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compressed atmosphere, being overheated, it would have
happened before, as took place in the case alluded to by
Mr. Wall.

The CORONER summed up, observing that no blame
was attributable to any one.
Verdict—Accidental death.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE aq LORDS, June 29.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool-
sack shortly after Five o'clock.
QUALIFICATION OF PEERS (SCOTLAND)
BILL.

This Bill went through Committee, on the motion of
the Earl of ROSEBERY.

POOR-LAW ADMINISTRATION BILL.
The Marquis of LANSDO WNE then rose to move
the second reading of the Poor-law Administration Bill.
The object of the Bill, as their Lordships were doubtless
aware, was to have the Poor-law Bill, which all, he
thought, would agree was an excellent Measure, pro-
perly carried into effect. Hitherto certain individuals
only had been entrusted with carrying out the provisions,
but the present measure proposed to increase the means
of carrying out its adminstration, by increasing the re-
sponsibility and number of the public functionaries
under it. It was maturely considered whether the power
to be exercised under this Bill should be vested under
three Commissioners, or under one; but it was even-
tually thought that it would be better to vest it in the
individual, and to have others joined with him in carry-
ing out the details of the pleasure. Another improvement
suggested was, that the head of the board should have a
seat in Parliament, and bs that means every explanation
asked for would be given'ly a person who was competent
to supply it, and so assimiate it to the Board of Control.
The Noble Marquis cone uded by moving that the Bill
be read a second time, and on an early day, should
there be any objection 0 the details, an opportunity
would be given for considering them in Committee.
Lord BROUGHAM said that he adhered in all essen-
tial points to the great lass of 1834, and he believed the
present Bill was an improvement in the machinery for
carrying the Bill into effect. The Poor-law Commis-
sioners and their secretary, no doubt, were very ob-
noxious to those who were agitating the country by
demonstrations and by invectives through the
press, and it, therefore, was the duty of Par-
liament to see that they did not suffer the
law to be carried oat improperly. He re-
gretted, however, that the Commissioners had not mani-
fested the firmness for whidm Mr. Chadwick and Captain
Nicholls had been remarkable. The law had thus, in
many instances, been imprtperly administered, or it had
not been carried out in the spirit in which
it was passed. The Conmissioners had not had the
moral courage to stand ip for the pure administration
of the law, owing to the wvere censure of the press. It
was a most lamentable thiig that the Commissioners bad
been dismayed by public chmour. If a man or a public body
were innocent, those censures would pass them by
innocuously, and as they had but a public duty to per-
form, they should not hive heeded those censures. The
law was not framed to benefit the rich, but to benefit the
poor, and the man who vould carry out the law in its in-
tegrity was the best frienc the poorcould have. They should
have allowed these " ptper-pallets," as Cromwell ealled
the attacks of the press, to pass over their heads un-
heeded, and not have succumbed to the clamour of anti-
poor-law demagogues and vituperative diatribes.
When they came to debate the measure he should
be ready to fully discuss the measure—he should
then be ready, as mow, to condemn the conduct
of those who had flincked from carrying out the principle
of the law, whilst, at toe same time, he should be ready
to bear his testimony to the merits of those who had
performed the duties assigned to them in the proper
spirit.
Lord REDESDALE protested against that portion of
the Bill which provid2d that the Commissioners should
sit in Parliament as he considered no good would accrue
irom it. He should say not content to the Bill.
Lord CAMOYS advised the Government to well
consider the 23d clatse.
After a desultory conversation the Bill was read a
second time and ordsred to be committed on Friday.
BATHS AND WASHHOUSES BILL.
The House then went into Committee on the Baths
and Washhouses Bill.
Lord CAMPBELL stated that the object of the Bill
was to provide baths and washhouses of such a cha-
racter as should be accessible to all classes of the people.
The maximum churge.ss_ander thc,,,Act,. would be 6d.
for a warm, and 3d._ for a cold bath. The Noble Lord
ridiculed the idea that the baths and washhouses to be
established by this Bill, would enter into competition
with the baths at present in existence, which were only
intended to be used by the wealthier classes of society,
and urged their Lordships to adopt the clause.
Lord MONTEAGLE opposed the clause on the
ground that it was contrary to every just principle of
economical science.
The Bishop of LONDON supported the clause. He
thought that a few private interests ought not to be
allowed to interfere with the interests of the public at
large, more especially with such advantages as were
proposed-to be conferred by this-Bill.
After a few words from Lord BROUGHAM,
Lord STANLEY 'said that the 'establishment of
public baths was of great public advantage. With
regard to the erection of two classes of baths, it had
been defended by the Noble Lord who brought forward
the motion on the same principle as lunatic asylums,
where one class of patients were charged, and the pro-
fits from them went to defray the charge of the
poorer class of patients. He was prepared to support
the clause as it stood, but would suggest the propriety
of fixing a minimum as well as a maximum price.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE made a few obser-
vations which were inaudible in the gallery.
Lord MONTEAGLE said that nothing had occurred
to change the opinion he entertained, and being satisfied
that he had done his duty, he would not press his objec-
tions further.
The Bill then went through Committee.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 29.
There being only sixteen Members present at Four
o'clock, the House stood adjourned till to-morrow at
Twelve o'clock.

