The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-18 00:00:00

OF BRUNSWICK.

with the legal argument list the French law gave them so
claim upon him. As a enbeidiary point, he contended that 1
the Duke of Bromwich, though now deposed, was not liable '
in a French court for acts done at a time when he was a
reigning prince.
The further hearing stands adjourned till to-
morrow, when M. Marie will address the court for
Madame de Civry.
I believe that, contrary to what has been stated,
the three notes to Russia have not been sent off
yet. The cruel executions of Poles by the Rus-
sians are making a great impression on the public
mind here, and the feeling seems to be growing
that war is probable.
The Bourse, which yesterday experienced a fall
in the Rente of 15c., has been under the influence
of a sort of panic to-day, and though there was a
rather better feeling at the close, Rente left off with a
further fall of 40c. for cash and 26c. for account,
elating (ex div.) at 68fr. 35c. and 68fr. 50c. Mobi-
lier fell 17fr. 50c. Railways, as for a long time
past. continue almost stationary.
There has been a good deal of speculation as to
the reason why Count de Goltr, the Prussian
ambassador, should be suddenly taken so ill as to
require to take the waters at Carlsbad for a month.
The bidhperidance Beige says that his malady was
caused by the Emperor sending for the Prince de
Reuss, first secretary of legation at Paris (who was
on leave of absence at a remote part of Prussia),
and receiving him at Fontainebleau, while the head
of the mission was quite ignorant of the invitation.
' This breach of etiquette is, perhaps, connected with
the announcement in the Pariser Zeitung that the
Prince de Reuss is about to be promoted to the poet
of Prussian Minister Plenipotentiary at Madrid.
It is the Correctional Tribunal of Mort, and not
that of Grenoble (as stated by mistake in my letter
of Sunday last) which is entitled to the credit of
having acquitted the Memorial du Danz &ores.
There is another electoral case pending before the
tribunal of Grenoble, in which the Imepa►tial
Dauphinois and M. Casimir Porter are defendants.

tram 003 omit

PARIS, WEDNESDAY Evunto.

POLAND.

The legal journals contain a report of the first
day's hearing of a curious case at which Madame
de Civey, the daughter of an English lady, is
plaintiff, and the Duke of Brunswick defendant.
The action is brought to recover from the Duke
of Brunswick, of whom the plaintiff claims to be a
natural child, an alimentary annuity of 35,000 fr.
M. Allot', counsel for the Duke of Brunswick,
appeared in support of a demurrer to the action,
and made the following statement :
The plaintiff can scarcely entertain any serious expects.
time of success in this action. Madame de Civey alleges
herself to be the daughter of the Duke of Brunswick ; she
mays she is in distress and has a numerous family, and under
Articles 205 and 207 of the Code Napoleon she asks for an
alimentary pension of 35,0001 r. Madame de Civey does
not aspire to the honours of legitimacy, and is contented
to call herself a natural child. She might just as well have
aimed higher, for there being no recognition of her in the
register of her birth, or in any subsequent legal declaration
of the duke, she has no better shadow of pretence, accord-
ing to the French law, for claiming the rights of a natural
child than those of • legitimate one. If, however. she
relies upon the law of Brunswick the priuciplee are different,
but the results in this case the same. For the law of
Brunswick only authorises • naturallichild to obtain main-
tenance from the putative father up to the age of 14, after
which it must shift for itself. This action la but the
realisation of threats of very old standing. The story
presented by the other side is this :—ln 1825,
Charles 11., then the reigning Duke of Brunswick.
being in London, ran away with a young lady of high posi-
tion in society, named Lady Colville, and seduced her under
promise of marriage. They bring forward as a witness •
person who filled the position of humble companion, and
who swears that she would not have done so had she not
believed that the parties were married. The young person
came to France with the duke, and lived some mouths with
, him in Paris. The duke then took her with him to the
Duchy of Brunswick, and installed her in • chiteau in the
neighbourhood of the court. There, on July 5, 1826, she
, was oonfined of • daughter, who is the plaintiff in this
action. The christening was solemnised with much pomp
and ceremony. The following is ■ copy of the register of
birth :
_

(11011 ♦ 001

WARSAW, Jun 9.

