The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-27 00:00:00

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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1862.

BRITISH POSSESSIONS.

WAKEFIELD ELECTION-(TIIIS DAY.)

Share' Railways.

Closinv,
ITaid. Price.

Business done

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
TWELVE O'CLOCK.
(Smethurst's Committee.)
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LINCOLN. RACES—(This Day.)

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LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP.

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LAW 111, T. E LLIG.ENCE.—(This Day.)

SHERIFFS' COURT.

NOVEL MODE OF EJECTING A TENANT.-GOA V. STYLES.

This was a writ of ejectment, plaintiff being the landlord
of premises held by defendant, who was a marine store-
dealer.

Mr. Beard, for the defendant, said this was a particu-
larly hard case upon his client, who, having paid rent re-
gularly for many years, and having established himself in
a business, was now called upon to turn out and thus do
all the work over again.

Plaintiff—He should keep a civil tongue in his head
(Laughter.)
Mr. Beard—You see, sir, there is considerable feeling in
the case. I only ask for time. My client cannot in one
moment find premises in the city of London suitable to his
business.

_.___.
The Judge—And you see, Mr Beard, the landlord is
entitled to his premises whenever he chooses to demand
them.

Mr. Beard—l am aware of chat; and I only ask a little
time. Give my client two months.
Plaintiff (indignantly)—l will not allow it. Rather than
he should stop in my house two months longer I would pull
the roof off over his head. (Roos of laughter.)
Mr. Beard—l have no doubt of it. _
_ _

The Judge found that by the Act of Parliament he had
no power to grant a longer time than ten days, and de-
fendant was ordered to deliver up possession in that time.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—( pas Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

VIOLENT ASSAULT ON A LICENSED VICTUA.LLER.-

Dennis Mannes, an Irishman, was charged before Mr.
Tyrwhitt with violently assaulting Mr. Gedge, of the
Crown Tavern, Broad-street, Golden-square.
Mr. Gedge said that on the previous night the defendant
came in and annoyed all the customers. He tried to eject
the defendant, when he made an attempt to bite him, and
pulled his whiskers. He got the defendant outside, when
he again became very violent, and made a rush at him and
kicked hire violently in the groin. It was not the first time
the defendant had been to his house and annoyed his cus
tomers.
Defendant denied the charge, and said he had only had
a drop to drink.
38 C proved seeing the defendant seize hold of the com-
plainant, and before ho could get up the defendant kicked
the complainant in the groin.
Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the defendant 20s. or a month for the
assault, and Mr. Gedge having stated that the defendant
had also broken a partition in his house, Mr. Tyrwhitt
ordered
him to pay 10s. for the damage, OF seven days in
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the accused, and some days ago gave her a cheque to pay
for some wine at the house in Panton-street, and she re-
fused to give up the change. Meeting her at the same
house last night he gave her in charge.
On the accused being placed at the bar the constable
Parsons, 34 A, said that the prosecutor was not in attend-
ance.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said that being the case the accused would
be discharged.

THAMES.

SAVAGE ASSAULT.—Mary Gibbon, a very disorderly
Irishwoman, the keeper of one of those questionable dens
in Phillip-street, St. George's-in-the East, where so many
outrages and robberies have been committed, was brought
before Mr. Selfe, charged with assaulting and wounding a
dock labourer named Richard Cumming, who presented
hiii.self in the witness-box with his head bandaged, and his
mouth and face severely cut.

The complainant said he went to the prisoner's house to
visit a young woman there, and entered into conversation
with her about the mildness of the weather, in which the
prisoner joined. A quarrel afterwards ensued between him-
self, the prisoner, and others in the house, and they all left
it and went into High-street, Shadwell, where in the midst
of some words the prisoner struck him over the eye with a
heavy tumbler, and cut it open. She also struck him on
the cheek and mouth. He was very severely injured, and
lost a good deal of blood. His wounds were dressed by a
surgeon. _ _ _

Mr. Solfe—And your hand is cut, how was that done?

Witness—By the prisoner. My glass was broken to
pieces when she struck me on the eye, and 1 am afraid I
shall never recover the sight of it again.
The prisoner said, in her defence, that the complainant
was abusing her sister-in-law, and about to strike her, and
she took her part, and hit Cummings on the eye with the
glass. _ _

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The complainant—lf you please, sir, she did it delibe-
rately. We quarrelled in her house, and she brought th
glass away from her home, and some time afterwards
struck me with it on the eye and face.

