The Sun. — London, England, 1845-12-18 00:00:00

TO COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.—Every description of solid and other IF.ATHER CASES, for carrying :''' ,[l l , los or stock, made to order. Solid Leather and other Portman 'eau Carpet Lags, Hat Cases, ke. Sec., in great variety, always in atoek. Southgate and Son, manufacturers, 76, Wallin ..strect, London. TO GAS INSPECTORS. ANTED, by the Commercial Gas Light and ait - Coke CoMpany, an active intelligent person, of good address, an INSPECTOR of LIGHTS. Further particulars may be had at the offices of the Company, t egneY, and appli ca ti ons , accompan i e d by t es ti m onials as to charac ... , n a efficiency, must be made by letters pre-paid, addressed to the ary of the Company, on or before MONDAY, the 22d inst. By order of the Board, 11. AVERY, Secretary. Stepney, December 17, 1845 NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND. 112, Bishopsgate-street, London, Dec. 16, 1845. 1 1 . 74 Direc tors of the National Provh!cial Bank of England do he give notice that a DIVIDEND, at the rate of FIVE PER 1 8 „ T. PER ANNUM, for the half-year ending the 3 1 st December , O A , ', Will be p aya b le on the Company ' s s t oc k, o n and after the 16th `lttitcuAtty next, when the Dividend Warrants will lie obtained fe e ComPany's Offices, 112, Bishopsgate-street, or at the dif -411t• brand., 2,Lue Transfer:Books will e closed on and after WEDNESDAY, the fly 'La instant, until the Dividend becomes payable. order of the Court of Directors DAN. ROBERTSON, A ' gent and Manager. lIIRMIN GRAM and BOSTON DIRECT c . RAILWAY. e ) „,_ ommtttee beg to announce that the Allotment has been it e eted and the Letters posted. ladg.A Pl ana, Sections, and Books of Reference have been duly p,, s s. at the Board of Trade awl with the several Clerks of the and the Committee fully an ticipate the successful issue of APPlleation to Parliament in the ensuing session. By order, 6ftl J. ELLIOTT, Secretary. 'ea, 26, 3foorgatc-street, Des. 17, 1845. LEEDS and CARLISLE RAILWAY. 4,t,......ic0tice is hereby given, that an amalgamation, o!1 terms , karlY advantageous, having been effected with the YORKSHIRE tip et ,„ l ",kSGOlV UNION RAILWAY COMPANY, by which an 14 ire Parliamentary opposition is obviated, the Shareholde rs in I btetr - 7 11, and Carlisle Railway Company are requested to forward ute, th L ll l ) to the offices of this Company on or before t he 31st of 1845, in order to have it stamped, agreeably to the ar , `s.ment entered into by the Directors. By order of the Committee of Management, qte t o,„ CHARLES LOCOCK. WEBB, secretary. 'Azan-rooms, Basinghall-street, London. OCK ANI) SHARE EXCHANGE OF TR MANCHESTER, ~ „.QTTIONS PASSED AT THE LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE. lakrZat transactions on the fate of a publ'c prospectus, in shares rio actual existence, are no more than provisional contracts, "C i ' l ecome absolute only in the event of a bona fide formation of N t any, and issue of shares in substantial conformity with the Ntv, us on which the provisional dealings were founded ; and 4140:ere the projectors of the scheme contemplated by such pro - Nb e ...ovithout having constituted the proposed Company, entered arrantements essentially varying either in constitution or oeii d Zoin the scheme originally published, and involving the vir th b aa ndonment of such scheme in its original integrity , the deal "1,1„,"1 on the original prospectus become inoperative and void." h ."‘ in accordance with the foregoing resolution, all contracts in 1 .411 - it a, .,e of the Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford Union, are void." L9et't in accordance also with the foregoing resolution, all con wthpder the name of Manchester, Liverpool, and Great North At -f, and, are null and void." La e Monthly meeting of the members of the Stock and Share gu of Manchester, held on the 15th day ef December, 1845, a lea re me above resolutions of the Leeds Stock Exchange having It, ad to the, meeting, I tat 3 ,‘ unanimously resolved, that this Association denies the right Ulztu ta 'took Exchange to declare any contracts void under such cir 41* i i 4 es, and that the above resolutions cannot be viewed in any Il utt gut than that of wholesale. repudiation. plta t , his Association pledges itself not to transact any business bor e Lor any member of the Leeds Stock Exchange, until the lath. r esolutions are rescinded, and the members honourably fulfil en gagements. By order, WILLIAM MARSHALL, Chairman. NhaioNAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR- ANCE SOCIETY, 26, CORNHILL, LONDON. Capital /500,009. _ Empowered by Act of Parliament. institution (Mars important and substantial advan ( 4 4s d has, 43 7th respect both te Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. N ei, or ire f on all occasions, the power to borr3w, without ea .., t o! - 4, rfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the preium paid, also the option of selecting beneilts, and the m convers:on int erests to meet other conversances er ne cessit y . Assurances ttrm. or years are granted on the lowest possible rates. te ll ' ,le DIVISION OF PROFIT S i. 0 b,.. cess and Increasing prosperity of tke Society has enabled 4 04 4 . 4 ct0r5, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third ill 'll i oi tr Ying from 30 te 73 per cent. on the premiums pail on eY effected on the Prelt scale. EXAAtPLES ~ . te 4 Premium. Bonns Demo in added. Cash. 0:o i t -------- t d 1837 £l9l 13 5 £B7 13 5 74 i 4 ' 1838 165 13 0 74 13 10 1839 128 13 6 61 14 3 1840 89 0 0 41 13 4 11 41 .14. 5 rvt 4 0g . • 4P• lAI3 17 1 11 8 6 9 2 10 6 0 £395 II 1 346 2 3 296 13 4 247 4 5 Nlik),,rns er lon of profit is annual, and the next will be made in De , lie present year. F. FERGUSON CAMROI7i. See. JOHN KING, Actuary. ICAN LIFE I 70.. LOM.BARD-STREET Establist DYKE( NSURANCE OFFICE 7, and 57, CHARING-CROSS., ked 1797. CITORS. ' l "rrf 00d Esq M.P. Kirkman D. Hodgson, Esq. tton, Esq., r .R,s, B. 11. Lawrence, Esq. Curtis, Bart. J. Petty Muspratt, Esq. itic hr. !Javis, Esq. G. S. Storey, Esq. 4, Pr 4 Puller, Esq. C. H. Turner, Esq. Gordo*, Esq., M.D., F.R.S. M. Whiting, Esq. AUDITORS. ttnanuel Goodhart, Esq. I Thomas Ilodgson, Esq. Th. b John Davis, Esq. eriodieal Valuation of the Policies effected with this Corn- Nfli h O u the Return System will be made after the 3d of July, 1847, th e 4 , 4 equitable proportion of the surplus premiums will be allotted older of every such Policy issued prior to that date. De ll Th" u Z e Peculiar feature in the mode of division adopted by this Com titi'4,,!ensists in the admission of every member to participate in t he IV' he has assisted to create. h Eteneral stem of f the office comprises all the real advantages of eff, t , h4 Stem of life assurance is susceptible. Insurances may ,mie r ,, — `ed on the return or non-return systems ; in either case the vott e , s - ' Will be guaranteed from all liability of partnership, and will , tZ, t he most ample security arising from the large accumulations N o `' ° n l Pany invested in the Government funds, and the unlimited 1,1. ' l iability a its proprietary. ktePectuses and every information may be obtained on application % Oflic es as above, or to the Agents of the Company appointed in ` 4, 3' and principal town in the kingdom. R. TUCKER, Secretary. BURGESS'S NEW SAUCE, for general pur tor it Poses, having gained such great approbation, and the demand t p esp e jontinuing to increase, JOHN BURGESS and SON beg most th„.,,.. fu11 Y to effer thus their best acknowledgments to the Public liberal patronage of the same ; Its utility and great convent all climates have recommended I:, te the roost distinguished 404:%at, c onnectiens, who have all spoken highly in its recommenda prepared by them only ; and for preventing disappoint tiotti,„ ° families, all possible care has been resorted to, by each 4 e. - „,_ u elog sealed on the cork with their firm and address, as well ten t Z label having their signature, without which it cannot be e „.• nURGESS and SON'S long-established and much-esteeme 1 15 a ,...'`CH of ANCHOVIES continues to be prepared by them afterd retrZ''e *tanner that has given the greatest satisfaction for many Warehouse, 107, Strait& corner of Savoy Steps, London ti "---1 1ANDY AND CAPSULES.—Mr. BETTS bia tn , (the late firm of J. T. BETTS and CO.), Patent Brandy ittit e f! , 7, Smithfield Bars, feels it des to himself and the public to %a c t,: :that the Manufacture of the PATENT BRANDY was not, Of ) ;ever has been known to any person except to himself and one 88 t r , g °2 lll . And that he was succeeded in the business of tke Die hi".> 7, Smithfield Bars, by his sons, J. T. BETTS , jen. , and. CO., 4j 4 : retiring therefrom, in 1843. hr r• BETTS further states, that he is tke sole Patentee, ntartafac ,reril;:nd of of the Metallic Capsule, (or solid metal covering tt r , v ,!Tlouths of be that no other Brandy in England, except get, S PATENT BRANDY, is thereby protected ; the Patent get, Capsule if, therefore, applied to any other Brandy, must been surreptitiously obtained. aletallie Capsule Manufactory, 1, Wharf-road, City-road. t IIETTS'S PATENT BRANDY, certified by the y p , Faculty of England to be the purest spirit, and guaranteed sL't Patent Metallic Capsules, embossed " Betts's Patent Brandy, te4 s , mi thlield-bars," is sold at 31. 