The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-09 00:00:00

CIVIL SERVICE

Mr. MACARTNEY gave notice that, on the st:i of
June, he should, in the absence of the bill, so long I,ro-
mind by the Government, move for leave to introduce
a bill to alter the law affecting the civil service.
MARRIAGES (SCOTLAND) BILL.
Mr. HEADLAM, on ridng to move the second r'ad-
ing of the above bill, preented several petitions from
Scotland and the North of England, in favour of the
same. The bon. gentleman said, in proposing this I.:ca-
m:ire, he was not seekirg to make any trifling or mere
theoretic improvement of the law, but was endeavonying-
in the most earnest manner in his power to repress an
evil the magnitude of which he could scarcely desc; be
without what would seem to be exaggeration, which •-••as
lowering the character, destroying the morality, ;:nd
depraving the manners of the people in the nortl-,,rn
parts of this island. The hon. gentleman after quoting
some statistics showing the great number of illogal
marriages now contracted in Scotland, and the evil
effects they produced on the moral character of the
people, conclu led by moving the second reading of the
bill.

The LORD-ADVOCATE, though he could not Pro-
mise to support the bill in all its details, yet considering
it was a praiseworthy attempt to grapple with a subject
the evils of which he fully admitted, should not opp,se
the second reading of the bill.
Mr. ELLIOTT opposed the second reading, hori'ng
that the Lord-Advocate would himself introduce a mea-
sure that would really grapple with the evils of the
question, which this bill would not do. He moved that
the bill be read a second time that day 6 months.
Lord LOVAINE considered the present bill was cal-
culated to mitigate at least a portion of the existing
evils, and therefore he thought it would be unfair to
wait till the Scotch members should agree among them-
selves to a revision of the whole of the marriage laws of
Scotland.

Mr. NAPIER considered the difficulty of dealing
with this question was, that the people of Scotland did
not regard any religious ceremony requisite for marriage.
He also objected to the facility of minors to contract
marriage in Scotland, the mere fact of people of teli,!er
years declaring they took each other for man and wife
being at present sufficient to bind them irrevocably for
life. He thought this biil would not have the effect of
remedying the evils now complained of, and therefore he
should feel bound to support the amendment.
Lord DUNCAN also supported the amendment. Ile
found that this bill, while intended to legislate chiefly for
the two border counties of Northumberland and Cum-
berland, would introduce the greatest possible confu=inn
nto the whole law of marriage in Scotland. He was far
from saying that some measure was not required to
amend the existing law of Scotland, but it should he
done in a camprehensive manner, and therefore he
trusted the English members would assist him in eject-
ing the hill now before the house.
Mr. DUNLOP supported the bill, on the ground tl.at
it would be at least a modification of the existing evil-%

Mr. 'WALPOLE considered the bill would fail in
remedying the evils of the present law. The penalty
proposed by the bill for contracting an illegal marriage
was 101. for the first offence, and 501. for a second of-
fence ; he was sure that penalty would be willingly p..id
in most cases, and therefore, on the plea of putting down
immorality, it would not at all grapple with it. He ad•
raided that the anomalies of the marriage law in Scotland
were very great, and he trusted that the Lord-AdvOcate
and the Government would take upon themselves to in-
troduce a bill that would assimilate the laws of marriage
in Scotland with those of England. For those reasons
he should be obliged to support the amendment.
Mr. HEADLAM replied, contend* that no ade-
quate argument had been brought forward by hon. mem-
bers who opposed the bill to show that it would not have
the effect of at least mitigating the evils of the present
system, and he should press the question to a division.
Sir G. GREY said that with respect to the apps al
made to the Government to bring i❑ a bill to grapple
with the whole subject of the marriage law of Scotland,
he feared, judgieg from past experience of similar
attempts, it would not be prudent for the Government to
make any such pledge. A bill for that purpose had been
brought in by a former government; but it IV:19
unanimously opposed by the whole of the Scotch mem-
bers and it was unsuccessful. But he regarded
the present bill would affect merely the humble
classes, and would not touch those in a higher
position who contracted the same sort of irregular mar-
riages. (Hear, hear.) He therefore put it to the Len.
and learned member (Mr. Headlani) whether it was
worth while to press the question to a division ?
After a few remarks from Mr. INGRAM and Mr. J. G.
PHILLIMORE,
The house divided, when the numbers were—
For the second reading 4O
For the amendment, 143
Majority --103
So the bill was lost.
ECCLESIASTICAL PROPERTY (IRELAND)

BILL.
This bill went through committee, and was ordered
to be reported to-morrow.

