The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-28 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEMNG, JUNE 28, 1865.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Register Brougham.)
IX RE J. E. TYRIE-A LATE MEMBER OF THE STOCK
EXCHANGE AND HIS LIABILITIES.

This bankrupt was described as late of the Stock Ex-
change and Knight's Hill, Norwood, a stock jobber, and
to-day was appointed for the proof of debts. The claims
already on the file amount to nearly £22,000, of which,
however, a large amount is disputed. Amongst the credi-
tor are—Mr. Elmslie, solicitor, of Lombard-street, £l,OOO ;
Messrs. Fortnum and Mason, Italian warehousemen, &c.,
Piccadilly, £lOO ; Mr. Followes, gentleman, St. John's-
wood, £250 ; Mr. Edward Lewis, attorney, Great Marl-
borough-street (amount disputed), £2,200 ; Mr. Thomas
Lloyd, bill discounter, Lombard-street, £375 ; Mr. Stehn,
Old Corn Exchange, £l,OOO ; Sovereign Life Office,
about £378; Mr. Turner, solicitor, Lincoln's-Inn-
Fields, £1,000; trustees under the estate of the late
Mr. Mandsley, £2,000 ; Mr. Trollope, upholsterer, Parlia-
ment-street, £3OO ; Mr. Bainbridge, Winchester, £6,000 ;
and the bankrupt states that he gave bills for this amount
to be discounted to help him to pay off other loans, but has
received no consideration for them. The following tailors
figure as creditors :—Messrs. F. Barker and Co., 70, Corn-
hill, £75 ; Mr. Games, Finch-lane, £7O ; Mr. Smalipage,
43, Maddox-street, £6OO. The bankruptcy is ascribed to
the petitioner's having been sued on bills for which he had
no consideration.

THE COMMISSIONER'S ADVICE TO COUNSEL.
During the progress of a case, Mr. Sargood and Mr.
Robertson Griffith had a trifling altercation upon some
unimportant matter, and his Honour said that he wished
counsel would really confine their attention to the business
before the Court, as a groat deal of time was wasted in
private quarrels which were most uninteresting.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Beforo Mr. Dasent.)
TEBB T. LEE-AGENTS AND LAWYERS-A LITTLE PRO-
FESSIONAL SCENE.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who is an
auctioneer, against his porter, to recover damages alleged
to have been incurred in consequence of the defendant's
having delivered a wrong article to one of the bidders at a
public sale.
Plaintiff came to the court attended by an agent, who,
greatly to the indignation of the attorneys regularly prac-
tising in the court, occupied a seat at the registrar's table,
and held in his hand a bundle of papers. In the course of
the case the two legal gentlemen alluded to expressed their
annoyance whenever the agent interfered, and upon one
occasion his Honour asked for a paper, which the agent
said he had mislaid. Again a muttered objection was taken
to his addressing the court, and the judge having
occasion to leave the bench for a few moments, one
of the attorneys, who appeared to be unable to restrain
himself any longer, rose and exclaimed somewhat
imperatively (pointing at the same time to the agent),
"Who is that gentleman ? Is he an attorney ?"
Before any answer could be given to that question,
Attorney (No 2) broke in with, "Ah ! who is that per-
son ? I should very much like to know who he is. (To
the agent, in a loud voice)—Who aro you, sir? I should
very much like to know who you are."
Mr. Wilson (the registrar)—He is an agent.
Attorney (No. 2)—What right has ho to occupy that
seat.
Attorney (No. 1)—I shall object to his remaining in
that seat any longer.
Mr. Wilson—He is not standing by the side of the plain-
tiff, but merely sitting down. I have given him permission
to occupy that chair.
Attorney (No. 2)—Then I object, and say it would not
be allowed at Clerkenwell.
Attorney (No. 1)—He must not occupy that seat any
longer. I call upon you, sir, to retire.
Agent (smiling)—Oh !I am sure I have no wish to in-
trude at all.
Mr. Wilson—You can remain where you are.
Attorney (No. 2)—Indeed he cannot. I say it is most
improper and unfair to the legal profession. That chair is
not a proper place for any agent to sit in.
Attorney (No. 1 (with great warmth)—l call upon the
agent to retire from that seat.
Tho Agent—Oh, I am sure I will retire.
The agent then left the chair, notwithstanding that the
registrar desired him to remain, and took a seat behind
that apportioned to the legal profession; the case resulting
in a verdict for the defendant.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

