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London, England, 1864-09-14 00:00:00

THE SIJN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTBER 14, 1864.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.---This Day.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Baforo F. Gibbons, Esq.)
siNcitiAP.. ACTION AGAINST BARRY BRUNTON, T3IE

FIGHTING MAN, FOR BREAKING DOWN A SIGNBOARD

IN FLEET- STREET-CRANE V. BRUNTON.

This was an action to recover £3 damage to a signboard,
which was alleged to have been torn down from plaintiff's
premises, Mr Perry (from Mr Buchanan's) appearing for
the plaintiff, who is a tradesman of Fleet-street, Mr Beard
representing defendant, the ex-fighting man of Barbican.
Mr Perry was proceeding to open the case when Mr
Beard said that a most impertant witness was unavoidably
absent, and he did not feel justified on proceeding.
Mr Perry hoped his honour would not listen to any ap-
plication, because he had very good proof of the case.; The
witness who was absent, was no other than the defendant
himself.

Mr Beard—That is not so.
Mr Perry—He told my client that he should go down to
the races to-day, as he should enjoy himself a great deal
better at Doncaster than in this court.
Mr Beard said that he could assure the court of the ab•
Bence of a material witness.
Mr Perry—l am at a loss to understand what the defence
can be. The defendant has admitted that he pulled down
the signboard, and I have three witnesses to prove that it
was done in a drunken spree.
Mr Beard denied this, and his Honour allowed the case to
stand over on defendant paying full costs.
HUMPHRIES Y. WATSON-THE LAW AS TO BAD MONET--

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This day.

BOW-STREET.

A STRANGE STORY,—,Mary Clarke, a fashionably-dressed
woman, was placed at the bar, charged with stealing three
half-crowns from Mr A. F. Belt.
The prosecutor said he resided at 1, St John's-street,
Westminster, and on the evening of the 6th he was return-
ing from a party when he met the prisoner in Waterloo-
place. She gave him a sort of friendly blow, and
said, " I know you somewhere," Ile denied all know-
ledge of her, and she walked by his side from the
place where she first spoke to him until he arrived at the
Athenaeum Club, where he found ho had been robbed of
three half-crowns. He accused the woman of having stolen
the money, but she denied it, and said she was a respectable
married woman. While she was walking with him, a man
and woman passed close to them, and he suspected she
passed the money to them, as it had not been re-
covered, and ho was certain she did not drop
it while she was being taken to the station house. When
he first gave the woman into custody, he said he had been
robbed of three half-sovereigns, but that was a mistake.
Mr Lewis, who appeared for the prisoner, said the pri-
soner was a respectable married woman, and that there
must be some mistake in the matter. Her husband he
believed was a very respectable person, and he was quite
unacquainted with the matter until he learned that his wife
was in custody on the charge. He should like to ask the
prosecutor a few questions.
The prosecutor, in reply, Eaid he was quite oertain he
had the money in his pocket when the prisoner first spoke
to him. He was perfectly sober. The prisoner walked on
his right hand side, and the stoney was abstracted from his
waistcoat pocket. The reason he made the mistake in saying
three half Boys. instead of three half-crowns was because
he was very much flurried. He was certain he had the
money when the prisoner first spoke to him, and
immediately she walked away he found he had been robbed.
Police-constable 308 A sail he took the prisoner into cus-
tody. She was searched at the station, but the money was
not found.
In reply to Mr Vaughan,
Mr Lewis said the prisoner would reserve her defence.
Ho hoped she would be admitted to bail.
Mr Vaughan said he did not feel justified in taking bail.
The prisoner then began to cry, and asked the magistrate
to deal summarily with th. case.
Mr Vaughan said he could not do that, because She
denied the charge. _

Prisoner—Tien I plead guilty.
Mr Vaughan—What d 4 you say to that, Mr Lewis.
Mr Lewis—l was instruted she was a respectable mar-
ried woman, and after what she has stated I think I had
better say nothing.

Mr Vaughan—You sad something about her husband
being a respectable man. I should like to ask him a few
questions.

Clarke, the husband, then stepped into the witness-box.
Mr Vaughan—Are you married to this woman ?—Yes.
Where do you live P—No. 1, Anchor-street, Church-
street, Shoreditch, and hive done so for the last 12 months.
I only occupy lodgings is the house.
What aro you P—A commission agent.
For whom ?—M. Dolatierre, No. 1, Rue St. Honore,
Paris, bullion dealer. I conduct his business for him at the
London and Westminster Bank.
Has he offices in London P—No, ho communicates by
letter.

Do you mean to say that a bullion dealer residing in
Paris communicates to you by letter at the address you
have given in Shoreditch ?--Yes.
Mr Vaughan—lt is a wry strange ease, however. I
shall commit the prisoner to the House of Correction for
three months.

Desperalte Affray with Poachers at Newton.

