The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-17 00:00:00

THE Tlil.AL Of ZOLIN CUTTS APD WILLIAM EVANS FOR

FORGERY.
(Continued from The Sun of yesterday.)
Evidence was then gone into at considerable length,
but after hearing the case for the prosecution and the
addresses of counsel on behalf of the prisoners,
The jury, without troubling the Learned Judge to
sum up, returned a verdict of Nut Guilty, adding that
the prisoners would leave the court with as unblemished
character.

No evidence was offered upon the other indictments,
and verdicts of Not Guilty having been recorded, the
prisoners were ordered to be immediately discharged
from custody.
William Bailey, 31, was indicted for the wilful mur-
der of Henry Lamball, by stabbing him in the breast
with a knife.
Mr. W. COOPER defended the prisoner.
The circumstances of this case have been fully re-
ported within the last few days, and it will therefore be
unnecessary to repeat them on the present occasion.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of Manslaughter,
and he was sentenced to be transported for life.

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the
veaignehetd pinooyreawros,mewne,remborsotugohf
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
w orn were
somYeewstheardtaa)dr
Lord Mayor, by William Bunting, 632, of the City •
police,
under tbo following circumstances:—
No charge was made against the women, but they had
been taken up in a state of destitution in the neighbour-
hood of the East London Union, where they had applied
for admission and relief, but were refused on the ground
of the building being full.
The LORD MAYOR, after an inquiry, censured the
conduct of the officials in refusing relief to persons who
were in absolate want, and who, as was stated, had be.
hand with perfect propriety. Kiie Lordship expressed

Daniel Donovan and Stephen Powell were brought be-
fore Mr. Cottinghana for re-examination, charged with
criminally assaulting Mrs. Eliza Seal, the wife of a
commercial traveller, in Coleman-street, and also with
stealing from her person a brooch, ring, and four
shillings.
Mr. Binns attended for the prisoners.
When the prisoners were placed at the bar, Mr. Cot-
tingham was informed by policeman 167 M, that the
prosecutrix was not in attendance, although both she
and her uncle, who accompanied her to the court on the
former day were aware, that the further examination
was to take place that day.
Mr. COTTINGHAM said that in a case of this descrip-
tion, where the lives and liberty of two men were placed
in peril by a complaining party, on an accusation of such
a serious nature, she ought not on any account to have
neglected coming forward, and he added, that he was
determined to compel her attendance. The Magistrate
inquired if the landlady of the Welsh Harper was pre-
sent, who, it was alleged, bad seen the parties together
in that house The answer being in the affirmative,
Mrs. Donne then ascended the witness box, and on
being sworn, she stated in answer to the magistrate,
that on the night of Sunday week, about nine o'clock,
Donovan, accompanied by a woman, with a
handker-
chief tied round her head, entered the house together,
and he called for a pint of half and half, which they drank
together at the
_bar. That while in the house the
woman, who seemed to be under the influence of liquor,
endeavoured to conceal her face by holding up a hand-
kerchief to it and turning her Weir to witness, who, how.
ever, thought she should be enabled to identify her if
she saw her again. The prisoner Donovan and the
woman talked familiarly together while standing at the,
bar, and he advised her to apply eye water to her eye.
Mr. Binns said that the latter circumstance showed,
at all events, that the complainant was the woman, as
it appeared that she had received a black eye from her
husband on the night (Saturday) that it was reported he
turned her out of the house. 1 hat the evidence of the
witness distinctly proved that she did not appear to be
under any restraint while in the public-house, for she
drank and left the house with the same man that had
accompanied her there.
Mr. COTTINGHAM said that, in the absence of the
complainant, it was impossible for him to proceed with
the investigation that day. He, however, would not
allow such a charge to pass over without further in-
quiry, and directed the policeman to call upon the com-
plainant again, and inform her that if she failed in her
attendance on Wednesday, a warrant would be issued
to compel her.
Mr. Binns said that the prisoners could procure bail
for their appearance on the next examination, and he
trusttd the magistrate would accept of sureties for them,
particularly after hearing what took place in the Welsh
Harper public-house.
Mr. COTTINCUAM, however, rejected the application,
saying that he believed the complainant's account of the
outrage.
The prisoners were then removed from the bar.
MARYLEBONE.

