The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-11 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS—This Day.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock'
SECOND READINGS,

The foll3wing bills were read a second time : Athenry
Ennis Junction Railway (Extension of time) ; Manchester
and Milford Railway; Southampton and Netley Railway;
Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne Railways.
TUNBRIDGE-WELLS AND EASTBORNE RAIL-

WAY BILL.
The order for the second reading was discharged.
AFFILIATION BILL.
Sir J. TRELAWNY moved the second reading of this

(LEFT SITTING.)

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Kerr.)

THE SUPERIOR COURTS AND DISTRICT COURT-IMPORTANT

QUESTION OF JURISDICTION.-JENKINS V. DOUGHTY.

This was an action to recover £7 Ils,, and strangely
exemplified the fallacy of all that old womanish twaddle
which has partly given rise to Mr. Bouverie's projected

Mr. Buchanan, for the plaintiff, said—My client seeks to
recover £7 11s. for money lent. £2 of this money was lent
in Birmingham, and the remainder in the City of London.

His lionour—How have we got jurisdiction over Bir-
mingham ?

Mr. Buchanan-•-Part of the cause of action arose in the
City.

His Honour—The money lent at Birmingham was a
separate cause of action.

Mr. Buchanan—Well, then, you have seen that we may
not split our demand, but I think I can get over the diffi-
culty. Now, Mr. Jenkins, have you seen defendant in
London since the whole amount was due ?

Plaintiff—Yes ; and he has promised to pay.
His Honour—Well, there is an account stated, and per-
haps you will go on with that.

Mr, Buchanan—Certainly.
His Honour—l have jurisdicti n under an account
ated.

Verdict for plaintiff with full costs.
Had the plaintiff brought his action in the super:or
court, a point of law of this kind could have arisen, and,
as may be seen, he was very nearly now being nonsuited
upon a question of jurisdiction.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

PICKING POCKETS, ASSAULTS, &C., AT THE ILLUMI-
NATIONS.—Henry Roff, plumber, 2, Westbourne-park,
was charged with assaulting King, 247 G, Halout, 136 C,
and Butcher, 109 B, and Henry Haden was charged with
attempting to rescue Roff and assaulting Prescot, 237 G.
The defendant Rod was making a great noise and distur-
bance in Piccadilly, and was requested to go away by King,
when he struck him on the breast a violent blow, and got a
large crowd round the officer, and it took seven or eight
constables to take him to the station. On the way there
Roff behaved with the greatest violence, and kicked Halout
and Butcher in the most violent manner, rendering the
latter incapable of doing duty. The defendant Haden at-
tempted to get Roff away from the constables by pushing
persons on them, and on Prescott taking him into custody
he struck him a violent blow. _

Roff said he was tipsy, and Haden that he was sorry.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said that, instead of assaulting the police,
it was the duty of every one to assist them, for they were
only carrying out the regulations intended for the comfort
of everybody.
Roff was fined 10s. in two cases, and 208. in a third, or 40
days' imprisonment in default ; and Haden was fined 205.,
or 14 days.
James Till, of 28, Queen-street, Pimlico, was fined 10s
for assaulting Waterson, 144 C, in the Haymarket.
Charles Thurston, of 91, Kensington-gardens ,square,
coachman, was fined 205., or 14 days, for assaulting Ser-
geant Stevens, 236 A.
George Clark and George Harris were charged with
attempting to pick pockets in Regent-street.
Barrett, 16 L, having given evidence, prisoners were re-
manded for a week.
William Griffiths was charged by 163 B with loitering in
Pall-mall, for the purpose of committing a felony.
163 B and 288 B haying given evidence, prisoner was
remanded.
David Hearn was next charged with picking the pocket
of a lady in Regent-street.
Harris, 304 A, proved seeing the prisoner try several
ladies' pockets, and on taking him into custody he dropped
a portemonnaie.
Remanded.
Ernest Marshall and Thomas Marshall, of Whitechapel,
cheosemongers, were charged by O'Brien, 363 S, one of the
mounted police, one with letting off fireworks among a line
of carriages, and the other with attempting to rescue his
brother.

