The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING-, JANUARY 23, 1819.

EXCHEQUER.-(TIIIS DAY.)

CRIM. CON.—PRATT V. FLETCHER.
This was an action to reecTer in damages from de-
fendstit for an alleged criminal conversation with plain-
tiff's wife. It was tried at the last sittings after Term,
when a verdict was found for the plaintiff, for 8001.
The defendant was a surgeon, practising in the neigh-
bourhood of Hackney, and the acquaintance which led
to the criminal intercourse sprang up whilst defendant
was attending plaintiff's wife in his professional capacity.
Last term a rule was obtained for a new trial, and
came on for argument to-day.
Mr. Sergeant SHEE was heard against the rule. He
said: there were a great number of details: in the
affidavits on the other side, but the substance of them
was this—that the plaintiff, then being twenty-five years
of age, first met the young woman who afterwards be-
came his wife, and was then seventeen years old, at a
house of ill fame.
Mr. HUMFREY—No, he first met her in the streets.
Mr. Sergeant SHER—The present motion called upon
the Court to decide the amount of immorality in the
husband and wife previous to their marriage; but he
apprehended, looking to the nature of the affidavit,
that the husband was entitled to protection. The
Learned Sergeant having stated that many of
the persons making those affidavits were per-
sons of improper character, proceeded : —What
he wished the Court to consider was, the extraor-
dinary hardship of the plaintiff's position in one
respect. No doubt he was guilty of immorality,
and of gross imprudence in marrying a person of
this kind; but they agreed to marry, to abandon
all immoral conduct for the future, and he gradually
introduced her into respectable society, and also to his
own friends and relations, and for two years afterwards
they lived perfectly happy and with perfect propriety.
CHIEF BARON—For anything that appears to the
contrary.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON—Her sisters were the proper
witnesses to call respecting her previous conduct. Why
were they not called ?
CHIEF BARON—It is impossible to disguise the fact
that the plaintiff has obtained the verdict under false
pretences. He stated by counsel, which counsel believed
to be true, that which he knew was untrue, to obtain
commensurate damages for an injury which he did not sus-
tain. If this action, instead of being one for damages,
had been an action for a debt, the plaintiff would have
been guilty, I think, of a crime.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON—It is clear, upon the affidavits,
that there has been adultery on the part of the de-
fendant.
Mr. HUMFREY, on the part of the defendant, said he
would admit that.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON—Then, as that is the case, the
parties bad better make some arrangement, to save the
expense of a new trial. It would be better for the parties
to reduce the damages very much below 8001.
Mr. HUMFREY—I should think so, my Lord. 80. R.
indeed for this woman!—(Laughter.)
Mr. Baron ALDERSON—If the jury thought the plain-
tiff married an innocent woman, all I can say is, that
they were very much mistaken.—(Hear.)
The parties not being able to come to terms the rule
was made absolute, on the understanding that the trial
should take place in the Queen's Bench, that the adul-
tery should be admitted, and that the costs should abide
the event of the plaintiff obtaining the costs of a new
rial.—Rule absolute.

COURSE OF EXCHA
Amster-Inm ........ • • 12 2N
Ditto, at sight • • .... 12 • N
Itotterdain 12 3
25 70
liamburgh —MX. 13 111
Alton..
earls, 3 days' sight 25 32
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 60
riarseilles • • .• 25 62}",
. 25 65
b'rankfort on Maine.. 1911A'
Petersburgh, Sil. Rble 36%

N (;E.-( THIS DAY

Gibraltar
Leghorn ...• • • ••.. •• 32 0
Genoa .. • • • • • 26 30
Milan ................
Naples ...... • • ••
Palermo,
Messina .. .... • • •• • • ••
Lisbon.... • •
Rio Janeiro • • ...... ••
Buenos Ayres
New York,2ldays'sight
Philadelphia
PILICES OP BULLION, PER OS
Foreign Gold ia bars • ..£3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars •• . • . 0 4 10
Silver in bars ........ 0 4 11%

118%
118%
51%
52%

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Vienna, effec. flo.• •• 11 28
Trieste, ditto.... 11 30
Madrid •• .• •• •• ...... 48
Cadiz •• .• •......... 48%

:arcelona .....

Seville.. •..... • . • • •• .

