The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. SATU'RrIAY, OCTOBER 10, Is4o.

that they had haughtily refused—nay, resented, invita•
tions addressed to them in a spirit of perfect frankness
and good neighbourhood ; and that if the Allied Go
vernments at length, and almost at the setting in of a
season of which the arrival usually frustrates every ma-
ritime operation, had found themselves compelled
either to execute their treaty by a coercive process
against Mehemet Ali on the cost of Syria, or to aban-
don it altogether, and so become the ridicule of the
world, France has assuredly had no right to murmur ;
inasmuch as she had not taken offence at the published
provisions of the treaty, and therefore could not fairly
do so at their strict and exact fulfilment. The Ministers
of France, therefore, have rot been " driven' to any-
thing—not to be unreasonable on behalf of Mehemet
Ali, and not to be threatening, tu-bulent, or aggressive
for themselves.

borne—partially vex those who have the management of
the English navy, cannot by any possibility lessen that
power which enables her to govern every ocean which
girdles the globe. We are sorry to say that noblemen,
gentlemen, and others whom we scorn to particularize,
have been exerting themselves to show that the British
navy has, under the Government of a Liberal Adminis-
tration, fallen from the rank which it once held. This
is an infamous calumny—or an effort to obtain office at
the expense of the truth ; for no one who has examined
the condition of our navy, or has learned the characters
of those who have the command of it, can fairly and
truly refrain from acknowledging that it was never in a
more efficient state than at the present time.