THE " NO-HOUS:

,The following Members we,
took the chair, and the Lions
quence of there not being 40
Bhrnard.
Thornely.
Brotherton.
Duncan.
Bowring.
Hindley.
R. Yorke.
Kemble.

E" YESTERDAY.
re present when the Speaker
le stood adjourned in conse-
Henabers present :

Greene.
Hamilton.
Pattison.
Christie.
Ward.
Wakley.
Trelawny.

COMMITTEE on the NAVIGATION

LAWS.

The Select Committee appointed by the House of
Commons to inquire into the operation of the navigation
laws re-assembled on Thursday. The following mem-
bers were present:-Mr. M. Gibson (chairman); Mr.
Liddell, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Ricardo, Sir Howard Douglas,
Admiral Dundas, Mr. Hume, and Mr. LyalL
Mr. Robert Anderson was examined.
By Mr. Liddell-He was a shipowner resident at
South Shields, and was chairman of the Shipowners'
Society at that port. He had been engaged in the
North American, the East and West India, the Medi-
terranean, the Baltic, and the coasting trades. He had
a general knowledge of the operation of the navigation
laws, and he considered that they afforded employment
rather than protection to British shipping. The witness
handed in a statement of the average rates of freight
from 1817 to 1846 for timber from Quebec, deals and
tallow from St. r.t...r.hurgh, and coals from Newcastle
to London. In the first four years from 1817, the
average rate of freight for timber from Quebec was
2/. I6s. 3d. per load; in the second four years it was
21. 7s. 6d. per load; in the third four years, 21. 9s. 49d.
per load; in the fmirth four years, 2/. Is. lOid.; in the
fifth four years, 14 18s. 9d.; in the sixth four years,
21. ls. 3d.; in the seventh four years, 21. Is.; in the
eighth four years, ending in 1845, 1/. 14s. Bd.; in 1846
the average rate wts 1/. I9s. id.; and at present it was
21. ss. per load. The average rate of freight fur deals
from St. Petersburgh was, for the four years com-
mencing in 1817, 41.35. lid. per load; for the next four
years, 41. 3s. 9d.; for the next, 3/. 12s. 6d.; the next,
34 Bs. 104 d.; the next, 31. 9s. 6d.; the next, 3/. 65.;
the next, 21. I ls. lid.; tho next, ending in 1845, 21.
19s. 4d.; and the average rate at present was, he be-
lieved, 41. 2s. 6d. per load.
Mr. Mitchell-It appears from your statements that
the rates of freight in the Canada trade, which was pro-
tected, hare fallen since 1817, while the rates in the St.
Petersburgh trade, which was not protected, are the
same now as they were in 1817.?
Mr. Anderscu-It is so.
By the Chairman-At present England had the whole
of the Russian trade; but in consequence of a late treaty
of reciprocity with Russia he apprehended competition
with the vessels of that country, because the Russians
allowed their new ships to trade to the Russian ports
for the first three years without paying port charges,
and they were allowed to come to this country on the
lame terms as British ships.
By Mr. Liddell-The various treaties of reciprocity
Which had been entered into with foreign countries by
