The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-12 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 12.

Ws trust that one good result will follow from
the late remarkable, and in many respects lament-
able trial in Ireland—a revision of the law
in that country respecting marriage, when con-
tracted between persons of different religious per-
suasions. By the statute of Geoscr 11. a Pro-
testant cannot be legally united with a Roman
Catholic in wedlock, unless the ceremony is per.
formed by a minister of the Reformed faith. The
performance of the matrimonial ceremony by a
Catholic priest, where either of the parties has
made a profession of Protestantism within the

twelvemonth preceding, is made a misdemeanour,
and heavy penalties are annexed thereto. It is
needless to enter into a historic retrospect of
the circumstances that led to the passing

of such a statute one hundred and
twenty years ago. We have to deal with the times
we live in ; and the sole rule of legislation, whether
novel or emendatory, ought to be the rule of prac-
tical utility, coupled with that of absolute impar-
tiality as between classes and creeds. It cannot
be doubted, we think, allow what has lately tran-
spired, that the retention of the marriage law of
1741 works mischievously as a matter of social
morals. In a country where two-thirds or three-
fourths of the population regard the ecclesiastical
sanction of their church ea indispensably necessary,
and at the same time as irreversibly binding in
marriage, it becomes a very serious thing to tempt
persons so believing to obtain that sanction by
means of special pleading as to forms of legal com-
pliance, of which in nine hundred and ninety-nine
cases out of a thousand they must be utterly in-
competent to judge. What have we seen I
An able and impartial judge, and a mixed jury
of respectable men belonging to the middle dam
of life, with all the assistance which the bar d
Ireland could afford, occupied for upwards of •
week is determining whether • marriage celebrated
enly four years ago, in a parish chapel by a parish
priest, between two well-educated persons, was or
was not a marriage in point of law. Surely any-
thing would be better than this, even had Chief-
Justice Monahan and the jury of Dublin citizens
succeeded in settling the question. But far from
this being the case, exceptions have been, not
without reason, taken to the verdict; and the
whole controversy is adjourned, to abide the deci-
sion of a higher tribunal, which can only exercise
its power by setting aside all that hag ;been
heretofore done, leaving the parties to begin
their litigation de sore. Had the lady
been in the condition as regards friends
and fortune in which most of her sex in Ireland
must ever be, the remedy, such as it is, which
Mrs. YELVERTOX has sought, would have been
utterly beyond her reach ; and if,on the other hand,
the man who is still honourable and gallant had not
happened to possess the means of defending such
an action as that in which he lately figured, he
must have submitted without a struggle not only to
have his children bastardised, but to be himself
practically branded as a felon and an outlaw. It
is impossible to maintain an enactment which
works injustice so clumsy and so crud as this.
The right of a Catholic priest to marry two persons
of his own communion is conceded. To deny him
the right of celebrating a mixed marriage alto-
gether would be simply abortive and immoral.
No honest minister of the Ca;.holio religion ought
to obey such a law, and no one who is dishonest
would. But when Parliament stops in to set
limits and to prescribe teen it is bound to do so
in a manner that will not work as a trap for the
consciences of the ignorant and the credulous,
and as • means of fraud for the profligate and the
rapacious. The statute of °sows 11. sets up an
arbitrary teat of being or not being in communion
with the Church of Rome, which is upon the face
of it absurd, and which, practically speaking, is
wholly illusory. A man destitute of the sense of
moral and religious obligation consents to attend
mass with hie paramour that is or that is to be ;1
and then mks a priest to many them. It
does not signify what account he may give of
himself as to his nominal creed. That has
next to nothing to do with the question. The
sole test set up by the Act is whether during
twelve months previously he has attended church,
or said or done something eke denoting that be is
• Protestant. But how is the priest to know
whether he has or not 1 Laws are made, we pre-
sume, against evil-doers, and not against them that
do welL The best that can be said of this law is,
that it was meant to be a check in certain cases
upon clandestine marriage ; but precisely in the
oases where clandestinity is most probable, the
Act most signally fails to aired any protection at
all. The interests of society are in no way faith-
fully or honestly served by an expedient so bung-
ling because so complicated, and in point of fact
No incapable of being anything but doubtful and
perplexed in its application. A virtuous but weak
and confiding woman may be solemnly cheated,
and an artful and plotting woman may
be blasphemously helped to her end, through the
Instrumentality of this bad law. A giddy and
thoughtless young man may be ensnared for life
by means of its penal and purblind provisions,
and a hardened seounilrel of quality, if he takes thr
least trouble to provide himself with proof of his
church goings within the year, may all the more
effectually consumniate the ruin of his victim,
through the invocation in Latin of the Meer
Hui. A simple•niitidell country priest may be
led into becoming unconsciously so accomplice is •

heinous crime ; while a venal and vicious man exer-
cising sacerdotal office may cheat the woman of her
rights, rid the man of his gold, look the law in the
face, and then, " wiping his mouth, say, I have
" done no wickedness." Worse law than this can
there be ?

