The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-05 00:00:00

GREENTVICH.

ELOPEMENT AND ROBBERY .—Yesterday a showily-dressed
female, named Caroline Sandwell, and a man, named Francis
Griffiths, a cab driver, were charged before Mr. Grove with
'laeing drunk and creating a disturbance in the public street.
Police-constable Seiler deposed that on Saturday night about
half-past ten he was on duty in the Greenwich-road, when
hearing a disturbance he went to the spet whence the noise
proceeded, and there found the female prisoner in high alter-
cation with the male prisoner and another man, who turned
out to be her husband, who was endeavouring to persuade
her to return home, she having eloped from him on the Thurs-
day previous.
Mr. Evans, a solicitor of Lee, here entered the Court with
the husband, and, producing the marriage certificate, informed
the magistrate that he appeared on the behalf of the hus-
band, who was the landlord of the White Lion public-
house, Church-hill, Woolwich, and that the unfortunate
woman at the bar had eloped from him with a paramour on
Thursday last, taking with her bank notes to the amount of
I LW., besides a quantity of gold and silver, and several 1
boxes of wearing apparel, &c., ablarKe portion of which she
hail pawned, not less than tAenty duplicates relating to the
properly having been found upon her when taken intebustotly.
He felt bound to say that the male prisoner was not in any
manner connected with the elopement, or in the removal of
the property from the husband's house ; but, on the other
hand, had given such important information as would even-
tually lead to the recovery of a considerable portion of the ab-
stracted property.
Mr. Sandwell, the husband, deposed to the whole of the
above facts, adding the painful circumstance that his wife,
when she left her home on Thursday, took away with her their
' only child, an infant not twelve months old.
In answer to a question by the Magistrate, Mr. Sandwell
stated that they had not been married quite two years.
The defendant Griffiths said, in defence, that he was not
drunk ; he was merely demanding his fare, which the female
refused to pay unless he drove her back to town, when the

officer came up.
Mr. GROVE said the police-constable had sworn etherwiseh
hit as he had rendered Mr. Sandwell an essential serfivnieceiiime
should deal very leniently with the case, and ot.i y
With respect to
bs., which having paid he was discharged.
the female she had better retire with her husband to give him
all the intormation respecting where she had placed kis pro-
perty, and to come to any arrangement he might think proper
to propose.
The parties then retired, and in half an hour returned, when
Mr. Evans said that they had now full information, and that
fron;Athretny ST-141TION AT CA 12L1SLE.—DqUtations ' the person in whose hands 1001. of the money had been placed,
40114 ~a-ancaster and Carlisle Railway Company, the Cale- would, (,n the husband going to him, with a police-constable,
npany, the Newcastle and Carliale Company, and deliver it up.
et meetings at
and Carlisle Company, have hcen bolding a series Mr. GRovE. severely lectured the woman on her disgracefuld
ae co7st(Os at Carliile, Mr. Ilassell, of Dalmaine, in the chair, conduct to her husband, who said her husband had ill-treated
the
all the rail.
Th.at City. r most eligible site for a great railway station in her. This the husband positively denied ;he had invariably.
,t„has been agreed that it is desirable, not only for treated her with kindnese and affection, but he could not con.
WWI be _ :71 companies, but also for the public, that there sent again so receive her.
enu.._
waajoint station for hat four railways, and that Court- The MAGlsraitra remarked that he was not bound to do so.
ti`o4"): s the best site for it With reference to its construe- However, the husband could not prosecute his wife, and she
toanixot7r, an other details, refere will be eto the must discd, and e prop fd in her ossession
rade, td herepresentatives ofnce the respectivemad companies when be
taken intoharge custody, thtogethererty withoun p the twenty pawnbro-
aug °greed •
t° abide by its decision. kers' duplicates, must be delivered to her husband.

When she left the bar her husband presented her with
bs., telling her that was all she must ever expect from him.

PARISH OF ST. PANCRAS.