successive Governments had proved very injurious to
British shipping. He had before him a statement, which
showed how these treaties, and the many other relaxa-
tions in the navigation laws which had been made from
time to time, had affected the trade of Newcastle. The
statement included the amount of shipping engaged in
the import and export trades between Newcastle and
Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Prussia, Mecklenburg,
Hanover, Oldenburg, the Hanse Towns, Holland, and
Belgium ; in short, every country, north of France, ex-
cepting Russia, the trade with which he had stated Eng•
had. Taking the average of the years
already
and 1823, which was previous to the
dateslar'd 1820,
re
of many of the treaties with those countries, he
found that there were entered inwards 99 British vessels,
and 92 foreign vessels ; and that 330 British and 218
foreign vessels cleared out with cargoes. In the year
1844, 113 British and 332 foreign vessels were entered
inwards ; and 587 British and 1,068 foreign vessels
cleared cut with cargoes. In 1846, the number of
British vessels entered inwards was 102, and the num-
berforeign vessels was 449 ; the number of British
vessels
that cleared out with cargoes was 629, and the
nu of
number
erof foreign vessels that cleared out was 1,379.
The result of the 23 years was, that British vessels
trading between the port of Newcastle and the foreign
countries he had named had increased only 70 per cent.,
while foreign ships had increased 489 per cent.
' By Mr. Ricardo-During the last 30 years there had
been an increase in British shipping, but not at all in
proportion with the increasing trade of the country.
The increase of sailing tonnage, exclusive of colonial,
during that period, would amount to about 500,000
OEM

Mr. Ricardo—Mr. Porter states that the sailing ton-
nage has, since 1824, increased 618,000 tons, and that
the whole British tonnage has increased 1,500,000 tons.
Examination continued—He would say that ship-
building has increased generally in the ports of the
north of England since the passing of the reciprocity
treaties with foreign countries. It had not increased in
Newcastle, but it had in Sunderland.
By Mr. Mitchell—He was aware that sugar was
allowed to be imported into Prussia, in English ships,
from Havannah and Cuba, but he did not consider that a
proof that the Prussians treated us with more liberality
than we treated them because it was a mere nominal
trade.

By Mr. Liddell—He believed that the shipping of the
ports in the Adriatic was increasing in their trade with
this country.
By the Chairman—He thought that Parliament was
right in adopting any measures which it thought calcu-
htted to benefit the people in the way of providing food
for them or otherwise; but he did not think that the
navigation laws hindered the importation of corn when
there was no duty on it.
By Mr. Liddell—He did not believe that freights had
been lowered a quarter for corn since the navigation
laws were suspended.
Th.: Committee then adjourned.

