The Sun. — London, England, 1858-11-26 00:00:00

I shall keep it." She rang the bell, and the servants came. She stood at the window gesticulating and vociferating. Tobin said, " Oh, Ma'am, how you are COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE._ exposing yourself!" and tried to pull down the Before the Judge Ordinary and a Common Jury.) blind. She dared th e s er vant to do it. I tookher by the hard and placed her in a chair close to her MARCHMONT V. MARCHMONT. without violence. We dined together, and I went Mr. Sergeant Pigott, Dr. Deane, Q.C., Dr. out on business. Contrary to my usual custom I Spinks, Mr. Tindal Atkinson, were counsel for the went away without kissing my wife and children. petitioner, Mrs. Marchmont, who prays for ajudicial When I returned I found she was gone. I heard separation on the ground of cruelty ; Mr. K. Ma- from her twice, and wrote three times. She said in caulay, Q.C., Dr. Phillimore, Q.C., and Dr. Swabey her letter that she left me because I showed more for the respondents, Mr. Marchmont, who pleads a affection for the children than for her, and I wanted denial of the allegations of cruelty, and also con- to get possession of her money and her houses. I donation. wrote to her entreating her to return. The examination of the respondent,_ Mr. March- This letter was read and enclosed in it was the mont, was resumed by Mr. K. Macaulay, in the following advertisement which Mr. Marchmont said absence of Dr. Phillimore. he had taken to the Times office, hoping that it Mr. Marchmont said—On the morning of the would be inserted on the following day when he 22d of Jan. I went into the kitchen to ask Mrs. found that she had left her home : Marchmont to come to breakfast, and as she re- "Rose dearest, with a broken heart k / ye o cs ur eeeur fl d hi r z oo et p ut i o n , w g ai fl lith o v i h e t r fused I took it down to her. She came up to din- entreats h r sd u e t la o return y I ;hall not m breathe ac ner, because I told her I would not partake of it °ne being until I hear . from you. Oh Rose, you are more fondly g unless she joined me and the children. She slept loved than heart can tell by T-p. Forgive, Do not with me that night, for I had threatened to leave act rashly. We can be happy." the house unless she did. I feigned to leave the Examination continued—On the 26th February-, house. I treated her with all the kindness and on our way home, there had been a reference made affection possible. On the 23d she said, " I sup- to her will. She said she should leave her property pose after all this you wouldlike to see the Queen at to those with whom she had been staying. I said the Opera ?" I said, " I would not give a penny she was at liberty to leave it to whom she pleased. to see the Queen." She went to town, and bought On the morning of the 26th March I adverted to 12 guineas worth of tickets. I asked if they were that conversation, and said that I could not but given as a peace offering, and said, " What a pity think her will an unjust one. " I have," I added, it ss that it should be necessary to make peace." given up much to marry you; at least £7OO a-year, She said, " Then why don't you let me have my viz., £3OO from the chapel and at least £4OO from own way and humour me ?" I brought home a dog my pen also. In the event of y o u r d e ath M r . on the evening of the 28th. She said angrily, Walmisley will have £30,000, and I shall only get " What great beast have you got there ?" I said, £lO,OOO, which will leave me in comparative po "My dear, you know the shape of the animal. I call verty. My proposition is this—Destroy the exist it a dog." I told her it was bought to replace poor ing will, and make no other for six months. If you Nep, and was to be kept in the stable. She said, die without a will I don't take one penny. At the " Well, take it round to the stable at once." I said end of six months, when you have had an oppor- I had walked a great distance, and was too tired, tunity of making a fair judgment, make what but would send it round in the morning. She was you think a just will." She said, " I will not de under the influence of wine, and spoke in the most stroy the existing will, but I will make another irritating manner. She took hold of its collar to at the end of six months." On the 27th of turn itout, saying she had dogs enough already; she March I went to Mrs. Mackenzie's. I found out had already four of them to maintain. The children where she was by following the messenger who and the housemaid were present. I said, "I will took my letter from the post-office. I did not say not eat another meal at your expense, as you have when I went in, " Money I want and money I'll called me a dog." The dog remained in the house have." When she saw me she ran up and down that night. I slept on the sofa. The next day I the room wringing her hands. I sat down and did refused to eat in the house and again slept on the not move for an hour. Then she allowed me to sofa. On the third day, which was a Sunday, I approach her, and I soothed her. I went into the only took a little bread and water at her table. city to transact some business, and then returned On the Monday I attempted a reconciliation. She to Mrs. Mackenzie's and drove home with her. We said she had been to her lawyer and intended to were on amicable terms. On the 29th we went to have a separation. I had not spoken an angry my father's. We made some purchases at a sale, word about a dog, but the alienation between us and when I went to settle with the auctioneer she arose entirely out of that transaction. I deny that told me she would reimburse me. There were two I offered any threat of personal violence. On the or three unpleasant scenes at Shandley. I went Monday I joined her and the children at breakfast, away for a short time one day, and found when I and asked her to make it up, and attempted to kiss came back that she was ixtoxicated. She said the her. She pushed me away and said, "Go and kiss children were the plague of her life, and she would those you have spent the last three or four days send them to school. On the 6 th April she left the with." I said " I prefer kissing you." She said house before I got downstairs in the morning. " You need not think to get over me with your in- I had spoken about her will. I said, " I think fernal flummery, I will see your neck stretched you have made a mistake as to the disposition of first." There was not the slightest foundation for your property. You have left more than you the suspicion that I had spent that time with im- suppose to the residuary legatees. You have proper women. This was on the Ist of February. given £ 30 , 000 to Mr. Walmisley." She said, I took the dog to her, and with a good-humoured re- "Itis a lie !" I said, " That only makes matters mark put his paws on her shoulder and kissed her. worse. The residuary legatees will have at least She said "Poor thing, he loves me better than his £B,OOO or £9,000." She said, " What business master. I would rather kiss him than you." I again have you to say anything about it ? You are only entreatedherto come upstairs out of the kitchen,but fishing to find out what it contains. I dare say she refused. There was no quarrel. I did not you would like to know I had left you a large say "I would not mind swinging for you," or any amount, and then you would murder me." She words to that effect, when she called me and the afterwards asked me to come down to breakfast, children dogs. I did say, " Caroline, you want a but I said, " You have taken away all my appetite. blackguard to talk to you ; a man who would as I You treat me more like a dog than a husband." heard a costermonger say to his wife to day, ' I She again went on that day to Mrs. Mackenzie and don't mind swinging for you." On the Ist of Feb. took lodgings in Quebec-street. I found her out. I asked her to go out in the carriage. She said, " I She said when I went for her, " There is no hiding will never ride with you again." I said, smiling, from the devil." I said, " I have come to take you "If you still refuse, when the carriage comes I home, and I will not wait." I did not use any foul will pick up your little figure in my arms and carry language to her when in the cab, nor did I ask for you to it." She said, " Indeed you have carried me £25,000. She said, "If you had waited a day about enough." I said, " Well, now you may take longer you would have had a letter from a lawyer care of yourself. You have resisted all my importu- proposing a separation." I said, " Separation