The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-09 00:00:00

COAST GUARD.

Appointment—Lieutenant R. O'Brien to a station.
Removals—Lieutenant B. Ilennab, R.N._,_from Burn-
hamooery, to Ecclesbourn station, vice H. Jeston to
Bishopstone, vice Stoyle, retired through ill health ;
Mr. R. Step, from Appledore to Ilfracombe station; vice
Lieutenant J. Robinson, superseded ; Lieutenant
Shairp, faom Fort Rush to Auckmithe station, vice Lieu-
tenant Stewart, superseded.

REPRESENTATION OF NORTH LANCASIIIRE.--00
reference to our latest intelligence it will be seen that on
Thursday evening a motion was made for a new writ
for North Lancashire, in the room of Lord Stanley, who
has been called up to the House of Peers in the life-
time of his father, the venerable and venerated Earl of
Derby, by a patent of creation. From the explanation
given by Sir Robert Peel, it appears that his
will continue at the head of the Colonial Department.
It is understood that Talbot Clifton, Esq., will be the
Tory candidate. The Liberal candidate is •not yet
named, but that the Reformers of North Lancashire will
promptly select " a good man and true" to oppose the
monopolist, admits of no question. In the meantime,
we earnestly exhort the free-traders to buckle on
their armour, and prepare• for the contest.—Lancaster
Guardian.

FALMOUTH AND PEN'RTN FLOATING HARUOUR.—
The projected conversion of Penryn Creek into a float-
ing harbour has been, this day (Thursday), submitted•
to, and unanimously approved by a large and highly re-
spectable meeting at Falmouth, Sir Charles Lemon,
Bart., M.P., presiding. Capt. Holland, the projector,
laid before the meeting a long and able statement of his
plans and estimates, and of the anticipated advantages
to be devised from the completion of the project ; the
whole of which was received with marked attention
and satisfaction. The first -resolution, affirming the
propriety of undertaking the work, was moved by
E. W. W. Pendarves, Esq., M.P., and seconded by the
mayor of Falmouth, S. Brougham, Esq. It was carried
unanimously, as were also the other resolutions for
taking immediate steps to ascertain the feasibility of the
measure, for the appointment of an engineer, and of a
provisional committee. A subscription towards the
expenses of the proposed preliminary measures was at
once opened, Sir Charles Lemon and Mr. Pendarves
giving 20/. each.---;West Briton.
THIS EXCURSION TRIPS ON TUE GREAT WESTERN
RAILVAY.—A writer in Keene's Bath Journal complains
that the Directors of the Great Western Railway have
allowed only one clear day to such of the citizens of Bath
as may wish to avail themselves of the facilities of a
cheap run to London • whereas they have allowed the
Londoner a week to enjoy the pleasures of the country.
The editor of the Journal, too, expresses a hope, that in
future the trips will be so timed as to allow of an in-
spection of the British Museum (now closed) and other
public exhibitions ; and that Sunday will be " included
in the term allowed between going and returning. I
in which case one day of such excursion will occasion no 1
loss of wages." We have no doubt that the Directors
and officers of the Company are anxious to give the
greatest possible amount of accomodation, and that they
will be glad to attend to any reasonable suggestions.—
_Railway Record.
ELECTION FOR CHAMBERLAIN.—The polling was
again resumed at nine o'clock this morning, and at three
o'clock, when the day's poll closed, the numbers were as
follow :—Mr. Alderman Brown, 1,266; Mr. Reppel, 5

