In the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday, the sentences were
pro- nounced on the prisoners convicted at the late sessions. Thirty-three were ordered to be transported for seven years, three for fourteen, and twenty-four for life. Jourdan and Sullivan, the Customhouse rob- bers were ordered to be sent to the "most penal settlements" for life, and their accomplices, Mott and Seale, who being servants of the Customhouse, were guilty of a breach of trust, were ordered to be exposed to public view by working in the chain-gangs on roads and public works for life. Seven were sentenced to be banged, but their sentences will probably be commuted to transportation for life.
The wives of the prisoners under conviction for the Customhouse robbery were permitted to see their husbands in Newgate on Saturday morning. One of those who availed herself of the privilege was Seale's wife, who went there soon after ten o'clock. She had a long interview with her husband, and appeared to be very much affected on being apprized by him that it was probable he would be transported for life. She afterwards proceeded home, but had scarcely entered the house where she has been lodging since her husband's incarcera- tion, when she dropped down and almost instantly expired.
At the Marlborough Street Office, on Saturday, William Symington, a private in the Scotch Fusileer Guards, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, for wounding a boy and attacking some policemen with his bayonet.
At the Marylebone Office, on Thursday, several of the Guardians of the Poor of Marylebone Parish attended to inform the Magistrates, that an Indian female servant of the Ambassador of the King of Oude, mow living near the Regent's Park, had been found lying in the garden of the house, naked and in a state of suffering from ill treatment by her mistress, the Princess ; who was said to be in the habit of dog- ging her. When questioned, the Princess justified her conduct by saying that the girl was insane ; which she certainly is not. The Magistrates ordered her to be taken care of in the Workouse, until the authorities at the India House had been consulted.
An inquest was held on Wednesday, on the body of Daniel Holmes, of Bermondsey, who was killed on the Greenwich Railway on the previous Monday. He was standing in the track of the engine, and did not hear the cries that were made to him to move out of danger, before the engine came upon him. In his anxiety to prevent this fatal accident, the engineer turned the engine out of the direct line, so that it struck against a train waiting to be taken to Deptford ; and by the violence of the shock three gentlemen sustained some injury, though nothing serious. The Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death."
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