The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-20 00:00:00

riuz SUN, LONDON, 'WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20 1344.

who had exposed it to a trial, terrible to any
711113 g womanr of eighteen—most terrible to a youth-
fulrhe matron Queen can now appreciate
Qt."'en-..
her true frit.nds—can distinguish. between those who
p"son
_individuals unfit for female
rashly raised their voices
placcel about her
need regret exposure
society, and those who eN:7
8-11oriously passed ;
against the profanation. None
to perils through which they have
and none, with a heart like our Queen's, will be un-
grateful to the friends who watched her progress
through these perils with even an excessive anxiety.

Dividend
per
Annum.

54 per cent.
41.

CHARGE OF WILFUL MURDER.
An inquiry took place at Navestock, last week,
before Mr. Lewis, the coroner, and a respectable jury,
touching the death of Martha Phillips, the wife of a
labourer, who was found dead in a field in that parish.
It appeared, from the evidence adduced, that the
deceased was found lying on her back in one of Mr.
Hicks's fields ; an umbrella and can of beer were by her
side, and her clothes sere in disorder, and her pocket
turned inside out. On her being removed some
blood came from the right ear. There were appear-
ances about the ground as if there had been some
struggling.
Rebecca Phillips, a daughter of the deceased, stated
that she was in good health and spirits the day be-
fore. She went out with a can for some beer for
dinner at about half-past twelve o'clock. There had
been no quarrelling. Her health was not generally
good ; she complained usually of pain across the
chest. Sach's beer-house, to which she went, was
about a mile from the house of deceased.

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William Milibank, a gardener, who was sitting at
the beer-shop when the deceased arrived, stated that
she called for half a pint of beer and drank it ;
and that when that was done, she called for
another. Two men, named Baker and Young,
were there and had beer also. She "went away
about a quarter before two o'clock, and took three
pints of beer away with her in a can. She
asked Young if he was going home to dinner ; he
lived under the same roof in the family of deceased.
Before she had got out of the yard Baker and Young
followed. They were a little fresh but not drunk.:
Another witness stated that subsequently to this
he saw the deceased and Young walking together
under an umbrella, and Baker walked on before.
It wasi stated that deceased frequently got drunk,
and would then fight. Baker deposed to having
seen Young and the deceased go together into
the field in which she was found, and lie down
on the ground. When he; came out of the
field he had a snuff-box, which he said she had
given him. But he put a stone into it, and threw it
away, and several times told him not to say anything
about what he had witnessed. Young, who was in
custody, stated in his defence, that as they were
going along the road, the deceased made a proposition
to him, and asked him if he would give her any money.
He told her no; she then got over the gate, and he
turned back.

The CORONER having summed up, the jury returned
a verdict of Wilful Murder against John Young, and
he was forthwith committed to take his trial.—
Abridged from the Essex Herald of this day.

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PRICES OF SHARES
a-4 RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASBITRA
AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK.

LONDON, TUESDAY, NOV. 19.

Names of Com-
panies.

Can al s.
dh
Ashton and Olara...
Ashby-de-la- Zouch av
Basingstoke
Breckneek & Ahergay.
Birmingham, 1-16th sh.
Do. and Liverp. Juuc.
Chclmer & Blackwator
Coventry ..........
Crom ford ........"..
Dudley
Derby. ...... .".
Danube and Mayne....
Ellesmere and Chester
Erewash .. ........
Forth and .....
Grand Junction
Grand Union
Grand Surrey
Grand Western"
Glamorgansh., ay. cost
Gloucester & Berkeley
Grantham
Huddersfle/d ..... .....av
Kennet and Avon ...av
Lancaster av
Leeds and Liverpool...
Leicester .........
Leicester & Northamp.
Loughborough av
Monmouthshire ........
Montgomeryshire ".
Melton M0wbray........
Mersey and 1rwe11.....
Macclesfield
Neath
Oxford
Peak Forest .av
Regent's (or London)..
Shropshire .........
Somerset
Do. Lock Fund Stock
Stafford and Worcester
5hrew5bury,..„....,......
Stourbridge
Stratford .on. A von...av
Swansea...."
Severn & Wye &
Trent Sc Mersey, 14 sh.
Thames & Medway..av
Warwick and lirming.
Warwick and Napton...
Worcester & Binning.
Wilts and Berks......av
Wisbeach
Way and Arun......