MARRIAGE LAW AMENDMENT BILL.
Sir W. HEATHCOTE resumed the adjournment of
the debate on the second reading of this bill. He said
that the law at present existing with respect to
maigdhtthaetnh'tahre-
riage might be considerably improved,
course that had been pursued in Germany
be adopted ; but he was afraid that the present billrvaapsa
to say the least of it, a short-sighted legislation. He
believed that the verses in Leviticus might be construed
both for and against this bill. If, however, there was
any doubt upon the subject, he thought that doubt
should be given in favour of the law as it at present
stood.
Mr. PHINN objected to the proposition made by the
right hon. baronet. He totally objected to the argu-
ment that those who supported the present bill were
opposed to settled legislation. He believed that the law
as it at present existed was totally against the edicts
given by Holy Writ. Could it be doubted, looking at
that holy work, that kings and princes who were
living in polygamy had been looked upon with spe-
cial favour. (Hear, bear.) He believed that, lookieg
4:r„ scripture generally, no man could find any
Rraritv for disputing the provisions of the present bill.
rer% raa_th_er..
thought the assages in Leviticus and Deuteronomy
in "'favour than against the present bill.
looomi_t_c: law upon the subject of marriage was
was. eiswe'd very different light to that in which it
visions of
ever;
ep:uesent. Formerly the different pro-
prrech were looked to ; that was rot
an ecclesiasticaleaae lawaelsnt.
It badb been said that Marriage was now not
at a common question. (Hear )
upper
el bill bill had been brought forwprd
to favour the
lower classes suffered asai,eB.l His
presentopinion was that the
results.
and eb"Yatththee marriage
law
than the aristocracy,
sent bill would effect the
give its
assent
adoption.e of the 1 r•'-.
the house would
the bill by such a large majeonrtto the second ehopedd. that
country tbat they were in earnest on would show tiongttof
Mr. R. PALMER thought the°rne the subject. re
that the present bill, if carried, would touch be no doubt
the foundations of morality, but those oTahe not o' Y
itself, , because it called upon this house to
revise the decision that had been come to byeetheto
learned divines, who, after great deliberation
adopted the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church;
It was said that such divines as Cranmer were not to I,e,
considered, because at the time they lived they were
under the domination of Henry VIII., but could t:el
course that Cranmer had pur3ued be forgotten, when he
wan asked to give his assent to the marriage of the Kiee
with Anne Bole (Hear, hear.) He looked with
considerable alarmyn. measure that v, :, a
upon any
to reverse the decision of a -s and to put aside the
laws of morality h.g'
'
cestors. (Hear, hear.) adopted by their n!i
ich had been .
upon this subject, and
Milton had thought and writtou
. were also those of lianel his opinions were entitled, a;
ration, and they were anothon, to the greatest conside-
proposed by the present totally averse to that which weel
bill- (Hear, hear.) He asked

the house to disagree with a bill which made that legal in
England which would be monstrous in Scotland. (Hear.)
Mr, R. LOWE supported the second reading of the
bill, and in doing so designated the arguments of the
hon and learned member for Plymouth (Mr. R. Palmer)
as ;mound and artificial. Jae believed that if the pre-
sent bill was not passed, the house would abet a course
of persecution which was against all notions of morality
and common sense. (Hear.) This state of the law as
it at present stood ought to be altered, and that was
the object of the present bill.
Mr. GLADSTONE opposed the bill, being convinced
that the marriage professed to be sanctioned by it were
totally at variance with the Word of God. The law as
it at present stood, represented the opinion of mankind,
and to attempt to alter it would' be absurd. They bad
heard that day that in every S tate of Europe except in
a few cantonslin Switzerland they were recognised and
tolerated. Now what was the case Why, that all
such marriages as were contemplated by the bill, if
sanctioned, were done so under the most solemn of pro-
tests. (Hear, hear.) He considered the present bill as
a measure which, under the disg wise of religious liberty,
sought to raise anarchy in the Church of England. This
measure had been brought forward not in deference to
the scruples of the whole community, but a few of its•
members. (Hear, hear.) Did his hon. friend who pro-
posed the present biil propose to stop with it, or would
he bring forward another measure next year. (Hear,
bear.) The house ought to know something upon the
subject, because the measure propooed sought to alter
all the social arrangements of society, and to take away
that equality which at present existed with man and
woman, and to give to man all the benefits, taking away
those which woman at present possessed. (Hear, bear.)
To ask which was the object of the present bill. To go
back for !Christianity to conscience was, in his opinion,
absurd in the extreme.