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
Nr3IBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JAN. 20, 1848.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*393
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 51
Turbercular Diseases... ..• ... 155
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 136
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 55
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... ..• •.. 300
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
68

of Digestion... ... ... ... ...
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. ••• •••
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. ...
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c. ... ... ...
Malformations... ••• ••• .•• •••
Premature Birth .•• ••• •• •••
Atrophy ••• ••• ••• ••• ••1
Old Age •.• ••• ••• •• • .8
Sudden ... ••• ••• ••• ••• .•
Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance
Causes nut specified ... ••• ••• ..

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ...

Population
Enumerated,
1841
West Districts... 300,711
North D.,tricts.. 375,971
Central I)istr:cts 373,653
East Districts ... 392,444
South Districts.. 501,190

Average weekly Deaths
Deaths, 1843-7. in the
Five Summers. Week.
142 ... 190
. 182 ... 255
, 178 ... 198
, 219 ... 272
, 251 ... 430

Totals... ..... 1,948,369

1,345
640
705

Males ...
Females ...

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males
Females

Total ...1,528
*ln this number are included 62 cases of death by
Cholera, 87 by Scarlatina, and 68 by Typhus Fever.

° I THE LONDON GAZETTE
(THIS EVENING.)

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 23.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Hon.
George Sulyarde Stafford Jerningham, now Secretary to
her Majesty's Legation at Madrid, to be Secretary to her
Majesty's Embassy to the Ottoman Porte.
DOW NING- STREET, JAN. 23.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Daniel Blair,
Esq., Doctor of M.dicir.e, to be Surgeon-General for
the colony of British Guiana.
Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint George
Marsh, Esq., to be Resident Magistrate at Mossel Bay,
in the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope.
COURT OF EXCHEQUEH.
HILARY TERM, VIC. 12— JAN. 23.
This Court will hold Sittings on Monday and
s Tuesday he sth and 6th tdays of February next,
i•y, and also on Thur4ay, the Bth day of the same
'3i, month, and on every succeeding day (Sundays
exc.pted) until and including Wednesday the
is. 28th day of the same month ; and will at suet
Od sitting.; proceed in disposing of the business then pendiug
in the Paper of New Trials, in the Paper of Demurrers,
in the Paper of Special Cases, and motions appointed to
be brought on with any case in the New Trial Paper or
Gd Demurrer Paper, and also in giving judgment in all
matters then standing for judgment. F. J. POLLOCK.
J. PARSE.
E. H. ALDERSON.

Read in open court,
E. BENNETT.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
HILARY TERN, VIC. 12— JAN. 22.
This Court will, on Thursday the Ist, Friday the 2cl
Thursday the Bth, Friday the 9th, Saturday the 10th,
and Monday the 12th, days of February next, hold Sit-
tings, and will proceed in disposing of the business in
the Crown Paper, Special Paper, and New Trial Paper;
and will also hold a Sitting, on Thursday the Ist day
of March next, and give judgment in cases previously
argued.—By the Court.
BANKRUPTS.
James Strang Junes. oil and colourman, High Hol-
born (to surrender), Feb. 1, at half-past twelve, and
March 6, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whit-
more, official assignee. Basinghall-street ; Jervis, Law-
rence Pountney-hill.
Helen Watts, innkeeper, Chelsea, Feb. 1, at one, and
March 6, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Cannan, official assigeen, Birchin-lane ; Dupleix, Lin-
coln's inn field:.
Joseph Frith Everett, engineer, Red Lion-street, Cler-
kenwell, Feb. 2, at one, and March 6, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Taylor,
Finsbury -place South.
Stephen. Noden, rug manufacturer, Swinton-street,
Gray, s-mn-road, Feb. 3, at one, and March 10, at twelve,
at the. Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee,
Basinghall -street; Dickson and Co., Old Jewry.
Henry Hughes, linen drader, Dover, Kent, Feb. 2, at
eleven, and March 1, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Jones,
Size-lane.
Thomas Core, innkeeper, Stamford, Lincolnshire, Feb.
at eleven, at the Birminghhm District
Court,. and
t, 1
ham. Bittleston, official assignee,
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Not-
tingham; Taylor and C. ollisson, Great James-street,
London; Brewster, Nottingham.
Birmingham, Feb. 8 and
Majracffihe3s, atjatartywiselypelan,e Ina
the Birmingham District Court.
Christie, official assignee, Blrmiugham; Powell, Bir-
mingham.
lt•chard Branwell, attorney, Holsworthy, Devonshire,
Feb. 1, at one, and Feb 28, at eleven, at the Exeter Dis-
trict Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Stogdon,
Exeter; Baker , Ruck, and Jennings, Lime-street.
Barry Valentine Stroud, miller, Spettisbury, Dorset-
: shire, Feb. 1, at one, and Feb. 28, at eleven, at the Ex-
eter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Ex-
eter; Fincham, Dorsetshire; Stogdon, Exeter; Edwards
and Peake, Westminster.
William Cradock, auctioneer, Truro, Cornwall, Feb.
1, at one, and Feb. 2S, at eleven, at the Exeter District
Court. Hernaman, official assignee,
Exeter;
Exeter; Baker, Ruck, and Jennings, Lime-street.Stogdon,
Thomas Potter, hosier, Sheffield, Feb. 10, at half-past
twelve, and March 1.0,. at ten, at the Leeds District
official assignee, Sheffield; Duncan,
Buckingham-street, giFi arrnee-Eastraenet, Adelphi;. U. nwin, Sheffield.
John Womersley and William Womersley, delvers,
Court.
Clayton, near Bradford, Feb.s and 26, at eleven, at the
Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds;

