The Sun. — London, England, 1846-04-10 00:00:00

BRIGADIER-GENERAL CURE TON. Colonel Cureton was born, bred, and educated a gen tleman, and when little more than sixteen years of age, he was appointed to an ensigncy in a county militia re giment of the first pretension, and commanded by a Noble Earl, who was also the Lord-Lieutenant of the county. From his ensigncy he was soon promoted to a lieutenancy, through the esteem and kindess of his colonel, the Noble Earl. " Young Cureton" became a general favourite, not only with his brother-officers, but with every individual in the regiment. His constant association with men of superior wealth, and being by them introduced to much society, led to expense beyond his own immediate resources, and at the end of the year creditors pressed for the settlement of their bills—then threatened legal proceedings. He applied to his family to assist him, and they were dissa tisfied at his contracting debts, and refused to liquidate them. His spirit could not brook their refusal of his request, nor the thought of being arrested (he was then a minor, and it legally could not have been done), the dread of which caused him to absent himself, and a few months afterwards he was superseded in his regiment, being absent without leave. Not long after that event some friend procured him a commission in another militia regiment of great respec tability ; when gazetted to it, it furnished the then few outstanding creditors with the knowledge of his " where about." One or two of them wrote for immediate set tlement in threatening language. The fear of arrest returned strongly, and effectually to guard against it he resolved again to absent himself; in furtherance of which he purchased a 'sailor's dress to disguise himself, and next morning at an early hour went to the sea-side, dressed in regimentals, with his disguise and a check shirt in a bundle, which he put on, leaving his military dress on the beach (the regiment was stationed in a maritime town). The uniform was shortly found, and, after waiting some time in expectation of seeing the owner, it was taken to the barrack; where it was as certained to whom the articles belonged; and an opinion was entertained that Cureton, while bathing, had been carried out by the current and drowned. His mother and family received information from the regiment to that effect, and they went into mourning for him ac cordingly. By means of his disguise he reached London unknown, and meeting with a recruiting party of the 14th Light Dragoons, enlisted in his baptismal names, omitting his surname. Very soon he was sent from the party to joie the regimental depot stationed at Radipole barracks, near Weymouth, tie regiment at the time being in the Peninsula. His steady conduct and well-stored mind quickly attracted the attention of those officers who were doing duty at the depot, and he was in consequence forthwith appointed to orderly-room duty alone. A draught being ordered out to join head quarters in the Peninsula, he was one of the number draughted. Letters highly recemmerdatory of his general good conduct and ability were forwarded by the officer in command of the depot to Sir S. Hawker, Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the 14th Dragoons. That discerning officer soon became assured of the young dragoon's merit and talents, and on the first opportunity advanced him to the rank of sergeant. Then, when any outpost or other important duty required to be entrusted to an intelligent, skilful non-commissioned officer, it was generally con fided to the (then) sergeant for execution. The per formance of those duties was always meritorious, arid his reports thereof so well written, that Sir Samuel Hawker's interest was so far excited in his future pros pects and welfare, that he resolved on recommending him to (at that time) Lord Wellington for advancement as a commissioned officer, thinking that his talents would then have greater scope for development. Sir Samuel stated his intention to the sergeant, also asking if such a measure would be acceptable. The sergeant warmly expressed his gratitude to the colonel for his kind intention and favourable appreciation of his humble services, adding that previously to Sir Samuel so far benefiting him, he felt it an imperative duty to lay before him every circumstance connected with his posi tion in life before he entered into the 14th Light Dra goons, with the cause and means he took to enlist therein ; and finished by observing to the colonel that should he consider what had been related would not militate hereafter against him as an officer, he most gratefully should receive the honour so graciously in tended for him. Sir Samuel Hawker, by what he had heard, remarked that from his first knowledge of him he was of belief that he (the sergeant) bad been a gentle man, and his intention to recommend him for promo don had become more strengthened. Consequent thereto, in less than three months from that interview with Sir Samuel, and about seven years from the time of his enlisting in the 14th Dragoons, un known as he was, with no means of interest to recom mend him or advance him, save that which had been raised in the breast of his gallant commanding officer, the present brigadier was gazetted in his proper name —Cureton, sergeant, from 14th Light Dragoons, to an ensigncy of the 40th Regiment of Infantry. The first intimation his friends had of his existence, arose from reading his name, to their great astonishment, in the Gazette. They were soon made acquainted with the mode of corresponding with him, being then in the Peninsula. They then knew that he had honourably passed the ordeal of a private's and non-commissioned officer's grades in a cavalry regiment, and submitted to him which service he would prefer, cavalry or infantry. He chose the former, and an exchange was without delay effected in the late 20th Dragoons, as cornet. A lieu tenancy was in a reasonable time obtained, when he was appointed adjutant to the regiment, and remained so until the disbandonment of the regiment after the peace, which placed him upon half-pay. In that corps he was highly esteemed by all his brother officers, while his efficiency and merits as a cavalry officer were duly appreciated by the Lieutenant-Colonel command ing, Sir Thomas Hawker, brother of his patron, Sir Samuel Hawker, of the 14th Dragoons. On the 16th Dragoons being ordered to India, and an augmentation of lieutenants taking place, Sir Samuel and Sir Thomas Hawker exerted their joint interest and earnest recommendation of Lieutenant Cureton, at the Horse Guards, for appointment from half-pay to full of the 16th Dragoons, which took place, and soon after wards he was appointed adjutant, which rank he re tained, until he obtained, by purchase, a troop in the same reiment. He likewise purchased his majority and had lodged money for a lieutenant-colonelcy, which he actually had been gazetted to, in the 3d Dragoons, by purchase, and which was subsequently cancelled, as a casualty having turned up in his regiment (16th Lancers), he was gaietted therein as Lieutenant-Colonel without purchase—a favour, no doubt, conferred by her Majesty as an especial mark of his many meritorious services. SIR GEORGE POLLOCK. The resolution proposed on Monday, in the Court of Common Council by Sir Peter Laurie, for the vote of the freedom of the City to General Sir George Pollock, for his brilliant services in India, which vote was delayed in consequence of an erroneous impression in the Court that it was necessary to wait until the return of the Gallant General to this country, has, we are given to understand, occasioned much satisfaction amongst his relatives in town. The estimate formed of the extra ordinary services rendered by the brother of the Chief Baron of England may be seen amongst other hearty acknowledgments in the following resolution enclosed in a letter written by Mr. Rogers, who, it will be remem bered, served the office of Sh er iff of London and Mid dlesex, in a very distinguished manner in the year 1841, to Sir Peter Laurie, Passed at a mewing of the inhabitants of Calcutta, at the Town-hall, Oct. 7, 1841, " That a gold medal and sum of money (to be deter.nined by the amount of sub scription raised) to he calkd " The Pollock Prize," be presented annually to the most distinguished cadet of the season, at AddiscombP, to commemorate the fame and services of Sir George Pollock, and that subscrip tion books be circulated in the three presidenciet to raise a fund for this purpose; n) subscription to exceed: fifty rupee:;. • With reference to the above, subscribers are requeAed to remit the amount of their subscripions to the Bank of Bengal, the Union Bank, or to any of the following gen tlemen appointed by the sth resolution, a Committee to carry the above into effect:— Brigadier Frith, Lieut.-Col. Burlton, Cheape, 17 Hawkins, Mr. 0. Doroda, I, Higgins, „ Sutherland, ~ Storm, ~ Allen, „ Gilmore, . „ A. Rogers, Gillanders, Dr • Gardner, Capt. Rogers, Dwarkanauth Tsgore, Rustimajee Cowasgee, Prosonseamer Tagore, Forbes, .