for the supply of clothing should be left with the Secre-
tary of State, who would issue his orders to the Ordnance
Department, a minute would be made of the quantity of
clothing that was required by the inferior officer, and
upon that requisition the Secretary at War would issue
the order to the Beard of Ordance for the supply. The
board was not responsible.
By Lord Seymour—He was not aware that there was
any difficulty with regard to the transmission of the
stores, but with that the Secretary at War had nothing
to do.

By the Chairman—ln the opinion of witness it would
be advisable that the purveyor and medical officer should
be made supreme over the whole department. At
Scutari there is about an equal proportion of paid nurses
and ladies.

By the Chairman—He found that the purveyor had
been making stoppages from the pay of the men mistak-
ing his instructions, and made those stoppages as if the
army were in a state of peace instead of war, and as
soon as witness heard of it, and shortly before he left
office, he wrote out requesting the paymaster to return
the drawback.

By the Chairman—He was in London during the
whole of the recess, with the exception of two weeks in
September, and sometimes on a Sunday. There was no
communication but what was communicated to his col-
lenues who were all within a few hours distance.

By General Peel—Vitness as Secretary at War had
control of the militia, and he bad issued orders for the
embodying of them during the absence of Lord Pal-
merston. The hon. gentleman here read a memorandum
with respect to embodying several regiments of militia.
By Mr. Layard—He had nothing to do with the
raising of the foreign legion. He appointed Messrs.
Hayter and Howell, because they were packers for the
colonels. The firm of Hayter and Howell had been
army clothiers for nearly one hundred years. This firm
transmitted the whole of the free gifts transmitted to
the Crimea— 809 to Scutari and 403 to the Crimea.

Mr. SPOONER claimed for himself and every Chris-
tian freedom of conscience, in deciding this question
without being bound by the canons of the church. He
had read the 18th chapter of Leviticus, and consulted
with men of high authority on the question, and he was
of opinion that marriage with a deceased wife's sister
was not only not prohibited, but permitted by the law of
God. The law, as it now stood, he considered produc-
tive of great moral evil, and he therefore felt bound to
support the present bill.
Mr. COBDEN referred to the manner in which pub-
lic opinion sanctioned the evasion of the law. Allusion
had been made to the number of cases of bigamy
committed in a given district, but it did not follow
that the inhabitants of the district generally ap-
proved of bigamy, and he asked why a bill was not
brought in to make it felony in those persons who went
to Germany to evade the English law with reference to
a marriage with a deceased wife's sister. He ridiculed
the idea that the bill would produce anarchy in the
church, as assumed by the hon. member for Oxford, or
that the women of England were against the measure.
Before they referred to Jewish laws, it would have been
better had they inquired what the Jewish practices were
in this respect. It had been given in evidence before
the committee, that so far from the Jews considering it
wrong they considered it meritorious, and where the law
of the land did not interfere with the marriage of a de-
ceased wife's sister, the Jewish laws permitted it to take
place at an earlier period than that with another pa:.ty.
Mr. J. G. PHILLIMORE addressed the house, and Mr.
HEYWOOD replied, amidst cries of " Divide."
The house then divided, when there appeared—
For the second reading 165
Against it
Majority ---- 8
The bill was then read a second time, and ordered to
be committed.

By the Chairman—He anpointed these gentlemen on
public grounds, and not because one of the gentlemen
was brother to the secretary of the Treasury. At the
time of the appointment he did not know of the rela-
tionship. The system in the War-office was extremely
efficient and worked well. All promotions were made
from merit.

By Lord Seymour—The manner in which he arrived
at the abilities of the persons employed was by written
communications from the heads of departments.
The hon. gentleman was here answering a question
relative to the construction and system of the War-office,
when the room was ordered to be cleared.

On our re-admission, the examination of the right
hon. gentleman was continued. It would have been
utterly impossible for the Duke of Newc:stle to
have carried on the increasing duties of the War De-
partment in conjunction with the administration of co-
lonial affairs.

