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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1844

1 the risk of forcing upon his congregation that which
1 does not in all cases "tend to edification."

SUMMER ASSIZES.
OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Gloucester, Aug. 21.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLEY.)
Philip Turner, a respectable-looking man of advanced
years, was indicted for having, on the 15th of July last,
feloniously sent a letter, threatening to kill and murder
one William Salmon.

Mr. Skinner conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Hud-
dleston defended the prisoner.
It appeared that the prosecutor, being the son-in-law
of the unfortunate man charged with this offence, had
had frequent disputes and quarrels with him on the sub-
ject of his wife, to whom he had been married for a
period of only 12 months. Much angry feeling being
mutually excited, and the prisoner goaded almost to
madness by these vexations, and also -by the loss of a
situation as an exciseman, which he had previously
filled, wrote and subsequently sent to his daughter the
following strange letter :
"My dear Mary Anne,—l have this day purchased a
pair of pistols with a determination of shooting your
husband, and if he has any affairs to settle with you, he
had better do it immediately, as I intend to end my days
in Gloucester Gaol anon. I shall make him pay the
forfeiture of his life ; I know where to lay wait for him,
so tell him not to deceive himself. You will excuse this
writing, as I never could write well with a steel pen.—
I remain your affectionate father,

~ PHILIP TURNER.

" I shall allow him only three days from this date:
" July 15, 1844."
To the policeman who took him into custody he repeated
the threat contained in the letter, but in a manner which
evidently showed he was under the influence of liquor or
strong excitement.

At the close of the case on the part of the prosecution,
Mr. HUDDLESTON objected that the offence contem-
plated by the Act 4 George IV., c. 34, s. 3, was not
made out., as the sending of the letter must be to the
person threatened ; and that even if the jury should find
that the sending to the daughter was with the intention
that she should hand it to her husband, upon this in-
dictment such a verdict could not bo found, as no one of
the very numerous counts charged that the letter was
sent to the prosecutor, but all the averments were that
the sending was to the wife. He also raised several ob-
jections on the ground of variance between the original
and the letter set out in the indictment.

Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLEY, having consulted the Lord
Chief Justice, said that their united opinion was, that
these being points of very considerable importance, they
should be reserved for the opinion of the fifteen judges.
His LORDSHIP at this stage threw out a suggestion
that upon the prisoner pleading guilty, the object of the
prosecution and the justice of the case would be met by
binding the prisoner in his own recognisances to keep
the peace, and come up for judgment if called upon ;
which being at one concurred in by the prisoner's coun-
sel, he withdrew his plea of not guilty, and having
gone through the necessary forms, was discharged,
after a suitable admonition from the Learned Judge who
presided.

Lord Chief Justice Tindal has been engaged the
whole day in the civil court with the tithe issue, which is
only in part heard.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT—Liverpool, Aug. 21.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice CREssWELL.)
GREGORY V. IVILLIAMS.

This was an action for a libel by the defendant upon
the plaintiff.
Mr. Knowles and Mr. Crompton appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Watson for the defendant.
It appeared from the statement of the Learned Coun-
sel for the plaintiff, and from the evidence, that the de-
fendant had been in the employ of some parties who
were engaged in working some slate quarries, out of
which a royalty was payable to a Mr. Wynne. The
plaintiff was the agent of that gentleman, who, from time
to time, took an account of the quantity of material won
upon which the royalty would be payable. In April
last a letter was received by Mr. Wynne to the following
effect:—" Sir,—Permit me to inform you that I have
certain occasion to know that the accounts rendered to
your agent, Mr. Hallins, respecting the quarry are far
from what they ought to be, and if they were investi-
gated, it would be found that you have been defrauded
of scores, if not hundreds, of pounds. I have not a doubt
but that if inquiry was made of Mr. Jones, of Festiniog,
such disclosures would be made as will lead to a re-
covery of a great part of the money of which you have
been defrauded." It then stated, that any letter ad-
dressed to him upon the subject, was to be addressed to
Mr. Roberts, at the post-office. In consequence of this,
a letter was written and put into the Oswestry post-office,
addressed to Mr. Roberts. The defendant called for the
letter. The postmaster, on his saying it was for him,
said your name is not Roberts. To which defendant re-
plied that Roberts was a man in his employ. It was
then given to him. A clue being thus obtained, it was
discovered that the defendant was the writer of the li-
bellous letter. The gentleman to whom it was addressed
deposed that he had caused examination to be made, and
he had no reason to believe that. any fraud had been
practised.
Mr. WATSON addressed the jury for the defendant, and
the case having been briefly summed up, the jury, after
a short consultation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff
—Damages, 150/.
Mr. KNOWLES rose and said that the plaintiff was a
moderate man, and had only claimed 1001. in his decla-
ration.

