Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-18 00:00:00

ACTION BY A ROMA.N CiTtIOLIO

8E7012E JIIFIT/C!ZS COLEY:IOCE, ERLE, AND CROMPTON.
ROC,: t' CARDEN 8.1. WiSMIAN.-Thii was an action
brought in the Cann of Q Bench, yesterd,y, by the
Roux against Cardinal Wiftnian, to recover
damage. f)r the toss of a (191211nore-, whereby th 3 P incess
Letiria Wyse, the wife of the British Minister at Athen-,and

cousin of the Emperor Louis Napoleon, acknowledged that
she was indeb ed to the pleintiffin a certain sum of money.
The tri 11 took place at Gloucester, before Mr. Justice
Cro vdsr. 'ethic, a verdict Vns returned for the plaintiff.
The rule, which had been subsequently obtained by Arr.
Keating, the-present riolicitor-General, for a ne w trial, on
the ground of the verdict being against the evidence, and
exeessive damages, now came on for argument. Mr.
Berjeant Pigoe, with whom wee Mr. Hudelestone, now
shove l'2 els, ag oinst the rule. He submi,ted that there
was abundant evidence to support the verdict, and said
the try who ha .1 tried the cise had en opportunity
which their lordships had not, of seeing the respective par-
ties and drawing their own conclusions as tc•which party
was eider mistaken, or nad intent.to ally inie stated the
facts. The history of the matter was this : —ln 1845 the
Abbe 7z.oux heard that Alilarne Wyse and her eh ldren
were in a state of distress, and having subsequently become
acquainted wite her, he found that the representatione which
had been made were correct. He took an iuterest in the lady,
anl endeavoured to assist her t) the best of hit p ower. He
b gall by paying some steal' and very pressing debts and
then advanced money to enable her to dress the children,
whe wore ill provided wiit clothing, and also a considera-
ble sum in order to free her from an imoending imprison-
ment, to which she had retderei herself liable by abstract-
ing some property subject to an execution. In this way
he advanced her altogether abeu; 25,000 francs. On one
occasion he brought under her notice receipts and vouchers
to the amount of 2 i,OOO f-a ,cs, ant the jury believed the
debt to be a valid one. There was little or no resistance
by the defendant to the exi-lance of the debt, and the
evidence with re_ ssrd to it was quite conclusive. The
vouchers and receipts were produced, and the acknowledg-
ment of the tot& sum due, in the handwriting of Madame
Wyse, was put in evi ence, as were also the depositions of
two persons who had seen the plaintiff pay money to her.
The Solicitor General s ;id the different receipts and
The,
vouchers
were not given in evidence. Mr. Justice Erle
asked why they were not produced? Mr. Serjeant Pigott
said he was nudee the impression that they had been.
They were in the court at tee tr:al, and he had alluded
to them in his speech to the jury, as if they were g yea
in evidence. Tee only evidence against the existence
of the debt was a statement of Mie2ame Wyse, who
said that she had repaid nearly all she hod Forroweri, and
that she owed the Abbe no more than 2,000 or 3,000 francs.
Mr. Justice C:omptoe : Does she seggest any reason for
signing the document ? Mr. Sergeant Pigott : Yes, but a
special jury of the county of Gloucester did not believe
it, and the weight of evidsnce was clearly against her.
The Abbe said that being advised by the governess of
Madame Wyse's children to have a settlement of his
account, he brought all the recites aid vouchers to Madame
Wyse, called over the different sums to her, and drew out
an account of the money he had advanced, and that she
then in French wrote an acknowledgment, dated Esp-