Trinder and Eyre, John-street, Bedford row; Harle and
Clarke, Leeds.
Samuel Brownentt, fruit merchant, Liverpool, Feb. 5
and March 5, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool; Cornthwaite and
Co. Old Jewry Chambers; Pemberton, Liverpool.
James Pierce, corn dealer, Chorley, Lancashire, Feb.
6 and 27, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court.
Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Norris, Allen and
Simpson, Bedford-row; Turner and Son, Preston.
Christopher John Spence, timber merchant, Stockton-
upon-Tees, Feb. 8, at half-past ten, and March 6, at one,
at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley,
official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Allison, Dar-
lington; Harle, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane.

the Russian cutter of war, ()Hands., for the Pirmus, ol-
Athens, on the llth.
A serious disturbance took place on board thr!
ney, at Naples, on Christmas Eve, a very large portion
of the crew having expressed an unwillingness on such
an occasion to obey the order for extinguishing lights at
eight P.M. Many of the mess traps were cast overboard
and also shot, and order was not restored before the
officers interfered with drawn swords, and nine of the
ringleaders were placed in irons.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Jan. 22.
(Sittincs in Banco.)
THE QUEEN V. THE JUDGES OF THE PALACE COURT.
The Court made the rule absolute for a mandamus to
the Judges of the Palace Court, in reference to the ad-
mission of Mr. Jaquet to be an attorney of that Court,
Mr. Hill declining to take the writ against Mr. Brent
only, a point upon which he had a day or two to consider.
SHAW.v. THE YORE AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY

COMPANY.
Mr. MARTIN showed cause against the rule which had
been obtained for a new trial. The question at issue
was, whether the contract on the part of the defendants
to convey a number of horses in safety, from York to
Wat:ord, was a specialcontract, and supported the pleas.
The plaintiff had nine horses to be conveyed by rail
way in three boxes, paying 251. 4s. as the charge. At
the bottom of the receipt the defendants stipulated for
exemption from the consequences of any injury which
might be sustained by the animals whilst travelling. One
of the horses was killed from a protecting partition hav-
ing given way, owing to the fastenings being insufficient,
which caused him to fall out. An action was brought
at the York assizes to recover compensation, and the
verdict given for the plaintiff. A rule to show cause on
behalf of the defendants had been obtained.
Mr. MARTIN, in arguing against the rule, contended
that the acting was one of those which involved such a
degree of carelessness on the part of the carriers as ren-
dered them liable for the damage. It was not one of
those accidents which would happen notwithstanding the
greatest care. As to the effect of the exemption claimed
by the defendants, he asked if a similar-notice placed at
the bottom of a passenger's ticket would exempt them
from the consequences of an accident proved to arise
from the employment of an obviously insecure carriage?
All the cases showed that the carrier could claim no
exemption but for unexpected misfortunes; and that he
was bound to use care and diligence in the performance
of his duty. The giving of a notice of non-liability was
itself an anomaly. The carrier's liability was established