The verdict was accordingly taken for that sum.
DRESSER, PUBLIC °mean, V. CLARE AND ANOTHER.
This was an action to recover the sum of 130 L for
money paid to the defendants' order.
Mr. Baines and Mr. Addison appeared for the plaintiff,
and Mr. Martin and Mr. Tomlinson for one of the de-
fendants, a lady named Whiteside, the other defendants
having suffered judgment to go by default.
The plaintiff is the public registered officer of the
Yorkshire District Banking Company. The defendants
were members of a committee who,,lin 1839, undertook
to superinteNk the building of a chtech, near Wetherby,
in Yorkshire., • TWPatties who bacivontracted to erect
the buildinglilikd saliftie.capitaras ICA to be able to pay
the workmenthim thAriwn resouros, and it was ac-
cordingly ttranged'igkip t e subscrWons for the build-
ings shouletle paid the aboveAmed bank, and that
the defendant's should each be se4rity to the bank for
the repaymani of the9ito ney to a certain amount. The
money was drawn ottill?y cheques sied by the different
defendants,44and one at' least purp6sted to be signed by
the lady who now resisted-the action. The matter had
been allowed to stand. over till hist spring, when the
action was brought. The proof was long and tedious,
and Mr. Baines, amongst other witnesses, called Clarke,
one of the co-defendants in the action, who had allowed
judgment to go. by default. Some argument took place
on this point ;'.but, on the authority of two cases—one
in the Quees4, Bench, and the other in the Common
Pleas—Mr. Justice Cresswell admitted the evidence, and
Mr. Martin tendered a bill of exceptions to it.
Mr. MARTIN addressed the jury, and called several
witnesses to show that the cheque was not, in fact, signed
by the defendant, and that she was not liable.
Mr. BAINES replied, and
His LORDSHIP, telling the jury it was one of the plain-
est cases he had seen this assizes, they returned a verdict
for the plaintiff—Damao-'es, 1301. and interest.
Mr. BAINES applied for speedy execution, but
His LORDSHIP said he doubted if he could give it
pending the bill of exceptions, but he would consider it.
CROWN SlDE.—(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.)
Thomas Hurst was indicted for shooting at George
Taylor, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Ilulton conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Brandt
the defence.

It appeared that the prosecutor lives in the town of
Duckinfield, in Cheshire, but works in the county of
Lancaster. A small bridge of planks was laid over the
river Tame, which it was necessary for him to cross.
The bridge is a temporary erection by a railway com-
pany now forming a railway at that part. A witness,
named John Runs, stated that on the evening of the Bth
of August he saw the prisoner, who is a! lad of about
seventeen years of age, standing near the end of this
bridge. He had a gun iii his hand, and twelve or four-
teen boys were about him. He left them, and went on
the bridge, where he remained for a short time, and
then walked about twenty yards on the other side.
There was then a great shout from the boys, upon which
he turned round, and levelling the gun, pulled the trig-
ger. It did not go off. He presented it again. It again
missed fire. He then presented it a third time at the
boys, who stooped as if to avoid the shot. The witness
perceived that on their doing so, he lowered the gun,
so as again to cover them. On the third attempt the
gun went off, and the prosecutor and Joseph Chadwiek
both had received several shots about the head and
shoulders. On seeing they were wounded, the prisoner
seemed alarmed, and expressed great regret ; he said,
however, they could not be much hurt, as the gun con-
tained nothing but a little powder and some split peas.
The prisoner had been employed to assist a watchman
about the works, and who usually carried the gun in
question. On the present occasion the man was absent,
but left the prisoner in charge. What directions he had
received did not appear.
At this stage of the case his LORDSHIP put it to the
Learned Counsel for the prosecution, whether he could
sustain the felonious intent laid in the indictment? The
leaving such an instrument in the hands of such a lad
was highly reprehensible, but he thought it could not
amount to more than a common assault.