STABBING A FEMALE, AND ASSAULTING a POLICE CON-
STABLE.—John Wm. Selling, a groom, living at 3, Chester-
mews, Belgrave-squaro, was charged before Mr. Mansfield,
with stabbing Anne Williams, who described herself as
employed in army works, and also with assaulting
Police-constable George Wilson, 156 C.
The prosecutrix said -Last night as I was walking
along Berkeley-street, the prisoner and five or six others
came up to me, and one of them said, IN here are you
going to-night ? Will you have a drop of gin ?" She re-
fu ed, stating that she was going to see her aunt, and ono
of the men then pulled up her clothes, and the prisoner
took out a knife and stabbed her in the side of the head,
wounding her and saturating her with blood.
Mr. Mansfield—Where was your head dressed ?
Prosecutrix--At the station-house, by the surgeon.
Mr. Mansfield—Did you know the men before ?
Prosecutrix—No, Sir.
Mr. Mansfield—How do you get your living ?
Prosecutrix—By army work sewing.
Police-constable George Wilson, 156 C—Between two
and three this morning the prosecutrix came up to me and
complained of having been stabbed with a knife. I asked
if she knew who had done it, and she said she should
know the person again. As I was taking her towards the
hospital we saw a number of men who had been drinking
at the corner of Dover-street, and the prosecutrix pointed
out the prisoner as the man who stabbed her. He denied it.
The men were about 100 yards from where the prosecutrix
first spoke to me. The prisoner had been drinking, but
was not drunk when I took him into custody.
Mr. Mansfield—Was the prosecutrix sober ?
7onstable—Not quite, Sir. While on the way to the
station-house, and while I was speaking to the prosecu-
trix, the prisoner tried to get away, tripped me up, and we
both fell. Another constable came to my assistance, and
we got the prisoner to the station. I found a knife in his
possession.
Mr. Mansfield—Were there any traces of blood on it, or
on the prisoner's hands ?
Constable—There were not, sir.
Mr. Mansfield—ls there any certificate from the doctor ?

Constable—No, sir.
Mr. Mansfield—There ought to be a doctor's certificate
in all cases of stabbing. I will remand the prisoner for
seven days ; but as there is no witness to the matter, and
the case rests entirely on the evidence of the prosecutrix,
I will take two sureties in £5O each for the prisoner's ap-
pearance in a week.
RETURNING FROM CRE➢lORNE.—Harriett Watkins, about
20 years of age, wearing a white figured silk dress, a white
crape shawl, and a turban hat with a largo white feather,
and whose appearance was somewhat that of an Oriental
Sultana, was charged before Mr. Mansfield with wilfully
damaging the hat of Mr. Wm. Thomas, gentleman, residing
at 43, Albemarle-street.
Mr. Thomas said—The prisoner accosted me in Albe-
marle-street between 2 and 3 this morning. I met with a
constable and asked him to see the prisoner away. He
declined to do so, saying he was not on duty. The prisoner
tried to prevent me going into my hotel. The porter then
came out, and the prisoner seized my hat and kicked it
against the railings, smashing it so that it is not worth
anything. What I object to is the treatment I received.
Prisoner —He brought me from Cremorne and promised
me a cab home, and because he would not keep his word
I took his hat.
Mr. Thomas—Oh ! that is not the case. She rode inside
the cab with two friends of mine, but I was outside.
Mr. Mansfield—Then you did not bring her from
Cremorne ?
Mr. Thomas—Oh, no, it was my friends.
Prisoner—You and your friends brought me from
Cremorne and promised me a cab home.
Allwood, 186 C—l saw the complainant and the prisoner
struggling together. The complainant could not get his
hat away, and the prisoner smashed it.
Mr. Mansfield ordered the prisoner to pay 10s. for the
damage, and a fine of 55., or 14 days in default.

