The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-12 00:00:00

THE BATTLE OF SADOWA.

Letters in the Times from the Prussian army
estimate the total loss of the Austrians in the battle
of Bedews at 40,000 men in killed, wounded, and
prisoners. The Prussian loss " cannot be much
below 6,000 in killed and wounded." A further
inspection of the field of battle shows how formi-
dable a position the Austrians held, their batteries
forming a perfect screen round it. In the woods
and in the broken ground the bodies of Austrians
and Prussians were tolerably equal in number,
generally lying in groups of four or five of either
nation together, marking the spot where a shell
had burst ; but in the open ground and down the
reverse side of the Lips slope the Austrians were
terribly thick, and hardly a Prussian uniform was
to be seen. Wherever the Austrians fought un-
protected by cover, and wherever the Prussian
riflemen, armed with needle-guns, could see their
enemies, the disproportion of the dead becomes
immediately apparent.
II Everywhere about the field fatigue parties are digging
large trenches, in which the Austrian and Prussian killed are
being laid side by side, clothed in their uniforms. No other
tombstone is put to mark each grave than a plain wooden
CMS, on which is written the number of each regiment
that lies below. The officers are placed in single
graves near beside the men. But here and there
few are seen silently carrying some comrade to •
more retired spot. On one side of the field a Prus-
sian general with his staff were burying his son, who had
fallen in the attack on the Austrian right. Close by, the
wife of a private soldier who had found her husband's
body on the field had it buried by some soldiers, had
hung some oak branches on the little wooden cross at the
head, and was sitting on the freshly-turned earth sobbing
her heart out with his shattered helmet in her lap. She
bad followed his regiment in order to be near him from
the beginning of the campaign, through all the long
marches the army has made.

The greatest liberty is allowed to the Austrian
prisoners. Several Austrian officers wounded
mortally on the field requested Prussian officers to
send their last message to their families, requests
which were readily complied with.
The two Prussian armies, now united in one firm
body, number together in line of battle about
250,000 men, with about 900 guns. The war has
proved that, apart from the needle gun, at close
quarters, the stronger men of Prussia have inva-
riably overcome the Austrians.
On the Gth the Prussian armies passed the
Elbe without opposition, and the Austrian railway
communication between Vienna and Prague was
cut. For the most part the country in front of
them is silent and deserted. The fortress of Ko-
niggratz, about five miles to the left, looked as
though it was about to be evacuated, although the
commandant had refused to yield on the night of
the battle to a self-authorised demander of the ca-
pitulation of the fortress.
An officer of the Ziethen Hussars, who were forward in
the pursuit, rode as far as the gates of Koniggratz, and
finding that there were no sentries outside, rode in ; the
guard, immediately on seeing him in his Prussian uniform,
turned out and seized him, when, with a ready presence,
he declared he had come to demand the capitulation of
the fortress. He was conducted to the commandant,
and made the same demand to him, adding that the town
would be bombarded if not surrendered within an hour;
the commandant, unconscious that he was not dealing
with a legitimate messenger, courteously refused to capi-
tulate; but the Hussar was conducted out of the town,
passed through the guard at the entrance, and got off
safely without being made a prisoner.
In the town of Przelautsch, which was occupied
as the Prussian headquarters on the sth, large
Austrian stores were found.
And the soldiers are delighted to think that they will
again have their rations of tobacco served out to them,
which they have not had since they left Saxony ; for to •
German soldier tobacco is almost as necessary as meat, but
transport has not been found for tobacco with the army, as
there has been lately a difficulty in bringing up even food.
If Prague is occupied by the Prussians, this army will have
the command of the railway from Reichenberg,and all sup
plies will again be abundant, for the railway transport
never tires, and seldom breaks down ; but as soon as the
army leaves the line of railway difficulties arise in pro-
viding for its wants, and lately this army has been very
short of food. The soldiers who won the tattle of Kfinig-
gratz had eaten nothing since 11 o'clock the morning before
the battle, and hadmarched fifteen miles to the battle-field.

