The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-16 00:00:00

BANK OF ENGLAND.

Quarterly Average of the Weekly Liabilities and Assets of
the Bank of England, from the 18th day of May, 1844,
to the 10th day of August, 1844, both inclusive, published
pursuant to the Act 3 and 4 Will. IV., cap. 98.

LIABILITIES. ASSETS.
Circulation £21,324,000 Securities ...#;22,908,000
Deposits ... 14,090,000 Bullion ... 15,579,000

£35,414,000
11, Downing-street, Aug.

£38,487,000

;, 1844.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current of Aug. 16.)
SucAlL—There has been an inclination generally on
the part of importers of Muscovado Sugar to realise
this week, and they have submitted to a reduction on
former rates of 6d per cwt for all descriptions; these
terms, however, have induced buyers to purchase on a
more extended scale. To-day no alteration occurred in
the value of inferior and brown sorts of West India
Sugar, but good mid and fine yellow sorts fetched
stiffer rates : a good demand existed for all sorts, and
450 hhds were sold, making the total purchases for the
week 2,500 hhds and trcs.
REFINED.—Prices have suffered a decline of 6d to is
per cwt for refined Goods this week. To-day a good
demand existed for Refined Sugar for home consumption,
but no improvement in prices occurred, brown Lumps
selling at 735, and standard Lumps 74s per cwt. Bonded
Crushed Sugar has brought further advanced rates;

there is very little offering, the Refiners having sold
largely for forward delivery, and are now demanding
27s to 27s 6d per cwt.
MAURITIUS.—The demand has been good, but im-
porters have been compelled to accept prices rather
under those of Friday last, the market being
well supplied, especially with the lower de-
scriptions. This afternoon there was a large pub-
lic sale of 10,147 bags, of which nearly the whole
found purchasers, but at prices generally 6d per cwt
under those of the last auctions—fine yellow fetched
62 6d to 63s 6d, good mid and good 57s to 595, mid 54s
to 56s 6d, low 53s to 53s 6d, low and very low brown
40s to 455, mid 46s 6d to 49s 6d, good 50s to 51s, fine 52s
to 52s 6d, and grey 53s to 58s per cwt.
EAST INDlA—Foreign East India Sugar has been in-
quired for this week by shippers and refiners working
here under bond, but business has been restricted, in
consequence of the reluctance of holders to sell.
This afternoon, at auction, 3,715 bags of Bengal Sugar
wore offered ; the best white sorts fetched full rates, but
the lower kinds went rather cheaper—fine and very fine
white brought 65s 6d to 69s 6d, good mid and good 60s
6d to 635, mid 58s 6d to 59s 6d, and low to god mid
yellow, 54s to 58s. Of Manilla, 206 bags were taken in
at 18s 6d per cwt for ord grey, being above the value.
FOREION.—YeIIow Havannah Sugar is still much
wanted, and a large business has been transacted, but
importers have not been able to obtain any further ad-
vance in prices ; white is held with firmness,
but the demand has fallen off ; a fair busi-
ness, however, has been transacted at firm
rates ; sales privately of low to middling made at
26s to 28s, and good to fine 28s 6d to 30s per cwt. Brown
Brazil has been sought after for export and refining
here under bond, but the supply has become small ;
prices are firm, and 18s to 18s 6d per cwt have been
paid for small parcels of Bahia : in white the transac-
tions are trifling.
MOLASSES.—lmporters of West India submitting to
rather lower rates, has occasioned a considerable increase
in the demand : the purchases made have been extensive,
amounting to 1,000 puns ; Demerara good at 22s to 22s
6d, Antigua 235, St. Vincent's 225, St. Kitt's, low to
mid 20s to 21s 6d, and better quality 22s to 24s per cwt.
East India Molasses are little inquired for, although
offered at low prices.
TEA.—There has been less activity in the Tea market
this week, but holders remain firm, and in prices there
is no variation. This afternoon the public sales of Tea
were brought to a conclusion. There was a better de-
mand, and the rates previously established were sup-
ported, excepting for old Hyson, which went ld to 2d
per lb cheaper ; the biddings were, however, still lan-
guid. Of the total quantity offered 8,000 packages were
sold.