Docks.
Commercial
East and West India
London ... : ........
Ditto Bonds
Bristol.... ..... ...........ar
Do.B nds, var. amounts
St. Katharine...". .... -
Ditto Bonds
Ditto B:nds ...... ..."
Southampton

Bridges
Hammersmith ....»......
Southwark, new Subs.
Ditto New of 73 pr o.
Water 100.........„........
Ditto Old Ann. of Sir
Ditto New ditto 6171.
Ditto 80nd5..............

Assurances
Albion ••..
Alfred Life -
Alliance Biit. and For
Ditto Marine
Atlas
Birmingham Fire...."
British Commercial
Cler. Med. & Gen. Life
County
Eagle
Economic Life ..... .
European Life
Ditto New
Freemasons
Globe ...........»
Guardian
Nape Life
Ditto
Imperial Fire ........
Ditto Life.... ......
Indemnity Marine
Law Life
Legal and General Life
London Fire.....„,
Ditto Ship
National Loan Fund
Neptune Marine...."
Palladium Life
Protector
Provident ......
Rock Life
R,,yal Exchange...."
Sun Fire
Ditto Life
University ....
Life
Universal Life
Union Fire and Life
Joint Stk Banks
Au5tra1a5ia................

Ditto New
Brit. North American
Commercial of London
Colonial
London & Westminstr
Ditto New........
Landon Joint Stock
Metropolitan. . . .......
Provincial of Ireland
Ditto New..„
National of Ireland
Nat. Provincial Englnd
Ditto New ........
Gloucestershire...
Union of Australia
Union of London
Gaslight 6. Coke
Bath. ...... .....

British .. ~,
_.... .......
Ditto Provincial
Birmingham
Binning. & Staffbrdsh
Bristol
Brighten
Ditto General
City of London
Ditto New.... .......
Continental Consolid
Ditto New
Equitable
1mperia1........„
Isle of Thanet
Independent
Phoenix ON Oa
Ratcliff
South Metropolitan.....
United General..,...
Westmins. Chartered..
Ditto New.................

Water Works
Birmingham
East London
Grand Junction .av
Kent ..... ........ .....

Nw Riv Len. Bridg An.
Manchester and Salford
Vauxhall, late S. Lond.
West Middlesex......av
Yrk lluldg Co. Les Prop
Iron Itailwayst.
Birmingham & Derby
& Gloucester
Bristol and Exeter...."
Caledonian .....
Chester and Holyhead
Eastern Counties........

Edinburgh St Glasgow
Grand Juncti0n..........

_„_
Great North of Englnd
Great Western
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Fifths ......
Harwich (Braithwaite)
Hull and Selby
Lancaster and Carlisle
Leech and Selby
Liverpool & Manchestr
Ditto Half-Shares

London and Brighton
Ditto Loan Notes
London and ckwall
Londrn and Greenwich
London and Birmingh.
Ditto Quarter-Shares
Ditto Thirds
London and S. Western
London and Croydon
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto New Shares
Manchstr and Birming
Midland Counties
North British
Norwi h & Brandon
Northern and Eastern
Ditto Scrip, iss. die.
Paris and Orleans...„
Paris and Rouen
Rouen and Havre.....„
Stockton & Darlington
South East. and Dover
Yarmouth and Norwich
lark and N. Midland
Ditto New Shares,

Mines.
Albion Copper
Alten
Anglo Mex., iss.sl. p.m
Ditto Subscription
Bolanos
Dittu Scrip
Brazil. Imp. iss.s/. p.m
Do. Mocaub. & Coc. U
Do. St. John Del Rey
British Iron
Candonga.
Ditto Registered
Cobre Copper
Copiapo ............
Columbian, iss. 5/. p.m.
General Mining
Hibernian ..
Imperial Slate Compy.