6d., bottle included, by the most Iph t L e ttable dealers, lists of whom may be obtained at the Distillery, tic. 4l quantities of not less than two gallons, in bulk or bottles, are 'Dile''' . Address, 7, Smithfield-bars. • I, ENCER'S CHINESE LIQUID HAIR DYE h i ., k anges in a few minutes, without trouble, red or grey hair, E ta - "er c s h eyebrows, moustaches, &c., to a dark brown or black, by 1)1.4'Y using •. bomb wetted with the liquid. One application will 1 0e tic. a Pleasing and permanent change. Price 3s. 6d., 65., and bottle. 43 r .`,., i be had of the Proprietors , 29,' Nottingham-place, Fieldgate e Whit ec hapel-road, London ; also of Mr. Jo hnstone, 68, Corn ' St re 'Lutler, 4, Cheapside ; Prout, 229, Strand ; Sange r, 150, Oxford %tut Barclay, arrindon-street ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bond- Hooper, 43, F King g William-street, London tridge ; Finnigin, / ,- 4 ° 2 1 : 1 -street, 13ath ; Elmore, Bull-street, Birmingham ; and of most is k `tners and Medicine Vendors in town and country. Sent to Part of the kingdom by receiving a remittance, pest-paid. 01 ) ,: 80 to ask for " spencer and Co.'s C hinese Li q uid Hair Dye." 'ye, the Proprietor's address is on the wrapper. c. COUGHS, COLDS, ASTIIMAS , AND CONSUMPTINS. L I NDELL'S IMPROVED BALSAM OF HONEY. st r ePwards of fifty years, this invaluable medicine has main- Dlt t i n , its reputation as a most effective remedy for the above com -41,,,:5, and, unassisted by advertisements, has found its way into I,4Tirt every family in the United Kingdom. It is still prepared thi Cam* care and attention by Mr. Henry Cundell, 47, Mino u 2 London, w h o refrains from all eulogy on its valuable properties, o ne trial suffices to prove its efficacy to the most sceptical. %, c al be had in bottles at Se. 9d. 4s. 6d., and 12s. 6a., of all re medicine venders in the United Kingdom VitA.MPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH p o „, manifoid advantages to the heads of families from the wiression of a Medicine of known efficacy, that may be resorted . to confidence and used with success in cases of temporary . ma tt' occurring in families more or less every day, are so obvious to tioi c u l l a , t no the question can be raised of Its importance to every house kingdom. From among numerous testmonlals, the ". 1 8 is respectfully submitted:— ; • 4 ' TO ;AR. THOMAS TROUT, 29, STRAND, LONDON. " h, Cooper-street, Manchester, March 12, 1842. sir —I have much satisfaction in communicating to you the re- OF b .,_roY experience, after repeated trials, of FRAMPTON'S' PILL k a ,"•.LALTH, and I feel it but justice to state, that in the course of ea ,,, 4 Y Years' trial of various Aperient Medicines, I have never found f r „,'ts at once so salutary and efficient in the relief of the system tii"di redundant bile &C &c.. with so little inconvenience ; am erefa re, vrarrantedin declaring that they supply to me a means c i a l g Wanting, of being able to recommend to families, schools, and v. i r ci allY mercantile men, whether at the desk or on the road, a most to liable nan ocasional medicine. And I shall take credit pli.4o,Yselfr if, in giving. this testimony, I am the means of making U PTON'S ° PILLS more generally k'nown" and appreciated. m a Sir, respectfully yours, " WILLIAM SMITH." "c onprecedentd sale of these Pills, arising from the earnest re fi,:iendations of the many thousands who have derived benefit 01 their use, render any lengthened comment necessary ; they are fo u r t Aut forth as a cure for all diseases to which mankind is liable, but tei and Liver Complaints, with their many well-known ot clic\ ants, Bilious ;and Sick Headache, Pain and Oppression after meals, li e Ill ness, Dizziness, Singing Noise in Head and Ears, Drowsiness, ,!t,rtburn, Loss of Appetite, Wind, Spasms, &c eft.f_wo or thr ee d oves w ill conv i nc e the afflicted of their salutary ta• The stoma c h w ill s p ee dily regain its strength ; a healthy action of the Liver, Bowels, and Kidneys, will rapidly take place; and I nstead of listlessness, heat, pains, and jaundiced appearance, strength, •t, n activity, and renewed health, extending to good old age, the result of taking this medicine, according to the directions accompanying each box. __;;!oid by T. Pruitt, 229, Strand; London. Pricy ls. end 2s, 9d. 17, box, also by the Vendors of Medicines g e nerally throughout the ogdom. for FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, and observe the • and Address of " Thomas Front 229 Strand, London," on the _A I 414 . • . qur • ikt,, t • ' ac : N " IN r . 1.; . 7 6. 11 g3 • 4,•?: •r.. tl " -- • • "AC ) •• • • Nr.. ". • rF. I "0^- i"*- _ - PRICE SD. DECEMBER 18, 1845. No. 16,643. LONDON, THURSDAY 4* 1: ING OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Dec.l7. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, in London, before the LonD CHIEF Banom and a Common Jury.) SMITH V. JOHNSON. This was an action on the case brought to recover the value of a quantity of property, to which the defendant had pleaded denying his liability. Mr. Martin, with whom was Mr. Pearson, appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Jervis and Mr. Hugh Hill for the defence. The plaintiff was a ropemaker at Bermondsey, the de fendant the assignee of a person named Sterrey, who formerly carried on business as a sailmaker at the same place, and the action was brought to recover the value of a quantity of property seized by the defendant under the fiat. In 1838, Sterrey being in want of money, nego tiated a loan with the plaintiff for 4381., and gave him a bill of exchange for the amount. Sterrey paid the plaintiff interest upon this sum, and continued to do so down to the spring, when Sterrey's affairs becom ing embarrassed, he gave the plaintiff a bill of sale of his household goods, stock in trade, and furniture, as an additional security for the loan of 4381. Subsequently a fiat in bankruptcy was sued out against Sterrey, and all his household goods and stock in trade were seized and sold under it. A Lecture on the PREVALENT DISEASE in POTATOES, and the Means of extracting the Starch as an Article of Food, will be delivered by Dr. Ryan, daily, at Half-past Three, and on the Evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at Nine. Xrofessor Bachofther's varied Lectures, with experiments, in one of which he clearly explains the principle of the ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY, a model of which is at work Daily. Mr. Downe, the celebrated Flutist, wili perform, at Three o'Cleek, en Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Coleman's NEW AMERICAN LOCO MOTIVE ENGINE, for as ending stud descending Inclined Planes. A beautiful series of DI6SOLVING VIEWS. New OPTICAL IN STRUMENTS, 86c. Experiments with the DIVER and DIVING BELL, &c &c. Admission, One Shilling. Schools, Half-price. MR. CARTER'S MAMMOTH HORSE. The colossal Horse, GENERAL WASHINGTON, the pro perty of Mr. Carter, the Lion King, has been visited by many thou sand persons, including the r ohility and gentry, and numerous ladies, who hare declared thet he is the most extraordinary horse in the world. The principal journals have spoken in the highest terms of this remarkable animal General Washington is the largest horse in the world—he is twenty hands in height, and weighs twenty-five hundred pounds. He will he exhibited by Mr. Carter for a short time, previous to his departure to America, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, from Bleven, A.M., till Nine, r.m.—Admission, Is. IMMENSE SALE OF LAMPS AT HALF-PRICE. CLARK and COMPANY, 447, West Strand, beg to announce that they intend making extensive alterations in their establishment, and, in consequence, are compelled to dispose of a large portion of their immense and excellent stock of lamps. The stock consists of the New Light, Clark's Patent Carcel Oil Lamp (the best oil lamp ever made), Solar Lamps, and all other oil lamps. Young's Vesta SpiritLainp, the Gem Spirit Lanips, Oil and Candle Chandeliers, Candelabras, and Ormolu Candlesticks, and richly cut Lustre, ; Palmer's Magnum Candle Lamps, and every description of Palmer's and Clark's Candle Lamps that can be required. In fact, their immense variety provides a choice for all, and gives all satisfac tion. The whole will be sold considerably under the usual charges. The reduction in prices commence Tuesday, 16at December, and will only continue one month, or perhaps less. Please write down Address, CLARK and Co., 447, WEST STRAND, the Immense Lamp Depot. Evidence was called with tha view of substantiating the case, but it failed to prove that the bill of sale was given prior to the committal of the act of bankruptcy, and the plaintiff was nonsuited. The insolvent was sworn to the truth of his schedule, in which the story of the alleged robbery was detailed. In giving judgment, the Learned COMMISSIONER ob served that he had expressed his opinion on the last oc casion. lie disbelieved the story of the loss, and he also disbelieved the insolvent had possessed the sum he had mentioned; because, if he had thought he had the money and had concealed it, this course would have been clearly defined; namely, to have refused to pronounce any judgment on the case, as the applicant would have had the means of satisfying every d eman d against him. What the insolvent had possessed he could not say—he did not believe that he had the money stated (2,0601.), nor could he presume to form an opinion as to how much he actually possessed; that he was a person pretty well to do in the world was plain, for he had owned a number of houses, which he had sold after he found the action went against him. The judgment of the Court was that lie be imprisoned for a period of twenty-two calendar months from the vesting order, for making away with and concealing his property. The judgment will be computed from the 11th of October last. The insolvent was removed to Whitecross street Prison. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice PATTESON and Mr. Baron ALDERSON.) THE MURDER AT WESTMINSTER. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Msry Gaze, re-examined by Mr. BODKlN—Attended the pclice-court twice. She was in convulsions on the first examination, and the case was postponed to the following Monday in consequence. Her mother's age was sixty-one. She was in very good health and spirits when witness saw her a week before her death. Her mother had 7s. per week, and also kept lodgers. She was not at all distressed. By Mr. Justice PATTESON—When she saw her mo ther dead she had her night-clothes on. Could not say if they were wet. Mary Cheshire stated that she resided in the house that deceased occupied. She lived in the room adjoining that of the deceased. Had seen the deceased the day previous to her death. She was then in very good health and spirits. About seven o'clock on the morning of Monday, the Ist, she was awoke by a cry of murder. It was Mrs. Mundell's voice. There was a second cry of murder, and witness then got out of bed, and went to deceased's door. She heard her cry out loudly " What are you doing ? what are you doing ?" The door was fastened on the inside. She hammered at the door, and received no answer. On knocking again the prisoner said that there was nothing the matter. Witness had previously asked what was the matter. On receiving that answer she returned to bed, and then all was silent. In about a quarter of an hour witness heard the prisoner come out of the room, and go to a closet. She afterwards came into witness's room with some firewood in her hand. She said that the old lady had been very poorly. Wit ness told her to go for Mrs. Gaze, and she said, " I think I will." She then went out of the room and shut the door. She entered the room of the deceased, and shut the door of that also. She afterwards came out with her bonnet and cloak, and went out. Before going, she asked witness to go into the room if she heard the old lady make any noise. Witness remained in her room until the prisoner returned. There was no noise in the deceased's room while she was gone. The pri soner came back with Mrs. Gaze in about twenty mi nutes. Mrs. Gaze went into the room first, and disco vered that the deceased was dead. By Mr. CLARKSON—Had known Mrs. Mundell three months. She used somtimes to get tipsy. When Mrs. Gaze entered the room the girl was close behind her. Witness was examined before the Coroner. Had never known the deceased to call out in the night before. There was a lodger in tho house whose name was Nightingale. Had never heard of the deceased having attempted her own life. Edward Gaze stated that he is the husband of the first witness. Had seen his mother-in-law about nine days before her death; she was then in her usual state of health. Rememembers the holding of the inquest. After the inquest ho went into the room to have the body laid out. On going to remove the bedding to make room for the corpse, it was very wet. On the Wednesday following witness was at the deceased's lodging with the prisoner and his wife. The prisoner kissed the body and said, " God knows all." She said that with her hands clasped. When she went down stairs she said " Most likely you are short of money, Gaze, and I will lend you a sovereign." Witness thanked her, and she then went across the road to get change for a 5/. note. Witness offered to go and get the change, but she would not allow him. In about a minute she returned, and said that a trick had been played on her. (The witness here corroborated his wife's statement in every particular respecting the fact of looking at the note and detainin g it.) He pro ceeded to say that, on his insisting that the prisoner should accompany him to Bedford-street, she seemed very reluctant to go. When they got opposite the Horse Guards the prisoner fell back into his arms, say ing-that she was very ill. He said that he should call a policeman, and she then revived and walked a little farther. She again fell into his arms, and said, " I mur dered the poor old lady, and deprived your wife of her mother." She asked him "to forgive her, and pray for her guilty soul." He then gave her into custody. By Mr. CLARKSON—Those were the words used. On the Wednesday, when the prisoner kissed the dead body and said, " God knows all," his wife was present. Wit ness noticed everything that she said, as he had very strong suspicion of her. The deceased was a very hale old woman, and in very good health. By the COURT—She was not particularly strong, nor very weak. Her arms were not very strong. By Mr. Ceanwson—The girl at the bar is very much stronger than his mother-in-law was. She is a stronger woman. Had heard that his mother-in-law had taken poison two or three years since. Could not say for cer tain whether it was his wife who told him. Elizabeth Stevens stated that she lives in Prince's court, Lambeth. On the afternoon of the 3d of Decem ber she was near the Horse Guards. She saw the pri soner at the bar with a soldier. The soldier said to witness, " Will you get me a policeman?" The pri soner said, " Oh, I have done it now—l have done it. Do pray for my guilty soul." John Adams, a police- cons t a bl e ' stated that on Wed nesday, the 3d of Dec em b er, h e was in Scotland-yard. He saw the prisoner brought into the yard by Gaze. She did not appear to be insensible. The soldier gave her in charge to witness. He gave him the note, which has been produced, and witness gave it to Inspector Part ridge. The prisoner was present when he did so. He conveyed the prisoner to the Gardener's-lane station. On their way there she said, " Constable, don't expose me, for I have done it." By Mr. CLARKSON—Was examined before the magis trate.—(Mr. Clarkson asked for the depositions of his evidence, but it appeared that no depositions had been taken.) The witness afterwards said that what he had now stated he did not say before the magistrate. Was examined on the 3d of Dec., and was not swo rn. Wit ness attended the examination on the Bth, and was sworn at that time. By the COURT —On the examination that took place on the Bth of December, witness told the Magistrate what the woman had said. It was not taken down. Could not say why it was not. By Mr. CLARKSON—Has already sworn that he did not say what the woman had said to him before! the magistrate, but he alluded to the first examination on the 3d, when he was not sworn, and no questions were put to him. Did not .speak to the woman when she came into Scotland-yard. - Mary Fiskin stated that she resides at No. 11, Rochester -street. Remembers the night that the in quest was held. Was in Mrs. Gaze's room that even ing. The prisoner afterwards came into her room with Mr. Gaze. Mr. Gaze said that there ought to be another inquest next day, as Dr. Atkinson was not satisfied, on account of the state in which INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Dec. 17. the bed-room was found. Mr. Gaze went out of (Before Mr. Commissioner Law.) the room and left the prisone r with witness . The pr i- IN THE MATTER OF WILLIAM DAVIES. soner said that she felt uncomfortable on account of the Judgment was pronouneed in thi s mo st extraordinary inquest the next day, and if it was not for the state of case, which was on the last occasion before the Court on the bed she would not care. She also said that it the 11th inst. The facts require to be succinctly nar- would be a great trial for her, as so many things rated in order to understand the judgment given. The came across her min d. Witness told h e r that insolvent had fig u r e d a s an attorney's clerk and potato- it was a pity that she did not open the door salesman. Subsequently he became a house-agent and when Mrs. Cheshire knocked. The prisoner said an accountant at Hoxton, where he lately resided. His she was very muc h excited at th e ti me , as debts were under 500/., and he told a marvellous tale she was holding down Mrs. Mundell in a fit, and wash about losing by robbery a sum of 2,0601. His