The Sun.
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.THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20,

our trade ; then we agree with the Times, and admit
that such would have been the case. We recommend
our Contemporary to inquire further into this matter
before it again lends itself to making random assertions
upon a subject on which it is but imperfectly informed.
But then, Mr. Baring, in 1841, made an absolute
and unconditional reduction of the sugar duties. No
doubt he did. And what did Sir Robert Peel say
in 1842, when he was courting Free Trade "cheers"
to sustain him in his amendments of the Tariff?—
" Make every possible effort," said he, "to obtain re-
ciprocal advantages from other countries; but, if you
fail, you should not refuse to buy in the cheapest market
and sell in the dearest, for the purpose of punishing
other countries." And again, in 1843, referring to the
same period, he said, " I then declared that I consi-
dered that our domestic interests in all these arrange-
ments were of primary consideration. I laid down the
principle, that it would not be wise in us to punish
ourselves, because other countries refused to adopt si-
milar arrangements as to their import duties. These
principles I laid down last year, and I adhere to them
still." The principle on which Mr. Baring acted is here
adopted, defended, and justified by Sir R. Peel. More
favourable terms than those of Brazil towards us
could not be proposed or expected, whilst Brazil
had a right to expect more favourable terms from
us. Her tariff was an encouragement to our ma-
nufactures. Our tariff was a discouragement to
her produce. Mr. Baring, therefore, did wisely
in unconditionally reducing our Sugar duties, as a
preliminary to a renewal of a beneficial treaty with
Brazil, and which at that time was in our power.
In 1841, however, the members of the present Go-
vernment refused to relax the prohibitory duties on
foreign sugar, because a moral consideration was in-
volved, viz., the question of the slave trade ! They
adhered to their refusal even in 1843, upon the mo-
tion of Mr. Hawes to reduce the duty on foreign
sugar to 34s.—the identical amount they subsequently
adopted for their duty, on their miscalled free-labour
sugar ; which, admitting it to be such, if imported,
only opens the markets, to which it previously went,
to a corresponding supply of slave-labour sugar.

by this interruption of the view, and for the obstruction
of light and air. The defence was that there had been
no injury to the property, and no obstruction of light
and air. The evidence was lengthened and extraordi-
nary, the plaintiff's witnesses maintaining that the pro-
perty was materially injured, and the defendant's as
positively averring the contrary.
The jury, after about an hour's deliberation, returned a
verdict for the plaintiff on all the counts—Damages, 40s,
which, in this action to try a right, carries full costs.

lOURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 28.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before the LORD CHIEF BARON,
and a Special Jury.)
THE ATTORNEY•GENERAL V. CANDY.
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. DEAN.
In this case the Solicitor-General, Mr. Jervis, and Mr.
Wilde were for the prosecution, and Mr. Wilkins, Mr.
Chambers, and Mr. James for the defence.
It was an information filed by her Majesty's Attorney-
General against the defendants, for illegally importing a
quantity of silks without paying the duty.
The SOLICITOR- GENERAL said it had been agreed that
the jury should find the single value of the silks at
1,4114 and give a verdict for that amount.
Verdict accordingly.
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. CANDY.
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. DEAN.
In these cases it was agreed that the jury should re-
turn a verdict for the single value of 8481. Bs.
Verdict accordingly.

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. CANDY.
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. DEAN.
In these cases it was agreed that the jury shoald re-
,urn'a verdict for the single value of 2,0161.
Verdict accordingly.

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. CANDY.
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. DEAN.
In these cases it was agreed that the jury should re.
;urn a verdict for the single value of 3004
Verdict accordingly.

CONSISTORY COURT, Nov. 28.
The Court opened this morning 'pro forma, at the
usual hour, but owing to the severe indisposition of Sir
Herbert Jenner Fust, who was unable to attend, it was
in consequence ordered to stand adjourned till the next
Court day.