A MAN DISGUISED A WOMAN.—E. Woodall was
charged with having stolen a silk handkerchief, the pro-
perty of Mr. George Peach, a clerk, residing at West-
bourne-grove, Payswater. The prisoner wasat a
artetiryeodui:
a mousseline-de-laino dress and slate-coloured polka,
and a straw bonnet and black veil.
Prisoner
—noTaamuTaostba(nteot.tdhaeneperri, and am
theatres. lam now engaged at the St. James's.
Mr. BHOUCHTON.—And does the manager know that
own clothes
you are going about in the disguise of a woman ? Pri-
one r- -It was asunodnerlynedauthn.
Sergeant Walker, 5 1), deposed that on the previouse for a lark, sir, and I have my
morning, between one and two o'clock he was spoken to
by Mr. Pesch, who, pointing to the prisoner, said, "That
girl has stolen my handkerchief from my great-coat
pocket." Witness went up to the prisoner and told her
what she was charged with, when she said, " Don't take
me to the station-house, I want to speak to you, and
will give you something to drink. lam no girl, but am
a young man living in Pickering place." The young
man who had lost the handkerchief also told him that he
had been in the company of the prisoner for nearly an
hour, and that he (prisoner) had put his arms round him
many times; his belief was that the pri:oner was a girl.
Mr. BROUGHTON inquired whether the owner of the
handkerchief was in attendance, and he was answered in
the negative.
The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said "I was
not aware of the risk I was running, and if I had in-
tended anything wrong by putting on female apparel I
should not have had my own things on underneath.
The person who said he had lost his haodkerchief was
rather the worse for drink; when he met me he said, "Are
you going home alone, miss,". and I said " Yes." He
would not let me go, or I should have been glad to have
got rid of him. I never put women's clothes on before,
and am sorry that I should have acted so foolishly now,
but I didn't dream of any harm co • ming out of it."
Mr. BROUGHTON looked upon the off.nce in a serious
light. The assumption of• women's attire by a man was
at all events an offence contra from such
bones mores, and
practices great abominations might probably arise.
The prisoner was bailed,
himself in 401. and two
sureties in 301 each, for his b •
the court; and it was directedeing again forthcoming at
that a summons should be
issued against Mr. Peach,
whose evidence is material in
the case.

WESTMINSTER.
FATAL OCCURRENCE.—J. Wardley, aged 49, a la-
bourer, was charged before Mr. Broderip on suspicion
of having caused the death of Anne, his wife, by as-
saulting her.
Caroline Donolly, a woman in humble circumstances,
stated that the prisoner and his wife occupied an apart-
ment immediately over hers, at No. 1, Leg-court, Peter-
street, Westminster. On Saturday evening, at about
tea-time, she heard the prisoner and his wife quarrelling
in their room, shortly after which the latter left him, and
as she came do% n stairs made use of angry words.
She then passed along by witness's door, and went out.
In about 15 or 20 minutes more she again heard them
quarrelling up in their room, and on listening she heard
what she thought to be a tremendous combat between
them, and she made use of very low language to her
husband, immediately after which there was a heavy fall
which shook the place. As witness
was going out
shortly afterwards she heard a heavy sigh, which she
thought proceeded from the prisoner's apartment. She
paid no particular attention to this, and went to market;
but upon her return in two hours found that prisoner's
wife was dead.

A great deal of evidence was gone in, but it appeared
that a post mortem examination had not yet been made;
and the prisoner was remanded for a week.