SUPERSTITION among SAVAGES.
In Dunn's " History of the Oregon Territory," we
find the following fearful description of the sul,xlsti-
Cons of some of the savage tribes of North America :
The chief, who is supposed to possess the " right di-
vine" of governing, and to be the intermediate agent
between the great solar spirit—the Creator and S-
upreme Ruler—and his creatures here below, retires at
times, whenever he fancies himself summoned by the
Divine call, from the tribe, without giving them any
previous intimation of his mission, and takes
up his abode in the lonely woods and moun-
tains, taking clandestinely with him a small stock
of dried salmen for sustenance. When he is missed
by his family, the report is spread abroad, and then it
is known that he has gone to hold familiar converse
with the Great Spirit, who will, within a short time,
descend to give him an interview. Intelligence has
then been procured from the Indian who saw him
last on that day as to his route, and the district of the
woods and hills to which he is likely to confine his
wanderings • and a sacred boundary line is drawn
round this district, within which it is a crime of pro-
fanation to pass on hunting or fishing excursions, on
pain of death. Should any unlucky Indian even meet
this compound of chief and priest in his excursions,
heis sure to be put to death, either by the chief himsel f—
for he must be perfectly passive in the infuriated chief's
hands ; or, should the chief in his abstracted mood
not attack him, he must, on his return to the tribe
acknowledge the guilt, and resign himself a voluntary
victim. Should he conceal the fact of his meeting
the chief, and should the chief on his return charge
him with the fact, then he would undergo the most
shocking torture. The duration of the chief's ah •
sence on this mission is irregular—at least it is
long enough to exhaust his small stock of food,
even with the utmost economy. It is often three
weeks. When hunger pinches him (and he generally
selects the most desert and dreary region, des-
titute of esculent fruits or roots), his imagination
becomes inflamed, and what was before religion or
superstition becomes now frenzy—during which the
fancied interview with the Great Spirit occurs. lie
returns at last to the village the most hideous object
in nature, with matted hair, shrunken cheeks, blood-
shot eyes, and parched lips, his blanket, which is his
sole covering, all hanging in shreds about him, torn
by boughs and brambles, his face all begrimmed
with filth ; animated with all the unnatural
ferocity of a demoniac. His return is by
night, and as uncertain as his departure. He
does not first arrive, generally, at his own house, but
rushes to some other, according to the blind caprice
of his wildness, and, instead of entering it by the
door, he ascends the roof, tears off one' of the cedar
board coverings, and plunges down into the centre of
the family circle ; he then springs on one of the full-
grown inmates like a famished wolf, wrenches with
his teeth a mouthful of his flesh from his limbs or
body, which he convulsively bolts down without any
process of mastication, but barely chopping the lump
once or twice for the purpose of easier deglutition.
No resistance is made ; for the sufferer thinks that he
has been ordered by the Great Spirit to yield up a
part of his flesh and blood as a sort of peace or sin-
offering to the priest. The chief then rushes to an-
other house in the same way, and makes the same
hurried repast. He continues this process along
other houses, until, in a few hours, he becomes
exhausted from the quantity of human living
flesh that he has devoured. He is then
taken home in a state of torpor, and thus remains,
like an overgorged beast of prey, for a couple
of days. After his resuscitation he is languid and
sickly ; and, as he must not partake of his usual food
for a certain time after he has got his fill of 'the hu-
man sacrifice, he goes on but slowly to convalescence.
i have been more than once in close connexion with
one of these chiefs after his restoration, and his breath
was like an exhalation from a grave. The wounds in-
flicted by his bite, though held as sacred trophies, often
proved mortal. Their mode of cure is this :—They ap-
ply eagle down as a stiptic to check the hxmorrhage,
and then apply a plaster made of pine tree gum.
Several of the wounded and consecrated persons,
after we established our fort, finding their own mode
of treament ineffectual, came to our surgeon (apply-
ing to me first as interpreter.) to have their rankling
sores healed. They used to present a most hideous
appearance, being jagged and torn, and often showing
the `clear indentations of the human teeth ; and
besides, the fetor issuing from them was most
obnoxious. The daughter of one of the chiefs
(who practised this abomination), the wife of one of
our' men, told me that her father, on his return
to the village, after his sojourn in the woods and
mountains, met an Indian, on whom he flew, and whose
side he continued to bite and devour until his bowels
protruded. The Indian made no resistance ; and
when the chief ran off, he crawled to the village ; and
though every effort was made to heal his wounds,
they were found to be too mortal for human remedy.'
He died soon atter, in their idea a consecrated person.
So much importance and pride do these Indians
attach to these lacerations, that the youngsters who
have not had the good fortune to be thus scarred,
apply lighted gunpowder to their limbs, and use other
means to produce a holy gash."

