The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1851.

Total 3;9
The answers of which the above is abstract further
allow
I. lu tie' eon, in which the management clause* have
been dispensed with, the gnat readinese and courtesy with
which the committee of council attended to the peculiar cir-
cumstances pleaded
A. Th, great advantage of the co operation of the laity an
dividing the• laheiur and respormiliility with the eta layman,
god ate being in many eases a safeguard against the mis-
management of :in inexpernined or indimreet clergyman.
3. That hoe Majesty's inspectors do not in the least
interfere with the management of the srhosls, while much
ailiantage is derived from their suggestion. ; and the ex-
pedition of titer visite serve* greatly to excite applieutiou
on the part both of teacher* and scholars.
4. The uniform einerteay of the Committee of Council in
all their correspondence suit dVidid,t.•
b. That hope is entertained by many that the committee
will have larger funds at their disponih and will be able to
afford dill more efficient aasistance, especially iu the main-
Uneasier of village. schools and modem.
G. a hat, notwithstanding tile management denies, the
control of the schools, Wale!s by his own fault, in virtually
MR to the clergyman.
7. That many who entirely sympathise with the declara-
tion on education have been deterred from signing it by
polititial feeling, elielike of adopting any public document,
fear of increasing party strife, as well as great carelumness
and indifference.
S. That objection. to the management classes arc founded,
suit on facts, hut on fears, theories, misrepresentation., sus-
picions, and gratuitous assumptions that the clergyman is
the only tit person to decide reepecting the nature of the
trust suety.' to a school.
9. A general and earnest desire for the restoration of a
peifeetly cordial cu operation between the Committee of
Viatica and the National Society.
10. That souse who were at first strongly opposed to
the management clauses have been since led to approve
of theta by experiencing their operation iu their own
schools.; and that many, still opposed to them in theory, •
acknowledge that in esavratiou they are uuexceptionable.
11. That it in imposoibte to please all parties ; for WOW say
that Vie chases are applieable to town, and other. to rural
school* on') . SOMP that it is absolutely essential that all on
the school committee should be communicants—others
that such a requirement in illegal.
12. 'That iiithoec.elwels in which a rule exists that no
child who.• parents object shall be forced to learn the Cate-
chism, such au objection in rarely made.
Dondes the correspondence with those under manage-
meet clans, of which the above is a summary, the circu-
lation of l'o. Declaration on Education has called forth
about 3,000 letter, from other parties. Most of these bear
more or km upon the points noted above—all, with inily
two elm ptione, nre written in a pleasant spirit. Nearly all
cameo great desire that the nett annual meeting of the
National Society may be conducted in a very difierent spirit
from the l ist. and toot cordial cooperation with the Com-
mittee of l'ouncil may be restored.
Active measures ere now being taken by thaw who have
4utid (hr D. claratioo on Education to ensure that the
Nation II Seri, ty shall in future more faithfully represent
the view. and feelings above dee elop, el; so that it may he
a truly national barrier, on the one side, against Romanism,
open and disguised ; on the other, against infidelity under
the mask of secular inatruction only.
EDW RD G IRDLISTOPI I.
Deane Vicarage, April, 1851.
Mane Vicarage, Uolton-le-Moore, April, 1851.
Dear have the pleasure of enclosing you an ohs
street e f the declaration on education, to which yoga attached
year signature, and of the intere bag correepundence con-
nected with it. I likewise iodise a form of address on the
salbject of St. Mark's Training College. Chelsea, which, if
you approve of it, you wiU be kind enough to return to
one with your signature attached. Mr. Denison, in the
Onemision of March bith, has openiy announced his inten-
tion of repeating at the neat annual meeting of the National
Society the same course which he pursued in 1849 and
1810. lie ha eseumed that he and his supporters alone
bold " tit.• catholic faith of the Church of England," and
has called upon all who have hitherto acted with him again
to snake a wont muster and a vigorous effort in the some
direction. He has pointed, in short, to the nest annual
meeting of the National Society as an opportunity which he
heartily welcomes for testing the comparative strength of
theme wh odu sod those who du not hold the same " priori-
dples of church education " ma himself.
