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Several other witnesses were called, who gave
various accounts of what had passed at the Swan,
some corroborating the prosecutor, and others contra-

dieting him.
Mr. THOMAS, in answer to the Court, admitted that
the case was proceeding in any thing but a satisfac-
tory manner to him, and the Jury at once returned
a verdict of acquittal.

NEW COURT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
SREEP-STEALING.—Edward Brockman, described

n the calendar as a labourer, was indicted with killing

one ewe, the property of Sir R. Howard, Bart., wits

intent to steal the carcase.

From the evidence adduced, it appeared, that on
Friday, the 30th of September, the shepherd of the
prosecutor missed one ewe out of ninety-one which
the prosecutor possessed at that time, in addition to
five lambs and one ram. On discovering the loss,

search was made, and in a ditch on the prosecutor's
property was discovered part of a sheep, which ap-
peared to have been killed in a very clumsy manner,
and almost torn to pieces. From suspicions that were
entertained, the police visited the house of the pri-
soner, where they discovered himself, his wife, and
family, sitting down dining off a mutton pie. On
searching further, parts of a leg of mutton were dis-
covered, and also a pair of boots, the nails and marks
upon which answered to the impressions discovered in
the field near which the carcase was found.
The Jury, without the slightest hesitation, found
the prisoner Guilty, and
The COURT sentenced him to ten years' transportation.
The prisoner has a wife and several children.
HORSE STEALING.—Thomas Standley, alias John
Sturman, was indicted for stealing a mare, value 91.,
the property of Stephen Brown, on the 12th of the
present month.
The prisoner pleaded guilty to the indictment, and
upon being called up for judgment, Messrs. Clarkson
and Payne brayed a respite on the ground that the
mother and sister of the prisoner had just arrived from
Norfolk in the hope of furnishing him with the means
of defence.

The COMMON SERGEANT had no objection to post-
pone his judgment, but at the same time he thought it
but right to state that he had marked him for trans-
portation.
The judgment was then postponed, with an intima-
tion from the Learned Judge, that the Court would
not oppose a retraction of the recorded plea.
THE BURGLARY AND ROBBERY AT HAMPTON
COURT PALACE.—Henry Grover, 30, Martha' his
wife, and Mary Ann Goatley, were indicted for bur-
glariously entering and breaking into the dwelling-
house of our Sovereign Lady the Queen, and stealing
therein a quantity of silver plate, of the value of 301.
and upward, the property of Caroline Iramilton She-
ridan, on the 14th of the present month, and Susan
Foster, a widow, aged 67, the mother of Martha
Grover, was charged with receiving part of the pro-
perty, knowing it to be stolen. They were also in-
dicted in like manner for having committed the bur-
glary on the day aforesaid, and stealing therein a
quantity of wearing apparel, the property of Lady
Helen Selina Dufferin ; and the prisoner Foster was
charged with the guilty reception of the property.
All the prisoners, on being arraigned, pleaded Not
Guilty.
Mr. BALLANTINE, on behalf of some of the pri-
soners, applied to the Court for the purpose of having
the trial delayed, on the ground that the prisoners
were only sent up from Hampton Court for trial on
Friday last, and they had been unable to procure the
depositions and prepare for their defence.
The trial' was then put off till a later period of the
day, when the following evidence was adduced.
The Hon. Caroline H. Sheridan said that she had
apartments in the Palace at Hampton-court, and the
prisoner Goatley had been in her service. The 26
forks, the tea-pot, and other articles of plate which
had been shown to her, were her property.
Mr. W. Train, a gentleman resident at Hampton-
court, deposed that on the evening of the 14th inst.
the windows of the prosecutor's apartments were
secured, but on the following morning witness found
the squares in one of the windows had been cut, and
he observed foot-marks on the flower border near it,
apparently those of a man and woman. On entering
the apartments he found the drawers and other places
had been broken open.
The policeman who apprehended the male prisoner
at a beer shop on the evening of the 15th inst., stated
that he saw the mark of a man's foot afterwards on
the border near the parlour window, in which there
was the impression of six hob nails. He also saw the
marks of three or four female footsteps. On Sunday
the 15th he went to the house of Foster at Peckham,
when she gave him a bundle, which she took from
under her pillow, and the next day he discovered at a
Mr. Howard's, a pawnbroker in the Kent-road, some
plate, which he now produced.
Cross-examined by Mr. PRICE, who appeared for
Foster.—The bundle was tied up when Foster gave it
him, and appeared to contain apparel. It was so por-
table that any person who called at the house might
have left it unknown to Foster.
Mr. Howard deposed to receiving the plate pro-
duced, principally from the prisoner Goatley ; but
the woman Grover pledged the tea-pot when alone,
for 51.—At-other times they came together.
The COMMON SERGEANT—Are you in the habit,
Mr. Howard, of taking in such a quantity of valu-
able property from persons like the prisoner Goatley?
Mr. Howard—Goatley was not dressed then as she
is now, but as a young lady ; and represented herself
as the daughter of a respectable lady, who was in
want of a temporary supply of money, and in this
statement she was confirmed by Grover.
The COMMON SERGEANT—What amount did you
advance on all this plate. Mr. Howard— 231.
The COMMON 'SERGEANT—And what do you esti-
mate it to be worth ? i tr. Howard—About 251. I
have delivered up all the plate I had from the pri-
soners.
Henry Green proved that he saw Grover, his wife,
and Goatley at Kingston, early on the morning of the
robbery ; the woman Grover had a bundle under her
clothes.
A person residing at Kingston proved that Grover
and Goatley called on him on the morning in question;
the former said she wanted a horse and chaise to convey
her husband and sister to Vauxhall, as she had re-
ceived a letter that her mother was dying. Witness
refused to let them have one, and they both went out
and spoke to a man, but witness could not say it was
the male prisoner.
The coachman of the Kingston stage stated, that
on the same morning the two females took a seat on
his coach, and after he had driven a short distance, at
their request he pulled up, for the purpose of taking
up a man dressed like the prisoner Grover. Witness,
however, could not say whether he was the man, as,
after riding a short distance, he abruptly left the coach.
This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. PRICE then addressed the. Jury for Foster,
contending there was no case made against her. The
Learned Counsel then called a respectable looking per-
son, named Lipson, who gave her a good character.
Mr. BALLANTINE then addressed the Jury in behalf
of the prisoner Goatley, contending that she had been
made the dupe of the other prisoners.
The COMMON SERGEANT summed up at some length

