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on the ground floor, with a shop adjoining it. The
kitchen was the place in which he lived, and in
which he carried on a small trade in groceries. In
his shop he carried on the business of a carpenter;
there was a room over the kitchen, in which he slept.
There was a door leading into the public road, and
another leading into his yard. Under the same
roof dwelt a man named Cory, who occupied a room
ou the ground-floor and a room over it. Cory's
back door led into Drew's yard. The parti-
tion between the two dwellings was so thin
that ordinary noises taking place in the house
of one could be heard in the house of the other.
Drew:was a man of very quiet and temperate habits,
and although his circumstances were not known to
his neighbours lie was reputed to be a man in the
possession of money. He was in the habit of spend-
ing his evenings at the Smith's Arms, kept by a
man named Bassett, and there he smoked his pipe,
taking one pint of ale, which he never exceeded.
Bassett's house was on the opposite side of the road,
150 feet from Drew's house. On the evening of
Saturday, the 7th of June, Drew passed his evening
at Bassett's house, remaining, there 01 half-past 10,
when he left for home. Nobody who could be called
ever saw him again alive. On the morning of Sun-
day, the Bth of June, a woman named Mary Martin
went to Drew's house to make a small purchase.
She found the shutter had not been put up, and the
outer door of the kitchen was locked. She looked
through the window, and just inside she saw the
body of Drew lying upon his face in a pool of blood.
She was much alarmed, and gave immediate infor-
mation to Bassett, and Bassett and Cory went directly
to the house. The body was lying on the face, one arm
underit, and the other down by the side. There was a
large quantity of blood on the floor and splashes of
blood on the wall and on the ceiling. The injuries
which the deceased man had received were on and
about the back of the head. They were most fear-
ful, and one of them would of itself have been suffi-
cient to cause death. The deceased was in the habit
of taking off his shoes and putting on his slippers
to go to bed. The body had one shoe off and the
other partly unlaced, and the wounds being on the
back of the head, the inference which must he
drawn was that he was killed by one or more blows
inflicted from behind when he was in the act of
taking off his shoes. He fell upon his face, after
which the other blows were inflicted, and as he fell
so in all probability he died. There was blood on the
table and also on the drawer which had been opened,
and out of which had been taken a match-box, in
which he ordinarily kept his silver. It was empty,
but in another drawer was a little percussion-cap
box in which five sovereigns were found after
his death. It appeared from the evidence that
the murderer afterwards went about the house,
as marks of blood were found, but nothing
of consequence was taken away. Then came
the question, who was the murderer P The prisoner
was a labourer working about in the neighbourhood,
lodging at the house of one Sutton, on the opposite
side of the road to the deceased and a little farther
up the road, the distance between the public-house
and Sutton's being only 90 feet. The prisoner had
been latterly out of work, and Sutton having ceased
to supply him with food as he had previously done,
threatened to turn him out. The prisoner was well
acquainted with the deceased, and was in the habit
of frequenting the same public-house. He was there
on the Saturday night, and talked to the deceased.
The prisoner left the public-house about a quartei -past
10 that night. The deceased did not leave till half-past
10. Just before 11 o'clock Cory, who lived under the
same roof as the deceased, had occasion to go out of
his back door, and while there he heard the deceased
and the prisoner in Drew's kitchen in conversation,
and it appeared to be a quiet friendly conversation.
Cory's wife also heard the voices. The Corys went
to bed about 12 o'clock that night. The man fell
asleep, but was awakened by a loud noise in Drew's
kitchen, like a heavy fall, and he made a remark to
his wife about it, and then he fell asleep again.
Cory's wife then heard what she believed to be the
steps of a man going upstairs in Drew's house.
Shortly before the murder the prisoner told a per-
son he wanted to get a little money, and that he
would leave the country. On the Sunday morning
the prisoner got up at six o'clock and went out.
Although he had lodged at Sutton's for two years,
on no former occasion had he ever been known to
leave his bed-room before eight or nine o'clock on a
Sunday morning. He continued going in and out
of the house until taken into custody later in the
day. These, connected with the finding of some of
Drew's tobacco concealed in Sutton's garden, the
finding of blood on the prisoner's clothes, and other
circumstances, were the facts relied upon for bring-
ing the murder home to the prisoner.
Dr. Taylor examined these spots of blood, and
declared they were recent, as were also marks of
blood on a bill-book belonging to the prisoner, and
with which there was a probability that he com-
mitted the murder.

The learned judge having summed up, the jury
retired at half-past 4 o'clock, and after an absence
of 20 minutes came into court and returned a verdict
of Guilty.

The learned Judge then, having put on the
black cap, addressed the prisoner in the following
terms :—After a full investigation of this dreadful
charge the jury have thought it right to find you
guilty of murder, aid I am bound to say that I
quite concur in their verdict. It is not my duty
nor my inclination to aggravate the horrors of your
present condition by dwelling upon the enormity of
your guilt, I only mention it in order that you may
be deeply sensible that there are no hopes of mercy
for you on this side of the grave. The learned
judge then passed upon the prisoner the awful sen-
tence of death. _ _ _

The prisoner, who had been unmoved during the
whole of the trial, then walked from the bar.