The special correspondent of the Austrian army,
writing from Braun, on the Gth, speaks very
strongly against what he terms " the ostrich
system" followed by the Austrians—that is, con-
cealing from the army and the Austrian people
the truth as to their position, duties, and
reverses, in fact, grossly misrepresenting every-
thing to the very last. The natural
result is that now all faith in the General is
gone, and the most curious reports are abroad—
how one general betrayed the plans of Benedek,
and has been shot ; how another went over to
the enemy with information just before the
battle ; how one man has sold one pass, and an-
other man has been bribed not to fight. It is
most singular that no steps were taken by the Aus-
trians to throw up a few fieldwork. or to intrench
the weak parts of their line. " Their generals do
not seem to know that there is a very useful
military implement called a spade. To the utter
amazement of the Prussians, they were permitted to
pass through the defiles of Nachod without a
struggle, and at last they actually became afraid
that Benedek had laid some deep plan for their
utter destruction, so easily did they advance
through the mountain passes, which could have
been held with comparative ease by a few men be-
hind earthworks against thousands of assailants."
The correspondent arrived at Vienna from Brilnn
at midnight on the ith. The terminus was thronged
with weeping women, agonised parents, and rela-
tives and friends, awaiting the arrival of the
wounded, and the expression of their faces as they
ran looking into the carriages was agonising.
The headquarters of the army, it was expected,
would be established forthwith at Obnutz.

President Johnson, since April 15, 1865, has
issued 12,381 political sad IGI criminal pardons.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(Flom ova ows oozes/mom")
PAR 8, WIDIMIDAT Itvs
Being well assured yesterday, as I Mated 1
that the negotintimss for the armistice hadia
successful, I took no notice of the assertions
contrary in the Patric That journal now
that the step which it " was thought" in*
been made yesterday, has nut been made.
Napoleon's departure for Italy is adjournb
for a few boars only, but size die. All the
ing, therefore, of the Pays and other j
as to the logical consequences of his high
may be dismissed as not upon the order
day. Italy will not make peace urd
close ally, Prussia, consents ; and the
of the King of Prussia presented to the E
Napoleon yesterday by Prince de Reuss pro
conditions for the mediation and armistice
at variance with those contemplated at the
ries. The Atorsiteur du Bair, repeating tb
matic phrase which may mean anything or
according to circumstances, that the medh
accepted "in principle " merely says th
Emperor is "employing all his efforts"
the effusion of blood. This is as full an ad
as could be expected in an official print t
efforts in question have not been nu
After the private audience which the
de Reuss had of the Emperor yesterd
Majesty asked Prince de Metternic
Baron d'Aldenbourg, as representing
to meet Prince de Reuss and Count de
his presence. The Prussian diplomatist
the demands of Prussia, and M. Drouyn d
drew up minutes of the meeting. Pro
already stated, insists upon the totality
programme before the war as the basis of
time for peace. The exclusion of Austr
the Germanic Confederation, the exclusive
command of the federal forces, and the ei
of the Prussian frontier to the Maine,
leading points of her pretensions.

The-Bourse was seriously affected by thi
down of the armistice. Rents fell 25c.
and lir. 25c. for account, closing at 67fr.
67fr. 25c. Italian fell 2fr. 25c., closing at 51
Mobilier fell 50fr., and Credit Foncier 255

METROPOLITAN AND PROVINCIAL
( LIMITED).-( THIS DAY.)

