The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-16 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1849.

Snow fell when they arrived at Clapham common. Nothing
..find the children when they reached the Free Ilo4;:ital,
save that some little or ware tired and hungry. The girls
had good cloaks and blankets in the vans. The childnn
came to town in Drout t's clothe',
?dr. Clambers—That, my lord, is the case far the prow
cation.
S:r F. Theeiger then rose, commencing kis ester-
wins by observing that he had never la his tape-
rimer, witneend a caw like the present, and he mast
submit that his learned friend bad entirely failed in
substantiating the facts laid in the indictment. The
,nature of the charge appeared to be this, that Mr.
Dronet, being the owner of an establishment at Tooting for
tl.e reception of poor children, and it being his duty, on re-
ceiling those children, to provide proper food, proper cloth-
ing, and peeper lodging for them, he had neglected his ditty
in those respects, and that in consequence Joan Andrews
was attadrad with a mortal disease, of which he died. The
first count embodied the whole of them particulars. He
freely admitted that it was the incumbent duty
of Mr. Droeet, on receiving then children, to do all
which the indictment charged wee ills Old upon
him by reason of the contract into which he entered,
and also he admitted that supro.ing Mr. Drawl negligently
and carelessly omitted to di.charge the duty to encie an en
tent that death ensued in consignees of his andaden mid
segligesee, that he was criminally respomdbio is the dem
preferred in this indictment ; but It MO pudic* oboe apes
the evidence, that this poor boy's deo& WO einlaned,
net immediately and directly in cemeequaise el soysegil-
ream os the part of Mr. Demist, but in mseeimmee of
the visitation of cheers, which wee the imeesdinte NUN
of his death ; and he (Sir F. Theeign) thought be
waa entitled to my that there was menplete ab-
sence of any evidence that even the prodboesieg cause
of the attack of cholera was attributable to Mr. Dronet ; be-
cause their lordships might recollect that it was premd that
this boy was in such a state when lb.lTleld mw him,
that he had no indication whatever of 11e diesseen=is
him; that ito was selected with Oboe of the
to be removed after the cholera bad beam est; that be woo
removed upon a very cold night; sad Mr. Whitfield had
stated that sold was madly a predispenhig eaves with any
of those canoes to which, in the ladistment, they had aWi-
Doted the death of this individual. He thought, therefore,
that he was entitled to say that the death of We party arose,
not from the treatment he received from lir. Drown,
but arose and was produced by Asiatic cholera. Supposing
that to be the cam, how was lir. Drouet respemdble for the
visitation ? What set had Mr. Drama demo ? what ambits
had he been guilty of which inuseheefiresetellisted M the
death of the party ? He (Sir F. !beefier) meprelmetbd that
it was absolutely necessary, in eases of ebb kind, where •
party was charged with manslaughter, that he should
not be proved eves tappets!' there we any prat of
that kited) tohave bees remotely sir bilimileary the
mum of the death of the individual ; but that be
must be proved, in order to establish a este
against him, to be directly and immediately the cause of
his death. He wee not speaking here without some
authority, mad he thought that the principle wee go dearly
Ind dews by Hale, is the "Pleas of the Crows," and the
illustration which be gave was se cep Mto the pretest
ease, that it would be abi on their lartishipe
decision. In page 428 itteline mime • dblisatiou was
taken between the ease of a party who remind • wound
which become mortal sad • pests where a wound sot mortal
was given, but where, by room of improper sad unskilful
treatment, death happened: there the party could not be
guilty of murder. "If a men gives another a wound which
it may be is not in itself so mortal, but that with good
are it might be mired, yet if Ito died from his wound
within • year sad a day, it is hougleide or murder
as the oleo may be ; end it bath been always so ruled; bat
if the wound or hurt be not metal, but with all applisationa
of the party or of them about them of wholesome selves and
medicine., the party dies, if it can dearly appear that this
medicine sad net the wound was the muse of his death, it
seems it was net homicide; bat then that nun oppose clearly
and certainly to be so. But if a man receive a wound,
which wound auras to gangrene, and that be the immediate
nose of death, this is auntie or manslaughter in him who
gave the stroke of the wound which was the cause of gin-
geese." The reason why a party who had gives a wound
was rendered ainciaally mpossible, when the other party
neglected it sad died, was that he was the natural ems
of the wound, whirl was the cause of death ; bat when it
appeared that death was not the natural emesquesee of the
wound, but arose from something totally distiaet sad bide.
pendent, via., the improper treatmest of the , then the
act of the was not that which terminated the life of
the iniiyltimdtswad he was not criminally respond/de. Apply
• that he tbe preenst wee He would assume that there had
been preatat Mr. Dream had neglected his duty
to ' thesehand had brought them into melt a
low Mate that they were in
taiu =ties pe-
culiarly euseeptible of epidermis or cos disease.
He took that state of the body to asslogoas
to the see et the wound, in the poems from Hales, and the
vintages of the Allen 11111 the distinct end independent
matter kr which Mr. Dreamt was not responsible. It was
not the usgaral asessuesee of the condition those children
were in, that timbre elemild visit this land end ravage the
establidusatt of Mr. Drouet; it was as act for which he wee
not reepossible. It proceeded from a higher power, and
therefore Mr. Dronet could not be criminally answerable
for that which he could not by possibility prevent.
Cases had manned in Scotland, which were a forcible

