The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-22 00:00:00

THE WIESBADEN CONGRESS.

The Union publishes the following letter from
Wiesbaden, dated the 16th :—" Yesterday being As-
sumption day the Count de Chambord went to church
at eight o'clock. All the seats were filled with
Frenchmen; the foreigners of different countries
filled the lower parts. The life of the. Count de
Chambord, at Wiesbaden, is a very active one. All
the day is taken up with audiences. Every one is re-
ceived by the Prince, and every one snakes his re-
marks on the situation of affairs. The ex-peer, the
representative, the banker, the merchant, the writer,
and the farmer arrive in their turn with their ideas,
sometimes their advice, but they are in their turn
surprised to find the Prince well-informed on all
the subjects on which they address him. The Count
de Cbambords aid to some persons who were well
acquainted with his laborious habits, My friends
appear to be astonished at finding me well acquainted
with what takes place in France: to what do they
therefore think that I devote my attention, if it be
not to ascertain the wants of my country ?' There
is, in fact, nothing which he does not scrupulously
study. He knows the general situation of France
and the particular state of each department; he
knows what works are useful to the inhabitants, and
the names of the men who found and direct them ;
he thoroughly understands the questions treated on in
the Councils General; he takes interest in those
which are debated in the Parliament; the army
finances, public works, and education, all is known to
him, and this is the reason why he is able to surprise
persons of different professions and of different voca-
tions when they are speaking to him on subjects with
which they are exclusively occupied. In addition to
these private audiences there is a general one every
day, at noon, for all new corners, and in the evening
a second general reception fur all the French present
at Wiesbaden. In these receptions, which are very
numerously attended, the Count de 'Chambord goes
from one room to another and speaks to every one,
with the most perfect kindness and condeseen-
sion. The reception yesterday was one of the.most
brilliant. Some visitors, formerly of a contrary way of
thinking, were present. Mine. de Behague, who was
present for the first time, passed from one saloon to
the other leaning on the arm of Viscount Walsh,
when suddenly the Prince, leaving a group, stood
opposite her. Mr. Walsh drew back, saying, ' Mon-
seigneur, we form a barricade." We must not make
barricades,' replied the Prince, we must unmake
them ;' and then turning towards Mme. de Btaague,
I have just, maiame, made use of an expression
which reminds you of a sad event ; I solicit your
pardon ; I know that your brother was killed
in 1834 when raising a barricade ; no one could
have regretted that misfortune more than I did.
Have the kindness to tell Midame Baillot, your
mother, how sincerely I shared in her grief.' Madame
de Behague could only reply by her tears. Several
visitors are beginning to leave, to give place to others.
The representatives will carry with them from Wies-
baden a deeper conviction than ever, that the Legi-
timist party possesses not only in its principle, but in
the Prince, who represents it, a power of reformation
which no other party can equal. Let us add that
their union will remain strongly cemented, and in
that they will yield at once to their inspiration, to the
wish of the Prince, and to the general interest of
France."

RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE.
WEST LONDON RAILWAY.

The half-yearly general meeting of this company
took place yesterday at the London Tavern, for the pur-
pose of receiving the report of the directors and trans-
acting other business connected with the company.
The chair was taken shortly after one o'clock by,
Stephen Bird, Esq., the deputy chairman of the com-
pany ; and the minutes of the last meeting having
been read, .

Mr. TURQUAIND, the new secretary of the company,
then read the following report :
" The directors, considering the action at law against
the London and North-Western Railway Company as
the subject of the greatest interest t 3 the shareholders,
proceed to notice it first in their half-yearly report. The
action stood for trial, and the jury were chosen in the
month of June last, and the directors hoped it would
have been tried before the Court of Common Pleas rose
for the vacation, but the number of special jary causes
in arrear was such, that the c3urt did not even
reach the list of new causes; your directors, however,
feel confilent that it will come on for trial in December
next, and they still entertain the same opinion as to
the result which they expressed to the shareholders
at the last half-yearly meeting. The traffic on
the canal shows a total increase of 3,600
tons over the previous half-year. In the traffic
from the railway there has been an increase of 4,300
tons, but Ito the railway there has been a decrease of
2,500 tons. The directors have been applied to by the
Ince Hall Coal Company' to afford them facilities in
the transit of coal on the canal, by the formation of a
stage, for the purpose of enabling the railway trucks to
discharge coals at once into the barges—tbe directors,
feeling that the additional traffic which would be thereby
brought on the canal must be considerable, have acceded
to the application. The requisite outlay is estimated at
about 1001. The directors regret that it is not in their
power to report more favourable upon the circumstances
connected with the state of the accounts of Mr. Thomp-
son, the late secretary of the company ; the re-
peated assurances given by Mr. Thompson,
previous to the last half-yearly mesting, in-
duced the directors to express a hope that the
company would not ultimately suffer loss on his account.
The directors were informed shortly after that meeting,
that Mr. Thompson had left this country, and without
giving them any means of communicating with him until
within the last mouth, when a letter was received from
him dated from the United States. The directors have
lost no time in opening a communication, and have ad-
dressed a letter to him, urging upon him the necessity
of relieving himself from his present position with the
company. The directors report that they have ap-
pointed Mr. William Turquand the secretary to the
company, in the room of Mr. Thompson; and they fur-
ther report that they have made arrangements by which
the annual expenditure of the company is considerably
reduced."

