The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-19 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

We have received files of papers from the Cape to
the 151 July inclue.
The Cape pafers publish the suljoined correspon-
dence, introduced as follows :
" We have great rleasurc, in refer ring cur readers to
the result of Dr. T..ncred's interference on behalf of
this colony at the Colonial-Hice, in Downing-street,
communicated in a letter, dated London, 25th April,
and inserted in our columns, The exertions of this
true friend of the colony are justly entitled to our
sincere acknowledgments."
" Thursday, April 25, 1850,
" 35, Golden-!quare, London.
"Fellow-colonists and brothers,—Since my last
communications to you of the 10th and 12th March,
when I informed vou that I arrested the progress of
the Bill relative to the Representative Assembly, until
your wishes should be consulted, and the result re-
turned to the Home Government, I have been con-
stantly engaged with the other points relating to the
future welfare of the colony. On the 6th, Bth, 9th,
and 10th of this month I have been at the Colonial-
office, Downing-street, and the following Saturday,
13th inst., was appointed for a long interview, when
Mr.. Haw( sand myself were to have discussed all the
pants remaining untouched. In the meantime I re-
ceived the following note :

" Colonial-office, Downing-street,
April 11, 1850.
"My dear Sir,—My engagements will not per-
mit me to see you on Saturday next. I have, how-
ever, fixed Saturday week, and assuming that you
will accede to that, I have arranged accordingly for
two o'clock on that day.—Ever yours,
" ' Dr. Tancred.' " ' B. HAWES.
" On the day appointed we entered upon business
and discussed everything of importance, until the ar-
rival of Earl Grey interrupted our conversation, and
I have now the pleasure to announce to you that
everything had been acceded to the colony that you
could desire. lam authorised to inform syou by Mr.
Hawes, that Sir H. Smith will be the last military
governor at the Cape of Good Hope—all civil governors
for the future. An assurance and a promise was given
to me to that effect. So far, that is a great boon ob-
tained. Your trial by jury in civil cases, he said, is
within your own power to obtain, and does not rest
with the Home Government, but with yourselves. He
also authorised me to inform you, that Earl Grey and
himself entertained no limited, prejudiced, or bigotted
views with regard to your future form of govern-
ment, and that they shall be ready to accede that form
which the majority of the people shall decide on and
approve of, and that it was in obedience to my sug-
gestions the progress of the Bill was arrested until
your wishes should be consulted and be fully known.
So now I sincerely hope that you will make use of the
privilege and opportunity afforded you of obtaining
for yourselves and your children a free and indepen-
dent representative Assembly, without the intermed-
cluing of Montagu, Porter, the judges, the military
Governor Smith, and the other paltry and worthless
officials. When he came to speak of the indemnifica-
tions of the losses incurred in consequence of the Kafir
war, he stated it was on principle the amount of losses
was refused by the Home Government, and that the
Colonial Government ought to take immediate and
active measures to meet those losses by the sale or
grant of lands to the amount of each sufferer's loss.
When I pointed out the inutility of extending our
territory beyond the Orange River, the only thing I
could obtain was that the future interests of the peo-
ple should be better attended to. I showed him that
we had quite enough to do with our restless Kafir
neighbours and the lately acquired territory. He ad-
mitted that there was no reliance whatever to be
placed on them, and that all the military villages
turned out a complete failure; but still John Bull
seems disposed never to give up anything he once gets
hold of, and so the territory up the Orange River
will be retained. All the other points, such as the
law regulating the conduct between master and
servant, the improvement and diffusion of edu-
cation, the facility of obtaining justice in the
country parts, the division of the large dis-
tricts, emigration on a large scale, &c., will follow
immediately, when the future form of government
would be decided on by the people and established. I
have done all I could for the present, and must now
wait until the decisions that you may arrive at are
known in England. The sending out of a Commission
of Inquiry is now considered unnecessary, as full
power will be vested in the Representative Assembly
to remedy all local abuses and grievances, to establish
circuit courts where considered necessary, to limit the
number of canteens, and to appoint in future none but
civilians to the civil comtnissionerships. The sale of
forest lands and the monopoly of gunpowder by the
Government will also rest with the Assembly to de-
cide on. The increase of the salaries of the clerks
and otht rs in the Government offices will be instantly
attended to, and if the people shall think fit to for-
ward directly to England their petitions, without
sending them as now through the governor, they have
only to ask for it unanimously, and it will be granted.
Thus far have I laboured for you, and I hope my
feeble exertions will afford you satisfacticn, and meet
with your approbation. Hoping that the time is not
far distant when you shall be all happy and prosper-
ous, your colony free and independent, your rights and
privileges secured upon solid and permanent basis,
and wishing you all happiness and success,—l have
the hour to remain, fellow-colonists and brothers,
your devoted friend, servant, and brother till death,
"Ann. JOS. TAcCRED, D.D."

MARSHAL HAYNAU.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—I have only just been made acquainted with
the various remarks which have appeared, during my
absence from London, in some of the 'leading news-
papers, respecting a letter of introduction which was
given by my firm to General Haynau, and I hope
you will find room to insert these few lines; not that
it is my intenti in to offer any opinion on the attack
on General Haynau, but I think the exact facts of the
case ought to be made known. General Haynau pre-
sented himself with a letter of credit on my firm, and
having received some money, be requested an intro-
duction to Messrs. Barclay and Co., and a letter (a
copy of which I enclose) was given to him.
I hope I shall be excused for drawing your atten-
tion to this subject so long after it occurred, but a
severe domestic affliction and absence from home, pre-
vented me from doing so sooner.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
LIONEL DE ROTHSCHILD.
New-court, 18th Sept. 1850.
(Copy.)

