The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-14 00:00:00

I they met he took hold of her hand, and they commenced
I talking together. She appeared flurried. After some little
time he walked away, and she went towards her own house.
Louisa Nunn examined by Mr. BODKIN—I recollect being
at the window with Miss Nunn, when I noticed the pri-
soner and his daughter standing together. They appeared
in earnest conversation. I heard her shriek. They might
have remained together some four minutes after. She looked
aghast, and I heard her call out " Oh, father, father." He
seemed to go away in a very hurried manner. He said that
he should call next morning at half-past seven. She said
" No, at seven." He then left.

By Mr. WILKINs---I am not a novel writer. I have no
profession. lam living upon my independent property.
Sarah Ann Miles, by Mr. CirAmnEus--The prisoner lodged
with my father. He occupied a room, for which he had a
latch key. Sometimes he would go out of a Saturday and
not come home till Tuesday afternoon. He went out on the
night of the 29th of April, at nine o'clock. I did not see him,
but knew his foostep, from his being lame. "
By Mr. WlLicurs—l do not know that he was in difficul-
ties about money.
By the SOLICITOR-GENERAL—I did not see him in his
lodgings again that evening.
Charles Miles, by the - SOLICITOR-GENERAL--I was the
prisoner's landlord. On the night of the 29th April, a police.
man came to my house, at twelve, or about it. I have several
lodgers, and one of them put a lighted candle, which he had
discovered, into my hand. The candlestick was the one
Dalmas had the use of, and it was not lighted when I came
home at half-past nine.
By Mr. WILKINs—I don't know that the prisoner was at
times in difficulties.

By Mr. Baron GURNEY—When I had gone to bed about
eleven there was no candle left burning on the staircase.
Mary Nash—l lodge with Mr. Miles, and got up when the
policeman came to the house. I found the lighted candle on
the stairs, about three yards from the door.
Frederick Langton re-called and examined by Mr. CRAM..
Bilts•4 went about twelve. on the night of the 29th, to the
residence of Miles,• No. 12, Chapel-place, and found several
letters in the prisoner's room.
The jury were then allowed to retire for a short time, and
the Court was ordered to be cleared of women and boys.
The jury having returned,
Robert Davis, a pawnbroker's assistant, produced a coat
and handkerchief pledged by the prisoner in the name of
John Mutt, Compton-street, on the 30th April.
Ellen Gibson. examined by Mr BODKIN—I am sister to de-
ceased. I saw her about one o'clock on the 29th of April,
she was then in good health and spirits. Next time I saw
her was at night at the bridge. I. have known
the prisoner for eighteen years. He was pay-
ing his addresses to my sister. I siw him last
in her company on the 9th of April. I have never seen him
write, but I know his handwriting. I have seen and read
letters from him, and he has asked why I did not answer
them. lam sure these letters are his.

Win. M'Farlane examined by Mr. CHAMBERS—I am
sixteen years of age, and am the son of the late Mrs. M'Far-
lane. I received a penknife from the prisoner about a fortnight
before my mother's death. It contained four blades, two
pen blade, a large one, and a half-file blade. I sharpened the
large blade, and returned the knife to him on the 20th of
April.

William Cumming, No. 3 D, examined by the SOLICITOR-
GENERAL—I was on duty at Marylebone-lane station-house on
the morning of the 4th of May, and the prisoner was
introduced to me. He told me that he was Augustus
Dalmas, and that he wished to surrender, as he was
haunted to death by the reports in the newspapers ; they
were all wrong. He had some gin and doves with the de-
ceased on the night of the occurrence, but he never crossed
the bridge at all. He and the deceased had some strong
observations on family affairs, she stating that his children
were ungrateful to her, and that if his daughter, Augusta,
was obliged to leave her situation, she would do no more for
her. The only correct• evidence before the Coroner was
Charlotte's.

By Mr. WxuaNs—l am not sure whether he said Char
lotte or Augusta.
[The trial was proceeding when we went to press.]

CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.
A young man, a tailor, named Andrews, lodging at the Fox
and Hounds public-house, was charged with robbing Mt.
Seddon, the landlord, of 41. and a watch, in conjunction with
another person, not in custody.
The prisoner has been lodging in the house for several
months back. Yesterday morning it was discovered that
the bar had been broken into and the property abstracted.
The prisoner and the pot-man were !nowhere to be found.
Last night the landlord apprehended the prisoner at the
Queen's Theatre, in Tottenham Court-road. He had
3L 163. Bd. of the stolen money on his person, which he at
once acknowledged was Mr. Seddon's property, acknowledged
his guilt, and declared the pot-man had the watch.
The prisoner was remanded, in order to afford time for the
apprehension of the pot-man.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(raoar ova OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
The inquest on the body of the child found in the privy of
Captain J. S. Abbott's house, in Bath-road, has not yet ter-
minated; it was adjourned from Saturday last to this day,
and is again adjourned to Saturday next. The mother, who
was a servant to Dr. Morrison, and lodging at this house,
has absconded, her name is Mary Ann Gilbert. Mrs. Wes-
therall, mother of Mrs. Morrison, is summoned down from
London to attend the jury on Saturday. There were no
marks of violence on the child ; it was a fine, healthy-looking
one, weighing about 61bs., but nothing has been yet eluci-
dated to prove whether it was born dead or alive. It had
been in the privy about three weeks. Drs. Hoffmeister and
Cass were of opinion it had not breathed.
The inquest on the body of Miss Mary Lock, of the Uninn
Inn, who died suddenly on Tuesday morning, closed this
afternoon. The jury found that she died from "natural
causes." Reports had been circulated that she had poisoned
herself, and it being ascertained that she had purchased
laudanum at different chemists, the body was opened by
Dr. Hoffmeister, who found the lungs in a very diseased
state ; the state of the brain was also such as to justify the
verdict of the jury.
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
Saturday—The cutter yacht Osprey, John Petre, Esq.,
from Portsmouth.
Sunday—The yawl Stormflnch, Lieut.-Coloxtel Bowers,
from the westward.
Tuesday—The cutter Reindeer, John Moore, Esq., from
Lymington.
Wednesday—The schooner Camilla, Thomas liallifax,
jun., Esq., from Dover. _ _

SAILINGS.
Saturday--The schooner Circassian, Major Phillips, for
Swansea, and the Mediterranean.
Sunday—The schooner Camilla, Thomas Hallifax, to the
eastward.
Wednesday—The cutter Flower of Yarrow, the Marquis of
Convngham, for Guernsey and Ireland.
YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.
Cutters—The Ann, Reindeer, Whim, Osprey, Intrepid, Me-
dina, Will-o'-the-Wisp, Norah, Ganymede, Charm, Owen
Glendwr. Schooners—Gun, Camilla. Yawl—Breeze.
In the Harbour—The Ariel schooner, Almon Hill, Esq. ;
Kestrel yawl, the Earl of Yarborough ; Hawk schooner,
Captain King; Therese cutter, the Earl of Desert; Ariadne
cutter, Captain W. B. Ponsonby.
FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.
We have now to report that this town was never before so
dull at this season of the year. Whether it is that the cry
of the Queen's coming frightened the folk from visiting us,
or from the great foreign attractions in London, certain it is
that the Royal Yacht Squadron House, and the town gene-
rally.. are deserted.
All we know of the Royal residence is, that there have
been three maid servants of the Royal household at Osborne
House, since the Ist of May.

