The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-02 00:00:00

.BUR'-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

To-day being appointed for the further examination
of John Perkins and Edmund M'Gill, who had been re-
manded from Friday, on the charge of stealing a dia-
mond pin from Mr. Henry Peckham, of the value of
151., the Court was crowded to excess by friends of the
prisoners, and others, who were anxious to hear the dis-
closures which it was expected might be made relative
to the house in Jermyn-street.
Mr. Payne, the barrister, and Mr. Hobler attended for
the prisoners.
Mr. Henry Peckham, the complainant, who had been
bound over to prosecute, repeated the evidence which he
gave on a former occasion, the material points of
as relating to the case, were, that on the 29th of July,
about four o'clock in the morning, he was coming out of
a gambling-house in Jermyn-street, when he met
the two prisoners and another man not in cus-
tody. He went with them to a coffee-shop near
Charing-cross, and, having been drinking, he fell
asleep there. When he awoke he missed his
diamond pin, and accused the prisoners of having it.
They denied the accusation, and lie left the shop in
search of a constable. When he returned the prisoners
were gone ; they were, however, subsequently found,
when M'Gill gave up the pin.
The following cross-examination of Mr. Peckham then
took place :
Mr. Payne—Who, and what are you ? Witness—l
am a gentleman, and live upon my means.
Mr. Payne—You had a
.watch and appendages with
you at the time of this transaction, had you not ? Wit-
ness—l had ; the watch was worth 401.
Mr. Payne—What is the pin worth ? Witness—lts
intrinsic value is 15/. ; it cost a great deal more.
Mr. Payne—You had no money, had you ? Wit-
ness—l had, but I don't know how much.
Mr. Payne—Did you not borrow from M'Gill a sove-
reign to pay a cab ? Witness—l did not.
Mr. Payne—Did you hire the cab ? Witness—l pre-
sume I did.
Mr. Payne—You presume ! no shuffling. Do you
know whether you paid for the cab ?
Mr.l Jardine here checked the Learned Counsel. He
did not think that he had any right to impute shuffling
to the witness, who appeared to be giving his evidence
very properly.
Witness—l don't know ; I was in that state of mind
that I don't know.
Mr. Payne—Now, you are a gentleman, as you say ;
what had you been about all night? Witness—l had been
as far as Hammersmith, and on my return I saw a gentle-
man, a Mr. Armstrong, whom I knew at Valparaiso and
Lima, go into a house in Jermyn-street, which I thought
was a club-house ; I followed liim,in; that was between
twelve and one o'clock in the morning.
Mr. Payne—What was the number of the house ?
Witness—l don't know the number.
Mr. Fayne—Do you know whether it was "the cot-
tage "in Jermyn-street. Witness—l do not know what
it was.
Mr. Payne—Did you lose money there ? Witness—
I lost some money there.
Mr. Payne—Did you not lose 30/. and give a chequei
for it, upon your oath ? Witness—Upon my oath I lost
upwards of 30/.
Mr. Payne—Did you give a cheque for it, I ask ?
Witness—l gave a cheque first for 5/. ; and afterwards
for 201., when I received the former cheque back.
Mr. Payne—Have you got the cheque ? Witness—
I have part of it.
Mr. Payne—How came it torn ? Witness—When I
paid the cheque I tore it up.
Mr. Payne—Now, did you not, on your oath, first give
a cheque for a small sum, and then under the pretence
of giving a cheque for a larger sum, keep the small
cheque, and refuse to; give any other ? Witness
(with warmth)—l deny it altogether. I deny it alto-
gether. I was grossly robbed in that House, and if I
had acted rightly, I should have given every one in the
place in charge.
Mr. Payne—Yes, after you had lost your money !
Did you pay the cheque ? Witness—l did, most de-
cidedly. I paid it in their own counters.
Mr. Payne—How came you to leave this country ?
Witness—l went to better my condition. I left in 1825,
and was then about twenty years of age.
Mr. Payne—How was it you went into a gaming-
house with a watch and, pin, and no money? Witness—
I had money. I can give you the numbers of the notes
which I lost, if that will suit you.
Mr. Payne—Had you any money at the place where
you went to have breakfast ? Witness—l had some
money, some silver; but I don't know how much.
Mr. Payne—Was your pin given to you at the draper's
shop ;in Westminster Bridge-road? Witness—lt was,
and the prisoners said it was all a joke.
Mr. Payne—Did you not shake hands with them then,
and say it was all right ? Witness—l don't remember
that part of it. I said to the policeman, "They have
given me my pin; you may let them go if you like."
Mr. Payne—Did you not say at that time that you
had lost your money in gambling ? Witness—l said
that I had lost some money in gambling.
Mr. Payne—Did you not say that you had given them
the pin for 101. which you had lost ? Witness—No,
decidedly not.
Mr. Payne—Did you borrow a sovereign of M'Gill
to pay the cab hire ? Witness—Decidedly not.
Mr. Payne—Did you not say at your last examination
that you had merely been at breakfast with the prisoners,
and that they admired the pin when you showed it
to them, and they ran away ? Witness—l did not. I
said I %%cut to breakfast with them, but that I did not
know under what circumstances the pin was taken.
Mr. Payne—Did you not afterwards say that it was
forcibly taken from you ? Witness—l did not.
Mr. Payne—Did you not say that you went into the
house in Jermyn-stseet almost by accident ? Witness
—I did.
Mr. Payne—How came you then to stay there and
play till you lost upwards of 301. ? Witness I had been
drinking and acted foolishly. I had not been in a
house of the sort for 18 years.
Mr. Payne—How long have you been in England ?
Witness—l have not been in England above five weeks.
Mr. Payne—Have you not been applied to lately
to pay the cheque you gave for 201. ? Witness—l have
been applied to by one of the greatest (I'll not
mention the word) to keep back evidence—to suppress
my evidence ; but I said 1 did not see how I could do it.
have no vindictive feeling against the prisoners.
The witness was then cross-examined as follows by
Mr. Hobler

