The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-18 00:00:00

lA)N E)ON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 18637

(No, 3.)
FISHMONGERS' FORE-STALL-AGE OF
SEA-STRAND—BRIDGE NAVIGATION,
On H. B's 1536 deed—' Wat Tyler and Ric. IL's Kentish
word of faith .treaty—' You've lost your Leader ; as your
Red-gloved' King I'll be your leader, and by Connell-9
grant your wishes' of no tax without Poll-representation."
NOTICE TO QUIT, ON SALMON-RUN RIGHT.
If within seven days, the pile-driving as a Weil obstruc-
tion to the tide set be not removed, as militating in prin-
ciple against the embankment of the Thames—and its
Weir- clearance for Ova-pisiculture and consequent Salmon-
wayto its WINDRUSH fork-font L'nourton on the Water,
via Atkins * Swell bowl of Stow's E Cutsdean pont, the
Filth Commissioners of ewers having (by Ketly v. Carier
trespass, 12 J. I. £2OO fine) no clear water court.
Action of trespass will have force on the first 500 marks
fine Pat. 13, Ed. 1, m. 15' in Exchequer Court against the
civil law § papal Fishmongers' Walworth-PALL-guild t
assumption on Tyler's (murder, A.D. 1381—to sell and exa-
mine Royal monkfish, Wales, sturgeon, mer)maid &c., out-
side the stalls of City Stocksmarket, now Mansion-he. scite
under Crown-rota Escheat in O.S. data, 12 H. 7, 2 Car. I,
1699 by 1832-42-3 Act, in Canada's Quebec Fish'ry Statute,
by reason of 29th Nov., 1827, Brazil Sovereignty Caesar-
set seizin of Fishmonger's 1536-deed-grant by Henry
VIII., on the total abolition of Pope and Holy Alliance of
Kings, independent of being Henry 7th and Bth's life-
executor, yet in Henry Bth's Corporation ' sole' capacity.
• • (Signed) CHARLES A CKERLET, J. P.
Born, Montague *Chamberlayne, of Ric. Ir's t brother
J. Holland's 3ty-voice, in 1-2 W. 4, N.. 54 in Planta-
genestella O.S. Evesham's—pollen-food fish trust 14 J. I.
exemplified 1774-1836 as—its late lst peeral Prior.

PETER BASQUET, England's Carib Ind. Chief, of 1842-3, ae
Admiralty Red flag Chain-bearer, elect 22 yrs, no pay.

"In ANSPACH River-set-font as of the Ratisbon Caesar
penny Ist tax by Confederate-Zollverein of Prussia's ' sole'
resign on Wales'-christening at Windsor Castle—to Ame-
rica's Indian Germanicus-tax"—therein set, on Bulo, Pal-
merston, Labouchere's 2nd March, 1841, Toll-Customs
'Bei Rhine-land'sch Ruthe' Mesh-meter Convention.

Neither the holding over 1862 office of CUBITT on
the Wet Tyler f protest tax as Warden of ' Mark xtr. under
Walworth's Pall-cloak token-keys--' Sub accipo annulum'
in Fisherman's ring of yr. 1381, or their Vintner's Portugal-
wine-landing agent Rose, M.P. for Southampton, on Tower
Ordnance-office shift, for King John's illegal life-right (8,1
per ton on wine) cancelled in 'IA ' 1825—can be admitted, as
'lawful ordinances' on their Merman & Mermaid-armorial
craft-mystery with 5.6 W. 4, c. 63, the State-meter Act,
for Leet Crt. Jurats Ova Fishery-park plant.
London-notice, February 11, 1863.
PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEB. 17.
LIVERPOOL LICENSING BILL.

Order for second i eading read ; motion made, and question
proposed, " That the bill be now read a second time :"
Amendment proposed, to leave out the word "now," and
at the end of the question to add the words "upon this
day six months.' Question put, " That the word ' now'
stand part of the question." The house divided—ayes,
108 ; noes, 124.