" In the year 1826, on July 5, at 10 in the morning,
Charlotte Colville, lady, aged 19 years, was delivered of •
daughter, who was b.ptiscd on the 17th by the name of
Elizabeth Wilhelmina. Sponse-1. Charles reigning Duke
of Brunswick and Lonebourg ; 2. His Highness William
Prince of Brunswick, Duke of Ale and Bomstadt, their said
highnesses being represented by Major de Gresenwald,
orderly officer of the reigning duke, and the Vice-Ecuyer
de Aynhansen.
"Observation.—Countess Elia Wiul Colmar la the family
name of the child."
In 1827, the year after her oonfioement, Lady Colville
returned to England with bee daughter. The duke took
upon himself the are of her education, first in England,
and afterwards in Paris. She had the best professors that
could be found. I rather think it is alleged in some of the
affidavits that she had the honour of being taught dancing
bt Queen Victoria's master. The child grew up under the
duke's assiduous protection. One of his chamberlains,
Baron d'Andlau, was specially commissioned to attend to
her. The revolution of 1830, which deprived the duke of
the sovereignty of his states and drove him into
exile, did not interrupt his parental are of Eliza-
beth Colville. At the age of seventeen she was
placed in • school at Nancy. There she lent an ear
to ► Dominion monk, and abjured the protestant religion in
which she had been brought up. In consequence of this act
the duke abandoned her. She wag received by the honour-
able family of De Cluny, and in 1847 she married the Count
de Civry in London, and the marriage was announced
by the fashionable journals with • certain ;clot. At
this point (said M. Allen) the narrative of the other
side becomes very confused. They would make it out that
the duke consented to the marriage, and they allude to •
certain letter mid to have been written by the duke to her,
which letter in • fiction ; and all this while they say also

I have nothing consoling to tell yon. In a secret
council held at the Castle, under the presidency of
the Grand Duke Constantine, it has been decided
that the country must be terrorised as much as
possible. After all, do the Russians know any
system but one of indescribable severity at home
and of shameless falsehood abroad I The latter
may succeed sometimes ; but here their furious
madness fails in its aim ' • they terrorise to such
a degree that we have learnt to fear nothing
and brave everything. Arrests and domiciliary
visits are matters of every-day occurrence • no one
is safe for a single day ; and if people awake in the
same place where they have gone to sleep they
feel agreeably surprised. They take whoever
they find in their way, often the quietest and
most inoffensive persons. It would almost seem
that the peace and security of the townspeople have
become the stakes of a desperate game. You lose
or you win by chance, as in a lottery ; and the ter-
rible numbers are the citadel, deportation to Siberia,
or the rank of soldier in the Russian army. There
are so many varieties of tortures in this hell upon
earth !

that the duke never consented to receive either Madame de
Clary or her husband, and that he would do nothing for
them. Reverses of fortune having visited the Civry family,
Mdme. de Cirri now finds herself oom palled to remind &When
of the dirties of which he is oblivious. but which he at one
time recognised, and the register of birth of Madame de
Oivry being mute as to the name of her father, it is Mai.
nuated that there must have been a deed of recognition
among the private archives of the duke which were burnt
by the people in 1830. Snob (said M. Alton) is the ro•
mane which will be recounted in btilhsst colours be my
eloquent adversary. But here are the facts much more
prosaic and simple. It was, indeed, in the year 1825, and
in London, but not in good society, that Duke Charles first
saw the pretended Lady Colville. He met her in the sa-
loons of a theatre, where Englishwomen of a certain clam
were at that time in the habit of making a display of their
beauty. She used the name of Lady Colville as a nom de
guerre for a whole season. Her real name was Miss Muodeo.
There had never been any notioo of a marriage between her
and the duke, and she very freely and deliberately became
his mistress and went abroad with him. Afterwards Mims
Almaden returned to Bastard, married a person of the name
of Shaw, and went out to Californi►. The duke had libe-
rally paid the expenses of Mies Colville's education from
feelings towards her mother, which would be easily under-
stood ; but he bad never once seen her since her infancy.
He denied that he had quarrelled with her on account of
her change of religion. The rupture was occasioned by
other reasons, and among them her extraordinary conduct
in Paris, where she culled upon his agent dressed up in
men's clothes. Her marriage with Y. de Civry was a
speculation on the duke's wealth, bat it had the effect of
increasing hie displesaure with the young lady. A pompous
announcement of the marriage had appeared in the English
journals in these terms :—" Count de Civry to Elizabeth
Wilhelmine d'Esite Countess of Colmm, daughter of his
Royal Highness Prince Charles Ferdinand William Augustus
d'Fate Duke of Brunswick and of Lady Colville," This
impudent misrepresentation was sanctioned by the presence
at the marriage of Baron d'Andlau, the dake's former
chamberlain, but with whom he had then quarrelled. The
pretended Count de Civry was no count at all, but a very
humble persoo, of Nancy, named Collin. He (K. Alton) did
not wish to eater into long reasons why the duke declined
to give any money to these persons, lie contented himself