Mr. Brandt acceding to this view of the case,
The jury returned a verdict accordingly.—Sentence
deferred.

SECOND CHESS MATCH BETWEEN MR. STAUNTON
AND M. ST. A3IANT.—The preliminaries of another
match at chess between these distinguished champions of
England and France have been arranged, and is to come
off at Paris in about a month. It was at first wished that
M. St. Amant, who was desirous of another trial of
skill with Mr. Staunton, should come over to London to
fight the match; but, as that could not be arranged, Mr.
Staunton, rather than seem to shrink from the contest,
agreed to go over to Paris a second time. The Liver-
pool Chess Club has contributed 50/. towards the ex-
penses of the match.
Musnaooms.—Mushrooms have recently, in this
neighbourhood, been so abundant, as to have become
almost a drug in our public markets and streets. They
have been sold, of good quality too, at from 11d. to 2d.
per quart—a price which, considering the toil of gather-
ing, and the expenditure of shoe leather in the morning
wet or dew of the old meadows, can scarcely be remu-
nerative. Pains-taking housekeepers have been enabled
to bottle up an ample supply of ketchup.—Liverpool
paper.
AN OLD TOPER.—Thomas Wyer, a brewer at the
Boat Inn, Kidderminster, and who has numbered up-
wards of threescore and four years, has drunk for
thirty-five years one gallon of ale per day, and spent
ninepence per week in tobacco. The total amount he
has expended is—for ale 1,2771., for tobacco 671.; in all,
I,3444—Worcestershire Chronicle.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
OLD COURT.

TRIAL OF BELANEY.-STEPNEY POISONING
CASE.