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Mr. Tyrwhitt, thinking the detention the defendants had
undergone sufficient, discharged them.
DEMOLISHING THE ILLUMINATION LAMPS AT THE
HAYMARKET THEATRE.—John H. Simpson, of 34, Fore-
street, Cripplegate, medical student, was charged before Mr.
Tyrwhitt with tieing drunk and disorderly, and destroying
a number of illumination lamps at the Haymarket theatre,
the property of Mr. Buckstoue, the lessee.
The defendant was seen by a constable to go up to the
lamps and make several blows at them with his stick,
breaking a number of them.
A person in the employ of Mr. Buckstone proved the
amount of the damage to be at least 15s.
Mr. Thrwhitt ordered the defendant to pay the damage,
and a fine of 2s. 6d., or 14 days' imprisonment in default.
WESTMINSTE tt.
DISGRACEFUL AND UNFEELING PROCEEDING.—A
very respectable-looking young woman came to the court,
and solicited the magistrate to assist her under the follow-
ing circumstances :
Applicant said that she wished the magistrate to afford
her an opportunity of seeing her husband, who was lying
dead at his lodgings. She considered she was entitled to
do so, but was not permitted.
Mr. Arnold asked when he died ?
Applicant replied that he died yesterday, he had gone
out on the previous day for a walk, and returning unwell
did not survive long.
Mr. Arnold inquired of whom applicant complined.
Applicant replied the landlady of the house where her
husband lodged,
Mr, Arnold— You were not living with him, I suppose.

Applicant—No, I was not, I was in service when intelli-
gence was brought me of his death. I have engaged an
undertaker to bury him, and I think it most extraordinary
that I should not be permitted to go to the room he rented,
I am his lawful wife.
Mr. Arnold—lt seems to be very cruel and unjust
that you should be denied the right, but it is a matter in
which I cannot help you. V hat do you suppose is the
reason for the landlady refusing to admit you ?
Applicant—The only reason I can assign is that she
must want to posses* herself of my husband's property,
to which lam entitled. He had not much, but what he
had she has no claim to.
Mr. Arnold—You must take out letters of administra-
tion to entitle you to take possession of his effects. The
landlady's conduct is very heartless, but I cannot compel
her to admit you to the house.
Applicant retired much dejected.

The Official Gazette of Turin contains a decree
authorising the Cavour Canal Company to contract a loan
of a million sterling, to be reimbursed at par in seven years.
The Giornale di Napoli announces that the mail
was attacked a few days ago by some armed peasants, and
robbed of 800 ducats.

The Monitore Cattolico and Difensore Cattolico,
two Bourbonist journals of Naples, were seized at Naples
on the Ist.

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The Austrian journals announce the creation at
Vienna of a central statistical committee. The Govern-
ment organ has commenced a series of artioles upon the
origin and importance of the institution.
The Nemorial de Lille has the following :
" A sudden change of fortune from an incident
which has all the appearance of a romance, has just oc-
curred to a cotton spinner at Roubaix. This man, aged 29,
who was in the employment of M. l)eareusseaux of the
above town, being about to marry a young workman of the
same establishment, had sent to Brussels for a certificate
of birth, having been brought up at the Foundling-hospital
of that city. Instead of the certificate asked for, the young
man received a notice to call on the burgomaster of Brussels
on important business, and on doing so was surprised to
learn that he was the son of a Russian Prince and a young
lady belonging to the Belgian aristocracy, and that a pro-
perty of from eight to ten millions of francs awaited him,"
The Ost Deutsche Post of Vienna states that two
persons concerned in the robbery of jewels and
papers of the value of 24,000 florins, which was committed
in May last at the residence of the Prince de Schwarzem-
berg at Vienna, have just been discovered. All the objects
stolen, with the exception of about 8,000 florins worth,
have been found in their possession.

A Paris journal announces an important innova-
tion in the postal service ; tho Government, they say, is
about to present to the Legislative Body a bill to admit
letters being received at the Post-office after the usual hour
of closing. A double, triple, or quadruple rate is to be
charged according to the time at which the letters are pre
seated,

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The different corps intended to form the Camp
of Chalons this year have just received orders to
send beforehand detachments of gardener-soldiers to sow
with vegetables, at the right season, the gardens destined
for each regiment, so as to produce all that may be required
for the troops during their stay. The ground, which has
been already cleared and prepared by the troops who re-
mained in the camp during the winter, is in the most
favourable condition.