SOUTH WALES CIRCUIT.—AuG. 8.
(Before Mr. Baron Channell.)
THE MURDER AT BIRKENHEAD,
James Craig, 21, labourer, Birkenhead, was in-
dicted on the charge of feloniously murdering James
Caine, at Birkenhead, on the 22d of June last.
Mr. Brandt stated the case, and said that deceased,
in company with several other men, went into the
Grapes pubic-house on Sunday evening, June 22,
and remained until about 10 o'clock, when most of
them left the house, the deceased being last. About
five minutes after he had left the house he was
found upon the pavement dead. A man named
Jones, of Liverpool, was near to the Grapes at the
time deceased came out of the house, and then three
or four men stood round him. He distinctly saw
the prisoner strike a man with what was ap-
parently a life-preserver, and the other three men
stood by at the time. After the deceased had
been .struck by the man he fell on the
ground, when he (the prisoner) Licked him
twice or three times about the back of the head.
Jones ran away and crossed over to Liverpool, and
never mentioned anything about the matter until
about a month after, when he told the police at
Birkenhead what he saw, and he was at once taken
to Chester to see if he could identify the prisoner,
who was put in a yard with other prisoners. On
the prisoner passing him Jones said, " That is the
man, I am sure of it ; he is dressed now in the same
way as he was on the Sunday night the murder
was committed."

The Jury, after consulting about 20 minutes, re-
urned a verdict of not guilty.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Aug 8.

Henry Walton, alias Henry Spiller, known as
" Dr. Walton," was indicted for keeping a brothe
in Castle-street, Leicester-square.
Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted, instructed by Mr. J.
Allen, the parish solicitor, St. Ann's ; and Mr. Bex-
ley defended.
From the evidence ad luced it appeared that the
defendant kept a surgery, or an imitation one,
called "The Lock Dispensary," as he advertised by
biils and placards, No: 77, Castle-street, hut it was
the regular resort of old men, 60, 70, or 80 years of
age, who picked up and decoyed young girls, some
no older than 12 'years, to his place, and called them
" patients," the prisoner receiving the profits of this
atrocious traffic.
The real character of this " dis-
pet,.ary" was put beyond all doubt by the evidence
of the police, who had had the establishment under
their eyes for some time.
Witnesses were examined for the defence, but
their evidence did not effect that for the prosecu-
tion, indeed confirmed it.
The defendant was found guilty, and

His Lordship, who concurred entirely in the ver-
dict, sentenced him to hard labour for 12 calendar
months, to pay a fine of £2O, and to be kept in pri-
son till the fine be paid.
The defendant, who seemed taken not a little
aback at the sentence, was then removed.
(Before Mr. Payne.)

Rosa Lewis, a young woman, smart, but possess-
ing a most determined'' expression of countenance,
`was indicted for assaulting the police.
1-c..nightrs-bi
1)1r. Abram prosecuted ; 'Mr. TE Giffard defended.
drouak,t(ileanndtoheliinse-y, the prosecutor, said he was on
ght of the 14th of July, in the High-
caused nutßid_
,r,idge, when a great disturbance was
the prisoner attacked him was trying to het
trio Trevor Arms public -house. He
quarreling people away,when
he received ,as
on the
him furiously. The first blow
for,ttilnoi rte
into
lower she was
it.
part of his
caunsdtedsycr,eamed
, i
when she nose. He then tcok her
Ztcl kicked him violently on
threw herself down, fought,
person.
A stretcher was sent
kicked herself off it three titil; bat she shuffled and
era;c: wthaanrbduttheanthtoinreg there-
witness
leaving witness's coata tads,jatcoketand that
etched one, the
backoi7the garment ripped up.
On the
way to the
station, when after great difficulty she was secured

on the stretcher, she succeeded in kicking the wit- i
ness again, and she seized the arm of the assisting
constable, end bit his coat sleeve through to the
flesh. When at the station she was taken to a cell,
and when at the door she seized the constable who
then held her in charge by the hair of his head, got
his thumb into her mouth, and severely bit it, and
tried to kick him, and the policeman was obliged to
hit her to make her let go.
The defence was that the origin of the affair was
a woman calling the defendant a foul name in the
front of the bar of a public-house, for which she
wanted to fight her and pursued her into the road.
Then there was a charge of a robbery of a watch
and chain, but the policeman would not take the
person to whom that offence was imputed, but in-
stead took the prisoner.

After a long trial the prisoner was found guilty,
and the learned Judge sentenced her to four months'
hard labour. She said she could do that asleep.

POLICE IN TELLIGEN CE.-Aug . 8.

BOW-STREET.— HIGIIWAY ROBBERY AND
ASSAULT.—WiIIiam Walker, a well-dressed but
repulsive-looking young man, was charged with
the following outrage upon an elderly widow lady
named Sarah Gover.

