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London, England, 1853-09-17 00:00:00

Mr. Braden remanded the pri4ottur fora week.

AN Et.ntAtim " IiENTI.EMAN OF INDEPENDENT
I'ItOPERTY," James Taylor by name, was charged at.
Worship Court with having committed an outrageous 11
assault on Amelia Manning. The complainant ap-
peared in court to be suffering severe pain front the
injuries intlicteti by the defendant. She stated that
herself and her husband had beell tenants of the
defendant, who owned several houses in hackney.
They had been compelled to pay several rates anti
taxes which their landlord had omitted to discharge,
and had left his
house in consequence, and after
wards dunned and summoned him for the money
.disbursed on his account. Meeting him accidentally
on Saturday, she had asked hnn once more for pay-
ment, when, instead of money or civil excuses, he
rushed at her with a thick stick and an execration,
and dealt her such at heavy blow on the side of her
head that she instantly dropped senseless to the
pavement. On recovering consciousness she found
herself supported in the arms of a neighbour, who
placed her under the care of a surgeon ; but she was
still suffering seriously from the eflects of the violence
to which she had been subjected. The neighbours
having given some confirmatory testimony,
The defendant, who had throughout incessantly denied having
Bushed the complainant at all, repeated that ottotert ion, and
made a rambling statement, in shan't lie accused her of entering
Lao a ...moons,- lA. eel the latstban Mash his I !WM
that her huslamil might wears' himself the pet % ilege of %sating.
11.14 conelitilc.l by assuring the magistrate that he had tnin-aete4l
braille's% with persons of the highest respectability. but that he
had never assaulted any one, been guilty of using stich
seettil language as that imputed to 1 , nor e‘er atonal
I his life.
Woolley, the ollieer: Why, your worship, I have known thie
defendant for the last two year., unit have ooustarlth seen him
returning home drunk at one or two o'eloek in the morning: Iu
fact, No drunk that I have been obliged to unlosit hats iloor for
him with his latch key, and when iu that Slide I ii. 11111141114.7 C is
really /MM.
: What I Why, I as I ,tevi.r was dnwk in my life.
nor ever was is the habit sat timing Nil words.
Sergeant Foy: I have known the defendant. your worship. for
the last sit or seven years, and have myself generally found hint
In the state described by the host witness.
Defendant : 1 deny deny it altogether.
Mr. D'Evxrovar : Why, yea ills' to show it 110%*
end the only probable ~tow you call otter for 'melt a...millet, if
it MI I,C regarded as 1111 excuse. is that you were her the
titmice of drink at the time. You must be taught that ioissults
of nay violent kind cannot be allowed to be eouimitted with im-
punity, end I shall thereforo wild you for six weeks, with bard

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labour, to the Ilouan of I'nn•ectiou, without the option of paying
any line.
The defendant appeared perfectly astonished at the
decision.

GEOROE BIRCH, a member of Cambridge Univer-
sity, and one of the masters at Huntingdon Grammar
School, applied for discharge from prison and his
creditors at the Insolvent Court on Wednesday.
His schedule showed that when he took his degree
at college in 15441 he owed 7110/., and now his debts
amounted to 1,7001. His income had been about ItAit.
per annum. There was considerable opposition from
the creditors, who endeavoured to overset his petition
upon the ground that he was in custody under a
friendly and collusive arrest. To support this plea
it was shown that since he had been arrested the
insolvent had received visits from the detaining
creditor, and had given lessons to his sons. This
fact having been corroborated, Mr. Murphy, the new
commissioner, held that the plea was valid in oppo-
sition, and dismissed the petition.
Two Wm:stems, worth 154)1., were found in the
hands of a girl of the town named Mary Keigh-
ley, of Irish extraction ; and, to account for her
possession of so large a sum, she was brought up
before the magistrate at Marlborough-street on Wed-
nesday. William Wood, son of the landlord of the
Feathers public-house, Oxford-street, said that the
girl came on the previous night to the bar, put down a
banknote, and asked for change for Si. When the note
was examined it proved to be a note for 1001. The
prisoner was asked where she got it from. She
made no reply, a police constable was sent for, and
she was given into custody. Being searched at the
police-station, a pocketbook was found in her posses •
sion, which contained a fifty-pound note and 13s. 4d.
in money. The prisoner said she got the note from
a sailor in I lyde-park, who had just come from Aus-
tralia. When asked the amount of the note, she
said Int Mr. Hardwick directed that the prisoner
sl Id be remanded, in order to give time for the
police to find out the owner of the notes. A receipt
in the pocketbook affording seine clue, the owner
was afterwards discovered, and proved to be &returned
emigrant, named Durban, who declared that he had
met the prisoner, according to her own statement, in
the park, but did not give her the notes ; on the coo
trary, he missed his pocketbook immediately after-
wards, and found she had run away with it in the
dark. The ease was adjourned.
Mu. Atalten Feswi MTH, a surgeon, residing in
Trinity-street, attended at Southwark Police Court,
on Tuesday, to complain of an intolerable nuisance
for some time existing in the vicinity of his house,
and which had caused malaria and other diseases of
a fatal nature to spread in that closely inhabited lo-
cality. lie stated that for a long time an india-
rubber waterproofing establishment had existed in
some back premises on the southern side of Trinity-
street, and the stench bail been so noxious to the in-
habitants that many of them had been seized with
malaria, and other complaints, which might terminate
fatally. lie had been called to attend some poor
persons in the neighbourhood, who were now se-
riously ill from the effects of the stench, and, unless
some lawful means were used to put a stop to the
factory, the lives of the whole population would be
in danger :

