The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-12 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 12, 1865

HOUSES.—Messrs. TOPLIS and ROBERTS nothing." For any Minister to claim credit for the
have numerous furnished and nniurnished TOWN, foreign policy of the last six years is certainly a bold
Subui ban, and C.,untry RESIDENCES to LET and SELL.
Particulars forwarded for two stamps, upon stating exact re- measure. It is carrying the war into the enemy's
quirements and rental.—Offices, 2, Conduit-street, .ktegent-
arr. et, and South Kensington, facing the Museum. camp, and taking a stand upon the very weakest

SOUTH KENSINGTON, HYDE-PARK,
Queen's, and Rutland Gates, Queen's-gate and Peters-
ham Terraces, Queen's-gate, Cornwall, and Princes Gardens,
El vas ton- p lace, Cromwell-read, Onslow and Thurloe Squares,
Boltons, &c. Messrs. TOPL IS and ROBERTS have ItEaI-
DENCh.Sto S ..LL and LET in these and surrounding
localities.—Offices, 2, Conduit-street, Regent-street, and
South Kensington, facing the Museum.

point, and it needs all the eminent legal ability of
the Attorney-General to support such a hopeless

position.
In the discussion of financial questions the
speakers had more right to felicitate themselves
upon the results achieved. Much of our present
prosperity must of course be attributed to the
buoyancy of the revenue, which has withstood so
severe a shock as the cotton famine ; but the wise
application of the principles of Free Trade, and the
gradual remission of the public burdens, have very
much facilitated that growth of trade and extension
of commerce to which our national prosperity is
due. Since 1859, says Sir R. PALMER, more than
fifteen millions of taxes have been taken off ; the in-
come tax, the sugar duties, and the tea duty have
been largely reduced ; the duty has been taken off
paper and hops, and the duty on fire insurance largely
diminished. At the same time the exports and im-
ports of the country have increased more than one
half, and the excessive expenditure Ms been slightly
reduced. There is still a good deal to be done in
the latter respect, and we must hope that the new
House of Commons will show a proper vigilance
regarding the superabundant outlay at the Admi-
ralty and other official quarters.
Mr. CARDWELL'S own especial department, to
which he naturally made reference in the course
of his address, gives happily no ground of uneasiness.
The visit of the Canadian delegates to this country
only served to cement the cordial understanding
existing between the North American settlements
and the mother country ; and, although the great
confederation of the provinces is not yet a fait
accompli, the obstacles in its way are due to local
jealousies, and not to any coldness or hesitation on
the part of the home Government. Mr. CARD WELL
has shown himself fully sensible of the obligations
of England to her colonies, as well as the vast
advantages which she reaps from her position as a
mother of nations. "To England alone,"
observes the right honourable gentleman, "is
it given to see her sons settled in the
most distant parts of the globe—to see the inde-
pendence, and industry, and enterprise which cha-
racterise our race developed tinder other suns, and
bringing forth at other extremities of the earth the
same fruits that they produced at home." To apply
to the government of our vast and varied depen-
dencies the same principles which at home have
proved so eminently successful in securing the
greatness of the country and the happiness of the
people should now be the great object of colonial
administration ; and we are glad to find Mr. CARD-
WELL expressing his full and cordial concurrence in
so well-grounded a system of policy.

THEATRE-R OYA L, HAYMARKET.
Lessee. M,. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, MY WIFE'S MOTHER. Messrs.
Chippendale, Howe, Gorgon, Sze. ; Mesdames Snowden, Hill,
W.i;;ht,
Alter which, BROTHER SA3I. Megsrs. Sothern, Back-
stoi.e, Compton. tr. ; Mesdames nowdon, Moore, &c.
To con.lude (with NO SONG NO ~...urrErt. Compton,
Chippendale, Farren, duo. ; Mesdames Moore, Wright, Ketl-y,

