The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-12 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. WALESEY, Deputy-Assistant Judge, and a
full Bench of Magistrates.)
The first September session under the recent Act
for the better administration of criminal justice in
the county of Middle3ex commenced on Tuesday, at
Hicks's-hall, Clerkenwell-green, before the Deputy-
Assistant Judge and an unusually full bench of Ma-
gistrates.
The calendar is numerically extremely heavy, con-
taining no fewer than 96 cases, of which 63 are in-
dictments for felony, whilst 33 are for misdemea-
nours, some of an important character.
The grand jury having been sworn,
The Deputy-Assistant JUDGE shortly addressed
them.

The cases which were disposed of in the course of
he day did not offer any feature of public interest.
During a temporary cessation, however,
Mr. PRENDERGAST said he trusted his Lordship
would permit him to make an application for the
postponement of a case wherein the defendant was in-
dicted for a nuisance. The case was entitled " The
Queen v. Thompson." The defendant was very ex-
tensively engaged as a brushmaker, and had a manu-
factory at Kentish-town. The prosecution was by a
gentleman of the bar of the name of Pike. The affi-
davit upon which he made the present application dis-
closed several most important facts in reference to the
circumstances of the case, and it was quite clear that
as the prosecution had for its object the stoppage of
his business, the proceedings were a life or death
matter so far as the defendant was concerned. There
was this singular fact, too, connected with the ewe—
that it was the first instance in which a brushmaker
bad been prosecuted for carrying on his trade. No
brushmaker had until now ever been indicted for a
nuisance. The ground upon lit bleb he moved for a
postponement of the case was the absence of a mate•
rial witness.
The Learned JUDGE asked whether there could be
any objection to a postponement ?
Mr. HORRY, who appeared on behalf of the prose-
cution, said there were very powerful objections.
Mr. PRENDERGAST begged to direct the attention
of the Learned Judge to the fact, that had the late
statute been still in force, the case could not have
been tried until the adjournment day, which would
have fallen just about the period at which the next ses-
sion would commence, so that in reality, although a
postponement was now asked for until the ensuing
session, the case would come on quite as early as
before the new Bill had come into operation.
The Learned JUDGE thought it was very early in
the session to make such an application, for the wit-
ness might be obtained ere it had concluded.
Mr. PRENDERGAST remarked, that the object in
making the application thus early was to relieve se-
veral professional witnesses from a probably unneces-
sary attendance for three or four days.
The JUDGE inquired of Mr. Horry what inconve-
nience could arise by the postponement ?
Mr. HORRY replied, that the inconvenience to tho
prosecution would be very great ; in addition to which
the nuisance—a nuisance of the most pernicious and
destructive character—would still be carried on. The
defendant was in the habit of using a preparation of
sulphur to, as he said, bleach the bristles of which
he made his brushes ; and he furthermore used, as
the Learned Counsel was understood to say, the chlo-
ride of arsenic in the construction of a peculiar de-
scription of fancy shaving-soap, as well as for another
purpose. The fumes which were the result of these
operations were of the most injurious character, and
spread themselves around the neighbourhood wherein
they were carried on with the most lamentable effects.
The object of the prosecution of course was to ac-
complish the removal of the nuisance as quickly as
possible, and any postponement would tend to delay
the achievement of so desirable an end. He was in-
structed that the defendant had removed this nuisance
from another place about two years since. With
respect to the ground upon which the postponement
was sought, he should submit that the affidavit did
not show the materiality of the evidence of the par-
ticular witness sufficiently even to justify the appli-
cation ; whilst, on the other hand, the prosecutor had
a witness who was now in the most dreadful state of
health, and who had lost her husband and daughter
from the operation of these poisonous fumes upon
their system.
Mr. PRENDERGAST here read an affidavit, which set
forth that the nuisance, if nuisance it were, had been
discontinued from the moment when the notice of
indictment had been served upon the defendant.
Eventually it was arranged that the trial should be
postponed until the next sessions, upon the under-
taking of the defendant not to renew his operations
during that period.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Yesterday James Lewis, a shoemaker, and Sarah
Lewis, his wife, a good-looking woman, were placed
at the bar before Mr. Broughton, charged with de-
serting their child, an infant six weeks old, whereby
it had become chargeable to the parish of Wrapping.