At the rosN.'n Hall, Newton, on Monday, before C. IL
Monro, Esq., AV• J. Watts, Esq„ and C. J. Wade, Esq.,
William Brown,. George Fowler, and John Griffin, alias
Staddon, we're charged with being on lands in the occupation
of Mrs Mail Rendell, the property of Sir Walter Carew.
Bart , in the parish of Coombeinteignhead, on Saturday
night, for tl ie purpose of taking game. The prisoners have
recently bean working on the Dartmouth and Mortenhamp-
stead Railways, and as they were brought into court they
bore evident marks of their having been roughly handled,
their faces being disfigured and their clothes saturated with
blood. The case excited much interest, the court being
densely crowded.

Mr Baker appeared to prosecute ; and Mr H. Michelmore
defended the prisioners.

Felix Harris, head keeper to Sir W. Carew, said—On
Saturday night, between nine and ten o'clock, he, in com-
pany with others, was watching the preserves at Fannin.
He was watching in the field on the left of the brake,
where there is much game, when he heard footsteps ap-
proaching in the lane adjoining the brake, which was some
distance from the turnpike-road. On hearing the footsteps
he and a keeper named Taylor went further on to a field
gate, and whilst there heard some one call for assistance.
He immediately went back, and found three of the keepers
and the prisoners struggling in the road. He first
took hold of the prisoner Brown, and afterwards of
Griffin, who struck him a severe blow on the head with
his fist. The prisoner also kicked Worth, another keeper,
and in attempting to do so a second time kicked the prisoner
Fowler in the face. The struggle continued for some time,
and after much difficulty the prisoners were handcuffed.

John Worth, gamekeeper to R. Vicary, Esq,, deposed
to his having seen the prisoners come over to the gate in
Buckland-lane, when ho made a rush at them and caught
the prisoner Fowler, and asked him what right he had
there. He made no reply, and a struggle ensued, and he
succeeded in throwing Fowler to the ground. His legs
were much bruised by the prisoner's violence. He saw
the other two prisoners at the time, and Felix Harris
caught hold of Griffin, and Warren caught hold of Brown.
Harris in the struggle called for assistance, he being on the
ground, and the prisoner Griffin on the top of him. Whilst
he was endeavouring to handcuff Griffin he kicked witness
most ♦iolently in the throat.

Cross-examined
,by Mr Michelmore—He did not strike
Brown with a stick, but with his fist, as he appeared to be
choking Harris. The prisoner Brown said that the witness
struck him with a life preserver.

By the Bench—Buckland-lane was a private v./ad,
the gate where the prikoners were caught was all,out 60
yards from the turnpike road.
Felix John Harris gave evidence as to 01,5 nature of the
struggle. On searching Brown he for 74d a large gate net
in his right coatpocket.

Ellis *men and William T.-,tylor, two of the watchers,
gave eimilarevidenceN

Mr Michelmoret `.or the defence, contended that there
was no proof tat the prisoners were in the road for an
unlaWfte, purpose except from the net, which did not appear
to have ever been used for the taking of game or any-
thing else, it being quite new. He argued that suppos-
ing for instance the net, had been put into the prisoner's
pocket for the purr one of taking ;rabbits, the bench would
have no pow'n to convict. In the present case there had
been V.,',:ning shown to the contrary. The truth was that
the prisoners, as he was instructed to say, were merely
waling up the road on their way to Teignmouth, when they
were stopped and collared by the keepers, which was the
sole offence against them. He maintained that as Itlr
Baker had said in his opening remarks the prisoners were
there apparently for the purpose OE taking game, that the
bench had no legal power in the case.
Mr Baker observed that it was a question of fact tto
bench had to decide.
The Chairman remarked that the bench had paid great
attention to the case, and found from the nature of the evi-
dence that there was nothing to show that the sentence
should in any way be mitigated. The prisoners would be
imprisoned fur three months, with hard labour, and were
ordered at the expiration of that term to find sureties tr., be
of good behaviour for six months.— WesSorn Naming News

How TO DESTROY INSECTS.—rne following
remedy for the plague of insects 'was invented by
the late Rev. W. Kirby :—A hand glass, commonly used
by gardeners (a square one is tbr best) is the instrument to
be used. This has to be ti:ghtly covered at the bottom
with thick white paper. varnished to resist the wet. A
circular hole, 61 tackesin diameter, is then cut in the centre
of the paper, and the glass is placed on three bricks over
a plate filled 'with beer, sugar, and a little rum, a moderate
distance keel the infested spot. The effect is magical • in
a few ;tours the glass is crammed with wasps, hornets,
ar.a flies (bees will seldom enter), which, having tasted
the sweets, fly upwards to the light. A common sulphur
match, made by dipping brown paper into melted brimstone,
will destroy thousands. The constant hum of insect life
inside will attract all ►he marauders from the fruit trees to
the glass ; and the scent of the rum is sure to induce Vag
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most fastidious wasp to enter as no insect can resir,t its

powerful attractions.

