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• LAW INTELLIGENCE. 'COURT OF CHANC.ERY.--4116 , 3. (Before the Lo-A.ds Justice!.) 00ALEY V. LORD STAFTWAD_CAMPERLL T. CORLEY. This was a motion on F.ehalf of Mr. Corley that no part of a own of £ 2 , 466 35 . 4 1. cash iu the bank to the credit of the cu mo f " Cam P h ell v. Corley," or any money in the hands of the reeeiv er appointed in the causes, or any part of the residuary personal estate of Constantla Corley, de ceeeetit mi g ht be transferred or paid to Mr. Alexander Francis Car apbell pending the appeal by Mr. Corley from the des:ids:en of this court to the House of Lords. There was 1130 an appeal from the decision of Vice-Chancellor Xinder.skiy, by which his honour bad directed that a sum of 164 which by arrangement had been certified as due from Mr. Campbell to Mr. Jacquet, his former solicitor, ghould; he paid out of the said sum of £2,466 3s. 4d. Mr. Chapter and Mr. Southgate were for the motion ; aF. Greene mad Mr. H. M. Riddell w ere for Mr. Campbell • .. and Mr. F. 4 . Williams supported the order of the Chancrp or. gorAte:tliscussion, Tbei Imordships made an order to the followir i r ,„ rder ene forct— th A there should be n o interference with Ara o Ming £6OO to Mr. Jacquet, and that . AyJ should he left in t ' , int to answer Mr. Corley"s costs sir , that tb order of the Vice-Chancellor (con .at, the hearine • Aoant upon the ' origln. order of this Court) should be v . cried by eon . se . nt ; that CI the rest of the funds should be r ts tra: tees upon trust, is clear o$ 'in ( /Aid to the solicitors famorancea on the re versiolipl y fund of Mr. Campbell, in . the suit of " Corley v. Lord F tafford •" that the balance Camp ell ; an d that the reversior should be paid to Mr. ebargt.d with any SUM which, i Aary fund should he thereby of the House of Lords on the a consequence of the decision bj Mr. Campbell to Mr. Cr appeal, might have to be paid .eley. =OE CARL AR V. MUDGE. This suit was institr led to obtain the winding-np of the Imperial Brazilian 11'Z% ming Asromation (established in 1825), node.. the direction . of the Court, the same company being alrey'y, by resol' ,tics, II in the course of winding up volun tarilyer . It a nt , rare that the company were entitled to a nun' of slr .ves and the children of such slaves born in Brazil. Tt A slaves were lawfully acquired, and their chil dren lawf telly possessed as slave. in Brazil. A doubt had, howeve-, been expressed as to whether the directors of the eemV.ll7, could realise the value of the slaves without sub lecti'JZ themselves to punishment under the English law, ans. tt .e op:Ilion of the Court was now sought on this point. Mr. Selwyn and Mr. Lewis were for the plaintiff; Mr. Bacon and Mr. Allnutt for the defendants. Their Lordships' attention having been called to the 6th and 7 h Vic., c. 98, sec. 6, made the order for the sale of the slaves, and added a direction for sale applicable to the children of the slaves in question. The wcrds of the 6th rectioa of the act in question, being the act which was passed in 1843 for the more effectual suppression of the slave - rade, is as follow :—" Provided always, that nothing in this act contained, shall be taken to subject to any for feiture, punishment, or penalty any person for transferring or receiving any share in any joint-stock company esta blish( ti before the passing of this act in respect of any slave or slaves in the possession of such company befo.c such time, or for selling any slaveor slaves which were lawfully in his possession et the time of the passing of this act, or which such person shall or may have become possessed of or entitled unto bond fide prior to such sale, by inheritance, deyiec, bequest, marriage, or otherwise, by operation of aw." PRIPP T. THE BRIDGEWATER CANAL COMPANY.' Their Lordships gave judgment in this appeal from a de cree of Vice-Chancs!llor Wood, and dismissed it with costs. The f.tcts of the case were devoid of public interest. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—Attu. 3. ()Wore Mr. Commissioner Goniburn.) :IN RE MILLINGEN. 'll , l bankrupt was an umbrella manufacturer, of Fore /erect. This was the examination meeting. D 64,12,564; assets about £5500. Mr. Linkicter opposed and examined the bankrupt touch ing his ready money sales. It appeared that for some time before his failure he had been in the habit of selling goods for ready money, chiefly to pawnbrokers, without making any entry in his books. He kept a horse and chaise, and used to go ahout selling goods where he could. HOlf of his sales were effected in this way, and the other half at his ahop. He bad made ready money sales to the amount of £2,400 since January, 1856. He bad been in the habit of exchanging cheques with different persons; it was ironer eible for him to G i ve th e p ar ti cu l ars. From January, 18.56, to O.- failure there were entries in his banker's book of £l,OOO or ,g 4,000 of receipt and payments, which did not appear in his cash-hook. These were in respect of the ex hanged cheques. 111 on being examined by Mr. Lawrence the bankrupt depo.ed that the sales stated in the account as amounting to £13,808 were all vouched ; the ready money sales aa ere unyt ched, but the purchases, £14,482, were also vouched. Mr. Linklater and Mr. Lawrence having been beard on behalf of their respective clients, His Honour said the only question was whether the hank rapt should pass. He thought no good result would ensue Iron an adjournment. If further examination were desired it mi,:ht be bed at the certificate meeting. He should there fore, followivg the principle laid down in Sellers' case, allow theb mkrupt to pass his examination " without prejudice to any and every question" when he asked for his certificate. The bankrupt passed. IN RE TROWSU. Tb,2 'Ankrupt, A. E.Trowse, a coachsmith, Sm., Leather lane. appliA f,er his certificate. Tbs bsnkruptcy occurred in 1855, but the proceedings had been t,l ,layed by litigation in other courts. Mr. Lawrence appeared in support of the application. No opposition being offered, a third-class certificate was grantee. IN RE CALVERT AND CO. It will be remembered that a short time since a trade el.btor's summons was taken out by Messrs. Cermick and Co., or a debt, NN hi , :,1 1 was paid. Me. Phillips rtav applied for the coats of the summons, to which Mr. ette, for Messrs. Calvert and Co., objected, en the r,rninr.: that they should have been applied for at the time l'ae summons was disposed of. Mr. Phillips said the coats were necessarily incurred is •getti , lg• the money. The summons had been taken out long beforr, it was returnable, and on the Monday, when the time exuixed, Messrs. Calvert and Co. signed an admission of the debt, and tork advantage of the nine days allowed by the law, paying the debt e n th e S a t ur d ay as the time expired on ;he Monday. Th t Commissioner said these questions of r:xsts were left in discretion of the Cenrt ;be was clearly of opinion he ought ID refwe the application. INSOLVENT DEBTQIIS' COURT.—At:G. 3. (Before the chief Commissioner.) The learned Cote.nissioner cleared his paper, and the Coo-t adjourned. He sat on Monday night till nearly nine o'clock, and . ..,tsposed of several matters. In the case of Williaru 111,nry PriAter, before reported, a judgment of six mollies was given under tbo discretionary clause. He had been a mantlemaker in Monkwell-street, City, and was aegnitted at the Central Criminal Ceurt on a charge of arson. (Before Mr. Commissioner Phillips.) IN RB JAMES ABBOTT—A COLLEGE FOR IDIOTS. This insolvent, .a " 8.A.," described as a canvasser, who had attempted to establish a college for idiots of the higher clesses, was opposed by a Miss Newman, who had been matron of Br. tholomew s Hospital. Mr. Reed supported. It arpesred that the insolvent hail advertised for a super- Inteoder.t of his college at Laverstock, near Salisbury, which was fins idiots of the higher classes, and also a college which was rival Oxford and Camtridge. He failed in his pro ject, and hence the insolvency. Miss Newman complained that she had been induced to advarce £l5O which she had saved up, and also raising money on her reversionary property for another £l5O. Mr. Commissioner Phillips asked some of the learned cow set to take up the case for Miss Newman, and Mr. W. Denney corveated and opposed for her. Miss New detailed the manner in which she had ad vanced Ler money to the insolvent, and the expectation he held :nit to her from the establishment of a college which was 4 o rival the great universities. Mr. Denney made an energetic speech, complaining that he had been defranded of her money. Mr. Commissioner Phillips expressed his obligation to the learned counsel for conducting the ease. The poor won.an had lost her money, and it was a case for the full extent of the discretionary clause. After commenting on the conduct of the insolvent, he gave a judgment of six months. (Before Mr. Commissioner Murphy.) IN RE GEORGE FEATHERSTONE GRIFFIN. Mr. Dowse opposed for two creditors, on the ground of a vexn ions defence, and The learned Commissioner gave a judgment of six months. IN RE HERBERT S. H. CORNEWALL. The insolvent had been about four years in prison. His debts were upwards of £30,000, which were nearly all se oared, and be gave up property. Sargood appeared for two creditors to obtain an amendment to the schedule, which was set right, and a con. obtained. The insolvent was discharged. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. IcORTHERN CIRCUIT.—NEWCASTLE, AUG. 2. CIVIL COURT. (Before Lord Chief Justice Pollock.) EtInTLEY ♦. TEE ST. GEORGE ASSURANCE COMPANY This was an action on a policy of life assurance, effected In the St. George Assurance Company, of London, on the life oC the late Mr. George Has-te'l Hantley, surgeon , of Howt i oti, near Newcastl e , f or £2 , 0 00, and in which hie wide .v, as his representative, was the plaintiff. The defendants pleaded that the deceased was not a man of sober habits, that he had Bright's disease of the kidne3 s and heart disease at the time when be effected the policy; that he was aware that he had these diseases, and traudu lentiv concealed this knowledge from the company. Mr. H ogg ins, Q.C., Mr. Wheeler, and Mr. West appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr. .Atherton, Q.C., Mr. Edward James, Q.C., and Mr. Hopwood for the defendants. It t;ppeared from the statement of the learned counsel for the ) laintiff, and from the evidence of the various witnesses called, that the deceased was a surgeon in very extensive practice at Howdon, near Newcastle, being surgeon to several institutions, collieries, and large iron foundiries, in addi ial to his private practice. He was 54 years of age, and np to the time when he insured his life, on the 12th of Aprie 1857, was known as a remarkably healthy, robust, ruddy-complexioned, active man, subject to no ailments, fond of shoeting and dancing, and who took a , great deal of exer ise. He was a vegebrian, seldom took any animal ' food, and then only a very little roast beef, and was in other reap, eta a remarkably sober and abstemious man. Several agents for rival insurance offices had frequently applied to him as long ago as 1831 to insure his life in their (acts, but until the present policy was effected his reply had been that he could not afford Ir. On the part of the plaintiff re spectable persons in the neighbourhood where deceased had lived were called, who proved that they bad known him for `..:0 years, and that his character was as above stated. p iblican of his town was called, who proved that, ex cept during a period of three months, when he was in at tend trice daily on a ship's captain who was stavinc , at Ifs ) oire , who had had his foot c rus h ed by a rails ay W-iggon, he cever was in the lions, and never drank anything there. Early in the case the plea that the deceased was not oL, sober habits was abandohed by the counsel for the defend ants. Mr. Preston, a cousin of his, a surgeon at Newcastle, m cy with hi m for the had been on terms of inti last 17 years, and never knew him want a doctor. He fre wavy gat him presents of game) anti be tarlap nun. TN - .4f SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY _EVE - NING AUGUST I!838. 