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London, England, 1845-06-18 00:00:00

trate of Lambeth Police-office,' was indicted on three separate
charges of felony.

The prisoner, who is a pretty.looking girl, upon being asked to
plead, fainted. On being restored, she pleaded guilty to each of
the charges.

Mr. O'BranN said the prisoner had for some time past been
guilty of the most strange conduct. He then called the pri.
loner's sister, who said she came from Bath. Ste said her sister
left her home some time ago, but whether with a young man or
not she did not know. She (the prisoner) was intimate with a
dark young man, named Alfred Wrightman, and that she had
acted very strangely since she was acquainted with hint.
The persons were in attendance whom the prisoner had robbed.
They were not anxious to press the charge against her, believing
her not to be right in per mind.
Mr. Evans, a friend of the parents of the prisoner, whose father
is a local preacher in Bath, and carrying on the business of a
shoemaker, said he had known the prisoner for four or five years,
and had frequently remarked that her conduct was strange and
flighty.

The RECORDER, after putting a great number of questions with
respect to the conduct of the prisoner without eliciting anything to
denote that she was labouring under aberration of intellect, but
simply that her conduct had been rather eccentric, said the Court
would consider what sentence it would pass upon her, and gave di-
rections to the governor to make further inquiries respecting her.
She was then removed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
SOUTHWARK.

Monday, Mary Crowley, a girl of 15 years of age, was
brought before Mr. ;rail! on the following charge :
Policeman 251 M stated that, on the preceding night, the
prisoner called at several chemists' shops in the Borough to
try and purchase arsenic, which she said was for the purpose
of killing vera:in, but was refused to be served at each of the
shops. He (the policeman) followed her from the last shop,
and as he suspected from her conduct that she intended laying
violent hands upon herself, he went up, and having spoken to
her, she made such an admission with respect to the poison she
was trying to procure, that instead of letting her walk away
in the direction of the river, to which she was approaching, he
took her to the station-house, at which place she candidly con-
fessed she had made up her mind to destroy herself.
Mr. MAUL upon seeing the girl at once recognised her,
although so young, as having been brought up before him a
short time since on a charge of having robbed a man of his
watch in a brothel. On that occasion, as no prosecutor ap-
peared, he discharged her; but from her account it would ap-
pear that the treatment she experienced at home from a mother-
in-law was the cause of her absconding, and, subsequently,
leading an abandoned life. But he (the Magistrate) advised
her, as she seemed desirous of returning to the paths of virtue,
to make application for admission into the asylum for the re-
ception of such unfortunate outcasts of society, but instead of
taking his advice it now appeared that she was endeavouring to
procure arsenic to poison herself. _

The defendant said that, agreeably to the Magistrate's direc-
tions when she was last there, she called at the asylum he men-
tioned, but they would not admit her as the board did not
assemble until the tillowing Monday ; that tired and disgusted
with such a life, and not knowing what to do, she intended to
have destroyed herself with poison.
Mr. TRAILL, 00 findir'r the unfortunate young creature still
anxious to reform and lead a virtuous life, sent an officer of the
court with her to the Guardian Asylum, in the Bethtial-greeri-
road„in k.xoelletit inslitution for the reception of young females
in her des!itute condition, into which she was admitted.

ivORSHIP

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Ulit01::; LTD ACCUSATION.--liond4 two young men,
nanwri Afra and Isaac Hensler, were placed before Mr.
firooghfon for final examination, on the charge of having en-
dangere,l lit. of an elderly man, named Richard Howell, by
throwinv him into a branch of the Regent's Canal.