Something, however, it will be said, ought to be
provided in lieu of this barbarous and blundering
old statute, to guard against improper unions
by persons of different creeds, and for the most
part, as is probable, of different conditions. We
can see no difficulty in the matter, once the prin-
ciple is laid down that the law should be impar-
tial and uniform. What society wants is not a
confession of faith from people who marry, but of
plain, positive, and proveablu recognition by them,
the ono of the other, as man and wife. Let every
Church adopt what ceremonies and use what words
of benediction it pleases in the solemnization of
matrimony. But along with the religious ceremony,
let every marriage be civilly registered ; and let
every man and woman be made to understand that
from that registry there can be no surreptitious or
swindling appeal. So long as the due or undue
performance of the rite rests with the conscience of
a priest, who may or may not be qualified to judge
whether the parties are capable of being duly
united in wedlock, and who may or may not be
accessible to corrupt influences, the parties who
come before him are altogether helpless to protect
themselves against the consequences of error or
criminality on his part. But were a civil register
substituted for a sectarian test, and were proper
means adopted for enabling either party to in-
sure registration within a given time, we could
never have such scenes enacted in • court of
justice as those witnessed last week in Dublin.
It ought to be made obligatory upon all
ministers of religion in Ireland to return a
copy of the certificate of every marriage ceremony
performed by them within a certain period, where
either of the parties was non-resident within the
parish. Eventually we should like to see a public
register made even more comprehensive, and its
rule made more universally binding. But in the
first instance, there may be reasons why the obli-
gation should be specially imposed in those cases
where irregularity is to be feared ; and we are all
for doing that which is needful as soon and as well
as we can, without troubling ourselves to make it
square with the rules of general codification. Ours
is • country of compromises between the prudent '
and practicable on the one band, and the systems-
tie and symmetrical on the other. Let us get rid
of a bad law at once and for ever, substituting for
it that which in itself would be right, impartial,
and consistent with what has been done elsewhere
in modern legislation. By and bye will come the
opportunity for further developing the improved
system.

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 12, 1861.

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ITALY.

THE ALLEGED CASE OP POISONING AT
WALWORTH.

TURIN, MAaca 7.

Yesterday Mr. John Spain, the gentleman who
was examined at the Lambeth police-court on Saturday, on
the charge of having caused the death of Mn. Caroline
Spain, his daughter-in-law, by administering to her @owe
narcotic poison, was re-examined at the above court. Mr.
Humphreys attended at his solicitor.
The first witness called was Mr. Wheeler, a surgeon, re-
siding at No. 17, Clayton-place, Kennington-road, who de-
posed that he was present at the post-mortem ;examination
of Mrs. Caroline Spain, by Mr. Heath, of Westminster
Hospital, on the day before. On opening the skull end
cutting into the brain a large clot of blood was found in
the right ventricle of the brain, filling the whole cavity and
pressing oe a portion of the brain limit, and which caused in-
sensibility. It was the cause of death, which took place from
apoplexy. The stomach was healthy, there were no traces
whatever of poison in it, nor was there the slightest smell of
spirits of any kind from it, and it was quite apparent that
death had taken place from apoplexy, which might have
been occasioned by sudden joy at seeing a Mend, or by lung
continued sorrow, or depression and excitement followiji
I On discovering the clot of blood on the brain as descri
Mr. Heath said, "This does away with all your poisoning.
Mr. Norton—Was Mr. Nott present at the post-mortem!
Mr. Wheeler—He was, sir.
Mr. Norton—And did be quite agree with you and the
other gentleman as to the cause of death, and its being the
result of apoplexy ?
Mr. Wheeler—Yes, I think be did.
Mr. Norton—Mr. Nott has stated that when called in he
found the deceased in a state of insensibility, her counte-
nance pallid, her pulse sosniely perceptible, her eyos closed,
the pupils contracted, and that from these appearences he
had no doubt she was labouring tinder the effects of some
narcotic poison and that her death had been produced by
poison. Now I wish to know, if you found a person in
similar state, you would be of the same opinion ?
Mr. Wheeler—l should be slow in giving such an opinion,
because we get these symptoms in cases of apoplexy ; but
we generally get stertorous breathing, which I heard was
not the case here. The clot of blood I spoke of had, I think,
been forced out gradually, and that would account for the
absence of stertorous breathing, and its not being present in
this case. It was Mr. Notes opinion as well as my own that
the blood forming the clot flowed out gradually.
Mr. Humphreys—Then Mr. Heath and yourself quite
agreed in thinking it a case of apoplexy?
Mr. Wheeler—Yes, that it was a case of einguineons apo.
plexy.
Mr. Wm. Francis Nott was next called, and the evideoes
given by him on Saturday having been read over, he said he
had since attended the post-mortem examination of the
deceased, and his opinion was that she died of apoplexy—
' decidedly so. In cross-examination by Mr. Humphreys he
said he had detected no smell from the breath of the de.
ceased, though very likely he should expect to find a smell
from the breath of • person who had taken narcotic poison,
The deceased had vomited on her clothes, and it produced
no sniell. He stated on oath on Saturday ; on that oath
which had been read over to him ; he stated that it was
his opinion the deceased died from the effects of narcotic'
poison. In cases of opium the medical attendant generally
expects a smell.
Mr. Humphreys—What is your age?
Mr. Nott—Fifty-nine.
Mr. Humphreyii—Are you a member of the College of
Sur.Tott—Yes ; but not a licentiate of Apothecaries'.
ball.