THE CASE OF MOORE v. PIKE..—THE PAVING AND
WATER-RATES.—A public meeting, with reference to the
above-mentioned case, was held last evening, at Lawson's As-
sembly-rooms, Gower-street ; Mr. Corry in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN having addressed the meeting,
Mr. DOUGLAS rose to move the first resolution. He said
that about three years ago Mr. Moore, the then clerk of the
Southampton Paving Trust, said that he had lost a sum of
501. of paid money, at the Parliamentary Committee Rooms,
where he had been transacting business on the part of the Com-
missioners of Trust. Mr Pike, one of the Commissioners, put
some questions to him as to where he received it, and whether
it was in gold or in notes, all which questions he refused to
answer.—( Hear.) Mr. Pike followed up the inquiries, however,
which gave rise to diputes with the other Commiallioners, who
had persecuted him ever since.— (Hear, and groans.) Two
years ago a rate was levied by the Commissioners for one year,
which was net legal, it being usual only to levy a rate fur six
months. Many of the poorer rate-payers were unable to pay
the rate for a whole year at once, and were therefore disfran-
chised —( Groans,) It was on this account that Mr. Pike had
opposed the rate, and refused to pay it himself. The proper
course for the ommissioners to take was to distrain for the
amount, but, instead of that, they sued for it in the Court of
Requests, and by means of various objections they carried the
ease from one Court to another, till it finally came before the
Court of Exchequer, where a decision was given in favour of
the Trust, as regarded a minor part of the debt. The action
was for 31. 16s. Bd. ; the 31. being for the lighting and paving
rate, and the remainder for the water rate. The decision was
that the water rate was legal, but the paving rate was not.
Thus, although the decision was actually in favour of the de-
fendant, yet it threw upon him the expense of the action. The
costs demanded were 1071., which, being taxed, were reduced
to 50/. If the Commissioners had lost the cause, the remain-
ing 571. must have been paid, and the whole would have been
at the expense of the rate-payers. —( Groans. )
The resolution was seconded by Mr. VINER.
Several other persons addressed the meeting to the same
effect, and the resolution was read by the CHAIRMAN. It was
to the effect that the meeting highly condemned the conduct of
the Commissioners in taking the expensive process of litigation,
and that they, the meeting, pledged themselves to assist Mr.
Pike in the liquidation of the debt.
The resolution passed almost unanimously.
Other resolutions were then passed, and a Committee to re-
ceive subscriptions was appointed. Several sums of money
were handed in and acknowledged, and the meeting separated
about ten o'clock.

VAUXHALL GARDENS.
NIGHT ASCENT OF MR. GREEN IN HIS
BALLOON.

Last night this aerial voyageur undertook the perilous feat
of a night ascent in his balloon from Vauxhall Gardens, dis-
playing fireworks of a novel and extraordinary description from
the car of his frail machine.

The occasion of this bold and daring adventure was cele-
brated by a grand gala, in which all the resources of the estab-
lishment were brought into requisition to render the fete the
most brilliant of the season. The efforts of the management
proved successful, the gardens being crowded by an immense
assemblage, including several persons of high rank and dis-
tinetion.

The Messrs. Adams have also been making extensive altera-
tions in their splendid model, al fresco, of the Temple of
Honan, which has given it a most imposing effect. The pecu-
liar character of this exhibition reflects the greatest credit upon
those rising young artists—we should say it is the most splendid
production since the famed Waterloo. We likewise noticed
some very promising scenery, by the same artists, in the
Rotunda Theatre, in Mr. Almar's ballet of Old Vauxhall. The
new drop at the period of Queen Anne, introducing Sir Roger
de Courcy. aka' other characters of the day, forms a very inter-
esting picture.
The balloon selected by Mr. Green for the occasion was the
Albion, formerly the property of Mr. Hampton. Since it has
been in the possession of Mr. Green, he has considerably en-
larged it and materially improved it both in shape and construc-
tion. It will now contain 26,000 cubic feet of gas, and stands
sixty feet in height.
Mr. Darby, the pyrotechnist, and artist to the gardens, had
the entire arrangement of the fireworks, the composition of
which, as well as the construction of the machinery for their
discharge, was effected under his personal direction.
The frame on which were the fireworks was suspended to
the car by a line of about seventy feet in length, attached to a
swivel, so that it might spin freely in the air, and thus increase
the effect cf the pyrotechnic display. The frame consisted of
three conjunct wheels, the radius of each being six feet, and
the circumference of the entire frame thirty-six feet, and
the separation between each wheel fifteen inches. Mr. Green
was provided with a regulating winch in the car, so that he was
enabled to wind up or lower the frame with the fireworks at
pleasure.
The fireworks consisted of variegated lights, Italian gerbs,
with les petit etolles,"coloured Roman candles, French jets, and
Chinese streams of fire, concluding with an enormous bouquet
of coloured fires.