at common law.
Mr. DEAESLEY followed. The defence set up for the
defendants involved a contradiction in terms. It
amounted to this, that the defendants undertook to carry,
but not to carry safely and securely.
Mr. KNOWLES, in supporting the rule, contended that
the defendants were not common carriers, and that the
law applicable to common carriers did not apply to them.
The defendants were not bound to carry horses at all,
and if they agreed to do so they were entitled to specify
the conditions, and it remained with the other party to
agree to the conditions or to refuse them.
The arguments were not concluded when the Court rose.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Jan. 22.
(Before the Chief Commissioner.)
REPEATED APPEARANCES.--IN RE JOHN YEATES LUCY.
This insolvent, who had made repeated appearances in
the same character, again applied.
CHIEF COMMISSIONER--Why, you can't live out of
this court? Insolvent—No, sir; I can't,
You were a bankrupt in 1825?—Yes, sir.
Your first appearance in this court was in 1815?
Yes, sir.
Then in 18277—Yes, sir.
Then you came in 1833?—Yes, sir.
CHIEF CommissioNEß—Again in 1839, and now you
come again. In the name of wonderment what brings
you here so often?—The insolvent said he was a hay
salesman. had, on the present occasion, nearly as
much owing him as he owed.
CHIEF COMMISSIONER—When do you mean to come
again. Next year or the year following? Insolvent—
Never again, sir.
The Court discharged the insolvent for the "fifth
I time.

IN RE JOHN POWELL.
In this case a point of considerable importance re-
specting the County Courts was raised. Mr. Cooke op-
posed the insolvent, who had been a builder at South-
ampton, for Messrs. Chambers, ironmongers, Bishops-
gate-street. The debt was 131. 6s. 6d., and the costs
51. 3s. 10d. Judgment was signed before the insolvent
petitioned the Court.
Mr. COOKE called the attention of the Court to several
clauses in the County Courts Act, and expressed himself
of opinion that, in cases where judgment was signed
before the petition in this court, the adjudication would
not benefit the applicants. The point was certainly an
important one, and his clients would, in his opinion, have
their remedy.
The COURT required some further evidence, and the
case was adjourned.
The point mooted by the Learned Counsel will affect
numerous cases in the court, especially under the Pro.
tection Act. It has been decided that an order of com-
mitment made by a county court, before a petition in
this court, is operative; but no case has been determined
respecting a judgment by a county court before a petition
under either of the Acts of Parliament.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
Yesterday the Court sat at Westminster for the dis-
posal of motions and appeals. There were ten appeals
entered upon the paper, all having relation to the settle-
ment and removal of paupers. Mr. Sergeant Adams,
the Assistant Judge, presided.

THE CHARGE AGAINST A CLERGYMAN.
Mr. BODKIN said he had an application to make on
behalf of the Rev. Henry Charles Sellers, who had re-
cently been charged with an indecent assault upon a man
named Samuel Cooper, a private soldier in the Fusiliers.
The grand jury, at the last sessions at Clerkeuwell,
threw out the bill against Mr. Sellers, in consequence,
as he understood, of the prosecutor's absence. But the
friends of Mr. Sellers, as well as Mr. Sellers, himself,
were most anxious that the case should go to trial,
having entire confidence in the result; and the applica-
tion now was for the Court to continue the defendant's
recognizances till the next sessions.
Mr. Sergeant ADAMS said the adjutant of the regiment
in which the prosecutor was serving had called upon him
since the bill had been thrown out by the grand jury at
Clerkenwell, to say he was not aware of the bill having
been sent before the grand jury at those sessions, and
further, that the prosecutor was at that time under arrest
for a military offence. The bill could be preferred before
the next grand jury.
Mr. BODKIN asked whether the second bill would be
preferred before the same grand jury who had ignored
the first ?
Mr. Sergeant ADAMS replied in the negative. Under
the circumstances he should at once assent to the appli-
cation, and continue the defendant's recognizances till
the next sessions.

RACING SWEEPS.
At a former sessions a person named Thomas Casey
appealed against a conviction by Mr. Henry, the magis-
trate at Bow street, who bad adjudged him to one
month's imprisonment, as a rogue an vaabond, for
having
.kept an office in the Haymarket forg the sale of
shares in Derby and other racing sweeps.
Mr. CLARKSON, on behalf of the defendant, now ad-
mitted he ,had no grounds for prosecuting the appeal.
The defendant had further acknowledged, in a memorial
to the Government, that he had no defence to the charge.
Under these circumstances the Government, as he was
informed, would be satisfied by the defendant entering
into his own recognizances to appear to receive the judg-
ment of the court when called upon.
tion, said the prosecution had been instituted against
who appeared in support of the convic-
theMdiefl3e;aKnitil, 'who moved in a respectable sphere in
life, for being concerned in the keeping of an office for
the sale of chances in racing sweeps. This was an
offence under the Lotteries Act, and the parties con-
victed of it were liable to imprisonment as rogues and
vagabonds. After his conviction the defendant gave no-
tice of appeal; but subsequently he memorialised the
Secretary of State for the Home Department, acknow-
ledging that be had no answer to the conviction, and
throwing himself upon the mercy of the Executive.
This being the first ease of this description, the Govern-
ment were not unwilling that leniency should be shown;
consequently he had no objection, upon the conviction
being confirmed, to the defendant being only required to
enter into his own sureties to appear to receive the
judgment of the Court when called upon. This course
had been adopted with the sanction of the Attorney-
General, in the belief that this prosecution would have
the effect of checking, if not altogether preventing, the
practices of which the defendant had admitted his guilt.
It must not, however, be supposed that the leniency
now shown would be extended to any future cases. On
the contrary, the authorities were determined, in all
future cases, to proceed against the parties with the
utmost rigour.
The conviction was then confirmed, and the defendant
entered into his own recognizances in the sum of 801. to
appear to receive judgment when called upon.