FROII THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
While the Univers is preaching a Catholic crusade,
the National is preaching something like a Mahometan
one. While the former has sufficient evidence at least
to perceive that the flames of revolutionary propa-
gandism, if once kindled, must first consume France,
before they spread to her neighbours—the latter
is exhorting her rulers to the following rather
strong measures—" March upon the Rhine, tear the
treaties of 1815, proclaim boldly the principles that
are destined to change the face of the world, cry out to
Germany, to Italy, to Spain, to Poland, that you carry
at the point of your weapons the magnet of civilisation ;
.
that your oriflamme the symbol of equality, of hu-
man fraternity ; curse the spirit of conquest, extol that
noble esprit de famille which is henceforth to unite re-
generated nations ; render France worthy of her tradi-
tions, group round her all who suffer, all who hope ;
carry your sword high, and have your banners blessed
by the God who blessed those of -Jena, Fleurus, and
Marengo." There is a sentence somewhere in Junius, if
we recollect right, to the effect that honest men, like the
true religion, appeal to reason and conscience. " Tne
imposter employs force instead of argument, imposes
where he cannot convince, and propagates his cha-
racter by the sword.' The revolutionary party in
France seem exceedingly anxious to propagate their
character by the sword, in the name of their God and
his prophet. It is quite unnecessary. Their character
is well known in Europe already, It is remembered that
the first external act of the first French Assembly that
abjured foreign conquest, and proclaimed universal
fraternity, was the fraudulent annexation of a fron-
tier territory. It is remembered that ten years had not
elapsed from that pompous proclamation, before a similar
fate had overtaken every defenceless neighbour, and
forced contributions had drained the dupes of " equa-
lity" and " fraternity." When George the First im-
ported a mistress from Hanover, who was hissed by the
populace, she called out from her carriage window—
" Goot people, ye come for your goods !" " Yes, d—
you, and chattels too," was John Bull's reply. It is
amusing in the National, and the rest of that rabid
party, to talk of reconquering the Rhine in one breath,
and abjuring all conquest in the next ! All the revolu-
tionary conquests of France are not to be considered
as having encroached upon Europe ;---and the loss
of those conquests is an injury which France must
retrieve, on the first occasion ! It is astonishing that
language so entirely unreasonable should, by dint of
mere repetition, have a certain popular force in France.
It is still more astonishing that it should not be per-
ceived by our acute neighbours, that the threats of re•
conquest completely unmask the promises of fraternity.
Germany is no longer open to the voice of the charmer,
to which she listened largely in 1792.
(From the Standard.)
The French Chambers arc summoned to meet on
the 28th instant. The effect of the announcement of
this early Session was a considerable fall in the price
of the public securities, which had been previously
depressed by an intimation that the King had given
to M. Thiers a carte blanche upon the question of peace
or war. It is undoubtedly but an ill compliment
to the Chambers, that the expectation of their early
meeting should diminish confidence in the public faith,
or in the stability of the public resources ; and we can-
not imagine a more disgraceful censure passed upon
a Minister than that practically pronounced upon M.
Thiers when the enlargement of his power served
as the signal for the despondency of all the pro•
prietary classes. The censure upon M. Thiers is,
however, perfectly just, as far as the individual is
concerned, but we are very far from think-
ing, that the despondency by which that censure is
expressed, has any other ground than in M. Tillers' esil
dispositions. On the other hand, we think that the licence
given to the Minister, and the responsibility imposed
upon him by that license--eaccompanied as they are by
an appeal to the Chambers—are obviously the mea-
sure which a wise and just man would resort to,
in the difficult position in which the wicked conduct
of M. Thiers has placed the King of the French.
The license to M. Thiers is what we familiarly call
in England " rope enough." The summoning of the
Chambers is the appeal of the King to his people ,
against the Minister forced upon him by a faction.
We are very much misled by the conduct of M.
Thiers during the last three or four months, if he is
pleased at the prospect of meeting the French
Parliament. Indeed, his attempt to raise by a pre-
rogative process the funds for the fortification of
Paris proves that he is not. Still more are we mis-
taken if the majority of the Chambers will be found
to second his views. It is all very well to vapour in
salons and estaminets about the glory of France (with
which, by the way, nobody meddles), but when men
arc called to commit themselves to measures
the least injurious effect of which will be to depreciate
the value of all property :30 or .50 per cent., without the
remotest chance of an equivalent, the proprietary classes,
who are almost the only classes represented in the
Chambers, will be disposed to think twice. And the
more honest and sagacious among them, knowing that
France has been subjected neither to injury nor in-
sult, and, moreover, that France was never so rela-
tively weak as at this moment, will do their best to com-
pose the popular feeling, and to support the pacific views
of the King. It is extremely probable too, that long he-
fore the Chambers can be well in session, that is, before
the middle of next month, the easus belli
will have disappeared ; that Mehemet Ali will either
have submitted, or retired into his Egyptian pachalic.
For ourselves, upon the hypothesis that the King has
really given the unlimited license which he is said to
have given to M. Thiers, we can have no doubt that
the assembling of the Chambers is annexed as a condi-
tion, and a condition, too,
the Meister. by no means palatable to

