The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10, 1853

Rau) fatelligence.
EQUITY COURTS.—YEnzapn.
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Art ;Sit V4.11511%41 P. •PCIINI4IIOP OP TOSIC.-TNI
PCILoOL.

lees was an information against the Archhiekop of York,
as melba et tne grammar school at Ilegesworth, in the West
n dim, eat Yorkshire, and the it.,. J. Baines Graham, the
me ter at the school, and to object of the information wee
to i.!itai t it sew Klause fur the better administration of the
had. of the eeheol. The school was (mewled iu tee reign
of 'erred VI., by Archbiebup Reigate, who made mutate
"come Haden. " or rules far its regulative and supp•rt•
at. i fur the administration of the property with which ha
ei.don it; an tit appeared that he directed loaf copies tit
these emaatitutions or rules to be kept in different repsni-
tories—mms to Im kept by the Archbishop end his somessors,
•me by the Goan and Chapter of York, one by the Arch-
deeerni, and one by the master of the school. Not one of
the terietimils had been discovered, but 'line terrine bad been
faunal in three of the preserib d reposivri s. Two of them
apprised to be complete, a.. 4 perfecly agree,' with cacti
ether, with the exception of sense trillinr verbal distr..
paneree ; but the third copy, which here oa the face tit it
tkie 2Ploarstei of a atntilateill alinement, was found in the
t nee.: ion of the scheolmeeter, was d.feetive. and omitted
t • state a portion of the c sanitation' or elet•, as found In
the other two; the portion omitted tieing that which pro•
sides Met an exhibition of IW. a•yeer snail be given to sit
of the scholars, sal that the surplus of the fin-e ii to go to
same charitaWe edject. Tie con•titstiuss provided
that there should be a free school at Hemsworth
for the teachieg of grammar and ether know-
ledge." at which the mister !he. give his super-
-15400410 final tin is the morning ti'l live in the evening,
with an interval at an hour ter dinner teom I.sily•dsy to
Ifichaeliras, end from 7in the morning till the remainder
of the 'ear. It is directed that the property shall be let at
the then existing rents, and that tines be taken; the usher
was t." hays a salary of 41. a year, and the surplus of the
fine* was to be applied for the additional benefit of
the schools. At present the property is t•timated to
be of this melee of rather more than 3001. a year, inde-
pendent of the arlvowson of the tieing of Sineingtoo, which
is in the master fur the time being. The muter receives
the wholes of the rents, Intl pays an usher 401. a year, who
teaches children reading, writing, and arithni,qc, and there
are as scholars in the school lesruing Latin or Greek. The
dicker-General, who appeersil in support of the informs-
t: as, hasiag stated these facts appetled to the court to
make a deuce fir a new scheme which wouhl convert this
school into an atadiney on a large scale, where many youths
might hi taueht not only grammar, but " other know-
ledge," as stated by the (sunder, end that the advewson be
add anal the protium added t a the friends of the school.
Mr. it. Palmer, who appeared for the Rte. J. B. Graham,
said Viet it appeared, by a decree in the reign of James 1.,
that Hurlsmen, the first master, reeonveyed a portion of
the property with which the eenoid was endowed to the
loundir, and he suggested that it might be presumed that
the coastitution was altered is consequence, and the sums
to be paid for the exhibition*, and the mode of applying the
surplus bees were no longer to be applied to those objects.
The prernt mode of conducting the school was in accord-
ant, with au/me:idiom (ruin the parishioners, and approved
by the archon's'''.
His Hor.ott, raid there must be inquiries as to the leases
at present in existence, the system of taking fines must be
ah.ilielvd, end the property be let at its full value. A new
seieme meat be devised, which he would consider in chain-
hen, an 1 in settling that scheme he must =he provision
for the personal euperintendence of the master, which was
rot given now; but he should not think it expedient to
allow the master so small a *um that a person of inferior
c 'puny only could be obtained. The costs, including those
of the water, to come out of the estate.

couuT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—YesTFEDAy.
e:11: YOB iM NANCO.-.IIUORN lailD CUIDIIII.L AND icsricus Coll.
lINITNAN, AND EAU,
THE LORD MAYOR'S BANOCRT.
In the cotwee of the afternoon the newly-elected Lord
Mayar...ccoutpanied by the Recorder and Sheriff•, appeared
in court, and invited their lordships in the %null form to the
civic lmuquet at Guildhall.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.-Yr.STERDAL
ermna. w ISANCO. amnia cultr Jr -Fitz mins. ma. norm

iIAtLV., Ml. JCIPTIC[ WILLIIII% A D 101. JCfIICK ituNtao.
TILE LOUD MAYOR.

