The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-15 00:00:00

TOE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAr "_EVENING, NOVEMBER 15. IP,

LAW INTELLIGENCE.--This Day.

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
GINGER V. GINGER.

This was a petition for dissolution of marriage presented
by the wife against her husband.
The evidence was of a very immoral character, not
being sufficient to clearly establish the allegations in the
petition, and it was dismissed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF FRAUD. Isaac Brackenborough
Truman, describing himself as a traveller, of Swan-street,
Bethnal-green, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, on a
warrant with unlawfully obtaining a horse and cart by
false pretences from Mr. Coggings, licensed victualler, of
the Earl of Derby public-house, Purest-gate, Essex.
Mr. Thomas Beard prosecuted, and in opening the case
stated that, although the face of the prisoner might not be
familiar to his worship, it was so to his colleague, as he
had been previously charged at that court with a similar
offence, but escaped.
Mr.. W. Coggings Said—On the 3d November last I had
a pony, chaise, and harness for sale. On that day I
met the prisoner at the New Cattle-market. He
came up to me and said, "Do they belong
to you ?" I said, " Yes ; they are for sale.
Aro you a buyer?" The prisoner said, " I should
like to see how the pony can go." I then told
him to get up and I would show him, and he did so. I
drove him round the market, and he seemed very well
satisfied, and said it was a pony that would just suit him.
He then asked me if it would run in a four-wheel chaise,
as he bad one, and wanted it for his wife to drive round
the park. He asked me what I wanted for it, and I said
20 guineas, and he then said he should like his wife to see
it before he paid for it. He then asked me to take it to
Sawyer's livery stables, in the Curtain-road, at 8 at night,
and that he would then meet me there and pay me
the money. He then asked me what was the lowest I
would take, and' I said £2O. I went to the place ap-
pointed and saw the prisoner: He said his wife had gone
out, and asked me to leave them and to meet him the next
morning at half-past 10 o'clock at the Baker and Basket
public-house. I went there the next morning and found a
card left for me that the prisoner had gone to St. Martin's-
lane. I went to St. Martin's-lane, opposite the Horse
Repository. On the 'prisoner coming out I asked him if
he had the money to pay me, and he then said that he had
been purchasing two van. horsis, for Which: he had paid
£5O, and that had made him short of cash. He then asked
me to take a bill on the London and County Bank for the
amount. I said I could not do so for the whole amount,
as I must have some cash. After conversation I agreed to
take a bill for £l6 and £5 in money. He said he could
not say whether there was a sufficiency at the bhnk at pre-
sent, but that there would be £3OO or£4oo in a day or two,
and for that reason the bill was made payable seven days
after date. The prisoner then produced a bill stamp and
asked a cabman to fill up the bill, but that was spoilt
The prisoner said he could not write himself and asked
me if I could write. I said I could a little, and he then
told me to fill up the bill. Seeing the word " Number "
on it I asked him what number I was to put in, and he
said " 107." I told him I could not do it, and did not _un-
derstand it ; he then took the bill from me and filled it up.
He told me that he was in the flour trade in a large way of
business, and that he lived in Swan-street, Bethnal-green.
Believing his story to be true I parted with my property
At the end of the seven days I went to the London and
County Bank, both in Lombard-street and Shoreditch
and the answer I received was that the prisoner was not
known, and that he had never had an account at the bank.
I have never been able to find the prisoner nor my pro-
perty. ' _

Prisoner —Did I not say that I did not wish for your
property without the mousy
Prosecutor—You said you had a banking account. I
went to the address you gave me in Swan-street, and
there was no appearance of your.being largely engaged in
the flour trade, as I had to knock twice, and the card did
not find you.
Philip Shrives, 82 C - I took the prisoner into custody
last night. Ho told me that he would go with me, but
that the bill was not due. He said he had the property
still, but would not say where it was.
Mr. Tyrwhitt —I shall remand the prisoner for a.week.
The prisoner—Will you take bail ?
Mr. Tyrwhitt—Certainly not.

The Paris Exhibition of 1867.