WINTER ASSIZES.
HOME ClRCUlT.—Maidstone, Nov. 28.
(Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.)
SINGULAR CHARGE OF ARSON.—JOhit Wilson, alias
Rowland Howell, aged 30, described as a tailor, was
indicted for feloniously setting fire to a stack of hay,
the property of John Stephens, at Farnborough.
William Stephens, the prosecutor's brother, deposed
that he had a farm at Chelsfield, in the parish of
Farnborough, and between two and three o'clock on
the morning of the 6th of September he was awoke
by an alarm of fire. On getting up he found that
one of the haystacks was in flames, and before the fire
could be extinguished the greater portion of it was
consumed. He afterwards saw the prisoner in cus-
tody, hut he knew nothing of him, and to the best of
his knowledge had never seen him before.
Wm. Tompsett, a police-constable of the R division,
who is stationed in this neighbourhood, deposed, that
upon hearing the cry of " fire," he got up and went
towards Mr. Stephens's premises, and when he got
close to them he met the prisoner, who told him that
there was a haystack on fire. He asked the prisoner
which road he was going, and he said to London ; and
witness asked him to give information of the fire to
any policeman he might meet, and request him to
come and assist, and the prisoner promised to do so,
and proceeded on his way towards town. Witness
then proceeded to the stack-yard, and found the stack
in question on fire all over.
Cross-examined by the prisoner—The place where
I met you was in the high road from Sevenoaks to
London.
William Leverick, a sergeant in the same division
of police, deposed that between two and three o'clock
on the morning of the fire, he was on Farnbury-
common. It was shortly after the alarm had been
given ; and he met the prisoner coming towards him
in a direction from London. The prisoner accosted
him, and said, " Sergeant, are you going to the fire ?"
Witness asked him where the fire was, and he replied
that it was just through the village. He then asked
him what the fire was, and he replied in a hay-stack.
Witness asked him one or two other questions, and
he at length said, " 'Tis no use your going any fur-
ther. I am the man who set it on fire." Witness asked
him why he had done it, and he said his ob-
ject was to be sent out of the country.
He then asked him how he had fired the stack, and
he replied with a lucifer match. Witness then told
him that, after what he had stated, it was his duty to
take him into custody, and he accordingly did so, and
locked him up in the station-house; and shortly after-
wards he sent one of the constables to take charge of
him. On the same day, in the presence of a consta-
ble, he asked the prisoner whether he recollected
what he had said to him in the morning, and he re-
plied that he did, and it was quite true. When the
prisoner was in the station-house he gave the name
of John Wilson, but afterwards, when before the
magistrates, he said this was not his real name, and
that his right name was Rowland Howell.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS asked the prisoner whether
he wished to put any questions to this witness ?
The prisoner replied that he should wish him to he
asked, whether the magistrate before whom he was
examined did not entertain a belief that he was in-
sane ; and request him (the sergeant), in consequence
of that belief, to make inquiries in London respect-
ing him ?
The sergeant said the magistrate certainly did en-
tertain that opinion, and requested him to make some
inquiry, and he had ascertained that the prisoner had
been before charged with some offence, but was ac-
quitted on the ground of insanity.
Mr. Justice Wfwasis—What was it induced the
magistrate to believe that the prisoner was not in his
right mind ? Witness—From his appearance while
he was under examination, and his conduct at the
time he was apprehended.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS—State to the Court the
whole of what occurred.
Witness--When I first met him he appeared very
much excited, and not like a man in his right mina.
He was flourishing a large hedge-stake about, and at
first I thought he was going to strike me, but he did
not attempt to do so. When he got to the station-
house, he put the stick down in a corner, and said,
" I don't think I shall want you any more." The
witness added that he was fearful the prisoner would
attempt to commit some violence upon himself, and he
therefore placed a constable to watch him.
The prisoner, who was an exceedingly well-spoken
and apparently intelligent man, here observed that he
should wish the sergeant to be questioned with regard
to his treatment after he was removed to the Sidcup
police-station, and whether he was not placed under
estraint ?
The sergeant said he was not aware of the fact,
but there was no doubt that it was considered all along
that he was not in his right senses.
The prisoner asked whether the surgeon who exa-
mined him at the station did not say that he was at
the time labouring under delirium trenzens ?
The witness said he could not speak to that fact.
This was the case for the prosecution.
The prisoner, on being called upon for his defence,
apologised to the Court for the time he had occupied
in questioning the witnesses, and said that with the
permission of the Learned Judges he would read a
few observations he had reduced to writing in answer
to the charge. He then proceeded to read an excel-
lently worded defence, which commenced by ob-
serving that poverty prevented him from producing
any witnesses, but still he trusted the facts
as they already appeared would warrant the
jury in believing the statement he was about
to make. He then went on to say that he had been
confined in a lunatic asylum for two years, and was
only liberated about a year ago; but his mind had
been wandering since that period, and, for some time
before this occurrence took place, he had been in a
very low and desponding state. At the time in ques-
tion he had been to Sevenoaks to look for work,
and, being unsuccessful in obtaining it, increased his
despondency, and passing by the place at the time of
the fire, he was induced, in a moment of delirium, to
make this groundless charge against himself, and for
which he declared there was not the slightest founda-
tion. He proceeded to state that, ever since he had
been in custody, he had been treated as a person not
in his right mind, and, while at the station-house,
under remand, he was not allowed to use a knife or
fork, and his neckerchief was also taken from
him, in order that he might not do himself
any violence, and similar precautions had been
adopted since he had been in Maidstone gaol,
where he had never been left by himself, but
was continually watched. He begged the Court
would explain to the jury the different result that
would follow from the event of his being acquitted on
the ground of insanity, and an unconditional ac-
quittal ; and he said, that rather than the former
verdict should be returned, which would probably
have the effect of immuring him in a lunatic asylum
for the rest of his life, he would retract his plea of not
guilty, and plead guilty to the charge; although he
at the same time declared that he was entirely inno-
cent; and that he only made the statement he did to
the sergeant under the influence of an excited ima-
gination.
Mr. Justice Wfwams asked the prisoner whether
there were any witnesses connected with the gaol
whom he wished to have examined ?
The prisoner said he should like to have the go-
vernor of the gaol called as a witness.
Mr. Jossph Bone, the governor of the gaol, was
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 28. , accordingly sworn, and in answer to questions put to
CADERIX v. LITTLE.
him by the prisoner, he stated that when he was
The plaintiffis the occupier of a house in the Hackney- I brought to the gaol he appeared in a very weak state,
road, of which he holds the benficial lease. The houses
in the road, of which his forms a part, have gardens in
and in consequence of some communication that was
front of them. But the defendant, who is a timber
Eger-
made to him relative to the prisoner having once
chant, having taken the premises adjoining the plaintiff's
converted the front garden into a timber-yard,,and so piledi before attempted to destroy himself; he was placed in
a cell with two other prisoners. He added, that he
up the timber, as to shut out altogether from the plaintiff's believed the prisoner told him that he had once before
windows the lateral view, in one direction, which was attempted to destroy himself.
before enjoyed from them. This action was brought to Prisoner—Was it not in consequence of the dis-
recover damages for the deterioration of the property 1 covery ofa wound upon my persou which I had in-

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—The Madrid Gazette of the 9th instant, con-
tains the account of the receipts of the Bank of San
Fernando for October. The total amount fixed by the
Minister of Finance was 60,000,000 reels vellon, and the
total received is 56,163,877, leaving a difference of
3,836,123 reals, or about 39,0001. However, with the
receipts of the lotteries and mines, the total is 57,769,925
against an advance of 50,000,000, leaving the Govern-
ment creditor with the bank on the month of about
78,0001. sterling. Of the provinces 27 have paid in more
than was required of them, amounting together to
1,800,428 reals. Amongst these Madrid appeared for
the trifling sum of 24,317 reels ; but even this is re-
markable, as Madrid has hitherto been always in arrear.
Nineteen provinces are in arrear for a total of 5,636,551
reels. Amongst these Barcelona figures for 1,383,558,
which must be attributed to the results of the war. Se-
ville, Cordova, and Granada, are among the next largest
in arrear. The total amount received by the Govern.
ment for October is officially announced as 81,004,603
reals, or above 820,0001, while the total amount of the
budget of receipts as presented by Calatrava in 1843
was only 69,097,918 reals for the year. The distribution
of this sum is as follows :

Returned to the Bank of San Fernando for Reals.
the October loan 56,163,877
To the clergy
To reproductive expenses, justice, &c 12,094,945

81,004,603
The following table shows the application of the loan
of 50,000,000 reals received by the Bank, together with
the balance due by the Bank on the previous month's re-
ceipts, amounting altogether to 52,044,785 reals :
Real& Reals.