The Jury, after a few minutes' consultation, acquit.
,ed Foster, and convicted the other three prisoners.
The COMMON SERGEANT wished to know whether
there was any proof that Martha Grover was the wife
of the male prisoner ? A
gentleman in Court said he had no doubt of their
being-married ; he had known her some years, and
had transacted business for her father. He was not
at the wedding, but had seen the certificate, and could,
produce it.
Mrs. Grover having been taken to the back part of
the bar, her husband and Goatley were called up to
receive judgment.
The COMMON SERGEANT then sentenced them both
to ten years' .transportation; and respited the judg;
ment on Martha Grover, until the certificate of her
marriage was forthcoming. •
There was another indictment against all the priso •
nets, but it was not proceeded with.
oster, who had been acquitted, was hewever again
placed at the bar, and arraigned on the other indict-
ment ; but no evidence being offered against her by
COunsel for the prosecution, she was acquitted, and
ordered to be discharged.

WARSAW, OCT. 14.—His Majesty the Emperor
went yesterday afternoon to the fortress of Nova
Georgie wisk.
As Washington may be called the head quarters of
tobacco-tinctured saliva, the time is come when I must
confess, without any disguise, that the prevalence of
those two odious practices ofchewing and expectorating
began about this time to be anything but agreeable, and
soon became most offensive and sickening. In all the
public places of America this filthy custom is recog-
nised. In the Courts of Law the Judge has his spittoon,
the crier his, the witness his, and the prisoner
his, while the jurymen and spectators are provided
for, as so many men who, in the course of nature,
must desire to spit incessantly. In the hospitals the
students of medicine are requested, by notices upon
the wall, to eject their tobacco juice into the
boxes, provided for that purpose, and not to .dis-
colour the stairs. In public buildings visitors are im-
'plored, through the same agency, to squirt the es-
sence of their quids, or plugs,' as I have heard them
called by gentlemen learned in this kind of sweet-
meat, into the national spittoons and not about the
base of the marble columns. But in some parts this
custom is inseparably mixed up with. every meal and
morning call, and with all the transactions of social
life. The stranger who follows in the track I took
Myself, will find it in its full bloom. ancl
riant in all its alarming reckle4iness, at Washington,
and let him not persuade himself (as I once did, to my
shame), that, previous . tourists have exaggerated its
extent: The thing itself is an exaggeration of
,nasti-
ness, which cannot be .outdone.—Dickend-ibizerican.
Notes.