After some discussion, in which the defalcations of
Mr. Thompson, which amount to betwe:-..n 8001. and
900/., were stronglyredmarked upon, the report was
agreed to, received,
an
the accounts which accoamd
an report were de-
opted ; but the: adoption of
mg. In the
ferred for consideration top
aninetdhthe
r meeting.
course of the discussion on the
recommended adoption or the
report, Mr. White strongly
directors of the company to joinwith the
London and North-Western Company in anine the
ar-
rangement by which the public might be induced to
avail themselves of the facilities afforded by the rail-
way for the Great Public Exhibition of 1851, and
also how the traffic on the canal for the same pur-
pose might be improved. If some such course were
not adopted he was afraid the omnibuses would run
away with all their traffic on that important occasion,
and the shareholders of the company would be greatly
injured.

After some other business had been disposed of a
vote of thanki to the Chairman was carried unani-
mously, and the mec-ting: separated.

WHITEttAVEN AND FURNESS.
The half-yearly meeting of this comp any was held
on Tuesday,at the office, Guildhall-chatnbere, the Earl
of Lonsdale in the chair. Tne report stated that the
near approach of the works to completion had enabled
the directors to estimate with accuracy' the outlay
still to be incurred. The arrears of calls and the
amount still to be taken up on debentures would be
sufficient to meet the requirements of the company.
The portion of the line between Ravenglass and Bootle,
four miles and a half, was opened for traffic on the

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Bth of July, making 21 miles open, and leaving 14
miles in the course or construction—namely, from
Bootle to the Furness Railway. It is expected that
the whole of the line from Whitehaven to the Fur-
ness Railway will be opened in the course of the
next month. In the latter end of June the southern
portion of the viaduct over the Esk was burned,
and in the course of a week afterwards was re-
built at a cost of 6001. The cause of the fire has not
been discovered, but precautions have been taken to
guard against a similar casualty. A plan for effect-
ing a junction at Whitehaven with the Whitehaven
and Maryport Railway was in the month of May last
submitted by the two companies to the trustees of the
town of Whitehaven. The plan consisted of a direct
line of tramway between the stations of the two com-
panies, with a very convenient and ample connexion
from both railways to the harbour ; and at the same
time the estimated outlay was very limited compared
with the cost of any other mode which had been de-
vised of effecting the object. A committee of the
trustees reported against the adoption of the plan,
notwithstanding that in other large towns no incon-
venience whatever has been found in practice to re-
sult from precisely similar arrangements. The ne-
cessity of this connexion is felt to be so important for
the due developement of the traffic of the line that
the directors will not relax in their endea-
vours to carry it out in the cheapest and
most efficient practicable mode. The• total earnings
of the NI miles between Whitehaven and RavFai-
glass, from their opening in July, 1849, to the 30:h
of June last, have been 4,5151., and the total number
of passengers carried 71,618, of which 7,742 were
first-class, 30,427 second-class, and 33,449 third-
class passengers. No part of the large traffic in
minerals which has always been expected to arise
between Whitehaven and Furness, on the completion
of the railway throughout, has yet come upon the
portion opened, nor can it until the line is completed
to the junction with the Furness Railway. The full
development of this traffic will still depend upon a
connexion through Whitehaven with the railways to
the north. The report of Mr. Dees, the engineer,
stated that the line was on the point of completion,
and the permanent way laid on eight miles out of the
fourteen unopened ; so that with favourable weather
the whole line would be ready for opening in a
month. The whole of the works have been executed
by the contractors in a very substantial manner, and
when the embankments become consolidated the rail-
way will be kept in a very efficient working order at
a trifling cost per mile. The capital account to the
30th of June showed that 264,3881; had been re-
ceived, and 297,892/. expended, leaving a balance
against the company of 33,504/. The revenue ac-
count for the half-year stated that 2,466/. had been
received, and 1,650/. expended, leaving a balance
of 816/.

The CHAIRMAN, on moving the adoption of the
report, stated that the line would have been open at
the present time were it not for the sinking of an em-
bankment and the burning of a portion of the
bridge over the Esk. He had no doubt that the
line would be ready for opening at the
time specified. The works on their line had
proceeded more slowly, on account of finan-
cial difficulties, than the works on any other
line in the kingdom of the same length , they had
one consolation, however, that their line of 35 miles
in length, when completed, would not exceed the
cost of 10,000/. per mile. The Maryport and Car-
lisle the Furness Railways had cost 15,000/. per
mile, and they were enabled to divide 2 per cent. per
annum ; but this wag not so bad when it was
considered that some of the best railways did not
average more than 31 per cent., as shown
by Mr. Yeses table. 'Their line had good gra-
dients, and would be worked cheaply. With regard
to the intended junction line between the two rail-
ways at IVhitehaven, the company were autho-
rised by Act of Parliament either to carry it through
tbh town on a viaduct, or under it by means of a
tunnel. The length of the junction line is about 800
yards. It was not intended to construct it in either
of the ways mentioned, but he had no doubt they
would be able to construct it as a tramroad at a very
moderate cost.

In answer to questions, it was stated that since the
accounts had been made up above 5,0001. of the bills
given for arrears on calls were paid. Sinee the open-
ing of the line to Bootle the receipts had been in-
creased between 30/. to 40/. per week. ' '
Resolutions were passed adopting the report and
accounts, and re-electing the retiring directors—,
Messrs. W. Miller, R. C. Hildyard, Q.C., M.P., J.
Peile, G. Pew, and E. Stanley, M.P. The retiring
auditors were also re-elected.

Mr. LEVY, on moving a vote of thanks to the
chairman and directors, which was carried unani-
mously, stated that he was quite sure that it was not
one of the worst undertakings in the kingdom, and
that the shareholders might rest perfectly satisfied
that they had honest accounts and the true state of
their affairs laid before them.