COFFEE.-Fcr West India Coffee the market has been
in a quiet state, and prices are looking down for the
lower and unclean sorts, of which the supply principally
consists; middling and good Jamaica of clean quality
are, however, held with firmness, the supply being small,
but at present few purchasers are to be met with.
This afternoon the large quantity of 4,809 bags of
Padang were brought to public sale ; sound, of which
the principal part consisted, was all taken in at very full
rates-good ord at 30s ; the sea damaged was all dis-
posed of at a decline of is to 2s-first class went at
26s to 275, second class 25s to 25s 6d, third
class 23s to 245, and sea damaged and repacked
24s 6d to 255, a few lots of fine ord sound, however, sold
at 38s to 38s 6d, and one lot sea damaged 375. Of Mocha,
35 bales were offered ; two lots of green Mysore sort
were sold at 51s 6d, and the remainder taken in at 85s
for yellow, being above the value. 144 bags of Ceylon
were only partly sold at 54s 6d for good ord, 55s 6d for
very good ord, 41s to 48s 6d for sea damaged, and 21s to
24s 6d for sea damaged and repacked. 31 bags of Salem
were taken in 80s for sound. 50 bags of St. Domingo
went at 32s 6d to 33s for very good ord coloury. The
market is quiet for:Ceylon, and 54s 6d to 55s is the value
of good ord.
SPICES.--A good demand has prevailed for Malabar
Pepper this week, and full rates have been given. To-
day two parcels of Black Pepper, amounting to 2,777
bags, were brought to public sale, 1,287
.bags consisted
of Sumatra, the sound of which was taken in at full rates,
ordinary light dusty 2-ad. Bengal Ginger at 25s per
cwt for good bold but rough, being above the value, and
the remainder inferior at 20s. Nutmegs at 2s Gd to
2s 2d for Cape. Cloves at is 2d to is 8d for Dutch.
From Bombay taken in at is 2d for bright, and is per lb
for dingy. Cinnamon at 56s per cwt.
Cocoa..-The demand is improving for foreign, and
some parcels have been disposed of by private treaty at
full rates ; Trinidad was all disposed of 2s above previous
rates, and fetched 4Js for fine red, 45s 6d to 46s for good,
43s to 44s for good mid, 41s 6d to 42s 6d for middling,
40s to 40s Gd for common, and 40s to 42s 6d for grey ;
Grenada went at a similar advance, good red selling at
42s to 42s 6d, good middling 41s to 41s 6d, and middling
40s ; Dominica brought 41s per cwt.
Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-There has been a
large business transacted in all descriptions of Jamaica
Rum this week. Shippers and the home trade have pur-
chased freely, paying a further advance of Id to 2d per
gallon-fair quality 31 to 33 per cent over proof at 3s
6d to 3s Bd, good 34 to 36 over 3s 10d to 4s, fine 36 to
38 over 4s 4d to 4s 6d, and very fine 5s to 5s 6d per
gallon. Leewards at 2s 4d to 2s 4i-d proof, and good
brown ditto at 2s 5d per gallon. Demerara at 3s 3d
to 3s 4d for strong quality 32 to 37 per cent over. Cal-
cutta Rum at 2s Id to 2s 2d per gallon proof, with certi-
ficate : the supply is small. Brandy of all sorts have
assumed a firmer appearance. Cognac, best brands, of
the vintage of 1838, hhds at 4s 4d, puos at 5s 2d, ditto
1839 hdds 'ss 2d, puns ss, ditto 1840 hhds 5s Id, puns
4s lid, ditto 1841 hhds ss, puns 4s 10d, ditto 1842 hhds
4s 9d, puns 4s 7d, middling and good middling 3s 2d
to 4s Gd, and low 2s 10d to 3s per gallon. Geneva,
Is 10d for common shipping sort ; fine fit for duty is
2s 6d to 3s 6d per gallon. English Corn Spirits at lOs
4d per gallon, cash.
RICE.-There has been a considerable increase in the
demand for Bengal Rice this week. This afternoon
Bengal was in excellent request ; good bold clean white
fetched lis Gd to 12s, good mid Ils 6d, small broken
white 108 6d, and damaged 5s to Ils per cwt.
SAGO.-Holders show firmness, and none has been
offered at public :sale : the demand privately has been
only for small parcels at 13s to 24s for common to fine,
but as prices are moderate a better demand may be ex-
pected shortly to take place.
FRUIT.-The demand for Currants has been good, and
prices are firm, Zante and Cephalonia at 41s to 433,
Patras 47s to 493, and superior 50s per cwt.
COCHINEAL has been more in demand privately, and
the parcels disposed of brought full rates. This after-
noon a good demand existed, and 77 bags Mexican
silvers at auction were all sold at 4s 5d to 4s 7d per lb
for low to good.
INDIGO.-E2st Inch?, is wanted, but importers supply-
ing the market sparingly, large transactions are pre-
a profit of 2d to 4d per
consumption show an
lvbe.ntedTh:
epiedkeelidveloritessarfeorfethcohmineg
increase over those of last year. Of Spanish several
parcels have been sold rather above former rates.
Ou.s.-In Olive Oil the transactions have been to a
large extent at 451 to 461 for Gallipoli, 431 to 441 for
Spanish and 391 to 401 for Barbary. Linseed Oil at
25s 3d to 25s 6d per cwt on the spot. Rape Oil, pale
selling at 375, and brown at 36s per cwt. Fish Oils
atr3sthrn. s
50/uto3es/ 10s for
Oilorrpale 851Sea1 to
,341 for cod, and 271 to 311
fo
861 for fine British, and
831 to 841 per tun for American ; the supply is still
small. Cocoa Nut Oil at 28s to 30s per cwt. Palm
Oil 27s to to 28s for fine quality. This afternoon Palm
Oil went at 25s 9d to 275, and low 24s per cwt, and
Southern Oil 291 to 301155, low 271 15s to 281 per tun.
TALLOW.-There has been more inclination shown to
purchase Russian. Tallow on the spot, and prices have
ruled firm ; a faF demand has prevailed, and 41s to
41s 6d per cwt paid for P Y Candle first quality. This
afternoon New South Wales sold at 40s 9d to 42s 3d, low
36s to 38s 3d, 211 pkgs South American 35s 9d to 37s 6d,
167 casks North American 40s to 425, 9 casks of Italian
41s 9d to 425, and 23 knpsks of Cape 44s 3d per cwt.
SALTPETRE.-For English refined rather lower rates
have been again accepted, but at 30s for brls, and 29s 6d
per cwt for hhds; a fair business has been transacted.
This afternoon Rough met with attention, and 1,142
bags of Calcutta at auction were readily disposed of at
an advance on the rates of yesterday at 6d per cwt ;
middling grey damp 10 per cent refraction went at 24s 6d
to 255, and good dry white 2 per cent at 27s per cwt.