In my previous letters I infonued you of the
reasons, perfectly honourable as well as expedient,
that induced Count Cavour to offer the president-
ship of the Chamber to Signor Rattarzi, and sup-
port this gentleman with the whole support of the
government. Nearly every member of the majority
that votes with Cavour has well understood the
minister's reasons, has, like him, forgotten, on this
occasion, his political rancour's, and, in the spirit
of concord, voted yesterday for Rattazzi, who, out
of 242 votes, actually obtained 219. By this act
the opposition has been decapitated. And really
it does not appear what political reason there was
that could induce Rattazzi to become the head of an
opposition consisting of men holding divergent
opinions, and many of whom, too, were his oppo-
nents once, and would become such again were
he to accept a portfolio, and then omit to bestow on
them lucrative offices, and to drag the state into
foolish enterprises, hostile to the crown and to the
fame and safety of the nation. Signor Rattazzi
had become, in fact, the head of a temporary and
artificial opposition, and he had suffered himself to
become so, not from opposite political opinions,
but from personal and tranaitor7 motives. He
needed an opportunity for extricating himself from
a false and injurious position, and Count Cavour
persuaded the parliamentary majority to offer him
that opportunity. The King also has been very
much pleased at this vote, the significancy
of which will not be forgotten by Signor
Rattazzi, it is to be hoped, and we equally hope he
will not again let himself be carried away by false
friends, who have already twice compromised him.
Ten votes were given to Baron Bettino Ricasoli,
who has not yet come from Florence. Thegovern-
ment had already offered this highly deserving
man the presidentahip of the Senate, but he de-
clined to accept it, preferring to be a deputy.
You are aware that a third party has been
formal. Now that Rattazzi has returned to the
majority, the leadership of this third party has
devolved on the Marquis Pepoli of Bologna, who is
the son of a lady of the Murat family, and who
aims at being made some day the Minister of
Finance.

Thursday next, the 14th inst., is Victor Emma-
nuel's birthday. The vote of the deputies approving
his title, " King of Italy," will probably be given
on Monday, the 11th, and then on the 14th this
event will be celebrated by a military festival. The
King, it is said, will review a force of 20,000 men.
But these matters are not finally settled yet.
Among the new deputies is the maestro Verdi.
He is greatly esteemed for the modesty and inde-
pendence of his character. A min of so sober a
judgment as he has will stand aloof from all ex-
treme parties. Many journals, even some foreign
ones, have complained of his withdrawal from the
operatic drama ; but he says himself that no man
can remain an indifferent spectator of the great
deeds passing before him on the theatre of his
native country. How, he asks, can a man juatnow
think about music 1 He has, in this frame of
mind, lately refused some very splendid offers made
him from France, England, and Russia, in addition
to some from Italian opera directors. He has been
urged, it is true, by many influential friends to
compose as before, for they say truly that a man
who adorns his country in any way is serving it
at the same time. It is hoped he will yield to
these remonstrances. He has accepted the office

Mr. Humphreys—Are you registered BJ a surgeon, and a
member of the College of Surgeons
Mr. Nott—Yes.

of deputy to oblige others and chiefly in consequence
of a long and must flattering letter from Count
Cavour.

