The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-30 00:00:00

WOOLWICH.

James Smith and William Jackson were placed at the bar
before Mr. Jeremy, charged with breaking windows at the
house of Mr. Wates, the relieving officer for the parish of
Woolwich.

Mr. States stated, that the prisoners on the previous even-
ing came to his house and wanted relief. He told them he
would make them out an order for the union • they refused
to go, and said they had just come past the union house.
He told them he could not help it ; these were his orders.
Shortly afterwards he heard the noise of two windows
breaking.
Police-constable, R 101, proved that when he apprehended
the prisoners they acknowledged having broken the windows,
and said they were sorry for what they had done; but they
did so in order that they might get into prison to be supported
there; they were waiting deliberately for shim to come up
with their backs to the walls.

The plea of the prisoners was, that they had come from the
country, the one from Suffolk, the other from Chester, and
could obtain no employment whatever.
Mr. JEREMY said he hardly knew how to deal with such
persons; there was no excuse for them, coming as they did
frnn the country, where agricultural labour was in such great
demand. He should order them to pay the damage they
had committed, viz., 3s.

William Cherroaaahouring man residing at Eltham, was
charged with stealing three exceedingly diminutive turnips,
the property of Mr. Geo. Smith, a farmer. •
Police-constable Taylor, 218 R, deposed that he was cross-
ing Mr. Smith's farm on Sunday night about one o'clock,
when he beard a noise, and turning his light on, he saw the
prisoner in the act of pulling turnips a little out of the path ;
he had two turnips in his pocket and one in his hand; he ap-
peared to have been drinking.
Mr. Smith said that 5/. would not pay him for the loss he
had sustained by the robberies committed on his turnips and
potatoes.
Mr. JEREMY said he hardly knew how to estimate the
damage done in this case, as the value of the articles was so
trivial.

The prisoner said the fact was, he had been to Woolwich
that night, and he had had too much to drink. Finding him-
self thirsty he pulled one of the turnips, and that being rather
small he threw it away and pulled another, as he thought he
would get a larger one.
Mr. JEREMY said that was just the way in which persons
who entertained such loose notions acted, and thus Mr. Smith
might suffer even to the extent of his rent. He should put a
stop to such practices, by committing the prisoner to hard
labour for fourteen days.

THE MURDER OF MR. PEACOP.
CHESTER, SATURDAT.—The further examination of the
four prisoners charged with this horrible murder took place
to-day, in the Nisi Prius Court. Shortly after eleven o'clock
the following magistrates arrived :—The Rev. R. M. Fielden
(Chairman), Messrs. J. D. Case. J. R. Shaw, H. Winch, W.
Jackson, and IV. Potter. After being in consultation about a
quarter of an hour in their private room, the four prisoners,
Tenant, Lynch, Nowlan. and Burns, were placed at the bar,
and the Court doors thrown open to the public, when a
tremendous rush was made, and the Court speedily crowded
to excess.
Mr. Fielden having asked Mr. Chew whether he appeared
for the prisoners to-day, and being answered by that gentle-
man in the affirmative, said, " I have to state that the
magistrates have given this case that ample consideration
which they promised they would do, and the decision they
have unanimously come to is, that the case must be referred
to a higher tribunal. The prisoners must, therefore, be com-
mitted to take their trial at the next assizes."
Mr. Chew declared the proceedings of the magistrates to be
contrary to law and to justice.
Mr. Fielden—We are not trying the case.
Mr. Chew—Then are these men to be incarcerated in gaol
for six months upon no evidence at all ?—( His further obser-
vations which he was muttering against the magistrates were
put an end to by the Chairman remarking that the prisoners
stood fully committed, and immediately the magistrates left
the bench.)
The prisoners appeared much disappointed at the result
as they had been led to the belief by their attorney that the
Bench could not commit them according to law. The im-
mense number of Irish labourers at Birkenhead are alsolmuch
disappointed at the result from the same cause, and a great
deal of dissatisfaction is expressed.