ternber, 1847, of which the following is a translation :
" I, the undersigned, wife of Wyse. born Princess Letitia
Buonaparte, having received from the Abbe Roux a sum.
of 25,000 francs, which he lent me in ray very unfor-
tunate days—viz., 8,000 fr. in 184.5 , 12,000 fr. in 1846 ;
and 5,000 fr. in 1847, and bring desirous that this
money shall bring him 5 par cent. interest, I conjure who-
ever among my children may become the heir of his
father's fortune, in case of my death before having ac-
quitted my debt to the Abbe Roux, not to forget that it is
a sacred debt which should take precedence of all others."
This document was entrusted to Cardinal Wiseman,
for the purpose of showing it to the imperial family and
getting the money paid, but the paper was not row forth-
coming ; and he had either destroyed it, converted it to his
own use, or given it to Mr. Wyse, contrary to tae instruc-
tions of the plaintiff In 1847, the Abbe came to London
to deliver up some bills of exchange to Mr. Wyse which
his wife wished to negociate, and to effect a reconciliation
between the parties He handed the bills to Mr. Wyse,
who thanked him for them, but refused to accept his inter-
ference as to the disagreement between him and Madame
Wyse. The Abbe then entrusted to Cardinal,Wiseman
the acknowledgment for the 25,030 francs, in ord r that
he might actae an "intermediary" between him and Mr.
Wyse in obtaining paynient of the money, but Mr. Wyse
repudiated it In November, 1847, the Abbe returned to
Paris, leaving the document in the Cardinal's, possession,
and nothing more took place with regard to it nett', 1853,
when Louis Napoleon became Emperor of Is'ranc7, rind was
known to be paying the debts of the Buonaparne family%
The Abbe was then desirous to get back the document,
and applied for it to the Cardinal, who happeeedo to be in
Paris, on his way to England from Rome. ThreCardinal
said he recollected the document perfectly well. and that
when he went back to London he would lock fior it among
his papers, where he thought it was, and send it
back to him. The Abbe, however, received no
answer, and he went to London, whore, he saw the
Cardinal, who said it had not been found; but that he
would continue his search. Subsequently further appli-
cations were made for the missing document, and
the answers given were much to the same effect, but it at
length turned out that it had got into the hands of Mr.
Wyse, by whom it had been mislaid or lost The plaintiff
accordingly brought the present action, seed his arse at the
trial was that he entrusted the document to the Cardinal
as an "intermediary," on the understanAling that he was
to show it to Mr.Wyse, but not to deliverit up to him until
he paid the money. This was denied on the part of the
defendant. The evidence adduced on both sides as to this
point was conflicting, and the jury,. after a trial of fourteen
or fifteen hours, returned a verdict for the plaintiff for
£5OO. The learned counsel now wont minutely through
the evidence, and contended that there was no reason for
disturbing the verdict ; and as to the question of damages,
that the jury had not made an exaggerated estimate of the
value of the document. Mr. Griffiths followed on the same
side. The Solicitor-General rose to address the court in
support of the rule, when Mr. Justice Coleridge intimated
that the court would adjourn far ten minutes. On the
return of their lordships, Mr. Justice Coleridge said he
was obliged to go to Chambers, and the court would hear
the Solicitor-General at the sitting of the court on
Friday, the 26th instant, to which day the case would be
postponed.