Mr. BODKIN (in continuation from our Afternoon Edition
of yesterday), said—Would he not, as a medical man, hav-
ing been told by his wife that she had taken prussic acid,
have given an alarm, and called for those remedies with
which, as a medical man, he must have been acquainted,
and which were at once at hand—cold water, a smelling-
bottle, and brandy ; for, as one of the witnesses had
said, as long as there was life there was hope. Why
had he not adopted these means? Why, because he
would either have restored to life a person he did not
wish to live; or by the use of the remedies betray his
knowledge of the fact that she had taken poison. It
was said he was alarmed, but would alarm lead him to
coin upon the moment a falsehood, and to go through a
mock ceremony in applying remedies which he
knew to be perfectly useless. The deceased was
represented to have been in bed and awake ; there
were no curtains to the bed. Why his wife must have
observed him attempting to open the bottle, and must
have seen what he did ; and yet he represented that his
wife got out of bed, poured water upon the prussic acid,
and drank it. The odour of prussic acid, when spilled,
remained in the atmosphere of the room some time. No
odour was observed in the room. The room was swept.
No broken glass was discovered ; but outside the street
door, on the steps, some broken gla9s was afterwards found.
They would not fail to observe that on his arriving in
the front room he represented that suddenly a thought
came into his mind of writing to his friends in the
north; but this was more deliberate, for he desired the girl
to leave the room, and not to bring up the breakfast
until he called her. They would have to say whether
having thus removed a person, who might have inter-
rupted, he availed himself of that opportunity of re-
turning to the bed-room, and administering, first the
salts, and then the prussic acid. If he had at once
given his account of the transaction it would have been
open to the gravest suspicion, even if it had been taken
alone, but when taken in conjunction with the letters
which he had written to the north, he feared it was a
ease pregnant with much more than suspicion.—[The
Learned Gentleman here read the letter, dated from the
Euston Hotel, and sent to Mr. Bell, and which was given
yesterday, in the Solicitor-General's opening.] Had
that letter stood alone, it would have been nothing, but
it was the commencement of a series. On the 29th May the
will was executed, on the Ist June they set out for Lon-
don, and on the 3d of June this letter is written, in
which allusion is made to the delicate state cf her health.
On the 6th June he wrote another letter, intended, as it
appeared to him, to prepare the way for the news of her
death, and stating that two medical gentlemen were in
attendance on her. Now, that letter was written on the
Thursday, the very day on which the prisoner had ob-
tained the poison from Donaghue. Undoubtedly the pri-
soner had been in the habit of using prussic acid up to
the year 1841, but there was no evidence that he had
been in the habit of using it since that period. It was
also true that he obtained it where he was known. The
prisoner was entitled to the benefit of that circumstance,
although it should be remembered that he might have
found difficulty in obtaining it where he was not known.
He now came to the letter written to Mr. Bell on the
Bth June. This was written on the Saturday, the day of
the death. [The Learned Counsel here read the letter,
which was given in the Solicitor-General's opening
address yesterday.] That letter was posted after
half-past five on the evening of that Saturday on
which the death took place. That letter, describing her
dangerous state, and saying that she was attended by
two medical men, who pronounced her to be labouring
under a diseased heart, was written hours after he had
seen her expire, and after he had applied at the cemetery
on the subject of the funeral. That letter had been
written before the necessity of a coroner's inquest and a
post mortem examination had become manifest. The post
mortem examination took place on the Monday, and the
prisoner had expressed a desire to be present. He was not
permitted to be present, but Captain Clarke was there,
and described to the prisoner that the contents of the
stomach had been analysed by the medical men, and
had been placed in a glass and removed. This was
ample notice to a medical man. He went to Mr. Gar-
rett, and received, what was evidently intended to be an
evasive answer to his inquiries, and then, and not till
then, lie expressed a desire to get Captain Clarke into a
private place, and made to him that communication
which Captain Clarke had stated to them. It would be their
painful duty to consider the evidence, and to pronounce
a verdict on which the life of the prisoner would depend.
They should remember his statement to the registrar,
that his wife had died of diseased heart, which was an
hereditary disease, as her mother had died of the same
disease in Northumberland some months before ; while
at the same time there was existing in the register in
Northumberland a statement, under his own hand, that
she had died of bilious fever. If they could entertain
any doubt as to the prisoner's guilt, it would be their
bounden duty to give the prisoner the benefit of that
doubt ; but if they could entertain no such doubt, it
would be their duty—and however painful that duty migh t
he, he was convinced they would not shrink from its per-
formance—then he repeated, it would be their painful
duty to pronounce him guilty.
Mr. Baron GURNEY then summed up the evidence.
The crime charged against the prisoner was that of the
most odious nature--the crime of murder ; and the per-
son whom he was charged with murdering was one whom
he was bound to protect and to cherish, for she was his wife
—she was young, and beautiful, and fascinating. The
case differed from most other cases that had come under
his observation, for the doubt in other cases generally
arose as to the person who committed, and the means
by which, the crime was committed. Here there was no
doubt of that kind, for it was perfectly clear that the
prisoner was the person who purchased the poison, and
that that poison was the means of the death of his
wife. If the jury were of opinion that he had admi-
nistered the poison himself, or had left it in her way know-
ing she would take it, they would find the prisoner guilty;
but if he had not administered it himself, or had not left
it in her way with a guilty, intent the prisoner was not
guilty of any crime whatever, however blameable his
want of caution might be. The secrets of the heart
were known to the God of all, and to him alone. It ap-
peared that the prisoner and the deceased lived, ap-
parently, in a happy state, so that the state in which
they lived together afforded no probale motive for
committing such a crime. Neither did the way
in which the property was so circumstanced afford any
probable motive for his committing the crime with
which he was charged. But, though neither of those
circumstances afforded any probable motive, yet it
sometimes happened that great crimes were commit-
ted, for which no reasonable motive could be assigned.
He was aware that, in the present state of the press of
this country, it was impossible for twelve gentlemen to
come into the box without knowing the circumstances iu
which great crimes were committed before they came to
decide on them in a court of justice. If eny of them
had received the least impression of prejudice from what
they might have read of the present case, he begged of
him to dismiss it from his mind, and to weigh the case,
and decide upon the evidence which they had heard.
and by that alone. Some stress had been laid on the
prisoner taking a lodging in Stepney, but he did not
think, under the circumstances, that there was any rea-
sonable ground of suspicion in that. Those were the
general observations which he thought it necessary to
address to them. The Learned Judge then proceeded to
read those portions of the evidence which bore upon the
case, commenting on them as he went along. When
his Lordship had gone through the oral evidence
he referred to the letters written by the prisoner,
which were of great importance in this case. It ap-
peared from the first letter which he wrote to Mr. Bell
and Mr. Downing, that he had been practising a decep-
tion upon them, in telling them that his wife was ill,
and that he had two physicians attending her. With
regard to the letter of the Bth, in which he reiterated
his statement that his wife was ill, it was evident tha
it was posted after his wife was dead, but who•
ther it had been written before that even