Shortly before three o'clock the Lord Ma or and Sheriff
Wire, accompanied by the past Lord Mayor, the Recorder,
several Cdermen, and officers connected with the corpora-
tion, arrived in the court. The civic fuectionaries were in-
trodued by Mr. F..iiter Owen, the hich constahle of West-
mii.ster. After the wail formalities bad been gone
through, the Recorder invited their lordships to the ben-
iiuet at Guildhall, an invitation which the Chief Justice said
that some of the judges would avail themselves of.

CONSISTORY COURT.—YESTERDIT.
Bows De. LI,IIINCITOS.

This eau ;which had been commenced on the previous
day) WA. a suit for • divorce, by reason of cruelty aad adul-
tery, brought by Mrs. Juniata Mary Bacon Ciocci against
Rephael Cioeei. The parties were married at Brighton on
the 15th January, and they separated on the following 11th
of March.
The defendant was a teacher of languages at Brighton,
wit .re, re, it was asserted, he bad an engagement to teach at 20
I riles' eehoois. Ile bad also been employed to translate
J.. well's Apology "'into Italian, by tbe Sseiety for the
Promotion of Christian Knowledge, and be bad, since 1848,
beta an active member, from his own statement, of the
Female Aid Society, established in Red Lion square. At the
time of his marriage he was about 27 years of age, while his
wife, then Miss Franz, was considerably older. and was
possessed of • fortune amounting to 40,0001. The charge
Oniony was almost entirely grounded upon the fact set
forth in the libel that Mr. Ciotti, knowing himself to be
diseased did, in spite of warning, contract the marriage, arid
impart to Mrs. Cowl the disorder in question, whereby she
was reds fed to a state of great debility. It was also alleged
that ever since the marriage the defendant had been in the
manual hrbit of consorting with prostitutes., bith in
Brighton and Leedom, and had been constantly seen in
their society ; that on or about July 29, 1311, Mr. Ciocci,
thee living at 8, Ciarenee-square Brighton, frequentedbrothels, where he formed en adulterous intimacy with an
absedeeed person named Polly Miller, and other prosti-
tutes. He was further alleged to have habitually com-
mitted adultery with his cook, named Emma Brow., and
afterwards is Loudon, on the 2nd Noverabir, 1852, pursued
a similar course of conduct with a person named Fanny or
Eller: Alexander. In answer to the libel given in on behalf
of the wife, Mr. Ciocci bad asserted an allegation setting
forth that, so fee from treating his wife with neglect,
she had ezperieneed at his bends the most uniform te.der-
new, and he had done everything in his power to promote
her comfort and happiness. His wife had, two months
after their manage, gone to Cuckfield, in Swum, as she
niformed Mai, for the benefit of ter health, but, instead
of r: turning to her husband, she signified her intention of
living with him again. From such time she had care-
fully sennealed her resideece, and Mr. Ciocci bad never
heard from her fur • year and • half, when he was
served with • eitatiun to appear in the Consistory
Court. It further alleged that Le, Mr. Ciocci, was • mem.
Mr of the Society for the Protection of Female.', in Red
Lion-square; that he had, indeed, spokeu to Fanny
Alexander, but that, in so accosting her, he had merely
endeavoured to persuade her tf alter her more of life, and
tilt it was altogether untrue that be on that occasion, or at
any other time, took indecent liberties with her. The defend-
ant alleged that, in August, 1852, he saw a countryman of his,
screed feminists (who at the time was • candidate for the
office of minister of the Italian Protestant Church in New-
man-street) conversing with the female in question, and, as
be suspeet,d, fur as improper purpose. lie, therefore,
thon;h with much reluctance, represented this to the Rev.
J. D. Oleonie, and Mr. Burgess, who were concerned in the