_
AYES —lOB.
Atherton, Sir W. Gordon, C. W. Packe, Col.
Beach, W. W. Gore, W. R. 0. Padmore, R.
Bouverie, E. P. Gower, G. W. L. Paget, C.
Bouverie, P. P. Gregson, S. Paget, Lord A.
Bowyer, Sir G. Gray, William Paget, Lord C. E.
Brand, H. B. Grey. Rt. Hn. Sir G. Palmer, Sir R.
Briscoe, J. I. Gurdon, B. Palmerston, Visct.
Browne, Lord J. T. Hadfield, Geo. Patten, J. W.
Bruce, H. A. Hamilton, Lord C. Peacocke, G. M.
Buller, Sir A. Hankey, Thomson Pease, H.
Cardwell, Rt. Hn. E. Headlam, Thus. E Peel, Sir R.
Castlerosse, Vist. Henley, Lord Robertson, IL
Chapman, J. Herbert, H. A. Roebuck, J. A.
Childers, H. C. E. Hesketh, Sir T. Russell, Hastings
Clifford, C. C. Hodgson, K. Salomonit,A.iderman
Cobbett, J. M. Hutt, W. :cott, Sit W.
Cobbold, John C. Johnstone, Sir J. Shafto, R. D.
Copeland, Ald. Kerrison, Sir E. Sheridan, R. B.
Cowper, Hon. W.F. King, Hon. P. Smith, J. B.
Dalglish, Robert Kinglake, Serj. J. Smith, M.
Davie, SirH. R. F. Knatchbull-Hugess Smollett, P.
Denman, G. Laird, J. Somes, Joseph
Dodson, John G. Layard, A. H. Spooner, R.
Duff, M. E. Leader, N. Stacpoole, W.
Dunne, Col. Legh, W. Steel, John
Egerton, E. C. Lennox, Lord G. G. Stuart, Col.
Foley, Hon. 11. W. Lewis, Sir G.C., Bt. Tomline, G.
Forde, Lt.-Col. W. Liddell, Hon. H. G. Upton, Genei al
Fortescue, Hon. F. Longfield, Robert Villiers, Rt. Hon. C.
Fortescue, C. S M'Cormick, W. Walters, J.
French,Fitzstephen Mackinnon, W.(Ly.)Weguelin, T.
Gard, R. S. Mackinnon,W. A. Whalley, G. H.
Gavin, Major Marsh, M. H. W
George, John Massey, W. N. Winnington, Sir T.
Gibson. T. M. Mills, J. R. TELLERS.
Gladstone, W. E. ?alines, R. M. Horstali,hite, L.
T.
B.
Glyn, G. C. North, F. Ewart, J. C.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TlMES.—There is a favourite piece of sentimen-
talism which says that " God made the country and
man made the town." Of course, it is both an actual
untruth and a moral untruth ; and the sentiment
simply expresses an Englishman's intense preference
for the country. But anybody to compare London
with another metropolis might suppose that we
brought all our country notions with us when we
first migrated to this metropolis, and that every
citizen's wife sits w ith her rural teraphim under
her sofa cushions. Where time and space are more
precious then anywhere else in the world, nod
where fortunes turn on the arrival a few minutes
earlier or later at a given point, we have as many
zigzags and detours, and valleys, and narrow lanes,
and choked-up crossinga, as in a parish occupied by
five farmers and fifty labourers in Cumberland or
Devon. That lane which leads from nowhere to
nowhere, and which answers no purpose but
to take you out of your way, to be found in
most country parishes, is a prevailing feature in
the map of this metropolis. You may go straight
enough in many useless directions, but if you really
want to go from one point to another, you have an
agreeable choice of routes, all equally discursive.
There is, it is true, " the City direct," but the
actual value of that route, when time is an object,
may be known from the fact that two large and
prosperous companies expect to realise immense
profits by taking passengers from Pimlico to the
City by a circuit through Chelsea, across the river,
through Battersea-fields, across the river again,
through Kensington, Bayswater, Paddington, Mary-
lebone, Euston-square, King's-cross, Clerkenwetl,
and Farringdon-street, to fall into the old line at
Ludgate-hill. So true is the country saying that
the shortest way is often the longest one. How-
ever, we are now about to have a really direct line
from Westminster to the City, along the river side.
We fought for it hard,for even et the last moment
the principal truffle of the largest city in the world
was on the very nick of being once more stopped