Goreka was taken last week. He was going to
leave, perhaps that was the reason. In general
both those who arrive, and those who depart, are
objects of suspicion, or in other words, criminals,
and as euch, liable to be sent to the citadel. The
Cieleckia were about to leave also ; Rembielinaki
had just arrived. Since these gentlemen were put
in prison the severity has redoubled, and the
Grand Duke has declared that no one shall in
future be authorised to see those who are shut up
in the citadel. The prison cell has thus become
a sort of oubliettes, where name, memory, and all
connection with external life vanish. The Grand
Duke shows a savage delight in the severe measures
of which he is the inventor and originator. There
is something of the inquisitor, too, as well as of
the gaoler, in the blood of this son of Nicholas. At
his Sunday soirees he does not scruple to talk ex-
clusively with those who are employed in the com-
missions of inquiry, and the reading of cross-
examination' is his favourite pastime. There
is something very small and mean in the organiza-
tion of his mind ; I cannot help thinking how
applicable to him would be the epithet of scribe
d'art-major, given to Sir Hudson Lowe by the
Emperor Napoleon. Latterly he has been amusing
himself with a hat-hunt, or rather a hunt
after people who do not take off their hats
before him. Of course nobody does, or ever did,
salute him. Hitherto lie has been pleased to take
no notice and to pass like a tempest, surrounded
by a thick cloud of Circassian • but now he leaves
Ins carriage, walks along the L;zienki alley or the
Botanical Garden, and orders his Cossacks and
Circassian!' to seize all who have hats on their heads
when he approaches. Yesterday evening my son,
who was passing by in a carriage, saw three persons
arrested in this way within a very short space of
time. The other day, the Grand Duke, on hearing
that one of the delinquents was an employd, ordered
him to be dismissed, and the unfortunate man is
now without bread. . . . .

You perceive that the persecution is complete ;
nothing is wanting, neither the crashing blow of the
bludgeon, nor the sharp sting of the needle. Punch
or the Charirari could alone, I think, restrain
this policeman-like zeal with which the Grand
Duke is animated. Nothing that belongs to the
duties of the police is done without his orders.
Thus the other day a domiciliary visit took place in
the house of a physician. After searching every-
where, and finding nothing, they read all his papers
and sealed up the door of his study, where he kept
his notes and surgical instruments. A few days
after he asked permission to enter his study, but
was answered that it could not be given without a
special order from the Grand Duke. Madame
Goraka asked to be allowed to see her husband, who
is shut up in the citadel, and got precisely the
same reply. I do not know whether the same
answer was given to M. Rembielinski, who
after three days' constant asking, could not
even get • little water to wash his bands with.
Linen is only allowed to be sent to the prisoners
once a week. It would appear that by reserving to
himself the right of interfering in all the little
details of the business of the prison, the Grand
Duke wished to force the society of Warsaw to
make his acquaintance, for it is difficult to explain
this eccentric taste in any other way. Wives and
mothers are expected, it seems, to present them-
selves before his highness with shirts, candles, and
provisions under their arms (for nothing of this
kind is allowed to pans in the citadel), and after
making a profound bow, they may perhaps be
allowed to take these necessary supplies to their
husbands and sons. I doubt whether, even at
this price, they will pass through the castle in
order to get to the citadel.
In the prison of the Town-ball order reigns as
in those of the citadel. One of our servants
went there this morning under the protection'
of the chambermaid of a high Russian functionary.
She has returned in tears • she saw a poor lady from
the country, who had been forgotten and left
neglected there for months, without clothes, and
having nothing on but • chemise falling about her in
rags, and covered with vermin. Even the gaolers were
touched, and begged a little linen and a dress for
her. Another lady was there, shut up with an
infant in arms, for the Russian law has much wider
views regarding the emancipation of women than
any theorist or novel writer. In Lithuania a law
has just been proclaimed which renders them
amenable to a court-martial ; they may be hung,
shot, or condemned to the mines of Siberia, all
because of their opinions or feelings.
Every day numbers are deported or executed in
, the citadel without an 3 one knowing of it. One of
the Frankowskis has been sent to Siberia, and his
parent. only knew it through the soldier who had
accompanied the young man as far as Moscow. He