appointment in question. lie alleged that on the 3rd Nov.,
la .2, he pr.:cared an Interview with the girl Alexander,
and after putting questions to her, took her in • cab to the
police station in Rochester-row, for the purpose of having
her sworn to the tenth of tbe'answers which she bed riven
n:ative to the illicit intercourse between her and Guateleta,
that this object was frustrated by the magistrate refusing
to interfere in any way in the matter; and that he then
took the girl in the cab as far as it went her way, whilst he
returned to his own lodgings alone.
Dr. R. Phillimore, on behalf of Mrs. Ciocci, contended
that the two charges before the court were in substance
proved, and that in particular adultery of a most gross and
sensual hand was clearly established by unimpeachable
evidence. The learned advocate suldnitted it was fully
peeved that Mr. Cioeei bad married tin wife when be was
in a state of disease, and that, sheeny after such marriage,
the victim of his cruelty bad unfelt.' in bed, in the
manner described in the evidence. The defendant was an
Italian, who, after leaving his country, and renouncing his
faith, bad become a protestant. His friendship with Dr.
Achilli appeared to have been struck out in the plea,
but it caw out again in the intertogatious put to the
wittier's, and it seemed that Achilli, Uuateleta,
and Ciotti had all resided together. Same of the
interrogations went to show that pretended
he was subjected to persecution, owiag to his
having renouseed the Roman catholic faith. Oes of
the witnesses was a Miss Anna Chimney, who deposed, in
answer to various questions, that she had no know:edge
whatever of any Roman catholic cardinal, or bishop, or
priest having been in frequent communication with Mse.
Ciotti. It was evident from this that the smfgestion on the
pert of the husband was, that the suit could be nothing les
then • popish plot against him ; only, unfortunately for his
case, there was no imputation that the medical witnesses
were under the commands of any priest or cardinal. The
first witness to prove adultery was a servant at No. 3,
Shrftesbary-erescent, Pimlico, named Jane Legg, who stated
that Ciocci called at the house one Sunday when her master
and mistress were out ; and on learning that fact, seized bold
of her and tried to force her into the parlour, but desisted
upon being told that a person named Augustini was in the
house. She farther deposed that after this he used to joke
her, and ask her to meet him by appointment. It appeared
that she had had an illegitimate child, and bad said
she was unable to say who was its father, having
bent intimate, as she asserted, with both Achill'
and the person named Augustini. The nature of the de-
fence net up by Mr. Ciocci was, that he was the most per-
secut.d man in the universe ; that he was a holy man and
a 'aim, whose vocation it was to redeem prostitutes. He pro-
fessed the purest tad loftiest motives; and, it was, urged,
nothing could be more heed than that this exemplary Chris-
tian, who ought almost to have • halo round his head
whs he weat, should be chargsd with the very act

which his whole lib Mil Spilt 10 endeavouring to prevent
By what isiretle Mr. Ciotti hod e ctraeted the di,cate is
question did not yet appear, soul the court would tee how this
would be recoeciled with his extreme piety, by the learned
advocate es the other side. The evidence of rig:lotto
Thomas west to prove that she bed se, .r r heard of :he Fe-
, male Aid Society, althsugh she knew Ciocci, and w.is r.•t
aware he was an agent of that society ; but she refused •o
answer the question as to whether he bad improper inter-
course wit► her. The learned advocate then referred to
the evidence of several other witnesses, the ri stilt of whose
testimony, be submitted, fully proved the charge of adul-
tery. In conclusion, he called upon the court to pronounce
' for the divorce.
Mr. Deane followed on the same side.