With respect to the ignition of this ponderous pyrotechnic
combination, a number of suggestions were made to Mr. Green,
and among others the percussion system was recommended, but
the veteran expressed his determination to adopt his own plan
of lighting the fireworks from the car us, means of a common
lucifer match, to ignite a fusee connected with the " pieces"
on the frame, and the lowering it by the windlass, the slow-
match burning for about a minute previous to the general ex.
plosion of the fireworks.
The car having been attached to the balloon, Mr. Green
previously deposited in it his barometer, a large lantern of pe-
culiar construction, his compass, map, a guide-line of about a
thousand feet, grapnel, and between two and three hundred
weight of ballast in bags ; the frame, with the fireworks, was
then affixed to the car, great care being taken to prevent its
position being reversed from the horizontal to the vertical, as
in the case of Madame Blanchard, who lost her life in a night
ascent at Paris, the frame, by an accident, becoming reversed,
and the fireworks consequently playing into the car instead of
beneath the balloon, ignited the silk and an explosion ensued.
After the arrangement of the usual preliminaries, Mr.
Green entered the car alone, having been previously solicited
by the Earl of Munster and Lord George Beresford to allow
those noblemen to accompany him ; but Mr. Green felt it his
duty, on account of the hazardous adventure, to decline the
honour.

At eleven o'clock the signal for ascent was given. Mr.
Green immediately seized the" liberating iron" with one hand,
and lighting the fusee with the other, the ascent took place
amidst the cheers of the assembled thousands outside the gar-
dens and of the company within. The fireworks in a few
seconds became discharged, and a more brilliant aerial pyro-
technic exhibition was never witnessed. The balloon took a
northerly direction.

SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Yesterday the proprietor of these romantic gardens presented
his numerous visitors with a series of entertainments, as inter-
esting as they were diverting. Prompted by loyalty, on the
occasion of the return of the natal day of the Prince of Wales,
Mr. Tyler, to signalize the event, presented specimens of the
sports and pastimes of " Merrie Englande," in the olden time.•
From what we read about these, and the spirited enactment of •
them in the Surrey Zoologiedl Gardens yesterday, our ances-
tors must have been highly distinguished for their love of health-
ful jolity; and to this day the famous names of Robin Hood
and Friar Tuck carry the imagination bxck to the glade
and brake of Sherwood's royal forest. The redoubtable
characters just named figured in the mimic scene yesterday,
with the utmost success. In addition to their freaks
were, the Maypole Dance, the manly: games of Single-
stick and Quarter-staff, those formidable weapons which, when
dexterously used by our sturdy ancestors,.were even a match for
an armed man —jumping in sacks, creating roars of laughter, jing-
ling-matches and archery; as though these were not sufficient to
attract crowds and delight them, there was the never-failing
source of merriment, our old friend Punch, an encampment of
real Gipsies, stalls and tents as at a country fair : and lastlk
theugh far from least, the picture town of " Auld Reekie,'
illuminated. The whole concluded with a more than ordi-
narily grand display of fire-works. Between the performance,
the fine band of the Royal Artillery, added to the unrivalled
band of the establishment, enhanced the scene by the perform-
ance of several of the most popular pieces of music, which'were
executed in a first-rate manner. The gardens poured forth
their charms with additional beauty, and were redolent with
" Hawthorn buds and sweet eglantine, and garlands of roses.'
They were crowded to excess with a very fashionable company.