LONDON INSTITUTION.--.ELECTRO Menem—The
last soiree of the season took place on Wednesday night.
when the institution was attended by nearly eight hun-
dred of the proprietors and literary and scientific visi-
tors. During the evening Mr. Alfred Smeo delivered a
lecture on electro biology, or the relation of electricity
to the functions of animal life, upon which subject he has
recently published an elaborate treatise. For. animal
al
lire it is necessary to have a central portic! 0
blood, and connected together by nervaenti
gement and
peripheral or body, both supplied with bright
Smee traced the analogy between this arr
demonstrated that
that of a double boltaic circuit, and den.l
be fluid, or, in other
the communicating portion might
words, that tubes filled with fluid would serve as well for
and that the nerves
electric telegraphs as ordinary wires, brresa.rteltriar.l
perform a similar office in the body. He stated that there
were great difficulties in the way of ascertaining the
presence of a voltaic current in any fluid, but that he
had succeeded in overcoming that difficulty by the use
of what he termed the electro-voltaic test, which was
exibited to the audience. In imitation of the action of
light upon the eye, the lecturer stated that he had con-
structed numerous voltaic currents in which the current
was solely determined by the action of the sun's rays.
In imitation of the other organs of sensation, Mr. Smee
exhibited a contrivance in which the voltaic circuit was
caused by odours; in another contrivance a similar cur-
rent was produced by savours; in others the current was
sat in motion by heat or force. The effect in each case,
notwithstanding the delicacy of the experiments, was
extremely well marked, and elicited much applause.
Mr. Since exhibited voltaie combinations in imitation of
the consmissures of the brain, and of the theoretical
structure of that organ, which he stated is sufficient to
account for all mental phenomena. The artificial elec-
tric eel deflected the galvanometer most powerfully, to
the great delight of the audience, and the artificial mus-
cular substance moved a long lever over the space of
three or four feet. The functions of the blood corpus-
cube were strikingly illustrated by an analogical experi-
ment with artificial corpuscale made of menhare and
per nitrate of iron. The injections of brain ex-
hibited under the microscope in the library,
were of surpassing beauty, and well illus-
o fanimal illus-
trated, " How fearfully and wonderfully we are
made." The lecturer summed up by showing that sea-
Swaetrienesn' timreilnyd,dutehotougvhotllaaicndacatlilon andfunctions
obedient
, to phy-
sicallife laws; but, nevertheless, that science no less leads us
to infer, than religion commands us to believe, that man
is immortal, though that which is mortal should never be
confounded with that which gives to man his immor-
tality. In the library there were exhibited a number of
scientific inventions, the most prominent and most
admired among which was a series of daugereotype
portraits, taken by the improved process recently in
vi nted by Mr. Mnyall, of the American Institution, in
the Strand. The portraits were equal to any that have
been produced by the most celebrated photographists;
indeed, they had all the appearance of steel engravings
of the better class, but possessed this additional and
startling peculiarity, that the portraits were twice the
size of those ordinarily produced. This is a great and
decided improvement in an art which seemed already to
have reached perfection.
Letters from the relatives and friends of the officers
and seamen serving in the Artie seas, in her Majesty's
ships Erebus and Terror, Enterprise and Investigator,
will be forwarded by her Majesty's ship North Star, if
sent to the Secretary of the Admiralty on or before the
15t of May.

M. ODILON BARROT announced yesterday to the
Assembly, that the French Government had deter-
mined on an armed intervention in the affairs of
Rome. As a reason for such intervention, he stated,
in substance, that the counter-coup of the victories
gained by the Austrians over the Piedmontese would
be felt throughout the whole of Central Italy; that
a crisis appeard to be imminent in the Roman States,
and that France could not remain indifferent to such
a state of things. He added, that the protection of
natives of France resident in Italy, the necessity
of maintaining the legitimate influence which
France had long possessed in Italy, and the
desire which the French Government felt to
contribute towards obtaining for the Roman people
a good Government based upon liberal institutions,
rendered it a duty to the Cabinet to make use of the
liberty which the Assembly had granted to it by its
vote of the 20th of March, to occupy temporarily a
portion of the territory of the Peninsula. The Minis-
ter, added that it was impossible for him to enter into
any further details ; but could affirm that out of the
intervention of France would arise efficacious guaran-
tees for the interests of their (the French) policy, and
for the cause of true liberty. In finishing his speech,
M. ODILON BARROT read a project of law, granting
a credit to the Government of 1,200,000 f., to meet the
additional expense required for the support, on a war
footing, during three months, of the troops forming
the expedition.
At the request of the Minister, the Assembly im-
mediately met in its bureaux, to appoint a committee
to make a report on the urgency of the project of law
in question.