It becomes, therefore, the paramount duty of high and
I•ve ehurichnien of all shades of opinion short of meets:tan-
ken, of All who are anti us (or the education of the poor in
the principles of the established church, who are alive to
tow dangers which threaten on the one side from popery
sad Pool isna, aad fa the other front systins of education
ciehaively secular, and who have no sympathy with Mr.
Damson's agitation against the " clod power:" to accept
the issue which be hasolfered, and not to shrink Tres some
eternity in fighting the battle to which ho invites them.
'2 ha lay members of the church ought to to particularly on
their guard against this attempt to &pies this of their
kin steam in the administration of the foods provided for
She education of the poor. Most of all it OSINIVINI that
who hay, already Wised dm declaration en oineatioa to
pail themselva of tins the mall wens of giving real rac
lisol erect to that expeeesim of their opinion.
I beg leave. therefore, meat vespectiully, bat at the same
$ me moot satosetly, to ;street Oyes, if you ate already a
member of the National Society, to allow nothing to pre-
vest yes from attaadiag the nest anneal meeting, fbr the
wpm of securing with your vote the nomination of mode-
rata own to supply the five canaries on the committerg.l
wad .1, tie . ,:is of the society is exclusively nu
At th.e. moilis will he prepared likewise the accompany-
ing moms.... acue.l w:U be moved and at:muted by distils-
tinedlapses, sad which yna are requested to Nippon/.
isonal earaestacas I entreat that, if yea are net a

TO Till EDITOR OF THE REPRESS.
E.rpress, some few days ago, when
refer, in 4 to the removal of the Smithfield cattle market, said
it might be transferred to a locality four or five miles from
its present position, but that change would nut by any
means *Ciller() the evil complained of, because though it
might in some measure abate the nuisance, it could only
du so in part; because if the cattle market were bui.t
some distance to the north of Smithfield, the cattle must,
still be driven through some considerable part of the city to
the market, and through all part. of the City to the pre-
, maim of the purchasers of the cattle.
Now, it appears to me that this ening nuisance mar be
M far remedied, or modified, as to be almost rendered of
Ldltle car rtq iutsinveuience.
In some of the railway reports in the Erpress'
wf the last few weeks reference is made to the profit
seising from bringing cattle to the London market.
Therefore as the practice dues OIIA a sending cattle. to
market by railway, it may he presumed if that practice
were adopted as the only mode of conveying cattle from the
country pastures to the general London market, the whole
transitiof the cattle, both large Itan l, might be removed
wt th., public roads, and brought to Lontlou almost un-
known to the inhabitants of the metropolis.
If the averaged distance from London whence the cattle is
&applied taken at say 200 miles by the railway*, and
amp aing be
an average as
of out more thau 20 miles an hour,
the time oceispie.l in the transit would bi, only ten hours,
and, us it may be 'opposed, the rattle could nut accomplish
that di-lance ,in the present mode untie perhaps eight or
tea days, the saving in the capense of transit alone must be
eery great, even allowing • very liberal sum both for large
mid small cattle per head by the railway trains.
I saw in Mr. Dickens's llowehold Words that shoot
6,0151 large cattle and 30,000 she p were brought to
Smitlifi. hl market un one day in the Christmas week, be-
sides calves and hogs. I believe there are six railway ter-
mini in Lostbnn, namely, the Great Wastern, at Pudding-
tot; th • Birmingham, in Eustmasquare; the Cireat
Northern, at Batil-bridge ; the Eastern Counties, at
Short dad' ; the South E e.tern, at Touley-street ; and el,
South Western, at Waterlou-bridge ; four on the north will
two on the south side of the river. sow, supposing
1,000 large cattle and 5,1100 sheep to be for-
warded to London by each of those termini.