Mexican ....... •••••••••••••
Mining Co. ot Ireland..

Amount

Share.

X s. d.
97 18 0
113 0 0
100 0 0
150 0 0

100 0 0
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Stock

147 9 0

Stock

b 0 0 0

50 0 0
63 2 8
50 0 0
169 0 0

70 10 3

500 0 0
25 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
250 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
1000 0 0
20 0 0
20 0 0
20 0 0

Stock
100 0 0
25 0 0
25 0 0
500 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
25 0 0
20 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
5 0 0
Stock

100 0 0
100 0 0
200 0 0

40 0 0

50 0 a

100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
2500
100 0 0
10 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
20 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
50 0 0

20 0 0
40 0 0
29 0 0
77 10 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
20 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
75 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
30 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0

25 6 0
100 0 0
41 19 4
100 0 0

30 , 0
100 0 0
63 12 9
100 0 0

100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0

25 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
20 0 •
50 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
10 0 0
16 13 4
12 15 4
100 0 0

92 0 0
41 6 10
13 15 9
100 0 0
50 0 0
70 0 0
100 0 0
0 0 0
20 0 0
50 9 u
50 0 0
20 0 0
20 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
50 0 0
2.5 0 0

5 0 0
15 0 0
100 0 0

Paid. 'Pric

150 0 0

Z s. d.

ioo b o

All paid

A 7 0

Real del Monte, Unreg.
Ditto Loan N0te5......

Rhyinney Iron .

Santiago de Cuba
United Aim, iss.2/. pm
Ditto Scrip
Ditto New Scrip

25 0 0

0 0 7c
O 0 01
O 0 61,
O ) 4
O 0 1
o o 14
O 0 56
O 0 2h
O 0 111
O 0 12
o o 8'
o 0 .4
O 0
O 0 6
O 0 1
O 0
O 0 20
O 0 s$
O 0 4'
0 0 1

100 0 0 211
20 0 2
32 0 0 3

I
70 0 0 11
30 0 0
40 0 0 ! 4
100 0 0 IC(
2 10 0
80 0 1
450 0 s
0 0 &

Literary.
Londn,with Sin.Tlcket
London University
Russell
King's College

oo l F
o o 26;
O 0 3'
0 0 2:

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0 0 51

21 0 0
25 0 0
15 0 0 1
75 0 0
7 10 0
710 0 2
!40 0 0 2i
‘2O 0 0 13 0 0
55 0 0 55 0 0
20 0 0 • 20
50 0 0 10
10 0 0 3
60 0 0 59
25 0 0 i 7

Miscellaneous.

Anglo Mexican Mint.
Australian Agricultur.
Brit. American Land,..
Canada ...... .......... ......
Upper Canada Bonds...
Gen. Steam Navigation

31 0
14 10 0
1(X) 0 to
25 0 ('
150 0 0

35 0 0
25 0 0
20 0 0
100 0

20 0 o

- .150
50 0 0 50
25 0 0 10
40 0 0 40

75 0 0
100 0 0
25 0 0

Iberian Mercantile Co.
Ditto Property
Mot. Wond Pay., iss. 14
Mex. and S. American

New Brunswick (Land)
New Zealand .......
Penins. & Orion. Steam
Royal Mail Steam
Reversionary Int. Soc

South Australian

O 0
0
O 0
O 0

O 0
00
O 0
O 0
O 0

50 71 0

9 0
10 0
0 0
0 0
0 0

Thames Tunnel

O 0 lii
O 0
O 0 2
O 0

Van Diemen's Land

L IST OF SCOTTISH COM
NOV. 2,
Bank of Scotland...."
Royal Rank
British Linen Compny
Commercial Bank
Glasgow Union Balk
Western Bank „„
Central Bk. of Scotland
Caledonian Insurance
Hercules Insurance
North Brit. Insurance
Insurance Co. of Scoti.
Edinburgh Lite Insur.
Scottish Union Insur...

210 0

1
100 0 0 '

Standard Life Incur....

