The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-30 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the
week ending March 26, 1544, is 365. ld. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—.Norwich, March 28.
(Before Mr. ANDREWS, Q.C.)
Mr. Andrews took his seat in Court at ten o'clock this
morning, and assisted the Learned Judges in trying prisoners.
The following case, which excited very great interest in the
city, was tried before him :
A DRAMATIC Cincr.E.—James Henry Mungard, comedian,
aged 26, was indicted for feloniously intermarrying Rosina
Saker, his former wife, Kathleen, being alive at the time.
Mr. Worlledge conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Prender-
gast and Mr. W. Cooper the defence.
The prisoner is an actor, and has figured with more credit
to himself than he did to-day on the stage of mimic life in
this city, where he has for some time past been a member of
the corps dramatique. He is a good-looking young man, and
in the year 1836 he won the affections of a Miss Kathleen
Fry, the daughter of a clergyman in London, to whom he
was married in the month of March in that year. For
some reason, not explained by the evidence, he and his wife
separated five or six months after their marriage, and the
lady and her mother went to Paris, where she formed a con-
nexion with a M. Ammon, a Frenchman, with whom she
lived for two years, and until his death, after which she and
her mother went to reside in Belgium. In 1839, a Mr.
Saker, also a comedian, was in Norwich with his daughter,
Miss Rosina, and an attachment sprang up betwixt her and
the prisoner. which ended is their marriage in that city in
the month of February, 1840. A very short time after this
second union of the prisoner, a rumour of his first marriage
and of his first wife being still alive got abroad, and came to
the ears of Mr. Saker and his daughter, and rendered them
very unhappy. The prisoner was taxed with the tact, and
at length admitted that he had been married, but asserted
that his wife was not living, that she died abroad, and was
buried in Italy Remembering, however, that the prisoner
had married his daughter as a " bachelor," and not as a
widower, this assertion by no means satisfied or convinced
Mr. Saker, and he forthwith set inquiries on foot for the pur-
pose of ascertaining the true state of the case. Whilst these
inquiries were going on, the prisoner went to Belgium, and
saw Mrs. Fry, the mother of his first wife, and shortly after-
wards Mrs. Fry wrote three or four letters to the second
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" Mrs. Mungard," or Miss Saker, informing, her that she
might make herself quite easy about the matter, as her
daughter, the first wife, died in Italy, " and was buried
at Naples in unconsecrated ground." The letter in
which that alleged fact was announced stated that
" in Italy the. Roman Catholic was the only religion that
was tolerated, and that nobody whose religious faith was not
that of the tolerated religion was permitted to be buried in
consecrated ground, which was the reason why MrS. Mun-
gard was buried in ground unconsecrated." This circum-
stantial untruth satisfied the:fears of the Sakers for a while.
Mrs. Fry also wrote to inform Miss Saker that she had
heard that her daughter was married at the time of her
union with the prisoner, to a Mr. Livian, a person who had
the misfortune to be transported for forgery, but it appeared
that she never was married to him. Mrs. Fry admitted
that she wrote the letters informing the prisoner's second
wife that his first was dead before his second marriage,
and buried at Naples " in unconsecrated ground," and that
that was false, she being still alive; but she said she wrote
them at the dictation of the prisoner, who went down on
his knees to her and implored her, in that attitude, to
write them. Afterwards, however, some disputes arose
betwixt the prisoner and Mrs Fry, in reference to an allow.
ante for the maintenance of her daughter, and then the mat-
ter was cleared up, and the existence of the first wife very
satisfactorily shown.
The Learned JUDGE summed up the evidence, and told
the jury that if they believed Mrs. Fry upon her oath, he
could not suggest a doubt of the prisoner's guilt. It was not
necessary for the prosecutor to show that the prisoner knew
at the time lie was married to Miss Saker, and when
he represented himself as a bachelor, that his former wife was
living; it was sufficient to prove the fact of her being alive.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was sentenced
to be imprisoned for four calendar months.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-ROUSE.
TVilliam Rcad and William Simpson were re-examined
upon the charge of having conspired to sink the Colina.
