The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-21 00:00:00

SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY.

The work for this railway is making considerable
progress in St. Thomas by the contractors, Messrs.
Carpenter and Co., who have the first six miles in
hand. The Alphington-road will be crossed at the
turnpike by a skew-bridge, the width of which will
he 13 feet in the clear, the parapet walls will be three
feet in height, and each 18 inches in thickness, giving
an entire breadth of 16 feet. The public roadway
under the main arch (which is to be 26 feet wide)
will have an altitude of 164- feet, and there is to be
a footpath seven feet in the clear. The viaduct
by which the railway is to be carried over
the Old Okehampton-road and Cowick-street, which
is fast approaching completion, will be of similar
breadth and parapets as well as altitude with
the Skew-bridge ; and the line of railway will
occupy a clear width of 13 feet. A further and larger
portion of the cliff at Dawlish has been removed by
means of gunpowder. Mr. Brunel came down to
superintend the operation, and many gentlemen,
directors, engineers, &c., connected with the South
Devon Railway, were present. The charge was the
enormous quantity of 1,6001b5. of gunpowder, and
the operation is stated to have been complete, an im-
mense portion of the cliff yielding to the power thus
applied, and falling in mi2ute fragments.
The sea wall at the east end of Dawlish beach is
now in course of construction.

On the night of Tuesday all the trench executed
for the foundations, which vary from 8 to 10 feet
below the surface of the beach, was filled up.
It is stated that the South Devon Company have
consented.to take 1,000 shares in the Plymouth and
Tavistock line ; and also that hopes were held out to
the Launceston depu!ation that their application
would be favourably entertained. There can be
little doubt that the object in view in these proceed-
ings have been to give encouragement to the line
from Launceston to Plymouth via Tavistock, as the
South Devon Railway thereby expect to obtain a
" feeder," and the formation of the Plymouth and
Falmouth line simultaneously with the Plymouth and
Launceston line, will make Plymouth the centre of
the termini of all these railways.—Plymouth Journal.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, OCT. 18.—The raw
sugar-market has been quiet this week, and the tran-
sactions have been unimportant ' • former rates are
about supported, and fine descriptions con-
tinue scarce. The first cargo of Valentia raisins
has arrived here during the week ; the quality
is very indifferent, and the fruit small • but as the stock
of old raisins was completely exhausted, the buyers are
taking a few to supply immediate wants at 48s. to 515.,
fully expecting, and with reason, that priees, with the
imp9rts, must decline several shillings.—Bristol Mercury.
DEATH OF A POACHER, WHILST IN SEARCH OF
GAME.—An inquest was held on Wednesday evening.
at Northern Etchells, Lancashire, on the body of a
notorious poacher, named Joseph enshall, aged twenty-
six, who died from the loss of blood, occasioned by
the accidental discharge of his own gun, whilst poach-
ing on the Sabbath-day. The case excited considerable
interest amongst the agriculturists and the neighbour-
hood, from the circumstance that the family of the un-
fortunate deceased had suffered considerably in conse-
quence of offending against the game-laws, a brother
of the deceased having been hung at Chester, about fif-
teen years ago, for an attack upon one of Lord: Stam-
ford's gamekeepers at Dunham Massey, in this county.
During the present inquiry many questions were put to
the witness by the coroner and jury as to the observ-
ance of the Sabbath by the families of the labouring
population among whom the deceased lived, and whe-
ther the clergymen, of whom there were two
(the rector of Northern, and the incumbent of Ringway
Chapel of ease), were in the habit of visiting the houses
of the inhabitants for the purpose of instructing them
as to their duties on the Sunday. The resident mi-
nisters of the Wesleyan body of Christians were alluded
to with the object of showing a neglect of their spi-
ritual duties amongst the labouring poor. It was ad-
mitted that the deceased's father had • resided in the
township near forty years, but had been visited only
once by either a clergyman or a minister of the gospel ;
and that none of the family had been in the habit
of attending a place of worship. We extract the follow:
ing evidence :—" David Pilgrim, a small farmer, said—
I was at Henshall's house on Sunday morning last, and
went out with deceased, who said he would look
if he could see a hare. I told him where I had seen
a hare, and he said, ' I'll take thy gun and fetch
the hare.' We were at my house then, and my
wife said, Dunna take it, Joe, there'll be
summat amiss ; ' and my daughter also desired him
not! to take it. Deceased replied to the latter, Do
thee hold thy noise, it's neut to thee.' He pulled the
gun in pieces, gave the stock to me, and put the barrel
up the side of his jacket. We then went across a field
of mine, where I gave him the stock, and left him. I
met Broadhurst, the gamekeeper, and walked with him.
Did not hear any report of a gun. I have got my gun
back; it was found in the same field where I parted with
deceased. I don't go regularly to any place of worship;
but my family sometimes go to Ringway Chapel."
CHEAP RAILWAY TRIPS.—One of the northern
papers calculates that no less a sum than 10,0001. was
spent by a recent pleasure trip party from the
North to London, including the money expended in
the metropolis during the few days' stay.---Railway
Record.