it would therefore he necessary that trucks should
ha provided at the expense of the railway proprietors to
immvey in each true k, say shout 20 large rattle ,S.equiring
SO trucks fur each termiuus, from the country to the several
termini in LOllll.O and also to provide on hire in London
a sufficient number of horses to draw the trucks with the
nettle row tin. terniiiii to Smithfield market. With the ex-
ception of Caddiugton it is probable the operation of moving
the cattle heel rash tenniuto to Smitlificid would not
occupy more time than half-an-hour, or at must an hour, and
In that s iort time the cattle might be carried to the market
without inconvenience or alarm to any one ; because the
whole operation might be w managed that the cattle
should
girlie at the London termini, sac from 12 o'clock OR Sun-
day night to 3 o'clock on every Monday morning, that at 4
or o'clock, at latest, on the Moniter morning the business
of sale might commence in Smithfield market.
Extends.: sheds should he built in the sect sal parts of the
market for the trucks and horses so that as the rules pro-
' melted the trucks and horses might be used to convey the
cattle to the slaughter holm, of the several purchasers on
I each sale of the Thames. The saute sheds might serve for
I the shelter and sa.ety of such of the cattle as might remain
unsold after each m .rket day ; and of course hay and water
Provide il for them.
Now, io, the consideration that the trucks would travel
on the rad. near to London late on the Sunday evening,
and arrive at the m ,rket generally before or soon after day-
' light on the lay morning, and that the rattle when
sold would he forwarded in the trucks to the several
butchers in the early part of the day, there could be
little impediment to the daily business of the Cite, and cer-
tainly no apprehension from cattle running wild through
the stn etc.
I suppose the trucks calculated to eery 20 oxen would
carry 00 sheep ; tend if a frame, with bottom and sides, were
also eoustructeil to tit upon the large cattle truck, when
the oxen were not in it, 100 sheep might he transinitted in 1
each truck, or 5,000 sheep on the 50 truck. of every rail-
way, or 311,000 sheep in each day on the six railways before
referred to. This result proceeds upon the presumption
that the cattle market for oxen only should be held on the '
Monday in each week as at present; and the sheep market
to be held on the following ednesday in each week ; the
trucks being employed in carrying the sheep to the pur-
chasers in the same manner as stated fur the oxen. And I '
suppose there would be no difficulty in transporting the
hogs and calves iu the same way, either on the alouday or
on the Wednesday in each week.
The present market for the daily sale of say 6,000
rattle and 30,000 shi ep is much complained of,
on account of its very limited size for the proper
disposal of so many cattle and sheep in one
day; but it may be assumed, that if the sale occupied two
clays in each week, instead of one, as before stated, there
would he roost enough and to spare for the weekly supply
of the City and its suburban districts. 'ibis change would
no doubt Rase the outlay of a very large expense, with
little other inconvenience than rendering it necessary for
the butchers to attend the market twice a week instead of
once only. But it cannot be supposed that a consideration
of that kind would prevent so important an alteration as
herein propose d.
Should the plan he adopted, • large punt might be cc-
mailed in improving the streets leading from the railway
termini to the market, and from the market to the different
part, of the City and the surrounding country.
Some of the other advantages resulting from the adoption
of the plan may be thus stated, the saving of an enormous
outlay, either by the Cite• supposing their scheme of in-
crease to the present market agreed to, or a new market
erected in some other locality, either by the City
or other authority, and also from the cattle an
at the sale almost as fresh as from the
pastures, neither overdriven nor bruised or injured by
drover* or others, and the comparative quiet in the streets
of the City on tho Sunday evening, and in the following
days of sale.
There can be no doubt that the charges by the several
railways for the carriage of the cattle, and the use of the
trucks and hones. with the City market toll, would be much
less than the expenses now incurred in the many days the
cattle are sow on the roads accompanied by drovers sad
others, and the charges of feeding the cattle, and lodging
the drovers and other* so many more days than would be
required on the plan proposed.