One month's payment to the
Queen
One month's payment to the
Infante Don Francisco

2,333,333

291,666

2,624,999

To the Senate
To the Congress

29,593
52,041

Minister of State.
Privileged obligations ,
Active class

81,634

500,000
130,000

Minister of War.
Ordinary privileged obliga-
tions
Extraordinary obligations
Privileged obligations
Passive class

630,000

28,358,485
140,686
44,270
1,052,016

29,595,457

Minister of Marine.
Privileged obligations
Active class

2,120,000
230,000

2,350,000

Minister of Finance.
Coast guard
Land protective force against
smuggling
Active class of employes—in
the departments of Finance,
Interior, Grace, and Justice
Ordinary expenses of the above
departments
Passive class (or pensions)
Madrid
Sundry obligations

787,401

2,602,396

8,548,757

1,013,479

600,000
569,467

14,121,000

Minister of Interior.
Prisons
Police force, and sundry pri-
vileged payments
Roads
Charitable fund.... 4

1,170,271

911,124
500,000
60,000

2,641,395

Total

52,044,985

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
PRIVY COUNCIL, Nov. 28.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat to-
day, according to previous arrangement, for the pur-
pose of hearing colonial and other appeals. The Lords
present were—The Master of the Rolls, Lord Campbell,
Mr. Baron Parke, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, the
Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, Sir H. East,
Sir E. Ryan, and Sir E. Johnson. The first case
that came before their Lordships was the petition of
George Barnett, of Jamaica, praying to be allowed to
appeal.
Mr. Decent appeared for the petitioner, and Mr. Wells
opposed the application on the part of the appellant.
Their LORDSHIPS granted the prayer of the petition.
JIIVEER-RHAEE AND OTHERS V. VURUJ BHAEE AND
OTHERS.
This case came before their Lordships upon appeal
from the decree of the Court of Sudder Dewanny
Adawlut, in Bombay. The parties to the appeal are the
members of a joint, undivided Hindoo family, the
subject in dispute being the right of the respon-
dents on a partition of the jointly-acquired pro-
perty of three brothers, the sons of the common
ancestor of the appellants and respondents, to five
shares of certain property valued at 12,006 rupees, and
to two shares of one-sixth of other property estimated
at 7,486 rupees. Certain proceedings took place in the
Courts of Bombay, both parties adduced evidence oral
and documentary, and on the 16th of November,
1827, Mr. E. Grant, the Judge of the Zilla
Court of hairs, referred the suit to a native court of
arbitration. Shortly after the reference Mr. Grant was
transferred to the Zilla Court of Ahmedabad, and was
succeeded by a Mr Bell The arbitrators made their
award. Further proceedings then took place, and the
final decree was pronounced, from which the
present appeal was brought—on the ground
principally that Mr. Grant, the Zillah Judge of
Ahmedabad, had dealt with the cause in a manner so
culpably partial, and so contrary to good faith, that
no weight was due to his decree, or the proceedings
on which it was founded, and also because the decree of
the Sudder Adawlut was pronounced upon a record of
proceedings which Mr. Grant, the Zillah Judge, had de-
signedly rendered imperfect and inaccurate, and was
founded on the weight supposed to be due to the prior
proceedings, which were not entitled to credit.
Mr. Loftus Wigram and Mr. C. R. M. Jackson ap-
peared as Counsel for the appellants ; and Mr. Burge,
Mr. Lloyd, and Mr. Moore were in support of the judg-
ment of the Court below.
Mr. Loftus Wigram this morning opened the case
on the part of the appellants, and the case appears likely
to occupy their Lordships the whole of to-day, and the
greater part of to-morrow.
Their Lordships will sit to-morrow and Saturday, and
On the 4th, sth, 6th, 9th, 11th, 13th, and 14th of Decem-
ber. The Master of the Rolls will preside on all these
occasions.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 27.
DAVIS V. CURLING.
In this case the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff,
answering each of these questions in the affirmative, and
assessing the damages at 351.

_
NOVEMBER 28.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord DENMAN and a
Middlesex Common Jury.)
GARDNER V. MAJOR.
The plaintiff in this case is a butcher, carrying on
1 business in Portland-market, and the defendant is pro-
-1 prietor of the market. The plaintiff rented a shed as a
1 stable of defendant, at a weekly rent of 35., and on the
1 6th of January, this year, a portion of the shed was
i pulled down, and the demolition of it was completed
on Wednesday, the 9th, the defendant's term not ex-
piring until the Saturday following. To recover damages
for this trespass the present action had been brought, to
which defendant pleaded not guilty. The whore ques- 1
tion, therefore, for the jury to decide was, had the demo- 1
lition taken place in consequence of the defendant's 1
orders.