The half-yearly meeting of the shareholl
held at noon, Mr. 0. Ortztfl, M.P., in the chair.
The report and aeanuits were as follows :
" The directors trust that the annexed 'tame
oounta now presented to the proprietors will b
satisfactory, considering the ordeal all bankingu in
have recently undeirne. After writing off
making ample provision for doubtful debts,
rest paid and payable, for rebate, and for expease
kind, there remains at credit of profit and lees
10,202!. 86. 4d., showing a net profit of 6 per cent. p
The rate of dividend to be declared, however, the
consider should, in consequence of the peculia
monetary affairs generally, be submitted to the
the proprietors at the general meeting. Anti*
late crisis, the directors have for some months 16
with great reserve, preferring a position of comp
rity to immediate gain ; and, but for sue
the profits now exhibited might have bee
Although this policy, and the general pressure,
the effect for the present of causing a diminut
aggregate of customers' balances, the number of
felected monists has staulilyincressed dub
half-year; whilst we sinallliabilitiea of the bank,
tion to its paid-up capital, place it in a position of
cond to no similar institution. The item " inop
counts" in the balance-sheet exhibits the amount
which is unavailable at present for banking
the result chiefly of the late unprecedented
monetary affairs ; it comprises bills and
well secured, which will be gradually
everything known to be bad having been written
exceptional state of matters during the past hal
den this separation of meets proper on the pre
Igloo ; and will, the directors Lops, be spiwoolog
shareholders. The proprietors will be asked to c
appointment, ea directors of this company, of
Alldin Moore, director of the Equitable Life
Society, and of Mr. F. J. Sargood, director of a
Bank of Australia.

337,3201. ; to reserve fund, 10,000/. ; to deposit a
accounts, 4.38,8441. Os. Id. ; to aooertances and
dated, 30,511/. Is. ; to rebate, 2,74x1. 10s. Id. ;
of profit and lose, 10,2021. Bs. 4d.—total 829.62,
Cr.: Assets.—By cash in band, at Bank of Er
at call, 148,480/. la. 2d. ; by consols and debentu
price, 81,4871. 14e. sd. ; by interest accrued
1198/. 108. 2.1., together, 7.11,166/. fie. 9d. ; tot
discounted, loans, and current accounts, 398,621
by inoperative accounts, 143,6871. 3s. 3d. ;
3291. 84. 54. ; by bank premises (freehold and
head office and branches, 13,3541. is. lid. ; by p
expenses, 11,950/. ; by neuritic.s held against a
and bills negotiated per contra, 30,.,111.
829,624/. 19s. fid.
" Profit and Lou.—To current expenses,
directors' fees, salaries, rent, and all other expels
Bs. 13d. ; to interest paid and payable, 7,6751. 11
rebate, 2,747/. 10s. Id. ; to balance of prodt
10,202/. Bs. 4d. Total-28,3521. 18e. 10111
from last account, 4,903/. 15e. Gd. ; by gross
last six months, after providing for all bad an
debts, 7.1,449. 3a. 4d.; Total, 28,352/. 18e.
balance, 10,217.1/. 84. 4d.
" Reserve Fund.—By balance from last &coons
The CHAIRMAN in moving the adoption of
observed that with the Bank rate at 10 per cent
hardly be said that the crisis was over, but th
was greatly diminished. He need scarcely tellt
how great had been the anxiety of the
during the last few months, notwithstane
confidence in the soundness of the
they were thankful on meetin; the sharebold
capital intact, with a reserve fund of 10,0001., a
profit of 10,000/. madeduring the last six months
The liabilities on acceptances had been reds
218,0001. to 31,0001. White they had sutfere
banks had done from the increased pr
money, there had been a real and
increase in the number and character ol
counts. (Hear, hear.) The assets were std
accounts with a distinctness which would, h
commend them to the shareholders generally. I
stated that the term " inoperative accounts" n
bad debts, but that was not the fact. The tent
money not immediately available for banking
all bad debts having been written off. (He
The question of dividend would be left to
holders, whose inalienable right it was to decid
directors held a very large proportion of the a
one of them represented, in his ow
and in his family, 1,000 shares. He &Ida
directors would renew their attempts
the nominal amount of the shares ; thw
had occurred to diminish his confidence in i
that, as one of the directors remarked during
they had a sovereign for every one who could
mind it; and that they had cause to be thankfi
past and hopeful as to the future. (Cheers.)
In reply to questions,
The CHAIRMAN said three members of the b
were second to none in their knowledge of sue
written off all the debts that they considered la
full investigation. The auditors afterwards we
debts which theyconsidered doubtful ; and he be
now the amount written off wsaquite sufficient.'
of the last half year were really what they were
• be, namely, 10,000/. Not a single shilling was
company from Meseta. Peto and Company, wit
on a bill forabout 2.0001. which was endorsed by
richest men in England,
The report was then adopted unanimously.
The retiring directors having been re-elected
A discussion ensued on the question of the
which was left by the board to the meeting, the
however, stating his conviction that a dividend
safely and properly declared.
A letter from the auditors was read, in wide
commended that no dividend should be dodo
count of there being a sum of 143,0001, under
" inoperative accounts."
On the motion of Mr. HISTRON, seconded by Mr
a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum
dared almost unanimously.
Mr. Poonarr stated in the course of the dis
the subject, that after investigating the item ref
the letter of the auditors, he at once doubled In
In reply to a question,
The CHAIRMAN elated that the branches wer
whole, profitable.
A vote of thanks to the Chairman and the othe
terminated the proceedings.