THE NEW STREET AT WHITECHAPEL.—Wednesday
twelve houses, besides two spacious warehouses, situated
in Dock-street, on the east side, adjoining the London
Docks, were sold by auction, tai be taken down for the
new street leading from Spitalfields Church to this spot,
there being now only three houses in that neighbourhood
to be disposed of in order to make the entire line of road
from the above sacred edifice. In pursuance of instruc-
tions from the Commissioners of Woods and Forests a
sewer is now in course of formation from High-street.
Whitechapel, to the north, along which formerly stood
Essex-street. From the excavations now made, it ap-
pears that the ground around the spot has been raised
above twenty feet, as the whole of the soil is what is
called made earth, being composed in a great part of
broken bricks, mortar, &e. Several foundation walls of
great extent have been dug up at from ten to twelve feet
below the surface. A considerable length has been dug
for the formation of the vaults of the houses to be erected.
A new church for the parish of St. Mary, Whitechapel,
is to be built to the south of Wentworth-street.
ALMOST • VERY TERRIBLE DUEL.—A good deal
of excitement was produced, on Friday last, amongst
the eminent tragedians of the minor theatres, the ballet
girls of Niblo's, and the litterateurs of the Park-row
taverns, by the intelligence which was whispered about
that a duel was to be fought between two very distin-
guished young gentlemen well known on the steps of
the hotels and in the lobbies of the theatre. The subject
of the quarrel was, of course, a lady—in fact, one of the
most especial favourites of the fashionable and crowded
houses at the little Olympic. Whether a remark re-
flecting on the colour of the lady's eyebrows, or the
perfect adaptation of her flesh-coloured continuations,
originated the serious difficulty, we are not prepared to
say. But the quarrel did take place, and hood alone
could wash out the stain which the fair fame of the
favoqrite, the especial favourite of the " brilliant,
fashionable, select, and overflowinghouses" at the Olympic,
had sustained. A field immediately adjoining Greenwood
Cemetery was the place selected for the hostile meeting,
the seconds, with remarkable foresight and sagacity,
having made that choice for the very sensible purpose of
saving the time and trouble otherwise necessary in tran-
sporting the carcases of the combatants to that very,
elegant, recherche, poetical, and charming place of in.
terment, as it is expressed in the hand-bills and reports
of the highly enterprising company which manages the
affairs of that Necropolis. At the appointed time one
of the parties, his second, a surgeon, a friend, and a large
bottle of brandy, were on the ground. The antagonist
of the punctual gentleman was, however, not forth-
coming. He had, in fact, mysteriously eloped from the
care of his anxious relatives that very morning, and has
not since been heard of. After waiting for half an hour
the other parties left the ground, after emptying the
bottle of brandy ; and it was remarked that on his re •
turn to the -city the " gentleman," who had really ap
peered on the ground, was -not afflicted with the ague
which had been so annoying on his journey to the vicinity
of the cemetery.—New York Herald.
The rector of a parish in the north part of the
county has been committing the most daring and sacri-
legious outrage on his church, Not content with bring-
ing all the pews; as he would wish to bring the con-
sciences of his congregation, to the same level, he has
also pulled down two very spacious galleries, which were
not long ago erected at a very great expense to the
parish, and sold the materials by auction to the public ;
so that what was the door of Mr. A.'s pew, is now the
door of Mr. P.'s pig-sty. The flooring of the gallery is
being laid down in Mr. B.'s tap-room, and some part, in-
deed, has already been applied to a more degraded pur-
pose, whilst the handsome columns which formerly sup-
ported it, are propping up the back wall of Molly Gum-
mow's Mumpers' Inn. Some people are foolish enough
to say that the rector has -driven away all his congre-
gation, and, therefore, has no need, of-a.galler7. Slan-
der I—West Briton.
LEICESTER STATE OF TRADE.—The demand is
brisk for all kinds of goods, and the price of wools and
yarns remains firm. The value of wide frames, which
make the lower kinds of goods, has materially increased,
indeed they were never known to be higher than they
are now; they may safely be estimated now as 50 per
cent. higher in value that they were eighteen months
ago.—Leicestershire Mercury.
NAUTICAL ADVENTURE.—AII E. Watson Lloyd,
Esq., was returning to Parkgate from a cruise in the
yawl Horatio, on Tuesday last, on falling in with the
Fairy, John Lloyd Jones, Esq., a salute was fired from
the Horatio, when, unfortunately, one of the brass can-
nons burst into splinters with a tremendous explosion.
The sails were much cut by the fragments. Lut although
nine persons were standing by when the gun was fired,
we are happy to state that no one received the slightest
injury.
Partridge shooting commenced on Monday, and
many parties left this city before daylight, to get to
the sceue of their exciting sports. Some delayed their
return till dark, having but a beggarly account of empty
el to bags show as the result of the day's labours.
e,
How-
ever,many crack sportsmen bagged a great deal of game,
birds hieing plentiful.. The heat of the day furnished a
providential excuse for the unsuccessful; because it pre-
Tented their dogs from being up .to the wonted scent.—
Western Times.
The hop picking commenced at Orchard Port
man, near Tauton, on Tuesday. The crop is not abun-
dant, but rather favourable than otherwise. The quality
will be excellent.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Oa Saturday Mr. Robinson, of the Horse Repo-
sitory in Little Britain, attended before Mr. Alder-
man Gibbs and Mr. Alderman Johnson, to answer
the complaint of Mr. Sims, a coachmaker, in Great
Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, and show why he
should not give up a gig, the property of Mr. Sims,
lawfully obtained from him by one B. Shoesmith, and
unlawfully pledged with Mr. Robinson.
Mr. L. Norton, on behalf of the defendant, first
objected that the power to cause restitution was
created by the Police Courts Act, and was limited to
the learned magistrates appointed by the Secretary of
State to those Courts.