We are hourly expecting the surrender of Messina.
I believe General Fergola will be compelled by his
own garrison to yield. General Cialdini, it is said,
is vigorously pushing on the siege in the Lope of
being able to send the glad news of this fresh vic-
tory to Victor Emmanuel in time for his birthday.
But in the meantime more blood is being shed to
glut the thirst of Francis H. fur slaughter and
revenge.

A Constantinople letter of the Ist says :—"On
Friday last there was a reception at the American Minister's
is honour of the anniversary of the birthday of Washington.
At a ball in the evening nearly all the representatives of
the European states were present, with the exception of Sir
Henry Bulwer, whose shams has been the occasion of
much remark. It appears that some difference occurred
between his Excellency and the American Minister, ia con-
sequence of the latter having requested the members of the
corps diptomatique to attend the reception in full uniform.
The result tram that neither the ambaseador nor any of his
attachés were present."

A resident at Homburg writes to a friend at
Brighton :—" You have perhaps read in the Times that an
English lady had destroyed herself by throwing herself from
the tower of the church, just erected at Ktrdorp ; but it is
as error that she was English and • gamester. She was
French. She came to Homburg with two gentlemen, who
loft her, and she was pennylees, but has never played. My
impression is that she was • poor, ruined creature, and
thought to rid herself of her present miser."

The Akhbar of Algiers states that the long-con-
tinued drought in the South has burnt up all the vegetation,
and tbut flocks of gazelles, dying with hunger and thirst,
have made their appearance about Gelfa and Boghar, whets
they commit such ravages that the Arabs are obliged to
watch their crops night and day. The dabar invitee
European sportsmen to make • trip to Algeria, promising
them abundant sport, in addition to which they would have
the satisfaction of conferring • great benefit on the inhabi-
tant'.

PARTILll7lOrrlYlfen AND THZ EX-QUZZN OF
NArtee.—We read in a letter from Paris :—" It is not in
the Senate only that the spirit of discussion i. evoked.
Another, and a far different parliament, site occasionally,
and at no very great distance from the ancient Palace of
Marie de Medicis. The association of ladies who sympa-
thise heart and soul with the cause of government, good
or bad, provided it be that of legitimacy and divine
right, have also had their meeting for the purpose
of sleeting the delegates who are to present • gold casket
to the Queen of Naples, in testimony of her conduct duriug
the operations before Gaeta. No shorthand writers were
present, but we hear that the debate was very animated,
and that this parliament our petits pieds eurpared
in eloquence, or at least in fluency, the rival
establishment at the other end of the town. A
motien was made, seconded, supported ardently,
sad carried by • considerable majority, that
the fair deputation should not include any lady who is the
wife of • senator, or indeed of anyone holding office' hono-
rary or otherwise, under the imperial government The
casket is said to be a very handsome one, and will be amnia-
ponied by in address to the ex-Queen, suited to the °xe-
non. The wives of senators and deputies would do well to
meet this by a counter-manifestation, and present an ad-
dram to Victor Emmanuel congratulating him on his vic-
tory*
A Corrvairr STORY.—A Belgian journal, Le Pro-
ducteur de Leuze, has the following ' Some time ago •
young woman named Baudry, belonging to • respectable
family in the town, became a nun, under the name of
Sister Theresa, in the convent of Ilautrade, near None.
During the last two yearn the members of her family.
though they called repeatedly at the convent, were not
allowed to see her. Remedy, the rumour was spread that
Sister Theresa was sequestrated and ill-treated ;
_and, on
hearing of it, her brother and sister, accompanied by •
medical man, sod the fluje de pair of the
district, went to the convent, and peremptorily de-
manded to be allowed to see her. This demand evidently
caused • certain coesternation among the inmates of the
.

