The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-02 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 2, 1847.

Daniel M'Cormack—l am a tailor and deputy-beadle •
of the church. On the 28th of January last she sent for
me to A beer-shop in a court in the Strand. Mrs. Em-
merson was at the bar with a glass of malt liquor before
her. She opened both hands, and said, " I'm so glad
pat are coming." I went with her into the taproom.
She asked me If I ever saw Mr. Ramsay take liberties
with her. I said, " No, never." She asked me if I knew
whether Hall ever did. She took out a long purse, and
turned out two or three sovereigns into her hand, and
said, " This is not the end," and she took the other end,
and took out a shilling and gave the landlady, which
looked very queer to me. She said she had money enough
yet. She said she was sure it was I who looked into
the vestry. She said she was sorry to say she had not
much witnesss but old Clark, and he was not of much
use. She said she could do anything with Manning.
She gave me 2s. She said, " Recollect, you are a poor
man; look to those that will look to you. "Witness the
vestry for me, and I'll be a friend to you for life." " No,"
says I, " I'll die in a ditch first." She said she bad
employed Mr. Hobler and Mr. Bodkin, and would never
be satisfied till she had stripped Mr. Ramsay of his
gown.
William Hall—l am the bellringer of this church. I
went to see Mrs. Emmerson in January last year, by
her request, at her house. She shook hands with me,
and asked if I had ever seen Mr. Ramsay and her in
the vestry; I said I had not. She said some one had,
and that Mr. Jones knew who it was. I asked her if
she had any witness to Mr. Ramsay's taking liberties
with her, and she said, " Yes, when he did so at her
house."
J. J. Wright—l knew Mrs. Emmerson in 1843, at the
Tivoli-gardens, at Margate, where I was cash-taker. I
was present when she was discharged; it was not in con-
sequence of the death of the manager.
Cross-examined—Mr. Reed succeeded the former ma-
nager. Ile discharged her.
Richard Reed—l was at the Tivoli-gardens in 1843,
as acting man for Mr. Ashley. Mrs. Emmerson sang
there in 1843. She was discharged in September, when
the gardens were closed, but that was not the reason.
Cross-examined— The gardens were opened in a few
days. She did not continue, but most of the others did.
Re-examined—The gardens were closed to get rid of
three performers, but particularly Mrs. Emmerson.
W. H. Walton—l was master of the ceremonies at
the Tivoli-gardens in 1843. Mrs. Emmerson offered
me a remuneration on what she might receive from all
the gentlemen I might introduce her to; and said that
rich old men were best, and that I should be received
gratis.
Cross-examined—l had been at the gardens two years
before, and am a resident at Margate, at Ivy-cottage.
The season begins in June, and ends the first week in
October. I had been proprietor of the gardens. I then
had a salary. I challenged Mrs. Emmerson with having
made me this offer. She came at the commencement of
the season, and my belief is she made me the offer within
a fortnight. She came down as " Miss Sugden." Mr.
Emmerson, when loudly applauding her, denied having
any knowledge of her. I don't know now that she is a
married woman. It was within a week after I knew
her that she made me the proposal. It was in the ball-
room. She used the words " rich old gentlemen and
dashing young blades." I had had no intimacy with
her before. I was a married man. It was on a dull
evening, and there were no visitors in the ball-room. A
Miss Harrington was with her at the time. I deny
having made any proposal to her. I was first spoken to
on this subject a fortnight since. It is false that she
ever spurned me. It is false that I ever made the pro-
posal to her to introduce gentlemen to her. Mr. Em-
merson did not threaten to horsewhip me. I should like
him to have done it. He used insulting language to me
after her dismissal. I can't say that I do know Mrs.
Adams. Ido know this woman (Mrs. Adams). I swear
that Mr. Emmerson did not threaten to horsewhip me
in the presence of Mrs. Adams. I did not beg his
pardon.
John Rix—l was organist at Belgrave Chapel. Mrs.
Emmerson was engaged there, and was discharged. She
told me that she was very fond of Blatch, and that he was
the father of one of her children. I would not believe
her on her oath.
Cross-examined—l am a teacher of music at Bromp-
, ton. I was engaged at Dr. Thorpe's chapel in 1838. I
' first became acquainted with Mrs. Emmerson there in
1840. Mrs. Emmerson indicted me for an assault before