Mr. Wire, for the complainant, referred him to a
subsequent statute, 3 and 4 Victoria, c. 84, by whieh
two Justices of the City are invested with all the
powers conferred on one magistrate sitting in a police-
court by the statute Mr. Norton referred to.
Mr. Sims then deposed that, on the 7th of August,
Shoesmith applied to him for the hire of a cab for
five or six weeks. He presented his card, describing
himself as a farrier and veterinary surgeon in Hanover-
street, Long-acre, and said he wanted the gig for a
customer, whose horses he always shoed. An agree-
ment was made for 365. per week for six weeks cer-
tain, but before delivery, Mr. Sims ascertained that
Mr. Shoesmith was occupying premises let to him at
1001. a year. He required no further reference or
security. Shoesmith brought a well-dressed person,
whom he represented to be the customer, and who
examined and approved the gig.
Mr. Sims, senior, stated, that in consequence of in-
formation that his gig had been pledged at Robinson's
Repository, he went there on the 27th of August,
and found it was placed out for sale that day, though
it did not figure in the catalogue. Mr. Rubinson
stated that the chaise was brought to him on the 7th
of August, by Shoesmith, who had an advance of
20/. on it. Mr. Robinson showed him an entry in a
book of the payment, with a condition that if not re-
paid the gig might be sold on the 26th of September.
Mr. Rubinson said he had had some transactions with
Shoesmith before, and the clerk said he had known
him for several years. Mr. Robinson admitted he
had made an advance on another carriage brought by
Shoesmith, the sale of which had been forbidden by
the owner. Was sure that, though the entry respect-
ing the gig was that it was not to be sold tili the
26th of September, it was actually about to be sold
on the 27th of August. Mr. Robinson offered to give
it up on payment of 10/.
Mr. Norton cross-examined the witness—There
was no disguise about the gig being there. Mr. Ro-
binson said he wished to avoid litigation, and would
lose half-tfie sum he had advanced.
Mr. Wire put in the catalogue of sale. It con-
cluded with an intimation that advances were made
on horses, carriages, and harness.
Mr. Norton apprehended the magistracy were not
authorised to sit there and try causes which properly
belonged to the courts above. The 27th and 40th
clauses of the Police Courts Act were to be construed
together, so as to limit the jurisdiction to cases where
the value of property was not more than 151. It was
not intended that they should decide respecting pro-
perty of any amount. Here the value of the gis was
stated to be 501.
Mr. Wire said the cases to which the two clauses
referred were obviously distinct. Where there was a
detention. of property not exceeding 15/. under a
colour of right, the Magistrate was to decide sum-
marily, but where there was crime-where property
was unlawfully obtained or unlawfully disposed of,
the Magistrate was to order restitution without limi-
tation of amount, upon such terms as he deemed just.
The object was to avoid litigation.
Mr. Alderman Grinus and Mr. Alderman JOHNSON
consulted, and decided that the clauses were not to be
construed together.
Mr. Norton said this was a most important ques-
tion to persons in business. If Messrs. Sims had
been negligent they were not entitled to recover their
property without paying at least a portion of the sum
advanced by Mr. R. )binson. Shoesmith represented
that he was an i nporter of cigars, residing in Mary-
lebone-lane, and gave his card. He might therefore
he supposed to be the owner of the gig. There was
no evidence that Mr. Robinson knew it was borrowed.

Mr. Alderman Guns said the magistrates were
clearly of opinion that they had jurisdiction, and they
ordered the gig to be restored, or that Mr. Robinson
should Robinson 40/. as the value.
Mr. R was then called upon to answer a
like complaint made by Messrs. Hale and Pope, coach-
builders, Margaret-street, Cavendish-square.
Mr. Wire conducted the prosecution, and Mr.
Norton defended Mr. Robinson.

In this case Shoesmith borrowed a phaeton for a
week, paying the hire in advance, on the 15th of
August. lie took it to the Repository the same day,
and obtained an advance of 171. upon it. Mr. Robin-
son offered to restore it on repayment of half the sum
lent, but Mr. Male preferred appealing to the magis-
trate, conceiving that Mr. Robinson ought not to
make an immediate advance on property brought to
him for sale.

The Alderman ordered the phaeton to be restored,
or 501. to be paid as its value.
Mr. Norton thought due weight had not been
allowed to his observations, and gave notice that he
should appeal against both convictions.
BOW-STREET.