and diverted, lest one or two gentlemen at their
breakfast should now and then see over their gar-
den walls the hat of an omnibus passenger. There
is really to be a carriage-way from Westminster to
Blackfriars. But now presents itself the sweet
rural question, " Why should this route not stop
here ?" What can a man want better than to be
put dowteby the river side, at the foot of a beauti-
ful bridge, or, if he does want to go further, are
there not Ludgate hill and Thames-street P Are
there not the river steamers, and Paul's-wharf, and
London-bridge? That is the very question that
was asked on Monday night in the House of Com-
mons. There really is nothing to which Parlia-
ment and the metropolis are more committed than
a good thoroughfare from Westminster to the City,
and the principal part of this, along the Thames
Embankment, is already authorised and commenced;
3et there were a dozen objections to the formation
of the link necessary to complete the chain. Mr.
Locke thought the City ought to make the street
and pay for it. Mr. Walpole thought the house
ought to do nothing, unless it had the money in
band. Mr. Daulton wanted to wait till all the
engineers were agreed, and the Metropolitan Board
thoroughly satisfied. The Lord Mayor thought the
City ought to have the job. Mr. Williams thought
they bed better do the Surreyaside Embankment
first. Mr. Crawford preferred the old fashion of
sailing through the City by alternate tacks. Lord
Fermoy thought the City ought to pay. Indeed,
had not Lord Palmerston risen to remind the house
that this was only the first reading, there would pro-
bably have been a hundred more objections. But
never was there more occasion for the rule of " one
thing at once." If all the intended or desired im-
provements are to wait till they can all go on toge-
ther, we shall have the entire metropolis in a muddle
of unfinished operations for twenty years, and per-
haps run out our funds. When Talleyrand was]
asked how he managed to get through so much
work, and amuse himself too, he said it was by
-doing one thing at a time. But the English, when
they do begin to advance, are always choking up
the passage. It is the penalty they pay for their
long delays and their Saxon unreadiness. In any
French town, you may see early in the evening se-
ver hundred people standing by twos and threes,
in a Winn, for an hour or two hours, waiting for
the o rto advance. They are the queue who at i
half-pas seven will steadily march onwards, and
take pox sion of the parterre or the gallery in the
theatre. y submitting to enter one at a time
they avoid all chance of injury to themselves and
their clothes; and though the preparation is
tedious the actual entrance is soon done. As
we have been waiting for some of our metropolitan
improvements several centuries, it is not for us to
smile at a poor fellow standing two hours in the
street to secure a front place at the play. But,
now that our performance is really begun, please
let us enter one at once. Seniors; priores. The
Northern Embankment is older than the Southern ;
and the Northern will be comparatively useless if
it is not supplemented by the new street, which
ought to be in progress at the same time. This is a
boon to the whole metropolis, always excepting our
own little share of discomforts, and the whole metro-
polis must pay for it. Everybody in business—
that is, everybody with anything to do—must go
into the City sometimes, or, at least, have some in-
terest in the visits of others; and it is everybody's
concern that valuable time shall not be wasted in
narrow, winding, crowded thoroughfares. We have,
too, we hope, a pardonable jealousy for the dignity
of a metropolis which at present is the butt of many
a continental jest. "This is the house that Jack