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a magistrate, and I had to pay 2s. for the hearing. I
was discharged, but not admonished. That was in
1843. I have been on visiting terms with her and her
husband. Mr. Blatch is a printer, and now lives at
Bristol. The conversation took place in the organ loft.
Mr. Emmerson was sitting by her side at the time she
made this communication to me. fie might have been
four or five feet off. I was telling her that one of her
children was not much like its father, and she said,
" You have never seen its father." I can't recollect
whether it was like her other children. She said, " Mr.
Blatch used to fetch her from the Opera, and take her to
the oyster-rooms and give
.her supper." I was very often
astonished at her conversations.
C. Peters—l am the collector of the Canada Com-
mittee, and Mr. Ramsay is secretary—the estimation of
him has been most favourable. I sat in the organ-loft
of St. Michael's. Mrs. Emmerson always expressed
herself of Mr. Ramsay in terms most respectful.
Miss Eleanor Fisher—l am the sister of Mrs. Ramsay.
My mother lived in the Old Kent-road, near Liverpool-
street. Mr. Ramsay was in the habit of coming to see
my mother. lie returned from Ireland in the autumn of
1845, and he came to see us shortly afterwards.
Jane Clarke—l kept a coffee-house in Burleigh-street.
In January last Mrs. Emmerson was in my house, and
told me she had made Mr. Ramsay a present of a purse
like the one oho had in her hand.
The Bishop of London—l know the defendant. I
have always had every reason to believe very highly of
him as a minister, and also of his morality. I never
heard a whisper against his character or any reason to
believe he had done anything to the injury of his cha-
racter as a clergyman.
The Rev. Sir H. Dukinfield, vicar of St. Martin's-
in-the-Fields, Archdeacon Sinclair, the Rev. Mr. Auders,
Sir John Bayley, Bart., Mr. Nairn, the Rev. Canon
Dale, the Rev. Mr. Flukes, Sir Walter Clarkson, the
lion. and Rev. Baptist Noel, the Rev. Montague Villiers,
the Rev. Mr. Mortimer, Mr. Wellaston, barrister-at-law,
Mr. Shirley Woolmer, Mr. Frederick Smith, and Mr.
Corbett, jun., all spoke in the very highest terms of the
defendant both as regarded his religious and moral cha-
racter. They had never heard a breath against him.
It was a pride to be acquainted with him, and they
never would believe him to be guilty of such a charge.
This was the case for the defendant.
The following witnesses were called in reply:—
Mary Ann Adams—l know Walton, who has been
examined here to-day. I was present when Mr. Em-
merson went up to Walton, and said, "What have you
to say against Mrs. Emmerson?" Ile said, "Nothing
at all." Mr. Emmerson said, " I have a great mind to
give you and Reed a d—d good horsewhipping," upon
which they both begged his pardon.
Cross-examined--I live at Larkhall-lane now.
James Emmerson—l told Walton that I would horse-
whip him in the Tivoli-gardens; he said he was sorry
for what he had said, and begged my pardon.
Mr. Hoc-ones, who now appeared for the defendant,
declined to address the jury upon this additional evi-
dence.
Mr. Sergeant SIIEE then proceeded to address the
jury for the prosecution. lie said, when it was
his duty, as counsel for the prosecution, to open
refrained
.from saying anything
the case against the Reverend defendant, he had
judice their minds or interfere with their calm
and dispassionate judgment. He felt it
.due to him, and
which would pre-
the Church of which he was a minister, in a ease ?f such
peace of mind, and happiness,
a serious nature, and involving all his prospects in. life,
and usefulness
.in the
ministration which he exercised, nut to submit any-
thing which would divert their minds from the
dispassionate consideration of the case. It was
with great grief that he was compelled to say that
it was his firm belief and conviction, after all the
evidence which he had heard, that the Rev. Septimus
Ramsay was guilty of the offence imputed to him
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charl pe o st
geo ce ud t r
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disprove.t ah n da
was one of the most shameless and abandoned
properSlrbeforeF . t jury.oTadh;asl g•
ear
profligates ever brought to
on the record, to the last lebtteer,nevaenrdhetahradt
sur-
passed —(Sensation.) His Learned Friehtnitcde
with a degree of eloquence which
passed in a court of justice, thojuugs
comparison between the positions of th
the defendant—the woman, he said, was looked
epeeredrim e whichwitn it prejudiceagainstwasftihrun,at
great po him,sas
upon with great commiseration by.
~every one
present in the Court, whereas the defendant ap-
vantage over the
But he (Mr. Sergeant Shec) considered they would find,
on a comparison of the position of the two parties, that
the reverend defendant
prosecutrix. Twenty or thirty witnesses of all classes
considerately at the evidence
opinion that the rev. defendant
barristers spoke to the Ing
of society, some dignitaries
ho
natohrealchaunrdehr,elaignidoussomree.
with which he had been charged.
defendant. 'When look-
putation of the reverend
ing calmly and
very church to which the de-
which had been produced, he could not help thinking
ora and religious cha-
that they would be of
was guilty of the crime
It was a matter of experience that even among the
priesthood of the
moment. for satisfying
fendant belonged there werel men who, although
they held a very T
seemed to the whole world
meter, had been .satisfactorily found
guilty of
charge. as this, but even in-
the most abominable crimes. Such men were gene-
ton in their conduct, and
rally watchful and wary in their eactpnpdeuacrta,ncaendto were
careful in selecting atheir lusts
congregationacn nattl
aobnl appetites.elyoifn e
ha epa
ansTbldil hge eh yot
friends,el. ps
such
ut oehanv
deviation
it was only by some unfortunate accident that the real
charge was brought to light and the people all
amazed held up their bands in astonishment. It was
impossible for the witnesses, who had been called to
speak of the defendant's character, to know his conduct
towards Mrs. Emmerson. 1101 v was the Bishop of
London capable of knowing if he had committed the
end religious
ofthedefendant 'being
men in London,
crime charged against him? In truth, nothing
was more absurd and preposterous than to
thatthe
call a number
of witnesses who might per-
btosay aps b e
guilty of such !misconduct. Two of his Learned Friends
at the bar had given evidence of the respectable cha-
racter of the defendant, and he thought their testimony
was worth more reliance being placed upon it
than of all the reverend gentlemen in London.—
most
ty moralneve r
(Laughter.) It amounted to nothing more than this
they never heard anything against him, and they were
the last persons who were likely to hear of his conduct
towards this woman. These and the other witnesses
should have called 'Ton the enure, a omen
who bad been insulted b.s- the defendant'. The Learned
Counsel then proer-eded. :.n a very patheth.: Ir ,t.• vr to
implore the jury to consider the painful importance of
the case to the youngwomon,lier husband, and five chil-
dren. The prosecutrix was as unimpeached in point of
character a 5 any innocent woman could be.—(Laughter.)

