The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-18 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.

Tuesday, after the night charges had been disposed of, Mr.
Joseph Clarke, a surgeon in good practice, and residing in
Park-street, Camden-town, was brought before the sitting
Magistrate, Mr. Ilawlinson, by Inspector Ages of the S divi-
sion, on the chasge of having committed a rape upon Mrs.
Mary Ann Hall, whom he had been professionally attending.
Th,s prosecutrix and her husband appeared at the Court on
the previous day, when the particulars of the outrage were
communicated to the Magistrate, who upon hearing the forits
granted a warrant fur the prisoner's apprehension. It was
placed in the hands of the inspector, and at tour o'clock in the
afternoon the prisoner was brought up, but being then unpre-
pared with any legal adviser the case was, at his request, post-
paned, and an application to be allowed to put in bail forhis being
forthcoming in the morning being refused, he remained in cus-
tody, and was locked up in the station-house for the night.
Mrs. Hall, who is the wife of a compositor in the employ-
ment of Mr. Reyneli, stated that, under pretence of inquiring
about the state of her health, which had been delicate for some
days, the prisoner took several indecent liberties with her, and
ultimately succeeded, in spite of the resistance she offered, in
committing the capital offence with which she charged him.
(The evidence is unfit for publication. )
William Hall, the husband of prosecutrix, said—l am a let-
ter-press printer, in the employ of Mr. Reynell, near Golden-
square. The first time I heard of any improper conduct to-
wards my wile on the part of the prisoner was on Thursday
last. I went home about dinner time, and found on the
table a note from my wife, addressed to " Mr. Clarke." My
wife was then absent. I broke the seal, and having read
the note, asked my wife, when she returned, what it meant ;
but she seemed ashamed and afraid, and did not inform
me. I went to my work, and in the evening called upon
Mr. Clarke to demand an explanation, at the same time
putting the note into his hand. He read it, and said he
was astonished and confounded, but I was not to alarm my-
self, as he was not aware that he had said anything to give of-
fence ; and that he bad done no more than his professional
duties warranted him in doing—examining and talking to my
wife. I told him I could get no information from her, and that
I was much dissatisfied, when he said to me, " My dear sir,
don't alarm yourself, I assure you nothing has occurred ; I'll
tell you what I'll do if it will satisfy your mind—l will write
an open note and give it to you to give to your wife." He
wrote, one, which he gave me, and on my getting home 1
showed it to Mrs. Hall. She read it, but then refused to give
me further information about the matter; and although I
beggal and insisted upon her letting me know all, she
would not satisfy me until Friday night. On that evening Mr.
Clarke called at my house, saying he wanted to speak to me
particularly ; he came into my room, my wife being in bed
in the next apartment; he begged of me to reconcile myself,
repeating that nothing wrong had taken place, and that he had
had no sleep for the last two nights. I told him that I felt
confident that some violence had been offered to my wife, al-
though I could not get from her the particulars, and that I
would have him apprehended. He seemed-dreadfully alarmed,
and said " For God Almighty's sake don't think of any such
proceeding, for an innocent man." I told him I
believed he had committed a rape upon my wife, and desired
him to get out of my house, when he said, " Oh ! I, can't
leave," and sitt;ng down on the sofa he called for a glass of
water ; he appeared to be fainting. I gave him some
water, and he presently said, "If I go on my
knees to both of you, will that satisfy you?" He said he
would make an oath, and swore several times by God
Almighty :hat he had done nothing which he could not,
as a medical man, justify. 'He then forced his hand into
mine, saying " Do shake hands with me, for I know you'll he
reconciled to-morrow morning." Witness concluded by stating,
kat after the prisoner was gene he learnt from his wife the
lihole of tl.e affair, and tlikt he subsequently had an interview
at the station-house with In Inspector. On Monday morning
the warrant was applied for, and on the same afternoon the pri-
soner was apprehended.