Dr. Addams appeared for Mr. Ciocci. He said the cue
was of such a nature that he should ask the court to dis-
miss the suit with • sentence, condemning the wife in casts.
It was assumed by the other side that Mr. Ciocci had been
a Roman catholic, and hod become a protestant. There
was no evidence in the cue to show this; but, even if there
were, was that to subject a man to proceedings in as emits
siastical court, and to subject him to be loaded Kith die
credit and contumely? It was also alleeed he wax assn-'
ciated with Dr. Achilli. Why, Dr. Achilli st,od justiti:d
by a jury of his country as a person not open to the impu-
tation which had been made upon him ; and the use of Dr.
Achilli's name, therefore, was merely a handle to make •
reflection upon the character of Ciotti. Ile cont,nded
that Mrs. Ciocci had entered into the marriage, in common
parlance, with her eyes open, and that her husband had
acted most generously in the matter by abstaining from
endeavouring to find her out after she had left him in the
manner described. It was true that she was possessed of
independent property, settled upon herself; but Ciocci,
had he klt disposed to seek her out, would certainly have
been entitled to have shared her income, so far as living in
the same house and other general expenses wen:. In proof
of the manner in which he had behaved towards his wife,
he would read the following letter :
" April 22, 1831.
"My de .r Wife,—The publicity which you have been
pleased to give to our affair neceasarily obliges me to put
forth my defence, that I may not also kee, besides the
domestic happiness I expected, my honour, which is dearer
to me than anything, much mote than my interests, which
have been injured by your conduct, and are in danger of
becoming more injured. But can any defence be pleasant
and honourable to you, especially after I have been °bilged
to seek among the articles you left behind for the cause of
your withdrawal ? I have discovered but too clearly whist
these CIWNI have been. If you assert that you are un-
happy, each how mach greater ryas -n may not I say that
you have made me very unhappy. You have taken a foolish
step, without foreseeing its consequence,. If I did not de-
sire your return—(hut after • satisfactory explanation, and
a fresh agreement, which should prevent the renewal of
similar rashness)—if I did not desire your return, but with
the agreement of finding in you a gentle and reasonable
compasioa, without intercourse with dangerous friends
(who are only friends in name, and who have been the
principal cause of our present unhappiness), I would not
write to you. The present state of things cannot last, it
must have nn end. Take counsel with your former decla-
rations and promises, with your reason and with year
heart, and if they tell you (as I think they a ill) that duty
calls you home again, come, and I will do all I can for
year happiness, both of us remembering, however, that
perfect happiness is not for earth, that those who are
called happy have often need of the virtue of resigna-
tion. If you persist in a resolution which ii not yours,
but with which you have been maliciously inspired, the
tathlic shall hear my voice also, and so much the louder,
because I have warned you of it. You know that the law
would assist me, and you also know that when I have en-
tered upon a coarse, lam accustomed to persevere in it. I
send this letter through your lawyer, ar.d this act saltiest of
humiliation beat shows to you the state of my mind. I do
nit know your direction. Is this right? Ia it proper and
kind ? Perhaps you think I should avail myself of the
right granted me by law to come and take you by force out
of your concealment. Your will joined you to me, and I
am neither so foolish nor so brutal as to wish for a violent
re-union. I shall wait your definite resolution till next
Saturday. I hope your health is perfectly restored; and
believe me now, as ever, your affectionate husband,
" R. Ciocci."
Ile contended the statement that the wife had conteacted •
disease was totally unfounded ; the only medical man called
to give testimony as to her health having been of opinion
that her illness arose from general weakneu of the system.
That part of thecae., then, was an utter failure. As to the
charge that Ciocci himself had contracted the disease, he
(Dr. Addams) designated the evidence of the medical men
on this point as most uncandid. It might be that Ciocci
had been suffering from the disease in question at some
early period of his life, and that some slight signs of it were
still apparent, but there was no evidence to show that it had
been recently contracted ; and he (Dr. Addams) confessed
his morality did not carry him to such an extant as to adlx
an enduring stigma on this character of • young man, and
to blast that character for ever, because he might in an un-
guarded moment have been led into one act of impru-
dence. At this point of the case the proceedings were ad-
journed.
Dr. Addams (resuming his argument yesterday) con-
tended that a strong contradiction to the charge was con-
tained in the letters of Mrs. Ciocci. These were the mild
epistles written by a lady who had loft her husband on ac-
count of cruelty :
Cuckfleld, March 22, 1851.
" My dear Signor Ciocci,—You are kind in your inqui-
ries about my health. I feel much better since I have been
here, and I hope in a short time to be restored to my usual
health, which is always very indifferent. I think another
week will be useful to me, and therefore I cannot fix to
return home at presets'. Would that I could read with any
degree of conflience the expressions of regard (contained in
your letter of this morning) for me, but that alas ! is im-
possible; your eoldaess and indifference are at variance with
them. With every kind wish for yourself, I remain, yours
faithfully, CIOCCI."
Cuckfield, March 23, 1831.
" My dear Signor Comei,—You will be glad to hear I am
improving in health, and tun desirous to postpone my re-
turn a short time longer. To-morrow lam going on a visit
to • very old friend, and at the oeginning of the week I am
expecting some old frieada who are autism to stay here,
and the weather has been so unfavourable there was no
getting about as I wished. Hoping tl.at you are in the en-
joyment of good health, with my vary kind regards, I re-
main yours very truly, " Jimix• Ciocci."