Mr. FITFGERALD'S speeches are always worth
listening to. He is well informed, and possesses
that readiness and aptitude which are so valuable
in a public speaker. On more than one occasion
he has puzzled the Ministerial phalanx, and spread
dismay and confusion among their ranks. Yester-
day the nomination took place at Horsham, and
some interesting speeches were made. Mr. Frrz-
GERALD began by saying that he belonged to a party
which was liberal, though he did not placard it
about everywhere. As for the term " Liberal," it
was, he truly said, a very vague designation, and
embraced persons of all shades of opinion. Mr.
FITZGERALD criticised the course pursued by Mini-
sters, and declared that they had not fulfilled their
pledges, and worked for " peace, retrench-
ment, and reform." As for the Liberal
party having the entire credit of reducing the taxa-
tion of the country, Mr. FITZGERALD showed that
such was not the case, for there had been a great
increase in the expenditure since the Conservative
budget in 1859. As for Reform, that is an inex-
haustible subject for those who would parry the
attacks of Liberal opponents. Well may Mr. FITZ-
GERALD inquire if his opponent is in favour of Lord
PALMERSTON—WhOis against all reform—or whether
he agreed with those who advocated Radical reform
and a large extension of the franchise. The hon.
gentleman was able to point out several measures
for the benefit of the working classes which his
party had been mainly instrumental in carrying,
and indeed in this respect they deserve great credit.
The bills for regulating the hours of labour, the
proposals made to improve the condition of factories,
and the sanitary steps taken to ameliorate the places
of labour, are never warmly supported or sanctioned
by the Liberal party. it is always easier to declaim
about Reform in wholesale fashion than to adapt it
in detail to matters which interfere with private in-
terests. Mr. HURST made his statement, but he did
not differ materially from Mr. FITZGERALD, except
in upholding and supporting the Government in
all that they had done, and in excusing all
that they had not done. Mr. FITZGERALD has
a claim on the support of the electors, because
he has faithfully fulfilled his duties, and in
difficult affairs has displayed zeal and ability.
Mr. GAWTHORNE HARDY also spoke very well at
Leominster. This gentleman, in a smart address,
showed up some of the artful dodges of the present
Government, and very truly said that it was Sir R.
PEEL, and not the Liberal leaders, who passed the
repeal of the Corn Laws. The celebrated meeting
at Willis's Rooms he also commented on, and re-
marked that the damaging speeches of those on the
Liberal side caused the withdrawal of Earl RUSSELL'S
pretentious measure. Mr. HARDY rightly called
the declaration of Ministers for the extension of the

franchise a "mere piece of humbug." As for Mr.
BAINES'S measure, that was lately opposed by Mr.
LOWE, Mr. BLACK, Mr. HORSMAN, and other soi-
disant Liberals. The ballot was opposed by many
Liberals, headed by Lord PALMERSTON himself.
All this should really open the eyes of the electors,
and they should not suffer themselves to be taken in
by such wily manoeuvres and clap-trap. If the con-
stituencies really want these extreme measures car-
ried they should remember that no supporter of
Lord PAL3IERSTON'S policy will lend them a helping
hand when the day of division arrives. If they are
content to wait the tide of events, and trust to the
voice of public opinion making itself slowly but
surely recognised and understood, in what re-
spect are they bettered by being represented by
lukewarm Liberals than by advanced Conservatives?
The extension of the franchise, the abolition of
church rates, the ballot, and many other proposals
of a similar character, are just as far off now as
they were when Lord DERBY was Minister, and
Lord RUSSELL organising his prudential and plau-
sible schemes. Mr. DISRAELI never said a truer
thing than that " England does not love coalitions,"
and all those who have joined in them have staked

their political reputation and lost it. Lord PAL-
MERSTON has ruined his prestige for for sign affairs,
Lord RUSSELL has shelved Reform, and the Radical

projects members have had to relinquish their pet
for an indefinite period. It must be confessed that
the independent members are very much to blame
for all this, because they persist in supporting Mi-

nisters through thick and thin when any crisis
occurs, and whenever danger lurks in any motion
before the House, and so the occupants of the
Treasury benches grow quit; recklas, and think
they can do what they please, and leave all awkward

