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London, England, 1868-06-02 00:00:00

wax guilty. If they thought that Mr. Eyre considered si
the time that Gordon was a violent fellow it was better
not to try by the ordinary law of the island, conceiving
that by some technicality he might escape punishment,
but to send him to Morant Bay, try him by oeurtdnartial
and get rid of him—it was an act of great lawless
oppression, sod they ought to find the bill ; but if
mwere of opinion that he acted in a contrary spirit,
used ordinary firmness, judgment, and moderation,
sad from a boos fide belief in the honest discharge of
his duties, they would not find the bill. The specific seta
of brutality could not be charged personally to Mr. Eyre,
because in all probability he had no knowledge of them,
but they were the result of a continued state of martial
law in the island. His lordship having gone mainly
through the evidence to he brought in support of the in-
dictment, said the three first counts were for illegally pro-
claiming martial law on the ground that Mr. Eyre had
no power to do so in the manner and way in which it had
been done. The next charge wax that he exceeded his
duty in keeping it up fur thirty days, when, in
point of fact, the actual armed resistance was
stopped in a day or too, and that it was exercised
in a wild and reckless manner to an extent
and a degree beyond what was required. The charge then
assumed various shapes in connection with Gordon's ease ;
and there were also charges with reference to the others
who were taken into the proclaimed districts and tried, '
and the flogging, In conclusion, his lordship said it
was for them, guided by the law ss laid down by him, to
say whether or not they considered there was sufficient
evidence for putting Mr. Eyre on his trial in answer to
the charges that had been preferred spinet him.

COURT FOR DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL

CAUSE/5.
(Before the Judge Ordinary, Mr. Baron Pigott, and Mr.
Justice Smith.)

CORRANCE P. CORRANCE AND LORE (NOORE INTERVENING).

MEYTKNCL

In this case the point at iune was whether the court
had power to interfere with settlements where there were
no children, or children surviviog. The learned Judge
Ordinary decided the question in the negative ; and the
husband had appealed from his decision.
Mr. Justice Smith held that the judgment was right.
and that the aappppeeal should be dismissed. The intention
of the k Ydsre was efearly to make • provision for
children, and he did not think the words of the statute
gave any other power to the court.
Baron Pigott, however, held that the divorce acts gave
the court power to deal with settlements where there bad
been children, though these children might have died.
lle regarded the position of parents, where the children
are no longer existing, as not dissimilar to that of tenants-
by-courtesy ; and he thought that the court ought, as a
general principle, to have power to deal with settlements
in dealing with cases where the matrimonial contract had
failed, and was set aside. He therefore considered that
the appeal should be affirmed.
Sir J. Wilde should be glad if the court had power to
deal with all settlements ; but be could not bold a parses
to be a parent within the meaning of the act where his
offspring no longer existed ; nor could be see any reason
why the legislature should have adopted such a phrase
as t" children of the marriage or their parents," or any
hypothesis, except that of a desire to protect the interest.
of the children, giving the court, however, a discretionary
power in ten days to consider the interests of the parents.
The appeal was therefore dismissed, but no order was
made as to costs.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner HoLoyd.)
IN RF MANIC COLLINS.

The bankrupt, a hatter and general dealer, of Broad-
street, Bloomsbury, came before the court with debts of
3,721/. sgaint which security is held by three building
societies to the amount of 2,745/.
Mr. Aldridge, who represented the official ',signet (no
trade assignee having been appointed), stated that he had
been in correspondence with the mortgagees of the plain-
tiff's property, and found that there was extremely little
chance of any surplus being realised from it. No creditor
opposing his Honour granted the order.

POLICE COURTS.-(TIIIS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREIT.
BRUTAL AMAI:LT ON A WIFE.

Aderley, a bricklayer, of 175, Cleveland-street,
Fitzroy-square, less brought before Mr. Knox. charged
with violently assaulting his wife, Charlotte Aderley, by
striking her head on the floor.
Mr. Henry Case, house surgeon at the Middlesex Hos-
pital, said that at • quarter to 5 o'clock that morning, a
female named Aderley was admitted into the hospital.
She had • scalp wound, which was very deep, and had
divided one of the arteries, and in about another five
minutes, had she not been brought to the hospital, she
would have bled to death. The injured woman was still
in a very dangerous state.
Thomas Hatch, 13. i E. said that be was in Cleveland-
street that morning about 4 o'clock when the wife of
the prisoner came np to him and charged the prisoner with
assaultingher. Finding that sbe was bleeding profusely from
a wound on the head he took her to the Middlesex Hospital,
and the prisoner was taken to the station. The injured
woman told him that the prisoner got bold of her by the
back of the bead and then beat her bead on the stairs.
. _

Mr. Knox asked the constable whether the prisoner was
drunk or sober.
The constable said be was drunk. _ _ _

In answer to the prisoner the constable said he did not
see the prisoner strike his wife, but he had known him for
four years, and during the whole of that time be had been
in the habit of striking her.
The prisoner said that some time after he got into bed
his wife struck him with a piece of wood, and afterwards,
while standing on the stairs, she ran out of the room, and
his foot being out she fell over it, and struck her head on
the stairs. He never struck her at all.

Mr. Knox asked Mr. Cue whether he could form any
idea how the wound was inflicted. . . .

Mr. Case slid be should say by the head being struck
against something.
Mr. Knol. remanded the prisoner.
WANDSWORTH.
COMMITTAL. tO' A GANG OFYOUNGBURt.LARS...

Five lade, named G,urge Simla, William Alum, Ira acid
Wardell, (harm 2 aplur, and Williams Blowers were finally
examined on a charge of being concerned in a burglary and
robbery in the house of Mr. George Lambert, of No. 16,
Manorstrt.st, Clapham.
It appeared from the evidence of several witnesses that
the prosecutoi'm house was fastened up on the night of
the nth ult., and on the following morning it was found
to have been visited by burglars, who had forced an
entrance by a back window leading into the garden.
The piacie was in confusion, and the prosecutor
missed a number of articles. Police-constable May
saw all the prisoners together in the neighbourhood
on the night before the burglary, and on the following
morning he found Smith wearing the prosecutor's shoes,
and he was also in possession of a handkerchief and a
PP awnbroker's ticket fora coat which had also been stolen.
Wardell's boots corresponded with the marks of footsteps
in the proaecator's garden.
The evidence was circumstantial es against the other
prisoners, and
The magistrate committed the who'e of them for trial •
but consented to take bail for the appearance of Moss:
Taylor, and Blowers.

W SATHER RS PORT.-(THIS DAY.)

TursDAT, JONI !. MI.