3 ;,,z :4
:::af. ilalkeith R_..ilww, 1,,,v,
Ili-per cent Ellin. L''.ln-v,...,. ."
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IN per cen f Glasg. and Green. ii;;;I.
—. Dundee4nd Ar6r ItaiL I !

moo of i

10 0 0 L
30 0 0 4;
35 10 0 1
3110 0, .1!

14 0
1 10
5 0
3 0
7 0
75 0
25 0
50 0

100 0 0 'lOOO
25 0 0 20 0
59 0 0 , 50 0
20 0 0 20 0

01 2
0 :3041
0
0
01
0j 2i
0
0

0 116:1,
0' 31
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ANTES' PRICES.

10 0
10 0
10 0
10 0
12 10
1 0
2 10
50 0
50 0
95 0

o ! i
0 i £'

I 11
9 2

0

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EXTRAORDINARY CASES OF LONGEVITY.—There
are now residing near Hubberstone, Pembrokshire, a
brother and sister, Henry and Margaret Banner, of the
respective ages of 97 and 101, the latter of whom can
read well without the use of glasses.— Cambrian.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 19.
(Sittings in Banco.)
lIOWARD V. GOSSETT.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL resumed his argument
in this part-heard case, and contended that, even if
the Court should be against him on the points which
he had submitted on Friday, still they must give
judgment in favour of the defendant, inasmuch as the
defendant was acting merely ministerially in acting
upon that warrant, which, at all events, was a suffi-
-13•6 cient authority fur him, and therefore that the action
could not lie. He, therefore, submitted that upon
this demurrer the Court must give judgment in
favour of the defendant.
• Mr. KELLY then replied, and contended, on the
14 authority of the King v. Elgee, that this Court could
o ' look to the wording of warrants issued by Courts
% of co-ordinate jurisdiction, inasmuch as in that case it
, had decided that a warrant issued by the Court of
Bankruptcy, a superior court of record, like
) the House of Commons, was bad. He also
; quoted the case of Christie v. Unwin, in
which the validity of a warrant issued by the Lord
' Chancellor had been questioned. He could not but
) regret that during the course of the last century some
)
[ of the judges had laid down the law as if the Court
) could not interfere even to grant a habeas corpus in
)
cases where persons had been committed ny the
) r House of Commons, but those dicta of the judges were
contrary to the law, as it had been acted on both
before and since. In the case of Lord Shaftesbury, in
that of Hobhouse, in that of the Sheriffs of Middlesex,
I i this Court had granted a habeas corpus, and had
; looked to the warrants of commitment, and because
1 they held those warrants to be legal, and for that
cause only, they remitted the parties to their original
) custody. The law of the judges of the last century
)
; was bad law, and all he asked the Court to do was to
) do what had been done in ell the cases to which he
)
5 had alluded—to look to the warrant, and see whether
) or not it was a good warrant ; and he would dismiss
I
i all these cases by saying that in every one of them
)
the warrant of commitment set forth the cause
of imprisonment, viz , contempt. He apprehended
that there was nothing in this warrant to show that
the party was to be taken to the bar of the House of
P Commons. It was a mere simple mandate for taking
him into custody. The fact was the recital was so
) uncertain that it was impossible for the Court to intro-
duce anything into the mandatory point.
Mr. Justice WIGUTMAN alluded to the case of the
i% warrant for the arrest of Sir Francis Burdett, in
which the warrant not only stated that he was to be
taken to the Tower of London, but to be delivered to
1
the custody of the Lieutenant of the Tower.
Mr. KELLY agreed that in that case it was clearly
stated where the party was to be taken to, but in this
case there was nothing in the warrant to show either
, why he was apprehended, or where he was to be
''' brought to. It might be to the bar of the House of
Commons, or before any one of the Committees. But
ni even if it were aided to the utmost possible extent by
3lthe recital, it went no further than to say apprehend
; the plaintiff and bring him to the bar of the House of
Commons, without stating for what. It was a mere
1% simple mandate of arrest without any cause assigned,
5, and was therefore illegal. He agreed with all
' that had fallen from the judges in the case
of Burdett and Abbott, and Stockdale and Han-
)
32. card, that this Court could not look into the cause of
t imprisonment where it was for contempt, and if this
)% warrant had stated that the imprisonment was for
N contempt, he shouldhtfor u
not have
this warrant ave disputedwant its
wasv not to
) What was sought I
preserve to the House of Commons what it was ad-
-5 breach
57 l llt t 0 d
of
they
theirprivileges,
possessed,
eo committingfpower
o f
makingfor
a
3
3 that law which was not law, and to arrest under an
i% illegal warrant, a warrant which was contrary to
Magna Charts.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—Suppose the plea had
) set forth the warrant was issued according to the
1 ancient usages of Parliament, should we not be bound
: to consider it legal ?
Mr. KELLY apprehended not, unless the plea
1 'lt set forth that the form had been used at the time of
Magna Charta. If it had not, it was contrary to
Magna Charta, and, therefore, unless legalised by Act