again ! nities for a reconciliation, therefore I don't intend I hope this time it will be on more equitable to give myself any more care about it." I did not terms." She said, " I don't think we shall differ force her into a chair on that day. I was reading- when about the terms." " Nor I," I replied, " your I made the last remark. Soon afterwards I saw her temper has become intolerable ; but as it has bp running down the front garden without bonnet or come a mere question of money, and you have shawl. She went to a neighbour's, and then to £50,000, I think lam entitled to £20,000. You Mrs. Walmisley's. I had been absent from the promised to build me a church at a cost of £6,000. house several hours during each of the preceding I should probably have derived £6OO a-year from four or five days. I did not know where she was that source. By y-our conduct you have rendered it until the 25th Feb. Her absence was the cause of impossible that I can enter the pulpit again, and great distress to me, and I was very anxious for her you have thus cut off one important source of my return. The first letter I wrote to her I sent through income, and I think £20,000 will be a fair compen- Mrs. Watson ; the second I did not send, but gave cation." She said, "Do you think lam fool enough to her on her return. I went to Blackheath in con- to give you £20,000 to enable you to live with some sequence of what Tobin told me. I went with a fly other woman ?" The next day we again discussed to Mrs Walmisley's, and sent in a note to her. I the question of separation. I said, " To-day it shall waited 20 minutes for an answer and then went be a question of free will on your part, and you into the house. I went to the dining-room door and shall make the terms yourself." We were getting saw Mr. and Mrs. Walmislev and my wife. I said, on comfortably then, and T asked her if it was " Carrie, dear, I've come to fetch you home, and you necessary to keep Mrs. Mackenzie. She said she must go with me." Mr. Walmislev said, " Mr. did not want her, gave her a cheque for £5, and Marchmont, leave my house instantly." I said, "I sent her away. About the end of April the chil have no intention of remaining after I have taken dren went to school. We went to another sale at away my wife." My wif e came to me and I put my Shandley, and my wife paid for what was bought arm round her waist and led her into a cab. Mr. without solicitation. 'On the 30th of April I Walmisleysaid," Remember that I don't detain your asked her to lend or give me £lOO, and she let me wife. Mrs. Marchmont is here of her own accord." have it. With that exception I never asked her That was all he said till I got outside the door. I said for a sum of money larger than 16s. On the sth to him, " You have ordered me out of your house, and May Lewis brought me a letter which my wife re- I must now request that you never cross my quired to see. I refused, as she had refused to let threshold." I led my wife to the cab by her right me see a letter which she had received in the morn arm. When I was outside Mr. Walmisley used ing. She became angry, and said, " I know it is several very insulting expressions, to which I did from one of your w .' I afterwards gave her not reply. I certainly did not strike my wife, and the letter unopened. It was from a lady connected she said that I had done so. After putting her with my congregation, asking me to allow her into the cab I said in reply to Mr. Walmisley's ob- to refer to me. I offered to let her answer it, and servations, "No man but a villain would harbour I wrote a short note, which she dictated. On the another man's wife for nearly a month without 15th May I asked her to lend me 14s. for half an knowing any cause for her leaving home, and then hour. She said, " I'll see your neck stretched first. insult her husband." I solemnly swear I did not Always money ! You are a mean-spirited fellow, put my hand to my nose. I said to my wife as we or you would not have married me for my money." drove off that I was surprised at her suffering that She also said I was the greatest liar she ever knew, mean fellow to insult me. She vindicated Mr. and she would not believe me on my oath. I said, Walmisley, and we both became very angry. She "As you treat me in this insolent way I will exer called me a confounded blackguard, a liar, and a cise my authority as a husband, and have it." She d—d cut-throat. She screamed very violently. then charged me with spending my money on other When we had gone about three miles she at- women. The bell was rung and the servants came tempted to get out of the fly. Her anger was up. She was standing close to the window, and I exclusively about Mr. Walmisley's conduct. In took her by the hands, placed her gently on the the course of the ride, in my anger, I called her a sofa, and kissed her. She took out her purse and w—. I said, " I have heard in your ab- dashed it violently on the table. I ultimately gave sence of goings on that have almost broken her back the money. On the same day we went my heart. I have received an anonymous out in the carriage. While r was in the money letter, charging you with having been found under order office she left the carriage. I looked for her a desk with y our l aw y er , an d since t h at ex i stence an d f ound her at the door of Stringer and Bird's, has been i n t o l era bl e t o me. " Sh e excla i med, scream- i n Newgate-street. I followed her. As she backed. ing, " Oh, my God ! my God ! Do you call me a into the shop she said, " Now, don't be in a pas ,you liar ?" I s a id, " Th en d eny t h e s i on ." I sa id , "I am not i n a pass i on — get i nto cwh— arge.' She made no answer, and I said, "At the carriage and go home." She said she would what conclusion can I arrive then but that you are never go home again. I argued with her, and after aw— ?" She rose and said, " I will bed--- staving there about three-quarters of an hour I if Igo home with you," and opened the cab door. thought it necessary to explain our conduct to Mr. I put my arm round her waist and endeavoured to Bird. She said, " You villain, you accuse me of fasten the door. A gentleman then came up and living -with another man." I said I had made no stopped the cab. I neither used personal violence insinuation against her, but only said, in the ordi to her nor threatened her with violence. At the nary sense of the words, that she had been living station I said—" You have brought me here, now under another person's protection. We ultimately make your charge." She called me a brute, a wretch, left the shop together. She had previously a villain, a blackguard, and a lia r . I ma d e a s t ate - ca ll ed in a policeman and charged me with an meat to the sergeant. She accused me of having assault, but he refused to take the charge. She tried to strangle her. I denied . the charge. The afterwards went to her sister's. One of the chil ser„,o-eant looked, and said he s a w n o mar k s . I d ren b ecame i ll, and I was lx.nxious about it. I th e n said my hand might have got before her mouth sent to her and she returned. On the 25th and the by accident. We went home in another cab. I 26th we slept together. Her' demeanour was cold had offered to take her any-where she pleased and indifferent, but no actual quarrel took place. where I could have access to her. We were On the morning of the 27th . she said she would on perfectly good terms when we left the leave me again. I said, "Then olive me the keys." station. I apologi se d t o h er t h at even i ng for Wh en I alluded to her co n d uc t durLig the two pre the expression I used, and told her that I vious nights she again imputed to me . that I might had been excited by anonymous letters. Nothing have had intercourse with other womon. I said I unpleasant happened until the 27th, when I went must learn, I supposed, to subdue my pa ssions, and with her to Prescott's and received the balance of remarked figuratively that I must d raw a razor the money there. It was her own proposal. I across my throat." She said, Don 't think of wrote the paper which has been read whil e w e were doing that." I observed that if, as Hob bes thought, lung to see Mr. Prescott. I was going, to tear there would be a great relief in letting • out a few " hutitswheassaici she would like to keep it. I ounces of blood, and if there was no her eafter, how told her any one else to see foolish—l should be ashamed for glad I should be to do it. Tobin came •sip, and she morning I had saidsee it. At breakfast time in the repeated the charge she had