrous conduct, were in the habit of don't'
ing up opposite the shop to gaze at Mrs. Jones and comment;
upon her charms ; but from some of those who gathered aben,;
the shop window she had experienced insults of the grosses'
description. The thieves, also took advntage of the occa-
sion, and on Saturday evening broke the window of the nea
shop, belonging to a linen draper, and carried off two pieces'
of goods.
Mrs Jones stated, in answer to the Magistrate's
-OClUiriegr
that she and her family bad left England some time since:J.7
settle in Van Diemen's Land, but the vessel being orec'l,s
r t
on the passage out, she lost her husband, and of all the tna
on board she only was saved. She had but lately ret true
to this country.
Mr. BROUGHTON, after some further inquiries on the sub;
ject, directed Ilinley, the officer in waiting, to render VA3
assistance he could, and the officers and the police consta blel
are now stationed in the evening about the premises.

UNION-HALL.
Yesterday a very extraordinary charge of obtaining mopesl
under false representations was preferred by Miss Naome
, ney, the daughter of a skin-merchant, residing in Charles-
street, Horsleydown, against Sarah Gn:ffiths, a middle-age
woman, formerly in the service of the family,
The complainant, an interesting looking girl, about eighteen'
years of age, was in the occasional habit of meeting the
prt-
soner, who, in December last, induced her to believe that &
young man had become enamoured of her, with the view,
will be seen, of extracting money from the po,:kets of he't
dupe. To accomplish this latter purpose, the prisoner Te.
the complainant at the period above specified, and told her ti‘lia'r.
while they were walking together on a preceding day,
Charles Srneeton, the son of a respectable licensed victualiel
living at the corner of Crucifix-lane, xnet them; that after
they had all separated, Mr. Smeeton addressed her (tut
prisoner), and made several very particular inquiries abe
the complainant, as to who she was, whew she resided'
and concluded the interview by expressing a devoted no
tachment for Miss Tuffney, and urging the prisoner kp
use her influence with the young lady, in order to ma
an impression in his favour. This and other statements
interviews between Mr, Smeeton and the prisoner, all 0.1 tu
subject of love, were subsequently enumerated by the late"
Miss Tuffney, who began to feel some degree of affection 1,112'
a man whom she had never seen, but whose devoted attaeP'
ment to her she had every reason to believe was sincere, rD
consequence of what the prisoner had told her. The prisoner°
in order to carry on the deception successfully, informed Mil
Tuffney that Mr. Smeeton, her admirer, had been convene
to leave town for Brighton, for the benefit of his health, as
well as to get rid of the importunities of a female to whell
his father was desirous he should get married, but to wh°`-`"
he himself had a decided aversion. The prisoner, after tbla
intimation, told the complainant that through her .medium ape
letters she was desirous of writing to Mr. Smeeton should 13
forwarded to him at Brighton, and that his letters to the Y°lo
lady would be addressed to her (the prisoner), in replY:';
those she thought proper to transmit to him. Subsequevt'll;
correspondence did take place between Miss Tuffney and
imaginary Mr. Charles Smeeton, by which it was, in the rei:
sult, discovered that the prisoner had concocted the will
scheme herself, that she was the author of the letters, sorixee
which were requests for money, supposed to be from 11
Smeeton, and written by her in town, addressed to Miss v'
ney, and purported to have been transmitted from Brighton'
In consequence of the system of deception the prisoner Prae'
tised upon Miss Tuffney, relative to the young man above"
named being in love with her, she (the prisoner) succeededln
fraudulently obtaining several small sums of money from her.
A bundle of letters composing the correspondence between
Miss Tuffney and Mr. Smeeton were produced in Court, tbed
contents of some of which were read by the Magistrates, 8.. n
excited great laughter, and at the same time exhibited Tv;
markable instance of the cunning practised to obtain moue/
by unfair means.
Some of the letters acknowledged the receipt of morkei
from the complainant.
Miss Tuffney, on being questioned by Mr. TRAILL bad re":
eeived upwards of forty letters in all, couched in the langusg°
of love, but many of them ending with a request for money'
The likeness of her lover and an eye-glass were produced it
Court, and caused immoderate laughter. The likeness was °La'
of along-visaged, white-headed young man, with a sing'',
cast of countenance, and which was -represented in the late'
as a striking resemblance of Mr. Smeeton.
Mr. C. Smeeton was called forward, and in answer to the
Magistrates he said that he never saw Miss Tuffney until 1;
few days ago, when he was informed of the obove-mentione°
circumstances. He never saw the prisoner until 'he saw her
standing at the bar of that office, and he had not written the
letters addressed to Miss Tuffney, and dated from Bright°ll'
never having been in that place in his life. The likeness pro'
duced was not a likeness of him ; he never had his rikene6g
taken.
The Magistrate, in committing the prisoner to the als•;
rea
for trial, said that the case was considerably aggrav Ate e
against her by the deceptive means she had practised to folFo
upon the credulity of a young and inexperienced girl.