Among the victims to the ravages of the cholera in
Glasgow we regret to announce the name of Professor
Thompson, who has long filled the natural philosophy
chair in that University.—Athenceum.
ENCROACHMENTS OF THE SEA AT DOVER.—A few
weeks since we noticed the encroachments of the sea in
front of the Esplanade and Ordnance ground here; and
we perceive that the high tides and winds of the past
week have caused further inroads of the same element in
that quarter. A new walk at this spot is comparatively
carried away in various parts; and several posts at its
inner edge have been thrown down. Great exertions
have been made of late by the harbour workmen to
preserve this ground; but, notwithstanding all their
iefforts, the angry surge seems too much for them.
Something more will, therefore, yet be required to stay
the progress of the sea, else the house property at the
place of which we ere spaaking will stand in imminent
peril.—Canterbury Journal
OAN EDITOR'S BANQUET.--The editor of the New
York Fuzzyyuzzy says—" Poetry is the flour of litera-
ture; prose is the corn, potatoes, and meat; wit is the
spice and pepper; love letters are the honey and sugar;
and letters containing the remittances are the apple
dumplings."
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CALIFORNIA; _We understand that a respectable
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400/. in London, and in addition received 45/. from one
'last
firm hero, not having returned to Isis home, inquiries
were set on foot, and it was discovered that he had pro-
ceeded hence to Southampton, and had there embarked
in the steam-packet which had just sailed to South
America. The intention of the poor weak-minded men
was to reach California.—Berkshire Chronicle.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WESTMINSTER.
After the disposal of the night charges, yesterday,
Mr. BRODERIP said—With reference to the distressing
case of destitution in Yolk-street, which has excited so
much sympathy, I feel it my duty to state that informa-
tion has been sent to me by a brother magistrate who
had been extremely kind to the family when they were
in his district, that their character has been the reverse
of good. It is stated that the eldest girl had been brought
before him for felony, but the prosecutor, taking com-
passion upon the wretched condition of the parents and
children, declined to prosecute. Two of the other cbil-
dren and the father, it is added, were afterwards brought
before the same magistrate, charged with felony, and
committed for trial, and the father was acquitted, and
the boy and girl found guilty and sentenced to a light
punishment, the case exciting such commiseration
that a subscription was made for them in court. I
am very unwilling to trespass upon editors of news-
papers, whose time is so much occupied, and
to whom space is so valuable, but I have no
means of communicating with most of the num, rous
benevolent correspondents who have so liberally come
forward on the occasion, excepting through the medium
of the public press. I hope, by the aid of those journals
which have noticed the case, and caused the tide of
charity to flow, to ascertain whether the contributors
still wish their donations to be applied to the relief of
the famil), or when, or how their money is to be re-
turned. Of the extremity of distress in which the family
was found there is no doubt."
The eldest girl, who was in attendance at the court,
admitted, in answer to questions from Mr. Tailor, the
c ter usher, that she and the other members of the
family had been charged with felony, as described, but
declared that they were innocent. She also admitted
that the magistrate before whom she was charted had
taken an interest in the family and relieved them ; and
with respect to other points referred them to her mother.
Catherine .11IbBride, a stout heed child in garty. lookin woman
about 30 years of age, with a rag„
her arms,
was charged with begging.
William Wadlowe, 238 A, said that on Sunday
afternoon he saw a carriage driven up to the door of a
house in Wilton-crescent, Belgrave-square, when de-
fendant immediately hastened towards it and begged of
the lady inside.
Defendant (in an insolent tone)—l suppose you know
what I got, don't you ?
Constable—She then thrust her child in at the window.
Defendant—l wonder I did n't send it home with her;
don't you?
The constable continued—After the servant returned
from the door of the house, where he had just been to
knock, the lady ordered him to give her a penny.
Defendant—l wonder you ain't afraid of being struck
dead, standing there telling such lies.
The constable then concluded his statement without
further interruption. The footman having told him that
the defendant had repeatedly annoyed him, witness, who
knew her to have been often charged with drunkenness
and disorderly conduct, told her she must go with him
to the station, when prisoner, having declared that she
would beg in spite of him, put the child down on the
pavement, threw herself by its side, and caught hold of
some iron railings. After a great deal of trouble she
was induced to walk a short distance, when she sud-
denly turned round and struck witness a violent blow on
the mouth, which had given him much pain ever since;
she then threw herself down again and kicked and bit
him. Her language all the way to the station-house was
most indecent and horrible.
Another constable proved that she assaulted him vio-
lently on his going to the first witness's assistance.
Defendant in a sullen dogged manner, said she wasn't
begging; the lady called her to the carriage and put a
penny into the child's hand.
Mr. BRODERIP observed, that the public complained,
and with much justice, of the intolerable nuisance of
beggars, which rendered it impossible for pedestrians to
walk the streets, or those in carriages to stop at the
shops of tradesmen or at the doors of their own private
residences. Those who obtained alms by their impor-
tunities—to be rid of which the public but too frequently
relieved them, while in other cases they submitted
through intimidation—were, with very rare exceptions,
!nest unworthy of charity; and he (the worthy magis-
trate) felt confident, that those who gave money to street
beggars gave an encouragement to vice and immorality,
and bestowed upon worthless objects what, to the de-
serving, would be of great assistance.
The defendant was then committed for three months.
WORSHIP-STREET. _ _

