The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-05 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH FEB. 3.—Her Majesty's yacht Victoria
and Albert, Captain Lord Adolphus Fitselarence,
G.C.H., has been docked to-day to receive a refit, &c.
The Gorgon steam sloop. Commander Paynter, has
been outlasted to-day, and will be paid off on Wednesday.
The Hydra, steam sloop, Commander Be'grave, was
paid advance to-day, and went out to Spithead to await
the embarkation of Major-General Cathcart.
The Retribution steam frigate, Captain Warden, will
be paid wages at Spithead to-morrow.
SHEERNESS, MONDAY.—We hear from good authority
that her Majesty's ship Ganges, 84, paid off last
week, will shortly be commissioned at this port
to supply the place of the Monarch, 84, as guardship
of the ordinary, whose present officers and crew are
to be turned over to her. The Monarch is then to be
brought forward as an advanced ship, under the com-
mand of Captain G. R. Mundy, now flag Captain to
Vice-Admiral the Hon. Josceline Percy; and Captain
C. Eden, at present private secretary to Sir F. T. Baring,
First Lord of the Admiralty, will succeed Captain G. R.
Mundy in the Waterloo.
The sale of medicines which have been supplied to
her Majesty's ships and vessels of war, with but few
alterations since 1782, has lately undergone a complete
revision. A list of those in future to be issued
has been sent to this port from the office of
the Director-General of the Medical Department
of the Navy. We are glad to perceive that the
new scale (which is to come into operation on the Ist of
April next) contains many valuable medicinal agents,
which have been successfully adopted by surgeons in
their private practice on shore.
The London, 90, first-class second-rate, Captain the
Hon. Montagu Stopford, will, it is said, bo ordered to
complete her fall complement of 820 officers and men in
April, and form one of a Channel squadron.
Tho Waterloo, 120, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral the
Hon. Joscelina Percy, although coming out of the basin
so soon as the tides will permit, will not be ready to re-
ceiver her officers and crew (at present on board the
Minotaur hulk) for a fortnight afterwards, in conse-
quence of the painting in her interior not being finished.

APPOINTMENTS.
WOOLWICH, FEB„ 3.*,Surgeon—Edward Nolloth,
M.D. (1845), to be Surgeon-Superintendent of the
Fairlie conviot ship.
Master's Assistant— -VV. S. Holbrook, to the Resistance
troop ship, at Woolwich.
The Resistance b troop.B-iP. Master-Commander Brad-
shaw, inspected yesterday by Captain John King-
come,lLN., andan!).fficer from the Horse Guards, and
to-day by Captain ittngcome and an officer of the Royal
Artillery, Preparatory to the embarcation, it is expected,
of troops of the Royal Artillery and line service.
Twenty-five
first-class boys left the Fisgard flag-ship
at Woolwich for Portsmouth yesterday, to join the
gag.ship of
Bri-
tannia, 120, Rear-Admiral J. W. D. Dundas,
C. 13,, for the Mediterranean station.
Twelve boys were entered on board the Fisgard flag-
ship here, having been aeleoted to serve as first-class boys
from a great number of applications made yesterday af-
ternoon.