Mr. Selfo said the complainant had put it very properly.
The act of the prisoner was a deliberate ono indeed, and
very savage. She brought the glass from her own house,
with the intention of doing mischief. The complainant
had no business in such an infamous place to that kept by
the prisoner, and he went there for no good purpose. He
could not suffer such outrages as those to go unpunished.
He sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for one month,
and kept to hard labour.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMEN T

HOUSE OF COMMONS—YESTELDAY.
The SPEAKER took the chair at a few minutes after 12
o'clock.

The London and North Western Railway, and Chester
and Holyhead Railway (Capital) Bill was read a second
time.

Lord A. PAGET presented a petition from the Mayor
aid Corporation of Leicester, praying for the abolition of
the duty on Fire Insurance.

WHIPPING BILL,
Mr. HADFIELD moved that this bill be read a second

Sir G. GREY said he thought the hon. gentleman had
very properly introduced the measure, as while there were
regulations in respect of corporal punishments inflicted
in convict establishments, there were none in respect of
other prisons, but as the prison inspectors are about to
bring up a report on the subject he thought the matter
might be left in the hands of the Secretary of State. As to
the power put into the hands of visiting justices for in-
flicting flogging on juvenile offenders, there was no doubt
the law was in a most unsatisfactory state ; but ho thought
that were the hon. gentleman to withdraw this measure
and leave the question to be considered by the Government
in connection with the reports of the prison inspectors on
the subject, when no doubt a bill would be introduced re-
gulating corporal punishment inflicted on juvenile offenders,
he thought his object would be fully attained.

Mr. H ADFIELD said he had introduced the clause in
respect of juvenile offenders because of the severity of the
punishment inflicted on juvenile offenders in some counties
when there was no such punishment inflicted in others.
He should however consent to the proposition of the right
hon. Bart. _ _

After a few words from Mr. S. Estcourt, Mr. A. Kiu-
naird, and Sir F. Smith, who said that, having seen while
in the army that flogging was attended with no relaiming
tendency, he had been always opposed to it, and he was
therefore glad to hear from the Secretary of State that he
intended taking the matter up in respect of juvenile offen-
ders, the order of the day for the second reading of the bill
was discharged and the bill withdrawn.
METROPOLIS LOCAL MANAGEMENT ACTS
AMENDMENT BILL.

Mr. TITE moved the second reading of this bill.
Mr. CRAWFORD did not wish to object to the second
reading of the bill, but he would suggest the propriety of
affording proper time for consideration before the bill was
committed. The bill affected his constituents to a consi-
derable extent, and it was right that they should have time
for considering its various clauses.
After some discussion thebill was read a second time, and
ordered to be committed on the 19th March.
CONVEYANCE OF VOTERS BILL,

On the order of the day being read for the second reading
of this bill,
Mr, CARR moved, as an amendment, that the bill be
read a second time that day six months.
Mr. Paull, Sir R. Clifton, and Mr. Vance opposed the
measure.

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Mr. LAWSON supported the measure. He thought
objections which had been urged respecting large boroughs
could be got over by exempting them from the operations
of the act.

Lord JOHN MANNERS said he had of late years
heard many modes propounded of extending the franchise,
but the system proposed by this mea.eure was certainly the
most novel he had as yet heard. It simply was that a man's
vote should depend upon a test of pedestrianism, to which the
hon. member was to subject the voter. To his mind it would,
however, have the effect of curtailing the franchise as
regarded the poorer classes, for while the rich man could
travel in his carriage, or some other conveyance, to the
polling place, the poor man, who could command no such
conveyance, must stay at home, and consequently lose his
vote.

Mr. TAYLOR supported the measure.
After a few words from Mr. COLLIER and Mr. KNIGHT-
LEY,
Sir G. GREY supported the second reading of the bill.
The subject had been fully considered by the committee to
whom the subject had been referred, and that committee,
while they recommended the continuance of the pre-
sent law as regarded counties, held that the travel-
ling expenses of borough electors ought to be dis-
allowed. That committee had evidence before them
of the immense expense created during elections in the
metropolitan and other boroughs, even when the electors
had not any great distance to travel, and seeing the burden
to be so great on the candidate they came to the conclusion
of recommending their being disallowed. As to the case
of burgesses living at a great distance from the
burgh in which they had the right to exercise
the franchise, that description of franchise was fast dying
out, and he did not think it would be reasonable to retard
the passing of such a measure as this out of respect to that
class of voters. He had been told this bill would be very
much opposed to the liberal cause, inasmuch as it wou'd
enable the rich to come to the poll and exercise the fran-
chise, while the poor man who had no conveyance could
not do so; but he did not think there was any cause for
fear on that head, as voters earnest in the cause of a par-
ticular candidate would not be deterred by any such con-
sideration from coming up to the poll and voting in his be-
half.

