The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-19 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS .DAY.)

QUEEN'S BENCH.
BELLES V. WILSON.

In this case, which was an action against Mr. Alder-
man Wilson for false imprisonment, and in which a ver-
dict was found for the plaintiff,
Ldrd Campbell this morning delivered the judgment
of the Court, stating that they were of opinion that the
defendant had acted illegally in committing the plaintiff
to prison, and that under those circumstances a rule for
a new trial could not be granted.

SECONDARIES' COURT.-(THIS .DAY.)

(Before Mr. Secondary Potter.)
WHITI V. BALDING.

This was an action to recover the sum of 41. 3s. 4d.
for money lent. Defendant pleaded a set off.
The following are the facts of the case :—The plaintiff
was until lately a builder, &c., in Queen-square, and
defendant is a miller, &c., in Hampshire. Defendant
admitted receiving the amount, but claimed 81. odd for
expenses in endeavouring to effect an arrangement with
plaintiffs creditors—he himself being one for 2301.,
which could not be recovered, plaintiff having petitioned
the Insolvent Court. It was not explained how, under
these circumstances, plaintiff maintained the action.
Defendant, in examination, said that he knew the plain-
tiff could not pay the amount of his claim, and under-
took to repay the money lent to him, and sent four
sovereigns in a letter by post, but plaintiff denied re-
ceiving it, and as he could not be contradicted by evi-
dence defendant was obliged to admit the debt, and
under the circumstances pleaded the set off.

The jury, after a short consultation, found a verdict
for the defendant.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—YESTERDAY.
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
25 to 1 agst Grapeshot. (taken).
25 to 1 Richmond.
30 to 1 Galvanism.
30 to 1 Redmond O'Hanlon.
30 to 1 Hirsuta.
30 to 1 Pug orrock.
30 to 1 Mr. Moon.
30 to 1 Contentment.
30 to 1 Lampedo.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
12 to 1 offered on the Field, and 20 to 1 taken to 201.
about Victress.

CHESTER CUP.
20 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn (taken).
65 to 1 Scarecrow, (taken).
25 to 1 Constantine, (taken).
40 to 1 Indian Warrior.
40 to 1 Trifle.
60 to 1 Richard Primmer.
50 to 1 Contentment.
60 to 1 Talfourd.

DERBY.
15 to 1 agst Umbriel (taken to 501.).

THREE FATAL ACClDENTS.—Yesterday information
was forwarded to Mr. C. Bedford, the coroner for West-
minster, of the death of John Lawrence, carpenter,
aged 22 years, residing at Bagnigge-wells-place, who ex-
pired in King's College Hospital, from injuries received
under the following circumstances :—lt appears that the
deceased was at work at Messrs. Bradbury and Evans s,
printers, Whitefriars, on the 20th December, when as-
sioting to remove an iron beam, about a ton, it acci-
dentally fell off the rollers on the deceased, who received
a most severe compound dislocation of the ankle joint.
with a fracture of the bone of the legs.—The second is
that of a man named John Goulbourne, painter, aged
42 years, residing at Walworth. The deceased was
engaged in cleaning the windows on the second floor of
the Admiralty Harbour Department, and while standing
on a ladder, which was placed out of the window, the
frame gave way by which he was holding, and the de-
ceared fell 30 feet. He was conveyed to the West-
mipster Hospital, where he expired of a fractured skull.
Lastly that of Elizabeth Rose, No. 1, St. Ormond's-hill,
Westminster, who was accidentally run over while cros-
sing Orchard-street, Westminster.