There was a great deal of conflicting testimony, and
the jury ultimately found for the plaintiff—damages, One
Farthing.

ran off at full speed until compelled by fatigue to stop in a
lane near the India House, where he turned upon the pri-
soner (who had pursued him closely), and asked what
was his object in following him ? The prisoner re-
plied that he must have money, and would not leave
till he had received some ' • upon which the prosecutor
gave him is,, and desired him to go about his business.
l'he prisoner said, " A shilling is not enough for what
you have done ; you must give me a great deal more ;"
and oa being asked for an explanation, he added, " A
man is coming who has seen it all, and unless you satisfy
me, I will give you in charge." He then addressed some
filthy epithets to the prosecutor, and beckoned to a per-
son who seemed to be waiting a few yards distant, but
the prosecutor succeeded in getting away, and ran into
the shop of Mr. Vardon, ironmonger, 3, Gracechurch-
street, where the prisoner arrived immediately after him.
The prosecutor inquired for Mr. Vardon, whom he
wished to see in private, but the prisoner declared that
they should not speak together unless in his presence.
Mr. ;Vardon, however, took the prosecutor through his
counting-house, and directed a warehouseman in his
employ to keep back the prisoner, who tried to effect an
entrance also, but was prevented. The prisoner then
said, " Luckily, he has given me a shilling ;" and in a
few minutes afterwards, finding that he could not get
into the room to which the prosecutor and Mr. Vardon
had retired, he said he would fetch a policeman, and ac-
cordingly left the shop, but did not return. Information
of the occurrence was then given to the police.
Both Mr. Vardon and his warehouseman, William
Hannah, as well as the prosecutor, having spoken posi-
tively to the prisoner's identity.
Mr. JARDINE bound the parties over to prosecute and
give evidence, and committed the prisoner for trial on
both charges.
It was too evident from what transpired in Court that
the prisoner had confederates in these execrable trans.
actions.

Meted, upon my being examined when I was brought
to the gaol ?
The governor said it might have been so, but he
did not recollect the circumstance. He added, that
the fact of the existence of the wound, if it really
were so, would appear by the books of the gaol.
The books were sent for, when it appeared that
the prisoner was described as having a wound upon
his person.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS then summed up, and he
remarked upon the singular nature of the case, at the
same time observing that there did not appear to be
the least evidence against the prisoner, except his own
statement. It was for the jury to say, under all the
circumstances, whether they believed that statement
was founded in fact, or whether it was, as the pri-
soner alleged, merely the effect of an excited imagina-
tion and weak mind ?
The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a
verdict of Not Guilty.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON, &c.)
Timothy Conner, a labourer, aged 29, was indicted for
a rape on Ann Bolen. The offence was proved, and the
prisoner sentenced to transportation for life.
The prisoner struck the front of the dock, and ex-
claimed with great vehemence—" All I can say agin it
is, that I'm as innocent as that board."
Edward Faithful, a " man apparently about 30
years of age, respectably connected, married, and
with a family, was indicted for a rape on the person
of Sarah Alice Nott, aged 18.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Ballantine attended to prose-
cute ; Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Wilkins were engaged
for the defence.
The prosecutrix, a young lady of engaging appear-
ance, and of fashionable attire, who gave her evidence
with the most perfect self-possession, was examined at
great length by Mr. Ballantine • and cross-examined
at still greater length by Mr. Clarkson. The circum-
stances, where they can be given, are briefly these :
The prisoner rented a house from the young lady's
father, in Alfred-place, Old Kent-road, the neighbour-
ing house being the residence of the landlord himself,
where the young lady lived. Mr. Nott being engaged
in the brewing-house of Reid and Co., was obliged to
leave for his employment on Monday, the 21st of
October. The same day was granted to the servant
for a holiday, and Miss Nott was in consequence left
alone. The prisoner called between eleven and twelve
o'clock, on pretence of having some business with her
father, and after some conversation on indifferent sub-
jects, he kissed her, and then it was alleged committed
the offence charged in the indictment. A labouring
man, named John Hogan, a messenger from the
father, called between twelve and one o'clock, with
some zinc, and change remaining from half a sove-
reign. The door was opened by Miss Nott, who
took the change, and said, " It's all right," the pri-
soner at the time being still in the parlour. The wit-
ness saw nothing unusual in her appearance at the
time. Mr. Nott returned home about two o'clock,
and was informed of the outrage, and between five or
six in the same evening the prisoner was taken into
custody in his own house.
After the surgeon's evidence had been given,
Mr. CLAaxsort addressed the jury at great length,
and in the most able manner analysed the evidence,
and pointed out to the attention of the jury the sang
froid which was so remarkably exhibited in the man-
ner of the prosecutrix, and some seeming discrepan-
cies in the statements of the principal witnesses. He
then concluded an able address by beseeching their
merciful consideration for the unhappy prisoner.
The Learned JUDGE then summed up, and the jury
returned a verdict of Not Guilty, but expressed their
abhorrence of his profligacy.
Baron ALDERSON—He is certainly a profligate
man ; we are all agreed in that.
The trial occupied the time of the court for above
five hours.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Sarah Williams and limma Weiss, well-dressed young
women, were charged as follows :
Police-constable 36 of the A division stated that, be-
tween seven and eight o'clock last evening, as he was on
duty in Hyde Park, he saw the prisoners accost, and
forcibly detain, several gentlemen.
Mr. HARDWICH—Do you know the prisoners ? Con-
stable--Yes, they are common women. Nearly a hun-
dred women of their description infest the parks nightly,
ostensibly to beg, or for other purposes. They are
generally accompanied by men, who wait at a distance
off, and, when a robbery is effected, they either
convey away the stolen property, or brutally mal-
treat the party. Several robberies hare been
committed during the last week, and they have a regular
organised plan of committing them—boys, mere children,
being posted at certain distances off, to warn them of the
approach of the police.
Mr. Iliainwicx—l understand that persons are ac-
tually afraid to pass through the Park after night-fall.
I am therefore determined to put a stop to its being the
resort of the lowest grade of prostitutes and thieves. I
especially order that the police use the utmost vigilance
in apprehending such characters. I commit the pri-
soners for one month each to Westminster Bridewell, to
hard labour. The convictions shall be returned to the
Sessions, and ever after it shall be three months.
MARYLEBOIVE.
Wednesday a shabbily-dressed man, named Thomas
7'yndall, was placed at the bar before Mr. Rawlinson,
charged with having, in the following very daring man-
ner, stolen a watch, the property of Mr. Morley, 47,
Oxford-street.
It appeared from the evidence that on the previous
evening, about six o'clock, the prisoner entered the shop,
and asked Mr. Morley the price of a good silver watch ;
one of the value of 31. 18q. was shown to him, and, after
looking at it for a few minutas, he expressed a wish to
see one of a somewhat superior kind ; a watch of the
price of seven guineas was laid down on the counter for
his inspection, when he immediately took it up and ran
out of the shop with it as fast as he could ; he was par-
sued, and on a cry of" Stop thief" being raised, he was
ultimately taken into custody. In his progress along
one of the streets he flung the watch into the road.
The prisoner, whose only defence was that he was out
of employ, and had not a decent shoe to his foot, was
committed to Newgate for trial.
OLD OFFENDERS. -- Margaret Haggerty and Mary
Healy were charged with begging in Cavendish-square,
and with attempting to pick a gentleman's pocket.
A policeman in private clothes said he saw the defend-
ants begging of ladies and gentlemen in Portman-square.
Knowing them to be old offenders, he felt it his duty to
watch them. They left Portman-square and went into
Oxford-street, where he lost sight of them. Afterwards,
about ten o'clock, he met them in Mortimer-street, fol-
lowing a gentleman. After Haggerty had followed him
some distance she drew back a few paces, and he dis-
tinctly saw her lift up his coat tail and put her hand into
his pocket several times. He took them into custody.
Haggerty had been convicted five times of begging.
Healy had also been convicted.
The defendants denied that they were begging, or tha
they intended to rob the gentleman, and they were corn.
witted for a month.