is a humane man, and the poor old people blessed ; AWARDS OP THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIEI.
him. This is one of those episodes which occur I TION OF 1862.--(THIS DAY.)
only in our sad history.
I do not give you any news of the insurrection in
the provinces, or the battles which have taken place,
for you will find them all in our papers published
at Posen and Cracow.

A numerous meeting of prize medallists was held
at nose, at the rooms of the Society of Aria, Adelphi,
Alderman OOPILLND, )LP., in the chair, to take into 00411 i.
aeration the fact that by a react decision in the Vice-Chia.
cellar's Court there appears to be at present no legal power to
restrain nanezhibitors or others who did not receive awards
at the late Exhibition from making fraudulent use of the
medals as trade marks and otherwise.

The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, observed that
it had been found that a greet many persons who were not
entitled to medals had nevertheless used them, and the
question was whether something should not be done to ex.
pose and punish those who were guilty of what be termed
a fraud. (Cheers.) A person who 'committed such an
offence ought, in his opinion, to be punished in some wry or
other, and it was for the meeting to determine what course
should be pursued.
After considerable discussion as to the precise form of
words Jobe adopted the following resolution was, on Lhs
motion of Mr. Way, adopted unanimously :—" That in the
opinion of this meeting the use of the prize medals, and of
the 'honourable mentions' of the Exhibition of 1,462, or
previous Exhibitions, by any person or persons other
than those to whom such medals have been
awarded by her Majesty's commissioners, under the direr.
lion of the jurors, is a direct fraud tending to deceive and
mislead the public, to injure the ►uthorised medal holders,
and to subvert the objects of the Exhibition." A resolution
was then passed declaring that awards and "honourable
mentions" having been given in consequence of the
superior skill displayed, ought to be regarded as
property of commercial value. A resolution baring
been proposed to the effect that it was expedient
that immediate measures be taken to protect the parties
interested, a confident hope was expressed that the Lord
Chancellor would lend hie aid in the providing a legislative
remedy for the evil. A oommittee, consisting of prize
medallists, jurors, and others interested in the matter, was
then appointed, and the proceedings terminated.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DIY.)

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Jadge Ordinary.)
'Liam V. IiAMET.---ANOTRES LOVE MATCH.