LAMBETH EMBANKMENT.—Considerable efforts are
making by the inhabitants of the ancient houses westward
of the Palace-wharf, Lambeth, to get up an embankment of
the river, to extend from the church to Vauxhall-bridge.
There is probably no part of the metropolis which calls
louder for improvement. The houses next the water are
generally swamped in spring tides, and the inmates washed
out of their cellars and parlours. The tide has risen as
high as the church-yard wall, overflowing Palace-yard, and
the streets adjacent. Persons residing in Lambeth know
very well the inundations and misfortunes to which the
poor are exposed in the locality. Not long since all the
beer of a licensed victualler near the Palace-wharf was
entirely spoiled by the deluge which filled his cellar.
Either the Government or some spirited public company
should take this matter up, with a view of promoting health
and improvement. It is folly to talk of the health of the
lower classes, and the removal of nuisances, whilst this damp
and miserable district is suffered to remain in its present
state. The late Marquis of Westminster was so sensible of
the bad state of the banks of the river on the Surrey side,
that he consulted with his surveyors upon the best mode of
improving that part of his estates in Battersea-fields, and a
plan was adopted, which it is understood will be carried into
effect, for making an esplanade, to accord in architecture
with the intended new bridge across the Thames, in a line
with Sloane-street. At a period like the present, when ca-
pital, art, and science produce gigantic effects, it is reasonable
to expect something may be done to adorn the Surrey side of
the water, and that the magnificent pile of architecture
forming the new Houses of Legislation should not be left a
splendid monument of taste contrasted by a prospect of ne-
glect
of the public health and comfort on the opposite banks
of the river.
CHELSEA OUT-PENSIONERS.—WooLwicir, SEPT.
27.---The enrolled Chelsea pensioners residing in the Wool-
wich division of the London district were measured on Fri-
day last for their new clothing, and shortly expect to be
called out for service under the command of Captain Forbes,
appointed to the staff of the Woolwich division. One hun-
dred and thirty-eight new muskets, with flint locks, have been
received from the Tower by the Armourer of the Royal Artil-
lery, to be set aside for use. These arms are a portion of
those which will be issued to the privates, and the staff non-
commissioned officers will be supplied with carbines, known
as the Duke's pattern, and formerly used by the 6th Dragoon
Guards. The dress of the pensioners is to consist of frock-
coats, made of a dark-coloured cloth, with scarlet necks and
cuffs, and the trousers of Oxford mixture, with red stripes
over the outside seams. Racks are in progress of erection
for storing the arms, which will be kept by the staff-ser-
geants at the depot at the rear of the Royal Artillery Bar-
racks when not in use. The number of efficient out-pen-
sioners in the Woolwich division is upwards of three hundred
and fifty men, thoroughly acquainted with the duties of the
services in which they spent the early part of their lives, and
$,lll able and willing to serve her Majesty.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE EDGWARE-ROAD
a few minutes before four o'clock, a most
appalling
acai'll:Zidniellwtn'oc.curred to a noddle-waged
stmpaaiint,tilnigantlede
William Higgins, A 39urneYman
exterior of a house itt Copneaugphatin-terrace,
eEwdghwolaereo-frotaiedi,
Paddington. He had completed
exterior of the house except an urn, which was affixed on the
top of the coping-stone in the centre as an ornament; in
leaning over to paint it, he overbalanced himself, and fell on
to the pavement, a height of fifty feet. He was conveyed to
St. George's Hospital, where, on bis arrival, it was found he
had expired on the road. The deceased has left a widow and
four small children.
DISCOVERY OF A STOLEN HORSE.—On Friday
considerable excitement prevailed in Beaconsfield and its
neighbourhood in consequence of the apprehension of the son
of a highly respectable individual of that town on a charge
of horse-stealing. A horse had been in the possession of the
youth, who Is sixteen years of age, and on Thursday last big
brother borrowed it of him to go to A.ylesbinT, to pay a visit
to an inspector of police, with whom he had been a fellow-
clerk. The brother stopped at the Swan, Aylesbury.
Shortly after the horse had been put in the stable, a person.
who had a horse in the adjoining rack, asked to whom the
animal belonged. The name of the presumed owner was at
once given, when it was stated that the animal bad been
stolen, and was the ~property of the person making the in-
quiry. Subsequently information was communicated to the
police, and the youth, who said that he had bought the anima'
in Smithfield, was taken into custody.