principal ing her face with water. At about four in the morn debts consisted of two claims for law costs, one by a ing she sighed heavily and said, " What are we when Miss Parkin, for whom he had acted as agent, and against we are left alone? we are worse than beasts." whom he had brought an action for upwards of 700 L, Witness saw her on the following Wednesday, and ac which was referred to arbitration, and in the course of companied her to Gardener's -lane station-house. On the the investigation thereon he swore in February last to way she said, What will my mother think of me, a the then possession of 2,0001. An award was ma d e murderer, to die on the gallows ?" She asked witness against him, and the costs followed, which with th e cos t s several times to pray for her g uilt y so u l, and said , " I of his own attorney (Mr. W. H. Smith), exceeded 4001. did deprive that poor soul of her mother." As an applicant to the Court from these claims, Sho afterwards said " What will my Jem think it was incumbent on him to show that he had of me—a murderer —to die on the gallows ?" Was been deprived paying them out of the 2,0001 which he present at the examination of the prisoner at the police stated he possessed in February last, and he alleged court, but was not examined herself. that he had been robbed of the money. The two ore- By Mr. CLARKSON—Witness went with her all the ditors (Miss Parkin and Mr. Smith) refused to credit way from Scotland -yard to Gardener's-lane. The police the story, and opposed his application to be discharged. man walked behind, as she did not like him to walk with A lengthened investigation took place into the circum- h er , She a sked witness not to expose her. She was satisfied n t l e l r O looked d stances before the Learned Commissioner, who expressed raving and tearing her hair on the way. himself of opinion that the statement was an absolute H arr i e t Smith stated that she is the sister of the last and atrocious falsehood. The story told was that th e w i tness , a nd is the landlady of the house in Rochester insolvent, after the award was made against him, w en t t o s t ree t. Remembers on Monday, Ist of December, after with s the appearance of Ostend, accompanied by a foreigner, whom he had met the inquest the prisoner passed a part of the night at Gravesend, to enter into a partnership at Paris, and with her. Mr. Gaze was there, and said that he he took 2,0601. with him in his portmanteau, which, was not at all h after he got into a private house at Ostend, was broken the bed, by her, as there it had been as open, and the contents abstracted, with the documents turned. The P that a if if it had been relating to the intended partnership. He presumed the turned, it must havein the turned r h oom.Be wine he drank was drugged. He made no complaint to I was no other person ~t ween four and five in the the police, but got 21. from a person house, and in the morning she sighed and said, Oh dear, what are came home. He afterwards met the s a m e person in we when we are left alone? we are worse than beasts." London, and, at his insta nce, went to Antwer p in search t On the Wednesday following she saw the pri- of the gang by whom he had been p lundered. On t h e house. She son er at herwent to the water last occasion the Court r e q uested that some evide nce closet, and then went quietly along the passage street-door. She had should be obtained from a savings' bank, in orderao form towards theher bonnet a W't Witness an opinion as to what sum actually ho had possessed, and cloak on. n spoke to her, and asked her , ing ? and she said that It appeared that he had possessed a number of lease- where she was go she was only • hold houses at Hoxton, whic h he had dis p osed of to a going to see if Mr. Gaze was coming. She asked witness . a as counsel 1 which way Mr. G aze had g one, and s he pointed to the MrMr. DOWSE, for the insolvent on the pre- right. Th e p risoner immediately turned in a hurried sent occasion, tendered some in f o rmation whi ch had ma nner to the left. Witness followed her, and said • Mr. Gaze came been obtainacfrom a savings' bank , in which th e insol - better stop until that she had . Tent 11P4 money deposited in the lame of his wife. hok. Whims rind tint he oould not be in a hurry then, as she was not in a hurry before Mr. Gaze went out. The prisoner, however, refused to return, and told witness to tell Mr. Gaze to follow her to No. 9, Bedford-street. Witness stopped her, and Mr. Gaze then came up. By Mr. CLARKSON—Was in attendance at Queen square, and was not examined. The police knew of her being there. Matthew Little stated that he resides at No. 71, Re gent-street, and is in the employ of a baker. Remem bers being called into the house of the deceased. Mar tha Browning called him in. He went up stairs, and saw the body of the deceased lying on a box. He cut the rope that was round her neck. By Mr. CLARKSON—The prisoner did not request him to cut the cord. She did not go into the room, but only went as far as the door, and pointed out the place where the body lay. Witness believed that the cord was only once round her neck. Rowe, the beadle of the Coroner for Westminster, stated that he received the rope produced, and showed it to the jury at the inquest. _ _ . . _ put in and read. The tenor of the prisoner's letters dwelt On the absence of any felonious intention on his part, and his sorrow that his neglect had placed him in so equivocal a position, but begging ➢lr. Green not to ruin both himself and his family. Mr. CLARKSON addressed the jury, and then called witnesses to speak to character. The jury, after consulting for some time, found the prisoner Not Guilty. Another indictment, for 151. borrowed by the pri soner from Mr. Green, was then brought before the jury, but Mr. Bodkin, who with Mr. Iluddlestone con ducted both cases for the prosecution, had instructions not to tender evidenco on the second charge, and the jury were directed to find a verdict of Not Guilty. Rosina Eliza tVaile, called in the calendar a widow, was indicted for stealing 30 yards of cloth and a quan tity of wearing apparel, value 251., the property of Baza leel Wall. Mr. ROBERTSON, the counsel for the prosecution, said that Mons. B. Wall, about the middle of Sept. last, was going along London-bridge, when the prisoner accosted him with a tale of distress. She seems to have won the foreigner's heart, for a conversation ensued there and then, and the result was that Mr. Wall agreed to take her home to his house and his bed, to enjoy all the pri vileges of a wife sine ceremoniis, and to receive 10s. a month. The counsel was interrupted in his opening by the Common Sergeant, whose natural antipathy to long stories from the witness-box or the bar is well known, and who, in the present instance, cut short any collateral disclosures of M. Wall's system of housekeeping, except so far as it bore upon the facts of the charge. M. Wall said he was a builder, living in Globe-fields. He took the prisoner home to keep his house, where she remained for about two months. It was on the 20th of November that he went to one of his chests, and missed a pair of trousers and some other articles. He questioned the prisoner about them, who admitted having pawned them, in order to get money to redeem her box and clothes, lying at the terminus of the South ampton Railway. She had been to France, but on re turning had been unable to pay her fare from Southampton. M. Wall urged her frequently to go with him to release her box, but on every occasion she exhibited an unwillingness to go. The missing of something more led him to a stricter scrutiny of the house. He found that be had been robbed of bed clothes, woollen-cloths, and wearing-apparel to the value of 251. Ile found, also, thi r ty pawn b ro k ers ' d up li cates in the keeping of the pri soner , t h e d ates o f w hi ch b egan with the 7th of October. Mrs. 'limes Matthews stated that she is the wife of Captain Matthews. The prisoner was in her service up to the 10th of November. She received only 3!. 