The prosecutrix, whose face exhibited the marks
of a violent blow, stated that she lived at Tooting,
and had come to London with two female friends
to see the Exhibition. Tt;ey did not know until
they reached the building that it was a half-crown
day, and not being able to afford more than a shil-
ling each, they returned to Charing-cross. They
were standing at the corner of Adelaide-street and
Chandos-street, Strand, at four o'clock, when she
felt a pull at her pocket. She saw a boy withdraw
his hand, and drop half-a-crown upon the pave-
ment. She cried out " That's mine," but at the
moment she received a blow which knocked her
down. She identified the prisoner as the person
who struck her, and who also picked up the half-
crown.

Mr. Henry asked the prosecutrix, who seemed
almost exhausted, if she did not know Friday and
Saturday were half-crown days.
Witness—We thought it was Saturday only.
The prisoner, on being asked if he had any ques-
tions to put, said—Someody gave me a blow with
an umbrella, and I swung my hand round in re-
turn. I did not see who I was hitting,
Sophia Harding, also a widow, from Bury St.
Edmunds, said she was in company with the prose-
cutrix and another female, and saw the robbery
and assault. The two boys who were with priso-
ner escaped, but the latter struck Mrs. Gover and
picked up the money.
Another witness deposed to having seen the pri-
soner strike the old lady in the chest and face with
such violence that he thought he had almost killed
her.

Thomas Davies, 9, Jernivn-street, bootmaker,
deposed to having followed. prisoner to Covent-
garden-market, where he was stopped by Alder-
man, the beadle, to whom he said, "I only gave a
woman a bit of a blow."

William Prior, 62 F, found a calf-crown on the
prisoner, and another constable stated that. the pri-
soner had been once or twice before convicted of
robberies with violence.

Prisoner—That was a long time ago, and no vio-
lence.

Mr. Henry—What are you, and where do you
live ?

Prisoner—l am a tailor, only there is no work
doing now. Ido not live anywhere in particular.
I go about from place to place—lodging-houses'
coffee-shops, &e. I have no fixed abode.
Mr. Henry—l shall remand you for a week, and
then you will be committed for trial at the Old
Bailey.

MARLBOROUGH -.STREET. HAYMARKET
REFRESHMENT HOUSES.—Matthew Thomas, John
Tucker, and Daniel Margusoff were summoned be-
fore Mr. Knox by the police; for that they being
licensed refreshment-house keepers, at No. 53,
Haymarket, did unlawfully and knowingly suffer
prostitutes to assemble and continue in the said
house.

Inspector Draper, C division, proved that after
one o'clock, on the morning of the 25th of July, he
visited No. 53, Haymarket, and found 15 prostitutes
and seven men assembled there. Several of the
women were taking coffee : he knew that the whole
of the women there were women of the town. A
person, who represented himself as proprietor, was
informed by him of the number of prostitutes pre-
sent. Visited the house about two o'clock, and
found four women ; at half-past three visited the
house again, and found eight prostitutes there and
ten men.

Police-constable, 292 A, confirmed the above evi-
dence.

The police stated there was no appearance of
drunkenness or disorder in the L ouse. The women
were not of the humbler class of prostitutes; they
were all well dressed. The lower class of women
would not be admitted.

Mr. Sleigh, for the defence, was aware that other
professional gentlemen, on similar evidence, had
contended in vain that no offence under the Re-
freshment Licence Act had been committed. The
Queen's Bench had decided in favour of the view
hitherto taken by magistrates, but he was there to
contend that this decision was incorrect. His as-
sertion was that the Legislature never intended to
debar unfortunate women from entering public-
houses and refreshment-houses for the mere purpose
of refreshment, even though they might enter such
houses in numbers together. What the Legislature
intended was, that women should not enter such
houses for an immoral purpose. Now nothing of
the sort had been proved in the present case.
Mr. Knox said he did not want proof of that.
The act did not require it.
Mr. Sleigh said the evidence showed that the
women went into the house for refreshment only,
not as prostitutes ; and he was satisfied it was only
because the house was located in the Haymarket
that such a case was entertained by the Court.
Mr. Knox said the point had been argued over
and over again ; the same arguments had been
urged on him, and he had done that which he
thought most advisable. Under such circumstances
he had put down a case in black and white, and had
sent it to the Superior Courts, which had affirmed
the view of the law he had taken. In one case
where only seven women were present, and no in-
decency visible, the conviction was affirmed. His
view of the law was that power was given to a
magistrate to convict or nor, as might be best for
the public interests, though certainly the act itself
made no such limitation. The question for him
now to determine was, whether it was for the pub-
lic interest that he should enforce the law with
strictness. When he sat at the East end of the
town he dismissed cases of a similar character. But
what was the fact in these cases ? There might be
only a few women inside the house, but there were
500 or 600 walking about outside. The Haymarket
was the great centre. He did not wish to speak
too harshly of the rascality of the prostitution of
grown svomen and young children, and even worse
crimes. The refreshment houses were part and
parcel of the system. It might have been better
had the clause been struck out, and that such houses
should be closed at certain hours ; but as long as
the law stood as it did, so long must he continue to
convict. If his decision were objected to the par-
ties had the right of appeal Because the defen-
dant'a house was in the Haymarket he inflicted a
fine of 405., and costs.
In the course of his address Mr. Sleigh took occa-
sion to refer to the construction of the court, which
he described as the most inconvenient of all the
police courts, and in which he said it was not only
impossible for an advocate to hear his own voice,
owing to the court's vicinity to the street, but to
hear the observations which might fall from the
Bunch. This circumstance not only placed profes-
sional men at a disadvantage, but also suitors of all
classes.