-s , Irvine, Pownery, Pattie, Rittray, Tucker, If Mr. Baron, •P E. M. Gordon. Hen y Moore, 99 , Dickens, It will not be the amount subscribed, but the act of subscribing, which will mark the desire of the subscriber to forward the above resolution. The followina is a copy of the letter of Mr. Rogers, in which the above quoted resolution was enclosefl. It. was alluded to on Monday, in the Court of Common Council, by Sir Peter Laurie: — "Calcutta, May 23, 1843. `My dear Sir Peter Laurie,—l have been intend '"? . day after day, for some time past, to write yon, but somehow time has got the start of and, unfortunately, without my having any excuse to otter for the delay in carrying tray good intent. May I ask you, however, before ntermg into the direct object of my letter, if you re ,ollect having given it as your opinion at a party, where I had the pleasure of meeting you, ' that per sona abroad took no note of the proceedings of the Corporation of the City of London, and of my having remarked, in reply, that so far as my experience went, I felt justified in saying that, instead of distance lessen ing, it lent intense interest to every thing that pass e d in - that great body ? And now let me assure you, Sir Peter, from the experience I have had since I left London, as well as from that of my ,former life, I find persons abroad better informed and taking deeper interest in your movements than those at home. If, however,. thi Indian community had ever been wanting in attention to the proceedings of the magistrates and the Corporation of the metropolis of Britain, you have, cf late, taken the best method of fix ing their attention on your doings. I refer to the ho nour and distinction you have conferred on Nott, and Pottinger, and other Indian officers. But whilst you have been showing well-merited applause and more sub stantial marks of your approbation on those able and gallant men, there is one who, by still remaining at his 1)04 of tiarigr?r and of duty, seems to me to have been aepriseci, by that fact alone (absence) of his share of thosv honours. I feel assured, when reminded of this circumstance, that no one will be more ready than your - self in lending your powerful aid in obtaining fur the absent some.mark of the City's approbation. " I had the pleasure of meeting at your hospitable board a brother of Sir George Pollock's, and this cir- cumstance, as well as the knowledge of your desire on all occasions to see justice done to small and great, has induced me to address you on this matter. I must first tell you, that I have been requested to act as Honorary Secretary to the Committee appointed to carry out the objects of the resolutions passed at a general meeting of the public of Calcutta. I have taken the liberty of for warding to you the proceedings of that meeting, by which you will learn, that besides an address unamiously voted to Sir George Pollock, a prize was also to be given annually at Addiscombe (the Company's military seminary) to commemorate the name and services of the gallant general. This sort of testimonial will, I hope, be considered ex tremely appropriate, as it not only conveys the highest compliment which could be paid to Sir George Pollock, but likewise evinces an earnest desire on the part of the givers to perpetuate in our own country a constantly re curring recollection of tke many brilliant and important victories which, in consequence of, aad in succession to, the memorable forcing of the Kyber Pass, were suc cessfully and uninterruptedly obtained by the Bengal army under Sir George, until he again planted the British flag on the Ballah 'lesser, and re-occupied Cabul, thus restoring the long-established impression and prestige of the invincibility of our military power and strength, and visiting with singular retributive punishment the flagrant acts and conduct of the Affghans. I hope also you will consider the testimonial appro priate, especially as it holds out an inducement to young soldiers in the same service as Sir George Pollock to gain this reward, and by their future career to emulate tne great deeds of their predecessors. I hare taken upon myself to mention your name to the Committee, and assured them that I believed you would take a deep interest in promoting the object of the public of this city ; and I am requested respectfully and earnestly to solicit your powerful aid in giving the papers general circulation, in the fullest conviction that the feeling they will excite will obtain for the object we have in view the most satisfactory suffrage and support. Under your support, it would afford the inhabitants of India a just cause of pride and satisfaction if the Corpo ration were to take this appropriate mode of testifying their approbation of the high deserts of their fellow citizen. Sir George Pollock, by numbering themselves with those who have come forward to support this inte resting and novel testimonial in honour of a brave soldier and meritorious man. " I have been obliged to write this, as you see evidence of, in great haste, and must trust to your tried kindness to excuse it." COURT OF ALDERMEN. Yesterday a Court of Aldermtm was held at the Man sion-house, for the purpose of receiving a communication frora the Lord Mayor relative to the steps his Lordship had taken in respect to the Spital sermon, and other matters connected therewith. At the desire of the Lord Mayor Mr. Forth, of the Town Clerk's office, read a correspondence which took place between the Town Clerk upon the part of the Lord Mayor and Mr. Trollope upon the part of the President of Christ's Hospital, from which it appeared that his Lordship had determined, in consequence of the non recognition of his authority, as head of the hospital, not to attend on Monday and Tuesday next to hear the Spital sermon at thaat institution, nor to receive the children of the establishment at the Mansion-house ac cording to the usual custom. A record was produced from which it appeared that from the year 1721 to the year 1795, it had been the custom of the Court of Aldermen to appoint that the Spital sermons should be preached on Easter Monday and Easter Tuesday, at St. Bride's Church, and there was no record to prove that until sub sequently to the year 1795, the Spital sermon had been preached at Christ Church. Under these circumstances his Lordship, considering that an indignity had been cast upon his high office by the terms, and substance of the correspondence, addressed a letter to the Rev. Mr. Dale, canon of St. Paul's, and vicar of St. Bride's Church, to grant permission for the use of St. Bride's Church, for the preaching of the Spital sermons before the Court, and the governors of the several hospitals. To that letter the vicar returned an immediate answer of acquiescence, requesting at the same time that it should be distinct') understood that he did not at all meddle with the ques tion between the Lord Mayor and the president of the hospital. A long discussion, or rather conversation, took place, whieh ended in the unanimous adoption of two resolu tions, the first requesting the Right Rev. Connop, Lord Bishop of St. David's, and the Rev. Charles Farebrother, chaplain to the Lord Mayor, to preach before the Court and the governors of the several hospitals at the parish church of St. Bride's, on Monday and Tuesday in Easter week, and the second requesting the use of that church of the vicar. The LORD MAYOR intimated that his brethren having settled the essential point by adopting his suggestion, he should waive his objection, which sprung out of the in dignity offered to him as to the reception of the scholars, and invite them on the usual day to the Mansion House. The Court then adjourned. SIR F. TRENCH and LORD LINCOLN THE ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC WORKS. The following letters have been lately printed. No one will dissent from the opinions set forth, although it is not a little strange that the letters should have been published.— Times. 85, Pall-mall, Feb. 9. My dear Lord Lincoln,—Early this morning, in crossing Leicester-square, I saw a magnificent boll of an elm-tree so skilfully suspended by chain slings as to attract my admiration. I followed it towards Long acre, and was struck with the beautiful graining of its butt, which I should guess to be twelve feet in circum ference ; it was about nine feet in circumference at the top, and the length might be twenty-five to thirty feet, and it was as straight as an arrow. I asked one of the waggoners where it came from, and you may judge my dismay when he said " from Hyde Park." You may recollect that at Sir Robert Peel's dinner I told you that I was on the point of writing to you, to beg that you would not allow any old trees to be cut down without your special permission, and very much do I regret that the fear of being deemed intrusive pre vented my so doing, as it might have been the means of saving those superb old trees which have been cut down since, and which all the wealth of the world cannot now replace. When I lamented the destruction of the fine old avenue of horse chesnuts between the King's-road and Chelsea Hospital (which are to be replaced by fine young trees), you told me you did not know who had ordered them to be cut down. I went to the spot to inquire, but could not obtain any information ; but I saw prostrate on the ground no less than fifty, independent of a magnificent and venerable tree (not in the avenue), under whose shade I have often seen a hundred or two hundred people listening to a ranting Methodist preacher. I asked a carpenter working at one end of the new houses what he thought one of the avenues of trees might be worth? and he said "between 21. and 3/.;" 1501. to the Ex chequer, yet millions would not replace them. I think it was on the morning of the 6th of this month I went to look over Coventry House, and was struck by the magnificence of an old elm tree (the only one, as my informant told me, left of a group of ten or twelve) ; its top was shattered by storm or lightning, but it might have been cut so as to produce good shoots, and to form a head like one of the two that are I,ft opposite Grafton House, and near the reservoir. But, alas! next morning, as I passed along Picea filly, before nine o'clock, I found a gang of carpenters felling it, and so rapid were their operations, that as I retursn.d through Hyde Park, by the S-rpentine, I met a waggon conveying toppings and loppings to what the waggoner celled " the wood depot;" and the place where it had stood was already filled up. Next morning I took a rule and measured it, and several of the great stems that lay near the sawpit. Some of the butt, when squared and sawn into planks, measured 8 feet in diameter, and others between 2i and 3 feet. I consider -the destruction of these trees a sacrilege—if an embank 'mPrit was necessary they might have been surround,? -with acguard of bricks, as is done with the three small plane trees (probably in consequence of your orders) ; but if the walk had been continued on the level of Lord