before ma de. I then asked me svhy I that one of her trustees had explained the cause of the quarrel. I offered to her for an threatened expianatio her life, and I asked tell her how all my money had been spent, and her to write and remove d the imputation. She said of June we drove to see the children at their school but I might write if s Take herself out a liar, at Blackheath. On the way she said sh .e wished to time, "I have no doubt - w P heitlselwas away you She said at that go to her sister's. I offered her the c; irriage, but a nice time of it with your is u had she said she would rather walk, and w e could call was before going to Prescott's as o tY e 8. This for her. I said I could not go there. She said if I had occasion to ask about the character of Bth IN/larch she came back at all, then, it should be 1 ty the train. man. She would not allow m e a coach- I said, "Now I see what you mean, anc l you shall her go. After dinner I wentotogtoh alone, so. I not go from me," and I assisted her in o the car let.printer's. riage. She tried to get out and scream ied. We She wished to go with me, because she said w i t d oa s ms he flls, b orilia e e - - I then went to the school and saw the child; ren. On lieved I was going to see a woman from tare 3d June I went to Homerton. Befon s going I eeived a letter on the 14th. The letter sag d, " I see you want to leave me. lam :ompelled one I had never seen, and I showed it to her. to go- out, and I must leave it to year mour not went with me to the railway to see that I was reall e she o as o a ke iv i ay m d o during r e m i v h a a b d s e h n e e c n e ~ " a nW d h l ts , g n a l , returned going where I stated. When I got home, about ll y , she refused to speak to me. The next morning she the p t rt o ic b dia -e her all rs. She said she had bee, 1. ts Oxford said that if I went raking about the streets again stree - t a of une u l sis a s b° ke u cl u h e e t r . she would leave me altogether. I said; " You can- 4th J ve no awnw O he n th t e h r e sh m e o h r a i s d in t s of the not be in earnest. But when you were away before lawyer. She g en:to a would not I repeate d e ques not tell n el s'our trustees threatened to turn me out of the house. tion, and she said a 1 will not be subject to be turned into the streets at some altercation .said u if After any hour, and therefore I wish you to make me would find out. She :rangdid not i tell one I the bell, and the s.er she tenant of this house." She said, " Don't you wish wants came. I said if she did. not in form inc you may get it ! I will see you at the first." whether she had been or not I wou old leave said I was willing to pay the rent. She said, " I the house. She called me a gre&t, many names. daresay you will want me to give you the cheque I was very much excited, and I sa i d " Y ou for it. I did not th rea t en to knock her down, nor will drive me into an asylum, or int o ; 1 grave. did I hold my fi s t i n h er face. I said, " One fus Not that I mind dying, for what i t death . must take another house, or we must take one t o - to a miserable existence like this ? I declare I wo u ld y gether." Sh e sa id , " You may take one, but if you do rather exchange places with the poorest pa uper in 'shall n o t go w i t h you; I have the pow er now, and a workhouse than be thus insulted and di fled by LAW INTELLIGENCE.—Nov. 24. .LLVJG utau oaav vw 1V , ..1 ♦ A4O/...•V: • ay.n - sx or dungeon and fine will give his sentiments voice be arraigned, although the indictment may eJ a singularly wel prototia term!. ~~~-: THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1858. my' own wife. If you had 99 men out of 100 to deal with they would knock you down." I regret to say that in leaving the room I called her an aggravat ing and a little beast. About half-an-hour afterwards I heard her say to the servants, " The tof all this is that he ha, some woman." I went to the door of the room where they were talk ing, and said, " If you t a lk like that about me in my absence you deserve to have your tongue pulled out." She then left the house. I saw her in the next garden and followed her. She tried to go into the next house, but the door was shut. I told her from my own garden to come in. She ran back screaming. I walked deliberately into the next gar den and took her by the hand and asked her to come home. She said, " I'll see you first." " Then," I said, " I shall be under the painful ne cessity of carrying you," and I carefully lifted her up and put her over the wall into the arms of the housemaid. She ran away again, and was stopped by the painter and Mr. Mansfield, and I took her into the house. She behaved extravagantly, went to the window gesticulating, and screamed " Mur der !" She said, " You know you murdered your poor mother, and you want to murder me." I did not threaten to throw the scissors at her. A letter was brought to me, and she said it was from one of my w—s. Tobin said, " Don't talk so, marm ; you give me the palpitations." She said, "D— you." I poured out some wine, and offered it to her. She said, " D— your wine ; I hope it will choke you all." Sir C. Cresswell—That is an impartial benedic tion. (Laughter.) Witness—That night she complained of illness. I personally atttended upon her and administered remedies. We occupied the same bed, and Lewis slept in the adjoining room. The following day she took her breakfast from my hands. She would not take food. I asked her when she was first taken ill, and afterwards, whether she would have a doctor, but she said she did not want one. I also offered to send for her sister or for a nurse, but she said I need not. When I gave her some wine she said she would drink part if I would drink part, and I did so. I told her I thought her ill ness was caused by apain in her temper. I went out for a short time in the evening, and she abused the servants for not telling her. That night we slept to gether. I offered to send for any one whom she might like to see. On the Sunday night I slept in an adjoining room. On the Monday morning she said that my having left her bed proved that I was tired of her. I denied it, and explained my reason for sleeping in another room. On that day I offered to submit all our differences to her trustees, and be bound by their decision. She said she did not want them. I asked her if she would have Dr. Mitchell. She said "No," he was sucha gossip that she should prefer Dr. Bird. I said I would send for him, but I put it off till the next morning, as it was late and he lived at a distance. Mr. Mitchell came the next day. When Mrs. Davis came to see her sister she accused me of having married for money. On that and the following days my wife also accused me of having married her for money. I had no notice be fore being taken before the magistrate. Mr. Mitchell offered that Mrs. Marchmont should stay at his house for the night, but I did not understand that the arrangement was intended to be permanent. Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant Pigott—She was not reluctant, but eager, for the marriage. I wished her to sign an engagement to marry. I neither drew nor offered to draw her settlement. This is my handwriting. (A paper dated the 10th of July, 1857, was read, signed by the respondent, and addressed to the petitioner, in which he took the most solemn oaths not to interfere in any way with any of her property in the event of her be coming his wife.) She had asked me to set down what I was willing to agree to, in order th a t s h e might give instructions for the settlement. I cannot remember whether I tore up that paper or not. I knew that a settlement must be by deed, and I told her so. I decline to answer the question whether Mrs. Marchmont behavedunkindly to my children. She did not always behave kindly to them. She was mean and ill-tempered to me. I wrote to her in June that she had been the best of wives to me, and I had been the worst of husbands to her. (The letter containing this expression, dated the 17th of June, was read. It was in the same strain as those already read, described the intense misery he was suffering, and entreated " his dear little wife's" pardon, and assured her that his heart burnt with the purest flame of intense love.) I formerly belonged to the London Congregational Board of Ministers. I was expelled from that body in 1850. It was not on the ground that I attempted to seduce another man's wife, but on the ground that I had written two letters which were disapproved to a married woman. I did not propose an assig nation