6 .. and thate would fre itnceant bew aostitvesrxiloo-rnsdevent:iesthoi•' , .e r ns ho oting. - A lady of his a tin a party with him at Christ inceil a Scotch reel with her with . the 'course of the nieht she wal tzed .. and danced a polka.r ~. village•r a s ea ' t l s B ; s 7 6 r i k t a , en a t.d n o d thh t aa h l a i tint having n db r whom he had meats Aced mAuscuhrgheoenhnaadmeedn enjoyed the dancing at the pat 47, , t _ d 1 .1 h im he thought he had better people. Before the policy was referee of ti 0 comps* evil, 1857, Dr. Davison, the medical sy, reported that the deceased was in sound he' A leeffaevcetedda,ll! ningtht,°:9fothllorlfgei• i. otrni‘didt::tighsliilvi'aatt.hb • he had no a ff ection of the heart, lungs, ?t at; chest was remarkably well developed, Ills bot , Asrespects a derirshle life to insure. hhay Jere • oho residtd with him for 12 months imme epre:sedibg the insurance, said that during that time the ' A nothing the matter with him, but that shortly before vs, insurance he complained of not feeling quite so well and eat to Crofts, a watering-place, for three weeks. It also *peered that on the Bth of March, a month preceding the -date of the policy, he was called up in the night to attend a woman in her confinement and walked a quarter of a mile ahnut 11 o'clock at night to where she lived, and remained attending her till 3 o'clock in the morning. It was what tie 'witnesses termed a " very coarse" night, windy, and sleet falling. He got wet in going to this bonne, and sat in his wet clothes and shoes while be staved there. It was after this that he complained of feeling unwell and went to Crofts. In May—a month after the policy had been effected—he called in Sir John Fife, an eminent practitioner in New castle, to attend him. Sir John Fife found hien very little altered. He was ruddy, robust-looking, neck muscular, his eyes bright and full. His breathing was it regular, his pulse quick and not firm. He examined him with the stethoscope carefully and fennel no trace a either heart or lung disease. He had watery swelling of the extremities end he made two punctures on each side of the tendon Achilles, from which a considerable amount of serous fluid escaped. He examined his urine, which was small in quantity, dark coloured, and of intense acidity as tested by litmus paper. He then applied nitric acid and heat to it to test it for albu men, and he could discover no trace of albumen, and he had great hope of the case. He mentioned to the deceased that he could discovf rno albumenuria to reassure him. Had he- discovered traces of albumen in the urine along with the other symptoms', he should have thought the case hopeless. In his opinion, he was then suffering from subacute inflam mation and congestion of the kidneys. The disorder was functional, and there was no organic disease, and, in his opinion, no chronic inflammation. Exposure to cold on a raw, windy, wet night would be very likely to produce such symptoms in any man. Thepresence of albumen in the urine was not always indicative of Bright's disease of the kidneys; an attack of dyspepsia or other causes of disorder of the sys tem might produce it. Bright's disease produced pallor and emaciation, and he never saw any man exhibit symptoms so entirely opposite. He was one of the finest specimens of a healthy, robust, middle-sized man he ever saw of middle age. This was the plaintiff's case, in no way shaken on cross examia ation. For the defendant it was submitted that the answers of the deceased to the inquiries made " Had he heart disease," " Had he Bright's disease of the kidneys," to which he an swered in:the negative, were the bases of the contract entered into with him, and that if he knew be had these diseases and concealed his knowledge of these facts from the com pany, then by the terms of the contract the policy was void. To show that he had both these diseases and knew it when he made the policy the fact that he himself was an expe rienced surgeon was relied on, and Dr. Chsrlton, of Nctvl cattle, was called, who proved th a t as ear ly a April, 1855, - the deceased consulted him professionally and complained that something was amiss with him. lie then examined him carefully with the atethescope, and found that he had heart disease and lung disease, and he advised him to avoid ex posure to cold and wet, and to keep himself quiet in the pursuit of his profession. In November or December of 18.56 the deceased and his %%ifs called upon him csd he ex endued him again, and he found him in exactly the same condition—neither better nor worse—and told him what his state was. Dr. Emblem], of Newcastle, stated that iu January, 1857, be was consulted by the deceased, and he then carefully examined him, and inside him strip. He found that be had heart disease, disease of the lungs and liver, and watery swellings of the lege. On the 7th of April, the day after the deceased had made proposals to the defendants' company to insure with them, the deceased sent him a bottle of his urine to examine. He then tested it with heat, and with nitric acid, and with them both, end detected the presence of a large quantity of albumen. He informed the deceased that he was sorry to say that he had discovered albumen in his urine. He forebore to say more to him, concluding that as a medical man be would draw his own conclusions from this, and wished not to distress hint; hut he informed his wife, the present plaintiff, fully of what he considered the deceased's state, which he considered to be a very dangerous one. 0-3 cross-examination the witness stated that other causes than Might's decease of the kidneys in:gilt produce albumen in the urine. A vege table diet, if the blond got very thin, would be likely to pro duce it. His Lordship--In all probability, then, if the deceased had eaten animal fend and taken a little wine he would have been alive and A(11 now? Witness—Very Itkely. His Lordship—l should advise insurance companies in future to put among their questions to the insured, " Ate you a vegetarian?" Toe deceased died on the 17th of June, 1857. In summing up, Mr. Atherton relied upon this evidence As showing beyond doubt that the deceased had concealed from the defendants facts regarding his own health which showed him to be labouring under dangerous disease at ti e time when he effected the policy, and that he was, in fact, labouring under Bright's disease and heart disease, and knew it at the time. Mr. Hogeins, in reply, commented strongly on the fact that the defendants had nut dared to call their own m etlical referee, and relied ulna the hotly of evidence he had ceded for the plaintiff as showing that up to the time wh-it the deceased attended the mideitery case iu Ma , ch, 1857, be was a strong, robust, healthy, ruddy-complexioned, ase , lve man ; that tee report of the defendants' referee on the 9th of April, 1857, immediately hefure the policy was effected, entirely bore out this evidence, and showed gnat at that time lie bad neither heart disease nor Bright's disease, and this report was corraborated by the evidence of Sir, John Fife, eiven a month afterwards on the return of the deceased from Crofrs. His lordship, to summing up, told the jury that the issues were rarrowed to three, whether the deceased had heart disease, whether be had Bright's disease, and whether he knew this, and corcealed his knowledge rom the company, w!iirli would be a fraud upon them. The circumstance of the deceased having died, within three months after the policy was effected justified the closest inquiry, With regard to the evidence for the defence he said the deceased might well not believe that he had dist an of the heart, fur he went a shooting, be danced, and took much exer cise. Had he that disease nature herself would tell him he could not do such things, and as to heart disease be might well say " that is a mistake." As to Bright's disease, he was told that he had albumenurin, hut that was no etrhin indication of Bright's &rose, ants might arise from other crews, and from living on an en tirely vegetable diet. The facts were, however, fur the jury, and he left it to them to say whether the deceased knew at the time when he efficred the policy whether he had either or b,th of the diseases mentioned, and whether on the evidence he hat, in point of fact, either of those diseases. If they found these issues in the affirmative they must find fir the defendant, if in the negative for the plaintiff. The jury retired, and after a short absence returned with a verdict fur the plain:lff, damages £2,000, less the amount of the half-yearly premium, £.53. They also found as a fact that the deceased did not know that he had either of these diseases, and that, in point of fact, he had neither. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Martin.) Jos. Johnson, 28, Richard Sayer, 33, John Sloan, 30, Andrew Bertram, 44, and James Cameron, 3.2, were severally charged with the manslaughter of one John Cain, on the 30th of May last. Mr. Overend, Q.C., Mr. Seymour, and Mr. Fowler ap peared for the prosecution; the prisoners were defended by the Hon. A. Liddell and Mr. Das'ison. It appears that a number of persons had been in a "swankey-house"—i.e., a house for the sale of small beer, in the suburbs of this town, on the `29th of May, and, ac cording to their statements, whicls were of a very contradic tory and confused nature, they all left together, and, on passing the Ellison's Arms, where some men were standing, a general row took place, in which the deceased, John Cain, received such severe wounds as caused his death. The five ' prisoners were Protestants, and the principal witnesses Irish Catholics, a fact which gave the whole matter the com plexion of an Orange row. In the course of the fight a coal rake, a shovel, a peker r a knife, a pikol, and brickbats:were freely used, and anything in the nature of a weapon which came handy. Cain, the deceased, was seen down on his back, and the prisoners beating and stabbing him. Several witnesses were called by the prosecution to show that the prisoners Johnson, Bertram, and Cameron were present, with Sloan and Sayers, engaged in this attack on the deceased. One of these spoke of the row as being a general one, in which both sides took part. A pistol, which had been recently fired off, was found at the prisoner John son's house. Mr. Lowndes, surgeon, proved that there were some severe stabs on John Cain's body, one of which had entered his lungs, and was sufficient to cause his death There was also another wound in the neck, which would have