Mr. Hobler—What refreshment did you take at the
house in Jermyn•street ? Witness—Some sherry and
water.

Mr. Hobler—Why did you give the prisoners your
address ? Witness—Well, if you must know, it was this
way. In the course of conversation I said I wanted to
buy a horse. M'Gill said he kept a pair ; one was a
very quiet one, and if I would give him my address he
would drive over in his phaeton and show it me. He
said, too, that I had been dreadfully fleeced, and if I
felt inclined to play again at any other time he would
take me to a house where I should not be served that way.
Mr. Hobler—What were you in Synth America ?
Witness—A gentleman and merchant.
Mr. Hobler—How long were you in South America ?
Witness—About a year. I was also at New South
Wales and Van Diemen's Land.
Mr. Hobler—Do you know a Mr. Dubourg ? Witness
—I don't recollect that I do.
_ _

Mr. Hobler—Did you ever have any bill transaction
with Mr. Dubourg ? Witness—Never.
Mr. Hobler.—What were you at New South Wales ?
Witness—l thought perhaps I should be asked some such
questions as these, so I have brought a book to show.
(The book was a Directory of Van Diemen's Land, in
which appeared the name of " Peckham, Henry, Esq.,
Chief Accountant of the Derwent Bank.") At Sidney,
I went into business as a general merchant. I did busi-
ness to the amount of 40,0001. a year, and -was very
successful.

Police-constabe A!155, was next examined. He stated
that, about half-past'six, on the morning of the 20th ult.,
Mr.Peckh am came to him to the station-house at Scotland-
yard, and said he had lost a diamond pin at a coffee-house,
and that three gentlemanly-looking men had stolen it.
Witness got into a cab with the complainant, and they
drove all about the back streets of Lambeth, but could
not meet with them ; at last, on their return, when near
the Marsh-gate, Lambeth, witness saw the two prisoners
and another person, not in custody, coming along the
street ; he asked complainant if those were the partiei,
and complainant answered that they were. They then
got out of the cab, and witness stated the charge
to the prisoners. M'Gill at once produced the pin,
and said that he had lent complainant, to whose
house he said he was going, lot upon it. They all
went into a linendraper's shop, and were given into
custody, but the third man escaped. Prosecutor gave
witness the sovereign to pay the cab, and wanted him to
keep 10s. fur his trouble, but he did not do so. In his
(witness's) opinion prosecutor did not seem at all anxious
to let the prisoners go. Prosecutor was aot exactly
sober at half-past six when lie first called upon witness
at the station ; but it was now eight o'clock, and he was
quite sober by this time. Witness did not at any time
hear the prosecutor
,say that he was satisfied to let the
prisoners go.
By Mr. JARDINE—Have been in search of the third
man, and have ascertained that he has left Loudon.
Witness searched the prisoners, and found on Perkins a
51. note, six sovereigns and a half sovereign in gold,
and 15s. in silver. On he also found 225. 6d. in
silver.

