The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-24 00:00:00

KILLARNEY JUNCTION RAILWAY.

The people of Kerry are about meeting for the pur-
pose of putting the claims of this railway before the
consideration of the Government: in which attempt
we most cordially wish them success. Kerry has a
peculiar claim upon their wise consideration. In the
first place, it is one of the quietest and most peaceable
counties in Ireland; and with the rulers of a country
this fact ought to command their respectful considera-
tion of the present application. In the second place,
Kerry has suffered more than any part of the south
from the failure of the potato in the present year, when,
thank God, most other localities have been very
lightly visited. Without any exaggeration, Kerry
has suffered severely this year, the blight being of the
worst character in most of its baronies. The conse-
quence must necessarily be, that thousands will be
rendered wholly dependent on the chance of pro-
curing employment as day labourers, or will be driven
to seek relief in the workhouses of the county. Then,
again, the Killarney Junction is no bubble scheme ; it
is a bonii fide undertaking, which, if any line
of railway may be calculated on, will be cer-
tain to pay its proprietary'. At all times there
is an immense goods traffic and passenger com-
munication between Cork and the county of
Kerry ; and any increased facility will be certain to
increase the traffic and communication which now
are known to exist. This legitimate traffic, which
affords the safest ground for calculation, is totally
independent of the enormous increase in the numbers
now visiting the justly celebrated Lakes of Kil-
larney. Increased facility of reaching the Lakes
will, as a matter of course, add to their visitors.
Indeed, we anticipate the time when every beautiful
spot of that most romantic region will be explored,
not merely by English and foreign tourists, but by
all classes of our own countrymen, to whom its
charms are yet a sealed book. We see in imagination
the excursion train dashing into the town, and sending
its troops of eager pleasure-seekers to the landing-
place at Ross Castle, to catch the first glimpse of the 1
fairy beauty of the Lower Lake, its picturesque
islands, and its barrier.of frowning mountains. Loving
that perennial abode of beauty, and wishing to see the
honest and peaceful people of Kerry benefited by
remunerative employment, we sincerely trust that the
Government will be prevailed upon to afford its aid
to an undertaking which is of the most useful, valu-
able, and interesting character.— Cork Examiner.

WRECK OF THE SUPERB.

PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE CAPTAIN AND

MATE.
ROYAL COURT, JERSEY.

On Tuesday Mr. John Priaulx and Mr. John
Fleming were presented before the Court by the
' constable of St. Helier, in consequence of the report
of Centenier Chevalier, which was read by the Attor-
ney-General, detailing the circumstances of the
wreck of the steamer Superb. The Attorney- General
then filed the accusation against the accused, which is
as follows :

" Mr. John Priaulx and Mr. John Fleming,
seized by Centenier Chevalier, of the parish of St.
Helier, and presented before justice by constable of
the said parish, have been accused by the Attor-
ney-General, in consequence of the report of the
said centenier, viz , the said John Priaulx, who
was master of the steamer Superb, and who filled the
duties of pilot on board the said steamer; and the
said John Fleming, who was mate on baard the said
steamer, of having cn Tuesday, the 24th of September,
1850, or thereabouts, criminally caused the death of
Isaac Hilgrove Gosset, Esq., and of Miss Julia
Nicolle, his wife, of Richard Freeman Rattenbury,
gentleman ; of Mr. William D. Knott, and of Mr. J.
E. Jackson, passengers on board the said steamer;
also of William Craney and Henry Vine Belot, belong-
ing. to the crew of the said steamer ; and of several
other persons who were on board the said vessel, com-
ing from St. Malo to Jersey, in taking, or causing
the said vessel to be taken, without a valid cause,
and without necessity, and by a great temerity and
culpable imprudence, in a very dangerous part of the
rocks, called the Minquier, situated to the south of
St. Aubin's Bay, and in which part of the said rocks
there is no proper or practicable passage to pass
through a vessel such cs the Superb, without placing
the said vessel in peril, as well as the lives of those
persons who were on board, in consequence of which
great temerity and culpable imprudence the said
vessel was wrecked on one of the said rocks, and the
said Isaac Hilgrove Gosset, Esq , and Miss Julia
Nicole, his wife, Richard Freeman Rattenbury, gen-
tleman ; Mr. William D. T(nutt, and Mr. J. R,gi-
nali Jackson; also 'William Craney and Henry Vine
Belot, aLd other persons were drowned. Also, the
sail John Priaulx for not having at the time of the
wreck taken any proper measure or precaution to
save the lives of the persons who were on board ; but,
on the contrary, of having himself precipitately left
the said vessel."

