The Sun. — London, England, 1861-08-14 00:00:00

TH,N NAVY. The members of the Board of Admiralty at Ports mouth, consisting of hf.. 7 Grace the Duke of Somer set, Admiral Sir F. Grey, Capt. Drummond, Admi ral Robinson, Lord C. Paget, secretary, Col. Greene, R.E., Mr. Whitbread, &c., landed from the yacht Osborne at the dockyard yesterday at 10 o'clock a .m. In their inspection of th e d oc k yar d they visited the shed over the boat pond, and the water ing island, where the new coaling jetty, which has not yet been rendered available for either coaling or transport service, was the only object worthy of notice. They next inspected the Shannon, 51, screw, kitting with wire rigging in the ship basin, and the Meteor, iron-plated battery, with her plates and planking off her sides. They afterwards examined the bottom of No. 3 dock, where some alterations are about to be carried out, and the new North In let dock, or rather its entrance, at the north end of the steam basin. The docks 7 and 10, destined to receive the Warrior, and just receiving their finish ing work at the hands of the staff of the contractor, naturally attracted much attention, as did the Royal Alfred, 50, which is undergoing conversion into an armour-plated frigate. Last night the Board dined with the Admiral-Superintendent, the Hon. G. Grey. They afterwards patronised the ball in aid of the funds of the Seamen and Marines' Orphan Schools. His Grace the Duke of Somerset will hold his levee in the dockyard on Thursday. The Swedish corvette Nidaros and his Majesty the King of Sweden's steam yacht sailed from Cowes Roads yesterday for the eastward. Letters from the Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope state that the Aria, 7, screw, Commander Alexander, arrived at Port Louis, Mauritius, from the Seychelles Islands, in company with the Wasp, on the 24th of June. The Wasp was to be docked at Port Louis, preparatory to sailing for the Cape, and probably England. The Sidon, 22, paddle, Capt. Crawford, was at the Cape awaiting orders, but expecting to go to Mozambique. On Monday the gunboat Redwing, tender to the gunnery ship Cambridge, proceeded outside Ply mouth Sound with Rear-Admiral Robert Smart, K.H., commanding the Channel Squadron, Captain Arthur Jerningham, of the Cambridge, and the gunnery officers of the squadron, to witness some experiments with shot and shell from an Armstrong , 100-pounder. On returning a party from the gun boat landed on Staddon Heights, and opened fire from a 32-pounder on the battery, which is more than 300 feet above the level of the sea. They aimed at a target towed 100 yards astern of the gunboat at full speed, to represent a ship running past. The range was 1,800 yards, and was obtained through the use of an instrument of simple con struction, made by Capt. Jerningham. Every shot fell within a few feet of the flag, and would have struck the smallest vessel. The paddlewheel steamvessel Cuckoo left Ply mouth Sound on Sunday afternoon for Gibraltar, to relieve the Redpole, ordered home in consequence of her defects. The President, 50, at Chatham, is ordered to be taken in the fourth dock at that dockyard to be fitted for a training ship for the Naval Reserve, and stationed in the Thames. The Herald, 8, was yesterday placed under the shears at Chatham to be dismasted, the Lords of the Admiralty having decided on stationing her in Shoreham harbour to be used as a chapel, lecture room, and school-ship for the seamen and fishermen frequenting that harbour. One hundred and thirty officers and men of the Royal Marine Artillery are ordered for service on board the iron-clad steam frigate Warrior. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. the Hon. Henry 13. Hamilton to the Virago; Lieut. Sackville W. H. Thompson to the Aboukir ; Sub-Lieut. Robert P. Montray to the Antelope ; and Thos. M. Jenkins, assistant-paymaster in charge of the Plover. THE ARMY. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, accompanied by the King of Sweden and Prince Oscar, leave Osborne this morning for Alder shott, when a review of the troops quartered at the camp is to take place. In accordance with the new arrangements, the particulars of which have already appeared in The Sun, the authorities at the Horse Guards have de cided on making Chatham one of the stations for the Royal Artillery, provided the necessary accom modation can be provided. Orders have accord ingly been forwarded to the Major-General Com manding at Chatham for the necessary returns to be prepared of the amount of accommodation which can be furnished in the north square, Brompton barracks, where quarters are required for 280 offi cers and men, and 160 horses, the intention being to quarter the Royal Artillery on that portion of the barracks at Brompton hitherto occupied by the mounted Royal Engineer Train, which corps is LOW stationed at Aldershott camp. A battery of the horse brigade Royal Artillery, and a detachment of the 4th brigade Field Artillery, left Aldershott this day en route for Woolwich. Major G. V. Johnson's D battery of Royal Horse Artillery is now on passage home from Meerut. A detachment of 60 rank and file of the depot bri gade, Royal Artillery, under the command of Capt. Jones, arrived at Sheerness this afternoon from Woolwich for garrison duty. Yesterday a flying column, detached from the troops at Aldershot, returned to the camp, after an abimice of a week. The column, which was under the command of Major-Gen. Lawrence, consisted of No. 8 battery, 4th brigade, Royal Artillery; a de t ichm en t of the Military Train 2d battalion, 20th Regiment, 53d Regiment, 78th Highlanders, and a detachment of the Commissariat Staff Corps. The column first proceeded to Sandhurst, and after wards encamped at Bickley-bottom, moving on again to Woolmer on Friday, At Woolmer the column was joined by the sth Dragoons and the I battery Royal Horse Artillery. Capt. and Brevet- Col. Sir H. Havelock, 2d battalion 18th Regiment, I will act as Deputy Assist.-..kdit.-G en . at the camp after the Ist October. The 12 th Lancer s , at present stationed at York and Leeds, are expected to arrive at Aldershot in the course of September, and will occupy the barracks at present assigned to the sth Lancers, under orders to proceed to Hounslow. A detachment of the 18th Hussars left the camp y es . terday for ghorneliffe ; the head-quarters will leave today, and the remainder of the regiment for Brighton to-morrow. The 2d Life Guards, under the command of Col. Martyn, left the camp on Saturday for Windsor. The 41st Regiment has left the camp in detachments for Portsmouth, and the 33d company of the Royal Engineers for Chatham, for the purpose of undergoing instruction in pontooning, field works, &c. The arrivals in camp during the last few days have comprised the Ist battalion 60th Rifles, under the command of Licut.-Colonel North, and the Ist battalion Bth Regiment, under the command of Col. Haines. The first corps, which arrived from Dover, and is alto gether 867 strong, has been stationed in canvas camp, Cove-common ; and the second in G and H lines, South Camp. The present strength of the camp is between 17,000 and 18,000 of all ranks. In the naval and military intelligence of the 25th of March a letter was quoted stating that Quartermaster J. P. Arrowsmith, of the 2d batta lion of the 9th Regiment of Foot, at Cephalonia, had died, and that John Aplin, of the Ist battalion °t the same regiment had been cashiered. The st-atenaents made in this letter were, it appears, perfectly unfounded. A letter from Pesth states that on the sth inst. the with "' of Count Batthyani, who was executed in 1843, arrived at Pesth f rom her estate of Daka, where she has long resided. The r epresentatives went in a body to visit her. EADvERT]sEmEN T. i__„ Children's Fatal Adt ine ll nt ° B llo waY's Ointment and Pills.— thounder dysentery, children at this seasm „ in : 1 ; 110 w happens it so many to seoatrerae difficulty of admi•• cholera ? Because of diarrhoea, ...eb.ildren. Holloway's nistering internal medicines cures Ointment, rubbed external] y vegetables and fruit; are commonly produced by the raa 7 l ese complaints which now in season. The Ointment sho ante' e over the whole belly twice a day at . 