COURSE OF EXCH.
Amsterdam CF. 12 44
Ditto, at sight l2 2
Rotterdam 2U. 12 5
Antwerp 25 85
Hamburgh M.B. 13 134
Alton& l3 14
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 60
Ditto, 3 months 25 85
Marseilles
Bourdeaux .......
25 90
Frankfort on Main, 121
Petersburgh, 3Us 37
Berlin
effect fi7
Vienna, effect 3 M 952
Trieste, ditto
Madrid
Cadiz
Bilbao
Barcelona
Seville

k.NGE.—(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar
Leghorn 3O 50
Genoa 25 85
Milan
Venice
Naples 39*
Palermo, per oz ll4
Lisbon s4*
Oporto
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia 23
Buenos Ayres —
NewYork,2ldys sight
Philadelphia
',rams OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons..... 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 10
Silver in flare 0 4 11

MURDER AT MANCHESTER.
APPREHENSION OF THE MURDERER.
LATEST PARTICULARS.-(From the Liverpool Mercury

of this a.
Information of the murderd way)s transmitted to Liver-
pool, where Evans, it was ascertained, arrived about
two o'clock. Here the case was taken up by Mr.
Inspector Anders, one of our most active officers.
After strict inquiry, the porter who carried the blue box
from the railway was found, and Evans was taken into
custody yesterday morning at two o'clock, by Mr. Anders,
in a street near the Clarence Dock. The prisoner, on
arriving here, went directly with the porter to the
George's Pierhead, with the intention of proceeding
by either the Mostyn Quay or Ithyl boat to Wales.
After some conversation the porter persuaded him not to
go with the steamer, as the weather was likely to be stormy
and the water rough, and Evans then accompanied
the man home. Whilst on the pierhead the strange de-
meanour of Evans excited the suspicion of one of the
officers on duty there, who states that he almost felt in-
clined to apprehend him without a warrant or authority,
being persuaded in his own mind that there was something
wrong about him, ha conducted himself so strangely.
Mr. Anders took his prisoner to the poliae-office, High-
street, where he detained him till the following morning.
He then left by the seven o'clock train for Manchester,
and the case would yesterday be brought before the
authorities there. Whilst sittmg in the Police-office
here, in the middle of the night, the prisoner
killed a mouse which was playing about. He ther
remarked to those near him, with the utmost levity,
that that was another murder he had committed. The
whole of the stolen property,
watch, was found in the 'with the exception of the
possession of the prisoner. It
does not amount in value to more than a few pounds.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Aug. 15.
(Before Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN.)