" New-court, Sept. 3, 1850.
" Gentlemen,—We have the honour to introduce
to you the bearer of these lines, his Excellency
Baron Haynau, and shall feel particularly obliged
by your allowing the Baron and his friends to view
your brewery.—We remain, gentlemen, your obe-
dient servants,

(For N. M. Rothschild and Sons),
" B. COHEN.
" For Messrs. Barclay, Perkins, and Co.,
Southwark."

A NEW PORT FOR FOREIGN

CATTLE.

LOWESTOFT.—The terminus the Eastern Coun-
ties Railway, on the Suffolk coast, was on Monday
the scene of extraordinary rejoicing, in consequence
of the arrival of the Queen steamer, with 164 head of
cattle, in excellent condition, from the mouth of the
Weser, being the first cargo of the kind that ever en-
tered Lowestoft. The Queen made the voyage from
the German to the English port within thirty hours,
but the distance might readily be performed in con-
siderably less time by more powerful boats, which
will doubtless be speedily put upon the station ; for
the experiment of Monday is conclusive of the expe-
diency of making Lowestoft available for similar
trtfilo from many of the continental ports. The dis-
tance from the Texel, for instance, being only
ninety miles. Captain Andrews, the harbour-
master, ran out in the Lowestoft steamer,
and brought in the Queen himself, amidst
the acclamations of the delighted townspeople and
visitors who thronged the beach and piers. The cat-
tle, instead of being immediately sent on by rail to
Smithfield, were turned out to grass for a day or
two, by direction of the foreign feeder, M. Lubken,
who accompanied them, and who congratulated him-
self on saving the voyage round the coast and up the
Thames, by which the beasts would have been ma-
terially damaged, and probably several have died, as
is usually the case with such cargoes imported from
the Continent direct to London. The Queen is
already on her way back to Bremen for another
cattle freight to be delivered at Lowestoft, after which
her owner, Mr. Kappin, who came over with her, di-
' rects that she is to proceed to Iljerting, on the coast
of Jutland, for a third cargo for Lowestoft,with 'a hose
facilities for such trade he has expressed himself
greatly pleased, exclusive of the important considera-
tion that the cattle may be landed almost directly
into the railway terminus out of the steamer, and put
down close by the very spot where they are to be sold
in London.

TRIBUTE TO IIAYNAU.-" A letter from Vienna,'
(says a Morning Paper)," states that General Baron Hay.
nau is to be immediately raised to the dignity of Field-
Marshal." By giving Hay-nau a Field. Marshal's baton, the
Austrian Government will certainly show its gratitude to-
wards hint; but it would eyince a more discerniDg sense of
his services if it were to present him with a hangman's cat.
Peradventure the baton is meant to compensate the woman-
whipper for that stick which he was obliged to cut the other
day.—Punch.

All actions and attitudes of children are graceful,
because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of
the mcmeut, divested of affectation, and free from all pre-
tence.- Eliza Cook's Journal.

During the last two years—that is, from March,
is.is, to March, 1850, the reductions in the parochial assess-
ments on warehouse property in Liverpool have amounted to
19,59/. per annum. This is mainly attributable to the erec-
tion of warehouses on the dock quays.