SOUTHWARK.—Mr. William North, the pro-
prietor of the Surrey coffee-house, appeared before
Mr. Burcham, in answer to his bail charged with
committing a series of assaults on Eliza North, his
wife. The charge wes, in the first instance, entered
into on Tuesday afternoon, when Mr. Burcham
adjourned it, as the defendant was under the influ-
ence of drink, and both parties were much excited.
The complainant, a middle-aged female, said that
on Tuesday morning,
between 9 and 10 oVock, her
husband was a great deal under the influence of
iiq
went up to him, and told him not to bother himself
and attempting to count the money. She
about unr,
then, but put it in his pocket, go to bed,
and count it when he was sober. He turned round
uron her, and called her dreadful names. She went
into the coffee-room, when he came up to her, and
demanded the keys, and tore her dress off her back.
She gave him the keys as soon as she could get
them, when he beat her and knocii.ed her about
shamefully. She then went upstairs to her bedroom,
when he followed her, and illused her again, and
tore her clothes a second time. She then came to
this court, and obtained a warrant for his appre-
hension.

In cross-examination she said she never abused
her husband at all, neither did she provoke him.
She did not lay hold of his hair, and say be went
other women. In fact, she was an angel in temper•
(Laughter.)
The defendant here denied the accusation alto-
gether. His wife, far from being an angel, was one
of the worst-tempered and most jealous of women,
and was always abusing him, which he could prove
by their servant.
Caroline Whitehouse said she was servant at the
Surrey coffee-house. She recollected on Tuesday

morning her master had a little drink, and her mis-
tress kept nagging at him abont being drunk and
his women. Witness c:Illed her on one side, and
advised her to leave him alone until he was sober.
She, however, persisted in aggravating him, when
he put the money in his pocßet and went upstairs
out of her way. She persisted in following him, and
witness heard her abusing him upstairs. She
came down again and told witnes3 her master was
putting on his best clothes to go to the Exhibition
with his women, and she was determined to fol-
low him. Her master went out of the house, and
she followed him at 11 o'clock, and did not return
till past three. Her master returned at one, and
attended to business. He was always kind to his
wife, and carried her breakfast lip to bad, but she
was .the most aggravating woman she ever knew:
Her clothes were never torn at all, and her master
never struck her.

The complainant here came forward and said all
that the witness had stated was false. It was a con-
spiracy against her to get her out of her own house,
which she had purchased with her own money, as
when she married him he was only a poor policeman.
Mr. Burnham told her that he had listened very
patiently to the evidence, and he should be vary
sorry to convict a man on the unsupported testimony
of a woman who had the demon of jealousy about
her. The servant had given her evidence in a very
respectable manner, and he felt bound to say he be-
lieved her, there ore he should discharge the war-
rant. It was a great pity women should be pos-
sessed of such animosity as to impose upon a magis-
trate to issue his warrant, which he would not have
done had he known the exaggerations which had
come out in evidence.

The defendant then loft the court with his friends.

A FEMALE CANNIBAL.—Mary Sullivan, a dissi-
pated-looking woman, was charged with nearly
biting the nose off the face of Catherine Hughes.
The prosecutrix said she lived in Webb-street,
Bermondsey, and the prisoner lodged near her, and
was fighting all day Thursday with the neighbours.
About three o'clock in the afternoon witness was
going out, when the prisoner called her bad names,
and because sbe remonstrated with her, she turned
round upon her and struck her. They had a strug-
gle together, and fell, and while on the ground the
prisoner bit her nose nearly off, in fact, it was only
kept in its place with strapping as his worship
could see.

The prisoner here said that the witness struck
her first, and then they had a fight, and fell down ;
but she had no knowledge :of prosecutrix's nose
coming into her mouth or she would not have bit it.
Police-constable 128 M, said he was on duty in
Bermondsey.street, when he received information of
a disturbance in Webb-street. On proceeding there
he saw the prisoner fighting, and the prosecutrix
with her nose nearly off, bleeding profusely. He
secured the prisoner, and conveyed the complainant
to a doctor's close by, where her nose was strapped

The magistrate told the prisoner that she had
shown herself to be a perfect cannibal by biting
another female's nose in such a brutal manner. He
should take care that her temper was under control
for some time by directing her to find two good
sureties for two months, and in default be committed
her to prison for that period.

