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London, England, 1844-06-15 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Averagt Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the
week ending June 11, 1844, is 345. 111. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FRO3Z THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—The debate on Sir Robert Peel's Currency
plan was well sustained last night on both sides. We
have not space at present to weigh the arguments intro-
duced in it ; but there is one point—the continual re-
currence to the case of America—which, we think,
requires. notice. Sir B. Peel asks, " Why should the
example of the United States be inapplicable to this
country ?" Just because the main moral ingredients are
materially different. The United States have figured re-
peatedly as a confederacy of public and pri vat e speculat ors.
not on their own funds, or their own internal credit—but
on the grand delusion which flourished in Europe re-
specting the certainty and immensity of American profits.
°mug ignotum pro magnifico —the fact that industry can
thrive upon new soils was magnified into the idea that
capital can find its best investments in new countries.
This general delusion—for such it is—and the best
exposure of it, by, the way, has been written by an
American, Mr. Carey—was naturally encouraged by
the contagious effect of Brother Jonathan's sanguine
self-confidence, and by the reckless speculations in prema-
ture public works which the States became borrowers to
execute. Such were the circumstances which distin-
guished the case of America from that of our own
country. The moral (or immoral) spring of unlimited
credit depended not on particular instruments. The
American credit system was a mere conduit-pipe for ad-
vances and investments in the wildest schemes ; and
when these proved bubbles, the collapse of the banking
channels and reservoirs for the funcrs of dupes followed
as a matter of course.

STANDARD.—Lord Monteagle and Mr. Benjamin
Hawes last night obliged the two Houses of Parliament
and the country by producing two of the longest and
least readable debates of the session. Lord Monteagle's
motion was for a Committee on the import duties—
a Committee on the import duties, to commence its
labours on the 14th of June !—while Mr. Hawes
let loose his eloquence against Sir Robert Peel's
Bank Charter proposition. Lord Monteagle's Fro-
position was rejected by a majority of 184 to 175,
Mr. Hawes's by a majority of 185 to 30. Lord
Monteagle's financial talents have been tested by office.
and are, we can assure him, very justly appreciated
by an intelligent public, now making good his deficits
by property-tax payments. Mr. Hawes, unluckily
for himself, but we think fortunate'y for the
public,
has had no official trial, but he has
spoken quite enough in Parliament to exhibit the
measure of his abilities. But what of these things ?
Lord Monteagle had his night, though sure of being
beaten by a majority of no less than 109 ; Mr. Hawes,
his night, in the face of a certain majority of 155 against
him. Time has been called " the enemy," by visitors
at country seats in rainy weather, recruiting-officers in
country towns, and other compelled idlers ; per-
haps ousted officials and disappointed aspirants
to office have something of the same ill-will
to the veeerable scythe-bearer. Manifold are the
contrivances by which those to NV hom time is " the
enemy" prosecute their hostility against him ; but.of all
these contrivances, give us a good financial or commer-
cial debate in Parliament as incomparably the most
efficacious. and, as the examples of Lord Monteagle
and Mr. Hawes demonstrate, it is a resource available
to " the meanest capacity, " as the cheap school
books boast themselves. Sir Robert Walpole used
to apologise for permitting and even encouraging
very coarse conversation at his table by saying, that
it was his business to set all his guests at ease,
and that there were certain subjects upon which
every one, ignorant op„jdockhead as he might be, fancied
that he could shine.Vlt is pretty much the same with
financial and commercial questions in Parliament ; . upon
them, every ignorant blockhead thinks himse'f qualified
to shine. Let us not, however, be ungrateful ; the ma-
nufacturers of long debates are great benefactors to news-
paper writers, whatever may be the effeet of their favours
upon newspaper readers—like those votaries of the Muses,
of whom Pope says that they
.are
" Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep."
Statesmen of the Hume, Hawes, Ward, and Williams
class are

" Restless themselves, to girt the journals rest."
Their long-winded inanities load our columns, but leave
us nothing to remark upon. A very convenient disposi-
tion of things, and one of which we avail ourselves to-
day,' to tho extent of leaving the two debates to the
judgment of our readers, with but one word of re-
mark, and that refers to a speech in the House of
Lords, which, like Sir Robert Peel's speech in the Com-
mons, was au exception to the dreary dulness of the
night's debates in both Houses—we allude to the speech
of the Duke of Richmond. His Glace objected to the
course of Sir Robert Peel's Government as tending
" bit by bit" towards free trade. Now, we think that
the highest praise that can be rendered to any British
Government is that it gradually tends towards
free trade, in preci3ely that way in which Sir
Robert Peel's Government tends, viz., by making protec-
tion unnecessary, but retaining it while any necessity for it
exists. To retain protection for any interest one day
after that interest ceases to want protection, is to injure,
not to serve that interest ; to injure it not merely by the
effect of an invidious distinction, but by destroying in it
the spring of enterprise. It is by protecting an industrious '
commercial pursuit up to that point at which it can main-
tainitself by the utmost exertion, but not beyond that
point, that the pursuit in question will be carried to com-
plete perfection. We do not, for example, consider that we
are too sanguine in anticipating a period not dis •
tent when England shall be a country constantly
exporting corn ; and when that time shall arrive
we , have the opinion of the late Mr. Rothschild
for
.the cpulustoti—ra vonclusion to which,
.inclevd,

