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PIRIETT t. AIIIN.

Mr. BIitIDITIT opened the pleadings, and—
Mr. Bun trott•st stated, that this was an action brought by the
plaintiff; a cattle-dealer of great respectability, for the freight of
131 sheep and 15 head of oxen. The amount claimed was 201.
Plea son assumpsig.
Thomas llirkett examined by Mr. Ditrworrn—He Is the mate
of the Fancy, of Whitehmsen. Ile was in Dublin in the spring of
last year. He received a number of cattle on board from Joseph
Carrot, with a letter addressed to Patrick Quin, which he delivered
to him ; he noted it in his log book of 211th April. Quin said,
instead of his paying be would make his master pay.
Examined by Mr. SCARLETT—Mr. Carrot appeared like any
other gentleman ; he was a great dealer in cattle.
By Mr. BROUGHAM—IIe did not know that Quin acted as an
agent ; they were delivered to him.
John Thompson examined-11e is the master, and trades from
Liverpool to Dublin; bills of lading are never given ; freightage
varies much 2W. to 3W. would be the average charge for so many
cattle.
111 r. SCLULETT-1 will give my Learned Friend two choices
of nonsuit—(A loud laugh.)
Mr. ilsotwitAw submitted that titers was no proof of prior
ownership.
Junott—lt is aasumpsit.
Mr. Sessi.Err—Titc owner has no right to bring an action
against the Captain.
Junoc —And there was no individual contract ; if any, it must
have been with the owner of the vessel.
Mr. Ilancoliam—There was an implied contract.
J uno E-1 t is clear where all are not joined the plaintiff cannot
recover, and the action wasnot maintainable as against the Captain,
who was not the owner. Let the plaintiff he cants/.

OLD DAILET,
MONDAY, SEPTEMBES

liefrre 114 C COMYON SEROZAVT.

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Fli:ra touisa Edro, • very interesting young woman, about BO
years of age, was indicted fur stealing a scarf and other articles, the
property of Robert Clark.
The prisoner is the same Mrs. Edey who formerly kept a small
coffee-house at Charing-crow and has frequently appeared in our
Police Reports, and who was formerly tried at Clerkenwell for üb.
tarring goods by false pretences. On the present occasion she was
very elegaa
tlydressed in mounting, and her appearance was highly
respectable.
The wife of the prosecutor, an elderly woman, who never gave a
direct answer, but chattered Incessantly all the time she was in the
witness-box, proved, in substance, that the prisoner lodged in her
husband's house, and that she gave the prisoner the key of her
drawers to luck thou up. The prisoner in a few minutes returned
her the key, and said she had done so. The witness then went oat,
and on her return she discovered the articles had been stolen, and
that the prisoner was no where to be found ; but about a month
after she met the prisoner in St. James's Park, and charga her;
with the theft, and offered to make it up for 4!., but the prisoner
replied that she had not things to anything like that amount. The
witness then asked her for the duplicates of the things, but the
prisoner nut away, and was stopped by the people of the whey-
house.
The witness was crow-examined by Mr. Ilkontitici, but no-
thing important was elicited.
The prisoner declined making any defence, but her Counsel
called—
Edward Frederick AVettenhall, a life-guardsman of gigantic
stature and huge whiskers, who merely proved that he was a friend
ut the prisoner, and thaethe prosecutor's wife charged the prisoner
with the robbery, and that he told the prisonerof it.
The Commit N 1..; Len tiract told the Jury to use their own good
sense uu the case, and they deliberated for near half a hour, when
the Common sergeant read over the whole of the evidence, and one
of the Jury asked whether there were not other lodgers in the pro.
KeClitOT.ll house ? which being answered in the affirmative, they,
after some Mrther deliberation, found the prisoner Not Gaily.
George Ilitsn. and Janie Scott., the former aged 18, the latter
12, were indicted for stealing two silver spoons, the property of
Edward Hillier.
31r. (Altatx Tow stated the ease, and called
Alr. Ili id., it, who stated, that he lived in Cumming street.
Pcmotiville, and that on the 11th August two spoons were missed
from his kitchen, one of them marked P. L.