THE HARVEST AND THE CROPS.—The corn harvest
during the present week has been at its crisis in the north of
England, and more wheat has been secured north of the Trent
than in any week of the year. During the thirteen weeks
of harvest in England, Scotland, and Ireland, the value of
grain secured on an average in every week, is not less than
six million pounds sterling, reckoning the total quantity of
wheat grown at 20,000,000 quarters, each of the value of 505.,
and other sorts of grain at half the value of wheat. Of course
the quantity led each week varies, but we should take the
present week to have yielded to the stack-yard to the amount
in value of 10,000,0001. in grain. Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday, were fair and fine days, with severe frost, on
Monday and Tuesday nights. On Wednesday the day was
favourable for harvest work, but in the night the barometer
fell considerably; and on Thursday, about noon, we had a re-
turn of heavy showers, since which time the weather bas
been unsettled. The frost of Monday and Tuesday nights
has checked the growth of the winter potatoes, and rendered
their tops as black as ripe bean straw. We do not find that
it has in any degree increased the murrain amongst the dis-
eased potatoes, or brought on the decay where the crops
were before sound. We fear that the late crops of grain in
the hilly countries, still in an unripe state, will be shrivelled
by the frost, and rendered unproductive upon the thrashing-
floor. Qn the whole, we feel it to be our duty to put our
readers upon an economical use of grain, and particularly of
potatoes, which are sure to he scarce and dear during the en-
suing winter. Of turnips, the crop is generally good, and the
Swedes in particular, being natives of scold climate, have not
suffered either.. in this bulk or in the top by the premature se-
verity of the weather. The unfavourable prospects in conse-
quence of the weather of last week, combined, perhaps, with
a more perfect knowledge of the yield of the crops of grain
in the present year, caused a serious advance in the London
market on Monday, which has since been confirmed both in
Leeds and Liverpool.—Leeds Mercury.
The eldest son of the late Mrs. Hemans has been
appointed engineer to the Irish Great Western Railway.
DEATH FROM GLANDERS.—This frightful disease,
which continues to baffle all human skill and the healing art,
lately attacked a fine young man, aged' 0, residing at Roth-
fulund, Newry. The deceased, who VMS a servant,
caught
the disease from a distempered horse. He was some time ill

before he sought medical advice. When the physician saw
him, his chest was oppressed nearly to suffocation. lie had
great pains in his head, back, left shoulder, and arm, with
stiffness and pains in all his joints. Hia left knee was swol-
, ;en and tense. His skin was hot, and the pulse was 114.
Tin,7t and loss of appetite ensued. In two days after the
physician saw him his body wag thickly studded over with
tumours. The skin continued hot, and the pulse was 110.
The day prece.iing his death the symptoms rapidly increased ;
the nose, eyes, iind tumours, discharged fetid matter • his
breathing became low and hurried; his pulse was 80, find lie
died in dreadful agony at midnight. The physician who at-
tended him, said that lie prasenbed medieti/ treatment, with
no hopes of recovery, but merely to lessen, if possible, de-
ceased's sufferings.
CADYERTISEMERT.I—ANOTHER WONDER, on CURE
EITRAORDIN•RY BY OLLOWAY'S PILLS.—Mr. Maguire,
a respectable person residing near Sundays Well, Cork, was
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pronounced to be at the point of death, by these wonderful Pills.
Persons, .either young or old, who become corpulent, po ttle-
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Sold (also Holloway's Ointment) at Professor Holloway's
Fstablishment, 224, Strand, and by all respectable vendors of
medicine throughout the civilised world.
ADULTERATING FLOUR.--A few dayF ago, the
constables of Crewe and Nantwich seized a quantity of flour,
adulterated with alum and beans, from the Crewe-green mill
and the Shavington mill. The proprietors are to appear
before the magistrates, at the Crewe Court-rooms, to answer
to this grave charge of cheating the public.--Liverpool