(From the Morning Post.)
We are glad that the french Chambers are to meet
so soon. Notwithstanding the ingenuity k--f M. Tillers
as a speechmaker, we trust he will in the Chamber meet
with men capable of exposing his tracasserie, and de-
nouncing his incapacity. We use the latter word deli-
berately. M. Thiers is without capacity for the manage-
ment of affairs in the present crisis. Events have
grown much more serious than he contemplates;—much
more portentous than be has mind and feelings to com-
prehend. M. Thiers is undoubtedly a person of clever-
ness—a smart man for an impromptu reply in the Cham-
ber, or a pungent article in the newspapers ; but he is
totally unfit to direct the affairs of a great nation in
times of difficulty. To do this a man should have cou-
rage and calmness, moderation and firmness, and, above
all, a lofty mind, devoted to national interests, but
indifferent to personal considerations. Such a man
M. Thiers certainly is not. He is a man who thinks,
not of France and of Europe, but of himself and the
petty interests of which he is the centre. He ma-
nceuvred, and [played a sort of political game with
the Four Powers until they grew weary of it, and acted
without him. He then perceived that he had got him-
self into a false position by his shuffling and insincere
policy. The next thing to be done, therefore, was to
shield himself from the consequences which would arise
if the French nation should deliberately consider his
failure and the reasons of it. The result of the policy
of M. Thiers was, that the Four Great Powers of Eu
rope had made an arrangement to which France was no
party. She might have been a party if she pleased, but
M. Thiers, hoping to effect something which it appears
he could not effect, hung back. The Five Powers had
met to change the status quo, because it was considered
dangerous. M. Thiers, without avowing any distinct
object, manoeuvred to preserve the status quo ; in
other words, to prevent that from being done which
the Five Powers (France being one of them) had met
to do. At last four of the Powers, finding that the
Government of M. Thiers could be brought to no
point, determined upon doing among themselves
that which they had hoped would have been done by
the whole five in concurrence. That was the plain
state of the case at the moment when the treaty of the
15th of July was communicated to the French Go-
vernment. M. Thiers felt, and had reason to feel, that
this was a severe blow to him and to his policy. It
was at once a defeat and a rebuke. How was he to
prevent France from seeing this, and from regarding
him with the contempt which his failure as a Minister
so well deserved ? He set his journals to work to
persuade the French nation that kis defeat was their
defeat. He scrupled not to use the most inflammatory
language in order to cause the French people to believe
that they were affronted, when he well knew the simple
fact to be that he had been foiled. The French being '
a highly sensitive people, and particularly apt to take
fire at the merest supposition of an affront from
foreign Powers, were imposed upon by this trick of
the Minister. M. Thiers succeeded. The French
public, instead of calling the Minister to account for
his glaringly unsuccesful policy, were entirely occupied
with the feeling of wounded national honour. The
bloodthirsty, and yet cunning, partisans of revolution
quickly perceived the advantage to be made of this state
of the public mind, and directed all their energies to
fan the flame which the journals of M. Thiers, for a
mean and selfish purpose, had kindled. That flame has
now risen to a national blaze, which seems but too
likely to scorch all Europe. We are well satisfied that
M. Thiers never wished nor expected that his clever
device to save himself vt ould lead to such an extent of
national excitement and peril. But the fire once set
going, he had neither skill to direct nor power to ex-
tinguish. He is now tossed hither and thither by events
a mere cock-boat upon the angry waves. He has not
energy of mind nor weight of character, nor sincerity of
purpose, to enable him to do what is needful at such a
time.