WESTMINSTER LIBERAL REGISTRATION
—Mr. John Diprou has reigned the honorary
ship of this society, to the success of which he
contributed, and is succeeded by Mr. T. Gilbert
the committee meeting held on Tuesday, Dr.
elected president, and Major Lyon vice-presid
society, and OM. wu subscribed by the gentles
to foam s fund.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIB DAY.)

oOtIRT O 1 PROBATE AND DIVORCE.

(Before she Judge Ordinary.)
mon s. WWII', MELD, AND PIRLD.
Major General Arthur Climbers. Wight sued for a
&owe, on amount of his wife's adultery with Dr.
warns Adolphus Field, and Mr. Adolphus Arthur Field,
his nephew.
gr. garment Robinson and Dr. Spinks for the petitioner ;
Sir R. Cellist and Dr. Tristram for the respondent ; Mr.
&leant Ballantine for Dr. Field ; Mr. Salami Ballantine
and Dr. Sunbury for Mr. Adolphus Field.
In 1837 the pertim were married
Satesadam Cathedral,
the respondent having bee n& Miss il Julia Ford. Her
age was about IS, and the petitioner's about 30. The co-
habitation lasW till nes, but it had in the in-
terval undergone • great number of interrup-
tions, the petitioner bating frequent occasion to
hose hie wife in consequence of the
of the service. Mrs. WMht had also had healthexigencies , and had
also hod to reside in ftgland while bar husband was in
wick. In 1861 she came home, suffering from en attack
ef loamy for which she became an inmate et an asylum.
glee was, however, danklurged meld. In 1962 her husband
mine home and heed with her at Bifie.terracie, Bayswater,
is the beginning of the following year, when she left him,
end went to reside at Stoke Newington with Mrs. Williams,
the widow of a medical °Meer, who had died in India.
After this eeparation,General Wight went out to theSsad-
wick Islands to visit some relatives there. On hie return in
march, 1/364, and in the April of last year he received some
biformatien that rendered it n to institute the in-
quiries which bed led to the filing oft petition. The re-
spondents all denied the charges.
To make out the cue spinet Dr. Field, • servant named
who had been In Mrs. Wight's service in 1864,
deposed that Dr. Field was • frequent wittier of her
mistress; that be was often in her bedroom ; that once
cm taking a letter to her, she saw them ar-
m bed; and that she had on another
seam the co-respondent in • very equivocal
position. The witness was very. sharply ercee-examined
wticularly with respect to the corcumstactoes which had
led to her lasing her place. Her account was *Midis had
signed a cabman to take her to Bayswater ; but thinking
that he was a very long time, she asked • gentleman
where she was. He told her that she was in Regent-
street, and she then wanted to leave the sob. The driver
apologised and said that he had fallen asleep.
e mid that he would drive her back, but
men thinking him • long time on the way, she opened
hits cab, jumped at, fell, and was so much hurt that she
was taken to an hospitaL She swore that she was per-
fectly sober, and that she had never charged the cabman
with attempting to assault her ; but he did try to get into
the cab to her. After this she did not go back to the re-
ipondent'a.
Mary Carter, who was servant to Dr. Field from 1849 to
1857, stated that in 1852 or 1853 the respondent was stay-
ing at her mistress's house is Stanhope-terrace, Hyde-
park. Had seen him kiss her and put his arm round her
waist ; but had also seen that while her mistress was
present. One evening at dusk the witness went into
the drawing-room to fetch • newspaper. She thought
the was 0101141 in the house, but she saw the respondents
lying on the sofa, and left the room as quickly as possible.
Unwed that Mrs. Field was at thin time with the children
at the sea-side ; at all events she was not at home.
- Did not think anything of the eirctim-

