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occasiomt, complained of her inattention to husiner, but not of
her laugling and joking with the apprentices. Site was rot
discharged from her brother's service.
W.-examined—The gentleman wlv) had been mentioned,
Mr. Wood, never took tee least impruper liberty with her,
o,:ther did :11r. Boreham, and no person had done so but the
defendant.

Mr. James Courtnall, father of the last witness, proved the
fact of her having been placed in the service of her brother,
and he also ccrroborated her evidence in reverence to the other
cif cumstances of her journey to Ileceles, Ice. lie could not
tell the precise time when he was first informed of the misfor-
tune that had befallen his daughter; in consequence of what
was told him, he had an interview with the defendant, and told
him what he had heard, and he said it was no use to deny it,
and he attempted to cast some insinuations upon her character,
and witness told him he was making it worse. Witness asked

him what he proposed to do, and he said he should do nothing,
and witness then said he must adopt some other course.
Witness afterwards saw the defendant in the presence of
his mother, and he suggested to the latter that the young
people should be married ; but she would not consent to it, and
said she should not control her son's inclinations, and that he
was engaged to another young lady. Finding that they would
not consent to the marriage, he proposed that some mutual
friends should be called in to arrange the matter, but this pro-
position was also refused.
Cross-examined—He had been put to an expense of 221.,
and there were various expenses to be paid. He certainly
expected some compensation for the injury his daughter had
sustained. _ _