THE ENGINEERS' STRIKE.
At a meeting of the members of the Central Associa-
tion of Employers of Operative Engineers,
&e., held
at their office in Bucklersbury, it was resolved to open
their establishments on Monday next to any or all of the
operatives required, on sae,
a signing a copy of the fol-
lowing declaration:—
" I do hereby
honestly declare that I am neither sow,
nor will I during the continuance of my engagement
with my present
employers, become a member of or sup-
port any society which, directly or indirectly, by its
rules, meetings, or funds professes to control or interfere
with the arrangements or regulations of this or any other
establishment, the hours or terms of labour the agree-
ments of employers or employed, or the qualifications or
period of service. Ido also further declare that I will not,
while in my present employment, call in question the
right of any man to follow any honest calling in which
he may desire to engage, or of any employer to make
what arrangements and engage what workmen he
pleases, upon whatever terms they choose mutually to
agree."
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LAW INTELLIGENCES
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 4.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius at Westminster, before the LORD
BABON and a Common Jury. )
WITHERS V. POPLE.
This was an action to recover compensation in damages
for an assault.
Mr. Sergeant Miller and Mr. Miller appeared for the
plaintiff; and Mr. Hiunfrey and another Learned Gentleman
for the defendant.
In stating the case to the jury, Mr. Sergeant Miller said
the plaintiff, Ellen Withers, complained of a very brutal and
unmanly assault committed upon her by the defendant
under the following circumstances. The plaintiff was now,
in consequence of the misfortunes of her youth, excluded
from ordinary society, and,
owing to the example of persons
who first led her
astray, was in the habit of occasionally
attending those taverna which were unfortunately the haunts
of persons who indulged in dissipation and debauchery. The
defendant kept
was a kind of a a house of this description in Bow-street; it
as the " 8 a Garlick' tan
" or appendage to a tavern well-known
ead," and was what was called a "night-
house. On the evening of the 9th of October last she went
to this place for the purpose of meeting an acquaintance,
named Mrs. Wood. She had previously been in the habit of
going there to see Mr. Lacy, the defendant's predecessor in
the house, who was a jobbing master, and let out flys and
other vehicles. She occasionally hired flys from him to go
to the races, and other places of amusement. The defendant,
on the evening in question, had been spending some: hours
at Cremorne-gardens, and on arriving home the plaintiff was
at the bar with some other parties. Some conversation
arose between them with respect to Mr. Lacy and Mrs.
Wood. It would appear that at this time the defendant
was in liquor, otherwise he could not account for his
brutal conduct. There, however, could be no doubt
that the plaintiff used some very improper language to him,
but the house was one in which language of that description
was too frequently heard and tolerated. Indecent songs
were also sung for the entertainment of the guests, and the
defendant permitted and indulged in such exhibitions
therefore, whatever excuse a person of moral and regular
conduct might have for giving vent to his anger on hearing
disgraceful language used, it could hardly be said that
that excuse applied to a person like the defendant, who
kept a house of the description mentioned. When per-
sons found themselves in such abodes of vice, they were apt
to forget themselves and use language which otherwise they
would be ashamed of. The defendant desired her to quit the
house. She refused, and said he might turn her out if he
liked, whereupon he seined hold of her by the neck, anl
thrust her out of the door into a filthy narrow passage which
ran by the side of the house. He here shook her violently,
and not content with that, threw her on the ground. s
was completely rolled in the mud, and had a new silk dress
entirely spoilt, and in addition lost
a valuable geld ring from her finger. The plain-
tiff did not attempt to justify the immoral expression
she applied to the defendant, but, though regretting her con-
duct in that respect, she said he was not warranted in using
such unnecessary violence. The question was not whether the
defendant was justified in turning her out, but whether his
conduct in doing so amounted to an assault at law, for which
iiipeantital. hoped that, A peraou entitled to gek for co

because the plaintiff had the misfortune to be sunken in . vice,
and to be shut out from the society of her friends. , and
that of the respectable portion of the community , the
jury would not shrink from giving her that protectifY from
violence and injury that they would to any rest.r actable
member of the community.
The plaintiff was then placed in the box, she w% is young,
well-attired, and rather good-looking, and gave h ier evi-
dence with much sang-froid. Her account of the occur-
rence tallied with the statement of the Learned Cot in sel.