Mr. Payne then addressed the Court on behalf of the
prisoners. He said, that however the prosecutor might
have conducted himself at the late inquiry when he (Mr.
Payne) was not present, to-day he (Mr. Payne)
should have no hesitation in saying, that if
this case went before a Jury, no attention what-
ever would be paid to his evidence ; and he apprehended
that a Magistrate acted upon the principle of not sending
men before a Jury, where there was not a fair chance of

their conviction, otherwise where was the good of this
preliminary investigation ? The Learned Gentleman
dm proceeded to comment upon alleged discrepancies
in the complainant's evidence, putting it to the Court
whether it was not much more likely that the com-
plainant should have raised money on his pin
than that the prisoners should rob him of it in broad
day-light, and contending that there was no case to go
before a Jury.
Mr. nobler followed on the same side.

Mr. JARDINE, having carefully perused the whole of
the evidence, said, I thiuk this is a case in which a Jury
must decide. There are contradictions in the evidence,
but the facts are of that peculiar nature on which a Jury
must decide. I shall commit you to take your trial.
Mr. Payne applied to have the prisoners admitted to
bail.

Mr. JARDINE replied that this was a case in which he
could not accept bail.
The witnesses were then bound over to prosecute, and
the prisoners were removed in custody.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.
(THIS EVENING.)

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JULY 29, 1842.

The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of Lcrd
Forester, to appoint Frederick John Trick, Esq. (late of the
66th regiment), one of her 111ajebty's Hon. Corps of Gentle-
men at Arms, vice Raymond, retired.
WHITEHALL, MAY 28.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed A. H. W. Drewe, of
Ventnor, Isle of Wight, in the county of Southampton, Genf.,
to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
WHITEHALL, JULY 16.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed W. Docker, of Birming-
ham, in the county of Warwick, Gent., to be a Master Extra•
ordinary in the Rte. Court of Chancery.
WAR-OFFICE,
Auu.

3d Regiment of Dragoon Gnaris—Cornet W. Squire to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Brydges, who retires; Second
Lieut. A. R. Robinson: '
from the 87th Foot, to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice Squire ; Cornet A. R. Robinson to be Adjutant,
vice Warner, who resigns the Adjutancy only, Aug. 2.
9th Regiment of Foot—Staff•Surgeon of the Second Class
J. Malcolm to be Surgeon, vice Sievwright, promoted on the
Staff; Aug. 2.
12th Foot--G. H. M. Johnston' Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Beere, appointed to the 20th Foot, Aug. 2.
13th Foot—Major T. C. Squire to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
without purchase, vice Tronson, who retires upon full-pay ;
Capt. J. G. D. Taylor to be Major, vice Squire; Lieut. G.
Kiug to be Captain, vice Taylor; Ensign A. Montgomery to
be Lieutenant, vice King ; J. F. Woolhouse„ Gent, to be
Ensign, vice Montgomery, Aug. 2.
20th Foot—Ensign W. P. Radcliffe to be Lieutenant by
purchase, vice Hall, who retires; Ensign D. Beere, from the
12th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Radcliffe, August 2.
32d Foot—E. Moorhead, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon,
vice M'Gregor, appointed to the Staff, August 2.
33d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon J. G. Busvlby, from the Ist
West India Regiment, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Mackin-
tosh, deceased, Aug. 2.
37th Foot—Ensign J. Jones to be Adjutant, vice Byrne,
who resigns the Adjutancy only, Aug. 2.
52d Foot—Colour-Sergeant J. Williams to be Quarter-
master, vice Chine, deceased, Aug. 2.
71st Feot—Assistant- Surgeon G. Carrr, from the Staff, to
be Assistant-Surgeon, vice M'Diarmid, who exchanges, Aug. 2.
79th Foot—Ensign T. B. Butt to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase,__vice Milbank, ' who retires • J. A. G. Campbell, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Butt, Aug. 2.
83d Foot—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel B. Trydell to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice the Hon. Henry
Dundas, placed upon half-pay ; Brevet Major J. Swinburne to
be Major, vice Trydell ; Lieut. W. Garstin to be Captain, vice
Swinburne ; Ensign the Hon. W. Gage to be Lieutenant, vice
Garstin ; Ensign W. A. R. Maxwell, from half-pay Unat-
tached, to to Ensign, vice Gage, Aug. 2.
87th Foot—F. Colegrave, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Robinson, appointed to the 3d Dragoon
Canards, Aug. 2.
Ist West India Regiment—F. Andrews, Gent., to be As-
sistant-Surgeon, vice Bowlby, appointed to the 33d Foot, Aug. 2.
2d West India Regiment—Capt. T. Armstrong, from half-
pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice G. F. Horsford, who ex-
changes ; Lieut. G. Howell to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Armstrong, who retires, Aug. 2.
_ _ _