Mr. HUNT considered that until they provided some
other mode of conveying voters to the poll who are not in
a position to give their votes without such conveyance,
they were not justified in taking away the mode of con-
veyance which they had at present. If they admitted the
principle that if in counties people could not come to the
poll without some mode of conveyance in consequence
of the distance, and that therefore such con.
veyances ought to be allowed, they ought to admit the
same principle in the case of boroughs. If they exempted
some particular boroughs from the operations of the act, he
was afraid they would find the schedule of exemption to ex-
tend to a considerable length, and he should therefore
oppose the measure.
Mr. AYRTON justified the clause he had got inserted
into the act regulating the system of voting, as being in-
tended to prevent the exercise of a legitimate right being
converted into a means of bribery and corruption. The
rule he laid down was, that they should not legalise the
payment of money to an elector, which might be appro-
priated to corrupt purposes ; but it was never meant to
prevent any man taking an elector to the pell by
any conveyance which he chose. There were cases
where money was given to electors to pay for their
conveyance, who, instead of using it for that purpose,
walked to the poll and appropriated the money for other
purposes. That was what he meant to contend against,
and not against electors being conveyed to the poll where
such was necessary. A man might only have his dinner
hour to go to the poll, and his master might refuse to take
him back to his employment should he not return at the
proper time, and consequently the conduct of electors might
by such means be put into the hands of the wealthy few,
to the great detriment of the working man. He should
not object to go into committee on the measure, but he
thought the measure as it stood would fail in its intended
object. (Cheers.)
After a few a words from Mr. CLAY in support of the
measure, the house divided, when there appeared—
For the second reading .. 130
Against it
Majority against
The bill was consequently lost.
TRADE MARKS BILL.
Mr. ROEBUCK, in moving the second reading of this
bill, stated that he did not do so for the purpose of raising
any discussion on the measure, but simply that it might be
referred to a select committee. and be considered along with
the general bill on the same subject.
After a few words from Mr. CnawFonn and Mr.
MOFFAT, the bill was read a second time, and ordered to be
referred to a select committee.
QUALIFICATION FOR OFFICES ABOLITION
BILL.
Mr. HADFIELD moved the third reading of this bill,
to which Mr. NEWDEGATE having moved a negative, the
house divided, when there appeared—
For the third reading
Against it
Majority for the third reading.. , -13
The announcement was received with loud cheers, and
the bill was read a third time and passed.
METROPOLIS LOCAL MANAGEMENT ACT.
Mr. LOCKE moved an address for a return of the num-
ber of ratepayers in each of the 23 parishes in Schedule A
of the Metropolis Local Management Act; adding, in a
separate column, the numbers of vestrymen who voted
for the present members of each parish as their repre-
sentative or representatives of the Metropolitan Board of
Works, distinguishing (if any) those who were elected by
ballot; and similar returns from the parishes united into
districts under schedule B of the said Act.—Agreed to.
The house then adjourned at 20 minutes past four.

FOX HUNTING EXTRAORDINARY.—One of the
severest runs upon record came off on Monday. The Cum-
berland Hounds met at Bolton Park House, the seat of Mr.
R. Watson, and a fox was soon beaten from the cover of a
neighbouring wood. Setting off in gallant style foxey re-
viewed Lord Leconfield's vast inelGsures in Westward; then,
after putting the dogs in a fix, he crossed Mr. Watson's domain
over Snow thence through a heavy valley, and up to
Roughton Gill or Silver Gill. Finding that both dogs and
horses kept close on the track, foxey dashed onward to seek
protection beneath the shadows of mighty Skiddaw—but his
remorseless pursuers were not to be shaken off. When he
reached the summit they bore close in his rear ; so nothing
daunted, he sprang in fine style down the beautiful slopes
which overlook Keswick. Still he went on, over field and
hedge, past Mirehouse,whoso hospitable portals were closed
to him. At last, after a run of thirty miles, which he had
spanned in the short space of three hours and five minutes,
poor Reynard made ample atonement for all his life's sins,
after running so far from his home. Mr. Jefferson, Mr•
Turner, and many others were in at the death, and the
brush so hardly won will of course be dearly prized. In
• old John Peel's day three foxes were chased over nearly
the same ground,•—GCtcmberdand .Pacquet.