they had no means of knowing. If the letter
was written before the death, he thought it
furnished a strong argument apainst the prisoner, for it
would seem to be a portion of that deception which it
was evident he had been practising on his friends. If it
was written after the death, this view might be taken of
it7-that wishing to conceal that his want of caution, if
his story was true, was the cause of his wife's death, he
wanted to prepare them for that event. The question
which they had 'to try was, whether the prisoner
had administered, or caused to be administered, this
poison, for the purpose of destroying his wife's life. If
they were of that opinion, they would find the prisoner
guilty ; but if, on the other hand, they believed that
he was only guilty of an indiscretion, and had
been guilty of falsehood in order to conceal it,
they would acquit him. There were some
very peculiar circumstances in this case. The
prisoner had been guilty beforehand of a falsehood
in stating that two medical men were attending his wife
--that falsehood was subsequently repeated. lie stated
that his mother-in-law died of a disease of the heart,
whereas he had given it under his own hand that she
died of a bilious fever. All this was for their consider-
ation. If they thought under all these circumstances
that the prisoner was guilty,' they would, however,
painful to themselves, perform their duty to society, but
if they had any reasonable doubt of his guilt, they would
give the benefit of it to the prisoner, knowing that it was
.better that ten guilty men should escape than that one
innocent life should be destroyed.
The jury then retired to consider their verdict.
After an absence of about an hour, they returned with
a verdict of—Not Guilty.

NEW COURT.
Octavius Clarke' aged 28, son of the celebrated clergy..
man, was indicted for stealing a gold watch, two seals,
and a key, value 201., the property of Mr. Leese, in the
dwelling-house of Mr. Alexander T. Sweat ; also with
stealing a purse containing li/., the proporty of George
Boothl,' ; and also with stealing
10/, the property of Richard R.° goods, to the value of
Pearce, in his dwelling-
house.
The prisoner pleaded Guilty to the whole of the in-
dictments.
The COMMON SERGEANT said the prisoner was a whole-
sale plunderer, and sentenced him to ten years' tran-
sportation.
Jane Robinson, aged 40, was indicted for stealing a
silver tea-pot, a silver coffee-pot, and various other arti
ties, the property of her mistress, Mrs. Mary Hoffman ;
and Mary Anne Robinson, aged 40, sister of the prisoner,
and Sarah Batley, were indicted for receiving the pro-
perty, knowing it to have been stolen.
The first prisoner pleaded Guilty.
From the evidence adduced against the others, it ap-
peared that the property had been given to them by
Jane Robinson to pledge, but it did not appear that they
had a guilty knowledge.—The jury acquitted them.
The COMMON SERGEANT inquired how long the con-
victed prisoner had been in the service of the prose-
cutrix ?

Mrs. Hoffman said she had been in her service four-
teen months.

The COMMON SERGEANT said the prisoner had been
guilty of' a very serious offence, and sentenced her to
seven years' transportation.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