Dr. Deane, Q.C., and Mr. Field for the petitioner.
The petitioner, who wan Miss Caroline Sarah Turner, was
married to the respondent, Nathaniel William Mosey, on
the 21st of June, 1860. He was a captain in the 30th
Foot. There had been one child of the marriage, and the
cohabitation lasted till July, 1862. The petitioner sought •
dissolution on the ground of her husband's cruelty and
adultery.
The principal evidence in support of the former charge
was that of Mrs, Massey herself. She aid—Our
marriage was a private one, sad was kept secret from our
respective families. I heed with Captain Mammy at various
places in England till the 16th of July, 1861, when be went
with his regiment to Canada. At the time of my mar-
riage I had 1,1001. in money, 1,7001. in Canada bonds, sad
upwards of 4,000/. in India bonds, all of which I gave up to
him at various times. Captain Massey returned from Canada
in June last. I lived with him till July, 1862, when we
left London. On our way from London to Newhaven I saw
Captain Massey put something into the guard's hand that
we might have the carriage alone. I said I thought it was
pleasanter to have some one with us ; and be replied, " I
dare my you do," and used most abusive language to
me. He also struck me with the back- of his
band in the face. From Newhaven we crossed over to
Dieppe ; and on the morning of the 17th be beat me with •
strap, he struck me with • pillow, and used abusive lan-
guage. I called out for mercy, and he then stopped. He
then went down to beeskfast. After a time he came back
and asked me why I did not get up. I told him that I
could not move, sod I asked him to let me rest. He took
up the strap again, but seeing that I was already marked
with it be did not strike me. Oa the 19th we went to
Paris, and stayed at the Hotel de la Prix. I went into
hysterics on account of his treatment of me. He took me
up and threw me from one end of the room to the
other ; put me on the sofa and tried to Aide
my screams by putting his hand on my mouth. He then
opened one of my eyes and put some eau de Cologne in it.
On the 21st we went to Havre. There he threw water into
my face. He abused every member of my family, and said
that his mother despised me. I said eh* did
not more than I despised her. Captain Massey
left me at Havre. I showed the servant at the hotel the
marks which he had given me by blows and pinching. On
his return the servant told him I bad been very dull. When
she left the room he complained of my speaking to her. He
struck me several Unice at Havre, and spat in my face. He
told me that I was mad, and that I was • lunatic.
On one mansion when be came in he found me with Mrs.
Atkins and he said that he would not have me speaking to
anybody. He then told me to ring the bell. I said that as
be was so IKOZ it, he oould do it himself. He
then strode across the room, dzeued me off the men put the
twll.tope into my hand, and made me ring it. He finished
by pulling my nose and eats. The same night he called me
by his bedside and told me to sit down. He said, " Now,
Caroline, I think you will own that I have enteseded in
treating you vary cruelly since I have been with you on the
Continent." I aid, " Tee, you have succeeded." He then said,
" Now listen to me. It is not in my power to treat you
more cruelly than I have done ; bat if you don't agn a
paper that I want yon to sign you shall go with me to
Trueville on Friday, and undergo tortures that you have
not yet suffered. You shall be treated as • lunatic, have •
nurse, and • doctor shall come to me you twice •
week. I shall give you a mouth of that treatment,
and if you don't sign the paper at the end of
that time I will put you io a lunatic asylum, and
give the physician 1,0001. when he tells me of your death.
I will give you tall 9 o'clock to-morrow morning to my
whether you will sign or not." I laid my band on his
shoulder and said, Surely, you cannot be so wicked!"
He clenched his list, and said, " By all the powers of heaven
and hell I will ! I have never yet hese baulked." The next
morning the paper was prepared. He made me write •
part of it and sign it. 1 afterwards destroyed it. He left
me again alone, and I quitted Havre without seeing him
Mrs. Massey's evidence was corroborated by the servant to
whom she had shown her bruises.

Hugh Sherry. a bootmaker, at Hooflew, knew Mr. Massey
very well, the Hon Mr. Massey having done him • great
service in a pecuniary matter. In July. 1862, Capt. Massey
came to him, told him that he was married, and asked him to
engage apartmeete for him, as well as • nuns for his little
boy, whom he called "Nat" Captain Mosey could speak
very little French. Saw Madame Massey, and treated her '
with all the respect due to a legitimate lady. He called
her " Nally." She was not the petitioner.
This part of the case was supported by • diary which had
been kept by the respondent, and of which the petitioner
had obtained poureson. There were entries in it showing
that the writer was at flonileur with " Nelly" at the time
deposed to.
Sir C. Cromwell aid the learned doctor had abundantly
proved his cue. Sometimes it was fortunate, as exposing
the true character of such a man as this, that he should go
through the extraordinary operation of recording his own
iniquities to the extent he had done in the dimly.
There mast be a decree nisi with costs ; and the
respoodent most secure to the petitioner the sum of 3,2001.
represented by Canadian bonds, at present in the custody of
Mews. Cox, the arm, smote, to be settled on her for her
life, and afterwards upon her child. according to a deed to be
prepared by one of the conveyancing counsel of the Court of
Chancery. The petitioner also to have the custody of the
Ch

SNILLOROVI V. SNELLGROVE.

This wu the petition of the mate of a steamy/ on the
West Indian station. Relied quitted England soon atter his
marriage, and the respondent was not confined till thirteen
months subsequent to his leaving her.
Decree nisi.
GRICE C. °RICE AND TENFOLD.

Dr. Deane, Q.C., and Dr. Snicks for the petitioner.
The marriage was in October, 1851, and the parties co-
habited about six years and a hall. Grim was a eons-
miaaioo agent in London. la March, 1857. the respondent
returned to her parents. At the following Christ-
mas she made the emmanitsaoe of Penfold at a dance ;
and the result was the berth of • child on the sth October,
1859. The paternity was snowed by both respondents, who
bad latterly lived together, and, u they pretended, bad been
married.
Decree nisi, with costs.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

BOW.STREET.
ASSAELT ET A COFFEE HOCBB KEEPER.

