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London, England, 1865-02-22 00:00:00

THE MJI, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 22, 18(35.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Tms DAY.

The SPEAKER did not take the chair until half-past 12
o'clock, the house not having been formed before.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a second time :—Amman
Valley Railway ; Beaconsfield and Redhill Road ; Bedford,
Northampton, and Weedon. Railway ; Belfast Borough ;
Belfast New Streets ; Blackpool and Layton
with Warbrick Improvement ; Brecon and Mer-
thyr Tydfil Junction Railway (Amalgamation) ;
Cambrian Railways (Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Rail-
way Amalgamation) ; Cambrian Railways (Additional
Powers) ; Cambrian Railways (Steamboats); Crays Gas;
Downham, Stoke Ferry, and Brandon Railway ; Drayton
Junction Railway; Dundee Roads and Streets; Ebbw
Vale, Tredegar, and Sirhowy Water ; Exeter Gas (No. 2) ;
Fareham and Netley Railway; Glasgow Corporation
Water; Great Eastern Railway (Capital, &c.); Great
Northern and Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax Junction
Railways Amalgamation ; Great Northern and Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Companies
(Cheshire Lines, &c.) ; Great Northern Railway (Junc-
tions at Newark, &c.) ; Hornsey and Kingsland Junction
Railway ; Rhyl and District Water ; Surrey and Sussex
Junction Railways ; Sussex Central Railway ; Sutherland
Railway ; Teign Valley Railway ; Tunbridge Wells
Water ; Watchet and Minehead Railway ; Waterloo and
Whitehall Railway; West Bromwich Improvement;
Wigtownshire Roads ; Winchester Water and Gas ;
and Wolverhampton and Walsall Railway.

PETITION OF RIGHT.

IN THE QUEEN'S BENCH.—JUDGES' CHAMBERS.
(Before Mr. Justice Crompton).
IRWIN V. SIR GEORGE GREY, BART.
This cause, which was an application for a mandamus
against the Right. Hon. Secretary of State for the Home
Department, in the matter of Mr. Irwin's petition of right,
pursuant to the 23d and 24th Vic., c. 34, having been set
down for argument before the Judges in th© Exchequer
Chamber as an Appeal in Error from the Common Pleas,
Mr. Bradley appeared on behalf of Sir George Grey this
day, and made an application to have the entry of the cause
and all the subsequent proceedings therein set aside.
Mr. Irwin appeared in person and opposed the motion.
The Judge refused the application to sat aside the pro-
ceedings in the Exchequer Chamber.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day•

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Ri.gistrar Brougham.)

IS RE RAYMOND, R.N.-THE GENERAL FINANCIAL AND

ESTATE AGENCY CORPORATION (LIMITED).

This bankrupt was described as a commander in the
royal navy on half-pay, residing at Strawberry Cottage,
Chiswick. Ile was also chairman of the General Financial
and Estate Agency Corporation (Limited), and was
adjudicated bankrupt on his own petition, coming
up to-day upon the first meeting for proof of debts and
choice of assignees. He states that his bankruptcy
arises from insufficiency of income to support a large
family, and having to pay £3O out of his half-pay for
the benefit of creditors under a former bankruptcy, by order
of this court, and also non-payment of his salary as
chairman of the company above. The debts are set down
at about £2,500, of which £1,200 is due to Mr. White, of
Fleet-street, Mr. Coleman, of Regent-street, who was the
agent of Mr. Blondin, being a creditor for £225. Assignees
were chosen.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

BRUTAL ASSAULT ON A Boy.—Prosper Quinton, a tailor,
living at No. 6, Heddon-court, St. James's, was charged
before Mr. Tyrwhitt with violently assaulting a boy, eleven
years of ago, named Patiick Cleary, living at No. 16,
Heddon-street.

John Hooper, a boy living at No. 8, Heddon-street,
Regent-street, said he saw the prisoner knock the head of
a boy named Cleery against the wall, and then knock the
boy down. He afterwards saw that the boy had a large
swelling on his head.
In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the witness said the prisoner
did it because Cleery struck his boy for kicking him.
Sergeant Dodsworth said the boy was unable to attend,
being in the hands of the doctor.
In answer to the prisoner, the witness Hooper said he
distinctly saw him knock the boy (Cleery's) head against
the wall.

Police-constable Burrell, 120 0, said he took the prisoner
into custody that morning for assaulting the boy, and on
going to the house where the boy resided he found him ill
in bed-,-too ill to speak ; and Dr. Keys, of No. 20, Warren-
street, who was attending him, stated that he could not at
present give a certificate, but that the boy had received
some bad blows about the head and back of the neck.

Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded tke prisoner, but consented to
take bail.

THAMES.