Coventry's garden till it came nearly opposite to Cam bridge House, according to a plan I submitted to you, every one of these fine old trees might have been spared, and two flights of steps (60, 70, or 80 feet wide), with a broad landing between them (as at the bottom of Water loo-place), and with a handsome balustrade leading up to the level of the reservoir, would have been a beautiful feature, and probably would not have cost so much as the removal of the - earth to form the embankment which has caused the destruction of these venerable old trees. I have been at a loss what to do with this letter ; but I believe you are still at the head of the Wood.; and Forests, and, therefore, I address it you, and do entreat that yon, or your successor, will give orders " that, for the future, no tree shall be cut down without your special permission?' - - The same motive which led me to send a copy of my note to you about fountains to Sir R. Peel, added to the fear that this letter may fall to the ground (ineffectual) between you and your successor, induce me to adopt the same course now. The emergeocy appears to me to justify this intrusion, even in this moment of unexam pled pressure ; for if the evil spirit which has been guilty of the massacre of these fine old trees is not checked in its sudden rapid course, who knows what havoc may be made ? Yours sincerely F. W. TRENCH. To the Earl of Lincoln. A LETTER TO LORD LINCOLN ON THE SUBJECT OF THE FOUNTAINS IN TRAFALGAR-SQUARE. Scarborough, Nov.. 17, '1845. My dear Lord Lincoln,—l have been making a short tour in Spain (the land of fountains), and have visited Corunna, Vigo, Lisbon, Cadiz, Seville, .Algesiras, Malaga, Grenada (not forgetting Sotto di Roma, though no fountains are to be seen there), Almeria, Carthagena, Alicante, Valencia, B ircelona, Gitona, Fif-uairas, Per pignan, Montpelier, Clermont, Orleans, Blois, Paris, and Rouen. Everywhere I looked for fountains, acid have seen them of every shape and size, from a simple dolphin to the elaborate groups on some of the Spanish alamedas, or the gaudy and less modest exhibition of the lusty buxom nymphs in the Place de Concorde, at Paris. But no where have I seen anything so mesquin and so ungraceful as your fountains in Trafalgar-square. As I passed through London I perceived that prepara tions were making for some alterations, and 1 therefore obtrude myself to call your attention to a fountain which I saw (and for the first time) in this Champs Elyies, and which, to my taste, surpasses in beauty anything of the kind anywhere. It has neither a.rcbitecture embellish ment nor sculptural decoration. It must be the cheapest of all possible fountains, for it requires nothing but a proper distribution of the pipes, of which you can easily obtain a plan, and a sufficiency of water, which the Thames or your London water-works can give more liberally than the river Seine, or the French sources. If you have not seen it, I earnestly recommend it to your especial notices or, if you cannot look at it your- self, send to Paris some one on whose judgment and taste you can rely. With a little wind and a bright sun the effect is more beautiful than anything of the kind I have ever seen—l will not except the six rainbows at Terni—perhaps Mr. Barry may have sail it. I send a copy of this to Sir R. Peel ; but my appeal is to you, not to him, because I know he dislikes being approached upon any subject except through the proper official channel. Yours, sincerely, F. W. TRENCH. To the Earl of Lincoln, &c. LAW ISTELLIGENCE. SECONDARIES" COURT, April 9. (Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.) THE GUANO TRADE.-HILL AND ANOTHER V. SUGHRUE. This was an action to recover damages for the breach of a contract on a charter party, in which judgment was suffered by default. The present proceeding was a writ of inquiry to assess the damages. Mr. M. Chambers, Q C., and Mr. Lush were for the plaintiffs ; Mr. Cockburn and Mr. Hoggins for the de fendants. The evidence showed that the plaintiffs are merchants in Rood-lane, and the defendant a shipowner. In Sep tember, 1844, a charter party contract was made between the parties for a cargo of guano, in the ship Seffings, from Ichaboe, West Africa, at 41. 15s. a ton, provided it was delivered in London by the following April, or at 41. Its. 6d. a ton if delivered after that period. The vessel reached Ichaboe in January, 1845. There were 300 ships on the same errand, and 3,000 men at work. The best guano pits had been exhausted, and the cap tain could only procure fifty tons of an inferior quality, the tonnage of the vessel being 522. He went to Male gars, Saldanah Bay, where he got a cargo, and arrived at Hull in September last. Before his arrival, however, the defendant had made an agreement with other par ties, and sold the cargo at 5L a ton. The price in April was 51. a ton, and in September 71. 103. The case for the plaintiff was, that they were entitled to the price of the guano in September, and not the April price. For the defence it was said the defendant could not fulfil the contract. The Learned SECONDARY left the case to the jury to assess the damages. The jury retired at a little before two, and came into Court at six o'clock. They assessed the damages at 500/. SHERIFFS' COURT, April 9. (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCMILL, and a Common Jury). LASILETT V. M`CANN.-A UNIVERSAL RAILWAY DIRECTOR. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, to re• cover of the defendant the sum of 91 44. 6d. for services rendered. To this the defendant pleaded, first, that he was never indebted ; and secondly, a " set off." Mr. PARRY said, the plaintiff was a medical gentle man, and brought the present action to recover the sum of 91. 4s. 6d. for his services as an assistant to the de fendant, Mr. M`Cann, the well-known surgeon of Par liament-street, Westminster. In the latter part of the year 1843 the plaintiff entered the service of the de fendant, with the understanding that he was to receive a salary of 201. for the first year, 251. for the second ; and 301. for the third. On the 13th of January last a quarrel took place between them, which led to a separa tion, there being then due to the plaintiff a balance amounting to 9/. 4s. 6d. Henry John Crawford, clerk to plaintiff's attorney, stated that he served the defendant with the writ in the action, and told him that the claim was for one quarter and three weeks' salary from the 11th of September, 1845, until the Ist of January, 1846. Mr. M`Cann com plained that Mr. Laskett had detained a book belonging to him, and that he would not pay him a farthing until it was returned. Mr. J. Hawkins was present in August, 1843, when Mr. Laskett engaged with Mr. M`Cann. The agree ment was, that he should have 201. the first year, and 5/. per annum increase afterwards, if he suited. Cross-examined by Mr. HQCGINS—CouId not remem ber exactly whether there was a written agreement. He might have signed one, but it was so long ago, he could not swear that he had. Mr. HOGGINS here produced a document, and asked the witness if he had ever seen it before? The witness said that it now occurred to him that he had signed a written document; the one produced was the same. His own signature left no doubt upon his mind.—(Laughter.) It had been executed at the time, but it was only an agreement for the first year. It was afterwards arranged by a verbal agreement that plaintiff was to receive a progressive salary. Mr. HOGGINS addressed the jury for the defendant, contending that the document which had been put i❑ proved beyond a doubt that the plaintiff had engaged to serve the defendant for 201. per annum. He would ad mit that tue defendant had paid the plaintiff 51. more than the salary for the second year. It was not done in the fulfilment of any agreement between them, but as a gratuity bestowed for attention to business. There had been other transactions between the plaintiff and de fendant, upon which the second plea was founded. In the year 1845 Mr. M'Cann was a "provisional director" of the Madrid and Valentia Railway; which the plain tiff being aware of, applied to the defendant for an allot ment of shares. Mr. M'Cann told him that he could not grant them, but that he could, if he wished, write to the committee. The plaintiff did so, and received an allotment of ten shares, on which a deposit of 21. per share was to be paid within a certain time, at the bank ing-house of Messrs. Forbes. To pay this deposit, the plaintiff having no money, the defendant kindly lent him 201., which was the set-off he should now estab lish. Mr. J. H. J. Roberts, assistant to Mr. M'Cann, said he knew the plaintiff, and recollected his haring an allotment of shares in the " Madrid and Valentia Rail way." The plaintiff told him that Mr. ?I'Cann had given him the money to pay for them, and he hoped they would soon be at a premium.—(Laughter.) Mr. PARRY—Was Mr. M'Cann provisional director of more than one railway ? Witness—l believe he was a director of a great number of railways. - Mr. PARRY —Then he was a sort of universal railway director ?—(A laugh.) Witness—l believe so. Mr. PARRY—There was a great deal of business dme in the railway line at the defendant's surgery, I believe ? Witness—There was. Mr. Paaßs—Has not the plaintiff written letters on railway matters for Mr. M'Cann ? Witness—Yes. Mr.'PAhar —Did he not sit up until three o'clock in the morning conducting Mr. M'Cann's railway business ? Witness—Sometimes. Mr. PARRY—How many railways was Mr. M‘Cann a director of ? Was he a director of ten ? Witness— More. Mr. PARRY—Twenty ? Witness—More than twenty. Mr. PARRY—Have you not written letters for Mr. M`Cann ? Witness—l have. Mr. PARRY—Then you have been " stagging it ?" (Laughter) Witness—A little.