common serve would conduct without any autho-
rity—that England must absorb all the wealth of
the world. Bat we need not say that if the prices
of corn were maintained at an extravagant point,
by very high protective- duties, the transition
to Con:lnental prices could scarcely Le effect-
ed, notWithAanding, or becauso of, a surplus
produce, but at the expense of general ruin, while it is
perfectly plain that without some protection, the agricul-
ture of the country, instead of advancing, so as to enable
us to export, must rapidly retrograde. "The bit by bit"
tendency to free trade is, therefore, so far from being re-
pugnant to protection, that it is the necessary and ss hole-
so,„ sequel to protection. The most zcaluus advocates of
protection, and few have been more sincere or zealous
than ourselves, claim protection as necessary to augment
the productive power of- the country. Wed, when this
productil e power has been carried to the degree that
competition may be defied, ought you not to throw away
the protection, upon the same principle on which the in-
fant's go-cart is hung up when it is able to walk ?

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEENS BENCH, June 14.
• Lord Denman sat at Nisi Prius this morning with a
Middlesex Common Jury. No-case of any importance came
on during the morning. In the case of the Queen r. Timson,
a verdict- of acquittal was taken without going into the case
tin- the prosecution.

COURT OF EXCISk June 1.3.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Sitriussox, Chairman, Sir J.

MonmocK, and Mr. Commissioner FlAnrusoti%)
George Epituux, a Swiss, residing at 36, Old Conipton-streeti
Soho, was charged with - retailing spirits without a license.
The defendant kept a fashionable cafe.
Two Excise officers proved that they visited the defend •
ant on the 3d of April last, and found several persons eating
and drinking in the house. They called fer a glass of brandy
and water, which was mixed in a small room adjoining. The
waiter took the precaution to ask for the money before
serving the witnesses, but another officer watched outside
to prove that it was not fetched from any neighbouring
public-house.
The defendant urged that he was a native of Switzerland,
and ignorant of the English law, which he had broken through
inadvertance.—Fined 5/.

Alexander Rannez, a tobacconist and billiard-room-keeper,
residing at 17, Frith-street, Soho, was charged with a similar
offence.

The case was fully proved, and the defendant having been
convicted before, was fined 101.
John Kerrin, a licensed dealer in tobacco, residing at 2,
Budge-row, was tined 101. for writing over his door that he
was a licensed dealer in foreign wines, spirits, and tobacco.
Several witnesses proved that he had never taken uut a
wale or spirit license.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Baron qeftNEY and Mr. Justice WILT.TAMS.)
THE ALLEGED JOBBERY AT BUCKINGHAM

PALACE.

At the sitting of the -Court yesterday,
The SomerrOn-GENERAL said, that in the case of the
prisoners Lindsays, who were yesterday tried and acquitted,
they having been charged with committing a robbery at
Buckingham Palace, two ether indictments had been pre-
ferred, but as the oltject of the prosecution had been to have
the facts of the case publicly and thoroughly- investigated, he
considered that he would be but exercising a sound discretion
in not proceeding with evidence upon the other indictments
against the prisoners.
The prisoners were then removed into the New Court,
where, by the direction of the Learned Judge, the jury re-
turned a verdict of Not Guilty, against them, and they were
immediately afterwards discharged.
THE MURDER AT BATTERSEA. •
Augustus _Mamas who stands charged with the murder of
Sarah Eleanor 11Piarlane, on the night of the 29th of April
last, by cutting her throat upon Battersea-bridge, was now
brought into Court and placed at the bar. The prisoner has
much improved in appearance since his confinement. He
looked very confident, and listened with great attention
while the indictment was being read over; and while the So-
licitor-General opened the case to the jury, he paid the most
marked attention to every statement advanced by the Learned
Gentleman. He •was vitry neatly dressed in a blue frock.
coat, buttoned to the chin. • •
The SOLIMOIt-GENERAL said that it would be necessary
for him to entreat the jury's patient deliberation to the very
heavy charge which was preferred against the prisoner. He
was quite aware that they-knew their duty too well, not to
discard any preconceived opinions, which they might be in-
clined to receive from the statements which had appeared
from time to time in the public prints. He begged to remind
them that the prisoner at the bar was a Frenchman, who was
a widower, with four daughters; and during the life of his
wife, used to live next door to the female Sarah Eleanor
M'Farlane, into whose death • they were that day to inquire.
After his wife's death, an affection of the most ardent cha-
racter seemed to have sprung up between the prisoner and
deceased; and it would be part of his duty to put certain
letters before the Court, which were written, in the most
affectionate terms, the prisoner in them frequently address-
ing her as his " dearest Sarah." The Learned Gentle-
man then briefly recapitulated the chief hatures of
the evidence already adduced before the magistrates,
and he dwelt particularly on the fact of the prisoner's being
with the deceased iih the night of the murder ; the dress of
both, and the remarkable words used by them on their way
to the bridge. The various movements -of the prisoner after
the death of the unfortunate woman were next alluded to,
from the tittle of his calling upon his daughter in Montpelier-
square to the period of his surrendering himself at the police
station-house in Marylebone-lane. He would, with this
brief recital of the facts of the case, proceed to call the wit-
nesses before them. He was convinced they would give the
case their best attention, and whatever mightbe their verdict
he was certain that that verdict would be founded in justice.
The Learned Gentleman then culled

