The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-05 00:00:00

THE SUS, LONDON, SATURDAY EV E.NO G, A UGUST 5, 1865.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

CLERKENWELL COUNTY COURT.
(Before Mr. Jones.)
KNOWLES T. ROBERTS.-A MARRIED WOMAN EXEMPTED
FROM IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.
This was a judgment summons against Caroline Roberts
for money lent, she having signed a promissory note as
security for another person. When the ease was called on
a working man stepped into the box, and his honour asked
him for whom he appeared. He replied that he appeared
for Caroline Roberts, and was her husband.
His Honour (surprised)—Her husband !
Witness—Yes.

His Honour (to plaintiff)—lf this woman is a married
woman how came you to get her to put her name to the
bill ?

Plaintiff—l did not know she was a married woman.
She never told me she was, and I do not believe it now.
Roberts—Oh ! I can easily prove it by running home
and fetching my marriage certificate, besides which my
sister, who was present at the ceremony, can at once, as
she is in court, bear me out in what I say.

Plaintiff—WOl, I have never aeon any man at the
house.

Where have you been ?

Roberts—l have been to sea for five years.

His Honour—Well, plaintiff, you see that the defendant
is a married woman, and you have not the power to send a
married woman to prison for debt.
Plaintiff—Well, if I were the judge no doubt I should
be of the same opinion as you, but as I am the plaintiff I
think it is a very hard case.

His Honour (smiling)—Well, I am very 'glad to hear
you say so much. You see the defendant is a married
woman, and I must dismiss the summons, as I believe the
evidence given by the husband.
Summons dismissed.

A Tribute to the Hammam.

(From the Athenxum of to-day.)

That Mr. Urquhart has done London good service in
placing the Turkish bath amongst the permanent institu-
tions of the town no one will deny. The Jermyn-streot
Hammam is a precious gift to a large number of London
residents—to invalids suffering from certain chronic
maladies for which the best remedy is a steady per-
severance in the use of really effieient ,hot baths ;
to men of sedentary pursuits and indulgent
habits who are debarred from hunting, gymnastic
sports, and the many exercises by which the young and
vigorous can usually secure for themselves abundant daily
perspiration ; and to those numerous persons who, though
they prefer the cold bath as an ordinary instrument of ab-
lution, have recourse to the hot bath when temporary ill-
ness makes them wish for a quick and thorough sweat. In
every respect the establishment is well managed. The cool-
ness of its frigidarium, the various temperatures of its
hot rooms, the efficiency of its attendants, and the
delicate cleanliness of its furniture deserves cordial praise.
What pen can do justice to its various shampooers,—the
thoughtful Teuton whose firm pressure wins the patient's
gratitude, the vivacious negro whose forte lies in dext-
rous percussion with closed fists, the vicious Creole
who nips and pulls your fingers till the joints crack,
the whimsical Asiatic who with long nails pinches
the languid frame from head to foot, and then gently
cossets it into delight? What pen can do justice to tha
emollient soap, the gentle friction of the hair-glove, the
exasperating douche or thrilling plunge, the slow luxurious
toilet, broken with coffee and cigar, and lastly the glowing
skin, tingling nerves, and glorious sense of rejuvenescence
with which the bather walks to his club? The place is a
precious gift, all the more valuable because the Turkish
bath is disappearing from the land of its birth.

The Blockade of Santo Domingo by Spain.

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(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
MADRID, Aug. 2.
Official despatches have been received here to-day
explaining why the Spanish naval force continued
the blockade of the island of Santo Domingo after
the evacuation. The Captain-General announces
in despatches from Santo Domingo, under date Bth
July, forwarded via England, that the troops were
preparing to quit the capital on the 10th of the
month after the evacuation of the other points in
occupation, with the exception of the bay of Samaria,
had been completed. The blockade of the coast was
continued on account of the Santiago Government
not having ratified the convention agreed upon by
the commissioners appointed to negotiate the eva-
cuation.

Daspatches from the Captain-General of Cuba,
dated July 15, state that the Captain-General of
Santo Domingo embarked on the 11th July with
the forces remaining in the capital, announcing
from Santiago de Cuba, on the 13th, that the oper-
ation had been safely effected.

