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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 3, 1863.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE
(Before the Judge ordinary.)
WINDHAM V. WINDHAM AND GITJGLINI.
In this case an application was made by the petitioner for
leave to amend the petition.
Dr. Wamby this morning intimated that he had received
instructions to withdraw his motion.
Mr. Searle, on the part of the co-respondent, asked for
costs.
The Judge Ordinary asked how the co-respondent came
into court.
Mr. Searle said it was not stated whether he was charged
with adultery or not.
The Judge Ordinary thought the co-respondent was en •
titled to his costs.
Dr. Spinks presumed that the respondent was entitled to
costs as a matter of course.
The Judge Ordinary replied that he did not say as much
as that at present.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Before the Lord Chief Justice and a Special Jury.)
CLARE Y. THE LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY.

The examination of witnesses was resumed this morning
in this case, which was an action brought by the plaintiff
against the Lords of the Admiralty for an infringement of
his patent for the construction of iron-plated ships.
The case is not at all likely to conclude to-day.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.---This Day.

OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)

George Greenwalt, a clerk, pleaded guilty to two indict•
ments, charging him with forging acceptances to two bills
of exchange, one for £3OO, and the other for £6B.
The Recorder sentenced him to four years penal servi-
tude.

John Gordon and William Davis pleaded guilty to bur-
glariously breaking and entering the warehouse of Messrs.
Truscott, Suffolk lane, City.

The Recorder sentenced Gordon to 6 years penal servi-
tude, and Davis to 12 months' imprisonment.
Benjamin. Leggett, a traveller, was indicted with em-
bezzling several sums of money, the property of his ern-
ployer, David Alfred Lurie, warehouseman, of Bartholomew-
close.

The Jury found him guilty, but recommended him to
mercy.

The Recorder sentenced him to 18 months' imprison-
ment, with hard labour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

SYSTEMATIC ROBBERY AT TILE UNIVERSITY CLUB.—
Sarah Essam, kitchenmaid at the University Club, Pall-
mall, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing a
quantity of glasses, decanters, linen, and other articles, the
property of Sir Charles Blunt and others, the trustees of
the club ; and Ann Farley, of 10, Lit. Paul's-terrace,
Camden-town (but who, when taken into custody, gave the
name of Ann Barnes, said to be her maiden name, she
some time since having married from the Club, where she
was a servant), was charged with receiving the same, well
knowing them to be stolen.

Mr. Talbot, of the firm of Talbot and Tasker, Bedford-
row, appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Lewis, sen., of
Ely-place, for Essam.
A large quantity of property was produced in court.

Sergeant Joy, 9 C, said—Yesterday afternoon, about two
o'clock, I saw the prisoner who now gives the name of
Farley go down the area steps of the University Club. At
that time she appeared only to have a small basket with
her. At twenty minutes past two she came up the area
steps from the kitchen with a very large parcel under her
apron. I fancied she was very heavily laden, and followed
her to Trafalgar-square, where she got into an omnibus.
I got in also, and on the journey to Somer's-town
I felt that there was something heavy in the bundle. On
her getting out of the omnibus I followed her some distance
and then stopped her, feeling certain that she had some-
thing besides clothes in the bundle. I told her I was a
police officer, and asked her what she had in the bundle.
She said, "only clothes I am going to wash for a friend."
I told her that I believed there was more in the bundle than
clothes, and she then said that if that was the case the
things had been put in by her friend. I told her that I
knew where she had got the things from, for that I had
followed her from the University Club. I then got a cab
and conveyed her to Vine-street police-station. On open
ing the bundle the prisoner was carrying I found a quan-
tity of dour and two glass cloths with the club mark on
them, and in the basket some eggs and butter. The pri-
soner was then searched by the female searcher, who found
on her some wine glasses and a tumbler. At the station
she gave the name of " Ann Barnes," 4, St. Paul's-road.
I went there, but nothing was known of her. I afterwards
went to the University Club and saw Essam. I told her
that I was a police officer, and that she had sent some
things to be washed that day. She said she had, and
I then told her that I should take her into custody
for stealing a number of things from the club. She said,
" Yes, I know I have been very foolish, and that I have
taken many little articles for which I am sorry." From in-
formation I afterwards received I went to 10, St. Paul's-
terrace, and in the parlour occupied by Farley, I found 9
tumblers, 9 wine glasses, 6 decanters, 6 quarterns of flour,
2 gallons of split peas, and some towels and clothes marked
with the club mark, and a number of other articles. On
Es-am seeing the property that morning she said that some
of the things belonged to the club, but not all. Farley said
that some of the things had been given to her, but that
some jars of jam were her own property. I shall, how-
ever, be able to produce a witness from the club who wrote
the names on the papers covering the jars.
Mr. Talbot said I shall call no other witness to-day,
but ask for a remand, the committee of the club feeling that
the tlstem has been carried on for a long time and wishing
to make further inquiries.

Mr, Lewis—l cannot resist a remand so far as my client
is concerned.
Prisoners were then remanded for a week,

WESTMINSTER.