Mr. William Pare ins, who was examined by Mr. BODKIN—
] a-m a goldsmith, and reside at No. 8, Albion-terrace, King's-
road. Chelsea. 1 n-as
.out in the night of the 29th April, and
while crossing the bridge observed the female coming in the
direction from Chelsea. She came up and caught hold of
Me, and said," Will you assist me to the toll-house ?" She
reeled in such a manner ;Pat I thought she was tipsey, and I
said, a Why, my good woman, what's the matter?" She
saw the person who keeps the toll, and ran over to him. I
observed her fall at the toll-house, and looking at my own
right-hand I found it covered with blood. I followed to the
toll-house, and observed, " Good God, the woman's throat is
cut." The alarm was given, and several persons came up;
one said, " Its Mrs. M'Farlane," and another added, "Then
Dalmas has done it." A Mr. Mullins and another gentleman
ran for a doctor. She was afterwards carried to the passage
of the Swan Tavern, and while lying in the passage I said,
" She will bleed to death ; she is dying." I saw Langton,
the officer, and •Mr. Gosling, the landlord of the Swan, there.
The woman was bleeding profusely.
Mr. Baron Gueeiar—Did she make any exclamation ?
Witness—Only " Oh dear 1" my Lord.
Mr. Baron GURNEY—How long did she live after the police-
man arrived? Witness—Abeut five minutes, my Lord.
By Mr. BoDietx—l did not hear the woman say anything
else.
Cross-examined by Mr. Weenters—gad not Mr. Mullins
a broad brimmed hat on, and a dark coat ? Yes.
Mr. Baron GunxEY—ls that Mr. Mullins here ?—He is
outside the Court.
William Gosling—l am landlord of the Swan Inn, and on
the night of the 29th April the deceased female was brought
in and laid down in my passage. Many persons came in
with her, and some remarks passed, that ". she would bleed
Langton, the policeman,
wounded female appeared
awtotatesdnettaiiioteltrii—e,ttoruh:.til
asstht
oesohpee, stwasaoi
ddv.3e•rillihg,
hear:,
he requested her to pay
then to be sensible enough, and aware of what was going on.
By Mr.Wiemees—l heard a person say, "get assistance or
she will bleed to death." That was before Langton put the
questions to her.
Mr. Justice Wieentees—Why do you think that the woman
understood what was passing about
_her? Witness—From
the answers she returned to the questions.
Frederick Langton, 36 V.—l heard a cry of police from
the bridge,
rentedhrotahte,reto which a handkerchief was.
can't' dinh hastened J observed the woman, and
she had a
pressed. When she was being removed, the handkerchief
fell ofr, and I do not remember whether I applied it to the-
wound again. She was carried into the Swan. I looked in
her face, and she appeared to me as if she wanted to say
something to me. 1 put four questions. to her, and obtained
an answer to each of them. he lived five or six minutes
after answering the last. She spoke very lowly, but very
distinctly. Her voice appeared more faint when she answered
the last question.
By Mr. Weeictss—l did not hear any person say, " Get
help, or the woman will die."
Mr. WILKIXS submitted to the Bench that the evidence
adduced was inadmissible, because it would be necessary to
prove, not that the woman was in a dying state, or that
she died in five or six weeks, but that she thought she was
de ing. He thought the expression, " Get help, or the woman
will die," was calculated to encourage the hope that if such
assistance was found, death could be avoided. On these
grounds he submitted the evidence could not be received.
Mr. ALLEVN followed on the same side, and cited an
opinion of Mr. Justice Coleridge to the effect—
Mr. Baron GURNEY thought the present too doubtful a case
to admit of the evitlenceetendereel ne to the female's con-
sciousness of wbat was passing.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS coincided in the of expressed
by his learned brother.
Thomas Hall—l am tollman at Battersea-bridge, and saw
the woman at the toll-house on the night of the 29th of
April. She was wounded, and kept repeating "Oh dear, oh j
dear." I saw her on that same evening about six o'clock
pass across to Chelsea, accompanied by theprisoner's youngest j
daughter Augusta. I know a man Cook, and saw him on the
bridge that night.
Mr. WILLIANIS—Did you not deny before the magistrate
that you had seen Cook? Witness—l did, Sir.
By:. Mr. Baron Guaxay—The reason I denied having seen
Cook was that I did not know the man's name, although I
had known him personally for upwards of seven years.
Frances Scott., housekeeper to Mrs. D'Oyley, No. 9, Bol-
ton-place, Chelsea—On the night of the murder the deceased
called, accompanied by the prisoner's yq,ungest daughter,
who was going to enter into Mrs. D'Oyley's service. The
deceased waited about ten minutes and was in good spirits,
laughing and joking till she 'went away. I observed a man
waiting outside ; he appeared as if waiting for some one.
Sergeant Lynes, 5 V. was on duty in Bolton-row, and ob-
served a man waiting in front of No. 9,from twenty minutes
past eight till a quarter to nine. He saw the woman come out,
and she joined the man, and they walked away arm-in-arm,
in the direction of the Queen's Elms. The prisoner at the bar
is that man. Ire had on a dark coat and broad-brimmed hat.
Elizabeth Chaplin, examined by Mr. CHAMBERS—I was
barmaid of the Stag Tavern, Fulham-road, on the night of
the 29th of April. I saw a man and woman come in. The
prisoner is the man, and he had often been at our house in
company with the same female before. They waited but a
short time and had a quartern of gin and cloves. The female
was middle aged, well-dressed, and was altogether a genteel
little woman.
Mary Ann Williams, exemined by the Sotscrron-GENERAL
—I live at the toll-house, Lands End, Fulham. On the
night of the 29th of April, I was on the Chelsea side of Bat-
tersea-bridge, and I saw a man and woman standing there.
The prisoner is the man. They were standing still, and con-
tinued standing for some time. I left for Fulham, and they
still waited there.
By Mr. Wiruxs—Did you not say to the policeman, in the
first instance, that you did not see the prisoner's face at all?
—No, I did not. I saw his face side ways. The hour was about
twenty minutes before ten. I never had seen the man before
I was standing there myself waiting for a female.
Richard Parsons, examined by Mr. Boiene—l keep the
King William the Fourth, beer-shop, King's-road, Chelsea.
On the night of the 29th of April, about twenty minutes past
nine, a man and woman came in, and had a pint of porter.
I saw the body of the female on the Sunday after, and it
struck me that she it was, who had been in on the night
of the 29th. .I did not notice the man sufficiently to know
him again. I recognised the prisoner w .en standing in the
crowd, in Wandsworth Police-court, as the man who had
been in my house with the woman. I did not know when I
pointed out the man that he was a prisoner.
.. Elizabeth Itleangham,. by Mr. Qualuamae—l am a drew

