The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-28 00:00:00

Q'eNTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
10,44tiellard Watford and James Barratt Were indicted for
,rglariously entering the house of Richard Simpson, hosier
i lute glover, in the Strand, on the 18th of September, with
eat to steal.
johßichard Duke stated that he was in the service of Mr.
tt Simpson, of the Norfolk Arms, in the Strand. Saw
Biree men standing round the window of Mr. Richard
,villiPson, the prosecutor, who appeared to be boring the
1,0„11(1131' for the purpose of breaking the glass. The pri-
gers
lip were two of them. On witness seeing what they
top.' about, he went into the shop and informed Mr. Sinrp-
3, On coming out he found the prisoners had gone.
lA,Iv the face of Watford distinctly by the light of the gas.
litford had his hand in the inside of the window.
info Richard Simpson stated that, in consequence of the
that given him by the last witness, he discovered
iv;4,,t,,Part of a pane of gips had been cut out of his shop-
fc,;:l'OPv sufficiently large to admit a person's hand. Wat-
R 4 Passed by while he was speaking to the last witness,
4 on his saying that Watford was one of the persons whom
''ad seen at the window, witness collared him.
411. policeman, who had observed the prisoners lurking
`l, took Barratt into custody.
,he 1t
Jury acquitted both the prisoners.

NEW COURT.
ni?tichard Roach, aged 45, was indicted for stealing thre
wheels, and a quantity of ha-mess, the property of
Geer Batman, his master.
George Barnan, coachmaker, in High-street, St.
iii4neras, stated that the prisoner had been employed by
wheelas a labourer, and that one morning he discovered him
eeling a coachwheel away from the premises, which he
,44 ea against a wall nearly opposite a marine store-shop,
c‘i)6wilich spot the two other wheels had been previbusly
Feed. When the prisoner returned, witness challenged
with the theft, and he begged hard for forgiveness.
1:e harness belonging to prosecutor was found at the
44;.
a 1 'he store-shop.
°Qe3 Gibson, the keeper of the shop, proved that he
tic:tught the harness of the prisoner, who afterwards offered
„p,heels for sale.
.hu.e'ae prisoner, in his defence, said, that when he went
for the
prosecutor's service, be received 11s. per week,
Dertne first fortnight, after which they were reduced to Bs.
his week, so he tack the wheels to pay himself, because
a4,,riges Were docked.—(Laughter.)
Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Nei COURT asked the prosecutor if it was true that he
the prisoner only Bs. per week.
Week " Prosecutor replied that he was first hired at Ils.p.er
Ir„ ; but as he seldom came to work, and when he did,
tern generally drunk, he was therefore discharged, but af-
'4,44ds was allowed to job about.—Sentence deferred.
steag„"ias Newbury, a marine, aged 30, was indicted for,
e -4g a time-piece, value Si., the property of Robert
141.1111/nings. '
AI" Prosecutor, a gun maker in Greenwich, stated that
Rl,llPrisoner vlaited his shop under pretence of purchasing a
aa and Valle witness was busy in the shop prisoner ma-
ged to r . .
parien ~.xtract tne time-piece from. a drawer in the back
eltc_t r' into which he was in the habit of inviting his
oolt,rs ,
er, •
cation
by Mr. DOANE—Witness obtained his
troll abon through a man named John Rae Reid, who was
110 Vaned last session for stealing a pistol.- Should not
charged the prisoner but upon that information.
Was Pawnbroker in Deptford proved that the time-piece
C Pledg•ed by a marine for 4s. in the name of Mary
Pledged
, ko
tonesry Carpenter stated that the marine first brought the
the, Piece to her to sell, but she could not sell it. He
Pawned it and gave her the duplicate.
,Jross_,.rboessdex:xpaairaiciannteed."All marines are dressed alike. Had
her,expressed a doubt that the prisoner was the man who gave
r are dressed alike. Had
11;:1. Pressed a doubt th tithe prisoner was the man who gave
duplicate. Said that he resembled him.
Jury stopped the case, and acquitted the prisoner.
I)awn-`l;cramble for the time-piece took place between the
it, a i)Pker and the prosecutor, who succeeded in getting
Z, asked the Court if he should keep it?
give—willleeaxnpecno order.
Ltiarioiw;esnocihe COMMONuriko:rel.
rn(_dg u
him.t
nmcgEavAiLe
me to take it back.
I think I had better keep it.—
clo l'bter.) He then left the Court, the pawnbroker
wernif Boote, aged 27, and George Davidson, aged 53,
the' Indicted for stealing a quantity of meat, value 2s. 6d.,
ietti:ll:4°PertY of Mary Jackson.'
ou Tt. 'Tames Jackson, son of the prosecutrix, stated that
liwsdaY morning last, in conse'quence of an anonymous
which he had received, he stood opposite motheYs

