The Sun. — 1842-03-22 (London, England)

SURREY SESSIONS.  These Sessions commenced yesterday, before T. PocaLE, Esq., Chairman, and a full bench of Magistrates. The Grand Jury having been sworn, The CHAInAtAN briefly delivered his charge, and stated that the calendar contained the flames of upwards of 80 prisoners for trial, and therefore their services would probably be required for two or three days. John Munday, 29, pleaded guilty to an indictment, charging him with stealing, at Stoke D'Abernon, a chesnut cart-horse, the property of Thos, licsterton, The prisoner was sentenced to ten years transportation. John Harwood, jun, 20, and Simeon Harwood; 50, were indicted fbr feloiliottsly stealing at Worplesdon, 18 bushels of potatoes, the property of James Feted. Mr. LOCKE defended the prisoner. The prosecutor is a market gardener, residing at Worplesdon, and the prisoners were labourers residing hi the same parish. the pt otectitor ivas in the habit of storing potatoes, in what are called " blirtOnti," eteth barrow containing about twenty bushel: of potatoes. On the 1 6t h February last, he discovered that one of these bar rows had been broken up, and nearly the whole of its contents taken away. On the same day the prisoners were discoiered, having in their possession a bag containing potatoes of the same kind as those the prosecutor had missed, the bag containing about 18 bushels, In the house of the prisoners a quantity of potatoes were found iitlt be: longing to the prosecutor. The potatoes lost were of that description called " Golden Nobs," being that kind he usually reserved for seed. The prisoners lived in the parish of Worplesdon all their lives. Mr. LOCKE addressed the Jury for the defence, and called witnesses to prove that the prisoners were not out of bed on the night the robbery was committed. Several witnesses stated that they had frequently purchased potatoes of the same description as those in question from •  the prisoners. • The CHAIRMAN summed up the evidence, and the Jury returned a verdict of guilty against both prisoners. Levi Harwood had been previously convicted. The prisoners were sentenced to twelve months imprisonment each.  The case occupied the Court till past four o'clock.  SUICIDE OF TILE EARL OF MUNSTER,  'he death of this Nobleman by his covti hand *a§ the engrossing subject cntiVePtilltil at the ii:lo.st.ati of the toWn.yesitttlay intirhing. The lamentable action is stated to have occurred at a late Hour on Surtditynight; Wht hilt lid:4aq* Nada Wad tattfrned try the fe: port of a pistol. On going to the Ncble Earl to ascertain the cause, he found his Lordship wounded by the discharge of a pistol, and the Earl desired the servant to fetch* doctor, IViltinclech Aftei the ter-Van% had to eplitteci him, the iN-ohle Earl pdi d, stdolki pistol to his mouth, and thus destroyed hinikllf: The late nobleman was; besides being Earl of. Attn: ster, Vistnthit Viticl*neet and 13afeti of Teoeiburt; in tlk Peeffite tl the VtAitiid Iltiilgdt3ctl 11 Viivy ecittit= ikl9Bil:Lenerai in the Army; and Aide-de-camp io the Queen ; Governor and Captain; also Constable and Lieutenant, of Windsor Castle COltinel of the Ist Tower thithittke dila a' Udifilatieflef thtl Royal Military College and ild.yill Military Asylum ; Knight Grand cross of the order of Ferdinand of Wir: Vieezl3rVslaiii b 1 thg Ut4sl Sticleiy; and. P.R,S. He was born Jan. 16; 1794, and was i!ofis sequently in his 49th year; He married, in Octiziller; 1810, kail,Nrynolham, daughter~Of tin! late hail of E.:gremolit, and Htt4 left 'Sane by her several children, the two eldest of whom are laugh. tern: His eldest soh„ iltut rl of iMunSteri*ti, was brit gity 16; itN, Wild is in .is 18th year. The late her was the eldest son ofKing William the Fourth, by the celebrated actress, Mrs, Jot*, The Earl of Mtltsttt bilkiNi the army in February, 1807, and the date of his last eommissioni as Major' -General, is Nov: 23, 1841, His Lordship served in the Peninsula, and was severely wounded ht Tnidtittiti It's Lordship was on half-pay of the 24th Dragoons. He served the campaign of 1808 in Spain, with Sir David Baird's -army, as Aide-de-camp to Adjtttant=General Stewart, in. 1813 as Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-Gettertd, ie, 1818,1815 and in 1814 with his regiment. He subBequently Went to the East Indies, and acted as Aide-de-camp to the with 1:8e 1 pdrr antia"Gto ehr etBFr returned the to erla Englandnu overlandiscf Hastings,in June, a • About six weeks since hiS lordship.ttiiti faiiiily returned to town from Ostend, Whefe they had ht+h fesi& ing for some tittle, and since that period it had been no 'iced that he was not in his usual spirits. This fact was, however, attributed to the effeets of several severe attackslit of the gout from Which he had 6ugered and tilt urss city lASI, on going to the House of Lords with soine of the younger members of his family, his manner is said to have rather altered,  SEDITIOUS LANtiIIA6E.----Mth O'Connell found guilty at the Queen's County Assites of dtraluntiiiig landlords high rents, &c,, is rentented tti sit itionths' impristinment, an ii to give security, himself in 500 i., and two sureties in Mb . each, to—hold his tongue. REDUCTION OF THE CONSTSEELAtiY.-;A lle Aril Evenbey /Ind states that it is the intention of Sir Hotert 6,4 to make reductions on an extemive scale '.4 every department of the above force, and embody the Irish militia, B"etal persons, alarmed by trieg of diStrOs* in the Rue St. Eloi, tWo nlght.„4 aoB;bastetieti in? tile ttiti *MI found 9 milf9ttilltatt Wotan a tile U. 411 siiitioed in aeinral plates With a poignard. Two mats were seen running away, but they were pursued and capttired, and en being taken before a Corn. inissary tif Politie; tliEy Wbrb &nit-bitted being trial for an attempt to murder. They are men of the lowest order, but the cause of the attack has no transpired. 1.1117. NIGER PliVlll4,--,4 lable-§ponnful of Peruvian bark, given in the morning early, has been found a fever. Preventive among merchant-ships' companies at Batavia, where similar deadly fevers to those of Africa prevail; and hence It may be ohly neeot3ity tO apply the bark=p.raetlee to the African toasts and rivers, in order to insure a similar freedom from fever there also.—Literary Gazette. DiscovEßy OF iiumAN SKELETONS H IN TE STRAND:....on Saturday afternoon depth net exceedingfrom the surface, a large as the men employed in a foot and a half the erection of a new sewer in the 'Strand were excavating the ground in front of St. Clement's Church, they found, at a number of human skeletnns, many of them in this most perfect condition, ard in • r , one instance the . : ~, was, with a large quan-Lity of lair attached. ,t is supposed that the ancient huriii.gr. mid ;of St. CleMent's banes once 'covered the spot In questio n. A shed was erected, and the bones deposited in it, and ult iina4ely a large hole was dug in St. Cie-32e11V4 Ograyard, sin which they were placed. ' '',' ' ' • •.