1 :7 well rubbed The Oint to the bowels, and remove therefrom all It Penetrate ; for the without paining or annoying the little p at i c ; ourritation, merit will prove the best co in and rages other flatulency, acidity, and griping will tend.er at L ve wise healthy children wretched, and.many a done and discontented, ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD CIRCUIT—GLOCESTER, Aug. 13. CRIMINAL COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Keating.) Wm. Slade Bailey, a farmer, aged 40, was charged with a rape committed upon Emma Reeves, on the 14th June, 1861, at Berkeley. Mr. Cripps conducted the prosecution ; Mr. J. J. Powell and Mr. R. Sawyer defended the prisoner. The prosecutrix in this case is a good looking girl, 18 years of age, who entered the service of the prisoner on the 23d May last as domestic servant, and the charge which she now made against her late master was, that on the 14th June following he was alone with her in the house, and had connec tion with her against her will. The prosecutrix gave her evidence with great distinctness, and from her statement it appeared that the prisoner is a farmer living at the village of Woodford, in the parish of Berkeley. He is a married man, living with his wife, and has one child. As soon as the pro secutrix entered prisoner's service he began to take indecent liberties with her, and urged her to yield to his solicitations. The prosecutrix resisted his propo sals, and several times threatened to tell her mis tress, but did not carry out her threat, as the prisoner desisted. On the 14th June, when she had been about three weeks in his service, the prisoner sent his wife to Dursley, and during her absence he came to the prosecutrix in the pantry, and there effected his purpose, notwithstanding her resistance. She said she screamed as loud as she could, but there was no one within call. After he had effected his purpose the prosecutrix told him she would go to the magis trates at Berkeley, and he put a sovereign down upon the dresser, but she refused to take it, and told him that if he left it there she would give it to her mistress. The prisoner then went out, and at 4 o'clock returned with Mrs. Bailey. There was a Mrs. Brown living about 20 yards off from the house, but she was not at home at the time. The matter occurred on Friday, the 14th of June, and she made no complaint to any one till Tuesday, June the 18th, when she went to complain to the Rev. Mr. Seton Karr , the magistrate at Berkeley. On that morning she complained to Mrs. Bailey, and told her what had occurred and what s he in tended to do. Mrs. Bailey sent for her husband, the prisoner, and asked him what he had been doing to Emma. He said he had been doing nothing, and that she was a lyin g bit c h . B oth Mrs. Bailey and the prisoner than offered her money to make it up, and Mrs, Bailey began to cry, said she could not help her husband's faults, and tried to persuade her not to leave, and not t o sa y an ythi ng a b out it, an d promised if she would stay she would make her as one of her own, and would take care not to leave her in the house al one aga i n , b u t wou ld a l ways ta k e h er with her. The prosecutrix at le n gth consen t e d t o remain, and the prisoner drew up a paper, which she signed. It was in the following words : " Emma Reeves do agree to serve Mrs. Bailey from May 23, 1861, to October 11, at the rate of £6 10s. per year. EMIfA REEVES. " "Witness, Mrs. Long, her mark " June 18, 1861. The agreement was witnessed by Mrs. Long the washerwoman. Directly the prosecutrix had signed the document she went to the Rev. Mr. Karr, at Berkeley, and there charged the prisoner with " pulling her about in an indecent and brutish man ner." The prisoner followed her there and denied the charge, and said she only wanted to extort money. She did not charge the prisoner with rape, because she did not know the word ; and she thought the magistrates would understand what she meant by " pulling lasr about in an indecent and brutish manner." The magistrate told the parties to see if they could settle the matter, and dismissed them till the Friday. The girl had a glass of beer at Ber keley and a glass of ginger wine, and then went back to the prisoner's house, and when she got there Mrs. Bailey said she was intoxicated, and she did not believe a word about the matter. She asked her master to be allowed to leave, but he refused, and said that if she went away he would send a police man after her. Upon that the prosecutrix said she did not know what to do, and became so much ex cited and distressed that she attempted to destroy herself by throwing herself into a pool of water, from which she was taken out in a state of insensi bility. The next day a policeman„ Shepherd, came, and Mrs. Bailey, in the presence of the policeman and the prisoner, offered to give her half a sovereign and a new dress to make it up, and not to have any more ado. The policeman then went away, and on the next Friday, June 21, she went to the petty sessions at Berkeley, and, while they were waiting for the case to come, Shepherd said the prisoner was willing to give her a sovereign and her wages, but she said she would not make it up. The prisoner, in the presence of Monk, the police-officer, and his attorney, Mr. Ball, the coro ner, made the same offer, but she told them she would not make it up for any money. The case was then gone into before the magistrates, and the deposition of the prosecutrix taken by Mr. Gais ford, the magistrate's clerk. She swore, as ap• peared by her depositions, " I struggled with him as long as I had strength, and he threw me on the floor of the pintry and had connection with me against my will." Nevertheless the prisoner was only committed for an assault with intent to com mit a rape. The prosecutrix was subjected to a long and rigid cross-examination, but she answered all the ques tions put to her with great readiness, even when they seemed to tell against her. She said she was now in the service of Mr. Ponting, at Berkeley. Monk, the policeman, had taken her to Mr. Dancy, who was clerk to an attorney at Wotton-under- Edge, and she stated all her case to him, as she had not told the whole to the magistrates, but merely answered the questions put to her. (It afterwards appeared in evidence that Mr. Gaisford, who had acted as clerk to the committing magistrates, had been since acting as the prisoner's attorney, and was now conducting the defence,) The prosecutrix was then cross-examined as to her previous history, and said she had been brought up by her grandmother, but had lived in service for several years. She po sitively denied that she had ever allowed any man to have illicit intercourse with her, but she admit ted that on one occasion she and another young woman had been allowed by their masters to go out with two young men, and that they came back late at night, and were locked oat. They walked about all night, but, as it came on to rain in the morning, they all got, into a waggon where there was some straw, and were discovered there in the morn ing by a policeman. On another occasion she was returning from the Glocester " mop," when the trap in which she was driven by a young man broke down, and 'she was obliged to sleep at a friend's house. On another occasion she walked on the road by day as ith a young man, and at a publichouse he was asked to pay what is called " courting money," and did so. The prosecutrix ad mitted. she never complained to Mrs. Brown, the next door neighbour, nor even to Jane Bailey, who lived in the village of Woodford, and who had got her the situation, and gave as a reason that she did not want to have it noised all about the neighbour hood. On the evening of the occurrence she assisted Mrs. Bailey, the prisoner's wife, but said nothing to her of what had occurred. On the Tuesday Mr. Seton Karr said she had better attend on the Friday, if they could not make it up before. The prosecutrix said that when Mrs. Bailey told her she was intoxi cated, and she did not believe a word she said, she wanted to poison herself, and tried to hang herself in her bedroom, and threw herself into the pool. She positivelyshe had h asdwor onlye thatoe g she l was not intoxicated, that and one of ginger Wine, and that n she neverass of beerknew trouble till this case. On re-examination she went to Mr. DaneY because th e magistrate's clerk, Mr. Gaisford,. who had taken her depositimis, was acting as attorney for m th on e k p , ri t s b o e u ne s r. parintendent of police was called i and said he was present a t the magistrate's office , and heard