(From the Morning Herald.)
Though it is no part of our case in opposing the
policy of the British Government in the east, which
has already baptised the new Holy Alliance in blood,
to defend the condnct of France throughout its nego-
tiations with the Four Powers, we bold the opinion, and
dare to assert it, that France has just as much right to
defend Mehemet Ali against the aggressive policy 01
those Four Powers, as they have to seek his deposition
' and ruin. When we hear it asked, .• What right has
France to stipulate on behalf of "Mehemet Ali ?" we an-
swer, the same right that the Four Powers pretend to
rely upon in taking part with the Porte against him.
They pretend to b actuated by motives of public po-
licy connected with the pacification of the east—the pre-
servation of the balance of power, and the welfare of
Europe. France thinks that all those objects are better
secured by leaving Mehemet Ali in peaceful pos-
session of Egypt and Syria, and by taking no step
which will give the Russians a plausible pretext to
occupy Constantinople. France says that the treats
of London is calculated to disturb, and not to settle,
the affairs of the east, and that its consequences, by
giving an immense preponderance to Russia, will be
injurious both to Asia and Europe. If such be the
opinion of France, we say that that power has just as
good a right to stipulate on behalf of Mehemet Ali as
the other Powers have to combine for his downfall,
and pursue him with fire and sword. But Mehemet
Ali, say the Whig and Tory advocates of the Anglo-
Russian alliance, is the vassal of the Porte, and is it
not most immoral and dangerous to countenance, abet,
or encourage a vassal against his legitimate Sovereign?
To this we answer, if such policy be immoral and dan-
gerous, the Four Powers themselves have established
the precedent, and, as far as their solemn acts could go
to explain the law of nations, have made such very im-
moral and dangerous policy part of the public law ot
Europe, both in reference to Belgium and Greece. In
the one case they abetted and encouraged the vassals and
subjects of the King of the Netherlands while they were
in open rebellion against their Sovereign, Russia taking
care to obtain for her share in recognising the rights rf sue-
cessfet l rebellion, some millions of English gold—aye,
thanks to the subserviency of the Whig Ministers, to the
influence and power of Russia, the Imperial destroyer
of Poland was well paid for assisting to permanently
dismember the dominions of the Dutch King, the " in-
tegrity" of which the same Power had been previously
paid to protect. In the other case to which we have
referred the somewhat short memories of tle advocates
of the Anglo-Russian alliance, time Porte itself had a
large portion of its dominions wrested from it, and con-
verted, under a nominally independent sovereignty, into
a quasi province of Russia. Where were the rights ot
the legitimate principle of authority respected in those
examples? Are not those examples consecrated by all
the solemn sanctity of treaties, by all the dignity of di-
plomatic aotes, and conferences, and protocols, among
the deliberate acts which constitute the public law of
Europe, or which explain it ? On what foundation
rests the throne of Leopold of Belgium?—on what
foundation that of Otho of Greece, but successful re-
bellion—rebellion which was countenanzed, abetted, and
encouraged by the Four Powers who are parties to the
crusade against the Egyptian chieftain ?
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
The illustrious Alfred, more justly esteemed the
Great than, perhaps, any other Monarch that ever
swayed the sceptre, was the first who saw that the real
defence of England, and of the British islands in ge-
neral, was their sea-girt shores, and a maritime force
to meet the invaders of the country upon the seas
adjoining those shores. For this purpose, when he
was completely defeated on land by the Danes, and had
to take shelter in the cottage of the swine-herd, he had
discretion enough to discover that there was no secu-
rity for his country, if those northern invaders were
suffered to land ; because they, taking possession of
the most favourable spots of the country, turned its own
resources to the conquest of the remainder. There-
fore, before he attempted again to meet the Danes in
the field, he organised a fleet all unknown to those
atrocious spoilers, which, rendezvousing near the
eastern extremity of the Isle of -Wight, advanced to
meet them in battle array, and gloriously beat them
in every encounter. Tbis was the real origin of the
British navy—of that power which has enabled our em-
pire to command every sea which encircles the globe,
and to give law to every maritime nation under the ca-
nopy of Heaven. Derived from so noble an origin—
from that monarch who was the primogenitor of our law
and our literature, shall we, in the present days—days
in which Alfred would have gloried—see the machina-
tions of foreign, and we may add, contemptible enemies,
seek to destroy in our harbours and arsenals those mari-
timeprotracting equipments which they dare not meet on the high
seas? We specially allude to those infamous des,
tructions of our ships and arsenals which have been at- HORSE-DEALING IN
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The war-cry is kept up in
(From the Courier.)
their waverings ; for though they
vigour. 'the Ministerial organs are violent even in
France with unabated
call out less lustily for
war, they are no less energetic in •
Their appeals to the
passions and prejudices of the French people. The jour-
"ls supposed to channel the sentiments cf Louis
Philippe become more guarded, and, consequently, lesse
warlike. A full appreciation of th danger of evoking
the spirit of war amongst a proverbially martial people,
has at length, it would appear, flashed
minds ; hence the great diffi whi
culty across their
ch the French Go-
vernment now experiences is to check and allay the ex-
citement its organs formerly took so much pains to create.
M. Thiers may deem himself particularly fortunate if
be escape filling a victim to the monster of his own
creation. To tamper with the passions of an excited
people is an experiment pregnant with danger. If
balked of the object of their pursuit, they are apt to turn
with a savage fierceness on those by whom they had
been incited. Another source of rashness and risk
arises from a desire to propitiate the multitude by the
adoption of some course which may appear to
them to tend towards war. The necessity of some
naanseuvre of this kind, imposed upon France
by the fierce aid menacing tone of its press,
sufficiently accounts for the unprecedented and dan-
gerous determination to which we yesterday alluded.
Surelydered
France ut this stage of the proceedings cannot
be warranted in menacing the Four Powers with
an
ultimatum, tellin,, them that the adoption of such and
such means in the" execution of the Treaty will he con-
as a declaration of war against her. This we
must characterise as a school-boy mode of picking a
quarrel, and totally unworthy of a great and enlight-
ened nation like France. Assuredly, if in giving
effect to the Treaty, anything should occur injurious
to her interests or her honour, France is powerful and
y ten should she,
high-minded enough to defend the one and vindicate time
Whh
other. by anticipating causes of
quarrel, contribute,
as far as in her lay, to produce
them ? We have before stated our inability to perceive,
in the events that have taken place
in Syria and Egypt,
any real or substantial grounds for the extremely hostile
attitude assumed by our French neighbours. Our hopes,
however, in the continuance of peace would be much a
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long
stronger, were we not full satisfied that where an occa-
sion for provoking
pretext
rerl is sought after, a
sufficiently plausible
The convocation of the French Chambers for the 28 th —anting.
a measure decided upon by the Council on Wednesday—
produced in the French capital fresh panic and alarm, in
our opinion most needlessly as the precipitancy of the
Minister is more to be dreaded than the result of an
anx
wanting.
appeal to the i
JeCgment of the Chambers. Viewed,
however, as a concession to the demands of M. Thiers,
and as an evidence of the predominance of the war-
party in the Cabinet, it becomes an omen of serious if
not of sinister significance,