house in the street, be lira I;'f.':, 'open, and held au
umbrella before hik ta.s that he should not he recognised.
He su*lth`i'- prisoner Davidson come 'down the street, and
k.ll.pp at the door. No answer was given and he went
away, but returned in a few minutes, ;Awn tle prisoner
Boote, who was itt VI; mother's service, opened the door and
Davit/I.B'a went in. In a few minutes he came out with a
basket of meat and went away. Witness followed and
brought him back, upon which lAtiotl6 t it tO the desk
in the shop And Vtit si'ifiekiele tltid sikpennyworth of half-
pente tkpon a tote) where the cash taken for meat was
ustraily
The prisoner Boote raid that the meat tea§ stake, and he
had sold it for its full value.,

Mr. Jaelmott mu the meat was good, and worth '2.s; 6d,
at the Ind.

some persons gave Poott`, a good character.
Davidson said he was once a respectable tradesman, but
being elided with a paralytic stroke, he bedathe reduced.
lie, however, had lived in one neighbourhood 45 years, and
had maintained a good character. This transaction was
perfectly honest. When asked if he bad any witnesses to
character, he said he could not get a pen and ink, or he would
have written to some respectable persons.
The Deputy Gaoler said that the prisoner would have
been supplied with pen, ink, and paper, if he had asked for
them.

Prisoner—l asked the people in the ward, but I was no
better than a Toni No!! among 'em—they made quite a fool
of me.

The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty against both the
prisoners.
The Court thought that a meet pr6per verdict.
The prosecutor said the letter he had received told him
he was robbed every morning, and described the eldest pri-
soner as the man who took the meat away.
The COMMON SEncEANT said he could write anonymous
letters too. Ho sometithes saw strange things early in the
morning.

PRINCESS VIGTORIA.—Mr. Watson, of the firm
of Cooke and Watson, of York, had the honour of an au-
dieort o 1 the Princess Victoria, at Bishopsthorpe, on
Friday week, in order to present to her Royal Highness—

not an address. but a dress, or rather, the material of a

dress, which had been sent to him for the purpose-by the
manuracturers, Messrs. James Hargreaves and Co., of
Kirkstall, near Leeds. It was a claret-coloured cachmere,

embroidered in flowers of green, white, and maize, and of
so eNquisitely beautiful a fabric as to rival the finest French
merino ever produced. Tier Royal Highness most gra-

ciously accepted this-offering of respect, and as well as the
Duchess of Kent and all the Royal party, expressed the

highest admiration at this superb specimen of the perfection

of British manufacture.—Leeds Intelligencer. -
MR. O'CONNELL'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND.—As
indicative of the prevalent feeling in Scotland amongst even

those who were prejudiced against the Liberator, the fol-
lowing extract from the Kelso Chronicle, is taken from

amongst numerous of such testimonies in his favour :
Our Tory friends arc mighty wroth at the mention of this
individual's name, and chagrined beyond measure that he is
not turncoat enough to give them at times a lift, inveigh
against him in Et. spirit bordering on demoniasm. No one
could condemn in stronger terms than we uniformly did,
some parts of Mr. O'Connell's previous conduct. We
deprecated his Repeal ditttation, but are free to confess
that his recent behaviour has altered our pre-conceived
notions of him to a certain extent."

A SPORTING ExPitt63.—The intelligence of the
result of the Great Doncaster St. Leger race was brought
to this town in an incredibly short space of time. Some
arrangement having been entinell into by some of our sport-
ing men with Mr. Jotph Richardson, jun., of the King's
Head Inn, Chapel-street, Salford, he undertook to bring

the news express, being supplied for that purpose with seven
horses, two of his own, and. five belonging to the parties.
The result of the race was declared by the judges at Don-
caster shortly before four o'clock on Tuesday, and at four
o'colck he started, and actually rode the whole distance of
53 miles (using the seven horses) in two hours and 33 mi-
nutes, being at the rate of about a mile in three minutes, or
twenty miles an hour for the whole distance, including stop-
pages.—Manchester Gaardian.
MR. THOMAS CAMPBELL.—The " Letters from,
the South," by the Author of " The ,Pleasures of Hope,'
which are about to appear in that very interesting Maga-
zine, " The New Monthly," are the suit of about fifteen
months' Travels in Algiers and other parts. The Poet,
we believe, left England in May, 1834, and returned in
August of the present year. According to report, his
Letters will be found not only highly amusing and anecdo-
tical, but will also throw much light on the moral, social,
and political condition of the northern shores of the great
African Continent.