;‘i of Parliament, was void. Now, if the warrant were
insufficient in itself, he contended that the defendant
6)
could not go to the averments of the plea to help it.
1% If a man resisted his arrest under a lawful
;,(3 warrant, and killed the officer, he was guilty of
at murder—if the warrant were unlawful it would be
1 justifiable homicide. Now, suppose the plaintiff had
1,36 resisted, and killed the officer, could it be said to him,
1. " True, the warrant is bad upon the face of it,
but then there was behind it a resolution of the House
4 of Commons, of which you could know nothing, in.
asmuch as it was not set forth in the warrant ; and,
therefore, you must be hanged for murder." But,
even suppose reference could be made to the aver-
s ments, he submitted that in these pleas there were no
1
6 averments which were sufficient to help the warrant.
t 5 All that was averred was, that the warrant was
714 issued by the proper officer of the House
50 to the proper officer for service, but it left
73 the question of the form of the warrant corn-
-70
32 pletely untouched. Now he appereliended that the
ss House of Commons possessed no peculiar privileges
20
co of pleading; they must plead like other people, and
76 40 therefore they ought in express terms to have alleged
as that, according to the usages of Parliament, it was
34 their privilege to arrest upon such a warrant, and even
as
1234 that would have been insufficient unless it was
also alleged that such usage had existed at the
is time of Magna Charta. But, supposing the
15 warrant might be aided by the averment,
to
so and that the averments were sufficient, then
socame the question, had the House of Commons the
ps right to arrest a person to compel him to give evi-
Zdente, or to arrest him upon a mere charge, without
having previously adjudged him guilty of contempt?
e He apprehended that no such power existed. They
8 had power to summon a witness, and if he refused to
4% obey that summons, they could adjudge him guilty
ig
.si of contempt for such refusal,tbe and imprison him for
tlhe contempt; and magistrates possessed the same
N power; but there was no power to appre-
)s hend pa
purpose of bringing
Ninocdrutoy for`sutbocit alyics
courts had the power of
compel him to give evi-
-1 deuce.h ii'l ul3
r" issuing a subpoena to compel the attendance of a wit-
lli ness, and on his refusal to come to attach him for
2 contempt, and punish him for his refusal by im-
prisonment; but they had no more power by law to
1.,,„ apprehend persons and bring them up in custody as
flwitnesses than they had when they were brought into
x
tChieutrotr Lor.the application of
cbtYu—ally in Court and
'54 refused to come forward, no doubt the Court had the
6% power of compelling him to come forward, but the
compellf a
witnesstlt em t ovvere speaka
5
5 Court had no right to send for him into the next parish,
and arrest him to compel Mtn to give evidence, al-
-5 though it might adjudge him guilty of contempt, and
2 arrest and attach him for that contempt, but they
534 could not order him to be arrested and brought up to
aIN, answer a charge of contempt. The power contended
oss
iiq for on the part of
sthe House of Commons was the
1 power of at once arresting and imprisoning any of
n
5% the Queen's subjects without an y cause assigned at all—
:I a power which the Court would be slow in admitting.
He denied that the precedents quoted showed the
s immemorial existence of any such power, and if
si
s claimed it ought to have been distinctly averred upon
3 the plea, in order either that issue might be taken
4
7 upon it in point of fact, or that it might be demurred
534 to in point of law. The precedents in Ilatsell would
8%
5 justify the House of Commons in ordering two men to
2; ; be tied back and back upon a horse, with papers pinned
on their breasts, for arresting a servant of' a Member.
° There was nothing, however tyrannical or however
a ludicrous, that cannot be justified by the precedents
I to be found in the journals of the House of Commons.
o
% With regard to the case of Jay and :Popham, it
should be remembered that neither Sir Francis
Pemberton nor Sir Thomas Jones were judges at the
f.
4% time they delivered the opinions quoted by the So-
a licitor-General at the bar of the House of Commons,
5% and that it was evident they spoke under duress, and
3% were in a most degraded and disgraceful position, so
4% that their dicta could not be taken to possess any legal
authority. If the precedents were worth anything,
I they would justify the arrest by the House of Commons
714,
a% of the Judgss of this Court for the solemn judgments
8 delivered in this Court, and for declaring that to be
the law which they knew to be the law. The right
5% to arrest to compel a person to give evidence was
3X)
1 here claimed for the first time, and he trusted the
2s Court would not authorise the assumption of that
,34 power upon light grounds; and he submitted that
sr, neither the House of Commons nor any other
s tribunal had the right to arrest or imprison any of
the people of this country without cause shown upon
the face of the warrant authorising such arrest.
Their Lordships having consulted together,
Lord DENMAN said —We shall take some time to
consider this, and we do not think it right to say
anything upon the present occasion.
Judgment postponed.