It may be presumed, should this scheme be approved of,
there would be no difficulty in settling the tolls, fares, and
other charges by a parliamentary investigatinn, as in other
committees of the same sort ; and it may be further presumed
that in the present hampered circumstances of must of the
railway establishments, the proprietors would cheerfully assist
in carrying out the design, as it would most probably road-
der.eltly increase their profits.—l am, &c.
Ou the Bank, llighgate. J. T.

ACCIDENT AT BLACKTRIABS-BElDGE.—Yesterday
afternoon a wain, drawn by four horses, was descending
Blackfriars-bridge towards the Middlesex snore, when, in
consequence of the driver having neglected to skid the
wheel. the pressure of the vehicle on the horses' guarten
caused them to set otf at full gallop at the moment the
1 bridge was thronged with carriage.. Numerous cotheions
ensued, and one of the drivers was so dreadfully injured
that he now lies in the hospital without hopes of recovery.
The career of the vehicle was stopped by its coming
into contact with the massive iron pillar supporting the 1
lamp opposite 26. New Bridge-street, which, by the force 1
of the evueussion. was snapped in two, the broken portion,
in its descent, striking a female on the head, who eras
taken to the hospital insensible, her skull having been
fractured by the blow. Two of the horses were also
killed.

SneEmeass Ctinital ON Fins.—On Sunday
morning during service, two mrn who were seeking
through Minster churAyard, discovered the roof of the
church to be on It,. They instantly made an alarm, and
prompt us stance being given by many of the congregation,
so short time the tire was estiozoished, very little
damage being done. The CAW of the tire it is supposed w.is I
a port,n of root from • fano •I chi nosy being blown off
and lodging agaiust the d clearing of one of the hips.
which rel.ilted in the imaitios of one of the rafters and •
Noun portion of the slating boards.

MIDDLESEX SESSIOSS.—YESTERD.tT.
The April adjourned general quarter session of the
peace for the county of Middlesex commencet yesterday
morning at Clerki °well before the assistant judge, Mr.
Serjcant Adana, Mr. Pownall, Mr. Witham, Mr. Fitzroy,
M.P. Capt. Hensler, Sir W. Stirling, Mr. Craik, and Mr.
Whiskin. The number of prisoners for trial is 108—a
Ito er period than usual having elapsed since the last
The learned judge very briefly addressed the grand
jury, and the trial of prisouers was proceeded with.
DEFECTS IN TUE Law.
Samoa Ifammeul, 27, a cab driver, was indicted for
stealing 101. in geld coin from the person of John Thomas.
The prosecutor deposed that lie was a seaman belonging
' to the Oriental Steam Navigation Company's vessel Ben-
tinck, and on the first of last month he -armed in London,
having been paid olf on the arrival of his vesselat Southamp-
ton front the East. At about 5 o'clock in the afternoon of that
day he was at the Spread Eagle in Gracechurch-street, and
having whilst there discovered that a parrot and cage he
had brought home had been left at the Waterloo station of
the South Western Railway, he hird a cab, of weieh the
prisoner was the driver, and directed him to proceed to the
station in the Waterloo-road. At that time he was a little
fresh, but he was perfectly master of himself, and knew well
what he was about. The luggage he had with him at the
Spread Eegle was placed on the cab, and the prisoner drove
him to Waterloo station, where he found the parrot, and he
then told the prisoner to drive to Turner-square, Holton.
On arriving there here he paid the prisoner Is. Cid. as the
fare, and having expressed a wish to treat him to a drop of
grog, he was persuaded by the prisoner, after the lug-
gage lad been delivered, to re-cater the cab. The
prusiner then drove to several public-houses, on stopping
at one of which ha thrust two women into the cab, but
not liking their appearance, and eelieving that their object
was to rob him, he (witness) at once capsised them tate
the street, and the cab proceeded. 'Thu prisoner brought
up at a public-house at the top of High-street, Buxton, sad 1,
immediately after he gave his badge to a fellow he had
previously hailed. That man got on the box and took the
reins, and the prisoner got into the cab and took a seat at
the stern. lie then gave a lurch over as if he was breaking
away to the leeward of the ship—(laughter)—and at the'
name time he felt his band at the pocket his money was in..