Mr. Ball, the coroner, ask the prisoner if he would settle it, and the prisoner said he would give her a sovereign and her wages at once, and that the prosecutrix refused to make it up for any money. He also corroborated her evidence as to the reason for going to Mr. Dancy. John Taylor, a boy 19 years of age, who wa s i n the service of the prisoner, said he pulled the girl who thought was out of the pool on the 18th of J what W it washen fashre,wanad she laughed, and said he would hear s going to Berkeley he asked her He her cries might have been heard by a. man mowing in a field near the house. Mr. Powell then addressed the jury for the of the girl's pri soner, and contended that the whole story, from beginning to end, was a tissue of im probabilities, and called upon them to acquit the prisoner. The learned counsel called two or three witnesses to character. Mr. Justice Keating summed up the evidence with great care and minuteness, and left it to the jury to say, upon the evidence, whether or not the prisoner was guilty of the charge. The jury retired, and eventually returned into court and found the prisoner guilty of an attempt to commit a rape. Mr. Justice Keating sad he should defer passing sentence. Catherine Oliver, 47, tailoress, was charged with the wilful murder of her little girl, Matilda Oliver, aged three Tears, on the 25th of May, 1861, at Bristol. Mr. W. H. Cooke and Mr. P. MrAfahon appeared for the . prosecution, and Mr. J. J, Powell defended the prisoner. When the prisoner w a s c a ll e d u p on t o p l ea d yes terday morning she pleaded " guilty," and added that she was guilty before God, and justly deserved death, and that she had signed herself guilty. This plea entirely took the friends of the prisoner by surprise, as they had instructed counsel to de- THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1861 fend her, and it was understood that the defence was that when she did the act she was insane. The prisoner, however, refused to alter her plea, and repeated that she justly deserved death, and hoped that might be the case. Mr. Justice Keating inquired whether the sur geon of Bristol gaol was present, and, being in formed that he was not, his Lordship said he would adjourn the case till this morning, and directed that the surgeon should be in attendance. At the sitting of the Court to-day the prisoner, when called upon to plead, pleaded "not guilty," and the trial proceeded. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner man, living at had 12 N wa e s . 4 tl , ae j owhinf-estorfeeatpßoorristloalb. ousrhineghad chil dren, but six of them had died, and the charge now made against her was that she had murdered her youngest child, a little girl three years of age, by hanging her to a bedstead, on the 26th of May last. At about half-past 12 o'clock in the day a neighbour who lived opposite, as she was sitting at her window, saw the prisoner return home to her lodging with the little girl, a very nice interesting child, three years of age. At her door the prisoner took her child up in her arms and kissed her several times, and then went into the house. In about 10 minutes she came out of the house alone, and having locked the door and looked into the window of the parlour in which she lodged, she went straight to the Central Police Station at Bristol, and gave her self up to a policeman there, saying, " I'm your pri soner." The p o li ceman asked " What for ?' and she replied "For hanging one of my children." The policeman asked her what made her do that, and she said, "It is ail through the ill-treatment of my husband, for the last three years." She then gave the policeman a key, and said that if he took the key and would go to No. 4, John-street, he would find the child. The policeman went as directed, and found the child in the state described, and im mediately sent for medical assistance, but life was extinct. The policeman stated that the conduct of the prisoner, when she came to the station, was per fectly calm and composed, and that she maintained the same demeanour when before the coroner, and she spoke of what she had done as if it had been some matter of ordinary occurrence. The witness, Mary Shepherd, who saw the prisoner enter her house with the child, said she had known her for thirty years, and had always found her to be excessively fond of her children, and particularly of the one whose death was now in question, and that when she took the child in her arms she kissed her again and again, and then went into the house. She also said the prisoner was subject to epileptic fits, and she always considered her to be a person of very strange and eccentric habits. She was of a very religious turn of mind, and was in the habit of walking about the streets with a hymn-book, and singing hymnsin a strange man ner, and doing various other eccentric acts, which caused her to be called in the neighbourhood, " Flighty Mrs. Oliver." She also stated that the prisoner's husband had treated her very badly for many years, and shehad often seen her with bruises and black eyes. When before the coroner the pri soner made the following statement :—" I done it, sir ; I am guilty, entirely through my husband's ill-conduct to me for the last 16 years. I had three children born diseased, and one he killed before it was born. The reason I did it was because I was weary of my life and had sooner die than live." Mr. Powell addressed the jury for the prisoner, and in so doing said there was one melancholy fact in the case which it was impossible to deny—viz., that the prisoner had with her own hands de stroyed the life of the little child of whom she was so fond. The only question would be whether at the time she did the act she was in her sound mind and able to distinguish right from wrong. The act itself, and the conduct of the prisoner, seemed al most sufficient to show that she was insane, but he should call witnesses to show that she had been for many years subject to epileptic fits, and to ill-treat ment from her husband, under which her mind had at length given way. From the general tendency df her health, and the disgusting and brutal treat ment which she had received, her mind had at last become affected, and she committed the act in ques tion when unable to distinguish right from wrong. She would have killed her husband, but she did not think he was fit to die ; she would have killed her self, but she knew it was forbidden by God's law ; but she was weary of her life, and she thought that by destroying her innocent child her own life would be taken away by the law, and she would see her child in another world, The learned counsel then called several witnesses in support of this case. Mr. Phillips, a deacon of the Broadmead Chapel, at Bristol, stated that the prisoner had been for many years a member of the Baptist church there, and he had always considered her to be a very re ligious but eccentric person. Her husband also had been formerly a member, when he was first mar ried to the prisoner, but he had for many years ceased to be so, and had become addicted to habits of intoxication, and had ill-treated his wife, the prisoner. The prisoner was at times excessively religious—so much so that, as deacon, he had to re monstrate with her, for at times she would go to some chapel or another every night in the week. At other times she would be equally remiss. Her conduct in this respect had more than once been the subject of consideration, but he had always ad vised that she should be dealt lightly with, in con sequence of her known eccentric character. Several other witnesses were examined, who spoke to the fact that the prisoner was subject to epileptic fits, and that she was considered by those who knew her as a person of eccentric habits and unsound mind. The surgeon who had seen her in prison said, from what he saw of her, he could not say she was of unsound mind, but he thought a person who was liable to epileptic fits was likely to become insane, and sometimes that change would take place rapidly. The learned Judge summed up, and in the result the jury acquitted the prisoner on the ground of insanity. NORTHERN CIRCUIT-LIVERPOOL, Aug. 13. THE FORGERIES ON THE LIVERPOOL TRADESMEN'S LOAN SOCIETY. (Before Mr. Baron Martin.) Wm. Seabrook Chalkley, formerly secretary to the Liverpool Tradesmen's Loan Society, who stood charged with having committed forgeries on the society amounting to upwards of £15,000, was placed in the dock to take his trial on several in dictments preferred against him. For several years the prisoner had occupied a highly respectable position in Liverpool, and was a prominent member of the Wesleyan body, and one of their leading preachers. During the whole of this period, however, it was subsequently proved that he had been carrying on a series of forgeries, and robbing the society to the amount above named. In January, last year, he absconded, an d was no t again heard of until June last, when he was arrested in Southampton. On examining his papers, it ap peared he had been in America during the interval, and passing under the name of the Rev. W. Cook, had been received into the Independent body in New York and Philadelphia, and was a leading preacher amongst them. One of the letters found upon him designated him " Our dear brother in Christ, whose talents recommend him to any com munity amongst whom it may be his lot to labour." Mr. Deighton conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Pope defended the prisoner. The first case proceeded with was that of a for gery of £2OO in the case of a fictitious loan to a Miss Dickenson, of Manchester. The circumstances of the case, as disclosed by the evidence for the pro secution, were as follows :—ln the years 1856 and 1857, Miss Dickenson obtained a loan from the society, for which she deposited some title deeds. In 1858 the loan was repaid, and the title deeds re turned. In June, 1859, the prisoner presented to the directors a form of application for a loan to Miss Dickenson of £2OO. The directors accepted the proposal, and handed to the prisoner a cheque for £2OO to meet the loan, the prisoner present ing a promissory note for the amount, purporting to be signed by Miss Dickenson, and by her sister as surety. Miss Dickenson and her sister both de nied their alleged signatures, and it was proved that the document was a forged instrument by the prisoner. - --:- The jury found the prisoner guilty. The other indictments were not proceeded with. His lo r d s hi p sentenced the prisoner to be kept in penal servitude for 15 years. his wife, who was standing at the door, and whom I have known for some years, invited me in. Mr. D'Eyncourt—What did she say to you ? Prosecutor (after some hesitation)—She said, " Frank, will you come up-stairs ?" I did so, and went into the first floor. _ _ Mr. D'Eyncourt—What happened when you got there ? Speak up. Prosecutor—He was not at home when I got up stairs, and I was just going when he came home, and as I was coming out of his room he tried to stab me. He wanted to know my name, and I told him. He went into his back room, and I went away and proceeded to the corner of Exmouth•street, when the prisoner came up to me and stuck a knife into my head, and the blade broke off. When I was coming down the stairs at his house he made a thrust at me with his bayonet. I had been from his house tenor fifteen minutes before he stabbed me. Mr. D'Eyncourt—What did he say to you ? Prosecutor—He wanted me to go down on my knees and confess, but he would not give me time. Prisoner—Did you not draw the knife first ? Prosecutor—No ; I had no knife in my possession. Mr. D'Eyneourt—Did you know both the accused and his wife ? Prosecutor—Yes. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Did the prisoner know that you were in the habit of visiting his wife ? Prosecutor (hesitating)—No, he did not. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Did you know that it was against his wish that you accepted her invitation ? Prosecutor (again hesitating)—Yes. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Did you know that he would not approve of your accepting his wife's invitation to go into the house ? Prosecutor—Yes. _ _ Mr, D'Eyncourt—You knew that when you went in ? Prosecutor—Yes. Mr. D'Eyncourt—And you wanted to get away before he got home ? Prosecutor (again hesitating)—Yes, sir. Mr. D'Eyncourt—ln fact you have been carrying on a clandestina correspondence with his wife ? Prosecutor (after a long pause)—Yes, sir. Mr. D'Eyncourt (to the surgeon)—ls this man, the prosecutor, in any danger ? Mr. Hill, the house surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital, replied that there was danger, and that gentleman was accordingly sworn. He said—At about half-past one o'clock last night the prosecutor was brought to the Royal Free Hospital suffering from an extensive incised wound on the right tem ple, and which extended through the Lune. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Through the bone ? The Witness—Yes, through the skull. Immedi ately above that wound was a smaller lacerated one. There was a punctured wound on the right shoulder, and one just beneath the collar bone, but these last were superficial. The wound in the head is a very serious one—it no doubt was caused by the instru ment produced. (The hand and blade of the clasp knife were handed to the worthy magistrate.) Mr. D'Eyncourt—l suppose there is danger from the wound ? Witness—Yes, he will not be out of danger for ten days or a fortnight at least. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Did the wound bleed much ? Witness—Not very much. The knife must have gone in obliquely. Mr. D'Eyncourt—And he is not out of danger ? Witness—No, he is not. Mr. D'Eyncourt (to the prosecutor)—Were all the wounds inflicted at the one time? Prosecutor—Yes, at the corner of Exmouth street. Mr. D'Eyncourt (to the prisoner)--Do you wish to ask the medical gentleman any questions ? Prisoner—No, sir. But I wish to convey my best thanks to him and Mr. Popham for their kindness to me after I was wounded. It may throw some light on the matter if I state that I used the knife with my left hand, and I might therefore have cut my arm and hand myself. I held the knife till the policeman came. Mr. Henry Holme Popham, a chemist, said— The prosecutor was brought to my shop. He was bleeding profusely from the wound in the head. There was the blade of the dnife (produced) stuck firmly in his head. It was more than an inch and a half in his head. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Could the knife go in so far without touching the brain ? Witness—lt went up from the side to the top of the skull, leaving the brain underneath. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Then the blow must have been given with much force ? Witness—Yes, sir. I had to use three pairs of forceps, while the policeman held him, to draw the blade of the knife from his skull, and in doing so one of the forceps was broken. (Great sensation in court.) Mr. D'Eyncourt—Then you had to use all your force to get the knife out ? Witness—Yes. I had to pull half a dozen times before I could get the knife out of his head. Elijah Pembroke—l live at 3, Baker's-row, Clerkenwell. I was standing at the corner of Exmouth-street, about 12 o'clock last night, when I saw the prosecutor stagger, and then I saw a woman throw the prisoner against some timber. The prosecutor and prisoner were all over blood, the latter was bleeding from his band. I saw no other man there. I did not go near them as I was fright ened. Some man came from the railway works and rendered assistance. It having been shown that prisoner was taken into custody by Murphy, 226 G, Mr. Alexander (the second clerk) asked if the accused wished to say anything. Prisoner—Yes. I can throw a light on the whole matter. Mr. D'Eyncourt told the prisoner he need not say anything unless he liked—at all events, until he had some one to defend him. Prisoner—l could enter into details, but I shall not have anyone to defend me. I think it better that I should explain the case, but I do not wish to take up the time of the Court. I should wish to state that I did not disgrace the volunteer cause by drawing my bayonet. It seems to be the idea, from the way it has been flourished about here, that I used it. I had been at drill, but I did not use my bayonet at all. The prisoner, who frequently sat down in the dock, and appeared very sensitle of the serious nature of the offence with which he was charged, was then remanded for further evidence. MARYLEB ONE, CHARGE OF ROBBERY AGAINST A DESERTER.