The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-01 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ALLEGED STABEING.--The two German bakers, named
Webber and Wiener, charged with stabbing a female named
Jane Humphreys, the wife of a tailor living at 9, Iteevee-
mews, Grosvenor-square, were again brought before Mr
Tyrwhitt for final examination.
Mr Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, appeared
for the prisoners.
The ev:dence taken on the last occasion went to show
that the prosecu'rix was asked by one of the men where
there was a coffee-shop. She told them she did not know,
and then one of them knocked her down, after abusing her,
and both fell on her, and when she got up she found the
back of her head saturated with blood, and believed she
had been stabbed,

Mr White, surgeon, Middlesex Hospital, said that the
injury the prosecutrix had received could not have been
done with a knife as supposed, them being no cut in the
bonnet, but most probably with the prosecutrix's head com-
ing in contact with the kerb of the pavement.
Mr Lewis addressed the magistrate at some length, and
called several witnesses, one of whom, a licensed victualler,
said that on the night in question the prosecutrix, who had
been drinking, came into his house and complained that a
female had knocked her down and hurt her head. Some of
the other witnesses stated that the prisoners were not the
men who knocked the prosecutrix down.

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Mr Tyrwhitt said he could not decide the case himself,
and should send it to the sessions..

The prisoners were then committed for trial ; Mr Tyr
whitt, on the application of Mr Lewis, consenting to take
bail in £5O for each prisoner.

THAMES,

FIRE AT A PAWNBUOKEICS.—IMMENSE DISTRESS.—
Mr French, of the firm of French and Ogilvie, pawn
brokers, in High-street, Poplar, who have been frequently
summoned to this court for irregularities in the conduct of
their business, and have been frequently censured by the
magistrates, appeared before Mr Paget to answer a chargo
of detaining a bed which had been pawned, and after the
principal sum thereon and the interest had been tendered.
The premises 3f the defendants were destroyed by fire on
the night of Saturday the 233. of April last, s 'on after the
termination of business, and the greater portion of their
stock in trade and an immense quantity of articles in pawn
of every description destroyed. A. good deal of misery,
loss, and inconvenience to the poor of the district was
the result of this conflagration. Numerous applications for
summonses to enforce compensation or restitution of goods
have been made to the magistrates. Af lw summonses
have been granted, and in these cases where French and
Ogilvie stated that the goods claimed were destroyed by fire,
the summonses were dismissed. In other cases, where
goods were proved to be in existence after the fire,
orders were made to compensate the owners. Elizabeth
Baker, the wife of a labourer, said she pawned the bad for
13s. on the 11th of March. She went to the defendant's
shop for her bed about three weeks or a month after the
fire. Mr Ogilvie assured her the bed was not burnt—it
was safe—and asked her if she would redeem it. She w.s
not prepared to do so then. A second time she was assured
the bed was in existence, She went a few days ago to the
defendants' shop to redeem the bed, and tendered the
principal and interest. She was then informed the bed
was destroyed in the fire.

Mr French said
pawnbrokers were not liable to make
compensation for losses by fire on their premises.
Mr Paget said he knew that, and had already decided so
in another case, but here the bed vras saved. It was in
existence after the fire. _ _

Mr French said that was not so. A few beds were par-
tially saved and kept as long as possible. They were so
decomposed, and became such a nuisance that the Poplar
Board of Works ordered tbeir removal.
The complainant said the bed cost her £3 10s. They had

,hree years before distress compelled them to part with

Mr Paget said all the conversations about the bed were
with Mr Ogilvie, who ought to have been present, and
not his partner. lie should value the bed at £2 10s, from
which ho should deduct 14s 6d for principal and interest.
lie ordered the defondants to restore the bed or pay £1 5s
63, and 2s costs to the complainant.

LONGEVITY IN SOUTH EsSEl.—During the six
months from October, 1863, to April, 1864, 22
adults died in the union house of Orsett, whose united ages
amounted to 1,721 years, giving an average life of 78 years
and three months to each. Of the 22, 13 were males, 9
females—one man dying at 90 from a broken thigh. We
believe such a fact to be almost unprecedented, The
Tloh,beaau only
other other death was one infant. Orsett lies on the table land
facing Gravesetd. The soil is in general gravel and chalk,
with a portion of clay land.
A DUEL AT PESTIL—The Wanderer of Vienna
says:--" A duel has just taken place at Pesth between M.
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the forehead and died instantaneously. The deceased was
only 26 years of age. The quarrel, which has terminated
so fatally, commenced three years ago from the most trifling

cause,"
SUICIDE OF A YOUNG GIRL IN THE REGENT'S
CANAL.—On Thursday night an inquest was held
on the body of a girl named Maria Turner, aged 15 years,
aa. He caused the canal
to be dragged, and the deceased was brought up quite dead.
There was no evidence as to when or why the deceased
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dead in the Regent's Canal.
MR. JACOB BELL'S BEQUEST TO THE NATION.—
Sir,—Mr. Jacob Bell, who died five or six years ago,
bequeathed a few dne pictures to the National Gallery,
among which were " The Maid and the Magpie," by Sir
Ed win Landseer, R.A. ; " The Derby Day," by W. P.
Frith, R.A. ; "The florae Fair," by Mad lle. Rosa Bonheur.
It was understood that the above were retained for the pur-
pose of engraving. The engravings from them have long
since been published, so that there appears no valid reason
why they should not now appear in the national collection.
The original " Horse Fair" was said to have been sold in
the United States, and that the late Mr Bell's picture was
a reduction by the fair artist. But such a reduction has
been exhibited at the Canterbury Hall and in the City.
Recently I heard in Paris that Madlle. Bonheur was now
painting this subject for the National Gallery. Perhaps I
was misinformed.—Correspondent of the Budder.
ALLEGED BRUTAL MURDER OF A BOY.-0a
Thursday afternoon, shortly after three o'clock, a
brutal murder was perpetrated at Alveston, near Stratford-
on-Avon. It eppears, from such information as we have
been able to collect, that a boy named Bayliss, about 10
years of age, was stabbed through the neck with a stable-
fork by a man named John 'Wagstaff, a groom in the em•
ploy of Mr J. Townsend, of Alveston House. After com-
mitting the deed, the accused, who is only about 18 years
of age, absconded, end was traced in the company of some
women at Warwick. It is rumoured that the boy refused
to have some gin, which Wagstaff wished to give him, and
that he stabbed him without receiving any provocation.—
, Birmingham Gazate, _ _ _