" April 2, 1851.
" Your conduct towards me since our marriage has been
each that I feel it to be impossible that we can ever reside
together with Vie least prospect of happiness to either. My
health is so indifferent that I am utterly incapable of bear-
ing up against such ill-treat= rat and want of attention. I
cannot return to you. We must separate. I have been in
communication with Mr. Upperton, who is well acquainted
with my determination, and to him I must refer you ; and
I hope that you will be able to coins to an arrangement
with him that may be desirable fer both of us.
"Jr.lllWit Ciocci."
It was pleaded that Ciocci himself had tolda person named
San Oiosanni and Polly Miller that he had communicated
to his wife the disease under which he was labouring. Any-
thing more extravagant and improbable then this allege-
tion he (Dr. Addams) had never heard. No proof what-
ever had been offered in support of it. It was, indeed,
stated as a sufficient reason for Saa Giovanni not Laving
been called that the man was dead, and an affidavit to
that effect had been handed in. San Giovanni, it was '
said, died nu the 13th of April, and yet it was on the
17th of March that the libel was put in. There was,
therefore, plenty of time to examine the man, and why I
had not this been done i Polly Miller had not been caned,
and altogether of this pretended admission by Ciocci
there was not one single proof. Leaving the charge
of cruelty, which he considered wholly anestab-
fished, he came now to the foul, false, and filthy
allegations made upon the other declarations in the libel,
which, he repeated, were supported by as gross perjury and
subornation as had ever been heard of in that court. The
geatlemen who seemed to have got up this case were soli.
citors in the Temple, Messrs. Bolton and Balfour, who em-
ployed a Mr. Edger, a builder, to sustain the charges. This
person engaged Owen, who had been a ponce-constable,
with five or six other ex-policemen, to watch Clete', and
ascertain what his habits were ; and it was upon the in.
formation obtained by them that this suit was instituted.
None of the other persons employed in this way had been
I called, and a greater miscreant and ruffian than this Owen
wirer exhibited himself in a court of justice. Ho was
' kept employed from October, I&i2, to the'prisont time, and
paid at the rate of two guineas a week, with other little in-
dulgences, which was much better than being a policeman.
One of the persons he was with was Polly Miller. With
this woman Owen swore he had never been criminally
intimate, but the woman Hadley swore to the direct
' contrary of this. Owen declared again that he bad never
had illicit intercourse with Miss Alexander, but the fact
appeared from the evidence of lintscr, that Owen went down
to lioxmoor, where the woman was staying, and that soon
afterwarils Owen's wife went down, and kicked up a row
because her husband was cohabiting with Fanny Alex-
ander. Sarah French, a common woman, in her evidence,
said, " I used to see him (Owen) very often indeed at one
time when he was looking after the girl Alexander. I used
to see him every night." What did Owen want sk iib
French ? Why, to cohabit with her, and this was the wa-
stes to whose testimony such weight was attached' Upon
the reckless charge cantainel in the libel that Ciocci had,
ever since his marriage, been constantly consorting with
prostitutes, only one man out of the seven who had watched
him was produces!, and this person bad never watched de-
fendant at Brighton. Supposing any credence at all to be
placed in the evidence of Owen, it amounted to this—that
Quell had been seen speaking to abandoned women in the
streets, always openly and during the daytime. Meeting
women in the streets OILY no proof of adultery, and it was I
not attempted to be established that ilstend.ust ever I
went home with any of the wornea whom he thus DMA, Of
ever took them home to his lodgings. Then, again, what
credence could be attached to the evidence of Jane Legg ?
This girl had been the servant of Dr. Achilli, and had been
examined in thecae. of Dr. Achilli. On that occasion she
swore that Dr. Achilli had had criminal connexion with
her, but the jury had shown their disbelief in her state-
meat by the verdict they bad found. This witoese owned
that she had many " friends," acd tna• she sr.raetiaLs
walked the streets, yet on the unsupported testimony of
such a character it was that Ciocci was to be :seemed et 'in-
citation of chastity. Coming now to the case of Charlotte
Thomas, it was clear to him that this girl but committed
perjury in her examination in chief, and her after state-
ment to Mr. Adamson that she had never had anythin4 to
do with Cioeci was evidently the truth. She declared that,
though she had received small sums of money from de-
fendant, it had never been for any improper purpose ; that
Ciocei had begged her to reform, and on her promising to
do so went home with her to her mother ; that he had ever
been a kind friend to her; and that she was very sorry