donee at the time.
[The case was proceeding when our report left.]

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(THIS DAY.)

(Before the Recorder.)
EXTRAORDINARY CARE.

Crowther Smith, alias John Potter Sergeant, 52, de-
scribed ea • surgeon, and John Sutton, 31, dentist, were
charged with misdemeanour in having unlawfully and by
false and fraudulent declarations procured the registration
of the defendant Smith as a duly qualified medical prac-
titioner, under the Medical Act of 1858. The prisoners
were also charged with conspiring together to commit the
same offence. _ _ _

Serjeant Ballantine was specially retained, with Mr.
Oppenheim and Mr. Streight, to conduct the prosecution ;
Dr. Kenealey was specially retained with Mr. Pater on
behalf of Sutton ; and Mr. Bush Cooper was also specially
retained for Sergeant.
Serjeant Ballantine, in opening the case for the prosecu-
tion, described it as one of a very remarkable, if not even
serious character, and one which also involved very im-
portant considerations in reference to the protection of
the public from being imposed upon and suffering severely
both in their pockets and in their persons, by the proceed-
ings of utterly unqualified medical practitioners. The
transaction appeared to have originally commenced so far
back as the year 1836, and in that year it appeared that a
gentleman named John Potter Sergeant, was residing at
Leicester, and studying for the medical profession, and he
was no doubt regularly qualified by his education for that
position, and it appeared that he came to London and
after undergoing the usual examination he received a
diploma from the Medical Council, and subsequently a
'Mum from the Apothecary's Company to act as an apothe-
cary, and he was for some time no doubt in regular
practice in London. He was not aware what the habits
of life of this person were, but it appeared that he had
contracted an intimacy with a lad at Leicester, and that
this intimacy continued in London, but about the year
1818 the person whom he should show was the real John
Potter Sergeant, died, and from the fact of the cause of
death being delirium tremens, be was afraid that it must
be inferred that his course of life was not of the
most regular character. All the property he pos-
sessed was left to the lady to whom be referred, and
amongst it were the diploma and the license, which were
kept in tin boxes, and which were considered by the
deceased, no doubt, to be of considerable value. The lady
is question subsequently got married, and was now a
widow, and it appeared that for a considerable time she
took no particular notice of the articles she had received
from her deceased friend, and it turned out, several
years afterwards, that in some extraordinary manner,
both the diploma and the license had disappeared, and
no one was able to tell at that time what had become
of the documents. The case on the part of the
prosecution was that the prisoner had, in some mys-
terious manner, got possession of both the diploma
and the license, and that the prisoner Smith, who was an
utterly illiterate man and perfectly unqualified to act as a
medical practitioner, bad assumed the name of John Potter
Sergeant, andlthat both the prisoners had at different
times acted as medical practitioners, under the diploma
and the certificate which they had undoubtedly fraudu-
lently obtained in the first instance. The learned serjeant
then proceeded to state that in the year I!Ci9 the prisoner
Sutton applied to the Medical Council, in accordance with
the set of parliament, fora certificate to be allowed topractice
and upon the production of the diploma and the license
the certificate was granted, and from this time he prac-
tised as a regularly qualified man at different places in the
metropolis, the name of Dr. Sergeant being upon the door,
and one or other of the prisoners constantly practising in
that name. These were the principal points in the evi-
dence relied upon to support the prosecution, the substan-
tial charge against the prisoners being that they had for a
great number of years practised under the name of the
real John Potter Sergeant, it being already proved that
this person was dead, and that they had no right what-
ever to the certificates of competency that he had received.
The trial was proceeding when we went to press, and
it is likely to occupy the greater portion of the day.
(Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn.)
BANSLAUCHTER By RECKLEAS DRIVING.