A man named William Harden, was charged be-
fore the Lord Mayor under the following circum-
stances :
William Murton, a person in the employment of
Messrs. Nathaniel Fenn and Co., of Botolph-lane,
Aldersgate-street, stated that on Tuesday last a
person called to look at some sugars, which witness
showed to him, and he chose three bags, containing
between five and six hundred weight, and value from
161. to 201. He then ordered that the sugar should
be sent to the Nag's Head, Bow, addressed 0. M., in
the name of Joseph Morris, of Kingston. Witness
forwarded the bags accordingly. The prisoner upon
being asked, said that his name was Joseph Morris,
and witness told him it was the usual practice of the
firm to have cash for the first purchase, and a refe-
rence for any future purchases, and he told the
witness to send the invoice to Sir Charles
Prices, and to mention in the invoice the day
he would call with the discount taken off.
Witness, therefore, considered it to be completely a
ready-money transaction. The prisoner referred him
to Messrs. Lowell and Nash, and Thompson, Ross, and
Co., and the former house, to which witness applied,
gave him a very high character of Mr. Morris. In
order that there might be no mistake, witness asked
the prisoner a second time his name, and the prisoner
gave him a card, with the name of Joseph Morris, tea-
dealer and cheesemonger, Collaton-bridge, Kingston.
Witness afterwards saw the sugars in the possession
of Mr. Russell, and identified them.
Mr. Joseph Morris, of Collaton-bridge, grocer,
stated that the prisoner called upon him on Monday
last, with samples of sugar, and, after receiving an
order from him for two bags, asked him where he
dealt in London. He replied, at Sewell and Nash's,
and Thompson and Ross's, and was then asked by
the prisoner for his card, which he accordingly handed
to him. Witness asked him what house he repre-
sented, and he said he represented Messrs. Hands and
Co., of Mincing-lane, brokers. Witness had not
given the prisoner any authority to apply to Messrs.
Fenn and Co. for any goods in his name.
William Bashford, a man in the employment of the
proprietor of the Nag's Head Inn, Bow, stated that
whilst he was at work in the yard on Tuesday, a man
entered and produced an order for three bags of sugar.
The goods were given to the man, and witness as-
sisted in loading the cart, but in consequence of in-
formation which he received, he followed the cart to
the Swan on the Dover-road. The cart then re-
turned to Mr. Russell in High-street, Borough,
where witness, seeing the prisoner help to unload it,
gave him at once into custody.
Mr. Thomas Russell, of No. 72, High-street, 80.
rough, stated that on Tuesday the prisoner came to
his shop and said he was a traveller, and asked him if
he was a buyer of sugar. The prisoner stated that he
represented the house of Hands and Co., Mincing-
lane, that he was selling on commission ; and he exhi-
bited a sample, which he said was a remnant of three
or four bags from off a large parcel which they had,
and asked 60s. per hundred weight for it. Witness
offered him 595., and the prisoner observed, that as it
was to clear a remnant, he would take it.
Yesterday the sugar was brought to the
door, and the prisoner presented the invoice
produced, made out in the name of Dent,
who he said was a commission-agent. Witness hesi-
tated, and the prisoner wanted to take the sugar away,
but witness said, " No, if it's all right I'll keep them,
as I bought them; if not, you have no business with
them ;" and then the last witness came in, and asked

whether witness knew the prisoner, and where the
sugars came from, and witness sent to the Nag's Head
to ascertain who had booked them, and found that
they came from Fenn and Co.'s. The prisoner was
then given into custody.
The LORD MAYOR said the prisoner had adopted a
most ingenious and systematic plan of robbery, and
committed him for trial.
GREENWICH.

Yesterday Mary Ann Kendall, a fine-looking
young woman, aged 22, was brought before Mr.
Jeremy, charged with attempting self-destruction by
throwing herself into the Grand Surrey Canal, at
Black Horse-bridge, Deptford.
William Arthur deposed that he was going to his
daily labour, and when near Black Horse-bridge he
heard a scream repeated three times loudly. He saw
the prisoner jump into the water. Supposed she was
trying to save her sister, who had previously jumped
in and sunk. She resisted witness very much, and
said she was determined to go in again. He got her
out of the canal with the assistance of the police and
other persons.
W. Padgam, 278 M, deposed that he conveyed the
prisoner to the station-house. On the way she de-
clared that she would go into the water again. She
would go with her sister, but assigned no reason for
so doing.
Prisoner said she did not know her sister Eliza was
going to drown herself. Her sister dipped her hand-
kerchief in the canal, and wiped her face. Witness
turned round• and in an instant she heard a splash in
the water. On again turning she saw deceased sink-
ing. Don't recollect saying I would follow her.
Jane Kendall deposed that she and her sister went
out to get from the sight of their father ; they left
home early in the morning, at five o'clock ; there
are five in family, her father, self, and three sisters;
they all work at shirtmaking;for a slop-house at Ber-
mondsey ; the person they work for is a Mr. Nor-
man ; deceased and her sister had pledged some
shirts; witness lent them ss. to redeem them; it was
money given her by her father to pay the rent with.
They could earn by working very hard indeed, early
and late, 3s. 6d. or 4s. per week. They received from
Is. 6d. to 3s. per dozen for making them.
Mr. JBREAIY—That's from to 3d. each.
It was not mentioned to her father that the money
had been misapplied, to their knowledge ; but they
much feared his knowledge of the fact ; ss. was all
that her father had to pay his rent with.
Mr. JEREMY said she had much better have told the
truth, that the money had, been applied to redeem
shirts.