NEW COURT.
GROSS DEPRAVITY BY A SERVANT.--Ann 311 Cortnich
aged 23, was indicted upon two separate indictments, the
first charging her with stealing one sovereign, the pro-
pearty of Leah Aarons, and the second with unlawfully,
by fraud, enticing away Julia Silva, aged about ten, and
under eleven years, with intent to deprive the parents of
the lawful care of such child. • • •
The case disclosed as disgusting and gross a case of
villany on the part of the prisoner as could well be ima-
gined, there being no doubt that the poor child was taken
away for the most horrible purposes.
It appeared by the evidence, which has already ap-
peared at great length in our police reports, that the pri-
soner was in the service of the child's father, Mr. Silva,
and Leah Aarons was her fellow-servant, in whose box
was placed a sovereign and some silver, the former of
which the prisoner stole by breaking the lock. No doubt
could be entertained but the object she had in view in
taking the money was to promote, more successfully, her
abominable designs upon the child Julia Silva, whom
she induced the next. day •to go out for a walk,
when, after buying her uonse • cakes and other
trifling things, she placed her in a cab and
and caused her to be driven to Charles-court, in the
Strand, a locality well known as the resort of the most
profligate and infamous characters. The poor child re-
mained there some time in ems of the common brothels
in that court, when she found an opportunity of writing
privately to inform her sister, who at once came, and for-
tunately took her away before- she was subjected to any
ill-usage.
Evidence was gone into at great length to establish
the preceding facts, after which the Learned Common
Sergeant summed up; and the jury, without a moment's
hesitation, returned a verdict of Guilty.
The COMMON-SERGEANT said it was most essential in
this case, in which was displayed so much depravity,
that a severe example should be made of the offender, for
the protection of the public and the general cause of mo-
rality. In the eyes of the Court, independent of the
robbery, nothing could be more deserving of the severest
punishment than to entice a child of tender age from the
protection of its parent ; and the sentence of the Court,
the seas for seven years, fore, was, that the prisoner be transported beyond