THAW:S.—HIGHWAY ROBBERY WITH VIO
LENCE.—Henry Harris, aged 24, a well-known
thief, describing himself as a hawker, with no fixed
abode, was charged with highway robbery, attended
with garotting.
The prosecutor, Mr. Edward Baruch, an elderly
gentleman, •is a clerk in the London Docks, resid-
ing at 92, Pennington-street, Rateliff-highway, and
was on his way home soon after 10 o'clock on the
night of the 31st of last month, when he was sud-
denly attacked by the prisoner and another man,
who rushed from a dark and narrow alley, called
Pennington-place. One of them struck him a se-
vere blow on the head, and the prisoner seized him
by the neck, compressed it forcibly and put him to
considerable pain and inconvenience. He struggled
hard to release himself, and while ho was doing so
the other villain made a snatch at his watch, and
in forcing it from his waistcoat pocket used so much
force that he tore the waistcoat to pieces. The thief,
having secured the watch, ran away with it, and
the prisoner having released Mr. Baruch also fled.
As soon as the prosecutor could recover his breath
he pursued the prisoners, and called out " Stop
thief." A police constable named John Chatley,
212 H, was in Ratcliff-highway when he heard the
cry of stop thief, and saw two men coming up
Breenrs-hill, and Mr. Baruch pursuing them with
his watchguard dangling loosely before him. He
said "Policeman, I have lost my watch, there are
the two men who robbed me." The constable
joined in the pursuit, and came up with the
prisoner in Wellelose-square, 600 yards from
where he first saw him, and was so close to
him that he was about to seize him as hen
by some misfortune he fell and hurt himself. The
pursuit was then taken up by George Foster, 207
H, who was close upon the thieves, when the pri-
soner rushed into a barber's shop, and his compa-
nion dashed into a passage of the same house and
made his escape over some yards and outhouses in
the rear. Thomas Fitzgerald, 189 11, opened the
door of the barber's shop, and found the prisoner
seated on a chair, a cloth tucked under his chin
and a barber abbut to shave him. The policeman
allowed the operation to be completed, and then
took the prisoner into custody.
in answer to questions put by the prisoner,
Foster, 207 11, said he was only 12 yards behind
the prisoner w len he dashed into the barber's shop,
and he was sure he was the man who was running
along with the other man.
The Prisoner—l had a lather on me, and the bar-
ber was about to shave me when you and the other
policeman entered the shop. You must have been
more than 12 yards behind me.
Foster—No, I was not. You were soon operated
upon.
The Prisoner—l saw other people run and I ran.
I went into the barber's shop, and paid a penny for
a shave. As to that man and his watch, I never
saw either until I was taken into custody.
Robert Livingston said--I keep a barber's shop,
at 51, Cable-street, St. George's-in-the-Eaat. The
prisoner
came into my shop in a hurried manner,
as if he had been running. A man I had shaved
was just rising from the chair, and the prisoner
took the vacantseat directly, and I had just began
to shave him when the police entered and took him
into custody.
Mr. Selfe—l shall commit the prisoner for trial
at the Old Bailey Sessions for highway robbery,
attended with violence. It is a very bad case
indeed.

CARRYING COALS TO NEWCASTLE.—John Ware-
ham, aged 48, of 9, King's-terrace, Homerton, la-
bourer, was brought before Mr. Selfe, charged with
stealing a bottle of sherry.
Edward Ellis, a London Docks constable, stated
that he saw the prisoner coming out of the dock
with a leather apron on his
on Thursday evening',
arm, and evidently attempting to elude ob-
servation. He stopped him, and found in his
trousers pocket a bottle of sherry, wine, holding
rather more than a pint and a halt. The prisoner
was employed in the wine department of the dock
as a corker, and was corking the whole of Thurs-
day.
The prisoner said, in his defence, the wine was
his own, and that he carried it into the dock in the
morning, end took it out again in the evening,
Mr. Selfe_Carry wine into the London Dock ?
The Prisoner—Yes, sir, indeed I did.
Mr. Selfe—Something like carrying coals to
Newcastle.
The Prisoner—So it is, sir; but I have often
done so.
Mr. Selfe—Then, I don't believe you; but this is
very probable, that you have often carried the Dock
Company ,8 wine from their premises.
Ellis—We have discovered the very cask from
which the bottle of wine was taken; and here is a
sample from the same cask. It is a very peculiar
smelling sherry.
Mr. Selfe—So it is. Your defence is quite ab-
surd, Wareham, and can impose on none but fools.
You have made your case worse by that defence.
You have stolen the wine, the property of your
employers. I sentence you to three weeks' impri-
sonment and hard labour for the unlawful posses-
sion of the wine.

----.._.

