The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-26 00:00:00

ings, in fact, printed in large views to resemble oil
and water-colour landscapes. These are richly
framed, like large paintings, and it is only on a
close inspection that the difference between them
and costly works of art can be detected. Y'et the
price of each of these is only 50 francs. In jewe:lry
also, in bronzes, articles de Paris, Sevres china,
French shawls, laces, works in agate and marble,
carton-pierre furniture, &c., the whole Court will
be full of the most superb examples. Some of the
vases, balustrades, candelabra, &c., carved from
massive pieces of Algerian agate and jasper, will be
without rivals in the building, both for the beauty
of the stone and the taste of the fittings. One
jeweller sends a very magnificent gold centrepiece
or shield, hung round with the finest descriptions
of French gold work, and the mere value of the
metal and work in this small piece alone is upwards
of £6,000. A great clearance was made of packing
cases yesterday, but the result of the labour only
showed the magnitude of the task of really cleating
the building; for, though an immense number of
cases was got out, it made not the slightest percep-
tible difference in tht number still remaining, all of
which, unfortunately, are filled with goods.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT

BAWICK.

A serious accident attended with fatal conse-
quences occurred at Hawick railway station on
Wednesday night. A mixed train of goods, coals,
&c., from the north ran right through the goods
shed and the boundary wall of the station. Two
trucks, one loaded with freestone and another with
grain, standing on the line in the goods shed, were
forced forward by the engine, and the progress of
the train stopped by the rising ground on the side
of the turnpike opposite the station. The engine
remained on the wheels right across the road, the
tender was thrown sideways, and lay on the road
parallel to tho engine; the trucks in front were
smashed against the hillock in front of the engine,
and two trucks laden with coal immediately behind
the engine were lodged in a damaged state on the
broken wall which bounds the station from the
turnpike-road. There were four men in charge of
the train—the engine-driver, stoker, guard, and
assistant-guard. The driver found he could not
stop the train while it was approaching the station
and leaped from the engine before it entered the
goods shed. He escaped with a few scratches. The
stoker also jumped from the train a short time be-
fore the driver, and sustained some injuries to the
leg, though no bones were broken. The assistant-
guard was found lying dead in a pool of blood about
200 yards below the station, and in leaping from the
train must have rebounded from the embankment on
which he landed, as the train had passed over his
right arm and right leg, both limbs being broken
and shockingly mangled. His name is James Dick-
son, and he belonged to Galashiels. He had been
employed as assistant guard for about 12 months,
but had only been connected with the Hawick end
of the line for 10 days. Ho was a single man, and
about 22 years of age. The other guard remained
in the van at the end of the train till it was brought
to a stand, and escaped unhurt. The driver, whose
name is Handyside, has been taken into custody,
and Sheriff Russell and the Procurator-Fiscal were
engaged on Thursday in an examination into the
circumstances of the case. A strong force of men
was employed to remove the engine, tender, and
debris of the smashed trucits from the road, and it
was cleared on Thursday forenoon under the super-
intendence of Mr. Harrison, C.E., and the com-
pany's engineer, Mr. Bell. The accident was
almost unknown in the town till Thursday morning,
but the scene was visited by great numbers of
ieople during the day.—Scotsman.

THE LATE FORGERY ON COUTTS'
BANK.