The CHAIRMAN, in acknowledging the compliment,
said that it would require 58,0001. to finish the line.
Towards this sum they had 20,0001. at the banker's,
the contractors would take 20,0001. in debentures,
and they would receive about 15,0001. on bills, which
would nearly make up the whole sum they required.
The meeting then separated.

end of last week. In ncne of the recent ebbs of busi-
ness has there been so much of this state of feeling, on
either side, as on this occasion. Under these circum-
stances, not only the transactions, but the mere at-
tempts to purchase, have been :o fe as to afford no-
thing like a test of prices. Ia all but the finer yarns,
however, there is certainly a bias in the wrong direc-
tion, and a positive giving way in some kinds. Pin-cops,
cop twist, and warps, of the medium counts, have
yielded in the greatest degree, some id. per lb., others
rather more than that, as might be expected from
their relative dearness. As regards goods, little more
can be said than that there is but too obvious a weak-
ness in the prices of many descriptions. The advicea
from Constantinople are again more favourable as to
gray and white calicoes, and also yarns; but, of
course, the merchants infected with the prevailing
feeling of the day have stood aloof like others.
From Mexico and Hevannah the commercial
accounts are of a complexion decidedly to re-
strain further shipments. The letters from
China are still unsatisfactory. At Calcutta, a large
business had been done in Manchester goods, but not
on paying terms; at the same time the supplies were
heavy ; the prospects in the interior, ho Never, and
the season of the year, were in favour of the market.
In yarns the tendency was to improve. A;ainst the
exporters to this market is to be noticed a further de-
cline in the rate of exchange. Atogether, the India
merchants have had no inducement to operate to-day,
especially in the present aspect of !natters here.
Roc UDALE, MONDAY.--Tne merchants attended
pretty early in the market this marninae as it was the
wakes; an], in the latter part of the day, the streets
were generally crowded and impassible. The pieces
in the market were soon cleared off, at advanced
prices ; and twice that number would have been sold,
if the manufacturers had had them to offer. There
is no change in the wool market.
MACCLESFIELD, Tuesnar.--We have no new
feature to note in the staple trade of this town,
the manufacturers becoming more generally en-
gaged for the autumn trade. The buyers having
heretofore taken advantage of the necessities of manu-
facturers, when large •quantities of goods of various
styles have been prepared for the autumn trade, has
caused the latter, in most cases, to prepare only to
order this season. This principle having been gene-
rally acceded to by the buyers, the trade may now be
said to have fairly commenced, as a proof of which the
dyers are well employed. In thrown silk there is
certainly more doing, but prices are far from remune-
rating, when the present high price of raw silk is
taken into account, and ae are sorry to report the
market for the latter in a buoyant and advancing state.
HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—A good trade has been
doing to-day, though perhaps altogether not so many
goods have changed hands this wee as did last, partly
owing to the unsettled state of the weather and the
present shooting season. The fancy manufacturers
complain of the slackness of their branch of business.

IfALIFAX, SATURDAY.—The amount of business
transacted in our Piece Hall to-day has been about
an average for the season, and prices have not under-
gone any alteration. Yarns are still brisk, and the
quotations are as high as they have ever been. Toere
is a little more doing in wool, at late rates.
LEEDS, TUESDAY.—The woollen trade is without
alteration since our last report, and still continues in
a satisfactory state.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUG. 17, Isso.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...•256
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... ... "" 53
Tubercular Diseases ... 166
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 106
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 22
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... ... ... ... 69
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion., es. 51
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. 12
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &e. ... 8
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ... 7
Diseases of the Skin, Sze. 1
Malformations L.• 3

---
Premature Birth 36
••• •••
Atrophy
Old Age
Sudden ... 0
Violence. Privation, Cold, and Intemperance ... 18
Causes not sptcified ... 3
DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES 874
Population Deaths in eorre- Deaths
Enumerated, spending week in the
1841. of 1849. Week.
West Districts... 301,189 . . 231 ... 129
North Districts.. 376,568 •• 272 ••• 179
Central Districts 374,199 ... 307 154
East Districts ... 393,067 •••
833 587 ••• 181
South Districts.. 503,346 ... ••• 231

Totals... ..... 1,948,369 ... 2,230 ... 874
Males ... ... ••• ... ... 441
Females ... ... ... ... ... 433

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 1850.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
THIRD COURT.
(Moro Mr. RUSSELL GURNEY.)
William Augustus Sheen, 34, gentleman, was in-
dieed fir bigatny with M3ry Whilleber Greene,
his wife Cecilia being then alive.

Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Parry prosecuted ; and
Mr. Robinson defended.

Tire prisoner is a tall military looking man, wear-
ing large mustachios and whiskers.
M. BALLANTINE, in stating the case for the pro-
secution, said that charges of this character were ge-
nerally, as far as the jury were concerned, merely
confined to the actual facts of the marriages, and that
the other circumstances connected with the offence
were for the consideration of the court to direct them
in their judgment; and as in this instance the facts
were abundantly clear, he should but briefly allude
to them. Toe prisoner, who it was evident was a
mere f'ortune•hunter, and had behaved most heart-
lessly to those who had become his victims, was mar-
ried to his first wife in 1838, when she had a good
fortune, and all that the prosecution now knew of her
was, that she was in Boulogne penniless, and
unable to coma over to this country. "Without
entering into the circumstances under which he be-
eline acquainted with hie second wife, he would
merely state that she also was a lady of fortune,
and that in the year 1848 he was married to her.
After they had been married soma time, during
which period he expended a great portion of her for-
tune, she became acquainted with the fact of the pri-
soner being a married man ; up m which she imme-
diately left him, after which he commenced hunting
her, and holding out threats, for the purpose of ob-
taining money from her ; upon which her relations,
having obtained the necessary evidence, took the pre-
sent proceedings, which could be proved without the
appearance of the second wire.
Mr. John Baker, the parish clerk of St. Mary,
Dover, proved the marriage of the prisoner on June
23, 1838, to Cecilia Charlotte Franchall. They stayed
at Duver a short time, and then went on the Conti-
nent. Witness saw the first wife alive in Boulogne
about a fortnight ago.
Cross. examined—At the time of the marriage the
lady appeared to be between 30 and 40.
Captain Morris Burchell, a retired officer, proved
the identity of the prisoner and the marriage with his
first wife.