By Mr. Layard—No propoEial was made to him to
construct a wooden trunroad to Balaklava. Sir J.
Lillie waited on him with his plan:,, but as he bad no
authority he gave him a latter to the Duke of Newcastle
who d:sapproved of the plans.
The committee then adjourned.

NEWMARKET RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELEOMIC TELEGRAPH.)
SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SOVS.

Acrobat
Kaffir
Ilumguffin

The other orders of the] day were then disposed of,
and the house adourned at six o'clock.

ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL COM-

Paros ..
Cheddar

Yon easy.
HANDICAP PLATE.

MITTEE.-(THIS DAY.)

Eight ran. Won easy.
QUEEN'S PLATE.

The committee reassembled this morning at the usual
hour.

Bluebeard
Commodore Charley
Three ran.
SWEEPSTAKES.

Mr. Sidney Herbert was examined by the Chairman.
He stated that he held the office of Secretary-at-War at
the breaking out of the war, and his being a Cabinet
Minister in no way interfered with the duties of his situ-
ation. The duty of the Secretary-at-War was that of a
check on expenditure only. He had nothing to do with
promotion or discipline otherwise than his consent being
required in the event of such promotion involving in-
creased expense. The expenditure of the army was so
complicated that it was necessary the office should be
kept up. When it was decided on commencing hostili-
ties instructions were given to Lord Raglan for the de-
fence of the Balkan, it being understood that Sebastopol
would be attacked, that being the object for which the
British army was despatched to the East. The prepa-
rations made for the army were not with a belief that the
army would winter in the Crimea, but the place be taken
by a coup de main. Admiral Boxer was sent out to
superintend the harbour arrangements, and Dr. Andrew
Smith the medical department. He had no authority
over the medical department, other than with reference
to finance, and Dr. A. Smith acted direct from the
Horse Guards. The first time he interfered with the
medical department was in the difference that existed
between Dr. Smith and Dr. Guthrie, respecting the ap-
pointment of regimental surgeons instead of staff sur-
geons. As circumstances turned out it would have been
better to have adopted the latter plan, as suggested by
Dr. A. Smith. After the statements which appeared
in the public press with respect to the state of the hos-
pitals at Scutari, and letters sent home, part of which
would bear contradiction, but sufficient remained uncon-
tradicted as would condemn the system, Dr. Hall was
sent to inspect them after the battle of Alma, and he
gave the Government a very flourishing account of them.
By Mr. Ellice—lnstead of there being one supra=
head over the hospitals, and all orders and instructions
coming from him, there was a large medical staff giving
instructions to different parties. Would it not have
been better to have had one person to direct the whole ?
—So there was after, and Lord Wm. Paulett was sent
out.

Tyne

Walked over

LITEST BETTING.
SOMERSETSHIRE STAKES.
3to 1 agst Typee
4to 1 agst Hercules (taken)
OAKS.
4i to 1 agst Nettle (taken)
Habana scratched at 3.30.
DERBY.
6to 1 agst De Ciare (taken)
15 to 1 agst Flatterer (taken).
100 to 6 against Kingstown (taken)
Jonathan Martin not here.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT (THIS DAY).

OLD COURT.

Thomas Evans, 19, labourer, and George Turner, 19,
also a labourer, two of the militia, were indicted for a
rape upon Henrietta Gatland.

Mr. Parry prosecuted, and Mr. Sleigh defended.

'The facts were unfit for detail. The prosecutrix is a
girl of humble station in life, living near Hammersmith,
and the prisoners belong to that place, and are in the mi-
litia now doing duty in that district. The alleged out-
rage was committed in a field in the vicinity, both pri-
soners taking a part in it.

For the defence it was set up that prosecutrix was a
woman of had character, and witnesses were called to
prose that they had been upon terms of intimacy with
her.

The case was likely to occupy the whole day.

NEW COURT.

Two respectable looking young men surrendered to
take their trial for having stolen a fowl, valued at two
shillings, the property of a gentleman named Fentum.
Mr. Clarkson prosecuted and Mr. Ballantine defended.

The case was one of the many sent to these sessions by
the county magistrates which result in the acquittal of
the parties committed, and prove how wholly unfit many
of these justices are to be entrusted with the powers
♦ested in them.