Mary Gibson, who when apprehended had stated
that her name was Mary Aylmer, was brought up
nn remzaid at Bow-street, on the charge of being
accessory after the fact to the forging and uttering,
by William Gibson, of a cheque for £445, purport-
ing to be drawn by Mr. Butler, a solicitor.
Mr. Mullens attended as before to conduct th
prosecution on behalf of the London Bankers'
Association; and Mr. George Lewis, jun. (of Lewis
and Lewis, Ely-place), defended the prisoner.
From the evidence at former examinations it
appeared that the cheque in question Lea boon
tendered at Messrs. Coutts' by a female, and paid
in gold and bank notes. A number of these notes
had been passed at various linendraper's, bootmak-
er's, &c., in different parts of London, by a female,
supposed to be the prisoner, wno, indeed, bad
been apprehended upon the occasion of tendering
another of these notes. In most of the cases
where these notes bad been passed the witnesses
were unable to identify the primer as the
person who had passed them ; but in one instance
the witness (a shopman) said he was sure she was
the person, though when he first saw her he had
expressed himself as doubtful, and had even said
that he thought she was not the person. He ex-
plained the discrepancy by saying that he had only
seen her sitting at the time when he failed to re-
cognise her, but that when he saw her standing he
knew her readily.
At the third examination of the prisoner, on
Thursday, Mr. Mullens stated that the charge
which had hitherto been stated in the most general
terms, would assume the form of an indictment
against the prisoner, as accessory after the fact in
the forging and uttering, committed by Gibson.
Upon the charge being stated in these terms,
Mr. Lewis said that the prisoner was Gibson's wife,
and therefore could not be charged as accessory
after the fact.
Mr. Hall said there could be no doubt upon that
point- A wife might, in some cases, be an acces-
sory before the fact but not after.
Mr. Mullens fully concurred in the magistrate's
view. If Mr. Lewis could show that the prisoner
was married to Gibson, then the case for the pro-
secution was at an end.
Mr. Lewis said if the case was adjourned to the
next day (yesterday, Friday), he could prove the
marriage.
The prisoner was accordingly remanded till Fri-
day (yesterday), when she was again brought be-
fore Mr. Hall.
Mr. Henry Cooper, registrar for the county of
Surrey, in the Lambeth district, comprising the
parish of St. Mary, Lambeth, stated that on the
Ist of May, 1861, he solemnised a marriage be-
tween two persons named William Gibson, batche-
lor, and Mary Monday, spinster. He produced a
certificate, being a copy of the registry of that mar-
riage, and being signed by Mr. Logan, the super-
intenient registrar. He could not identify this
person.
The certificate produced related to a marriage
between William Gibson, batchelor, described as a
surgeon, and Mary Monday, spinster, the daughter
of Charles Monday, of Brighton, a retired brewer,
the bridegroom being described as of 31 years of
age, and the bride as of 27.
Elizabeth Monday, the prisoner's sister, was re-
called, and Sarah Monday, her mother, was exa-
mined for the first time, upon certain points of de-
tail, showing that the description of the persons
married applied to the prisoner and Gibson. The
prisoner's father was a retired brewer. The address
given as the residence of both parties was that
where the prisoner lived with Gibson. Mrs. Mon-
day stated that she first heard of the marriage in
May, when the prisoner brought her a certificate
similar to that produced.
Mr. Mullens thought there was not sufficient
identification of the parties, but
Mr. Hail thought it was unnecessary to deitand
as strict evidence of marriage as would be required
in a case of bigamy or criminal conversation. The
mere fact of the prisoner and Gibson living together,
reputed to be married, though not conclusive, was
important, but the further evidence was such as no
reasonable man could resist. It was utterly incon-
ceivable to suppose that there had been a marriage
between two persons of the same names as the been
soner and Gibson; that those two p.ersons had been
married in the district where the prisoner and Gib-
son lived ; that those two persons resided in the
same district and at the same address as the prisoner
and Gibson ; that the father of the wife was of the
same name and profession as the prisoner's father;
and that the prisoner was so well aware of all these
strange coincidences that she was enabled to get a
copy of the registry of marriage a few days after
the actual marriage took place, and to take that
copy to her parents at Brighton, so as to satisfy
them that she had been married to Gibson. Bather
than accept so improbable a theory any jury of 12
men af ordinary intelligence would come to the
conclusion that the prisoner was really married to
this man Gibson. If so she could not be held to be
an accessory after the fact iu any offence committed
by Gibson. He (Mr. Hall) did not believe that any
jury would convict under such circumstances. Ho
should be stultifying himself if be were to commit
a conviction
rfur trial with a full consciousness that
a
Was impossible. Ile should therefore
d6.charge the prisoner.
Mr. Mullens said ho was bound to admit that the
magistrate's view of the case was pefectly correct.
Mu prisoner was then discharged.