The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-13 00:00:00

CLERKEN WELL.

John Cayford, the driver of the cabriolet 742,
was charged with having been drunk and assaulting
Mrs. Louisa Meetydrd and Miss Adelaide Knight,
the wife and sister-in-law of Mr. Horace W. Meet-
yard, barrister-at-law, No. 3, Verulam-buildings,
Gray's Inn.
Mrs. Meetyard stated that on the previous night,
between six and seven o'clock, herself, sister, and
husband, having dressed to go to a dinner party, she
sent the servant for a cab to convey them thither. The
prisoner came; witness and her sister got into the cab,
but they had not proceeded more than a few paces
when the door of the cab flew open. The prisoner,
jumping down from the cab, said witness's servant
had damaged the door in shutting it, and thereupon
used the vilest language. Witness, being alarmed,
told him to drive on, and she would hold the door.
He refused, and said he would not go a step, and
again used the most dreadful language. Witness,
being greatly terrified, as they could not account for
his frightful conduct, jumped out of the cab with her
sister; they had no bonnets on, and their necks were
bare. They had not gone more than a few yards when
the prisoner ran after them, and seizing her neck in
his hand shook her. He seized her sister in the same
manner ; he demanded money, but she was so dread..
fully agitated that she could not tell what she said.
Mr. Meetyard at that moment came up. She had
not refused to pay him.
Mr. Meetyard said, when he came up the prisoner
had hold of both ladies, and Miss Knight was just on
the point of falling in the mud from his violence;
both ladies were terribly frightened, and were crying
all night. They had not gone 50 yards from his
residence when this conduct took place. He was
mauling about the ladies shamefully, and witness
gave him into the custody of a police constable.
Police-constable 97- E captured the prisoner, who
was drunk.

Mr. COMBE—What have you got to say, prisoner ?
Prisoner—What do I say ? Why, I know I did not
use any bad language; but I have no recollection of
the assault. I wanted my fare (Bd.) for taking ma
from my stand.
The prisoner's master was not present, but the
yard. keeper came forward and gave him a good
character.

Mr. COMBE—WeII, Mr. Meetyard, it appears this
man has a good character. I suppose you don't
wish him to be very severely punished ?
Mr. Meetyard• said he would leave it entirely to
the magistrate. The ladies were shamefully pulled
about.

Mr. COMBE, after telling the prisoner that he had
subjected himself to two fines of 51. each, and two
months imprisonment, with or without hard labour,
sentenced him to pay a fine of 1/.
The fine was paid in half an hour after.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Yesterday Anne AP Cormack, a young Irishwoman,
was charged with stealing a sovereign, the property
of Leah Aarons, her fellow-servant, at the house of
Mr. G. Da Silva, a foreign merchant, who was deeply
affected, and, on entering the witness-box, stated that
the charge upon which the prisoner had been given
into custody would sink into insignificance in com-
parison with that which he himself had to prefer
against her, which was that of decoying away from
her home one of his own daughters, a child only ten
years of age, with a view of introducing her to a
life of infamy. While at his counting-house, in the
City, about noon on the preceding day, he received
a message from his family, requesting him to return
home instantly, as the child was missing, and, on
reaching his house, and finding that that was the case,
he, in, extreme anguish of mind, went in every
direction he could think of, in all parts of the town,
for several hours, in search of her, but without suc-
cess. On again returning home, between six and
seven o'clock in the evening, he was informed by one
of the other servants that, during his absence, the
prisoner had suddenly 411M:4111:led from the house, and
that a sovereign had been stolen from a box belonging
to another domestic. Mrs. Da Silva also showed
him a letter which had arrived by post that afternoon,
addressed to the prisoner, and in the handwriting
of his daughter, requesting the prisono to proceed
to her immediately; it hops in Charles-court, St.
Ikfartia4-lapp. rrevious to his seeing this letter, his
eldest daughter, on being apprised of its contents, had,
by direction of her mother, gong to Olt house in

question, in the company of an upper-servant, an
soon after returned, bringing the child with thew,
which they had found at the house.
The prosecutor here handed the letter to the cna•
gistrate. It was written in a neat and rather elegant
hind for so young a child, and was to the followag
effect :