POLICE. INTELLIGENCE
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

GREVILLE-STREET HOSPITAL.—The LORD MAYOR
said he had received a letter, the publication of which
he had every reason to believe would materially aid a
charity, the utility of which was likely to be put
greatly to the test during the approaching winter.
The institution had become more generally known
when the cholera was making its ravages, and the
amount of good which it had accomplished was, he
had good grounds for supposing, incalculable. The
experiment which those who superintended the insti-
tution were now making was one of great extent, pro-
mising great advantages to the public, and he hoped
the public benevolence would exhibit itself in the
hearty support of its object. The following is a copy:—
" MY LORD,—As your Lordship is ever ready to
assist the cause of true charity with your influential
example, it would be but a false compliment were I to
apologise to your Lordship for now addressing you.
" The Royal Free Hospital in Greville-street (it is
in behalf of this institution I write), was founded in
the year 1828, upon the truly noble principle of giving
free and instant admission to the destitute sick, no
previous letter of recommendation, nor preliminary
form of any kind, is here necessary to entitle the ap-
plicant to attention and relief. The hospital recog-
nizes the claims of all who are sick and destitute, and
asserts itself to be the friend and physician of the
friendless diseased.

" Hitherto the principle has been carried out (so
far as the funds subscribed would permit) at a house
in Greville-street, Hatton-garden, having between
seventy and eighty beds, and the consideration of the
essential service this small accommodation has enabled
the Governors and officers of this institution to afford
to upwards of 100,000 persons (I quote from the last
Report) since its foundation, must be matter of sincere
congratulation to them. But the zeal of the pro-
moters of this charity has not been satisfied to per-
mit its usefulness to remain limited, whilst the appli-
cants for its aid increase so rapidly. By an adver-
tisement inserted a few days since in The Sun and
other newspapers, the public were informed that the
Secretary (the Rev. R. E. Pacicman) had been for
some months previously engaged in a correspondence
with several members of her Majesty's Government,
in the hope of obtaining a grant of some site on
which to erect a more suitable building than their
present hospital, and a sum of money equal to that
which might be subscribed by the public for that
purpose. This correspondence appears to have tenni •
nated unsuccessfully ; the Government, though ap-
proving of the objects of the institution, being fearful
of the consequences of such a grant being made a
precedent.
" Notwithstanding this discouragement, the Go-
vernors, upon their own responsibility, and in the

hope of the public's liberal co-operation, appear to
have taken the extensive premises in the Gray's Inn-
road, recentlyin the occupation of the Messrs. Seddon,
and which, happily, with some slight alterations, may
be adapted to the purposes of the institution.
" Now, my Lord, under the circumstances above
alluded to, the advertisement put forth by the Go-
vernors of the Royal Free Hospital appears to me pe-
culiarly entitled to the favourable consideration of the
charitable. The Governors have taken upon them-
selves a heavy liability without waiting to make their
appeal to the public, lest from the time that would
thus be lost, the winter should have set in before they ,
should have increased their means of usefulness. This
reliance upon the good feeling of the public will not,
lam sure, be misplaced. It has created so strong an
interest in my mind, that, though my means are very
limited, and I have:a young and increasing family, it
affords me much pleasure to subscribe 51. (now in-
closed to your Lordship) in aid of the completion of
the arrangements as to the recently-taken premises
and perhaps some notice of the subject by your Lord-
ship in your magisterial capacity, might obtain for it
greater publicity and support.
In conclusion' I have only to add, that I am in
no way connected with the Hospital, nor do I know a
single individual concerned in its management. My
interest in it arises solely from the Christian principle
upon which it is founded, and the zeal and ability with
which that principle is carried out. In the course of
last winter I forwarded to it, through your Lordship,
a donation of 31., under the signature of A Friend
in Need,' in which character I beg again to subscribe
myself."
Mr. Hobler said, that if the Institution received
support commensurate with its efforts to do good, as
testified from its commencement, the community
would receive immense benefit in return.
GUILDHALL.
Two little boys, apparently under 10 years of age,
were charged with picking pockets this morning upon
Ludgate-hill.
The constable who had them in custody stated that
he saw Brown, the elder of them, follow a gentleman
into the yard of the Belle Sauvage Inn, and on his re-
turn, while nearly opposite Rundell and Bridges',
take a pocket handkerchief and a small card case from
his hinder pockets. The individual robbed having
got possession of the property taken from him, refused
to appear to prosecute, as he alleged his time was too
precious, and as the law was administered now he
might lose three or four days at the Old Bailey.
The prisoner Brown had been several times before
convicted summarily, but the other was unknown at

Compter.
The person robbed not appearing, the prisoners were
ordered to be imprisoned for two months, with hard
labour.