By Mr. Ellice—lt has been stated by Mr. Stafford,
whO visited the hospital at Scutari, that when he saw
the lamentable state of things there he spoke to Major
Sillery, the commandant, and his answer to him was
that he was an officer without fortune, and having a
large family he shrunk from the responsibility of giving
any orders that might subject him to pecuniary embar-
rassment. Was that such a state of things as ought to
have existed ?—No, certainly not.
The hon. gentleman then read letters he forwarded to
Major Sellery with reference to the state of things exist-
ing at Scutari, complaining of them, but at the same
time making allowance for his being in a strange coun-
try, and referring him to Lord Stratford de Redcliffe for
money and assistance under the circumstances, and he
hoped his letters would have had the effect of benefitting
the service. It might, he said, have been more correct for
the Minister of War to have written to Major Sillery, but
then the question of expenditure came under his depart-
ment. With reference to the management of the hos-
pitals in the Peninsula under the late Duke of Wel-
llington, and that of the hopitals at Scutari, the
case was very di&rent. In the former case
the hospitals were under the duke's hand, as it were,
being in the same country ; whereas Lord Raglan was
in one country, and the hospitals in another, and he
could only act in accordance with the reports made to
him, notwithstanding the period occupied in communi-
cating with the hospital in each instance must, have
been about the same. It was extremely difficult to
come to a sound conclusion as to the truth or falsehood of
the reports from the Crimea, and instanced the case of
a letter being inserted in the papers, purporting to come
from Miss Nightingale, complaining of the want of lint
at the time she wrote the Government requesting them
not to forward more, having too much in store. When Lord
Raglan was sent to the East, he had full powers con-
ferred on him in controlling the army and its depart-
ments. Immediately on Major Sillery's inefficiency being
discovered, the Government proceeded to find a sub-
stitute, and a gentleman was sent out. There was a
larger number of medical men with the army than had
before been sent with a similar number of troops. He
did not think Lord Raglan ought to have been so well
acquainted with the state of the hospital at Scutari as
he (Mr. S. Herbert) was, becaase he got information
from private as well as official sources.
By Mr. Ellice—Lord William Panlett was
,sent to
Scutari after the mischief had been
_done? After it had
begun. The army being separated in the field it was
necessary to have many persons communicating with
one another.

The accused parties were both lads of very good cha-
racter at Edmonton, and had been seen by a person
named Wagger, a farmer at Chingford Hatch, to throw
a stick at the fowl, which was straying upon the borders
of the forest, and having done so packed it up into a
handkerchief and took it away. Information was given
to the police, who followed the prisoners and took them
into custody. The prisoners were afterwards taken be-
fore the bench at Waltham, and, although the prisoners
were stated to bear the highest character, and be in
the service of gentlemen in the neighbourhood, the
bench sent them for trial. Two police constables were
sent to prove the apprehension of these lads.

The foreman of the jury, after these facts had been
elicited, said that they all thought the thing had been
done by the two lads out of a joke, and that it was not
the act of thieves.

The Recorder said he took the same view of the case.
The two prisoners had done very wrong, but he was
sorry that any magistrates ehould have sent them for
trial. It was no felony, but the trick of a school-boy,
and although a very wrong one did not bear any hnpu
tation upon the honesty of the accused.
The verdict of acquittal was then taken, and the
Recorder directed the prisoners to be at once discharged.