IMPORTANT LIBEL CASE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BEN CH—Dublin, June 24.
THE QUEEN, AT THE PROSECUTION OF THE EARL OF
LUCAN, V. THE HON. FREDERICK CAVENDISH.
This was a criminal information, filed at the instance
of the prosecutor, for libels published of him in his ca-
pacity of Lieutenant of the county Mayo, and which ap-
peared in the Castlebar Telegraph, of which the defendant
was the sole registered proprietor.
Mr. Napier, Q.C. (with whom was Mr. Holmes),
scated the case for the plaintiff. The libel complained
of consisted of three articles which appeared in the
ayo Telegraph of the 14th of October. The first
a ticle, which was headed " Public Works," after
a luding to the suffering of the people, went on to state
1 t at their hopes of employment were frustrated by the
c nduct of the Earl of Lucan, who, in his capacity of
li utenant of the county, convened a meeting of
tt e magistrates of the county, at which resolu-
ti ns, prepared by himself, condemning the pro-
v sions of the Relief Act, were carried, and
a deputation was appointed to proceed to Lon-
d a to remonstrate with the Government against
t e provisions of the Act being carried into
e ect. " This proceeding, suggested -by Lord Lucan,
a d aided by the influence of other landlords throughout
I eland, induced the Lord-Lieutenant to violate the pro-
v sions of the Labour Act, by which the employment of
t e people has been so long postponed as to drive them
i t some instances to acts of desperation which has caused
t e shedding of blood." * * * "We do not hesitate to
s' ay that Lord Lucan has exercised the influence he pos
sOsses as lieutenant of the county to deprive the poor of
that prompt relief which the Legislature provided for
them. On his Lordship rests an awful responsibility, as
bis remonstrance against the provisions of the Relief Act
sinking under famine and disease." The next article
referred to a letter inserted in another part of the paper
from M. J. A. Browne, J. P., D.L., and stated that the
Writer was entitled to public gratitude for the " expo-
sure of conduct extremely offensive, and of the most un-
heard-of nature, pursued by the - Earl of Lucan ;
t,tie power that is conferred on Lord Lucan, as
Lieutenant of the county, has been used by
him in a manner insulting to the Roman
Catholic clergy, and to gentlemen of property, of rank,
and undisputed respectability ;" it concluded by recom-
'pending a strong remonstrance to Government for the
removal of Lord Lucan from the office of Lieutenant of
Mayo. The third article complained of contrasted the
donduct of Lord Lu ;an and certain magistrates in the
county of Cork, with respect to their anxiety to provide
employment for the people, and thus concluded :—" Hear
it, famishing Roman Catholics of the barony of Carra—
three Protestants—the landlord, his Caleb Quotem, and
the rector of Agltsh, sitting in committee, for what pur-
pose may be easily inferred, from the fact that they would
transact no business while your reverend clergymen
Messrs. Geraghty and Curley remained in their
presence l"
The Earl of Lucan and some other witnesses were
examined, after which

Mr. BUTT, Q.C., addressed the jury for the defendant.
He dwelt forcibly on the circumstances of frightful ne-
caiity iii,vvhich the country was situated -at the time the
articles complained of were written. . Re thought the
jury' would be 'of opinion that the charge of
,delaying
the relief operation was not too strong to have been
brought against the Earl of Lucan, when the people
were dying of starvation. In these articles, written by
the Honourable Frederick Cavendish in his capacity as
the editor of a newspaper, there was not one word of
personal or private attack on the prosecutor. The charges
made against him were in his public capacity, and the
jury should not judge of those charges by the same rigid
rule that they would judge of charges brought against
private character. A justification had not been pleaded,
because it would,be inconvenient,. and in its nature very.
difficult to sustain ; but they would remember that the
very moment he iought to show the circumstances con-
nected with the case, he was stopped by his Learned
Friend ; and he begged to draw their attention also to
the fact, that a letter of Mr. J. A. Brown, addressed
to the Earl of Lucan, complaining that he and
his father were excluded from a private meeting
held at his (the Earl of Lucan's) residence, was not in-
cluded in the indictment, because the matters stated in
it could be put in evidence. He begged of the jury to
consider the circumstances under which the articles were
written—they were written when the county Mayo was,
in common with other parts of Ireland, reduced to a
state of extreme destitution, when the people of that
county were in a state which was a stigma on a civilized
people. The Labour Rate Act—however inefficient it
might be in many respects—was at that time the only
means of saving the lives of thousands who were pe-
rishing with hunger ; and any step which tended to de-
lay the relief of the people then, no matter how expen-
sive the mode of relief might be, ought to be reprobated.
If the jury put themselves in the place of the defendant
when he wrote these articles, with the people perishing
about him, their indignation would not be more mode-
rate than his at the conduct of the Earl of Lucan. Mr.
Butt went through the various articles paragraph by
paragraph, and contended that none of them were
libellous.