—George Lemon, was placed at the bar charged with being a deserter from the' Royal Artillery, also on suspicion of stealing plate at Epsom. Sergeant Simmonds, 20 D, deposed to taking the priscner into custody on the previous night in Marylebone-lane. On being charged by him as being a deserter he said his name was Davis, and that he belonged to Kingston in Surrey. On being stripped at the station he was found to be branded on his side with the letter D. The sergeant said he was also wanted for a plate robbery at Epsom. Prisoner was remanded till Friday in order that parties at Epsom might be communicated with. DEATH OF A PRISONER TROUGH POISON.—After the disposal of the night charges Inspector Gibson, A division, informed his worship that a woman named Sarah Garnett had died from the effects of poison since being locked up on a charge of being drunk and incapable. It appeal-s that the female was taken to the sta tion at about a quarter past nine on the previous evening, and after the charge had been entered she was taken to the cell and locked up. A few minutes after she was visited by Inspector Gibson, who found her in an apparently insensible state. He immediately summoned a doctor who was promptly on the spot, and restored her to sensi bility. Sho was after this at short intervals visited by the inspector, and at about ten minutes to eleven he again found her in an insensible state. The doctor was again summoned and did all that he consistently could for a person who was supposed to be labouring under intoxication. The inspector sent off for her friends, when the daughter came and said she had been looking for her mother for more than an hour, and she was afraid that she had taken poison. Upon this the doctor altered his means of restoring her to consciousness, and the stomach pump was applied. All remedies however proved unavailing, and she died shortly before one o'clock from the effects of an overdose of laudanum. Singular to say her daughter admitted that her mother told her at half-past eight that she had taken poison and gave her a bottle labelled " lau danum," of which she took no notice. The daughter saw her mother again about half an hour after sit ting on a door-step in Northumberland-street, apparently asleep. Still she took no notice, and heard or saw no more of her till she was in the hands of the police. 4 SOUTHWARK.--ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A FEMALE.—W. Hosford, an ill-looking fellow, de scribed in the charge sheet as a labourer, was brought before Mr. Combe charged with cutting the throat of Eliza Budd, with intent to murder her. The prosecutrix, a young woman about 30, whose throat and face were bandaged up, was assisted into court and accommodated with a seat. She said—l am a married woman, but my husband left me two years ago, and I have since then been living with the prisoner as his wife. I work a little at cloth cutting for Mr. Jacobs, and entirely supported the prisoner. About one o'clock on Sunday morning I came home. The prisoner was in bed, and I spoke to him about one of the lodgers, when he jumped out of bed and exclaimed, "If you don't get out of the house I'll soon make you." I said I should not go as it was my home, when the prisoner went to the bed and took a knife from under his pillow, when he rushed at me and seized me by the hair of my head, and at the same time I felt a cut across my neck, and then I found that my throat was cut. I fell down, when he made another stab at my neck and cut me again. I seized hold of him and screamed out murder until I became insensible from loss of blood, and when I recovered I was being attended to by a surgeon. Mr. Combe—You say you are living with the pri soner. What mode has he of gaining a livelihood ? Prosecutrix—He does nothing at all, sir. He lives entirely upon my earnings, and when I do not bring him home money, he illuses me. Mr. Combe—What sort of a knife did ho cut you with ? Prosecutrix—A pocket-knife, sir, so far as I could see; but I am not certain, as it was done so sudden. Pether, 98 M, here produced a pocket-knife, the small blade of which was bloody, and it appeared to have been recently sharpened. Prosecutrix—l think that is the knife he took from under his pillow and cut my throat with. When he seized hold of the hair of my head I was endeavouring to get out of the room, when he put his right hand in front of me and drew the knife across my throat, saying, " Now, I'll do for you." Mr. Combe—Has the prisoner been in the habit of concealing a knife under his pillow ? Prosecutrix—l never knew him to do so before. Bernard Connelly, an engineer, said, I lodge in the same house, and occupy the front parlour. On Sunday morning, at one o'clock, I was in bed when I heard a scuffling noise upstairs, and in a few minutes afterwards a female called out " Murder !" and then there was a heavy fall. I got out of my bed and rushed upstairs, and on forcing open the front door I saw the prisoner making cuts at the female with a knife. Blood was flowing from a cut across her throat, and she was holding the prisoner's arm. I seized hold of him, and after a desperate resist ance succeeded in wrenching the knife from him. While we were struggling together a policeman came to my assistance, and the prisoner was se cured. I handed the knife produced to the constable, and fetched a doctor to attend to the female. Mr. Thomas Evans, surgeon, 159, High-street, Southwark, said—About one o'clock on Sunday morning I was called to attend a female at No. 1, Duke-street, Mint. When I entered the first floor room, I saw the prosecutrix lying insensible on the bed, with blood flowing from a cut across the neck. I examined the wound, and found it to be two inches long, and within the eighth of an inch of the jugular vein. Fortunately, neither of the main arteries had been severed, but she had a very narrow escape from death. Had the cut been deeper it must have proved fatal. Mr, Combe—Do you believe that tho wound was inflicted with the knife produced ? Dr. Evans—l do, sir. Mr. Combe—Do you now apprehend any danger Dr. Evans—No, Sir. I think, with great care, the prosecutrix may get on very well. Police-constable Pether, 98 M, said—l was on duty in the Mint on Sunday morning, about one o'clock, when I heard screams of " Murder" and " Police" proceed from No. 1, Duke-street. I ran towards the spot, and heard a man's voice up-stairs call out " Shut up the knife." I then entered the house, and in a room on the first floor I saw the witness Connelly wrench the knife produced from the prisoner. It was bloody, and Connelly told me that the prisoner had just cut his wife's throat. I saw the female lying on the side of the bed, bleed ing from a cut across the front of her neck. I secured the prisoner, and sent Connelly arid another man for Dr. Evans, who returned to the house in a few minutes. Sergeant Gardner, 25 M, the acting inspector at Stone s.end police station, said I received charge of the prisoner at the latter place, and when I read the charge over to him he said " I did it because she aggravated me." This being the whole of the evidence against him, Mr. Combe cautioned him in the usual manner, and asked him if he wished to say anything in his defence ? Prisoner—No, Sir. I shall reserve my defence until my trial. Mr. Combe—Then it is my duty to commit you for trial for attempt to murder. The prisoner was then removed by Downe, the gaoler, under commitment to Newgate for trial at the next session. ANOTHER ATTEMPTED MURDER. George Buckingham, a tinman, was charged with cutting and wounding Samuel Bacon, with intent to murder him. The injured man was not in attendance when the case was called on, when Josiah Welsh, 185 M, informed his worship that he was at the time in the hospital; and he under stood that the wound he had received was dangerous. Mr. Combe asked him whether he knew anything of the transaction. Welsh replied that about five o'clock on Saturday afternoon he was on duty in Newington-causeway, when he heard cries of " Murder' proceed from York-street. He crossed over and saw the prisoner running towards him with a knife in his hand, the blade of which was bloody. Witness stopped him, and then he saw the prosecutor led up the street, when he told witness that the prisoner had stabbed him on the left side with his clasp knife. They had had a quarrel in York-street a few minutes previous, when it wee stated that the prisoner suddenly pulled out his knife and stabbed him. After the prisoner was secured, witness took the injured man to Mr. Townsend's, a surgeon close by, when it was dis covered that the prosecutor had received a stab on the left side. The knife had been prevented from penetrating the side by striking against the fourth rib. Mr. Combe asked whether he knew anything of the parties. The constable replied that they were both sus picious characters, well known to the police, but the prisoner was heard to say that he intended to have murdered the other man. Mr. Combe remanded him until Monday next. MORE CUTTING AND WOUNDING.