It is necessary to state, that on the afternoon of Tuesday
week the complainant was found lying in a state of inse7 sibility,
and airparcntly dead, on a footpath immediately adjoining the
,;anal, and was removed to a neighbouring public-house, where,
on reenimring his conseioumess, he stated that, while resting
himself on the coping-stone of the bridge, he was wantonly as-
sailed by a party of disorderly young men, two of ithoni sud-
denly caught him by the legs, and flung him over into the water.
The prisoners and four other men were subsequently appre-
hended by the police and confronted with the comp'ainant, who
unhesitatingly identified them as two of the most active of his
assailants, and gave them into custody.
The complainant, who had ever since been confined to his
bed in consequence of the injuries he had sustained, was
now in attendance, and repeated his former stat,,ment as to
his having been thrown into the water by a party of young
men; but on being called upon to identify the prisoners, he
declared himself unable to do so ; and said that he was in
such a confused and bewildered state at the time he pointed
them out as his assailants, that he was not conscious of what
he was stating.
The prisoners complained bitterly of the great injustice
and inconvenience they had sustained from the false accu-
sation which had been brought against them by the complainant,
who had since admitted that he was intoxicated at the time of
the occurrence, and had accidentally fallen into the stream.
George Gee, and another witness, were then called, and
stated t hat the complainant had told them, after he had been
extricated from the water, that while seated on the coping-
stone of the bridge, he had fallen asleep, and over-balanced
himself, and that no violence whatever had been effered to him.
Air. BROUGHTON said, that after the evidence he had heard
there could not be a doubt that the accusation against the pri-
soners was wholly without foundation, and he greatly regretted
that they had been subjected to so much trouble and annoyance,
but he should now discharge them, and they left the bar with-
out the slightest imputation on their character.
THAMES POLICE.

DARING HOUSE-BREAKING AND ROBBERY.--TWO re-
spectably dressed men, named John Newman, and John Jones,
alias Saunders, were charged with feloniously breaking into
and entering the house of an elderly unmarried lady, residing at
No. 3, Rodney-terrace, Mile-end-road. Newman has been
seen under suspicious circumstances, and Saunders' has been
frequently on the treadwheel. It appeared that on Sunday Miss
Pickering, the owner of No. 3, went to church, giving her
servant, Ellen Flyn,permission to go also. They fastened the
house, but left no person in care of it. In about a quarter of
an hour afterwards a lady, named Miller, living in Waybridge-
place, opposite Rodney-terrace, saw Jones loitering about the
place, and another person, whom she believed to be the pri-
soner Newman, cross to him. Jones then went to the
door of No. 3, Rodney-terrace, and knocked.
Having waited a little while, he began as if trying
the lock, when the door opened, and he entered, closing
the door behind him. In a few minutes Newman went
to the door, and was admitted. The alarm having been
given, a neighbour, named Cornish, knocked at the door, but
receiving no answer, he was about to proceed to the rear of the
premises, when the door was opened by Newman, whilst the
other prisoner was looking over his shoulder. Mr. Cornish,
addressing Newman, said, " I want you, young fellow," but
the door was instantly closed. Mr. Cornish having gone round
with a constable, to whom he communicated the circumstances,
saw Jones, who dropped a jemmy getting over the fence. He
pursued, and, after a smart run, apprehended him, when a des-
perate struggle ensiL both falling and rolling over several
times. During the struggle the prisoner took a bundle of
keys from his pocket, and endeavoured to inflict serious in-
jury with them en Mr. Cornish, who, however, maintained
his held until 392 K came up. The prisoner, who con-
tinued to re•ist. very violently, bad two skeleton keys in his
hand, and twelve others were found in his pocket by the
constable. During this time another neighbour, named
Wilson, having beard that there were thieves in Aliso
Pickering's honse, went to the back of the premises and
site NewuLin attempting to get over the wall. Finding he was
observed. New mau shrunk back into the house pursued by Mr.
Was, who found him concealed in the water closet. He was
cb,tained until O'Brien, 56 K, came up, when he was given in
cha, ge. and two 5/. notes, which were identified by Ellen Flyn,
alias Piekcring's servant, as her property, were found in his
waistcoat pocket. On entering the house the upper rooms
showed that they had been thoroughly rummaged, and a silver
spoon which had been left on the breakfast-table was found
in the hall. The prisoners having declined to make any de-
fence,

Mr. BRODERIP said it was his duty to commit them for this
most daring housebreaking and robbery, and he must observe,
the implements found upon them v.ould make it appear as if it
were not their first offence. The conduct of the witness Cor-
nish was highly commendable, and he exhibited great spirit in
grappling with so powerful and violent an antagonist as Jones.
The prisoners were then committed to Netvgate.