The Diario de Espanol contains the following
upon the subject of the Spanish blockade of the
island :—" We have received a letter from Havana,
which represents a serious state of affairs at Santo
Domingo. According to our correspondent, to
whom we must give entire credit, the Dominicans,
besides declining to accept the convention, refuse
to deliver up the prisoners. General Gandara was
consequently compelled to issue a notification,
dated sth July, declaring that he should continue
the war until the Spanish Government determined
the question, and that a blockade of the Dominican
ports would immediately be established."
The semi-official Correspondencia de Espana
says :

" Our intelligence confirms the above, and we
may add that General Gandara, upon seeing that
the Dominicans did not fulfil the treaty of the 6th
June respecting the surrender of the Spanish pri-
soners, seized several Dominicans of note at San-
tiago de Cuba as hostages. On becoming aware of
this act, however, the Spanish authorities ordered
the hostages to be set at liberty, considering such
measures to be repugnant to civilisation, humanity,
and sound policy. _ _

" General Gandara believes that the blockade
will suffice to compel the Dominicans to fulfil the
treaty.

" The General is expected to arrive in Europe
within three or four days."

The Madrid Official Gazette publishes the
nomination of Senor Augusto Ullea as Spanish
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
at the Court of the King of Italy.
The Queen signed last night the decrees appoint-
ing Senor Isturiz Ambassador at Rome, the
Marquis of Lema Ambassador at Paris, and Senor
Comyn, Minister at Lisbon.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

- .41.--

Amsterdam Short. 11 181
Ditto 3 Months. 12
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 49
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris . Short 25 15
Ditto 3 Months. 25 40
Marseilles
Frank-ft-it-I on the Maine 1201
Vienna. — 11 30
Trieste — 11 30
Petersburgh -30 i
Berlin
•..
.
Madrid —47 i
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Messina
Genoa — 25 50
Naples — 25 50
Palermo

11 19
12 1
12 1
25 50
25 50
13 10i
25 20
25 45
25 45
121
11 371
11 37i
301
48
25 55
25 55
25 55
25 55
25 65
25 55

Oporto —
Lisbon —

NOSCITUR A SOCIIS is very humorously, but rather
cruelly, applied by the Reader, of to-day, to Black-
wood, by reason of the naive admission of the latter, thus.
referred to by our weekly contemporary—Blackwood assures
the Conservatives that in the late elections "there is no
cause whatever for desponding," and adds a curious piece
of information for their comfort. " Many men have taken
pledges," says the writer, " who, to our certain knowledge,
do not intend to be bound by them." We fear Blackwood
keeps bad company ; perhaps even admits pledge-breakers
to its columns.

TIIE LONGEST AERIAL FLIGHT ON RECORD,
according to the Mechanics' Magazine, was made
by Mr. Wise, Mr. La Mountain, and others, who started
from St. Louis for New York. They succeeded in follow-
ing the course they had mapped out for themselves until
they had crossed Lake Erie, when they were caught in an
adverse current of air and forced to abandon their original
design, after having travelled 1,150 miles in less than 20
hours. Mr. Low, another American aeronaut, has con-
structed what he terms an aerial ship, the greatest circum-
ference of which is 387 feet., with a capacity to hold
700,000 cubic feet of gas, and a lifting power of 22 tons
The machine is furnished with many novel appliances for
the purpose of elevating, depressing, and directing the
machine ; and in this machine Mr. Low proposes to cross
the Atlantic in fifty or sixty hours.

THE DUTIES ON SPIRITS.—The duties on spirits
realised in the year ended the 31st March last amounted to
no less a sum than £10,640,066 13s. 10d. The net produce
was £10,176,731 4s. 3id.

THE DUTY ON RAILWAYS.--i-it appears that
£439,343 15s. 3d. was the duty paid by railways in the year
ending the 31st March ist;

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

BOW-STREET.