Mr. John Farrell, parish clerk of St. Mignus the
Martyr, in the City, produced the certificate of the
marriage of the prisoner with Miss Miry Wbilliber
Greene, spinster, on the 2.1 of February, 1818.
Mks E. J. Greene, sister to the prisoner's second
wife, deposed to being present at the marriage. It
was not until the July of 1849 that she heard the pri-
soner bad been married. Taxed him with it, and he
said his first wife was kinder to him than her sister.
Her sister had been abroad after she was separated
from him.

A letter, partly in French and partly in English,
and addressed to this witness from the prisoner, was
then put ,in and read. Its contents, which were
couched in a somewhat incoherent style, proved that
the prisoner, partly by threats and partly by an ap-
peal to her feelings, wished her to let him again ob-
tain possession of her sister.
In cross-examination, witness said that her sister is
about thirty-eight. I cannot say exactly where she is
now. She left Dover the week before last, and is
somewhere on the Continent. She came from Paris
to be married. I was living at Richmond at the time.
I heard from my sister about four days before the
marriage, and came up from Richmond to be present.
I did not then see the prisoner for above half-an-hour.
They left for Paris. It was in July, 1849, that I
heard from my sister of his being a married man. I
was then living with Colonel Rose, at Richmond. He
but noti
AaLnL y to
TimNyE_ sisite wri.
by Mr. AN
treated me as his daughter. He is dead. At his death
he
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me
money,
s Colonel
Rose's adopted daughter. My sister is now very ill.
Thomas Barnes, a City police-constable, said that
he went to apprehend the prisoner at 0 ldard's
Coffee .house, Waterloo-road, and when he told pri-
soner that he took him on a warrant for bigamy, pri-
soner said, " I do not understand you, or know what
you mean." Witness then told him, and he sail he
had a greater charge to make against Miss Greene—
that of murder. He further added there might be
some mistake—they might mean his brother.
After some further evidence,
Mr. ROBINSON addressed the jury for the defence,
complaining of the statements made by the prosecu-
tion, and denying that the prisoner bad any money
with his wife beyond the amount spent for ordinary
expenses, and also that it was most unfair that the
first wife was not present, and also the exact circum-
stances under which prisoner became acquainted with
his wives, ' both of whom were older than himself.
The Learned Counsel then called
Mr. Joseph Crawford, Consul-General at the Ha-
vannahs, slid that he knew the prisoner, who had
moved in the best society at that place, an! also at
Paris.

This gentleman produced a letter from the pri-
soner's first wife, ,written in the mildest spirit, and
expressing her intention of not being present at the
trial, as it would only serve to assist the case for the
prosecution, and could not aid the position in which
her unhappy husband was placed.
Mr. GURNEY, in summing up, said there was no
blame at all to be attached to the prosecution for the
course they had pursued, nor was there any necessity
for further wounding the fqelings of the first wife, by
bringing her up to this court as evidence. All the
jury had to do with was the fact of the two mar-
riages.
The jury found him Guilty.
Mr. BALLANTINE said he understood prisoner had
15,0001. with his second wife.
Miss Greene was recalled, and said she believed
her sister's fortune was above 10,000/., but it was
settled on her.
The solicitor for the prosecution, who was also so-
licitor to the lady, said it was above 10,0001., settled
on her, but he heard that the prisoner had dissipated
nearly all of it.
After some further discussion the Court said they
would take time to consider what sentence should
be passed.
The prisoner, who stood with his arms folded du•
ring the whole of the trial, tr)ing to look very un-
concerned, then walked out of the dock with a
Military step.
Mary Fitzgerald, 47, married, a decent-looking
woman, was indicted for feloniously intermarrying
with William Beckford, her husband being then alive.
Mr. Clark proseco‘ed, and Mr. Billantine, who had
been retained through the humane interference of the
Under-Sheriffs, appeared fur the woman.
Mr. CLARK stated the case to the jury, and in so
doing said that, although undoubtedly an offence had
been committed, still the manner in which the charge
had been brought forward was highly reprehensible,
and cast great discredit on all parties, as no public
wrong would have arisen if the proceedings had
never been instigated. The facts were these :—ln the
year 1824 the prisoner was married at Marylebone to
a man named Fitzgerald, who, after living with her
some time, deserted her and enlisted in the army,
first going with his regiment to Ireland, and then to
India. She was then married to ber second husband
at St. George's, Bloomsbury, in 1831. After she had
lived with him for six or seven years, Fitzgerald came
home and came to claim her from her second husband,
who, however, continued to live with her altogether for
sixteen years, and had five children by her. Finally
the first husband got discharged from the service,
and it appeared made use of the power the commission
of bigamy gave him to work upon her fears to
extort money from her, she still living with her second
husband, and some disagreement taking place, he left
her, and for some time allowed her money to support
the children ; but ultimately withdrawing that sup-
port, and she falling ill, they became chargeable to the
parish of Richmond, where they lived, when the se-
cond husband made known the whole affsir to free
himself from them, and these proceedings were taken
and the poor woman sent here for trial.