On Saturday the " gentleman living upon his for-
tune" who figured at this office the previous day, and
who was committed to Bridewell on declining to give
his name or to produce bad for his appearance at the
next sessions, to answer the charge of having inde-
cently exposed himself to a girl of fifteen, in St.
James's Park, at mid-day, was discharged from cus-
tody, on furnishing the required security. He gave
the name of Charks•Windham, and stated that he
was an officer in the army. lie entered into his own
recognizances of 1001., and Messrs. Cater and Son,
the army accoutrement makers, of Pall-mall, were
his bail in 401. each.
James Carruthers, a young man presenting an ap-
pearance of the " shabby genteel," was brought be-
fore Mr. Jardine, charged with attempting, by means
of false pretences, to obtain 100/. from Messrs. Coutts
and Co., the bankers.
Mr. Humphreys, the solicitor for the prosecution,
detailed the circumstances of the case which were
shortly as follows :—Towards the encl. of August
Messrs. Coutts were favoured with a letter from some
good natured friend, apprising them of the existence
of a terrible gang of swindlers who were conspiring
together with the determination of robbing them
to an inconceiveable extent, by a deeply-concerted
plan only too sure to effect its object whenever carried
into execution. The writer, in an " unguarded mo-
ment," suffered himself to become a party to this de-
sign and, upon his oath, solemnly promised never to
disclose either the nature of the proposed robbery, or
the names of those by whom it had been contrived.
Subsequent reflection, however, caused him (the
writer) to lament most bitterly the engagement he
had entered into ; and feeling how seriously it
'would involve the respectable and un-Offending parties-
upon whom the attack was about to be made, he
went and entreated his unworthy colleagues to adan-
don their design. They refused, of course, to enter-
tain such an idea, except on one condition • namely,
that he (the writer) should procure for and give to
them the conspirators) the sum of 100/. The rest
may be told in the space of a nutshell. The object
of the letter was to obtain the 1001. not for the benefit
of the philanthropic writer, who would scorn compen-
sation for such a service, but to " avert the dreadful
blow" which had been levelled at Coutts and Co.
The writer would not stop to contemplate anything
so unreasonable as the refusal of this demand, at such
a critical moment; and therefore proposed at once that
Messrs. Coutts should immediately indicate their
anxiety so to purchase a speedy deliverance from the
hands of their unknown enemies by inserting the fol-
lowing advertisement in the Times newspaper:—
" C. C. informs T. T. that his request has been fully
complied with." The writer of the letter further pro-
posed that Messrs. Coutts should station a boy at:the
base of the -Monument, at half-past nine o'clock P.M.
on the day in which the advertisement appeared, with
the 100/. " in solid gold," wrapped up in brown paper,
at the same time causing no other party to be pi esent.
Accordingly, 111-ssrs. Coutts inserted the notice in
the Times of the 30th ult., and in the evening of that
day sent a sharp little boy to the Monument with a
quantity of lead rolled up like so many sovereigns,
and neatly enclosed in brown paper—a marked half-
crown having been also placed inside. Two police-
officers were also stationed within sight, and at the
appointed hour the prisoner at the bar appeared at
his post, and greedily grasped the brown paper
parcel, with which he was about to make off, when
the constables fronted him, not to any purpose, how-
ever, as by some unaccountable bungling he was suf-
fered to escape.
A few mornings afterwards Messrs. Coutts were
actuallly again addressed by the same party, who,
after informing them of the paltry contents of the
parcel, intimated his willingness to believe that one of
their clerks, unknown to the firm, had played this
freak upon him. He exhorted them to bear in mind
that the present was not the time for trifling, and as
he was still willing to afford them another opportu-
nity of saving themselves from the inevitable destruc-
tion that would be the result of inattention to the
proposal which had been made to them, be named an-
other place and time for the re-enaction of the farce
of the little boy, the policemen, and the brown paper
parcel.
Precisely similar proceedings were taken on this
occasion by the Messrs. Coutts, with the same result,
except that the constables were more "wide awake,"
and the man, who proved to be the prisoner, was
taken into custody.
Evidence having been given of the foregoing facts,
Mr. JARDINE, previous to remanding the prisoner,
asked him if he wished to say anything.
The prisoner, who spoke well, said :—" I would ,
rather answer the evidence when presented to your

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in,,tigator of this affair, but acted merely under the Mr. Pelham, who defended the prisoner on both Iy°t he South-Ea..1,-'m CoinD4nv The oppositiiarl74
direction of another person, known by the name Of occasions, cross-examined the girl, with a view to ' 1,-y the South-Western Company to the Croydon dr;
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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
instructed, a foul and abominable conspiracy to de- participate in the Portsmouth Junction scheme, s°o efil
On Saturday Alfred Walker was brought before s!roy the reputation of a man who for twenty-seven connect it with Chatham, and thus increase the ge.llo.
Mr. Maltby for further examination, charged with years had sustained a most unimpeachable character traffic of the road. The atmospheric principle, it°
having stolen nearly 500/. in money, and also a qua') in the neighbourhood. The little girl, however, with derstood, will be introduced on this line. ~,fr
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tity of jewellery, the property of Airs. Elizabeth _ar-
box, from the residence of the Earl of llarrowby, in
Grosvenor-square.
Some of the servants having been examined and
nothing material elicited,
Inspector Pearce said, he had other evidence to

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offer' but he could not produce it until Friday, to
which day he wished a remand.
Mr. Crouch, for the prisoner, protested against any
further remand,- as the evidence now tendere,l, in.
stead of strengthening suspicion against the prisoner,
rather went to diminish it.
Mr. MALTBT said, taking all the circumstances
into consideration, he was bound to comply with the
application of the police, and therefore the prisoner
must stand remanded till Friday.
MA IIYLEBONE.

an open artlessness adhered steadily to the statement
which she made in the flrst instance to her mother
and afterwards to the Magistrate.
Mr. BALLANTINE observed that the girl's state-
ment, notwithstanding some discrepancies in her
cross-examination, was perfectly consistent. The

worthy Magistrate then examined Mrs. Collenbourne,
for the purpose of ascertaining. whether there was
any private pique, or any difference about money
matters, between her and the prisoner, but no such
motive appeared. She was not in his debt, nor did
he owe her more than a few pence for milk ; and, so
far from attaining any object by the charge, the com-
plaining party had every likelihood of losing a cus-
tomer.
Mr. Pelham—But we heard nothing of this matter
until the former charge was made.