LOCAL MANAGEMENT IN THE METROPOLIS.—A return
moved for by Sir B. Hall shows that the total number of
houses in the various parishes within the metropolitan
district of the Registrar-General amounts to 193,167,
the total ratable value of the houses under Schedule A.
of the property tax, to 8,284,346/. ; the total rateable
value converted into the number of houses at the average
value of 421. 17s. 9d. per house, to 193,167 ; the total
aggregate number to 386,334 ; and the total proposed
number of representatives that should be given at the
metropolitan board to 28. In the city of London the
total number of houses amounts to 7,297 ; the rateable
value of houses under schedule A. of the property tax, to
1,584,3511. ; the rateable value, converted into the
number of houses at the average value of 421. 17s. 9,1,
per house, to 36,942 ; the aggregate number to 44,239 ;
and the proposed number of representatives, to 3. In
the "districts" within the metropolitan district of the
Registrar-general (as distinguished from the "parishes"),
the total number of houses amounts to 98,470; the
rateable value under the property tax, to 3,678,8621.,
the rateable value converted into the number of houses,
at the average value of 37/. 7s. 21d. perliouse, to 98,470,
the aggregate number to 196,94 b, the proposed number
of members at the metropolitan board to 15, and the
proposed number of members at the district board to
697. In order to base the claims to representation at
the metropolitan and district boards upon a joint consi-
deration of the total number, and of the rateable value
of the houses in each parish or district, the rateable
values have been converted into numbers by dividing
the total rateable value of the houses in each parish or
district by the average value of the houses in the whole
of the parishes or districts. The number of houses at
the general average produced by this division, added to
the actual number of houses in the parish or district, is
I the "aggregate number" shown above, as that which
determines the relative position of each parish or district.
Thus the average rental of houses in the " parishes " is
421. 17s, 9d. The parish of St. Marylebone has 15,826
houses, with a rental of 1,168,6571., which rental would
be equal, at the above average of 421. 17s. 9d. per house,
to 27,250 houses—St. Marylebone receives, therefore,
for the actual number of houses, 15,826 ; and for the
rateable value of the same, 27,250, making an " aggre-
tion is continued throughout the whole o
gate number" of 43,076. Tne same mode otfh:omrepttuirtea-
The following is the number of members of the Metro-
politan Board of elected
o
h);
thetl varus
'Works,Gre to be
district,enwfeh
Wands-
worthdistrictdqi,stvriizc.t, the
,57
the Hackney, 57 ; the Whitechapel,
58 ; the Westminster, 57 ; the Poplar, 48 ;
St. tI
Giles, 48 ; the Holborn, 49 ; the Lewisham, 3,
Strand, 49 ; the Saviour's, 39 ; the Fulham, ;
47
the
7St.
awl the St. Olave, 28.
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....__
By Mr. Layard —Was any person recalled or repri-
manded for anything that occurred at Scutari I—Dr.
Menzies was withdrawn.
That was from ill-health ! Do you think it was right
when a person was found incompetent to allow him to
be removed on the specious plea of ill-health ?—That
depends on circumstances. Dr. Menzies is a very clever
man in his profession, but he has not the gift of
organisation.
Did the Government look out for proper qualified
persons I—Yes.
Did you find any person ?—Yes. But he was not
sent out, Lord Raglan having sent a person there. The
state of the hospitals were now much better. The
hon.tl gentleman was then examined with reference to
t:hher:oneetnssnym:tion and supply of wine, &c., for the hos-
pital, in the course of which he said everything had been
si°2lnptpioonssoibule to insure a supply, and that the con-
p , , r
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la 0 8
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selectingo
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Government
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tradictory.
tor,tnhe
TlTetyr, whose opinions were certainly coo-
in the j•
hospital at Sin
clothing
mined by various
ii!eht hon. gentleman was then exa-
thefunisrrthineatillers of the committee relative to
warm clothing and also with regard to the
tnty of clothing was al Larmy. A great quau-
cipally sheepskin coats s,o artare"-"e`il in Austria, prin-
chased in Switzerland. also
emithopriutyr- i
tohtatwthtashsbeets sent
By General Peel—No doubt
By Mr. Ellice—He had no don
out turned out too small. somebt

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1855

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

WESTAIINSTER.—Mr. Philip William Perfitt, de-
scribed as an author and public lecturer, residing at 20,
Hemingford-terrace, Islington, appeared to a sununm;s
charging him, under the 6th and 7th of William IV.,
cap 86, with making a false representation upon the oc-
casion of registering a child.

Mr. Buchannan conducted the prosecution, and Mr.
Parry the defence.

The circumstances, as detailed in support of the
charge, are briefly these. On the sth of December, 1554,
the accused presented himself at the office of Mr. Smith
registrar for the north-east division of Chelsea, for the
purpose of registering a child, of which he represented
himself to be the father. The statement he gave for the
purpose of its being inserted in the register was that the
child was born on the 3d of November, was named Wil-
liam Henry, and that the mother's name was Elizabeth
Peratt, formerly Phillips, which was false, as, in fact,
the mother was a single woman. This portion of the
entry was the offence complained of, and in support of it
a witness was called to show that the accused was mar-
ried on the 6th of October, 1854, to Frances Powell,
who is still alive. The present proceedings had been in-
stituted by Mr. Powell, the brother of defendant's wife,
who stat,d that Elizabeth Phillips was his (Pow ell's)
wife's sister.