COMMENCEMENT of the OYSTER

SEASON.

Yesterday morning, at six o'clock, the sale of oysters for
the season commenced at Billingsgate, but the poachers
who obtain oysters surreptitiously from :the beds where our
fishermen had laid them at great expense and trouble, anti-
cipated
the legal opening of the season by supplying many of
the shell-fish shops with the luxury a week or ten days ago.
The demand, as usual, on the " first day of oysters," as ap- '
plied to the 4th of August, was very great, the attendance
of dealers numerous, and the oysters of good quality, but
the supply was below the average. Soon after midnight on
Sunday, the vendors of " real natives" (which are not to be
had till the second week in September, though every shop and
stall announced them) began pouring into the market, and at
day-light several thousand persons were assembled, and a
double line of carts and other vehicles reached from the Tower
along Lower Thames-street, Fish-street-hill, to Gracechurch-
street. The most admirable arrangements were made by Mr.
Goldham, the clerk of the market, to prevent robberies and con-
fusion, and a strong forceof the City police were in attendance to
carry out the arrangements. As all who were assembled at Bil-
lingsgate were not expected to be honest, boards, on which
were painted in legible characters, " Take care of your
pockets," were fixed in various places. The name of the cargo
of every smack was also painted on boards, and fixed to the
rigging of each vessel, which effectually prevented impositions
on the dealers, and Mr. Goldham himself sat in his own offiee
as arbitrator, to adjust disputes, which he did with as much
celerity as the Judge of the ancient Pie-poudre Court,
and saved my Lord Mayor and Aldermen a good deal of
trouble in the course of the day. The hatches opened
while the clock was striking six, and the sale commenced
with great briskness and regularity, and proceeded with-
out a fight, without a row, and without the loss of half-
a-dozen fish-venders in the river. Mr. Goldham has effectually
reformed Billingsgate, and some other place ought to be asso-
' ciated with everything that is low and vulgar, as Billings-
gate was wont to be. There were fifty sail of vessels at
market from the Isle of Sheppy, Rochester, Whitstable,
Colchester, and Milton. The " commons" produced from
lOs. to 16s. per bushel ; the Welsh 18s. to 11. ; and the pearl,
a very small and delicious oyster, equal to the natives,
11. 10s. The supply of " Cheyney Hocks," a favourite
oyster, which is included among the commons, was very
good. It may not be generally known that the oysters fed
on the Kent and Essex coasts are brought from Jersey,
France, Falmouth, and other places, and taken up again,
when fattened, for the London market. Oysters are much
scarcer than they ❑sed to be, which is attributable to the bane-
ful practice of selling them out of season. The lute Act for
the regulation of the oyster fisheries will, it is hoped, check the
evil, and prevent the wholesale robberies of the oyster beds for
the benefit of the London shell fishmongers during those months
when they ought not to be eaten. The measure at Billinsgate
is doubled, as regards oysters, every peck being a bushel, and
they are measured out by regularly appointed meters. The
supply at Hungerford-market was very inconsiderable, and:con-
sisted of only four sail. The prices were similar to those at
Billingsgate. In the evening Mr. Goldham reported 20 smacks
, for this day's supply.

ACCIDENT TO ONE OF THE LIFE GUARDS AFTER
TILE REVlEW.—Yesterday afternoon between three and four
o'clock, an accident of rather a serious nature occurred to a
private belonging to Captain Hall's troop of the Second Life
Guards, whilst on the march to Windsor after the grand
review in Hyde-park. The troops had reached Turnham-
green, when the horse on which the man was riding sud-
denly tumbled and fell, the man also falling with his right leg
beneath the animal. The occurrence caused much confusion
among the troops, and two of the soldiers instantly dis-
mounted to their comrade's assistance. On lifting him up he
complained that his leg was broken, and by order of the com-
manding officer he was carried into the 'Travellers' Rest
public-house, near the new church, where, on being examined
by the surgeons of the regiment, the bone of his right leg
was found to be badly fractured. He was conveyed to the
hospital belonging to the regiment at Spital, near Windsor.