The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-15 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Two women, named Chandler and ruddy, have been committed
by the Coroner for Somersetshire, to take their trials for the mur-
der of the child of the prisoner Chandler. Both the prisoners had
been inmates of the Axbridge Union Workhouse, and on their
leaving the union they poisoned the child with laudanum.
At the Guildhall, Plymouth, on Wednesday, a woman, the wife
of a seaman named Johnson, who was charged with assaulting a
girl and robbing her of her purse, hung herself in her cell during
the night. The policeman on opening her cell the next morning
thought she was standing against the wall underneath the barred
window of the cell. Finding she did not stir, he approached her,
and then discovered that ste was hanging from the bars off the
ground. Life had been extinct some time before she was dis—
covered.

The terms upon which the proprietors of the Torpoint Steam
Ferry have agreed to cede the ferry to the Plymouth and Falmouth
Railway Company are said to be, that the entire capital sunk from
the commencement is to be repaid with interest at the rate of 4i
per cent. The tolls arising from the ferry were let on Tuesday, by
Mr. Hainselin, for one year, for 2,4701., being nearly 3001. above
the amount paid last year.
On Thursday night a meeting of the parishioners of St. James, Cler.
kenwell, was held at the Red Lion,itosamond-street, for the purpose
of taking measures to obtain a repeal of the window-tax, when the
chair having been taken, several of the inhabitants addressed the
meeting, and a series of resolutions were moved and agreed to ha
support of the object, after which the meeting separated.
Marylebone Parish Church was broken into on Wednesday night
by some thieves, whose object appears to have been the commu.
nion plate, &c., which is very valuable; fortunately, however, the
door of the strong room in which it was deposited resisted all the
attempts made upon it, and the only booty the thieves found con.
sisted of 30s. in cash, taken from the desk of theparish clerk, and
five brass candlesticks, found in an ante-room, the door of which
was forced to get at the strong room. The covering of the pulpit
had been removed by the depredators, In search, it is supposed, of
the gold lace which usually ornaments it, but that had been re-
moved, and recurely locked up, as is the custom during Lent. Re.
mains of Weiler matches were left In the vestry, and a candle had
been lighted.

We regret to state that the last accounts from Sidney, New
South Wales, announce the death at Sir James Dowling, the Chief
Justice of that colony. He died on the :25th of September.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
QUEEN- SQUARE•.
On Thursday, shortly before the closing of the Court, Henry Peacoa
Gray. of Caroline.street, Colcsliill-street, Pimlico, horse dealer, was

brought up before Mr. Burrell, in custody of a City officer, on charge
of obtaining by false pretences from Thomas Reynolds, of Enfield.

corn-chandler, two horses, twenty quarters of oats, and two quarters
of beans, with intent to cheat hint of the seine. Mr. Steels, of Lin-
coln's Inn-fields, and Mr. Lucena, Of Gray's Inn, appeared as so-
licitors for tlw prosecution, and Mr. Dupree, of Lawrence-lane, foe
the prisoner. Ihe prosecutor stated, that on the 9th of Januau
prisoner, whom he had previously known, in consequence of dealings
with his father, Mr. William Gray, of 180, Oxford-street, called upon
prosecutor at Enfield, in company with a lame gentleman, whom he
introduced as ,his brother-is-law, but whom prosecutor afterwarcbs
ascertained to be Harman Milton ; that prisoner did not mention
this person's name, If he had done so, prosecutor would have been
upon his guard immediately, and he believed prisoner was 'aware,'
thereof, and expressly concealed the name. That prisoner reqviested
to know whether prosecutor bad got any horses he could sell him,
adding, that he had married and gone into business on hLs oosfv iv el
n ac-
count for some time past ; that his godfather, Mr. Peacock,
yru to
wyn, Herts, had advanced him a cheque for 2,000 L, and he
apply for more, as hefound his business required ft ; that he had
purchased 40 horses, and paid for
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several pairs of them on excellent and tl gen e-
' men, and that Sir Sebastian Smith had four splendid horses of his,
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paying 90 guineas per pair for them ; and that he, prisoner, was
then enjoying a first-rate business. Prosecutor ftiXther stated, tat
prisoner's brother-in-law verified most of the assertions of prisoner,
and congratulated prosecutor that prisoner had come down, for that
much good business might be done between them. Prosecutor, On
these representations, agreed to sell prisoner two horses, 20 quartenS
of oats, and two quarters of beans, and on the next day, by prisoner's
directions, sent the horses to prisoner's stables, in a mews, altuabto
in Caroline-street, Eaton-square, where they were taken in
afterwardsy
prisoner and Harman Milton, and that some few days
the oats and beans were delivered at the same place ;whl'oina.
prisoner h
prosecutor discoveredio.tthaewl,
prisoner had introduced as his brothertb-
Milton, who had been charged oireeto
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brother, and a person caning
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hearing these particulars,rPrs. Wm. Gray); also at the stables in
prisoner of his step mother
neighbourhood, from which prosecutor be-
Caroline-street,
and
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and that the prosecutor could prove sneer If
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gave prosecutor the assistance of two constablea ; and,goutntdhere
tMwro.
Burrell's advice, they went to prisoner's stables, and
horses away, but prisoner was not there, or to bo found daring the
period of the three days that prosecutor watched the premises, in the
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morning before Commissioner Shepherd to be examined , that prose-
cutor took a constable with him, and prisoner making. his appear-
g,es, prosecutor immediately gave hini into Custody, and was after-
wards examined by prisoner's solicitor before the Commissioner
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the magistrate, and the
former denounced the bankruptcy as part of the fraud, and the exa-
mination tinder it as a hole-and-corner meeting, got np by the pri-
soner for the purpose of intimidating the prosecutor, in consequence
of prisoner having learnt that prosecutor was in search of him on a
criminal charge. Mr. Burrell remanded the prisoner for a week, and
issued summonses for the attendance of witnesses to prove the false-
hood of the prisoner's statement to the prosecutor. Ultimately, by
the consent of Mr. Steele, prisoner was liberated on his father, Mr.
William Gray, becoming bad in 2001. for the prisoner's appearance
next Thursday.

SPORTING EXTRAORDINARY.—A very exeollent
shooting-match at penny pieces (thrown into the air by a person
specially appointed), took place on Monday last, at Tewkesbury.
The match was for St. a side, between two Tewkesburians, and two
residents of Cheltenham, each individual having twenty-five shots-
Mr. Davison and Mr. Davy shot for Tewkesbury, and Messrs. Gower
and Combos were the representatives of Cheltenham:: Mr. Davison_
hit his twenty-five pieces admirably, and Mr. Davy wits alike success-
ful, except in his twenty-third shot, which, being thrown awkwardl_l.
up, prevented a discharge of his gun unless :by:risking co
able danger, whereby ho lost one out of
.his twenty-fire•_
Cheltenham cracks then followed ; both succeeded in hittingotheir
atiget,ir, -
pieces, and consequently were.awa.twled-the...,.01-:n four sports.
thus beating the Tewkesburiana by one 0161' d Atter this match..
men hitting ninety-nine pieces out of a
at pig
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good
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several sweepstakes were contended tr;ogespgpe ; and several gentleMerg
was displayed, few birds were allowed
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ndairl at Mr. Jjoall'a the Sun Inn, TewiteStku7.-
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