Mr. Advocate Godfray appeared for Messrs.
Priaulx and Fleming, and asked time to examine the
report and the accusation before he put in a plea.
lie wished to state that he considered the Court had
no jurisdiction whatever in this matter, the Minquiers
not being a dependency of Jersey ; moreover, the ac-
cu3ation is not in any w►se conformable to the verdict.
The Attorney-General—This is not the mGment
to examine this question. I conclude that the accused
be sent to prison, unless they give bail in the sum of
100/. each, to reproduce themselves whenever called
upon.

Mr. P. G. Priaulx remained security for Mr. John
Priaulx; and Messrs. Francis Le Maistre and Charles
Laurens bailed Mr. John Fleming —Jersey Sun.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
TRIAL OF AUGUSTUS ROBINSON FOR FORGERY.

Mr. PARRY having addressed the jury for the prisoner,
Mr. Justice ERLE summed up, and

The jury, after consulting for some time, expressed a
desire to retire, and by permission of the Court they
accordingly withdrew. After an absence of about twenty
minutes the jury returned into Court with a verdict of
Guilty of uttering, but acquitted him On the charge of
forgery.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Oct. 23.

(Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant Judge, and a

Bench of Magistrates.)

John White, aged 38, a very respectably-dressed
man, was indicted for having stolen printed books,
the value of 183., the property of John Murray.
It appeared that on the 11th inst. the prisoner went
into Mr. Murray's shop, in Albermarle-street, and
asked to look at a book. "While the shopman went to
fetch the volume in question the prisoner was seen by
another person in the shop to take down two other
books from the shelf, and place them within the breast
of his coat; and just as the man who had gone in
search of the book originally asked for by the prisoner
had returned with it, he' ran into the street. He was
pursued, and the books found upon him as described.
The prisoner now in his defence said, in an affected
tone of voice, that no doubt he had taken down the
books to look at, but he denied most strongly that he
bad ever entertained a thought of stealing them.
Steal them I What a thought—what an idea! Could
too
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for years to have a
love and a fancy for buying books, and he, like other '
frail mortals, had been in the habit of indulging that ,
love, and had zit the same time gratified and realized

his fancy—for the books he bought. He had said he
had not intended to steal these books. It might,
however, be asked if that were so, how did i*, happen
that he had run cut of the shop.
The Learned JUDGE—Yes, how do you explain the
fact of taking down the books from the shelves, the
putting them within the breast of your coat to hide
them, and then the running off with them—how do
you explain that?
The prisoner—Oh, that is very easy. I did not mean
to steal the books, but just as I had taken them down,
and was about to look at them, my eye caught sight
of a man passing by of the name of Williams, who has
owed me 255. for more than three years, and after him
I ran to ask for payment of that sum. There, that's
the explanation of my leaving the shop, but before I
could return 1 was laid hold of. What cause, do you
suppose, I could hive to steal these books? Why, I
am independent, and have lived with my mother for
the lest 25 years, and I live with her now, but in a
fortnight's time I shall be with my uncle at Wor-
cester. My uncle is the proprietor of large nursery
grounds at Worcester, and lam going down to live
with him. In a whining voice the prisoner concluded
his long harangue by protesting not only his inno-
cence as to hny intention of committing a theft, but
his utter inability to conceive the theft of a book. If
he should be convicted of this charge his character
would he in a perfect state of ruin.