TILE WEATHER IN SCOTLAND.—We still continue
to cx.perience vGry boisterous weather, the wind blowing in
fitful gusts, accompanied with heavy showers of rain. Yes-
terday morning it blew a perfect hurricane, which we are
.09 afraid must have done considerable damage, torrents of
79471,,4 rain falling at the same time. During the forenoon, how_
ever, the sun shone forth, giving indications of a change
1 fur the better, but shortly after mid-day the sky became
overcast, and a pelting shower commenced, which con-
tinned for some time ; and while we write there is little or
no appearance of our having dry weather. We learn that
there are upwards of 200 sail of vessels still windbound
in the Frith of Forth, which have taken shelter there
from the 147 of the gale, and cannot yet put to sea
,n consequence of adverso wiods and the extremely
' - of the German Ocean. The Clunte,
turbulent, .
When vn her voyage
gale, a few miles this side of the 4 , which
dher,
vere :71--".cauolt by the laotfe
hseer-
istoa mong
Londontoe she: was h
frroomv e Matheson,ijiieerititio
bulwarks and other damage.—.Edinburyli Evening Pest, Queensferry, with loss of a portion

FARNBOROUGH PETTY SES-
SIONS.—TUESDA Y.
(Before Viscount SYDNEY, and Messrs. WARD and
I3za mis.)
A young and good-looking woman, named Jane
Butcher, was brought before the bench, in custody of
Sergeant Leverick, of the R division of police, upon
the charge of ill-using her illegitimate child, twelve
months old, and with having threatened to destroy it.
The sergeant stated, that on the previous evening
he was sent for to the cottage of the prisoner's father
at Kestor, and upon going in he found the prisoner's
mother in fits, and her father, who is a hard-working
labouring man, was in the utmost distress of mind,
on account of the prisoner's conduct. It appears she
has had an illegitimate child, and ever since its birth
she has treated it in the most cruel manner, fre-
quently beating and ill-using it, and threatening to
destroy it. On this night, after making use of very
violent language to her mother, she threatened that
she would do fin. the child before morning, and rushed
out of the house, taking the poor infant, who had
nothing but a shift and night-gown on, with her, and
as they believed, with the intention of drowning, or
otherwise making away with her. He immediately
proceeded in search of the prisoner, and found her
lying with the child in the naked state above described
upon a dunghill, and he took her back to her father's
house.
Lord SYDNEY asked the prisoner's father and sister
whether they would take upon themselves to swear
that they, or the child of the prisoner, were in danger
of any personal violence from her ?
They both appeared anxious to screen the pri-
soner, notwithstanding her brutality, and they said
they should not like to send her to prison.
The Noble CHAIRMAN said, that as that was the
case, the Bench could not take any proceedings, and
the prisoner must be discharged. He, at the same
time, observed, that there could be no doubt the pri-
soner's conduct had been very bad, and he cautioned
her to be very careful, for if anything happened to
the child through her neglect or ill-treatment, she
would most assuredly be tried for her life.
The prisoner left the bar laughing, and when she
got outside the court she put her fist in her sister's
face, and with an oath declared that she would " give
it her before she got home." The officers separated
them, and requested the virago to be quiet, threat-
ening to take her again before the magistrates if she
did not, and she then walked a short distance, when
she suddenly stooped down, and picked up a large
flint stone, which she was about to throw in her
sister's face, when the constables seized her arm, and
conveyed her again before the magistrates.
The sister was then sworn, and deposed to the
threats made use of by the prisoner, and also declared
her belief that she was in danger of receiving some
violent injury from her.
The BENCH immediately ordered the prisoner to
find sureties to keep the peace, at the same time ob-
serving that so violent and dangerous a person was