questions alone. Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, in his
speech at the election yesterday, made some good
observations, and vindicated his party from some of
the unfair attacks made upon it. He demurred to
the practice of some who called the Conservatives
drag-chains and hindrances in the march of improve-
ment. He truly said that the reason why our political
course was so successful was that all reforms were
freely discussed, and in this lay the secret of the
the advance of England. Sir S. NORTHCOTE rightly
said that the personal influence of the Premier had
a great deal to do with the continuance of the pre-
sent Government in office, and it was often with
the support of the Conservatives that they held on
to office against their own followers. The hon.
baronet expressed an opinion that the new Parlia-
ment would neither be revolutionary nor reac-
tionary, but that the great mass would maintain
the principles of the British constitution, forward
moderate and safe reforms, and advance, as far as
they safely could, the cause of commercial and gene-
ral freedom and improvement. There is no doubt that
this will prove in the main a very fair description of
the future representative assembly at St. Stephen's.
Sir S. NORTHCOTE is a man who could be ill spared
from the House, for he is enlightened in his views,
and not unduly influenced by the claims of party.
He rightly said that the duties of an oppositon were
only second in importance to those of Government
itself, " for much depends on the conduct of those
on the left hand side of the Speaker." The Conser-
vatives have the credit of ably discharging the
duties of the Opposition, while the Liberal party
signally fails in so doing, and never can comport
itself with anything like dignity and decorum. It
is time that they raised themselves to the ful-
filment of their duties, and thought less of
private and party considerations and more of
the honour and interests of the mighty principles
they profess and the great cause they advocate.
Much has recently occurred to cast a slur on the
reputation and impugn the sincerity of many dis-
ciples of progress and advocates of freedom. No
reform is more necessary or desirable at present
than one in the Liberal party itself, for its motley
army comprise men of every shade of opinion,
who never really coalesce with any spirit or
energy but when they think that their position is
threatened. Thus, in power, they never achieve
anything great or lasting, while out of it they
make promises they will not perform, and give
pledges they cannot fulfil, reckless of the scandal
and oblivious of the shame of such proceedings, only
too happy if by any means, at any cost, they can
pass through the wilderness of opposition to the
promised land of office.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

the two ports.

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, JULY 11.

TURKEY.
(Via Marseilles.)

CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 5.

The rumoured voyage of the Prince Royal o:
Persia to Europe has been coutradicted.

The New Act on Partnership.

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Yesterday the new Act to amend the law of part-
nership was printed. It provides that the advance
of money by way of loan to a person engaged, or
about to engage, in trade or any undertaking, upon
a contract in writing with such person that the
lender shall receive a rate of interest varying with
the profits, or shall receive a share of the profits
arising from carrying on such trade or undertaking,
shall not of itself constitute the lender a partner
with the person or persons carrying on such trade
or undertaking, or render himself responsible as
such. No person being a widow or child of the de-
ceased
partner of a trader, and receiving by way of
annuity a portion of the profits made by any such
trader in his business, shall by reason only of such
receipt be deemed to be a partner of, or to
subject to any liabilities incurred by, such
trader. No person receiving, by way of
annuity or otherwise, a portion of the profits
of any business, in consideration of the sale by
auction of the goodwill of such business, shall, by
reason only of such receipt, be deemed to be a part-
ner of, or be subject to the liabilities of, the person
carrying on such business. In the event of a trader;
as stated, being adjudged a bankrupt, or taking the
benefit of any Insolvent Debtors' Act, or entering
into an arrangement to pay his creditors less than
20s. in the pound, or dying in insolvent circum-
stances, the lender of any such loan shall not be
entitled to record any portion of his principal, or
of the profits or interest payable in respect of such
loan, nor shall any such vendor of a goodwill be
entitled to record any such profits, until the claims
of the other creditors of the trader fOr valuable
consideration in money, or money's worth, have
been satisfied. The word " person" is to include a
partnership firm, a joint-stock company, and a
corporation.

FRANCE.

" We have been informed," says the Industrie,
" that M. Quillacq, mechanical engineer, of Anzin
(Nord), has received an order to make a powerful
pumping machine for a coal-mine near Newcastle.
This will be the first machine of the kind ever sent
from France to England."

So violent a storm broke over St. Etienne (Loire)
three days back, that all circulation was for a time
suspended on the Firminy and Pont de Lignon
railway in consequence of the quantity of earth
washed on the line by the flood of water which de-
scended from the mountains. The Bourbonnais
railway near Fouillouse, was also damaged, and the
traffic interrupted at one point. The company has
issued a notice stating that between Petruiset and
Aurec there is a complete obstruction, and that be-
tween Firminy and Pont-de-Lignon a service of
conveyance has been organised.