THE REGISTRATIONS.

MIDDLESEX.

The Revising Barristers held their Courts yesterday
at the Bush and Clarence Hotel, Staines, and revised
the lists of voters for the parishes of Harniondsworth,
Stanwell, Shepperton, Bedfont, Feltham, Littleton,
Ashford, Laleham, and Staines.
The only case of the slightest interest was that of
George White, whose claim was objected to by the
Reformers. He claimed for household property, and
produced a lease of Walton-on-the-Thames Bridge.
The bridge is freehold property.
Mr. Coppock contended that the lease could only
be considered a lease of the tolls.

PARISHES.
Becifont *
Staines
Feltham
Littleton
Ashford
Laleham
Stanwell
Harmondsworth
Shepperton .

Total..

Oven
made

•seers
i sust.

Libel
made

Tals.
Isust.

Toi
made

In this parish the Overseers had not affixed the List of
Objections on the Church doors,_ and the objections could not
therefore be gone into.
The Reformers have now a majority of 41.

WESTMINSTER.
THE CASE OF MR. C. P. ALLEN,-JUDGMENT.

Complainant—Never. She has sometimes comp
home for clothes or money, and then she has got
into a cab with a swell, who has been waiting for her,
and cut away down the street laughing. It is not to
be borne. The officers know her well.

Mr. CRAIG gave judgment yesterday in the case of
Mr. C. P. Allen, which was argued on Monday. Mr.
Allen claimed to be registered on the scot and lot list of
the voters for St-George's Hanover-square, as an inhabitant
householder paying scot and lot. The objection to Mr.
Allen was that he did not come under the denomination
of an inhabitant householder, inasmuch as the premises
in respect of which he claimed the right of voting were
only occupied by himself and partners for the purposes
of their profession, all of them residing in separate
houses of their own. There were between forty and
fifty gentlemen in the parish similarly situated, whose
cases depended on the decision of the Learned Barrister
in that of Mr. Allen. Mr. Craig, who has taken great
pains in looking into all the authorities on the subject,
yesterday gavejudgment,the result of which, in the words
of Mr. Craig, is " that the names of Mr. C. P. Allen,
and all those other householders of Westminster who
were not, on the 31st day of July last, resident within this
city or its liberties, and whose cases have been brought
bafore me on that ground, must be expunged from the
lists of voters, in respect of the ancient right ; but, of
course, my decision does nct affect the title which the
same individuals, or any of them, may have to remain
on the lists of voters in respect of the now franchise."

