The Sun.
London, England, 1832-07-06 00:00:00

(THIS DAY )

This morning this inquiry was resumed.
Mrs. Mary Petit Pierre r xaminud by Mr. PoLtocx.--
In 1818 and 1819, witness was governess to Miss 13 %-
e'er, who was then about eight years old. She endea-
voured to give her instruction, but she had not the capa-
city that children of her age usually had,
she appeared
wholly incapable of receiving either religious or any Other
instruction. Since witness left, she had visited Alder.
man Crowder's family a tew times, and had noticed that
Miss B. was a person easily imposed on ; she used to
speak of Mr. Jupp and Mr. Smith, and express a wish its
marry their.; she did not speak like a ration,' being.
Cross-examined by Mr. FOLLATT--Had not seen her

very often since she left teaching her, and then Miss
Ragster was about ten years of age. Witness formed her
opinion of Miss Bagster's competency to manage her affairs
from various conversations with her, and finding her con-
versation to be very unlike a young lidy of her years.
Miss Sophia Elizabeth Foret, examined by Mr. PHIL.
LIMORE—Had been intimate with Miss Boater since
1824. Had frequently seen her since then, and associit d
with her family ; she was always treated by Alderman
Crowder and Mrs. B igster as a child. She was also
treated by the servants as a child, and by the governes-
in the same manner. Her conversatiim was quite simple
and childish. Wt.enever the Lord's Prayer has been re-
peated in her presence by other persons, she always treated
it as a jest, and accompanied it by a laugh. No person
ever jested with her or lautzhed about the Lord's Prayer
in witnt-s,'s presence. Witness believed she had not thi
least notion of the duties • f a ma•rimonial life.

Cross-examined by Mr. Law.—Witness had never been
employed in educating any person ; with reference to Miss
Btgster, no mode of treatment would have any effect;
could not tell whether the treating as a child would have
a tendency to make her more childish.
Jane Armstrong, chambermaid, at the Bush Inn, at
Carlisle, remembered Mr. Newton, Mr. Wilson, and Miss
Bagster arriving there between ten and eleven in the even-
ing of the 22d of April, from Penrith. They changed
horses and went direct on; witness did not see them until
they returned back, which was between one and two in the
morning. It was about ten miles from Carlisle to Gretna-
green. When they alighted they went into the sitting-
room and had supper. The lady went up stairs before
supper to the bed-room, and she told witness she was very
much fatigued htving come 600 miles. She said again
she was very much fatigued, and had come 400 miles;
she afterwards said she hart come 200 miles. She then
asked witness the distance from London to Carlisle, saying
she had come all the way from London. Witness told her
it was above 300 miles. She said the gentleman bad
stolen her from a boarding-school.—(A laugh.) S.e said
that she was not aware where she was going
when the gentleman stole her from the boarding-
school. Alter supper witness showed Miss Bagster
and Mr. Newton to the bed-room. There were
two or three other gentlemen !Ole said she ought to marry,
and wondered what they would say! In the morning
witness went to dress the young Lady. The witness then
detailed some conversations of a similar nature to those of
the preceling night. Witness asked her what business
Mr. Newton was, and she said she could not tell any
thing about him, for she hail never seen him be-
fore, but that her mamma knew him, and that
they lived in the same square. Afterwards Miss
Bagster said, " the gentleman did not steal me from
the hoarding school, but from the Z adogical-gar-
dens ;" that her mamma, her governess, and herself, were
walking, when toey stopped to speak to some person,
when Mr. Newton came up and said, •' Rosa, dear, I am
ening to make a few morning calls, will you get into my
carriage ?" She said she liked the ride, and tberefsre got
into the carriage. Her conversation was very silly, and
witness thought she was not right in her mind.
Sir Peter Laurie, knight, stared, that he was acquaimed
with Alderman Crowder's family. Had been in Mass
Bagster's company 50 or 100 times ; she had no powers of
conversation, and incapable of continuing a train of
thought. She only spoke on one topic, and that Was love.
In his judgment she approached towards an idiot ; she
has no reasoning powers. In witness's judement Miss B.
is not fit to take care of herself or her affairs.

Ann Alargel, one of the chambermaids at the Royal
Oak, Keswick—On the 23rd of April iMi.s Bsgster, Mr.
Newton, and Mr. Wilson came there and staid all night,
Mr. Newton and NI iss Bagster sleepinp, toget, er Tne
wi,ness detailed simPar c.nversations to those with the
witne,., Jane Armstrong.

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS -(THIS DAY.)

OLD t 0 URT.
TRIAL OF SMITHERS.

At nine o'clo,k this morning the prisoner was arraigned
before Mr. Sergeant AIIABIN. He appeared much re-
covered, and seemed quite unmoved at the situation in
which he stood. He pleaded Not Guilty, and was re-
moved from the bar.

Reily, the man who stood charged with the wilful miir
der of his wile, was then arraigned, and pleaded Not
Guilty.
The Judges, Mr. Justice GASELEE, and Mr. Justice
JAMES PARKE, having taken their seats,
Jeremiah Smithers was placed at the bar, and given
in charge to the Jury. for murder, in the usual form.—
There were two indietm.-nts against him,—one for the
murder of Miss Eliza Twamley, and the other for the
mnrder of the boy Napoleon Hang°. Whilst the indict•
mvnts were being read, the prisoner shed tears, and con-
ce Ord his fare with his handkerchief.