BOURSE, July 11.—The markets for Stocks and
Shares have been tolerably active since the opening
to-day, and the rates realised show a further aug-
mentation on yesterday's close. Threes, for the
Account, which opened at 67f. 12c., are now at
67f. 30c., and Mabilier shares, which were first
quoted at 656 f., are done at 663 f. 75c. The stock
of the Mexican and Italian Loans show no reduc-
tion on yesterday's closing quotations. The
buoyancy which was manifested during the early
hours has continued, and the market closes with a
further advance in nearly all classes of Securities :

Naval and Military Intelligence.

41- per Cents 97
Do. end month —

Ditto Threes 65
New Mexican
Do. Bonds 3lB 75
Russian —
Austrian
13panish Threes -
Home Debt —
Deferred
Roman

3 per Cents. 67 45
Do. end month 67 45

The iron-cased cupola ship Scorpion, 4, at Devon-
port, has been commissioned by Capt. John E.
Commerell, V.C., with a complement of 150 officers
and men.

Credit 3fobilier ... 690

Do. end month 695
Bank Shares 3575

Credit Fonder —
Italian Loan 64 80

The new No. 11, or North Inlet dock, at Ports-
mouth dockyard was successfully opened yesterday
by the entrance of the iron-frigate Minotaur at high
water. The dock will in future be known as the
Minotaur dock, being named after the first ship it
received on its blocks.

Do. end month 64 90

RAIL'

'AYS.

Cash. Amt.
Orleans
880 ... 830
Northern lO3B 75 ... 1038 75
Southern
sernand Mediterranean
5g43552
25
.........
28:5735
7_7 550
Western
Eastern
Sardinian 262, 50 ~. 260

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Sub-Lieut. Edward Seale to
the Gladiator ; Walter F. Sterling, midshipman, to
the Edgar ; William P. Chapman, midshipman, to
the Duncan ; John H. Smale, chief engineer, to the
Scorpion ; Robert Widdecombe and William Thos.
Bray, first-class assistant-engineers, to the Scor-
pion ; William N. Thomas, clerk, to the Scorpion ;
William Thorne, clerk, to the Frederick William ;
and Thomas Guard, assistant-clerk, to the Royal
Adelaide.

Austrian
Lombard 482 50 ... 485
North of Spain 152 50 ... 160
Saragossa 3lO ... 815
Ditto to Barcelona — .., .._

MARKETS-,-This Day.

MARK-LANE.

Fresh up to our market, to-day, the arrivals of English
wheat were very moderate. There was no activity in the
demand, however, either for red or white produce ; never-
theless, previous quotations were supported. Nearly the
whole of the supply came to hand in excellent condition.
Only a moderate supply of foreign wheat was on the
stands. The business transacted was chiefly of a retail
character, but all good, and fine parcels changed hands at
fully late rates.

THE THAMES AND ITS BRIDGES.—Look at the
bridges, striding and blocking up the river. London-
bridge was, as we have said, the only one that spanned the
stream within the limits of the metropolis, until about the
middle of the last century. How this old bridge was
patched up from time to time it would be quite a history to
tell ; but we need only say that it obstructed the Thames
in a sad way, with its bulky piers and small arches. At
length in the time of William the Fourth the present
beautiful bridge was built, the forerunner of a vast series
of improvements in the city. The next bridge was West-
minster, opened in 1750. After requiring and receiving
an immense amount of mending and strengthening, it was
at length finally condemned, and has now made way for
a much finer structure. Then came Blackfriars-bridge,
constructed by Mylne in 1769 ; like its neighbour,
it was coddled up to make it last its time, and is
now being pulled down to yield place to a better. The
Thames had then a respite for a great number of years ;
until et length came in succession the ugly old wooden
bridge at Battersea; Vauxhall Bridge (1816); the une-
qualled Waterloo Bridge (1817) ; the massive and bold iron
Southwark Bridge (1819), recently thrown open toll-free
by way of experiment ; the once elegant Hungerford Sus-
pension Bridge (now replaced by a more solid structure);
the very cheap but superlatively ugly Lambeth Bridge,
from Horseferry-road to Lambeth-stairs; and Mr. Page's
pretty bridge at Chelsea. All these nine bridges, and
another higher up at Fulham, burthen the Thames with
piers, columns abutments, and such like; but as they
afford indispensable meads of maintaining communication
between the two sides of the pier, it would be ingratitude
to find fault with them.—Once a Week.

Floating cargoes of grain Were in fair demand, at abou'
previous quotations.

The supply of barley on sale was moderate. The trade
was slow, and inferior qualities were rather lower in price.
Malt was in slow request, at late rates.

