The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-08 00:00:00

LAMBETH-S7 REET.

At a late hour on Saturday Nehemiah Shahspeare sur-
rendered to his bail, to undergo a further examination before
Mr. Norton, on a charge of having wilfully and maliciously
caused the explosion of a steam-boiler on the extensive pre-
mises of Mr. Robert Johnston, cigar manufacturer, at No.
35, Gloucester-street, Commercial-road East, and severely en-
dangering the lives of nearly eighty person..
The first witness, Wm. Henry Dought, proved the prisoner
was aware that some large casks, placed over the boiler for
supplying it vi ith water, were empty on Tuesday morning, and
that they ought to have been kept full, and that a few days
before the occurrence there could not have been six inches of
water above the arch of the funnel.

Mr. George Fennell, an engineer in an extensive way of bu-
riness, stated that he had examined the boiler, and had no
earthly doubt, from its appearance, that the sole cause of ex-
plosion was a want of a proper supply of water, and the boiler
getting red hot. This witness th-mght it must have been
negligence of the person attending the engine not to have dis-
covered the want of water.

Mr. John Adams, a feather merchant, said he had two
engines on his premises, and the boiler to one of them had
burst in the same manner as that on the premises of Mr. John-
ston, and the cause could not be accounted for, though he as-
knowle iged Mr. Marshall had assigned as a cause that the
funnel was not quite circular.
Mr. John Marshall, boiler-maker and practical engineer,
gave evidence in corroboration of that given by Mr. Fennell.
The case having la,ted beyond the usual Court hour (five
o'clock), the prisoner was remanded, but admitted to bail in
two sureti.s of 110/. each, and himself in 2001.
Mr. Isaac Manvell, formerly a brewer, in a large way of
business at Homerton, but some time back engaged by Messrs.
Manners and Furze, of the King's Head Brewery, in Castle-
street, Whitechapel, was placed within the felon's bar on a
charge of embezzling moneys to a consideraWe amount belong•
ing to that firm.
It appeared that the prisoner was engaged by Messrs. Man-
ners and Furze as an agent, on an agreement that he was to
receive ten per cent. for all moneys received by him from his
connexion,i and an abatement on certain descriptions of malt
liquor. In April last he left the firm, and was succeeded by
his son, but from information which had reached the firm last
week they caused an investigation into his accounts, and dis-
covered that he had received money to a considerable amount
on account of the firm that he had not accounted for. Proof
being given of one account of 61. 17s. having been received by
him of which he had not rendered any account, he was re-
manded, but the Magistrates consented to take heavy bail for
his appearance on a future day.

A POLICEMAN SHOT BY THE REV._ JAS. BROGDEN.
—At one o'clock on Sunday morning the Rev. Jas. Brogden,
residing at Chilelwick-hall, near Harpenden-common, St.
Alban's, believing, as he alleges, that some thieves were on
his premises, posted himself at the up-stairs landing window
of his house, with his double-barrelled gun, commanding a side
view of the road. Police-constable Wintle, of the Herts con-
stabulary, was making his customary round of the premises,
when he beau' the report apparently of two guns from the
house. He immediately came up the Harpenden-road, leading
to the hall, a distance of sixteen yards from the outer gates,
when he received the contents of a gun in his face, and up-
wards of thirty shots in the scalp of his head, abdomen, and
ether parts of his body. He staggered several yards, and fell
bleeding to the ground from the wounds, exclaiming, " Oh !
Mr. Brogden, lam shot." The Rev. Gentleman immediately
alarmed the inmates, and every assistance was rendered, but
from the serious nature of the wounds, and on the surgeon's
recommendation, he was removed to the West Herts Infirmary,
where he lies in a very precarious state.
LORD DUNFERMLINE.—At the meetinz held in
Edinburgh on Wednesday, to take steps for establishing baths
for the working classes, Mr. Simpson, in seconding Lord Dun-
fermline's resolution, said--" He had great honour in being
placed is the same resolution with the Illustrious Nobleman who
had just addressed the meeting. There was no better friend to
the working man that he was acquainted with than the Noble
Lord. With the permission of the meeting, he would give a
striking proof of the great interest he took in their welfare,
by relatina• a circumstance which he learned a few years ago
from his own lips. When living in the neighbourhood of Ches•
terfield, his Lordship exerted himself to promote a Mechanics'
Insiitution for the benefit of the working men of the town, and
one evening he attended a meeting, where, such *vas the state
of accommodation, that the Noble Lord had to sit on an old
beer barrel.—( Laughter, and lohd cheering.) He was then
occupying one of the highest stations in the kingdom--the
Chair of the House of Commons—having a mace-bearer---( A
laugh) before, and a train-bearer behind him. (Loud
cheers ) Let the meeting judge of the honour which reflected
on so distinguished a Nobleman occupying a position so humble
as that to which he had alluded."—( Renewed cheering.)
TRADE OF DUBLIN.—On the Ist of January, last
year, the stock of sugar in the bonded warehouses of this port,
including East India, had been 18,280 cwt. This year, on the
same day, it amounted to 11,440 cwt., or 6,840 cwt. less.
During the year 1842, the quantity quoted here gave—from
the West Indies direct 126,338 cwt. ; from the same source,
but had coastwise from English and Scottish ports, 31,608 cwt. ;
of East India produce, direct, 2,233 cwt. ; coastwise, 17,963
cwt., giving a total of 178,139 cwt. The receipts for 1843,
from the West Indies direct were 148,900 cwt. ; coastwise,
14,228 cwt. ; East Indies direct, 11,247 cwt. ; coastwise,
4,213 cwt., making a total of 178,588 cwt., which shows an
increase in the receipts of the present year of 449 cwt. only.
The most pleasing feature of the synopsis is, that the 'direct im-
portation of sugar has increased on the last year 31,476 cwt.,
and the cross-channel trade has receded 31,00() cwt. ; thereby
giving promise of the revival of our own direct West India trade,
and the speedy decay of that branch of it which contributes to
make fortunes for the enterprising natives of the sister kingdom.
In reference to this subject, it is to be hoped that the few cargoes
of East India which are expected will soon arrive, and thereby
preclude the necessity for purchasing, at secf.nd-hand, from
our neighbours on the other side of the Channel, of this de-
scription of sugar, the consumption of which has increased so
much of late, it being required to mix off with the inferior
West Indian, the quality of which, coming into this port just
now, is very bad indeed. The total deliveries for home con-
sumption for the year before last had been 164,382 cwt. ; the
year just ended 168,659 cwt., giving but the trifling increase of
277 cwt. in favour of 1843, a circumstance which may be con-
sidered somewhat extraordinary when compared with the great
improvement in the revenue receipts of the port. The reason
why the consumption of raw sugar has not kept pace with the
other necessaries of the breakfast and tea-table arises from the
improved habits of the people, who are beginning to discover
the economy of confining their purchases of the article to what
has passed through the hands of the refiner, the trifling diffe-
rence in price being more than trebly compensated for in the
superior quality of the latter over the former. All the lump
sugar used in this country is manufactured in England and
Scotland, the duties on which are paid before shipment for Ire-
land.—Freeman's Journal.
A plot has been discovered amongst six of the pri-
soners of the borough gaol, to assassinate the Governor, Mr.
Owstcn, and effect their escape. This dark scheme was
brought to light by a prisoner named John Newman, convi,ted
last Monday (who has in consequence had his sentence of four
months remitted). The authorities have thought it conducive
to the ends of justice sot to furnish us at present with the par-
ticulars in detal—laciecater Mercury Ohio day).