Nicholas Ifitholson, coffee-shop keeper in St. Giles's,
appeared in discharge of his recognisance@ on • charge of
manning James White Curtis, • plasterer.
Mr. Abrams defended.

Mr. Barnaby, the chief clerk, reminded the magistrate
that the rue had been adjourned from that day week, as
the complainant was then too much intoxicated to give
evidence. _ _

Complainant—lt is enough to make anybody intoxicated
to have his head broke. (A laugh.)
_
Complainant stated that on Wednesday, the 10th inst., be
went with a friend to the Two Brewers public-house in
Little St. Andrew's-street. The prisoner was there, and
entered into coevereation with them. The prisoner chid.
longed him to toss for a pot of is, which
witness agreed to and woo. The defendant then said he
had no mone and witness lent him tki., rather than be
should be "short." They had a pot of ale foe which defen-
dant paid with the 6d., and afterwards witness went with
him to his house to be paid the 61. Defendant told his
wife he wanted half-a-crown. Witness said, "No. I only
want 6d." Defendant then took up what at tint he took
to be a poker, but he bad sines understood it was a
kind of bludgeon, formed of the sinews of a bullock,
loaded with Iced. With this weapon defendant struck him
on the head and cut it open in two places. He ran out of
the shop followed by defendant, who overtook him and
knocked him down.
In cross-examination the witness admitted that he bad
been several times in custody for assaults, the last time about
two years ago.
Walter Homer, the friend alluded to, said be saw de-
fendant shake complainant, wbo struck him, and then de-
fendant went indoors, fetcbel the instrument described,
and struck complainant with it.
. . . .

The bennaid rat the public-house said when complainant
and defendant left the public-house she looked after them,
thinking they would quarrel. She saw the defendant
strike complainant with what she took to be a gutty
percha whip. Complainant ran away, and on looking round
he fell down. Defendant then struck him ou the head with
the thin end of the whip as he lay on the ground. Witness
went behind defendant, and "thought herself justified•
in striking him in the back of the neck. In turning to
strike her he fell. Complainant got up and not away, sad
witness went back to the public house. Defendant got up
and went indoors.

A bystander, named Sullivan, corroborated. Both nom.
plainaat and defendant bad " taken a little."
. .

Policeman Kirley, F IKI, said his attention was drawn
a crowd, and he found complainant lying on the
his head bleeding very much. Complainant gave
pei-
rooer in custody for wesalting him. Both were the wane
for liquor, but Curtis much more than the prisoner.
Mr. Abrams said the complainant and his friends bad far
some time had an animosity towards defendant, who is •
Swede. Complainant had crested • disturbance at defile.
dant's door, and would not go away. Defendant endea-
voured to remove him, when complainant struck him in the
face. He then used the whip, which of wane could not
be justified. Still he had only need the thin end, which
could not have cut his head open. He received that in-
jury by • fall.
Mr. Hall observed that one of the wounds was on the top
of the bead, and could notbe mused bye fall. Complainant
might be a quarrelsome man, but it was difficult to noder-
eland why defendant they'd strike him for going with him
at his own request. The young woman had given her evi-
dence in • manner which entitled her to credit, and her
statement was in favour of complainant. It was • cowardly
aassult, and very little more would induce him (Mr. Hall)
to send the case for trial. Defendant must pay 5'., or be
imprisoned for two months.

CHARGE orcAusima, Tag DEATH OF • TRADESMAN.
William% Henry Davis, aged 34, a hackney cab driver,
badge 11,888, of 4, Derooshire•place, Westmoreland-road,
Walworth, was charged with causing the death of Thomas
Grey, a greengrocer, carrying on business at Little Corset-
street and Guildfordstreet, St. Pancras.
It appeared from the evidence of William Sellers, hackney
carnage attendant, that he was on duty at the Foundling
cab-stand at half-past 1 on the morning of the 10th inst.,
when be saw the defendant driving his cab at the rate of
six or seven miles an hoar. The deceased and another man
wan in a light cart, and the deceased was driving a
bons at the rate of about nine or ten miles per hour.
The defendant called out to the deceased to take care
but no heed mut taken, and the deceased's horse and cart
ran lase the defendant's cab. The deceased and the man
who was with him were thrown out, the deceased falling
is his bead and the man who was with him falling on his
fees. The defendant did all he could to prevent the acci-
dent. Both men were taken to the Royal Free Hospital,
sad were at once attended to by Mr. Hill, the house
sergeoe, but though every attention was paid the deceased
ex&ra few hours after his admission.
klt witnesses deposed that the defendant did all that
he could to prevent the accident, and that he was only
driving at the rate of about six miles an
hour, whilst the
deceased's horse was going at the rate of ten or eleven miles
as hour.