maker, and rceollectittg standing outside with the waiter of
the White Hart, about twenty minutes after ten, on the
night of the 29th April. I saw a man and woman passing.
I heard the woman say, "she could not stop out that night."
I recognised her when I saw her lying dead as a person I. had
formerly known. I had known her some seven or eight
years ago. I thought by her dress it was she who had passed
on that night. I stated at the Wandsworth Police-court,
and I say now, that he is the man who passed with the
female.

Edmund Rogers examined by the SOLWITOR-GENERAL—
I am a waiter at the White Ilart, and while standing with
the last witness I observed a man and woman passing in the
direction of the bridge. I heard the man say, " Will you
po there to-night ?" and the woman said, "go, I can't go
t -night." I would not know them agair.
Rebecca Seward—l was, on the night of the murder, coming
down Beaufort-row into Duke-street, and saw a man and
woman there. They were near the railings that, lead to the
bridge. The hour was about half- past ten. The woman had
on a light dress and bonnet, and a dark shawl. I heard
the man say to the woman in a loud voice, " And so you
won't ?" 1' thought he spoke very angrily.
Wm. Evans examined by Mr. CITAMBEES—On the night
of the 29th April I was on the Surrey side of Battersea-.
bridge, and saw a man and woman standing on the crown
arch of the bridge. In a minute or two I heard a scream. I
was at the moment looking another way, but I immediately
looked ty and observed the woman running towards the toll-
h6use. I thought she said the man had cut her throat. That
was said when she got to the toll-home. When I heard the
scream it seemed to come from where they were standing,
and it soundod like a woman's. A gentleman came to the
toll-house, and I ran for a doctor.

By Mr. 'WILKINS—It was a moonlight night, and I could
see the two persons very distinctly. The gentleman who
came over the bridge had on rather a broad-brimmed hat
and a dark coat. I ran to opposite the new pier for the
doctor. Three doctors went to the toll-house.

By Mr. CHAMBERS—The ge►:tlaman whom I saw N‘• -ith the
broad-brimmed hat was at.the tell house talking, and I left
him there when I went for the doctor.

