Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-07 00:00:00

THE SWYNFEN CASE.

SWYNFEN V. LORD CHELMSFORD.—This case was brought
to a close at a late hour on Tuesday night.

The Lord Chief Baron, in summing up, said that, as to
the second count, which charged collision between the
defendant and Sir C. Cresswell, he would direct them that
there was no evidence to go to the jury. He would further
say that he did not think it was decent to put the second
count on the record. Public decorum, and decency had, in
his opinion, been outraged by putting on the records of the
court such a charge as this. He would lay it down as a
principle of law, that all the law required a barris-
ter to do was to discharge his duty towards his client
as best he could. He might be utterly wrong or mistaken,
but if ho intended to act honestly by his client he was not
responsible. The learned judge said the simple question
the jury had to decide was whether the defendant had acted
fraudulently or improperly, or in the best interests of his
client. The jury, without a moment's hesitation, returned
a verdict for the defendant on both counts.

CHARGE OF ARSON

AGAINST A SURGEON

On Tuesday, at the Southwark Police-court, London, Mr.•
William Winn, a surgeon, residing at 45, Bermondsey-
square, a man of very dissipated appearance, was brought
before Mr. Combe, by Inspector ..I‘l acintosh, M
charged with setting fire to that dwelling-house,with intent
to defraud the Roya Exchange Insurance Company. Mr.
Henderson, the chief engineer of the fire brigade in that
district, was present to watch the proceedings: Inspector
Macintosh said : This is the fifth time these premises have
been on fire. As soon as 1 saw the prisoner, I said : " Mr.
Winn, how is this: Here's another fire on your premises.
This is most extraordinary." He said : " I did not do it, as I
have been away." I told him that the last time one of the
lodgers accused him of setting it on fire. The prisoner said
nothing, and I then took him into custody. Prisoner
(trembling) : I did not set the house ou fire. I had been
away nearly an hour after a bed-key we had lent, and then
I was accused. Mr. Henderson : I attend here, sir, on
behalf of the brigade, as this is the fifth time the house has
been mysteriously set on fire. At present, I have had no
comm unicationwith the fire insurance office. Mr. Combe :
I shall adjourn the case. Adjourned accordingly.

The square before the Theatre of La Scala at Milan
is to be called Piazza Cavour.

The Ministers and the Presidents of the Senate, Legis-
lative Body, and Council of State of France have severally
given I,ooof, to the army of Italy fund.
A. DEPUTATION, opposed to the opening of the South
Kensington Museum on the Lord's Day, had an interview
with the Earl Granville yesterday, at the Privy Council
Office. _ .

A society of young ladies has been formed at Brescia,
who haue boimd themselves by oath not to marry any
but those who have been wounded during the war of
independence.
Letters from Stockholm state that the disease from which
King Oscar has been labouring for the last two years has
lately increased to an extreme degree. The weakness of his
Majesty has become so great that he cannot speak, and he
has completely lost the use of his limbs.
SUDDEN DEATH IN CHURCH.—On Sunday, during morn-
ing service in Marylebone Church, Mr. Jacombe, a Great
Marylebone-street, fell down in his pew at the close' of
the sermon, and died almost immediately. He had, been-
j• previously in his usual state of
,health.
MODERN ENGLISH AT WORCESTER. —An old lady of
Worcester, descanting on a fight between two other ladies
of the tribe, said, "If her had, hit her as her had hit
her, her had a killed her, or her her!" Such is the
modern English in the old district of Caerwrangon.
THEFT AT A BANK TABLE.-011 Saturday last one of the
clerks of the city of Glasgow Bank (Edinburgh branch),
while transacting bitsiness at the National Bank, St.
Andrew's-square,
,Edinburgh, laid on the, counter a pocket-
book, containing £412 in bank-notes. His attention being
momentarily distracted, the notes suddenly disappeared, and
every effort to recover, or even to trace then] 'proved quite
fruitless. The notes included two for £lOO each of the
Union Bank of Scotland.
In a letter from Valeggio of the Ist, written by M. Texier,
of the Siede, we read, " Solferino presented a picture of
desolation. I saw an old man, who like all the inhabitants.
of the village had fled on the previous evening, come back,
leading a child by each hand, to seek his poor house among
the ruins. He stopped before a devastated cottage, heaved
a profound sigh, and then cried out, Why are we, the poor
inhabitants of this country, always to pay for what others
do ?' And then crossing the threshold of his house, he sat
on the floor, and burst into tears."
DEATH or BISHOP MALTBY.—We have to record the
death of the Right Rev. Dr. Edward Maltby, late Lord
Bishop of Durham. The right rev. prelate, who was born
in 1770, was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge,
where he graduated 8.A..1792, M.A. 1794, -B.D. 1801, and
D.D. 1806. He gained the prize medals for Greek odes in
1790 and 1791, and the Chancellor's medal in 1792 for
classics, in which year he was eighth wrangler. He was
consecrated Bishop of Chichester in 1831, and was trans-
lated to Durham in 1836. He resigned the latter see under
Act of Parliament, in September, 1856, which took away
iris eat in Parliament, and loft him an annuity of £4,500.