In cross-examination, she admitted that she slei it with a
young lady of her acquaintance on the night of tl le assault
at a common brothel in Hart-street. She had been drinking
rather freely of wine, but was not intoxicated. Sb is did not
like to repeat the words she used to the defendant., but he
ejected her soon after she uttered them. She instr u cted her
attorney to bring the action on the day fi
the assault. She had seen him two or thr 03 times
previously at some hotels. She did not think; she was
bound to answer where. She had met him at the -Prince of
Wales' Hotel in Air-street, Regent-street. She .had seen
ladies there, but not women of the town. She did slot know
thatl it was a common brothel. He gave her a. cheque,
which her doctor got cashed. She never said to a ldr. Van-
derstein, on showing him the cheque, " this is the • way I go
to law," nor did she tell him that whichever • way the
verdict went, her solicitor would hold her lb armless.
Was she bound to answer whether he gave her t .ny more
money? He might have given her a sovereign to Pay a cab
home. She might have received two sovereigns. Vii. he would
not swear she did not receive any more mono Ten
pounds was about the whole. She had herself paiJ i her 101.
to carry on the action.

Mr. RUISIFILEY, for the defence, characterised t:1 le action
as one of the most extraordinary that had ever bee n brought
in a court of justice. The plaintiff was a prostitute, and the
action was evidently brought by the attorney fur t'a e sake of
costs. Such disgraceful proceedings of this kind were cal-
culated to throw discredit on the administration ofjustice in
this country, and scandal on the profession of the la w. The
very fact of the plaintiff being ashamed to repeat; her con-
versation at the tavern showed that the defendant was bound
out of respect for his own feelings and those of his c ustomers
to remove her from the house, and this he did with no
more violence than was necessary.
The Learned JUDGE having summed up the case,
The Jury found a verdict for the defendant.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Feb. 3.
(Before Mr. Commissioner LAW.)
IN RE DION BOURCICAULT.

Mr. DuscaN applied, on the part of a creditor, .for a rule
nisi, to rescind the final order made in the case of 51r. Boar-
cicault, the dramatic writer, alleging that he had received
5001. last year from Mr. Charles Kean for Lore in a Maze,
and was now writing a play for him, for which he was paid
151. 10s. per week.
Mr. Commissioner LAW thought the section under which
the application was made required modification. lie should
require a report from the official assignee before he inter..
fered in the matter. His Honour therefore deferred the
application.

Feb. 4.
(Before Mr. Commissioner LAW.)
IN RE HENRY T. GRAY.

This insolvent, a ropemaker at Stepney, was heard. His
discharge was not opposed by his creditors. The case was
before the Court on some former occasions, and sonic infor-
mation was given respecting a bill of sale.
The insolvent is the person who prosecuted a gang of
swindlers at the Central Criminal Court in 1847, and they
were convicted. The law costs of the prosecution were 6041.,
besides his own losses. The citizens of London and others
had subscribed 3041., but with the deficiency and other losses
he had failed, one of the causes of his insolvency being stated
in the schedule to have occurred from the costs of the prose-
cution at the Old Bailey.
The insolvent was discharged forthwith.

SECONDARIES' COURT, Feb. 4.
(Before Mr. Secondary Porren.)
FORD V. COCOMBE.
This was a writ of inquiry to assess the damages in an ac-
tion brought to recover for criminal conversation by the de-
fendant with the plaintiff's wife. Judgment was suffered by
default. The damages were laid at 1,0001., but a verdict was
taken by consent for 4001.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Feb. 3.
(Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant-Judge.)
THE QUEEN V. ItEwirr BRIDGMAN.

The defendant in this caee was indicted for an assault. He
did not surrender when called.

The ASSISTANT-JUDGE said a singular mistake had bean
made with regard to a certiorari which had been granted for
the removal of this indictment into the Court of Queen's
Bench. The certiorari had .been directed to the justices of
" Westminster," commanding them to remit the indictment,
instead of to the justices of " Middlesex," by which it was
rendered informal, and therefore, as a matter of form, he
should order the defendant's recognizance to be estreated until
the certiorari was amended. When that was done, the es-
treat, of course, would be taken off.
The recognizance was accordingly estreated.
THE QUEEN V. HENRY ADAMS.

This defendant was indicted for conspiring with others to
defraud.

