The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-08 00:00:00

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THE QUEEN AND INFANT PRINCE.
FORM OF PRAYER AND THANKSGIVING.

The following is the Form of Prayer and Thanks-
giving to Almighty God for the safe Delivery of the
-Queen and the happy Birth of a Prince, to be used at
Morning and Evening Service, after the General Thanks-
giving, in all Churches and Chapels in England acid
Wales, and in the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, upon
Sunday, the 11th day of August instant, or the Sunday
after the respective Ministers of such Churehvs and
Chapels shall receive the same.
" 0 merciful Lord and heavenly Father, by whose
gracious gift mankind is increased, we most humbly offer
unto Thee our hearty thanks for Thy great goodness
vouchsafed to Thy people, in delivering Thy servant our
Sovereign Lady the Queen from the perils of child-
birth, and giving her the blessings of a son. Continue,
we beseech thee, Thy fatherly care over her ; support
and comfort her in the hours of weakness, and day
by day renew her strength. Preserve the infant Prince
from whatever is hurtful either to body or soul; and en-
due him, as he advances in years, with true wis-
dom and every Christian lirtue. Regard with
Thine especial favour our Queen and her Royal
Consort, that they may long live together in the
enjoyment of all earthly happiness, and may finally
be made partakers of everlasting glory. Implant
in the hearts of Thy people a deep sense of Thy
manifold mercies, and give us grace to show forth our
thankfulness by dutiful affection to our Sovereign, by
brotherly love one towards another, and by constant
obedience to Thy commandments ; so that, passing
through this life in Thy faith and fear, we may in the
life to come be received into Thy heavenly kingdom,
through the merits and mediation of Thy Blessed. Son
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."

FATAL ACCIDENT—BRAMBER.We have to re-
cord a melancholy accident that occurred at the turnpike-
gate near the Castle last Sunday evening, between Six and
ten o'clock. Mrs. Winton, the wife of the renter of the tolls
and keeper of the gate, went out to open the rte and let a
donkey chaise through, and whilst standing there, and al-
most before the chaise had passed through the gate, she was
knocked with great violence against the gate-post by a a
horse which was drawing a four-wheel chaise, and coming
from the direction of Steyning. The poor woman fell, and
was removed to her house, where she survived only two
hours, and never spoke during that time. It is supposed
that the collar of the horse came in contact with the poor
woman's chest. After a patient investigation, the jury re-
turned a verdict of " Accidental Death," with a deodand of
.ss. against the horse, a hack hired with the chaise of a horse-
master in Brighton, who has had him in work for six
years.
Brighton Guardian.
STATE OF TRADE.-Our market is still firm. In
yarns there is a good business doing, and for such as can be
delivered immediately rather higher prices are obtained ; but
most of the spinners are stated to have little on hand. In
goods, too, the demand continues to be extensive, with some
tendency upward, especially in 7-Bth printing elOth. For
40-inch shirtings the lower prices current before the arrival
of the Indian mail are offering; but sellers are generally firm,
and show no disposition to submit to this reduction ; and, on
the whole, very little business is doing in goods for the India
market.—Mmichester Guardian, Aug. 7.

SUMMER ASSIZES.
NORTH WALES ClRCUlT.—Chester Aug. 6.
(Before Mr. Baron RoLFE.)
Joseph Woods, aged 43, was charged with having as-
saulted and robbed Samuel Cortishley, on the highway, ,
at Werneth.

The Attorney-General and Mr. Beaver were for the
prosecution, and Mr. Egerton for the prisoner.
The prosecutor is a coal-dealer, residing in Werneth,
and was in the habit of going round the ♦illage every
Saturday, for the purpose of collecting sums of money
from parties to whom he had given credit during the
week. On Saturday evening, the 18th of May, he was
returning home from his usual round, when he sat down
by the road-side, about half-a-mile from his own house,
to rest, being troubled with an asthma. While at this
spot the prisoner came up, knocked him down, and beat
him severely, and robbed him of 111. He thee bade him
to make the best of his way home, or he would kill kira.
The prisoner being known to the prosecutor, he was ap-
prehended the same night at his own house. When told
the charge, he admitted having beat the prosecutor, but
denied the robbery.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended
him to mercy on account of the good character he had
received.

The Learned Judge sentenced him to be imprisoned
and kept to hard labour for the space of fifteen months.
Peter Damn, aged 24, was charged with an assault on
Samuel Wiltsbaw, at Stockport, and with stealing 7s. 6d.
from his person.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner per-
suaded the prosecutor, an aged man, to accompany him
to a house, which, on his reaching, he discovered to be
a house of ill fame, and was about to leave it imme-
diately ; but the prisoner knocked him down, and with
the assistance of another person succeeded in robbing him.
The prisoner was found Guilty, and sentenced to two
years' imprisonment and hard labour.
John Jackson, twenty-six, was charged with stealing
from the person of John Swindalls, at Stockport, a watch,
his property.
It appeared from the evidence, that on the 9th of
April lust the prosecutor and the prisoner were together
It several public-houses in Stockport until a late hour.
At length, about four o'clock in the morning, both sat
down on the door-steps of the Swan's Head Inn, whero
the prosecutor fell asleep. Shortly afterwards, on being
awoke by a police-officer, he found the prisoner had
gone, and his -watch was missing. A few days after-
wards, the prisoner gave the watch to a friend of his
to pledge. . .

lie N'its convicted; and two previous convictions being
proved against him, the Learned Judge sentenced him to
be transported for ten years.
The Grand Jury have this day ignored the bill pre.
ferred against the Rev. Mr. Creswell, of Stockport, who
was charged with an unnatural crime.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Shrewsbury, Aug 6.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Chief Justice TINDAL)
REMARKABLE CASE.