• effect upon the company, became all the proprietors CENTRAL CRIMINAL Co URT
reF 4,4111 twil/ff tf 11 ?et I wr,uld have an Pqnal right to pqrticipte in the OLD COUR
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ASTERN RAILWAY.
(!`Lila 1).--a.)
The ordinary halt-yearly meetiog r,f this coropeey,
and also a special meeting, Was held this afternoon at
• the London-bridge Tavern ; Mr. James .I.l'Gregor
in the chair.
On the directors entering the room they were re-
ceived with mingled cheers and hissing, the cheers
predominating.
The following report was circulated among all the
shareholders :-
" The directors have to report, that the receipts of the
South-Eastern Railway Company for the hall'-year
ending on the 31st July, 1850, have beea 291,246/ 10
3.1.; and the working expensere 103.973/. 16s. ld. The
revenue account is charged in the present half year with
the sum of 19,294/. 43. 10d., to be added to the fund
already laid ande for the renewal of engines, tenders,
carriages, and other stock of the company. The rates
and Government duty amount to 25,0841. ls. Id.; the
rent-of the Greenwich, Canterbury, and Whitstable, and
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railways, to 37,9161.
45.-which sums, in addition to the interest on the mort-
gage debt and guaranteed stock of the company and a
provision of 864/. Is. 7d. for bad debts, make a total
deduction from the gross earnings of 218,5751. 2s. 91-
leaving, together with the amount at the credit of profit
and loss, after providing for last half-year's dividend, a
balance available for dividend of 113,4781. 14a 7d.
" The total increase in traffic on the main line for the
last half-year, as compared with the corresponding half
of 1849, is 15,6571. 55. 11d.; of this sum 12,634/. 103. si.
is from passengers, and 3,622/. 15s. 6 1. from goods, &e.
The returns on the North Kent line from passengers for
last half-year, compared with the preceding one, show a
decrease of 4,3211. 9s. 9.1.; but this is accounted fur by
the half-year including the month of January getting
credit for the large amount received in that mouth for
annual tickets. The decrease of 4,4861. 6s. 6d. in the
receipts from passengers on the Greenwich branch bat
evidently been occasioned by the abstraction of traffic
from that line to the North Kent. The through-traffic
to and from London and Folkestone, Dover, Ramsgate,
and Margate, for the half-year ending on the 31st July,
1849, was 53,0391. 15s. 4d.; 31st July, 1850, 62,8921. Ils.
4d.; increase, 9 802/. 16s.
" The communication between Felkestono and Bou-
logne by a tidal service, leaving one harbour end ar-
riving at the other, now takes place twice each way
in the twenty-four hours; the Boulogne and Amiens
Company contributing an allowance toearris the ex-
pense of the nightly service. Between Dover and
Calais the communication takes place three times
each way in the twenty-four hours; namely, twice
at a fixed hour by the steam•packets of her Majesty's
Government and that of Preece, and once by the steam-
ships in connexion with this company, at .tide time, al-
ways leaving one harbour aail arriving in the other
without the use cf boats; to this service the Northern of
Franca Railway Company contributes jointly with this
company. This later service accommodated 6 777 pas-
sengers last half yea-, in comparison with 4,403 in the
corresponding half of 1849. showing an increase of
2,374 passengers. Between Dover and Ostend her Ma-
jesty's packets and those of the Belgian Government
perform a service from Dover to Ostend every evening
(excepting Sunday), and from Ostend to Dover every even-
ing (excepting Saturday), and a service is also performed by
the Belgian Government's steamere, in conjunction with
those of the South-Eastern and Continental Steam-
pacletl Company, from Ramsgate to Ostend, every Mon-
day, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday morning,
and from Ostend to Rama-gate every Sunday, Weclnes•
day, Thursday, and Saturday morning, from harbour to
harbour.
" The 61-i hours now occupied in the journey to Mar-
seilles will be materially reduced as soon as railway
commueictvion between Paris and Marseilles is com-
pleted, and this route will then, the directors confidently
believe, be adopted as tl e general one fcr the Mediter-
ranean, the E,st, and for the Overland route to India.
" The division of the joint station at the London-
bridge tereonus took pinee on the 2d of August, in ace
cordance with the Act ef Parliament regulaiing it. The
directors expect all the works, beiLlings, and platforms
cnnoeeted with the terminus will be completed within
two mouths from the present time, and it is certain that
great advantege will than accrue in the management of
the traffic. The lease of the Reading, Guildford, end
Reigate Railway was sealed by both companies and ex-
changed on the 15th of March last; the rent payable by
this company, of 41,000/. per annum, being at the rate
of 5/. 6d. per cent. per annum on the capital of
800,0001., commencing from that date. The directors
anticipate a growing traffic on this line, and they trust
that, although some time may elapse before it prove re-
munerative, the proprietors of- the South-Eastern Com-
pany will obtain that credit for promptly maintaining
that engagement to which their good faith entitles them.
The- improvements that were required at the Brick-
, layers' Arms Station for the goods department are
rapidly approaching completion, which is the case also
with the accommoation required to be provided on
the North Kent and Reading, Guildford, and Reigate
lines f et- the like purpose.
" The directors think the proprietors may safely anti-
cipate a gradual and satisfactory increase of revenue
from the goods traffic. The traffic at Folkestone, in
merchandise from France, is increasing; the Customs
duties received at that port, which were 4,0081. in 1847,
8,218/. in 1848, and 42,260/. in 1849, amounted in the
last six months to 41,316/., which affords satisfactory
evidence of the preference which the port of Folkestone
will obtain when it can present equal facilities in all
other respects, as well as the advantage of speedy deli-
very. The South-Eastern and Continental Strum Packet
Company are making arrangements fora daily steamer
for the carriage of merchandise between Boulogne and
Folkestone. Hitherto there has been one on only three
days of the week. Conveniences will be provided at the
London-bridge terminus for the examination of valuable
goods as soon as possible. The establishment for the
repairs of carriages and waggons has been removed
to the new buildings at the station at Ashford. The
locomotive repairing shops there are being completed
according to the original plan. Sixty new houses -for
the workmen were built last half-year. The report
of Mr. Barlow, the engineer-in-chief of the company,
shows that the line from Ashford to Hastings and
St. Leonard's will be completed in three weeks,
and that the principal portion of the line from Tun-
bridge Wells to St. Leonards may be opened in three