To be elides-de-Camp to the Queen—Brevet Colonel G. A.
Wetherall, of the Ist Foot, vice the Hon. H. Dundas, dis-
missed from that appointment Lieut.-Col. Standish Viscount
Guillamore on half-pay Unattached (with the rank of Colonel
in the Army), vice Dennie, killed in action, July 29.
BREVET—Captain T. Armstrong, of the 2d West India
Regiment, to be Major in the Army, November '23.
HOSPITAL STAFF—Surgeon J. French, M.D. from the
49th Foot, to be Staff-Surgeon of the First Class, August 1 ;
Surgeon F. Sievwright, M.D., from the 9th Foot, to be Staff-
Surgeon of the First Class, vice John Lightbody, who retires
upon half-pay ; Staff-Assistant-Surgeon S. M. Hadaway to
be Staff Surgeon of the Second Class, vice Malcolm, appointed
to the 9th Foot; F. Reid, M.D. to be Assistant-Surgeon to
the Forces, vice Hadaway ; Assistant- Surgeon J. D. M'Diarmid,
frem the 71st Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice
Carr, who exchanges ; Assistant-Surgeon D. M'Gregor, from
the 32d Foot, to be Assistant- Surgeon to the Forces, vice
Greer, deceased, August 2.
AlEaroitA N n 1131.-1 he Christian name of Ensign
,Campbell,
appointed to the 94th Foot, on 22d July 1842, is William.
Wilson.

Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Linlithgow.
Berwickshire, &e. Militia—John Johnstone, Esq. to be
Major, vice Swinton, resigned, April 10.
BAN K RUP rcv SUPERSEDED.

JAMES DAWSON, woollen cloth merchant, Hndders-
field, Yorkshire.

BANKRUPTS.

JOHN IVERY, builder, High Wycombe, Buckingham-
shire, to surrender, August 11, at half-past two, and Sept. 13,
at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, Birchin-lane,
official assignee ; Ashley, Shorediteh.
HENRY JOHN W ATKINSON, cardmaker, Hightown,
Yorkshire, Aug. 2, and Sept. 13, at ten, at the George Hotel,
Huddersfield. Battye, Fisher, and Sudlow, Chancery-lane,
London ; Ilighani, Brighouse, Yorkshire.

- -
CHARLES BINDLEY and FRANCIS COPLAND,
coach makers, Birmingham, Aug. 19, and Sept. 13, at the
Waterloo-rooms, Birmingham. Alexander, South-street,
Finsbury-square, Middlesex.
THOMAS COLLETT and JOSEPH SMITH, cotton-
spinners, Ossett, Yorkshire, Aug. 12 and Sept. 13, at twelve,
at the Commissioners'-rooms, Leeds. Hampson, Manchester ;
Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett,]_ Bedford-row,
London.

W ILLIAM.,,WA.RD, plumber, Manchester, Aug. 22 and
Sept. 13, at ten, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester.
Hadfield, :Manchester; Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, King's
Bench-walk, Temple, London.
HENRY HILTON, bleacher, Over Darwen, Lancashire,
August 23, at three, and September 13, at eleven, at the
Commissioners'-rocms, Svian Inn, Bolton-le-Moors. Milne,
Parry, Milne, and Morris. Temple, London ; Neville, Ains-
worth, and Beardmorth, Blackburn.

HENRY ROGERS, wine merchant, Dartmouth, August
15, and September 13, at twelve, at the Old London Inn,
Exeter. Michael, Red Lion-square, London ; Geare, Mount-
ford, and Geare, Exeter.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(THIS DAY.)
Amsterdam CF. 12 7i Gibraltar,..
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ........2 U. 12 8 Genoa
Antwerp
Hainburgh M. B. 13 15 Venice
Altona , 13 15i Naples
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60 :Palermo, per oz 120
Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Lisbon 54
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 26
Frankfort on Maine... 1511 Bahia
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres
Berlin ..... ... ............ 7 New York, 21 days sight 46i
Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 957 Philadelphia 46
Trieste, ditto 9 545 PRICEb. Os' BULLION, FEB. OZ.
Madrid ... 36i Foreign Gold, bars X 3 17 9
Cadiz - Portugal Gold C05n...3 17 5
Bilbao ... 36 New Doubloons 0 0 0
Barcelona
Seville ... 36 Silver in Bars... ..... 0 4 11