illustration of what he now weed. There was a
case in Mr. Roseoe's " Law of Evidence," page 735.
taken, from Mr. Addison's " Principles of the Criminal
Law of Scotland." Very few decisions were to be found in
English books en this subject, and, therefore, be would Was.
trate the matter _hy referent* to Seoul law. It was clearly
stated by Mr. Meson, that if death were not owing to the
effects of the wound, but to isupervening accident or misfor-
' tone, although induced by the first violence, a person could
not be eonvieted of homicide. Thus, if a person were
wounded and en aged in his 'idiom occupations, the ascii-
ant could not be involved in the eonsequences of his death
even though it was connected with the previous violence.
If the death were owing, not to the natural and ac-
cottoned consequences of the injury but to remote sad
improbable accidents, which bad minceintervened, the party
mast be acquitted. This was the ease of a gamekeeper, who,
having received a wound, was carried to Glasgow and placed
In a bed which had been occupied by a person who had been
ill of erysipelas. He took it, and died in consequence. In
the present cue it was cholera which had caused the death
Of the patty, and that which was said to be done by the pri-
soner was too remote to render him criminally responsible.
Mr. Ballantine said that the wake I. this ease
was whether Asiatic dieters, a disease which was
common to all human beings, which bad afflicted
this country under the most extraordinary circumstances,
was the natural consequence of too little rood or too little
clothing. Supposing this child to have been weakened in
constitution, at the time of the visitation of the Asiatic
cholera, was the Asiatic cholera the direct result of the act
of the prisoner ? There were numerous other diseases, such
as scarlet fever, typhus fever, which might be considered as
the natural consequenceof a tate of under-feeding or under-
clothing. Suppose a person died of owlet fever, and some
ingenious medical man found out that his constitution might
have been a little weakened 12 months before, would
that be a case of manslaughter ? Cholera must
be treated as a violent blow coming from some
other quarter. It must be taken that there were two se-
molt,. Suppose Ato strike B a Tiniest blow, doing him con-
siderable injury, and suppose C to strike another blow, In
consequence of which B died, and a medical men were to
say, that if the first blow had not been struck, B would not
have died, was A to be made reepnesible in consequence of a
subsequent se totally unforeseen ? Suppose a person were
lamed by the aet of another, and in crossing a road was, in
consequence of his lameness, knocked down and run over,
I was it to be said that this was manslaughter in the first
person ? and yet that was the extent to which his leaned
friends must go, if they contended that Kr. Droget was reopen-
Shill for the cholera.