James Co 4, 25, cannon, and Henry Clorhe, 34, carman,
surrendered in discharge to their bail, to answer an
indictment charging them with feloniously killing and
slaying Joseph Friend, on the 21st May last. They were
also Charged in the coroner's inquisition with the said
manslaughter.
Mr. Daly, with whom was Mr. Sleigh, appeared for the
prosecution. Mr. Metcalfe, with whom was Mr. Warner
hleigh, defended the prisoner Cobb ; and Mr. Montagu
Williams defended the prisoner Clarke.
The evidence for the prosecution was to the effect that
about 3 o'clock on Whit-Monday last the two prisoners
were seen in the Globe-road, Bethnal-green, each driving
a van drawn by two horses. They were proceeding at a
rapid rate, as if racing against each other. The deceased,
ahttle boy, raged between six and seven years, was with
his sister, a girl of 14 years of age, in the act of crow
lug the road, when from alarm, the girl let go the hand of
her little brother and got safely across, but the deceased
was knocked down by the van driven by Cobb, and the
wheels of the other, driven by Clarke, passed over his
body, indicting such injuries as to cause the poor little
fellow's death.
The defence was that the death of the deceased was
the result of accident, and witnesses were called to show
that so far from the prisoners having been driving at a
racing pace, they were not going more than four or five
miles an hour. Both prisoners received a good character
from their master, as sober men and steady drivers.
The jury Acquitted both prisoners.

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

GUILDHALL
gENIHNO BAD MEAT TO THE LONDON MARKET.
.1;di0 .S,thronk, a butcher, residing at Chelmsford., was
sammonel before Alderman Finnis by the Commisinoners
of Sewers for the City of London, for sending to the London
market for sale the carcass of a pig that was unfit for
Leman food.
mghly It appeared that the defendant sent to Mr. Titmers, a
respectable salesman of Newgate-market, the car-
case of a pig, on the :10th of May, which was in a very bad
state from disease. The insides of the stomach and ribs
were covered with small ulcers, the ears were inflamed,
and the flesh was wet and emaciated. Any person would
have noticed it, and particularly a butcher ought to have
men it. The pustules were full of matter, and the carcase
wm brought to Guildhall and condemned.
Mr. %lay, solicitor, of Chelmsford, paid the defendant
was a butcher in a highly respectable way of business, but,

like other butchers, he killed beside farcountry farmers,
and in the way of Wilms the pig in nee-
Lion tion and another were sent to him by Mr.
Part-
wee, a farmer in the ••hboarboad of Chelmdard,
to be killed and sent to the London market. He killed
the pigs and sent them to his own salesman, but beyond
being the agent in the matter, he had no interest in the
pigs. He was in a poatioa to ve that when the pigs
were east to be killed there was so of disease
about them, and after they were killml defendant never
saw them.

Alderman Finnis said the defendant was the only re-
sponsible person, and he should fine him 10L and eosts.
Mr. Brut/ appealed to the alderman to reduce the fine,
for the pig was not the defendant's at all, but Mr.
Purtwee'a.