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.

IN TIIE MATTER OF JOSIAH TAYLOR.

The LORD MAYOR—WeII, it is evidently a very
bad business, and I think it would have been better if
you had settled it out of Court. It you had set her a
good example at first, instead of getting drunk, and
allowing a filthy fellow to go into her bed, ycu would
not probably be in this predicament.
The complainant said that he would make her no al-
lowance, without being compelled by the parochial au-
thorities, and that he was justified in his refusal by her
habits.

Friday was the day fixed for the choice of assig-
nees in this bankruptcy. The bankrupt was described
as a picture dealer, in business in Pall-mall. He went
through this Court on a former occasion, and, some
years back, was known as one of the largest shareholders
in an extensive gaming-house near St. James's-street.
He had, at that time, one of the most splendid man-
sions in Arlington-street, containing a collection of pic-
tures which was valued at from 80,0001. to 100,0001.
The debts under the present fiat were about 5,0001.,
and the assets a quantity of pictures. The choice of
assignees was contested, and several debts having been
proved, Mr. Goddard, a solicitor for certain creditors,
and a solicitor on behalf of another body of them, handed
in lists, that of Mr. Goddard being less in amount than
the other.

A lad, named William Clarke, cellarman to Mr.
Gardner, a wine merchant and public-house keeper, in
Coleman-street, was charged with having stolen some
segars and other property.
The prisoner acknowledged that the segars found in
his possession were the property of his master. In his
trunk were found several penknives, a small quantity of
type, which had been stolen from a printer's shop in the
neighbourhood, and a few other articles, and the two
precious books, " Jack Sheppard" and " Dick Tutpin,"
embellished with a great variety of wood-cuts, repre-
senting the gallant adventures of the first-rate thieves of
that day.—The prisoner was remanded.

Mr. Goddard objected to the appointment of Mr.
Norton as assignee, on the ground that he had been
canvassed by the bankrupt to undertake that trust, and
he had promised to accept it.
Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE said that canvassing
of itself was not sufficient to disqualify a party canvassed
to become an assignee ; but if he thought that Mr.
Norton would not do justice, or if any reasons were
stated why it was supposed he would not, he would have
no objection to hear them, and refuse sanctioning his
appointment. At present, however, nothing was before
him to justify his pursuing such a course.
Mr. Goddard stated that Mr. Norton was for delay-
ing the sale of the pictures, while the general wish of
the creditors was, that they should be sold as soon as
possible, and realise a dividend.

A solicitor who attended for Mr. Norton said it was
the wish of Mr. Norton, if he were appointed to the
assigneeship, to do the best for the advantage of the
creditors. He was considered to be an excellent judge
of pictures, and every one must feel satisfied that much
depended on the mode of sale in order to realise fair
prices.

Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE—Yes, that may be,
but then the assignee must not be allowed to hold over
the sale with the view of obtaining speculative prices ;
on the contrary, it is his duty to realise as fast as pos-
sible, for every man in business knows that 2s. 6d. to-
day is better than ss. would be this day six months.
The Official Assignee said that Mr. Norton was a
most respectable man, and had acted extremely well in
Mr. Taylor's last bankruptcy.

Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE—Then I confirm
the choice of Mr. Norton, of Soho-square, picture-
dealer.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS-FRIDAY

BILL DISCOUNTING FRACAS. - Mr. J. Sig,gers,
breeches maker, of Wych-street, Strand, was indicted
for assaulting Mr. Brown on the 16th of June last.