The Learned JUDGE told the jury that they had
heard a very clear statement made by the witnesses
for the prosecutor, and they had also heard the sin-
gular address of the prisoner. Between those two
versions of the transaction they must find their way
as best they could, and give a verdict accordingly.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The prisoner—Oh, I am going to my uncle at
Worcester in a fortnight.
The Learned JUDGE—You will not go to Worces-
ter in a fortnight, I can tell you. Why, how can
you come here with your sycophantic manners and
whining when you know that this is not the first time
that you have been at that bar upon a charge of steal-
ing books ?
The officer said, that on the former occasion the
prisoner had been acquitted.
The Learned JUDGE—Yes, because the jury then
thought there was some doubt as to the man's state of
mind.

The prisoner—But I have to go to Worcester in a
fortnight.
The Learned JUDGE—That you will not do, you
may depend upon, for I shall send you to the House
of Correction for three months, wbere you will have
some hard labour as a portion of your punishment for
this offence.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HO USE.
Samuel Sale was brought before Alderman Gibbs,
charged with having hidden himself under a bed in a
public-house in the neighbourhood of the Mansion-
house, for the purpose of robbing the premises.
A young person, the daughter of the prosecutor,
who happened to be in the kitchen, which is on the
first floor, and immediately under one of the bed-
rooms, heard, or fancied she heard, a footstep over-
head at nine o'clock on Tuesday night, and, knowing
that strangers had no business there, she went up to
ascertain the cause of the unexpected noise. Upon
entering the bedroom she looked round, but saw no-
body. Relying, however, upon the accuracy of her
hearing, which caught the sound of a slight rustling
as she walked into the room, she looked down and
saw a man's arm under the bed. Without uttering a
word she quietly walked out of the room, locked the
visitor in, slipped down stairs, and, instead of alarm-
ing her mother, who was in the bar, went into the
street, beckoned to a policeman, and, telling him what
she had seen, gave him the key of the room, in which
he very soon introduced himself to the prisoner, who,
as soon as he found that it was all up with him. began
to knock to be let out.
The policeman said he found the prisoner, upon un-
locking the door, in great confusion. The fellow pre-
tended that he had mistaken the chamber for a place
of accommodation, and that finding it was a bedroom,
and not wishing to be suspected of an intention to
plunder the house, he just thrust himself under the
bed. Upon being asked for his address, he gave a
direction to a remote lodging at which he was not
known, and in answer to other questions he said he
had been in the house before, and had, by the direc-
tions of the waiter, walked up stairs instead of down
stairs.
Alderman GlBB3—Well, prisoner, how do you ac-
count for this very unwelcome visit of yours to the
upper part of the house ? The prisoner said he really
had made a mistake, and he endeavoured to show that
he was incapable of doing the slightest intentional
injury.
Alderman Girms—Why did you give a false ad-
dress? The prisoner—The officer mistook me.
Alderman (4-Inns—Then we are all in a mistake.
You mistook the bedchamber for another sort of place.
The officer mistook another address for your address,
and I mistake you for a thief who had an intention to
rob the house.—(A laugh.) The young lady has
ected with a great deal of presence of mind and pru-
dence in completing the business without terrifying
her mother, and you shall go to Bridewell for three
calendar months, with hard labour.
BOW-STREET.
Pat Regan was charged with causing a nuisance in
Church. lane, St. Giles's, by emptying the contents of
a privy into the public thoroughfare.
Mr. J. B. Durham, a cutler, of 456, Oxford-street,
stated, that in giving the defendant into custody his
only desire was to draw the attention of the magis-
trate to a very serious nuisance which had long ex-
isted in Church-lane. The houses in that part of St.
Giles's were occupied by people of the lowest class,
amongst whom neither order, morality, nor decency
prevailed. In one small house as many as ninety per-