Mr. BALLANTINE having most warmly commented
upon the shameful character of the proceedings, con-
tended that she might have thought her husband dead
when she again married.

The jury found her Guilty, and she was sentenced
to seven days' imprisonment in Newgate.
Mr. GURNEY said he should not allow the expenses.
The poor woman, who was in a fainting state
during a great portion of the trial, was obliged to be
carried from the dock.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
William Clayton was brought up on remand,
charged with stealing a 40/. Bank of England
note, a 10/. ditto, and 101. in gold and silver, the pro-
perty of Mrs. Jane Lawrence, of 38, Rainor• street,
St. Luke's, about seven years ago, and absconding
with the same.
After the evidence taken on the previous examina-
tion had been read over, the witness, Catherine Hart,
who stated that she saw prisoner take the money
from a desk in the parlour of 12, Golden-lane, where
Mrs. Lawrence was then living, came forward and
requested to be heard, as she had something further
to state relative to the case. She said that a young
man who was outside the court, came to her the day
before, and told her that he came from prisoner's so-
licitor. He said he wanted her to compromise the
affair, as it was likely to go wrong with the prisoner
if she appeared again, and confirmed her testimony.
She declined to enter into any compromise whatever,
whereupon he endeavoured to dissuade her from her
intention not to abandon the prosecutrix. Finding
he could not persuade by ?ecuniary offer, he tried
wh-it effect threatening language would have, and ac-
cordingly told her that it she appared again she
should suffer for it afterwards, as she was only swear-
ing away the life of the prisoner for the purpose of
extorting money from the prisoner and his friends. He
then told her that she would be severely, punished if

she attended the examination yesterday. He made
use of similar threats to a shopkeeper in the neigh-
b mrhood with regard to witness's appearance against
prisoner. Several parti,s were present at the time
hi made use of the threatening language towards
witness.
Alderman KELLY directed oae of the officers of the
court to see if the party was still remaining outside,
and to call him in if he was.
In two or three minutes the officer returned usher-
ing in, much to the astonishment of every one in the
court, the gentleman who had acted as interpreter in
a case just heard, in which a girl of the town was
accused of robbing a French gentleman. The accu •
sation made against him was then read over, when he
denied a great portion of what had been stated, but
admitted that he had called upon her and asked her if
she wished to compromise the affair, and, on her de-
clining to do so, ha told her that she was swearing
prisoner's life away by perjuring herself, and that she
would ultimately be severely punished for it. He
did not say he came from the prisoner, but that he
had been requested to call on her by his solicitor, as
they believed, and he still thought so, that her whole
aim and object was to extort money from the prisoner.
Alderman KELLY said that from his own statement
he had been guilty of an indictable offence by intimi-
dating a witness. The worthy Alderman then re-
primanded the party for his conduct, which he thought
was rather a serious offence, and he was allowed to
depart.
Tnis case was remanded from last week for the
attendance of Mr. Serle, the secretary to the Camber-
well Savings Bank, who appeared and stated that the
prosecutrix withdrew her money, amounting to about
1501., on September. 11, 1843, but they had no note
or memorandum in any of their books signifying
what money it was paid in.
Alderman KELLY said it appeared to him that there
was a great deficiency in the management of a savings
bank, to pay such a large sum out without making an
entry of the notes and cash the demand was met with.