WALKING INTO THE LION'S JAWS.-Emily Chester, a
well-dressed female, was placed at the bar, charged with
passing off a spurious half-crown, at the Prince of Wales
Tavern, Exeter-street, Sloane-street, Chelsea.
George Edwards said that last evening the prisoner and
another woman came to the house and called for a small
quantity of spirits, which came to Ilvepence, in payment
for which she gave half-a-crown, which was discovered to
be spurious.
_ _

Mr. Paynter—Did she in any way account for the pos-
session of it ?
Witness—She said she had it in change for half a
sovereign.

Prisoner—l gave him a good half-crown afterwards,
your worship.

Mr. Paynter—Did she have good money upon her?
Witness—Yes, she had.
Mr. Paynter--What makes you think she knew that this
half-crown was bad?
Witness—l suspected her when she came in.

Mr. Paynter—From what reason ?
Witness—She and another female came last Friday and
passed a bad half. crown at our house. The other female
is in the court-room—there she is amongst the crowd
(pointing to where the publio assembled).
Inspector Butler—Let her be immediately brought for-
ward.

Prisoner—l assure your worship she is a very respecta-
ble woman; she is my sister-in-law.
Mr. Paynter—Have there been any inquiries made about
the prisoner ?

Inspector Butler—None; she has given two or three
different addresses, and as yet we have not found out where
she lives.

Prisoner—lt is not right about my sister. in-law and me
being there last Friday and passing a bad half•crcwn.
Edwards—But it is ; the half-crown was discovered to be
bad directly you had gone. There was no ether half-
crown in the til: at the time it was taken, and here it is.

Mr. Payntet—l shall remand the prisoner till Monday.
Inspector Butler (to Edwards)—Do you wish to charge
the other woman for the offence on Friday ?
Edwards—Certainly.

The woman was then taken into custody, and Edwards
went with her to the station-house formally to enter the
charge.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, Feb. 2—Amelia, from Guernsey; Hermoni
de Trasminda, from Matanzas; Iris, from Dunkirk;
Marianne, from Bathurst.
Arrived, Feb. 3—Thomas and Mary, from Dunkirk ;
Johns, from Dunk rk.
Sailed—Seine, steamer, for Boulogne ; Light Brigade,
for Queensland.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
No arrivals

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MURDER IN THE COUNTY TYRONE.-- OMAGH,
COUNTY TYRONE, Jan. 29.—James Rafferty, farm
labourer, was murdered last night about 11 o'clock in the
provocation, and
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Nugent,a aided by S ephen Gorman and Michael Nugent,
staliboufiwhorn were immediately after arrested by the con-
paeryr.stationed in the locality. The deceased, with tne
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LITERATURE.