caused his death. This closed the case for the prosecution. After an able speeeh from the learned counsel for the de fence, who contended that there was an absence of common purpose and design in the prisoners to attack the deceased, and that the witnesses were all Catholics, and, as it ap peared, were armed with some kind of weapons, left it to the jury to say whether this was not a general row, and contended that in the conflict of statements the charge was not brought home to the prisoners, on whose behalf he called several witnesses to show that they were quiet and inoffen sive men. His Lordship, after remarking that a great deal had been said shoot Catholics and Protestants, which he trusted the jery would dismiss from their minds, then summed up the evidence with great care. The jury retired for about three-quarters of an hour and returned a verdict cf guilty as against Sayer and Sloan, arid ootigulityanad Sayergainst Johnson, Bertramtu, and Cameron. loan were recommeLed to mercy by the jury on account of the want of evidence as to the cause of provocation. Sentence was deferred. WESTERN CIRCUIT BO AUG. 2. TbP; commission fur the county of Cornwall was opened in this town on Ea'urday evening by Mr. Baton Channel Yester2ay the jud;;es attended Divine service at the church, and this morning the business commenced, Mr. Baron Watson presiding in the Crown court t.nd Mr. Baron Chan nel( sitting at Nisi PriuB. There are only four cases it the cause list, but they are expected to Occupy the whole of the time allowed here. There are 21 prisoners in the calen dar, but the offences are of a trifling character; there is one charge of infanticide, but the learned Baron, in his charge to the grand jury, suggested to them that the evidence was very unsatisfactory, and he thought it very likely that they would consider it right to throw out the bill. There is a case of burglary; the prosecutor and his family were in London, and the servants, taking ifdvantage of the absence of the family, went to a dance at a public house, and on their return they found that tne house had been broken into, and all the plate had been taken. The only evidence against the prisoner was that he was in pos sessim of a pair of pincers, and the police thought the house had been broken into with pincers, and the other p!ece of evidence was, that the prisoner had a tobacco-box, and a tobacco-box was found near the house, but whether it was tae prironer's or not did nrt appear. As regarded that the learned judge told the grand jury that he thought the evi dence very unsatisfactory. CIVIL SIDE. (Bef tr. , Mr. 1331'0H Clianneli.) COLLINS V. SYMONS. Mr. Collier and Mr. Coleridge were counsel for the plain tiff; and Mr. H. T. Cole was counsel fur the defendant. was ao action upon an apprentices' - )ip bond, brought by Mr. Collin., who was a carpenter at Wadebridge, against the defendant, xyhb-is the father of a boy who bad been ap pre Aleed to thriaiq tiff, and had ran away before com pleting his time. The defence Getyp rp that the plaintiff bad 111-treated the boy, and that he ran away to America without the knowledge of his father. Witnesses were called on each side in support of the plain tiff's and defendant's cases. Mr. Baron Channel), in summing up, told the jury that the defendant was clearly liable on the bond, hut lc ft it to them to say the amount of damages that the plaintiff was entitled to. Verdict for the plaintiff—damages, £4O. HOME CIRCIIIT.-GUILDFORD, AUG 3. The commission for the county of Surrey was opened on Monday, and both courts were opened for business this morning—Mr.J ust ice Willes presiding on the Civil Side, and Mr. Baron Bramwell in the Crown Court. There are 94 causes entered for trial, 26 of which are tube tied hT special furies. On the Crown side there are l 6 prisoners tor trial, but none of the cases are of a serious character. CIVIL ►SIDE. (Before Mr. Justice Willes and a Common Jury.) SMITH V. ROCHE. This was an action to recover £62105., being five-quar ters of arrears of an annuity of £5O granted by the defendant to the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant Petersdorff and Mr. Hannen were counsel for the plaintiff; Mr. Lush, Q.C., and Mr. Tonipson Chitty appeared for the defendant. It appeared that tt:e annuity In question. had been granted by the defendant, and executed by hint in 1852, upon the condition that the plaintiff should educate and bring up two illegitimate children of which he was the father. The circumstances were rather peculiar. It appeared that in 1841 the plaintiff, Margaret Swith, was in Germany, where she was engaged as governess in a high fatally, and the defendant, John Webb Rcche, who was stated to he an lash gentleman, made her acquaintance, and ultimately some form of marriage, which turned out to be of no legal value, was gone through by a person wham the defendant represented to be a clergy man, and after this they lived together as man and wife until 1845, when the plaintiff again accepted the situation of a governess in Germany; but the defendant insisted that she should return and live with hi m , stating that she was his wife. They then continued to live together until the year 1851, when the defendant married ; - and at this time be wrote a letter to a gentleman named Shephird, in which be reques ed him to break the " terrible tidings to dear Mar garet" as well 29 he could, to spare her feelings, and at the same time stated that he would always provide for her, and that he might at once advance her money to the extent of £5O. That sum was accordingly given to the plaintiff, and the defendant went to reside in Ireland; and in 1852, finding she could of obtain any more money from him, the plaintiff went to Ireland and saw the defendant, when he created the agreement which was the subject of the present action. It should be stated that four children were the result of the connection between the parties, but at this time only two were Ave, and the agreement was to the Effect that upon consideration of the plaintiff educating and providing for the two children then alive, be undertook to pay her £5O per annum by four quarterly instalments. One of these children, it appeared, has since died, but the money seemed to have been paid by the defendant for a considerable time, when he ceased pay iug the quarterly amounts, and the present action was brought to recover the arrears. _ _ Miss Margaret Smith, the plaintiff, a lady-like looking person, apparently - about five•and-shirty sears of age, was called as a witness, and she proved the facts above narrated, and way ant subjected to any cross-examination. The deferce set up was purely a technical one, it being conleaded that no legal consideration had been proved for the annuity ; and also that es one 'of the children had died, it could not be enforud, the original understanding being that the money was to be paid for the support acd education of twa children. The jury eventually returned a verdict for the ',Alma for the full amount claimed, the questions of law being re served for further consideration. CROWN SIDE. (Before Mr. &Jou Bramwell.) Edward Mandeville Martin, a young man of respect able appearance, was indicted for obtaining money by false pretences. Mr. Knapp conducted the prosecution. The prisoner, wh• appears to have been carrying on a most extensive and im pudent system of swindling all over the country, conducted his own defence. The first else gone into was that of obtaining a sovereign from Mr. Biddelcomb (formerly a very active saperiutendeat of the Surrey constabulary, but who at present keeps the Swan Inn at Chertsey) by false pretences. It appeared that the prisoner went Lo the iniann the 12th of July, and represented himself to be the Rev. Mr. Martin, and he stated that he was the intimate friend of Mr. 11,fmington 'Mills, a maaistrate who was well kn)wn to Iliddelcomb, and who, he said, was going to eppolut him to be preacher to a chapel at Englefield-green, and he subsequently hired a fly for the perpose, as he stated, a going to visit Mr. Mills, and upon his return he said he had got the appointment, and that he was to preach on the following Sunday. He then s ated that he was short sf cash, and asked Biddelcomb to lend him a sovereign, which he did, and it turned out that all the statemen s he had made were entirely false. Mr. Biddelcomb was cross examined at pc nsiderable length by the prisorer, and in answer to the questions that were put to him he sti'd that the prisoner invited him very po litely to come and hear his first sermon, but he respectfully declined. He also said that the prisoner wrote a letter to him in which he vattd that if it should rain be should want a cove red fly to take him to the el , aNl to preach. He added that this letter was sent him after be had given the prkorer the sovereign, and it was addressed " EA.," and it began " My dearsir " and the moment he saw this he knew that he had been "done." (A laugh.) The Rev. Mr. Knight, the minister of ihe chapel referred to, proved that the prisoner had never ,been appointed as the minister, and that he had no intentien of resigning his office, and that consequently there was no vacincy. He stated that all he knew of the. i-,rsofter was that he called upon him and toll him that he had been a Roman Catholic priest, but that he had seen the errors of that religion, and that afterwards 1:e had been a Church of England clergy man, and that after that he had been a Congregationalist, and he wisittd witness to allow him to perform one of his services, hut he declined to do so without knowing more about him. Ile subs. quently made some inquiry about the prisoner, which were not at all satisfactory, and be in consequence told him that he had better retire, and the prisoner then said that he shoot.' be off to Chersey. In answer to questions put by the prisoner, Mr. - Knight said that he told him he might perhaps be prrinitted to make an address to the Sunday sct.ool children. lie said that Le took an interest- in him is consequence of his specigus manner, and would have done all in his power to assist him, if his character had turned out to be goad, and thr.l he could be trusted. Mr. Peter M`Farlane, a wine merchant at Guildford, wrs then examined. It sppear(d that this gentleman is of the Roman Catholic persuasion, and that he casually met the prisoner on the 14th of July, at Faruborough, and that he drove itim for soms distance in his chaise. The prisoner open this occasion rep.tsented hibAself to be a clergyman anti an author, and to be rathels.desirous to enter the Romish Church, and he gained so much upon Mr. Isl‘Failane's good opinion that he invited him to visit him in ease lie should mire to Guildford. Oa the 2.5 th of July, which was Sunday, he received a note fum the prisoner, dated from the White Hatt Hot-1, requestiug to see him, and upon his goiug there he told him that he had been preaching at the Lower Chapel for the Rev. Mr. HatcLeard, aria that he was going to breakfast with him ou the following meriting. Mr. M‘ Farlaue upon this invited him to his house, where he staid all night, and the next morning the prisoner said he was short of money, and asked Mr. M‘Ferlane to lend him a sovereign, and when be was about to trite him that sun] he said he might as well let him have two i.nou which Mr. M'Ferlane gave him two sovereigns. Hei aitrrwards received a letter from the pri soner, in which