b r
Mr. Hrc aanwfc said, from the nature of the
C 1 6re
and the respectability of the accused, he would irleill
a little into the character of the witnesses. lop
13ragd.11 was then examined.—fle was out taros.
II ii been in various einp!nY
tiun.
porter, and waiter. He then gave en account cf
bbeilsi
proceedings during the day and up to the thne si
he was assaulted, as he alleged, h
-y the prsoner..
ed
Wren was also examined. His account Or
materially from that of Bragdeil. ' tape,
A third person, named Wright, an aqua° he
was examined, and his statement contradicted 1
Ments,
story of the other two. fur'
Mr. HARDWICK said charges like that brougbt a
ward against the accused were ery to !nakd:loa
difficult to repel. Independently of the inert
were
character of some portions of the evidence, there 11,, of
such manifest discrepancies between the stistemeal._o
as printer,
all the three witnesses, and such direct contradictlo,_
of parts of their stories, that he could not hesitater,
stating his belief that the charge had been fabricated
for the purpose of extortion. He should discharge
prisoner, and bind him over to prosecute. bar,
Bragdell and Wren were then placed at the
and the depositions of the now.complainant tsken.
o„
The complainant said his name WAS not Jacks° A,
it was Michael JasburA, and he resided et Bur°
walles Hall, Knaresbor b ough. tie
The deposition was in substance the same a
defence. r sein
The prosecutor was bound over to appear
next week.
CLERKENWELL. , A Well'
ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.--J. Stockbriage, - with
th•
known d by Ellen Buckley and
sad
i
hav ief, was charge
ng committed the following
daring 011tihr •
rbbery. OW o
The prosecutrix stated that on TUESCIBI el pg
sheo left home to make a purchase, and was r„etur,7l:it•
to her residence, when on crossing White ‘',.°„"„cteed
helds, she was followed by the prisoner, Wb° s",‘,ood.
Sheer down, and assaulted her while on the gts•soar
the Prig and
resisted, and cried out, on which
took from her some lace she had just purchase'' ifoo
ran off with it. She called " Stop thief, sold me
stopped and given into custody deace.
Sergeant Martin, 41 N, * 6 tand
.s
gave con rms. be 10-
The prisoner said nothing in defence,
remanded. . ...f.
OBTAINING 1
GOODS By FALSE PRETOC-S.VIC
Ford, described
,as an architect, residing itst mr.
John
Villas East, Regent's-park, was charged nula bill'
Bolton, furniture broker, of No. 1049 m-dn and
row, Finsbury, with having obtained by fon
false pretences 601. worth of goods. c' us re.
Prosecutor, being imposed on by the sPe-I:repeeS
presentations of the prisoner, who gave biro e'e,a•blessi
ot respectability, which ultimately proved ire" It
entrusted him with a 1 f f rniture•olo
arge quantity o 11 ~,,, a
was shown that a considerable quantity of l"- u the
had. been pawned and otherwise disposed of hioa,
prisoner a few days after he got possession of '
He was fully committed for trial.
WORSHIP-STREET. isle, dr
CHARGE or FELONY —Mr. Mark Bothsc'avoity
scribedeh as a merchant in Scarhery-streeti„,aillt
chapel, was placed at the bar, before bir, 'it; and
charged with felonious] i• •ht vvatc"- of
y stealng eight
City rspe
two diamond rings, of the value of 551., -• et
of Mc. Joseph Samuel], a in
terril
jeweller
City-road. ding
„ blot
The prosecutor stated—ln .1 t 1 bad .
April as A
business transactions with the prisoner, Outer:loode
accepth the bill of exchange now produced "3'17 tba
e received from me. The bill became du! °.alied
25th of June, but three that be "" be.
weeks beforet time
to me several •
.ri times fur fresh goods, the las iti. 1
i g the very day before the bill came to ma Sunday)
hrefused all these overtures ; but on the 23 ;„si
he told me I should never see the bill 23a in, 010
would be properly taken up, and, having e"°„id be $
several. bank notes, the prisoner told me it wc' obe
pity to lose the opportunity of selling the g Dods,ty 1,
was in a position to dispose of a great nasll,,tgloa.das
therefore, consented to let him have fresh goo Li-to bito
agreement was drawn up, which was read °veitlifered
several times, and he signed it, upon which lue.sf the
to him eight watches and two diamond which
aloe,
value together of 551., at the ordinary 03°01 WO
andh he went away with them. (The agree°l resdt
its
up to the bench, and though not public f
toe
general purport appeared be, front the 5 oaf
to the 'ge
quent evidence, that either the value of theta'
nnds
should be paid to the prosecutor or the due,g--- W'
selves returned.) On the bill becoming tbes
ever, it was returned to me dishonoured, sw" open
went in search of the prisoner himself, when' # t
, _„no aVi
reaching- his •
residence I found that be hot 13"
~
and that there was no one in the house. svittle'
In cross-examination by Mr. Parnell thekout two
said—l have known the prisoner altogether 0 coffee
years. I found him last night at Howard;ebosiotss
house,m in Duke's-place, which is a kind °1,3 as se°
salt, like Capel-court for stockbrokers, 50" whole
as did find him he bullied me, denied thei 0001
transaction, and told me I might das like
0 Jed
the
Mgoods. An
reo3
r. fIA
week,mmlnn ordered the prisoner to be , scar$
p
for aconsented in the roe but - aotinae to
substantial •
bail for his appearance'
°l.°
future appearah ..so,
Tho required bail was immediatelY fntaer 1
stockbroker
being a merchant at Stepney, and the -floittoti
at Pentonville, and the prisoner 1
the court with his f • friends. _....

Mr. Searle said he could not tell whether it was
done or not by other savings banks, he only knew
that it was never done at the Camberwell Bank.
There was an entry of the money having been paid to
Mrs. Lawrence, but it was in the handwriting of Mr.
Green, the former secretary. He could not swear
positively that he actually saw the money paid to Mrs.
Lawrence, but he had no doubt that it was paid.
John Krellick, a friend of the prosecutrix, stated
that the money was the fruits of her hard-earned
savings during twenty years of servitude, and that
the loss of the money alleged to have been stolen by
the prisoner proved her total ruin, as she was obliged
to give up her shop and gain a subsistence the best
way she could by plain needlework, or any employ-
ment suitable to her age. Ha stocked her shop at
the time she opened it, shortly before losing her
money, with goods to the amount of 201, for which
he had never been paid, nor did he ever expect to be
from the circumstances of the prosecutrix at present.
He had advertised the prisoner at his own expense,
and offered a reward of 101. fur his apprehension, but
all to no purpose. Had known the prisoner for six •
teen years, and he (prisoner) had been in the habit of
calling upon him (witness) every evening to let him
know how prosecutrix got on in her shop, but on the
evening of the robbery, he never made his appearance
and the landlady where he lodged said he had been
there and taken away his things, and appeared in a
very excited state, and his manner was very inco-
herent.
Alderman KELLY said the case was of too im-
portant a nature to be disposed of lightly, and he
would therefore remand it, to have Mr. Green's evi-
dence. The attempt to intimidate the principal wit-
ness only made the case more flagrant, as far as the
prisoner was concerned, and he would therefore re-
mand the prisoner till Tuesday next.
SOUTHWARK.