not fit to be at large.
The prisoner's sister asked what was to be done
with the child ? It had been under her charge all
night, as the prisoner would not take it, and would
not give it any nourishment.
The BBNCH said that as the child was of such
tender age it must go with the mother.
The prisoner snatched the child from her sister's
arms, and at the same time tore off a little cloak
that was upon it, and threw it upon the ground, say-
ing it belonged to " them," and she would have no-
thing of " theirs."
The sister tried to put the cloak upon the poor
child, saying that it would perish with cold, but the
prisoner with the utmost violence resisted the at-
tempt, and it was not until the sergeant of police said
that the child was now under their charge, and in-
sisted that the cloak should be put on, that she al-
lowed it to be done.
The prisoner was then removed, and was eventually
conveyed to Maidstone Gaol.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.
Yesterday morning, an elderly man, of respect-
able appearance, who gave the name of Thomas
Daley, described as a gentleman, residing at the Im-
perial Hotel, Covent-garden, was placed at the bar
before Mr. Jardine, charged with stealing a news-
paper from Upton's Eating-rooms, 228, Strand,under
the following circumstances :
Charles Cole, a waiter, in the service of the prose-
cutor, stated that about eight o'clock on Monday
night the prisoner came to his master's rooms, where
he took some refreshment, and after delaying some
time, he paid the amount of his bill. After he left
the room, the Morning Chronicle was missed from the
table at which he was sitting, and as he was passing
down stairs, witness, accosting him, demanded the
newspaper he had just concealed on his person,
when he drew a parcel from his pocket and deli-
vered up the property, saying it was through inad-
vertence he had removed it. He was then given in
charge to a constable.
The prisoner being called on for his defence, said
had a magistrate been sitting when he was taken into
custody he would have been instantly discharged.
Was it possible that a gentleman of fortune and high
birth, as he was, would steal a newspaper! Thank
God, he was possessed of thousands a year, and could
it be supposed under such circumstances that he
would steal such a thing as a newspaper, the in-
trinsic value of which was absolutely nothing. He
had not read the Morning Chronicle nor the Times
in the room, as he had seen them in his chambers in
the morning, but it was the Globe he had just laid
down, and was looking over an application made to
him rom one of his estates, soliciting that he would
continue his subscription to a charitable institution,
when the waiter accosted him. He was a father, and
even a grandfather of many children, and he should
not have gone into a place of the kind, but was
pressed on a former occasion to dine there with a very
old friend, who was obliged of late years to live in a
more frugal manner than he was accustomed. He
had been to Gravesend during the day with his
nephew, who was starting for India, and after taking
dinner, in bundling up his papers he must have inad-
vertently put the Morning Chronicle into his pocket,
under the impression that it was a provincial paper he
occasionally carried about him.
In answer to the Court, the witness said he stood
behind the prisoner the whole of the time he was in
the room, and he was positive he never attempted to
take any paper of a private nature from his pocket.
He could also positively swear that the prisoner stole
another newspaper on Thursday night, which streng-
thened his suspicions on his missing the paper in
question. There was no other person in the room at
the time, and his reason for watching the prisoner's
movements was, that he was apprised of the former
robbery by another waiter.
The prisoner said it could not be possible he could
be guilty of such a thing, as he was well known to
be a man of ample fortune, as would appear from the
articles the constable took from him, consisting of
about 601. in gold, with a quantity of valuable docu-
ments.