months. The directors look forward anxiously to the
completion of these works as the most important step
toward closing the capital account of the company. The
public sales of surplus property have already been satis-
factorily made, and the directors will proceed to dispose
of the remainder as circumstancea permit. The amount
remaining at the credit of the account for the renewal of
permanent way, locomotive and other stock, now amounts
to the sum of 39,657/. 4s. 64., after charging that account
with the sum of 5,401/. 12s. ld. for renewals effected in
the last haif-year. The directors are inclined to believe
that the amount laid aide by the charge that has ben
made against revenue for renewals is in excess of the
proportion that will hereafter require to be set apart for
this purpose; but it is satisfactory to know, that if an
error has been committee 4, it is on the safe side.
" In aceordance with the resolution passed at the last
half-yearly general meeting of tee proprietors, that sll
claseee of shares in the capi'al of the company be con-
verted and consolidated into capital stock at 30/. for
each share, end 10:1. for each third share, on and after
the Ist day of May, 1850. that consolidation has been
eff:c'el. The sum of 616000/. of the nominal capital of
the comp env is thereby extinguished. That amount
may be looked upon as representing 244 504/. 61. 2d. lost
by the issue of the ceginal shares at a discount and the
sale of forfeited shares; and the sum of 371,495/. 13s. 10d.
in part of the interest paid to the proprietors of the Nos.
3 and 4 shares, out of there capitals respectively. The
sura'of 371,492/. 13; 10d. so extinguished is to be de-
ducted from 9,24.5 029/. 3;. 7d., the total expenditure of
the company, as shown in the annexed accounts, which
ex:;:ereliture i, del-. by reduced to 8..873,533/ 9 9d.
"The present meeting has been specially convened for
the purpose of submitting to the proprietors resolutions
to confirm, if they see fi', the resolutions passed on the
15th August last, admitting the Nos. 3 and 4 share-
holders to a participation in all dividends t.) be there-
after declared, including the dividend for the past half
year. The arnnunt r f the balance et the credit, of profit
and loss, 113,4781. 143. 7d., will allow of a dividend for
the half-ye er at the rate of 3 per cent. par annum on the
corriolidated stock of the company, aster providing the
gurante, d dividend at the rate of zq per cent. per annum
on the pr •ferentiai stock issued. It will be observed
that the a o:idend will be payable on the capital expended
on ihe Ashford and Ilaetingo and Tunbridge Wells and
Hastings lines, which are not yet opened for traffic. The
injunction granted by the Court of Chancery to restrain
t4c company from paying a dividend until the Ashford
and Hastings line is open for public traffic will make it
necessary that the resolution declaring a dividend should
make it payable after that event has occurred.
" At the last half-yearly meeting of the company the
following resolution was passed:-' That a register of
the shareholders of the company, with the amount of
shares or stock they individually hold, be made up and
published annually, and that every shareholder be en-
titled to have one upon payment of Is.' The time has
not yet arrived at which it would be necessary to act
upon this resolution, and the directors hale, therefore,
the opportunity of submitting, for the consideration ct
the proprietors, the inexpediency of publishing the
amount of stock held by each shareholder. The direc-
tors submit that this publication would prove detrimen-
tal to the general interests of the company ; and, in
order that the proprietors may dispose of the question
upon adequate notice, the di:cclers will bring it before
the meeting.
" Since tie commencement of the present half-year
the traffic has shown symptoms of further improvement,
which mast he as gratifying to the proprietors as it is to
the directors, and looking forward to the Greet Exhibi-
tion of next year, and to the completion af this com-
pany's lines of railway, and of these from Paris to Mar-
seiliee, the directors trust that they may anticipate en
era fraught with greater success to the Southh-Eastern
Company than the pelt bee been. No efforts Shah be
wanting on the part of the directors to secure the inte-
rests of the company."
Mr. HERBERT, the secretary, having road the ad-
vertisement convening the meetings,
The CIIAIIIMAN stated that the special meeting had
been convened for the purpose of confirming the reso-
lutions passed on the 15:h of August last, admitting
the hjAders of Nos. 3 and 4 stuck to participate in the
dividends of the compeny, including those for the last
Vtalilyeptyig also for the purpose e,f consolidating
C'„a-N-rstr!' 4 stock with the capital stock
sty , which would henceforth be called
O'"!t1 'caps° h d South-Eastern Railway Stock.
41.0.7d4;4,. , e said, believed that if those resolu-
tlonC;wer_ e; rt rnaed they would have a beneficial
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result being, received with loud cheers.
The business of the ordinary half-yearly meeting
was then proceeded with.
The CIIAIRMAN briefly referred to the details con-
tained in the report, alluding more particularly to the
gratifying announcement that the total increase on
the main line for the last half-year, as compared with
the corresponding half of 1849, was 15,6571. ss. 111,
of which 12,6341. 103. sd. was from passengers, and
3,0221. 15,e 61. from goods, 8,3. The directors also
anticipated a still further increase in the re-
venue both as regarded passenger and goods traffic.
The amount of belance at the disposal of the direc-
' ton: was 113,478/. 14;. 7d., which would allow a
dividend for the half-year at the rate of 3 per cent.
per annum on the consolidated stock of the company,
after providing the guaranteed dividend at the rate
of 4i per cent. per annum on the preferential stock
issued.--(Cheers.) The Hon. Gentleman concluded
by moving the adoption of the report.
A somewhat prolonged and irregular discussion
ensued, which ended in the report being received.
A dividend for the half-year at the rate of 3
per cent. on the consolidated stock, to be payable
after the Ashford and Hastings line was opened, or
at such other time as the directors might appoint, was
then agreed to.
The resolution which was passed at the last meet-
ing, that a register of the shareholders, with the
amount of their stock, should be published annually
and sold to the shareholders for a shilling, was then
brought before the meeting.
The CHAIRMAN said the directors objected to such
a return on the ground that it would depreciate the
value of the company's stock. He moved that the
above resolution should be rescinded, and that a return
should be published giving simply the names and ad-
dresses of shareholders, distinguishing such as were
competent to hold office of director or auditor.
An amendment was proposed to this, but the reso-
lution of the Chairman was ultimately carried by a
large majority.

