The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-26 00:00:00

MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.

SUN, LONDON,

rived at his official residence at the Admiralty on Sa-
turday afternoon, from Portsmouth, after attending
her Majesty on her marine excursion to o:tend. The
Right Hon. Baronet and Lady Arabella Bering and
fimily leave town fa. Brighton, and afterwards go u.
Stratton-park, Hants, for the autumn. The Right
Hon. Sir Charles and Lady Mary 'Wood, arc !raking
a tour of visits in Scotland ; also the Right lion.
Henry Labouchere. 'I he Right Hon. Fox Maule is
at Birnam-lodge, near Dunkeld, N. 8., and is not ex-
pected in town before November. The Right Hoc.
Sir John Cam Hohhouse is at present residing at
Eristuke-park, IVilts.

THE EXHIBITION OF 1851.

COMMENCEMENT OF -OPERATIONS.

The preliminary operations for its realization are
going briskly forward. The whole space, and, of
course, something more than the exact space to he
covered by the building for the Exposition, is fenced
in by a substantial paling, within which masses of
timber are being deposied, and the necessary sheds
and temporary workshops are being rapidly run up.
Tne space which the fence circumscribes is about
112 yards in breadth, and 740 yards in length ; but
of course the actual limits ef the building will not be
quite so great. The paling may be said to em-
inence opposite the Royal Humane Society's receiving-
house, and to end close by the bridge across the Ser-
pentine.ln the enclosed space are two rows of trees—
one a scattered clump of fine old elms, the other a
line of smaller and younger trees. Matters will be
so arranged that none of these ornaments of the park
need fall. The few trees the destruction of which
was inevitable have already disappeared. The
ground to be covered by Mr. Paxton's palace of iron
and glass lies contiguous to only one of the entrances,
and that a minor one, to the park. This is the
Prince's:gate, opening f. am the Kensington-road,
not very far from the turnpike. From this gate a foot-
path leads diagonally across towards the bridge over
the Serpentine, and this little-frequented path is the
only thoroughfare which will be shut up by the
" profanation in question. The carriage entrance
at this point will not even be obstructed, for a second
entrance has been made from the public way, ex ictly
opposite the main gate of the enclosure. Through
this, all heavy loads of materials, and so forth, will he
conveyed, so that the only carriage• road of the many
which intersect Hyde-park which will be in the
slightest degree interfered with, is the comparatively
little frequented drive parallel and close to the Ken-
sington-road, and this will merely be interrupted by
the carts and waggons crossing from one side of it to
the other. Tne saunterer by the south hank of the
Serpentine, and the horseman in Rotten-row, will
not find their comforts in the slightest degree inter-
fered with.

Within the space marked out the workmen are now
busy in rearing the needful workshops, and in staking
our, under competent direction, the proportions of the
intended edifice. Instead of reproducing, as we
might, in our own language, Mr. Paxtun's eccount of
what that edifice will be, we prefer, 114 the simplest
and surest mode of impressing upon the public the
idea of its dimensions and its proportions, to print the
description of his plms given by the architect him-
self, at the recent interesting meeting at Bakewell :
" The building would be 2,100 feet long by 400
broad. The centre aisle would be 120 feet broad, or

ten feet wider than the conservatory at Chatsworth.
The building is divided into broad and narrow
compartments, and by tying these together there
is little for the cross-ties of the centre to
carry. The building is entirely dividtd in twenty-
four places—in short, everything runs to twenty-four
—so that the work is made to square and fit without
any small detail being left to carry out. The
number of columns, 15 feet long, is 6,024; there are
3,000 gallery bearers ; 1,245 wrought-iron girders ;
45 miles of sash bars; and 1.073,760 feet of glass to
cover the whole. The site will stand upon upwards
of 20 acres of ground ; but by an arrangement of his
(Mr. Paxton's) the available space which may be
afforded by galleries can be extended to about 30
acres, if necessary."