REDUCING THE SALARIES OF POOR LAW OFFICERS.—
A parliamentary paper has just been printed respecting
the Tewkesbury Union. The board of guardians carried
resolutions to reduce the salaries of the several officers,
on account of the "cheapness of provisions." The offi-
cers appealed to the Poor Law Board, and the reasons
were required from the guardians that induced them to
pass the resolutions. They urged that the value of agri-
cultural produce had been diminished 30 per cent., that
the rates had decreased, and that food was cheap. The
Poor Law Board replied, that they had "never recog-
nised the principle that the price of the articles and of
the produce referred to are to be the criterion by whieli
the amount of salaries ought to be estimated and regu-
lated, or that such salaries should be liable to vary as
the price of food fluctuates." The Poor Law Board
thought that no sufficient reason had been assigned for
the reduction, declaring that the fixed salaries of the
medical officers remunerated them only for their ordinary •
duties, and the board did not see that sufficient grounds
had been adduced for diminishing the salaries of either of
the officers referred to in the resolutions of the guardians.
CRUELTY TO A CHILD.—An inquest was held a few days
since at Milverton, in Somersetshire, which disclosed
great barbarity on the part of a young woman, named
Elizabeth Baker, towards a child two years and a half
old. The deceased, Albert Marks, had been entrusted
by the mother (who is in service at Pitminster) to a
Mrs. Scott, who was paid Is. 3d. per week for her
charge. Elizabeth Baker was the daughter of this per-
son, and it was proved in evidence that she used to
beat the child cruelly with a stick, and, on one oc-
casion, when the poor little fellow had made himself
dirty and wet, she took off his socks and shoes, and
put one of his feet close to the bars of the grate, keep-
ing it there for some minutes, in spite of his cries.st
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on Monday morning, Mrs. Laing, living in the Commer-
cial-road, was awoke by hearing a noise as of some one
in the house, and on going down stairs and listening at
the parlour door, she distinctly heard the movements of
some one inside. She aroused the other inmates, on
which the burglar decamped through the window and
over the wall of the yard adjoining the road, leaving be-
hind him his shoes and cap, together with a great variety
of valuable articles, tied up in a cloth, ready for removal.
Information was conveyed to the police, and soon after-
wards, at three o'clock, one of the men on duty in Mar-
land-place heard a noise as of a door banging. He exa-
mined the houses, and found the lower sash of the
kitchen window at the residence of Dr. Wilmot wide
open, and some one moving about inside. He gave an
alarm by ringing. the bell, which the burglar hearing,
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together with some articles stolen from Mrs. Laing 's
The burglar subsequently admitted that the cap and
shoes belonged to him, and whilst locked up in the sta-
tion-house one of the police overheard a conversation
between him and another prisoner, in which he said he
had lived by thieving for the last six years, but he was
now sure to be "lagged," and that the task of breaking
into two houses of a night was a perfect nothing, as he
had often managed to get into five or six. He was
brought before the borough magistrates on Monday, and
committed for trial at the assizes at Winchester on both
charges.
OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON RAIL-
WAY.—The Parliamentaiy declaration of this company,
in connection with their proposed bill for extension of
time for purchasing lands, &c., sets forth that the ex-
pense will be defrayed out of funds authorised by their
acts, amounting to 4,092,9991., of which 959,027/. have
not been raised, together with the former sum of
412,9601., making a sum total of 1,371,9871. yet unex-
pended ; and that after deducting this latter sum for acts
authorised, and the funds required for contribution to
the proposed Worcester and Hereford junction Railway;
on the mixed gauge, with branches to Ledbury and Here-
ford, there will remain 55,000/. and upwards applicable
for the proposed bill, and that the company are not the
promoters of any other bill, comprising any new works,
this session. .

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, JAN. 18.
The following had the honour of dining with her Ma-
jesty yesterday :—The Duchess of Kent, the Prince of
Leiningen, the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, the
Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, and the
Baroness de Speth.
Her Majesty's private band attended in the evening
and performed the following selection :
Overture, " La Part du Diable" Auber.
Scherzo, Notturno, and March, "Mid-
summer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn
Selection, "Faust" Sp ohr.
March, " Occasional Oratorio" Handel.
Minuetto, Trio, and Finale, " Sinfonia,
No. 5" Mozart.
The ViscountesS Canning has succeeded the Countess
of Charlemont as Lady in Waiting to the Queen.
Lord Elphinstone and Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. N.
Hood have relieved Lord Byron and Lieutenant-General
Sir Frederick Stovin as Lord and Groom in Waiting.
The Duchess of Sutherland is expected at the. Castle
to-day, on a visit to her Majesty.

The Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, accompanied by
Sir Charles Barry and the Baron Marochetti, had an in-
terview with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday at hie offi-
cial residence in Downing-street.
Mrs. Chisholm had an interview with the Duke of
Newcastle yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Mr. James Baines, of Liverpool, accompanied by Capt.
J. W. Forbes, of he ship Marco Polo, and Captain
Alexander Newlands, had an interview with the Right
Hon. E. Cardwell at the Board of Trade yesterday, on
the subject of ships deserted 1,)3, their crews in Australia.
A deputation of the trustees of the British Museum,
consisting of the Right Hon. H. Goulburn, Lord Mahon,
the Bishop of London, Sir Robert H. Inglis, Mr. Hal-
lam, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, and Mr. W. R.
Hamilton, attended by Sir Henry Ellis, had an inter-
view yesterday with the Earl of Aberdeen and the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, at the official residence of the
First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street.
Mr. R. Jebb had an interview with Viscount Pal-
merston yesterday at the Home-office.
Sir Hugh Hume Campbell had an interview yesterday
with the Earl of Aberdeen. -
Mr. William Cubitt, M.P., had an interview yesterday '
with the Duke of Newcastle.

ANTI-STATE CHURCH ASSOCIATION.

A public meeting of this association—the first of a
series of four—was held yesterday evening at the Educa- '
tional Institute, 58, Aldersgate-street ; Mr. E. Clarke in
the chair. The Chairman observed that the association
embraced persons of all creeds, and all sections of the
Christian world. What was taking place in the esta-
blished church aided their exertions, and they must bail
even the Bishop of Exeter as one of the clergy who had
done them great and good service. They looked for
results in the justice of their cause, and believed the good
of the community to be involved in their success. An
address was then delivered by Mr. John Kingsley on
"The Ecclesiastical Events of 1852." In the course of
his remarks he observed that it was satisfactory to know
that 1852 had had its ecclesiastical events. Sufficient
had occurred to prevent an abatement of public interest
in the question. The object which they aimed at had at
length emerged from obscurity, and it was on all hands
beginning to be regarded as a possible, if not the
only possible attempt to readjust the claims of
the secular -and the spiritual, in our patchwork
constitution. He then commented upon the case of
Mr. Whiston, as causing, in the result, a• tendency
in the right direction ; the einecurism of the Rev. Mr.
Moore, as a striking example of the abuses of the State
church ; the appointment of the Rev. Mr. Bennett to the
vicarage of Frome, as a gross violation of the consciences
and religious liberties of the inhabitants ; while the tarn
which the discussion took in Parliament showed the ut-
ter incompetency of the Legislature to deal with religi-
ous questions ; the partially-successful attempt to pro -
tract the sittings of Convocation for the transaction of
business, and thus to recover advantageecof which tho
church had been deprived by her connexion with the
State ' • the history and character of Mr. Gladstone's Co-
lonial Bill ; the Maynooth grant, &c,—all these being
regraded as affording either evidences of progress or rea-
sons for aiming at a total separation of Church and State.
The speaker, in his concluding remarks, quoted a pas'
sage from a speech of Lord Falkland, in the reign of
Charles 1., in which the prelates of that day were de-
scribed as wishing to set up a Popery distinct from that
of Rome, yet the same in spirit ; and he contended that
this was a true portraiture of the high churchmen of the
present day, though there was little probability of society,
as now constituted, allowing them to set up a spiritual
despotism.
A discussion followed, which was entirely in accord-
ance with the foregoing ; and a vote of thanks was given
to Mr. Kingsley for his address.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY.
THIRTEENTH DAY.
OXFORD, TUESDAY.--The poll has again been opensd at
intervals during the day, and thirty-three votes have
also been recorded, sixteen of which were in favour of
Mr. Gladstone, and seventeen in favour of Mr. Peres'
val, giving a majority of one vote on the day's poll t°
the latter gentleman.
STATE OF THE POLL AT FIVE O'CLOCK.
Gladstone
Perceval
Majority for Gladstone ...... ...-124