ABOMINABLE CHARGES.

SENDING THREATENING} LET TEI3,S.

At the Central Criminal Court, yesteth.y, Ilobecc3, Rice
Hamilton, 33, a well-dressed woman, was indicted for felo-
niously sending a letter to William Dillingham, threatening
to charge him with an abominable crime, in order to extort
money. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Fry conducted the prose-
cution. The prisoner was not defended by counsel. The
prisoner was tried for a similar offence at the last sessions
and acquitted. The charge arose out of these circum -
stances. It appeared that for a. considerable period
letters of the most a'zocious description wore received
by the members of different mem:tit:lle firms in the
City, charging them kvith offences of: the most abc-a'nE.ble
description, unless a sum of money was paid to the writer
and transmitted to an address mentioned in the letter.
The city detective officers were employed to endeavour to
trace the writers of these letters, but for a considerable
time they were unable to obtain any clue to the guilty
parties. The letter that was the subject of the indictment
was received ou the 16th of February by the prosecutor,
who is a surgeon, and who at that time resided in Moorgate-
street, and it was of the most disgusting character. He at
once communicated with the police, and in consequence of
information received by Bull and Thain, two convables of
the city police, they proceeded to the lodgings of the pri-
soner in Bridgewater-square, and in a box in her room they
found two other letters of a similar description, which were
statiscl by, several witnesses to be in the handwriting of the
prisoner, and similar evidence was also given with regard
to the letter that was the subject of the inquiry. The
prisoner, who was evidently a very shrewd, clever person,
cross-examined the witnesses with a good deal of
1 ingenuity ; and when called upon for her defence,
she declared that she was innocent, and she wished
that two witnesses, named Emily Taylor and Mary
Ann Cowell might be called on her behalf.
They were accordingly examined, and they stated that
they had received anonymous letters, in which they were,
requested to say that the prisoner wrote the letters that
were the subject of the charges against her. Thain, ti"
officer, was re-called, and he stated in answer to. que'''' -4
put by Mr. Bodkin, that he believed, thoae, "Jo.' ~.ions
written by the prisoner. Mr. Ilnecel co.- „,ters were
summed up,- the jury, after delibemikv- aatson, having
returned a verdict of Guilty. T• 6 about half an hour,
called up for judgment, ato , .I.e prisoner was at once
for life, sentenced to be transported

THE TRAGEDY OS BOARD THE MARTHA JANE,

OF SUNDERLAND.