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The exantnation and cross-examination of Mr. Smith
occupied a very considerable time, and was very peculiar.
He could not remember this particular registration, and
his answers, therefore, had only reference to his usual
mode of doing business. He could not swear that de-
fendant ever gave the name of " Perfitt," as the mother
of the child, and he would not swear that he ever told
him the maiden name was Phillips, but he must have
assented to it. If he did not put the questions, they
were always put 'n his presence.
Mr. Parry submitted that there was nothing in either
the law or the fact to sustain the present charge. 'The
act of Parliament did not contemplate any information
whether the mother was married or not, neither infor-
mation of legitimacy ; nor would it be inconsistent w!th
the circumstances of the case for the defendant to have
even the name of Perfitt, because that was a reputed
name; although, so far from there being any evidence
of his having done so, the registrar had stated that it
was his practice to assume that the mother and father
were married, and that he had inserted it as a matter of
usage. Defendant had never alleged or shown in any
way that Elizabeth Phillips was his wife. Supposing
the case to have been proved, " the name and maiden
.surname" had been fairly given, if the surname were the
name of repute.
Mr. Arnold observed that the case was one of im-
portance, and he would postpone his decision till Friday.
Defendant entered into his own recognisances t' ap-
pear on that day.

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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--JanzeJ Eastgaee was
brought before Mr. Bingham charged with living nn-
mitted a forgery, in order to defraud the trustees of the
National Provident Institution, St. Martin',-place.
John Marshall Olive, clerk at the institution, said—
On the 6th of January, the prisoner opened au account
by depositing a shilling, for which he received a pass
book in which to register future payments. On Satur-
day evening, ahouc three mouths afterwards, the
soccer brought the deposit book, and said he wanted to
give notice of his intention to withdraw 4/. Witness
looked at Cie book, and found that sev:?ral fictitious en-
tries bad been made in the book, and these entries pur-
ported to hear the signature of Willis and Jones, and of
the clerk who tusk the original and only deposit of one
shilling. The forgery was immediately detected, and
witness asked the prisoner if the book had ever been
out of his possession. The prisoner said his mother-in-
law had kept it for some time. There were no clerks of
the names of Wills or Jones in the hank.

Edward Boodle, secretary, said the prisoner was
brought to him by last witness. He asked the prisoner
how much he claimed of the bank. The prisoner replied
"Four pounds." He asked the prisoner if he had em•
ployed any one to pay in the money. The prisoner re-
plied, he had paid it in himself. He told the prisoner
the affair was a serious one. The prisoner then said, his
father had brought the money to the bank for him. The
book was detained, and the prisoner allowed to go away,
in order to fetch his father. The prisoner did not return,
and he was subsequently given into custody.
The prisoner declined to make any defence and was
remanded for a week.

Matthew Cooper, described as a gentleman, was
charged with steali ig a gold chain, the property of Mr.
Packer, jeweller, Regent-street.
The prisoner went into the shop and asked to see some
chains, lie selected one, and while the shopman's at-
tention was engaged, he secreted another. The shop-
man missed the chain and taxed the prisoner with the
theft. The prisoner put the chain on the counter with
his arm, and wanted to make out that the abstraction
was an accident.
Remanded.

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this day.

SOUTHWARK.—Ann Carmoody was charged with
the following robbery.
Thomas Flynn, a waterman, said that about 9 o'clock
the preceding night, he was proceeding along Church-
street, Blackfriars-road, towards his home, at Bankside,
when the prisoner suddenly sprang from a dark door-
way, and. clasped her arms round him tightly, at the
same time 'a
-acing him what was the time. While en-
deavouring to disengage himself from her he felt her band
in his pocket, and as she Waal in the act of withdrawing
it he seized hold of her arm, and charged her with rob-
bing him of his money. She made use of an oath, and
struggled hard to get away, but witness kept hold of her
until a constable came, ar.d then he gave her into cus-
tody. Witness was perfectly sober, and had just left off
work. At the time he was stopped by her he had in his
pocket a five shilling piece, a half-crown, &e., and a me-
tal ticket used is his employment.
Philip Brown, 152 M, said when she was given into
his custody he found in her right hand half-a-crown,
fivepence in coppers, and a metal ticket, which the pro-
secutor identified as his property.
Sarah Ann Fensom, the female searcher at the station-
house, said she asked her whether she had any more
money. She replied that she had not, but witness found
in her bosom a five-shilling piece.
Committed for trial.