oorivent ; but, after some delay, they were admitted to
the cell of their sister. To their painful surprise
they found her wasted to • skeleton, and having the
appearance, though young, of quite an aged per-
son. She was crouching in • corner of the cell,
as if in a state of great suffering. She stated that she had
long been kept without sufficieot food ; she said also,
that ber bedding and her room had been dreadfully dirty,
but that on the arrival of the visitors, the former had been
hastily changed and the bitter cleared out. The superior
of the convent alleged that the woman was mad ; but she
answered, with perfect intelligence, all the questions put to
her. She was at once removed, and seat to • maisomde-
sante, and the law authorities of the district have com-
menced an investigation of the affair."
INTRUNATIONAL WNLOHTS AND MEADURIN.-011
Thursday evening neat • lecture will be delivered in the
hall of the Society of Arta, Adelphi, by the kind permission
of the council, "Os the importance to Educstaoe of the
introduction of the Metrical System of Weights and Mai-
sano.' by JUDOS Yates, Esq., Y.A., F.R.S. This will be
the lastof • course of four lectures delivered on the subject
on behalf of the International Decimal Association, and
will be presided over by Beery Chester, Esq., late of the
committee of Privy Council on Education,.
A few days aloes an Isle of Wight pilot vowel,
which was cruising in the Channel, fell in with a deserted
French vessel. The pilots took possession of her, sod found
• cargo of slates on board. The prize was safely brought
into See.view Bay. in the isle of Wight. The salvage will
amount to a considerable sum.

Mr. Humphreys—Row long!
Mr. Nott —Since the Ath of March.

Mr. Humphreys—What, only since Friday last, when
you most have known the act requiring your registration
has been in force for two or three years! Now, there is
one more question I want to ask you, and that is, whether
you pawed through an examination at the College of
Surgeons ?
Mr. Nott—Certainly I did.
This being all the evidence, with the exception of In.
specter Dann stating that he had found the paper
to which Mr. Spain alluded on Saturday at the house
of the deceased,
Mr. Humphreys complained in terms of some indignation
of the treatment to which his respected client had been
sub
Mr. Norton—Then all that remains for me is again to
express my deep regret at what has occurred, and pronounce
Mr. Spain wholly innocent of the charge--as innocent as I
aan myself, and therefore he is diecharged.
Mr. Spain then left the court, accompanied by his friends.

THE YELVERTON MARRIAGE CASE.

The following letter by the Hon. Mrs. Yelverton,
when she discovered the second marriage with Mns. Forbes,
is published in yesterday's Freeman's Journal.

" Wednesday, 26th June, 1858.

"My deer Sir,—When I visited you in London I wee
then in total ignorance of the appalling fate which lam
since overtaken me. When I wrote to you from
here I had heard some report of my husband's infidelity.
Some home after your letter was posted, • friend in-
formed me that the very morning following my arrival
hare my husband had been privately married to •
widow of ,property, and they were gone off tonether.
I will not here enter into the horror er the almost death-
blow this was to me, but give you as clearly as I am able a
simple narrative of the facts, believing from the kindly in-
terest you have taken in me that you are entitled to know
them. The certificate I enclosed to you is a faithful copy
of the one sent me by the priest. I have also the letter
accompanying it. I telegraphed for my brotherdis.law,
Mr. Bellamy, of Abereivenny Castle. He proceeded
to Iceland, found the pried, who, shocking to relate, re.
fused to recollect, or give any information. But upon
being told that a second marriage had taken place, he
immediately changed his tone, admitted that my hue.
band had been to him a flay or two previously, and told
his that I had no friends in England (I sin the niece
of the Countess le Strange), that I had aceepted a comps
mise for money, that he was all-powerful (the very worth),
in fact frightened the pried into secrecy, I believe. How-
ever, he cannot get over the fact of the register and the let.
ter being both signed by him. I presume this truth we can
force him to speak, but there is another which is elf vital
impotence. According to the law of Ireland, a marriage
by it priest between two catholic* is valid ; but between a
protestant and catholic it is not. My husband, I fear, has
no religion whatever, but ho led the priest to suppose
he was • catholic, and the legality of my mar-
riage now all depends whether or no the priest will
consent to recollect this fact, for we have no writing
'to prove it. Should he on the other band declare that he
married a protestant and a catholic together, he lays him-
'elf open to prosecuticn. My husband's conduct appears
insane, unless he was aware of some flaw in our Irish mar-
siege. I know that be was overwhelmed with debts, and
that his affairs had come to a crisis. On the evening of my
arrival, be was with me using alternate threat. and en-
treaties to induce me to leave the country. I bad risen
from • sick bed, where he supposed me dying. He wished
to take me to Glasgow, to put me on board a vessel bound
for New Zealand, where I had a brother. He told me
that be was • ruined man, and that I must leave him to his
fate. Afterwards my husband's brother came to me,
and endeavoured to persuade me to save my husband by
leaving the country ; be also wrote to me several times
to this effect. There is only nue opinion here about the
matter, that it is a moat infamous plot against me. I
should like to know your idea upon the subject if yot have
leisure to consider the case. It is throughout so use:plies,
ble to mum and common sense tnet, were it not for the
marriage certificate, my friends would imagine that I was
gone mad on the point.—Believe me, dear air, yours sin-
cerely obliged, "T. Yuvirton.
" John Robert Taylor, Ems.
54, Chancerydane, London.
"Please address. under cover, to Mrs. Thelwall, 5, Albany.
street, Edinburgh."