Mr. Bron; stated that he was an upholsterer in
Sloane-street, and that the defendant had, before this
occasion, discounted bills for him. The amount of the
bill in June last was 131. 135., and the complainant lost
15 days in going after the money, and was about 41. out
of pocket. Upon one occasion he waited in a public-
house two hours for Mr. Siggers, and they lunched to-
gether, but Mr. Siggers did not return, and his brother
told him he had gone to Paddington. Complainant
went to Paddington, and was induced to remain drink-
ing for two hours with the defendant in a public-house,
and after all came away without the money, which he
required to pay his men. On the 16th of June he in-
sisted on having the bill from Mr. Siggers, who ap-
plied several opprobrious epithets towards him, and
said he wanted to fight him for 101. to 11. The de-
fendant then bent him over the counter, and caught
hold of his nose, and twisted it round in a violent man-
ner. He also struck him upon the chest, and cut his
nose and lip. He bad lost 1501. through the de-
fendant.

Cross-examined—The bill was given for the clothes
which he (Brown) had be,qi supplied with previously.
Mr. Fair, hatter, of William-street, Borough, stated
that he was passing the defendant's shop when the as-
sault took place, and he saw blood upon the complain-
ant's clothes.

Tt.e Jury found the defendant Guilty, and the Court.
sentenced the defendant to pay a fine of 203.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION.HOUSE.

A young woman of genteel appearance, named Ca-
roline Garland, the wife of a hair-dresser, was charged
by her husband with having broken two mirrors, and
some panes of glass in the shop window.
The complainant said that he had been married to
the lady upwards of three years and they had not been
together more than a year, when she began to play very
strange pranks, such as staying out all nights, and some-
times for several days and nights, driving home at two
oe three o'clock in the morning with swells, and knock-
ing up the house ; and, in fact, doing all those things
which a married woman ought not to do. The particu-
lar act, however, of which witness complained occurred
on the preceding night, when his wife drove up to the
door in a cab, walked into the house and demanded
money, upon being refused which she took hold of a pair
of curling tongs, ran up stairs and smashed a mirrror,
returned and broke another mirror, and concluded the
business by dashing her hands through the shop window.
Tho LORD MAYOR asked whether the woman was
mad ?

A customer of the shop said that he went In to be
shaved, but the appearance of the lady disturbed the
operation. He heard the noise of the mischief she
committed above stairs, and to his dismay he witnessed
her violence below. He had himself fears of her fttry,
for she had threatened to cut him more than skin deep.
The father of the young woman said that he had had
more trouble with her than all the rest of his eight
, children, but he had every reason to believe tint her
I husband's fondness for gin was the cause of her miscon-
duct, for it happened that the gentleman vvhe reiluired
exemplary conduct from his wife A 7,44 in the -
driving home in cabs At all hours helpleg.)- of
upon one occasion the wife c.d -.y drunk, and
husband, but aootba: - that not only her
bed ti'runkmeonrnf.eiunlula; were with her in
W111:-it line awoke in the
The Lo Mr. Garland, yon don't
come mto Court with clean hands yourself ? The corn-
PlAitlAnt Said that he never had introduced any man to
his wife's bed-room, but he admitted that he and a
friend had gone home one night rather lushy, and that
his friend in a mistake threw himself across the bed.
The
t• r 934, acknowledged that she had done mis-
c4iet iq tke house, but she declared that she had been
provoked to violence by the refusal of her husband to
give her the means of support. She denied most solemn-
-1i! 010 she was the vile person her husband had de-
scribed her to be, and said that all she wanted was a
separate maintenance.
The complainant said that she never should have any
maintenance from him.
The Loan MAYOR—The parish officers will compel '
you to support her. I shah bind her over to keep the
peace towards you, but you must make her an allowance.