The Chief Justice, in charging the jury, read several
passages from the articles complained of, and then said,
that if the defendant meant to impute to Lord Lucan
that he was actuated by mercenary views by postponing
the operation of the Labour Rate Act, that was in the
opinion of the court a libel. The question whether the
articles were, in point of fact, libellous or not, was entirely
for the jury. Upon that the court gave no opinion. The
Chief Justice concluded his charge by expressing his re-
prehension of the practice of counsel making appeals to
particular classes of jurors, as being of one religion, or as
entertaining particular political opinions. He adminis-
tered justice without knowing the opinions of any man;
and nothing was likely to be more prejudicial to the
calm and true discharge of justice than appeals to pre-
judices and feelings which were associated with the reli-
gion or belief of any man.
A EThe jury retired at four o'clock, and in an hour re-
turned to ask if the articles imputed corrupt motives,
but there was no malice on the part of the defendant,
did this constitute a libel ?

The Chief Justice observed, that if corrupt motives
were imputed the law implied malice.
'The jury retired, and a after a considerable time came
into Court, and handed to the registrar their verdict of
" Not Guilty."

TRIAL FOR EMBEZZLEMENT.

TUE QUEEN, AT THE PROSECUTION OF BROWNE CLAYTON,

Y. HENRY LANAUZE, STOCK BROKER.

Friday the Court of Queen's Bench was occupied the
greater part of the day in hearing the above case, which
arose out of the circumstance of the traverser having
been charged with obtaining money under false pre
tences, and for embezzlement of moneys entrusted to his
charge by Mr. Browne Clayton, for the purpose of in
vestment in Government securities, which moneys the
traverser applied to his own uses.
The jury found the traverser guilty on two counts,
one of which charged him with embezzlement.
The judgment of the Court cannot be pronounced until
next term. The traverser in the meantime stands out
on bail.

HERTFORD MIDSUMMER SES-

SIONS.

Before the Marquis of SALISI3II RY and a full Bench 01
Magistrates.)

THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY, APPEL-
LANTS; W. PARKER, ESQ., G. S. THORNTON, ESQ., AND

_ .
OTHER COUNTY MAGISTRATES, RESPONDENTS.
This matter, which has been long in dispute, and
exciting considerable attention in this part of the county,
was again brought before the public in the shape of an
appeal against a conviction by the Magistrates at Ware
Petty Sessions. _

It appeared that the commencement of these proceed-
ings originated in an information laid by the Rev. W.
Blakesley against the company, for not stopping a
certain train previous to crossing the road at Amwell-
end, in the Hertford line, as directed by the company's
Act, 7th Viet. cap. 35, which states that the " train to
and from Hertford and London shall in all cases stop
within 150 yards of the said road of Am well-end," &c.
The hearing under this information took place before
the bench of Magistrates sitting in petty sessions at
Ware, on Tuesday, the 15th instant, when the company
was convicted, and a fine of 40s. inflicted.
Against this conviction the company appealed to the
sessions as above, the chief point in dispute being as to
the construction or meaning of the word " stop,' which
it was contended, on the part of the company, only meant
a slackening of speed, and not coming to a complete and
perfect standstill.
For the respondents it was contended that the mean-
ing of the Act was that the stoppage should be " actual
and entire," and which might be presumed from the 4th
and sth Victoria (the company's original Act), when a
" maximum speed" was prescribed as contradistinguished
from " actual stoppage."