Richard Messenger, engineer. examined by Mr. BonisiN—
Myself and wife crossed Bat tersea-bridge on the night of this
occurrence, on the left-hand side fioin the Middlesex side of
the bridge. I observed a man looking over the balus-
trade into the water, and as we passed him he turned
reund. He was dressed in a dark coat and broad-
brimmed hat. On getting to the toll-house I saw a
woman
Lying on the ground, bleeding from a wound in her
throat. The only persons on the bridge were that man, and
and two men who were with a cart containing a dead horse.
Just as we got to the man the cart passed us, but we over-
teok it again at the toll-house, where it had waited, I sup-
pose, till the gate was opened. •
rs. Messenger, by the SOLICITOR- Gm:l-mat—l saw a man
on the bridge when passing with my husband on the night of
the 29th of April. I saw no other person on the bridge
except that man. - I never said to the policeman that the
loan's trowsers were light.
James Cook, by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL—I am a. coal-
porter, and on the night of 29th April I was standing near
Chelsea Old Church, with my master's carman. It Was
about 2.5 minutes to eleven. I saw a man coming from the
direction of the bridge. He was calling ..police! police!" as
if very agitated. He then ran up Church-lane, but almost
immediately returned again, and said that a woman had cut
her throat on the bridge. The man had, to the best of
my recollection, a dark frock-coat on, and a broad brimmed
hat, worn very much over his eyes. I saw the same man
again on Saturday, the 11th May, in Wandsworth Police-
court. He was standing in the crowd, and I singled him out
as the person I had seen on that night. The prisoner at the
bar is the same man. He might be standing among sixty
people when I singled him out. .
Cross-examined by Mr. Wilkins—l was not before the
Coroner, and I did not mention the circumstance of the man
running to the policeman. I don't know which way the man
went after coming out cf'Church-lane. Before going into the
Police Court I had some conversation with two policemen
about my evidence. I have since seen a man whom I un-
derstand to be Mr. Mullins. I was quite sober on the night
in question.
By the SOLICITOR-GENERAL-Mr. Mullins is not the man
who:n I saw, and heard calling police.
John Timms—Was standing with Cooke in Church-street,
and heard a man calling "Police, police F' It was between
ten and eleven. He went up Church-lane, and afterwards
walked away by the water-side, and on the opposite direc-
tion to Battersea-bridge.
William Beadle by Mr. CIIAMRERS—I live in Chelsea, and
on the night of Monday, the 29th, I was passing near Chelsea
Old Church. It was near eleven. I saw a man near the
Cricketers. He was calling "police." I did not notice his
dress. The prisoner is the man. I saw him again at the
second examination at Wandsworth.

By Mr. WILKINS—I did not give evidence before, as the
superintendent of police said, I was not wanted. I knew the
man befbre by sight, but did not notice him particularly en
the night in question.
By Mr. CHAMBERS—I had seen him oftentimes during the
previous five or six years.
By Mr. Baron GURNEY-.-I am sure, from the little I saw of
his face that night, that the prisoner and the man I had before
known were the same.

Mary Ann Nunn, by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL—I live at
No. 17, Montpelier-square, Brompton, and the prisoner's
daughter, Charlotte, \ lived next door to me. I
saw the prisoner on the night of the 29th of April meet his
daughter. He, I believe, had knocked at the railing. When
they met he took hold of her ,hand, and they commenced
talking together. She appeared flurried. After some little
time he walked away, and she went towards her own house.
Louisa Nunn examined by Mr. BODKIN—I recollect being
at the window with Miss Nunn, when I noticed the pri-
soner and his daughter standing together. They appeared
in earnest conversation. I heard her shriek. They might
have remained together some four minutes after. She looked
aghast, and I heard her call out " Oh, father, father." He
seemed to go away in a very hurried manner. He said that
he should call next morning at half-past seven: She said
" No, at seven." He then left.

By Mr. Witacms—l am not a novel writer. I have no
profession. lam living upon my independent property.
Sarah Ann Miles, by Mr. CHAMBERS--DIC prisoner lodged
with my father. He occupied a room, for which he had a
latch key. Sometimes he would go out of a Saturday and
not come home till Tuesday afternoon. He went out on the
night of the 29th of April, at nine o'clock. I did not see him,
but knew his foostep, from his being lame.
By Mr. WILKINS—I do not know that he was in difficul-
ties about money.
By the SOLICITOR-GENERAL.--I did not see him in his
lodgings again that evening.
Charles Miles, by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL—I was the
prisoner's landlord. On the night of the 29th April, a police.
man came to my house, at twelve, or about it. I have several
lodgers, and one of them put a lighted candle, which he had
discovered, into my hand. The candlestick was the one
Dalmas had the use of, and it was not lighted when I came
home at half-past nine.
By Mr. lirmniNs—l don't know that the prisoner was at
times in difficulties.

By Mr. Baron GURNEY—When I had gone to bed about
eleven there was no candle left burning on the staircase.
Mary Nash—l lodge with Mr. Miles, and got up when the
policeman came to the house. I found the lighted candle on
the stairs, about three yards from the door.
Frederick Langton re-called and examined by Mr. CITAM.,
BEILS--I went about twelve. on the night. of the 29th, to the
residence of Miles, No. 12, Chapel-place, and found several
letters in the prisoner's room.
The jury were then allowed to retire for a short time, and
the Court was ordered to be cleared of women and boys.
The jury having returned, •
Robert bavis, a pawnbroker's assistant, produced a coat
and handkerchief pledged by the prisoner in the name of
John Mott, Compton-street, on the 30th April.
Ellen Gibson. examined by Mr BODMIN—I am sister to de-
ceased. I saw her about one o'clock on the 29th of April,
she was then in good health and spirits. Next time I saw
her was at night at the bridge. I have known
the prisoner for eighteen years. He was pay-
ing his addresses to my sister. I s rer him last
in her company on the 9th of April. I have never seen him
write, but I know his handwriting. I have seen and read
letters from him, and he has asked why I did not answer
them. lam sure these letters are his. •