WORSHIP-STREET.
Wednesday Jane Brown, a smartly•dressed and pretty
Aittle woman, was brought up on a warrant before Mr.
Broughton, charged with having attempted to stab James
Golding, a general dealer, living in Wellington-street,
Shacklewell.
Mr. Wolfe appeared for the defendant, and Mr. Hal-
lett for the prosecution.
The prosecutor said the defendant had run up a bill
with him to the amount of It 65., and after repeated ap
plications for the money without effect, he was obliged
to take out a summons to enforce its recovery. Wish-
ing, however, to avoid resorting to such harsh measures,
if possible, he went on the 4th inst. to the defendant's
house, in Amherst-terrace, in the hope of quietly
arranging the matter. The door was opened by a
woman, who said the defendant was not at home, and
he turned round to go away ; but he had no sooner
reached the garden gate than the defendant appeared at
the street door, and called out, " Here I am, and if you
advance an inch further I will run you through with
this." She then ran towards him, brandishing a naked
sword, with which she suddenly made a thrust at his left
breast, and the sword struck him very sharply ; but he
stepped rapidly backwards, and fortunately escaped any
personal injury ; but as it was the point of the sword
entered the breast of his coat, and made an incision in it
to the extent of several inches. Apprehensive of fur-
ther violence,_ he ran off to the station-house and communi-
cated what had occurred to an officer, who went to the
house and took the defendant into custody : but in con-
sequence of his being unable to appear sufficiently early
against her at this Court she was discharged, and had
since then had the assurance to commence proceedings
against him for false imprisonment. (The prosecutor
exhibited his coat, which had a cut in the left breast of
it about the extent described in his evidence.) He was
cross-examined as to his having used violent and threaten-
inglanguage previous to the defendant's attack upon him,
and denied having done so most positively.
Constable Brannan, 69 N, at the desire of the last
witness, went to the house of the defendant, the door of
which was opened by her. She still had the sword in
her hand, but on telling her his business she dropped it
in the passage. The sword was an ordinary ship's cut-
lass, and very sharp pointed, but was jagged at the edge
and had seen some service.
Inspector Howie said, immediately after the warrant
was issued against the prisoner she and her husband
absconded from the neighbourhood, and he had been
unable to obtain any clue to their residence until the
preceding day, when he traced them to a house in
Shepperton-street, Hoxton, and took the prisoner into
custody.
In defence, Mr. Wolfe said that on the prosecutor
going to his client's house he made use of the most violent
and disgusting language, and the defendant being ap-
prehensive he would commit some personal violence upon
her, took up the sword to defend herself, but without the
slightest intention of using it. He called two witnesses,
named Anne Dallaway and Catherine Stebbing, who
described the prosecutor's language in similar terms; but
they differed very materially in some of the facts, and
both denied seeing the sword used, though both were
present at the time.
Mr. BROUGHTON disbelieved these witnesses, and was
satisfied, from the evidence, the prosecutor had con-
ducted himself on the occasion in a proper and tempe-
rate manner. Had the defendant succeeded in executing
her threat, it would have been an undoubted case of
murder, and had the sword only drawn blood, and the
jury were satisfied of her intention, she would have been
liable to fifteen years' transportation. As it was, he
should only convict her of a very aggravated assault,
and order her to pay a fine to the Queen of 505., or, in
default, undergo six weeks' imprisonment in the House
of Correction.
A great number of tradesmen, comprising butchers,
bakers, publicans, and others, pressed forward, and ap-
pealed to the magistrate as to what steps they should
adopt to recover the value of goods they had incautiously
supplied to the defendant and her husband on the faith
of their respectability before they absconded from the
house in Amherst-terrace. One of the tradesmen, who
was a publican, had supplied them with beer, spirits,
&c., to the extent of 25/., during their short residence in
that neighbourhood.
Mr. BROUGIIT6N regretted he could render the com-
plainants no assistance, but if they could establish a case
of fraud against the defendant and her husband, they
might give them into custody.
UNIOIV-HALL.
Emma Smith, a pretty looking woman, was brought
up in custody, charged with stealing a 5/. Bank of Eng-
land note and some sovereigns, the property of Henry
Watts, of 18, Princes-street, Blackfriars-road.
The complainant commenced by saying the prisoner
had given in a wrong description, by styling herself as
Mrs. Smith on the police-sheet, when in point of fact
she was his wife. That by care and frugality he had
saved the above sum, which he deposited for safety in a
drawer in his bed-room. That the prisoner was aware
of the fact, and that on Sunday she urged him to go to
church, and that during his absence she went to the little
hoard, took every shilling, and went off and married
another man.
Mr. Cormiciraar—lf that is the case, there is an end
to the charge of stealing, for whatever'property is yours
is also your wife's.
The prisoner declared that although she had been
living under the protection of the complainant for the,
last eight years, still that she was not his wife, and,
added she, looking daggers at the complainant,y " you
are a wicked man for bringing me here."
Tile prisoner frequently interrupted the complainant
by exclaiming, " Oh, you wicked man, my lawful hus-
band is outside the Court, and I defy you to prove that
ever I was your wife. Give me into custody, if you dare,
for bigamy, and I shall have you tried for perjury."
She then called out for Smith, at the top of her voice,
desiring him to ,come into Court and hear what the old
monster, Watts, 1, ad alleged against her.
Mr. COTTINGRAX said he could not entertain the
charge on which the prisoner was brought there, as the
complainant still persis,"ed in the assertion that she was
his wife, The magi:4w then asked the complainant if

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDII.:(4LL.
Wednesday Mr. John Smith, a packing-case maker,
carrying on business at the corner of Distaff-lane, was
brought before Aldermen Hughes and Hooper, carged
with indecently assaulting Sarah Crisp, a girl belonging
to the Queenhithe-ward School for Girls, in Old Fish-
street.
Mr. Deputy Goss stated that he was the treasurer of
the ward school, and it having come to his knowledge
that the defendant had enticed helf-a-dozen of the school
children into his premises by giving them a few half.
pence, and had taken the opportunity to behave inde-
cently to them, he thought it was his duty to bring the
matter before the Magistrates. He had carried this
practice on for some time ; but on account of the tender
age of the children it was desirable, perhaps, that they
should be spared a public examination, and that the
charge should be limited to an assault on one child.
Sarah Crisp' aged 10 years, then stated that her father
is dead, and she is maintained by her mother. She had
been clothed and educated in the ward school for six
years past. She first went into the defendant's shop
with some other children about a year ago, when he
gave them some halfpence. He did not take any liber-
ties with her then, nor at any time when any of her
schoolfellows were with her. But he had behaved inde-
cently to her on several occasions. The last time was a
fortnight ago, when she came out of school before dinner.
The MAGISTRATE inquired particularly as to this
transaction, but did not find ground to commit for a
felony or a misdemeanour.
The defendant said he was innocent. His shop had
no windows. It was an open carpenter's shop close to
the street, and it was impossible to act in the way de-
scribed without being seen by the persons passing. He
had no means of answering the case except by denying
it, and by showing its improbability.
Mr. Alderman Hoopag said, he was in the habit of
passing the shop, and knew there were planks standing
up at the back of the shop which would afford a cover to
such acts.
The Magistrates having consulted,
Mr. Alderman HUGHES said, if the defendant did not
choose to submit to a summary conviction, he might be
committed for trial at the sessions, and the whole of the
children whom he had assaulted would be called. He
would take the consequence of that examination. He
believed all the girl had stated—for children and fools
generally spoke the truth. They then adjudged him to
pay a fine of 51. for the assault.
The defendant paid the fine.
Mr. Alderman HOOPER recommended him to remove
immediately from a neighbourhood where his character
had become infamous. If he did not the alderman would
take care he should be watched.
BOW-STREET.
Wednesday John Ogilvie who was charged with ex-
torting a gold watch and chain, and 51. 10s., from Mr.
F. Mieville, of Hanover-square, by threats of an infamous
character, was brought up for final examination.
Mr. Hobler, the solicitor for the prosecutor, stated that
since the last remand another distinct charge of a similar
nature had been instituted against the prisoner, which
he was prepared to go into.
The only additional evidence offered in the former
case was that of a woman named Mary Ann Gill, who
said she had lived, until about a month ago, in Pitt-
street, John-street, and knew both the prisoner and the
cabman, Charles Rouse (who was examined last Fri-
day). She recollected Rouse bringing her an umbrella
some weeks since, and saying it was left in his cab; it was
afterwards fetched away by the prisoner, who wore a
gold or gilt chain at the time.
On being questioned by the prisoner, she admitted
that she had great doubt as to his being the young man
who took away the umbrella ; and as it appeared evi-
dent to the Court that her testimony would be of no
service to the prosecution, it was not returned with the
depositions.
The prosecutor in the other case was Mr. Claud Neil-
son, a clerk in the office of his father, 3, Leadenhall-
street, who stated that in the afternoon of November 9,
whilst looking in some print-shops in Finch-lane, the
prisoner rushed against him twice in a suspicious man-
ner, and subsequently followed him to Mr. Barraud's
shop in Cornhill, where he had to call on business. The
prisoner waited till he came out again, and then con-
tinued to follow him, although he walked as quickly as
he could through the passages leading into Lombard-
street, hoping to avoid him. In one of these passages he
heard the prisoner calling to him " to come away from
the street," and he then became so much alarmed that he