The Bench con;ide‘ied that " actual and entire stop-
page" was meant by the Act, and accordingly confirmed
the previous conviction

THE LAKES.—The delightful village of Bowness
has of late been a scene of bustle. At present it is un-
usually full of visitors. Although it is much extended,
the accommodation is inadequate to the demand. The
steamer on Windermere Lake is a great inducement, and
of late has been very gay with parties in pursuit of
pleasure and varied and romantic scenery. The facilities
for visiting the queen of lakes by the " rail," and other
means, are so great, that numbers are induced to take a
peep in the morning at the beautiful scenery of the lake
district, and return to their homes in the evening.—
Carlisle Patriot.

LA WINTELLIGENCE.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'SC-o—thi T—,--iune 29.
(Before Sir L. SHADWRLL.)
HANSARD V. HANSARD.
Mr. J. Parker, with Mr. Rolt and Mr. Southgate,
applied for an injunction to restrain the defendant,
James Hansard, late partner in the firm of Hansard
and Co., printers to the House of Commons, from direct-
ing the sheriff of Middlesex to sell the household fur-
niture and stock-in-trade, now upon the premises in
Great Turnstile, Lincoln's-inn-fields, in pursuance of a
writ of execution issued on the 19th of May, 1847.
The defendant, who was lately at the head of the firm,
and is the father of the plaintiff, about the year 1844,
being desirous of retiring from business, agreed with
his son Liake James, the present plaintiff; who was also
his partner, that the stock should be valued, and his
(the father's) proportion awarded him. Upon a
valuation of the stock being taken, it was ascer-
tained that the defendant was entitled to a sum
of 22,261/. 19s. sd. It was then agreed by deed,
dated the same year, that this sum should be paid
to the defendant in half-yearly instalments of 1,500/.,
with interest up to the day of payment. There was also
a second agreement, by which the plaintiff undertook to
pay to the defendant an annuity of 4001. by quarterly
payments. The due payment of the whole was secured
by a warrant of attorney, with judgment signed, on
which the defendant, in case of default being made in
payment of one instalment, or of one quarterly payment
of the annuity, was empowered to issue execution for the
whole sums respectively. In March last the quarterly
payment being in arrear, the defendant issued execution
immediately, upon which being done the plaintiff paid
the 100/. into Messrs. Hoare's bank. Under these cir-
cumstances, it was contended by the son, Luke James
Hansard, that the defendant had no power to issue exe-
cution, and the present application for an injunction was
accordingly made to the Court.
It was contended by the defendant that he was entitled
at all events to issue execution for the rent due on the
premises, which still belonged to him; and also that
the defendant's object was to preserve the property. It
was stated that the son had been recently neglecting the
business, and had incurred considerable expenses in
starting and conducting a weekly newspaper, called the
Spirit of the Times, of which he was the sole editor.
Mr. Bethell and Mr. Busk appeared fur the de-
fendant.

The counsel for the defendant has not been heard,
but it was arranged that the second motion should
come on at the same time.

HANSARD V. HANSARD.
This was a motion to dissolve an injunction granted
by his Honour on the 3d of June, restraining the defen-
dant, Luke James, who was plaintiff in the suit above
mentioned, from interfering in the affairs of the part-
nership, except under the direction of the Court, or ne-
gotiating bills in the name of the firm. The plaintiff
in this suit is Henry Hansard, the cousin of the de-
fendant, with whom he has been in partnership, as
the plaintiff contended, for several years. A deed
had been executed by which Henry Hansard con-
sented to advance a sum of 2,0001. as a contribu-
tion to the stock in trade, in consideration of which he was
to be admitted as a partner, with one-twelfth share in
the profits. The defendant, in consequence, as it was
stated, of certain eccentricities, was dismissed from his
situation as printer of the House of Commons, and his
cousin, the plaintiff and partner, was appointed in his
stead; shortly after which event the plaintiff caused to
be inserted in the daily journals an advertisement an-
nouncing a dissolution of the partnership. In reply to
this statement the defendant immediately caused to be
inserted in the Morning Herald, of the 21st of May, an
advertisement denying that any dissolution of the
partnership had taken place, and threatening to take
legal proceedings against the plaintiff for having made
such a statement.

