The Press. — London, England, 1853-07-16 00:00:00

VICTUALLERS' PLATE. NUM* Calot . Longbow Won by a bead. RICIaRtiTAFTE STAKER. lirathriel Phyludis filly BENTINCK Ti NTIMONIAL. f. by Gottneboy Antigone Red Lion Won cleverly. PRODUCE MATCH. Vmbriel Miss Sarah Filly GRAND STAND PLATE. And Aclnaintanee Ann Eliza tieorkah has been exambsel, and pronounced three years old. AQUATICS. THE LowEsTorr REGATTA took place on Tuesday, under the most promising auspices, whether as regarded the value of the prizes, the quality of the sport, or the multi tudes who were attracted from far and near to witu ess the matches. The regatta was under the patronage of the Earl of Yarborough and other distinguished members of the R. Y. C. • and the fir st and most interesting match which was sa iled was— The REGATTA Pm,: of 100 tittineas, for yachts belonging to a Royal Yacht Club, of all rigs, between 30 and 30 tons; no restriction to mails or men, and no time allowed for tonnage. Three to start or nu race. The following vessels appeared at the starting-post : Yachts. Toms. Owners. May Fly Motoquito - - - 4$ The Hew*, Mr. T. Bartlett, was entered, but at the last moment was most unemwctedly withdrawn. Thu course was from the pier, round the Cage Buoy, through the Paketield list, and thence to a station.vessel about fifteen miles at sea, returning to the shirting-place by the same channel. The start took place shortly after noon, the May Fly being the first to get. under way, but was speedily passed by the Mosquito, the Gossamer having also succeeded m taking the second place. On the return the Mosquito continued to increase the distance between her and her competitors, but the chapter of accidents again gave the 'lemma place to the May Fly. The arrival opposite the pier, on the conclusion of the race, was as Under : h. in. y. Moopitto May Ply , 0 The tiosmamer was not timed. A variety of minor matches occupied the day. A prize of thirty sovereigns for yawls attracted eight competitors, and was won by the Edirne.% a Lowestoft boat. For yachts over fifteen and net exceeding thirty tons a prize of the same value was contested by four, and won by Mr. Lane's Phantom. Twenty sovereigns, for yachts of less than fifteen tons, were won by the Vampire, belonging to Mr. C. Wheeler. There were also prizes of ten sovereigns for latter!' boats ; a match for six-oared beach-gigs ; the MUM) for sailing-punts ; and a prize for a duck hunt. The con 'eluding part of the sports was very much marred by the heavy, drenching showers of rain, which continued, with the exception of short intervals of sunshine, for nearly two hoists. In the course of the evening there was a display of fire works on the esplanade. A Scut.rEns' IIM for MK., between Williams and Ed ware, men belonging to the Custotn-house and Tower 'Wm, took place on Wednesday, and created a great deal of interest and excitement amongst people east of London bridge. Betting was to to 4on Williams. The distance was from Putney Is Mortlake, mid the Melt started at seven in the evening very evenly, in which order they con tinued till Edwards took a slight lead, which he, however, in the next half-mile, lost. After a very determined otce Williams won by fitly or sixty yards. grelanb. expected in Cork for the vacancy caused by the resignation of Chatterton will probably . candidate. purposes petitioning against the '-elected members for Clare, as he voters had been taken off ! , 4 an aetion wam bronght .All. against a man named offence of attempting to bribe T. M. Itedington at. the The ease occupied the court. • verdict for the defendant. anniversary of the Boyne, Association had a meeting in Rotundo for the purpose of Rev. Tresham Gregg and .. addressed the assembly. Derry, the " I.2th July" passed or other public, demon- firm-buildings Ana other A Hot CorrEsv is expected in Cork for the vacancy in the representation caused by the resignation of Sergeant Murphy. Colonel Chatterton will probably come forward again as a candidate. • Colonel Vandeleur purposes petitioning against the zretnrn of the newly-elected members for Clare, as he alleges that several of his voters had been taken off • by stratagem or force. AT THE Wrxvorm Asstzrs an action was brought 'l4O recover a penalty of MO/. against a man named • zelle for the alleged offence of attempting to bribe lin elector to vote for Sir T. M. Redington at the last New Ross election. The ease occupied the court "two days, and resulted in a verdict for the defendant. ON TUESDAY, being the anniversary of the Boyne, e Dublin Protestant Association had a meeting in 'the great room of the Itotundo for the purpose of Akelebrating the day. The 11ev. Tresham Gregg and several other gentlemen addressed the assembly , • In Belfast, Newry, and Derry, the " I•2th July" passed Ager without any processions or other public demon- ' strations. lARGE GALWAY EATATE of the late Mr. John Beatty West, formerly member for the city of Dublin, Las been bought by Mr Arthur Pollock, an eminent )lasgow merchant. In addition to the purchase- looney 0115,000/.), the new proprietor means to ex- visa the sum of •25,0 M. in farm-buildings and other Tit THE PRESS. suitable improvements. The total proceeds of sales in the Encumbered Estates Court have now reached the enormous sum of 10,1211,4461. TILE WEATHER IN IRELAND is highly favourable for the growing crops. Gentle rain has been falling at intervals during the past few days. It is accom panied by close heat. The reports from the country are very cheering. Saki anb A DISHONOURED CHEQUE, drawn by Mr. Parkinson, the successful defendant in a cause tried last week concerning various bill transactions with a Jew named Simmons, was the ground of another action which came on at the Chelmsford Assizes on Wednesday. One Newman was the present plaintiff, and the cheque