Among the many rumours afloat in regard to Major Yet-
verton, the Cork Herald gives currency to the following
" We are informed that Major Yelverton wax transacting
business yesterday in this city. It is rumoured that both
he and Mrs. (Forbes) Yelvertou sailed from Queendows
yesterday for America."

ALLIDOED DRATR FROM POtmoN AT KENNINGTO7f.
—Last night Mr. Carter, the ,noner for FAA Surrey, held
an inquest at the Wiuchelsea Tavern, Keonington Park, on
the body of Mrs. Caroline Spain, aged 32, who it was alleged
had been poisoned by her fat lier-iu.law wider circumstances
reported to our yesterday's improwion. The jury returned*
verdict of " Natural death." _

EXTZNSIVI PoST-cuss's. ROBBERT.—The chief
topic of couversation within the last few days in the town
and neighbourhood of Loutb has been the loss of a back
parcel belonging to the Lincoln and Lindsey Banking (*out-
pany. The pared, it appears, was prated on the evening
of Wednesday, the Thh ult., by the junior clerk of the
Eolith brooch, at the Louth post-office : it was directed to
their London agents, Messrs. Prescott and Co., bankers,
end has never since been heard of. The parcel contained
bills, notes, sod cheques to the value of 1,331/. Os. fid; but
only notes to the amount of 295/. These notes consisted
of two Bank of England notes of 100/. each ; two 10/. notes
of the Stamford, ko., Banking Company; and fifteen
5/. note, of Smith, Ellison, and Co., the Hull
Banking Company, Hanillev and Co., Sheffield Banks
dug Company, Gurney and Smith sad Co., and the
Stamford. ko., Banking Company. Besides these notes
there were four bank bill' of the value of 224/. 145., Mee
cheques Loudon bankers amounting to 4P401. 7s. 9d., aod
nine country cheques of the value of 3001. las. 9d. The
posting of the letter can, we understand, be fully proved.
and it is 'satisfactory to slate that the public voice entirely
exculpates everyone is this locality from any participation
in the supposed robbery. The misfortune hes brought to
the knowledge of the people here a fact which, until the
Let few days, was never dreamt of ; and that is, that at
Peterborough the mail bap from this district are opened
and the letters reasserted. Though time may be econo-
seised by this course, its policy among men of business
_.here
is very much questioned. two 100/. Bank of England
octet, whose safety nearly everyone believed in,werecsahed
is Frame, sad they have since been returned to this coos'
try. The provincial notes have :4160 all been cashed.

LAW INTELLIGENCK
(THIS DAT.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
&for, Mr. Carandosiceir Evaan).

?NI NIOX Dian.leNT COMPANY litifirrOL
rias compasy was only established in February of last
, haling its teuritere.l offices at Ohl Jewry.
• t was •• ',toting money on persona or
• .r avuritr,, the discount .1 bills, pninursory
and the van) na4 en the busisistaaa4ls
aid bun eiimpouy in all ita hesachis."
6431114.11 "WILLI mAA a quarter id a mi 11... is 5050110
V. per share was called up, hut only ParnisllY
Towarils tLe lose .4 the year the ahareholdisss re.
• 00l on a voluntary wialiae up ; but a petition lasing pre
.u! .1 to tboi hr William Walter, Envoi( Lam
l nos ',terrier, lieuent's-arkat shareholder sal contributory,
. , • ~aing the usual allegAttuas than% thr.••fourthw of the
Paoli lsol h. co lost ..r /mom. usavaiLs!4e, oral that the
...puny was *maid, to ray its ilebta, an order for witshoc
lb.' soortiou of the court was rusk on the l'ltb
E. bruary last, and 11r. Bell was appointed official Injui•