Mr. Stuart and Mr. Green appeared against the
motion.

Both motions were adjourned at the rising of the
Court

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
Joseph Boah, a warehouseman at Mr. Lloyd's, printer,
Salisbury-square, was charged with robbing his em-
ployer of a quantity of cheap publications, and Thomas
Harman, a shopman at Mr. Berger's, a bookseller, in
Holywell-street, was charged with receiving them, know-
ing them to be stolen.
The prosecution was conducted by counsel. The
Learned"Ginfleirtan (whose name we did not catch)
stated that his client issued a number of cheap pe-
riodicals, and the prisoner was employed in delivering
them to the trade when they came to purchase at the
premises, another person taking the cash, to facilitate
business and to prevent embezzlement. The evidence
would show that, on several occasions, Mr. Berger's man
had come with a list of periodicals, and had been served
with them, it was supposed, by the prisoner Boak, who
then called out to the cashier to take a sum less than the
actual value of the books. It was presumed that the
two prisoners subsequently shared between them the
difference between the real value of the goods and the
price actually paid, though this could not be shown.
Mr. J. G. Berger, of 19, Holywell-street, Strand,
stated that, as clerk to his father, it was his duty to
make out the lists of periodicals wanted, and to send for
them. On the 9th instant he sent the prisoner to Mr.
Lloyd's for publications of various kinds, to the amount
of 11. 11s., and he brought them home correctly. Oa
the 16th he sent him for goods to the amount of 1L 4s.
Bd. ; on the 23d to the amount of 175.8 d. ; and on the
24th to the amount of 10s. Ild. He brought them home
correctly.
To prove that by the direction of the prisoner Boak,
smaller sums had been paid, the cashier, Anthony Ber-
ridge, an aged deaf man, said on the 16'h he received
11. 2s. from the person who paid in the name of Berger.
Mr. Alderman WOOD asked him if it was the prisoner
Harman who paid him that money? The witness said he
could not recollect. He knew the prisoner, as he did a great
many more, by sight, but without knowing in whose
employ they were. The prisoner was not the only per-
son who delivered goods.
Mr. Alderman Woon said there would be a legal dif-
ficulty in prosecuting, in such a state of things. It
might not be the prisoner Harman that received the
goods, nor Boak that delivered them. It was not shown
that Beak received any money.
The counsel said he could go farther.
Charles Wilson, in the service of Mr. Lloyd, deposed
that on the 9th and 16th he watched Harman from
Holywell-street to Mr. Lloyd's, and back to Holywell-
street, anti saw that he neither bought nor sold any
books on the way.
Mr. Lloyd stated that he was watching the prisoners
on the 9th. As soon asHarman left the premises with
the publications, Boak followed him, and they went
together into a public-house round tne corner. lie did
not know what passed between them there, for he re-
turned to see what sum Harman had paid to Berridge,
knowing he could ascertain as precisely the sum he
ought to have paid.
Mr. Alderman Woon said the evidence was incon-
clusive. The difficulties had not been removed, and he
must discharge the prisoners.
Anna Sophia Longfoot, a woman about 40 years of
age, was charged with begging in St. Paul's Churchyard,
she having at the time a savings' bank book in her
pocket, with deposits to her account to the extent of 361.
Mr. Alderman WOOD committed her to Bridewell for
a month, and ordered her maintenance to be defrayed
out of her deposits.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

George Dickens, a chemist, was charged with having
stolen bank notes and gold, of the value of 5.51:, the pro-
perty of Mr. Ferdinand Arundel.
The prisoner and prosecutor lodged in the same house
in Great Titchfield-street. The prosecutor received a
sum of money from Bristol, which he placed in a carpet
bag, in his apartment. During his absence the apart-
merit was entered, the lock of the bag forced open, and
the money taken away. The prisoner left his lodgings
suddenly, and at the time was in arrear for rent. The
prisoner was traced to have left a sum of money, in notes
and gold, at the house of a publican, in High-street,
which sum he afterwards drew out of the publican's
hands. It was presumed that this money formed a
portion of the property stolen from the prosecutor's
carpet-bag.
The explanation of the prisoner was that his father-
in-law had sent him recently a sum of upwards of 30/.,
and that this was the money which had been left in the
hands of the publican.
The prisoner's father-in-law was called, and he said
he had sent some bank notes and other money to the
prisoner.