—WaIter Mar tin, a costermonger, was charged with cutting and wounding Catharine Barry. The prosecutrix, a young woman, whose left eye was cut, said she was a furrier, and lived in Gravel lane. On the previous night, between nine and ten o'clock, she was standing outside the Brown Bear public-house, talking to a young man. The prisoner was near her, opening mussels with a small table knife. He turned round and abused her, making use of very bad language, when she told him not to annoy her. Ho then flourished the knife about, and said, " I'll stab you in the eye." She told him he had better not, when he suddenly rushed at her and cut her on the side of her left eye with the knife. She raised her hand to save her face, when he made another plunge at her, but was prevented by her landlady, who came up at the time and took the knife from him. The prisoner then made his escape. Mr. Combo asked whether her landlady or any other witness was in court. She replied in the negative. Although the land lady had received a wound on her hand in defend ing her, she refused to come forward and give evidence. She understood that the witnesses were afraid of the prisoner's companions. The prisoner here said that it was all false what the prosecutrix had stated. They were all drunk together, and she fell against the knife. Police-constable 169 M said that about 10 o'clock the prosecutrix came to the station-house bleeding from a cut near the left eye. She was perfectly , sober, and related the circumstances to him. Wit ness found the prisoner in a public-house a little the worse for liquor, when he denied having a knife in his hand, or ever seeing the female. Mr. Corrie remanded the prisoner for a week, and granted summonses to the constable to compel the attendance of the required witnesses. WESTMINSTER.—MURDEROUS ASSAULTS.— John Wilson, a tall, powerful fellow, of forbidding appearance, rendered perfectly hideous by his fea tures being and swollen to a most unnatural size, and besmeared with blood, who keeps a house of ill fame in Pond-pl&ce, Chelsea, was charged With a series of desperate assaults. Robert M'Kay, 182 B, said that, at a quarter past 10 on the previous night, he was called by defend ant's wife to take him into custody for a serious assault upon her. She was bleeding copiously from a cut extending right across her face, which she said he had inflicted with a razor. On witness approaching defendant he struck him a vio lent blow across the head with a poker, and after a slight struggle repeated the assault with the same weapon. Witness had followed the defendant into his house, and the door having been shut by some of the bad characters in the house, he was deprived for some time of assistance, during which a most desperate struggle was going on between him and defendant. At length the outer door was forced open by the crowd, and witness, weakened by loss of blood from his wounds, retired. Charles Smith, 131 B, continued the narrative of the defendant's violence. Hearing the defendant bad escaped into th e a dj o i n i ng h ouse , he followed him there, and upo n enter i ng an u p s t a i rs room the accused aimed a desperate kick at him, and then proceeded to further violence. Witness struck him on the head with his truncheon, and they then closed, and a desperate struggle and fight occurred between them, in the course of which the defend ant behaved in the most ruffianly and cowardly manner. Sergeant Morgan, 3 B, said he went to Smith's assistance at the end of his struggle with the de fendant. Defendant struck him a violent blow on the side of the head, and after a series of assaults , the accused was dragged out of the house. He re sisted all the way to the station, and it required a ' large number of constables to convey him there. Mr. Dayman said he should commit the defend ant for trial, and remanded him until Friday for the depositions to be prepared. Bail was refused. The accused's wife did not exhibit any charge against him. John Edwards, described as a hawker, was charged with robbing William Stone, the waiter at the Cadogan, Chelsea. Owing to the influx of persons to view the female Blondin's performance at Cremorne the Cadogan was crowded with visitors, and Stone was busily en gaged attending to their wants, when he felt a tug at his waistcoat pocket, where he wore his watch, attached to a strong silver guard, and missing the former, saw the prisoner's hand pass from his waist coat with something in it. He made a clutch at the hand, but it was hastily put behind it, and the watch disappeared. Prisoner, who refused his address, was remanded. THE BET2ING IN BRIDE-LANE. GUILDHALL POLICE-COURT. The following appeared in a portion of our impression of yesterday evening : Thomas Nevcome, Philip Powter, Charles Wales, Alfred Scarratt, and John Valentine Stanley were sum moned before Sir James Duke, at the instance of the City Solicitor of the City Police, for obstructing one of the high ways of the City of London—viz., Bride-lane—and thereby creating a nuisance. The latter two, Valentine and Stan ley, did not answer. Mr. Metcalfe appeared for the defendants. Mr. Sleigh said he appeared there that day, instructed by the City Solicitor, to charge the defendants with obstruct ing one of the highways in the City, thereby im peding one of the public thoroughfares, and therefore causing a nuisance. The defendants, in company with many others, were in the habit of assem bling in Bride-lane for the purpose of betting on horse racing, but the Proceedings were not instituted against them for carrying on their occupation as betting men, be cause this was a free country and any one had the right to do whatever he pleased providing he did not break the law. The obstruction would have been the same had the defen dants assembled for the purpose of disseminating useful information on politics, temperance, or religion, therefore, the profession of the defendants would not act as a prejudice against them on the present occasion. The learned gentleman then cited several cases as precedents, '-'f,and amongst these one of them by Lord Tenterden, who decided that any person collecting together a crowd of persons, to the annoyance of his neigh bour, was guilty of creating a nuisance. Another instance of a prosecution for obstructing the highway, was that of a person named Carlyle, in Fleet-street, in which a convic tion took place. He was not instructed to use harsh lan guage because the gentlemen summoned chose to engage in the speculation of horse-racing; they had a perfect right to enter into any profession they pleased. He would have rejected any instructions to use language prejudicial to the defendants as persons of respectability; but the point he had to submit was that the defendants, by causing a great num ber of persons to assemble in Bride-lane, did create a nui sance. He therefore on the present occasion proposed to call for the binding over of the defendants to meet the charge at the Sessions. Constable Trim 20, said—On 6th May last I was ap pointed to do duty with another constable (Hooper) in Bride lane. I had done duty there for eight months pre vious. I know the whole of the defendants. I first saw Scarratt in Bride-lane on the 4th of July. On the 6th of May, at noon, I saw Newcome, Powter, and Wales, in Bride-lane. There were a great many persons round each of them. They were all separated from each other. The lane was occupied from about 10 yards from Fleet-street to the bottom by the defendants and the persons around them. I have seen as many as 20 persons round each defendant at a time. I have seen as many as 400 persons in the lane, and I should think there was that number present on the day I have mentioned. The defendants were standing there with them betting. Bets were very often made by parties around them. Mr. Metcalfe—You heard them ? Witness—Yes. Examination continued—They moved on when I told them, but the crowd followed them. They did not stand still in opposition to what I said. As the defendants moved the crowd fd!lowed, but they did not leave the lane. When they made their entries in their books I saw them do so sometimes standing and sometimes walking. POLICE INTELLIGENCE-Aug. 13. CLERKENWELL.