THE LINENDRAPERT TRADE.-CAPTURE OF THIS BANK-.

RUPT.-IN RE BANNISTER.

The bankrupt carried on business as a linendraper at
Portsea, and at the previous hearing it appeared that he
bad purchased goods in London and Manchester in the
course of a few (six) months to the amount of nearly
10,0001., of which he made forced sales, be the sacrifice
what it might, and leaving his wife behind him, and the
place of business remaining open, he repaired to France,
but soon found his way again to London, where he ex-
changed his bank notes for gold, end ultimately took his
departure (absconded) to the island of Madeira, whither
he was immediately pursued by an officer of the Court,
armed with the warrant of the Learned Commissioner,
and such other aid as could be furnished by the Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs, and was there arrested,
some 2,800 L in specie having been found in his posses-
sion. He arrived yesterday in London, in custody of
the messenger, but his surrender not having been taken,
he still remains in custody, and, as we are informed, with
his own consent.

It is confidently expected that, from one source or
another, the creditors are likely to realise 10s. in the
pound.

SUMMER ASSIZES.
OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Monmouth, Aug. 13.
NISI PRIUS COURT.—(Before Mr. Sergeant AT-
CHERLEY and a Special Jury.)
WALTERS V. BARRER AN)) OTHERS.

Mr. W. J. Alexander and Sir T. Phillips appeared
for the plaintiff in this case, and the defendants were
represented by Mr. Whateley, Mr. Whitmore, and
Mr. Keating.
The action was brought by the plaintiff, the widow
and administratrix of one Benjamin Walters, deceased,
against the defendants, as Directors of the Alfred Home
and Foreign Mutual Insurance Association, to recover
the sum of 5001., upon a policy of insurance, effected on
the life of the said Benjamin Walters. To this the de-
fendants pleaded, first, the general issue; secondly, that
at the time of Walters making the declaration which
was the basis of the contract he was afflicted with
paralysis; thirdly, that his habits of life were intem- ,
perate; fourthly, that he had, although he had stated the
contrary, frequently consulted a medical man; fifthly,
that the policy was effected by fraud, covin, and misre-
presentation; sixthly, that one Charles Herbert Croft
was interested in the policy, but that his name was not
inserted therein; and lastly, that the policy was made
for the benefit of Croft, but that he had no interest in
the life of Walters. The plaintiff joined issue on the
first plea, and replied de injuria to the others.
Sir T. PHILLIPS having opened the pleadings,
Mr. ALEXANDER stated the case to the jury, and said
that the policy in question was effected on the life of
Benjamin Walters, a cattle-dealer, at,Bedwelty, on the 4th
of May, 1841, Walters being at that time in the 60th
year of his age. Mr. Walters had the misfortune to die
in the August following, when only one annual premium
had been paid, but that in itself would be no ground even
for suspicion, because the uncertainty of human life was
so great that no man, however young or vigorous, could
be sure of another hour's existence. The defendants had
put many pleas upon the record, all of which it lay upon
them to prove, except the first, and the execution of the
policy having since been admitted, he might rest his case
upon that admission, and wait till his Learned Friend,
Mr. Whateley, had closed the evidence which he had to
offer on the part of the defendants. He should not, how-
ever, take that course, but anticipate, as far as he was
able, the case intended to be set up on the other side,
and he should show that Mr. Walters, although at the
advanced age of 60 years, was a man originally of very
vigorous constitution, and of active habits, and that he
had never been attacked by any disease ike paralysis,
although in the March of 1840, in coming over the moun-
tains from Abergavenny to Tredegar, on the top of a
coach, he had caught a severe chill, which had confined
him to his bed for some time. It was proper that he should
tell the jury that the plaintiff in this case was only nomi-
nally a party to the action, the party really interested in
the result being Mr. C. H. Croft, a solicitor, of great respec-
tability, residing at Newport, to whom Walters was
largely indebted for money advanced to him. At the
instance of Mr. Croft Walters, who had previously in-
sured his life in the Norwich Union Insurance-office for
2001., made proposals through Mr. Croft-, who had re-
cently been appointed the agent of the Alfred Insurance-
office, for a policy upon his life of 5001., and his proposals
having been accepted, after he had been examined by the
medical officer of the company at Newport, Mr. Essex,
the policy was assigned by Mr. Croft, with the full know-
ledge and approbation of the Alfred-office, as he should
show by various letters which passed between Mr. Croft
and the solicitors to the company in London. (The
Learned Counsel here read the letters.) Mr. Walters
died on the 7th of August, 1841, but the Alfred had re-
fused to pay the 5001. secured by the policy, and at last
the present action was brought.
The policy on the life of Benjamin Walters, for
5001., easted in the Alfred-office, was here put in
and read.