THE TALLAHASSEE.—The Beaufort correspondent
of the New York Herald, writing on tb e 27th, re.
ports the running of tho blockade of Wilmington by the
Tallahassee Confederate cruiser. The Tallahassee, after
much devastation, concluded to spend a short time at Wil-
mington. On the night of the 15th r.,f August, at 10 o'clock
in the evening, Captain Philin, commanding the gunboat
Montecello, while cruising off New Inlet, diseovered a

steamer standing for the shore under a full head of steam.

Ile at once ordered all men to quarters, and when about
500 yards distant challenged her, but elicited no reply. A
second challenge was met by silence, and he directed that
a package of 9-inch grape should be presented to the mys-
terious stranger, The arrival of grape at its destination
was ascertained by a peculiar sound, caused by a contact
with resistance. The stranger then replied by returning a
shell, which passed between the foremast and mainmast of
the Moritecello, exploding on the other side without inflict-
ing any damage. Captain Philin now became more earnest
and sent a 3.'-pounder shell, to which reply was made in
grape, striking almost under the stern of the Montecello.
The Montecello then opened with 9-inch and 30-pounder
shell short fuse, but was disappointed at receiving?, no shots
in return, and then for the first time discovered that the
stranger had suddenly disappeared. During the engage-
ment a Confederate battery of Whitworth guns, stationed
on shore at a point a mile or more distant, kept up a con-
staht Are against the Montecello, but fortunately doing no
daraage, though frequently coming very close. When day
had dawned so as to make distant objects perceptible, much
to the surprise of the assembled vessels, there could be dis-
cerned, lying serenely and securely under the guns of Fort
Fisher, the long sought object of their search, the Confede-
rate steamer Tallahassee, and there she still lies, and pro-
bably will continua to stay, Admiral Leo designs taking
all possible precaution, and will to-morrow leave this post
to visit the blockade off Wilmington. It would seem as if
still another was to be added to the fleet of Confederate
cruisers. A few nights ago a large fast steamer, carrying
at her stern the English ensign, and on her foremast the
Confederate colours, entered the port of Wilmington, She
is supposed to be a new cruiser, or to have had on board
some distinguished passenger. She likewise still remains
there. Tho Tallahassee had but one mast standing when
engaged by the Montecello.
THE HOP TRADE.—Subjoined is Messrs. Wool.
loton and Son's report of the Hop Market :—The
warm dry weather of the ps.st summer has caused the sup-
ply of new hops to arrive at market earlier than usual, and
although much of the growth remains unpicked, enough is
secured to justify an opinion as to the quantity and quality
of the crop of 1864. Notwithstanding many samples indi-
cate the effects of mould, red rust, and black blight (and
such hops are always the first to bo picked and pressed for
sale), wo consider that generally this season's crop will be
remarkable for ripeness, rich flavour, and condition. The
palest samples will probably be scarce, but a bright healthy
yellow will be tho prevailing colour of the growth.
The quantity grown being now no longer a matter of sta-
tistical accuracy, much difference of opinion will always
exist on the subject. Our judgment is that the produce of
this year will, at least, equal an old duty of £200,000. A
gradual but important increase has taken place in the home
plantations durieg the past three years, and there are now
more than 50,000 acres under cultivation. The European
Hop Plantations have doubled in extent since 1854, and this
year produce three-fourths of a full crop. This leaves in
excess of local requirements a most important surplus, that
must find its way to this country. The crop in Bohemia,
Bavaria, Belgium, and the Lorraine district of France, is
quite one-third more than last year, and of very superior
quality. Baden,Brunswick, Poland, ice, are not so fortunate,
but their hops are seldom of good quality, and are chiefly
purchased for the adulterations of Bavarians and Bohemians.
Last year, American letters stated that very few hops from
that country would be exported to Europe, but the Cus-
toms return proves the inaccuracy of this opinion. We now
are told, most confidently, that the Federal States, so far
from being able to export, will require hops from England
for their own consumption. Wu seriously doubt the wis-
dom of speculation based upon these reports, The stock in
the hands of consumers is probably very small, and on this
market scarcely any 1862's or 1863's remain. For the few
left, extreme rates are obtained ; but with so abundant an
English crop, and the certainty of large imports from abroad,
mindful also of the gloomy prospects of the money market,
we apprehend brewers will see the policy of regulating their
first purchases with extreme caution. Large parcels of
1855'5, 1856'5, and 1857's remain unconsumed, and where
well kept will probably find a ready sale at their present
very moderate rates.
TROTTING MATCH FOR £so.—Yesterday a match,
in which Mr Arthur undertook to trot his roan mare
Peggy eight miles in half an hour, came off over two level
miles of the old Brighton road, near Itorley. The mare,
harnessed to a light cart, commenced her task by going
away at a good pace, her driver holding her in. Sho per-
formed the first two miles in 7 min. 10 sec., and came back
to the starting point in admirable style, getting over four
miles in 14 min. 30 see She did the next two miles in 7
min. 14 see.; and, on making her way for the winning
goal, her driver gave her head, and she performed the last
mile in 3 min, 20 sec., and came in a winner with 1 min. 21
sec. to spare, accomplishing the eight miles is 28 min. 39
see.