RAILWAY BlLLS.—Yesterday was the last day for 011"
tering opposition to railway bills upon standing order/. '
The company's bill for effecting the Fleet valley improve'
ments and the City terminus was unopposed, and the
45,0001. deposit on the subscribed capital has been paid
into the hands of the Accountant-General, as required
by Parliament.
CITY COURT OP SEWERS.—Yesterday Mr. Daw laid
the following return before the City Sewers Commis'
sioners :—Gentlemen,— Agreeably to my former practice,
I beg to lay before you the following information on the
details of business of your honourable court for the past
year :—During the year 1852 the Court has met forty
times, and there have been also 47 meetings of your
committees. At the court there have 798 applications
or petitions presented for various works, namely : For
fronts, areas, lamps, and other matters having reference
to works not on sewers, 452 ; for new drains, 308 ; for ,
cleansing cesspools, 38. Total, 798. During the past
year there have been surveyed by the inspectors, upon
the request of the medical officer of health, 1,477 houses,
and 558 more have been inspected by them from other
causes. Consequent upon these surveys the following
number of notices have been prepared under my direc'
tion, calling upon the owners or occupiers to carry out
the works required to be done by the orders of your,
honourable court, viz.:—Special, for new drainage, and'
other works of improvement, 202 ; for cleansing, white'
washing, and otherwise amending the interior, 519 ; for
abating sundry nuisances, 24 ; also for turning wan
surface water into sewers, 161. There have been 116
notices served to carry out the act of parliament for th*
suppression of smoke. In 111 cases the notices to effect •
the various works not having been attended to, second
notices have been served on the parties to effect the
same. 366 notices have been served to shore up houses
consequent upon the intended construction of new sewerS•
Licenses have also been issued for hoards and scaffolds
erected during the past year.
DISCOVERY OF ROMAN MEDALS.—A few days sines ,
as a young girl was digging in the garden of a farm At
Saint Paul de. Varax (Mn), in France, she turned up
Roman tile, under which was a vase full .of medals, but
so corroded and stuck together, that it was necessary to
break the vessel to get them out. The medals were
found to be 400 in number, 19 of them in bronze and the
rest silver. Twenty-five of them, on being cleaned, were
found to bear the effigy and name of the Roman Emile'
rors Alexander Severus, Maximus, Gordian, Philip, Da"
cius, and Gallien, who succeeded each other from the coin
mencement to the middle of the third century (222 to
268 after Christ). The same vase contained jewels, two,
chains, and seven rings in gold, in a perfect state of pre'
servation. There were also two necklaces. One formed,
of fine rings is in perfect preservation. It is terminated
by a small ornament like a wheel, the centre of which ill
formed of an emerald with a gold clasp, similar to those
now in use. The other which is incomplete, is ono'
mented with small stones or pieces of glass. The rings
found are large, but not very massive. They are ornsf•
mented with agates, engraved with various devices'
which are very finely executed.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday, the 28th December,
an accident of a melancholy character occurred on tl.l
road between Folkestone and Sandgate. It appeared
that as Mr. Grimwood, a master baker, residing ere
Sandgate, and two other persons, friends of his, NY°O
coming slowly up the hill, on the road leading fro
Sandgate to Folkestone' in a light cart, they were rll.l
into by a cart and two horses, which came at a fesrP,A
pace down the hill without a driver. Mr. Grimwood, n
endeavouring to escape from the cart, was struck PI
in the forehead, causing a concussion of the brain, 00
instant death ; his arm was also broken. The person
with him escaped with a few slight bruises. This unferci
tunate event has quite cast a gloom over a large circle a
acquaintances to whom the deceased was well known s! ,
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very much respected. The friends of the deceased 115;,,
been much annoyed at the delay which took place bet,
the coroner's inquest was held, by Mr. Delasaux, 6
coroner for this part of the county, which did not tie
place until Saturday, the Ist, at seven o'clock in to
evening, at the Ship Inn, and was then adjourned 0.11
Tuesday. If the coroner has too large a district to e? 0,
eO,
veniently attend to, surely he might appoint deputise
and thus avoid inflicting the pain and inconvenience,
families of deceased persons suffer through his delay
Maidstone Gazette.
THE IMPORTANCE OF LIFE ASSURANCE.—In.„e-ed
nection with the above fatal accident, we have leP"'"nioe
some particulars, which show the value of Life Assurs
of
and the danger of procrastination. It is the eustonl 4
offices to allow some days after the premium become
ovj
due, for its payment. The deceased, who was insu de-
in the Indisputable Policy Company for 500/., had so
layed the payment of his premium till the last daY/ to
that the insurance had fallen before his relatives went w
pay the premium. It is gratifying, however, to be, the
to state, from information received from the agent c•
Company, who happened to be the foreman of then to
quest, that on his making thb circumstance know
the board, and stating his belief that the decease: N
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really on his way to pay the premium when the
dent occurred, they immediately directed him to a' 0
the widow that they would consider the insurell'
still effectual."—Bid.