FIIILTHFR EXAMINATION OF Tl't PILIBONILES.—In our pub-
lication of Saturday, we gave the full details of a charge
preferred against William liog-as, the captain, William
Mills, the chief mate, and Charles E. Seymour the second
mate of the ship Martha, Jane, of Sunderland, who were
charged with hiving caused the death of a man named
Andrew Rose. The facts of the case, as we then gave
them, meta' be quite fre h its he reader's recollection. It
is not for us, in the present stage of the preeeedines, to
offer any observation on the case. The public wid, on
perusal of the evidence, form their own judgment. The
prix ners appeared y esters ay ,o be a little more sensible of
their position than they did on the former day, when
they took the matter rather lightly. Their manner and
tone had undergone a change and they watched the
prooeedir.gs (particularly the master of the vessel) with
anxious inlet est. They were_ defended by ate Aspinall,
who was insrructed by Snowball. Mr. Clough
and Inspector Kehei3 conducted the case for the
prosecution. The first witness called was William
Power, who was a sailor on board the ship, he
was examined, and said he was at l'emerara when the
prisoner Rcgar;-, ea )taie, joined the ship; he could
not tell what time or month it was. The prisoner Mills
was chief mate, end Seyineur second mats. There were
seven able seaman, one ordinary, the three prisoners,
steward; carpenter, and cook on hoard. James Cahill was
the oriinary seamen. A person named Andrew Rose (the
deceased), was an able seaman on boarS, and he raw him
the day he came on b.,ard at Barbedoes He was a stout
built man, about 32 years of age (as he had heard.) He
appeared healthy. fie had a shirt, trousers, and cap on
when witness saw him. He had no shoes or stockings.
The morning after deceased came on board. the second
mate gave him a job to splice a join of rope, but he could
not splice it, and the secand mate asketJ him what he came
on board for ? and he said as a man, and could do his
duty as a man. He give him a job to do s meshing else,
and he could not do it. The second mate hit him then with
his fist. The deceased sung out, but witness did not hear
what he said, as he was aloft. Saw nothing
more that chiy. Tae deceased was beaten day
after day, from that. By whom ? The prisoners. The
captain beat him with a whip nearly every day. Thinks this
is the whip. He was beaten with the small end of the
whip. Can't say how often he was beaten, but saw them
beat him every day. There was a dog on board, and when
the captain would be bearing the man, the dog used to bite
and more times bark at him. Saw blood flow from the
bites of the deg in deceased's leg. Saw that twice, when
the captain was beating him. Once when the dog was
going too far, the captain told the dcg to be qu'et. Saw
the second mate beat him with a rope's end -that was
almost every day. The chief a ate beat him when he had
occasion to do it. Mr. Mansfield : What do you mean by
that? Witness : When he sent him to a thing he could
not do, he would beat him with a rope. Saw the mate put
him in irons by the captain's orders. It was on the main
deck, starboard side. Can't say for certain what he was
put in irons for. He dirtied the desk, and that's the only
thing. He was in irons sometimes, and out of irons more
times, when he dirtied the deck. He was a good many
times in irons. When he dirtied the deck on one occasion,
he (witness) remembered the captain take the dirt
and put it in the man's mouth. (Sensation.) Can't say
if he ware in icons at that time. When he saw that he
turned away as he could not bear it. Saw an iron bolt in
the man's mouth across, and saw the captain lash-
ing it at the beck of his head with spun yarn—(sensation)
—it was a rusty bolt ; it was on a Sunday ; did not see it
taken out, and don't know when it was taken cut. Saw
the three prisoners ever tee water-cask, and deceased was
in it, but he did not see who put him there. They put the
head on, and the cask was thee put in its place and Isabel,
with the bung-hole up. I asked the deceased at the bung-
hole if it was pretty not? and he said it was. Can't tell
how 10. g he was in the cask. Did not see him taken out.
Saw deceased aloft entirely naked, but don't know what
he was doing. Ida! not hear who ordered him aloft. It
was flue weather. It was in the morning. Saw him two
days in a state of nakedness. He slept general's; cn the
main watch, and had anything he could lay hands cn over
him—some times a piece of sail, but that would be taken
off him. Remembered when Rose died, and that was
a few days before they made Cape Clear. Saw him a short
time before he died. His body, legs, and arms were all
one mass of sores. His hands and feet were blistered,
and his back all cat weere he had been beaten. His legs
and arms were much swollen, and he could not walk.
When he was heaved ever he was black and blue, and
there was blood on the deck where he lay. He died about
ten in the forenoon; and the rosy was hove overboard,
with a flannel shirt only on him. There was no prayer
said over him. The captain ordered the body to be thrown
overboard, The prisoners were all these at the time.
Cross-examined by Mr. Aspinall I cannot tell where he
came from. Did not hear that he came from the jail.
