The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-25 00:00:00

LAW INTE,

—(This Day).

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Registrar Winslow.)
IN RE SIR EARDLEY GIDEON CULLING EARDLEY, BART.

This bankrupt was described as late of Frogwell, Tun-
bridge Wells, and of the Albany, now of Florence, out of
the jurisdiction of this Court.. To-day was appointed for
the last examination and order of discharge, but the bank-
rupt has filed no accounts. Amongst the creditors who
have proved their debts are Mr. Hancock, for £540 ; Mr.
William Thomas, for £1,099 ; Mr. H. Webber, £309 ; S.
Wertheimer, £1,073. There wore several other creditors
who had not proved, and the case was adjourned.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.)

THE COMPOpITORS OF THE LATE " MORNING MAIL.'

SIIUTTLEWOUTH V. FAITLKENER.

This was an application to have out of court certain
monies paid in by defendant.
Mr. Buchanan appeared for the defendant, who was the
publisher and registered proprietor of the late Morning
Mail, upon which paper the plaintiff had been a compositor.
In the first instance an action was brought against the de-
fendant by two compositors named Eastman and Shuttle-
worth (the present plaintiff). They both obtained verdicts,
and Mr. Buchanan applied for a new trial in the case
now before the court. His Honour ordered that
money claimed by plaintiff should be paid into court, with
certain costs, and this being done, the new trial was to
be tried on June 21 last year. Upon that day the plaintiff
did not appear, and the case was struck out.
Mr. Buchanan now asked that, as the first order in
plaintiff's favour was entirely gone, defendant should be
allowed to have the money in court.

His Honour was of Opinion that defendant ought to give
notice to the other side that this application would be
made.

Mr. Buchanan urged that this would lead to some incon-
venience. The only question before the Court was whether
defendant was entitled to have the money.
His Honour was induced to think he could make no
order in the matter.

Application refused..
THE LAW OP LANDLORD AND TENANT---REYNAU V. COX

This was an action to recover the rent of a ready fur-
nished house. Plaintiff produced a written agreement, and
defendant pleaded that he could not occupy the house.
He stopped in it for one quarter and it was uninhabitable,
had defective drainage, which led to very bad smells in the
house, and the bedrooms were infested with bugs.
His Honour ruled that not one of the defences was good
in law. It had been expressly decided that even if a house
were burnt down the tenant was liable in the rent.
Verdict for the plaintiff.
Defendant said he should appeal against this decision.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

WILFUL MURDER OF A CHILD EY ITS MOTHER.-Eliza-
both Suter, about 23 years of age, formerly in service at 12,
Northwick-terrace, Notting-hill, was charged before Mr.
Tyrwhitt with the wilful murder of an infant female child,
of which she was delivered in Marylebono Workhouse on
the 17th of March.

Mr. Tubbs, assistant overseer, attended to watch the case
on the part of the Board of Guardians of Marylebone.
Police-constable Charles Lloyd, 97 A, said—On Friday
last I went to Mount-street workhouse, and saw a child.
On its clothes was the name "E. Suter." I made inquiries,
and at Marylebone Workhouse found that a female of that
name had been confined there of a female chile on the 17th
of March, but had left. I afterwards made further inquiries,
and this morning found the prisoner at Brompton. I
told her I was a police-constable, and that I would
taken her on suspicion of murdering her child by drown-
ing it in the Serpentine. I also told her that she need not
say anything, but that what she did say would be used in
evidence against her on her trial. She cried, and said
every one was against her, and that she had made away
with it, and that it was as much as she could do to keep
from throwing herself into the water. She also said, in
answer to her sister-in-law, who asked her why she did
it, that a woman she took the child to would not have it,
so she made away with it.
By Mr. Tyrwhitt—Sho was living with her brother at
Ann's-place, Brompton.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—l shall remand the prisoner for a week,
when the other witnesses can attend.

Mr. Tubbs said—At the inquest the nurse would be able
to identify the child from particular marks on the forehead,
and that when the prisoner left the workhouse it was at
her own request, and in opposition to the wishes of the
chairman of the board of guardians.

THAMES.
STREET PREACHING.—COrneIius M. O'Leary, an'lrish-
man, with long beard and moustache and a very dirty face,
appearing to have had no connection with soap and water
for some time, was charged with being very drunk and dis-
orderly.
Pople, 288 K, stated that yesterday evening about 500
persons were assembled at the end of Philpot-street, Com-
mercial-road, listening to an itinerant preacher, who was
holding forth to the people. The prisoner came up and
shouted and abused the preacher, and a regular disturb-
ance ensued. The prisoner was very drunk and disorderly,
and his shouts were terrific, his language foul, and his de-
nunciations of Garibaldi and all heretics appalling. He
took him into custody, and, after much trouble, locked him
up. There were 700 persons around him.
Mr. Paget—Yes ; he brought his own congregation with
him. Was this last night or Sunday night ?
Pople—Last night; Monday, sir
Mr. Paget—What became of the other preacher ?
Pople—He went afty, sir, with his friends, but the pri-
soner would not go.
Mr. Paget—No, he wanted to make converts. (A laugh.)
Inspector Griffin, of the K division, said that, since the
fine weather had set in, the street preachers assembled
every night at the end of Philpot-street, close to the Com-
mercial7road, which was a great public thoroughfare, and
discussions, pocket-picking, and brawls had taken place.
The inhabitants of the locality were getting up a memo-
rial to the Commissioners of Police to suppress the
nuisance, but he intended to save them all further trouble,
by going there himself with as many police-constables as
might be required and preventing street preaching and the
assemblage of people there.
Mr. Paget—That is the proper course—stop it alto-
gether.