The Lord Chancellor, mpanied by Lady Truro,
has left Elton-_.quire for the reuntry, fortht vaca-
tion. The Premier and Lady John Russell intend to
make a tour of the Highlands for a fortnight, and
after paving their respects to her Majesty and the
Princ. -Consort at Balmoral, proceed to Minto-house,
near Hawick, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of
Mint°, where the Noble Lord and Lady intend to
stay some days. The Marquis of Lansdowne is with
the Marchioness at Bawood-park, Wilts, surrounded
by a select family circle. .The Right Hon. Sir Geo.
Grey leaves Fallodon, near Alo wick, this day, for
yoi k, in order to receive her Majesty and his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, and the Royal Family, at
the railway terminu•, on the Queen's way to visit the
Earl ef Carlisle at Castle Howard ; the Right Hon.
ILronet, as Home Secretary, having been selected to
attr-nd on her ALjesty during the royal progress to
the Highland retreat at Balmoral. There is no truth
in the report ti at her Majesty would visit Fallodon,
;he seat of the Right Hon. Baronet. The Earl of
Carlisle arriveu at Castle Howard in the early part of
the week, from Naworth Castle, the ancient family
seat Uf the Howards iu Cuuaberland, in order to make
every preparation fur the reception of ber Majesty to-
morrow evening. The Countess Dowager and
Lady Mary Howard had previously arrived
there from the Duke of Devonshire's seat
in Derbyshire. The Duchess of Sutherland
and Lady Constance Leveson Gower, Lady Dover
and the lion. Misses Etlis, the Right Hon. W.
T. end Lady Caroline Lascelles,lkiisosfLtahsecefallinesi,ly, are Lad
Elizabeth Grei:, and other members
to assemble at Castle Howard, to have the honour to
meet the Queen and royal party. The Marquis and
Marchioness or Clarricarde and family have repaired
to Brighton. The Noble Marquis occasionally comes
to town durirg the week on business connected with
his thparrineut in the Government. The Lord Privy
Seal, accompanied by the Countess of Mints and the
Ladies Elliot, arrived at Mintoshouse, N.B , on
Tuesday last from town for the autumn. A large
family party will shortly assemble there. The Earl
and Countess Grey intend to remain at Hawick-ball
until the middle ur next month, when the Noble earl
is expected to roma. to London to relieve the Secre.
ter.): of State vsying in London. Viscount Palmer-
ston continues in town, and is not expected to leave
for 13roartlands, his seat in Hants, for three weeks to
gig4t Sir rruFis W..Auita u«

MONDAY EVENING, AUG UST 26, 1850.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

William Collins, 30, was indicted for fe'oni iusly
wounding Elizabeth Collins, with intent to do her
grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Cooper prosecuted, and Mr. Cockle defended
the prisoner.
The prosecutrix, who is the wife of the prisoner,
upon her getting into the witness-box, was evidently
resolved to do all in her power to shield the prisoner.
She began in a very voluble manner to declare that
she was the only person to blame in the transaction,
that she was drunk, and had aggravated her husband
to strike her, and that the injury she had received was
very trifling. The other evidence in the case, how-
ever, clearly made out that a most savage and brutal
attack had been made upon her by the prisoner with
the leg of a table, and it appeared that, in addition to
several severe injuries about the head and body, one
of her arms was broken.

The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, with intent
to do grievous bodily harm ; and the prisoner was
sentenced to be transported fur ten years.
When the sentence was pronounced the wife of the
prisoner went into hysterics, and as she was being
carried past the dock he leaned over to her and ex-
claimed, "Now I hope you are satisfied, ain't you ?"
tit illiam 1Z bias, who had pleeded guilty to a
charge or stealing a cheque, was brought up • for
judgment, and sentenced to be imprisoned and kept
to hard labour for six months.

Henry Ration, who had been convicted of uttering
a forged certificate of marriage, was also brought up,
and he was t•entenced to be imprisoned and kept to
bard labour for twelve months.

THIRD COURT.
THE GOLD ROBBERY.-VERDICT.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of Saturday.)
Mr. BALLANTINE and MY. PAYNE severaily addressed
tit fury fir the prisoners.
Mr. GURNEY summed up.
The jury having retire! for some time, AcquittLd
Homaun and liesslvr; Vsuderhoost, Tonneir., and St‘tfin
were sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment and
hard labour.

With a few other trivial eases, the business of the
sessions end-d, and the e Ant stands adjourned until
Monday, September 16.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Thomas Crawford was brought before Alderman
Gibbs, charged with having stolen a number of gold
watches, the property of Mr. Bennet, watchmaker, of
65, Cheapside.
The prosecutor said—The prisoner was engaged by
me upon the strong recommendation of a master with
whom he had lived, and of whom I had a most un-
questionably good opinion. The situation iu which I
had placed him was one of great trust—to receive all
watches which were brought to the house for repair.
It was his duty to enter the watches so brought, and
to fix the number of each watch in the book in such
a manner as that it could be easily ascertained. It
was a place of considerable trust, in consequence of
the large number of valuable watches which passed
into the concern. I find that within the last twelve
months, instead of obeying my instruction by send-
ing the watches to the workmen appointed to perform
the repairs, he has from time to time pawned them,
and redeemed the last watches sent for repair by
subsequent pledges. It was his duty to examine
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them himself ; but if they appeared to be of a serious
character to send them by the messenger appointed
for such purpose to one of the workmen in whose de-
partment the particular cases of repair lay, so that, in
fact, to the prisoner was left the whole of that valuable
trust. He had been in my employment eighteen
months, but I should have discovered the system upon
which he had been acting before this if it had not been
for my knowledge of the high respectability of his
family and the general regularity of his personal con-
duct, he having been always at his post, and appa-
rently most attentively engaged in the business.
Alderman GlBBS—What led to your suspicion ?
The prosecutor—My suspicions arose Yrom the delays
which took place in the production of the repaired
watches, and which, instead of arising from the fault
of the workmen, as had been represented to me, were
attributable, as I have since ascertained, from the
pledging. At last a watch which had been brought
for repair to the house was found pledged at the shop
of Mr. Chaffers, in Watling- street, for 9/. (Here the
watch was produced by the shopman of Mr. Chaf-
fers.) This is the watch. It is numbered 4,85'2, and
was made by French. The prisoner entered it. It
appears to have been pledged on the 29th of July, and
the owner called several times for it ; but the prisoner
deceived me in this case by stating that the repairing
workman who, he said, lived near his house, and to
whom he stated he had delivered it himself, had met
with an accident in repairing it. Since the detection
of the plunder the prisoner has given up four dupli-
cates of watches which had been received in a similar
way to repair.
Alderman Grans—How many do you consider
were taken ? Prosecutor—There are twenty missing.
The prisoner was remanded till Friday next.
Iflll7-S7'REI2.7.