- - ATTEMPTED MURDER.— A respectable young man, named Charles William Jeffs, 30 years of age, residing at No. 40, Acton street, Gray's Inn-road, and described as a reader on the Express newspaper, was placed at the bar of the Clerkenwell Police-court before Mr. D'Eyn court, charged with cutting and wounding Francis Cossum, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. at Exmouth-street, Clerkenwell. The case created a large amount of excitement, owing to the circumstances under which the offence was committed. The accused was partially dressed in a volunteer uniform, and his belt and bayonet were produced in court. His left hand was bandaged and his right arm was in splints. The prosecutor, a quiet.lcoking young fellow, had his head entirely wrapped in hospital bandages, and there were marks of other injuries on his body. The prosecutor, who was accommodated with a seat, having been sworn, said—My name is Francis Cossum, and I live at 3, Guildford-place, Bagnigge weils-road. I am a mathematical instrument maker. I know the prisoner, but he is no relation of mine. On Monday evening I was passing his house, and Mr. Sleigh—Was the public thoroughfare obstructed ? Witness—lt was. Mr. Sleigh—So much so as to be difficult for passengers who passed through ? Witness—Yes. Very much near the steps at the back of the church. The defendants usually remained in the lane from twelve to two. On Tuesday, the 7th of May, I saw Newcome, Powter, and Wales in the lane. There were others in the lane on that day. I should think on that occasion there were about 500 persons present. The defendants were making bets and talking to people. From about a quarter to one till half-past the crowd is the greatest, so as to make it very difficult for passengers to pass through at all. On Wednesday, the Bth of May, from about 12 o'clock till 20 minutes past one there were between 400 or 500 people there as before, and also on the 9th and 10th of May. Scarratt had not been there " making a book" until the 4th of July, and was with the other de. fendants then daily acting as before. Mr. Metcalfe objected to Mr. Sleigh going into the new case in which Searratt was concerned. After a discussion the Alderman decided that the evi- dente should proceed, and the witness identified the four defendants as having been in the lane on several days be tween the 4th and 12th of July, On the Bth of July the lane was completely crammed up. People could not get along the pavement. I have been on duty in the lane up to the present time, and speaking generally I have seen the whole of the defendants there. They were engaged making bets. The lane is exceedingly narrow. There is not room for more than one carriage to pass through. I have had many and frequent complaints made to me by the in habitants of the place of the obstruction caused by the crowd. By Mr. Metcalfe—Mr. Hawkes, the builder, has com plained two or three times a week. He lives near the bend. Mr. Thomas, the clergyman of St. Bride's (the Rev. Mr. Marshall), Mr. Jewell, the hotpresser, and Mr. Anderton have also made frequent complaints. I bought the book in which I made the entries about the lane for that purpose. I was sent there by my inspector upon special-duty. I have known the bookmakers when they get too many persons round them run away for a few minutes to get rid of the crowd. Inspector Mitchell was not the person who sen me to the lane. I have reported all I saw to an attorney. I don't know why the summons was not taken out before. Between 12 and 2 I should think 20 persons, independent of betting men, go down the lane. There are 27 houses in the street. I have but very seldom seen the defendants on the pavement. Generally they walk in the road. By Mr. Sleigh—chave seen persons I know, not to be betting men, incommoded in passing through the lane. Mr. James Anderton—l am one of the Common Coun cil of Farringdon Without. I have often had occasion to go through Bride-lane, and I should pass through it much more frequently if it were not for the betting men. I always found the lane in a state that was a disgrace to the city of London. Mr. Metcalfe—This is a summons for obstructing the footway—not for betting, so you will please confine your remarks to that point. By Mr. Sleigh—The lane is quite impassable for females. These proceedings were instituted by resolution of the vestry of St. Bride's. I have frequently made complaints to the police about the state of the lane. Mr. Sleigh—Can you recognise any of the defendants as those frequenting the place. Mr. Anderton—No; they are no friends of mine. (Laughter.) By Mr. Metcalfe—l consider it a disgrace to the City to allow the lane to remain in such a crowded state. I don't live in the parish, or you may depend I would not have allowed the evil to go on so long. The Rev. C. Marshall—l am vicar of the parish of St. Bride's. I have had frequent occasions lately of passing through the lane. I have always found the lane unplea sant to pass through owing to the number of persons pre sent, I mean unpleasant because it is not pleasant to be jostled. I mean by "jostled" to be pushed first on one shoulder and then on the other—not being able to walk straight. This has happened hundreds of times. I have complained of the obstruction frequently to the police. I have often asked the policeman to make way for me down the lane—the passage being blocked up. I am unacquainted with matters of betting, but I have seen many persons there with books in their hands. On the 6th May I should think I passed through the lane five or six times. The parochial schools are in Bride-lane. About 250 children attend the schools. The building is very near what is called the bend. The children leave at 12, and return at two daily. I have frequently seen the men opposite the school door. By Mr. Metcalfe—The occasional duty of the church generally occupies us until 1 o'clock daily. There are prayers daily in the church, and they conclude about 12. There is not what is called full service daily. Mr. Robert Hawkes, builder, of Bride-lane, said—Since the 6th of May, excepting Sunday, the placehad been very much crowded. The crowd begins to become inconvenient in the spring of the year. In the winter nobody comes there. During the racing season the lane is crowded by persons betting on horse races, receiving and paying money, making entries in their books, and talking about horses. Mr. Metcalfe—l suppose Kettledrum would be one of the horses talked about. Witness—l saw some of the defendants present en the occasions 1 have referred to. Mr. Metcalfe—Yes, paying money. Mr. Sleigh—l did not say they did not. No doubt they are all honourable men. Examination continued—l have had to complain to the police of the crowded state of the lane. I have seen per sons compelled to struggle through the crowd in order to get to their residences, I have measured the lane, and computing two persons to the square yard, I have seen, I should think, between 600 and 700 persons there in one day during the present month. By Mr. Metcalfe—l have seen ladies with crinolines there struggling to get through the lane. I have seen What are called " lists" posted in the window of the Sunday Times office. I don't think those lists attract the people. I have seen people leave the lane, go and look at those lists, and then return to the lane and recommence betting. Mr. Sleigh said he had a number of other witnesses, but he thought he had made out a case quite strong enough to justify their being sent to a higher tribunal for trial. Mr. Metcalfe said no doubt a great deal of evideaco had been offered concerning the crowded state of Bride - lane, but as far as regarded the defendants very little in fart had been said. The Alderman said the evidcnco of the police constable was conclusive. Mr. Sleigh—That is all the evidence I shall call. Mr. Metcalfe—Then am I to understand that you have given all the evidence you intend to offer against the defen • dants. It is important that they should know what they have to meet ? • Mr. Sleigh—l shall only produce corroborative evidence. Mr. Metcalfe—Well, that is what I should like to hoar. The Alderman said he thought the evidence of the police man important, as he spoke to all the defendants. The case was then