BELANEY.—This notorious character visited this
city within the last few days, for the purpose of proving
the will of his unfortunate wife; in the Consistorial Court
of tho Dikhop of Durham.—Durham Chronicle.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(SATURDAY.)
GUILDHALL.

James Thomas Hamatty, a clerk at Messrs. Morri-
son, Dillon, and Co.'s, the haberdashers, Fore-stmt,
was brought before Mr. Alderman Kelly, charged
with embezzling 1301. Mr. Humphreys and Mx.
Ashurst attended on behalf of the prosecutors.
Mr. Humphreys explained the nature of the charge,
and said he was apprehensive the case he should make
out that day was not the only one, and he should re-
quire time for further inquiry.
Mr. Edmett, a linendraper at Maidstone, proved
that he sent the sum of 1301. in notes, by halves, %a-
warded on the 23d and 24th of September to es srs.
Morrison and Co. He received a letter acknowledg-
ing the receipt of the money, which he produced.
Mr. Dillon said the letter acknowledging the receipt
was partly printed, but filled up in manuscript and
signed by the prisoner. It should have been signed
by witness, and then he should have seen that the
money was entered in the cash book. The prisone r
had entered the receipt in the memorandum book
upon receiving the first halves, but he had omitted to
account in the cash book upon receiving the counter-
parts of the notes. It was his duty to have entered
it in the cash book.

The prisoner, who offered no: defence, was re-
manded till the 30th instant.
WORSHIP -STREET.
Samuel Edge, a tall, thin personage, and Charlotte
Edge, his wife, were brought before the Magistrate
by Sergeant Dubois, and charged with being part of
the very numerous gang of swindlers who have del-
frauded tradespeople to an almost incredible extent in
all parts of the metropolis and environs, and two
parties, of whom seven or eight in numbhr are al-
ready in custody, at this Couri, upon many charges,
The female prisoner was first charged with having
been concerned with Henry Miller and Sarah Dewar„
alias Miller, his reputed wife, in obtaining no less than
seventeen very expensive bonnets, from Mr. Feats, a
tradesman at Hammersmith.

Miller and the woman Dewar, who passed as his
wife, had hired one of a set of cottages in that neigh-
bourhood, called Peter's-cottages, for three years cer-
tain, but after a few weeks' occupation, during which
they kept up a dashing appearance, and gave extensive
orders to all the neighbouring tradespeople, they shut
tip the house and removed away clandestinely in the
night-time, and afterwards sent the keys to the lodg-
ing by another of the gang named Smith, jun., who
had the impudence to demand a sovereign for his
trouble in delivering them, but was given into custody
and the keys taken from him. The day before they
so disappeared they obtained the seventeen bonnets
from the shop of Mr. Peat, and upon their apprehen-
sion lately in Harvey-street, Hoxton, two of the
bonnets were found in their possession, together with
a variety of silk and other dresses, false fronts and
ringlets, &c., in which the females of the gang were
in the habit of disguising themselves in their preda-
tory visits to the different tradespeople whom they
victimised.

Mary Anne Gibbins, shopwoman to Mr. Peat,
identified the female prisoner now at the bar as having
enacted the part of servant to the others at Peter's-
cottages, and received the bonnets.
The two prisoners were then charged with having
been concerned with the others in defrauding Mr.
Mussared, at Hammersmith, of boots and shoes.
Miller and the male prisoner, whom he introduced
as his nephew, first ordered boots and shoes for them-
selves, and when they were taken to the cottage fur-
ther orders were given for the females of the family,
and a number of pairs of boots and shoes supplied,
after which another order was given for some more,
which were to be delivered by a particular day, but
before the time arrived the whole party had dis-
appeared.
Mr. BaouwsroN remanded the two prisoners for
re-examination with the others.