On Saturday, an inquest was held at Chalk Farm
Tavern, on' the bodies of William Brooks, aged 23, and
Mark Armstrong, aged 26, who. lost their lives on Thurs-
day evening, while working in the shaft of the Lcindon"ond
Birmingham Railway, near Primrose-bill. appeared that
the deceased had been working at the lower shaft of the
tunnel, at the depth of seventy feet, when the earth gave
way, and upwards of ten tons weight fell upon them. Two
other men, W. Brown and Henry. Dewell, were also buried
in the earth, but were dug out alive twenty minutes after
the accident. The deceased were not dug out until half an
hour after the occurrence, and were quite dead —Verdict,
Accidental Death.

Saturday an inquest was held in the Committee-
room of Newington workhouse, before Mr. Carter, on the
body of a female child, eighteen months old, the illegitimate
daughter of a young woman named Harriet Angliss, who
was examined a few days ago at Union Hall, charged on
suspicion of murder. The woman Angliss was brought
from the county gaol, where she had been confined since
Wednesday, and a man named Adams, a navigator, with
whom she had been cohabiting for the last three years, vo-
luntarily attended the inquiry, to answer any charge which
might be preferred against him. The Jury having beard
the whole of .the evidence, returned a verdict—" That the
child died a natural death, arising from disease, and neglect
of the mother."

ACCIDENT WITH A GUN.—A young woman
named Rice, living in the family of Mr. Feltham, of Hamp-
stead, as housemaid, had nearly lost her life on Friday even-
ing from the dangerous and culpable practice of playing with
fire arms. Mr. Feltham, jun., and another gentleman, had
been out shooting in the early part of the day, and oo their
return the former handed his gun to the footman, who car-
ried it into the kitchen and presented it at the cook and
housemaid, saying, in a joke, " I'll shoot you." Not sup-
posing it to be loaded he pulled the trigger, when the gun
went off and lodged its contents in the neck and breast of
the poor housemaid, who is now in a somewhat dangerous
state, although hopes are entertained of her recovery. The
cook escaped by taking flight the moment the gun was pre-
sented.

ALARMING FIRE.—A fire broke out about one
o'clock on Saturday morning last, in a wheelwright's shop,
New Inn-yard, Tottenham-court-road, in which arc seve-
ral small tenements occupied by many families of the poorer
portion of the community. The firo burnt very rapidly for
half an hour, when fortunately the engines arrived in rapid
succession, and the firemen having obtained a most excel-
lent supply of water, they poured forth torrents on the
burning ruins, and luckily prevented the extension of de-
struction farther than the premises where the fire originated.
Notwithstanding the confusion that for a time prevailed,
none of the inmates sustained any injury. The exertions
of the police force present was beyond all praise, several of
whom, on the alarm being given, were near the spot, and
rendered the poor sufferers great assistance. The cause of
the fire is at present unknown. It is needless to add, that
the parties were too poor to have insured.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT MARGATE.-011
Friday evening an inquest was held at the Town Hall,
Margate, on the body of Mr. James Steward, a retired
officer of the navy, lately resident in Zion-place, in that
town. The body presented a most horrid spectacle, one
of the legs being broken, and the face horribly mutilated.
Mr. Rosetti, oeMargate, on Thursday night was walking
in company with the deceased and a lady on the Cliff, near
the Jetty, where an exhibition of fireworks had been adver-
tised to take place. The deceased was nearest the Cliff,
and had hold of the lady's arm. Witness suddenly heard
a loud shriek, and the lady screamed in the most frantic
manner "he is gone?' He looked over the Cliff, and saw
the deceased lying on the beach beneath in a most muti-
lated state, his neck was dislocated. Miss Jane Creighton
deposed that the deceased had led the party, in conse-
quence of the darkness of the night, too close to the edge
of the cliff. He made a false step, and it was with great
difficulty that she presented herself from sharing his fate.
The Jury found that the deceased was accidentally killed
by walking
,over the cliff. The deceased has left a wido.v.
and a numerous family to deplore his loss.
A MIDNIGIIT SERENADE.—We understand thati
a lodger in one of the hotels of this city, on Saturday night
was disturbed by a noise under his bed. He got up, and
on examination found it to proceed from a box which ap-
peared to contain a livinc, animal. Nothing further was
known on the subject until next morning, when it appeared
from the noise within that the box contained a living rattle-
snake. It had been left, with some other baggage, by a
traveller who lately occupied the room, and who left the
city some days ago. The box was provided with holes to
admit the air, and the snake occupied his snug quarters in
quiet during the late cool weather ; but the heat of that
night reviving his musical powers, his fellow-lodgers were
complimented with a serenade. It would be proper that
travellers who pick up such companions in their way, should
have them labelled, to prevent mistake. A gentleman's
baggage marked " Rattlesnakes—handle with care," would
find some difficulty in obtaining accommodation in the pre-
sent crowded state of our hotels.—New York Advertis<r.