—(Renewed laughter.) Mr. PARRY—Now, on your oath, has not Mr. M'Cann instructed you to write in your own name for shares in various speculations ? Witness—He has not. I have written in his name, but not in my own. Mr. PARRY—Are you not aware that the 201. was given the plaintiff for extra services ? Witness—l be lieve it was ; the plaintiff has told me so. Re examined—The plaintiff has sat up more than once. I think defendant had about two hundred shares in the Madrid and Valentia Railway Company. Mr. M'Cann has got plaintiff's shares. •He gave them to him as security for the 20/, plaintiff to have the profits. Mr. H. T. Forbin, clerk to Messrs. Forbyn, bankers, said that the plaintiff came to the banking-house on the 15th of October last, and presented a cheque for 201. as a deposit on ten shares in the Madrid and Valentia Rail way Company. Witness said to him, "You are a fortu nate fellow to get an allotment "—(Laughter)—" and Mr. M'Cann to give You the money to pay for them." The plaintiff said, " Yes, he was." He also presented a cheque for 5001. as payment for Mr. M•Cann's shares. A.tr. PARRY having replied, The jury, without any hesitation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the sum claimed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. BREAKING THE WINDoWS OF SIR JAMES GRAHAM. —Mary Stuart, of No. .184, Kent-street, was brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged with having wilfully broken two squar , s of glass in a window of the residence of Sir James Graham, No. 31, Hill-street, Berkeley square. Webb, the porter to Sir James Graham, said the de fendant called that morning at the house, and said she wanted to see Sir James Graham. She was told to go to the Home-office, but she replied she had been there until she was tired, and she would not go again. She then walked away, declaring she would have her re venge. She then deliberately pulled a stone out of her pocket and smashed two panes of glass in the hall win dow. The stone was thrown with force, and passed very close to the head of Sir James's valet, who was writing in the hall. The damage done was about Bs. Mr. IlanDwlca called on the defendant to explain the reason of her conduct. Tne defendant, a middle-aged woman, respectably dressed, with great composure said—l am the grand daughter of Charles Stuart, who fought the battle of Culloden in 1745. In 1828 I was (employed as lady's maid in the family of the Marquis of Winchester. My royal birth was discovered, and an application was made to Government on my behalf. Seventeen years ago I made application for assistance to Government, but I could get nothing done, and I was prevented from taking another situation. George IV. paid attention to my claim to royal birth, but did nothing for me. In 1841, when the present Ministerial party came in, I applied to Lady Annabella Ramaden, but she insulted my birth, and would not assist me i❑ getting a situation. My title has been examined by the Marquis of Queensberry, who has seen the writing and the arms of my ancestor James IL I applied also to the King of Hanover, and his Majesty promised to make application to Government on account of my birth, but he has done nothing. lam now reduced to the greatest destitution and distress, and I had no other resource than to apply to Sir J. Graham. Mr. HARDwicx—Why did you apply to Sir James Graham in particular ? Defendant—Because he is Se- cretary of State for the Home Department. I have written to hins, but he wrote to inquire whether I was really the granddaughter of Charles Stuart or out of my senses. The Lord Mayor has got my testimonials, and between them all lam deprived of an opportunity of getting any living. I do not know what lam to do, unless it is to go into the workhouse. Mr. HARDWICK—Ana why not ? Defendant—On account of my age. As to my birth don't think any thing of that. I only want to get my living, and it's very hard I am prevented from doing so. Mr. HARDWICK—You must not attempt to gain your object by breaking windows. Defendant—Why does not Sir James Graham give me an answer ? I have applied at the Home-office, and can get no attention paid to me. Mr. HARDWICK, taking into consideration the obvious incoherence of the defendant's manner and language, said, he would fin• her the amount of the damage, Bs., but would append a note to the commitment requesting the surgeon of the prison to inquire into the state of the defendant's mind. The defendant was removed in the van at the usual time. EFFECTS OF DRINK.—Mr. John Fiddes, of 4, St. Anne's Villa, Acaccia-road, was summoned for having menaced his wife Harriet, whereby she went in bodily fear. Mr. Hobler attended for the wife. It appeared that the parties had been separated for some time, and that the complainant by her own exer tions maintained herself and her two children. The de fendant, however, followed her from place to place, acting in a manner so as to excite serious fears for her own and her children's safety. The defendant's conduct was exceedingly violent when he was under the influence of liquor, which indeed was an habitual vice. Mrs. Fiddes gave several instances of the defendant's me nacing behavour towards her with his stick, and called evidence to show that it was not safe for her to be with her husband, in consequence of the effect which drink had on him. A surgeon, who had attended the husband profes sionally. said he knew that the consequences of indul gence in drink had been to produce delirium tremens iu the defendant. He thought the defendant could not be safely trusted when intoxicated. The defendant, whose language towards his wife was very endearing, said if his wife, whom he dearly loved,. would live with him again, he would promise to give up drink, and would keep sober. The wife said she could not depend upon that promise. It had often before been given and always broken. The husband said his object in pursuing his wife from place to place was to see that she had no visitors. He objected to her living in private lodgings by herself. Mr. Hobler said the complainant was only visited by old friends of tke family. Mr. HARDWICK said, after the evidence of habitual intoxication, and the violence to be apprehended from the defendant when in that state, he was of opinion that the wife was entitled to the protection of the law, which she prayed, against her husband. He should, therefore, require him to find sureties. himself in 1001, an, l two sureties in 50/. each, to keep the peace to wards her. MARYLEBONE. OUTRAGE ON A LADY.—John s Welle, a helper in stables at Tattersall's, was charged with the following outrageous conduct towards a lady. A solicitor attended for the complainant. Miss Charlotte Flower deposed, that she resided at the Rev. Mr. Pemberton's, the Hyde, Kingsbury, and that on the afternoon of the 24th ult., as she was walking alone in the direction of Kilburn, the defendant passed and repassed her several times. She quickened her pace in order to avoid hini, but he persisted in his annoyance, and at length, making a full stop, and looking her full in the face, uttered the most disgusting and indecent lan guage. He subsequently held up a large stick to her twice in a threatening way, at which she was consi derably alarmed. Fortunately, a pieman who happened to be coming by, and to whom she mentioned the de fendant's misconduct, put her into a chaise-cart which was going along the road, and by that means she got away. George Brough, the pieman alluded to, corroborated a portion of the preceding evidence. The defendant, on being asked what be had to say, replied, that he was truly sorry, and that he should not have misconducted himself in the way he did had he been sober. _ Mr. LONG observed, that the offence was one of such a shameful nature, that it could not be passed over lightly, and he fined the defendant 405., and in default of payment, one month's imprisonment. ROBBERY BY A LODGER.—Mary Ann Pitcher was charged with the following robberies: — The prisoner had been lodging at the house of Mrs. Forts, 2, Charles-lane, Portland-town, and while there, two brooches, a shawl, and a silver watch (the latter article belonging to another lodger) were missed. The prisoner was at length taken into custody, and it turned out that she had pledged the stolen property at the shops of different pawnbrokers.—She was committed for trial. CLERKEIV WELL. EXTRAORDINARY DOUBLE MARRIAGE.—MaryCowIey, a well-looking person, eighteen years of age, residing in St. Helena-place, Clerkenwell, was charged before Mr. Combo by her husband, William Cowley, upwards of seventy years of age, with having threatened his life. Mr. Woolfe, from the office of Mr. Flower, attended on the part of the complainant, and stated the facts of the case. It appeared that the plaintiff, who is a nervous, weak old man, although being six feet high and of propor tionate dimensions, made a promise to his deceased wife, whom he called his " blessed sainted," that, under any consideration, he would never marry a second wife after her death. After her demise, however, although he was in affluent circumstances, he fretted so much after his " sainted" that he became wayworn and lonely, until he was " piloted " into the defendant's family, who were in the " cat's meat line." They " oft invited " him, and a reciprocity of sympathy existed, or appeared to exist, between Mr. Cowley, the plaintiff, and the defendant's mother, who, with tears in her eyes, frequently al luded to her "late beloved," to whom she made a solemn vow never to marry again. Promises are, however, made sometimes to be broken, let them be ever so solemn, especially under the peculiar influence of the tender passion, which suddenly seized the plaintiff at first sight of defendant's mother, and, in a moment of rapture he proposed matrimony, and they were married in 1842. They kept the wedding gloriously, and, what with the drinking, the " light fantastic toe," the sounds of the fiddle, and the other amusements, they kept it up until daylight peeped. The next day the new wife repented of so rash an union, and of breaking her promise with her late beloved, and she told the old gentleman that she would give him a written legal release from the mar riage if he would marry her daughter. He agreed to the proposal, and took to himself a young wife. They were married ; the wedding was kept up expensively at plaintiff's cost. Ever since the union with the prisoner he had nut enjoyed one moment's peace or comfort. She annoyed him in every possible way, beat him till he was black and blue, refused to sleep with such "an old villian," threatened to stab him, to dash his brains out with a rolling-pin, and told him to go t o th e l ower re gions. The poker and other implements of domestic conve nience were frequently brought into active requisition, and not only his head but his very life was in actual danger, and he was compelled to a pply f or th e l aw ' s protection. "Indeed," said the old gen tl eman , "she knocks me about just like a! shuttl ecoc k.