A very military-looking man named Walter John Plun-
kett Wade was placed before Mr. Flowers, on 'remand,
charged with attempting to commit self-destruction.
The prisoner was first brought before the magistrate at
this court on Saturday last, and tho officer who had him in
custody said as he approached him on the previous night
the prisoner mounted on the parapet of Waterloo-bridge,
and appeared to be about to jump over. Tho constable
ran up to him and seized him by the coat, when he began
to struggle, and said he would return and destroy himself
even if he was prevented from doing so on that occasion,
as he was sick of life and endless trouble. The officer
brought him to this court next morning, when he mado a
long and painful story about the breaking up of
his home, the desertion of his misguided but still
beloved wife (who had been the victim of a vile seducer),
and the poverty which had come upon him in consequence,
his mind being unfitted for any mental labour. He stated
that ho had been in the army, and since conducted a small
school for army students, at Richmond, but that now he
was a ruined man, without the power of supporting his
two little ohildren whom he had hitherto kept at a school
away from the corrupting influences of a vicious example.
He had commenced proceedings against his poor wife, but
had abandoned them out of sheer love for her ; ho was
willing to forgive all.

Mr. Flowers said on the charge that had been made he
felt disposed to discharge him, but
Mr. Oehme, a solicitor, who appeared on the part of de-
fendant's wife, said he wished to inform the court
of the true history of the case, and of the cruel
wrong he had done the woman, who, for the
purpose of exciting sympathy, he had pretended to
love. He showed, from documents, that the prisoner had
a wife living at the Cape when he married, and had been
the first to taunt the latter with the invalidity of the mar-
riage. She was compelled to leave him and go back to
her relatives, but he refused to give up the children to her,
and she could not tell where he had placed them. The
charges of infidelity against his wife were absolutely and
utterly false; but, :on the other hand, he had cohabited with
a girl named Rowe, and he had the girl's letters and the
prisoner's own admission to, the fact besides other proofs of.
his abandoned and heartless conduct. There was no
doubt he had been formerly in the army, but he
was dismissed the service. Ha obtained the hand of his
present wife by a false affidavit that he was a widower.
Prisoner—My wife knew all the circumstances of the
first case when she married me. It is false to say that I
deceived her. My acquaintance with Miss Rowe was not
criminal, and as to the proceedings in the House of Lords
involving the culpability of my wife, refer to the case of
Dickinson v. Keeling. It is known to all the world, and
was the last case tried in that place.

M. Flowers said he should decline to go into these par-
ticulars, except as an act of justice to his wife, who com-
plained of his former statement in court respecting her.
He said last time he bad commenced a suit against his
wife.

Mr. Oehme—Which was dismissed by the Court.

Defendant—That is not correct. I withdrew it.

Mr. Oehme asked the magistrate if he thought the pri-
soner was a fit and proper person to have the charge of the
two children, girls of the ages of six and nine years. His
wife's family were quite ready to take charge of the chil-
dren, but the prisoner refused to say where they were.
Prisoner—l am quite willing to take them to m y
wife.

Mr. Oehme—Your wife very properly refuses to see you,
or have anything to do with you. His conduct has been
abominable, your worship. I have letters, your worship,
to young girls, including one in which he apologises for
liberties he had taken with her. In the letter the prisoner
called himself a sound Churchman, and that he bad been
only following the apostolic mandate of greeting each
other with a holy kiss.

Prisoner—You must be joking; you can't be sorious.
Mr. Oehme—You wrote so in a letter I have read ; do
you call that joking ? You also told the young lady you
were neither married nor single.

Prisoner—That was pending divorce.
Mr. Oehme—How could you apply for divorce without
you were a married man ?

Mr. Flower said he did not think that any good would
result from carrying the case further. When the defendant
was first before him he felt his statement—when he could
not very well stop at the time—was one which would call
forth the sympathy of the benevolent persons if true, and
also a reply from the lady if untrue. It hsd, done both.
A solicitor had attended on hor behalf, and he had heard the
emphatic denial that was given to the statements made by
the prisoner; that was all ho conceived that was necessary
on her part. With respect to public sympathy that had
also been aroused, and he had received a number of letters
containing considerable sums of money, which ho (Mr.
Flowers) was supposed to give to the prisoner if he thought
proper. He must also tell the prisoner he had received
some letters from people who knew him personally, and
from one, written from a place not far from the county of
Middlesex, he found him to be quite undeserving of public
sympathy. He felt now that his attempt at self-dectruction
was a mere pretence, that he never hold any serious intention
of doing anything of the kind, but it was merely a trick
to enable him to make a statement which would be cal-
culated to draw forth the assistance of the benevolent.
He would not go further into the matter, but he should
discharge him for the offence ha had committed, as he had
expressed his regret for his conduct to the chaplain of the
House of Detention ; but with respect to the money which
had been sent to him (Mr. Flower) he should certainly
not hand it over to him (the prfsoner), because he believed
him quite disentitled to it. He should retain it in posses-
sion until the senders had bees communicated with
Mr. Oehme asked what was to be done about the chil-
dren. The prisoner refused to give any information. If
he was retained in custodg he would be able to get at them
through a habeas.