He (witness) hulloa'd out, " What lay's that i" upon which
the prisoner pulled a line and the cab was brought up.
He was quite sure that after the women left the cab he
had 271. in gold in his left hand waistcoat pocket, but on
ciatnting his money, after the prisoner had lurched over him, '
be found only 171. The prisoner thin demanded Ins. mule
tor his fare, though he bed given him a half sovereign after
Its bad paid him the 7s. 61 A policeman cause up and took
the number of the cab.
In trans-extunimition, and bi answer to questions put by
the learned judge,
The prosecutor stated that, though he was perfectly cur-
tain that he had UM stolen from him, he could not, as a
conscientious man, swear whether the coins stolen were all
sovereigns or all half-suvereigne, or whether part were
' sovereigus and part half—overeiges.
Mr. Meteatte submitted that upon this evidence the pri-
soner must he acquitted, and cited the case of " The queen
v. Bond," in which it was held by the judges, Mr. Justice
Erie alone dissenting, that unless the particular coins stolen
I could be specified, the accused must be acquitted.
The learned judge, after looking at the case, said it was
simply a piece of nonsense that such should be the law in
1551.
Mr. O'Brien said the case cited and the present were
parallel eases but there was it bill before parliament, intro-
duced by Lord Campbell, that would, lie tuought, meet the
evil.
The learned judge thought justice was being trifled with
whilst this was suffered, hut as he did not sit there to state
the 1411 according to his own views and feelings, when the
judges had given a decision upon it, lie could not do utlwr-
a bse than iiirect the jury to acquit the prisoner, but at the
same time he thought the us :minted iii support of the ob-
jection bad, and he wus very glad that a bill was before
parliament that would present such objections being
The jury then returned a verdict of Not G ;tilt y.
Capt. Hensler thought it a great pity that justice should
be defeated upun such technicalities..
The proeeeitur said he had been at a great loss through
bringing the charge against the prisoner. Hail it not data
fur that he should have gone out iii the Singapore with
troops for the Cape.
The learned judge said he could only order him his
COW,
AY UNFORTTNATI3 CHILD.
Jeremiah Keefe, a child, deecrilieil iu the calendar as of
seven sears of age, who was beretbot and nearly naked,
was indicted fur a felony ; but the grind jury threw out
the bill.
The prisoner was brought up into court prior to being
diecharged ; and his appearance, which was that of a child
file year. od, excited a general feeling of continiseration.
The learned Judge sand he found that the charge against
the child was that of having stolen four half-crowns and a
penny from under a candlestick in a neighbour's house ;
and, as the depositions clearly nettle out the case against
him, he was at a lolls to conjecture for what reason the
grand jury had thrown out the bill.
A member of the bar suggested that the grand jury
might have ignored the bill, on the ground of the child's
tender years, fur if he were nut five years of age he would
not he liable to a prosecution for felony
Tire learned J1111:4e thought that could not be so. inas-
much as the child was not before the grand jury. It was
a dreadful thing to find an infant of such tender years
mode the subject of an inclictraeut fur felouy, and it was •
lamentable spectacle to see so utterly helpless a little child
in a court of justice as a prisoner. Wel the grand jury not
ianored the bill, there would have been an opportunity, on
the ease being tried, to make a full inquiry as to the chs-
ract.e. and habit+ oh the child's parents, and to ascertain how
he had been brought up.
Mr. Payne said that the calendar stated that the child
was unable either to read or to write.