THAMES.

A LOUD OF THE CREATION.—MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—
Henry Waters, describai as a runner to an outfitter, was
brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with violently
assaulting Ann Smith, whose appearance in the witness-
box created great sympathy and indignaticu. Her face
was contused and swollen, and her eyes blackened. She
was very ill and weak from loss of blood.
The prisoner and the complainant have been cohabiting
together for some time ftS man and wife, and their con-
nexion has been a most unhappy one. The prisoner has
frequently beaten the complainant, and on ono occasion he
broke her arm. She was under medical treatment in the
London Hospital. She forgave him that outrage. Yester-
day evening, when ho came home, his tea was not ready,
and he expressed his displeasure, and said ho expected his
meals to be ready when he came home—that he was lord
and master of the house, and that he would be obeyed.
Some words ensued, and the prisoner kicked and beat the
woman in a savage manner about tha head, face, and body.
She escaped from the house, covered with blood, and made
known her ill-usage to Adam Carr, a police-constable, No.
40 H, who went to the house, and found the prisoner in bed
and asleep.

The prisoner said he was greatly provoked and abused
by the woman, and that she was continually using a very
foul tongue.

Mr. Partridge—Why do you live with her ? You have
ill-used her More. You aie a great brute. I sentence
you to three mouths' imprisonment with hard labour.

CITY SEWERS COMMISSION.

The Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London
met yesterday at the Guildhall, for the despatch of public
business. H. De Jersey, Esq., deputy and under-sheriff,
the chairman of the commission, presided.

THE RECENT FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE IN LEADENIIALL

MARKET.

The Chairman brought up a report from the General
Purposes Committee, to whom it was referred at the last
Court, "to inquire into the particulars of the late fire in
Leadenhall-market, as to whose duty it was to report the
same to the district surveyor, or other authorities, and
whether any neglect or unnecessary delay had occurred in
taking the requisite measures in this case, and to report."
The committee stated that they had carefully examined
the circumstances of the case, and had been attended by
Mr. John Young, the district surveyor, Mr. Lightfoot, his
clerk, and Mr. Jenkins, the beadle of Langbourne Ward,
whom they had heard upon the subject. The committee
went at some length into the evidence submitted to them,
the substance of which was that the clerk to the
district surveyor went to the fire at about 3 o'clock in the
afternoon of Thursday, the 15th inst., and found the walls
and timber in a very dangerous state. The firemen were
then pulling about the ruins, but he warned them to desist
as their lives were in danger, and ho also cautioned the
people in tho vicinity. Immediately afterwards lie got Mr.
Young's authority to take the necessary steps for securing
the walls, and obtained similar power from the surveyor to
the Commissioners of Sewers; that he afterwards went to
the contractor, Mr. Crook, took him to the ruins; and in-
structed him to shore up and board in, which was done
early on Friday morning. He further stated that when he
communicated with the firemen on Thursday afternoon
they stated they would resume their digging when the ruins
were made secure, but they never did, and on the Friday
he told the firemen that they might work with safety at a
part of the ruins, but they did not do so. Mr. Young in-
formed the committee that ho was told by Mr. Oxford that
the assurance company would not take any steps because
they were informed there was no salvage, and they had
made up their minds to a total loss. Mr. Jenkins, the ward
beadle, stated that he did not consider it any part of his
duty to communicate with the district surveyor when afire
took place in the ward; but if ho knew of such, and of the
ruins being in a dangerous state, he said he should do so
as a matter of propriety. 'He had informed the deputy of
the ward on the Friday morning, and had told him of the
bodies being buried in the ruins, and ho got shells ready to
receive them. He saw the place boarded in ou Friday, and
on Saturday lie asked Mr. Pardoe, foreman of the firemen,
what he was going to do about the bodies. To that Mr.
Pardoe replied, Who is going to pay us for it?' When he
(Jenkins) answered, 'lf I were you I would not make a
pounds, shillings, and pence matter of it.' Pardoe said he
had his orders from Capt. Shaw not to put any men on un-
til he knew who would pay the cost. Having considered
these statements and examined the facts, the committee re-
ported that it certainly was not the duty of the district sur-
veyor in such cases to employ men to dig for the remains of
persons supposed to have been buried in the ruins of a fire.
The ruins in such case were the property of the owner or of
the assurance company, if insured, who, if there was salvage
to claim, would undoubtedly prevent any ono but their own
servants from interfering. In the present case the assurance
company, finding there was no salvage, had withdrawn their
men from the work ; and until the Court interfered, from
motives of humanity, and directed, under the peculiar cir-
cumstances, their contractors to dig for the bodies, no one
but the assurance office, or the owners, could have been
legally justified in doing so. The committee added that they
were glad to be able to report that there did not appear in
the case to have been any delay at all on the part of the
district surveyor, or of any of the officers of the Commis-
sion, in carrying into effect the powers the Court bad in
reference to dangerous structures. But they were of opinion
that the firemen, who, being on the spot, had the earliest
knowledge of danger arising from the condition of the ruins,
should on all such occasions immediately communicate with
the district surveyor, that the proper steps might be taken
to secure them."

