The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-17 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

Anne Watson was placed at the bar, charged with
stealing 76 yards of silk,:value 151., the property of Row-
land Cooper.
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It appeared that the prisoner came into the shop of the
prisoner on the 26th of August. She inquired about
some calico, which was shown her, but did not buy it.
She returned again, and the shopman was at the time
showing some silks to a person in the shop. In a short
time he missed five pieces, and found two of them with
the prisoner and three at her feet. The prisoner was at
the time standing neat the counter.
A witness was called on behalf of the defendant, who
stated that she was in the shop at the time, and that she
believed the prisoner was only taking up the silks which
had fallen.—The prisoner was acquitted. -
Maria Downs, spinster, aged 27, was charged with
stealing a purse, containing two sovereigns and two half-
crowns, the property of Joseph Poode. •
It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor
and the prisoner, together with another female,
went into some public-houses in Swan-lane, Kensington,
where they had some gin, for which the prosecutor paid.
He took the money out of his purse, which be put into
his waistcoat pocket and walked out with the prisoner.
In a short time the prosecutor perceived that his purse
was gone ; and he seized the prisoner, and kept her
till a policeman came up, who took some of the money
out of her hand. The remainder was on the ground
near her. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and it
appearing that she had been before convicted of a felony
of a similar nature, she was sentenced to ten years'
transportation.

CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.)
SCENE BETWEEN A MOTHER AND SON.—John Welch,
residing at 14, Gower-place, St. Pancras, and aged 14,
was charged with threatening the life of Marie Welch,
his mother.

The complainant deposed that the prisoner's depra-
vity had become so great that she was obliged to expel
him from the house. He came on the previous evening,
and after abusing her outside the door so as to create a
mob, forcibly entered the house and threatened her life.
Mr. ComnE—What have you to say ? Prisoner—
She turned me out and left me to starve in the streets.
The Mother—You tell a lie, you know I did not turn
you out until I could endure your wickedness no longer.
Prisoner—Wickedness ! don't talk abut that. You
keep a bad house.

The Mother—You are a vagabond, and my life is in
danger from you.
The Magistrate told him he must be sent to prison
unless he could find bail.
Prisoner—And is she to be at large?
lie was committed to the Sessions.

MA.RYLEBONE.—(THIS DAY.)
After the night charges had been disposed of, John
Wilson, an ill-looking middle-aged man, who was stated
to be a shoemaker, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Rawlinson, charged with attempting to murder Catherine
Wilson, his wife.
The poor creature was led into court by two
men, and placed in the witness-box. The left
side of her face and head was covered with coagu-
lated blood. She could scarcely stand, and gave
her evidence with much difficuity. She said she
had been married six years to the prisoner, and that
he was continually in the habit of brutally ill-using her.
This morning about nine o'clock he seized the candle-
stick which he used in his trade (a large piece of wood
with a tin socket for a candle at the top of it—the metal
was broken and bent), and cut her head open with it.
She was then suffering great pain from the wound.
Mr. Birch, surgeon, residing at No. 15, Great Mary-
lebone-street, stated that he was requested by police-
constable, 64 D, to go to the station-house. On pro-
ceeding thither he found the woman bleeding very
much, and very faint from the loss of blood. On exa-
mining her head he found one wound nearly half an inch
deep. He considered the woman's life in danger, as it
was not unlikely that erysipelas may supervene.
Mr. RAWLINSON—WouId it be better to dispose of the
case now, or remand it ?

Mr. Birch thought it would be better to remand the
prisoner, as from the wound being of a dangerous cha-
racter, the worst consequences might ensue in a day
or two.

The prisoner said, his wife took the candlestick up to
strike him, and he took it from her, and she was struck
in the struggle.—He was remanded for a week.

UNION-HALL.—(THIS DAY.)
Thomas Wright, a youth, was charged before Mr.
Traill with exposing fur sale pictures of an immoral
nature.