CITY OF LONDON SESSIONS.
The sessions for the City commenced yestertlaY
the Recorder, Mr. Alderman Hurnphery, and Me.. Alder'
man Kelly.
The RECORDER having addressed the jury a number of a"
sault cases were disposed of, after which
Edwin. Bates was brought up from the Compter, where kie
had been confined since the 6th of last June, in default of fie l:
ing bail to keep the peace towards John Masterman, jun., "
well-known banker of Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street. before
The prisoner, who is a most respectable and gentlemanly/
looking young man, described himself as an artist, and steel'
t.he bail which he was required to find was two sureties
14,9/, each, and himself in 20u1. He said he was unable
get more than one person willing to become his surety, ell
to cei•ta;n transactions with the Northern and Eastern Collo
Railway, by
which he lost a deal of money. He was here
about to wt 'r .
into very lengthened details as to the nature .
those transamtb, 11
and the part which Mr. Masterman took '
them when,
The REeParn, . said, this was quite irrelevant to the matter
before the Court.
".curt then proceeded to read the sfg.
The Clerk of the a.
davit of Mr. Masternm.• It was a most voluminous doe %
frss ment, and nearly an ~:r was occupied in reading it. r'
'Tiber of letters addressed to tni
detailed the contents of a
deponent, by the prisoner ; and ‘. ben went on to state, that I
a matter of kindness, he had from time to time given stns °,
money to the prisoners in order to' .enable him to pursue b.:
°.
profession as an artist, until lie thotvg those donations
given as a matter of right. At lengti his demands beconuT
so frequent and importunate, the deoonent was eventoss
compelled to refuse to give him any m,sre. The letters Of
tained most dreadful threats against Mr:. Masterman 't ..17;
such sentences as the following appearing in them
are a moral butcher." You shall find' to your aorta
that. I am no coward "—" You are a murclaver in heart,,
your father, having other sons, he would not care if you wes,"'
shot, provided the honour of the family was kept ,'lear; old",
for myself, all that would happen to me for shootink7 woulo
to be shut up in a lunatic asylum." Several other esquallY 11"
lent expressions appeared in those letters.
Alderman HUMPHERY said, as the prisoner had ba___...en
brought before him, and he considered the life of Mr. 131-01`,11
man to a certain extent to be in danger, he had fixed the hi
so high. He now suggested that the prisoner should be bro
tig
before his Lordship to fix the amount of bail.
The prisoner said he hoped the Court would consider
months' imprisonment a sufficient punishmeat.
The RECORDER said the character of those letters 1c,!..
marked by such a strong spirit of wild revenge against all ,t"",
parties, by whom the prisoner imagined himself to have De 7;
injured in connection with his transactions with the Northes;
and Eastern Counties Railway, and more particularly airice
those who showed him most kindness, that it would be aL„'
of the greatest cruelty to Mr. Masterman, and the "--jo
would lie under an awful responsibility if any unfortuo'ci
event occurred were the Court not to grant him the proteclitt,
the law from an individual who had been capable of ot",S
such threats to any person. He (the Recorder) thought su
Mr. Masterman, in requiring the prisoner to find bail,
pursuing the most merciful course towards him. Under.
the circumstances of the case he thought the amount of Under
required in the first instance by the Lord Mayor was by
means exorbitant, and he should nut reduce it. that
The prisoner, who said when he was leaving the bae,,-be
his professional prospects by the course new adopted would
blasted for ever, as also his property ruined, was then Ow
back to prison.