Brady, the owner of the smack Sarah, stated that he
saw the Colina go down. Simpson and the rest of the
crew were in his vessel at the time, and, when Simpson
saw her sink, he said, " Thank God for that. I think,
now, we shan't be able to do anything with her." I said,
" No, its all over with us now; we shan't be able to do
anything with her now;" and he then said he would
have let her gone the voyage, only his wife was on
board, and the weather was so bad that he was afraid,
and therefore he put into some port in the west, the
name of which I do not remember. He said she was
not a vessel fit for their trade. She was too sharp, and
didn't carry lading enough. He didn't mention any-
thing that was to happen to him if she was lost, but he
said he dared say he should have a better vessel. When
the vessel hove down she sank about twenty feet in half
an hour. She went down head first. He told me that
they had a bran new sixteen foot boat on the deck, and
he hoisted her out of the long boat on to the scupper,
but she was not lashed at all. The boat was sucked
down by the ship, and we never saw any more of
her. When it sank he said it was a nice little
boat, and it would have answered our purpose
very well. He said he expected the boat would have
floated, as she was not fastened. I had the boat that
was saved, and the captain told me I might keep the
boat and every thing belonging to the ship, as he did not
want to hear any more about them. The clothes were
not much for a voyage, for I put them all in a bread-
bag. If the vessel had had proper signals at dawn of
day, we could have saved her. There was sixteen
fathoms of water ; it was a nice moderate breeze. It
was about W.S.W. or S.W. by W. When the captain
and I were parting, he asked me if I should ever talk
about it. I said no ; I dared say he never would hear
more of it 'from me. He asked what I thought of my
partners ? I said I dared say they would never trouble
their heads about it. The John Bull steamer came in
sight that day, and I put the captain and crew on board
of her. I had one letter from the captaia a fortnight or
three weeks after, which I think is lost.
Mr. Humphreys, the solicitor for Simpson, asked a
few questions of the witness, but his answers did not
affect the case.
Mr. J. C. Smith, who is in the employment of the
Shipowners' Towing Company, was in the smack, and
confirmed the statement of the last witness. In conse-s
quence of what he saw, his suspicions were excited,
very much. He had ascertained who the owner was,
and he considered it to be his duty to write to Mr.
Read, and he received an answer. He never was called
upon by Mr. Read, or on his account, to give any further
account of what he had heard or seen. If they had seen
the brig as early as three o'clock, by the united exertions
of all the vessels, he had no doubt, they could have got
her into the Texel. Removing the lining and taking out
a butt would most decidedly contribute to the foundering.
The vessel was about thirty. five miles from the coast.
Mr. George Gardener, whose evidence was partly
given on the first examination, made the following re-
markable statement :—I have for many years been clerk
to Messrs. Read and Page, of Ipswich, the owners of
the brig Colina. I remember a time policy being effected
upon her in 1840. I remember her sailing from Ipswich.
Simpson was master of her. She went to the north for
coals, and I heard shortly afterwards that she was lost.
In June, last year, I saw Simpson, and had some con-
versation with him about the loss of the Colina. It was
on the road between the ship-yard and my cottage.
I think it was on the 6th of June. Simpson said
ho was very unhappy, and expressed his regret
that he had ever entered Road's service. He then spoke
of the loss of the Colina, and said that he was very un-
happy about it, that it was a wilful loss, and that he had
a great mind to go and tell the facts to Mr. Alexander,
the agent of the Alliance Company. He said Mr. Read
and he had agreed she should be lost, and he showed me
the spot on the road where the agreement was made.
After detailing the particulars, which were represented
on the first examination, the witness said, after the loss
of the brig, there was a letter came to Read and Page
from Barking. I saw it ; but did not read it. Read
saw and read it, I believe, in my presence, so that I could
hear the contents. • It purported to come from a person
named Smith. I do not recollect the particulars, only
that it informed him that the vessel was wilfully lost,
and he had better make some inquiries into it. I don't
know that Read just then made any particular comment
upon it. After that letter, I saw Simpson in the count-
ing-house with Read, talking about the loss of the brig,
they appeared on good terms. Read spoke of the letter,
and said it was a very serious thing, and asked how he
conducted himself to the men on board the smack ;
whether he had said anything to them to commit him-
self in any way. Simpson replied that he had not.
Mr. George Pooley, clerk in the banking-house of
Mr. Alexander, at Ipswich, stated that the prisoner and
his partners kept an account there in 1841. Mr. R. D.
Alexander. a retired partner of the firm, kept an account
there, and acted as agent to the Alliance Marine As-
surance Company. Witness received a direction from
Mr. R. D. Alexander, on the 3d of August, 1841, and
transferred from his name to the names of Read and
Page, the sum of 1,2481. Bs. 6d., which was entered to
their credit in their pass-book.
R. Parker, the master of the Royal George smack,
gave evidence similar to that given by the other fisher-
man, who witnessed the sinking of the Celina.
Mr. Clarkson then stated that circumstances had

transpired to induce him to request that the prisoner
should not be formally committed for trial till Monday
next.

Mr. Wontner and Mr. Humphrey, as the delay was
not to be extended beyond Monday, offered no ob-
jection, and the former intimated that it was his inten-
tion to apply to a Judge to take bail for Mr. Read.
The witnesses were then bound over to appear at the
Central Criminal Court on the Bth of April, to give
evidence against the prisoners.
The Lord Mayor acknowledged the receipt of 5/. from
a retired Bengal officer, to be applied to the service of
the lady from India, for whom his Lordship was receiv-
ing subscriptions, provided she was the daughter of a
medical gentleman who had been known to the contri-
butor. As she was not the party referred to, his Lord-
ship stated that the note would be returned to the officer
upon application at the Mansion-house.