The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-15 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

SENTENCES AND SESSIONAL RESULTS.
Subjoined are specified the principal sentences pasted upon
the convicts at the late session : _ _ _ _

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Death.—Sentenced to die—James Tapping (for murder).
Transportation—The under-named convicts were ordered to
be banished beyond the sea for the periods set against their
respective names :
For Seven Years—C. Howard, G. Saville, W. Alexander,
Elizabeth Knowles, Mary L. Murphy, C. Browne, G. Whis-
ton, N. North, W. Smith, .1. Case, F. World, 0. Ward, W.
Smith, W. Brightwell, J. Carpenter, J. Brewer, H. Martin,
R. Brewster, J. Stafford, P. Bowden, .1. Murphy, .L Stepney,
W. Stewart.
Ten Years—H. Onley, Eliza Peach, alias Frazer, Elizabeth
Norman, T. Shew, alias Shay, T. Payne, J. Andrews, T.
Wright, E. Smith, M. Grimes, E. Rowland, T. Grant, W.
Webb, J. Howell, H. Smith. R. Franklin, J. Williams.
Fifteen Years—Ann Wilson, alias Pridon (for attempted
murder); D. H. Donney, J. Nightingale, It. Elliot.
Camplin (for rape)
Imprisonment, &c.—The under-named were sentenced to
hard labour in the House of Correction, for the counties,
wherein their offences were alleged to have been committed
One Year—G. Jennings, alias Cummins, alias Davis, J.
King, alias Collins, J. Cummins Clements, Susan Paulo, J.
James, W. Wallace, T. D. NeTio7l, W. Freeman, G. Hilary
P. Smith, T. Carter, W. Evans.
Nine Montl4--Carain R. 11. Smitil, Eaviatav,

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Six Months—Elizabeth Montgomery, Maria liothins, Maria
Clark, Eliza Emery, J. Josephs, W. Sl•Donald, E. 13rin,ht, .1.
Murray, E. IN alker, .1. Owen, W. Britton, 11. Somers, G.
M‘Carty, G. Brown, J. Jones, J. Carroll, 3. M‘Gee, W.
Ward, G. Smith, B. Gray, John Smith, 11. Wade.
Four Months—Mary Ann Smith, Louisa Wilkins, Maria
Pearce. J. Perfect, Margaret Sullivan, .1. Brown, W. Bow.
den, W. G. Rutter, H. Dickenson, G. Ward, 'l'. Akers, J.
Morgan, J. Nash.
Three Months—Amelia Mayden, Mary Davis, Ann Brown,
Sarah Slater, Jane Caney, Eliza Bond, NV. 0. Thomas, J. C.
Clarke, J. Dunn, J. Beale, J. Alkars, J. Collins, M. Brown,
C. Phillips. J. James, R. Alwin„T. Bland, C. Cockbill. J.
Wootton, G. Norman.
MINOR SENTENCES AND OTHER ADJUDICATIONS.
Acquitted, 38 ; ignored, 3; pleaded, 30; whipped, 3 ;
2 ; surrendered, 6 ; discharged, 3 ; two months, 8 ; six weeks,
1 ; one month, 2 ' three weeks, 2 ; fourteen days and under, 7 ;
judgments respited, 5; traversed, 3. Comparative ages of the
prisoners:—Between 10 and 20, 60; 20 and 30, i 0; 30 and
40, 27 ; 40 and 50, 9 ; 50 and 60, 5 ; 60 and 70, 2 ; 70 and
80, 4. London committala, 40 ; Middlesex, 92 ; Surrey, 32;
Kent, 7 ; Essex, 5 : total, 176.
The Court, at its rising, adjourned to Monday, the ith of
April next.

I.llAins or HoNouit.—A new historical novel is
announced as immediately forthcoming, under the above
title, which will afford, we understand, a mcst extraor-
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are said to convey the most singular revelations respect-
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dramatis persona. Among them are the Court Beauties,
who give the title to the work, together with the Royal
Family, the Ministers, and the various great officers of
the Palace, and some of the leading characters, fashion-
able and literary, of the period, which is perhaps one of
the most striking in our social history. Much curiosity
has been excited respecting the authorship of the work,
which, fJr obvious reasons, has beer► studiously con-
cealed.