—(L aug ht er .) And we have one child, your worship."—(Laughter.) Here he put on a longitudinally woful countenance. Mr. COMBS asked the defendant what she had to say in her defence? Defendant—lt is all false; the first fortnight he was kind, but ever since he has only al lowed me half a quartern loaf and two pennyworth of bacon a day for our support, and a penny for our supper. Plaintiff—You always had a rump steak for your supper. You have robbed me, picked my pocket, pawned and sold my property, left me w ith out a b e d , an d d r i ven me to poverty. I cant i bear it any l onger . Mr. Woolfe said, if t were applicable to the question at issue, he could " a tale unf o ld" to s h ow t h at t h e tilaintiff was an injured and persecuted man, and that he had been inveigled into this strange sort of " double union" for the sake of his property. Mr. CO3IBZ ordered defendant to find bail to keep the peace. The plaintiff was formerly a respectable householder, and well-known in the parish of Clerkenwell. The Court was crowded.to excess by respectable inhabit an t s , and there was at► iimpression afloat that a charge of bigamy mightprobably be instituted against the plaintiff. TVORSHIP-STREET. Y.sterday, two young fellows named James Clew and George Meredith, were charged with committing a high way robbery upon Evan Morgan, a tailor, reAding in Floxton-market. The prosecutor was passing a dead-wall in the Kings land-road, between the hours of five and six on Tuesday evening, when he met the prisoners, and Meredith having struck him a violent blow on the head, which stunned him for a moment, snatched from his hand a bundle, containing, two new coats. Both the prisoners then ran off together, and were apprehended on Wed neiday night by police-constables 365 N and 121 N, who found in Clew's possession a black wrapper now identified lay the prosecutor as that which had contained the two coats. The prisoners were remanded. LAMBETH. A VICTIM OF SEDUCTION.—Martha Wood, a young woman, whwe apparel was both scanty and indifferent, applied to Mr. Norton for a summons, to compel the father of her two illegitimate children to support them. The applicant, whose manner and address betokened a good education, said, that some three weeks ago she made an application to Mr. Henry, at this Court, similar to the present, and that gentleman granted her a sum mons, but she unfortunately had not got the two shil lings to pay for it. Since then she had endeavoured to raise the two shillings to get the summons, but was stilt unable to do to, and was at present driven to such a state of distress, w th her two little children, that she knew not on earth what to do. Mr. NoaTote desired her to state the circumstances under which the wanted the summons, when she said that eight years ago, and when only fourteen years old, she was induct , d to leave the house of her father, by a gentleman holling a situation in the Council , and enjoy ing a sa lary 01 550/. per annum, and to go t o l i v e with him. F or sohe years he supporte d h er i n exce ll ent style, but t we l ve mouths ago h e d eser t e d her, l eav i ng her with t wo Chelsea to essa see l; g children, one three years old, and the other a m ere i lfant. He had, h owever , con t r ib ute d to the supp ort )f the children until about three months ago, "'ban he discontinued paying anything, and the conseq uenq was, that she had been obliged to do the s best she cou ld , and as long as she could, to provide ah ohlueltsee ri s O en n ti t e h m e a e n v . en i i n ng the be h f o o p r e e o s f he h w is e d n o t in t g o something for r, but, on knocking at the door, she was told by th e w i t h w of an officer, who is at present living with him, th at unless she too k h erse lf o ff, s he (the would widow) give her into the custody of the police. Mr. NoaToN—.wba,t was the cause of the father of the child ren l eavng you? Appl i cant ( muc h a ff ec t e d)— I don't kno w , Sit, except it was that he got tired o f me. Mr. NORTON —flow have you supported y ourself these three month s ? kpplicant —I have li ve d w ith m y father, who, though ont o a timber-merchant, is now glad to work jour ne y wort as a carpenter w i t h a p ers on who was once his ow n erra,d-boy. Mr. NORTON—Vas your youngest child twelve months old wh en you fist made application for a summons against th e f at h er) Applicant —N o , Si r , n ot quits ; but it is mor e th an twelve months o ld now . Mr. N ORTO N—Th en y ou s hall have a summons against the fath er f or t h e :oungest chil d , b u t th e o ther is beyond the age p rescr ib e d by the Act o f P ar li a ment. The applicant e:: pressed her thanks, and the summons was made out, ant mar k e d , t poor." ...., SOUTHWARK.. ALLEGE D rRAID By AN ATTORNEY'S CLERE.—Mr Henry Kempton, a tradesman residing in the vicinity of this Court, attended on the preceding day to make complaint of an imposition which was practised upon his wife in the course of some proceedings which had taken place there. The applicant stated, that a few days since he had occasion to give his wife into custody for assaulting him, and that the magistrate (Mr. Cottingham) held her to bail in two securities of 201. each to keep the peace. The defendant not being in a situation at the moment to find the required bail, she was locked up, but had not been long in the cell, when a person named described as an attorney's clerk, had an interview with her, during which he undertook to procure the requisite securities for her liberation if she gave him a sovereign and something for his trouble. Applicant's wife, anxious, of course, to obtain her re lease, immediately handed over the sum to Hall, who immediately went away, promising to return spedily with the persons who would bccome bail for her. Afti-r waiting, however, in a state of suspense, the promised bail was not put in, and the result was that his wife was conveyed at five o'clock to the county gaol. The next day he (applicant) attended at this Court with a desire of making arrangements for the liberation of his wife, when she made him ainfiainted with the above particu lars, and as he considered a very gross imposition had been practised on his wife, he thought he was only per forming a public duty by bringing the matter under the notice of the Court. Mr. COTTINGHAM expressed his surprise that such an advantage should have been taken of a person in de fendant's situation at the time, and inquired by what means the person complained against had the oppor tunity of having an interview with the applicant's wife after she was locked up? • Spikin, the gaoler, said that attorneys and their clerkz were permitted to see their clients in their cells, and that as Hall was supposed to be interested in Mrs.Kempton's behalf, he was not prevented from .seeing her. Mr. COTTINGUAM directed that; in future, access to prisoners should not be permitted, unleis by application made to the Court, with a view to prevent the recurrence of such a transaction in future , . _ _ Some time afterwards Mr. Hall entered the Court to defend a prisoner, but the moment he stood up for the purpose, Mr. COTTINGIAM said that a charge of a very serious nature had beet, alleg,d against him, and that Arline it was pending he could nut be permitted to act there professionally. The magistrate then described the nature of the accusation brought against Mr. Hal'. Mr. Hall admitted that he had received a sovereign from Mrs. Kempton for his professional services, and that he was well acquainted botb with her and her hus band, and did not imagine tat any complaint would have been made against him fb'r taking a fee for his at tendance on her behalf. Mr. Kempton said that the sovereign was not given as a fee, but for,the purpose of bail being procured. Mr. Hall still asserted that he took the sovereign in the naturo of a fee; but that, as such scruples were now made about it, he was willing to return it to the person from whom he had it. Mr. CorrINGHAK said, that it was a charge of 30 serious a nature, as affected the individual complained against, that it must not be permitted to drop ; and that, for the purpose of investigating it, he should request the attendance of Mr. Kempton and his wife, and also the person to whom the money had been given fur a specific purpose. Yesterday was the day appointed for entering into the merits of the case. Mr. Kempton and his wife were pre sent, according to appointment, but Mr. Hall did not make his appearance. The MAGISTRATE told Mr. Kempton that he should not lose sight of the matter. THAMES. STABBING.