Deputy FARRAR suggested that not only should the fire-
men be required to give information to the district surveyor
in cases of this kind, but that the police authorities should
also be asked to give similar information.

It was then decided that a copy of the report should be
sent to Capt. Shaw and Col. Fraser, the Commissioners of
Police, with a suggestion that they should, in cases of this
sort, give immediate information to the district surveyor.
At the instance of Deputy SNELLING, it was resolved—
" That the Romembrancer do apply to the Secretary of
State for the Home Department to procure the insertion of a
clause in the bill now before Parliament for constituting a
Metropolitan Fire Brigade to render it the duty of such fire
brigade on all occasions when persons are believed to have
been buried in the ruins of any building destroyed by fire,
to dig and search for such persons immediately that it is
possible for them to do so."
SANITARY CONDITION OF THE CITY.

Dr. LETHEBY reported on the condition of 237 houses
that had been inspected during the week, and he submitted
about 50 places for sanitary improvement. He also reported
that he had visited the premises of the .Erated Broad Com-
pany in Beech-lane, Barbican, and inquired into the matter
of the dangerous nuisance arising from the discharge of
acid refuse into the sewers, and he found that about one in
every six or seven days there was discharged from the car-
bonic acid generator about half a ton of the spent mixture
of whiting and oil of vitriol, which were used in generating
carbonic acid gas. The mixture was a little overcharged
with sulphuric acid, and this rendered it dangerous to the
men in the sewers. He therefore recommended that orders
be given for the abatement of the nuisance, by the use of a
smaller quantity of acid, so that the refuse might be always
freed from acidity by an excess of whiting.
The suggestion of the medical officer was at once agreed
to, and the necessary order was issued accordingly.
Dr. LETHEBY further reported that the markets and
slaughter-houses had been duly inspected, and the officers
had condemned 3,547 lbs. of meat as unfit for human food.
It consisted of 4 sheep, 2 calves, 6 pigs, 25 quarters of beef,
and 7 joints of meat ; 1,072 lbs. were diseased, 1,758 lbs.
' were putrid, and the rest was from animals that had died
from accident or disease. Forty-one births and 30 deaths
were registered in the City during the week. The mortality
returns are much below the average (52) for the correspond-
ing period of the last nine years. Thirteen, or nearly half
of the number of deaths, were among children of less than
five years of age, and 2 among persons of 60 and upwards.
The chief causes of death were as follows :—Phthisis, 6 ;
mesenteric disease, 4 ; hydrocephalus, 3; bronchitis, 1 ;
continued fever, 2 ; whooping-cough and measles, of each,
1; making together 13 deaths from tubercular diseases, 1
from inflammatory affections of the lungs, and only 4 from
diseases of a zymotic character. These returns indicated a
satisfactory state of the public health.
The Commissioners, after transacting some other busi-
ness, adjourned.

PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY.—The auxiliary screw
steamship Royal Standard, 2,000 tons register, Capt.
Dowell, R.N.R., belonging to the White Star Company of
Liverpool, which left Melbourne on the 2d of April, ar-
rived in the Sound this morning, with 80,000 oz. of gold, a
cargo of wool, bark,
Copper ore, hides, tanned leather, &c.,
and 350 passengers,
among 'whom *Master John Day, the
champion pedestrian in Australia, who is accompanied by
his father and a trainer. The champion is said to have
beaten all colonial pedestrians,
including adults ; he is nine
years old, 3ft. 9in. in height, and weighs 541 b. The Royal
Standard rounded Cape Horn on the 2d of May, crossed the
line on the 28th, and coaled at Fayal and left there on the
17th of June. Having experienced calms in the North and
South Atlantic, she has steamed nearly all the distance from
the Horn. She spoke May 27, lat. 237 S., long. 26 33 W.,
the ship Leichardt, from Glasgow for Sydney ; 28th, lat.
0 15 S., long. 26 40 W., the ship George Crowshaw, from
London for Calcutta ; June 4, lat. 21 24 N., long. 39 30 W.,
the schooner Christina, 36 days from Rio Janeiro, for Ham-
burg ; Bth, lat. 26 17 N.; long. 41 13 W., the bark Iron
Gem, 21 days from Montevideo, for London ; and 26th, off
the Lizard, at noon, the ship Liverpool, for London.
The ship the Lord Warden, 1,237 tons register, Captain
Consite, belonging to Messrs. Green, of Blackwall, London,
and a cargo of sugar, cotton, and indigo, was off Falmouth
with troops yesterday at noon. Her troops include 192 men,
women, and children, invalids from various regiments,
under the command of Captain Bradish. The other passen-
gers are Mrs. Campbell and seven children, Mrs. Bradish
and two children, Lieutenant and Mrs. Healey and two
children, the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Sanders and ten children,
the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor and four children, the Rev.
Mr. and Mrs. Bilderbeck and two children, Mr. and Mrs.
Taylor, Mr. Taylor, jun., and two children; Mr. Ward,
Lieutenant Whitehead, 66th ; Lieutenant Hall, 66th ;
Lieutenant Morragh, 38th Native Infantry ; and Lieutenant
Campbell, 25th Native Infantry. The Lord Warden sailed
from Madras February 28, rounded the Cape of Good Hope
April 26, touched at St. Helen's May 10, sailed therefrom
on the 11th, and crossed the Equator May 20. Light winds
and calms were experienced throughout the passage. She
spoke, May 25, lat. 6 20 N., long. 25 55 W., the barque
Caprera, from St. John's, Now Brunswick, the Belgian
barque Jeanne of Anvers, and the English ship Sea Horse;
27th, lat. 10 47 N., long. 30 21 W., the Danish brig Maria
Lehmann, from Rio Janeiro for Falmouth ; June 12, lat.
41 45 N., long. 26 58 137., the English barque Blanch, from
Gaboon River for Cork ; 18th, lat. 49 3 N., long. 21 50
W., the English barque Galpurnia, 12 days from London
for Quebec, and the steamer Fairy Queen, from Jamaica
for Liverpool.

ST. HELENA.—A letter from St. Helena states
that the anniversary of Napoleon's death was cele-
brated with proper solemnity on the sth. By a remarkable
coincidence a vessel carrying the staff and Ist Battalion of
the 6Gth English Regiment reached the island on that day.
It was by a company of this very regiment, then in garri-
son at St. Helena, that Napoleon's remains were carried,
on the sth May, 1821, from Longwood to the Valley of the
Tomb. All the officers and men of the G6th immediately
after landing made a pilgrimage to the tomb. The same
letter says that the house of the Vice-Consul of France, in
which Napoleon passed his first night after landing at
St. Helena, was entirely destroyed by fire on the 2d of
i April.