WESTMINSTER.
AND UMBRELLAS
AT TH E EXHIBITION,—henry Balk, Commis-
sionaire, 280, appeared to a summons charging
him with assaulting Mr. Lesser Friedlander, mer-
chant, at the E:diibition.
Mr. F. H. Lev.i
-s, bArrister, conduct( d the com-
plaint, and Mr. Fladgate, solicitor to the Commis-
sioners, attended for the defendant.
Mr. Lewis, in opening his case, as afterwards
stated in evidence„said that his client had felt it
his duty to being the complaint forward upon pub-
lic groundF, to protect others from the indignity
which had been committed upon him. He had
taken the proper course at the moment of com-
plaining to the assistant-secretary, but had received
no redrcs, and had therefore brought the matter
before this Court.
Mr. Friedlander said—On the Ist of August be-
tvveen three and four o'clock, I entered the Foreign
Picture Gallery at the Exhibition with my little
son. I saw the defendant when I had advanced five
or six yards into the gallery. He placed himself be-
fore me, and said, " You must not walk through
here with a stick." I had my walking-stick in my
hand at the time. I replied, " "Why not ? I do not
see any harm in walking with my stick through
here." He repeated what he had before said, add-
ing, " You must go out, or I must turn you out."
I again said that I could not see I was doing any

harm in walking through there with the stick in my'
band, when he collared me. I said, "Tc.ke off -your
hands; how dare you collar me ? You may do it to
the pickpocket, but not to me." He then took hold
of me with both hands, and by mlin force put me
out of the picture gallery. I said that that was very
shameful behaviour, when he replied that he had
only done his duty. I said, " You have exceeded
your duty;" npoti which he observed, " You are no
gentleman, and if I had you outside I would give
you a good thrashing." I was in the presence of
several ladies and gentlemen vAien this indignity
was committed upon me. I have been in the Eng-
lish Picture Gallery with my stick, and my wife
with her parasol, two or three times., without ob-
jection.
Cross-examined—l am not aware of any regula-
tion respecting season ticket holders leaving their
umbrellas and stick. I did not know what had been
prohibited. I have been eight or nine times in the
Exhibition with my stick. I invariably walk with
it. I rely upon my stick for support. Defendant
did not point out a paper of regulations to me when
he stopped me. I did not push on. I stopped entirely.
If he had allowed me time I should have given up
my stick or walked out, but he collared me imme-
diately. I did not say to defendant " I defy you or
any Commissioner to turn me out." I did not shake
my stick at him. lam quite certain of that.
By Mr. Arnold—Defimdant said, "You must not
waik with your stick through here." He did not
ask me to give it up.
Albert Friedlander, a little bay eight years of
age, son of complainant, was called to confirm his
statement. In cross-examination he said his father
was very angry when put out of the gallery, and
spoke loud, but did not shake his stick at the de
fendant.

George Cant, police-constable 166 X, said—l was
in the picture gallery, and saw thecomplainant about
four or five yards in the gallery, I was on duty
t here. I have orders not to interfere about sticks
and umbrellas. Defendant and others are placed
there not to allow sticks, umbrellas, or parasols. I
saw the defendant go up to the complainant. Com-
plainant gave the same account immediately after-
wards to the assistant-secretary as he has given
here to-day ; but it is not correct in all particulars.
I saw defendant take hold of him and put him out-
side the gallery, 13'4ore that he several times told
him that it was the Commissioners' order there
should be no sticks or umbrellas there, and pointed
tc a board with a notice on it to that effect. He
put his hand on each arm, and forced him out.
The board says, " Sticks, umbrellas, and parasols
are not admitted into the picture-gallery."
Cross-examined—l heard him repeatedly tell the
complainant that sticks were not permitted there,
and that that was the Commissioners' order. Com-
plainant got very excited, and, taking up his stick,
shook it at defendant. Then defendant said he had
served his country honourably twenty•five years,
and would not mind giving him a thrashing. Com-
plainant caused a great crowd to assemble. Defen-
dant said if he had behaved so to him outside he
would not have minded giving him a thrashing. I
do not think defendant said, " You are no gentle-
man."

By Mr. Lewis—Complainant was much excited,
and shook his stick in his face outside the gallery,
saying, " How dare you do it ?"
By Mr. Arnold—Defendant, besides pointing to
the board, told him four or five times: that he must
not be there with a stick.

