The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-17 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

George Smith was indicted for stealing a qua,— -
silk, lace, and other articles, of the value of 100/., 'll,l
property of Thomas Gibson, the official assignee of Sal"

Strachan, a bankrupt.

irisoPer

Mr. PHILLIPS stated the case to the Jury. The pi.
was put in possession of the bankrupt's stock as a nlO
las'4
ger connected with the Court of Bankruptcy. A tco,
quantity of the stock was missing on the 26th of Noceij
ber, from the shop, 337, Oxford, where the bankrupt
te4
resided. Suspicion falling on the prisoner, he was 07
into custody, and his lodgings searched, where a 014
remnant of linen, with the private mark of the banlalg
affixed, was found. A larger quantity of the propertY‘c,,
found at a Mrs. Hathway's, a sister-in-law of the prisoocri;,
and was also identified by the bankrupt, and was of ,t
value of 1001. A much larger quantity was also missi°:,
which has not yet been discovered. Money to a larP

amount was found on the prisoner.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. nce
The COMMON SERJEANT was about to pass scnte
of transportation for fourteen years, when tbe
Mr. PHILLIPS rose and prayed the Court to respite
judgment until the next Session, stating that it was P'be
bablt if such a course was adopted the " nest" would,„o
discovered. He said it was highly important to the traote
of the metropolis that the receivers in this case should 0f
discovered and punished, especially when those kind
robberies were almost of every day occurrence.
The COURT granted the application.

c$
The steam-carriage of Dietz, near Paris, now goo
regularly every day to Versailles, leaving the Hotel
Nantes, in the Place du Carousel, at noon,
to
The travellers between Paris and Biussels 30
benefiting largely by a warm opposition which exists OP°l
that road, both in a reduction of prices and rapidity'
movement. On Friday one of the diligences went r 0,4;
Paris to Brussels in somewhat less than 30 hours, thoev,o
a week before the journey was scarcely accomplished
36 hours.
Yesterday afternoon an inquisition was taken at
city
Bartholomew's Hospital, before Mr. .W. Payne, the floe
coroner, on view of the body of Elizabeth Thorne, a be
little girl, 5 years of age, whose death took place under
following circumstances :—Catherine Baker, of No. 'of
Long-lane, Smithfield, deposed, that on the afternooo,o
Saturday last, about three o'clock, she was in her ';'iv
apartment, on the ground floor, when she was alarrneale
screams coming from the room up stairs, in which the bet
ceased lived with her parents. She hurried to see `',te
was the matter, when she beheld the deceased rush on t°":0
landing, completely surrounded with flames. Witness ra it
into a bed-room, and hastily seizing a quilt, wraPPe sd
round the poor little sufferer, whose clothes were c0n500.94,
to tinder. She was then conveyed to Mr. Cumali°'r,lsurgeon,suron, who dressed the burns, and she was afterooo
taken to the hospital, where she expired in great ageaY,o,
Tuesday last. There was a fire in the room, and the re
ceased was left alone at the, time of the accident, bet 5/
was too much injured to say how it occurred. Verdiot
" Accidental death."
5 ;
By France (says a modern writer) I mean Yari
for what the provinces may think is of no more impertltlcy.
than the opinion of a man's legs. The men (be of
whom I have met in the provinces reminded me alwaY;or
mile-stones, which bear legible on their front the amount
their distance, be it less or more,- from the 'capital.