William Whitelow, conductor of the Atlas omni-
bus, appeared in obedience to a summons which
chargel him with extorting more than his legal fare
from Mr. Richard CHM, of 139, Lung-acre, under
the following circumstances :
Mr. Chill stated that his father and himself were
passengers by the omnibus of which the defendant
was the conductor, on its way from St. Johit's,.wood.
Ilia father went inside, and he took his seat by the
driver. He desired to be set down at Charing-cross,
knowing that the fare was 31. each. On reaching
the destination he requested the driver to stop and
put him and his father down ; but to this be paid no
attention till he drove on a few yards further, when
he pulled up. Witness, on his father descending, then
gave the defendant a balferown, and he returned him
only ls. 6d change, thus charging 6d. each. Wit-
ness remonstrated with him, but he said he had gone
beyond the limit of a threepenny fare and must pay
the full price.
The defendant said he had no option but to charge
the fare, which was distinctly written inside the
"bus" as well as out, and within view of the com-
plainant.
Mr. HENRY remarked that this was a common
trick of the omnibus fraternity, and was a gross itn-
pos• ition He only regretted that persons thus de-
frauded would not follow the example of Mr. Child
and seek the redress which he was ever ready to grant.
He considered the present case one well worthy of
example, and he therefore directed that the defendant
should pay a penalty of 20s. and costs, and further
that he should return the complainant the overcharge.
This was done, and a wholesome lesson afforded,
of which the public no doubt will not be slow in
taking advantage.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Mary Ann Duncan, and her sister, Jane Neaves,
were brought before Mr. Hardwick, the former
charged with stealing various articles of wearing ap-
parel, household linen, tea, soap, and other articles,
the property of her master, Mr. W. Finch, grocer,
227, aeford-street, and the latter with having re-
ceived part of the prop.qtty, well knowing it to have
been stolen.
Mr. HARDWICK asked the prosecutor if he thought
the case against the receiver sufficiently strong to in-
duce him to go before a jury ?
The prosecutor said he could not possibly doubt the
guilty knowledge of the receiver. His loss had been
so considerable, and the system of robbery had been
carried on for so lung a time, that he felt it to be his
duty to proceed against both prisoners.
The prosecutor was then sworn. He said the pri-
soner Duncan was his servant, and Neaves her mar-
ried sister. On the 16th instant, in consequence of
information he received he procured the assistance of
a constable, and then asked Duncan to give up the
keys of her boxes. She did so, and prosecutor and
constable went into her bedroom, and on looking into
her boxes found two pairs of gloves, and in a basket
in a closet about 71b. of tea, and 31b. more in other
places. Other articles were found which prosecutor
could identify as his property. Prosecutor then ex-
amined another closet, of which the prisoner had the
key, and discovered in it a cash-box, containing.a key
which fitted the lock of his warehouse door. Prose-
cutor then went to the prisoner's sister's house in
Helen's-place, Commercial-road, and waited for the
arrival of the Parcels Delivery van. Prosecutor saw
the carrier take a parcel and leave it in the house.
Prosecutor went into the house, and ascertained that
the parcel contained 161 b. or 181 b. of soap. The
parcel had not been opened, and Neaves said it be-
lortgerl to her sister. The house was searched, and a
quantity of tea found, which prosecutor was certain
had been stolen from his house. Several articles were
also found which prosecutor was certain was his
property.
Thomas Heseltine, constable D 104, corrobated the
above statement.
Thomas James Cluni4, baker, 10, Portman-street,
agent to the Parcels Delivery Company, proved that
he received the parcel from the prisoner Duncan.
This was the parcel delivered at the prisoner Neaves'
house.
Sarah Oliver, another servant of the prosecutor's,
identified several of the articles found in Neaves'
pos.easiop.
The prisoners declined to make any defence, and
were fully committed.
CLEI?KENWELL.

Mary Ann Allen, otherwiseicnown as Poll Calla-
ghan, was put at the bar betore Mr. Tyrwhitt,
charged with burglari.mAly entering the dwelling-
house of Mr. George Pearson, of 15, Tonbridge.
street, New-ioad.

_ .
The prosecutor stated, that at 20 MiDIPOS to 2
o'clock in the morning he was aroused by a noise in
the lower part of his house, and on looking out of
his bedroom window he saw two women and a man
in bio garden. lie iumediately desauded to the