Heard him say he went on shore to get paid from the
Odessa, and that the captain sailed without him. He left
on Saturday night, and was brought back on the Sunday
morning to the ship by a policeman. Heard Cahill (a
sailor) say deceased done something to a bucket of sugar
He used one of my shirts to wipe up scme dirt; cannot
say if he stole cloths, but heard some of the men say he
did. He was put in irons when he came on board,
but can't say if the police assisted to do so. Saw him
loose the day the ship sailed. He was not excessively
filthy. At times he was rot fit to sleep in the forecastle.
(He explained why.) To look at him he was a healthy
strong man. I do not know what was the matter will
him. Believes there was something the matter with his
inside, but can't tell what it war. The crew would not let
him into the forecastle, and I was one of them. He slept
on deck with his shirt and trowsers on. I can't say if he
had any sores vesen he came on board ; saw scabs on him
after ha was beaten. Do you remember his threatening to
set the ship on fire ? I never heard him say so. I can't
tell what seamen might talk about. I beat him with my
hand for taking my shirt to clean up the dirt. Sass Groves
beat him the night before he died. He was out of his
mind, and Groves and I bad to tie his hands to get
him quiet. Groves used a piece of a stave. Tied him
by the wrists. His hands were sore and full 2 corruption,
and Groves struck him. Can't say for certain where
Groves struck him. Can't say if he struck him over
the head with the stave, nor can't say how many blows
he gave him. He did not strike him very hard, as his
hands were so bad ; did not prevent Groves strik-
ing; had no orders to tie him, but did so, as we did not
know what injury he might do at night. Heard the crew
say that Groves kicked him, but did not see it. I struck
him two or three times, and gave him a kick. I remember
Groves stopping him and flogging him with a stand-saw,
as I heard, by order of the captain, for taking the men's
sugar out of the forecastle. It might be talked of amongst
us, of the deceased setting the ship on fire. He was not
found in the hold with matches, but he went down to the
hold for shelter. The captain gave him a pair of drawers.
The mate gave him a shirt and trousers. After he dirtied
his own clothes he toed to throw them overboard. Heard
him complain several times that he was very
bad inside. The eapsain gave him castor oil and
brandy the day but one before he died. On one occasion
he went to the galley and took a piece of meat, and heard
the cook say he beat him for it He was ill before that,
and after it. I think that was the day but one before he
died. He was five or six hours in the cask to my know-
ledge, but I cat,': say how long after. I don't know if he
hid in the cask, but I think not. Was present when he
was flung over, and heard Groves say " Good bye, Rose."
Mr. Aspinall: Did not Groves say, "God bye, Bose ; if
you had gorse to hell long ago we would not have had so
much trouble?" I can't say, but the only thing I can say
that Gr: yes said, was " Goed bye, Rose. The deceased
came back to the forecastle, and the crew would have
him when he was clean William Groves, who
was examined on Friday last, was again called
and examined. The evidence given by this
witness was the same as published by us in our paper
of last Saturday. Tne details were heard with much sen-
sation. Cross-examined by Mr. Aspinall: Made the
memorandum (already mentioned) as soon as I got oppor-
tunity. Wrote it on different days and not all on one day.
I kept it in a box ; no one bet one man knew I had it.
That man is Thomas Hayes ; I can't tell when he saw it,
but he sa v it before it was finished. He (deceased) was
not badly use's by any one but the prisoners. On
one occasion he was brought to the windlas end, and I
I gave him a few flat slips o the handsaw. The captain
told us to cobb him with the hind-saw, and he said Rose, if
I had been there I would have given you a d deal
more. That was the only time I beat him, except when
he was crazy, I slapped him to quiet him; hit him with
his three fiegere and thnmbrthe same as a mother would a
child. I did not strike him with a stave of a cask, and it
is false if any one says so. I did not use a stone at all
for any purpose, nor did I see any body use one. I did
not strike him at any other time. I never left the helm to
kick him when he was in irons ; I never beat him for
calling me a rogue. I did not beat him on the
26th May until he was covered with blood. Never
beat him in presence of the captain about the
faee and head. Never followed him with a brush,
nor never broke a bruslahandle on his head ; never told
the mate so. I heard nano of the men say they got the
decease, I with a box of m 'Aches, and some said they were
afr id he was going to set the ship on fire. I had no sus-
picion of his setting the ship on fire. I had him three days
below. I tied him, for he was crazy mad, the day before
he died. Had no orders to tie him. If Power said I
struck him with a stave, it is a lie. I never struck him
with a stave in Power's, or any cue else's presence. Never
struck him with a carpenter's adze. Tied his hands about
eight in the evening, and he got up and gnawed it off, and