71,14 waa a %Mins fie proof of &lAA.
Mr. Tucker AfrAry..l tit the Aloha
' roar, Mr. I.lokbaer, Ilr. 3lkilkel, Awl other profee•
.1 ril..• r. pewwwited enetfiton.
halillitm, .4 the corollas,' are .lAtill at 10.1401 r . but
.•,Is wu.e Utoll.parrell poadt, asuouutitig to .1 few huielrwl
Were Dow There ore 'event large
Mac the iwisitalerAtiow .4 which was adjourned till
the Neat bitting oar the leth .{pelt.
" 1.141V3."
The biaknapt. Ar.'ha1..4111114..a. hail kept Clio well
1.0.1•• eatertAnunewt. Thai we, the ailpiumed
taiumeauseut unitag. The Acriiuota. prepared hir
Hard* lAA Co., ha., Already appeared iu
"."."116 at the herinninic .4 I.:0. with a &Vivien.,
UMW. lAA wed with ludalities of , sal swat. ,slued
NA 1,10111.

l.
wptby the tostoorn, ofreml no opposition, •codthe himbe
(lialkee Mr. IttiWtrar 11•4111.)
I. aa THE Itlei..i.eNto WAIL
Taie sloe elle etheisetiou mortise is the ca.e id Wm.
linow. Mewed ,:!temper amid rah proprietor. and keeper
.4 a ineelinhall the Ktheeland-nua. -The amounts. pre-
moot he Mr. n .clad over fourteen toroth,. prior to
IM failure in list, and show thorrared delta of
7. tar , with property Maned as of the yaks of I„e44f.
invoirol creditor.. to the farther meth* ef 171 W. hold
prorwty valued at ?ANY. Aspens of 1.0201, the
egos... sad loon. war stated at solleisth es-
id.otation ad the hathropes appearance is the court.
Mr. T. Pena sepported.
Mr.
cad the linatiop Ilawiltier. t
poised. fix the ealessee, offend no oppewilice,
to sir oiltlete. ANOTIIZR Ill'islc.NALL cane.
The theknipt. Robert time Grimes, had k.pt the Meat-
ball. replete. coal the ows puldec•hoene, tiolikooleot. This
w the third cur • which LIMN! before the court toelazel
year!of
oepilule- estertasemest, the proprietors of
ostrileite their failure to the isclioneury d the hie
ethieer than& Freon Mr. Huttoses stadeniese deceesede
it appears that the liathrupt owe. 1,T.72r. 4. ousscered ere-
Attie; sad eves op 14IW. of aaaetc 'teller creditors, to the
uniant of SAO. Ohs brewer., dodillem, he.), are folly
wooed. I. this ors the 1.1.011 messes had not quite
doe Wed the profits—the latter being fame.
two/.

TlP;adjoentaat of tie azaminatioo meeting was ordered.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

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GUILDHALL.

fianagnoon IILAILIWAT VAN/1.
Comm Chapman, • airman, was charged with
drank and imatpahle of taking care of a railway vaebt
two home, sad also, while driving the same, with numb*
over as old =rated Michael Hearn, and thereby fram
turimt both
PoliceconstaTh7.Waller, 121, said he found the prisoner
in Livistreet last night, sail seeing he was drank, and
behig iaioemai he had been driving at a furious rate two
bones drawling • heavily laden van, he took him into cue.
11.17. The sewer was even at that part, and the injured
wee was on ditty se watchman, and after injuring the old
sae the ens dirk against the barrier, which checked its
pace. ethenriee the van, horses, and driver must have been
precipitated headlong into the newer. The old man was
taken to the Mantel. when he had niece had one kg am.
rotated, and was still in a date.
sirJ. Musgrove remarked t these railway vans were
the terror of the public, as they drove at such • fearful
mire ; the hones wen so powerful, sod such mere boys
were employed to drive, that it wan impossible to check
them in any emergency.
Another winsome mid be saw the prisoner driving kis
hones and vas at the rate of ten or eleven miles an hew,
and the old eau wan trimming lamp at the end af
the sewer opseieg, when the defesdant, who ers4-
(hotly had an control over his bonus and did not
eves attempt to inareise tap, near against the watchmen,
knocked him down, end ram over him, the wheel el the van
catch* the pole across the °peeing of the sewer, and terry
leg it away about ten or a dome yards. The poisoner steer.
wards said be did not see either the open sewer or the lamp.
Sir John Musa we said the injured watchman, it ap-
Wail 71l years of age, and there was, therefore, no
rmeota what might be the result of the injuries he had
owning& If the mail ilwid the prisoner would have to
answer a charge of manslaughter.
The prisoner wan the remaaded.
SOUTHWARK.