Mi.ll,Chershars mid that if by Mr. Theist's acts he bad
reused the child to a eisditios which had led to ltv death,
this the rule applied whisk bed lam laid down by the mast
ardsent writers is this sablest. A child placed auks
the' care of a gesirdies asylum was, in some Teepee*
la the sum medhisa as a prisoner placed in the
ewe of • poky. Is pant of feet, there wee a meat
in this ludistmentwhisk Oat the child was is motedy
mid that tilers was es the pert of Mr. Driest.
The leaned mom' emended to cite emend caw le which
gevernoniais babies held responsible be tbe deaths a
M their 'barge, sash dudes hisdag wises
Millasseglest or El maim He sustamild that the Imo dee-
trlse was, that ifs ma pleat dilidrea setrueled M le sue
in coal • position ea blamed • habit at body that :cowed
them more liable to fatal dim's% mak person was guilty,
whim death menied, of seenalsomMer. Mr. Chambers here
read • bag extras" ban Justin Ireelses book on the crimi-
nal law, to show that the death of prisms throurk the
cruelty of gaolers was alwave held to be saarder as regarded
the latter. Lord Hale also (he said) gave malty ewes in
which neglect weed& reader a man liable to a
charge of seeder. Me meessied that If Mr. Dem" by hie
treatment had reduced /shows to seal • Mies es le render
him more moored to the attacks et "Mom adage certain
to die of it, his conduct wu sink as to Wog bit clearly
within the indictment.
Mr. Clarke= followed on the same aid*, coMesding that
it was sot necessary to establish a prima facie OM of mm}
slaughter to make the subject matter worthy of lemeigadss
by • Jury. It was quite clear from the midesse
MAIMS- Mil has reduced to such a state during his red
dense with Mr. Doss* as to render his immediate 'tinkles
ander out atteek of Asters a matter of certainty.
Mr. Baron Platt—There is its evidence to show that the
boy was ever in a state of health to enable him to rain
chasm

)I r-. is evidoses to show that he was is
good health when entering the Tootieg Asylum.
Sir F. Thesiga—He was ally two swaths there alto-
gether .
Mr. Clarkson proceeded with his argument. He thought
it would not be contended that there was say similarity be-
twine the ease of a sass who had • kimono sod who, from
his inability to get out of the way is thae, was run down by
an omnibus, and the ease of the bmemeg b., mem..
Mr. Hamm Flati thought them might be scum similarity.
I. the cos mae,iiiSishad DM the power Se rue out of
the trealt el tits seri is ths mire be bed seta sal.
Iciest power of to resit the Masse&
Kr. Melina said that whether se met these mimed say
similarity, it was at all meets sissr that *s duly meat ups
the &feedlot la the proes ! ass meg Se proem the health
M the &AL Within whet pedal we II that soh treetemat
had bees eimlitistered as to sense medalist mend purest
redelesse Se dimes t He seedeeded that the B treellmout
had bets IM grodhpeeleg ones by
_ilia the (Mild had
takes the desiree, mil that. Woes ale mmes oat ant were
sseled. segemeat might to be ed valkL endear
Asillesue ambled lug the plot raised was very leytertaat
esklesmies la eluded se espial the degree of re:=llty
attaching to thins who hod Andrea wader their

Sir F. Theeiger replied. He coincided to opinion that the
point was mat important t the piddle, tot it was equally
important to the pawner, who ought not to be placed in
jeopardy, if the law did sot imperatively require it. If the
law wee clear urn the Select, as undribtedly it was, then
it was their tor..altips• duty to interpose and say that the pri-
soner ought not to be prejudiced by having facts contrary
to law submitted against him. His learned friends had both
stated that this was an entirely new case end that they had
been unable to Sad any authorities which directly bare upon
the question. His learned friend, Mr. Chambers,
throughout his argument to have entirely mistakag=el
which he (Sir F. Theidger) had ventured to present
to the court, became he had been aphis all if
he (Sir F. Thesiger) had bees opposing cumpiecdon.
6d principles of law applicable to the teak Ceres had
been cited on the other aide which really established the
principal foundation of all the obeervatioos advanced on
behalf of the prisoner. It had never bets denied that if a
party had a duly east upon him—whether that duty steel
out of natural relation, or out of contract, or out of peculiar
pesition—be was bound to provide proper food, /guest and
and that if he artlessly sad negligently omitted to
that duty, by reason of which the natural and
necessary omsequenco ensued of the death of the party, be
might be billeted and found guilty of murder or man-
slaughter. frosseding to the circumstances 'under which the
act took them. TM learned oasts'd here referred to the
case et" The Queen et. Marriott," and also to a coo in
" Foster's Crown-law," and a judgment given by Mr.
Justice Pittston.
Mr. Justice Williams wished the learned counsel to ed-
amss himself to the argument whether there was any evi-
dence that the ill-treatment gemming that there led
Wee ill-trestment7m-operated with the cholera to produce