got a ]rift. Tied him up a second time, and left him so.
The case was then adjourned to one o'clock this day. The
court was crowded during the hearing, which lasted up to
four o'clock.

" TOUTING" FOB ATTORNIE3, AT THE POLICE

COURT

IMPORTANT TO A7"TORNIRS AND TEIK PUBLIC.—FOT some
time past a lot of characterless blackguards have infected
the police-court and bride wells " touting" for attornies—
or in other words robbing such unfortunate prisoners as
they could lay hands on, of whatever money they could
extract from them, and representing that they were clerks
to this or that attorney. Ic is needless to say, that every
sort of trick :had been resorted to, and many wretched
creatures were fleeced in the most metfleas manner by
these harpies. Indeed, it has been the theme of general
remark, by all persons passing the court daily, to see the
lot of ruffians collected about all the doors, watching like
the evil one, upon whom they could pounce and devour.
The system seemed to have developed itself to such an extent
that it attracted general attention, and at last, the
nuisance came to a climax and burst, after the folio wing
manner Yesterdey, when Mr. Mansfield had disposed
s f a few morning charges, amongst one of which was the
case of a woman, named Hanlon, the w fe of a man resid-
ing in Peter-street, who was charged with breaking some
windows, and for whom Mr. Dodd attorney, appeared.
Mr. Clough addresseed his worship, and said he begged to
call his attention to a matter that had become most noto-
ri and almost a disgrace to the court. From something
whieb Mr. Dodd had mentioned to him, and which that
gentleman would state to the court, he (Mr. Clough) thought
it the proper time and place to menden the matter, and
he trusted that his worship would institute a searching
inquiry into the affair, and adopt such measures as would
radically cure the complaint. Fer a long time back, the
precincts of the court had been beset with a set of
ruffians, who " touted" for attornies, and whose conduct
was most disreputable, and such as was calculated to cast
disgrace on the administration of justice. In the name of
attornies and law, they committed the most fearful frauds
on poor people, and extracted every penny they could get,
under pee eace of being seat by this or that attorney, and
he was sorry to say, that there were attornies who allowed
their names to be used in this most disreputable and dis-
graceful manner, and it frequently happeced that when
the real attorney, whom the prisoner wished to have, was
sent for, the scsundrels alluded to would be found to have
represented that they belonged to him, and had extracted
fees and received instructions, and gone to some ens else
and divided the spoil with him. This evil had now
become so great that a atop must be put to it, and as fir
the case that Mr. Dodd was about to bring under
his notice, he trusted his Worship would order a
searching investig.tion into it ; and if any official of
the court, or any one connected with the police were Lund
to be implicased in it, he hoped the severest punishment
would be inflicted. In the time of Mr. Mansfield's pre-
decessor the practice had grown to some extent, but when
it was represented to that gentleman, he made the most
summary order to have all such blackguards excluded
from the court and its precincts. Mr. Dodd then acUre,sed
the court, and said when he came to his office in the
morning, a man, named Hanlon, called on him, and gave
him his proper retaining fee to attend the court, in order
to defend hie wife, who was charged with breaking some
windows in Peter-street, in a quarrel which she had with
some neighbours. The man gave him as much is structioa
as he could, but said the woman (who was down stairs in
the dock) could give him more ieformation than he could.
He get an order to see her, an i to his great
surprise when he asked her for information, sha told
hie that his clerk had been to see her, and that she
had given him full instructions, which he wrote down on
paper. He ( tree D.) never having seat his clerk to do such
a thing, and never permitted any one to "toot" in his
name, as a member of an honorable profession, inquired
what sort of person the man was, and she told him a tall,
thin, rema-kable-looking person, with large bl telc bushy
whiskers She said he came to her to the dock, and after
making certain representations to her of the importance of
having an attorney to defend her, the agreed to give him
instructions for that purpose. After the case was over, he
resolved to sift this case to the bottom, in order to discov, r
and expose such disgraceful and dishonourable practices,
no matter if such came from a member of the honorable
profession to which he belonged. He sent for
the husband of the woman and from him (he
eas now in court), he ascertained that a man
named Buckley, who represented himself to be clerk
to Mr. Cobb, an attorney, had called on him (Hanlon) at
his house at nine in the morning, and said he was sent by
Mr. Cobb to know if he would employ him, and that he
(Buckley), had seen his wife in prison and received instruc-
tions from her to defend her, and that she sent him to get
the fee. Hanlon refused to have anything to do with this
man, stating that he had employed Mr. Dodd, and knew