This witness prevaricated in his statement on cross-
r examination, and gave such contradictory accounts of
the circumstances under which the alleged remittances
kook place, that Mr. Bingham said he should not place
, the least dependence on what the witness stated. He
did not believe a word of the evidence of the witness
about his having sent money to the prisoner, and there-
fore the defence fell to the ground.
A police-constable, who had been to Derby, where
the prisoner's mother lived, said that the prisoner and
his father in-law had been at variance for some time.
The prisoner's mother had remitted him a pound or two
only.
Mr. Robinson, who attended for the prisoner, said he
should call witnesses to prove that the prosecutor was
never in possession of the sum of money which he stated
he had lost. In that case he presumed the Magistrate
would not detain the prisoner.
Mr. BilicHA.3l said he should certainly commit the
prisoner fur trial. If it were shown that the prosecutor
could not have lost the money, he should still commit
the prisoner for having property supposed to be stolen in
his possession.
Mr. Robinson then proceeded to question Mr. Arundel
with respect to the money he said he had lest.
Mr. Arundel stated that he had formerly been in
business at Bristol, and had been obliged to compound
with his creditors. A young man named Beard, formerly
in his service, had been iu the habit of sendine him sums
of money from time to time, to satisfy the creditors. 11,.
had received upwards of 601. recently in this way, and
the money lost formed part of the money remitted.
Mr. Robinson said he wished for further time to make
inquiry into the truth of this statement.
Mr. BINGHAM consented to give the prisoner till
Thursday next to make the requisite inquiries.
A second charge was then brought forward.
Mr. Edward Taylor, surgeon,
Skein.surgeon,
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said the prisoner was in his employ at the commence
out
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that
for n
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ment of the present year.
particulars of his apprehension, he
January last he missedacehneq remitted
1 18s. This cheque had been
named Brereton, and witness had subsequently ascer-
tained that the prisoner had changed the cheque at a
tradesman's shop in Clapham.
Mr. William 13rewington, boot maker, High-street,
said the prisoner brought a cheque to his shop, which
cheque was cashed by Mrs. Brewington, in his absence.
The prisoner called some time afterwards and asked if
the cheque was all right,

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The prisoner was ordered to be brought up again on
Thursday on this charge also.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Thomas Smith, a hawker of earthenware, was charged
with having attempted to strangle a young woman,
named Mary Montgomery, and also with feloniously
cutting and wounding her mother, whereby her life wag
seriously endangered.
The younger complainant, who exhibited a livid and
extensive discolouration of the throat, stated that she
had been living with the prisoner as his wife for the last
eight months, and had suffered the most brutal ill-treat-
ment at his hands, during nearly the whole of that
period. On the preceding afternoon he came home, and
after beating her in an unmerciful manner, and declaring
that he would murder her outright, he forced her down
upon the bed, and passing a thick cord round her neck,
compressed it till she was on the point of strangulation.
On hearing her cries, her mother ran in to her assist-
ance, but the moment she entered the prisoner exclaimed
with an oath, " that he would do for her also," and
snatching a knife from the table, rushed towards her and
made a desperate blow at her head. She instantly stag-
gered back into the yard bleeding profusely from a fright'
ful gash above the temple, but was saved from falling
by some of the neighbours, who conveyed her to the
house of Mr. Wildbore, a surgeon, in Shoreditch, where
the wound was dressed, and she was afterwards removed
to the hospital.