Oats were in good supply, and there was a tolerably
active demand for nearly all qualities, at Monday's currency.
Beans and peas ruled firm, at full quotations.
There was a fair demand for flour, at quite previous rates.
ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. gait. Oats. Flour.
English and Sootch. 410 20 `=2so 270
Irish

Foreign 16,820 5,930

--- 28,270

sks.
brls

COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OF GRAIN.
For the week ending July For the corresponding week
8, 1865. last year.
Qrs. Aver. Qrs. Aver.
Wheat 56,954-423 5d Wheat 72,580-408 9d
Barley 577-283 4d Barley l,lOB-27s 2d
Oats

THE HARVEST—CREW KERNE. —Reaping com-
menced in this neighbourhood yesterday (Monday), when
a splendid piece of oats belonging to W. C. Lambert, Esq.,
of Misterton, and situated close to the Crewkerne Railway
station, was mowed in a style and with a rapidity which
speaks volumes for the way in which the labourers on Mr.
Lambert's estates are treated and remunerated. Haymaking
is nearly over, the few fields still uncarried having been
kept back partly by the late rain, but primarily by the
scarcity of labour. These rains have had a very obvious
effect upon the green crops and upon vegetation generally.
—Pulman's Weekly News.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S.—We. are pleased to find
that Madame Tussaud's popular exhibition, in
Baker-street, continues to be unprecedentedly well attended
by the public generally. Amongst the most attractive ad-
ditions, we would call special attention to the truly ele-
gant Court dresses (ancient and modern), which have been
renewed in-the most costly style, and which are well
worth the inspection of the fair sex. Our country friends
visiting the metropolis will, we feel assured be highly
delighted in beholding the many interesting objects which
everyhere Meet the eye in Madame Tussaud's Historical
Gallery.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

The Government, contrary to general expecta-
tion, have carried the elections by a small majority
throughout the country. In Lisbon and Oporto,
however, the Opposition obtained the majority.

The rumours that cholera has broken out here
and at Smyrna are unfounded. A short quaran-
tine is, how ever, imposed on vessels sailing between

The parties.implicated in the Djeddah massacre
have men amnestied.

The Courrier de Bretagne, a paper published at
Lorient, gives an interesting account of an experi-
ment made at Belle-Isle last week to fish at night
by means of electric light. The light was produced
by a powerful electro-magnetic machine constructed
by M. Bazin, the well-known engineer. The experi-
ment, which was conducted by M. Bazin on board

the Andalouse, in the presence of 1,500 persons as-
sembled on the pier, was completely successful, and
the quantity of fish taken very large. A person who
was present states that nothing can be more exciting
than fishing at sea by night with the aid of this light.
As soon as the submarine lantern was immersed
shoals of fish of every description came to sport in
the illuminated circle, while the fishermen outside it
spread their nets from their boats. The light illumi-
nating the Jeep sea, the fish arriving in shoals,
attracted by the fictitious sun, the boats at the edge
of the lighted circle, the deep silence, interrupted
only ty the grating of the electro-magnetic machine,
is described as an imposing sight. M. Bazin is
shortly to proceed to Bona, in Algeria, to establish
a coral fishery by the assistance of his electric light.
He proposes in the meantime to descend full 400
feet into the sea, and explore what he calls the
" depths of the ocean" with his submarine instru-
ments. The Minister of Marine has given orders
for a ship of war to be placed at his disposal, and
Admiral Choppart has appointed a commission,
composed of engineers and naval officers, to attend
M. Bazin's experiments officially.
A magnificent casino, commenced in November,
1863, under the direction of Mr. Badger, an Eng-
lish architect, after plans previously approved of by
the Emperor, has just been opened at Vichy. The
building consists of an enclosure for open-air con-
certs, a ball-room capable of containing 800 persons,
and a restaurant, with cafe and terrace.
The Lyons journals state that during a thunder-
storm on Sunday last, a house was struck by light-
ning in the Rue de laVisitation, at the Croix Rousse.
A chimney was shattered by the shock, and two per-
sons in a roam on the second floor were not only
nearly suffocated, but one of them had a leg broken.
B6th lie at present in an almost hopeless state.
Very heavy rain fell in that city and neighbourhood
for several hours.

LAW INTELLIGENCE--This Day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Beforo Mr. Registrar Murray.)
IN RE It. A. PHILP.