Police-sergeant, 12 L, stated that complaints have
recently been made to the police that several persons
have been in the habit of selling prints of an immoral
description in the public streets ; that on the preceding
night, he (the sergeant), while on duty in the Westmin-
ster-road, observed the defendant standing near Atkin-
son's Warehouse selling prints, and that a crowd of
persons was collected about him, some of whom were
purchasers, and that the defendant had a box which was
filled with the same description of prints. (The ser-
geant here produced a specimen of the prints which was
a representation of a lady taking a shower bath ; but
there did not appear to be anything in the print of an
immoral tendency, the figure being clothed with the
exception of the head, neck, and feet.)
Mr. TRAILL said that the charge against the defendant
did not come under the Act for the suppression of im-
proper publications. The defendant, however, was
not justified in selling things of this kind about the
streets, and if he persisted in such a course, and
was brought there again, he would certainly be punished
for causing crowds of persons to collect and obstruct the
thoroughfare.
The defendant said that he was not aware that he was
doing anything wrong.
The inspector said that it was a well-known fact per-
sons were going about the streets selling prints of the
most disgusting kind.
Mr. TaAmt.—Bring such persons before me, and I
shall have no hesitation in punishing them severely. The
Magistrate then discharged the defendant, and recom-
nsended him to be cautious what he was about. His box
of prints were then delivered up to him.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, SEPT. 17.—Wind this day at noon, W. to
S.W., fresh breeze, and fine,
Wicx, SEPT. 14.—The Susan and Ann, of White-
haven, bound to Ireland, is ashore on the north aide of
the Bay of Wick.
HARWICH, SEPT. 16.—The smack Tyro, James, from
Port Madoc to Ipswich, got ashore on the Shipwash
Sand, but subsequently came off, and sank in deep water
—crew saved.
OFF MARGATE, SEPT. 16.—Monkwearmouth, Rain-
bow, and Spring, Quebec.
NEWHAVEN, SEPT.l6.—Arrd. Mosley, Killet, Quebec.
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 16.—Arrd. Marchioness of Bute,
Luckett, Bombay. Norden Sundswall, for Bordeaux,
with bows stove, &c., having been in contact with a
schooner, off the Start.
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 16.—Wind W.S.W., moderate.—
Arrd. Josephine, Smith, Singapore ; Peggy, Smith, Ja-
maica ; Orion, St. Domingo, and not from Honduras ;
Herald, Savanilla ; Diana, Porto Cabello; 'William Henry,
Best, Galveston ; Columbus, New Orleans ; M'Lellan,
Meany, Charleston ; Liverpool, Eldridge, New York ;
Portland and Margeret, St. John's, New Brunswick ;
Falcon, Blake, Hope, Inconstant, John Munie, and Salem,
Quebec. Off, Ben Nevis. The Lord Ashburton, hence
to St. John's New Brunswick, which was condemned
and sold at Strangford, has been brought in here to-day
under jurymasts.
ICHADOE.—Arrd. Thomas Naylor and Hopewell, Li-
verpool.
DEAL, SEPT. 16.—Arrd. Janet, Quebec for Hull ;
Elizabeth, Rokeby and Saphire, Quebec ; Lord Oakley,
Croco, Rimouski, Sam Slick, Younger, Gambia ; Ar-
tenuise, Sundswall, for Cape of Good Hope.
OFF .&EW ROMNEY, SEPT. 16.—Reliance, Fox, Algoa
Bay.
WHITEHAVEN, SEPT. 16.—Tom, Coulthard, Quebec.
CORK, SEPT. 14.—Arrd. Enterprise, Smart, Laguna,
and sailed for London Garland, Roche, Pugwash ;
Newfoundland, for Altona. Off, Avon, Masters, St.
John's, New Brunswick, and sailed for the Clyde.
BERWICK, SEPT. 15.—Arrd. Industry, Liverpool, for
Newcastle, dismasted.
HULL, SEPT. 16.—Arrd. St. Lawrence, Brown, New
York.
DEAL, SEPT. 16.—Arrd. Sam Slick, in the. Downs,
from the Gambia, was in contact with a vessel, name
unknown, off the Start, and sustained damage.
DONEGAL, SEPT. 11.—Arrd. Thomas Close, Fern, St.
John's, New Brunswick ; Zephyr, Quebec.
HOYLE, SEPT. 12.—Arrd. John Wright, Robinson,
Quebec.
DARTMOUTH, SEPT. 16.—1 t blew hard yesterday from
the westward. A brig was seen off the port, with loss of
bowsprit and foremast, was subsequently spoken by a
sloop at Brigham, but refused assistance. N.B. The
Norden, from Sundswall to Bordeaux, put into Ply-
mouth, 16th inst, with loss of bowsprit and foremast.
FALMOUTH, SEPT. 16.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Gem,
Robb, Macao. Off, Arab, Honack, Port-au-Prince, for
Rotterdam.

WILL OF THE EARL OF MOUNTICORRIB.--.The will
and three codicils of the Right Hon. George Earl of
Mountnorris, late of Arley Castle, in the county of Staf-
ford, have just been proved in the Prerogative Court by
Arthur L. M'Leod, Esq. (the nephew), and E. R.
Nicholas, Esq. (his Lordship's solicitor), the executors.
His Lordship gives an annuity of 3001. per annum to his
sister Lady Arabella M'Leod ; to bis nephew John
M'Leod, 1,0001. ; to his nephew Edward M'Leod, 1,0001.;
but this last legacy (to Edward M'Leod) is revoked by a
codicil ' • and to his niece Miss M'Leod, 1,0004 ; to one
of the alleged illegitimate children of his late sen (Vis-
count Valentia) 1,0004, and to two others 5001. each ;
to the Rev. J. Allen, Rector of Arley, 5004 ; to his wife,
200/. ; and legacies to two of their children. By a
codocil he directs that a sum not exceeding 10,000/. be
laid out in the improvement of Arley Castle, which,
together with the collections of paintings, statues, anti-
quities, &c., it contains, are to descend as " heir looms,"
an inventory of them being first made in order that the
collection may remain undisturbed. He also gives one
year's wages to his servants above what may be due to
them. He likewise bequeaths a legacy to Arthur L.
M'Leod, his executor ; and, after many trifling legacies,
disposes of the residue of his property amongst various
branches of his family. The personal property is sworn
under 10,0001, but this is an unimportant item compared
with the value of his large estates in Staffordshire and
the adjoining counties. The will is of extreme length and
dated 1841.