death is the pawn cam:
Sir F. Tarim said that the argentin en the other side
would lead to extraordinary results, it parties were to be held
respendble is all eases fee deaths peahen by prodintthil
orima Mabel mss led stated In *ann., that where a
amber of man wen abated together in any establish.
sent, there a mem of knot heap was predisposed to re-
ceive any spii•mit whisk might b• neap, whether that epi-
demic was asters wr mat fever anything else. Well, then,
pots and esseleiboldge were pima like Mr. Drone*, in
which a number of Yuman hasp were collected together,
and in whisk a train might be It that was only wailing for
the nark to be applied • and yet. according to the alp-
tams on the ether eide,tia pane peen over pans =
into that eseittion were NeW to an hidistmeat he
or sansielebtar, if the *inn egged and pond mind 1
He thee one to the_ swain whether there wee say
data a tem that Mr. Dona swanned any act Midis
to predees abs death of the shill ? He sidmalited that then
was so such evidence. There was, it was true, sine eddies,
to show that the child was not is an nheeilkystate when he
want to Mr. Dread's. But the question must be taken in
mimes to the ensticatica and nature of the child. He
might hare been orkfdty of a sickly antintlen; and,
esserdiat to the meiiasl @aims, he was a bey when eon-
siltation was either hereditarily bad, or bed by reason of his
having hems badly brought up. It was premed that the sp.
:WingAar death were not such as could hays been pro-
:Owen the pried of his arrival at Mr. Dronet's
esteldblimeat sad kis death. All the medical testimony
on the naiad Inlaid to show that state a eoestitution
which would pier him more liable to nit fatal disease.
Mr. Site preyed that he was put into the sick ward soon
after his arrival at Tooting, end that he remained there
until he was removed to abs new hospital ,• se that, instead
of there being evidence to go to the jury that any act of Mr.
Droust's contributed is the slightest degree to the death of
the child, the evidence was deed, the reverse. If that
were so, the ease was in their lordship' heads, and they
won't bays to decide it. What was W cane of death ?
Cholera. What produced the cholera? Certainly no act of
Mr. Dana's.
Mr. Baron Platt—Bat suppose the child was first reduced
by bad treatment, and then put into • room where there
was cholera?
Sir F. Theeiger—That would make all the difference.
Suppose Mr. Drouet had taken this child from a healthy
positioe, and placed him within the reach of infection and
that he died, no doubt Mr. Dronet would then be liable for
the offence abated in the indictment.
Mr. Baron Platt—Yes, the cannot death would then have
originated in him.
Sir F. Thai,ger—Undonbtedly ; but here Mr. Dolma was
not the snoring cause. The cants canati was far beyond
Mr. Dronet's command—it came ben above. He therefore
submitted th it Mr. Brent was net remessible for the deati
of the child, sad that their lordships ought not to allow him
to be put in jeopardy at all by letting the cam go to the
jar/.
ear. Baron Platt, after a somewhat lengthened compila-
tion with Mr. Justice Williams, said that the principal
question raised by the argument which had just been
brought to a termination was, whether the treatment which
the deceased child was said to have received whilst in the

;i;iibep;isTaerisasO reduced sad weakened
his constitutional energy u to render him less capable of
beariog up spinet the attach of ileum than would hare
been the case had he not been submitted to that mune of