PARIS, Nov. 13

The Minister of Public Instruction has addressed
a report to the Emperor, dated Nov. 8, recommend-
ing that, in the Paris International Exhibition of
1867, there should be a representation of the pro-
gress made by the moral and political sciences in
France during the last 20 years, by means of a series
of reports from eminent men upon the several
branches of these subjects.
The Minister's report is as follows :
" Sire,—The idea of periodical exhibitions is en-
tirely French. It dates from Louis XIV. for the
fine arts, from the Revolution for trade, and France,
after having given it to the world, has unceasingly
enlarged its proportions in order to render it more
fruitful. As far back as 16 years ago, sire, you
wished to invite all the nations to these grand so-
I lemnities. It was England who realised this idea,
and saw the first International Exhibition. The
palace in'llyde-park only received in 1851 objects
furnished by nature herself or by human industry.
In 1865 the Emperor decided that the two previpus
French exhibitions should be united. Art was placed
side by side with manufactures. Amid the magni-
ficence displayed in London in 1862, it was recog-
nised that the most precious instrument of labour
was still man, and that the productive value of the
workman would be increased by augmenting his in-
tellectual value. The English commission created a
special class of popular instruction with this same
object ; the imperial commission has just established
two. But international exhibitions tend to become
the complete representation of modern society in all
its modes of activity. After having placed art by
the side, of manufactures, which it -embellishes and
-
elevates, your Majesty wiShed.to place pure science
near the applications, which are only its outward
manifestations. While the Emperor directsthe study
of the question which will lead to the discovery of
that organisation which, since the destruction of
corporations, the mercantile world has been con-
stantly seeking, you desire, sire, that it be demanded
of the moral and political sciences what they have
produced to ameliorate the state of society; and of
French literature what it has done to elevate the
soul of the nation. The way of realising this idea
is simple. Let the Emperor deign to authorise the
Minister of Public Instruction to be an
exhibitor. If his productions occupy a small
space under a very modest form, they will none the
less attract attention; and I do not hesitate.to say
that several will survive the triumphs of their more
brilliant neighbours, since the one much more than
the other expresses the mind of France. I have al-
ready secured the support of eminent men, who will
describe in a series of reports, bearing their signa-
ture, in order that each may have the honour, as
the responsibility, of his work :-1. The progress
accomplished in France in the mathematical, physi-
cal, and natural sciences during the last 20 years—
that is to say, since the era of the great exhibitions.
2. The progress accomplished by the moral and po-
litical sciences in their application to the necessities
of society. 3. The part fulfilled lay French literature,
which should be studied less in point of form, which
is the mission of literary criticism, than in its effects
upon the general education of the country. At the
Exhibition palace, in the midst of those material
products, which area pledge of national welfare, the
liberal arts can only enter by showing that they
bring to a people not only noble amusement, but
moral strength and dignity. The Emperor, whose
solicitude extends from the simple teaching of the
infant school to the highest speculations of science,
cannot give a more useful encouragement to thelat-
ter than this picture of the efforts, the greatness, and
even in certain points the defects, of the mind of
France. If foreign nations thought fit to make a
similar examination of themselves, it would no
longer only be by the invention of each that all would
profit. By a comparison of the progress accom-
plished in various parts in scientific and moral order,
every people would enter the path of fresh progress,
the level of civilisation would rise, and an addi-
tional guarantee would be given for the peace of
the world.—l am, &c.,

"V. DURUY,
The Minister of Public Instruction.
(Approved) " NAPOLEON."

A Self-Accused Murderess at Middlesbro',

EXTRAORDINARY IMPOSTURE.

One of the most extraordinary cases of imposture
that has come under our notice for some time has
just occurred at South Stockton, where the police
have been imposed upon by a young woman, who
has proved herself a thorough adept in deception.
On Saturday evening last one of the officers of the
South Stockton force, whilst in Mandale-lane,
near the town, found a young woman of rather
respectable appearance, who seemed to be greatly
distressed. The officer inquired what was the mat-
ter, but her replies were at first vague and unsatis-
factory. At length she told him she had taken a
quantity of tincture of saffron to procure a miscar-
riage, and, as she really appeared to be very ill, a
vehicle was procured, and she was conveyed to the
police station. Here she repeated her story,
and Mr. J. Lefler, surgeon, was sent for, and
the drug not having been successful in effecting
its pretended function, she seemed to get better
slowly under medical care. In a day or two
she seemed restored to good health, and she
gave the people the startling intelligence that she
was a murderess, having strangled and thrown the
infant child into the river. She said she had been
living for a week with a man at Middlesbro', who
had left her, and that on the morning of last
Saturday week she took her female child, aged
twelve months, down to the ferry landing at
Middlesbro', and after strangling it she threw it
into the river, from the pontoon bridge. The cir-
cumstantial account she gave of the occurrence

led everybody to believe her extraordinary
statement, but no child could be found. On Thurs-
day she was taken before the magistrates at Yarm,
charged, on her own confession, with the offence,
but she was remanded. Inquiries have been made
by the police as to her antecedents, and it turns
out she is a well-known impostor. She gave the
name of Mary Ann Taylor Ward, and that she came
from Stafford, but this was untrue. She is a native
of Burslem, in the Staffordshire Potteiies, and her
proper name is Mary Hutton. At the Quarter
Sessions, at Stafford, in October, 1863, she was
convicted in the name of Mary Ann James, alias
Taylor, alias Williams, of being an incorrigible
rogue and vagabond, after being before convicted
of a similar offence, and was then sentenced to
twelve months' imprisonment. She had also been

found at Wolverhampton, crying in the streets,
threatening to destroy herself, saying she had
come from Burslem with a young man, who,
after giving her a drug to procure abortion, had
deserted her. On another occasion she eharged
three men with having committed a rape upon
her, when there was not the slightest ground for the
charge. In May, 1863, she was found at Eccles-
hall, in Staffordshire, on a Sunday morning,
when she appeared to be in such a state that a
county magistrate and a magistrates' clerk were sent
for out of church to take her dying depositions. In
November last she was taken up at Blakenhall,
Cheshire, when she pretended she had heen delivered
of a child, and had thrown it into a pit, and that she
had taken poison. These are only a few of her ex-
ploits which might be narrated. All who saw her
before this information was received were so de-
ceived by her artless manner as to express their
deepest pity for her condition. She is believed to
be the same person who some time ago kept the
police of four places all at one time making inqui_
ries into her pretended murders of her babes. She
will no doubt be sent to prison again as a rogue and
vagabond, and thus be kept for a time at least
from imposing on the public. with her shameful
practices.

In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets
during the last few days there has not been much
animation. Sugars, however, have been in better
request, and prices -have slightly improved. A
steady demand has prevailed for tea at fully late
rates, while a considerable business has been done
in rice, chiefly for home consumption, at slightly
higher prices. Tallow has been in more request,
and prices have shown an upward tendency.