he addressed him as his " Very dear friend," and stated that he was most anxious to get into some quiet mimes:6'y at Rome. (A laugh.) In answer to a question put by the prisoner, the witness said he was quite sure that he mentioned the name of. the Rev. Mr. Ilaicharii, and not that of the Rev. Mr. Butciur. The prisoner exclaimed in an impudent tone that he was not surptised that a Papist should not tell the truth. The witness said that the prisoner told hint that he had met the Rev. Mr. Hatchard in the Holy Land, at the Holy Sepulchre, and d(ste ibed the dress he wore on 'hat occasion, and that he had a velveteen coat on. (Laughter.) The Rev. Mr. Hatcher(' was then examined, and be stated that the prisoner was - an entire stranger to him, and be knew nothing abut him. The prisoner, upon being called on for his defence, was about to reed a long written statement, the commencing lservations of which appeared to be that it was owing to the education de had received, and to his having been brought up a Roman Catholic, that he had been induced to . endeavour to gain a livelihood by deception and lying. Baron Bramwell interposed and told the prisoner that this course of proceeding was quite irrelevant. The Court had nothing to do with the religious principles in which he had been brou g ht up , an d t h e ou ly ques tion was whether be was guilty of the dience imputed to him. • The prisoner then addressed the jury again in a theatrical manner, and at some length, the effect of what he said apparently being that lie had been brought up to literary pursuits and had endeavoured to gain a livelihood as an author, but the booksellers would not publish any of his works because ho bad no name, and as he could net starve he was compelled to resort to the. proceedings he had done in order to obtain a subsiitence. The jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of guilty. Tee learned Judge, in passing sentence, said that if a bad education was the cause of the prisoner committing such offences as these, he must endeavour to correct it, and the mode in which he should endeavour to do so on the pre sent occasion was to order him to be kept to hard labour for 12 months. Daniel Cummins, 39, was indicted for assaulting John Mutley with intent to murder him. In other counts the intent of the prisoner was laid to be to rob the prosecutor, and also to do him grievous bodily harm. Mr. Robinson conducted the prosecution; Mr. Laxton was counsel for the prisoner. It appeared that Las was a prosecution instituted by the Brighton Railway Company under the following •cireurn stances :—On the 28th of March the prosecutor got:into an open third-class carriage for the . purpose of proceeding to London. Tl e prisoner and a woman were the only other persons in the carriage, and when the train got into the Mars thaw tunnel the prosecutor felt the prisoner pushing a ga i nst him, and he at length put his hand to his pocket. He pushed his hand away, and immediately upon his doing so, the prisoner seized hint and commenced a mast savage attack upon him, and in the course of the struggle the prisoner actually seized him by the legs and endeavoured to throw him cut of the carriage, which he would have succeede d in d o i ng if ‘he pro secutor had not been a powerful matt and that he succeeded c;tehing !..old of the iron rail of the carriage. He at length got the prisoner down, DM! he Lehi him until the train arrived at the Caterham station, where tie prisoner was handcuffed and secured, the prosecutor being at this time covered with blood and very set ertly injured. The prisoner was then conveyed to Croydon, where it appeared he resided, and it required the eflin is of six constables to securashirn and place aim in the police station. The defence set up for the prisoner was that he was in a state of Insanity at the time he committed the act; but the only evidence that was adduced to support this suggestion was that of a brother, who stated that 12 years ago the prisoner had received an injury upon his head in Ireland, when his skull was fractured, and since that time he had Raul in a very extraordinary manner upon several occa sions. -Mr. Keene, the governor of the gaol, staled, in answer to questims put by the Court, that in his opinion the prisoner was not in his right m i n d , an d h e sa id he formed this opi nion from wh a t l ie had 5.7 en of his conduct since he had 'ken mulcr his charge. H e a dd e d, h owever, that h e b e li eve d t h e 4urgeon of the prison entertained a contra:y epinio. The learned Jili.te then summed up the ca,", and ex plained to the j u ry t h e l aw upon the subject of insanity, and, after a sh ort d e lib eration, they returned a verdict fisid ing the pris oner gu i lty of :Founding with intent to do itrievous bodily harm. His 12 , rdship said it was a very bad ca ,. c, and he felt it his duty to sentence the prisoner to six years' penal servitude. He added that if any further evidence could be obtained with regard to the state of his mind, it would no doubt receive attention in the prop er quarter. MID DLESEX SESSIONS.-Aug. 3. (Before Mr. Creasy.) Robert Arthur Schamberger, 30, was ind!cled for having stolen a quantity of printed books, value £l5O and upwards, the property of Mr. David Nutt, the foreign bookseller, of tte Strand, his master. He pleaded guilty. Mr.Orridge appeared on the part of the prosecution; Mr. Mr tealfe for the prisoner. The prosecutor stated, in answer to the Court, that the prisoner had been in his service about six months, at a salary of £5 10s. per month, which would have been in creased from time to time. The prisoner came from Vienna 'o take the situation, and was well recommended from there. About £l2O worth of the stolen books were found stowed sway in a house be lodged at in Charlotte-street, Fitzroy (pare, by Holmes, detective, of the F division, and in his 'esh was found a catalogue, marked in his handwriting, by which it was ascertained what works and the numbers of copies be had taken away from the stock. Sentence was postponed. James Welch, 29, was indicted for unlawfully assaulting Amelia Fatness, with intent. Mr. Palmer was for the prosecution; Mr. Gent for the prisoner. The evidence In this ease, entirely unfit to be given in detail, showed conduct on the part of the prisoner of a revolting character, and what grealy aggravated It was the fact that the prosecutor wes only 10-ye , ,rs of age, and was his own niece. He aas fout,d guilty and was sentenced to 18 months' bard ltbcur. The sentence was applauded in court. James Church, a labourer, in tie •et - v'ce of Mr. Langley, a contractor at Hayes, was indicted for fraudulently obtain ing corn in his master's Dame from Mr. West, a corn dez.ler at Southall. He wits found guilty, and was sentenced to one mouth's bard labour. He bad borne a good character for many years. Mr. Ribton prosecuted; Mr. W. Cooper was for the pri soner Frederick James was convicted of an indecent assault upon a child named Mary Aen James, the daughter of the keeper of a beerahop called the Royal Oak, at Heston. He was sentenced to 18 months hard labour.' - Mr. Ribton, instructed by Mr. Vaughan, prosecuted. Thomas Jones, 26, and John Williams, 26, were con victed of committing a larceny in the dwellingchouse of George spencer, the property stolen being more than £5 in value. Jones, an old offender, repeatedly convicted, was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude, and Williams to four months' hard labour. Catherine Dunn, a tall, strange-looking woman, was indicted for having stolen a pair of gloves of the value of is. 3d. ' the property of Wihiam Trimby. Mr. Hawthorne prosecuted; Mr. Sleigh and Mr.Orrldge were for the prisoner. The prosecutor was a haberdasher in Chapter-street, Vauxhall-bridge-road, and the prisoner went to his shop and purchased a packet of needles. Seeing a customer buying gloves at ls. 3d. per pair sbe examined them and selected a pair, and then asked to be shown some at ls. 6d. per pair. While the as'istant was reaching the latter she placed the is. 3d. pair in her bag, and then having selected a pair at ls. 6d. she placed a shilling, a: sixpence, a nd a fourpenny-piece on the counter to pay for them. When told she had another pair in her Fact she said they must, have get there .by mistake if they were then, arid when she was accused of stealing them, she went on her knees, and implored them not to hurt a poor soldier's wife frau, India. . _ _ Mr: Sleigh, for the defence, did not deny that the prisoner had committed the act imputed to her, but urged upon the jury the extreme probability that it was done without thought, by mistake, and without felonious intention. The plisozer was the wife ot_ a soldier, with whom she had gone through 10 years of fieid service in India, including the Sikh campaign. Tile e imate had affected her mind t , such a dogree mat upon alt matters having reference to India, particularly the slaut.rt ter of women and children which bad unhappily taken place there lately, she was so excitable as to a great extent riot to be accountable for her actions. She had borne children, and was now in the family-way, a stne in which many females acted under erroneous ideas and impressions; and though he could not ask the jury to say that this poor woman was notguilty on the ground of insanity, the effect of which would be to incarcerate her in an asylum for life, he hoptd that upon the evidence, which he could not attempt to controvert, they would be able to come to the conclusion that trie might have put the gloves into her bag without the idea of stealing theni being in her mind at the time. It was a very curious circumstance, tending, he thought, to show the prisoner's absence of mind, that she put down ls. 10!. to pay for the gloves, which came only tt, 15.6 d. Wimesges were c lied. They gave the prisoner a very good characte, and deposed to a certain strangeness and excitability of manner about her, particularly when matters relating to India were broached in her presence. She wat a soldier's wife, and had passed many years in India. Mr. Creasy told the jury that the question they had to cAtsider was simply whether the prisoner intended to steal 'he gloves, and if they had any doubt upon it they should give her the benefit of it. The jury acquitted her. There was some applause at the verdict in the body of the court. ter:teed to two months f!ow Southwark, for pocket picking, and I believe he only came cut of prison on Monday. Lord Mayor—Well, you are an " innocent lad," indeed. I thought what sort of innocence yours was. The prosecutor requested the Lord Mayor to deal with the case summarily, but as the prisoner continued w assert in the most impudent manner that he had not touched the handkerchiefs, he was committed for trial. Charles Davison, conductor of a Fulham omnibus; be longing to the Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Company, was charged with embezzling 2s. 4d., belonging to his em ployers. The solicitor who conducted the case said that it was trivial so far as the amount of money was concerned, but it was of some importance generally to all omnibus companies asd omnibus proprietors ; and from his statements, and the evidence of witnesses called by him, it appeared that on Saturday morning last, according to custom, the prisoner handed in his way-bill and money for the previous day, in both of which he accounted for five inside