in those letters. I was not charged by Mr. Stiff, of Sydenham, with attempting to seduce his wife. We had no quarrel when my wife accused me of cheatnig her when her change was a shilling wrong. The first time I noticed that she took too much sherry was on the 17th of November. She generally drank sherry and water. I do not accuse her of actual intoxication. I wrote the letters which have been read for the purpose of conciliation and of avoiding the appalling exposure which has come upon me. - I wasivillini to lick the dust for that purpose. I persist in the account I have given about her refusal to let me have eight postage stamps. I don't remember taking money from her box or any other place at Tunbridge-wells. In May last, during her absence, I took £5 6s. out of her wedding purse, but I told her of it when she returned. I never spent a penny of it. I don't remember a syllable of the contents of my letters, such was the intense excitement and sorrow under which they were written. I solemnly declare I did not eat a crumb or have a wink of sleep for a week. The only occasion on which I ever used the word d to my wife was on the 4th of June, when I called for ad- aggravating b----. I brought my wife out of Mr. Wahnisley's house forcibly, but not with violence. Sir C. Cresswell—Did you bring her out by the application of your strength against her will Witness—l did. She did not make resistance. I do not know whether I took her out against her will or not. I infer that she did object to go with me. She was without bonnet or shawl. In the cab I did not hold her down. I sat by her side, and put my arm round her waist. Mr. Sergeant Pigott—Why did you put your arm round her waist ? Witness—Because I was very fond of her. (Laughter.) She screamed on account of what I said about the Walmisleyg. She told me on the road that she had been anxiously watching for me day after day. She screamed the words " Con founded blackguard" and other epithets. My in formation as to the contents of the will was derived partly from my wife herself, partly from rumour and common conversation, and partly from an an onvmous letter. I had no ungenerous motive in referring to it. With regard to various other matters upon which he was questioned, the witnesp adhered to the statements be had made in his ex. amination in chief. Before the conclusion of the cross•examination the Court adjourned. The trial of the cause will be resumed on Satur day, as to-day the learned judge will have to be present at the sitting of the full court. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—Nov. 25 , OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.) Lewis Lewis, 38, draper, was indicted for felo niously omitting. to surrender himself after being declared a bankrupt, and also for removing and concealing his books. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, Mr. Metcalfe, and Mr. F. H. Lewis prosecuted ; and Mr. Giffard defended. It appeared from the statement of the learned sergeant and the evidence of the witnesses, that the prisoner had up to May, 1857, carried on business in Exmouth-street, Clerkenwell, and about that time, being unable to meet his engagements, Mr. Charles John Leaf, of the firm of Leaf, Son, and Co., to whom he owed £1,200, had an interview with the prisoner in consequence of his having re fused to allow an accountant to inspect his accounts. This interview took place on the 6th of May, 1857, and prisoner was then in bed from illness, brought on from excitement about the state of his affairs. He then made an appointment with Mr. Leaf, to meet him the next day at their premises in the city, when others of prisoner's creditors would be there to come to some arrangement with him. He did not attend, and upon the Bth of May the messenger from the Court of Bankruptcy was put in possession. Prisoner, upon being asked about his books, said he had put them into the hands of Messrs. Lewis, the solicitors, but this proved to be untrue. The prisoner staid in the house after the messenger had entered until about half-past four the next morning, when he left, and was not heard of until he was in New York, Pro ceedings in bankruptcy were then instituted, and the usual forms gone through, and upon the 18th of May he was adjudicated a bankrupt by Mr. Commissioner Fane. Upon an investigation being made, which in the absence of books, was a most difficult matter, it was found that he had gone round to all his creditors and obtained from them bills and money to a large amount, with which he ab sconded to New York. From one person he so obtained a debt of £500; from another £335 ; to one of his creditors he gave a receipt in full for £2OO upon receiving four £25 bills. These bills it was found out were being paid as they became due to Mrs. Lewis, and sent to New York ; whereupon the creditors sent Huggett, the city detective, to New York in November last. Huggett then. found that he was living there under the name of Richard Harvey, and took him in custody at the New York post-office, just as he was receiving a letter from England, addressed Richard Harvey, post-office, New York, to be left until called for. With the assistance of the sheriff of New York Huggett ob tained from the primmer 1;377, £:150 of which was halves of the Bank of England notes. Upon being asked about his books, he said he left them with a Mr. White, an accountant of Whitecross-street. Huggett not having the power to bring the pri soner home then returned, and upon inquiry no such person as White an accountant could be found. The prisoner was not again heard of until Septem ber, when he was taken into custody in London, he having returned to this country under as opinion that after giving up the money in New York, and having obtained from a Mr. Edwards, a counsellor of New. York, a release from his creditors, he would be free. Mr. Giffard at some length argued that the pro secution had failed to prove that the notice for the bankrupt to surrender had been sufficiently served upon him to meet the provisions of the law under which the indictment was framed. His Lordship decided that it. was enough for the prosecution to show, as they had, that the notice of bankruptcy had. been posted upon the prisoner's shop and the summons left there. Mr. Giffard having briefly addressed the jury, they returned a verdict of guilty. Mr. Giffard, in mitigation of punishment, urged that the prisoner had given up the money in New York, and returned to this country under the im pression that he would be free. His Lordship said the Court had nothing to do with that, no doubt they made any promise to get the money back. The prisoner said that he gave up every farthing and came home to surrender, not knowing how far he was wrong. His Lordship, in passing sentence, said that theie could be no doubt but that the prisoner knew he was acting wrong, and did not give back the money from any decent feeling, but to obtain good terms from his creditors. He saw nothing to cause him to take a favourable view of prisoner's conduct. The prisoner would not be punished for the sake of the creditors but as an example to deter others. He was then sentenced to six years' penal servi tude. Lewis Zucker, 35, jeweller, was indicted for mak ing false entries, in his books, and unlawfully giving false evidence before a commissioner of bankruptcy. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Poland prosecuted, and Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, Mr. Giffard, and Mr. F. H. Lewis defended. The facts ofihis case, although occupying the Court some time, lay in a very narrow compass. The prisoner had been since 1855 in a small way of business as a jeweller, in Oxford-street, In April of the prese n t year he suddenly appeared to be doing a very extensive trade, his credit with those who supplied him amounting in that anc the two following months to nearly as much as in the three preceding years. In JUly last he stated that while in his shop some one had come in and stolen his cash-box, and that it ',contained a large sum, he having, in addition to the amount he usually kept in it, taken £l3O out of the Union Bank. He called a meeting of his creditors, and offered a com position of 10s. in the pound, which was refused, and the prisoner was made a bankrupt. When before the Commissioner he was examined about the transaction of the robbery, in which he per sisted, and produced his book, which contained entries of sale, day by day, dating from 1855, but there were no names of the parties to whom goods had been sold. He swore most positively that the entries had been made from day to day, and that the book had been in his possession from 1855 down to July, when the robbery took place. Some of the entries bearing evidence of erasures and altera tions, the book was more closely examined, when it was found that the paper of which the book was made had itself 'only come from the manufac turers last year, and was sold in August, 1857, by Messrs. Shaw and Sons, of Fetter-lane, a circum stance which was proved beyond all doubt. The jury found the prisoner guilty. The Court sentenced him to six years' penal servitude. NEW COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Hill.) THE CHARGE OF COUTERFEITING TURKISH COIN Aime Antoine Hugon, 26, described as a traveller, Hugon Reverde, 46, described as a merchant, who surrendered to take his trial, were jointly indicted, with Henry de Boisserolle, who is not in custody, for the offence of misdemeanor, in having unlaw fully attempted to make coins, not circulating in this country, but resembling, and which were in tended to resemble a coin called a piastre, current in the dominions of a foreign prince —the Sultan:of Turkey. The jury returned a verdict of guilty against both prisoners. Sergeant Parry said he was instructed to recom mend the younger prisoner to the merciful con sideration of the court, on the ground that it was believed he had been endeavouring to support him self honestly down to the period of these trans actions, and that it was owing to his father having pressed him to do so that he engaged in the proceeding. Mr. Justice Hill, in passing sentence, said that the prisoners had been convicted of a very grave offence against the laws of this country, and it was very necessary that jforeigners who came to this country should be taught that they were bound to respect its laws. With regard to the older pri soner, there could be no doubt that he knew per fectly well that he was acting illegally, and that he expected, as he said in one of the letters that had been read, that the result would be that he should make a speedy fortune, and he should therefore feel it his duty to pass a severe sentence upon him. As to the other prisoner, he believed that he had been drawn into the matter by his father, but still there was no doubt that he was perfectly well aware that he was doing what was illegal, and he must take the consequence. He then sentenced Aime to be imprisoned for six and Reverde for twelve months. At the rising of the court, William Lemon the stockbroker, was placed at the bar before Mr. Baron Bramwell to receive sentence. When the prisoner was asked whether he had anything to urge why judgment should not be passed upon him, he replied, " I have nothing to say." The learned Judge, addressing him, said that he had pleaded guilty to three indictments—one charging him with forgery, and two others with misappropriating securities and property that had been entrusted to him by their owners. It was really one of the worst possible cases, and after having carefully read over the depositions, and given the matter his most careful consideration, he felt it to be his duty to order him to be kept in penal servitude for 20 years. The prisoner bowed slightly, and without evinc ing the least emotion walked out of the dock. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Nov. 25. MANSION-HOUSE.--Sohn Sullivan, aged 23, who has been in custody on a previous occasion and committed to prison for theft, was brought be fore Sir It. W. Carden charged with stealing a coat, of the value of £3, from the shop of Mr. I.7ttley, a tailor, in Bow-lane. S. C. Knight, constable 437, said that on the pre vious evening he saw the prisoner and another man, not in custody, looking into different ware houses in Milk-street. Suspecting them from their movements to be thieves he followed them through several streets, and eventually noticed the prisoner enter the shop of the prosecutor and leave it with something under his coat. Witness thereupon seized him, and found the prosecutor's coat, now produced, concealed under his own coat. The prosecutor identified the coat, which he said was worth £3, as his property. He saw it safe in his shop, the door of which was closed, a short time previous to the . officer taking the prisoner iitto custody. The gaoler said that the prisoner was in custody at this court about a twelvemonth ago, on a charge of stealing fish, when he was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment with hard labour. Prisoner—Yes ; that is quite right. I have only been in prison once before this. Knight—He has refused to give me any address. Sir R. W. Carden—Where do you live ? Prisoner—l don't live anywhere. Sir R. W. Carden—Where do you sleep ? Prisoner—l don't sleep in any house. I lie in the streets, or in any hole and corner I chance to find. I am guilty of stealing the coat. Sir R. W. Carden—As you plead guilty to the offence you will be remanded till to-morrow, and brought up in petty sessions, and in the meantime the police will make every inquiry respecting you. Remanded accordingly. Thoma 3 Tracey and John Cotter, the former a labourer the latter a cobbler, were charged with stealing a piece of bacon, value ls., from the shop window of Mr. S. Murley, cheesemonger, of 109, Bishopsgate-street Without. H. Hawsbees, the prosecutor's shopman, said, that on the previous evening he saw the prisoners, whom he had lately noticed loitering:about the shop window a good - deal, looking at some pieces of cheese, when one of them stole the bacon pro duced, and handed it to the other. He then seized them and gave them into custody. The gaoler said that Tracey had been committed from this court to Holloway Gaol for 21 days for assault a few weeks ago. The officer said that he found 6s. ld. upon Cotter. Sir R. W. Carden—Where did you get the 6s. ld. from? Cotter—lt is the result of my hard earnings. I am a cobbler by trade. Sir IL W. Carclen--No doubt that is tha rcsult"of some other robbery. I shall commit you both to prison for a month, with hard labour, and the 6s. ld. will go towards your maintenance during your confinement. BOW-.STREET.--A good-looking young woman, named Elizabeth Burgess, was brought up on re mand, charged with attempting to commit suicide. On the night of the 10th inst. a policeman (F 120) found the prisoner sitting on a door-step in a state of stupefaction. He took her to the hospital, where an emetic was administered, and she vomited a quantity of laudanum. She said she had taken threepennyworth, and a small vial containing another pennyworth was found upon her. She told the constable that it was of no use trying to save her, as she would eto it some time or other. She had done it from distress of mind, from being " unfortunate, and her mother would have nothing to do with her for fear she should contaminate the other children." On inquiry it was found that she had been only a few days before discharged from the Marylebone police-court, after having been re mandecl on a similar charge. An attempt had been made to obtain her admission into the Institution for Female Penitents at Pentonville, but without success ; and on application to her mother, the latter refused to receive her at home for the reason above stated. It was now stated that in the interval since her remand on the present occasion the chaplain at the House of Detention had interested himself on her behalf, and it was expected that she would now be admitted to the Penitentiary, if sent there by the magistrate, in charge of one of the female warders from the House of Detention now in attendance. Mr. Hall accordingly - desired her to be handed over to the care of the female warder and taken by her to the institution. THAMES.