—Sarah Maclean, a dissipated•looking woman, about 45 years of age, who has been in custody a fortnight, was brought before Mr. Ballantine for final examination, on a charge of cutting and wounding George Dixon, a man about her own age, who was brought from the hospital in a very weak condition. The prosecutor is a lumper employed in the docks, and has cohabited with the prisoner for the last seven years. They lived in Lambeth-street, Whitechapel. On the 27th of March the prisoner went in search of Dixon, who had been absent from her several days, and found him at the East India Dock. Some words passed, but they afterwards became friends, and began drinking together. After visiting several public-houses they proceeded in a half•drunken state to the dwelling of the prisoner's son, in Queen Catherine-court, Itateliff After remaining there some time, and partaking of more liquor, Dixon offered to leave the prisoner and fetch some more gin. She attempted to stop him, a struggle ensued, and the man was wounded in the back of the head with a knife. It was such a wound as nearly cost him his ,life, but neither Dixoa nor the woman's son could or would state how it was inflicted. Dixon him self stated there was a struggle, that his head was cut open, that he afterwards became insensible, and next morning found himself in the London Hospital. The prisoner's son, a dock labourer, said his mother and the prisoner were both drunk, but his mother was the worst of the two. The prisoner hit his mother, and she hit him in return, but he saw no knife. After the parties left the house, Dixon went into a chemist's shop, and his wound was dressed. The blood continued to flow profusely after wards, and a mob collected about the parties. The at tention of How, a policeman, was called to the cir cumstance, on hearing several persons say, " There is the woman who stabbed the man." He took the pri soner into custody. Dixon was led to the station-house with the blood streaming down his face and clothes. Townson, the sergeant on duty, seated him on a chair, and asked him who had wounded him. lie pointed to the prisoner, and said she jobbed a table-knife at him. The prisoner said, "Yes, you vagabond, and I'll do for you yet. You have not been near me since Saturday last." The man immediately became insensible, and after being attended by a surgeon. was sent by Townson to the London Hospital, where he remained until yes terday, when he was allowed to come out and give evi dence. The policeman, How, afterwards found a knife in the room where the affray took place. It was spotted with blood, and the point of it was turned back, evi dently by coming in contact with some hard substance. William Maclean, the prisoner's son, identified the knife. It was in the table-drawer before the struggle, and the point was not turned back then. Mr. James Stock, surgeon, in King David-lane, Shad well, saw the prosecutor on the 27th of March. He was then bleeding profusely from•a wound on the head. It was an inch and a half above the right ear, at the back of the head. The wound was a lacerated one, with jagged edges, an inch in extent, and a branch of the occipital artery was divided. The prisoner, in defence, said she had not drank any liquor for twelve months previous to the 27th of March, and got drunk because Dixon was drinking. Mr. BALLANTINE committed the prisoner for trial. SAVAGE ASSAULT BY A HUSBAND ON HIS WIFE.— On Thursday Neil Maclean, a ship-joiner, residing at 3, Sun Tavern Gap, Shadwell, was charged before Mr. Billantine with committing a series of cruel and cowardly assaults on Ellen Maclean, his wife, to whom he has only been married eleven months. It appeared from the statement of the wife, who carried in her arms an infant to which she had recently given birth, that she was a widow in comfortable cir• cumstaaces when she married the prisoner, who had ever since ill-used her in a most barbarous manner. He frequently knocked her down while she was in a state of pregnancy. That morning about two o'clock he came home partly inebriated, and after beating her tore her cap from her head, drove her from her bed and turned her out of doors. Her husband threw the bed on the floor, and threatened to kill her. Assaults of a similar description had been often committed upon her. The prisoner vehemently protested that he had never ill-used his wife at all. He would be the last man to do it. The wife said her neighbours had been witnesses of the ill-usage, and two of them were sent for. They stated that they had seen the prisoner strike his wife, blacken her eyes, and make her nosebleed. The neigh- bourhood was continually disturbed by her screams and cries for mercy. The prisoner wes then fined 51.. and in default of pay ment was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment. CON!LICTING TESTIMONY.—John Massey, a powerful man, a boiler maker, in the employ of Messrs. Ditchburn and Mare, at Blackwell, was charged with assaulting Mary Anderson, his next door neighbour. The parties lived in Mary-street, Poplar, and accord ing to her statement, she was standing at her own doer talking to her son, when the defendant came up and cast some reflections on her husband. She retorted, and the follow after using some very bad language, struck her a very severe blow with his fist on the face, and knocked her down. When she got up she ran towards her own house. Massey followed her, and overtook her in the passage, and then kicked her, and inflicted a very serious injury upon her, fr3in whieh she is still suffering. 'vile transaction occurred on Monday last, and the bruises on the woman's face, and her blackened eyes, were indica tive of the violence of the blows she received. Two witnesses confirmed the statement of the com plainant in every respect. The prisoner, in defence, said there had been a squabble. but he denied there had been any blows struck at all, and he called three witnesses. Their evi dence was very unsatisfactory and contradictory, but they agreed in one thing, that Massey did not strike Mrs. Anderson. The complainant said the defendant's witnesses were not present during any part of the transaction. Mr. BALLANTINE, w ho investigated the case with much care, was of opinion the defendant's witnesses did not see the affray at all, aad spoke in terms of severe reprehension of their conduct. After commenting on the brutal conduct of the prisoner, he sentenced him to pay a fine of 51., which he was unable to do, and •was committed to the House of Correction for six weeks. GREENWICH. THE MURDER OF THE rOLICE-CONSTABLE AT DEPT FORD.—SuIIivan, Bruzon, alias O ' Keefe, Collins, and APCarthy, the four men who stand charged with the wilful murder of James Hastie, police•constable 334 R, were brought from Horsemonger-lane Gaol for re-examination before Mr. Traill, the newly-appointed magistrate at this Court consequent on the retirement of Mr. Grove. Mr. Haywood, of the Treasury Solicitor's office, ap peared, for the prosecution; and Mr. Austen, of London, on the part of the prisoners. The whole of the evidence taken during the many examinations was gone through anew in order that Mr. Traill should be perfectly acquainted with the details, which engrossed the attention of a crowded Court nearly four hours and a half. Mr. TRAILL said, he thought the prisoner,' attention should have been drawn to Hastie's declaration, in order that they might deny, and if then silent the case.would be much stronger than at present. The case did not present that point where deceased was conscious of dying at the time it was made. The coroner's jury had re turned a verdict of wiful murder, and upon that verdict the prisoners would be arraigned before another tribunal. He (Mr. Traill) would remand the case until the 30th instant, when other evident% might be fbrtbcoming, and and the prisoners would in the meantime have plenty of time to get up the defence for the ensuing session at the Central Criminal Court. IVANDS WORTH. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF A SSA ULT.—Capt. Frederick White, of No. 3, Era-•place, Battersea, surrendered to his bail to answer a charge of assaulting Mrs. Martha Bowler, the landlady of the Star and Garter public house, Battersea. The defendant was apprehended on a warrant on the previous day, and brought before Mr. Paynterjust prior to the closing of the Court. As all the witnesses were not in attendance, the magistrate adjourned the case until yesterday, and admitted the defendant to bail. Yesterday Mra. Martha Bowler, the complainant, stated that, on last Saturdaytvening; between seven and eight o'clock, she went to defendant's house and asked for him. The servant denied him, but Mr. White called out that he was at home, and desired the complainant to walk in. The defendant was seated, and had a glass containing some beer in his hand. When asked her business, complainant said she was landlady of the Star and Garter, and had come to demand ss. 6d., an amount due for gin-and-water, beer, and tobacco, which she had -upplit d the defendant and his friend with on Thursday evening last. He said he did not owe her anything, and he would not pay her. Complainant observe d it was very hard, and then defendant said, I'll not pay you—go out of my house, you ---." He then dashed a glass of beer in her face, jumped up from his chair and struck her in the side with his fist. He then caught hold of her arms, and pressed them so violently as to bruise them very much ; afterwards he pushed her vinlently out of the house. She would have fallen had not her daughter saved her from so doing. Hi-r daughter had gone pre viously to ask for the money, and the defendant pelted her with mud and stones. She did not suppose that the defendant would have served her so, but he p:Atf d h r also, atter turning her out of the house. Mr. PAYNTEICSaid he was desirous of knowing how the debt was incurred. The complainant said that the defendant and another gentleman, who was outside the Court, and who were strangers, came to her house on Thursday eveninz, and had two glasses of gin and water, and some tobacco. They ultimately had two more each, and yeatel s too bell-ringers to some beer. The defendant amid he had no money, but if the comphinant would send, her pot man with him he would pay him. The potmatitreiit, but returned empty-handed. Complainant sAt four times for the money before making application herself. Cross-examined by the deferidan , —She did not strike him in the lace, and throw him upon the flour, or use the poker to him. He did not say it was an unjust de , mand, and he would see her another time about it. 7' Elisabeth Ann Beckley, a married daughter of the complainant, proved that she went, between six and seven o'clock on Saturday evening, to defendant's house ; he was denied to her, but she found him in • the garden. When she told him her busines, he