On the part of the defendant an application was made to
put off the trial until the next session, on the ground that
Broome, the landlord of the Opera Tavern, in the Haymar-
ket, who was a material witness for the defence, was at Bir-
mingham, and that other material witnesses could not then
attend.

............
As the indictment was only found on Tuesday, the Court
granted the application.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,
LAMBETH.

TRICKS Oy CABllEN.—Francis Lester, a cab-driver, ap-
peared to answer the complaint of Mr. George P. Bacon, of
Lewes, a gentleman connected with the Sussex Advertiser
and Surrey Gazette, for the following misconduct :
Mr. Bacon stated that on the 21st of last month he arrived
at the London-bridge station, and took the cab driven by the
defendant to convey him to the Waterloo station. Having
had occasion, however, to get out on his way to make a call
on business, he desired the defendant to drive to the station
in the Waterloo-road, and to leave the portmanteau and
carpet-bag in the cloak-room, so that he might find them
there when he called. He also paid the defendant his fare,
which was a shilling, and sixpence besides to pay for the two
parcels, which would leave twopence for himself. Finding
that the defendant had not paid fcr the parcels, he applied
for his name at the Brighton station, but could not get it, as
it appeared he was not privileged to ply from thence, and
had no right to be there. Conceiving the case to be one
which concerned the public, he (Mr. Bacon) felt it to be his
duty, on public grounds, to find the defendant, and had put
himself to the greatest inconvenience, and travelled 50 miles
to appear against him.
Mr. ELLIoTT agreed in the observations of Mr. Bacon, that
it was a singular tact that one could scarcely trust a cabman
to pay fonrpence, and convicted the defendant in the penalty
of 10s..and costs,

PROTECTIONIST MEETING AT
LEICESTER.
A large and influential meeting of owners and oc-
cupiers of land was held at the Three Crowns Hotel,
Leicester, on Saturday last, to adopt resolutions in
support of the declaration of the National Society,
agreed to at the London Tavern on the 12th of De-
cember last. Lord Berners was called to the chair,
and among those present were Mr. E. B. Farnham,
M.P. ; Mr. C. W. Packe, M.P. Sir F. G. Fowke;
Sir A. G. Hazlerigg ; Messrs. R. Gough, 0 wsley, L.
Willmore, H. Chamberlain, C. T. Freer, &c. Letters
were read from the Marquis of Granby and Lord J.
Manners, regretting their inability to attend, but
concurring in the objects of the meeting. The first
resolution was proposed by the Rev. N. Morgan, and
seconded by Mr. Gough. Mr. Ball then addressed
the meeting, and in the course of his observations
said he perceived that there was in Peterborough a
very eminent Frenchman who had passed through
various political crises, had great experience in poli,
tical science, had studied political economy, and had
read as much as any one the character of the men
and the times to which he belonged. He meant
M. Thiers, who was on a visit at the hospitable
mansion of the Earl Fitzwilliam. The Noble Earl the
other day had driven him to Peterborough, and one
of the first acts of that celebrated Frenchman was to
go to the cathedral. It was not stated that he went
to return thanks that he was on British ground,
where protection to persons was religiously shown,
but did it not seem extraordinary that while this
country was most hospitable and gracious to others,
who were suffering from dire and terrible calamities
in their own country, and who came here to obtain
personal protection, it was the only country in the
world in which protection to native industry was
destroyed? The best thing M. Thiers could do would
be to repeat to that excellent nobleman, with whom
he was just now, some of those political maxims he
had uttered in France. Mr. Ball quoted passages
from which it appeared that M. Thiers last June had
said, free trade in France would be more terrible
than in England, the possessions in the latter being
larger. The resolution proposed by Mr. Ball was
carried unanimously. The remaining resolutions
were proposed, seconded, and supported by Mr. Packe,
M.P., Mr. M. Oldacres, Mr. Farnham, Mr. W.P. M.
0 wsley, Sir F. G. Fowke, Rev. F. Mere wether, Mr.
H. Greene, and Rev. H. Phillips.

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