The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-09 00:00:00

TIIA HES.

THE FORTUNE TELLER'S FORTUNE TOLD.—Elizabeth
Woodfield, a cunning old woman, well-known in the dis-
trict of this court as a fortune-teller, and who was mixed
up with the abduction of a girl named Newman, in 1851, and
in a very disreputable manner, was brought before Mr.
Yardley charged with stealing a piece of bacon weighing
two pounds and a half from the shop of Mr. John Mills, a
cheesemonger, of Charles-street, St. George's-in the-East.
The prisoner is as savage and vindictive as she is cun-
ning; and when she was fined £5, for a brutal.assault 13
years ago, by the late Mr. Broderip, that gentleman
declared her to be one of the most dangerous and crafty
women that he had ever met with. She was in the prac-
tice of attending this court daily for many years, for the
purpose of obtaining people's secrets, in the discus-
sion of assault cases and breaches of the peace, and then
making use of the information thus obtained to extort
money. Mr. Ingham, who was formerly a magistrate of
this court before he went to Hammersmith, fined her 405.,
and gave directions that she should be excluded from the
court in future, a proceeding for which the public are deeply
indebted to, the worthy magistrate. Mrs. Woodfield has
been lately doing business in a beer shop near the Clerken-
well House of Detention among the friends of prisoners
confined there. Mr. Walker, a very intelligent officer, the
sergeant of the van which conveys the prisoners to and
from this and Worship-street, stopped her vile pi actices
and drove her away from Clerkenwell.
Thomas Smith, a boy in the F ervice of the prosecutor,
said that he saw the prisoner take a piece of bacon off his
master's shopboard yesterday evening. He followed her
and took it from under her shawl.

The prisoner said she did not steal the bacon. The boy
picked it up in the road.
Mr. Yardley—You are here again. You are a most dis-
honest old woman—a very bad woman.
Mr. Livingston, chief usher of the court, here produced
a pack of greasy cards which had been taken from the pri-
soner.

Mr. Yardley—Yes, she is a conjuror, and the conjuration
she is exercising now is stealing other people's goods. Take
the depositions, Mr. Bowdler.
The depositions having been completed by Mr. Bowdler,
the second clerk, the prisoner said that she would prefer
that the case should go before a jury. She wished to make
one remark. The boy said he took the bacon from under
her shawl. She wore no shawl last night. She sent for
the yellow shawl she was then wearing.
A policeman—The prisoner wore a black shawl last night
and sent it home.

Mr. Yardley—The prisoner is committed for trial.

THIS DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, June 9.—Wind this day at noon—S.B. ;
rather fresh, wilt very fine weather.
PORTSMOUTH, June B.—Wind
S.E.—Arrived—Milli-
cent, from Hamburg for St. John's. N. 8..
OFF SCILLY, June 7.—Wind S.B:—Arrived—Medway,
from Colombo.

CARDIFF, June B.—Wind E.—Sailed—Hugo Grotius,
for Samarang ; Saugor, for Galle ; Johann Wilhelmina,
for New York.

MUMBLES, June B.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Swansea,
from Coquimbo.
OFF TusrrAn, June B.—Arrived—Wallace, from Sa-
vannah.

PLYMOUTH, June 8.-IVind S.—Arrived—Anglesea,
from London from Melbourne. Sailed—Celt, screw steamer,
for Cape of Good Hope. •
SOUTHAMPTON, June B.—Wind S.E,—Sailed Parsee,
for Sydney, N.S.W.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning.

Wind N.E.
Arrived, June B—Chimborazo, from New Orleans ; Cyn-
thia, from Nantes.
Arrived, June 9—Ocean Monarch, and Annie Ketubell,
from New Orleans.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Wind N.E.; tide first hour's ebb, fine.
Arrived, June 9--Belfast Lass, and Neptune, front
Dunkirk.

DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Wind N.E., moderate, and clear.
Passed—Alecto, steamer, from Newport for Riga ;
Selesia, from London for Liverpool.
Anchored—Alexander Cochrane, from Beyrout for Hull,
for papers reported to'Lloyd'a last night.
Sailed—American Eagle, for London.

GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.--The Government
emigrant vessel Parsee, 1,060 tons, Captain William Nor-
ris, sailed from Southampton on Tuesday, the 7th inst., for
Sydney, New South Wales, with 418 emigrants, under
charge of Surgeon Superintendent John Sebastian Wilkin-
son. Her Majesty's Emigration Commissioners will receive
tenders to-day (Thursday), for the conveyance of Coolies
from British Guiana to Calcutta and to Madras. The ves-
sels must not leave England before the 15th of July, and
be placed at the disposal of the immigration agent at British
Guiana, not later than the 26th of September next. The
Commissioners will also receive tenders for the conveyance
of a small party of emigrants to Port Natal, in a vessel
capable of crossing the bar, to sail about the end of July.