treatment. Oa that questles, however, the asset did not
then feel disposed to elm way egiaion, sad they were
the lees disposed to do so, bseesm than was methsr quer
don which emmed altogether Is dhows of the wise at issue.
The indictment. It wadi be saes, 'barged that it was the
duty of the primmer, having the we of the doomed and
ether children, to observe a peeper mode of treatment to
wards them; and that, by reason of the nonobservance and
wiled of that duty by the primmer, the death of the de-
mama bad beta eases& Ia eider is onstaia that charge it
vase sortaialy was amammy, aaffirepset of the prosecution,
to have end toms meathet lb. child's cosatitation
IRS SS* that it would in allpinbabay have resisted this
&SON j hat set one ahem sf eefieaa to that effect had btu
itsthewitnessin g** bad Ism idled he the presteu-
Upon that point, thmalleee, *me wee dandy no as
to go to the jury. The whole of the medial Isellimony had
leen entirely matter of midis Item the latilasktit to the
end ; and as there had art he say evidmise- to show that
the ecestitution el thissidild meld have redid the attack of
the disease which had WM upon it, how we' It Possible tha
jury could say that the treatment which the child was alleged
to have received, when nadir the are of the pab
ether, had been the ethos et kis dm* f He (Banta Plella)
had paid great attention to the Misuse as it had gess an,
and he had been altogether *AS to discover any cems pat
of it which had shown that this child might sot have died of
cholera, independently of the treatment he received at the
prisoner's establishment. Besides, the evidthos of the moil
cal gentleman, Mr. Garrod, distinctly wept to prove that
the premier could not have reduced the child's belly to mei
a condition as he had discovered is the short epees of tins
that he had been under his care. That same gentlistan, it
must be remembered, had also spoken of certain
about the body tending to give a constitutional =1.08i:
them—in reference to the glands, and also of glandular bees-
chide. Lo.king at all the evidence which had been addaced,
he was totally unable to see anything upon which the jury
could arrive at a safe conclusion- of the guilt tithe prisoner.
The learned judge than turning to thriller boa mid :
Gentle-
men of the jury, left entirely in the dark, as you one, by the
IMAMS. Its the pea.swties, you causal &nits at the lOW
elusion that this met kis lift* hp irer= of his consti-
tution heels( hese impaired by threlment mid to have been
thesived in the home of the primate, sad when UMW his
d cars. Yes ceases decide that question unless
cytinC and care. Yes ceases dodd. that sseds. unless
you hav, evidence piled Were yea to show that that treat-
meat really was the mass of deans. You ought to bath had
it shown to you by the evidence of competent neediest wit-
nesses that this child, when he went to the prisoner's astir
blishment,would in all probabil, even if not with outalaty,
have been able to have resisted the disease with which he
was eventually vaited. It is lapsable, however, to show
that by the evidence which has been brought forward.
The prosecution, to have made oat its cam, should have
called a medical man, who, having seen the state of
the child's body before he went to Mr. Dross's,
could have been able to say that it would have sur-
vived the attack of this disease ; and thee if it had
appeared that the treatment the child had received whilst at
the prisoner's establishment had so lowered his constitutional
powers and energy as to caws his falling a victim to the
-se, the jury would have had evidence to show that that
treatment was the cause of death. But as it is, gentlemen,
I do not see that there a anything is the evidence for you
to try, and therefore the prisoner is entitled to your ac-
quittal.l Mere there was a loud clapping of hands in the
11.11,11
Mr. Ton Platt desired the officers to bring before him
any persons they might spin observe thus misoonducting
themselves, and he would immediately commit them to
gaol. The interruption was not repeated.
The foreman of the jury then eaM that they wen unani-
mous in their verdict of Not Gerrity—that they had not suf-
Meet evidence to convict.
The verdict of not guilty was accordingly recorded.
Mr. Clarkson then said that there were three other indict-
ments of a similar character, wherein the primmer was
charged with the murders respectively of Mary Kellett,
Martha Pethergill ' sad Boma Ingard. Halted read through
the whole of the evidence upon which the charge in those
cases rested, and he was bound to my, after the opinion
which had been expressed by his lordship, that the evidence
was not such as to lead him to entertain any reasonable ex-
pectation of obtaining convictions. In troth, the strongest case
wasthst whichbadjusttenainated. Under themeirramstances
he did nit pro to offer any evidence in them other three
cases. The prisoner would therefor* be arraigned on those
class, and a verdict of " Net guilty " at ones be taken.
The prissier was according ly arraigned on the ether three
indictments, and a verdict of " Not guilty" taken in each
OSOS.
The prisoner, who was affected to tears, was Immediately
from enstody, and left the court amidst the con-
-ea of his friends.

THIRD COURT.--litnnumor.
Before Yr. Bullock. _ _

THE ROBBERY ON BOARD THE JIIBTITIA HULK.
R. Lahr, who pleaded guilty as the pravious day to ea
ladietafeet for haying stoll the ma d 7501., flu property
.4 the grown, err this day Woe& tip for seatown. The
sesame bad beg. paligaari to ardor that ems drama-
dawn might ha Isiah is watigadas el goahlwalut. No
asuantidaatisa et Ike Idol woe nada, awl the rimer, who
ma at asa than swum at Harahan Oak and at the dam
detiaraittisig the dhow ovareser at dm looltia Bulk, was,
without commas*, eautasood to ems yowl Inarporawka.