MR. BULWER'S DISOWNED."—We observe
that a cheap and embellished edition of another of Mr. Bul"
wer's admirable novels, " The Disowned," is just published in
Colburn's Modern Novelist." In the preface to this
edition, the author observes—" If I were asked which din'
writings pleased me the most in its moral—served the best to
inspire the younger reader with a generous emotion and
guiding principle—the one best calculated to fit us for til
world, by raising us above its trials, and the one by which I
most desire my own heart and my own faith to be judged~`
would answer " The Disowned." Few readers, we thit
will be inclined to dissent from this opinion of its talent
author.

We see in the Belfast News Letter an epistle t?
Members of Parliament, begging them not to lay their ban
on the surplus revenues of the Establishment. This epistolarf
address was adopted at a meeting of beneficed Irish Clergy'
men, hold in Belfast the 27th ,inst.
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ECCENTRICITY.—The late Mr. Norris, of .00)11'
such-house, near Bromham, was the last of the highly regp_fectiv
ble Wiltshire family of that name, which had inhabited 1103;
such for a century and a half. The deceased had, a gio-
number of years ago, been troubled with erysipelas in his face"
and the operation of shaving was attended with so much pat it
that he at last determined to allow his beard to grow, and IV
eventually hung on his chest. Naturally bashful, he was nOS(
averse to any one seeing his person : be entirely secluded hiril"
self from society, and saw no one but his housekeeper, and her
but for a very few minutes at a time. He lay in bed during
the day, and roamed about his grounds or read during O.°
night. He took his meals in the kitchen, but no one saw hill
eat. A short time before his servants retired to rest (at whit
hour he usually got up), they placed a kettle of water on tt'v.
fire, and some milk and bread and butter on the table in the
kitchen, of which he partook, and on their rising in the morn-
ing, he went to bed. For several years previous to his death,
he became utterly regardless of personal cleanliness; though
possessed of great wealth, he clad himself in rags, and scarcely •
ever consented to a change of linen. The drawing-room, it°
said, had not been unlocked for ten years preceding his death,
He had a good library, and was fond of reading in his earl!
years. We have heard that he was a great botanist.—Wi"-
shire Herald.

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(ADVERTISEMENT.)—T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmituo
&c., 47, Cornhill, London, informs the Public that he has fitted
up a SHOW ROOM, expressly for the display of a large assort-
ment of superior SILVER-EDGED PLATED GOODS. Ile
offers them at those low but fixed prices, which have been so
suc-
cessful in drawing public attention to the WATCH, JEWELLER
SILVER SPOON and FORK, and SILVER branches of lU
Trade.

BIRTIIS.
On the 2d inst., Mrs. Thomas Hensley, jun., of Acre-1 0'
Brixton, of a daughter.
On the Ist inst., the lady of William Hedger, Esq., of a son.
On the 3d inst., Henri
Waterton, Fulmer-place, Bucks, the lady of. Hf
Waterton, Esq., of a son.
On the 3d inst., in Craven-street, Mrs. John Barwise, of a snli•
On the 31st ult., in Mecklenburg-street, Mrs. Miles Berry, of $
daughter.
On the 31st ult., Mrs. James Freshfield, New Bank-buildings,
of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 30th ult., at Awre, Gloucestershire, George Drake!,
Sewell, Esq., of Norwood, Surrey, to Sophia, third daughter of
Samuel llewlet, Esq., of Ayleford, Gloucestershire.
On the 4th inst., at St. Pancras Church, the Rev. David Jack,'
son, M.A., of Queen's College, Oxford, to Margaret, young
daughter of Marmaduke Davis, Esq., of Burton,- Westmoreland.
On the 28th ult., at Delab, George Anton, Esq., corn-factor,
Leudon, to Elsee, second daughter of H. Davidson, Esq., Delabs
Aberdeenshire.

On the 4th inst., at St. Paul's, Hammersmith, Edward Swap',
E'Fo,., of St. Paul's Churchyard, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter 01
William King, Esq., of Hamlet-house.
On the 30th ult., at Holy Trinity Church, Hull, Mr. William
Gawtress, of Fleet-street, London, to Anne, eldest daughter of the
late Captain Foster, of the former place.
At St. Mary's Church, Lieut. Thos. Fairtclough, half-pay 00,
Regiment, to Miss Mary Rice. The bridegroom is in his 90'4'
year, and the bride but 73.