built," and reflects very little credit on Jack's taste
or engineering skill. The new street, after all,
won't cost more than one of our new ironsides, and
is much more certain to be wanted.
POST.—On the night of the 26th of July last an
at tempt was made by one or more assassins to enter
the building occupied by the British Legation at
Jeddo. Several hundreds of Japanese troops were
posted round the house, and it was their duty to de
fend it against intruders. Throug la these troops, how-
ever, the assassins made their way into the build-
iug occupied by Col. Neale and the other mem-
bers of the legation. A couple of marines, who
were posted as sentinels at the door, were mur-
dered. But, fortunately, the alarm had been given
by one of those victims of Oriental perfidy, and
there was no further bloodshed. The Japanese
officials expressed their profound regret at the oc-
currence ; but they stated that only one person
had been concerned in it, and that he had committed
suicide. It is remarkable that the outrage took
place on the anniversary of that which the year be-
fore was made upon the legation, when some of its
members were seriously wounded. Since the last
attack on the British Legation another savage on-
slaught has been made on the public highway, and
in the open daylight, upon a party of unoffending
Europeans. On the 14th of September three Eng-
lish gentlemen, accompanied by an English lady,
while riding out in the neighbourhood of the capi-
tal, met one of the great nobles, or daimios, of
Japan, accompanied by a eetemerous escort, without
which, it appears, they never travel abroad. As
the English party approached, the foremost of the
daimio's retainers called upon them to stand aside.
They were immediately afterwards attecked in the
most savage manner. One of the party, Mr.
Richardson, was cut down and murdered on the
spot. Both the other gentlemen, although severely
wounded, escaped with their lives, and the lady who
accompanied them seemed to have owed her life to
the swiftness of her horse. The survivors all declare&
that neither by word nor gesture did they give
the slightest provocation to the bloodthirsty mis-
creants -who assailed them in this unexpected man-
ner. It is not probable indeed that, without any
object whatever, they should have risked an en-
counter with several hundred armed men. The
news of this fresh outrage, of course, created im-
mense excitement and indignation among the Euro-
pean residents in Japan. It was even proposed
that, as the Government either could or would do
nothing to put down such violence, the Europeans
should take the law into their own hands. It
was ascertained that, on the second day after the
occurrence in question, the daimio in whose pre-
sence and by whose retainers Mr. Richardson had
been murdered was to pass along the same road
where the encounter took place, and it was pro-
posed that he should be seized and detained a
prisoner until full reparation should be made. The
plan was a bold one, and with the marines and
sailors at the disposal of the different Powers it
might easily have been executed. But the attempt
would certainly have led to bloodshed, and in all
probability to war, and it was finally and wisely
decided it should not be made. The daimio and his
fierce retainers were allowed to pass on their way
unmolested, and recourse was had to the proper
quarter, namely, the authorities at Jeddo. But
we now learn that it is very doebtful whether they
can interfere in the matter. Atter a delay of seve-
ral weeks, the Japanese Minister, in a despatch to
Colonel Neale, dated the 21st October, states that
.-..." Although our Government examines the crime,
and inflicts the punishment on the criminal,
yet when the retainer of any daimio commits
a crime, the old established law of the country de-