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Mr. Richard Early, the master of the ship Northum-
berland, trading between the port of London and Aus-
tralia, was summoned by Wm. Tress, steward of that
vessel, to show cause why he refused to pay him 301.,
alleged to be due to him as wages.
Mr. Pelham, who appeared for the complainant, said
he shipped for the voyage to Port Philip and back, at
the monthly wages of 31. 10s. At Port Philip four of
the crew deserted, and after remaining there seven weeks
the captain signed and executed an agreement at the
back of the ship's articles to give his client and the re-
mainder of the crew 51. a month for the voyage back to
London. On arrival in the latter port the captain re-
fused to pay that sum.

A solicitor, who attended for the defendant, contended
that the agreement was useless, and entered into under
fear. The fact was the crew were deserting his ship,
and to keep those he had on hoard, he (the captain) was
compelled to resort to some stratagem. The learned
gentleman cited two cases decided by the judges, " that
where seamen signed articles for a specified suns per
month for the voyage, and the captain to keep his crew
together home had resort to a fresh agreement of higher
wages, such wages could not be recovered." It was
only the surplus that his client refu•-3ed to pay.
Mr. ..k'Seckett said he had no doubt the judges were
correct in their judgment, and the 61111111101/i must there-
fore be dismissed.

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WORSHIP-STREET. —Elizabeth. Lambert, the wife
of a carrier in Queen's Head-walk, Kingsland, was
charged with cruelty t 9 a child.
Mrs. Eliza Grey, a widow lady residing in the Kings-
land-road, stated—l know the prisoner, from her dealing
in vegetables close to my house, and know that she had
a child named Edward Clarke under her care. I have
not seen her in the act of ill-using the child, but I have
heard its painful cries very frequently, and at 10 o'clock
last night they were renewed worse than ever. They
were so serious that I and my father went to her door
and listened, and distinctly heard her dash the child
down on the ground, and, from the sound, it appeared to
me to come upon its head. I then heard her trying to
hush it, and stop its cries, and I knocked at the door.
A man, I believe her husband, opened it, and on getting
in I found the child sitting on the floor. I asked the
prisoner how she could be so cruel 11/4 to ill-treat the little
creature in that manner, and she replied it was because
it had made ri mess. I went to take the child up, hut
she pushed it from me, and I then saw blood on the pri-
soner's gown. I pointed it out to her, but she made no
reply, and another woman came in and demanded the
child from her. On a former occasion I questioned her
:about the bruises I had seen upon its person. I have re-
peatedly noticed fresh marks of ill-usage upon it, and the
one now above the left eye and the other on the top of
its head, from which the blood has flowed, are both
freshly done since I last saw it. I remonstrated with
the husband for letting his wife illuse it so, and he re-
plied that he did not think she had hurt it much.
riiss Emma Jennings, last witness's sister—While at
supper I heard a sharp slapping sound and the prisoner
scolding the child. It sounded to me as if she were shak-
ing it, and then a sound as if it had been thrown on the
floor. Prisoner was in a great passion, and the child
shrieked, as it were, inwardly. My sister, before this,
questioned the prisoner about the child's contusions, and
she said it had fallen on a fender.

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The child was here produced in court by a nurse of
the Shoreditch workhouse, to which it had been taken.
It was an intel:igent little boy, about two years old, but
very thin, and on its person being exposed for examina-
tion bruises of a bad character were visible over nearly
the whole extent of its back, its head and forehead were
completely covered with contusions, and, in fact, there
was scarcely a part of it that was not more or less injured.
Mr. D'Eyncourt—Poor little creature ! it is certainly
in a most pitiabl+ state, and (to the first witness) I feel
bound to say that great credit is due to you for your
humane interftaence.

Mr. D'Eyncourt—Where are the parents of the child?
Mr. Ross (relieving officer of Shoreditch parish)—l
am given to understand, sir, that their parents hai e
deserted them.

In answer to the charge the prisoner said that the
child had fallen on a piece of iron and hurt itself; the
cut on its head had been produced by a comb ; she had
no children of her own, had been married about eight
months, and had had the children from the parish soon
after she was married.

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Mr. Ross—l will have both children, Sir, conveyed to
our workhouse, and will see to the proper medical ex-
amination of this cne myself.

Mr. D'Eyncourt thei eupon remanded the prisoner
until that day week, and, on the woman asking to be
admitted to bail, he refused to accept it.

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