William Homolds, an officer, stated, that on that day he saw the
prismurs together coming up Collier street, which is a turning out
of !wooing•street. The prisoner Scott had a spoon in his hand,
which he was showing to the Clitt77 who, sedng the okicer, said,

Om-examined—lt was a dark night, but although it was he
could see the wall-eye, and could pick the pony out ohs thousand.
If you looked at the pony so attentively, why did you not speak
to the man ?—Because I knew hint to be a auspicious character.
Then, knowing him to be such. you, as a guardian of the night,
never condescended to ask him whose animal it was ?—Because the
prisoner and his tither have several horses and ponies at times, as
they ore knackers.
Mr. Sergeant MIAMI' summed up the evidence, and the Jury
returned a verdict el.—Guilty—Death, but recommended him to
mercy, considering it to be his first offence.
J. F.figlish, aged E., was indicted for stealing, on the lOtli De-
amber last, in tile parish of Heston, a gelding, value 101. the pro-
perty of IV. Waterhouse.
to. Cole, a tanner, at Sutton—Knew the prisoner, and
bought a bay gelding of him on the 10th December, for which
he paid him 101. It was the sante as Mr. Waterhouse and another
omulinuan had seen since. Witness received a receipt for the
Mnt.
recelpt was put in and read—it was dated December 10, and
or um. for a bay horse, and was showed by the prisoner.
Cross-examined-1 hail the horse in my possession ice more theca
• month, as well as another horse, previous to the date of the re.
cart. I paid the money on the date of the receipt. The horses
were lent to me to use occasionally, as the prisoner had nothing for
them to do, and I was to keep them. They were not then lit fur
the coach use. When 1 had dune with the horses I returned them,
and the prisoner wished me to buy them. Ile wanted 121. for the
one I bought, and W. for the other. I publicly used them about
my farm. The proposition to sell was made before the return of
the horses, and I only returned one and kept the other, and used it
till about July, before Mr. Waterhouse claimed it. 1 think I gave
rather more than the precise value. I have known the prisoner for
ten years.
W. Waterhouse—l am proprietor of the Swan with Two Necks,
Dad-lane. The prisoner has been in guy employ about 15 years.
He was my principal man at Hounslow, and had from 70 to 100
horses under his care generally. I have stable, there for them. I
have no partner in the business. The prisoner had no general au.
thority to sell my hones, though he has done so sometimes, when
I found that the horses were not fast enough for my work. I have
then fixed a price for them, to be disposed of to any customer that
might want them. Tne prisoner never had power from me to sell,
except those horses which I pointed out. The horse I saw in the
possession of W. Cole I ant sure is mine. I never gave the pri-
soner authority to sell that horse. It was not till about the mid-
dle of last June that I had reason to know it was sold. The pri-
soner had neither apprised me of the sale, or given me any money
on account of it. I had seen him about once • month during the
period front Christmas to June. I sometimes went to Hounslow,
and at other times the prisoner came up. I never made any stay
at Hounslow, but remained only as long as my business requited.
When I did sleep there, It was at a friend's house in the neigh-
bourhood. I do not recollect sleeping there during the last six
months. I never was at Mr. Cole's till the time I went to leek fee
my horse. 1 generally live its lad-lane. There is a Massa IS
premises at Hounslow, but I have not one in my own ymeshelen.
There were eight men altogether under the prisoner, and they
would have an opportunity of seeing whether a horse was with-
drawn. Ths primmer was never allowed to take a bond k part
of payment for wages, but I have ordered him to bens. hone
foe hay several times. The prisoner left my .SSr i be-
ginning of June. We had to settle the
.aesepaes AN his 1
laving, and it was about that time that 1 bawd at tile hens'
having been sold ; the prisoner has claimed a balance fire lettuce
and something else, amounting to 221. ; the claim is all paid I it
was after this that we found out about the horse. I have never
heard anything about a claim for the things now put Into my hand,
and I have never seen or heard of these claims. Good hay was
, worth about 41. a load in December last; have seen White, a
grocer, of Hounslow, lately, but had not any conversation with
hint about hay delivered' for this identical horse; but White made
some observation about it during a conversation we had about
some bad hay I found in one of- my lolls, when White said he
understood I had had some hay for this horse ; 1 said that I knew
of no hay I had had for that horse, but that I had seen some very
ordinary hay in my loft, and upon asking the prisms where it
mute froni, he said lie bought it of same person from a place called
Friniley, and for which I paid seven pounds to the prisoner;
White told me that he understood some hay had been delivered
foe two horses; I said yes, that I had been told that four or five
parcels bad been scut for two bones; I told him 1 had only heard
of it,a sal that I did not know it of my own knowledge.
The prisoner put in a written defence, stating, that he had been
in • similar situation to that he held under the prosecutor for twenty-
four years, and he never had the least imputation cast upon his
character. He had repeatedly sold and bartered horses for hay
at the command of the prosecutor and his sons; that on the
lit lof December last Joseph Waterhouse told' him to dispose
Of the horse in question sod another for four loads of hay, which
he had done.
J. White is a grocer at Hounslow--I had some conversation
with the prosecutor about some hay on the 16th of last month,
when I asked him if, to his own knowledge, he had not received
I some hay fur horses ? lie answered, be had received four or five
parcels, but did not kouw how much they contained.
Cross-examinnt by Mr. Alio zetins.--Did not mention the
barter of any particular horse, neither the time nor person from
whom it was received ; one of my. brothers, and two of my ap-
prentices, were present during this conversation; they are not
here today.
Several witnesses gave this prisoner a gond character; but he
failed to prove that he was authorised to sell the horse. Verdict—
Not Guilty.
The prisoner will be brought up again on Wednesday morning,
to be tried upon a charge of embezzlement.