Mr. COMBE anid hr reviilleeted a Kitnibtr application being
maiii• hi him alMnll the NH iiii • I.lllrro HMI he ❑udersi,ssl fro3ll the
proprietor of the establisl lit that the tttt isatiee would be put a
stop to.
Mr. l baworth replied that the smell in fact was worse thiut
ever. _ _

Mr. Comm: asked in what 11110111er he vould assist him. Ile
Milprim(d there was N 11,4111 IN.Nril of he slth in the parish?
Mr. Elisaortli said there VI MS 0a...• was in the parish
of st. Mary, Newington, *mil he bail been to the guardians Nod
1111 l riltinNl4l, but they told him they were tumble to du anything
to abate the 111 l i14111(.1., although cholera was raging in the neigh.
bourliothl. They hail 11101 leWall Is,Nnl of health. mud. tiniest' the
imitotiter was immediately *topped, he could not Na) N hut might
Is the fatal results. . .

Mr. Comity said he was aurprised that the party hail not kept
his promise. lle told him that the nuisance should not In• run.
ti tttt ell after Saturday. lle was ast tt ' 1u dto hear that such was
the ease, when it was well known that cholera existed so near.
lle directed Murray, the watiant officer, io isu immediately to
the place and ascertain why the nuisance was tint abated.
Murray returned in a felt • , 111141 1111.4,11114411 his WOl4llll
that the pnprietor of the premises refused to admit hill).
ever. there was a great stench, hut not so had MP Oil Saturday
when he was near the spot. There was a butcher's shop nest
door, mid so filthy was the suteil from the fao..ry that his 10..4
wan extensive. . . . .

Mr. Corn►:. upon the representation that the totr..eltiol
titles ham declined to interfere. advised Mr. F.1.1m,.111, t..
ittoritilige the Seeretary of State, which that genticinon
would do.

Afterwards Mr. Holland, one of the ehurehw•nr
dens of Newington. informed his worship that he
should immediately give directions to their clerk and
put a stop to the nuisance. He also said that every
precaution wa►► taken to prevent the spread ofeholera
in their parish.

THE PERPETRATOR OF MANY Srt CESSEUE 110PREIHES
upon jewellers was brought up at llow-street on
Tuesday in the person of Maria clarksom a young
woman residing in the neighbourhooa of the south.
wark-bridge-road. The prisoner went into the shop
of Mr. G. Cording, in the Strand, about a week ago,
and told the assistant that she wanted a hair ring
made. She had a lock of hair in her possession, and,

SATURDAY,

on being shown a collection of rings to select a pat-
tern from, pointed out one of them as her choice.
In a minute or two afterwards the assistant missed
one of the rings, and accused the prisoner of stealing
it. Ile went round the counter with the view of de
taming her, upon which she delivered up a diamond
ring worth N. She was therefore given in charge :