mands that our Government shall instruct the
prince to arrest him, and hand him over to them."
In other words, these great feudatories, like those
of the middle ages, are independent within their
own territories. We should like to know under
these circumstances what are the chances of the
murderers of Mr. Richardson being given up. It is
abundantly clear that if our countrymen are to re-
main in Japan, this state of things cannot be
allowed to continue. They may be, as they have
been, the victims of the most frightful outrages,
without the prospect of a remedy. ,Two marines
posted at the door of the legation are butchered in
cold blood, and we are told by way of reparation
that their assassin has committed suicide. An Eng
lish merchant is murdered on the highway in broad
daylight, and after a delay of five weeks we are told
in effect that it depends upon the pleasure of the
feudal chief in whose service the murderers are,
whether or not they shall be given up. We repeat
that the present state of things cannot be suffered
to continue. Either the Government of Japan must
be made responsible for the acts of its subjects, or
Englishmen must cease to reside in a country where
every crime may be perpetrated with impunity.

SURREY SESSIONS—Feb. 17.

(Before J. E. Johnson, Esq., Chairman.)

ASSAULT UPON A SERVANT GIRL BY A LADY.
Mrs. Mary Langton Thomas, a widow lady, re-
siding in Linden-grove, Nunhead, Peckham, sur-
rendered this morning to take her trial for having,
on the 18th December last and four months previous,
cruelly ill-treated her servant and neglected to
supply her with food.
The complainant, Sophia Jarvis, is a poor girl
who had been brought up from her infancy in the
schools at Sutton, in Surrey, by the parish autho-
rities of St. George's, Southwark.
Mr. Sleigh, specially retained, with Mr. Thom—
son, instructed by Mr. Fitch, clerk to the guardians
of St. George's, Southwark, prosecuted ; and Mr.
Rubinson, with Mr. Oppenheim, detended.
Sophia Jarvis, the prosecutrix, was examined—
She was of rather diminutive size, but seemed
much improved since she was before the ma-
gistrate at Lambeth. She said she was seventeen
last October. My father died in 1855, and since
then I have been in the St. George's Industrial
Schools at Mitcham, belonging to the parish of St.
George's, Southwark. In Oct., 1861, I went into the
service of Mrs. Thomas. I was in good health then,
and was to nave ls. 6d. a week to do the house work
and live in the house. No other servant was kept.
I slept upstairs in a room by myself, and during
the first three months Mrs. Thomas behaved very
kind to me. After Mr. Cockerell, one of the reliev-
ing officers, came in June last an alteration took
place. He saw me in the presenoe of Mrs. Thomas,
who said to me, "You have taken some postage
stamps." 1. said 1 had not seen any. She said I had
taken some tarts also. I said I had taken some as
I had not had sufficient food. He (Mr. Cockerell)
then left. After he left the prisoner began to illuse
me by beating me on the hands with a stick. She
did that nearly every day till I came away. She
used the rolling pin once, and the young gentle-
man's fishing rods. My hands soon became very
sore and much swollen, and sometimes they bled.
Prior to the beating my .hands were well enough,
but now they were extremely sore, and covered with
bruises (shown to the jury). The second finger of
my left hand is much hurt, and I cannot bend it. I
left on Dec. 19, and a fortnight before that she
struck me over the back, head, and eye with the
fishing rod. The wound bled very much from the
eye and head. The next morning it was much
swollen, so that I could not see out of it. On that
day I ran away. My mistress cut my hair off the
back of my head about a month before I left. She
said my head was untidy. I had no comb, and had
no time to put it to rights. The first quarter I
had 2s. 4d., after Mrs. Thomas bought my clothes,
which amounted to 15s. Bd. I have never received
any money from her since. About a week before
I left she told me to undress. I was obliged to do
so ; and when I was undressed she ordered me into
the yard. \Mrs. Thomas stood on a chair, and
ordered Master George, twelve years of age, to
fetch a pail of water. He did so, and she threw it
over me. (Sensation.) She ordered the lad to fetch
ar other pail of water, which she also threw over me.
Then she made me lie down on the cold stones.
This was on the 18th of December. I had then on
only my chemise. A third pail of water was thrown
over me, and I could hardly get my breath the''.
She held me down while she sent her son for
another pail of water. (Renewed sensation.) That
was brought and she threw it over me, and told me
to get up and dress. I could hardly get my breath,
but she pushed me along to my room. On the fol-
lowing day I ran away. After Mr. Cockerell left
I had coffee with a little milk, but no sugar, and
dry bread for breakfast. Sometimes I did not have
any breakfast. Before Mr. Cockerell came I had
bread and treacle. I had for dinner boiled rice,
but no meat. I had nothing else but that for foul:
months. The family had roast meat, stews, and
hash ; sometimes they had puddings also. I was
not allowed any, I seldom had any tea, as I was
sent to bed about six or seven in the evening. I
only went out on Sunday to church with one of
the children. I never stole any postage stamps or
wine.