On Monday, Susannah Wynne, aged thirty-four, de-
scribed in the calendar as a person who could read, or
read and write imperfectly, was indicted for haying, on
the 12th of July last, feloniously stolen, at the parish of
St. Chad, in the borough of Shrewsbury, one brass can-
dlestick, the property of John Bryan.
Mr. Corbet conducted the cased for the prosecution.
The prisoner had not the assistance of counsel.
The facts of the case had nothing in them which would
have called for particular notice, had it not been for the
remarkable astuteness exhibited by the prisoner—a
woman with a swarthy and rather repulsive countenance,
to which, however, a keen and bright dark eve occa-
sionally imparted much animation. It appeared that on
Friday, the 12th of July, the prisoner came to the Mer-
maid public-house, in this town, and asked for a glass of
rum. This particular " vanity" having been supplied
the lady tossed off the liquor with the air of a person
who was used to such things, and then requested per-
mission to take a seat in the kitchen until her little boy
came, as she expected him to bring her some money,
with which she should be enabled to discharge the debt
which she had just contracted. The permission was
granted, and the money was afterwards paid, but the
prisoner still lingered in the kitchen of the Mermaid,
and the maid servant of the establishment, who had
served her with the rum, retired up stairs. At,the time
when she went up stairs, about a quarter to five fit the after-
soon, there were two brass candlesticks in the kitchen
and at five in the afternoon the prisoner offered for sale
to a Mrs. Lee, who keeps a broker's shop in Princes-
street, a very short distance from the Mermaid, a single
brass candlestick, which Mrs. Lee bought for a shilling.
With the shilling thus obtained, the prisoner went to the
Golden Cross, and ordered and paid for a quart of ale,
and eventually finished the day by getting so drunk that
she was taken into the custody of the poliCe, and locked
up. While she was in durance, the prosecutor discovered
that one of the two candlesticks which had been in the
kitchen of the Mermaid, while the prisoner was there,
had disappeared, and inquiries having been set on foot,
the prisoner was charged with the theft. The candle-
stick in question was one of a very common, shape, and
the prosecutor's only reason for believing it to be his
property was, that it matched the one that was left ho-
hind.
The prisoner cross-examined most of the witnesses at
great length, but at the same time with a tact and per.
tinence which evinced an intimate acquaintance, how-
ever gained, with the mode in which a defence is usually
conducted. Some of the witnesses she bullied, desiring
them not to " keep the gentlemen waiting,but to answer
her questions at once, as she was tired of the case," and
insisting on their repeating the ninth commandment
others, whose testimony she hoped would be more favour.
able to her she soothed and flattered by saying that she
was sure they would give conscientious evidence, and
was particularly careful in calling the " Ma'am," or
" Sir, as the case might be. Others, again, whose tes-
timony was immaterial, she dismissed with a- triumphant
toss of the head, told them she had "no question," and
informed them that they might :‘ stand down." When
the case for the prosecution was closed, she was told
that she might say anything which she pleased in her
defence, and, accordingly, advancing to that part of the
dock nearest to the jury, she addressed them as nearly
as possible in the following terms:—
" Gentlemen of the Jury—There is no individual who
can be in a more awkward position than a-prisoner at
the bar—without friends to assist her, without counsel
to plead for her, miles from home, and left to the mercy
of witnessess whose consciences are as elastic as a pair
of spring guns. Observe, Gentlemen, how contradic-
tory are the statements made by the servant girl and the
' owner of the candlestick. She says she did not miss it
till the Saturday afternoon. The owner comes forward
and swears that he missed it two hours after I had left
the place—a wide difference here, Gentlemen. Might
not some one else have come in and taken it away P
We have many instances of men being obliged to leave
their wives and children, and being sent to foreign
islands, upon evidence like that given by these witnesses,
when years afterwards the real perpetrator of the crime
has been brought to suffer the last punishment of the
law. What is that done by but by false swearing and
1 false evidence that such persons were there, and such
property was afterwards gone ? No one, Gentlemen,
can describe the feelings of one who stands' at the bar
arraigned, tearing open afresh the wounds which have
already bled for their misfortunes. It is not before
respectable community like this that I doubt justice
being given to me, but if the examination (before the
magistrates, when she was committed) had been con-
ducted properly, I should not have been brought here.
The expert hand of a ready writer, the clerk of the
Court, took care that there should be no flaw in the in-
dictment against me. I am miles away from home

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