It is said that there were serious dirisions in the
Cabinet as to the propriety of adopting the measures
propounded by M. ODILON BARROT to the Assembly,
and that their adoption may be considered as an ad-
ditional triumph of the extreme reactionary party,
inasmuch as the proposition for an immediate armed
intervention emanated from M. DE FALLOUX, the
panegyrist of the inquisition, the apologist of the
massacre of St. Bartholomew's•day, and the repre-
sentative in the Cabinet of the Parti Pretre and the
Jesuits, who has succeeded in forcing on his colleagues
this Holy War. The order for the embarkation of
the troops: from Toulon was dispatched on Saturday
by telegraph. General OUDINOT commands the expe-
dition, which has by this time possibly arrived at
Civita Vecchia. The French Government has, it is
said, received information of the invasion of Tuscany
by the Austrians.
The Count DE MONTEMOLIN, accompanied by two
aides-de-camp and an officer attached to the Prefec-
ture of the Police, passed through Paris on Sunday,
on his way to Calais.

La Prisse contradicts a statement of the Patrie to
the effect that the Austrian General' Asraz had
marched against Florence at the head of 16,000 men,
and that the representatives of the great Powers
assembled at Gaeta had not yet decided upon any
course of action.

The Debars gives an analysis of the revenue re-
turns, which is worthy of notice :
" The total receipt for the first quarter is 168,344,000,
while for the corresponding quarter of 1848 it was
177,964,000 f., making a difference of 9,620,000 f. ; but it
allowance be made for the reduction of the
salt tax the difference would in reality be re-
duced to 472,000 f. There is, therefore, but 'Wile
difference between the two periods. The difference,
moreover, is upon the two first months, for March
presents a surplus of 3,367,000 f. Several branches of
revenue show, notwithstanding, a deficiency. Registry
duties are less, by 5,963,0001. The stamp duty has lost
691,000 f.; salt, 3,557,000 f.; potable liquors, 553,0001.;
and the Post-office 3,448,000 f. It is to be hoped, how-
ever, that the advantages gained by the country by the
reduction of the post-office tax will atone for the loss in-
curred by the revenue. On the other hand the customs
show improvement. Import duties give an increase of
5,590,0001., and on the side of exports there is an ameli-
oration, which is encouraging for commerce and national
industry. An unfavourable aide of the picture is that
which relates to direct taxation. There remains to be
recovered of the 45 centimes a sum: of 11,593,0001.,
which is not very large considering that it is an extra-
ardinary impost; but there is besides that, on the ordi-
nary taxes, a sum of 19,862,000 f. not yet collected.
These sums make nearly 30 millions due on the year
1848, no great burden if business should resume its
wonted activity."
M. DE PALLoux is endeavouring to revive the days
of Al. DE FRATSSINOLIS and Of CHARLES X. lie has
issued a circular to the Rectors of Academies warn-
ing them not to interfere with politics. We should
not be surprised to find him forbidding all lectures on
history, and proposing in the Legislative Chamber
the re-enactment of the law of sacrilege.
BOURSE.—Pears, MONDAY, APRIL 16.

THREE O'CLOCK.—The rumour of an immediate in-
tervention on the part of France in favour of the Pope,
and the sending of an armed expedition to Civita Vec-
chia, does not appear to frighten the speculators on the
Bourse. Both Funds and Shares were uncommonly
steady to-day, and roso considerably. There was no
news of any kind, with the exception of some details of
the fall of Genoa. Exchange on London (30 days),
25 32} money; ditto (90 days), 25 22i money.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TBE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. Arun, 16.
Demerara, 81,4—East Indian, 41—Northern of France,
11% - Orleans and Bourdeaux, 3iii—Sambre and Meuse, 4
—Tours and Nantes, 34 ex div.