10s. while she was in her service. She left on account of ill ness. Does not know whether she had any money saved up. Never heard any advice given to her as to where she should place her savings. She complained of her head while she was there. Captain Matthews stated that he never had any con versation with the prisoner about her savings, and never told her where to place them. Francis Partridge, inspector of the A division of po lice, stated that he was on duty at the Gardener's-lane station on the 33 December. The prisoner was brought there in a fainting condition. Constable Adams en tered the charge, and said that she was taken on sus picion of murder. She made no observation until the charge was entered and witness had read it over to her. She said, " It's all right, it's all right." She then tore her hair, and said she was an unfortunate creature, and they might do as they liked with her. After the examination at Queen-square, wit ness searched the prisoner's box at the lodgings of the deceased. He found a piece of cord, which he has since compared with the cord round the woman's neck, and it is similar in every re spect. There were two duplicates in a Prayer book. The Magistrate committed the prisoner on the Bth. Witness was aware that there were witnesses who had not been examined, and informed him of it, but he seemed to think the case sufficiently proved. Charles Bedford, the Coroner for Westminster, stated that on Monday, the Ist of December, he held an inquest on the body of Elizabeth Mundell. The prisoner was the first witness called. Has the notes of her evidence. No medical man was examined at that inquest. Would not have examined such a witness had he presented himself—at least he would not have examined him as a matter of course. (The depositions were here read over.) Mr. C. Davenport stated that he resides at Nos. 4 and 5, Bedford-street, Strand. There is no number 9 in the street. There is no number beyond No. sin the street. There is a silk warehouse between Nos. 5 and 10, occupying the whole of the houses. Mr. Atkinson, a surgeon, stated that he had attended the husband of deceased during his lifetime for more than two years. Saw the deceased last alive about a month before her death. She always appeared in uni form health and good spirits. Had known her altogether about four years. Had never heard of her having taken poison. On Monday, the Ist of December, he was called to her room. She was dead, and must have been dead for some time. The face was swollen and livid, and the eyes wide open and staring. Blood was issuing from the mouth, nose, and ears. There was a cord upon the ground. Witness examined the neck, and found two deep lines on the front of the neck, and only one line at the back. Her death was undoubtedly caused by strangulation. The appearances presented would correspond with such a cord as the one produced. It was very improbable that the deceased could have destroyed herself. Has drawn the inference that the rope was drawn twice round the neck, and the power was applied from behind. There was no mark of a knot on the neck. Examined the hands of the deceased, but there was nothing peculiar to be remarked with re spect to them. By the CounT—lf the deceased had fastened the rope to anything in the wall, and leaned forward, the same marks would have been produced. Examination continued—ln such a case as the one put by the Learned Judge, he would expect to find the body leaning forward, and not lying on the box. There were some pegs in the wall, but they would not have borne the weight of the body. His attention was not drawn to the bed. Jacob Turner, a pawnbroker, identified two of the duplicates found on the prisoner, given for silk hand kerchiefs, which he produced, aad which M. Wall iden tified as his. Jane Annesley said she lived next door to the pri soner, who had been in the habit of calling herself Mrs. Wall; had been employed to pledge several of the articles mentioned in the indictment, and which were pledged in the name of Waite, given by the prisoner as that of her former husband. John Freshwater said he had taken the prisoner into custody, when she admitted that she had pledged the things, but in the hope of redeeming them again. Jane Scott, the searcher, found 3s. 9d. in money on her, which prisoner said was the remainder of money got for articles pawned ; the rest had been spent fur drink. The prisoner, in exculpation, for she had no counsel, said she had pawned with intention to redeem the goods again; that the first tinie7slie had been at a pawnbroker's was at the request of M. Wall himself, to pledge his watch for 20s. It was submitted to the Court by Mr. BALLANTINE, that the prisoner was, to all intents and purposes, the wife of the accuser; that she did not hold the position of a ser ♦ant, and therefore it could not be brought into Court as a case of larceny. Several of the bar joined Mr. Ballantine in this defence. The COMMON SERGEANT differed from the Learned Counsel, and proceeded to charge the jury, prefacing it with expressing:his pleasure that the age of chivalry had not yet gone by. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, but strongly re commended her to mercy. The COMMON SERGEANT said, that if individuals chose to go and live with gentlemen as their mistresses, they were not to suppose they could commit robbery on them with impunity. He took a distinction between house hold property and jewellery, which might be given for personal ornament. At the same time, he had to remark, that there were circumstances in the prisoner's case which justified the jury's recommendation. The Court had to take care to evince to prosecutors that they ought to come into Court with clean hands. The sentence he had to pronounce would on that account be light, which was, that she should be imprisoned one month, and kept to hard labour. This closed the case for the prosecution. Mr. CLARKSON then rose amidst a profound silence, and addressed the jury. He asked them if they were prepared to believe that the prisoner at the bar was capable of being so artful as his friend had represented her to be ? Could she, within a few• hours of the commission of so heartless a murder,' have prepared so consistent a statement for the coroner has had been read to the Court a short time sinne. But, acting upon the supposition that she was so artful, would she have left the room where the murder was committed while Mrs. Mundell was in the agonies of death, if death had not already seized her, to speak to the watchful Mrs. Cheshire? Would she have left the remainder of the cord with which she effected the crime in an open box in the room, open to the examination of every person who chose to come into that room ? Did she not call in every assistance that she could, and manifest every anxiety to do all that she could both for the deceased and her friends ? The Learned Counsel afterwards proceeded to comment generally on the minor points of the evidence in a very able and forcible manner. At the conclusion of his address, which occupied nearly two hours, Mr. Justice PATTESON proceeded to sum up the evi dence at some length. He lamented the manner in which this prosecution had been got up. The prisoner had been before the Coroner, and had stated the facts which had been read to them, but he could not help thinking that it would have been better to have called Mr. • Atkinson. Indeed, Mr. Atkinson ought, considering the appearances he had observed immediately after the death, to have gone before the Coroner and to have stated what he had seen. With regard to the witnesses that had been before the magistrate, and had not been examined, it was much to be regretted that the fact was so. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A case of considerable interest and importance to the parishes of London, in fact, to all the parochial districts throughout the country, has for several days occupied the attention of the Lord Mayor. At the beginning of the month a poor lunatic was brought before the Lord Mayor by the officers of the City of London Union, who stated that the miserable object had been just landed at London-bridge from a foreign steamer, and was thrown upon the parish, al though he had no claim whatever upon any parish in the City of London. A female, who came over with the lunatic, presented the following letter to his Lordship, from the British Consul at Boulogne, with reference to her charge:— British Consulate, Boulogne- sur-Mcr, Dec. 3, 1815. My Lord,—The bearer of this letter, Mrs. Wilson, is em ployed by me to convey to your Lordship an unfortunate British subject, named Franklin Alfred Kerr, born at Bruxelles, of British parents, on the 29th of May, 1815, and who was bereft of his reason, occasioned by a fire which took place on the 25th of December, 1822, his mother having perished in the flames, and his father, Franklin Kerr, many years well known to me, is now incarcerated for debt in the prison of Boulogne, and perfectly destitute of the means of supporting himself or his son, and were he set at liberty his position would be but little improved. I understand that the paternal grandfather of the unfor tunate object of this letter, Thomas Kerr, occupied a house in Jermyn-street, St. James's, London, until 1787, in which parish he paid rent and taxes for many years, and where, I am told, be fulfilled some of the highest parochial duties until he left England, in 1787. As I have no means of supporting, &c., the aforesaid Franklin Alfred Kerr, I am, therefore, under the necessity of handing him over to your Lordship's care:and charitable con sideration.—l have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lord ship's most obedient servant, W. HAMILTON, 11. B. M.'s Consul at Boulogne-sur-Mer. P.S. Mrs. Wilson has been long acquainted with the maniac and his habits.