Wm. IllTarlane examined by Mr. CHAMBERS—I am
sixteen years of age, and am the son of the late Mrs. M`Far-
lane. I t eceived a penknife from the prisoner about a fortnight
before my mother's death. It contained four blades, two
pen blade, a large one, and a half-file blade. I sharpened the
large blade, and returned the knife to him on the 20th of
April.
William Cumming, No. 3 D, examined by the SOLICITOR-
GtNEBAL—I was on duty at Marylebone-lane station-house on
the morning of the 4th of May, and the prisoner was
introduced to me. He told me that he was Augustus
Dalmas, and that he wished to surrender, as he-was
haunted to death by the reports in the newspapers ; they
were all wrong. He had some gin and cloves with the de-
ceased on the night of the occurrence, but he never crossed
the bridge at all. He and the deceased had some strong
observations on family affairs, she stating that his children
were ungrateful to her, and that if his daughter, Augusta,
was obliged to leave her situation, she would do no more for
her. The only correct evidence before the Coroner was
Charlotte's.
By Mr. Wimcnes—l am not sure whether he said Char-
lotte or Augusta.
Richard Taylor, 203 D, examined by Mr. BODKEV—I
opened the door for the prisoner, and afterwards was placed in
the same cell. I ofl'ered him some bread and cheese, but the
prisoner said he was so agitated that night that he could not
eat any. He then said that if a reward were offered he should
choose his man to give himself up to.
Superintendent Bicknell, of the V Division, produced some
pa are.
William Daniel Andrews, deceased's brother, said that his
sister's boa was so saturated with blood that he destroyed it.
He had, likewise, for the same reason, burned her white straw
bonnet. Her age was 45 years and three months.
Police-constable Langton produced the shawl and dress
worn by deCeased on the evening of the 29th April.
William Connor, M.D., Battersea, proved the female's
death, and the cause of it. He should think, from the situ-
ation and appearance of the wound, that it was not inflicted
by herself.

-Tile letters were then put in and read. (Such portions of
those letters as are fit for publication have already appeared
in our report of the examination before the Magistrate at
Wandsworth).
Mr. WILKINS then addressed the jury in a most effective
speech. He said, that in rising on behalf of the prisoner, he
was encountering a fearful responsibility, partly in conse-
quence 6f the fair, straightforward, and impassioned manner
in which his Learned Friend, her Majesty's Solicitor-General
had stated the case ; and more, in consequence of the wit-
nesses called into that box (the brother and sister of the
deceased.) In consequence of the mental suffering, they
appeared to feel, it was quite natural that they (the jury)
should turn with a feeling of overwhelming indig-
nation to the unfortunate. man at the bar whom
they were given to understand was the cause of all that
suffering. But he (Mr. Wilkins) trusted that they would
bear in mind that the evidence produced had been wholly
circumstantial, and though the case as advanced for the
prosecution was barely possible, yet he begged to re-
mind the gentlemen appointed to examine into those
circumstances, that they must not judge of the inno-
cence or guilt of the prisoner from mere possibilities. Let
them examine the case, as stated by his Learned Friend.
The Learned Barrister then dissected the evidence in detail,
and contended that the words spoken by the deceased were
merely the unconnected ravings of a mind, weakened by
loss of blood, and mechanically uttering sounds which, be-'
cause spoken by those around, vibrated upon her
ear also; for was it at all likely that if she had been
cut and injured by the man with whom she had
been passing the evening, her .exclamation to
Hall, the toll-keeper, arid to other persons, would have been,
"See, how some one has used me." He thought that great
caution was necessary in admitting the evidence of the coal-
who
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porter, Cooke, who had so positively sworn to the identity of
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call their attention to this part of the case. The
little boy, Evans, who ran fur the surgeon, to
the Chelsea Old Church, did not observe the witness
Cooke at the place he stated that he was standing at. He
did, indeed, see one young man whom he had never seen
again. How did this harmunise with Cooke's evidence?
He thought the simple fact was—that Mr. Mullins, who
•
bad also run to. Chelsea for # surgeon, anti who wore;