thumpA her on the back twice, and said, " Get out, ycu stinking —." Witness went afterwards with her mother, and heard defendant address the same coarse langtlage to her parent, and saw him push her out of the door and down the steps. She would have fallen had not witness sup ported her. Cross-examined by the defendant—Did not call him a thief, a villain, and a swindler. John Everett, a carpenter, living in Surrey-lane, and opposite defendant's house, distinctly proved that de fendant assaulted both mother and daughter, and although he was quite sober, made use of language most dero gatory to the character of a gentleman. To other witnesses, named Hill and Bennett, proved that when they interfered to protect Mrs. Bowler, the defendant applied most foul language to them, and threatened to thrash them. The defendant's answer to the charge was, that on the evening in question he was in his garden with a friend, when the complainant's daughter came up to them, and abused them most scandalously ; she was not satisfied with that, but she called his lady a kept mistress. Cer tainly, after such language, he could not be expected to be very calm, and he turned her out of the premises. With respect to the widow, when she entered the room, she said, " You th ef, you liar, you beat my daughter ;" and then she struck him a blow on the ear, which sent him reeling, and as he was recovering himself, she gave him two blows with the poker. Her violence was so great that his wife, who is very youn g , ran up i nto h er bed-room. He at last took her by the arms, and by the exertion of some strength, turned her out of the house. She then knocked at the door, and when he opened it called him a swindler and thief. Two or three men, her friends, were outside in his garden, and they bullied him and told him he was a swindler. He positively dented having made use of any such language as was imputed to him, and did nothing but in self-defence, to prove which he would call two witnesses. Mr. Bernard Tanham Dryden was called—He said he had been in the royal navy, and now held the rank of Lieutenant in the Indian navy, and at present resided at Battersea. He was the gentleman who was with the defendant at Mrs. Bowler's house, and when the daughter came be knew perfectly well the nature of h,r errand. The language she made use of both to himself and friend was most disgusting. He did not hear any of the disturbance between his friend and the widow. Margaret Higgins, the servant to Captain White, was called to show that the complainant was the aggressor, but her evidence was entirel) useless. Mr. PAYNTER considered that a very violent assault had been proved, and he should have inflicted the full penalty if he did not think that the complainant was in some measure to blame for taking such an imprudent step when she had a legal mode of obtaining her money. He should inflict the fine of 41. CHARGE OF MURDER. On Wednesday, an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, Coroner, at the London Hospital, Mile End-road oe the body of James Eastmead Bradley, age d twenty, a toll-collector, who died on Sunday morning last, from the injuries he received by the wheels of a loaded dung cart passing over his body on Saturday morning, near the Mile End gat,. A man named Thomas Roff has twen remanded on a charge of wilful murder by the magistrates at the Thames Police Court, after hearing evidence that the deceased, while attempting to collect the toll from the prisoner, was struck at, and forced under the waggon. It appeared from the evidence, that Rolf, who is a lighterrnan and greengrocer, in High-street, Bromley, passed through Mile End-gate with his horse and cart, on Saturday morning, about five o'clock. He was ac companied by his son, a lad aged fifteen years. They had previously passed through the Globe-road gate, lower down the road, on the same trust, and the prisoner Roff tendered a sovereign to the turnpike man in pay ment of the toll. The collector was unable to give change for the sovereign, and gave him a credit ticket— a common practice on the road—marked " Roff C." When the horse and cart passed through the Mile End gate, the deceased, who was collector, ran after aid de manded the toll or the ticket of the day. Roff's son called out the letter " Y." The deceased said that it would not do, and attempted to force the reins from Roff's hands, and turned the horse and cart round to• wards the Blind Beggars. While the struggle was going on, a loaded dung-cart passed in the same direction, and the shaft caught Cie deceased and threw him down. The wheels•passed over him. A witness named George Hunt, porter, deposed that the prisoner struck at the deceased twice with his whip, which had no thong to it. The driver of the cart which passed over the deceased stated that Roff only struck one blow while the deceased was at the horse's head. Roff 's son swore positively that his father made one blow at the deceased, but did net hit him ; and that while Bradley was stooping to avoid the blow, the shaft of the dung-cart caught his head and threw him down. A question now rose between Mr. Sorrell, who ap peared for the, prosecution, and Mr. Pelham, for the prisoner, as to the legality of the de,.eas , d's conduct. Jr was argued that the letter " Y," which Rotf's son called out, belonged to the ticket of the day, commencing at five o'clock in the morning. The occurrence ham: ened at five minutes before five. After some further discus sion and a good deal of wrangling between the legal gentlemen eniplo3ed in the case and the Path, r of the deceased, who is the principal collector of tolls at the Mile End-gate, the inquest was adjourned. ASSASSINATION OF A MAYOR BY A YOUNG COURT OF ASSIZES OF CORSICA, MARCH 23. The following trial reveals a curious state of affairs in the island of Corsica, where for the last six years a species of civil war has raged, in which one party has succeeded in exterminating the other, killing successively all the males of two families, without the civil power having been able energetically to correct such a state of dis order. The fathers and brothers being all slain, the murderers have with impunity threatened to violate the women, to cut off their breasts, and afterwards to put them to death ; e ven the ow fe n m d a e le fe s n.n h e a . ve T h t , : o en fo o a b o l w ige n d g t i. o s arm themselves in their s a ta s t h e o o r f t things s toz of the events which had led to this sides sd by y a t n b t e a island The r e ocmotrnsiiinnae, hadof S t a o n r t aln.yuc:aeardsi been divided into in th to e two f act ions ; on the one side were the Quilichinis and tpueciaPso.lisic, Numbers se havingother t f h a e lle G n iosc n orn b : l T h is dagger and musket, the two parties became weary of the mutual slaughter, and in 1834 a peace was patched u p ; fire six years they refrained from hostilities. In 1840 two marriages were contracted by Pierre Poli and Jacques Quilichini, which excited a feeling of enmity in the Santa Lucias, who had wished to marry these young men into their own family, and they conceived and executed the frightful project of assa:sinating Poll and Quilichini on the day of their marriage. These two horrible crimes, committed in open day, with no provocation, were the signal for.the breaking out of the second war. The assassins fled ;to Sardinia, but were pursued and arrested ; two of them, the Ably Santa Lucia and Giudice Giacomoni were.'brought to trial. The priest was found g u ilty, an d con d emne d to ten years' imprisonment ; the other was acquitted. On the news of the condemnation of the priest,' las relatives commenced a series of crimes almost unparalleled fOr barbarity and persevering cruelty. One individual, who had given evidence against the Abh4, Santa Lucia,, was seized by these bandits in the fi e ld s ; they bound him to a tree, putout his eyes. cut out his tongue, stabbed him in various parts of the body, arid left him in this state, ex claiming, " That was the Corsican way of treating false witnesses." No fewer than six other persons who had given evidence, perished beneath the knife of the assas sins, or pierced by the shot from their guns. Procla.. mations were affixed to the walls of the church of Sarteae, prohibiting, under pain of death, the least help being given to the families of the enemies to these bandits. The males of the opposing factions had thus been all sacrificed to the vengeance of the Santa Lucia party, with the exception of one, a surgeon at Ajuccio. He, also was, a few months ago, shot by S anta L uc i a , a t t h e door of his own house. The assassin, in making his escape, was stopped by a Custom-house officer, but Santa Lucia drawing a dagger from his breast, s tabbed him to the heart, seized the officer's double-barrelle d cerbine and cartouche-box, and made off to the moult' tans in safety. Reports were then spread, that the wen being all dead, the bandits were about to immolate the women, and under the impression caused by the se ; rumours, on the 20th of November last, Marie Quilichhuf the sister o!' one of the victims, while going to the s pring for water, met the Mayor of the commune, who was alleged to he the protector of the Santa Lucias. stopped the girl, and made an insulting gesture toward s her. Irritated at this, and carrit d away by an impuls e of revenge for the murder of her brother, she drew e pistol ft.otn her dress and shot him dead on the spo t. For this ac t s h e now ma d e h er a pp earanc e a t the bar of the above Court. The circumstances attending th e crime having been proved in evidence, she was, after tt short delibe ra ti on , f oun d gu il ty o f mur d er , w ith o ut pre" meditation, but with provocation, and under exter i. stin g circumstances. The Court condemned Marie' Francois Qeilichini to five years' imprisonment, and the costs of the trial, limiting the duration of impriso n meat in default to one ear. RAIL A Y ACCIDENTS PARIS ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—Sirrisa of APRIL 1. We have already given an account of a paper