A 'woman named Mary Gray, living in Henry-
street, Commercial-road, stated, that while going for
her husband's supper beer, on the night of the 31st
of May last, when about five or six houses from her
own door her attention was drawn to the cries of a
child close against her feet, and on looking down she
saw a bundle lying upon the pavement, which turned
out to be a male infant six weeks old, rolled up in a
bundle of dirty rags. She called a stranger who was
passing at the time to witness the circumstance, and
that person went with her and the child to the sta-
tion-house, where, at the intercession of the constable
on duty, she agreed to take the infant home with her
ies of the Wapping
ta.nd keep it till the next morning, when the authori-
house, where it had rijemniaoinne"d'
drop-
ping of the
child, and they took it into their work-
ciaodilVillesor
DEAFNESS.
woodTELSoTdlgMermlaAiLdenfilreOarild,
Berke,
Sawyer, Esq., of Hay-
eerveeirnfsoirnmeee.d of the
Solo-
Another woman named Hannah Atthill, the wife of
ahweaver in Seabright-street, Commercial-road, said mons, 39, Albemarle-street, aGeSnil and
B.
been deaf for some time, I was induced, in the Gentlemen, i 1 having
of
last
at the two prisoners came to lodge at her house
February twelvemonth, and remained till the TeTbae_r! 1839, to make trial of your Invisible Voice Conductors,
31st of May last, when they left. On the Easter snear,,
Ittnhoaudgnhoalti my advanced age, at that time past my 77th
obtaining any relief, yet immediately I
Monday preceding their quitting her house the appliedy
them I ocPoelotlf
much
rchthe general conversation, and my
female prisoner was confined of a boy, and was acco• hearing has becomeu
so
aid.provedl baymtheiruse use, that I cal
modated with a box of linnen by a benevolent society now hear acutely without their',Gentlemen,l842.
of ladies in the neighbourhood. 'When the prisoners most obedient servant, J. Sawyer. 22d june
left their apartments they took away with them the tsisiate Henry Cowper, Esq,, of Tewen Waters, Herts, to
infant in question, and another child three years of for
man, S. and 81. Solomons :—Gentlemen, having been deaf
age. In consequence of having heard something Conducrorys.eallihe weansabl induced to try your Invisible Voice
with regard to the baby, she determined to question and at a place of wyorship most
eosmt me ?t pe4shoenss iencteocrinepany
al
the female prisoner the first time she saw her, and on Handglass which you have sent me Iris very excellent,pa andan
accidentally meeting her in the streets three weeks suitiant my_ sight perfectly, the transparency of which is so !mil-
ago asked her as to the health of the child, when the ma ~ that although I have passed my 86th year the 22d of
theY mat, yet they enable mo to read, and by candle- light, with
prisoner replied that it • 11 d was being was quite we ,an greatest ease and comfort to myself. I return you my best
taken care of by her sister. thanks, and remain
your obedient servant, Henry Cowper
The child was produced in Court by one of the 22d June, 1839.—Telescopes, Opera Glases, Microscop'e
workhouse nurses, and on being shown to the witness ' `S'c- of the same kind of Lenses.—Caution.—Messrs. S.alcll3. Sos-,
laomons, Opticians and Aurists, arc not in any way connected with
Atthill, she immediately identified it, from a mark on i
_person of the same name in their immediate neighbourhood.
its person, as being the infant the prisoner was con- , D.lor n any part of the country. To prevent mistakes, be cau-
fined with at her h - to h •
ouse ; and also swore having twits, and Ohserve,—Only to be had at 39, Albemarle-street,
seen the rags in which the little creature was found Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel.
wrapped up in the street in the apartments of the pri- IPSWICH GRAND STEEPLE CHASE.—We have I
as-
soners while living with her. certained, from good authority, that this steeple chase,
Two other witnesses, fellow-shopmen of the male which has been so long postponed in consequence of the
prited de,th of the late Lord Hill, wh.) was one ~f it,
,zonPr, deposed to conw,rs.ition, they had had with la"'
.
chief patron., will Cane off about tb,: 11,1.1,11,. of ti,o
ilia) '''''' 'i"• ' `i:‘. to the desertitm of the child, when
he told them it was Ja( nth ~f N_osel,i,..”. Seveval cr.tcic 114)1..c..4 01,. ..lit iii.
at the house or his brother, in Catherine-street Com and are now 41 training i and the arrangements which
, mercial-road, to whom he was are being made are upon such a footing, as cannot fail of
paying 3s. 6d. per week for its support. They had
insuring amusement to the lovers of this sport.—lpswica
suspicions AS to the truth of this statement, and' .E made .Express, '

Last evening the same coroner held an inquest at
the Rising Sun, Globe-road, Bethnal-green, on the
body of Mrs. Elizabeth Duncraft, aged 74. Mr.
George Frances, of No. 4, Chester-street, stated that
deceased lodged in his house. On Sunday evening
witness's daughter went out to spend the evening, and
in consequence (,f the rain was detained till a late
hour. The deceased hearing her knock at the door,
got up for the purpose of letting her in, and whilst
in the act of descending the stairs she fell headlong
to the bottom. Witness immediately went to her as-
sistance, when he found her head doubled up beneath
her body, and bleeding profusely from her nose and
mouth. Mr. Griffiths, a surgeon, was sent for, but
she expired before his arrival. Verdict, "Accidental
Death.