Alderman Finale thought he had Juniata • very email
fine, aad suggested that Mr. Purtwee should pay it.
The fins sod coda were paid.
BOW-STREET.
_ EASILY TRIGHTMILD. _ _

Jolts Wright was ITrOnglic;ionressad, charged with
dealhig a scarf pin and 10s. tat silver from the person of
Thomas AnselL

Mr. Templeton appeared for the prosecution ; and Mr.
Brooke, the barrister, for the defence.
The robbery was committed about three weeks back by
the prisoner and two other men, in the Bed Lion public-
house Great Wild-street, and and the prisoner was =bee-
quently apprehended by M'lntyra, 98 F, at another public-
house, the Running Hone, in Little Queen-street. At the
first examination the prosecutor did not attend,
but it was stated by William Miehaelmore, the
potman at the Red Doh, that he had heard
two of the prisoner's friends arrange with the prosecutor
to pay him a sovereign if he would stay away. A remand
being granted, Mlntyre found the prosecutor, and told
him he must attend. Accordingly he wu at the second
examination, but the potman was the& absent.
Another remand was granted, and it was then
found that the potman had abounded. He now,
however, appeared, and stated that he stopped away
in the first Instance from fear of the threats off the pre
server's friend., and after that they bad persuaded him
that by non-attendanee he had rendered himself liable to
six months' imprisonment. This so alarmed him
that he left hie situation and ran away
to Gravesend. There he tried to obtain em-
ployment, but failed, and after wanderiag about for
sovenl days in a desolate condition, he resorted
to begging as the only escape from starvation. After
this he was taken into custody and brought
before the magistrate, to whom he stated these circum-
stances, which were then communicated to Mr. Intyre,
who confirmed the truth of his statement. Upon this
he was liberated.

Mr. Va ken said he need not have been in any fear of
beinc punished, if he attended and gave his evidence when
required. Let him not heed any person'. threats, but take
care to be present at the trial.
The priaoner, who said he web inane at, was oommitted
for triaL
(As he was being removed a aerie. of shrieks and execra-
tions proceeded from two women in the court, who were
understood to be the prisoner's wife and sister. The officers
proceeded to put them out while they struggled to get at
the prisoner, apparently to kiss him. The commotion
created in the densely-erowded court was almost inde-
scribable.)

WORSHIP-STREET.
BUROLAUT BY A TICIET-Or-L1A172 NAN.

Charles Wright and Joan Wilson were charged with bar-
Odiously entering and dealing money from the
Shakespeare's Head public-house, in Coßingwood-street,
Bethnal-green.
Mr. Whitworth, landlord of the house, said—This morn-
ing, about 2 o'clock, I was awakened by a peculiar noise at
the bottom of the house. I went downstairs, and found the
window-shutter down, and access to the premises obtained
by that means. Two men were moving away in •
direction from the house, and I believe the glisonen to be
those men. One of them wore a white or ht cap, and
such • one is produced. The thieves had evidently been
disturbed, and all I at present miss is 24 10s. in copper
money ; that also is produced, at least it is the same in
amount as that I miss, and done up in the same manner
and in like paper to dher packets I have with me.
Carlin, 163 H—From information obtained I went with
Reid, 20 11, to 8, Bell's-place, Prinoe's-street, Whiteehapel.
Both prisoners were there. The copper money was in a
bed. Both prisoners claimed it as their own, and said
they had worked hard enough for it.
Herbert Reeves, a warder at the Coklbath-fields prison—
On the 21st April, 1863, the prisoner Wright was brought
to us under a sentence of three years' penal servitude for
robbery, at which time there were several convictions
proved against him, and since his " time" he has " done"
• month. I know Wilson only by face.
Both prisoners again declared the money to be their
own, and were remanded for depositions to be completed
against them on an indictment for burglary.

THE POOR LAW INQUIRY AT BETHNAL-GREEN
WORKHOUSE.-(THIS DAY.)

SERIOUS STATE OF THE I 3

This forenoon Mr. A. B. Farnall, C. 8., resumed
at the Bethnal-green Workhouse, the investigation into
certain charges preferred against the master of that esta-
blishment, Mr. Theobald Meyrick, by Miss Laura Moss,the
superintendent of female labour.
Before the inquiry was opened to-day a communication
was made to the commissioner relative to the overcrowded
state of the sick wards.

Mr. Meyrick was called by the Commisaioner.
The Commissioner-1 am informed that all your sick
wards are full.

The Master—Yes, sir.

