The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-10 00:00:00

THE SUN,

meet of the balances down to the secretary and witn, ss,
in order Oat thee might see that they were correct. The
company had in use three clesses of cheques, Which r ere
provided by the directors. The ordinary course of
business was to retain the cancelled cheques with the
pass-book in the pocket, and it was his duty to check
them with the book and then do them up for preeerva-
lion. When the directors wanted to see any of these
el,rques they hod to send to the prisoner for them.
Towards the end uf 1849 it came to his knowledge
that the prisoner was connected with the Olympic
Theatre, and he remonstrated with him upon the im-
propriety of such a proceeding. Early in March a com-
munication was made to him relative to the cheque, and
it was searched for, but it could nut be found. He
then thought it his duty to seal up the prisoner's
papers, and afterwards he rent for the prisoner and his
father. who was the cashier of the t ffice, into his pri-
vate office, and he stated to them that some irregularity
had been practised in the office, and as they were
the two most likely to be implicated in the matter,
he thought it right to communicate with tlem before
any proceedings were taken. The younger Watts asked
what he I% ai accused of, to which witness replied that
he made no charge, but the prisoner's conscience
must tell him what was the matter, adding
that considerable sums had been abstracted from the
company. The father said he was innocent of anything
of the sort, that every farthing which had passed
through his hands had been punctually paid into the
bank, which was afterwards found to be the case;
and then turning to the son, the father said,
Can you say the same?" The prisoner declined say-
ing anything, and witness left them in the room toge-
ther for ten minutes. On his return he found they
were gone; but on going up stairs he met the
prisoner, who said, " Tite, you have disgraced me by
sealing up my papers, and I call upon you to seal
up all the papers in the office." Witness replied, that
he could not do that, and Oen the prisoner told witness
that he was a proprietor like witness, and should re-
main in the office no longer. The prisoner then left,
and next day the directors received a letter of resigna-
tion from the prisoner with an intimation that if be
should be wanted he would be found at the Olympic
Theatre.

(The trial was proceeding when our report lift.)

.NEW COURT.

(Before the RECORDER and Mr. Alderman CARDEN.)
Matthias Martinez Debrie, a Mexican, was indicted
before a jury of halt Englishmen half foreigners, with
stealing a bank note for 501., a bank note for 301., and a
quantity of gold dust, the property of Matthew Henry
Strutt, the purser of the Royal Mail steam-packet Avon,
trading from Mexico to Southampton. From the state-
ment of the prosecutor, and the evidence adduced on the
part of the prosecution, it appeared that the prisoner was
a passenger on board the Avon, from Vera Cruz to
Southampton ; that during the passage he and the pur-
ser scraped an acquintance, and repeatedly played at cards
together. It appeared that the prosecutor had a bank-
note for 50/. and another fur 301., together with
some gold dust in a desk in his cabin, of which he lost
the key shortly berore he arrived in this country. It
appeared also that the prisoner had a quantity of dou-
bloons, some of which he entrusted to the prosecutor for
security, but none of which he had in his possession
when be arrived in London. The bank-notes were
traced into the possession of the prisoner, he having
changed the 50/. at Mr. Carter's, a jeweller and silver-
smith, in Cornhill, in the purchase if a gold watch,
a chain, a key, ring, and breast pin, and
the 30/. note, at Messrs. Moses and Son, in the pur-
chase of clothes. The gold dust was also purchased
from the prisorer by Messrs. Angerston and Cu., for
17/. 13s. 103. _ _ _

Mr. PARRY appeared for the prosecution, and
Mr. BALLINTINE addressed the jury for the prisoner,
contending that there was no evidence that the prose-
cutor ever bad any gold dust, and that the just ir.ferenee
was, that the prosecutor had given the prisoner the 501.
note and the 301. nute in exchange for the doubloons he
had left after paying his passage money.
The RECORDER summed up, ar.d
The jury, after a consultation of nearly half an hour,
found the prisoner Guilty of stealicg the two bank notes.
The RECORDER sentenced him to 18 months' imprison-
ment in Newgate.

Byeans on a caverned grave which braves and rends—
Death's last despAring strife. THE DEAD comes forth:—

The ry,iglit,,"c,,it. o'er; the REST 15 110 W;
The Sabbath of the new creation made,
To which all seasoi!s must converging turn,
Till ail become His Sabbath who has bought
Our peace by woes we should have endless shared—
Once more 'along followers now adoring round,
This Being, Man, God, Brother, Father—All
Which give assurance that Almighty Love
Will bless Eternity for Us as ll,s
Created, Lost, Redeemed,—now leaves His earth
Slow vanishing. I see no more."
And fortified by this, she cheerfully yields herself a sa-
crifice, for even the possibility of saving her Nimrod.
There is an epilogue, in which the angels hold con-
ference with the beatified spirit of Nabmab, which
contains many passages well worth quoting had we
room ; but we must confine ourselves to the conclud-
ing song, in which the angels reconcile themselves still
to watch over this world of violence and suffering :

CHORUS.
" Here would we stay,
Content to wait,
Though sin and sorrow men enthrall,
Till under death's all-covering pall,
They pass away,
Unseen their fate;
Though passions fierce their transient life despoil
Of its few peaceful hours, snatched from exhausting toil.
" For dawn first steals
Frcm darkest night;
And sin and sorrow, at their worst,
Form but the tomb from whence shall burst
The Power that heals
Creation's blight:
Then Justice, smiling on man's deathless peace,
Shall bid bin wound no more, and woe for ever cease."