The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-03 00:00:00

SVN. LONDON, SATORDAY EVENING, OCFOBER 3, 1863.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

BOW-STREET.

A very fashionably-dressed young woman, named Theresa
Lovett, was placed at the bar charged with being drunk and
disorderly.
Police-constable F 165, said that last evening, about 6
o'clock, he was on duty in the Strand; when he saw the
prisoner go up to a gentleman who was looking at some
pictures in one of the shop windows. He appeared to re-
pulse her, and in a short time afterwards he saw her accost
another gentleman, and as he evidently appeared annoyed
by the conduct of the woman he took her into custody.
She resisted very much, but eventually she was taken to
the station-house, but not before she had bit him in the
thigh and tore his trousers in such a manner as to render
them useless. She was very drunk.
Mr. Corrie—What have you to say to the charge ?
Prisoner—l am a respectable married woman, and I
totally deny the assertion of the constable.
Mr. Carrie—l must say I don't think you have conducted
yourself much like one. Where is your husband ?
Prisoner—l can send for him.
Mr. Corric—Very well, do so ; I will delay the case until
he is in attendance.
In about an hour a very respectable young man, about 25
years of age, attended, and, in answer to the magistrate's
questions, said he was a clerk, and that the prisoner was
his wife.

Mr. Corrie—The constable says she was very drunk in
the Strand, and as she was conducting herself improperly
he took her into custody. Had she been drinking last
night ?
The Husband—No, your worship. We had been on a
visit to some friends in the City, and after wo left them we
had some bread and cheese and a glass of stout each.
Mr. Corrie—What, only one glass of stout ?
The Husband—At that time; before, however, I left her,
we had another, and that certainly was the extent of the
drink we had taken. She was returning, with the inten-
tion of meeting me, when the circumstance occurred.

Mr. Corrie—She has acted in a very improper manner.
Prisoner—l resisted the constable because he took away
my reticule, which contained a valuable card case, with
nearly a pound's worth of silver in it, and an umbrella that
cost a guinea.
The Constable—l never touched her property, your wor-
ship. If she has lost it, it must have been during
the time she was struggling with me.
Mr. Corrie—Did she hurt you mach when she kicked
or bit you ?
Constable—Yes, your worship, I can feel the effects of it
now.

The Husband—l don't believe for one moment my wife
was drunk ; she is, however, a very excitable woman.
Mr. Corrie—Then, you should not allow her to drink so
much stout. Two glasses of it will sometimes make a man
drunk. The inspector who took the charge says she was
very drunk. I fine her 20s. for assaulting the constable,
and also 20s. for the damage done to his trousers.
Prisoner—How am I to recover my property ?
Mr. Corrie—That I cannot tell.
The fine was paid.

MARLBOROUGII.STREET.

CAUTION TO LICENSED VICTUALLERS.-MrS. Mary
Matthews, licensed victualler, of the Cock, Market-street,
Haymarket, appeared before Mr. Knox to answer the com-
plaint of Inspector John Wilson, of the C division, of
unlawfully and knowingly permitting drunkenness and other
disorderly conduct in the house.
Mr. Child, solicitor to the Licensed Victuallers Protec-
tion Society, appeared for Mrs. Matthews.
Sergeant Collings, 16 C, proved going to the defendant's
house at a quarter past three on the morning of the 23d of
September, and finding 17 men and six prostitutes present,
one of the men being drank. Some of the persons then left,
including five of the women and the drunken man. He
(the sergeant) visited the house at a later hour and found
six men and two prostitutes, two of the men being drunk.
He spoke to the defendant, and she cleared the house, and
it was closed a little after four o'clock.
Mr. Child addressed the magistrate on the defendant's
behalf, stating that as his client was doing all she could to
leave the house, he hoped his worship would not impose a
fine but let the matter stand over for a time.
Mr. Knox fined defendant 10s. and costs.

ferance to the exact position of the fatal wounds I have
inflicted."
Lord Mount Trevor slightly opened his mouth, and very
much opened his eyes.
" I always imagined that the relative position of the liver
and gizzard wings of birds dressed for the table, was deter-
mined by the cook."
" My dear Mr. Drelincourt I" said the Marquis, impres-
sively, "surely you must be sufficiently acquainted with
anatomy to know that the liver is always on the right side,
consequently that the right wing is always the liver-wing,
and birds having but one other wing, my dear sir, that
must be the gizzard-wing as a matter of course,"
The instances we have quoted are assuredly suffi-
cient to justify our assertion that Mrs. Grey has
given us many striking "contrasts of character,"
but we cannot regard her as being peculiarly felici-
tous in her pictures of " good" society. Among her
happier definitions of character is that which in-
troduces Dr. Crutnpe, a reverend bishop, "who had
pub,ished a book on Hebrew points, and had mar-
ried the daughter of an Earl, but whether Dr.
Crumpo owed his bishopric to his book or to his
wife nobody could decide. Public opinion, how-
ever, was more in favour of the latter, because every
one had seen the bishop's wife, and no one had seen
the bishop's book !" The opening chapter of the
first volume gives a very spirited sketch of Hyde
Park during the season, which Mrs. Grey asserts is
the true place to which to send a foreigner in order
rightly to impress him with a sense of England's
prosperity. Our extracts have, however, extended
too far to admit of our quoting this very animated
description. While doing justice to Mrs. Grey's
well-known abilites as a novelist, we cannot, in re-
gard to this, her new work, award a very large
share of commendation to her powers of discernment
or discrimination.

