The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-04 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

Yesterday George Terry, a man of respectable appear-
ance, was bronght before Mr. Hammill, charged with
sending a letter to Miss Mary Franklin, containing
threats against her life.
The complainant handed a letter ,to the Magistrate,
whieli she said was written by the prisoner, and from
which she apprehended her life was in danger. It ran
thus:—

" You threaten to complain to a magistrate. The
threat has no terrors for me. I agai❑ swear by Heaven,
that if I see you in the company of any other man I
shall stab you to the heart. Depend upon it that I shall
not depart from my worde. You know that I love you,
and sooner than see you with any other one I should
prefer dying on the scaffold. You had hater let me have
killed myself last night, and all would have been over
now, than have wrested the knife out of my hand."
The complainant having declared, in confirmation of
the above letter, that she was in danger from the priso-
ner's jealousy, he was sent to prison in default of finding
sureties for his keeping the peace.

THE WOODS AND FORESTS AND

THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.

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derstood that Mr. Roebuck, who, during his recent visit
to Liverpool, has made himself familiar with the topo-
graphy of the left bank of the Mersey, has cpontaneously
taken up the question on its merits, and intends to have
canvassed in the House the Crown's right to arrest a
vast undertaking of this nature, his notion being that
the reclamation of the foreshore and the various other
improvements are a vast public benefit, for which the
Woods and Forests, as guardians of the general welfare,
are largely indebted to the promoters of the Bill, and
should assist instead of resisting the objects of those
gentlemen. But though the Birkenhead trustees
are preparing for the menaced opposition, there
is surely ample guarantee against the exercise
of an odious prerogative in a matter of this
nature, and at a period like the present, in the
public spirit and manly good sense of Lord Sey-
mour, whose admirable reports as chairman of the Army
and Navy Expenditure Committee show a complete ex-
emption from the pedantry of red-tape routine, and a
discriminating appreciation of the fact that the true in-
terest and dignity of the Executive can never be antago-
nistic to the benefit of the community. He is about the,
last man who. on behalf of his department, would dis-
cover cause for alarm in the prospect of manufactures
springing up on Wallasey Pool, as one of the immediate
consequences of the emphatic decision of the Commons'
Committee; and his Lordship's character generally is a
warrant that, as far as he is concerned, there will be no
necessity for any such course as the Member for Sheffield
and various Members of both Houses would feel called
upon to adopt should there be any attempt to withhold
the Royal consent from the Birkenhead Bill, without
which those stupendous works, in whose progress the
whole mercantile community are interested, and on
which, and other works connected with them, not less
than two millions sterling have been expended, can ever
be completed.—Liverpool Albion.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, MAY 3.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market is still very inanimate
and prices lower. The business to-day was principally con-
fined to local stock.