31IDDLESEI SESSIONS,
Mtocnar, SEPT. 20.

Catherine Evans was indicted tor having stolen a quart pot,
value lild. the property of Thomas Spring, a public-huust keeper.
Mr. Spring proved that the vessel was his property.
The 111•11111•11—Was the WWI to your possession
Sir.
Coatamax—ln what part of your house P.--On the steps of the
door, outside.
Cumastax—And do you then say it was in your possession
when it lay out of your house in the public way ?--1 don't say it
exactly was.
' Coal a ss itlf.—So, then, you piece your property in a position
sufficient in itself to tempt the euumission of theft ; and de you
expect I can, under such tircuinstances, transport people for you P
Wines..No, Sir, 1 have no such wish ; my only motive is, the
preservation of my property.
Citainsfax—But placing your property on the steps of y OUT
door is not the way to preserve it ; you ought to keep it within
your door. I cannot transport a person for you whom yourself have
been the trans of tempting.
Witness—lce cannot avoid 'lacing them there, for the customers
to whom they are sent bring them back and leave thou at the door,
where they lie until all are collected for cleaning. There are
who make a trade of stealing such vessels. I have lost not
pus n.
thani 41. in one week by the loss of my vetzels.
CHAIRDIABI-1 have no doubt there are publicans in London
who lose a sum equal to their rent in that manner; but it is their
own fault. It is highly improper to place your property in such
places. The houses of Lords and Commons, and other high au-
thorities, have decided so. That the prisoner has stolen the vessel
I have no doubt ; but, under the circumstances, I cannot, if the
Jury find her guilty, inflict /I punishment commensuram to the in.
'inhale quality of the offence.
The Jury, after sonic hesitation, declared her Guilty.
Sentence--Three Daya' Imprisonment.
BRI'TAI. 'FILEAT3IENT (IF CHILDREN.
Cather;ts Irvine, and dlna beim., her daughter, were indicted
for starvieg and ill-treating a number of children named in the in-
dictment while under their care in 31onamatli-court, St. Gilani, in
November and August last.
The prismunx were diked very respectably, and pleaded—
Not Guilty.
Mr. A no Len us conducted the proseeition.
John Haywood Schutta—Lives at IFalworth ; is a widower, end
father of three children mimed in the indicucent, of the ages of 5,

