The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28, 1863.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.)
There were only four cases in the list, being applications
for release from custody.

IN RE PONCHRE.
This bankrupt was described as formerly of St. Michael's
Abbey, Cornhill, and of Old Broad-street, City, accountant
and sharebroker. The debts are about £1,928, assets un-
certain. He was bankrupt in 1843, and attributes his
bankruptcy to insufficiency of earnings and liability for
third parties on bills of Exchange.
There beinguo opposition, the order of release was granted.

RE SWANIN.IELL

This bankrupt--Arthur Swannell of Blackman-street,
Borough; Oxendon-street, Piccadilly; and Ponsonby-ter-
race, Pimlico, commission agent—also applied for his re-
lease; it was his third appearance in court. Debts, £3lO.
Release granted.

RE FORSTER.
This bankrupt was an oil and colourman at Brantford.
Debts about £2,000; assets not stated. Release granted.

RE BROOKER,

This bankrupt was described as of Brandon-street, Wal-
worth, general shopkeeper. Debts, :MS. Release granted.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—This Day.

(Before Mr. Sergeant Gazolee.)
THE CHARGE AGAINST A WRITING-MASTER.

John Charles Marter, writing-master, 485, New Oxford-
street, surrendered to his bail to answer an indictment
charging him with indecently assaulting one of his pupils,
Ann Shirgold.

The defendant pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Sleigh appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Met-
calf defended.

Mr. Sleigh said the prisoner kept a writing school in New
Oxford-street, and the present charge against him was that
he, during the time a young girl named Ann Shirgold
was taking lessons from him, conducted himself in a
highly improper manner by kissing her and using other
familiarities, which would be detailed to them in evidence.
It was of the highest importance to all parties concerned
that the charge should be thoroughly investigated. With
respect to the young woman it was not to be endured that
young persons attending educational establishments should
be exposed to insult, and as to the defendant it was of the
greatest importance to him that the truth or falsehood of
the charge should be clearly substantiated.
Ann Shirgold said—ln Jaly last she was living at 8,
Fitzroy-street, Fitzroy-square, as domestic servant in the
establishment of Dr. Ellis. In June lase I agreed with the
prisoner to pay him 245. to instruct me in writing. I paid
10s. in advance; but on that occasion he merely told me to
bring on my next visit 2s. 6d. for stationery. I then took
a lesson. I went on two other occasions ; on the last of
which, the Bth of July, he set me a copy, and left
the room. There was another pupil in the next
room, and I got up and went and spoke to her. The
prisoner then returned to the room, having a letter
in an
he
ewas going to answer it. That it
was a letterman to his sweetheart, and that he
hd, sayingfrom a young
was going to answer it for her. He then told me that he
had taught a young girl to ride on horseback, that she was
in the service of an old man, but that at his death she
married a young man. He afterwards put his hand on my
neck and pressed it very hard. I removed it, and
looked very black at him. In a few minutes
after he kissed me three times, and used other
familiarities. I repelled his insults as well as I
could, but he told me he took great interest in me,
and although he had another pupil in the next room, she
was an old maid, and that he could do nothing with her,
I took up my bonnet and shawl to leave the house ; he held
me round the waist again, but I broke away, and ran out
of the house. He followed, and after I had left the street-
door, I saw him looking after me. On getting home I told
my mistress, Mrs. Ellis, a portion of the conduct of Mr.
Matter, when she told me to communicate with my friends.
I did so, and the result was a summons was taken out
against him.
Cross-examined by Mr. Metcalf—l had been four times
to Mr. Marter before he kissed me. He was in and out the
room once or twice during the time I was there. There
was another young woman in the adjoining room, but I
could not see her. After Mr. Marter had insulted me I was
so frightened that I could not call for assistance, but as I
left the room in which the other pupil was writing I said
I should not come again. Mr. Marter told me to
come again the following Sunday, and I said I would, but
it was only to get out of the house. The reason I did not
go into the next room was that I thought it was best for me
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get home as soon as possible. When he pressed my
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with my brother to make the complaint against the prisoner.
Thomas Shirgold, brother of the last witness, said my
sister came to me and told me she had been grossly insulted.
She was very much agitated. I went with her to obtain
this summons.

This was the case for the prosecution.
The case was not concluded when we went to press.

[ln the report yesterday of a watch robbery, by a mis-
take of our reporter, one of the witnesses (Mr. H. Everest)
was represented as having said—" On the evening of the
6th of August, at 6 o'clock in the morning," &c. It should
have read—m On the morning of the 6th of August," &c.]