—Capt. John Webb, the master of the ship Commodore Perry, from Calcutta, now lying in the Victoria Dock, appeared for the second time before Mr. Selfe to answer a charge of assaulting Hassan Ali and other persons at sea. Lieutenant-Colonel R. Marsh Hughes, secretary of the Strangers' Home for Asiatic and Afri can Seamen, at Limehouse, attended to watch the case on behalf of the directors of that insti tution; Mr. Joseph Smith, solicitor, conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Gomm, from the office of Mr. C. Young, solicitor, defended Capt. Webb. The evidence of the serang (boatswain) who was disrated on the voyage, the tindals (boatswain's mates), and six other Asiatic seamen, which was confirmed by a Prussian seaman named John Jacob, made out a very aggravated case of tyranny and cruelty against Capt. Webb and the chief mate, who had been in the practice, almost continually throughout the voyage from Calcutta to England, of beating and kicking the Lascars, and offending their religious prejudices by stuffing pork into their mouths, forcing the forbidden meat down their throats with a belaying-pin, beating some of them with pork, rubbing it on their faces, compelling them to carry pigs' entrails round their necks, and sending them aloft to grease the masts with pork fat. Many distinct assaults were sworn to have been committed on the Lascars by Capt. Webb and the chief mate. Several had been flogged with a rope's end ; and one Lascar had been " pricked up" • with a bayonet to make him move about quickly. A Lascar, while pursued by the captain, who had a piece of pork in his hand, either fell or threw himself overboard and was drowned, and the cap tain refused to allow the crew to lower a boat, and made no attempt to save him. It was admitted, however, by several witnesses in cross-examination by Mr. Gomm, that Capt. Webb was in the after part of the ship when the Lascar fell overboard, or threw himself overboard, in the fore part of the vessel, but all agreed that the captain refused to allow the crew to lower a boat, and said it was of no consequence. The chief mate had beaten a Lascar with a belaying-pin, and left marks on his forehead and back, which were still visible. The Lascars had been further insulted by being com pelled to clean out the pigstye, and their hair was shortened and their beards cut by order of the capt. and chief mate. A Lascar was sent aloft to grease the masts with pigs' fat, and the captain had a gun in his hand at the time and made use of some threats. The man was so frightened that he fell from the mast on to the deck, and was killed. Mr. Gomm said the fall of the man from the mast was a pure accident. Mr. Selfe said he believed it to be so, and the occurrence was entered in the official logbook in a very straightforward manner. Mr. Gomm said the hair and beards of the Lascars were shortened because they were dirty and full of vermin, and that the Asiatics were fond of pork and ate it. Mr. Smith said everyLascar had sworn that was contrary to their religion to eat pork or meddle with it, and that it was forced into their mouths and throats in a violent and insulting manner. Mr. Selfe said he should send the case for trial, but he would be satisfied with the personal recog nizances of the captain, and if he did not appear his absence would be considered a proof that he was guilty of all the charges brought against him. It was also arranged that the Lascars, 54 in number, who had abandoned the Commodore Perry on ac count of bad treatment, should be boarded in the Strangers' Home, Capt. Webb agreeing to pay Gs. per week for each, and the magistrate promising to advance a few pounds more from the poor-box. LAMBETH.—Henry Rudledge, who was re manded on the serious charge of violating his daugh ter Kate, a girl of 15 years of age, living with her in a state of incest, and ultimately threatening to murder her and destroy himself, underwent further examination. Mr. Sleigh; the barrister, attended from the So ciety for the Protection of Young Females ; and Mr. Solomons attended to prosecute ; Mr. Wontner, as before, appeared in behalf of the accused. A respectably-dressed middle-aged woman, with a child in her arms was brought into court, and having admitted herself to be the prisoner's wife, she was accommodated with a seat in front of the bench. The girl Kate Rudledge was then called into the witness-box, and, having been sworn, the evidence she had given on the last day was read over to her, and she declared it to be correct. She further, in reply to the questions of Mr. Sleigh and the Magistrate, said—lt was on the Friday after I came to my father's on the Saturday preceding that my father took liberties with me. It was in the morning early—about 5 o'clock. I was in the same room with my father, who on that night slept with my little brother, and his wife slept with me. I wa s awoke by my father coming to bed, and his wife held me in the bed. I screamed, and was going to get up, when he cared out, " Whist !" struck me with his open hand, and told me to be quiet. At that time his wife was awake, and held me. Mr. Norton—How do you mean by holding you? Witness—She was holding me by the feet for about five minutes, and that time I was OR my back. At that time my father was taking indecent liber ties with me. Mr. Norton—Do you mean to say he acted so to you at this the first time, while his wife, as yousay, held your feet, and against your will? Witness—Yes, Sir. The witness further said, she struggled as hard as she could to prevent her father doing what he did, but he held her down, and prevented her screaming by placing his hand on her mouth. On each occurrence of his committiwg the offence she had used every effort to prevent him ; but hethreat ened that he would do for her if she ever said any thing to anyone about it. Mr. Sleigh here applied for the removal of Mrs. Rudledge into the dock with her husband, on a charge of aiding and assisting her husband in the commission of rape on her step-daughter. Mr. Wontner objected to this, unless the charge was first made at the station-house in the usual form, and he begged to warn the persons giving the charge of the consequences. Mrs. Rudledge was, however, taken to the station and given in charge y the taint of the prosecutrix, and having been brought back again was placed by the side of her husband. In cross-examination by Mr. Wontner, the girl Rudledge said—My stepmother left her home about four months ago. I had told my father something about her that made them quarrel. I told him she was in the habit of going downstairs three or four mornings a-week to a man whom she let into the house, and they quarrelled after that. I knew my father went to that man's house about it, and that man summoned my father before the magis trate at Woolwich, for abusing him. I appeared as a witness before the magistrate, who told me that I had perjured myself, and my stepmother has not been back since. The case before the magistrate was dismissed. Mr. Wontner—Now, respecting your father's Bible. I wish to ask you if you know where it is ? Witness—No, sir, I do not. Mr. Wontner—Did you go to a priest at Wool wich on the morning you left ? Witness—We did not, but we saw a priest, who gave us the direction to go the lodging in the Lambeth•road. Mr. Wontner—Where did you see the priest ? Witness—At St. George's. We went there, and he gave us the direction to the landlady, and on going there we saw a bill in the window. In re-examination the witness said that when her father charged her with doing something indecent to herself she denied it, and on her father repeating it she said that, not wishing to contradict him, she " kept it to herself," and declared she had never told a falsehood on the subject. Her stepmother after the first violence of her fathei towards her, said, " How very wrong this is for him to be doing so," and she (witness) replied that it was, and told her she had no business t o h o ld h er as she had, when she replied, "Oh, what matters?" This was a good while before she left. When the magistrate told her she had perjured herself she had spoken the truth. She had seen her stepmother go with a man across to his own place, and that was after her father had gone out to work. She went down in her night dress, and stayed half-an-hour with the man, and had done so about five times. Her father said his wife went to a bad house, and then it was she had told him what she had seen. The witness further said that before her stepmother went away she used to ask her (witness) to go upstairs, and on her doing so her father used to take in• decent liberties with her in his wife's pre sence, but on one occasion he turned her out of the room. Improper conduct between her father and herself had taken place six or seven times while her stepmother was in the room. Mrs. Mary Farrell, the aunt of the last witness, was next called, and in cross-examination by Mr. Wontner said " The girl lived with me in Ireland from a year old till she went to her father, she being then 14 years of age. I don't remember that I ever said that she had been guilty of any in decency towards herself. She knew as little of indecency as a child 10 years old, and I don't recollect ever taxing her with any such thing. I have not done so, nor have I ever told her father so." Mr. Sleigh here applied fora remand, which was