fares at 4d., seven outside fares at 4d., and tv, o outsides at 3d. for the lest journey from Fulham to London upon Friday night, while upon that journey the omnibus was more than full, in a legal sense, inasmuch as a female deposed that when she got in at Walham-green, accom panied by two children, a gentleman had to change to the outside in order to make.room for her ; and a little girl further deposed that during the journey she counted altogether 20 insides, two of whom, however, were babies, and ro would not pay ; while one little girl sat upon her mother's knee, and another sat upon the umbrella seat. On the ether hand, there was some difficulty in proving the identity of the prisoner, as the witnesses had not parti celarly noticed him ; and Mr. Wontner, for the defence, raised some technical objections in addition, centending, moreover, that there was no evidence to show, and no pos sibility of showing, that the prisoner, although he mightnot have made a correct entry with regard to the lazt journey, had not, by overstating on his way the result of the other journeys of the day, actually accounted for all the money received by him during the day ; and, to give a colour to this hypothesis, he proved that although the legal number of inside passengers nas only twelve, the prisoner had fre quently accounted to the cashier of the company for an excess over that number. The Lord Mayor admitted that there were difficulties in the case, but at the same time said it was one of so much importance, although the amount in question was small, as 'o induce him to leave all doubts to be solved by a jury, rather than to dismiss the charge without being fully satis fied of the person's innocence. The competition between the rival 'companies, which led them to carry passengers all the way from Fulham or Pu.ney to the City for 4d., must be sufficiently ruinous in itself without the aid of robbery, and the proprietors must be protected against the peculation of their servants; but to gice an opportunity of producing the other conductors of the company so as to complete the proof of identity, he would remand the prisoner fur a few days. Remanded accordingly, but admitted to bail. Francis Worrell Stevens, share-dealer, who was last week committed from this court to take his trial at the next session of the Central Criminal Court, now applied to be admitted to bail, according to the terms of his commitment —viz.: himself in £2,000, an two others in £l,OOO each ; the parties proposed being Miss Worth, 10, St. Mary's road, Peckham; and Mrg. Fitzgerald, 42, Marchmont street, Russell-square. No opposition was offered on the part of the prosecutors, who had r, ceived due notice, and the required recognisances having been entered into, Me prisoner was discharged. GUILDHALL.—George James Buchanan was placed at the bar bcfora• Alcieman Mechi, charged with obtain leg goods under false pretence's with intent to defraud Messrs. Cooke, Sons, and Co., of St. Paul's -churchyard. William White, a warehouseman, in the employ of the prosecutors, said—On the 21st June last the prisoner called at the warehouse and presented an order for two silk dresses, which he rep: esen!ed were for Messrs. Collins, of Sloane strer t, Chelsea, who were customers. The goods were selected and sent into the enteriog-rcosio, and the order was returned to him with directions to go to the entering-room and be would hace the goods. The order was written on one of Messrs. Collins's billiicads, and on Friday last he pre sented another order for two more silk dresses, value £8 ss. I gave the order back as before, and sent him tot he entering room where I also sent the goods. I asked him if he was the same person who brought a similar order a few days previous, and he said he was. Thomas George Jones, one of the entering men in the same employ, said—l taw the prisoner on the 21st of June in the entering-room. He brouglit an order from Collins, of Chelsea, for whom, be said, he required the silks. I asked a. o d l sy i a gavevhave rot o t t h them been to his name, and he said it was W nately ; and a fter enterin g the w a y go quite sure the prisoner is-the person I del ivered the g oods te. I let him have the goody, believing he c ame from ablehin with to fi a n n d the invoice, order, an d b but went e am r 't Collins, of Chelsea. Mr. Charles Collins said—l am a draper in Lower Sloane street, Chelsea. The prisoner wain my employ about three or four months as clerk, and left me on the 21st of June last without any notice. 1 gave him no authority to obtain the goods in question, neither have I received them. Mr. White recalled, said—On the 80 h July the prisoner called again with an order from Messrs. Collins for two silk dresses and 30 yards of silk glace, the value of which wi.s about £l5. I selected the goals and sent them to the en tering-room. r afterwards met the prisoner in St. Paul's churchyard, and be complained ttat he had not been per mitted to take the goods, saying he should look very foolish n going back without them. I took him back with me, and spoke to Mr. Worth, who asked the prisoner if be came from Messis. Ctil:ins. He said he did ; and I then asked him if he was the same young man who obtained two silk dresses abolit six weeks previous, and he said lie was. Wm. Pearce Johnson, an entering man in Messrs. Cooke's employ, said—The prisoner came in to the entering-room, on the 30th July, with the order produced, accompanied by the last witness and the goods. I asked him to write his name on the order, and he wrote " Weld)." On comparing the wilting with the order, I refused to let him have the goods, but sent them to Mr. Collins by omnibus. Mr. Collins recalled, sail-1%.e prisoner wrote our orders generally upon our biltheads, and I believe the order pro duced is in his handwriting, Let 1 gave him no authority to write it. I received tke gods mentioned in the order pro duced. This completed the nhole of the evidence fir the prosecu tion, and the prisoner having said he would reserve his defence, was fully committed f,r WESTMINSTER.—STSTEMATIC AND EXTENSIVE PLUNDER OP A TIMBER .M ERCIIANT.—REPREHEN• SI DLE PRACTICES.IN THE TRADE.—.E. &card Thomp son, William Cook, and Eliza Cook, his wife, underwent a lengthened examination, charged with stealing a quantity of mahogany from the timber-ysr.l of Mr. Hudson, Great Peter-street, Westminster; and George English, Fryer's mount, Bethnal-gran, flail:J:r dealer, charged with re ceiving it. - - The case was discovered through the vigilance of the police. It appears that George Ma:Locke, 162 G, and George Legear, City detective, calving secn a truck go to and from English's at a very early hour with timber, watched it to the prosecutor's, and privately inquired of him whether he had susiained any losses. Mr. Hudson, who had from time to time miss , d mahogany, immediately made arrangements with the idicers in order to detect the offenders, and watched them on the mornings of the 16 h and 17th ult., the result of which was he found that the prisoners Cook and his wife, with a young man named Carroll, aided by Thompson, a man who had beet five years in prosecutor's employ, brought out tirober trim bis yard in Peter-street and Smith-sqtirt - c, Westminster, on the Litter morning, to the vetue of 44 10s., and conveyed it to the prisoner Eng,- house, where he 'oak it in. The prisoners with Car roll were captured, when the latter was put into the witness- box as an approver against the rest, and from his testimony it was clear that hehad at least conveyed timber frcm Mr. Hudson's five times. It was stated by Englisit that lee bad bought timber of the other prisoners at 41-d. per foot, which was alleged by the prosecutor to be con siderably beneath its value. Mr. Morgan, of the firm of Humphreys, Morgan, and Sota,urged that it was the common practice of persons who attended tales of timber at the east end of the town to hawk it about for sale, or send their servants with it to sell, and that there was nothing in this case to induce any suspicion in the mind of his client (English) that the wood had been dishonestly obtained. He produced four or five witnesses in support of-his statement, who proved that they had re peatedly taken and sent lots to English similar to Mr. Hud son's mahogany r for which they thought a fair price as odd lots had bean given Mr. Iliown, on the part of the prosecution, opposed this view of the case, and said such timber as this was not hawked about. The male prisoners, Thompson and Cock, pleaded guilty, and entreated the mercy of the court. Mr. Arnold observed that the witnesses for English, against whom there was no imputation, had clearly proved that it was a practice in the trade at the east end of the town to hawk timber about, and in the face of such evi dence no jury would convict English of buying this timber with a guilty kuowledge, which it was necessary to show to constitute the offence, and he therefore felt it his duty to discharge English, but he could not too strongly deprecate the practice of purchasit g timber in this way, as the facility of disposing of it gave great encouragement to (mime. He thought that for the . protection 8f timber merchants and others employing maw; more caution ought to be exercised by persons making such purchases. The female prisoner was entitled to the benefit of the rule of law, that she was acting under the coercion of her husband, and was therefore I discharged, her husband and Thompson were committed for six months each to'hard labour in the House of Correc tion. A QUESTIONABLE AFFAlR.—Martha Eades and Ca therine Mayer, two young women, were pl ace d a t th e b ar charged with'stealing a silk handkerchief from the shop of Mr. Gilbert, Queen's-road, Chelsea. Prosecutor's shopman, Thos. Blythe, proved that the accused came there on the previous afternoon, and desired to be shown some expensive silk handkerchiefs, from which Mayer purchased one, and paid ss. Immediately afterwards another handkerchief was missed, and upon the loss being spoken of, Eades was seen to drop it from under her mantle, and they were then given into cuetody. - The police produced a ring, some new boots, and other articles found upon the prisoners, and said that upon in quiry they found they had all been honestly purchased and paid for. One of the constables said he knew the accused as respectable servant girls. A very respectable-looking married woman said that the prisoner Eades was her sister, and was in service, but at home with her until the 18th lost., by leave of her master, owing to sickness. M ayer was her fellow servant, and they had both just returned from Franca with the family. The shoprnan was recalled, and again swore that he stye the prisoner Eades drop the - handkerchief from her man'le. He, however, had no desi.e to press the charge against the accused, as they bore so good a character. ar e . Arnold did not think it proper to let the matter co off in that way. The policeman who took the prisoners said that althoterh Eades offered any money to inlet go, she at the same time most plsiCyply a9Ferte•-1 her innocence. Upwards ef .E 2 was found up,:n the accused. Eades, with an air of truthfulness in her manner strongly calcula'ed to create a favourable impression, said that they were requested to move from the counter as a handkerchief was lost; and when they did move it was found on the fluor. She knew nothing whatever about the handkerchief. She did not think it had been taken off the counter by her mantle cr dress by accident. She could most positively assert that site never touched the handkerchief. ' The prisoner Mayer said she haul left her master's house at Richmond on the p evirus morning, when he had given her £3 to make some purchases with, and see WWI to return borne at five o'clock, inslea , ! of which she was locked up. She could a:su , e the neecie!rate that her fellow-servant did not touch the hankerebief. Mr. Arnold said that there must be some mistake in the ma ter. Looking at all the circumstances, he felt that a jwy woeht agree with him that the handkerchief had by some accident'been swept off the counter, or the ravelling at its edge (which bad been pointed out to hint by Mr. Hunt, the chief usher) had caught Bates' mantle or dress till she moved, and then fell. He dischargzd the prisoners, awl thought it pity that the prosputor bad not tutrle quiry into their character before be preferred the charge at the station upon which they were detained. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—BETTING ON Honsu RACES.—CAPTURE OF BETTERS.—John Scott, landlord of the White Bear Hotel, Piccadilly ; Charles Thorpe, Barnes Lodge, King's Langley, Hertfordshire; Henry Reeves, 8, Wilton-place; John .Reed, No.lB, Bear-street; Nicholas Butler, 12, St. James's-place ; Joseph Rose, 31, King-street; Charles _Esse, 20, Carlton-hill; Thomas Edmonds, 38, Moscow-road; James Saunders, 25, Has ker-street ; John .win, 49, Great Queen-street; William .4shurst, 18, Stanley-street; Christopher Brown, 20, Pantos-street; William Coleman, 58, Millbaek-street; William. Chapmqn, 36, Old Compton-street; William Mawson, 3, Walham-green •, and John - Flood, High street, Fulham, were brought. before Mr. Beation,. charged with having been •found in a house used for betting pur poses. The defendants, who had evidently just been taken into custody by Inspector Webb, Sergeant Silverton, and other constables, were all placed at the bar. Mr. Superintendent Hannant said—l produce my autho rity from Sir Richard Mayne for entering the house, No. 221, Piccadilly, known as the White Bear Hotel. At two o'clock 'I found all the defendants in the house. Scott and Thorpe, I believe, came from the bar; the others were in the coffee room. I told them I bad a warrant to enter the house and to take them into custody. Some said they only came there for a glass of ale. I found several betting books and racing memoranda in the house and on the defendants. After the defendants were removed to the station-house, except Thorpe and another, I starched a desk in the pas sage. I found betting books, and a telegraphic despatch relating to horse races. The books produced—one of them a club Look, another a ledger—contained the names of some of the defendants. Mr. Beadon asked the defendants if they wished to ask the superintendent any questions? The defendants replied in the negative. Inspector Webb, C division, examined—l corroborate Mrs Hanuant's statement. The defendants were searched, and the betting books spoken of found-on their persons. After defendants were removed to the station-house I searched the coffee-roman where there was a desk, and I found several handicap books, racing cards, and betting books. Some of the betting books appeared to have been thrown under the sofa by the defendants when the police entered. I saw in Thorpe's haled a card; I told him to put it down; he threw it on the floor. I picked it up, and found that it was a card with the odds marked against several horses. Before I saw Thorpe with the card 1 had searched him, and I cannot tell bow be became possessed of the card. In the bar, on a shelf, I found a memorandum-book with entries of money signed by Reeves, and one entry signed by Scott. I found also several handicap-books on a shelf, behind some pint pots in the bar. In a drawer I found a notice paper, on wbich was printed, " No betting or lists are allowed at this establishment, by order of the proprietor." I fonnd a regis ter in the bar. Some of the defendants' names are there. Some who call themselves labourers are there entered as esquires and gentlemen. I know that the license of the house was refused to Thorpe at the annual licensing day, last October and in July last it was granted to Thorpe. Since that time I have seen Thorpe and Scott there, and Scott in my presence said to-day that he was the landlord of the house. Tee defendant Thorpe asked if this witness saw him in the coffee-room at the time ? Mr. Beadon—The evidence is that you were not in the room. Thorpe I tad been searched, and nothing found upon me. Mr. Beadon—The evidence is that the card was seen in your halide. Thorpe—The card was on the floor. I picked it up and kept it until told to put it down by the inspector. Mr. Beadon—'oe time has now come to weed the de fendants. As there is no evidence against several beyond ti sir being found in the house, they me be . discharged. Mr. Hannant—We pros ese to proceed against h ang only; Scott, Thorpe, Reeves, and The other defendants were ti;!:n discharged, and the four named defendants were retained at the bar. Mr. Beadon—We now come to the serious part of the case, and, if it be the wish of the defendants, I am quite willing to remand this case until to-morrow, in offer that they may have the benefit of counsels' advice. The defendant Scutt said it was decidedly his wish that the case should be adjourned. Mr. Beadon consented to adjourn the case until th,e next day. Bail was required for Bird and Reeves, and Scott :end Thorpe were allowed to go on their own WORSHIP-STREET.—Martha Abrahams, a known thief, was charged with stealing a watch from the person of Mr. Newell, a cooper, residing at Bethnal-green, who was passing in the afternoon, when the prisoner suddenly confronted him, and before he was well aware of what she was about, snatcked the watch from his pocket and adreli ly broke it away from the guard chain. Finding, however, that she could not get away, with it, she slipped it into a truck that was standing near, where it was found. She was then handed over to the police. The prisoner now pleaded guilty, saying that she did take the watch, and would rather have the matter at once disposed a by the magistrate than be sent to trial. M u ? was therefore convicted under the Criminal Justice Act, ant : . sentenced to six months imprisonment, S ERio n; VIOLENCE.— Thomas Brown, a middle-aged pezttable appearance, was charged with avault ing and injuring s litlie person of res girl named Deboralt Hodgson. the mother, a very psor woman, Elizabeth 1-13000 ,, stated that the night bt:.fore she was standing in Pittield !articles for sale, when the street, offering s , me stnb2 l came up and began to abtve defendant, who was intoxieateo her, calling her an impostor and at;.. l, er names. He then laid hold of her child, Deborah, and diggi:lg his knee into the small of her back, injured her so seiet'.`.!v ti:at she was obliged to be taken to the London Hospkal, where she remained. The defendant, wits said he was a warehouseman, ,assured the magistrate that he had no intention to do any itt; ur Y , and was exceedingly sorry for what had occurred. The magistrate held him to bail for his reappearancti week hence. 1 MARYLEBONE.—UNFOUNDED CHARGE OF BUR GLARY AND ROBBER/ .—John Barnes, a master builder, 'residing at No. 3, Archer-tom er, Westbourne-grove, Paddington, and Charlotte Jenkins, servant to Mr. Dobson, who eccnpies apartments at the house of Mr. Ash ley,.a tailor, carrying en business in Bridge-terrace, in the same, neighbourhood, were placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, charged with having been concerned in a bur glary and robbery to a considerable amount—the articles stolen being the property of the said Mr. Ashley: Mr, Herring attended for the prisoners. Prosecutor deposed that on Saturday night last he went to bed at - half-past 10 o'clock, at which time the shop and back parlour doors were closed, and he believed that the house was completely closed at 11. About six in the morn ing he was awoke and informed that the house had been broken into. He soon after feund that he had been robbed of a quantity of cloth and doeskin, of the value of 125, and of silver plate coneieting of s po ons, sugar-tongs, and other articles worth about £l4. Mr. Broughton —Why do you accuse the prisoners Prosecutor—Because the female was the first person to give me information of the robbery, and also that she -had got up much earlier in the mooning than usual. I have seen the mile prisoner at the house, By Mr. Herring—My regular servant left me last Wed nesday to go into Devonshire. I don't know that she had any fellowers. Jane Jenkins, the prisoner's (Charlotte Jenkins) sister has since supplied her place. Jane Jenkins stated that she got up at Fix in the morning, and that she found the parlour and kitchen in great dis order. Barnes was at Mr. Dobson's apartments about nine o'clock on e Saturday night. He remained there about a quarter of-on hour, and something was said about a lock. By _Mr. Herring—l did not sleep with my sister that night. I was t he'firet person who got up. When I ascer taitsed what had taken place, I went up stain and awoke my sister, who, after dressing herself, went below with me, and began to cry, exclaiming, " Oh, what will my mistress say." I lost no time with regard to informing Mr. Ashley. All the doors of the apartments I have to do with were fastened, and there was no appearance of breaking iu er ont of the premises. The kitchen window had not been fastened. Sergeant White, 13 D, and Sergeant Warren, 27, of the same division, stated that they bad examined the premises and they could find no marks of any forcible entry. None of the missing property had been found. Mr. Herring, for his clients, said that a more unfounded charge was never brought forward. Mr. Barnes was a highly respectable tradesman, who had carried on business as a carpenter and builder for many years, and he had re moved Mr. Dobson's goods to the house of Mr. Ashley. He had since been there to do many jobs. There was not the slightest ground for the allegation of the charge of robbery which had been made; and as to the female prisoner ehe had lived 18 months in the service of Mr. Dobson, who had with her a most excellent character from a former situa tion, and he (prosecutor) must have known she was a most honest and trustworthy person. The learned gentleman added that a more gross violation of the liberty of the subject had never been perpetrated, and that, if necessary, he could produce a number of most respectable witnesses, some of whom were present, who would testify to the high character of Mr. Barnes for honesty and integrity. Mr. Broughton, without calling upon Mr. Herring to produce any witnesses, discharged the accused, being quite satisfied that there was no evidence which would justify him in detaining them. Mr. Herring gave the prosecutor most distinctly to under stand that an action for false imprisonment would be com menced against him. CRUELTY TOWARDS DONKEYS AT HAMPSTEAD.