4, Charles-court, St. Martin's-lane.
" Dear Anne,—l write to inform you that I have glee
to the West-end, but I hope you will come to-night,
I du not know what I shall do without you; for, now
have gone, I cannot come back. Come about serer
o'clock. Now, do come, for Ido not know what I she'
do without you. lam obliged to take any place till you
come. I have no mo' (sic) to say, but believe me to re'
" Your affectionate,
" JULIA DA SILVA'

main

" P.S. Pray come."
Policeman Marks, 61 L, said, that between fire
and six o'clock on the preceding evening he was ac•
coated by the sister of the little girl in St. Martin's'
lane, and requested to go to the house in Charier
court, where they suspected the child to be. He WY
mediately accompanied them to the house N 0...
which he found occupied by a man of apparent re,:
spectability, and who, upon being informed of Fal
business, took him into one of the rooms and points
out to him the child there. The man told him t'w,
the child had been brought to his house by a worn
living in Chandos-stnet, who told him that she
applied to her for leave to write a letter in her housel
and that she, believing from her elegant dress an
.1
manners, that she had run away from h0me,,,..1%
brought her there to be taken care of. era
after the little girl's arrrival she had es,"e,,
for writing materials, and addressed the go.'
ter already read to the servant, which at her re
quest was put immediately into the post. Witness (
policeman) remained at the door until six o'clock'
when the prisoner arrived and inquired for the chile,
and as soon as she had done so, he took her into eusi
tody. On asking her if she knew anything about
the sovereign she positively denied all knowledge °,
the money, but on her way to the station said the
the little girl had herself taken it out of her felluirj
servant's box, and added, that the other servants ft
persuaded the child to leave her home, and that sol
had merely gone to the house to look after her, an
bring her back.
The child herself, who appeared very intelligent,
was then put into the witness-box, and stated that the
prisoner had repeatedly importuned her to leave her
father's house, but that she had resisted her overture'
until the preceding day, when she had agreed to g°
away with the prisoner that night. About NI
however, the prisoner told her that she (witness) must
go on first, and gave her a sovereign for the purr
of buying clothes and paying expenses; after W
she placed her in a cab, and told her to go on to 11's
Strand and wait for her there. On being set down'
the Strand, she became greatly alarmed, not knewd!!!
where she was, and wandered into Chandos-street,";
the door in one of the houses in which she set
woman standing, whom she accosted, and asked PS:
mission to write a letter in her house to the prison„
The woman, however, after putting some questions
,aw
her, took her to the house in Charles-court, wherein"
wrote the letter in question, and where she rerasio-
until she was rescued by her friends.
eete
The prosecutor here, in a state of great exciter.a
said, that the landlord of the house in Charles-court'
whom he had ascertained to be a respectable Toa
had informed him that he had learned that a t:6121.,'
ve
keeping a house of notorious character in' the 07,-1
court, had made arrangements for the reception;
the child, and was to give ten guineas for possesS'°,
of the child's person, and whose ruin would have bee
effected that night but for her pre,vidential discoverc
If the Magistrate would adjourii the case for another
examination, he should be able to bring forward the
most positive evidence to that effect.
Mr. I3INGHAM then asked the prisoner if she
to say anything in answer to the charge ? The Pio
goner said that it was all a conspiracy entered jai
against her by the other servants, that she never 001
the sovereign, and that she knew nothing whatever.%
the letter put in, as, in fact, she could not read 14_1",
In answer to this, a pretty Jewess, 15 years of RI
nursemaid in the prosecutor's service, was called,
proved that the letter, which was inclosed in ae env"
lope superscribed to the prisoner, was delivered to 9j
at her master's house at half-past one o'clock, !"be
that she immediately handed it to the prisoner. bAug
afterwards found the letter lying
'pen upon
i
kitchen table, without its envelop, and, as the Ili
Boner had absconded, delivered. it to her mistress._d
;
reply to questions from the magistrate, the edolard
stated, that the prisoner had on numerous ocean
attempted to seduce her from the house in order
she should resort to a life of prostitution, but InS
she had indignantly rejected the prisoner's ;,rapv;e3
nities. On one occasion, when closely Feessed
the prisoner on the subject, she declared she
inform her mistress of the prisoner's
',conduct,
p..
ran up stairs for that purpose, but the ..:
.oner p 4
sued her, and, seizing her at the
read of the jeOP,
flung her violently down them, And used such dn
ful threats towards her, if stie divulged her offers
her master or mistress, ttiat the witness had 10"
afraid to do so till the present occasion.
Mr. BINGHAM said; that he had heard quite eno
to warrant him in remanding the prisoner, in to
that a searching investigation might be made
such an abominable transaction, and the officers ro•Tho
between this and the next examination, make
most rigid inquiries into all the facts of the case
use strenuous exertions for its completion.
The prisoner, who behaved with extreme bow'
throughout the hearing, was then removed.