BRUSSELS, JUNE 11.—On Sunday, during the
celebration of high mass, the steeple of the church of Ingel-
minster was struck by lightning. The electric fluid entered
the church and wounded twelve persons.; everybody rushed
to the door, which occasioned some further accident, but no-
body was killed or very seriously hurt.
COMMISSION or LUNACY.—This morning a Com-
mission of Lunacy was opened before Mr. Commissioner Barlow
and a jury of 19 freeholders, to inquire into the state of mind of
Mr: George Rule, late a nurseryman of Hockley, Essex, and
now an inmate of Miles's Lunatic Asylum, Hoxton. The
Commission was sued out by the mother of the alleged luna-
tic, and Mr. Teed, Q.C., appeared in support of it. From the
evidence adduced, it appeared that the first symptons of aber-
ration exhibited themselves in 1839. In that year he came
to London, put up at an inn, and ordered a most expensive
entertainment. He went to the Tower, where he fancied him-
self Prince Albert or the Duke of Wellington, and com-
menced cutting down the trees; he was taken into custody,
and by direction of the Magistrate handed over to his friends.
He sometimes refused to take his food, and on one occasion
got a rope and attempted to hang himself. He had threat-
ened to kill his mother, and called himself a'King and a Lord,
and that he belonged to the Lord Chancellor. Dr. Haslon
and Dr. Reed gave evidence as to the state of mind of Mr.
Rule. He occasionally stripped himself naked, and plucked
out his toe-nails. He considered the race of mankind made
from sugar. The medical gentlemen were of opinion it was
an utterly hopeless case. Mr. Rule was called in and ex-
amined by the Learned Commissioner, and continued talking
in a very rapid and incoherent manner. The jury returned a
verdict that Mr. George Rule was of unsound mind and in-
capable of managing his affairs, and had been so since the
Bth of November, 1839.
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—It was St. Leon's
benefit, according to the bills, last night, and he played, be-
tween the acts of Don Giovanni, a fantasia, composed by
himself on motives from Guillaume Tell, and exhibiting his
well-known power of execution. The house was crowded,
and the audience encored the duet, " La ci darem" (by For-
nasari and Persiani) and "I 1 mio tesoro" (by Mario). On
Thursday next, it is said, Costa's opera of Don Carlos will be
produced.

Politics run so high amongst men elected to public
offices in Southampton, that they would rather see the whole
town burnt down than obtain writer which was not from a
Tory spring, to put it out. They have had another awful
visitation, but these warnings are without any effect on
such men.

NCENDTLRISM.—It will be remembered that Mr.
Milner Gibson (who was formerly M.P. for Ipswich) a few
evenings back, asked Sir James Graham, whether the atten-
tion of Government had been directed to the recent fear-
fully prevalent system of incendiarism in the counties of
Suffolk, Norfolk, and Essex. The Hon. Member has now
placed a notice on the books of the House of Commons, inti-
mating that it was his intention, " on the first supply night,"
to submit a " motion relative to the incendiarism now pre-
valent in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, and parts of
Essex." This is indefinite enough as regards the form in
which the matter is to be brought under the attention of the
House; but still it is gratifying to see that the Hon. Mem-
ber has taken the subject in hand. Nothing could be more
unsatisfactory than allowing such a state of things to con-
tinue
month after month, sub sikntio, while the fires are in-
creasing constantly in number and atrocity. There must be
some cause for the evil. Ought not that cause be inquired
into and investigated, and, if possible, remedied 7—Advertiser.
CHURCII-RATE.—Yesterday, a public vestry was
held in the parish church of St. Mary's, Whitechapel, for the
purpose of making a church and other rates; Mr. Thomas
Sprinford, the renter-warden, in the chair. For some 3 ears
the Rector and Church party in this extensive parish have
sought to obtain a large rate, but the inhabitants have In.
variably swamped them, and have merely allowed a penny
rate, which is scarcely sufficient to pay certainannuities and
other purposes, non-ecclesiastical, which the law requires, so
that the servants of the parish are obliged to go upon short
commons; and some of them, the organist, for instance, have
not been paid anything for the last year or two, The anti-
church-rate party mustered in a strong body, and under the
guidance of Mr. Denton, a desperate opponent to all parish
abuses, and a determined opponent to church-rates, outvoted
their opponents (who required a threepenny rate) •by a ma-
jority of at least three to one, and merely a penny rate was
granted. • This was deemed a great triumph to the anti-
church-rate party, their opponents having for some inaatlitt
boasted of having a considerable majority of the vestry in
favour of the higher rate. " .
THE LENE,—Owing to the long draught, the Lune,
above tile- way; is ti ow it hag been or tae last
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