Cross-examined:l She handled the etildren, lint did not meld
the itch. She kept her own children apart. •
Mary Bodeen lives in Monntouth.street ; had two children, a
boy and girl. at Mrs. Irvine's, who went by the name of Wicks..
She paid 4s. lid. for the children, and visited them daily till Janu•
ary, when she went to Oxford. On her return, in May, she found
the children in a dreadful state—all In wounds. One had lost part
of her toe, and they were both in utter starvation. Site did not
take them away, because she was in tear of her husband, who was
living with one of the prisoners, Mrs. IV icks, and because she had
no place to take them to. In a fortnight afterwards she took them
away. Her husband continued to live with Mrs. Wicks till the
morning of her taking the children away. In a month afterwards
the parish officers took her husband away from the prisoner's house
to compel him to give her a maintenance. A doctor still attends
the boy.
Cross•examined.—On her return from Oxford she went for half
a day to Mrs. Irvine's. She visited every day for a fortnight.
She wss tal..en before a Magistrate by Mrs. Irvine for visiting her
husband. She smashed the door of Mrs. Irvine's room, and told
John Dale to' turn the prisoners out of the house. She ate and
drank at Mrs. Irvine's when she came from Oxford. One morn.
log, when she went in. she found her husband half undressed, and
another morning in bed with Mrs. Irvine.
Charles Otto, eight years old, was with Mrs. Wicks, who never
gave him enough victual+. She beat him with a stick, a cans, once
or twice a week, for nothing at all. He felt very MM. y afterwards;
was black and blue on the back. She beat him with her hand, and
sometimes with her list. She broke the cane over Fredy Hunt's
back ; he was told not to tell his mother, or she would beat him.
He lay on a small bed with another boy, and sometimes was turned
on the floor in his own clothes. She pawned his boots, which he
never got beck. He was taken to the workhouse.
Crass.examined—lVe had sometimes a hard pudding for dinner;
tea, bread and butter, and cheese.
Mr. Puti.ors —Tea, bread and butter, and cheese, at your
tea ?—Not all at once !—(Loud laughing.)—The boys told him his
back was black and blue. Breakfast at right; no lunch (a laug");
dinner at one, sometimes lit three; ter 'at five and eight o'clock.
A quarter of an hour at breakfast ; 19 minutes at milk and water
—never enough.
Mr. Buri.e.s. a medical gentleman of St. Giles's pariah, deposed
to the state"of the children.

PHILLIPII addressed the Jury for the prisoners, and ob.
served, it was extraordinary that these children should be in such a
squalid state of starvation, when it appeared that their parents saw
them daily. Not one of the number said to have been starved was taken
away from the school by the parents ; but the parish officer came
forward, and brought the whole affair into a Court of Justice. lie
applauded him for his vigilance, but wished it had been better em-
ployed. What, in the name of Clod, could parents expect foe
half-a-crown or three shillings a week ? These parents came for-
ward with fine dresses, bonnets and ribbons, and complained that •
poor woman, deserted by her husband, had starved their children
at three shillings a week. They had three meals a day, fur three-
halfpence a meal ; bread, cheese, and butter for three-halfpence,
and well fed. The poverty of the prisoners were turned against
them, it was true ; they were very poor ; they had not a shilling ;
but their friends came forward to clothe theni, and to enable him I.)
defend them this day. If famine stared the children in the lac,.
what must their parents have been made of to have left them one
day longer in such a place ? If the Jury gave a verdict against the
poor prisoners they would be entirely ruined, and could not remain
to this country; but he trusted they would be merciful, and not
act on a prejudice to destroy the prospects of these poor women far
ever. lie had sixteen wtntues, but he would not call them, to
detain the Court till twelve at night. Ile would tears the case is
their hands, trusting that they would not sign the fate of the pri-
soners by awarding a verdict which would be ruinous to them.
The Cidat exalt summed up, saying that the charge against
Catherine Irvine, was not proved by the father of the child who
died. She might have ill fed them ; but the accident of falling
over the scraper could not be made attributable to her. The
worthy Chairman then commented on the other parts of the evi-
dence, and the Jury, after tire minutes' deliberation, returned a ver-
dict of Guilty against both prisoners. The sentence was deferred
to this day, on account of the lateness of the hour.
The Court was very crowded, sod the hall vu thronged with fe-
males anxiously waiting the result.