—TWO boys named William .Bedworth and Charles Antrobus, the former 15 and the latter 12 years of age, were charged by Mr. Wm. Love, chief constable of the Royal 9ociety for 'the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with the following shameful c neduct : George Seaman, an active officer of nth society, deposed that on the previous evening, between ix and seven o'clock, he was at Hampstead-heath, near Jack Straw's Castle, when he saw the prisoners driving four donkeys, upon each of which there was a female. They (0 he prisoners) were beat ing the poor animals in a merciless manner with the handles of their whips upon the back, legs, and hind quarters. They went on in the direction of H'gbgate at a very hard trot. Upon the prisoners returning be took them into custody, when they alleged as an excuse that " the ladies" told them that if they whacked the ebenkeys as hard as they could, and made them gallop, they should have twopence extra. In answer to the magistrate, the witness stated that in the course of his experience as an officer he had never seen a more cruel beating. The donkeys were quite exhausted when they got back to the heath. The riders w ere } not children, but full-grown women. The payment thy (te prisenere) were to receive to Highgate and back was ninepence for each "lady," in addition tu twopence pocket-money for making the donkeys - " go in gOod Mr. Love said that complaints were continually being made to the society of the cruelties practised on Hempteed- j heath en donkeys, and that the prisoners had been caetioned more than once by the officers of the society. Upon one t c ession the younger prisoner knocked out the eye of a don key, but in. consequence of the inability of the'gentleman who witnessed the occurrence to attend and give evidence, he was discharged. Little boys like the prisoners were sent out with th. ',keys on the supposition that, on account of their youth, their conduct would be passed over. Many of the drivers of mature years had frequently made a boast of being able, without any trouble, to pay a fine of 103., or even 205., if imposed upon them for any act of cruelty. Mr. Broughton said it was necessary to make an example of the prisoners, who had been very properly brought before him, but, taking into consideration their youth, he should only inflict upon them a penalty of 53. each, er 14 days in the House of correction, and he howd that the sentence — too lenient, BS it perhaps Was—would operate as a caution to them in the future. CLERKENWELL.—DAMAGING THE WIRES OF THE TELEGRAPH COMPANY.— William Gutridge, a dirty looking boy, 11 years of age, residing at 2, Brand-street, Holloway, of no occupation, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Corry, charged with wilfully damaging the telegraph wires on the Great Northern Railway, at Holloway. Police-constable Batcherdore, 430 A, said about six o'clock last (Moan) @ming 119 wos ou duty Hornsey-road, near the line of the Great Northern Railway, when he saw the prisoner and six other boys throwing stones at the telegraph wires. He went up the embankment near the Hornsey-bridge, and saw several stones thrown and strike the wires. He distinctly saw the prisoner take up three stones nearly as large as half-bricks' and throw at the wires and strike them. He rau after the prisoner, and, after a smart chase, succeeded in capturing him ; and when en his way to the police• station he said he had broken one of the wires in half. He had been to the spot this morning, but could not discover that any damage had been done, although the place was strewn with large stones. A gentleman who attended on behalf of the prosecution, said it was the intention of the Electric and International Telegraph Company to prosecute in every case, because' they had suffered very much from such injuries. Mr. Conic said, as far as the Telegraph Company war. concerned, they did not seem to have sustained any damage in the present instance. The gentleman replied that the company's wires har.! not been damaged ; but the defendant was in the middle of the: Great Northern Railway line, which was a trespass. In answer to the charge, the defendant said he was sorry for what he had done. He was not throwing the atones at the telegraph wires, but at the birds. He would not do so again if he was let off. Mt. Corrie said as the company had not sustained any damage he did not think it worth while to punish him for the lesser offence of trespass. Addressing the defendant, he told him that he might be sent to the House of Correction with bard labour for two years, so that he had better be careful, and tell his companions what he had then heard. He would new be discharged. The prisoner was then discharged. SOUTHWARK.—ROBBERy OF A GOLD WATCH AND CHAIN FROM BARCLAY'S BREWERY.—John Edwards, a respectable-looking young man, in the employ of Messrs. Bishop and Newstead, clothiers and jewellers, of 90, High Holborn and Sitoreditch, was brought before Mr. Combe, charged with being concerned' with another in stealing a gold watch and chain, the property of Robert Williams Walker, at Barclay's Brewery. Mr. Solomon appeared for the prisoner. • The pi osecutor stated that ih October last his watch was stolen from a drawer in the brewery, and shortly afterwards a man named Webb was charged at this court and sen tenced to six months for the offence. The watch and chain could not be found until a few days ago, when he saw it at Mr. Fleming's, a pawnbroker, in the Strand, and from in formation he received the prisoner was given into custody. , He knew nothing further of the prisoner or the circum star ces. Charles Wise, police-sergeant, 459 A, said, he received • information where the watch was pledged, and that the . prisoner was the party who pawned it. He accordingly took him into custody, and when he was locked up in the cell in the station-house he called witness to him and told him he had something to communicate to him. Witness cautioned him, when he asked him how be thought be should get- on, and if Mr. Walker would-appear against him. Witness told him that the latter would appear, and he could not say how the case would terminate. He then voluntarily told witness that on the day the watch bad been stolen he met Webb in the Borough-market, and at his request he pledged it for him in St. Martin's-lane. Witness ascertained that such was a fact, and he now re quested a remand to enable him to produce the pawnbroker and the watch and chain. Mr. Solomon contended that his client merely pledged them. He did not know they were stolen. Mr. Combe remanded the prisoner until Monday next, accepting bail for his appearance. LAMBETH —M ILITARY OUTRAGE AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE.— AIex. . Al' Grogan and Joseph Brankin, pri vates in the Royal Antrim Rifles, at present stationed at Woolwich, were placed at the bar before the Hon. G. C. Norton, charged with the commission of the fellovving dis graceful outrage : Mr. Win. Cousins, a harness maker, carrying on business in Westminster, said Oat on the day before he went to the Crystal Palace with some friends for a day's pleasure, and while walkiug in the gardens he heard the. prisoners and several of their companions making some remarks ?bout the badges or orders of the members of the Odd Fellows' Society, a number of whom were in the gardens at the time. He (witness), however, did not interfere in any way, nor did he offer the slightest insult to the prisoners or their com panions, though immediately after he received a most vio leut blew from behind from the prisoner M'Grogan. The instrument used for striking him was the belt which the prisoners wore round their body, and the buckle part having struck him on the bridge of the nose, caused the most intense pain and injury. Thee instant the bow was struck the prisoner gave the " Irish ei :v," and instantly he was surrounded by six or seven of the party all striking at him with all their might with their belts, and bad it not been that he had a strong hat on at the tittle fbe injury to his bead must have been of the most serious descSiption. As it was, as his worship might -per ceive, he received. several wounds on his bead which he bad been obliged to Lava dressed by a doctor. Finding that he had nothing for it but tcaflgitt his way through those who surrounded him, be set to with his fists and half a dozen of his assailants soon lay about Wan. Mr. Norton—Did the prisoner Brankin strike you at all? Witness—He did, sir • he gave me a desperate blow on the head with the buckle of his belt, and was one of the most violent of the lot, but a more cowardly set of scoundrels I never witnessed ; in fact, they are a perfect disgrace to the British army. Several witnesses were called to corroborate the testimony of the last witness, and they all spoke of the fiendish con duct and violence of the prisoners. Mr. Superintendent Lund also described the conduct of the prisoners and tt eir companions as being of the most out rageous deicription, and it required some considerable efforts to quell the disturbance they 'had-created. From what be (Mr. Lund) had learned, it appeared that they had managed to get into the village and drank. a quantity of rum, which made them apparently mad. Mr. Norton—l wonder how tbey could have got into the Crystal Palace in such a state as that of drunkenness? Mr. Lund—They would not have been admitted bad it been discovered they were at all the worse for drink. The moment I spoke to Messrs. Sawyer and Strange of the state ~u s e soldiers of the Antrim Rifles were in, those gentlemen at directed that they should notbave a drop of anything to drily.`' and, in . fact, they are always exceedingly particular in previala‘lng visitors from having any more than that which was „ f fi c i eth : for refreshment, and certainly not so muck as to cause anaajaallien. Mr. Norton belie:ved from all he had heard and seen that such was the fact, and that the management of Messrs. Sawyer and Strat ge in their particular department WAS such as to give great saNfaattion. The prisoners, in reply to 6;e charge, said that the people in the gardens had made some 041 etions on their country, Ireland, and one of them, M‘Gros, - an, added that the blows from his belt would not do much har.'n• Mr. Norton animadverted with juCt severity on their scandalous conduct, and sentenced each 1:9 pay a penalty of £5, or in default to two months' imprisonment. The prisoner Brankin was again charged with throwing two table knives at two ladies s and violently assaulting Ser geant Smith while in the execution of his duty, and for these joint offences he was sentenced to two mouths' hard labour in Wandsworth House of Correction. THAMES.—CIGARS AND CRINOLINE.—EIIen Carey, a neatly dressed young woman, wars brought before Mr. Yardley, charged, on a Custom-bouso information, with smuggling 22phs. weight of cigars, by which she had in curred a penalty of £,100.