Police-sergeant Gaacoigne, 10 E, said that he took the de-
fendant into coated', when he said it was no fault of hie.
Since he had been in custody an inquest had been held on
the body of the deceased, and the jury had returned a ver-
dict of accidental death, and that no blame was attached to
the defendant. _ _

iiiecii;fend;nt said he deeply regretted that the poor man
had lost his life, but he (the defendant) was not to blame
in the mater..
_ _

—fie maiisiiate discharged the defendant, remarking that
there did not appear to be any blame attached to him.

MARYLABONE.
AUDACIOUS CARRIAGE ROBBERY.

William Flemington, described aa a harness maker, living
at No. Z Islingtes-buildiop, Islington-rod, warn placed at
the bar, charged with having stolen two shawls and a rug,
the propel ty of a Mrs. Idorrisoo, a lady residing at Bristol-
house, Putoey•heath.
William Lang worthy, the footman, deposed that yesterday
afternoon he left the carriage in Harley-street to poet some
letters in Vero street, and on his return he got on the
vehicle, which was then driven off, when in consequence of
information he received he looked and mimed the articles
alluded to from one of the seats.

Thomas Waahbourne stated that when the cordage had
proceeded a few yards be saw the prisoner lean over and
take the things, with which he was making off when witness
stopped him, desiring to know what he was going to do with
them, to which he replied that ha was going to take them to
his friend. He was asked who his friend was, when he
threw the articles in witness's face, and bolted away as fast
as he could. A my of "Stop thief' was raised, and pri-
soner, who was speedily captured, was given into the cus-
tody of police-constable 362 D. The officer said he had
made inquiry at the address which the prisoner had given,
and ascertained that it was false.

The property was produoed and identified.
The prisoner was committed to hard labour in the House
of Correction for six months.

ROBBNO CHILDROI.

Margaret May was charged with stealing from a child,
Cecilia Day, aged five years, a picket, in the Regent's-park.
From the evidence adduced it appeared that the prisoner
took the jacket from the child whilst it was at play in the
inner circle of the park, at the same time promtsing it some
sweets. Remington, the park constable, who had been
watching the prisoner, took her in charge, and found the
jacket under her dress.
Mr. Mansfield sentenced her to three mouths' hard labour.
SOUTHWARK..
DRUNKRNNILSB AT A RAILWAY BTAITON.

Rickard Clark, a well-dressed gentlemanly-looking man,
was placed at the bar before Mr. Mande, ehargoil with
being drunk at the,South-Eutern Railway terminus, London-
bridge, and endangering his life.
Mr. Robert Fortune, an inspector of the railway com-
pany's police, said that a little before 9 o'clock last night
the prisoner entered the North Kent station, pushing
against the people is the waltintroom and annoying them
very much. Perceiving that he was under the influence of
liquor be removed him and advised him to go away
quietly. Thinking he would do eo witness returned to
the platform, and while attending to a train about to start,
he was surprised to see the prisoner again on the platform,
rolling about ; and had not witness seized bold of him, he
believed he would have fallen off the platform under the
carriages of a train about to start. He was then compelled
to lock him up.
Mr. Maude (to the prisoner)—What are you ?
Prisoner—l am a clerk, connected with a firm in the
city. . . . . .

Mr. Maude—What were you doing at the railway
anon

Prisoeer—l reside at areenbithe, and I have a season
ticket, and wanted to get home.
Mr. Maude—Bat you were very drunk, and had a narrow
escape of your life?
Prisooer —I am extremely sorry for it, sir, but after I had
dined yesterday I drank too conch wine.
Mr. Maude told him that he hoped for the future he
would come sober to the railway station, as he had placed
his life in it:K.19,4'4. He mast pay a tine of ss.
The defendant paid the money. and thanked the railway
inspector for saving him from iajury.