holders, it was stated that the Directors are enilesiTur
ing to enter into arrangements with the Birmilltd,o
and Great Western Boards, for the purpose of for7o
ing the interest of the Company, and counnunio"
having already been made on the subject, it was decr,
advisable to adjourn for a few weeks till the rerl:tbi

those negotiations are known. It wasacitnlifed thatoir''
line of its,,lf would not attract traffic, but with the!, 04
tance of thew great Companies it seems to be coneio
that ucceis will be attained. AlcatiO
On the sth of October the Government ,
on the two lines of raiLvay, from Orleans to 130171,5 t
and Orleans to Vierz in, will take place. The De
line, which appears to be of the more considorab:fnyel
portanee, is4comp,,ted ior by a company con-IV
several Pe, rs, and large c.,liveyance contractors, et "001
head stands the name of the Count D'Authouarti•
Company, from its Mint:Aerial relations and cotnole'Pit,
st

Mr. G. Gilbert, a livery-stable-keeper in Frederick-
mews, near Albany eitreet, Regent's-park, was on
Saturday summoned by Mr. E. painter, 342, Strand,
under circumstances which from the subjoined evi-
dence may have the effect of pteeing the nobility,
gentry, and others on their guard with respect to
.purchases of vehicles.
It appeared from what transpired, that a man
named M‘Carthy was employed by Mr. Painter to
look out for a carriage of a particular description,
and after going to several places he at length
went to defendant's stable, where he looked at a
phaeton, and a man in attendance asked thirty-
five guineas for it. Mr. Painter subsequently offered
301. for the carriage, and that amount was ultimately
paid. The phaeton was sent home, and it was then
discovered, that the axle-trees were of a quality and
make much inferior to those upon which the carriage
rested when the purchase was made.
Defendant, in anewer to the charge, said that he
never int. nded to sell the carriage for 30/., with the
axle-trees which were in the first instance attached
to it, but he hal no objection new to teke the vehicle
back again and return. the meney rather than have
.any more di=pute about it.
Mr. Painter signified that he was pot at all desirous
of settling the matter in that way.
Mr. RAWLINSON slid he could come to no other
conclusion from what had been sworn to than that a
gross fraud had been committed, and he regretted that
he was not empowered by law to adjudicate in the
case, but advised Mr. Painter to bring an action
against Mr. Gilbert.
Mr. Painter expressed his intention of doing so.
11'01?SHIP-S1REE
OR Saturday a respectably-dressed German, named
George Oberhausen, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Broughton for re-examination, charged with stealing
a great quantity of choice and expensive colours and
inks, and numerous brass taps and copper bolts,
forming parts of machinery, the property of his em-
ployers, Messrs. De la Rue, Fry, and Co., the exten-
sive cardmakers and fancy stationers in Bunhill-row.
It appeared from the evidence of Mr. De la Rue
and his son, Mr. W. De la Rue, that they have suc-
ceeded in bringing to a high state of perfection cer-
tain colours, two of which are a rich carmine and a
peculiarly delicate Chinese blue, the latter being
generally used for stamping the finer descriptions of
Irish linen and other such purposes. To manufac-
ture these, engines of 30-horse power and very ex-
pensive machinery are requisite, and portions of the
machinery are dismounted and replaced by others, as
occasion may require • and part of the articles above
spoken of as having been stolen by the prisoner were
some of these dismounted pieces. The prisoner had
been in the service of the firm for a long period as a
colour-maker, and, from his being an excellent work-
man and a very intelligent man, the greatest confidence
was placed in him until Monday morning last, when
a man who had been formerly in Messrs. De la Rue's
service, but is now in that of a rival manufacturer,
entered their counting-house and anxiously inquired
for the senior partner. Mr. De la Rue, sen., was
sent for, as the man refused imparting his business
to any one else,, and on his arrival the workman
told him the names of several parties to
whona he had discovered that the prisoner had
been for a long time past selling their colours and
Government envelopes, Messrs. De la Rue having a
contract with the Government for a certain descrip-
tion of envelopes, for every one of which they are
obliged to account, or make good its value. As there
could be no doubt of the truth of this man's informa-
tion, a searching inquiry was thereupon instituted,
and the result was the discovering of a most exten-
sive and organised system of plunder, carried on by
the prisoner and other workmen and work women, of
whom the prosecutors have more than 200 in their
employment. Communication was instantly made to
Inspector Shackell, anti by his directions Sergeant
Brannan went to the house of the prisoner, in Nor-
man's-buildings, St. Luke's, at a time when the
prisoner was at home, and, on being admitted by him,
searched the place. The prisoner hesitated as to hav-
ing anything belonging to his employers, but at
length acknowledged that he had a little blue in the
lower part of the house, and on going there the ser-
geant discoveredin the back kitchen a barrel contain-
ing half a hundred weight of Chinese blue, besides a
great quantity of large brass taps, copper bolts, and
other articles, the whole filling a large truck. These,
of course, were taken possession of, and the prisoner
forthwith placed in custody and examined at this court
on Monday.
The prisoner then, in defence, said he was carrying
on a small manufacture of colours on his own ac-
count, that he had purchased part of the taps pro-
duced, and that the others and portions of machinery
he had borrowed from his employers without their
knowledge, to enable him to manufacture for himself,
and intended to restore. them, but unfortunately,
having conducted the affair at his own house in secret,
he had no witness to produce to prove that he did so.
Both the Messrs. De la Rue positively identified all
the articles produced. The brass taps were worth
1.45. each, and then actually had their colour in them.
The cask of Chinese blue was intrinsically worth
Is. 63. per pound, but in reality a great deal more,
from its scarcity and the difficulty of its manufac-
ture. The copper bolts, as forming parts of their ma-
chinery, had an adacititious value scarcely estimable,
but still considerable ; and as to the prisoner's state-
ment, of manufacturing for himielf, any workman
so doing, as the prisoner well knew, would be in-
stantly discharged upon its being discovered.
The prisoner was then remanded till Saturday last,
when Mr. De la Rue, senior,- again attended and pro-
duced a large • bundle of letters which had been de-
livered to him by another workan who was in fear of
being apprehended, and gave them up on the promise
of not being prosecuted. These letters had passed
between the prisoner and other workmen in different
houses engaged in the same business, and their con-
tents, which were highly criminatory, disch.sed an
organised and widely spread system of robbery in al-
most everything the prosecutors manufactured, and
showed that, where this could not be effected, mate-
rials manufactured elsewhere had been brought to
the prosecutors premises to be glazed and coloured
by their machinery, so as exactly to resemble their
goods.
Some other evidence having been offered, and Ser-
geant Brannan produced another cask of Chinese blue
and a quantity of carmine, which were identified by
the prosecutors;
Mr. De la Rue'stated, that from the information he
had received, he had reason to believe, that what had
been as yet stated 'was only a portion of what he
should hereafter be able to prove; and, as he was de-
termined, if possible, to put a complete check upon
this ruinous and wholsale system of robbery, against
which no fair profits in trade could possibly stand,
he trusted the magistrate would again remand the
prisoner, to enable him to trace out its ramifications.
Mr. BROUGHTON said he should most certainly do
so, and remanded the prisoner for a week ; but con-
sented to take substantial bail for his future appear-
ance, if he could obtain it.
The prisoner, who still protested his innocence,
sail be could find the bail, and was then removed.