Mrs. Mary Anne Bedwell, stated to be the wife of a
fruit salesman in Spitalfields, was charged with violently
assaulting and seriously injuring a broker named West,
and two of his assistants, named Pilgrim and Bleene.
In consequence of the defendant's husband being in
arrear for rent, the complainant West received instruc-
tions to levy an execution upon his goods for the amount
due, and for that purpose, accompanied by two of his
men, proceeded to the house at six o'clock on Saturday
evening. The defendant was out at the time of the levy,
but on her returns and learning the object of their visit,
she flew into a violent rassion, and declaring that,
sooner than her goods should be taken away, she would
smash everything in the place, immediately snatchel up
a poker, and laying about her in all directions, very
Speedily covered the floor with the fragments of all the
glass, crockery, and furniture she had power to demolish.
She then smashed out the glass and framework of one isf
the windows, and having unavailingly ordered the
men, Pilgrim and Bleene, to quit the place before
they also sustained injury, commenced a furious attack
upon them, and exerted her strength to pitch one of
them through the broken window into the street. A
violent struggle ensued between them, in which the man's
clothes were literally torn to pieces, and the defendant
having been foiled in her object dealt the man a blow
with the poker which stretched him upon the fluor, and
continued beating him so furiously, that the second man
(Bleene), in his apprehension that murder would be
committed, rushed out for the assistance of the police.
Bet ore they arrived, however, West himself entered the
place, but had no sooner got in at the door than the de-
fendant caught up part of a bedstead she had previously
broken, and dealt him such a blow across the face with
it as to break out one of his teeth, and followed this
up with , such vindictive determination that he was
obliged to make his way out of the house as rapidly as
he could.
Police-constable 191 H stated, that upon entering the
house to take the defendant into custody be found her
then engaged in smashing one of the windows to pieces,
and that the room presented undeniable evidence of the
outrageous nature of her conduct, almost everything in
it being broken to pieces, and the fragments lying about
in the utmost confusion.
Pilgrim described the attack upon him as of so furious
a description that he considered the woman must have
been either drunk or mad at the time, and after exhi-
biti■g his clothes, which were torn into tatters in the
defendant's attempt to pitch him out of the window,
stated that be had sustained such serious injuries from
the violence inflicted upon him that he had been obliged
to keep his bed all the preceding day.
Bleene described the defendant's conduct in similar
terms, and West complained that, in addition to one of
his teeth being knocked out, he had suffered such ago-
nizing pain in his side ever since that he felt satisfied one
of his ribs had been fractured.
The defendant generally denied a great portion of the
violence attributed to her by the various witnesses, and
pleaded in extenuation of the rest of her conduct the
dreadful excitement she naturally laboured under at
seeing herself likely to be very shortly without a home.
Mr. HAMMILL said that the case was one of far too
serious a character for him to deal with summarily, and
he should, therefore, order the defendant to be re-
manded for a week, to afford an opportunity for ascer-
taining the result of the injuries the complainants had
sustained.