Inspect(); Aggs deposed that he apprehended the prisoner at
his own house upon the warrant. They came away in a cab toge-
ther, and on the road prisoner said "I attended the woman for only
a few days," and he was going on farther; witness stopped him by
telling him that it was a very serious charge, and that he had better
not then say anything more about it. He replied, " Very well ; I'm
much obliged to you;" and after some conversation upon other
subjects, he said, " I'm a married man, and have children, and,
thank God, I have never broken my bridal vow I" I begged of
him not to say anything more to me, for I should be compelled,
when sworn before the Magistrate, to state all that transpired
between us.

Air. RAWLINSON was of opinion that he should, taking all
matters into consideration, to justified in accepting bail, the
priscner in 5001., and two sureties in 2501. each, forhis appear-
ance to take his tricl for the offence.

The prisoner was conveyed to the station-house, where he
will remain until Thursday, on which day the depositions, which
are %cry volumitlow, will be read over, and he (prisoner) will
then be corrani4ed. TheinveAigation occupied three hours.

UNION. IiALL.
Tuesday William Osman was broupht before Mr. TRAIL',
for reexamination, charged with stealing lOW., the property
of Mrs. Field, landlady of the Three Compasses, in Bankside.
It appeared that the prisoner had taken lodgings at the h,use
of the complainant, and absconded some days ago, after break-
ing open a box in her room, in which was deposited two bigs,
containing sovereigns and silver to the amount of lOW. The
prisoner was afterwards traced to Worcester, where he was
afterwards taken into custody, and in his box was discovered
one of the bags divested of its contents, but which was dis-
tinctly identied by the complainant's niece, who was in the.
habit of using it at her aunt's house. There was also found a
gold watch, which was purchased with the produce of the
plunder. Immediately after the prisoner absconded he went
to Ilull, from thence to Liverpool, and on to Dublin, and then
crossed to Glasgow, and in the course of his travelling spent a
con.iderable sum of the stolen money. As there was no money
found in the prisoner's possession when taken into custody he
endeavoured to induce a belief that he had remittances from his
brother ; but when the latter came to be examined on that
point there was such -a palpable contradiction between hint and
the prisoner, that the Magistrate decided on committing the
latter for trial.

THE WEATHEa
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE.

STREET.

NOON. MARCH 17.
I.3Aromer ar 29 64 In.
Thermometer
Highest 67'5
Lowest
Wind S. E. by S.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.
TEe ne the. for the last ten days or a fortnight has
bee a re.i.arka•;ly warm and dry. The thermometer. has
bt:en on some cc, a ions as high as 67 in the shade, the
baron.e er at 30'52, and daring that peiod the fall of
min has not elcceded 0.62 iiici:es. mornirg rile; e
have been some gentle showers, with mild breeze•, form-
ing Otogether the tineat spriog aeother He have had for
msny sears.

P USEYISM-.--

OXFORD, MARCH 15.—At a Meeting of the Vice•
ChaLveiter, Heads of Elottsesand Proctors, in the
De.!eptes' Rooms, March 14, 1841;
Consiiering that it is erjoincd in tLe Statues of this
(Tit. iii. sect. ii., Tit. ix. sect. ii. § 3, sect. v.
§ 3) that every Student shall be instructed and ex-
t:rei.-,ed in the Thirty_nine Articles, and shall subscribe to
View.; consider.ng also that a Tract has re;:ently ap-
peared, dated from Oxford, and entitled " Remarks on
'certail hostages in the Thirty-nine Articles," being No.
90 of the " Tracts for the Times," a serious of aaony-
mous publ.cstions purporting t,) be written by Merzaers
of the University, but which ate in no way sanctioned
by the Liviversity itrelt ;

d,—That modes of interpretation such as are
suggested- to the said Tract, evading rather than explain-
idg tee sense of Vie. Thirty-nine Articles, and reconciling
rubicription to them with the adoption of errors, which
they tignrd, tr counteia.t, (It& a: the object, and
ui* the due observance of tie above-
ti:et,tioned statutes.
P. NV YNTEIi, Vice. Chancellor.