Mr. Fladgate said it would be a question of law
rather than of fact upon which the case would
turn, for, if the defendant was authorised in put-
ting the complainant out, it would be quite clear
there was no more violence used to put complainant
out of the gallery than was necessary. Mr. Flad-
gate then quoted the case of " Wood v. Led-
bitter," where the former wes expelled from the
Doncaster Grand Stand, and was about to raise
other arguments to show that the Commis-
sioners had a right, and were under an obligation
to the public, to exclude umbrellas, sticks, Bcc.,
from the picture gallery, when
Mr. Arnold observed that there was no question
about it; the Commissioners had a right to do so.
He could not entertain a doubt that the Commis-
sioners had full power to lay down such regulations
as they considered necessary for the protection of
the valuable property in their charge. The ques-
tion for him to decide would be one of fact, whether
the defendant used excess of violence, and had con-
ducted himself in a rude and overbearing manner.
Mr. Lewis urged that defendant might have had
a right to prevent his entering the gallery with a
stick, but had no right to remove him when there.
He might have taken the stick from him perhaps.
Mr. Arnold differed in opinion_ He clearly con-
sidered if defendant had a right to prevent his ad-
mission he had a right to remove him when there.
Mr. Fladgate observed that it was quite clear
complainant had lost his temper, and when he shook
his stick in defendant's face it could hardly be won-
dered at that an old English soldier should say that
if he were outside, not in the building where he was
employed, he should like to give him a thrashing.
Thomas Froggett, another commissionaire em-
ployed in the gallery, was called for the defence,
and proved that complainant defied defendant or
the Commissioners to put him out, as he had a sea-
son ticket. Witness otherwise supported the de-
fence.

Mr. Fladgate was about to call another witness,
when _

The Magistrate said there was no necessity, as he
had quite made up his mind. He thought the com-
plainant had been very ill advised to bring the
matter forward, as the exercise of a little cool re-
flection should have convinced him that he was in
the wrong. He must repeat that he had no doubt
the Commissioners had a right to lay down rules for
the protection of the valuable property in their charge.
and it was a well-known and well-understood
thing that the pubic were prohibited taking sticks
or umbrellas into all picture galleries. All who went
to the Royal Academy, and other such exhibitions,
must be well aware of the rule, and he should have
thought common sense would have suggested that
it was the same at the picture gallery of the Exhi-
bition as elsewhere; but to peevent all dispute or
doubt, the Commissioners had adopted the prudent
course of having the prohibition pasted np. Persons
were employed there to prevent others entering
with sticks or umbrellas, but it might easily happen
that they got in with them. The complainant did
so; he had only just got in when the defendant ac-
costed him in the exercise of his duty there. There
was no doubt that complainant thought it an im-
proper and officious interference with him, and re-
sisted it. It was very likely he was not aware of
the rules, and was very much annoyed, but if de-
fendant had not stopped him he would not have
discharged his duty. Complainant used strong
language, and they both got into an altercation, and
complainant was so much out of temper that he
shook his fist in defendant's face. He (Mr. Arnold)
had no doubt that the complainant had spoken the
truth to the very best of his belief, but his temper
had got the better of his memory, and he had for-
gotten part of what had occurred. It would be
better that a sharp look-out should be kept, and
that persons should not be admitted within the
gallery with the prohibited articles. In this case
there was no extreme or unnecessry violence used ;
if complainant had no right to be there, he had a
right, when found there, to be put out, and he (Mr.
Arnold) could only repeat that it was much to be
regretted the case had been brought there at all.
Defendant was then discharged.

WANDS WORTH. —Mr. Timothy Black, the
landlord of the Stag public-house, Wandsworth
road, was summoned before Mr. Dcvman for open-
ing his house for the sale of sPirits,.&c., before one
o'clock on Sunday morning last.
Mr. Child appeared for the defendant, and pleaded
not guilty.
Inspector Bushnell, of the V division, stated that
on Saturday night last he was on duty in the
Wandsworth-road. About half-past twelve o'clock
he was in the act of removing several men from the
front of the Stag public-house, when the defendant
opened his door and let out three men. Witness
said it was time that his house was closed, to which
the defendant replied that they were his waiters.
Witness then said it was convenient to term them
waiters when he was half an hour late. The de-
fendant became very excited, and called them into
his house and told them to do some more work
and have some more beer. They went in front
of the bar and turned up their sleeves. The defend-
ant stood with his back to the door for a quarter
of an hour, and he let out the three men when he
thought proper.
In cross-examination the inspector denied that he
had any feeling in the matter. He was not ex-
eitetk at the time. When he remarked that it was
convenient to term the men waiters, he meant that
he did not believe they were waiters.
Mr. Child—You suggest to a man who has kept
an
his Louse for ten years that he is tellingun-
truth ?
Inspector Bushnell—l did
not insinuate to Mr•
.have since
ascertained that there was a meeting of Foresters
Black that he was telling an untruth. I
in the house on Saturday night.
Mr. Child—lt was the quarterly meeting, at
which preparations were made for the festival at
the Crystal Palace.
Inspector Bushnell—I did not suspect there were
any more persons in the house. I was quite satis-
fied the house was closed and cleared, excepting
themen.
Mr. Child, in answer to the summons, said that
when
threethdefendant told the inspector the men
were his writers it was the truth. One was con-
stantly employed, and the other two on special
occasions. The house was cleared before 12 o'clock,
and after the waiters had removed the glasses and

pots they they were going away, when the inspector
made the statement he had given in evidence.
The defendant was not excited, and he told the in-
spector that the men were his servants. The in-
spector then made the remark that it was very
convenient to call them waiters ; and even in the
court the officer did not see such an observation was
calculated to excite the defendant. There was no
doubt the defendant did call them back again, and
they cleared out the taproom, for which they were
paid. The defendant was one of the most respect-
able licensed victuallers in the district ; he had con-
ducted the house for ten years, and he had never
been called up for using it improperly. Under the
circumstances, the defendant bad a right to com-
plain of being brought to the court.
Mr. Dayman said that if the inspector was satis-
fied the men were waiters he would dismiss the
summons.