SURREY SESSIONS.-SATIIRDAY.
DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY BY A FEMALE
ON HUNGERFORD BRIDGE
. _..

ARP{ Pt t: • WiE-iiac;rit picititatsTZ ta•ktad for
a wet* pard eitate, sad a pens eocuining
20 oh den dee penes et Wort Brodie, a tradesman
riddles at
The reserraler lbalie• the 01ild oldie 29th ult.,
a little alterl2o'deet. he ielt ism Slade ant Hunger-
ferd-rurker, and preessiei men tbe Way emu* home.
Whoa he arrived • little beyond the mitre if Etutgerfori-

bridge, the prisoner accosted him, and wanted to induce him
to go home with her. He told her that he was going home
to Lis wife, and that he wanted nothing more to do with
her. While they were talking, a man ran up against hint,
and nearly pushed him down, when the primmer snatthed
his watch sad his purse, and ran away. Ike man held him
down while she escaped ; end when his recovered himself, he
found no meson near him. He ran to the Surrey side of the
bridge, calling "Stop thief," and a few minutes afterwards
the prisoner was apprehended. In cross ezansinsUon, pro-
secutor mid that he was much intoxicated at the time, awl
he might have fallen down without being pushed. He was
certain, however, that his property was all safe when he met
the planer.
Higbee, the toll collector on the Surrey aide of Hunger.
ford Bridge, stated, that he knew the prisoner well, she being
in the habit of frequently passing over the bridge. On the
night of the robbery be heard a man all oat " Stop thief,"
and immediately afterwards the prison r rushed past him
into the Belvidere road. Suspecting that she had com-
mitted some offence, he requested a gentleman who was
passing to panne her, and prevent her from making her
escape. The gent'enten ran at or her, and directly after-
wards the prosecutor came up to him, ead'told him that the
prisoner had robbed him of his watch, chain, and purse. He
remained with witness a few minute., when the prisoner
was brought back, and identified by him as the thieL
lit. Parr, a tradesman residing in the Illackfrials-road,
said, that a little after 12 o'clock on Thursday night the
29th ultimo, he was passing alongthe Belvidere-road, and
hs saw the prisoner nigh from Huisgerford Bridge. Last
wither called out to him to stop her, as she had robbed a
gentleman. He instantly went in pursuit, and captured her
near Canterbary.street, when he saw her throw the purse
into the road. He held her until a policeman came up,
when the watch and guard were found upon her.
In defence thener denied bevies the purse, but the
watch was picket up priso by her on the bridge. The jury found
her Guilty, and the court sentenced her to six months' bard
labour in Brixton Howie of Correction.

POLIO-SATURDAY.
_ MARYLip39NE..

CILIIIOII OP sa?a.—W.Clarke, ;; fat an t to lie. Lori, a
surgeon at Hampstead, was charged with having committed
a rape upon Mary Hunt, a pretty-looking girl, only 14 years
of ale.
Proosentrix gave evident* to the offset that she was in the
service of /An. Smith, Hollybaslabill, Hampeend, end that
Melrose weed tw *Woe ka the da Ikee west to Mr.
Imes home Ike eine usedichre for bar m . She was
Mara late the surgery, and in the mane of 20 minutes the
Criease *whoa he gave her a sou* of powders, tell-
rrthst be wee leaking up a bottle of physic which
wadi be reedy shently ; he raked her what her age was, and
pat many asestisme to her, es to the number of brothers and
sisters she had. He then forced her against a table in a very
rough manner, and perpetrated the offence. Prosecutrix
added that, abe be had had his will of her, in spite of all the
resistance she could make, he told her she must not tell her
mistress of it, ea it would do her no good, and might do him
a great deal of harm. She made no observation to this, but
went to her grandmother, to whom she related the whole
particulars el the outrage. A great deal of other evidence
was adduced to prove that a capital offence had been com-
mitted.
_ . . . .

ilteoirieoser who declined saying anything in the present
stage the proCeedings, was remanded till next Thursday.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