A Point of Honour. By the author of " The
Morals of Mayfair,"" Creeds," and' The World's
Verdict." 2 vols. Hurst and Blackett.
This is a story which is simple enough in its
outlines, and most natural in its plot. Doubtless
hundreds have been similarly situated, and the same
sad tale of suffering has been again and again
enacted in the dark annals of the world. It is the
touching manner in which these sorrows are de-
scribed that gives a pathos and an interest to this
narrative. It is the forcible manner in which
selfishness is exposed that imparts the excitement
to its course, and keeps up the attention till its close.
Gifford Mohun was a man of a very common stamp.
His name is legion. They rarely do any very kind
action, and they never perform any sacrifice of self,
but they keep up a decent appearance, conform to
the laws of a society never requiring great exertion
on the part of its wealthy members, hence they live
and die respected, if nothing extraordinary is re-
quired of them. But let auy of those mental trials
or moral shocks occur to them which try the inner-
most heart and prove the boldest spirit, and they do
not come out unscathed from the fiery ordeal. They
are not found not wanting when weighed in the
balance which tests the sterling from superficial,
and only allows real metal to stand, not counter-
feit presentments. Jane Grand is a charming cha-
racter, not from outward attractions or superior gifts
in a mental capacity, but from her gentleness,
her truthfulness, and her decision. She did not
fathom facts or question motives ; she only acted
up to her own convictions of right and wrong, and,
if all took her standard, how different would be the
course of events and the destinies of mortals. This
simple country girl might have taught the proudest
and grandest. It is a pretty picture that meets our
eye at the outset, when she was " in the pride and
fulness of her youth, a soft-faced girl of twenty,
standing beneath the shade of broad-leaved forest
trees, and with the gloss of a June sunset lighting
up her lips and eyes and hair with radiant gold."
This is pleasing, some may exclaim, but of
such are heroines ! Had Jane been happy in her
choice, had she married Gifford without any shadow
of evil overcasting her, she might have passed her
life in a hum drum sort of manner, but, as it was,
she was elevated, sanctified, and purified. The
trial that proved her showed her to possess qualities
whose existence robbed disappointment of its
sting, and took from sorrow its victory. She saw
and recognised that there were other things than
happiness for the traveller through this world's
wilderness. Having learned this lesson, she was
a gainer and not a loser, and when succeeding
years and subsequent events taught their crowning
mercy in showing Gifford in his true colours, and
she put the false idol of her youth from the shrine
he had so long and so unworthily held, she was not
to be pitied but envied, inasmuch as she had recti-
fied an error and retrieved a false srep. Had she
married G fford, either she would have recognised
his weakness and want of principle as years turned
the youth into a man, or else she would have gra-
dually sunk down unto his level. For this world
she could hardly have had a more uncomfortable
and undesirable lot than to find it impossible to re-
spect her husband, and for a better state of being she
could hardly have been more unfitted than by mix-
ing her pure faith and high sense of rectitude
with the material notions and selfish doctrines
of such a one as Mohun. For such an unat-
tractive and in some senses repulsive being as
Matty Fergusson was, there seemed re-
served a sort of special mission to perform in
the quiet village to which her ambitious views had
taken her. We cannot regret any amount of an-
noyance that Gifford was doomed to suffer in his
union with such a person as Matty, when we reflect
how he had introduced, by his cruel coldness and
hard selfishness, the blight that had destroyed
the flower, and the canker worm that had eaten
into the freshness of Jane Grand's youth. Her best
and brightest years were spent in mourning, and
if the result ended in blessing to her, it was but
fair that a curse should rest on him who had
marred the order of things as arranged by the
beneficent hand of Providence to give sunshine to
the spring of youth and gentle gales to fan the
path of those not yet strong enough to
bear the wintry blast of adversity. Mr.
Follett, the vicar, though not intended to be
otherwise than dull, prosaic, and solemn, really
seems quite an attractive character with his straight-
forward manner and his precious gift of compre-
hension and ready tact. When nine out ten would
have made the sufferer worse by his officious
meddling, he wisely left the afflicted one to her
God and herself. When at last she allowed him to
visit her, he never mentioned her trouble, but told
of his own agony far away in the days of his youth,
but too deeply impressed not to retain its memory
to the extremest verge of extended existence.
this is the secret of strength to the weak,
the source of consolation to the afflicted, to let
them see that others are crushed as they have been
trampled upon, and yet by the mercy of Heaven
have seen something on this fair earth again to
engage their attention. Jane Grand listened to the
tale, and the recital was of service to her. It would
have been well for her had she then possessed suf-
ficient principle to recognise the unworthiness of
her heart's idol, but that was not to be expect, d
from one so young and so inexperienced ; perhaps
it was more in accordance with her gentle heart and
gracious spirit, that she should go on heaping up
treasures on the shrine of memory instead of weav-
ing garlands for the chaplet of hope. The past
threw a dark shadow on the present, which might
have been bright with the promise of the future.
Great blame is attached to the friends and ad-
visers of Jane Grand. They could not have done a
more cruel or mischievous thing had they meant to
be the destroyers of her peace. They furnish a
striking instance, and present an excellent warning
to well-meaning but weak persons, who are always
trying to put off the evil day, and circumvent or
substitute in some way rather than be downright
and straightforward. Concealment never yet did
any good, but in a thousand cases has created in-
numerable evils, and wrought direful calamities.
It is a sort of nightmare in the waking life of those
whom it concerns, and they come to their senses to
find that the real is worse than the imaginary
evil. So it was with our poor heroine, when she
sat in the lawyer's room at Russell-square. That
scene is admirably pourtrayed which tells of the
momentous interview between the young girl, just
fresh from the country, and her simple routine,
and the old man, versed in the shuffling of a crooked
career and steeled to the encounter of sorrow, shame,
and suffering as they met him in the dark ways of
his profession. There is an impressive passage
which points out some of the opportunities that
men of Mr. Clitheroe's profession possess of ob-
serving the great struggles of humanity in their
engagements, that involve some of the saddest
and hardest trials of mortals. " Talk of what
phsicians, of what clergymen see of humanity
in extremis. The physician sees us only when
bodily weakness has robbed mental suffering of the
pasaionate vitality of life, the parson, when we
have reached the senile days of repentance or de-
spair. The lawyer sees men and women in the
heat and burden of the fight, sees them in their
greatest strength, and greatest weakness, in their
intensest interest, in their utmost self-abnegation,
in paroxysms of basest fear, in moments of most
sublime and heroic moral courage. The healers of
soul and body often hear half truths, but to his
lawyer what man ever lied ? Mr. Clitheroe's halt
century of ordinary solicitor's work had brought
him face to face with as many difficult situations,
as many varied phases of deep passion as would suf-
fice to make any dramatist immortal, could he but
embody them in art." This work can be fairly re-
commended to the reader, in the full assurance and
confident expectation that it will interest him from
its truthful
pictures of humanity, its pathetic de-
scriptions of suffering, and its real and earnest views
of life and its highest interests. "A Point of
Honour" exposes some of the greatest errors into
which men tall wilfully, or accidentally ;
and also
tells of the highest attributes that can adorn this

world, and lead on to the contemplation of a better
state of being.

William and Rachel Russell. A Tragedy. By,
Andreas Munch. Translated from the Norwe-

gian by J. H. Burt. Trubner and Co.
Sir Aberiour ; or the Sceptic. By W. J. Purcell,
Esc., of the Inner Temple. Pickering.
Short Poems. By F. O. tiV ilson. Hurst and Blackett.
Parvula. A few little Rhymes. By Minimus.