he could prove that the man whom he alleged married the
prisoner, was accessory to the robbery, for u less he
could do that, the charge against that individual must also
fall to the ground.
The complainant admitted that he was not in a condi-
tion to do so, although he had strong grounds for be-
lieving that the prisoner was influenced by that person.
The prisoner here bawled out again on her lawful hus-
band (as she called him) to enter the Court, and witness
the falsehoods which were uttered against them both.
She then proceeded to state that there was no foundation
for either the charge of robbery or bigamy. That she
left the prisoner, in consequence of ill usage, and on
Sunday last was made an honourable woman, by getting
married to Mr. Smith, and that her marriage so exaspe-
rated Watts, that he trumped up these serious charges
against her to be revenged.
The Magistrate said he should discharge the accused,
and she left the bar with an air of triumph, asking the
complainant what he got, after all, by his motion, and
advised him to keep out of the way of " Mister" Smith,
her husband, in case of an accident.
LAMBETH-STREET
ROBBERY AND SUBSTITUTION OF DU3IMIES.— James
Saunders and John Robertson were placed at the bar,
before Mr. Henry, on a charge, or rather suspicion of
stealing two bottles of quicksilver, of the value of 501.
From the evidence of Inspector Donnigan and the
police-constable Robert Thorp, H 155, it appeared that,
about six o'clock on the preceding evening, the latter ob-
served a town-cart stop in front of a blacksmith's shop in
Pennington-street, and immediately after observed two
men carry something heavy from the vehicle into the
house. Suspecting something wrong, he watched the
place for a few moments, and seeing a little girl in the
shop, he asked her who the parties were, and what they
had taken into the house? She replied that it was Mr.
Saunders and another person, whom she did not know,
and that the former said he wanted her master to drill a
hole in two stoves he had brought for the purpose.
Saunders was secured, but his companion had made his
escape, and on examining the articles taken into the
house, they were found to be two bottles of quicksilver.
of over 90Ibs. each, and of the value of 501. The pro-
perty was taken in the cart to the station-house, and on
examining the vehicle, the name of Richard Owen, of
Fashion-street, Brick-lane, was found on it. Mr. Owen
subsequently attended at the station house, and repre-
sented that the cart had been hired about three o'clock
in the afternoon, by a man named Priestly, to do a job
from the Borough to Tower-hill, and that his man, John
Robinson, had accompanied it. While making this
statement, the prisoner Robinson entered the station.
house, and was detained by Inspector Donnigan on
suspicion of being concerned in the robbery.
When the officers had terminated their evidence,
Mr. Golding, a town carman, entered the Court, and,
addressing Mr. Henry, said he had attended to apply for
a warrant against one of his men, named Sandfird, for
absconding from his employment on that morning under
very suspicious circumstances. Mr. Golding then stated,
that on the day before he had sent Sandford with a van
and two horses to remove fifty bottles of quicksilver, in
bond at Fresh Wharf, to the Southampton Railway sta-
tion. On his return Sandford did not produce a receipt
for the goods, as was usual in such transactions, but
stated as his excuse that there was some mistake in the
weight. On the day following, he (Sandford) came to
the yard at an early hour, but it was evident, from a con-
versation which he had with one of the men, that there
was something wrong, and he absconded from the pre-
mises shortly afterwards. Mr. Golding added, that he
had no doubt whatever that the two bottles of quicksilver
then in court formed a part of the fifty entrusted to
Sansiford's care, and for which the Customs would hold
him (Mr. Golding) responsible.
Mr. HENRY observed that it was somewhat singular
that Mr. Golding should enter the court at such a
moment, and recommended him to lose no time in
going to the railway station, and ascertain if any and
what portion of the quicksilver had been delivered
there ; for it might happen that the whole were stolen.
Mr. Golding immediately acted upon his Worship's
suggestion, and, taking Thorp, the officer, with him, pro-
ceeded to Nine Elms. On his return, at five o'clock, he
informed Mr. Henry that fifty bottles had been delivered
at the railway station, but only forty-nine had been sent
on to Southampton, as the fiftieth was found to be 171bs.
short of the proper weight.
Thorp said he had no doubt whatever that the bottle
which he found at the railway was a " dummy," or old
bottle, which had been emptied of the quicksilver and
filled up with melted lead, but the latter wets considerably
lighter than the former. He was the more convinced it
was a dummy by the fact that it bore the same number
and marks as one of those taken on the preceding night,
but both the figures and letters were somewhat different.
Mr. HENRY remarked, that from the circumstance of
Sandford delivering the proper number of bottles at the
railroad, there could be but little doubt that the "
darn
miss," as they were called, had been substituted for the
real quicksilver, and he should therefore recommend
Mr. Golding to proceed to Southampton, and take the
numbers and exact weight of all the bottles belonging to
the parcel there.
The prisoners were then remanded.
Saunders, it appears, has been for some years under
the surveillance of the police as a receiver of stolen pro-
perty. He has been tried at the Old Bailey for that of-
fence, and also fined 100/. for smuggling, for which he
served twelve months in the House of Correction.

MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MA-
GISTRATES.
Yesterday being what is termed "county day," or the day
appointed for the transaction of the financial and other
business of the county of Middlesex, a most aumerous
meeting of the magistrates was held, at twelve o'clock,
in the Court-house, Clerkenwell-green, Devon, Esq.,
in the chair.
The Deputy Clerk of the Peace having read the
mi-
nutes of the last meeting, the Court proceeded with the
consideration of the appointment of nine district sur-
veyors, according to the provisions of the new Metro-
politan Buildings Act, and by which it was provided
that no person at all acting as a builder, lanl agent, or
other person connected with the building department in
any manner whatsoever should be appointed.
Capt. Bague and Mr. Orme were unanimously elected
as scrutineers in the election of district surveyors.
HANWELL LUNATIC ASYLUM.
On the motion of H. POWNALL, Esq. the Committee of
this Asylum, appointed in August last,, were empowered
to purchase 24 acres 2 roods of land, immediately adjoin-
ing Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, for the purpose of en-
larging the building, and thus abolishing the necessity
of farming out the pauper lunatics, as the various pa-
rishes were now obliged to do, and in consequence of
which the unfortunate patients were often ill-treated.
The sum which the Committee were empowered to pay
for this land was 6,000/.
The Court then proceeded t 6 review the reports of the
Visiting Justices of the several metropolitan prisons,
from which it appeared that all the prisoners were
healthy, and that the utmost order and subordination
prevailed.

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LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
LONDON, Nov. 28.—Wind S. to S.W., moderate breeze,
and fine.
DEAL, NOV. 27.—Wind S.S.W. to W., light breeze.—
Sid. Rosalind, Ichaboe ; Duke of Norfolk, Tobago ;
Cairo, and Village Girl, Jamaica.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 27.—The Apollo, Bryant, ashore
on Battery Point, has been got off and into the Pool ;
cargo discharging.
OFF DOVER, Nov. 27.—Prins Hendrick, Kuning, Ba-
tavia for Amsterdam.
PonTsmoUTIT, Nov. 27.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd.
toria, Stark, New York, and sailed for London. Sld.
Mountaineer, Sierra Leone.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 27.—Wind S.W., moderate.—Arrd.
Windsor Castle, James, Bombay ; Maunin, China ;
Fairfield, Peruvian, Black and Victoria, White, Ichaboe ;
Thomas Leech, Buenos Ayres ; Victoria, Galveston ;
Charles Hennerton, Hayti ; Grace, Ryne, Antigua ;
Clifton, Ingarod, Kelby and Lehiga, New Crleans ;
American, Hall, Savannah ; Independence, Allen, New
York ; Coronet, St. Andrew's ; Sir C. Napier, ditto,
master disabled by one of his crew • Adah, St.
Stephen's ; British American, St. lohn's, New
Brunswick ; Emma and Primrose, Montreal ;
Florence, John Horton, Ma) field, Scotland, and Souter
Johnny, Quebec.—Sld. Ann Carr, Sydney ; Carolina,
Manilla ; Alexander, Singapore • Sabina, Bombay ;
Hindley, Cape of Good Hope ; Mersey, Jamaica ; Ann
Jeffry, and Belmont, New Orleans ; Samuel, Mobile ;
Laurel, and Robert, Savannah ; Creole, Charleston ;
Margaret Ann,Newfoundland.—Off, Pocohontas, Osprey,
and Calcutta. A barque, with loss of topmasts, and
apparently waterlogged and abandoned, was passed, 19th
inst., in lat. 50, lon. 17, by the Magnet, at this port.
The John and Mary, of Dublin, waterlogged and
abandoned, was passed, 20th inst., in lat. 54, lon. 18, by
the James Campbell, arrived here from Quebec.
Coat, Nov. 25.—Arrd.Walmsley Lassie, Sierra Leone.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 27.—Wind S.S.W., moderate.—
Arrd. Amelia, Knudsen, Havannah ; Liffy, Norman, St.
John's, New Brunswick ; Daedalus, Quebec. Off,
Orator, Chatre, Colombia ; Elizabeth, Murray, Coast of
Africa ; Europe, St. Ann's ; and Roslin Castle, Quebec.
SCILLY, Nov. 18.—Arrd. Henriette, Withers, Suri-
nam for Amsterdam.-21. John Weavel, Thinset, Cape
Coast Castle.-24. Deky, Fernando Po for Amsterdam.
BRISTOL, Nov. 27.—SId. Marina, Rutland, Ichaboe ;
Glinet, Cother, Demerara ; British Queen and Pamelia,
Quebec ; Cosmo, New York.

THE SCOTCH CURRENCY QUESTION.—A large
meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, Edinburgh, was
held on Friday, when resolutions were passed condem-
natory of any change in the currency of Scotland. It
was announced by one speaker that the merchants of
Manchester were willing to assist the Scotch in petition..
ine. Parliament against any change. Another speaker,
Mr. Cadell, stated that all the Scotch members, with one
exception, had waited upon Sir Robert Peel at the close
of the last session, deprecating any change. The mem-
who did not attend was Mr. Loch, and he had since
signified his acquiescence with the others; so that it
might now be considered that all the Scotch members
were against a change.
SUDDEN DEATH OF AN ECCENTRIC CHARACTER.--
Wednesday, Mr. Payne held an inquest at the Crown,
Westminster-road, on the body of Richard James, aged
52, a shoemaker, of No. 8, Duke-street, Westminster..
road. The deceased, it appeared, had for many years
been afflicted with fits of epilepsy, having as many as
three in the day, and was of very eccentric habits, never
allowing his window to be shut, summer or winter,
always sleeping with it open. The last time he was
seen alive was on Saturday morning, and the last time
he was heard moving about was about five o'clock on the
same evening. On Sunday night he was found lying
with his head on the floor and his legs on the bed, quite
dead. Mr. Newsome, surgeon, said the deceased died
from apoplexy. He had been seized with a fit,
and had fallen in the position{ in which he was found.
Not being able to move, the blood had flowed to his head
and produced apoplexy. Verdict--" Natural death,"