The Commissioner—And you have two or three cases of
small-pox in the infirmary?
The Master—There are four cases of small-pox.
The Commissioner—And there is a case of fever and
one of cholera, Are the able-bodied wards full?

The Master—Yes, sir, there is no room for more people
in them.
The Commissioner—Well then it remains to be seen
what can be done in sick cases in future. The hospitals
are too full to take the smallpox cases in from here,
and the new eases cannot be put in to the
able-bodied wards, for they are full also. Now it
is common with medical officers to order into the infirmary
cases which they are called into by the relieving officers.
I now request the medical officers and the relieving officers
not to order into the house any cases of sickness, for not
only are there no beds vacant, but with Asiatic cholera
and smallpox in the house overcrowding would be most
unadvimble. _ _

(It was stated that between 300 and 400 sick are at pre-
sent in the infirmary.)
The investigation into the cane of assault was then pro-
ceeded with.

EXTRAORDINARY AND MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR
IN MILE-END.

An inquiry was held by Mr. Humphreys,
coroner, at the Crown and Sceptre Tavern, Charles-street,
Mile-end Old-town, last evening, relative to the death
under very singular circumstances of two newly-born
children, the illegitimate offspring of a young woman
named Emily Warner.
Jane Warner, a widow, residing at 8, James-street.
Mile-end, said that the two deceased were the children of
her daughter Emily, a bead-worker, who was in her 20th
year. On last Sunday night between 11 and 12
o'clock witness, her daughter Emily and her youngest
daughter, Hannah, aged 10, went to bed together in
the same bed. 'Witness did not know that the elder girl
had gone wrong. During the night Emily asked for a
drink of water, saying she did not feel well. Witness
gave it to her, and fell asleep. On Sunday morning when
she awoke Emily said that she could not get up, for some-
thing had happened. Witness then found the two de-
ceased children in the bed dead. She put them at once
in an empty pail and fetched a doctor.
In cross-examination by the Coroner, it was elicited that
witness had suspected something was wrong with her
daughter, but when she positively denied that it was so
witness believed her implicitly. No baby clothes were pre-
pared. Witness had not heard anything during the night
and the children were certainly dead when she awoke in
the morning. Witness knew that her daughter kept com-
pany with a young man named Richard Waits.
Hannah Warner, a little girl, gave similar evidence.
Mrs. E. Lane, the landlady of the Warner family, said
that she heard nothing of what happened for several hours
afterwards. She believed the family to be steady and
respectable.
Mr. F. J. Riley said that the girl had had a miscarriage.
If either of the children had been born alive he should
attribute their death to suffocation or strangulation, but he
could not undertake to any that they had been born alive.
He hardly thought it possible that Mm. Warner could have
been in the same bed while the children were born and
have known nothing about it ; but there was one case on
record in which such a thing was said to have occurred.
An hour and a half was the average time that elapsed be-
tween the birth of twine. There was no reason why the
deceased children should not have lived.
The jury retured a verdict " That the deceased children
were found dead in a bed, that there was no reason why
they should not have beenborn alive ; bet under what cir-
cumstances they came by their deaths the evidence failed
to prove."

SUICIDL FROM A STEA3f-VESSEL.—Last evening
James Purton, aged 33, chief engineer on board the Doris
passenger steamvesseL plying between Woolwich and Lon-
don, committed suicide by jumping into the Thames
between the Woolwich and Charlton piers. It appears that
when the Doris left Woolwich on her up passage the wife
of deceased was on board and upbraided him in nomeasured
terms as to certain irregularities of which she accused him.
She refused to leave the boat on arriving at Charlton-pier.
The deceased then deliberately lifted the hand rail on fleck
and jumped into the water, at the same time exclaiming,
" I will go to my brother" (alluding to his brother who
was accidentally drowned about 12 months since). A
gentleman, who was a passenger on deck, took off his coat
and plunged into the river, with a view to extricate the
deceased, but was himself with difficulty rescued from
drowning. The deceased was seen to rise twice, but he did
not appear to make the slightest exertion to avail himself
of the means used to rescue him. The body has not yet
been found.

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