A letter dated November 23,1840, addressed by Messrs.
Maltby and others, solicitors to the company, to Mr.
Croft, was also put in, as was the rest of the correspon-
dence between the parties referred to in the speech of
Mr. Alexander.

Several witnesses were examined, all of whom des-
cribed Walters as a man generally in the enjoyment
of robust health, but suffering occasionally from rheu-
matism.

Mr. WHaTELET then addressed the jury for the defen-
dants, stating that he should prove to their complete sa-
tisfaction that Walters had intended to cheat the Alfred
Insurance Company by concealing from them his know-
ledge of the fact that he had been attacked by paralysis,
of which, in fact, he died, and also by representing
that he had had no medical attendant since he was 21
years old.
Witnesses were then called for the defence and exa-
mined for the purpose of showing that Walters had had
an attack of paralysis in 1840, and the register of his
death was put in, from which it appeared that paralysis
was there stated as the cause of death. This part of the
case was, however, disproved by the evidence of one of
defendant's own witnesses, which was as follows:

William Williams, examined by Mr. WHATELEY—
Benjamin Walters died in my house. I gave the account
of his death to the registrar as near as I could. He
asked me what was the cause of death, and I said that
he had a pain in his bowels, and that Walters had told
me that some one at Pontypool had told him that he
had had a kind of stroke. I signed my name in the
column next to that in which the cause of death was put
down. I did not read what was written down, and I
did not know that the cause of death put down was
"paralytic stroke."
By the COURT—I know the appearance which a man
has under the palsey. Walters did not appear to have
it, nor to have had any strok. I did not tell the re-
gistrar that he died of a paralytic stroke. I never named
the word " paralytic" to the registrar.
Some other witnesses were examined, without carry-
ing the case further ; and, upon Mr. Alexander's rising
to reply, the foreman said that the jury had a strong
opinion on the subject, and that if they were allowed to
confer together for a short time they might probably
save his Lordship some trouble in summing up. After
the lapse of a minute or two,
The Foreman said—We think that the plaintiff has
made out her case, and that the defence has entirely
failed.

A ver ict was then entered for the plaintiff, with
5001. damages and interest.
Mr. Sergeant ATCXERLET, in answer to an observa-
tion of Mr. Whateley, said,:that he thought that the mere
fact of paralysis being stated to be the cause of death in
the register was a sufficient exculpation of the company
in having instituted these proceedings.—The case lasted
two days.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Yesterday the master of the Fast London Union es-
tablishment attended to explain why he refused to admit
two destitute persons, who were taken to the union as
casuals for temporary shelter and support by the police.
Mr. Alderman FARNCOMB asked the master why he
refused admission to these two poor persons ? The
master said that their casual wards were full. The re-
lieving officer had sent in 49 casuals, and the wards
scarcely afforded them standing room, much less sleep-
ing room. He never refused admission while there was
room.

Mr. Alderman FARNCOMB asked if before he turned
them away he gave them some food, and the means of
procuring shelter somewhere ? The master replied they
never did that.