had been given for a horse sold to the de fendant. It appeared that the parties were utterly unacquainted with one another before they met acci dentally at Wanstead, and began a conversation on the subject of trotting horses and matches. l'arkin son regretted the loss of his splendid trotter, the Oneida Chief, recently killed by an accident, where upon Newman undertook to get him another horse, extraordinarily fast, which a " gentleman in the country" was willing to sell. He objected, however, to the defendant communicating directly with the owner, but promised to bring the animal to London, where accordingly, in a day or two, he produced a horse for which, after vaunting its speed and declaring that it had cost the last owner 180 guineas, he ob tained from Parkinson the cheque in question ; but on presenting the draft at the banker's he found there were no "effects" to meet it. The defendant pleaded that he had been deluded into making the purchase by false representation. Instead of being the pro perty of a gentleman, bought for 180 guineas, the plaintiff himself purchased it after their first conver sation for 61). It appeared also that the horse had always been a restive, unruly brute, with which it was impossible to do anything, and lame, moreover, from two bone spavins. Mr. Justice Cresswell left it with the jury to decide whether the defendant should have a verdict on the score of fraud, or deserved to pay for hastily concluding a bad bargain. Sentence was given for the plaintiff, but the sum he was en titled to reduced to SOL THE June in a case wherein the prisoner was acquitted were afterwards charged by Mr. Sergeant Adams with the high crime of drinking beer while locked up to consider their verdict. Their delibera tions on the evidence had been very protracted, and before coming to a decision the Assistant .ludge was informed that the jury, or some of them, had obtained a supply of beer through a window which looked on the street. Waxing indignant at this atrocious con duct, Sergeant Adams ordered the whole twelve to be transferred to another room, summoned the offi ciating potboy before him, listened unmoved to his protestations of ignorance and innocence, shut him up in the cells for a warning. confiscated a pint of beer which he happened to bring into court, and threatened loss of licence to the house whence it came. After the verdict was returned, jury and pot boy were placed on their defence, and not dismissed until they had received a sound rating for their ..... A TERMAOANT Witt, of youthful appearance, came before the Worship-street Police Court, on the com plaint of her husband, an ironmonger, named Car michael, residing at Clapton. The catalogue of injuries he stated himself to have received at her hands was long and melancholy : Ott the Gth of this month 1 returned home main some busi ness I hail been trammeling, and RR soon as I got 111 1 111111114 that my wife, as was too frequently the ease, wits in a very angry and savage lnun our. I guessed there was something amiss, and I thought I had better get out of her way. I went into the work shop at the back, and she billowed me, accusing time of an intimacy with the servant of a neighbour, whom I really have not even seen for I don't know long. I said she was a foolish woman to worret herself at such nonsense. I she immediately flung a basin at me, but missed her aim; she then hurled three heavy pieces of iron at my head, but I lowered my bead and escaped them, and she then seized hold of me 111111 tried to fix her claws into my face. I pushed her Oil 0111 Ride a n d was running off, when she flung a heavy 1 •r at my head, anal it is a very fortunate thing that it missal toe, or I think I should have been killed. I said to myself—" This 14 too strong; this won't do; I'll wait till she gets a little cooler, and tabe a walk in the fields;" and I tunnelled out of the house as fast as I could, tat go lOtaty. Mr. 11AM1111.1.: Where were you going then? rotnplainant; Going to? 1 was going to the world's entl, or anywhere else, so that I could get out of the reach of her: but I was no sooner out of the house than she was idler me. exclaim ing," Yon sconnalrel, where are you going?" I said nothing. lint rain. and so did she. and the instant she gut np to me she levelled several furious kicks at the most dangerous parts of my person. 1 caught hold of her to sate myself, anal she immediately thrust one of my hands into her month, and bit it so terribly as to (wise me the greatest agony, anal I wits ()blitzed to let go of leer upon whieh she eaught MO by the stock, twisted it till I was nearly strangled, and tore otf both the lappets of it, as I now show it you. 1 again tried to bolt, but she sprang after me, again came up to 1111% 111111. seizing me by the back of my coat, ripped away both the tails of it like u avower. in this way (said the eomplainant, turning round anti exhibiting his beck to the bench). This seemed to stop her a bit, and I lost no time in availing myself of it to escape from her, air I am sure she would have torn me to piecea, as she hail Illy elothitm already. The complainant concl u ded by declaring that he could not live with the complainant any more, as he was losing all his bosiness through her ungoveniable temper, aural mentioned that a short time since she had thing a live kitten at his face in such a %indietive manner that, though furtunately he outveettell iu okstius it, )ct it come SATURDAY, against the brick wall with such force that it was instantly killed and its brains dashed out. The settlement of this case gave much trouble to the magistrate. Mrs. Carmichael would neither undertake to live happily with her husband, nor con sent to a separation. She was sentenced to pay 51. fine, or, in default, be imprisoned for a month. This sum she tried to