Gar what she had said before. It was evideat that the
air:'s better feelings cane over her on account of what
Ciocci had done I.:r her, and that what she had said in her
dem sitions in chief coall not be relied on. If this part of
the cast w. $ a failure, much more so was the story respect-
ing Polly Miller and Fanny Alexander, in which there was
so much wicked ties hood that it tainted the whole of the
charge against Cl.wci. The first story was, that about the
29th of January, 1851, Mr. and Mrs. Ciocci returned to ,
Brighton after their marriage, taking up their residence at
8, Clarence-square, and that from that time Cioeri was
accustomed to frequent two brothels in that town, and bad
improper intercourse with Polly Miller and others. Miller
herself was not called, and the only witness examined upon
the article of the allegation was Juliana Beck, the washer-
woman, who said she had frequently seen defendant at one
of those brothels. This woman identified Ciocci in London,
° although he had shared his moustache off." Now the fact
was the defendant never had worn moustaches in this
matey, and had made an affidavit of that lad. There was
no proof whatever that he bad worn moustaches, and as
Mrs. Beck deposed particularly that the gentleman she had
seen at the brAbels in Brighton had dark moustaches, and
swore to defendant in London, notwithstandiiia he had
"disguised himself by shaving them off," he submitted the
identity wholly failed. The decree of confrontation had been
executed in a most eztraordinaryManner. Mrs. Beck and
two or three: of the other witnesses had been placed at the
window of Dr. Deane's chambers in Doctors'-commons, and
it was agreed that when Ciocci came near the clerk of Mr.
Bathurst, the proctor, should raic his hit, and then the
witnesses of course would say, " Oh, that's he." The mode
in which this decree was executed was alone sufficient to
upset the evidence of Mrs. Beek, who was evidently mis-
taken in her identity of the rerson who had visited Polly
Miller at Brighton. Then it was pleaded as an additional
article to the libel, that one night, about the middle of
March last, when this cause was in course of vigorous prose-
cation, Ciocci visited Miller at her lodging, 17, Marshall-
street, Go!den, square, and there slept with her, talking
with her throat the suit, and Baying lie should beat them if
sh (Miller) would stick to him. The sole witness in sup-
port. of this extraordinary and incredible statemeut, :made
so openly by a man who was described as "sly," was a com-
mon prostitute named Mary Ann Hadley, who in her evi-
dence declared that she was first asked to become a witnessby
Edser in the middle of March, just alter the circumstance
to which she had deposed, and yet afterwards she alleged
" the fist interview I had with Ether was on the 23rd of
February," which day he could positively fix, because it
washer birthday, and upon that occasion she told him what
had occurred in the month of March, just one month after-
wards! Again, Hadley was interrogated upon the sums of
money she had received, and said she had received only
three half-sovereigns for her services. Now, Edser in his
evidence stated, that Hadley was pod at the rate of U. per
week, and a little wearing apparel was given to her besides.
After such contradictions as these, he (Dr. Addams)
thought tae court must not only view this evidence with
discredit, but must view with disapprobation the insertion
in the libel of such an article of IICCUSItIOII, resting as it did
upon the uncorroborated testimony of a woman lake this.
Perhaps, however, the grossest conspiracy against the de-
fendant was developed iu the case of Panay Alexander. He
denied that ever there was such a letter in existence as was
described to have been written by Ciocci to Alexander, and
the persons who procured evidence of the existence of this