A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman
and the meeting separated.

DONCA►STE RACES

(THIS DAY.)

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thc.eo ter nit, :aunty efidcaVothi, g io extort money
from Michael Tasburgh, under a threat of accusing
hie: of an abominable critee.
Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Ballantine ware for the pro-
secution • the prisoners were defended by Mr. Robin-
son and itlr. %Voollett.
The prosecutor in this case is an independent gen-
tleman, named Michael Tasburgh, residing at Burgh-
wallis-hall, near Doncaster, and it appeared from his
statement that he is between 70 and 80 years cf age.
The circumstances under which the charge was pre-
ferred against the prisoners were these :—On the
27th of August the prosecutor had come up to town
on business, and he proceeded to the Tavistoele Hotel,
and after having dined he went out in the evening for
a walk, and as he was passing through Hemming's-
row he stopped for a moment at a turner's chop to
look at a tnan who was at work there. It appeared
that the prisoner Braznell and three or four other
men were also standing at the window, and he pushed
against the prosecutor in a manner that induced him
imalediately to quit the shop window and walk away.
The prisoner followed him, and asked him if he
supposed he was going to allow him to do what
he had done for nothing, and inquired what
he was going to " stand." The prosecutor,
who notwithstanding his advanced age, appeared
to have acted with a great deal of firmness and deter-
mination throughout the whole transaction, replied
that he would give him nothing, and walked on, the
prisoner following him and making the observation
that he must take the consequences. After this
Braznell wished the prosecutor to go into a public-
house and have a glass with him, stating, at the same
time, that the matter might be soon settled, and that
he did not wish to be hard with him. The prosecutor
resisted all the attempts that were made to extort
money from him, and Braznell at length gave him
in charge for an indecent assault, and he was examined
the following morning before Mr. Hardwick, at
Marlborough-street, and the other prisoner, Wren,
and another man, named White, then came forward
as witnesses in support of the charge that had been
male against the prosecutor. Their statements, how-
ever, their examination being taken spa: t, were so
contradictory to each other that the magistrate felt it
to be his duty not only to dismiss the charge that had
been made egainst the prosecutor, but to order the
prisoners into custody upon the present charge. The
facts wore distinctly proved in evidence, and the
ut er groundlessness of the accusation made against
the prosecutor was clearly established ; and there ap-
peared to be no doubt that the prisoners formed part
of the gang of miscreants who infest the metropolis
and prowl about for the purpose of extorting money
from the fears of those against whom they preferred
charges of this description.
The Learned JUDGE having summed up, the jury
immediately returned a verdict of Guilty against both
prisoners.
Evidence was then given that the prisoner Wren
he..l been before convicted of felony.
The Learned JUDGE, in passing sentence upon the
pf isoners, said that they had been convicted of a most
dreadful crime, and it was hardly possible to imagine
one that was more calculated to create misery and
suffering. It was therefore necessary for the protec-
tion of the public that when such an offence was
clearly brought home to the persons accused of it a
most severe punishment should be inflicted. He
then sentenced the prisoners to be transported for
twenty years.
Upon the application of Mr. PARRY, 011 behalf of
John Wakeman E &cards, a surgeon, who stands
charged with a felony of a peculiar character, and no
opposition being offered by Mr. Ballantine, who ap-
peared for the prosecution, the trial of the defendant
was postponed to the next session.
It was arranged that Mr. Ed wards, who has here-
tofore been at large upon bail, should still remain at
liberty upon the same amount of rccognizances.
Ellen Hoar, 22, was charged upon the coroner's
inquisition, with the wilful murder of her female ille-
gitimate child.

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- A bill for the murder had also been preferred be-
fore the grand jury, but they ignored it.
Mr. Clerk conducted the prosecution. The pri-
soner would have been without the assistance of
counsel but for the kind interference of the Sheriffs.
Through their instrumentality, however, she had the
benefit of the able services of Mr. Ballentine.
The facts of the case lay i❑ a very narrow compass.
The prisoner lodged in the house of a woman named
Davi., in Queen-street, Notting hill, and on the
14. h of August, in consequence cf something that
transpired, Mrs. Davis went into the prisoner's
room, and from what she saw there she accused her of
having given birth to a child. The prisoner denied
that this was the case, and another woman then came
into the room, and she also taxed the prisoner with
the same act, and asked where the child was. She
persisted in declaring that she had not given birth
to a child, but upon the room being searched the dead
body of a female infant was found in a box, and with
a cord tied tightly round its neck. The evidence
with regard to the fact of the child having been born
alive was by no means conclusive, and it also ap-
peared very probable that the cord might have been
used by the prisoner as a readier means to relieve her-
self from the agonies of childbirth.

Mr. BALLANTINE made a most feeling and earnest
appeal to the jury on behalf of the unfortunate pri-
soner, and expressed a confident expectation that
they would not upon the evidence that had been
lr.i i before them convict a young creature like the
prisoner of such a dreadful crime as that with which
she was charged.

Mr. Justice WILLIAMS briefly summed up, and the
jury, after a short deliberation, Acquitted the prisoner
of murder, but found her Guilty of concealing the
birth of the child.

She was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to
hard labour for six months.

NEW COURT.
(Before the COMMON-SERGEANT.)
Edward George Barrington, 36, millwright, was
indicted for feloniously being at large, without lawful
excuse, before the expiration of a term for which he
had been sentenced to be transported.
Digby Seymour appeared fir the prisoner.
The facts for the prosecution were these :—ln
June, 1844, the prisoner was tried at these sessions

for a robbery of notes in a dwelling-house, and sen-
tenced to ten years' transportation. He was subse-
quently sent out of this country, and, not having
received any liberty from the authorities of this
country to return home, he had recently done so, and
had set up a beenhop, and bad continued to keep it
up to the time of his apprehension in last August,
when some one gave information to Penny, the in-
spector of nuisances for Clerkenwell, who was at
the time of the prisoner's conviction a police in-
spector.

Mr. SEYMOUR made a most earnest appeal to the
jury, and said the defence he had to offer was this :
The prisoner after his conviction had been sent out to
Swan River, where his behaviour was so irreproach-
able that the Governor of the place gave him a free
pardon, and in the October of 1847 he enlisted him-
self as a shipwright on board the Columbine, under
the command of Lord John Hay, and had accom-
panied the whol.e of the well known expedition in the
Japanese seas against the pirates, behaving with the
utmost courage, and in other respects conducting
himself most irreproachably down to April of the pre-
sent year, when the vessel came home, and with tht?
prize money he had received went into business as a
beer-shopkeeper. The Learned Counsel handed in
the written document of the prisoner's conduct, and
added that Lord John Hay wished it to be stated
that the prisoner's conduct whilst under his command
had been excellent. Tha prisoner had received from

the governor a written pardon, but fearing it might
be found by his fillow seamen, and that they might
know what he had been, he had destroyed it.
The COMMON-SERGEANT, in addressing the jury,
said that undoubtedly the prisoner's character had
been very good since his conviction, but there was
only his word about the pardon.
The jury found him Guilty, strongly recommend-
ing him to mercy on account of his character.
Judgment was respited.
Ju/in Simpson, 23, labourer, pleaded Guilty to
marrying Jane Robinson, his wife being then alive.
Mr. Digby Seymour appeared for the prosecution.
Neither of the wives appeared, but it was stated
to the Court that the prisoner had married his first
wife in Scotland, and she falling ill became the in-
mate of an hospital. He subsequently deserted her
and married a second wife, whom it was supposed he
halalso left.