adjourned till to-morrow afternoon at three for the production of corroborative evidence. The defendants were then liberated on giving their per sonal promise to attend again to-morrow afternoon. The court during the proceedings was crowded to excess • A SOLICITOR AND CORONER CUTTING: DOWN A TELEGRAPHIC POST. BEACONSFIELD, TUESDAY. The quiet rural town of Beaconsfield, in the county of Buckingham, was yesterday thrown into a state of ferment in consequence of the magistrate s in petty sessions having to adjudicate in a ease where a solicitor and one of the coroners for the county, Mr. Frederick Charlsley, of Missenden, vga ° charged with aiding and abetting several labouring men to cut down one of the posts recently erected in Beaconsfield by the United Kingdom Electric Telegraph Company. The case was heard before J. Du Pre, Esq.? chairman ; James Palmer, Esq., and R. R. Clay' ton, Esq. The court was held at the Saracen's Head Inn, the large room of which was literally crammed. The defendants were Henry Rolfe, George Rolfe, Richard Bernard Baylis, and Robert Butting, who, were charged with cutting down the post, ap e- , Frederick Charlesley charged with aiding and abetting them to commit the act. Mr. Tindal Atkinson appeared on behalf of the Telegraph Company, and Mr. Keene on behalf of the defendants. . Mr. Atkinson said that the facts of the case were' simply these :—On the 4th July last the defendant, Mr. Charlsley, who was at the White Hart Ins' Beaconsfield, with the other defendants, offered to give any one half-a-crown who would climb to the top of the telegraphic post erected in the publiV, highway opposite the White Hart Inn. As this' offer appeared to be insufficient, Mr. Charlslei i said he would give 10s. 6d. to any one who viol,' fetch an axe and saw, and cut the post down. 11 15 had the desired effect; the saw and axe were fetched? and the post was cut down by the defendants, Mr' Charlsley standing by and abetting them. In addition to this, Mr. Charlsley had previously said that he would have a mile of the telegrap h down. The effect of cutting down this post wag that all communication was cut off, and the will were thrown in front of the premises of Mr. Har d ing, a chairmaker. Admitting, for the sake of are' meat only, that the post was a nuisance, the ordi' nary remedy was by public indictment, and awe! had no right to take the law into his own liana and remove it. Mr. Atkinson having called a host of witnesses in support of his case, Mr. Keene maintained that the post in questioU was a nuisance, and a dangerous nuisance, as be should prove by evidence, and that he had a right' to remove it. He denied that the Board of Health or the Road Trustees had any power to give per mission for the erection of these posts, as the rilO P was vested in the lord of the soil, Mr. Hargreaimer whose consent had not been asked,nor had any wt . dente been adduced to show that the plaintiffs hat' obtained the consent of any party. The land well' given up for the benefit of the highway, and not fo:t the benefit of any speculating telegraph company- , The first witness for the defence was the Rev. S. Major, curate of Beaconsfield, who expressed opinion that the post was in a dangerous positie On cross-examination by Mr. Atkinson, however', he admitted that he had been getting up affidavit: I against the telegraphic company, and that he har been induced to do so through some parties fror a the firm of Messrs. Wilson, Bristow, and Carpnel 1, solicitors to the old telegraphic company, who w,e re opposing the present company. The magistrates, without requiring the room to be cleared, said that they were of opinion that there was not sufficient danger caused by this post to justify Mr. Charlsley in employing persons to eif it down ; at the same time they would inflict mil such a penalty as would meet the case. The defendants were then convicted in the pen aity of Is., and ordered to pay the damage, £5, and all the costs in the case, which it is estimated wilt amount to about £5O. COUNTRY DIA.REETS. BRISTOL—AuG. 13. At our market to-day there was a rather thin att end' nce of millers, and foreign wheat was in demand at abou t; late prices. Barley 6d dearer. Oats and other artioo unchanged. LEEDS—Aim. 13. • A" The business done in wheat to-day was limited decline of 2s on last week's currencies for old sorts. A " samples of new offering, at irregular prices. Oats ra th er dearer. Other articles support last Tuesday's prices. NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYNE—Auer., 12. 4, At this corn market there was a tolerable show of Wile a The inquiry ruled quiet, and prices rather declined on W A rates of last week—white making - 56s to 665, red '"": to 635. The demand for• barley was very slow, at l 4f l o changed in value. Oats were in limited supply, kith 3 firm sale, from 26s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans met iv " a steady_sale, hem 44a to 52s per qr. NORWICH CATTLE. The show of store cattle to-day was good. A $llll3Ol attendance of buyers, but a fair business done, and • week's prices were maintained. Scots, 4s Od to 4s 6d ; shorthorns, 3s 6d to 4s Irish'es Od to 3s 6d ; Devons, 4s to 5s 6d (estimated weight 'so' fat). Fat beasts a small show and sales brisk,St 8s Od to 811 64 per 141 b. Sheep—There was an excellent supply of sheep in OOP ° and of lambs:again more than equal to the demand. i d s . Fat sheep, 8s Od to 8s 6d per stone ; prime, 9s Od out a clearance. P' 3244 Pigs—A fair supply. Store pigs, 16s to 20s ; fat 7s 3d to 7s 6d per stone. THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) .. Do. Brazil and Cape Verda Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &c. 31 - Cuba and Mexico .. .. • . • . Aug' 7. g. Canada, &o. (via L'derry) • • .. ••A' t 1. Cape of Good Hope &c. . • • Sep t ' 16. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Aug" is. Do (via Marseilles) Aug. 10. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. .. • • A il E° . India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Aug. 0 . Do. , (via Marseilles) Aug. 1 0. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. • • A u g due. Do. (via. Marseilles) •• V9 ol' .1. Lisbon .. Aug. J. O Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) • • Avergall e. O Do. (via Marseilles) Aug. 11. Vigo, and Oporto • • . • . • • • Aug. 15. United States, California, &c. .. •• If *a Aug . 10. Western Coast of Africa, Madeira, 'lawn • • West Indies and Pacific, Carthagena. Cuba, Sco. Aug. Aug. 15 4 (via Marseilles) Aug . -t S e pt. 3. BIRTHS. Of BEAUMONT.—On the 11th inst. , at Grantham, the wife Henry Beaumont, Esq., of a son. HENSHAW.—On the 12th inst. at 5, Oxford. square, ti)°, residence of her mother , Lady' Grant, the wife of Clinto.• Henshaw, Esq., Rifle Brigade, of a son and heir. LITTLE.—On the 12th inst., at Cairnbank, near BrechiM N. 8., the wife of Colonel Little, C. 8., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. COOPER—WHITWORTII.—On the 13th inst., at S. Pete r iti Blackburn, the Rev. T. Cooper, 8.A., Scholar and t,, ° e , D — o P v E er r , Eß C s a o p N ta .-- in - Medallist of Christ's College, Cambridge, to Sarah An n elder daughter of Charles Whitworth, Esq., of B ia- i burn. inst.i Ay J o c u h rr u s r . r c o h r: tillery, second son of the late Vice-Admiral Johnstol!lii.. Cowhill, Dumfries, to Annie Augusta, only child ° I Ocnhathrleeslo Johnston,thn itatoyTarhiniotif T. T. Peterson, Esq., barrister-at-law, Calcutta. Buiutenv.—On the Bth ii l i A st A.. 7 T at ri no S ni . the Ven. E. J. Barrow, 0.0 , F.R.S , Archdeacon of 01P' raltar, aged 76. ' . BUSHNELL.—On the 11th inst., at Roceles, Sydenhil ton, Devonshire, ~. Madame Catherine Hayes Bushnell, the eminent prig' donna. DRAFFEN,On the 11th inst., a t 78, Cambridgeterraces Hyde-park, Joseph Wright Drsffen, Esq. ECKERsALL.—On the 11th inst., at Weston-super-gores Frances Eckersall, of Bath, aged 79. LINDLEY.—On the 1 1 th ins t., at Westfield House, lklavifid field, Notts, Charles Lindley, Esq., aged 66. PAGLIANo.—On the 12th inst. at his residence , t he Lodgeo Brook-green, Hammersmith: Ch ar les Joseph Pagliallot Esq., aged 63. _Y YO' aG L O NDON : Printed an d Published by 211,111)0 YOLli No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SuN (Mee, No. 112,Straou in the Precinct of the Savoy, In the County of alddies°' Wednesday, August 14, 1861. 11r. 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