An officer here said that at the time the chill was taken
into custody, he stated that his father bought him a new
VI of hoots and a new pair of trowsers with the money he
the learned Judge said he thought as much. The poor
little thing before the court was a fitting subject fur the
Exhibition, such was his deplorable condition and lament-
able history. (The boy was measured by direction of the
court. His height was 3 feet d inches.) The learned
Judge poceeded to say that it %at quite clear from
the facer of the boy's father having purchased new
home and trowsers with the stelen money, that it
was he who hail drawn the child into the commission
of this theft. There was no defect in the criminal
law so severely felt as the want by courts of justice of the
power to compel the parents of such children as this to
maintain them whilst in prison, tor, if this were so, the
great inducement such persons now had to let their children
get into habits that ended in conviction and imprisonment
would be done away with. At present, tine parents of such
children, knowing that upon their conviction they were re-
leased from all responsibility in respect of their support and
education, were in the habit of turning them out of doors,
as young even as the pour hapless object before the court,
to get a living in any way they could ; and, in instauces
that lead come before they court; such had been
shown to be the ease where the fathers of boys
so turned out upon the world were in constant employment,
some smelling 20s. ,some 305., and others more than that weekly,
I and as soon as there was Is power to compel the tethers of such
children to contribute towards their maintenance whilst in
prison in the same way as parishes were enabled to compel
a tether to pay fur the mainteuance of his wife and family
in caw of desertion, there would be a diminution of
juvenile crime. That would put a stop to the present
wretched system, under which every temptation was held
out to evil and wicked parents to Cast their offspring into
crime to free themselves from the burden of their support.
The passing of a measure of the nature he had pointed
out would be a fee greater step towards the improvement
of the murals of the children of the lower chases and the
suppression of juvenile crime than ever could be at-
tained by fine pathetic speeches in parliament. lie
hoped ull he had said would go forth to the world,
for this was a vitally important subject. It was
impossible that any gentleman could witness tlnee cases
without being convinced as to how deep a state of degrada-
tion and immorality the operation of the present system
tended. lie very sincerely lamented that the court had not
the power to order the father of this child before it, to be
prosecuted for receiving the stolen money.
The sister of the child, a decently clad girl, said her
tether was a journeyman cooper, but she did not know what
his earnings were. She herself had not resided with him
fur five years, and she would willingly take her brother (the
prisoner.)
The prisoner was then discharged, and he left the court
with his sister.

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Cireaar;ir7lrendell edit
convicted, and mete:went to 12 months' imprisonment. The
vice was not corrected by the punishment. The moment
the delinquent was liberated from confinement he recoils-
menced operations, and in a short time the robbery of seven
horses was traced to him and two others of the family, and
at the present time the father and two brothers of the pri-
soner arc awaiting their trial, which is to take place at the
next assizes, upon charges of a similar kind. The pri-
seller's father is a small farmer, who has lived in respect
for several years within a few Mies of the place in which
the last offence attributed to the prisoner was
committed. Il
uliarlyia house is situated in a retired
spot, pec calculated, according to the de-
scription given by the officer, for concealment and
escape, there being several narrow and unfrequented roads
and lanes in the immediate neighbourhood. The son, who
has already suffered the penalty of the law, resided at some
considerable distance from the spot on which his father and
brothers lived, and was not, to all appearance, by any
means in the habit of associating with them, a circum-
stance attributed to the loss of character to which his in-
(anions habits subjected him. The extraordinary disap-
pearance of horses from stables, at various places, within a
few miles of the farm-house, however, caused a police in-
vestigation, the result of which was the apprehension of
the members of the family who are now in prison, and the
pursuit of the man at the bar, who was on Sunday
traced by Jarvis, the City officer, to Mint-street, in the
Borough.
Sir Peter Laurie—lt is very seldom that we hear of a
regularly organised system of robbery like this. The fa-
ther's character, no doubt, was serviceable to the objects of
the plunderers.