Mr. Flower said the residence of Wade was now known
to the officers of the court, and he could act in the matter
at once without his detention in custody.

MARLBOROUGU-S TREE T.

ROBBERY TN A CAB—A CABMAN COMPLIMENTED.—Sarah
Consols—but who when before the magistrate changed her
name to Maria Alexandra Smith—was charged before Mr.
Knox with stealing a gold watch and chain, of the value
of £lO, the property of Mr. John Reed, bookseller, of 80,
Tachbrooke-street, Pimlico.
Inspector Walker, C division, proved having his atten-
tion called by a cabman in Leicester-square to the prisoner,
who was about leaving his cab, the cabman stating that a
gentleman who was in the cab asleep had a watch when
he got into the cab, and that when the prisoner left it it
was gone. The prisoner then jumped into the cab, and he
(the inspector) followed her, and while she was "leaning
over the gentleman with her hand in her dress pocket, ho
seized it, and found in it a gold watch and chain. Hearing
at the station in Vine-street, where he took the prisoner,
that the gentleman had £5 or .46 in his possession, ho asked
the prisoner what money she hid, and she said only five or
six shillings, but afterwards above £5 was taken from her.
In answer to Mr. Knox, the inipoctor said the prosecutor
was drunk, but that the prisoner, who gave a false address,
was quite sober.

Morris, 173 C, proved that while waiting for the female
searcher he saw the prisoner put her hand under her
dress, and, on seizing her hand, he found in it £5, one half -
sovereign, and some silver.
The prosecutor said he met the prisoner in the street,
having a friend with him at the time. They went to
Notting-hill, where he left his friend, and he then rode
back with the prisoner, being drunk at the time. The
watch and chain were his property.
Mr. Knox said the prosecutor ought to be very thankful
to the cabman for recovering. his property, and Mr. Reed
said he was.

Samuel Bell, cab-driver, badge 14,918, having proved
calling the inspector's attention to the prisoner, in conse-
quence of what he had seen,

Mr. Knox. said he had behaved, particularly well, and he
wished every cabman wan: like him. Lie would remand
the prisoner.

THAMES.

A BAD Frr.--Henry Radford, a young man, was brought
before Mr. Partridge, charged with stealing a pair of trou-
sers, a waistcoat, and a 6s. in money, from the ship Mid-
lothian in the West India Dock.

Charles Wilson, a dock constable, saw the prisoner about
to leave the dock at the principal gate with a pair of trou-
sers and a waistcoat upon him which did not at all corres-
pond with his coat in age and seediness. Wilson demanded
of the prisoner where he obtained the trousers and waist-
coat, to which he replied that his father, a foreman tailor,
made them. " Then," said the officer, "he has made a
very bad fit, and I shall detain you." He soon ascertained
the clothes belonged to John Ward, a sailor on board the
barque Midlothian. They were £3 in gold and 6s. in silver
in the waistcoat pocket. The inonty was recovered.
Mr. Partridge committed the prisoner for trial.
SAVAGE ASSAULT ON POLICE-CONSTABLEB.—George Care,
aged 21, and Joseph Mills, 23, labourers, were charged with
violently assaulting several persons.
The prisoners, two idle, ruffianly fellows, who frequent
public-houses and beer shops to drink other men's liquor
and bully them, and also to rob them if there is an oppor-
tunity, were in a public-house in the Old Manor-road,
opposite Stepney Church-yard. They made a disturb-
ance there and were ordered to withdraw. They refused
to do so, and Care kicked the landlord, John Prince, on the
low part of his person, and both prisoners severely beat a
man named Thompson, who merely said, " Why don't you
go out." The police were called, and before the prisoners
werelsecured they severely bruised and
_maltreated two
constables named Bullock and Smith,

Mr. Partridge sentenced Mills to two months' imprison-
ment, and Care to three months' imprisonment, both with
hard labour.