Prosecutrix was cross-examined at some length
and her evidence as to her condition on going out
to service, and her condition when she came back
was corroborated by Mr. Cockerell, relieving officer
of Southwark parish, the master of St. George's
Industrial Schools, and by Mrs. Cuttress, of Sutton
Schools; also by Mr. J. Broad, surgeon, at Mitcham,
and Mr. T. Evans, surgeon, Trinity-square.
This closed the case for the prosecution, and the
court adjourned. On its reassembling,
Mr. Robinson addressed the jury for the defence,
and called the following witnesses :
The Rev. Mr. Carter, Hickman White, Yorkshire,
said—During the Exhibition myself and wife
stopped at Mrs. Thomas's. We arrived on the 13th
of October, and remained until the 23d. I repeat-
edly saw the servant Sophia Jarvis, who attended
prayers daily. She attended us during dinner, and
at time appeared in good health, similar to what
she is now. I have known Mrs. Thomas thirty
years, during which time I knew her to be humane,
kind, and an excellent mother and mistress. During
the time I was staying with Mrs. Thomas there
was plenty of food in the house. We were merely
visitors.
The Rev. Wm. Foster Elliot, incumbent of East
Dulwich—l have known Mrs. Thomas four or five
years, and visited during her husband's lifetime and
since ; about ten days before Christmas, and while
Mr. and Mrs. Carter were staying there. I had tea
with her about the middle of October, and the ser-
vant waited on them. She was then well in health.
I know Mrs. Thomas to be a humane woman.
Mr. Arthur Sergeant, F.8.C.5., 20 years in prac-
tice, of King's-road, Peckham—l examined the girl
on the 9th of this month. She was apparently in
fair health, but rather scrofulous, and that, I think,
added to her natural weakness, might produce great
emaciation. He had seen her hands and fingers,
and should think the swellings were caused by scro-
fula, and not by violence. I think it was brought
on by anxiety, and, on that being removed, she
would in a few days recover her health. If I had
examined the girl, not knowing anything of the
case, I should not have attributed the state of her
hands, &c., to violence.
Dr. Richard Stokoo, of Peckham-rye—Ou the
9th inst. I examined Sophia Jarvis, and I perfectly
agree with the last witness. Had there been star-
vation during four months, she could not have re-
covered in a week. I believe that the curve on the
back of the hand was natural, and not caused by
violence. Had such violence been used as stated by
the girl, inflammation could not have subsided yet.
Mr. John Davis, surgeon, Great George-street,
Westminster, in practice 42 years—l have known
Mrs. Thomas from her childhood. She always has
been a most humane woman, kind to her children
and her servants. He fully concurred in the evi-
dence of the other medical gentlemen.
George Humphries Thomas, a nice-looking lad,
12 years of age, was then called. He said—The
defendant is my mother, and I live with her. The
complainant had been their servant. I never
saw water thrown over her. I never saw
her washed in the yard. My mother never stood
on a chair and told me to fetch pails of water from
the sink. I could not have lifted a pail of water. I
never brought a drop of water, and my mother never
threw any over her. The food was kept in the larder,
which was always unlocked. The stop
She
locked, and my mother kept the key
tolre e liked from
(complainant) could get anything
the larder. She did not dineny
entirelything
she helped-s off boiled rice.
She had the same food as us ; sometimes
herself, and other ti.metshry mother helped her.
Sometimes we dined. in
and kitchen, and then we
sometimes she helped
helped her sometimes,
herself. I never saw my mother strike her once.
Almost the first day sho came she commenced
thieving.
Langton Henry Thomas,, eldest son of defendant,
clerk in the London Joint Stock Bank—l lived with
my mother when the girl Jarvis was then a servant.
I left home .a little before Bin the morning, and re.