—W. H. The LORD MAYOR questioned Mrs. Wilson, who stated that the poor man was perfectly harmless, and that ho seemed to have no notion of anything beyond his immediate wants. She knew his father, and believed that he was imprisoned for having published a con structive libel in a Boulogne newspaper, of which he was editor. She had been housekeeper to him, and she cer tainly could bear testimony to his respectability, but the condition to which he was reduced by his sentence left him no hope of being able to contribute in the slightest degree to the support of his poor desolate child. The jury, after consulting a short time, expressed a wish to retire. They were alssoat five-and-twenty minutes, when they returned into Court with a verdict of Guilty. Mr. Harker, the usher of the Court,, then made the usual proclamation for silence, and the Learned Judges having put on their black caps, Mr. Justice Patteson proceeded to pass sentence of death upon the prisoner. His LORDSHIP said, that after a very long, painful, and patient inquiry, the jury bad come to the conclusion that she was guilty of the charge of murder of which she was accused. She had had the advantage of a Learned counsel, who had urged every topic in her behalf that was likely either to induce the jury to believe that she was innocent, or that the evidence for the prosecution was insufficient, and the jury, after a full inquiry, had felt that the facts which had been developed were quite incompatible with her innocence. He, the Learned Judge, entirely concurred in the verdict, and did not entertain the slightest doubt but that she was guilty of this foul murder. It would appear that, while residing with the deceased, she became impressed with the idea that she was possessed of money, and it was very probable that in the first instance her only inten tion was to possess herself of that money, and this had ultimately led to her killing the deceased in a most cruel and deliberate manner. He was induced to believe, from her own statements, that the weight of the crime had laid heavily upon her mind, and that she had already probably turned to the Almighty, and sought forgive ness ; but if she had not done so, he entreated her to make the best use of the short time that remained to her on this earth for that purpose. Her life, by the law of the land, was forfeited, and the crime was of such a nature, and was committed under such circumstances, as prevented him from holding out to her the slightest hope that the law would not be allowed to take its course. He, therefore, entreated her to make her peace with God, and obtain that mercy from Him which could not be granted by an earthly tribunal. His Lordship con cluded by passing sentence in the usual form. The prisoner was then asked; foimally, whether she had anything to urge in arrest of• judgment, the object being for her to state whether she was in the family way or not. Upon this being explained to her, she said, " I am not guilty." One of the female turnkeys then explained the matter to her, and, as it appeared that there was no ground for an arrest of judgment, the sentence was re corded, and the prisoner was removed from the bar. The LORD MAYOR asked her by whom she had been supplied with the means of conveying the lunatic to this country ? Mrs. Wilson replied that the consul had supplied her with money to defray the expenses, and expressed him self obliged to her for taking upon herself so distressing a responsibility, but she undertook it with sincere plea sure, for it was quite impossible to imagine a human being with smaller capability of protecting himself. The LORD MAYOR said the case was, indeed, distress ing, but there were considerations of a very serious na ture to the community involved in it, and at the same time that he should take care to provide a temporary asylum for the poor object before him, whose appearance made so powerful an appeal to our sympathies, he felt it to be his duty to apply to a higher authority to be in. strutted in what manner to proceed in such a case. His Lordship wrote a letter immediately after the examination to Sir James Graham, of which the follow ing is a copy : Mansion-house, London, Dec. 5, 1845. Sir,—l have the honour to inclose a copy of a letter I have received from Mr. Hamilton, her Majesty's Consul at Bou logne, to which I wish respectfully to draw your attention. The pauper lunatic arrived hero last evening with his at tendant, and the asylum of the City of London Union being at Peckham, I had no alternative but to ',send them to the Giltspur-street Compter for the night, with directions that they should be properly treated. This morning they will be brought before me in the justice-room, and I will require the asylum keeper to take charge of them for the present. The case in question is one of peculiar hardship on the citizens of London, and if some measures be not adopted, I fear numerous instances will occur of a similar kind. _ You will perceive that the Consul has sent to my:keeping a maniac without the possibility of my getting at any evidence to establish his place of settlement, leaving me no alternative but to fix the maintenance of the pauper on the citizens of London. I have, therefore, respectfully to submit to your judgment that the Consul should not have sent the pauper to me as Lord Mayor, or if he were right in so doing, that you will think it proper to give some direction on the subject to re lieve the citizens of this and similar burthens. I have the honour to be, your humble, obedient, and faith- JOHN JOHNSON, Mayor. ful servant, To the Lord Mayor Sir James returned the following answer : NEW COURT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT.) G. R. Mason, late traveller for Stephen Green, Im perial Potteries, Lambeth, was indicted by his employer for embezzlement of three several sums, making to gether 311. 9s. 3d. Up to the 6th November last the prisoner had been in the employ of Mr. Green for two years and a quarter, during which time Mr. Green's business was consider ably improved by the efforts of Mr. Mason. Mr. Green said he discharged tie prisoner from his employment on that day, the 6th November. After making up the accounts Mr. Green asked whether he I had not received 141.25. 9d. from Mr. Robinson, Croydon. The prisoner admitted he had, and said, on Mr. Green's telling him it had not been accounted for, he was not certain of that, he thought he had accounted for it. He was told that it_ did not appear on the memorandum of re ceipts ; he said he was going to Manchester, he would look over the memorandums, and if he found it not paid, the amount would be sent. Subsequently to this Mr. Green discovered that he had received two other sums not accounted for-131. 2s. 6d. paid by Mr. Diver, wino and spirit merchant, Yarmouth, on the 26th of April, and 41. 4s. by Mr. Neil, china manufacturer, Chelten ha, on ,th 31st of ugu T he st. he payment of these s u m s was proved by t gentlemen 1 and a long correspondence between Mr. Green sad Mr. lasso. poeterior to the eth of November, was Whitehall, Dec. 8, 1845. My Lord,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's letter of the sth instant and its inclosure, respecting the case of a pauper lunatic named Kerr, who has been sent over from Boulogne to the port of London by . the British Consul, and commended by him to your Lord ship's care, the unfortunate person abovo.named being en tirely destitute, and the Consul having no means of support ing him at Boulogne. I think it not improbable that the Consul committed the unfortunate person to the care of your Lordship as being most able and willing to afford relief in this case, there being reason to believe, from the statement in the Consul's letter, that the settlement of his father was in the parish of St. James. Tour Lordship may, perhaps, on inquiry, be able to as certain that point; and if the settlement of the lunatics father can be discovered, there will be no difficuLv in de ciding the proper course to be taken for obtaining relief. If your Lordship thinks I can be of any service in making inquiry as to the lunatic's settlement through the Commis- !loners of Metropolitan I shall be most ready to do all in my power in assistity6 Lordship.—l have the honour to be, my Lord, your rdship-e pbedit -t. JA7 The LORD MAYOR, after having mad into the case, directed that the pauper taken care of at Dr. Warburton's Lunt expense of the City of London, until his brother magistrates upon a questb ing the interests of the City, into wl parishes all over the country are di occasioning enormous expense. His with reference to the peculiar case of if such a course as the British Consu to be looked over by the authorities . tudes of destitute objects, whose claims upon this country were at any rate questionable, might be sent over upon the authority of an officer, who ought to very cautious of interfering in a matter so likely to prove expensive and. harassing. In Kerr's case there was not a human being in England, of whom the parochial authorities bad cog nizance, capable of giving evidence respecting the claims his parents might have had upon any parish, so thatit only appeared to be necessary for the friends of a pauper to , induce a Consul to believe that the object they wished to serve was the child of English parents, and the burthen was politely and quietly transmitted to England. Some short time ago, some girls who had been taken from Nottingham to a lace-mill near Paris by the proprietor, were sent back to England in consequence of a fire which destroyed the manufactory. They were imme diately thrown upon the Lord Mayor. but as they could tell upon what parish they had claims, the difficulty of disposing of them was soon surmounted, and they were received in Nottingham at once ; but in the present in stance the difficulty of dealing with the subject was ex treme, and there required the deepest consideration the magistracy could give to it. GUILDHALL. Mr. Bury, a gentleman residing in the Hounslow • road, applied to Mr. Alderman Sidney,f or a summons against the landlord of the Goose and Gridiron tavern, St. Paul's Churchyard, for refusing to accommodate him with refreshments last Sunday morning, he being a traveller, the landlord being bound to receive travellers, and the Police Act, which requires the alehouse to be closed from midnight on Saturday night till one o'clock on Sunday, making an exception in favour of travellers. -,, %% Mr. Alderman SIDNEY asked him how far he had travelled en this occasion ? The applicant said thirteen miles. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY thought that riding so short a distance did not entitle him to be deemed a traveller. He might have got a good breakfast before he came out, and then he might have fasted till one o'clock without much suffering. Mr. Bury replied, if the Alderman would travel thir teen miles on the top of an omnibus on a cold morning, he would find out that h. required a warming when he got off. The fact was, he did not get his breakfast be fore he came out, and nearly lost the omnibus too. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY said that was his own fault for not rising a little earlier. Mr. Bury pressed for the granting of the summons and he would have the matter discussed at the hearing. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY said he was advised that the Goose and Gridiron was not the sort of house which was compelled to receive travellers. It was not an inn, for it had no stables, and the liability to entertain travellers attached only to innkeepers. Mr. Bury said he should like to try the question, and hoped the Magistrate would not refuse granting the summons. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY replied, that he should refuse it ; for if the landlord appeared there was no law by which he could deal with the offence. A traveller's remedy for the refusal of accommodation was only by action, if he could prove special damage by being forced to seek accommodation at a considerable distance. The summons was therefore refused. W OR S HIP - S TREE T. A genteelly-dressed middle-aged woman, who gave the name of Grace Holcombe, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton for final examination, charged with having stolen several articles of female wearing apparel of trifling value, the property of a woman named Brown, the keeper of a house of bad repute in Marsom street, Hoxton New Town. The prosecutrix stated that about a fortnight since, at a late hour in the evening, the prisoner, who was an entire stranger to her previously, was brought to her house in a state of intoxication in a cab by two gentle men, who stated that she had just sustained a serious accident. and wished to remain in privacy for some time till she recovered from the injury. As this statement was corroborated by the appearance of the prisoner's face, which was bleediug profusely, she consented to re ceive her as a lodger, and the prisoner continued to re side there for more than a week, during the whole of which time she remained in a state of constant in toxication, and was in the frequent habit of drink ing a whole pint of gin at a single draught. The prisoner's thirst for drink was so insatiable, that although she had received a sum of 30s. on the Saturday after she had been brought to witness's house, the whole of it had been dissipated by the follow ing Monday, and the witness having missed several trifling articles of apparel during the remainder of the week, suspected that the prisoner must have purloined them, and kept a sharp watch upon her actions. Her suspicions were at length confirmed by discovering that one of the missing articles was upon the prisoner's per son, and she accused her of stealing it. which the pri soner strenuously denied, and quitted the apartment ; but that and another article having been shortly after wards discovered in the water-closet, which the accused had entered, she called in a policeman and gave her into custody. At the first examination, the prisoner, who was ex ceedingly agitated, and appeared to be completely crushed by her degrading situation, protested her inno cence with great earnestness ; but, having declined to give any account of herself, or to furnish any clue by which her friends or relations could be discovered, the magistrate ordered her to be remanded, that the officer who had taken her into custody might have an oppor tunity of making inquiries respecting her ; and Police-constable Millgate, of th N division, now stated that from information he had derived from some letters and documents which had been found in the prisoner's possession, he had proceeded on the pre ceding day to an army agent's at the west end of the town, and there ascertained that the name the prisoner had given at the police-station was wholly fictitious, that her connexions were of great respectability, and that she was, in reality, the wife of a colonel in one of the West India Regiments, who had been compelled, in consequence of her dissolute conduct and habits of drinking, to discard her, but had agreed to allow her a separate maintenance of 30s. a week, which was regu larly paid to her through the hands of her husband's army agents, on condition that all personal communica tion between them should cease for the future. The constable added, that at every place at which he had made inquiries respecting her he had received a precisely similar account of her depraved conduct, and that when ever her money was paid to her it was invariably dissi pated within two or three days in the manner described. It was by no means satisfactorily proved that other persons might not have had access to the place where the stolen articles were found ; and Mr. 13eorronroN, after severely commenting upon the melancholy spectacle which the prisoner presented in comparison with the station in society she had formerly filled, said that he was of opinion the charge of felony had not been sufficiently made out to justify the pri soner's further detention, and he should therefore order her to be discharged. The prisoner, who endeavoured to hide her face from view as much as possible, was then liberated, and hurried out of the Court. obedient servant, ~Dri GRAHAM. 'de fart. nquiries E?r lun :9r, .1d iatic . 0 -t"1 1 he V"` l l(t.;', ion s I 4 - 4 ( , hich 1 . 1 - 10 00 4 laily Lordshleirc • )f the pogripirMSPA-Si v ul had talteiS were of the City, multi- PUBLICATION*. NEW AGRICULTURAL MAGAZINE. On Thursday, January Ist, will be published, No. 1, to bo continued Monthly, in Bvo., with Two Engravings, price Half-a• Crown, of T HE PLOUGH : a Journal of Agricultural and Rural. Affairs. London; Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. T HE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CLIII., will be published NEXT WEEK. CONTENTS: I. LORD CAMPBELL'S LIVES of the CHANCELLORS. 11. LITERATURE of the EGYPTIAN MONASTERIES. 111. HIGHLAND SPORT. IV. ARAGO and BROUGHAM on CAVENDISH. V. LETTERS of MARY QUEEN of SCOTS. VI. HUMBOLDT'S.KOSMOS. VII. TOWNSEND'S HISTORY of the lIOIISE of COMMONS-- PRIVILEGE. VIII. SMALL•DEBTS ACT: IX. ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS of SCOTLAND. X. WALPOLE'S MEMOIRS of GEORGE 111. XI. MINISTERIA.L RESIGNATIONS. John Murray, Albemarle-street. 