There is a chicken in Dartford, Winconsin, with
three pairs of wings. One pair is placed where they be-
long ; the second pair are attached to the legs at the joints,
and are as large as the first ; the third are attached to the
feet. The chicken is about two months old, and as large
as others of the same hreed.—New -York-Tribune, -

Suspected. Murder in Lincolnshire.

An inquest was opened at Chapel-hill on Tuesday
morning last, before Mr. Clegg, on the body of Edward
Longthorne, aged 24 years. Deceased was a young man
well known in the neighbourhood as the driver of the
market packet between Chapel-hill and Boston. On Sun-
day evening a party of gentlemen wished to proceed from
Tattershall-bridge to Boston, in order, it was understood,
to take the train for Louth, and a bargain was struck with
the deceased to harness his horse and haul the boat down
the river to the Grand Sluice. The party arrived in Boston
somewhere about 9 o'clock, and deceased was seen by
several persons returning home alone. Beyond Langrick
Ferry he was seen about 10 o'clock gallopping his horse on
the bank towards Chapel-hill. The next morning an alarm
was raised, the bores being found on the bank, and also
the cap of the deceased. On the river being searched the
dead body was very soon discovered, and as -the face was
much discoloured a rumour soon spread rapidly that the
deceased had been murdered. As the inquiry is not yet
concluded we forbear to express any opinion, but the fol-
lowing evidence taken at tho inquest will afford the
fullest particulars as at present known.
George Sfothard, parish constable, said— On Monday
morning, at 9 o'clock, I accompanied Mr. Geo. Longthorne
and Mr. Retch to make search for the deceased, Edward
Longthorne, who was reported to be drowned or killed We
took a boat and went about a mild and a half from Chapel-
hill towards Boston. There were many other persons on
the bank also looking for any signs of the body. When we
got opposite the "round house" I saw him lying at the
bottom of the water. He was flat on his back, his arms
raised and elbows doubled. We got him into our boat.
His left cheekbone and forehead seemed much bruised.

Mark Baker—l was going home along the Witham bank
last Sunday night about 11 o'clock, when I passed a man
who was lying on the ground against the river, opposite
the "round-house." He was on his face, as if asleep or
drunk. I did not think it my business to speak to him or
disturb him. When I got further on towards Chapel-hill,
about 100 yards, I saw a horse standing against the gate
'trying to go through. I thought it looked like the packet
horse ; it had hauling gears on. I know nothing further. I
met no other person on the bank and saw no one. Towards
Chapel-hill I could hear loud voices as of people quarrel-
ling ; the voices appeared to be on Mr. Goose's farm.
Joseph Ilolmes—l was at Tattershall-bridge last Sunday
evening, when-I heard a party in a boat engage the deceased
to haul them to• Boston. I saw them s►art, deceased having
put the gears on his horse. About 4 o'clock the next morn-
ing I started to go to Boston. When I got about a mile and
a half-past Chapel-hill I saw a horse standing at one of
the gates on the bank. I knew the horse. It belonged to
deceased. It had on the hauling gears. It was reined up.
One of the hames was broken off by the collar, and the
headstall of the bluff was broken in two. I thought that
deceased must have gone on the other side the hedge for a
certain purpose, and I passed on. Further on I found a hat
on the bank. When I got to Langrick Ferry I made inquiry,
and a man, whose name I do not know, said that he saw
deceased galloping towards Chapel-hill between 9 and 10
o'clock the night before. I then gave the alarm to the
friends of deceased.