Mr. Alderman FARNCOMB—The poor creatures must
not be allowed to sink, and he referred to the correspon-
dence between the Commissioners of Police and the
Poor-law Commissioners, dated September, 1837. If
they could not accommodate fifty paupers, the guardians
had better attend to the evil at once. If they had not
made proper accommodation before they had better do
it now. Winter was approaching and would bring an
increase in the number of applicants, and in the neces-
sity of proper relief.
The Alderman sent one of thecasuals, a sailor, shiver-
ing with fever, to the hospital, and the master of the
workhouse took charge of the other pauper.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Yesterday, a very pretty young woman, about 24 years
of age, named Elizabeth Wilcocks, was placed at the bar,
before Mr. Bingham, charged by Mr. Dossett, the
relieving officer of the Hackney Union, with concealing
the birth of her male child.
The prisoner, who was exceedingly pale and exhausted,
and allowed to be seated during the inquiry, was, for a
considerable period, in the service of Mrs. Mary Anne
Walters, a lady residing in the Paragon, Hackney, as
cook. On the morning of the 19th ult., entertaining a
suspicion as to the pregnancy of the prisoner, the lady
sent for her into the drawing-room, and accused her of
it; the prisoner hesitated, made no reply, and burst into
tears. She was told to quit the house the next night,
but in consequence of a communication being shortly
after made by one of the servants, named Emma Free-
man, to Mrs. Walters, that the prisoner hag just left the
water-closet in a greatly altered condition, her mistress
placed herself in the hall, from which she observed the
prisoner standing at the sink in the scullery in a dread-
ful state of debility, and having, on again speaking to
her, received a very faint and confirmatory answer
from the prisoner, Mrs. Walters sent for the
medical attendant of the family, Mr. Harris,
who found the prisoner seated in a chair in her
bed room. He questioned her thee or four times, hut
the prisoner was silent, and from a cursory examination
of her person, being satisfied that there were strong
grounds for suspicion, he communicated with Mr. Dos-
sett, who placed her in a coach, and had her removed to
the lying-in ward of the workhouse, where she was at-
tended by a nurse, and again subjected to a more rigid
examination by Mr. Harris and the medical officer of the
union. The fact of her recent delivery was now beyond
doubt, and Mr. Dossett, accompanied by Mr. Harris and

Yesterday Charles Birch, police-constable 92 V, was
brought to this Court by direction of the Commissioners
of Police to answer a charge of stealing a piece of lace,
the property of Mrs. Barrington, the lady of Colonel
Barrington, of Barnes-terrace, Barnes. Mr. Wham de-
fended the accused.
Benjamin Singleton, the butler to Colonel Barrington,
stated that on Friday, the 12th of July last, a piece of
lace was missed from the lawn ; it had been placed
there to bleach, and was safe at half-past 12 o'clock on
the previous night. Witness and the other domestics
searched the different outhouses, as it was supposed that
the birds might have taken it, as they had other things,
and hidden them. The search, however, was ineffectual.
In the afternoon witness had occasion to go down to the
village, and he called at the prisoner's house to inquire
if he had seen anything of it. The prisoner was in bed
when witness called, but he came down directly in his
shirt and trousers. Witness asked the prisoner if he
had picked up a piece of lace or something of that kind
off the lawn, and he answered directly, " I picked up a
piece of tape or string which I had seen round the
dog's neck when you were playing with it, and, as
my stocking was coming down, I fastened it with
it." He directly afterwards fetched the piece of
lace from his bed-room, and gave it to witness,
and said he was very sorry he had taken it if it
was of any consequence. Colonel and Mrs. Barrington
left home about half-past six o'clock on the following
Saturday morning. His mistress took the lace with her.
Colonel Barrington considered the policeman perfectly
innocent of any intention to steal, and so did his lady.
The lace was about an inch and a quarter wide when
ironed out, but when exposed to the rain and dirty, it
might have been taken for the string witness had used.
Cross-examined—lt is not at the desire of Colonel or
Mrs. Barrington that this charge is made. Their opinion
is, as I have stated before, that he (the constable)' is
perfectly innocent. The charge does not emanate from
me, for my opinion is the same as my master's. The
prisoner had the eat c of the house and grounds, and
gave as great satisfaction as any officer could do.
Amelia Mente, the wife of a painter and glazier, living
in sheen-grove, Barnes, stated that she lived in the
same house as the prisoner and his wife. She recollected
that on Friday morning, about five weeks since, Mrs.
Birch called her into the parlour, and asked her to look
at a piece of lace. The prisoner had not long come in,
and gone to bed. The lace was rough-dry and about
three yards in length. Mrs. Birch having observed that
she would make it up into a child's cap, witness said,
" You'll not make it up into a child's cap, it is too ex-
pensive, it is real thread lace." About twelve o'clock
the same day the last witness and a policeman came to
the house to inquire about the lace, and Mrs. Birch
said to witness, "For God's sake don't say anything
about it."
Cross-examined—The prisoner and his wife have been
on friendly terms with me, and I always have with them.
About a fortnight since I was taken on a warrant before
the bench at Richmond for threatening the life of his
wife, and was bound over to keep the peace. If there
was any ill feeling then it is gone now. No one told me
to prefer this charge, and I have not brought it. I have
not made his wife ill by my very bad conduct. On my
oath I have never said I hoped she would not survive her
delivery.
The witness here became so excited that it was found
necessary to forcibly restrain her. Her frequent appeals
to the Deity as to the truth of what she uttered were
really blasphemous.
Sergeant Mark, 3 V, said, that in consequence of the
statement made by the last witness, and inquiries made,
the Commissioners bad deemed it necessary to send the
prisoner to this court on the charge of stealing the lace.
Mr. CLIVE—If I had really a doubt about the inten-
tional stealing of the lace I should have sent the case for
trial. It is the duty of a constable not only not to rob,
but also to take no liberty with what he finds, but give it
up to the proper authorities. It seems to me from the
evidence of the butler that the policeman's conduct was
that of an honest man ; for, when even roused from sleep
he was not confused, but directly admitted that he had
the property, although at the time he took it he thought
it was of no value. There was no pretence for a case of
felony against the prisoner, and he should dismiss the
charge.