Mr. ADOLPHUS rose, and stated the case to the Jury.
The prisoner stood charged with an offence which, if
established, would inrfeit his life. The crime of murder,
of which the prisoner stood charged, had not been effected
in the usual way; but in law, a person committing an
illegal act, by which human life is sacrificed, is as equally
guilty of murder as if he had committed it with his own
hand. The Learned Counsel then detailed, at consider-
able length, the facts of the case, and called the following
witnesses :

El'za B titer examined by 11Ir. CHARLES PHILLIPS—
She knew the prisoner, in whose sarme she lived for
neatly six months, and left about two months ago; a girl
n itred Sarah Smith s' cc, eiled her, but she, witness, re-
mained two or three days after. The prisoner was a ca-
binet maker, and lived at 395, Oxford-street. He had a
workshop in Dean street ; there was a vault adjoining the
kitchen in the house in Oxlvd-street. There never were any
wood or shavings kept in the kitchen ; the vault was sepa-
rated by a partition of brick-stork and t door. Remembered
purchasing a pennyworth of gunpowder, and used half of
it to blow up the copper chimney ; this was a short time
before she left. She put the remainder in a tin flower-
drudger box upon the shelf in the kitchen. She quitted
the service on Wedn-silay, and the fire took place on the
Monday morning following; there was a wine bottle on
the mantle-piece containing spirits of turpentine. It was
seldom there was a lire lighted in the kitchen. Never
knew the prisoner to go out shooting ; never saw a gun in
the house.

Mr. CLARKSON, for the prisoner, here produced a mo-
del of the premises in Oaf ird-street, and the witn:si
pointed out out the rooms which were occupied by the
prisoner and the deceased parties.
Cross-examined—Miss Twamley's apartments were lot
unfurnish,d, the others were furnished. A short time
before she left the house a quantity of shavings was
brought in by the shoptnan—the prisaner was not at home
when they came—they were placed in the vault. When
the prisoner came in he wished for another sack, hut his
wife would not pay for more. She had purchased powder
once before for a similar purpose. She subsequently ini.d
a great part of the shavings to light the fires.
which caused the prisoner to complain. He never
cautioned her to be careful of fire, but he was
always very careful himself in seeing the fires put out a
night. He told her that the turpentine in the bottle was
for polishing furniture in the hunt room on the first floor,
and told her not to upset it. Witness wished to clean
the kitchen, but was desired not to do so by the
prisoner till he could clear our the vault. There was
a lodger of the name of Davis, who was in the
habit of coming home late, and latterly her master
urged to let him in, as his bed-room adjoine I the shop.
Davis and her mister were not upon very good term-,
Davis had a rece pt for his lodgings on an unstampe
piece of pap r, which he hail from her mast, r. The shop
used to he closed at about eleven o'clock at night. Her
master was sometimes in the habit of b, ineing veneers
home to dry at the house in Oxford street, from the work-
shop in D.-an-street. The veneers were dried by the par-
lour fire.

By the Count—She used all the gunpowder at once,
that she punch tsed on the first occasion.
Henry Cadell ex 'mined by Mr. Ammexius—He is
a porter in the employ of Mr. Aoplegarth, 33, Oxford-
street, On Monday morning, May 28, about ten minutes
past six o'clock he was opening his wa-ter's shop, when he
beard the cry of" Fire" and " Murfer" from the opposite
side of the way. He looked, and saw a hand protru-
dwg through the crating of Mr. Smithers' house, under
the shop occupied by Mr. Shiers, the printer. He in-
stantly ran across, and saw the prisoner under the
"rating. He said, " For God's sake let me out,
tor the house is on fire," Witness endeavoured
to force up the area-grating, but could not. He called
the policeman, who came to his assistance, and they
forced the shop door open, which they found was merely
"P"u the lock. Upon getting into the shop they
end-avouied to descend into the kitchen; but could
not for the flames which mire coining from the bottom
of the stairs, and ascending like wild fie. They re-
treated into the street, and saw the females at the window'
calling to the people in the street for assistance (when the
prisoner first gave the alarm the flames were proceeding from
the area in which he stood, and very speedily reached the
top of the house, which in about ten minutes was in body
of fire).
Sarah Smith lives at No. 17, Bryanstnne-mews. On the
23d of May she went into the service of the prisoner
There were a number of old boxes and shavings in the
back vault on the Sunday evening before the fire. In tl,t,
atternoon she Went out, leaving the prisoner in her room.

NEWG ATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS
At per atone, by the Carcass.
a. d. toe. 'l. s. d.tos. d
feet, inferior 1 8 2 0 Mutton, inferior... 2 4 2 $..
----- middling 2 2 2 4 -. middling.. 210 3
- prime large 2 8 30 1 - prime 3 6 3 h
- prime small... 3 0 3 4 Pork, large 9 0 4,
Ven1000.e.0r.,...........3 0 4 4 small 3 6 4 t
Lamb ~,,,,,................. 3s. 4d. to 53. 2d.