Mr. JARDINM—Does any person know you at the
Imperial Hotel, where you say you reside ? Pri-
soner—l was so shocked I did not know what address
to give, seeing such a paltry malicious charge made
against me.

Mr. JARDINE inquired what led to the supposition
that the prisoner had committed a robbery of the
same•kind on a former occasion ? The waiter said
the Standard was missed from the room on Thursday
evening, immediately after the prisoner left the room.
The constable here produced a parcel containing a
number of letters addressed to Colonel Sewell, with
other documents of importance.
Mr. JARDINR asked the prisoner who were his
bankers ?—The prisoner replied, he banked at the
house of Messrs. Ransom, of L'all-mall, where he had
been known for several years.
Mr. JARDINE--I shall discharge you because I can't
reconcile the conflicting circumstances connected with
your case. A person of your age having such docu-
mebts and property in. your possession, could scarcely
be supposed guilty of such an extraordinary act, and
as there is a doubt, although the waiter speaks in the
most positive terms of the circumstances, I cannot
see my way clear enough to send you to be tried, as
I think a jury would not convict you. Under all the
circumstances I am bound to discharge you, at the
same time thinking no fault was to be imputed to the
waiter, as the subject was well worthy of inquiry.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Amelia Jarvis, a well-grown girl, fifteen years of
age, but looking at least eighteen, was brought before
Mr. Hardwick by her own mother, and charged with
robbery.
Elizabeth Knox, of No. 2, Pulteney-court, the
mother, said the girl at the bar had that morning
stopped her little brother and robbed him of two six-
pences, which he had just received for washing. The
girl had remained out the whole of the previous
night, and witness had not been able to obtain any
trace of her until an hour or two ago, when she saw
the prisoner in St. James's-park with a couple of
girls of loose character, eating chesnuts, which
she had purchased with part of the stolen money.
The mother went on to say that she had been
obliged to take strong steps against her daughter
in consequence of indications of early and seem-
ingly incorrigible profligacy. Her daughter by her
misconduct had nearly ruined her. She was a
laundress; but, owing to her (laughter's reckless con-
duct, she was afraid she should soon loose her con-
nexion, and consequently her means of support for
her family. The girl at the bar, about four months
back, was a most hardworking well ,conducted girl,
hut sinee that period she had got acquainted with
some depraved boys and girls from Peter-street, and
the result was that she had become as depraved and
as reckless as her associates. She has stopped out re-
peatedly all night, without giving any account of
he -self next morning. She had set everybody at
defiance i and when she was in want of money she

did not hesitate a moment at breaking open drawers
and boxes; rifling them, and pledging or stlling their
contents. The only way to save the wretched girl
from absolute destructicn was to adopt means to
separate her from her companions.
Mr. HAanwicii asked the mother what she if:-
tended to do. Did she mean to press the charge of
robbery? •
The mother said she had no wish to deal harshly
with her child. She thought if the girl had the
awful consequences of her conduct pointed out to her,
and if a short punishment were awarded by way of
foretaste of what she must expect if she did not re-
form, that this might produce a beneficial result.
Mr. HARDWICK asked the girl if she had ever re-
flected on her scandalous conduct? \Vas she aware
that the life of infamy she was pursuing would pro-
bably lead to transportation ? The girl, who ex-
hibited complete indifference, muttered that she hail
no wish to keep up the acquaintances she had recently
made.

The mother said when she found her daughter in
the Park, her daughter told her she did not intend to
return home again. _

Air. llAnacV-IcK said he would remand the girl for
a week to see what effect a short confinement would
have on her future conduct. The prisoner was then
removed.