a labouring man named William Rose, gent to Mrs. 1 Mr. Tyrrell, solicitor to the Dock Company, appeared
Walters's house to examine the servants' water-closet in for the prosecution ; and Mr. Wontner for the defence.
the rear of it. Mr. Dossett procured a light, which he Considerable interest was attached to the prisoner's
fastened to a cord, and lowered to the soil, on disturbing examination, as he is known to have been for some time
which with a pole he discovered a large linen bundle connected with a daring gang of thieves. About two
beneath the surface, and on turning this bundle over months ago he was charged, in conjunction with two
two or three times a portion of the cloth gave way, and other lightermen, named Drake and Pearce, with steal-
the face of a child appeared. A ladder was now sent ing 38 gallons of brandy, found secreted in a lighter be-
for and Rose directed to descend and bring the body up, longing to Mr. Lucy. After several investigations, which
which he did. It was that of a fine, full-grown male left no moral doubt of the guilt of all the prisoners,
child, and was wrapped in two pieces of old linen, which Riley and Drake were discharged for want of sutiicicaS
were tied round and fastened with a long piece of quill- evidence, Pearce having previously made his escape by
ing net. The child, on which there were not the slight- knocking down Cook, the gaoler at the Lambeth-street
est marks of violence, was then washed and carried to Police-court, and making his way through the crowd
the workhouse, from which the prisoner herself had been assembled at the police van. Pearce was out of the waif
too ill to be removed in custody until yesterday. fur some weeks afterwards, and subsequently got into
Many affecting incidents as regarded the prisoner collision with the police, and was committed to prison
came out in the course of the examination, and it was for one month, for assaulting two constables in the exe-
proved that several articles of baby linen, in a state of cution of their duty. The robbery with which the pri-
preparation, on searching her boxes, were found in them; soner now stood charged was planned and executed in
and that, in addition to these, a bundle of the same little ,the same way as the former one, the detection in both
articles was forwarded to the residence of Mrs. Walters cases was similar, and the quantity of brandy stolen
by some friend of the prisoner for her use directly after was precisely the same.
the unhappy girl had been removed to the workhouse. Yesterday fifteen witnesses were examined, front
The prisoner, in a scarcely audible voice, said that she whose evidence it appeared that in the latter part of
greatly regretted what had occurred; she was taken bad July upwards of fifty casks of brandy were conveyed in
in the kitchen, where the child would have been born, but lighters from the London and St. Katherine's Dock for
her mistress having directed her to leave it, she was corn- shipment on board the Honduras, for Jamaica, in the
pelled to go to the water-closet, and the birth there took West India Dock. The lighters which conveyed them be-
place involuntarily. longed to Mr. Sage, Mr. Lucy, and Mr. Riley,:the prisoner's
The depositions of the witnesses were then taken, and father, and one of those lighters, a lug-boat, No. 774,
the prisoner was fully committed to Newgate for trial. was navigated by the prisoner himself. The casks were
An old man, named John Bates, full sixty years of all in a perfectly sound condition when they left the Lon-
age, carrying on the business of a poulterer in Caroline- don and St. Katherine's Dock. On the evening of the
place, West Hackney, was charged with an assault, with 3d instant, after the delivery of the brandies on board the
intent, &c., upon his daughter-in-law, Jane Jackson, a Honduras, the prisoner was seen coming over that vessel
girl between twelve and thirteen years of age. by Davis, a watcman, who spoke to him, and he said he
The evidence, which was of a disgusting description, was looking after a lug-boat alongside the ship. He re-
and wholly unfit for publication, displayed a shameful quested Davis to keep an eye on his lug-boat during his
degree of turpitude on the part of the prisoner, who absence, and he saw no more of him then. At siz
merely offered a general denial of the allegations against o'clock in the morning of the sth instant the prisoner
him, and was fully committed to Newgate for trial. was seen coming through the lock, which leads from the
WANDSWORTH. export-dock to the river, with his father's lug-boat, and
-he foreman of the lock. sked h'm fY .he gal