CLERKEIV WELL.
Robert Be?grave, who was attired in the uniform of the
East India Company, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Combe, charged with begging.
Sergeant Harvey, 118 G, stated that on Saturday
night last, about ten o'clock, be saw the prisoner in
Goswell-street, with a written paper pinne on his
breast, soliciting charity, representing that he was a
discharged soldier in a state of distress and starvation.
He saw several persons relieve him, when he took him
to the station-house. On searching him 3s. 10d, were
found in his possession.
The prisoner, ou being put to the bar, was recognised
as having been at this Court on Thursday last, on a
charge of begging under exactly similar circumstances,
when he said he had been a private in the East India
Company's service. He had received wounds, and was
discharged at Madras, in May. 1847, without a pension,
and, although he had used efforts, he could not succeed
in obtaining one. He had served seventeen years, and
in consequence of the impaired state of his health and
his wounds he was unequal to hard labour, and his ob-
ject was to raise a trifling sum of money to enable him
to purchase some stationary to sell again, the profits upon
which would enable him to live and avoid begging in the
streets. He produced his discharge from the companY's
service, and, there being nothing stated upon it to the
prejudice of his character, Mr. Combe was induced to
believe that his story was true, and ordered, Mr, Mallett,
the clerk, to give him 10s. out of the poor-box funds;
and several persons subscribed towards his assistance
before he left the court after he was discharged.
Mr. COMBE now asked the prisoner what he had to
say for himself, when he hung down his head, and said
nothing.
Mr. Mould, the clerk, said it was evident, from there
being nothing written upon his discharge, that there was
something wrong; and there was no doubt after what
had happened, that he was a thorough impostor.
It was stated that an officer belonging to the East
India Company's servive had given information at the
station-houses that a man, dressed in the regimentals of
the service, was going about begging, and had been for
a length of time imposing on the public, and that he was
a complete impostor.
Mr. COMM regretted that such a fellow should have
imposed upon him and others as he had done, and com-
mitted him to the House of Correction, with hard labour,
for fourteen days, intimating that the money found in
his possession, which was no doubt the produce of his
vagrancy, would be appropriated towards his support
during his imprisonment.
T HAME S.

John King, a labourer, of 70, Lambeth-street, White-
chapel, who has been in custody for a fortnight, was
brought up before Mr. Yardley for final examination,
charged with assaulting and wounding Mr. Thomas
Heighway, the landlord of the Crown public-house, in
Rupert-street, Whitechapel.
Mr. YARDLEY inflicted the highest penalty, 51., or two
months' imprisonment.
The prisoner was committed.
James Darcy, a big Irishman from Cork, attired in a
faded suit of black, and as dirty as possible, was brought
up in custody of Wigley, a police-constable, 141 H,
and charged with seeking alms near the Virginia-street
Catholic Chapel, liatcliff-highway, where it was stated
that
.the congregation had been greatly annoyed by

the hordes of Irish mendicants, begging previou-s to
and after the conclusion of the mass on each sccec,Aiog

Sabbath.
Mr. YARDLEY asked Wigley if the prisoner as a pro-
fessional beggar?
Wigley—iie is, sir. I have seen him lying down on
the stones appealing in piteous accents for mercy and
charity for a poor tripled starving man, but whenever he
sees me or any other policeman approaching he is off
quickly enough.
The prisoner said he had left Cork three years ago.
Mr. YARDLEY—How many days' work have you done
since then?
The prisoner, in a whining tone, said he had been at
work harvesting, hopping, and doing other work since
he had left Ireland, but now he was starving.
Mr. YARDLEY—Starving? You appear the reverse
of a starving man. Your occupation is begging. You
are big enough and strong enough to work, but you
won't do it.
Wigley said he had frequently Leen the prisoner act-
ing the part of a distressed and disabled cripple in the
streets during the last five months, and that he was an
arrant imposlor.
Mr. YARDLEY knew the prisoner had a great objec-
tion to work, but he would send him where he would he
made to work. He sentenced him to eight days' impri•
sonment and hard labour, and it the prisoner w:as ever
brought 13, fore him again fur a similar offence, hia sen-
tence would be a severe one.