a dark frock coat and a broad-brimmed hat, was the very
man who called "police," and whom the witness Cooke sup-
posed
to be the prisoner. They knew that it was a feeling
with the lower classes to overrate and exaggerate
facts, where they were supposed to militate against
a man placed in the same situation, and charged with a
henious crime, as the prisoner was. The Learned Gen-
t eman concluded a powerful address, by imploring the
jurymen to lear. towards the side of mercy to remember,
that though their errirg 'judgments might fail; yet an
all-seeing eye would, if the prisoner were guilty, pursue
him, and an omnipotent and an all-powerful and unerring
arm would punish his secret crime ; bat that if they had
reason afterwards to repent of a too severe verdict, it would
be when re:ientance would be too late.
The St/LIMO:I-GENERAL waived his right of reply. 1
Mr: Baron GURNEY. summed up. In this, as in very
many other cases, they had only circumstantial evidence be-
fore them, on which to found their judgment. It appeared
that the deceased had been for many years on terms cif the
warmest friendship with the prisoner. The last act a her
life was the going with the youngest daughter of
the prisoner to her mistress's house, and the
first evidence they had was that of the person who
first observed her on her return home, arid after the wound
was inflicted. The Leerncd Judge then read over and coin-
mented upon the evidence They must consider that the
account given h the prisoner of himself Was that of a man
who had time (for several days had elapsed) to prepare a
st Ory. It was fur them, however, to weigh all the circumstances,
and he could only say, that if they had a fair and reasonable
doubt that the prisoner had committed the offence with which
he was charged, then it was their duty to return a verdict of
acquittal.
The jury requested leave to retire, and they also begged
that the papers produced in Court might be handed to them.
They left the Court at teenty minutes past five o'clock ;
and returned at tweety-five minutes to eight, when the pri-
soner wa.4 again placed in the dock. He appeared quite calm
and collected, and as the name of each juror was .called he
regarded him with a steady gaze.
The usual questions having been put, the foreman pro-
nounced the verdict of Guilty.

Mr. Justice WILLIAMS, who had come into Court to receive
the verdict, said that sentence would not then be passed, and
the prisoner was ordered to be taken back to the.gaol.
Dalmas at first made a motion as though he would have
addressed the Court, but he appeared to change his determi-
nation immediately, and he turned round and walked with a
firm step to the interior of the gaol.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

A ease of smuggling came on which exposed an odd
system of imposition.
Martin At' Donald and William Debois, the latter an
Irishman, with a countenance very like that of a
foreigner, were charged under the following circum-
'stan;:es.

A Custom-house officer stated that as he, was
walking along the Minorirs, the prisoner Debois ad-
dri,ssed him in a confidential tone, and invited him
into the Horse • and Trumpet public-house, in the
Old Jewry, to see some cigars which had been
smuggled, and were to be had at a low rate.
He accompanied Debois, who introduced him to
M'Dona!d, up stairs in the public-house, and there were
exhibited to him a quantity of cigars, and some shawls
and handkerchiefs, which the defend9nts said had been
smuggled. They also stated that they had a vessel lying
at Blackwall, in which immense quantities of smuggled
goods were stowed away, consisting of tens, brandies,
shawls, hankerchiefs, and tobacco. A seizure of the
t.)bacco was subsequently made, and some shawls of
English manufacture • were also taken by the officer of
the revenue.

Coleby A. Davis, an extremely active revenue officer,
stated that, in consequence of the information which he
re-Tived from the first witness, he proceeded to the
public-house and seized the tobacco, the defendant not
being licensed to sell the article. They were licensed
hawkers, and, therefore, they were at liberty to sell the
shawls. and handkerchiefs they exhibited, which were of
English manufacture, but in order to get three or four
times as much as was the value of the goods, it was the
practice of such persons to pretend that the articles they
had to dispose of were contraband. Man) people, and of
the higher classes ton, opened their mouths the moment
they heard the word " smuggled" mentioned, in the be-
lief that they would get a capital bargain- by dealing
with such adventurous persons, and they were regularly
humbugged. When witness went to the public-house to
make the bargain he saw a highly respectable gentleman,
who lodged at the London Coffee-house, doing busineis
in the cigar way with M'Donald, and who, the moment
he knew that witness was about, ran off with all imagin-
able speed,
AL4D‘nald asked the first witness whether the shawls
and handkerchiefs were shown to him as foreign goods ?
—The witness replied that they were.
M'Donald said that was quite impossible, as he could
prove that he had purchased them on Thursday morning
at the warehouse cf a gentleman who resided near the
Mansion-house.----(Laughter.)

The LORD MAYOR—That's the very thing we are
convinced oF. You purchased these for five or six shil-
lings each for the purpose of selling them for fifteen or
sixteen.

Wlionald--But I purchased them after the witness
says he saw them with me.
The LORD MAYOR—You might have exhibited for
sale the exact patterns of these easily enough. I have
no doubt that you succeed extensively in the traps you
thus lay for the lovers of smuggling, and they certainly
are not to be pitied. •
C. A. Davis called forward a tailor, of the name of
Nicholas Rosa, who produced two shawls, which he
stated he had purchased of M'Donald for 21. 4s. 6d., but
which, upon being submitted to the judgment of a shop-
keeper, were pronounced -to be worth at most ss. 6d.
each. The cigar gentleman wanted him to purchase
cigars also, but he declined, and he thought he had got
arrexcellent bargain in the shawls.
M'Donald—My Lord, I am a regular hawker and
pedlar.
The LORD MAYOR—No doubt of it; and you make
that occupation auxiliary to this pretence, that you
smuggle silk and other articles of the hind from France.
But the direct charge against .you is, that you had these
cigars for sale without being licensed.
111‘Donald—There, I confe,s, I have been an aggressor,
but I intended to take out a license, as I can prove.
After all, my Lord, it is doing in a little way what is
done by high tradesmen in a great v.ay. It is g,tting
shillings where people in Regent-street get pounds.
The LORD NIAYon—At all events we have a case of
having cigars for sale without a license instituted against
you, and I fine you 25/.
M'Donald—l can't pay it, my Lord. lam as poor as
a church-mouse.