11111•0111XXARY CNA-114:; 0;-PIC110143- ?METH DI • ?Mai

CU L.
While Walker, • ele4orioto OW, our charged hi the
Int indiums with picking pasha* he the public street, sod
afterwards with steeling two ba-mowne, three shillings,
sad 1 hum George peeks, is ow uf the cells at the
rear of W polire.enurt.
It oppeand hum the evidence of SR H, that ke was on
duty is the Stases Pad pobccatation on the previous even.
1., when the prisoner was brought in charged with packing
pre** hi the street. He wee searched, previous to brioff
phial le the cell, and no mosey was found oa
him. Xis morel* at as strip hour George Swale woe
ininplit Is darned with ammilting • railway officer, and
he wee eelmmehed. He was placed in the came cell as
*a rinser. At 4 o'clock witnem went to the cell, and
asked Swale If he warded w 7 cotes. He felt in hie pockets,
and laid that he assist/did, but that he bad se indwir7. no
sew we Ind lakes it bent him ►Ha wee taken out el the
MI, wins he Wenn* the inspector that vibes be was
placed hi the end he bed two ball-crowns, three millings,
and a feewpway piece is boa tourers pocket, sad be slept
for a abort tans. Knowing the primmer to be a sets
thief be WIN bron‘lit out of the cell by the krpodor, and
*lawn esesebed hes and fooled the au* *ins es bins.
The primer here Mid Hist be wee see sashed, awl Hist
the mussy beiespd to hie meths,
Alfred Herds*, 25 N. tbe reties aspesier at the Sew*
end police-etatice, mid he wee es duty there when the pri-
mer woe brought * abused with (slaty. He maw Mtn
strictly mil end, sad he bed me reasey about him.
seare The Xagletenas asked why He peceiecutor wee sot
bed,

*meat Gardner replied that it was not usu►l to march
prisearai charged with Lemmata
la armee to the magistrate the prisoner pleaded guilty
to the charge, arid was seateneed to sir muntLe' hard
labour Ia Woolworth House of Correction.

W AN L.S4WOItT H.
A COILIOCA
Mrs. Harr &ark, t►e Isseilady of the Riflemen
Betterees.helds wee pheeed is the dock before M.
Ingham, dined valor the followisi curious eireum-
steam

Km. pasty flmith. a mnpectable married woman, residing
at Prinese.terrace. Maralies, stated that she charged the
prisoner with • adimarteace at her liostm and calling
her elfrensin name Tee premer hes • ruhlic-hour at the
sad dWes, and all site hem of her was by=
at the phew. In the event witness was
by • toed rinks at the lei aid drift el her foam.
ht.* opened the dour, epos whisk the_prieseer walked inside
the hones in • eery hasty miener. Thistle eleu wished to
eiow from eon.. ueptemeatimes °Weida. shepbtely asked
walk into tier eitinpeunia. She eamp ead epee
looking MIMI the rem% she mid "he is est hem" &se
looked to when she referred, sad the ended her hashed.
Wiesw siphoned to her that her husband was sot in her
hears. let Oi• persisted that he was, and that she would
tad hlia. Mb* swat to the back dour sad burst it epee.
Witanee's sister took her to the rooms upstairs, in order to
today bee that her hoeload was sot in the home. She
thee seated that it was • shams for pence' is tell her
that her beeheed was them when it was Weis. She was
limited to go into the Wishes, let she decbesel, sad west
to the deer. When she reached the outside sirs said I
her behead was dome in the kitchen. Moms time after
mei a dens was throws 'Drank the kitchea window,
W when tihow e deer was opened the premier was ford eat.
Skil. She seemed silo.. of bag with her husband in the
tudieni awl called her by en eppretwiene epithet. She
aimed a snob 4. ameinhle outside. and vitamin wee obliged
fie • constable. When he arrived the prisoner made
a thiol attempt is. enter the boom. She this pee the pri-
son fete custody.
la mower to Tontines from the beech, the witness said
du. sever .poke to thc prisesper's husband in her life.
Sr. Wilson, who appeared for the pptt'rssoowasrr wished he
declaim aey charge urea the permed eiasaetsr of the sem.
*Mast. There we. so truth is the seppeetiee that we,-
thing imprivrr had taken place brasiers them, mid It had
ariwin from ...me person. telling his client fist her humbled,
who had really pins, to the city oa business, was in the
oninhoaan house.
lir. Imbue said to prevent a mearreecis he wadi impose
penalty id it.. and vuta, ir seven days' impriesement.
-rbe complainant thee demised • summons wheat We.
'-wale for the damage Acme to tier house, which she esti.
'mead at :ea.

VIENZITY OP PATENT., BOrTII K ZWRINGTON.--•
Vomler of visitors for the week ending March 9. 2.N52.
-trl °amber mime the owning of the museum free daily
(14th Hay. 334.521.