lie was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment.
Mary Ann Geary was convicted of stealing some
articles of wearing apparel, the property of the
gum dians of St. Giles, Bloomsbury.
It appeared that she had been for four years an in-
mate of the poorhouse ; she occ,sionally went out,
and suspicion being entertained that she was robbing
the house a search-warrant was obtained, and a place
she visited searched, and the articles in question
found. A wAtch was then set on the place, and upon
her coming there she was taken into custody.
In the course of the afternoon the grand jury,
hav;ng returned all the bills before them, were dis-
charged with the customary thanks.

The prisoner pleaded Guilty.
It appeared that on the evening of the 29th ult. the
prosecutrix having arrived at the Paddington ter-
minus by the Great Western Railway, got into an
omnibus for the purpose of proceeding to Charing-
cross. As they were going on, when she was speak-
ing to a fzisnd who was with her in the omnibus,
the conductor of the vehicle interrupted their con-
versation by asking her if she had lost anything,
whereupon she put her hand into her pocket,
and then, for the first time, she discovered that
her purse hed been taken. When she quitted the
terminus her purse was safe in her pocket. It then
appeared that the omnibus conductor, George
Bowern, had noticed the prisoner and another man
loitering about the terminus, and had also watched
them until they both followed the lady into his omni-
bus, which had met the 23 minutes past ten o'clock
a suspicion of the
from
the Bristol.
conductor
in his eye, and at
tprraisinonerEntekretpaitnhinimg
one part of the journey he asked him to get outside
so as to make room for a lady. The prisoner, how-
ever, declined to comply with the request. The om-
nibus therefore went on, but when it arrived near to
George •street, Edgeware-road, the prisoner suddenly
called cut " Stop." He got out, paid Gd., and was
followed by his associate. The conductor instantly
told the lady to feel if she had lost anything, and at
the same time he watched the movements of the pri-
soner and his companion. The former went into
George-street, whither the conductor, having ascer-
tained that the lady's purse had been takee, at once
pursued him. When he got up to the prisoner, he
told him that he " wanted him." The prisoner said,
" For God's sake don't do me an injury," and began
to shuffle about his hands. The conductor threw
his arms around the man who had a cloak cn, and
hell him until the policeman, fJr whom he
called lustily, arrived, to whom he handed
him over. Prior to the coming up of the policeman,
the conductor in the struggle had dragged the pri-
soner hack into the Elgeware_road, and by the time
the policeman came they had got upon the railings of
an area. As soon as the policeman made his appear-
ance the conductor saw a purse drop from the pri -
super, and fall through the iron railings. lie com-
municated this circumstance to the policeman, who
knocked up the inhabitants of the house, went into the
area and picked up the purse, which NV S identified by
the prosecutrix.

The prisoner now said he was anxi•ous to say a few
words to the Court.

The Learned CHAIRMAN was ready to hear anything
he wished to offer in explarmion.
The prisoner then slid—Aly Lor, I am nor, I as-
sure you, a thief. Jam not a person who would ccm-
mit a theft on principle,
and although in the present
cese I admit my guilt, yet upon a feeling of religion,
and of ail those proper feelings which ought to guide
a man in his passage through this life, so great an ab-
horrence of thieving have I, that but for the starving
and destitute condition of my poor wife and family, I I
should not have fallen into the commission of this ac-
tion, for which I been brought before this court.
I ;Ain not a thief, my Lord ; for my religious princi-
ples and feelings are both powerfully opposed to such
a character. Driven to despair by the destitute state
of lay dear wife and children, I was unhappily induced
to plunge into this crime. I hope, therefore, that,
taking my unfortunate case, and the painful circum-
stances by which I was surrounded at the time, into
your consideration, your Lordship will treat me with
mercy.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Scpt. 18.
Before Mr. WITnAm, Cllairman, and a Bench of
Mdgistratei.)

Henry Preston, aged 31, described as a comedian,
but dressed with all the awarance of g Dissenting
minister, was indicted for having stolen from the per-
son a silver watch and gold watch-guard, of the value
of 71., the property of Charles Dowden.
It appeared that a scavenger of the name of Bays
went into Cecil-street in the Strand, on the sth inst.,
about four o'clock in the morning, when he saw

A police-cfficer here stated that he had known the
prisoner for nix years as an expert " swell-mob';
man." He was assodited with a large gang of the
swell mob, and he was attached to that branch of the
body who attended the theatres and omnibuses to
pick pockets. In 1844 the prisoner was apprehended
for attempting to pick pockets at the entrance of the

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEP7EMBER 19, 1850.