nothing of Mr. Cobb. -Now, this was most disgraceful,
and should at once be stopped. Mr. Manstild : Did
he say Mr. Cobb, had sent him for the fee ? Mr.
Cobb . No, sir, I got no fee. Mr. Goodere : There
is a great deal of " touting" going on here, and it is
most disgraceful. Hanlon then Stated, that the man came
to him at his house as discribed. He never saw him
before, and when he told him he had engaged Mr. Dodd,
the fellow said he was no good, that Mr. Cobb was a
better man, and would be sure to get his wife acquitted.
He refused to have anything to say to him. Mr. Block
said such conduct was most disreputable, and should be
stopped by the court. Mr. Cobb said, the court was an
open one, and he had as much right to come in to practice
as any other attorney. This matter was caused by pro-
fessionel jealousy. However, the transaction was done
without his knowledge or consent, and of course he was
no party to it. He repudiated the act, and thought out of
courtesy, that the matter might have been mentioned to
him before it was laid before the Court, so that he could
have time to answer it. Mr. Dood : It does seem very
strange indeed that an attorney's clerk should call at a
man's house at nine in the morning and act as this man
did —it is beating up the town for business in a
disreputable manner. Mr. Cobb: I hope it will not
go forth Peen this court, that he went by my orders ; I
knew nothing of it until the application was made in court.
Mr. Clough : It is improper to let such persons go into
the lock to see prisoners. Mr. Goodere : This man accuelly
went into the dock and used my name to a prisoner, got
instructions for me, and after that went and gave the case
to Mr. Cobb, after using my name. Mr. Mansfield said he
was willing to exonerate Mr. Cobb from the blame
attached to him in this case, but he thought the
sooner he got rid of such a man, the better it
w ,uld be for his character as a practitioner of that
court. Mr. Clough said he saw the man in court now,
and he would ask his worship to make him explain where
he got the information about the woman, and how he
went to her husband, and also how he got into the dock.
Mr. Goodere said the man was at one time in my employ-
ment, but I discharged him for reasons that I will not
state here. A. week after that, he went hie) the dock, and
represented to a prisoner that he was my clerk, and got a
fee from the party. The man then came forward, and in a
pompous tone and manner said, I will clear myself
in the most honourable manner to the satisfaction
of this court. I was in Chapel-street this morn-
ing, wh- n a man named Robinson cams up to
me, and told me there was a woman named Hanlon in
the dock, and that she wanted an attorney, that her
husband lived in Peter-street, and the job was a guinea. I
got an order to see her. Mr. Clough: Who is this Robin-
son, whom you met so opportunely in Chapel-street?
Buckley : I don't know who he is, (loud laughter) but I
could find him. (Much laughter.) When I was told she
bad been in about ten days ago, and fined £5, that she had
employed Mr. Black, but was so dissatisfied with him (oh,
and laughter)—that she would not employ him any more,
but that she wished to employ Mr. Cobb. (Laughter.)
Mr. Dodd: Here is Hanlon, and he directs me to state to
the court that there is not a single word of truth in the
statement made by this man, who has had the audacity to
make it to the bench. Hanlon: There is not a single
word of truth in it—its a pure lie from beginning to end.
He wanted me to meet him at a public-house near this
court, and to bring the fee with me, but I refused to have
anything to do with him at all Mr. Bluek
(to Hanlon) : Is it true that you, or your
wife had stated that you were dissatisfied with me as an
advocate ? Hanlon : It is a lie, sir ; for we never stated
anything of the sort, sir, and we could not. Mr. Mans-
field said, if there was any difference between the profes-
sional gentlemen who practised in the court, he would
regret it. He agreed very well with the regular practi-
tioners of the court, and so far as-he was concerned, he
had no fault to find with them in any respect. They were
honourable gentlemen, who discharged their duties pro-
perly and respectfully towards the court, and with ability
to their clients. From what had now transpired, he
resolved, that neither himself, Mr. Wybergh, nor Mr.
Garnett, would, from this forward, issue any order to let
any attorney's clerk into the dock, or bridewells to take
instructions
from prisoners None but attornies themselves
would be henceforth admitted to prisons, to see prisoners
and take instructions. He would cease a list of the regu-
lar practitioners, and such attornies alto as occasionally
Came to court, to be put up- in conspicuous places in the
bridewells and dock, so that prisoners could chose their
own attornies without being interfered with by
such persons as had been before the court
that day. Mr. Dodd—That, sir, will be satis-
factory, and I trust that no suggestion or direction
will be given to prisoners on the subject of who may be
chosen to defend them. Mr. Mansfield : I shall see that
there is not. He then directed Mr. Barton, the governor
of the Bridewell, to prepare the list, and have it put in
proper places, and then the subject ended.

POLICE COURT.--YESTERDAY.