This bankrupt was described as an author, of Colebrook-
road, Islington, and to-day was appointed for proof of
debts. The accounts already on the file show an indebted-
ness of £1,132, of which £5OO are due to Messrs. Kent and
Co.; the publishers of Paternoster-row. The bankrupt
attributes his appearance in the court to the failure of a
work upon which he was engaged, and the non-success of
literary speculations.

STIOREDITCH COUNTY COURT.
(Before C. Coleman, Esq., and a Jury.)
GARRARD V. GRATES.-FALSE IMPRISONMENT.

This was an action to recover damages in a case of false
imprisonment of a most siinular character, Mr. Palmer
appearing for the plaintiff, who is a broker and house
agent at Hackney, and Mr. Harris representing defendant,
managing clerk to an attorney, who pleaded that he did
not give the plaintiff into custody.
It appeared that a person named Brett had taken a green-
grocer's shop in the Hackney-road in the early part of May
last from an out-going tenant, and he alleged that he made
an agreement with the landlord of the premises to pay the
rent quarterly. However this was, the landlord demanded
his rent at the end of the mouth, and upon the non-pay-
ment of the same, employed the plaintiff to distrain. Brett
sent for the defendant, who is clerk to Mr. Vann,
the well-known attorney of Providence Row, Worship-
street, and the defendant went to the house. It appeared
that when there he could not get plaintiff's man to leave
the house, and after seeing the warrant he departed. The
next day Brett sent for him in consequence of the removal
of the goods from the house. A scene of considerable
confusion occurred while the van was at the door, and
plaintiff, with his men, was given into custody. Plaintiff
was conveyed to the station-house in a cab, but a mob of
idlers who had collected ran after the cab and broke a
window with a brickbat. At the station-house the ser-
geant said there could be no charge against the plaintiff,
who was subsequently restored to his original position in
the house. There being in the mind of the sergeant some
difficulty as to who had given the plaintiff into custody,
he deposed that ho asked the question, " Who charges ?"
and Graves replied, " I do." No charge sheet, however,
was produced, and it could not be denied that there had
been great confusion.

On the part of the defendant, it was sworn by himself
that he did not give the plaintiff into custody at all. He
saw that a wrongful distraint was being made, and he, as
the managing clerk of an attorney, having been consulted
by a client, had advised that client to give into custody
the person taking the goods. An action was now pending
against plaintiff in the Queen's Bench for illegal distress in
this very matter.

Brett said, " I gave plaintiff into custody," and in this
he was borne out by other evidence.

His Honour, in summing up to the jury, pointed out the
conflict of testimony on the part of the witnesses, referring
to the evidence of the police-sergeant as to the person who
gave plaintiff into custody. He also pointed out that
whoever had given the plaintiff into custody had acted in
a most improper manner, because plaintiff was only obey-
ing his warrant, and the order of the landlord of the
house. If a broker acting under a properly constructed
warrant made a wrongful levy, then the parties had a
remedy against him at common law, but to give
him into custody upon a charge of felony was most unjus-
tifiable. If the jury believed plaintiff and the sergeant of
police the verdict would be for tho plaintiff, but if they be-
lieved that defendant, acting as the legal adviser of Brett,
only suggested that plaintiff should be given into custody,
and Brett acting up to that did give him in charge, then
the verdict would be for the defendant.
The jury retired, and, after a brief deliberation, found a
verdict for the defendant.
Verdict for the defendant with costs.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—This Day.

OLD COURT.
(Before Chief Baron Pollock).

Thomas Debe uham, surgeon, surrendered to an indict-
ment charging him with tho manslaughter of Thomas
Solomons. .

It will be recollected that the defendant was a surgeon
in the Commercial-road, Stepney, and that the deceased
was in the employ of a shipbuilder or rigger. On the
night of the unfortunate occurrence the deceased, whilst
in a state of intoxication, mistook the garden gate
of the defendant's house for that of one of his
relatives, and the defendant, who had retired to rest,
thinking it to be some burglars attempting to enter
the premises, challenged the defendant, and threatened
to shoot him if he did not retire. The deceased, owing to
his intoxicated state, took no r otice of the threatening,
whereupon the defendant discharged a revolver at him and
shot him dead.