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THE ALLEGED ATTEMrT TO SHOOT PRINCE AL•
nEnT.—As many reports are at present afloat regarding this
alleged attempt to assassinate his Royal Highness Prince
Albert on Tuesday last, and these reports are all exaggera-
tions, it becomes necessary to disabuse the public mind, and
state the real facts of the case, which are these :—The Prince
left the Palace on horseback by the garden gate shortly after
12 o'clock on Tuesday noon, attended by Sir E. Bowater
(Equerry in Waiting) and a groom. The Prince had
proceeded about half way up Constitution-hill, when a
man, who was standing on the pathway, presented a pistol
(as it is alleged) at his Royal Highness. There appeared
to be no attempt made to discharge it, and the action was
unobserved both by the Prince and his Equerry., but Colonel
Knight, of 29, St. James's-place, and a Mr. Arnold were on
the spot at the time, and having observed what passed noti-
tied the same to Sir Edward Bowater. The man who had
the pistol walked on towards Buckingham Palace, as did a
man who was with Win. Sir Edward Bowater. dis-
patched the Prince's groom in search of a policeman, but
he failed to meet with one until he had reached Hyde park
corner, when he called police-constable Bolton, 57 1;' to 116
assistance and took that officer with him to the Prince's
Equerry. Sir Edward described the appearance of the man
to the policeman, as did Colonel Knight and Mr. Arnold.
These gentlemen also accompanied the constable in search of
the man. Ile was traced, through the information of one or
the park gardeners, to the little gate by the Duke of gaiter-
land's mansion, but here all further trace was lost. Th.
man was described as being from eighteen to twenty years
of age, about five feet six inches high, of sallow complexion,
with brown hair; he was dressed as a decent mechanic. The
constable continued his search until he reached the Mime
Guards, where he apprehended a man somewhat an-
swering the description given him, and took hint to
Sir Edward Bowater. That gentleman at once dis-
covered that he was net the individual who presented
the pistol, and he was immediately set at liberty. All
further inquiry has proved fruitless. A description was
dispatched by route to the different police-stations. The
opinion of those acquainted with the fact is, that even sup-
posing that a man did present a real pistol at. the Prince, it
was done without any evil motive. The Police Commis-
sioners have, in consequence of this occurrence, placed an
extra constable on duty on Constitution-hill. It is a singular
coincidence that on Monday night, about a quarter to twelve
o'clock, as the Queen was returning from the French Plays,
and in the act of entering the Palace gates, a woman threw
herself on her knees before the carriage, and called out,
"Queen Victoria, save your country I" The woman was re-
moved in custody immediately. It was a miracle that she
escaped with her life, as the horses were all but trampling on
her, when the coachman pulled up. It appears this woman,
who is about forty years of age, Irish by birth, and resides
in the low part of Westminster, is well known to the police
and soldiers on duty at the Palace, and has been many times
driven away from the Palace gates. She was taken to the
station house in Gardiner's-lane, but after a short confine-
ment was set at liberty.
METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—The whole of the
old Fleet Ditch, so long allowed to remain open as a prolific
source of miasma and fever to the crowded districts iu the
neighbourhood of Cow-cross, on the line of the new street
from Farringdon-street, has been covered over, so that not
a vestige of the old river now remains. Great activity pre-
vails in the formation of the new street from Spitalfields to
the London Docks, the whole of the houses in the line being
pulled down, and the ground made ready for the erection of
new buildings. The part between Whitechapel and Spital-
fields has been paved, the road is being made, and the gas
• lamps have been erected. Au appropriate site, near Went-
' worth-street, adjoining the line, is spoken of for the erection
of a new district church. At the upper part of the line form-
ing Leman-street the road is traversed by the Blackwall
• Railway, over an iron bridge. In Leicester-square, the last
house in the new street is levelled with the ground, and it
is expected the road willbe opened for traffic in about another
month.