granted, but Mrs. Itudledge was admitted to bail. It was stated at the former examination that the prisoner was a clerk in the Arsenal, Woolwich Dockyard, but it appears he is only a labourer there. ALLEGED .RAPE IN ESSEX. (From the Essex Herald) 'On Saturday last, at the county magistrates' office, before S. G. Cooke and W. R. Havens, Esqrs. George Cudmore, aged 33, c arr i er f rom West kersea to Colchester, was charged with com mitting a rape upon Mary Ann Roofe, a single woman, aged 19, in the service of Mr. Henry John May, oyster merchant at West Mersea, on Tues day, the 16th November. Prosecutrix is the daugh ter of James Roofe, for 25 years a respectable offi cer of the Colchester borough police. For obvious reasons we omit certain details of the evidence adduced. Mr. J. H. Church appeared for the prosecution, and Mr: 11.. Jones defended the prisoner. Mr. Church, in opening the case, said that pro secutrix up to this occurrence had always been very decent and well-behaved girl, and he did not suppose that there would be the slightest imputa tion cast upon her character. Mr. Church then called the prosecutrix, a rather good-looking young woman, aged 19, who came up with her parents, and whose evidence, taken the previous day, before W. R. Havens, Esq.. was read over to her and signed. It was to the effect that on Tuesday morning, Nov. 16, the prisoner, George Cud more, a carrier from West Mersea to Colchester, called at Mr. May's, her master's house, as was his custom, about half-past eight, an d sa id " Good morn ing, Mary ; is your master ashore?" She replied he was not : and at this time she was busy in the little parlour taking dirt out of the fire-place. He then made use of expressions which led her to suppose he intended to take liberties with her, and she told him he should not. She went into the kitchen, where he followed her, took hold of both her wrists, drove her against the wall, and pulled up her clothes. She called out that her master was com ing, and he let her go. He again seized hold of her, and thrust her on to a chair, and she called out, " For God's sake, don't !" ie said, " I will, be ," and committed the offence, although she strove against him with all her power, but could not prevent him ; she told him she would tell her master, and he said, " Don't be such a fool ;" she saw her master in about twenty minutes, but did not like to tell him, and her mistress was in Lon don ; as soon as she could leave the house between ten and eleven o'clock of the same day, she told Mrs. Cook, who lives in a cottage adjoining their gar den ; her father came to see her the next day, and she told him. Cudmore had twice before tried to have connexion with her. Cross-eiamined by Mr. Jones—She was 19 next birthday. Had known Cudmore about 12 months. She had never joked with him further than being civil, or given him liberties of any kind. Did not remember telling him three or four months ago that she had dreamt about him, and would swear that she did not. Emily Nevard, a young woman living on St. John's-green, was with her at the fair, and on leaving her she went down Magdalen street to the dressmaker's, and then re turned to her mother and aunt at the Plough corner. She again went to the fair between six I and seven o'clock in the evening, with her aunt and cousin, named Charles Lukin, a painter, living at Southminster, and did not stay at the fair later than ten. When she left the fair she went up to Mrs. Taylor's, Military-road, where she slept that night, and the next morning she went home to her father's at Lexden. She slept both nights of the fair at Mrs. Taylor's. Did not tell Cudmore the next day that she was very sleepy, as she had been at the fair both nights with her young man. Her mistress lately had to complain of her conduct with a cabman who recently came to the house, but she never told her her other servant did not conduct herself in that way. Cudmore had only been five minutes in the house before he • took liberties with her, and had been there altogether 20 minutes. When Cudmore came in she was in the little par lour, and on her going into a back-house to melt some grease off some candlesticks he followed her. Cudmore did not say, " I shall be off, I cannot stop any longer;" and she did not say, " 0, stop a little longer." Did not say to him, " I shall be done in a few minutes," or " You have got no cou rage in you, you only promise." During the five minutes before Cudmore touched her, she had not said anything to him. She only tried to resist him. Would swear she never gave him any liberties in her life. On two previous occasions Cudmore took liberties with her. She told him she would tell her mistress, and he said, "Don't be so silly, it is only a joke." Never complained to any one of them. Did not tell Cudmore he must wait until her mistress went to London. Had never given him gin and water and other things. Upon her oath, all that took place with Cudmore was not with her consent. When she told him her master was coming she did not rush out of the' house, but ran into the back kitchen. She did not run into Mrs. Cooke's or any other neighbours because he followed her. She did not stop in the back house, because she was afraid he would interrupt her there. Did not know that the conversation in the back house could be heard by the neighbours. She made as much noise as she could. The nearest cot tage to the back house was not distant the length of that room, and that cottage was Mrs. •Mussett's. Had she made a noise, she did not know, if Mrs. Mussett had been in the cottage, whether she could have heard her. The back house was a boarded building with cracks in it. She knew Mrs. Mussett was at home that morning. The back house was the length of that room from the kitchen. The back door of the kitchest was open. There was a little yard between the kitchen and back house. She could not shriek out. She never could call very loud, but called as loud as she could. She called out, " For God's sake don't, Cudmore." She could not say any more, her strength failed her. It was the second time her strength failed her. Notwithstanding her distress and anguish of mind she could not shriek out more. She did not call out loudly the first time, as she thought ber master was coming. She had not seen her master on the other side of the water a few mi nutes before Cudmore came. She did not go with Cudmore to look for her master. Had she called out for assistance in the yard, coming out of the back house into the kitchen, she should not have had it that she knew of. There was a straight path from their yard up to Mussett's back-door. There were two paths, one leading down their garden and one up to Mussett's house. She did not noticae:vhheetdihedr the doors or windows of Mussett ' s house were open or shut. After all that occurred she dide nrnot master, kiss n C o n t d Cudmore, or or c a l s id k n h io i r m e tcoambreuasghahinertodisvese h dress, as he said he would; she did not k now h ow long but told itbiwmatsbetnhetbsaatmsebdeay, and before would tell her I s t he was before she w en t to Mrs Cooke's that he came a second time. Cudm ore dinner;master. afterwards, came . a third time to the house just before two o'clock. It w as a t th e time her master was came cud m back t o t h C e 0 sodinece naabout 0 u t at breakfast that Cudmore time. tNs , o o e ' l e ' l o master mr then to e l r d master came to breakfast she did not speak. Her master was there, and saw Cudmore as soon as he came to the door. A man named Lufkin lived in a house of Mr. May's, but she had not been frequently "larking" and playing with him. She never bad done so. Re-examined by Mr. Church—The cabman alluded to came with two gentlemen in a cab. She did not take liberties with the cabman, or allow him to take any with h er; a ll t h e conversation she had with the cabman was about a little child being run over upon North-hill. Her mistress did not like her to talk to the cabman, but he did not offer to take any lib er ti es w ith h er , arid nothing was said about his taking liberties ; it was the mere fact of her talking to the cabman that her mistress corn plained of. Mrs. Taylor, at whose house she slept, on the Military-road, on the night of the fair, was a married woman, an d th e d aug ht er o f M r. May. Her sister now lived at Mrs. Taylor's. She strug gled much against the prisoner until her strength was exhausted. Harriet Cooke, wife of Wm. Cooke, mariner, West Mersea, deposed that she resided in a house at the bottom of Mr. May's garden, which NM over 30 