➢ir. Justice WIGUTMAN then carefully and elaborately
summed up the evidence. lie commented upon the
extraordinary conduct of the prosecutrix in having suf-
fered the defendant to take any indecent liberties with
her without communicating the fact to her husband or
to any one; and left it to the jury to say whether, looking
at the whole of the case, they considered the defendant
guilty of the offence imputed to him. The Learned
Judge concluded his summing up at half-past eight
o'clock, and
The jury consulted about two minutes, when
The Foreman turned round and announced that their
verdict was for the defendant.

Some imputation having been cast upon the paternity of
the children of the prosecutrix—that they were not all
the children of her husband--they were taken into the
Court this morning, and, certainly they bore more re-
semblance to each other than the generality of the chil-
dren of one family.

KING'S COLLEGE.
DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES.
The distribution of prizes among those students who
had distinguished themselves at the recent examination
in King's College took place on Wednesday afternoon in
the theatre of the institution, before a numerous and

highly respectable auditory.
The Archbishop of Canterbury presided, and near hi
we observed his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
the Archbishop of Dublin, the Bishop of Lichfield, the
Bishop of Oxford, Lord Radstock, and a considerable
number of clergymen of the Established Church.
The Rev. Dr. JELF, the Principal of the College,
opened the proceedings by offering, in the name of him-
self and his colleagues, their grateful acknowledgments
to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, who had,
on such occasions as the present, appeared now for the
fourth time within those walls, and at very consider-
able) inconvenience to himself. (Cheers.) He
could assure his Royal Highness that the words of en-
couragement and warning which on each occasion
he had condescended to offer to the students bad
not been without their fruit ; indeed no one could