The father of the prisoners stated that he got his
living by working along shore among the shipping.
He had made no complaint of her pledging the work,
or redeeming it with his money.
Mr. JEREMY said the present case was one of those
exhibiting the effects of the grinding system in pay-
ing for labour. Here was a scene of distress and
misery; two young girls going out deliberately in
the mor4ing for the purpose of destroying them-
selves, and one of them at that moment lying a corpse.
After reading to the prisoner a most feeling admo-
nition, Mr. Jeremy ordered her to be delivered over
to her father, who promised to sooth and keep a
watchful eye upon her for the present.
The unhappy parent and- his daughters then left the
Court, absorbed in grief.
THAMES POLICE.
Yesterday John Jackson, a waterman, belonging to
the Lower Custom-house-stairs, was brought before
Mr. Ballantine, on a charge of smuggling 41bs. of
foreign manufactured tobacco.

Die case was a somewhat remarkable one. The
prisoner was seen by a river inspector, named Joshua
Judge, leaving the Earl of Liverpool steamer, off Pickle-
herring wharf, Horselydown, and, suspecting he had
smuggled goods about him, called upon him to stop,
which he refused to do, and rowed away as hard as
he was able. Judge directed his men to give way,
and they pulled after him. The prisoner, however,
had a very light short boat, and got ahead of the
police galley ; but happening to get athwart hawse of
a mooring-chain, brought him up all standing. The
police galley bore down upon him, and he got away
again, and " dodged" the river police among the
tiers of vessels for some time, when be suddenly left
off rowing, and put his hand inside his bosom for the
purpose of removing some tobacco concealed there.
Judge called out to him that it would be the worse
for him if he threw anything overboard, and away he
rowed again. The police galley continued the chase,
came up with his boat, and Judge boarded him, and
found seven papers of compressed tobacco secreted
about his person.
The prisoner's defence was, that some man he did
not know gave him the tobacco to carry ashore, to
some place he could not name.
Mr. BALLANTINE fined the prisoner 505., and in
default of payment sentenced him to 14 days' im-
prisonment.

THE STATUE OF GOETHE.—The Journal des De-
bats announces that the colossal statue of Goethe, which
was cast in bronze at the royal foundry of Munich,
according to the model of Schwanthaler, has been com-
pleted and exhibited to numerous visitors. This
statue is intended to ornament one of the squares of
Frankfort-on the-Maine, his native place. Goethe is
represented clad in a mantle, but having his hands free.
He wears the simple costume of the present period.
His right arm is resting on the trunk of an oak tree,
and in his left he holds a laurel crown. His eyes are
turned towards Heaven. The subjects of the bas reliefs
on the pedestals are borrowed from the works of Goethe.
In the front, three female figures represent the natural
sciences, and dramatic and lyric poetry. On the oppo-
site side is seen, at the right, Gcets of Belichingen, Eg-
mont, Tasso, and a fawn. On the left the Bride of
Corinth, Prometheus, and the King of the Aulmes. One
of the lateral surfaces represents iphigenia, Orestes,
'['hoar, Faust, and Mephistophiles ; and the other,
Mignon, Wilhelm Meister, the Harpist, Hermann, and
Dorothea.
CONSCIENCE.—The following is a verbatim copy of
a letter in our possession, addressed to Mr. William
Thompson, of Settrington Wold, near Mallon :—" Mr.
Thompson, I have sent you the enclosed sixpence,
thinking it was my duty, having got from your house
three or four eggs between 20 and 30 years since. That
was the only thing upon my mind that made me un-
happy: now, I'm happy. 'Go thou and do thou like-
Diethodigt,"—Yorkehire Gazette.