- She pleaded guilty to the information, and the magistrate at once sentenced- her to pay a flue of £lOO to the Queen, and in defaelt of payment to be imprisoned for six months. Mr. Gardner, a tide surveyor of customs, introduced to '.. the notice of the magistrate three large petticoats lined with cigars, and said the prisoner was a passenger by the General Steam Narigation Company's ship The Moselle, and on her arrival at St. Katherine's Wharf the prisoner was about to step en shore, when her immense rotundity of dress excited his suspicions, and he naked her if she had anything about her liable to duty. She 'declared she bad not, and ex plained that her full blovn appearance arose frarn crinoline, which she and every hely in the land considered as very becoming, whatever the gentlemen might say on the sub ject. He hinted to her tat her crinoline petticoat was of extra dimensions, and handed her over to a female searcher, who stripped her in a private cabin, took the three peat- coats lined with cigars from her person, and brought her Oat Again with her size diminished to reasonable proportions as be now appeared. ' - M r. y,:rdley—The prisoner is not wearing crinoline now. The office: — No, sir. Mr. Yardley --I thought not. She appears to be dressed in av officer—Yet, propereryfey r eZtianner. The g, sir. Mr. Yardley—Yon will have no faith in crinoline again. The officer—Never, sir; I shall always suspect every woman wim wears crinoline. (Before Mr. Payne.) Thomas Saunford,sB, described as a seaman, was In dicted fur having of taiaed by false and fraudulent pretences from Frederick Sa3er tl.e sum of 10s., with intent to cheat him thereof. - Mr. Poland app , ,ared fur the prosecu'ion, on behalf of ne Mendicity Society; Mr. Geut was counsel for the prisoner. The prosecutor, Capt. Frederick Sayer, attached t, the S'atf at the Home Guards, stated that on Monday, the 19th of J uly, the prison< r called at the Horse Guards and asked to see him. He was shown into his office, and he then pro duced a paper, and said he was a native of Sibton, in Suffolk, and hal bEen a lieutenant in the navy. He represented that e had nwhed a vessel called the Hope, which foundered off the cjaet In Ap it last, by which unfortunate cccurrecce he lost £B5O, atid was brought to ruin. He mentioned the names of several persons resident in the neighbourhood of Sib on, and also Minded to circumstances connec ed with his (Cept. Sayer's) family which cceurred 30 years ago, by which he was ine:tic.d to believe that his representations were true, and he gave him 10s., thinking him a deserving person. The paper he had with him contained the names of several persons, opposite to which wale entries of sums which he said three persons had given . to relieve his tress, and appended to it was a certificate purporting to be sien , ,d by a Mr. Pearson, of Mat k-latte, and setrlo forth lyo the petitioner's statements about the loss c f the Hope were true, and that he was worthy of charity. Sion efur he ha gone away it cccurred to witness teat possibly the roan waa au imposter, as he take been unable to mention the name of the clergyman of taibton, which was well known thereabout; but in a very abort time he learned that tie was in custody, having been eppreaeoded just outside the office. The prisoner told him that the reason he left the navy was that he was in fear of a a urt-martial. E'lwtrd Webb, an °Hitter cf . t he MI ndicity Society, stated that rn the day in question be saw the prisoner in company with a woman in St. James's-street, and knowing them he watched their procee.tirige. Toey went along Pall-Mall to Vie Duke of York's Column, thence to the Horse Guard-, and on the prisoner corning out of Capt. Sayer's (ace, he passed a paper to the woman, who went off with it. He took hold of the arisaner, who thrust another paper into his mouth and Incia to chew it, but part of it was recovered: He >lin:rated violkntly. There was no Mr. Pearson known in Ma k-lens, and the prisoner had teen convicted of ob taining money by similar representations several times. Whoa beg re the magistrate, the prisoner wished the case to be dealt with summarila, and 'appealed to Capt. Sayer's leniency, but he was committed for trial. Mr. Gent urged a variety of grounds, mot of them d a technical nature, fcr an tcquitt al. Mr. Payne sumtued up very carefully, and The jery found t' e prisoner guilty. It 14ai then proved that the prisoner had for the last 20 years lived by imposing on the public. He had been four times convicted, an I WBq once sentenced to 15 months. Ile was a Loading metrib?r of the begging letter fraternity. Mr. Payne having consulted the magistrates present, said be thought himself that a sentence of. penal servitude ought to be passed :Ton the prisoner by way af example, and to protect the charitable from the iniquit , us frauds which I e had carried on for a long course of years. How ever, tbking a very light view of the case, the sentence on the p: eseut occasion was 18 caleudar months' Lard labour, but, if ever he was convicted again, he might rest assured he would pass the remainder of his (lays in penal servitude. Williams, a respectable-looking man, was placed at the bar to receive sentence. He wet: convicted on Mouthy of a,saulting Chitties Cole, a police-constable, in the execution of his duty. _ It appeared that on the morning of the 20th of July the constable was in Oxford-street, and hearing a cry f "police" be went to the spot it proreeded from, and fiu.nd a gentle man holding a woman who was struggling violently to escape. The gentleman said the woman had robbed him of his watch and chain, which slie had in her hand when he went ap. Being in plain clothes, he said he was a pliceman, and took the woman into custody. The prisoner interfered and waged to know what he was going to do with the woman. He said he was a constable and had cot her in cui.to y for a robbery. The prisoner said he cou:d not telkviiether he was a policeman er not; but to satisfy him upon that point, be took out his warrant card, and showed it Lim, and he read it under a gas lamp. But not satisfied with this proof of the constable's authority, he still disputed his 1141 it to take tke woman, and, tripping bina up, the woman gut away, earl while be lay on the ground the prisoner kicked him on the arms and body. In the end the prisoner was taken to the station instead of the woman, and there he found there•was no mistake as to the prosecutor's being a policeman. A person who was present corroborated the statement that the warrant card was shown to the prisoner, who read it Iry - the;:i.S light. Mr. Metcalfe, for the prisoner, now called evidence as to the respectability of the prisoner, and his good character. It was stated by h Hs employer's foreman that lie was an onest, sober, and w e ll con d ucte d man . Mr. Payne said, allowing for any chivalrous or Quixotic feeling the prisoner might have had in going to the a=sist awe of a woman he thought was being ill-used, tie had com mitted a very serious offence in rescuing from lawful cu , - tbdy a person rsi o no doubt bad committed a feloay ; and, under all circumstances, he ought to have hem content to leave her with it e constable after the latter had very pro perly exhibited his warrant card. Considering his charac ter, and in the absence of any suggestion that he was con cerned in any way ‘‘l,ll the woman who was mewed of the robbery, he si.ould ~n tence him to six months' hard labour. John Orton, 26, : journeyman baker, was convicted of feloniously embezzli :g the sum of 2:4.61., and other moneys, received by him in t sc capacity of servant to William Coles, and wi-:s sentenced h six months' hard labour. Elizabeth Brown , 30, formerly an hospital nurse , was convictedconvict , of6tealin. : 31 yards of cplico, the property of Adam Adams and t nother; sentenced to three months' hard labour. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION- llMlSE.—Thomas _Mat, 17, was charged with the followit g imnudent robbery: — Mr. Pecde,tf the firm of Moore, P e ede, and Co., ware housemen, Fr:day- s t ree t, deposed that about 10 o'clock he observed the prisoner loitering outside their warehouse, and upon firing to another part of the place at a little dis tance from the door, he taw him suddenly rush into the shop, seize / p two pieces of silk handkerchiefs, and then rush out again. Witness pursued as fast as he could, and soon came up with him, upon which he threw the handker chiefs ow: y. Witness held him till a policeman came up, and then gave him into custody. The value of the hand kerchiefs was £2 12s. The prisoner said it was all a mistake; he had !never ..inched the handkerchiefs. He was ;,n inno.ent lad, and road ver been in cus.ody before. Lord Mayor—We shall see about that. Does any one know anything about him here? Popp:n, 15 P, metropolitan police—l know him. I had him in charge on the 25th August last for picking pockets at the Crystal Palace Railway station, and in searching him I found no fewer than eight handkerchiefs non him. He was taken before Mr. Elliott, at Lambeth Police-court, and sentenced to three months. _ _ _ Policc 7 comtgble 434, (City—sinco thgt hp ups been BIRTH• ASTLET.—On the Ist inst., at 47, Portlani-place, the wife of the Rev. C. T. Astley, of a son, stillborn. CANNAL—On the 2d at Richmond, Surrey, Mrs. D. A. Canna.% of a son. jnavis.—On the 2d inst., at Tufnell Villa, Upper Halloway, Mrs. T. S. Jarvis, of a son. TERM. —On the Ist inst., at SOuthbank, Surbiton-hill, he wife of tt. Vincent Jervis, Esq., of a soil, stillborn. LEVEE.—On the 81st ult., at laidenhexl, the wife of Mr.Thos. Lever, of a son. MUsoluvE.—On the sit ult., at nattersey, Notts, the wife of the Rev. Vernon Musgrave, of a daughter. NEAL.—On the Ist inst., at 3, Cloudesley-street, Islington, the wife of Mr. Richard Neal (late of Tunbridge-wells), of a son. 31ARRIA.GES. SENNED—ADEL.--011 the 30th ult., at St. Mary's Church, BryanstOne" square, by the Rev. Robert Rutland, William Jenner, M.D., te Adele, daughter of Stephen Adey, Esq. KINGSLEY—LLOYD.On the 31st ult., at the Parish Church of Wettcon.- under-Edge, Gloucestershire, by the Rev. Lloyd, cousin of the bride, assisted by the Rev. B. J. Perkins, vicar, Eugene A. Kings ley, Esq., of Wotton, sou of Lieut.-Colonel Kingsley, of Peckham, Surrey, to Louisa. daughter of the late Daniel Lloyd, Esq., of Ash croft, Glocestershire. StursoN—BUTCHES.—On the 2d inst., at Christ Church, Turnhani green, by the Rev. J. W. Shepherd, Joseph, eldest son of the late Rev. William Simpson, of Tanfield, Durham, to Margaret, second.. daughter of the late Mr. Jonathan Butcher, of Grove-terrace, Turnharn-green. TOUT—MARSDEN —On the 31st ult., at Trinity Church, Stepney, by the Rev. F. Simcox Lea, M.A., Charles Henry, eldest son of the late Michael Tout, Esq., of Sidmouth, Devon, to Mary Anno, only daughter of Mr. Henry Herbert Marsden, late of Chelmsford, Essex. DEATHS. BERGERON.—On the 28th ult., at Paris, Emma, wife of Charles Ber geron, E4q., and daughter of the ate Charles Thomas Haden, Esq., of London. CumoNEn.—On the 21st ult., at her mother's residence at Bays water, Mary, the wife of Thomas Chaloner, Esq., Capt. R.N., of Gisbefough, Yorkshire, aged thirty-four. COMRIE.—On the Ist ult., at New Hope E tate, Westmoreland, Jamaica, Walter Stirling Comrie, aged fifty-eight. e, FULFORD.—On the gist ult., at Stafford, Florence, eldest daughter of Alajor William Pafford, aged fifteen. HALL.---On the 30th ult., at ,Everdon, Northamptonshire, Martha Westrope Hall, widow of Francis Hall, Esq., late of Saffron Wal den, Essex, aged lorty•nine; J EFFA rys,—On the 31st ult., at Leamington, Herbert Vaughan, • second son of Edward William Jeffreys, Esq., aged two years and nine months. Ltwfs.—On the 30th ult., Benjamin Lewis, Esq., solicitor, late of London, aged eighty-one. MALDORIY.--011 the 2(.1 inst., at the residence of her sister, 1 Park street,6 rosvenor-square, Catherine Maldorn, aged twenty-five. Rootat..—On the 29th ult., at the residence of her aunts, No. 4 . the York-zreseent, Clifton, Gloucestershire, Sarah Ann Bogert!. STEVENS.—On the 29th May; at Singapore, Charles Camboll Stevens. 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