the prisoner kneeling • upon a man who was lying
I down on the invernt,..rit.Upon his gointr tcwards them
to who

aen ee eresenee „ea ei: ;ILL;
scavenger proceeded to lift up the drunken man, who
said the, " that vagabond h .s. stolen my watch." The
scavenger accordingly went in search of a policeman,
to whom he gave information of the rubbery, and that
the person accused had run down the street.
The prisoner cross-examined this witness with con-
siderable dexterity.
The police-officer, A 103, proved having found the
prisoner in a doorway, towards which the drunken
man pointed, at the bottom of Cecil street. When
he told him what he wanted him fur he said, " Oh,
indeed !" He took him to where the prosecutor was
lying, when the latter said that the prisoner was the
man who had robbed him of his watch. The pri-
soner having been conveyed to the station-house was
searched, but as nothing could be found upon him he
was liberated. The officer said he was not satisfied
about the matter, and therefore he again went down
Cecil-street, and in the doorway from which he had
taken the prisoner he found the lost watch and chain,
which he now produced. About ten minutes after-
wards he saw the prisoner coming along the opposite
side of the Strand. He went up to him, and on tell-
ing him.that he had found the watch, and that he
should again take him into custody, the prisoner said,
" Oh, indeed, and so you are going to give me another
turn !" The man was then conveyed once more to
the station-house.
The prosecutor stated that on the evening in ques-
tion he had supped at the Albion near Drury-lane
Theatre, and had afterwards taken too much liquor,
so much so, that on getting into the street, he found
himself to be very drunk. While in that state he had
been robbed of his watch, and that was all he knew
about the matter. He recollected nothing more.
The prisoner then proceeded to cross-examine this
witness, and thus commenced, in a sanctified tone of
voice,—" Sir, do you know that a very solemn duty
now devolves upon you, and therefore .1 shall call upon
you to reflect seriously before you answer the ques-
tions I shall put to you. Now, sir, do you know the
serious responsibility of an oath ? are you aware of its
great importance, and have you made yourself ac-
quainted with the obligations which are imposed upon
you by the ninth commandment, which runs thus,—
' Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neigh-
bour ?' Now, man, reflect before you give your
answers."
The prcsecutor, who, like every other person in
court, had been taken by surprise by this outburst,
said, " Oh, 3 ee, Oh, yes.'
The prisoner—Well, then, now turn round and
look at me well, and then tell me if you do not in me
behold and recognise an old acquaintance and an old
companion !
The prosecutor (laughing)—You, you an old com-
panion—no, not a bit of it.—(Laughter.)
The prisoner (looking round)—Sir, this is a very
serious affair to me, and sorry am I, truly sorry am I
indeed, that you should laugh at that in which I can-
not join. Do you not remember me ?
The prosecutor—What! remember you ? Not a
bit of it. I don't know you.
The prisoner—Don't you remember smoking a
pipe with me, and afterwards going with me to a
coffee-shop, where eon wanted something salt to take
with your tea ? What, don't you recollect me now ?
The prosecutor—l have told you I don't know you,
how many more times am Ito tell you so ?
The prisoner, with whining vehemence, exclaimed
that it was most extraordinary that the person in the
box had lost nil knowledge of him ; indeed, it was
astonishing that he had not instantaneously recog-
nized him, as they had been eating and drinking and
smoking together for several hours. That they had
been so he should call witnesses to prove.
The prisoner then unfolded a heavy brief, and said
" Let Henry Watson be called."
The witness, who is waiter at the Harp Tavern,
proved that the erosecutor was in the company of
the prisoner at the house on the night in question.
They were drinking grog together, and did not leave
till 3 o'clock in the morning, at which hour they left
the house together.
Cross-examined by the prisoner—He remembered
fetching four books while the prosecutor was in the
house, in which names were entered. The name of
the prosecutor was written in the books as having be-
come a member of "The City of Lushington."—
(Loud laughter.) On that night the prosecutor be-
came a " cHzen " of that "ancient body," and the
witness received "one shilling" for the entrance fee,
which sum was devoted to the purchase of two pots of
beer.—(Renewed laughter.)
Another witness deposed to the same effect.
The prisoner then was about to address the jury,
and opened the brief as though he intended to read
from it, but •
The Learned CHAIRMAN declined to hear the speech
at that stage of the proceedings, and, in reference to
the brief from which the prisoner was about to read,
said he hoped he would not by his conduct compel
the Court to make public the means by which he had
become possessed of it. (We were informed by the
governor of the House of Detention that the prisoner,
when in prison, had instructed a solicitor to defend
him, and having given him the grounds for his de-
fence, instructed him to prepare a brief, to retain
counsel, and to subpoena several witnesses. On Tues-
day the solicitor, having duly acted upon these in-
structions, called at the prison to inquire if anything
further had occurred to the mind of the prisoner
which he thought might be of advantage to his de-
fence. The prisoner asked to look at the brief, which
the solicitor, very innocently, handed to him. The
prisoner, having locked into it, put it into his pocket,
and said that he should now neither require the as-
sistance of the solicitor nor of counsel. In this way it
was that the prisoner obtained his brief.)
The Learned CHAIRMAN summed up the evidence ;
and the jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The Learned CHAIRAIAN sentenced the prisoner to
six months' imprisonment and hard labour.
Henry Good, aged 14, a very well-dressed young
man, was indicted for having picked the pocket of a
lady named Ann Maria Holman, of a purse containing
Gs. 41 , her property, when she was riding iu an om-
'Abu?.