letter he pronounced guilty of subornation of perjury. The
girl swore that Ciocci asked her to accompany him before a
magistrate, and instructed her to deny that ho hail ever
had improper connexion with her. This was en the 2nd of
November, 1852, and the citation was not taken out until
the January following. It was not to be supposed that
Ciocci then knew of the contemplated suit against him.
Who, then, had accused defendant of what he was alleged
as being at that time so anxious to deny ? Was a man to be
attacked in purse and character by such trash es this ?
Again, Alexander declared that also had not received or
been promised any reward for her evidence—that she had
no expectation of benefit either directly or indirectly from
the sums/ of Mrs. Ciocci in this cause. Now, it appeared
from Hdaer's evidence that Owen had already paid Alex
ander 30,. in all—that the girl hail been residing in custody
at Boxmoor for some seven months with a Miss Jones, who
had been paid no less a sum than 801. for her board and
lodging, and that Alexander had been promised a guinea a
week during the time she had been resident at Boxmoor.
Yet a woman who had so contradicted herself was to be
admitted as a witness in this ease, and allowed to come for-
ward and convict Ciocci of adultery ! As to the story of
the journey in the cab taken by Ciocci and Alexander on
the 2nd of November, 1852, the facts were, that the de•
(cadent and the girl had gone together as described, first to
10, Cadogan-place, the residence of Mr. Burgess, the rector
inf Upper Chelsea, and afterwards to the police-station at
Rochester-row, but it was utterly untrue that the girl re-
turned to Ciocei'm lodgings. The cab-driver, West, had not
been called to contradict the statements of Owen and Heir-
' sey on this poiut, because it was believed he had been
tampered with by the opposite party.
Dr. Phillimore said he was instructed to give an unquali-
fied denial to that statement, nod to say they had never
seen er heard of the cab driver in question.
Dr. Addams continued—Owen swore that he traced this
Alexander in the cab into the lodgings of Cioeci upon the 2nd
of November, and that on her coming out again he followed
her to her house in Westminster, and ascertained who she
was. Coupling this with the testimony of Ether, who com-
plained over and over again that Owen had been alone time
in finding oat Alexander, the learned advocate contended
that the whole of the story was an invention, and that
Alexander was not found till long after the period stated,
and that then the talc bad been cooked up. This part of
the case, he urged, showed the whole character of the con-
spiracy which had been got up, end the filthy perjury which
had been committed. Throughout the whole proceedings
there was nothing whatever to impeach the conduct of
Ciocci. Defendant had distributed tracts in connexion with
the Female Aid Society; Alexander herself owned that
he tried to induce her to reform, and the whole story of
her return to his lodgings was contradicted by Patriarchi.
The examination of the girl was taken down in writing by
this person, and there was no pretence for the assertion
that the paper containing her answers to the questions put
by him was a fabricated one. In regard to the searching
out of the facts respecting Gaadaleta, the whole m►tter was
explained very much to CIOC2OI credit by his desire that a
person should be appointed to the Italian ministry whose
abilities and character were unquestionable. Such a suit as
this ought never to have been instituted, and he was sato-
, oohed that any mem►er of his profession cauld have forced
i on the case to its present stage.
Dr. Twiss followed on the same side, and had not con-
' eluded hie arguments when, at 4 o'clock,
The case was adjourned until Saturday, at 11.