listen to those words without emotion and benefit.
He would venture to observe that on an occasion like
this there was considerable danger lest, in attempting to
give an estimate of the prosperity of the college, he
should fall unwillingly into exaggeration. With such
a brilliant assembly as this, presided over by his Grace
the Primate of all England and Visitor of this college
(and long might he continue to rule the Church, and
to visit this college in the same spirit in which he had
for so many years done), and in the presence of the
illustrious Prince, and of so many noble persons, and
more particularly in the presence of that distinguished
Prelate, whom it was his (Dr. Jelf's) honour to
succeed, and whose principles it was his endeavour to
follow, whose memory lived, and would live, not only
within those walls, but in the hearts of many grateful
generations, and whose name within those walls would
never be received without the strongest feeling of grati-
tude—under such circumstances, it was almost a natural
thing that those called upon to express their approba-
tion of the student's conduct should be led unconsciously
into what was something very like high-fiown panegyric.
There was also a corresponding danger on the part of
those that received that approbation, that they might
be led to think more highly of themselves,
of their attainments, and even of their in-
dustry, than they ought to think. Both par-
ties ought to bear this constantly in mind, and en-
deavour to keep as far as possible within the bounds
of moderation.—(Loud cheers.) He should be
doing injustice to himself and the students if he did not
express his approbation of their conduct during the last
year.—(Cheers.) In many respects that year was full
of gratifying recollections. Exceptions to good conduct
perhaps there might have been, but either accounts of
them had never reached him, or they were so slight
that they passed away entirely from his recollection.—
(Cheers.) From his colleagues and his friends they
would hear a detail of what had been done in the
two departments of general literature and science,
and the applied sciences. He would content himself
with a general statement. He must make his acknow-
ledgments to the students of each department for their
study of divinity, which was the great basis of our pro-
sperity, and he trusted that on this basis they might
look forward to many years of increasing prosperity.
The total number of students exceeded a thousand ; but
his hope for the future did not rest on an increase of
numbers, but was bused on the conviction that there was
every depart of the college a true spirit of religion,
without which all science and all knowledge
were in vain—without which, the classical scholar,
with all his knowledge of literature ; the phi-
losopher, with all his scientific acquirements ;
the engineer, with his practical application of
the principles of science ; the physician, with all his
skill ; and what was still more, that highest of all de-
partments, the divine, with all his knowledge of con-
troversial theology, were all as " the sounding brass
and the tinkling cymbal."—(Cheers.) Having observed
that the opportunities afforded in King's College for
studying literature, medicine, jurisprudence, philo-
sophy, and theology, was equal to that of any of
the ancient colleges in the world, the Reverend
Gentleman eulogised the industry, talent, and humble-
mindedness of the divinity students to whom no
prizes were awarded, as it would be out of place
to incite them to such motives. As distinctions

were, however, desirable, he thought it essential to the
welfare of the college, that as regards divinity students
there should be such a foundation as would correspond
to the system of our ancient colleges, and it would be
soon in his power to lay before his Grace some plan for
effecting that object. It was also in contemplation to
establish within the college a residence for the various
classes of students, in order that they might not only
have the advantage of instruction, but also of college
discipline, college enjoyment, college comforts, privi-
leges, and associations. When that was accomplished,
he should then think the college was approaching the
fulfilment of that destiny which he trusted God's provi-
dence would ultimately bring to pass.— (Cheers.) The
R's'. Gentleman concluded by presenting his Grace with
a list of the gentlemen who had obtained prizes. The
announcement of their names was followed by loud ap-
plause.
The following gentlemen were then severally intro-
duced to the Most Rev. Prelate by the Professors in their
respective departments, and received prizes from the
hands of his Grace:—

DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE,

Divinity—George Rawlinson, Edwin Ward, Samuel
Flood Jones, Charles Edward lladow, Edward James
Auriol, Samuel Green.

Classics—James Fitz-James Stephen, Henry Ware,
Henry John Riddle Poole, Albert Barff.
Latin Prose—Henry Thomas Griffith.
English Verse—Charles Henry Pearson.
Mathematics—John Stuart Jackson, Wm. Middleton
Snell, George Heppe], James Scott, Francis Harris.
English Literature—James Fitz-James Stephen,
Charles Edward Johnston, James Seller.

English Essay—James Fitz-James Stephen.
Hebrew—Robert Williams, Peter Goldsmith Medd.
French—Edwin Ward.
German—William Middleton Snell, Henry Macdo-
nald Maughan.
Literary Union—Alfred John Church.
DEPARTMENT OF THE APPLIED SCIENCES.
Divinity—Wm. Bulstrode.
Mathematics—John Hicks, Thomas Belton, John Cox
Gawler.

Natural Philosophy—Henry Whitcombe, Charles
Innes Spencer, George Schilling, Thomas Bolton.
Arts of Construction—John Phillips Nunn.
Manufacturing Art and Machinery—George Fuller,
William Norton Lawson, George Wells.
Surveying— William Norton Lawson, Alfred Vaux,
Francis Bowyer Miller, William Frederic Laxton, Henry
Charles Heath.
Geometrical Drawing—Samuel Blunden Daniell, Fre-
derick Augustus Buryett.
Chemistry—John Hicks, George Fuller.
Geology—William Norton Lawson.
Mineralogy—William Norton Lawson, John Hicks.
Work-room—Clement Augustus Scott, Henry Charles
Heath.