The Superintendent—lle was never suspected, for there
appeared to be no intercourse between him and his convicted
son. We can trace ten stolen horses to one of the sons, and
in the house of the father I CAM the saddles and bridles of
some of them. We have no kind of doubt that they all
acted together, and it is rather surprising that some of them
have actually driven several of the horses before they sold
them close to the very neighbourhood in which they had
broken open the stables. I apply to the London magistrate
to remand the prisoner till to-morrow, and to direct that he
be delivered up to me to be conveyed before the county
magistrate, who will commit him for trial, together with his
father and brothers.
Sir Peter Laurie--Prisoner, do you wish to say anything
in objection to the application of the officer ?
The Prisoner—l only went with my brother. I have
nothing more to say.
The Superintendent—l have to return my thanks for the
very great assistance I receive from your officer, who was
indefatigable until he traced him to a public-house in the
vicinity of the place in which he was living.
Sir Peter Laurie—l do not question the skill of our
officer. It strikes me as very strange that lion.e-stealers
should drive the horses they stole under the noses of the
owners.
The Superintendent—They actually worked the horses
all about the places from which they took them, before they
disposed of them.
Sir Peter Laurie then directed that the prisoner should
be given up to the superdent.
BOW-SintenTRLET.
Edward Walters, 3i, was charged with committing a
violent assault on John Fuller, by striking him on the Lice
with an umbrella.
Complainant, who appeared with his face disfigured by
cuts and bruises, stated that he was at the entrance of
Drury-lane Theatre on Monday night, and having to wait
outside the pali.idelt a con,itterable time, he mounted them
to ascertain the cause of the inconvenience. While in this
position, the defendant, who was on the other side of the
palisades, called out to him to come down. Witness replied
that he would directly ; but defendant instantly pulled him
down, and struck him uu the face several severe blows with

Ida umbrella.
l'risoner and in defence, that, previous to complainant's
mounting the palisades, several other persons had ascended
to the same elesatiou, and, throwing themselves on the
heads of the crowd below, ran over their hats and bonnets
to the tickettaker's box. When complainant was standing
on the palisade defendant Saw him give his hat to the care
of a bystander, and button up his coat. Several parsons
cried out " Shame," and '• Pull him down," which latter
command was carried into effect, and he was pulled down
by the side of defendant, upon wil4lll he instantly com-
menced an assault. Defendant returned the blows, and a
light between them and others ensued.
Defendant called a witness, whom he had not seen before
Monday night, but who witnessed the occurrence. Ile
confirmed defendant's testimony, and added that com-
plainant struck other persons besides defendant.
Mr. flail decided that the Calk` must be dismissed, no
complainant had been proved to be the aggressor by getting
on the palisades.
WORSIIIP-STREET.
Henry Barnett Wheeler, a young man of gentlemanlike
appearance, residing in Nelson-place, Grange-road, Dalston,
SW charged with threatening the life of Inc site, and with
having practised towards her a long continued series of
cruelty and ill-treatment
Mr. Heritage who appeared for the complainant, stated
that his client bad been married only about two years to
the defendant, and being pisses-ed of property over which
he had no control, she hail almost ever since been subjected
to constant persecution and ill-usage, resulting from his
repeated demands to be supplied with money, for the indul-
gence of his extravagant and intemperate habits. Ile was
to the frequent habit of beating her unmercifully with a
stick until it was broken to pieces by the violence of the
blows inflicted upou her person, and on a recent occasion
be threw sonic lighted lucifers into one of the beds, with
the avowed intention of setting fire to the house. She was
also kept in a state of constant terror and agitation from the
threats which he repeated almost daily that he would mur-
der her outright, at the same time enforcing his menaces
by brandishing a knife; and a few days since he carried
his violent language and conduct to such an outrageous
osterit that she was compelled to escape from the house, and
obtain refuge from her friends, who advised her itunae•
diately to place herself under the protection of the
magistrate.
Mrs. Wheeler then gave her evidence, the details of
which fully bore out the ease opened by her solicitor.