The police•oMcer who conducted the ease found 90 or 34) pawn.
brukere' duplicated at the prisoner's lodgings, all relating to
jewellery of a similar kind. On inspection of the property at the
different ships where they had been pledged, the constubl
bagel that all the rings were quite new. Twit of the rings were
identified by Mr. Wert, goldsmith, of Lwlgate-hill, who return'.
bend the prisoner visiting I at Mir • • ago, and ordering
a hair ring to be made outer a tweuliar pattern. Mier she lost
left the shop witness 'Mined the rings, one of which hail his tat. It
writing upon it, is well as his privet• mark. Mr. Croswell,
jeweller, of St. l'anl'e•eburchyard, also identified a ring which
had been taken from his shop in a similar manner by the pri-
soner; and it appeared that she was rather extensively known
it, the trade, from the repetition of the wine trick at so many
different shops; but other trade/olden situ had been robls•d were
unable to speak with certainty as to the identity of the properly.
For the prisoner it was pleaded in mitigation that she bast be ell
extremely unfortunate, having married a man who was sisal
afterwards indicted for unwitting her with great !inutility, situ
who was now undergoing a year a imprirounient Mr the oftener.
'f he prisoner was finally committed for trial on three
separate charges of felony.
Two LovEas or Otis COOKMAID had liquarrel, which
the Bow-street magistrate wax required to investigate
on Wednesday. Charles Ricketts, a journeyman
baker, was the defendant on the occasion, charged
with having committed a violent assault upon George
Barbary :
The complainant said that he was a footman, and formerly
lived in set-vice at No. 1, Upper Montague-place, where he be-
came attached to the coo► in the same family—a prepossessing
young girl, of the Jewish itersuaaion, named Hannah, who now
lived at No. 2 in the saute street. Since that time she had given
I ' !very encouragement, as well as her portniit, and had Orli
itlVited hint to Kee her. On Monday ev ghe paid her a visit,
and timed the baker's man (defendluit) in possession of the area.
lie Inked hind What he wanted there, as he was &eased in his
Sunday clothes and watch-chain, and had no barrow outside. The
baker, however, used threate ' g language, anal ordered him
away. Early next morning he called upon Hannah for an expla.
nation, and she requested him to look in again at one o'clock. lie
went there accordingly at the hour named, and had scarcely
spoken to her, when defendant came into the area, in a viola, i
manner, anal twareely uttering a word co :::::: eneed a violent at-
tack upon hinh, breaking his home, and striking him four times on
the head. Complainant exhibited his b ps end his linen
which was covered with blood. . . . .

Mr. lIENItY inquired if he suspected the rook of being in any
way implicated in the attack, from her having invited him at that
time?
l'omplainant said he should be sorry to suspect anything, but
the coincidence was very strange. lie could produce letters
friao Hannah showing her feeling towards him if necessary.
The I)eti•udallt: lie is always hanging about after the girl, and
he has been forbidden the house by her repeatedly. lle is a
mean fellow, and his only object is ill INOITOW Money, and get
what he can out of her. bile asked me to stand by her, and put
him out; and that is all I did.
Complainant repudiated the selfish tives imputed to him;
and said that Hannah had too much of the Jew about her to
give anything away. lie had made her presents repeatedly.
Mt. HENRY considered that the defendant, even it authorised,
to defend the girl, had perfonned hie part with too much violence
and, therefore, ordered hint to pay a tine of 405., or be committed
in default.
The hue was paid.

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SurrEmßEß" 17, 1 553.

the official return w•e kind • mclaucholy resume of
the results :