COURSE OF EXCHA:
Amsterdam CF. 12 6
Ditto, at sight l2 4
Rotterdam 2U.12 6i
Antwerp 25 95
H.amburgh M.B. 13 13
Altona l3 13
Paris, 3 days' sight ' 25 65
l)itto, 3 months 25 90
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 95
Frankfort on Maine l2l
Petersburgh, 3Us 37
Berlin 7
Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 953
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 36A
Cadiz
Bilbao 36
Barcelona 36
Seville

gGE.—(YESTEItag.
Gibraltar
Leghorn .........
Genoa
Milan
Venice 4l'
Naples si
Palermo, per es ll.O
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro 2l;
Bahia 2ll
Buenos Ayres
NewYork,2ldyssight
Philadelphia
PRICES OF BULLION, 1104 f
Foreign Gold,bars...E3 iT
Portugal Gold Coin 3 1,.,1
New Doubloons__ v
0
New Dollars 0 4 11
Silver in Bars 0 4

The Vlaming, a Ghent journal, has the f`ollowill;
—" Amongst the convicts in the prison of this city,rti
is living a man who, ten years ago, having mardo
of
schoolmaster from jealousy, was condemner to hardlll.
for life, and this man is now worth r.,early a milli('o aii
francs. He is clothed in the liver
working as a bricklayer's labotte r
er. In the same
Y of the convicts, 01004
there is also living a man, who half a century sinco
pardoned, and to whom liberty has been offered el
times. He, however, is sr, muck accustomed to thud
of the prison, that he rPquested as a favour to be al l°ool
to remain there until the time of his death. He is od
about ninety years old, he has lost all his relations
friends long since, and has no desire to mix againioili
world in which he knows nobody. He is very 11,
treated in the prison, as his conduct was always go'A
.‘

BIRTHS. Pl'
On the 10th inst., at Porchester-terrace, thq wife °I
mond Dewar Bourdillon, Esq., of a son. gel'
'
On the 10th inst., at Peckham, Surrey, tile wife o (the
Edmund Lilley, of a daughter, still-born. COQ
On the 10th inst., in Eaton. square, the lady of Cer,
Townshend, R.N., of Balls-park, Hertford, of a
(laughtO of °
On the 10th inst., at Lower Clapton, Mrs. Bo'l4
daughter. I,
On the 11th inst., at Highgate-hill, the wife of J.
Tatham, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, of a son. fp?
On the 11th inst., Mrs. Bellville, of Red Lion-street,
_...7
born, of a daughter.

MARRIED. Old On the 6th inst., at St. Mark's Church, Kenningtou,#ol
Ann, second daughter of Mr. Robert Meldrum, of Kenregerd'
to Mr. Andrew James Roby, of Tavistock-street,
square.
140 •
On the 7th inst., at Monkstown Church, near Du-011"
Pater, Esq., to Lucinda, daughter of the late Richard,
ken, Esq., of the above city. Dflei
On the 7th inst., at the British Embassy, ParmaWe'
Henry Arthur O'Neill, to Emma Charlotte, third daug
Robert Sympson, Esq.
On the Bth inst., at Goudhurst Church, Alfred 1011-
s' 6'
Tapson, Esq., M. 8., of the Edgware-read, London, 4100
Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Daniel West, Esq., of '4
Goudhurst, Kent.

lED.
locries'
On the 23d of August, D
at Bangalore, in the FAIt
7.lo,i're
Lieutenant Edmund Whiteford Metcalfe, of the 4.3" -
Infantry, aged 26. uric%
On the 10th ult., at Southampton, William Fr'.
of
Hummel, of Brixton, aged 25. Mir
On the 6th inst., at Chorley, Mary Ann, only di"
Henry Trappes, solicitor.
pecicbsi*
Orr the 7th inst., at South Grove, Rye-lane, -
Surrey, Mr. Charles Oakley. Eli%al)elk On the Bth inst., at Sandgate Lodge, Sussex,
ea?
the nife of Geor John Gibson,
nearq Swansea, Thom'
Esq., aged 57.
thelst
On the Bth inst., at Hammersmith, Sarah, relict of
Archibald Gibson, Esq., of Weybridge, Surrey.
_.., ,Thlliel
On the 9th inst., in Brook-street, Grosvenor-sq-
John Best, Esq., Major, Unattached. ye, PIA
On the 9th inst., at New Church-street, Lisson-r° -
. .1 Sir
the wife of Mr. J. W. Tracy, surgeon.
; G-oner-
On the 11th inst., in Harley-street, MaJor"
Leonard Groenwell, K.C.8., and K.C.H. ; lit e ill'
On the 11th inst., at Mornington-crescent, Lo:vin-a,
fart daughter of G, W. Dunsford, Esq. f Aldereglttr
On the 11th inst., Mr. Forrest, of Ongar, Istte °—
street, aged 76. , as Esq.
On the 11th inst., at Clapham-rise, C.. IL Thow
_it vajor,
At Turnwood, Dorsetshire, Lady 'Hill, wife "
General Sir Dudley Hill, Knt., C. 8., and K.T.S• gel, 1/PPer
On the 10th inst., Mary, wife of N. van Fowl"'
Ebury• street, Pimlico. • infant &all'
on the 10th inst., at Broadstairs, Mary, the
ter of I. 11. Benbow, E.sq., of Doughty-street.

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u‘litni, Wednesday, November 13, 1844.