Mr. Sergeant Ballantine made a most forcible appeal to
the jury on behalf of the defendant, at the conclusion of
which,

The 'Chief Baron summed up the evidence, and told tho
jury that the defendant had no right to resort to firearms
without his life was in actual danger.
The jury having consulted, said they could not agree.

The learned Judge asked whether there was any assist-
ance he could give them.
The foreman said they were all agreed that the defendant
fired to alarm, and not to kill.
The Lord Chief Baron then informed the jury that the
question that remained for them to determine was whether
it was reasonable or discreet to fire a pistol loaded with
ball in the direction that he did. He understood the jury
all to be of opinion that the defendant did not mean mis-
chief, but only to alarm.
The Foreman said that was so.

The Chief Baron told the jury they had better retire for
deliberation, and they accordingly quitted the box for that
purpose.

After an absence of about twenty minutes the jury re
turned into court with a verdict of "Acquittal."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

PICKPOCKETS AT THE MARYLEBONE ELECTION.—Edward
Daniels alias Sparkes, a young fellow with a peculiar
countenance, and Edward Brown, a sharp boy, were
charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt for picking pockets near tho
polling booth in Portland-place yesterday afternoon.

- King, 76 D, proved seeing the two prisoners together
yesterday afternoon in Portland-place. He watched them
a short time when he saw Brown try the pockets of several
gentlemen, and then beckon Daniels up to him. Daniels
then covered Brown while he picked the pocket of a gen-
tleman, and King then took the prisoners into custody,
when he found on Daniels a pocket-handkerchief marked
" R. F. 8.," which he said he had bought of a shoeblack
for a shilling, and another on Brown.

Brown—l found it.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—ln a gentleman's pocket ?
Brown—Oh no! in the crowd.

Police-constable James Croske, 160 E, said that Daniels
was convicted with some others six years ago for a like
robbery. _ _ .

Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoners for two months
each with hard labour.

THAMES.

A JUVENILE ITORSESTEALER.—Thomas Barrett, aged 11,
was brought up on remand before Mr. Partridge, charged
with stealing a horse, saddle, and bridle from a stable in
James-street, St. George's-in-the-East.

The property stolen belonged to Mr. Charles James
Browne. He locked up his stable on the evening of June
22 last, on his return from Hampton races. His grey mare,
bridle, and saddle were then in the stable. There were
double doors fastened with chains, bolts, and bars, but
these were no protection against a thief. On the morning
of Friday, June 23, the stable doors were open, locks,
bolts, and bars tampered with and broken, and the grey
mare, saddle, bridle, and stirrups, and other horse gear
missing. The prisoner, a remarkably sharp boy, who had
turned his intelligence to any bad purposes, was suspected.
He had been seen about the premises of the prosecutor be-
fore the robbery and on the night it took place. He was
seen riding the horse on the morning of the 23d of June,
and about seven o'clock he stopped in Charlotte-street,
dismounted, and asked a man named David Sadler, of No.
28, London-terrace, St. George-in-the-East, to hold his
horse and take care of it until his return. He also said he
would not be long, and that he would pay for the holding
of the horse on his return. The prisoner had the stirrups
in his hand and took them away with him. Sadler noticed
there were no stirrups to the saddle on the mare's back.
Sadler took care of the horso for three hours, and his
patience becoming exhausted, he conveyed the animal to
the green yard, and the unfortunate owner had to pay
heavy green yard fees before he could redeem his property.
The only profit obtained by the prisoner by this daring
robbery was by the sale of the stirrups. The prosecutor
valued them at 10s.

Robert Billings, a police constable, No. 103 H, stated that

the prisoner was a most audacious young thief, who had
been in custody before, and that his father could not keep
him at home. The boy made inquiries as to where he
could sell the horse, saddle, and bridle, before he parted
with the animal.

Mr. Partridge said, in the course of a long experience, he
had never met with greater audacity in one so young as the
prisoner. A respectable post-horse master had put a horse
iu a stable, and locked up that stable in what he considered
a safe and secure manner; but a boy 11 years of age had
broken it open, and stole the horse and harness. He would
not allow such a dangerous character to be at large or en-
trusted to his parents, who neglected him. He should send
him where he would be taken care of and instructed. He
sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned seven days in the
House of Correction, and to be detained in the Roman
Catholic Reformatory, Brook-green, Hammersmith, for
four years. The prisoner's father would be called to pay
2s. 6d. per week towards the maintenance and education of
his son.