Yesterday Francis Davis, a well -dressed young
man, was brought before Mr. Seeker, charged with
being concerned with two other men in knocking
down and robbing Alfred Greenland, a young man in
the employ of Messrs. Sandars, cheesemongers, of
Coiling wood-street, Blackfriars-road, of a bag con-
taining 3751., the property of his employers.
The particulars of the robbery appeared in the
newspapers on Friday last, when an account was
given of the apprehension of Robert Archer, ene of
the three implicated in the charge, together with the
recovery of the bag containing the whole of the
money of which the young man Greenland had been
p'undered. Since then the police have been on the
alert to:apprehend the other two men concerned in
the offence, and it will be seen from the annexed
examination that the police succeeded in that object,
but that one of the prisoners escaped by knocking
down a sergeant of the L division, by striking him on
the head with a life-preserver.
Sergeant Wright, M division, stated that in con-
sequence of information he went, accompanied by
Sergeant Jones, of the L division, to the Olive Branch
public-house, in the New Cut, at the corner of the
Waterloo-road, between four and five o'clock on the
previous afternoon. When they entered the house
they observed Davis and another man standing in
front of the bar, and, having strong grounds for
suspecting they were concerned in the late highway
robbery near St. S tviour's Church, they mentioned to
them their suspicions, and at the same time intimated
that they must accompany them to the station-house.
Davis and his associate at once expressed their will-
ingness to go, and they quitted the public-house, but
had not proceeded more than a dortn yards in the direc-
tion of the station-house, when the man in custody of
Sergeant Jones struck him a violent blow on the head
with a life-preserver, which stunned him and felled
him to the ground, and while he was lying thus pros-
trate, ran away and made his escape, none of the per-
sons by whom the police were surrounded making
any effort to re-capture the offender. Sergeant
Wright added that Jones, the sergeant, was
unable to attend the present examination, in conse-
quence of the serious injury inflicted on his head with
the life-preserver.

Mr. Itobert Ward stated that he is a salesman in
the Borough Market, and that on Thursday last, be•
tween nine and ten o'clock in the morning, as he was
walking along the passage near St. Miry Overies
Dock, his attention was particularly attracted on see-
ing Archer, the man examined at this court on Thurs-
day last, together with the prisoner Davis and
another man, walking slowly along. When they saw
him they drew up with their backs to the wall, and
it struck him at the time that they were "up to no
good," particularly as he saw at a short distance a
chaise standing, with a gentleman's coat lying on the
seat, and it struck him that they wanted to steal the
garment. He, however, passed on, and had not pro-
ceeded many yards when he heard one of the three
men exclaim " Here he comes 1" and in less than a
minute afterwards a cry of" Stop thief!" was raised,
and on looking to the spot from whence the sounds
were heard, he observed the young man, Greenland,
on the ground, an I the three men whom he had pre-
viously passed running away, one of them having a
bag in his hands. Witness saw the latter man cap
tured with the bag and money, but the other t%s o
men escaped at the time., and he has no doubt the
prisoner Davis was one of the parties he saw upon
that occasion.
The prisoner asserted his innocence of the alleged
charge, and accused the last witness of having given
two different accounts of the transaction, with regard
to his identity; that he could prove he was in bed in
the house No. 8, St. Andrew's-terrace, Waterloo-
road, with a young woman named Caroline Lewis, at
the time the robbery was effected, and that he had
no hand in it.

Mr. SECKER remanded the prisoner, to give time
fur the apprehension of the others concerned in the
affair, and who escaped from custody by knocking
down the police-sergeant.

I°

TvElnit.EooL,
Li
of pera
salesw sack la' kni i
dn and
rather Flourbarrel.
lower. mall ll' 04
AOuGU. N2o.lllll)iere Itiv!f:11.8- -"-Its_l:a;,testid•
att,co at to-day's market. Wheat in retail dere- 00°1
dhe prices accepted were ld per 70:bs lower trap of 6-
pTobret
from
is
treme rate ebsnger deelirjug.
Barley' and malt without
Indian corn8.
in
as which
isquest at 6d Per . lof vi ,
before. limitedshowery
h owmovederoyraeto-day,
oos ffsdtal s
dylo
Beans
oatmeal
hyntmideaebtps:ral
swqr:ieu,:baorra
jet:
bff.eg
nieaiiiocitrbi
foci:sf
lee,
.000::::.
LEEDS, Aua. 20 —We have a fair arrive doll r.
utriatdreio(mm
illaortkhe-lranaer,titeelensd.s to neutralise th° e
to ." a; NEWCASTLE
r freer
the dull accounts f?roßmN
leyOats,uite rsehteaiiilinagtsabout FbreidtssoYs'eoloi. ~
, and Of
1 Pitely
CORN
—the
-DLIAOBnicloEnT:
tz.113.-a len skit(;
millersNElvcm:TreLEanxious
Lb; •y.
meAr SE:bEtITL,WeA :G. 1 :11 go
n. ° :
ow.os. t‘hertir:::::::,,if
change In prices. Barb and other kinds °` 11
111311 i Without the least variation. on SOPPII,4 i
beast
itunbme:lk9,eotodo4.ychange':
Qu,410 good. About tifty head more than onvi t, fel
clearltY middling. Trade tolerably active, and
and
a'
" e Meted at last week's price& 0 bboet ei
lastlambs in large supply, exceeding the number °boot 1314
by 2'oo T d ntive at 6 Pa°
, 0. ra 0 a ,oo' sbee jto
rates for both kinds of stock. Beasts, 0„, 't 40
6
... in
64; mutton 41 , to 5/d: 1,1113 b 4id to 511 There froe4o-00.
EDIN .
EURGH MEAL MARICZT, AUG. 20-- : bioir*-
the
mealmarket to-day 12 sacks oatmeal, each wet 9,6 d, sad
t
satimperial, which sold thus :-2 at li lOs Od, 5 at '6 „sai PS g
119 s Od. 2 sacks flour, which sold at 296; .t Vs, ga
barley, whereof 5 sold thus:-1 at 21s, let 230, ' ''''
at iv,. Rip
EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW 111rAela,,6 000151
Oat straw,
wheat from
7s 6d to 9s Od per kemple 4 'Od to 6,1,
Old
hay,
ditto, 7s Od to 7s 6d; barley ditto, 70 „, to 10 ,4
from lid to Is 2d per stone ; new ditto, I
rue ore it',
LKEITH MEAL AIARKET, AUG. 19.-•":11e, ore
baba
sa.es oatmeal, and 35 of barleytnesl at this cleYrlce 3d .
bag
I dull. Oatmeal same on the inferiorond pt„ • Oriel
u down t
,at sold at 25s 3d was of Vila' '
meal Is 6dper hag Tho
down. nd 3d
Oatmeal,. per sack, of 280 lbs. First Pece- d 255 Oil
83 6 3 '-
imperial 293 Od 9 Od ..... 03
Barle • " ...
...
p Puce', per ditto 16s 91 163 (Id ••"-a 04
easetneal ''• -.4 -- _A
Flour
" ...
'" .- Od sod 0
sOd 3Od
Pot barle ...
."
...
3' ... —s Od --
ilarnburgh beats,
24. Ik2o°eailr°, 131ri