GREAVES' BLUE LIAS LlME.—Amongst the vari-
ous articles of utility that have come into almost
general use since the closing of the International Exhibi-
tion of 1862 is Greaves' blue lies lime. The circumstances
that have led to its adoption in building operations are that
in all the works entirely built of it, such as the Great
Western Railway station, Great Northern Railway station,
London and Nortb.-Western extension of North London,
Metropolitan Railway, main drainage works, Blackfriars
railway bridge and works, sea wall at Ramsgate for South
Coast Railway,
&c., it has been found to excel' all similar
preparations in strength and durability. The increasing
demand has induced Mr. Greaves to make arrangements
for the delivery of the lies in London direct from the kilns
in 'Warwickshire, and thus an article of the greatest value
to the builder will be ready for immediate use.
cAP.BoRouGH.—A shocking and fatal accident
occurred on Wednesday evening to a gentleman
named Robinson, a solicitor of Ripon, while visiting Scar-
borough. From the information obtained it appears that
the deceased had gone into the Castle-yard to witness the
conclusion of a cricket match in which 11 of the famous
All England were engaged. While walking about his
attention appeared to be attracted by some object in the
cliff, and, stepping over the rails, the treacherous ground
gave way under hie feet, and thus he was precipitated to
the bottom of the cliff. His fall was witnessed by some
boys, who informed boatmen Rowbotham and Clark of the
accident. The inanimate body was taken from the rocks
into the boat, and brought to the harbour. Mr. Robinson
was perfectly unconscious when found, and so he remained
throughout the evening, He died about one o'clock on
Thursday morning from the injuries he had received. Sin-
gular to say, this is the third fatal accident by falling to
visitors at Scarborough within a few weeks. The deceased
was visiting this place for the benefit of his health, which
was very delicate.

Mr. G. A SALA is thus estimated by a discerning
Saturday Reviewer :—All that cleverness without
thought, or culture, or imagination, can do may be found in
his novels, which, if not always unreadable, still will never
stand higher than fourth-rate in the ranks of fiction.
Minute observation of things rather than of men and cha-
racter, a large command of that easy and superficial satire
which assails everything under the sun, and the copious
enunciation of paradoxes which are smart to the ear but
meaningless to the understanding—all this may for a time
captivate a certain class of readers, but must always be dis-
tinctly preferable to the weary peter-human trash which
fills most of the three volume novels.

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Aa extraordinary poisoning case is being inves-
tigated by the Hull stipendiary magistrate. A surgeon and
an innkeeper are in custody on a charge of administering,
or attempting to administer, poison to an illegitimate child;
and the evidence of the principal witness for the prosecu-
tion details conversations between herself and the prisoners,
in which that diabolical object is allegsd to have been avowed
in the clearest terms.

LETTER; FOR HAYTI,—On the Ist September
nest, and theneoforward, the postage upon letters
for Hayti will be increased from 6d. to ls. the single rate
(half an ounce), the scale of progression being simultane-
ously modified by substituting for the existing scale a scale
of weight having half an ounce as a unit throughout, with
the postage advancing by single rates.
THE DANGERS OF ALPINE CLIMBING.—A letter
from Viega, in the canton of Valais (Switzerland),
states that as two English gentlemen (whose names aro not
given) were last week crossing a dangerous pass of the
Simplon by the glacier of Fletsehhorn, accompanied by two
guides, one of the latter fell into a deep crevice. The
gentleman immediately sent the other guide to Saas, a dis-
tance of about three leagues, to fetch ropes for the purpose
of extricating the poor fellow, who recovered sufficiently
from the effect of his fall to speak to the Englishman several
times during the other guide's abccnce. Owing to tho depth
of the crevice and the darkness of the night, nine Iv-airs
elapsed before the man was drawn to the surface, and he
expired from exhaustion a few minutes afterwards,—
Galignani's Yessenger.
RUMOURED DESTRUCTION OF THE FEDERAL
STEAMSHIP VANDERBILT.—Upon the departure of
the Royal Mail steamship Shannon from St. Thomas, a
rumour had reached that place that the Alabama had en-
gaged and sunk the Federal war steamer Vanderbilt off
Havannah. The report, however, required confirmation.EXHlßlTlON MEDALS.—By an Act passed on the
day of the prorogation it is made an offence fur a trader
falsely
to represent that he has obtained a medal or certifi-
cate from the Exhibition commif:aioners of 1.551 or 18'52.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET•

SAD
STORY
BY A SOLDIER'S WIFE.—A poor woman,
who said her name was Margaret Reed, and that she was
the wife of Wm. Reed, a private of the Ist battalion of the
9th Regiment of Foot, applied to Mr. Knox for assistance.
The applicant said that her husband was now at Corfu,
having gone to that place with a draft of the regiment. At
the time he embarked at Portsmouth, two of their five
children, whose ages were from a to 11 years, were laid
up with the measles and were unable to go on board.
Another draft of the regiment was to be sent to Corfu at
the end of next month, when she would be enabhd to go if
she could reach Portsmouth with her children. In the
meantime she had no means of living, and with her chil-
dren had passed two or three nights on the steps of doors,
and the consequence was that she was suffering from a severe
cold, all their clothes having bcen soaked through.
The poor woman banded the magistrate several letters
and papers, one a letter from her husband, showing that he
had served in India and the Crimea, and expressed great
anxiety on behalf of his wife and family, but stating that
in consequence of the regiment having been only such a
short time at the station he was unable to assist them.

Mr. Knox observing Mr. Tett, one of the officers of St.
James's parish in court, requested him to look into the
matter, and, if he could intercede with the authorities to
give the poor woman and her family an asylum, to do so.
Mr. Tett directed the poor woman to go to St. James's
Workhouse, and having assisted in the matter she was at
once admitted.