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It is aptly enough remarked by the ilaTt;more American, that the illustration here given of loud-talking bravery should be kept in mind when we hear noisy declaimers about war, treating it as though it would be to them a mere holiday amuaamout —Jourtud of anntitrce, THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK V. BARKER. This was an action of debt, brought to recover the sum of 2001. for money lent, and on account, to which the defendant had pleaded—first, that he was never in debted; and, secondly, that the plaintiff was indebted to him 500/. for work and labour done. The plaintiff re plied joining issue upon the first plea, and denying that he ever was indebted to the defendant as he alleged. Mr. Jervis and Mr. Paine appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Martin for the defendant. Mr. JERVIS stated the plaintiff's case. He had the honour on that occasion to appear as counsel for his Serene Highness Charles Frederick Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, who had been reluctantly compelled to bring the present action, to recover the sum of 2001., with interest, which was advanced to the defendant in the month of July, 1842. His Serene Highness, as no doubt the jury were aware, was the possessor of a large income, and was a liberal patron of various arts and professions. Amongst others, his Serene Highness had been a distinguished patron of that to which Mr. Barker belonged. Mr. Barker was a singer of some celebrity, and was formerly employed at Drury lane, and likewise the Princess' Theatres. In the month of July, 1842, Mr. Barker bad occasion to ex pend a considerable sum of money about cer tain matters in which he was engaged, but in no account or shape connected with the Duke. Indeed, he believed the matter had relation to the management of the affairs of the late Earl of Co ventry, and to enable him to continue his proceedings in the matter, Mr. Barker applied to the Duke for the loan of a sum of money. His Serene Highness con sented to advance him 200/., and the money was handed over to him by one of his Highness's suite, and Mr. Barker gave a written acknowledgement for the money. Repeated applications had since been made to Mr. Barker to refund the money, but Mr. Barker, not being in a position to do so, and setting up the preposterous claim mentioned in his pleas, the Duke was compelled to have recourse to law to recover the money he had advanced. Baron Andlau was the first witness called. He stated that he was formerly equerry to the Duke, and remem bered perfectly well his Highness lending Mr. Barker the 2001. It was in the month of July, 1842. He had since seen Mr. Barker on the subject of its repayment, when Mr. Barker offered to refund it, by paying out of his salary weekly instalments of 11. or 21. On cross-examination, he said he understood the money was advanced to Mr. Barker for a certain purpose. It was to enable him to prosecute certain proceedings he had instituted for the purpose of getting the late Lord Coventry out of confinement. It was distinctly under stood, however, that the money was to be repaid, and the proceedings were certainly not prosecuted for, or on behalf of, the Duke. Mr. MARTIN said, after this conclusive evidence of the debt, he would not waste the time of the Court by pro ceeding with the defence, but allow the plaintiff to take a verdict.—A verdict was, therefore, entered for the noble plaintiff for the full amount claimed. ADMIRALTY COURT, Dec. 17. THE EATAVIER.-COLLISION. This was a suit to recover compensation for the da mage sustained by the Gravesend steamer Topaz, from a collision which occurred is Limehouse-reach, between that vessel and a Dutch steamer, the Batavier. It appeared that the Gravesend steamer was at anchor in the middle of the river, and was run into by the Dutch vessel, which was going clown the river. This brief statement of the position of the two vessels would seem to throw the whole blame upon the latter ; but on the part of her owners it was to-day contended that the col lision arose from the improper and un-nautical manner in which the Topaz was anchored. She was swinging with a single anchor, instead of a double anchor, which it was said she ought to have bad, and in consequence of I her thus swinging loose in the middle of the stream, it was contended that the accident occurred. For the owners, however, of the Topaz it was argued that the Dutchman had no business to steer so closely to her, that there was plenty of room to pass without doing so, and that the blame was exclusively here. A further point was raised in the case, and upon it the decision ul timately rested. The Dutch vessel had taken, in obe dience to the provisions of the Pilotage Act, as pilot on board, a man who was always employed by her owners in going up and down the Thames ; and the point urged was that, at the time of the collision, the Batavier was under his exclusive command, and that her owners were not liable for the misconduct or mistake of a man whom they only engaged under the compulsion of au Act of Parliament. Dr. Addams and Dr. Jenner appeared for the owners of the Topaz ; Dr. Curtis and Dr. Bay ford for the owners of the Batavier. The Trinity Masters (by whom the Court was assisted on the question of nautical skill) expressed their opi nion there was no blame imputable to the Topaz in her mode of anchoring • that the collision occurred thr ou g h the bad steering of the Batavier, but that the fault could not be laid to the charge of her master and crew, as they had acted, as they were bound to do, under the control and direction of the licensed pilot who was on board. Dr. ADDAMS then submitted that the ordinary con struction put upon the Pilotage Act with regard to the liability of the pilot himself, and the non-liability of the owners who had been obliged to employ him, did not apply to this case. Here, though the owners had been compelled to employ a pilot, they had exercised their own choice, and had always selected this particular man. He had thus become their agent or servant, and for his misconduct they were fairly liable. Dr. LUSHINGTON thought otherwise. The Act of Parliament compelled the owners of vessels sailing up and down the Thames to take a duly licensed pilot on board, and it would be most unjust to make them re sponsible for the conduct of a man acting in their ser vice under such circumstances. It did not affect, and would not remove, that injustice—that the master or owners had selected one particular man, and always employed him. Their selection was confined to a cer tain class of men, in whose appointment they had no control, and such a selection could not fix upon them a liability so opposed to natural justice. The Trinity Masters had held that the blame of this collision was attributable to the pilot alone, and that the master and crew were open to no censure—had been guilty of no ' misconduct. Under such circumstances, the Court could not hold the owners responsible, and must dismiss the ▪ present suit. CLERKENWELL. John Harold was charged with being an accomplice in robbing and assaulting :Mr. John Webb, a gentleman residing at 18, Goswell-street. The prisoner, who is a thick-set able fellow, was at once recognised by Inspector Thatcher, as a distin guished member of a class of vagabonds called " vam pers," fellows who go about from one public-house to another inciting or challenging " fiats to fight, and when they fight robbing them. Mr. Webb had received a sum of money from the Treasury, and was at nine o'clock on that morning driven to the Blue Coat Boy tavern, in the City-road, by a cabman named Dame. He was standing at the bar there taking some refreshment, when the prisoner came in; the prosecutor, in a jocular mood, asked several present to toss with him, and did gamble a little. The prisoner perceiving Mr. Webb to bo in a generous humour, made a very distressing state ment, assuring him that his wife and two children were in great misery, that he lived by selling fowls, but had not now a penny to go to market with. The prosecutor compassionated his sad condition, and gave him ss. Soon after, the prisoner, perceiving Mr. Webb to be very merry, proposed that they should adjourn into the tap room and toss. The prosecutor want accordingly, and soon after a crowd of the prisoner's associates, to the number of about twenty, collected. It was then pro posed by one of them that Mr. Webb should fight the best man in the room for half a sovereign. Mr. Webb agreed, and a man named Mason accepted the challenge. The prosecutor had in his rig ht-hand p ocket 281. in gold, of which fact the prisoner was aware, for Mr. Webb had pulled it out in paying the cab man and in staking t he bet, wh ich was deposited in the hands of one of the party, the p r i soner , w h o seem ed so needy a few minutes before, staking the half sovereign for Mason. The pugilists " sot too," and were sparring, when one of the party (M r . W e bb cou ld no t say that it was the prisoner) came behind him and dealt him such a blow as felled hi m . Il e was no sooner d own than the prisoner rushed upon him, and thrust his left hand into the prosecutor's pocket ; the prosecutor seized his hand ; one of the party t o ld th e p r i soner t o " mug " him (best him on the head), and the prisoner pummelled him accordingly. Mr. Webb's right eye was invisible, and the parts about it greatly inflamed. Mr. Webb cried out " Will you see a man robbed ?" but no help came. A poor painter named Massey, who was at the bar, hearing the prosecutor's cries, peeped in, saw what was going on, and ran for a constable. When the constable came, the door of the tap-room was fastened on the inside ; but having at length obtained admission, he cap tured the prisoner, who exclaimed " that it !vas all over." Mr. Webb had been robbed of three sovereigns, and was suffering great pain from the contusion on the upper part of his head. The prisoner cross-examined somo of the witnesses with great coolness and adroitness. Mr. CONBE commended the poor painter . highly for his conduct; and , after g ivin g the usu a l caution to the prisoner, said he would send him for trial. The prisoner thereupon became very indecorous in his conduct, lolling about the dock and jeering th e spec tators in the body of the Court.—He was fully com mitted for trial. 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