Mr. BALLANTINE—ExactIy so; and, but for that
charge the matter might have never come to light.
But the girl's mother, hearing of that charge, and
knowing that her daughter had gone occasionally to
ties reisener's house, Became naturally alarmed; and,
on questioning her daughter, the matter was revealed.
The child said that, since the last assault, the pri•
soner beckoned to her to eome across to his shop, but,
remembering how he had treated her, she refused to
do so. Her mother tore up a book which the prisoner
gave her.
Mrs. Collenbourne, who seemed a respectable
woman, said she destroyed it, not wishing that her
child should preserve any memorial of the indecency
which he ti been practised upon her.
Mr. ISALLANTINE said she had done perfectly right.
He would send the case for trial, but, as the prisoner
had entered into two sureties of 501. each to answer
a similar charge in another place, he would take his
own Tvcogn isance of 1001. to appear and take his trial
for the present one.
The recognisances were then entered into, and the
parties bound over to prosecute.
UA I ON- HA LI
Peter M Walter, the young Irishman with the car-
pet-bag, who stands charged with robbing several
taverns and public-houses in the metropolis, was
brought up, on Saturday, for re-examination.
Mr. COTTINGIIAM said that he had received a letter
from Lieutenant Ward, of the 11th Hussars, quar-
tered in Dublin, stating that, having read an account
of the prisoner's examination in the weekly news-
papers of last Sunday, he had no doubt, from the
description, that his name was Waters, and that he
was the same person who was • living as his (the
writer's) servant in Portobello barracks, and who
robbed him of a large sum of money, with which he
absconded. The Magistrate then proceeded to ask
the prisoner some questions on the subject, in reply
to which he said that he was a native of Dublin—that
he was never in the army, nor had he lived in the
service of Lieutenant Ward—that he did not know
where Portobello barracks were situated—and that he
never passed by the name of Waters, either in Dubin
or elsewhere.
A gentleman stood forward and stated that a short
time since he was staying at the Steam-packet Hetel,
in Thames-street, and that amongs. other property'
stolen from him, there were two silk handkerchiefs,
several linen collars, and also a walking stick. The
latter articles were now produced and identified by the
complainant, a policeman stating that he found them
in the prisoner's possession when he was taken into
custody.
Mr. COTTINOHAM said that the prisoner was already
committed on three different charges of robberies at
taverns, but that if Lieutenant Ward was present and
identified him, instead of sending him for trial here he
should send him over to Dublin, where that offence
was committed.
The Magistrate then directed that inquiries should
be made at the Horse Guards, to ascertain if the pri-
soner was known there as belonging to the army, and
he was again ordered to be taken back to gaol.
Edward Wheeler, a young man in the employ of
Mr. Cox, livery stable-keeper, in Stamford-street,
was charged with stealing 580 farthings, the property
of John Underwood, of Brunswick-street, Black-
friars. The prisoner lodged at the house of the com-
plainant, an aged man, who from his infancy, it was
dowritied, was in the habit of collecting farthings,
1,00200 of which coin he kept in a bag, which was de-
. posite I in a box in the room where the prisoner slept.
Some of the farthings were on a xecent occasion
missed out of the box, and, with a view of discovery,
as another man occupied the same room with the pri-
soner, the complainant's daughter bored a hole in the
partition that separated her room from that of the
prisoner. On the preceding day, while the prisoner
was home, the witness looked through the aperture,
and caught him in the very act of ransacking her father's
box, containing his treasure of farthinge. When the
farthings were subsequently counted, 580 out of the
1,000 were missing, and it was also ascertained that
the prisoner had been fur some time in the habit of
using a coffee-shop, where he usually paid for his re-
freshments in farthings, some of which were those of
former reigns, and formed a portion of those collected
by the complainant in the early party of his life.
Another charge of robbery was also preferred
against the prisoner, that of stealing a pair of boots
out of his employer's counting-house, and he was com-
mitted to the sessions on both charges.
Richard Edwards, a well-dressed young man, was
charged on suspicion of stealing a valuable gold watch.
The prisoner was remanded until Wednesday next.