Defendant did not attempt to justify his conduct, but
declined to entertain the suggestion of Mr. Arnold, who
saw no remedy fur the misfortune but a separation, a
prospect which his wife eagerly embraced.
The magistrate hereupon, being again importuned by
complainant for protection, called upon the prisoner to find
bail for hi, future appearance, and upon his failure to do so,
he was committed to prison.
CLERKENWELL.
Samuel .Va4dca, a ruffianly-looking fellow, was charged
by Mr, John Murray, a gentleman residing in Lower-road,
Islington, with having assaulted him with intent to rob
hint.
It appeared that at one o'clock in the morning the pro-
secutor was returning home, in company with a female
friend, and on their arrival in Lower-road the prisoner and
two other men attacked them. They were both knocked
down, and whilst Mr. Murray was on the ground the
prisoner forced his hand into kis pocket, but did not sue' I
teed in taking any property. fhe lady's screams at-
traded the attention of Epson, 31 N, who came to their
assistance, and apprehended the prisoner, who, after a des-
perate struggle and resistance, was token to the station-
house, but his companion escaped.
The prisoner (who treated the matter with indiffer-
ence) denied the charge, hut was fully committed fur trial.
SOUTHWARK.
Clara Hart, a fresh-coloured looking young woman, de-
scribed as a cap-maker, in the New-cut, Lambeth, was
placed at the bar before Mr. A'lleckett, charged with strip-
ping a child of its clothes, and leaving it iu almost a state
of nudity in the street.
The prisoner is suspected of having plundered several
other children under similar circumstances.
Richard Frith, a paper-hanger, living in llerbert's-
buildings, Waterloo-road, stated that on Saturday afternoon
two of his children, one eight and the other five years of
age, went out to play in the street with other children;
that the eldest owned without her sister, and did not
know what had Moine of her, and that some hours after-
wards the missing child came home nearly naked,
having been divested of her clothing while she wu
absent. The child's account to her parents was that
a young woman came to her while she was at play in the
street and prevailed upon her to accompany her with the
view to give her some fruit. When they arrived at an
unfrequented spot the woman began to strip her of her
clothes, saying she should return shortly with them and
the fruit, and desired her to sit on the step of a door until
she came back. The child, believing what was said to her.
remained on the spot until she was nearly perished with
the cold, and finding the woman did not return, she con-
trived with difficulty to find her way home to the house of
her parents, who suffered much anxiety of mind during her
prolonged absence. 'the child gave such an accurate de-
scription of the offender that her capture was effected in
the course of that morning.
Prisoner was remanded.
THAMES.
Several members of a society calling itself " The Sea-
man's Friendly Association," arising it would seem out of
the late strike in the north, waited on Mr. Ingham' stating
that the association had not been lung formed ; sub-
scriptions to the amount of 16!. 12s. 3(1. had been raised,
and handed over to s person named George 'Liddell, one of
the delegates of the north, who had been appointed secre-
tary, but doubts arising as to his integrity they got rid of
him. Previous to his dismissal, he hail lodged the money
in the hands of Mr. Morse, proprietor of the Albion, High.
street, Shadwell, who now refused to deliver it up without
Riddell's sanction.
Mr. Ingham—ls your society enrolled ?
Anderson (one of the members)—No sir.
Mr. Ingham—Then you are in an awkward predicament,
and will have no little difficulty in recovering the money.
Aaiderson—lf Mr. Morse, who knows the facts, were ho-
nestly inclined, could he not give it up ?
Mr. Ingham—l do not know that he could. He perhaps
will say, " I received the money from Riddell on a certain
account, and am therefore answerable to the person for
whom I hold it."
The books having been handed iu by 'Joseph Sugg, the
present secretary,
Mr. Ingham, on ins ting them, said it appeared that
Morse treated Riddell asec the depositor, and would probably
say that he knew no one else in the matter.
The men, perceiving the hopelessness of their position,
then left the isourt, thanking the magistrate for his advice.

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