Deanna or " "—Jane Evans,
with a number of aliases, was charged with having Oven false
characters to amen sad a woman, named Keeling, =order to
get them into the service of Dr. Toynbee, of Argyll-place.
Mrs. Torahs* proved that, being in want of a footman and
housemaid, two persons named Keeling, man and wife, ap-
plied for the situation.. They referred her to a lady named
Kent, with whom they said they bad lived for some time.
Witness called at the addreq given by the Keeling., and she
saw the prisoner, who answered to the name of Kent, and
who gave both the persons an excellent character. Witness
believed the representations of the assumed Yrs. Kent, and
engaged Keeling and his wife ; but eireamstanoss fortunately
transpired before they Fame into her house which led to the
apprehension of the prisoner.
The prisoner, in defence, denied that she was the person
who bad seen Yrs. Toynbee. She said there wu a woman
who was going about personating her, who was in the habit
of giving false characters to servants, and who had by this
means obtained situations for numbers of both sexes as ser-
vants, and this had no doubt led Mrs. Toyabte Into the pre-
sent mistake, _ _ . _ .

Mn. Toynbos said she was positive as to the identity of the
prisoner. The prisoner's appearance was too remarkable to
allow of a mistake. The reference she received from the
Keelings was to Mrs. Kent, of Upton, near Reading, whose
town residence was said to be in Taunton-place, Regent's-
park.
The prisoner was ordered to be brought up on Monday
next. _ __ _

LAMBETH.
Tun Env. Ma. HOUNSPIILD AGAIN.—Mr. Poker,
clerk to Mr. Copeland, a solicitor at Sheffield, who had been
examined on the preceding day as a witness in the ease of
the Rev. Mr. Hounsfleld, applied to Mr. Norton far the pay-
ment of his expenses incurred in attending to a summons
served upon him at Sheffield on Thursday morning, to give
evidence at this court.
Mr. Norton remarked that the charge against the prisoner
amounted to ace of misdemeanor, and as the law at present
stood he had not the power of certifying for the expenses of
those attending before him. It was but just that the witness
should have its expenses paid to him by the prosecutor, who
had summoned him.
. . . . . .

Mr. Roberts, the prosecutor's solicitor, shook his head, es
and said he should not feel justified in doing so. lie should, as
under the circumstances, see his client that afternoon, and 26
hear what be said on the subject. Mr. Roberts did not ‘,lll
return till the court closed ; but as Mr. Norton was about to To'
leave the court, Mrs. Hounsfield made her appearance, and 03
requested that her husband might be discharged out of
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custody, as there was an indisposition to prosecute, or at all
events, that he might he admitted to bail on his own le
reeognisw'm 1„
Mr. Norton refused to do either without the cement of the ig
prosecutor or his attorney, and the prisoner still remains at
Honemonger-lane gaol.

RICHMOND.
THZ lIXTRAORDINAILY Casa OF SHOPLIFTING. AL-
LEORD INSANITY OF TUC PRISONER —Liu Lydia Dixon,
• teacher of made, and the daughter of an eminent solicitor
now deceased, who stood charged with stealing property of
all descriptions from tradesmen at Richmond, was brought
up for re-examination. Twe letters had been received by
the bench, one from Mr. Bette, a surgeon at Hammersmith,
stating that he had been frequently in the company of Miss
Dixon, and had always considered her conduct strange and
eccentric, and had also attended her for brain fever for seven
weeks. The other was from Mr. R. Tapetell, of the Lower
Deptford-road, Rotherhithe' expressing his conviction that
she had been of an unsound mind for a long period, her brain
being affected through her long illness.
Inspector Beard informed the bench that he had, since the
remand, found another lodging which the prisoner had
occupied at Hammersmith, where a quantity of property
had bees found.

Bevanl other cases were then gone into, and after a
lengthened summation the prisoner was again remanded.
The property found at the two residences of the prisoner,
at Richmond and Hammersmith, consisted of cards of laoe
and Ringo, rolls of silk, Nadu and satinets, poplins, muslin de
laines, eashmere and cottons for dresses, black satin shawls,
woollen plaid, cashmere, Paisley, boas, victorines, and muffs
50 rolls of valuable ribbons, parasols, bonnets, gloves,
stockings, 30 pairs of women's boots and shoes, pieces of
flannel, alias, linen, umbrellas, cosmetics, hair combs
and brushes, • great number of wigs and fronts, lace
shawls, veils and falls, cap fronts, artificial flowers, and a
vast number of other things. The prisoner had not attempted
to remove the private marks.