BBudd!e's W.
eglnes Bartley
Percy Hartley l3s Od ...r,
COAL MARK Kl.—Yr.sicannAl• 1,8 „A
........ 5s .--
Hartley 14s Od Hatton .......... 1 0
.... ..'" Os
Northw Y ,••• 15~ v
No 14s Oci Lambton ........
.. 15
" 13s 3d Haswell ........ . 4
Jonassohns Hartley h
~.•••'
.;. 00
T fi id
an e Moor
I'a
1. Moor
„,a.. e , Butes lls 9d Whitworth ............. i_ pd
Walker's r s Primrose
West, Hartley
wYlam . • ohl '''' 13i
13s 6d Birch g. Graig ...
...e . Wall's End, &c .••
Hartley -- .... i"r ~•
I, 01
/3 wicker and Co.
13s 6d Nixon's gee Y
.., an, 04
Belmont
Braddyll
15a 3.llWhitworth COA.
Ships at market. 59•

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
ATTEMPT AT EXTORTION.—THE TABLES TURNED.
—A very old gentleman, who gave the fictitious name
of John Jackson at the station-house, was charged
with having assaulted Joseph Bragdell.
The substance of Bragdell's story was, that while
looking into a shop window in Hemming's-row, the
prisoner had acted with gross impropriety towards
him, and that on meeting a police-constable be gave
prisoner into custody.
A companion of the prosecutor, named Wren, cor-
roborated this statement.
The prisoner said he was a gentleman of inde-
pendent property. He had only arrived in town the
preceding day and had taken up his temporary abode
at the Tavistock Hotel. After dining yesterday he
walked towards the Haymarket, taking his way
through Hemming's row. Seeing something going
on in a shop he stopped and while standing at the
window he felt somebody press against one of his
hands, which was banging down. He moved, and
again he was pressed against, and then walked away.
He was followed by the first witness, who asked him
what he was going to stand for what he had done.
He demanded an explanation, and the witness said he
was not going to allow himself to he pulled about for
nothing. He was indignant at this insinuation, and
told the witness he would not submit to any such
attempt at extortion—he would give nothing. He then
walked on, but finding he was still followed he stop-
ped. The first witness then told him to come with
him into a public-house and the matter might he set-
tled there without further trouble. lie refused the
proposal. The witness said he had better do some-
thing, or he must take the consequences. The wit-
ness did not mention the word "money," but all his
remarks assured him that his object W 23 money. He
asked the witness if he meant to threaten him. The
witness gave him to understand he knew the law, and
if the matter was not arranged he would give him into
the custody of a policeman. He told the witness he
was ready to go with a constable, and a constable was
then brought and he was taken to the station-house.
The prisoner admitted he had not given his correct
name at the station-house, but the police had been
made aware of it, and he was willing to disclose it if
required. The prisoner then mentioned his name and
station.

.... :____---------
fi °
BIRT.ITB. the Illf
Berko,
On the 18th inst., atOSFpeAenhBaOratild, "co
Silas Plmer, Esq , M.D. Doh, the '
On the 18th ins.t., at Devonshire-terraco,
Captain C3arles Target. A,
OF • DATIGHTSIC.
On the 21st inst , Lady Rivers. lobo'', 144' 9.
On the 20th • i ' 11 t t et Bloomsbury
ins ~ in Hart-street, -s re ,
_........
Rivolta.

At 41031A'D•
On
Brough, F
the 19th inst., at St. Ann's, Westin
0 Anne' 14
sq., of Edge hill, Liverpool, t Finebbec
dauoht 1,114
rof the late John Langton, F'sci.'
colnshire. Ed t°
Aoestly
On the 20th inst., at Beddineton John F, e to rjoAwr
Esq., of E ' Sul-o.7'f Bea"'
e, Strand, and pso
Mary 11
e ( est daughter of Andrew Collyer, Esq" °
ton, Surrey. inster,;lool/11;t,

zo..si:oo_,qsnn:attthirl.iiteeeiicl9th inst. ,at Brighton, in the 81" i Ac"le Lef'
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,county of Devo
Do(?vnatplie 'Oth irni.st., in Carlton.terrace, the Bight ii°tl. I
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wife of
vyrn. the Bth inst., at 'ours, Charlotte, the .
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e,-;nter, and si• txr of Wjor-General BrothertVlocior•l:4loo
D. ~-.:,
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`-'' ke Edwar Is E- a so 3" So." 0.
jilia:tilinlethie7tsial imenscO'unatyt.:
'6-'ll, ecto,r6twotifiteL.ootwliek and Islip, Nerthan,P9_u_ 140'
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On inst., at 'Valencia, co . • •
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