The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-22 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS.

These Sessions commenced yesterday, before T.
PocaLE, Esq., Chairman, and a full bench of Magistrates.
The Grand Jury having been sworn,
The CHAInAtAN briefly delivered his charge, and
stated that the calendar contained the flames of upwards
of 80 prisoners for trial, and therefore their services
would probably be required for two or three days.
John Munday, 29, pleaded guilty to an indictment,
charging him with stealing, at Stoke D'Abernon, a ches-
nut cart-horse, the property of Thos, licsterton,
The prisoner was sentenced to ten years transportation.
John Harwood, jun, 20, and Simeon Harwood; 50,
were indicted fbr feloiliottsly stealing at Worplesdon, 18
bushels of potatoes, the property of James Feted.
Mr. LOCKE defended the prisoner.
The prosecutor is a market gardener, residing at
Worplesdon, and the prisoners were labourers residing
hi the same parish. the pt otectitor ivas in the habit of
storing potatoes, in what are called " blirtOnti," eteth
barrow containing about twenty bushel: of potatoes. On
the 1 6t h February last, he discovered that one of these bar
rows had been broken up, and nearly the whole of its con-
tents taken away. On the same day the prisoners were dis-
coiered, having in their possession a bag containing po-
tatoes of the same kind as those the prosecutor had missed,
the bag containing about 18 bushels, In the house of
the prisoners a quantity of potatoes were found iitlt be:
longing to the prosecutor. The potatoes lost were of
that description called " Golden Nobs," being that kind
he usually reserved for seed. The prisoners lived in the
parish of Worplesdon all their lives.
Mr. LOCKE addressed the Jury for the defence, and
called witnesses to prove that the prisoners were not out
of bed on the night the robbery was committed. Several
witnesses stated that they had frequently purchased po-
tatoes of the same description as those in question from
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the prisoners. •
The CHAIRMAN summed up the evidence, and the Jury
returned a verdict of guilty against both prisoners.
Levi Harwood had been previously convicted. The
prisoners were sentenced to twelve months imprisonment
each.

The case occupied the Court till past four o'clock.

SUICIDE OF TILE EARL OF
MUNSTER,

'he death of this Nobleman by his covti hand *a§
the engrossing subject cntiVePtilltil at the ii:lo.st.ati
of the toWn.yesitttlay intirhing. The lamentable action is
stated to have occurred at a late Hour on Surtditynight;
Wht hilt lid:4aq* Nada Wad tattfrned try the fe:
port of a pistol. On going to the Ncble Earl to ascer-
tain the cause, he found his Lordship wounded by the
discharge of a pistol, and the Earl desired the servant
to fetch* doctor, IViltinclech Aftei the ter-Van% had to eplitteci him, the iN-ohle Earl pdi d, stdolki
pistol to his mouth, and thus destroyed hinikllf:
The late nobleman was; besides being Earl of. Attn:
ster, Vistnthit Viticl*neet and 13afeti of Teoeiburt;
in tlk Peeffite tl the VtAitiid Iltiilgdt3ctl 11 Viivy ecittit=
ikl9Bil:Lenerai in the Army; and Aide-de-camp
io the Queen ; Governor and Captain; also Constable
and Lieutenant, of Windsor Castle COltinel of the Ist
Tower thithittke dila a' Udifilatieflef thtl
Royal Military College and ild.yill Military Asylum ;
Knight Grand cross of the order of Ferdinand of Wir:
Vieezl3rVslaiii b 1 thg Ut4sl Sticleiy;
and. P.R,S. He was born Jan. 16; 1794, and was i!ofis
sequently in his 49th year;
He married, in Octiziller; 1810, kail,Nrynolham, daugh-
ter~Of tin! late hail of E.:gremolit, and Htt4 left 'Sane by
her several children, the two eldest of whom are laugh.
tern: His eldest soh„ iltut rl of iMunSteri*ti, was
brit gity 16; itN, Wild is in .is 18th year. The late
her was the eldest son ofKing William the Fourth, by
the celebrated actress, Mrs, Jot*,
The Earl of Mtltsttt bilkiNi the army in February,
1807, and the date of his last eommissioni as Major-
' -General, is Nov: 23, 1841, His Lordship served in the
Peninsula, and was severely wounded ht Tnidtittiti
It's Lordship was on half-pay of the 24th Dragoons.
He served the campaign of 1808 in Spain, with Sir David
Baird's -army, as Aide-de-camp to Adjtttant=General
Stewart, in. 1813 as Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-Gettertd,
ie,
1818,1815
and in 1814 with his regiment. He subBequently Went
to the East Indies, and acted as Aide-de-camp to the
with
1:8e 1
pdrr antia"Gto ehr etBFr returned the
to erla
Englandnu overlandiscf Hastings,in June,
a
• About six weeks since hiS lordship.ttiiti faiiiily re-
turned to town from Ostend, Whefe they had ht+h fesi&
ing for some tittle, and since that period it had been no
'iced that he was not in his usual spirits. This fact was,
however, attributed to the effeets of several severe attackslit
of the gout from Which he had 6ugered and tilt urss
city lASI, on going to the House of Lords with soine of
the younger members of his family, his manner is said to
have rather altered,

SEDITIOUS LANtiIIA6E.----Mth O'Connell found
guilty at the Queen's County Assites of dtraluntiiiig landlords
high rents, &c,, is rentented tti sit itionths' impristinment, an
ii
to give security, himself in 500 i., and two sureties in Mb .
each, to—hold his tongue.
REDUCTION OF THE CONSTSEELAtiY.-;A lle Aril
Evenbey /Ind states that it is the intention of Sir Hotert 6,4
to make reductions on an extemive scale '.4 every department of
the above force, and embody the Irish militia,
B"etal persons, alarmed by trieg of diStrOs* in the
Rue St. Eloi, tWo nlght.„4 aoB;bastetieti in? tile ttiti *MI found
9 milf9ttilltatt Wotan a tile U. 411 siiitioed in aeinral plates
With a poignard. Two mats were seen running away, but they
were pursued and capttired, and en being taken before a Corn.
inissary tif Politie; tliEy Wbrb &nit-bitted being
trial for an attempt
to murder. They are men of the lowest order, but the cause
of the attack has no transpired.
1.1117. NIGER PliVlll4,--,4 lable-§ponnful of Peru-
vian bark, given in the morning early, has been found a fever.
Preventive among merchant-ships' companies at Batavia, where
similar deadly fevers to those of Africa prevail; and hence It
may be ohly neeot3ity tO apply the bark=p.raetlee to the Afri-
can toasts and rivers, in order to insure a similar freedom from
fever there also.—Literary Gazette.
DiscovEßy OF iiumAN SKELETONS H
IN TE
STRAND:....on Saturday afternoon
depth net exceedingfrom the surface, a large as the men employed in
a foot
and a half
the erection of a new sewer in the 'Strand were excavating the
ground in front of St. Clement's Church, they found, at a
number of human skeletnns, many of them in this most perfect
condition, ard in •
r , one instance the . : ~, was,
with a large quan-Lity of lair attached. ,t is supposed that the
ancient huriii.gr. mid ;of St. CleMent's banes once 'covered
the spot In questio n. A shed was erected, and the bones depo-
sited in it, and ult iina4ely a large hole was dug in St. Cie-
-32e11V4 Ograyard, sin which they were placed. ' '',' ' ' •
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