Inspector Griffin—l will show no favour. I will serve
them all alike.
The prisoner said he was hard at work all day on a
wharf, and was drinking hard in the evening. As he was
passing the end of Philpot-street he heard a man preach-
ing, and commented upon it. His comments were not
liked, and he was taken into custody.
Mr. Paget said the prisoner had much better leave his
commentaries for another place and not waste them in the
streets. He was very glad the police were about to
sup-
press a very great evil in the district. The system of
preaching and collecting largo and disorderly assemblies of
persons ought to be stopped. There were plenty of places
for any one to promulgate their opinions and tenets with-
out interruption. It was not to be endured that the pub-
lic streets, which were made for traffic and the passage of
persons on horse and on foot, should be impeded by
preachers or disputants of any description. The prisoner
was a very foolish fellow, and ought to know better.
The prisoner—His observations applied to me, and I
made my comments and refutations. (Laughter.)
Mr. Paget—No observations were applied to you. If
you are brought here again for a similar offence I will
.punish you severely. You are discharged.

REMARKABLE DREAM.--The legal proceedings
which lately to-ok place in the Sheriff Court of
Clackmannanshire with regard to the violation of a grave
in the churchyard of Alloa, and the unwarrantable exhu-
mation of the body of James Quin, had their origin, it is
stated, in a remarkable dream of the mother of the deceased.
Young Quin died in September, 1863, and was buried in a
lair in the churchyard, which was purchased by his father
from William Donaldson, the kirk treasurer, it being
agreed that the price was to be paid by instalments.
About six months afterwards Robert Blair, the sexton
or gravedigger, took upon himself (without the autho-
rity, it would appear, of Donaldson) to sell the same
lair to another person, and to inter therein a relative
of the new purchaser, without however at that time ex-
huming the
time body of Quin, the former tenant. Some con-
siderable after this the mother of Quin, being desirous
of erecting a headstone on the grave of her son, made some
inqUiries with that view, in the course of which she heard
something of another person having been buried in his grave,
this having, as she stated, been "cast up" by Blair's nephew
to a younger son of her's on their way from the Sunday
school. But the gravedigger denied the truth of this story,
and managed to pacify her. Feeling, however, that he had
got into a scrape by the lair having been resold, he, some
weeks after Mrs. Quin had interrogated him on the subject,
dug up the body of her son during the night of Thursday,
the 23d of March last, and re-interred it in other ground.
Now, on that very Thursday night, as sworn to by Mrs.
Quin at the trial, she had this remarkable dream :—She
dreamt that her boy stood in his night-gown at her bed-
side, and said to her, "Ch, mother, put me back to my own
bed." She then awoke her husband, and, forgetting in her
half-dreaming state that her son was dead, said to him,
"Jimmie is out of his bed; put him back into it," after
which she fall asleep, and again had the same dream. A
third time during the same night she dreamt that her son
was standing beside her bed ; but on this occasion, re-
membering that he was dead, the figure of the gravedigger
was mixed up with that of the boy, and he appeared to be
shoving his spade into the body. Awakening in greate
n
trepidation, and feeling certain that her boy had been taken
out of his grave, she went to the gravedigger and vehementi
somey
accused him of having dug up the body, which, after
prevarication, he at last admitted. Hence arose the action
action
of damages against Donaldson, the kirk treasurer,i.2
wasand
Blair, the gravedigger, which, being restricted to .c
brought in the Small Debt Court, Tho sheriff, after a long
proof, assoilizied Donaldson, and found Blair liable in
damages, which, the parties not having settled the same
extrajudicially, have been since assessed at £o,—Scotsman,

IMPBRIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS LAST EVENING
The SPEAKER took tiao chair at four o'clock.
NEW 30.318ER5.

Mr. POTTER took the oaths and ius seat for Rochdale.
Col. HERBERT took the oaths and his seat for Shropshire
Mr. ADAM took the oaths and his seat for Clackmannan
Mr. YOUNG (the Solicitor-General for Scotland) took
the oaths and his seat for Wigton.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were read a third time and passed:—
Birmingham Water, Carnarvon New Water, Cheltenham
Water, Chesterfield Water and Gas, East London Railway,
Forcett Railway, Fulham Railway, Horsforth Water,
Luton Water, Metropolitan Railway, North Eastern Rail-
way (Pelaw and other Branches), Rossendale Union Gas,
Saint Albans Water, Tees Valley Railway, West Sussex
Junction Railway, and Winchcomb Roads.

The following bills were further considered and ordered
to be read a third time :—Edgware, Highgate, and London
Railway, Glasgow and South Western Railway (City of
Glasgow Union), Great Torrington Roads, Hexham and
Allendale Railway, London, Blackwall, and Millwall Rail-
way, Scottish North Eastern Railway, and Whitehaven
Junction Railway.