The Irish provincial journals give the most cheer-
ing accounts of the crops in all parts of the country. The harvest
is likely to be early, and very abundant.
PLYMOUTH. SATURDAY, JUNE 14.—The Great Bri-
tain steam-ship, Lieutenant Hosken, R.N., commander, arrived
here this evening. She left Cowes at 9 A.m., and entered Ply-
mouth Sound at 8 P.N. In the passage her average speed was
about 11 miles an hour. From London to Plymouth she was 33
hours under steam. During the whole of her voyage the weather
was more or less hazy. In clear weather, under favourable cir-
cumstances, the Irish steam-boats will sometimes make their pas-
sage from London to Plymouth in 30 hours. From Blackwell she
conveyed about 75 passengers to Cowes, where 40 landed. At that
port she took on board 20, and brought in all about 60 to Ply-
mouth, among whom are Captain, Claxton and several of the Direc-
tors of the Great Western Steam.ship Company. The passengers
express themselves well pleased with the ship, but more especially
with the absence of the tremulous motion which always accompa-
nies the paddlewheel. Her expected arrival here has long been an
object of great interest to the inhabitants of Devon and Cornwall,
and early in the forenoon the hills by the sea-side were studded with
anxious spectators. The weather, though hazy, was fine, and the
wind blowing gently from the north-west. As the day advanced,
and doubts of her arrival prevailed, many retired, but only to give
place to others. Owing to the thickness of the weather, when first
descried she was within the Mewstone. The preconcerted signal
of ringing St. Andrew's Church bells induced the inhabitants of
this great naval port to rush in crowds towards the shores of the
Sound. The Hoe was densely covered, and the western Hoe, even
to the edges of its precipitous limestone quarries, was deeply
fringed with persons of both sexes and all ages, who heartily
cheered the iron wonder. Outside the breakwater she was bearded
by Mr. W. Walker, the Queen's Harbour. master, who skilfully
piloted her by the eastern channel into the Sound, through which
she threaded her way among the numerous yachts, steam and sail.
ing-vessels, gigs, shore-boats, &c., attracted there by her arrival.
Passing to the northward of Drake's Island, she entered Friestone-
bay, and in about six minutes turned completely round, through
Barnpool, and afterwards majestically entered Mill.
bay. Outside Millbay.pier was the Severn, Havre steamer,
which fired a salute on the approach of the Great Britain. Inside
the pier lay the Tiger, Cork steamer, and the schooner Martha,
of St. Ives, discharging coal. After the Great Britain had got
pretty well inside these vessels, her stern was caught by the run of
the tide, and she swung a little to the southward. This brought
the bowsprit of the Tiger in collision with one of the ship's life..
boats, which was stove in, her starboard bulwark netting and ac-
commodation-ladder were also damaged. At the same time the
Tiger's bobstay and starboard bulwarks were injured, and some of
the collier's standing rigging carried away. The damage altogether
will not exceed 501. Although such a multitude was assembled no
personal injury occurred. A railed wooden gangway used for con-
veying goods on board the Irish steamer fell overboard, when the
Tiger was forced a little out of her berth. Several coal-porters
were on the gangway, but fortunately it was secured at one end by
a rope to the pier, and the men held on until rescued by boats. The
expectations of nautical men here have been fully realised on see..
ing this extraordinary shin. When first observed stem on she
did not appear so formidable, but when presenting her broadside to
view, ail expti,,,e,l their surprise at the symmetrical appearance of
the great reality. The manner in which she answered her helm
was tt peculiar cause for admiration.
CLEALANCES IN THE HIGHLANDS.—The number
of tenants warned out this year at the instance of proprietors, is--
In Wester Ross, 253 ; in Easter Ross, 51 ; in Cromartyshire, 32 ;
and of sub-tenants, at the instance of tacksmen and of occupants
of glebe lands, the number is—ln Wester Ross, 82 ;in Easter
R'IJA, about 10; in Cromarty, 2—in all, 430. This is exclusive
of the Lewis, where probably very few, if any, have been summoned
to remove, arid of Glencalvie, the people of which (about 90 in
number, or eighteen heads of families), were warned out last
year, though they quit their possessions only this season.—Inver-
ness Courier.

On Saturday last, a specimen of a very rare fish in
our seas, called the " Angel Fish," was caught in a net on Abravon
Sands. Immediately on being taken, it voided twenty live young
fish. It is of the squslus, or shark genus, and generally inhabits
the northern seas. It is the opinion among fishermen that this
fish does not spawn, but brings forth its young. This opinion is,
we think, erroneous, arising from the circumstance of the young
always retreating into the stomach of the parent fish in time of
danger; and hence the voidance of the young fish, as above stated.
Cambrian.