"The works destroyed comprised the boiler-mekers' and
forging shops, which contained large punching and cutting
machines, worked by steam; powerful travelling cranes. ail
forges, and other ponderous nuiehinery and ireu work. The
roof. which rested on Iron upright celututia. was formed of
weather-boarding, covered with tarpaulin. and to the inflammable
character of this roofing the rapid progreesi of the dames has
beep attributed. The titmice travelled along it almost with the
rapidity of lightning, and the whole place in a minute or so was
in a blaze. Moat part of the inaehinery is destroyed. The
joiners', carpenters', and painters' workehops, with saw-milli
underneath, were tilled with partly finished work and materiels--
ail consumed. The engitiedionse adjoining was entirely distinct
trom the other buildings, and contained two inputs of velioree
power, employed in driving the tuliehiliery iti different parts of
the worka—all destroyed. The main buibling. or factory. was a
massive brick erection, 120 feet long and tat fret wide, four
stories high. occupied as litters' shops, turning sud driving
reline mould lofts, pattern stores. Re. It is stated to hone con-
tained little short of 40,txtel. worth of machinery. The ground,
or basement floor, was lilted with the most colonial work, huge
lathes for boring large cylinders, drilling. sloughing. and framing
machines, with other maellinery of an elaborate charaater. The
tirst story was also a fitting chop, contenting a large amount of
machinery, of a more minute description than the floor hceeath.
The remaining stories were used as Moulding. designing. and
pattern rooms, all of which were tilled with the moot choice
and valuable work td the tiriu. The loss will be severely felt.
There were plats and models of a etimplete fleet of steamers,
many for foreign tf I fverinuents. and their .leatructieu, as a
reference in cage of aticideut, ambit involve moat serious in-
convenience. 'rile whole of the buildieg was gutted, not •
vestige wax saved, the emit-mt. being either melted or shattered.
The erecting shop hail been recently formed. It contained a
new patent punching machine, throe SOS of eugitu•si completed
for screw colliers, intended to run between I ewestoft and the
Tyne, and timelier, with oseillitting ejlitiders of 2bo.leirse power,
for ono of pier Majesty's *whittlers, stitch was 111-., finished.
(tome large machinery, ready for exportation to the West Indies,
for a anger entshing mill, was also in the building, together with
probably the largest rolling machine in the kingdom, nutuerour
cylinders. propellers, besides three travellers (eram•s) fin
shifting machinery. The Wilk of title valuable mass is broken
and otherwise ilatuitged. Another building used as carpenter**.
painters', and Joiners' workshops was entirely destroyed. with
the contents. Two iron steumers for the North of Plump. Steam
Navigation Company, to run between I eiwest oft and I tonmark.
which were building on the blips, were all but completed. Their
preservation is entirely iiwing to the Mil rendered h' the floating
engine fron the dockyard at Ihiptniol, and the Royal Marines
who worked it. As it ix, one of them ix set much dentine:xi that
nearly the whole of her bow will have to he re 'ed. The
works of Messrs. Napier abutted 011 the western wall of Scott
'Russell's factory. They were some 100 feet long and .10 feet
broad, eimmining a number of p •hing, drilling, and ether
cored•A. All acre .lestroytxl."

The Messrs. Russell and Napier were extenshely
insured, though far beneath the aggregate amount of
their loss. area numbers of their workmen have
also suffered heavily from losing their tools, .X•e.
Many months must elapse before the buildings 41111
he reconstructed and the works restored to full at

TOE Sine Pytha, from Liverpool, was totally-
destroyed by fire, when lying in the ((Id Catalan-
River, on the 7th of July. She sailed in February
last, with WO casks of oil, 200 casks of powder,
brass rods, rtun. cloth of different descriptions, and
other merchandise, forming a very valuable cargo.
She was to be stationed in the Gambia, where she
was to trade with other vessels. About midnight, on
the 7th of July, smoke was seen ascending from the
forehatches, and a few hours afterwards the vessel
presented a body of flame, and blew up at noon on
the sth. The eargo was entirely consumed. The
crew were oldiged to leave the ship immediately on
the discovery of the fire for fear of an explosion.
At the time of the fire she had fifty casks of gun-
powder remaining on hoard. Previonsly, her pro-
visions, consisting of a stock for three years, and a
large quantity of oil, had been landed and deposited
in a shed. On the ship blowing up that shed took
tire, and all its contents were also consumed.
Twenty of the crew went to the horse of the
missionary, the Rev. Mr. Anderson, and obtained
assistance. They afterwards fitted out a boat and
started for Fernando Po, a distance of 130 miles, to
see the consul. In going down the river they
suffered great privations, and were ill-treated by the
natives, who threatened to murder rheum.
THE AITEARANcE or AMATO' Is LONDON
has been recorded in the verdict of a coroner's jury,
in the case of a man who died on Sunday last from
the disease in one of those crowded and polluted
districts on the Surrey side of the Thames where
a few years since its ravages were most fearful. The
same causes which then prevailed, and which enor
mously enhanced the virulence of the cholera, even
if they did not wholly occasion it—foul stenches,
stagnant pools of filth, and the unventilated 'noels
from boneboilers' and knackers' yards—were shown
by the proceedings at the inquest to exist still in the
locality to a scarcely-diminished extent. Over the
house in which the deceased had lived, as well as
four adjoining dwellings, is a large establishment used
as a bonehut ton factory, and containing often several
tons weight of bones, though some of the witnesses
declared that the effluvia from it were by no means
so bad as those from some surrounding knackers'
and catgut-makers' premises. According to the evi-
dence of Ann }fickle, the wife of the decease 1, they
had resided in the place, which is known as Mason's-
buildings, only a month. Her husband went quite
well to work on Saturday morning, was taken with
cramps in the afternoon of the day, and, notwith-
standing careful attendance and medicines, died