The Principles and Practice of Vegetarian Cookery
By John Smith, of Malton, Yorkshire. Ona vol
pp. 272. F. Pitman.
There is something sturdily plain and simple, as
sturdily plain and simple, so to speak, as the honest
English name he bears, alike in the manner and the
matter of the argument put forth by the author of
this little volume. Reading him, we are at moments
almost persuaded to turn over a new leaf—by our-
selves, fairly and frankly, becoming Vegetarians.
Though the truth must oat—(now that the writer's
argument has been scanned by us, in its entirety,
and examined too, we can, in very truth, assure Mr.
smith, of Malton, Yorkshire, quite dispassionately)
though the truth must out !—we his readers and re-
viewers are not in the least Vegetarians, or likely to
be Vegetarians. It will be best, perhaps, all things
considered, to premise that at once. When we speak
of the little work, here under i,otice, therefore, we
speak of it, in no way as what the politicians call
partizans. We are not sticklers for the carrying
out of the crochet here propounded so very enthu-
siastically. We have a predilection—may we not
confess it ?—for something else, besides cakes and
ale! We have a sort of a notion (like many others
of our countrymen we conjecture) that quite as dis-
tinctly among our national melodies as either the
loyal anthem of " God Save the Queen" or as the
glorious sea chorus of " Rule Britannia" there is yet
another, tolerably familiar to all of us, ever pleasant
to the ears of the British Lion at Feeding Time,
called " 0 ! the Roast Beef of Old England"—with
a choral chant, ad libitum, appended to it of "O,
the Old English Roast Beef !" Even in the very
name applied to that symbolical personage repre-
senting, not inappropriately, by his stalwart form
our whole nationality, even in the very name of
John Bull,
bluffwe can't help having a shrewd
suspicion that the humorous creator of that
Big o Representative Man," hinted at one of the two
main sources of his remarkable bulk, and most cer-
tainly of his goodly corporation—viz , that roast
beef aforesaid, which, with his amber humming ale,
home-brewed, must be regarded as the nutriment
yielding him so fair a share of physical strength.
Never
the reverting to our candid acknowledge-
rant, s very brief while since, at the outset of
these remarks of ours upon this appetizing little
book, esplanatory of the Principles and Practice of
Vegetarian Cookery—Reading the arguments of the
vegetarians, as here put forth—at moments we have
almost been tempted ourselves to turn Vegetarians.
At moments, remember ! Moments like those in
which Pick S wlveller—pushing his plate away—
Oliver Goldsmith's proverbial verse, with a
quoted
twinkling eye, "Man wants but little here below, nor
wants
that little long"—adding (Dick, not Oliver),
n every good sentiment after dinner !" Precisely
at such moments as those, we presume, it must
have been that our author's argument ever seemed
to its, and then but momentarily, so very persuasive.
Our genial recognition of the force of his argument
s capable of ready dissipation, however,
being allay
some five or six hours after wards : supposing our
senses to be saluted, let us say, on crossing the thres-
hold after a good smart walk into the country, by
the flavour of a roasting goose jast:ali but done to a
Yet, even then,turn
however reluctantly, that there is a very great deal
to be said on the side of the Vegetarians. Their
dietary is wonderfully cleanly, and wholesome, and
even Arcadian, of its kind. It gets rid of a world
of cruelty. It does all that, it is all this, we are con-
strained to allow—and yet there is much also to be
said, CONECleatlOaSly even,
on the side opposed to
the Vegetarians. In a word, if they; the Vegeta-
tarians, point to our First Parents feeding, among
the flowers and verdure of Paradise, upon fruit—we,
the Non-Vegetarians, who are unhappily, like the
rest of the world out of Paradise, may point in our
turn to St. Peter's Vision of the Sheet let down from
Heaven, with all its motley contents! Putting
aside, however, the pros and cons of the whole ques-
tion, hero ingeniously argued in this little work,
but more thoroughly entered into, as a distinct
thesis, by its
writer in an earlier work of his,
entitled ‘i Fruits and Farinacea the Proper Food
of Man," it must be said, in fairness to
the author, that the little book here imme-
diately settin g forth the Principles and Practice of
Vegetarian Cookery addresses itself to anyone and
everyone, alike to Vegetarians and Non-Vegetarians.
And it does Bo in a manner so flavorous and gusta-
tive from first to last, that we might, any of us
with pleasure, even when at our hungriest, make one
at such well-spread boards as those, doubtless, any
day to be found in the house of John Smith, of
Melton, Yorkshire !. Soups, and omlettes, and
fritters, savoury pies, mushrooms and buttered
eggs, French pancakes and English cheesecakes,
puddings and tarts unnumbered, with fruits, ripe,
dried, and preserved—to say nothing of all imagin-
able kinds of succulent vegetables, boiled and fried,
or otherwise prepared in some wonderful way by
the magic art practised in the kitchen. Although
the little treatise here commented upon is at times,but,
more particularly in the earlier portions of it, rather
recondite in its character, being founded upon
chemical analysis, and going into all sorts of
abstruse matters, scientifically to the bewilderment
of the unlearned—the general reader will find his
"taste " very carefully consulted throughout.
Here he may learn, as the title-page hints, all!
about " the most approved methods of the ar.t,
of the art that is of Vegetarian Cookery—meaning
all about Boiling, Stewing, Steaming, Baking,
Frying, Mashing, Serving, and (the two great sup-
plementary results aimed at in all) Eating and
Drinking.