yards from Mr. May's kitchen. On Tuesday morning last, between 10 and 11 o'clock, Mary Ann Roofe came running down to her house, and ap peared to be very much upset. She was not crying, but seemed to be beyond that. She asked her if she would go up to her master's house with her, and she followed her almost immediately. She asked her what she should do, as she had been very grossly assaulted by Cudmore. She asked her if she gave him any liberties, and she said she did not. She asked her what she should do, and she advised her to tell her master all that had happened. She remained about twenty minutes or half an hour with her the first time, and saw her twice again in the course of the day. She told her the first time that Cudmore had assaulted her. The second time she went to Mr. May's she saw Cudmore, who came into the kitchen, but neither herself nor Mary Ann Roofe said anything to him then about the affair. He came to speak to Mr. May as he was going to Colchester. James Roofe, father of the prosecutrix, said that on Wednesday he went to see his daughter, and had not heard of this affair until he got there. As soon as he entered the house his daughter began crying, and on asking her what she was crying about, she made a statement concerning- Cudmore's conduct towards her ; the next day he came with his daughter and applied to the magistrates for warrant for Cudmore's apprehension. His daughter had a very weak voice, and he never knew her tO shriek or cry out in her life. Mary Ann Roofe, mother of prosecutrix, said, on Thursday last sh e came to their house from West Mersea. She examined her and detailed appear ances indicating what " had occurred to her daughter. Police-constable George Romney deposed that on Thursday night, about 12 o'clock, he apprehended prisoner at his house at West Mersea ; he was in bed, and when he came down stairs and opened the door he told him he had come to apprehend him on the charge of committing a rape on Mary Anne Roofe. Prisoner replied, " All right. expected it, as I knew the girl had gone to Col chester concerning it, but I did not expect it to night, not before to-morrow. I intended to have seen Mr. May about it." He then brought him out and put the handcuffs upon him, and on the road to the Colchester police-station prisoner said, " I did it, but not against her will ; she never re sisted me, and I wish now I had not meddled with her, for the sake of my wife and children." Cross-examined by Mr. Jones He thought he said twice that she was a consenting party. Mr. Church said this was the case for the pro. secution. Mr. Jones said, the prisoner, acting under his advice, declined making his statement here. On Mr. Howard, the magistrates's clerk, read ing over the charge to prisoner, and asking him whether he had anything to say in defence, he said he wished to leave it to his solicitor. Mr. Jones—Acting under my advice he will re serve his defence. The whole gist of the case was aye or no, did she consent P and he has never va ried in his statement from that time until now. The magistrates said they must leave it to a jury to decide. Mr. Jones applied that the prisoner should be admitted to bail. Mr. Church said it was a charge of a most serious nature next to the capital charge of murder, and formerly punishable by death, and as the assizes were near at hand he must oppose the application. The magistrates refused bail, but at the solicita tion of prisoner's attorney, they allowed him to re main at the Colchester county police-station till Monday, when he was removed to Springfield gaol. COUNTRY MAR KETAS: BOSTON—Nov. 24. The trade in wheat, influenced by the weather, which is uncommonly keen, and the diminished supplies from the growers, has again ruled firm in tone, and all fine samples are dearer. To-day a moderate show of wheat in fine con dition. The best yellow samples made ls. over previous rates. Oats scarce, and 6d dearer. Be ans an d peas ac tive in demand, and tending upwards. Wheat 3Bs to 40s Oats.. 2os to 25 White do 44s to 46s Beans, new 42s to 608 Barley .....28s to 34s Ditto, old .42s to 5 0 e Averages for the week: Wheat 5,358 qrs., at 39s 9d 8ar1ey......... 726 „ • 3ls 10d Oats 241 „ • 22s 9d Rye I, ___ s od Beans Peas LOUTH—Noy. 24. At this corn market to-day there was a tolerable show of wheat and a fair attendance of farmers. Wheat sold at ra ther over the rates of last week. Wheat . ... 38s to 42s Oats.... 24s to 28e White .46s to 48s Beans 38s to 40s Barley .43s to —s Peas NEWART There was a fair supply of day, and transactions were qr. Not much doing in other White wheat, new, 44s to 48s Red do. 4os to 44s Old white —s to —s Red do. ---s to —s Barley, malting-, 36s to 44s I—:Noy.. 24. wheat from the farmers ta nked at an advance of is per sorts. Barley, grinding 28s to 31s Oats, old --8 to —f Neic do 21sio 32s Beans.. 44s to 48e Malt.. --s to —a BIRMINGHAM—Nov. 25. Wheat and flour were somewhat steadier to-day, but the demand was still very limited, at the `curren c y of thi s d a y se'nnight. Choice q ua liti es of wheat lower, an d meta fair sale. Oatmeal sold rather slowly, and. former prices were barely maintained. Beans and Indian corn again favoured. buyers. MANCHESTER —Nov. 25. At this day's market we had a fair attendance of the trade, and wheat met with a moderately good demand for consumption, at the prices of this day week. Beans and Indian corn steady, with a fair inquiry. Oats and oatmeal sold slowly. o —Nv. 24. There were no imports. GLASGOW Wheat was quiet ; full prices were asked, but little business was done. Flour wee un changed. Barley was more inquired for, at th e d ec li ne o f last week fo r S co t c h ; nothing doing in foreign. Oats dull) and the turn cheaper. Beals and peas sold slowly, at late rates. EDINBURGH GRAIN—Nov. 24. There was a smaller supply of grain at market. Sales were ready, and prices at about late rates. Wheat on the top 6d down average Os 2d down. Barley on the top is Od up average Os 3d up. Oats on the top Os 6d down —average 2d up. Beans on the top Os 6d up —average 2d up. Averages per Imperial quarter. Wheat.... Wheat (N). 0 0 0 0-12ths Barley Oats . 1 2 2 8-12ths Beans Total Supply and Sales. Wheat........ 928 qrs.. ...... Sold 711 qrs 8ar1ey........279.9 qrs Sold 1983 qrs . Oats .1548 qrs Sold 1248 qrs Beans ........ 121 qrs, Sold 101 qrs DERBY SMITHFIELD—Nov. 23. There was a good supply of fat beasts to-day, mostly of excellent quality, the attendance of buyers was small, and the greater part went away unsold. The pens were well filled with sheep, and high prices asked. • •A good number of fat pigs, demand brisk, and prices • better. supply of at calves. 6s itddd tthtoo _sl76did • A plentiful " Pork Rough eaVeal ...... . **** 5d d r s tto tO s7 ; l e. calf skins, 41d to sid. Beef Mutton .. Lamb Hides, 4d to Sad; BIRT}I. ERSKINE.—On the 19th inst., at Pittodrie, Aberdeenshim• N. 8., the lady of Colonel Knight Erskine, of Pittodrie, of a son and heir. SMITH. --On the 23d inst., at 51, Grosvenor-street, Lady Smith, a daughter. SUFFIELD.—On the 21st inst., at Gunton-park, the Lady Suffield, of a daughter. THATCHER. —On the 24th inst., at Penge, Surrey, the wife of Capt. Thatcher, of a son. MARRIAGIES.. DRUMMOND--PENNINGTON.—O n the 25th inst., at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, Edgar Atheling Drummond, Esq., son of Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Drummond, to the Hon. Louisa Thoodosia Pennington, sister of Lord Mun caster. HOLLAND—TREVELYAN.—On. the 25th 'inst., at St. Mi chael's, Chester-square, Henry Thurstan Holland, Es q ! , eldest son of Sir Henry Holland, Bart., to Margaret J • Trevelyan, eldest daughtet of Sir Charles E. Trevelyan, K.C.B. DEATHS. BoLnEno.--On the 24th inst., at 2, Glocester-gardens, Hyde -park,• John Stephen Boldero, Esq., late of the Bengal C.S., aged 67. FANcurr.----On the 24th inst., at his residence, 30, Stan hope-street, Regent's-park, John Fancutt, Esq., aged 57. HARDING.—On the 25th inst., ttt 4, Cheapside, John. T. Harding, Esq. KINGDON.—On the 24th inst., Id 11, Church-street, Horse lydown, Mr. Wm. liingdon. aged 66. LYONS.—On the 23d inst., at Arundel Castle, Vioe•Ad mind Lord Lyons, aged 68.. WADDINGTON.-0 11 the 22e, inst. at Cox's Hotel, term street, Majoi..9ene ra l gineers. addington, C. 8., Bombay 11- WINTER.—On the 24th inst ,at his residence, Peckham road, Surrey, George Winter, Esq., aged 76. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tice Sun Office , No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlesex, Friday, November 26, 1868. _,,;=: .~