Mr. PLATT then addressed the jury for the defendant, and
Chief Justice TINDAI, having summed up, the jury delibe-
rated for a few minutes, and then returned a verdict for the
plaintiff—Damages 401.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION HOUSE.
Several men have within the last week made complaint at
the Justice-room of breaeh of contract upon the part of Messrs.
Ackerman, Morgan, and Co., Bristol, engineers ; and Alder-
man Wilson, upon hearing the nature of the cause of dis-
agreement, directed that Mr. Arthur Bell, the agent to the
firm, which is one of the highest respectability, should attend
to give an explanation or defence of the conduct of the principals.
Arthur Grei3 stated that he was an engineer, and resided at
Deptford-green. That having seen an advertisement in the
newspapers for a number of engineers, and the reference to
Mr. Pall, the agent to the Bristol Company, he applied ac-
cordingly. and was informed by that gentleman that the wages
to be paid to the men was to be 325. and 345. ; that he said
he was satisfied to go if he was to receive 345. a-week ; and
that Mr. Ball consented, and wrote upon a card, " Pay An-
drew Greig 345. a-week ;" and mentioned that witness should,
after a little, have his expenses to Bristol defrayed. The
business for which witness, and five other men who
were present, were engaged, was to make new
engines for steam vessels. He wrought for three
weeks, and, in the middle of the last week, be was
at work. The foreman told him that his pair was to be
reduced to 265. a-week. Upon hearing which, he expos-
tulated with Mr. Morgan upon such an unreasonable chance,
and was informed by that gentleman that there was a mistake
upon the part of his communicant. Having, however, ascer-
tained that the reduction was to take place, notwithstanding
the positive agreement with the Company's agent, he left the
concern, and he had not received the price of his journey up
and down, although it was perfectly well understood that the
expenses we.c to' be defrayed. Under all the circumstances,
he and .everal other men had found it necessary, in conse-
quence of the reduction, to quit the work, to their serious in-
jury and inconvenience. He defied any skilful person to find
fault with his work, and he considered that the conduct of the
Managers of the Company was reprehensible in the extreme.
Another engineer stated that upon hearing of the report
of the reduction of their wages he went to a;k whether there
was any complaint of his work, and was told that there was
not. One of the clerks, however, mentioned that he (wit-
ness) was picked out as not fit, although he had worked for
the same concern for a period of seven months, on a former
engagement, at the highest wages, which were then 365. per
week. Twenty-two hands left the Company in the first week.
He was to be reduced to 30s. a week, and he gave up the
work in consequence.
Alderman Witsow—Have any of the men remained? Wit-
ness—Yes. There are three now receiving 345. per week.
Mr. Ball said that he had received his instructions by letter
from the British Company, whose liberality was proverbial,
and the reason their wages were reduced was that the men
were really not worth the money they received. He had cau-
tioned them all not to go to Bristol if they were, not worth the
full wages, as they would, if they proved deficient, most as-
suredly be reduced. Upon being put to the test they were
found to be wanting, and then the managers had no alternative
but to reduce or to dismiss.
Alderman Wacsow said that he could not render any as-
sistance to the complainants, as they had no written contract;
but he could not help saying that he considered them exceed-
ingly ill-treated, and ho hoped that at least their expenses to
and from Bristol would be defrayed.
The complainants said that the Company would find it rather
difficult to get men in London to throw up their work on a
future occasion and go down to Bristol.
Mr. Ball declared that nothing could exceed the kindness
and liberality of Mr. Morgan to the men employed by the Com-
pany, and that there was a most intolerable spirit of combination
amongst those men.
Alderman WILSON—I understand that some of the men who
attend here to complain followed my advice, and summoned
the agent to the Court c•f Requests for the amount of their
passage to and from Bristol, and that they succeeded. Now I
advised all the rest to do the like, and I have no doubt as to the
result.
A simple country girl, named Eliza Walker, was brought
before the Lord Mayor by a good natured City policeman,
named William Edmonds (No. 526), who saved her the night
before from destruction.
The policeman said that he observed the young woman,
who appeared to be a stranger in London, in the neighbour-
hood of the Custom-house in conversation with a female whose
exterior was not very prepossessing. Suspecting that all was
not right he went up to the girl, and the woman took the op-
portunity to decamp upon observing that he was making some
inquiry. The girl told him that she had just arrived in town
from Lincolnshire, where her father was a farmer in a good
line of business, and that as she and her step-mother could not
agree she left her home in the bustle of the election, deter-
mined to go and seek her fortune in Australia. Witness asked
her who the woman was to whom she had been speaking, and
from her answer concluded that the former was one of those
wretches who are ever on the look-out for inexperienced country
girls with whom to make an iniquitous market. The girl said
that the woman walked up to her and get into conversa-
tion with her, by advising her not to go too near the water,
and showing other anxiety about her welfare. These questions
were followed up by a request of the loan of five shillings,
which, although all the money the poor young creature had
was five and sixpence, she, without hesitation, parted with,
so that all that remained to her was the sixpence. The wo-
man who had thus ingratiated herself in the good graces of the
poor girl, endez.voured to prevail upon her to drink, took her
in a boat over to one of the steam-vessels in the river, and in-
vited her into the cabin amongst the seamen, whom an instinc-
tive apprehension, however, induced her to avoid. The woman
subsequently proposed to take her to a house where there would
he a great deal of fiddling and dancing amongst sailors and
other jolly fellows, but to that place also she was afraid to go.
The Loan AIATOR asked tha girl what she proposed to do?
—She replied that she had seen enough of London, and would
go back to her father, if she had the means.
The policeman stated that the girl, who appeared to be the
mere child of simplicity, had told him in confidence that she
had been born with something upon her face, and that she sup-
posed that she would one day make away with herself. He
was alarmed at her defenceless condition, and resolved to take
her to the station-house; and she wept bitterly at her de-
plorable lot.
The LORD MAYOR said that the policeman had proved him-
self to be a young man of excellent feeling, and deserved the kind
notice of the Commissioner, for the genuine humanity which
he displayed. His Lordship then directed the policeman to pay
for the poor girl's passage to Hull, and to supply her with the
means of reaching het-father's house.

(2 UEEiV-SQUARE.
ASSAULT UPON THE POLlCE.—Francis Blaisden, an old
blind man, was charged with being drunk ; and James
211•Carthy, his leader, a sturdy-looking youth, about 17 years
of age, was charged with a most violent assault upon a
policeman.
Police Constable NI hitwell, 164 B, stated that about a quar-
ter to two o'clock that morning he was on duty in Westbourne-
street, Pimlico, when he saw the defendants lying in the
middle of the road drunk. He went to endeavour to get them
on to their legs, when M'Carthy hit him, and kicked him in
such a manner as to entirely disable him : assistance, how-
ever, came up, and defendants were taken to the station-hou'e.
The policeman added, that the injuries he bad received were so
severe, that he had been obliged to be bled, and the surgeon
had said it would he necessary to cup him on the ensuing day.
The excuse of both defendants was that they were drunk.
Mr. BURRELL fined the defendant M'Carthy 51., or two
months' imprisonment, and the other defendant, ss.