Alfred Barker—l am an engine3r.' On Monday morning
I heard that the body of deceased had been found in the
river, and I went to examine the spot. Close to where he
was found I observed that a horse's foot had slipped from
a raised part of the bank, and had ploughed up the sod
downwards, as if the horse had fallen. At this spot there
was also a quantity of vomited matter, showing that some
person had been sick. There were also the footmarks of
one person at this spot right down to the water. These
footmarks were distinct. There was no sign of scuffling or
any struggle having taken place. There were many foot-
marks of people who had been on the bank that morning,
but they were several yards to the right of this particular
spot.

Charles Blades, surgeon, of Tattershall—l have care-
fully examined the body of the deceased, assisted by
Mr. Pilcher, surgeon, of Boston. The lungs presented
all the appearances which death from drowning would
occasion. The stomach was distended with fluids
having an odour of spirits. We carefully examined the
head. There was a bruise on the forehead and left cheek
bone. We divided the scalp, and especially examined these
bruises. They were very slight and superficial, and could
in no way have caused death. I have no doubt that death
was caused by drowning.

William J. Pilcher, surgeon, of Boston—l have care-
fully examined the body of the deceased, and made a post-
mortem examination. The bruise on the forehead and on
the cheek-bone was a diffused bruise, and deceased had
fallen on a broad flat surface ; not at all the bruise which
would be occasioned by a blow from a stick or other weapon.
If those bruises had been inflicted by an assault, traces
would certainly have been left. A concussion on the fore-
head from a fall of a horse would cause exactly the sort of
bruise we observed. The bruises could not have caused
death, or even danger to life. The condition of the lungs,
heart, and stomach showed that deceased died from drown-
ing and suffocation..

By a JUror—He might certainly have been stunned by
the violence which caused the bruises, but I cannot say
whether he would be so stunned as to be unable to walk.
Wm. Petchell—l am father-in-law to deceased. I saw
the body taken out of the river. I examined the bank, and
saw no signs of any struggle having taken place. The
clothes of deceased were in no way disordered. I saw Dr.
Blades and constables Stothard and Atkinson examine the
pockets of deceased. Ho had not been robbed. His money
was right (.£l, ss. 3d). Ido not believe that he was as-
saulted by any one.

Thos. L. Pearce—l am a county constable. I produce a
portion of the broken hames of the horse collar, which was
found sticking in the ground as if the horse had fallen, and
also the whip of the deceased, found on the same spot. I
have heard that some Irishmen passed down the bank on
Sunday night, but I have ascertained that they turned on
to the farmhouse where they were employed, fully a quar-
ter of a mile before they would have arrived at the spot
where the body was found.
The Coroner said, before proceeding further, he would
take the opinion of the jury on the evidence they had
heard. It was proved that deceased, in returning from
Boston on Sunday evening, passed Langrick and was seen
on horseback galloping towards his residence at Chapel-
hill.. The slip of the horse's foot on the bank and the
broken gear rendered it highly probable that the horse
stumbled and came down heavily ; this would fully
account for the diffused bruise on the forehead of the
deceased, and this view of the case was rendered specially
probable by the proof that some person at that particular
spot had vomited. Sickness would be a natural result of
any concussion to the brain, especially when the stomach
was somewhat distended with stimulating liquid. If, after
hearing the evidence, the jury were of opinion that de-
ceased, having fallen from his horse and being partially
stunned, had by misadventure got into the river and been
drowned, it would be sufficient by their verdict to say that
he was "found drowned." If the jury were not satisfied
the inquiry must be continued.

The court was then cleared, and aftor nearly an hour's
deliberation the jury sent for the coroner, and the foreman
(Mr. William Stothard)said—" We are unanimously agreed
that we believe he was first assaulted, and then thrown
into the river."

The Coroner—That is murder. On what portion of the
evidence do you found your opinion ?
The Foreman—That is our unanimous opinion.
The Cdroner—Then in order that Superintendent Man-
ton and his constables may make every possible further
inquiry, this inquiry stands adjourned until this day week,
at half-past nine o'clock.

The jury were then bound over to appear to their re-
cognizances.

The excitement in the district of Chapel-hill is very
groat. The opinion seems to be general either that the
unfortunate young' man was assaulted by a number of
Irish harvestmen, or that he was found insensible on the
bank, and by them thrown into the river. The police
warn all Irishinen not to appear in the parish for the pre-
,
sent. Mercury. •