read to the Academy by M. Pi o b er t, on t h e accidents whic"h have occurred on railroads, and the importance of an i n. quiry into the means of rendering this mode of consinty nicateon nil transport more secure. At the openi n g/ of this eiae 'a sitting, M. Poncelet read the report a Comtnitsee on M. Piobert's paper, approving of generally, and recommending that it should be referro by the Academy to the Gov, rnme n t, w ith a view of ' directing- its attention, in a m ar k e d an d f orma l manner, to the important subject under consideration. The readil of this report led to an animated discussion. t" Lionville contend , d that the course recommended by t he Committee, as regards a reference to the Governmen t ' was contrt.ry to the regulations and usage of the AS demy ; but he was replied to with great energy by M _ A • Arago, Charles I)upin, and Poncolot, who obserY that the question was tele or too great importance ,e'l the academy to hold itself boUnd by the strict letter ° f its regulteione, which declare that it shall not assu me the initiative of advice to the Government, but shall on o ' its opinion only when called ueon by the Government s give it. If, said these gentlemen, the Ministry sleP ; whilst the lives of the p eo pl e were i n d anger , it best% the Academy to offer its advice even wh e n un asked.TP l , opinion having prev a il e d, an d t h e Aca d emy bet almost unanimous as to the propriety of the course re' commended by the committee, a long conversation tb e l ensued as to whether the Academy should merely direct the attention of th e G overnment to t h e accidents whice have taken place, a nd th e necess i ty o f i nqu i ry into the means of prevention f or t h e f uture • or state, i n a pree manner, the means which the Academy considers most urgent ei adopt. Th e arguments a d vance d by thei• gentlemen who spoke in supp or t o f t hi s secon d propos,, don prevailed; but it may interest our readers to loi c ' o f something of the views expressed as to the move s , preventing accidents like those which have been 0 destructive of human life. One of the chief questi e w discussed was that of breaks. Hitherto all attempt] ie arrest suddenly and effectually the progress of s e t ee rll te by means of breaks, wh en it i s p rocee di ng a t a high of speed, h ave b een f a il ures, as every sc i en tific n. 30 knows they must be considering the impetus ag et iel which they have to contend. A great deal was b at about the superiority of one kind of break over an° t „ e . kind, and some of the speakers cha,ged certain cor n e ro vies with culpable negligence in not adopting the bre e ' he which other companies place full reliance. To prove: d is superiority of one kind of break over another under le nary circumstances may not be difficult, but to p ro that any kind of br ea k wou ld h ave prevente d t he le o f collisions that have taken place is beyond the por fo e any man, weeth er a mem b er o f t h e A ca d em y or `1 ea There are two points to be considered in this quee' tie of collisions. Th e fi rs t an d most i mportan t i s to IV blish such severe re gu l a ti ons as t o th e managmnelle railroads, and such h eav y p un i s h men t s f or n eglige e t e on the part of the persons employed upon them, °s e ie make collision a ver y rare event . L et i t b e ban, mind that a colli s i on never can take place without the. es e ie istence of c u lp a bl e neg l ect. Two trains cannot rue 1 7 .0 1 each other if the time and rate of speed be so regull e that they can never be in a position to produce se c a ll result. To prevent negligence altogether, to r ender r o f men prudent and ca re f u l , i s, we k now, b eyon d t h e poWI OO direciors of railroads, or of the government, lIOO' be severe the regulations may be. But a great deal may et done in this respect, and we are sorry to say that neteons the directors of companies nor th e authorities 1100_1,1'4 all that they were bound t o d o . O ne o f t h e in el causes of collisions is the irr e g u l ari ty o f the sPeeoee which trains proceed. A few minutes are lost LIP' P e tli portion of a line, and caught up again on another, l i t sie e consequently, precise calculations as to the time at "'Los this or that portion of a line shall be free P - 4 0 obstacle are thrown out. More than four years s of Mr. Wroughton, a gentleman of London, who 0 01 actuated by no other motive than humanity, inl e eete an ingenious tell-tale, which would register the t he occupied on every portion of the line, and enable se tt director of each station to know where there had 14 b e nt delay, and where unauth or i se d spee d , so that a 1°,4.4 check might he k e pt on a ll t h e dr i vers, who, lerle-ed, that detection was sure , wou ld be otteeful not to q, e rtr This ingenious tell-tale was submitted to the C 0 : 0 0 went, and to two or three railroad companies, but - 0 , a trial was refused. Our readers will be t he , tonished when we tell them that, in one instane e ' e oe reason assigned by one of the authorities fo r e e tte adopting it was th a t i t was i n va i n to make regnit—si for companies, as they would not be observed. Ir re l' are not convinced by t hi s argument i n the case °1,.000 roads, and can see no reason w h y J aws an d regale the should not be made and enforced, we hope th ° Tbe Government will come t:o a different decision now. • w ed next point to be con s id ere d, s i nce it mus t be adm it be that, in spite of all l aws an d regu l a ti ons , there matey' negligence on the part of railroad agents, is the Pr. d iete tem of collision by mechanical m e ans wh e n irnw e o b' danger is at hand. We do not, as we have alreadi uo ill served, think that a ny ki n d o f b rea k w ill effe c t. ire do this ; b u t w i t hi n th e l ast two or three day s s et have seen a plan f or w hi c h an E ng li s h gentle ® named Alexa n d er , b u t w h o i s a res id ent of tblc! has taken out p a t en t s h ere , an d i n ot h er countr i es , - would, we think, prevent at least nine-tenths o r the by that a collision now produces. By an admirable ret e ei nism applied to each r a il wa y carr i age, the 03°"-slle the collision takes pl ace th e groun d between tee rails is forcibly graspe d , an d t h e impetus toll tram is checked. Thi s w ill not perhaps I'lo4 prevent injury, nor d oes even th e i nven tor eie such a result, b u t it w ill re d uce th e dang ervet the proportion abo ve s t a t e d, an d w ill effectuallY_fie vent the carriages riding over each other, f o e! is the most seri ous consequence o f ra il roa d 0111 0 0 We, however, now return to the discussion in tis e to its demy. The member s w h o s p o k e were unanitO, opinion that all inventions h av i ng th e reason of IPiee'dtee, in their favour should be •tried, that th e Geyer% ob should for this purpose be liberal in th e appliceo e e etr funds, and that it should make stro nger an d b e tter r;ett latious as to the general duti es o f ra il roa d ag ents il O ',pinion in which we cordially concur. The c 01 1.,, y" 0 , ie cations to the Academy at t hi s s i tt i ng were 1,6„ number, and destitute o f i nterest to the publ i c a t jar' id it: • [ ADV ERTISEMENT.]—DEBILITY AND wEAI I4 _,- yy -. , EXTRAORDINARY CASE. CURB BY HOLLOWAIR FILLS. - Oil Mitchell, of Bristol-road Birmingham, was In that weak- 1 / I 'ol not to be able to dress herself ; besides which, there was s c o e 7,;4 pain in the right side, preventing , her from lying upon it. ._' - .A, S, never free from head-aches ; appetite and digestion very U' ' tie.n her spirits always greatly depresse.l. Now this lady, er e 0 0 di , came so extremely ;11, visited various watering places, w here sllt 'f' the best mclical advice, but her case baffled the skill a to pe yet, to the stirpr,se of her family and friends, she is restored ' , manent health by the use of Lolioway's Pills.—Sold by All t o ° /1 roe and at Proftss,,r H (Airway's Establishment, 244, strand , feo cei ADVENTURES IN THE PUNJAB. —Ma jor La vv re d ittle the author of this work (which has already aPP ea pi. r second edition) has just been appointed to the importatiol of political agent, in charge of British relations with 00 11 . ‘ i We are not surprised that thegallant writer's volunies. oti vei, be so cordially received by his countrymen,,since the'f:.. ti s so animated a picture of the Seikh Chiefs, of their 1 I t - le and manners, of the country contiguous to the Sutlej, • - r olt the novel life of a European in this interesting and Wet" region, where everything presents so rema t kable A C°l3 to his previous experiences. et °ll 9 Letters from Rome state that a commission is 0 tb i to be appointed to proceed to the various provine e !, l b t,), Roman States to Inquire into the grievances of wt c 0 81; ; '; people complain, w lain, al report the same to the Govern tell. rite Russian Minister, L.I. de Butienoff, has received Im o 10, gence from Naples that the Empress of Russia, ovring. tir ig: disposition, has deferred her departure from that c trl' SC Rolie for a few days. The Grand Duke ConstantiVtit cording to the arrangements at p resent i n con teßWA r will remain in Room with his ill us t r i ous mot h er un'" plir ntpp d oola e i si p lsrye a sts r . t t appo u rr r eepo e st : :: ; db : toiunbnureggttihliati:sosnaeTcnTmetoiblueitl:l:cel:miilisanpisltracmtleillsisieiierfrae,Ri)isari Brest, d l , national fe I e day, the Ist of Jul y. Thei r sSl l :ftir m ileaoli tgnitlitli e ln r nicw i eea a osh l pinsilei l :htaPicb g ile l sehl. : lll.lilei.r br -/°1414‘ Prince and Princess Peter of Oldenburgh p , who ha.- f or, fl passing the winte r i n I ta l y, are expected at Ron" to 0 10 to the north. P r i nce L eopo ld of Saxe Coburg wits, --. Lisbon on the 23d u lt. [ or Rome. ........--...----- . h o BIRS oriP On the Ist inst., a t Z ierew , i TH n Mecklenburgh Se... " f r''' y Baroeess de Biel, of a d aug ht er . i go yor On the 2d inst., at Bellevue:"Horsforth, near Le v Ad . / shire, the lady of H. G. 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