was en inmate at present of the London Hospital. A
conversation continued between them, when 07,
- -ooe eesoioc fee ois Ishetr, vele;
v. ants made her apvearance, when the ioesorier
and his sister urged her to take a I.iless of ale. She
drank a little, and the prisoner gave his sister some.
lie afterwards gave his sister some money, and she
went sway. Prosecutrix then said she would return
home. The prisoner followed her, and said he would
show her to a railway station. He took her up several
crooked lanes until they reached the road leading to
Brockley Jack (the Castle Inn). He then requested
her to sit down on the bank of the railway cutting.
She took a seat some distance from the prisoner, who,
shifting about, caught hold of her, and placed his
arms over her shoulders and kissed her. She told
him (pushing him away with both her hands) not to
lay hands upon her, as she was well known to the
police, and would report him to the chief inspector,
Mr. M'Gill, of the dockyard police. The pri-
soner then seized hold of; and forcibly threw her
down, and with great violence effected his purpose.
She was surprised and confoueded at the moment,
put her hands in his face, and called for assist-
ance, but no one came. Saw a man some distance off.
She then got up and ran away, declaring that she
would go to the dockyard and report him, having un-
derstood, in course of conversation, that lie was on
duty there. Prosecutrix produced an envelope, which
the prisoner gave her, bearing the address of his
sister, and hoped witness would interest herself in
getting her a situation. The prisoner followed in the
distance to the dockyard station, overtaking her at
times, in order, as he said, to go into a public-house
aed-settle the matter ; but she continued on her way
through the streets crying until she reached the
dockyard, where she fully explained the nature of the
outrage to Mr. Inspector Mr. M'Gill asked
her why she did not explain the outrage to persons
she met on the way ? She told him she was ashamed
of exposure in the public streets, and might have been
laughed at ; and, as she was certain of redress at his
hands, she proceeded to the dockyard. Persons on
the road pitied her and directed her. She did not
say she was married, nor did the prisoner ask that
question. The prisoner came up to the gate half-an-
hour after witness, when the inspector called him and
told him in witness's presence that he was charged
with a grave offence at the instance of prosecutrix.
Prisoner said, " Good God ! she has made a false
statement."
Mr. Inspector M'Gill was then called, and deposed
that prosecutrix's evidence now taken was fully in
accordance with her statement taken at the Dockyard-
office, and that she arrived at the station in a very
excited and distressing condition.
Mr. Mey, at some length, cross-examined the pro-
secutrix without eliciting the slightest matter affect-
ing her testimony or charactor.
Mr. SECKfilt said he should send the charge before
a jury, and bound the witnesses over to prosecute at
the Central Criminal Court.
Gunner H. Robertson then left the court, accom-
panied by his wife, the magistrate declining to take
bail, as urged by Mr. May, for the prisoner.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
NORTH BRITISH.
The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of this
company vas held in Gibb's Royal Hotel, Edinburgh,
on Tuesday ; Mr. lAarmonth, the chairman, presid-
ing.

The directors' report was held as read.
The CHAIRMAN having briefly recapitulated the
main features of the report, moved that it be adopted.
Mr. BLACK UDDER sceondsd the motion.
Mr. JOHN COCK, W.S., said that he could not sup-
port the resolution, and he proposed an amendment
to the efFect that the report be not approved of; and
that a report be made previous tc the next meeting as
to the present state, prospects, and system of manage-
ment of the company, and especially as to the ac-
curacy of the accounts as regarded the appropriation
of the expenditure during the half-year previous to
the 31st of July, to the respective branches of capital
and income ; also as to the litigation now in progress
at the instance of the company, and as to the cause of
the retirement from the board of four of the directors
appointed by the last half-yearly meeting.
1)r. MACFARLAN seconded the amendment, and in-
veighed against the management of the line.
The CHAIRMAN said that with respect to the asser-
tion that an increased sum was carried to capital and
interest during the last half-year, it should be known
that the quarter shares, which had a right to interest,
had not the interest to which they were entitled paid
in previous years, and of course the sum was placed
iii the present account, and that as the banks were in
the habit of making their accounts annually, the in-
terest paid to them in the currency of the year for
money employed in the formation of the line, and
which could not, therefore, yield a return, was set
down ; and this explained the two items referred to.
The sum set down for law expenses was, he should
state, not for expenses incurred during the last half..
year, but long current accounts. With regard to the
litigation with the directors, referred to in the amend-
ment, he regretted that it was adverted to; but he
might state, as it had been alluded to, that it was a
litigation carried on by himself in the name of the
company against himself as a director, to compel him
and the other directors to pay the balances which they
respectively owed of a sum of 26,000/. The payment
of their portion of that sum was resisted by some of
the directors who had retired, and w bile he and his
colleagues were willing to pay their own shares, they
wanted the others who had retired from the direction
to pay their proportion. Mr. Cook happened to be the
agent for one of the retired directors, and therefore it
was a pity that he should have referred to it at all.
He further stated that the construction of the North
Berwick branch, which was about 4i miles in length,
had cost 75,0001.—about 17,0001. a mile, and that the
other branches cost 18,0001. or 19,000/. a mile. He •
maintained that no good could be got- by Mr. Cook's 1,
amendment, and therefore hoped that it would not be
agreed to.

—The two motions were put to the vote, when, only
five hands being held up for the amendment, the re-
port was approved of.
A series of resolutions were on the motion of the
CHAIRMAN then agreed to, to the effect that the direc-
tors be authorised to compound with such of the
shareholders as are in arrear of calls and are in doubt-
ful circumstances, by freeing them from further
liability on payment of a modified sum and giving up
all right to their shares in favour of the company ;
that the directors be authorised to apply to Parliament
tor authority to enlarge and improve the Edinburgh
station, and connect it with the ,Edinburgh, Perth,
and Dundee station, and also to alter the Leith branch
to make it capable of being worked by locomotive
power ; and that the interest on the guaranteed shares
be paid on Thursday, the 19th inst. (there being no
dividend on the ordinary share capital).
A motion was then made that there be no Sabbath
traffic on the line, bat it was lost by a large majority,
and the meeting separated.