Th,- inspector preferred having the men called,
and they all t-tatecl that they were employed and
paid by the defendant.

Thessmmons was then dismissed.

HA M MERSMITH.—CONCEALMENT OF BIRTIT.
—Ann Gain, cook in the servi o of a lady named
Robinson, residing at No. 4, Sunderland-terrace,
Westbourns Park, was finally examined before Mr.
Dayman on a charge of concealing the birth of her
female child.

It appeared that on Friday, the 25th ult., the
body of the child was discovered in the prisoner's
box by her fellow-servant, the housemaid; and at
night the prisoner, who had been ill from the Sun-
day before, expressed her regret at not having com-
municated to her before what had happened, In-
spector Edmonds was called in on the following
day, and it appeared that no suspicions were enter-
tained of the prisoner's condition. When her boxes
were searched no baby-linen could be found.

Mr. Wm M'Kenzie, physician, of Chester-place,
Hyde Park-gardens, proved making a post ,nor•
tens examination of the body. He stated that he
found evidence of the presumption that the child
had breathed, but he was unable to find anything
to show the cause of death.

Inspector Edmonds informed leis worship that en
inquest had been held, and the verdict was to the
effect that the child died from want of medical at-
tention at the time of the birth.

The prisoner did not offer any defence, and
Mr. Dayman committed her for trial for the mis-
demeanour.

HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION.

The quarterly court of the governors of the Hospital for
Consumption and Diseases of the Chest was held yesterday
in the board-room of the hospital, at Brompton—General
Ashburnham in the chair. The minutes of the last meeting
having been read and confirmed,
The SECRETARY read the report of the committee of
management, which showed that since the last court of
governors only the usual full complement of beds, nearly
200, had remained occupied, it having been found necessary
at the commencement of the warm weather to empty
the extra beds. The number of applicants have con•
tinued to increase year by year. The numbers waiting
their turn for admission at the end of July, in the years
1860, 1861, 1862, were respectively 63, 166, and 188. The
attendances in the out-patients' department remained undi-
minished. The committee have determined to give up the
premises known as the Manor House, at Midsummer, 1863,
acknowledging, in so doing, that under the judicious
management of Miss Marshant and the ladies' committee,
the Manor House in their hands as a " Home
has afforded a welcome shelter to many consumptive
patients before and after their admission to this institu-
tion. The committee also report the gift of £899 14s.
7d. from Mr. and Madame Goldschmidt, the proceeds
of a concert given on the 28th of May. This gift
the committee regarded as the most opportune, as the
donations for many months had fallen off so as to give
rise to fears lest the accounts should exhibit a serious defi-
ciency at the end of the year. The committee acknowledge
the receipt of increased help from the clergy, and express
their gratitude to the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of
Bath and Wells, the Bishop of Ripon, the Bishop of Car-
lisle, the Bishop of Worcester, and others, for their aid to
the institution. The following legacies have been announced
to the committee since the last court :—Miss Eliza Zenoblef
£5O; Adolphus Thorogood, £lO (formerly an in•patient);
Robert Lowman, Esq., £lO 10s; Charles Morrell, Esq.,
£l,OOO (contingent and very remote) ; Captain Buchanan,
£5O ; Miss Ann Brown £lOO (duty free) ; Mr. Thoraso
Miller, one-third of residue (contingent).

The number of in-patients admitted since 29th of
May, is 166
Discharged more or less benefited 142
Died 2l
New out-patients ,

The report was adopted; and on the motion of the Bon-
Josceline Percy, seconded by Charles Few, Esq., it was
agreed " Tbat the cordial and grateful thanks of this court
be given to Mr. 0. and Madame Lind-Goldschmidt for the
signal benefits recently conferred on the hospital by them,
and that Otto Goldschmidt, Esq., be elected an honorary
life governor, with the same privileges as are possessed by
Madame Goldschmidt, viz., the right to recommend three
in-patients and twenty-three out-patients annually."
A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings.

UNI RI M 4 RILE:iS.


WAKEFIELD-Atm. 8,

The wheat trade is firm. Fresh parcels of red were ill
demand, and rather dearer; other sorts unaltered. Price°
for beans, oats and shelling as of late.

STAMFORD-AuG. S.

White wheat, 60s red, 54s to 58s per 36 stone. Barley,
30s per qr. Oats, 22s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, 40s to
42s per qr.

LIVERPOOL—Ara. 8.

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At to-day's market there was only a moderate amount
of business in wheat and flour, and the prices of last Fri-
day were realised. Indian corn in active demand, at all
improvement of 6d per qr.