A VlRAGo.—Bridget Fitzgerald, a very masculine
creature, with nothing of the woman about her but the sex,
.
with assaulting Henry Pitus, a polica-con-
swtaabslechNaor.gleBds

The prisoner was making a disturbance in a coffee-house
in Limehouse, and was ejected from the place. She then
made a noise in the street, and used very filthy and obscene
language. A constable (Pitus) advised her to go away,
and she abused him, and, on his taking her into custody,
she plunged a fork into his right cheek just under the eye.
The wound was a serious one, and he bled copiously. He
went to a surgeon and his wound was dressed. There was
a surgical plaister on his face, and the scar is likely to
remain there as long as he lives.

Inspector Allison, of tho K division, said the prisoner
was an incorrigible offender, and had been in custody 30
times at least for drunkenness, assaults, and disorderly
conduct, and had been a groat trouble to the police and to
the public.
The prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned for two
months, and kept to hard labour, on which she jumped
from the dock and exclaimed, " I can do that on my
head."

DARING ROBBERY.—Elizabeth Creasy, a middle-aged
woman, was charged with the following daring robbery :
Yesterday evening the :prisoner, and a man she called
her husband, but who is known to the police as a notorious
thief, were drinking at a public-house called the Young
Prince, in Crisp-street, Poplar, and the prisoner suddenly
left the house and said she should return in a few minutes.
The barman directly missed a quart pot from the counter.
He went after the prisoner, and upon overtaking her he
found the quart pot under one arm, and a pint pot belong-
ing to his master, and which he had not previously missed,
under the other arm. He then gave her into custody.

The prisoner said sho had a drop of drink yesterday, and
that she had just returned from a hospital and was under
medical treatment.

A police constable said the prisoner was sober, and that
she had been in custody for assaults.

Mr. Paget sentenced the prisoner to one month's im-
prisonment and hard labour.

The Davenport Brothers—Another Scene.

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Last night the Davenport Brothers were announced to
give a seance at Huddersfield. The tickets of admission
were eagerly bought up, and long before the doors were
opened, there was a crowd waiting outside. A posse of
policemen were observed to be on duty in the vicinity of
the building—the Philosophical Hall ; and it was under-
stood that measures had been taken to prevent a repetition
of the disturbances by which the performances of the
brothers were brought to a close at Liverpool. The hall
soon became filled with an audience comprising some of
the most respectable inhabitants of the town. Dr. Fergu-
son having gone through his usual introductory speech,
in which he specially impressed upon the audience
the necessity of scrupulously observing the con-
ditions laid down, two gentlemen were nomi-
nated by the audience to conduct the ropetying
operations and the examinations of the cabinet.
The gentlemen selected were Mr. Dow, surgeon, of Lock-
wood, and president of the Huddersfield Athletic Society ;
and Mr. Alexander Walker, manufacturer, of Mirfield.
Messrs. Hulley and Cummins, of Liverpool, who had com-
plied with an invitation from somo gentlemen in Hudders-
field to be present, had privately initiated the two gentle-
men into the mysteries of the' tom-fool" knot to which the
brothers had objected at Liverpool. Having carefully exa-
mined the cabinet, which they pronounced to be in their
opinion free from any mystery, the committee proceeded to
test the rope and to tie the hands of the Davenport Brothers.
The ono operated upon by Mr. Dow soon began to mani-
fest signs of uneasiness, and he was observed to be talking
to Mr. Dow with great animation. The next moment Dr.
Ferguson was called to tho cabinet, and Mr. Dow announced
that Mr. Davenport objected to his proceeding with the
tying, on the ground that he was hurting his wrists. This
caused a loud burst of dissatisfaction from the spectators,
who were watching every movement with the keenest in-
terest. At the request of the audience, Mr. Bottomley,
surgeon, ascended the platform to ascertain if there was
any foundation for the complaint. Before he had com-
pleted his examination the other brother, who was being
tied by Mr. Walker, cried out, and a great clamour'ensued.
The one who had been the first to complain called Dr.
Ferguson, and requested him to cut the rope, which re-
quest the doctor promptly complied with. Some persons
in the front seats rushed forward to the foot of the plat-
form. Mr. Davenport held down his wrists in order that
they might examine them; but beyond a slight indication
of pressure, nothing was apparent, and Mr. Bottomley
confirmed Mr. Dow's statement that there was no impe-
diment to circulation. The other brother instantly fol-
lowed the example of Mr. Dow's subject and protested
against the tying being proceeded with. The rope was
cut instantaneously, and the brothers and Dr. Ferguson
disappeared after Messrs. Hulley and Cummins were in-
troduced and loudly cheered by the audience. In a
brief address to the meeting those gentlemen ex-
plained the reason of their presence, and counselled
the audience to be content with the deserved exposure of
what they called the Davenport humbug, without proceed-
, ing to violent measures. They suggested that they should
demand the return of their money. Superintendent Han-
nan hero stepped forward, and, amid ringing cheers, in-
formed the audience that he had sent a detective after the
brothers for the purpose of securing the return of the
money. Mr. John Wood, through whose agency the Da-
venports had visited Huddersfield, promised that all who
paid for entrance should receive back their money, the
whole of which was in his possession. This called forth
loud expressions of satisfaction. Three cheers were then
given for the Liverpool gentlemen and for Messrs. Dow
and Walker. Mr. Palmer, the agent for the brothers, was
received with hootings, but he continued his stand on the
platform, and declared that he knew nothing of a letter
which had appeared in some of the papers containing a
challenge relating to the Liverpool affair. He assured
them that not one sixpence of the money taken had gone
into his pocket.