borrow of her husband, who, however, declined advancing it; stating that before they got to the end of the street she would illtreat him worse than ever. An offer of a separate maintenance was made, but, as this seemed to make her only more frantic, she was removed to the cells, where a short incarceration served to render her more tranquil, and she finally consented to take a weekly main tenance and live apart. Mr. Hammill warned her of the serious consequences which would ensue if, venturing home again, she came a second time before his bench. AN ExrEmENcED birosTon, of foreign origin, and decorated with divers foreign orders and ribbons, styling himself Colonel Count Seardka Demicki, appeared at Westminster Police Court to answer a charge of levying contributions on the public by fraudulent representations. It was shown that the defendant presented false lists of subscribers, and told conflicting tales of distress, and in other ways imposed on charitable persons, among whom fie commonly selected the most distinguished on whom to practise his arts of victimisation. His career of imposition, as detailed by Horsford, the officer of the Mendicity Society, presented a curious series of attempts anti detectlim:— He had known the accused for ten years as a begging-letter impostor. In March, 1545, he was committed for a month; and in January, 1846, he was again apprehended, but, owing to the non-attendance of the person charging, escaped. In 1847 he was e • ted for three months; in 1848 for fourteen days; in 1850 for three months ; and in 1851 discharged, through the non-attendance of the prosecutor. Witness had seen hint with girls at casinos, drinking his wine and smoking cigars re• heatedly. Some further information respecting his adventures was conununicated by Lieutenant Szulczewski, resi dent secretary to the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland : _ _ The prisoner had arrived in this country in the year l€o7 from France, and applied to be put on the list of Polish refugees. lle was provided with papers, which there was but little doubt had belonged to another person, but, by some means, had fallen into his hands, and representing that he had been a major in the Polish army, and had taken part in the late struggle against Russia, received relief from the Mild. It being f 1 that he was going about imposing upon the benevolence of the friends of Poland, his conduct was investigated, and he was struck off the list. He then went about from country to country, there being scarcely one that he had not visited, wearing decorations and assuming titles to which lie hail not the slightest claim. Inquiries being afterwards made respecting him, it was found that the "colonel count," and sometimes unwquis, had formerly been a forest keeper, had been immisoned at Sin/slang for swindling, wear ing decorations, asminuing titles, and other offences ; Laud been expelled France, and was f lin possession of a forged pass port. lie had at one time absolutely pretended to be cousin to the late King of Poland; but, as the assumption was too impudent not to he discovered, he was obliged to aban don his claim to relationship. Recently he had been in Home and Spain practising his arts, and bind been imprisoned and turned out of I'nuu•o for his disgraceful pnictices. The piisune•, who can speak English well, but who pretended that he was thoroughly 1111 l icquainted with it, and also feigned deafness, abused the witnesses in extremely bad French, in pre ference to using good English. Mr. ARNOLD eo 11111 l itted hint for three months to hard labour, and said he would take good care the conviction was returned to the sessions. Song VATrABLE Books having been stolen from Messrs. Sotheby, in Wellington-street, Thomas Brooks, a man of violent character, was tried at the Middlesex Sessions on the charge of theft, having offered for sale two of the purloined volumes, worth 305., at a bookseller's in Covent-garden. When ar rested he exclaimed, " This comes of buying tickets !" and on his trial set up the defence that he had bought a pawnbroker's ticket from some man unknown, and had redeemed the books to which it related, and which were those now in question. On inquiring at the pawnbroker's, Mr. Fleming, in St. Martin's-lane, it was ascertained that two volumes had really been redeemed at the time stated by the prisoner, but the shorman could neither recognise the prisoner nor identify the books : Mr. WITHAM directed the jury to acquit the prisoner. It was impossible that he could be convicted unless some permit 111 , 111 Fleming's showed that these were not the books redeemed; and it was an extraordinary thing that they should say that they could not recognise them, the appearance of one being MO very renutrk. able. 'Me pry expressed their surprise that the hooks could not be identified at the pawnbroker's, awl, melee the direction of the court. Acquitted the prisoner. The books were ordered to be re stored to the prosecutors. THE NEW 011 At hits proved a fruitful source of business to the various police-offices. The clause enabling any complainant to proceed forthwith to the nearest sitting magistrate offers much facility for ob taining ,justice by either side, and has been several times acted upon. Its operation has, however, been considerably hindered hitherto by the delay in fur nishing the police edition of the fares and distances. One of the most curious cases which have arisen out of the new law was heard at Bow-street on Tuesday, and placed the provision made respecting luggage in a singular shape : Mr..lohn fire, a fruiterer in Covent•garden. who appeared with a tine specimen of pineapple in his hand, stated that for a long time past he had been accustomed to employ cabs for the Furrow; of ceuveyhiu fruit of that description trVIA4 the fruit bro.