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF

FRAUD AND FELONY.
An amount of excitement almost unparalleled has pre
vailed in the city of Bath, in consequence of the ttppre.

hension and examination of Messrs. Warren and Fuller,

two of the largest gold and silversmiths in that city,
upon a charge of forging the hall mark of the Gold
smiths' Company upon various articles of plate. The
arrest is understood to have been made in consequence of
information given to the Goldsmiths' Company by a man

named Brattington, who had formerly been an appren-
tice of a principal workman of the firm, and the previous

high respectability and known wealth of the parties
charged have invested the affair with a peculiar degree

of interest. An examination of the accused took place
yesterday, at the Guildhall, which building and all the
approaches to it were crowded by the gentry
and tradesmen of the city. anxious to be
present at the investigation. The prisoners were
brought to the Guildhall in custody of the officers, the
magistrate having refused bail to the amount of 10,0001.,
which, it is understood, has been tendered by their
bankers.

The examinations were private, and Samna]

Henry Fuller and Horatio Warren were charged with
having, on the 9th of January, feloniously, and without
excuse, had in their possession two silver ladles, having
thereon the marks of the Goldsmiths' Company, London,
which marks have been removed or transferred thereto
from some other wares of silver, they knowing the same
to have been so transferred contrary to the statute.
The first witness examined was Mr. Thomas Hough,
a weigher in the Assay-office of the Goldsmiths' Com-
pany, who deposed that on the 30th of December, in
consequence of information he received, he went to Bath
by direction of the wardens of the company. Went to
the shop of Messrs. Warren and Fuller, silversmiths,
in Westgate-street, and saw the prisoner Fuller in the
shop. Purchased eleven articles of silver ware which
bore no stamp or mark of any description. Went
again on the 6th of January, and purchased thirty-
Your articles not stamped as required by law.
On that occasion saw a silver soup ladle, which was
pointed out by Mr. Warren. Also saw a great quantity
.of articles not marked as required by law. Saw at once
that the mark on the soup ladle had been transposed.
Saw also another article on which he believed that the
mark had been transposed. Reported the facts to the
wardens, and on the 9th of January, went to the shop
under the authority of a search warrant ; and, on that
occasion, took away the silver soup ladle and gilt ser-
vice spoon produced. Found a quantity of plate amount-
img to 120 ounces, which he seized and took away.
There was a great quantity of plate there—some 3,000
or 4,000 ounces—which was regularly marked. The
plate taken away was all unmarked except the
two pieces upon which the marks had been tran-
sposed. Took the service spoon to Goldsmiths' Hall,
and then ascertained the mark to have been transposed
and soldered on. The date of the mark was 1774.
An assay was made in witness's presence of the
spoon. The bowl was four pennyweights worse than
the standard, and the handle one pennyweight better
than the standard. The loss of duty to the Government
on the soup ladle and serving spoon was 11.75. 9d. Had
also ascertained that the mark on the soup ladle bad
been soldered in; about three inches of the shank had
been spliced. Should say that any person in the trade
would see where the joiniogs were made. The bowl was
half a pennyweight worse than the standard, and the
upper part of the handle a pennyweight and a half better;
the shank next the bowl was barely a pennyweight bet-
ter than the standard.
The witness was cross-examined at some length. He
knew that the marks had been transposed by his obser-
vations as a workman, having (as his office in the Assay-
office required) been brought up as a silversmith, and
being versed iu the trade. Had seen the transposition of
the marks on articles purporting to be silver before this.
Saw them about six months ago in London. Meant by
transposition the removing of the mark from one article
of plate and affixing it to another.
John Ralph, an apprentice to Mr. Cousins, jeweller,
who worked for the tradesmen of that city, and among
others for Messrs. Warren and Fuller, deposed that he
had seen the gilt service spoon produced. When it was
first brought to Mr. Cousins's shop the bowl was nut
joined on to the shank nor was the figure. There was
a piece put on the shank to make it stouter. When
witness first saw it the shank was in two pieces; there
was a mark upon one piece but none upon the other.
Believed that the Apostle's figure was made by Mr.
Cousins, but was not certain. This might be a twelve-.
month ago.
Hulbert Sawyer Cousins, son of Mr. Cousins, and
who assists his father in his business, proved that they
bad worked for the prisoners for six or seven years. Had
seen the gilt spoon now produced before, and recognised
it as having been manufactured for Messrs. Warren and
Fuller. The piece which contained the mark was
brought to the workshop as a skewer, for the purpose of
being made thicker, so as to form the handle of a spoon.
I see on the spoon a line, which I suppose to be the
place where it was soldered in. I believe that the mark
has been soldered on. I saw the figure before I saw the
skewer. The bowl I saw separate, and it was added
afterwards. Believe it was Mr. Fuller who directed Mr.
Cousins to put the pieces together.
The examination was proceeding when the last train
left.