COURT OF BANXIWPTCY.—TEsTEILDAY.
1111'01.1 MIL 00111111INO.11111 rassumwr..
THE COMMISSION OF INQUIRE INTO THE PRACTICE OF

THE COCENS.
The commissioners appointed to conduct this inquiry, at
the head of whom is Mr. Walpole, the late Home Secre-
tary, are prosecuting their labours with as much vigilance
as their other manifold engagements will permit. A few
days ago, the Tynes put forth a vague statement of what
were said to be the objects of the inquiry, and
which it opined would prove of immense interest
to the commercial world. We are enabled to lay before
the public romet'iing afore definite. A series of questions
has been forwarded to the leading pre festienal men in these
courts, as well as to the commissioners and the higher
officers of the courts, with the intimation that their opinion
is desired on the several points included in the inquiries.
They are divided under three heads, and arc as follow :
" 1. Revenue, expenses, establishment, and business of the
court. To what, in your opinion, is to he attributed the
diminution in the business of! the court, and of the
fees and funds applicable to the payment of its
expenses? Do you think, and for what reasons, that
the present insufficiency of the funds of the court to
meet its expenses is likely to be permanent or not ? Do
you think, and fur what reasons, that any and what reduc-
tion in the establishment of the court in your district can
now, or at a future time, be safely and properly made or
not? What would be the amount of annual saving effected
by such reduction, if any ? Would any and what other
benefit arise from it ? Do you suggest, and on what
grounds, any and what change ha the division of dis-
tricts, or in the distribution of business among the'
several branches of the court, or its several officers?
Do you suggest, and on what grounds, any and what mea-
sure other than those already mentioned, by which the ex-
penses of the court may be diminished or its revenue in-
creased ? 2. Official Assignees—Do you thiak that there
exists at present a sufficient check on the accounts of official
assignees or not ? If nor, do you suggest any, and what
more efficient check ? Do you recommend, and on what
grounds, the adoption of a uniform scale fur the allowance
of remuneration to official assignees in all cases, or not ? If
so, what scale do you recommend, and on what grounds ?
Do you think it desirable or not that official assignees
should be remunerated wholly or in part by fixed salary, or
do you suggest, and on what ground', any and what change
in the mode of remunerating them, or in the mode of ap-
pointing them ? 3. Classification of Certificates—Do you,
and for what reasons, approve of the principle of classifica-
tion or not? What benefits or evils in your opinion have
resulted or are likely to result from the existing system of
classification ? Do you suggest, and on what grounds, any
and what alterations of the system ? Do you suggest, and
on what grounds any and what amendments of the existing
system in bankruptcy other than those already mentioned ?"

A DIGNIFIED POSKER.—A friend of ours in Ire-
land paid a visit to a neighbouring cottage after the hours
of work were over, and there, as he expected, found the
master of the house walking briskly up and down in the
rays of the setting sun ; he was followed by an unwieldy
pig, which turned with him as he paced to and fro. An
inquiry into his companionship elicited the following reply,
given with the quiet earnestness of a man who feels that he
is simply performing one of his daily duties, without a
thought of its being in any way a singular sue :—" Sure,
y'r honour, and the erayter dosn't have his health without
the exercise ; and it isn't all alone by himself that he will
take his walk, and he's grown too proud to walk with the
ehilder now."—Dttedth University Magazine.
SAION Anclutectutm.—Throughout the whole
nt the Angln-Saxon period, domestic habitations were gene-
rally c,•nstructed on u 311111 a scile, and were adapted only
to afford protection from the weather. Style in architecture
there could be none; all must have been alike rude, inter
nally and externally. It is not improbable, however, the
house of the Anglo.Saxnts thane rimy have exhibited some
COMse decorative features. 'the partiality of the northern
nations fur carving is well known.—Turner's Domestic
A reltikawre.

LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAT.—•
Amount of traffic for the week ending Nov. 5, 1853 :—Paie
'engem., 8,9611. 19s. 94.; goods, 3,0701. 3s. Si. Total,
12,03/4 21. 10d.