Her Majesty's screw corvette Niger, 13, Captain
Byng, commissioned at Woolwich for the Australian
station, will go down to the T-pier at the Royal
Arsenal this morning and ship her guns and war
stores in preparation for sea. She will thence pro-
ceed to Greenhithe to adjust her compasses.
The Urgent, screw troopship, Capt. S. H. Hen-
derson, sailed from Portsmouth yesterday evening
for Plymouth, with four batteries of Royal Artillery
on board, withdrawn from the forts at Hurst Castle,
Victoria, and Sandown, Isle of Wight, and at Gos-
port. The Urgent goes on to Ireland from Plymouth,
and will return thence to the Channel ports.

SPORTING INTELLIGEATCE,

UXBRIDGE—IVEDNESDAM
The frost has all gone. The steeplec bases. are certain
to take place to-morrow (Thursday).

BETTING AT MANCHESTER- -TUESDAY.

There was a good attendance at the roc ims this day. The
chief features of the business transacted -was the firmness
of Emblematic for the Liverpool Steeplec-haso, and the sup-
port awarded to Skeffington for tho Northamptonshire
Stakes. The only transaction.= then Derby was a bet of
nine fifties about Breadalbane. Closing prices :

LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
10 to 1 agst Emblematic (taken)
100 to 8 agst Tony Lumptin (taken and offered)
100 to 7 agst Light Heart (taken)
100 to 6 agst Jerry (taken)
20 to 1 agst The Czar (offered—take 22)
25 to 1 agst Emblem (offered)
30 to 1 agst Arbury (taken)
33 to 1 agst L'Africain (taken)
33 to 1 agst Joe Maley (taken)
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
10 to 1 agst Skeffington (taken freely)
100 to 6 agst Lion (taken)
20 to 1 agst Thalestris (offered)
TWO THOUSAND.
9to 2 agst Liddington (offered)
CHESTER CUP.
9to 1 agst Lord Zetland (taken)
15 to 1 agst Ackwortla (offered)
25 to 1 agst Gratitude (taken)
30 to 1 agst La Toueques (taken)
DERBY.
9to 1 agst Breadalbane (taken)

RES FOR 1865.

GARY.

Nottingham Spring 2B
DR.
Warwick Spring
Vincennes
Chelmsford Spring 2B
Grand National Hunt 29
Barham 3O
Lewes Spring 3O
'RIL.

Canterbury Spring
Abergavenny 2O
Thirsk 2l
Cardiff - 25
Epsom Spring
MAY.

Bath 23
Harpenden 26
Epsom 3O

Hampton 2l
Newton
Newcastle
Odiham
Bidbury
Stockbridge

Leicester 7
Doncaster
Brecon lB
Richmond

OCTO:
Northallerton 5
Newmarket 2d Oct 9
Vincennes

NOTE
Liverpool Autumn

Nottingham
Southampton l9
Chesterfield
Goodwood
Down Royal Corp —

York
Plymouth
Lichfield 2B

Devon and Exeter 29
Derby Summer 30
Weymouth 3l
Baden 3l
Stockton —

Monmouth 2l
Manchester Autumn
Newmarket Ist Oct 26
Walsall
BER.

'IXTURES FOR 1865.

Newmarket Ho. M
Vincennes

[BER.
Shrewsbury

STEEPLECHASE F.
MARC:

Liverpool
Shrewsbury
Scarborough l6, 17 Torquay 2B

AP
West Somerset 5

RIL.
I Abergavonny 20, 21

AQUATICS.

Tom KING THE EX-CHAMPION) AGAINST J. CAFFIN.—
The whole of the money to be rowed for by these two
candidates for aquatic honours has been staked, and the
match is fixed for the 28th inst. As more than ordinary
interest now attaches to the rowing of Tom King, who has
already won the first two of his three matches, the Childo
Harold steamer has been chartered to accompany the match
from Putney to Mortlake. It will leave Greenwich at 1
o'clock, London-bridge at 2, and call at all the piers up to
Putney. J. Coffin is in training under Robert Bain, one
of the most experienced rowers of Lambeth, and King is
also " getting his hand in " for the struggle.