Biggs, the foreman of the lock, askew am for the usn.
written pass authorising him to go out. The prisoner said
he had not got one, and he was directed to go back and ob-
tain one of the proper officer. The prisoner left the lock
apparently for that purpose, and did not return. Directly
after he was gone Biggs discovered something which ex-
cited his suspicions, and he communicated with Haseltine,
a dock constable, who waited for two hours, and then
hauled back the lug-boat into the export dock bason,
when he searched her more effectually than Biggs had
done, and on lifting up the bottom boards, he found con-
cealed, between the ribs of the lug-boat, and partially
immersed in bilge water, 43 skins, containing 38 gallons
and one quart of brandy. He also discovered, under the
head sheets of the lug-boat, a complete set of implements
for drawing off spirits from casks, which consisted of a
centre-bit, gimlet, tap, spile, and tube, and also ten can-
vass bags, evidently intended to convey the bladders
containing the brandy ashore. No more was seen of
the prisoner until Thursday night last, when Mr. Evans,
jun., an Inspector of the Thames Police, who knew his
haunts, apprehended him at a brothel in King•street,
Commercial-road, the place where he took him into cus-
tody on a former occasion. The gauging, delivery, and
shipment of the casks of brandy on board the Honduras
was proved by a variety of witnesses, and upon five
casks being re-gauged, a deficiency of 38 gallons and
one quart—the exact quantity found in the bladders--
was ascertained. Samples from the casks and the skins
were produced, and corresponded in colour and quality.
Mr. BALLANTINE asked at what time the prisoner en-
tered the dock with his father's lug-boat ? Simmons
replied, that he entered the dock with his master's
tighter, containing brandy, on the 31st of July, and the
prisoner went in with the lug-boat at the same time.
Mr. BALLANTINE inquired if there were any marks on
the casks, corresponding with the implements found in
the lug-boat ? Haseltine said three of the casks had
been bored by a centrebit, and the holes stopped up af-
terward with cork. The centrebit produced fitted the
mark. He applied the centrebit and gimlet to the spile
holes in two other casks, and they also corresponded.
James Anderson, a watchman the export-dock,
said that after the lug-boat was stopped by Biggs at the
mouth of the lock, the prisoner came to him for a pass,
and he said he would give him one. They walked a feel
paces, when the prisoner turned round and looked to-
wards the outer lock. Witness cast his eyes in the same
direction, and when be turned round again the prisoner
had disappeared.
Mr. Wontner said the case was a remarkably weslc,'
one in all its circumstances. Any person on board the 74
Honduras, and it was proved there were thirty or forty
persons on board, might have stolen the brandy and con-
cealed it in the lug-boat, and it would be a violent pre'
sumption to suppose the prisoner was the thief, because
he left the dock suddenly.
Mr. BALLANTINE could not believe any thief would
be so disinterested as to steal brandy from a ship, and giv•
it to some one else. The facts were sufficient for the de-
cision of a jury, and he committed the prisoner for trial.
The investigation created great interest.