sons of both sexes lived together, and no fewer than
thirty occupied one room about thirteen or fourteen
feet square. The cesspools ran over, and saturated
the rooms and passages on the ground-floor. The
nightsoil was usually swept into the street to be car-
ried off by the gutters in wet weather, and witness
finding the defendant engaged in this way, and thore-
by causing a most intolerable stench in the neigh-
bourhood, in the middle of the day, resolved to give
him into custody, and test the power of the magis-
trate to compel the interference of the proper local
authorities. The complainant added that he
had been in repeated communication with the
Board of Health and the parish officers during the
past two years, without succeeding in getting the as-
sistance of either towards the suppression of the nui-
sance. He had seen in one of the houses a sick
woman very far advanced in pregnancy lying upon
straw or shavings, which had been discoloured by the
filth running in from an adjoining room.
The defendant said he had no help far it. In wet
weather his room was so bad that be was obliged to
shovel it out of the door. The privies were so full
that the soil ran over and got into the rooms. It ran
from one room into another, and sometimes from one
house into another, and so what could they do, except
get rid of it ? He was only shovelling it into the
gutters, to be taken off in the drains; for it smelt
worse inside than it did out.
Mr. JARDINE told him in future not to touch it. It
was scandalous that such a nuisance should be suf-
fered for a single day ; and, if no one else interfered,
surely the police should have taken up the matter.
The public voice was being raised every day against
evils of much less magnitude than this. his Worship
then gave directions to the inspector of police to go
and make himself acquainted with the facts, and pro-
mised to give all the assistance in his power to sup-
press the nuisance.—The defendant was discharged.
MARYLEBONE.
After the disposal of the night charges Mr. F. R.
Jones, solicitor, who was accompanied to the court
by Mr. John Wilson, of 18, Charles-street, Middle-
sex Hospital, made application to Mr. Broughton for
a warrant against Mr. Samuel Steele, 24, Great
Titchfield-street, Marylebone, for an assault of a
violent nature upon the aforesaid Mr. Wilson, both
parties being members of the Marylebone vestry. His
Worship, to whom the' application was made, is also
a vestryman.
Mr. Jones briefly stated that, after the breaking up
of the vestry meeting on Saturday afternoon, the 12th
instant, Mr. Steele came behind Mr. Wilson and
struck him a blow on the back part of the head, a
proof of -which.assault would be forthcoming upon
the case being gone into on a future day.
It was further stated that Mr. Steele had been writ-
ten to to the effect that if he would give a guinea to
the poor-box, and apologize for the unwarrantable
attack which he had been guilty of, nothing more
would be required, but as he had not thought fit to
make any reply to the communication addressed to
him, Mr. Wilson felt it his duty to institute the present
proceedings. The fracas arose oat of an allegation
made at the vestry with respect to Mr. Steele having
netted and carried away from Marylebone workhouse
between forty and fifty pigeons therein located, and
making pies of them for himself and family. The
allegation was at the time it was made indignantly,
denied, and we believe that with respect to the as-
sault said to have been committed, the casus Belli was
that of Mr. Wilson having at a committee meeting
of
bird,t a
the vestry
es t r
writteny drawn
beneath it
upon the table the figure of a
" What about the
pigeons ?"
The warrant was granted, and the matter, which
had excited a considerable degree of interest amongst
the members of the Marylebone " Parliament" and
their friends, is appointed for hearing at two o'clock
on Tuesday next.
Mr. Wilson said that in the event of the terms
proposed by him with respect to an apology and a
donation to the poor-box being made prior to Tues-
day next, he should, notwithstanding the disregard
which had been shown by Mr. Steel to the letter ad-
dressed to him, be perfectly satisfied without troubling
his Worship any more upon the subject.
Mr. Wilson and his solicitor then quitted the court.