consideration, is stated to possess the preference st Pilo;
sent. It his been said that the shares of a eofnnaPeest
company have bean already in circulation on the not,
If such be the fact, by the law of the ‘?6th of Jutv
they ‘viil be incapacitated from obtaining the COut'
Times.

LAMBETH-STREET.
On Saturday the Hon. G. C. NORTON requested
the reporters present to acknowledge the receipt
of the following sums for the poor woman whose child
had been so cruelly ill-used, as detailed in the police
report of this day week i—Post- office order, No.
1,412, 1/. ; James Singleton, Esq , 11.; E. E., as.;
Post office order, an,,nymous, 1/. 10s.; a lady, 1/. ;
J. Bateman, as.; and Mrs. C. H. S., 10s.

THAMES POLICE.
On Saturday Henry John Burkett, a little withered
and wrinkled old man, who keeps a general shop in
Salmon's-lane, Limehouse, was charged with assault-
ing an interesting and intelligent-looking child named
Harriet Collenbourne, not more than ten years and a
half old.
The prisoner was brought up to this Court on a
similar charge no later than Tuesday last, on which
occasion Mr. Broderip held him to bail, himself in
1001., and two sureties in 501. each.

Though the case was not reported at the time the
circumstance trot circulated in the neighbourhood, and
on 'Wednesday the faller of the present complainant
mentioned it to his wife. Alarmed lest her own child
might have been tampered with (for they served the
prisoner with milk, and the little one had frequently
been the messenger), Mrs. Collenbourne said to her
daughter, " I hope, Harriet, Mr. Burkett has offered
no insult to you,' to which the child replied, " Yes,

DIED. ed 74' ' eop
On the 7th inst., at Weavering, Kent, ag i Is-
Baron de Itaigersfeld, Rear-Admiral of the Iter•aenti
On the 2d inst., Henry John, eldest eon al `" 4p€l3;
of Clapton- square, Hackney, aged
►
Siffken, 16. gertrfeOr
On the 2d inst., at Clifton Rectory the Rev' 1, in, eiP
cer Markham Rector of Clifton, niar is.Totting'lloreNf
Residentary of York Cathedral, aid Vicar ofCO3,,ZroeYf
Oa the 2d inst., Christopher Nevile, Esq., of ' rieolis
tingham; Post Captain in the Royal Navy. ~, 00
On the 4th inst., at Brighton, William liralicr'''''
eiIP
of Stevenage, aged 54. WO
On the 4th inst., at Cookham, Berks, sl" 01
Edmund Goolden. Asia,
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On the 4th inst., at Reigate, Surrey, Frances 4 tot
of Thomas Jones, formerly a Captain in the us° OA
the
the East India Company. are/
On the 6th inst., iu fill -street, Berkeley-0V 06
fe, e
Lady Brooke Pechell. „I,oqtlll- fe,
Ou the 6th inst, in South-street, Grasven,L, to 0
Elizabeth, .40,
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