The LORD Mayon—Then you must go to prison for
three months, to hard labour.

Debois—But you don't mean anything of that kind
for me, your Lordship?
The LORD MAYOR—Certainly I do. You must pay
the fine, or go to prison too.
Debois—Why neither the tobacco nor shawls were
mine ; I was surely not so bad as the other.
- The LORD MAYOR—I can make no distinction. I
cannot by the Act of Parliament inflict a smaller penalty,
The defendants were then committed to prison.
It appears that enormous quantities of cigars are
manufactured in London from the very worst tobacco,
and sold at a guinea or twenty-two shillings a pound as
'foreign cigars ; that hogsheads of the cut-throat stuff
called British brandy is sold as smuggled French
brandy, and that British gin, of very inferior quality,
upon which the flavour of the juniper is removed by
aniseed, is passed off upon those who encourage smug-
glers in Hollands by fellows like the def.ndants. In the
above case, the ladies and gentlemen were assured that
the goods they were invited to purchase had been
brought over, as bales of wool, in a yacht.
CLERKENWELL.

William Neale was brought up for final examination,
charged with wounding Mr. Osman, landlord of the
Red Lion public-house. Cow-cross, so seriously as to
endanger his lifz. The prosecutor was in attendance,
and seemed to be suffering the most intense anguish.
The evidence went to prove, that on Sunday night
last the prisoner was behaving in a disorderly manner
at the bar of the Red Lien. The landlord desired him
to leave. The prisoner refused, and became most vio-
lent. The landlord attempted to expel him, when the
prisoner, with an oath, declared he would " hurt" him,
and had no s loner done so than he kicked the prosecutor
twice in a delicate and vital part of • his person with all
his might. The landlord fainted from excess of pain.
One of the blood-vessels in the region of the bladder was
ruptured, and profuse hemorrhage took place. He had
since then been confined to his bed.

Dr. doshua Verdy, of Stamford-street, swore that
when he arrived the prosecutor was suffering the most
excruciating pain from the injury, and was for some time
in danger. Had the blows been struck an inch higher
death would probably have .
The prisoner was committed for trial.
William Harris, the driver of the metropolitan stage
carriage, No. 334, belonging to Mr. lledge!,, and wearing
the badge 3,341, was charged with overturning a truck,
containing 216 bottles of ginger beer, and so damaging
the property of a poor costermonger, named Murphy,
to the amount of 1/. 11s.
It appeared, from the evidence of Mr. Cameron, who
attended on behalf of the Marquis of Anglesey, that, on
Saturday eveni,ig last, the Marquis's carriage was driving
down Holborn, towards tile Blackwall railway. Witness
and the Marquis were is the carriage. They were
driving at a very slow pace, and when they had reached
Fuiwood's-rents, whi.re the street is narrow, the defend-
ant, in attempting to drive his omnibus before the car-
riage, pressed upon the wheel of the latter, and forced
it against the truck, whereby the damage was effected.
Other evidence, confirmatory of the above, having
been tendered, the defendant was obliged to pay the
amount of the damage and the costs.

A young man, a tailor, named Andrews, lodging at the Fox
and Hounds public-house, was charged with robbing Mr.
Seddon, the landlord, of 4/. and a watch, in conjunction with
another person, not in custody.
The prisoner has been lodging in the house for several
months back. Yesterday morning it was discovered that
the bar had been broken into 'and the property abstracted.
The prisoner and the pot-man were nowhere to be found.
Last night the landlord apprehended the prisoner at the
Queen's Theatre, in Tottenham Court••road. He had
3/. 165.8 d. of the stolen money on his person, which he at
once acknowledged was Air. Seddon's property, acknowledged
'his guilt, and declared the pot-man had the watch.
The prisoner was remanded, iu order to afford time for the
apprehension of the pot-man. •

GRAVESEND, STROOD, Roc ESTER, AND CHATHAM
RAILWAY.—The shares of this CoMpany have been issued,
and command a premium of to j; little business, however,
has been done, from the circumstance of the shares having
been appropriated to parties interested in the line, and'few
being in the market.
ST. STEPHEN, WA: n 100 K.—On Thul a lay fell tl e
large belfry window on the south side of this church's tower,
and which, it seems, was in such a dilapidated state, that a
sudden gust of wind caused its entire , dislodgment. The
whole of the window, frame-work and all; were as completely
carried away as though workmen had been employed to
remove them. In its descent, the window-frame fell upon
the slate roof of Mr. Kendrick, bookseller '(the rear of whose
premises abut against the church), and came to the ground
with a tremendous crash, but fortunately, without doing
fUrtber injury. .•