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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 11, 1846.

Room D,

LA W INTELLIGEN CE.

PORTBUItY PIER AND RAILWAY (No. 2).
The Committee mct this morning at eleven, in Room D
(New Houses of Parliament), and proceeded with the cases
on the part of the opponents against the Bill.
Several counsel having spoken on behalf of the petitioners,
The Committee ordered the room to be cleared.
On our re-admission, they announced their decision that
the preamble was proved.
After reading over the clauses,
Their Lordships rose shortly after one o'clock.
This concluded the group.

fact, stripped the horse entirely for 41. 18s. rent, which he
had not demanded. No appraisement was made, hut the
goods were sold immediately, and defendant kept the whole
of the money. Plaintiff's goods were valued at 10/.
The SEcommar said that the defendant had admitted al
that had been alleged against him, and besides the value of
the goods, plaintiff' was entitled to such damages as the jury
might think proper.
The jury asked if they gave the whole value of the goods,
whether the defendant could sue for the rent?
The SECONDARY said probably he could.
The jury gave a verdict for AL 25.. the value of the goods
beyonc the rent due, and it. 10s. for damage.
ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

VICE- CHANCERY COURT, July 9.
(Before Sir
A
L. SHADWELL.)
IN RE LONDON, sAND YEOVIL JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Mr. STEVENS applied for payment out of Court of 33,7501.
on the withdrawal of this Bill.
IN RE GREAT GaLlisaY AND SIIEFIIIELD JUNCTION ZAILWAY.
Mr. ELLLsost applied in like manner as to four branches of
this project (the Bill having passed), as follows;--45,0001.,
20,0001., 23,0001, and 3,000/.
IN RE GREAT NORTHERN RAHIWAL
Mr. Dimsrisox;applied in like manner, and on a similar oc-
casion, as to 250,0001.
HARVEY V. COLLETT.
The arguments in this case were resumed.
Mr. WALLED. and Mr. llRAYrianaLn appeared in support of
the demurrer, and argued that by the authority of all the
cases on the point, this being on the face of it a bubble com-
pany, and the plaintiff coming in the character of a share-
holder, could have no equity as against the company. The
Bill was also clearly defective for want of parties, for the
plaintiff, although a shareholder, was not an original sub-
scriber, and could not represent that body, of which lie was
not a member; and that, therefore, some of the original sub-
scribers were necessary parties.
Mr. BETHELLt Mr. J. PARKER, and Mr. WELFORD ap-
peared in support of the bill. First, there was a prelimi-
nary objection to the demurrer, which was to the bill of
" Daniel Whittle Harvey, complainant," whereas the bill
was by "D. W. Harvey, on behalf uS himself," &c. This
was a Spanish railway, and therefore under Spanish laws,
which made the transfer of scrip legal, and hence the argu-
ment. as to the illegality could not hold; he also stood in the
place of a subscriber. It was on the failure of the under-
taking that he first discovered what had been done, and the
reason why he could not get an allotment was that the
directors were retaining to themselves shares for the purpose
of selling them to profit.
Mr. WALKER was heard in reply.
The VICE-CHANCELLIka said, that it seemed to him the
case came to this very short point—viz., whether the thing
projected by. the directors was not, on the 4th of March,
1845, in their knowledge wholly impracticable. This was
very material, because the plaintiff in his bill stated, that
having been influenced by the prospectuses which had been
put forth, he purchased 100 shares, so thet such right as he
raight thus have to interfere came after the 4th of March,
1a145. The bill charged that on the 14t .h of March, 1845, all
the directors knew the fact that the difficulties to be over-
come were such as to render the formation of the railway to-
tally impracticable, and " that the same then was totally im-
practicable," and it was singular that there was a similar
charge in a preceding part of the bill. It was most positively
alleged that it was not only a bubble, but known by the
directors to be so before the plaintiff became a purchaser.
There was a statement that by an article of the Spanish code
the shares might be transferred, and by annth... +1..: in nn
nnonig luvun ...,flopanv a molten responsibility only was in-
curred by the shareholders; there was, however, no allega-
tion whatever averring what was the law of Spain. It then
appeared that there were certain grants and concessions by
the Spanish Government, and the Queen herself condes
scended to become a patron, in company with a long list of
Dukes, Marquises, and Counts. There was no allegation that
the projection of a scheme known to be' impracticable could
be carried out any more by the law of Spain than that of
England. It must be taken that at the time of the pro-
spectus being issued the directors knew that the railway
was totally impracticable. If the plaintiff so stated
it, he stated that the defendants were projecting a fraud—
a mere bubble. He (the Vice-Chancellor) was not at
liberty to give such relief as the plaintiff asked by his
Bill. Nor was he at liberty now to say that all the relief
he did ask was to go for nothing, and that he could merely
recover tile amount of the value of his shares from the defend-
ants. The demurrer must hold on this general ground; it
was not necessary to enter into the various other questions
which had been made. If it had not appeared to be a fraud
by the directors at the time of issuing the prospectus, the
principle of " Hitchin v. Congreve " would apply. But for
the purpose of overwhelming the directors with the charge
of fraud the plaintiff bad gone too far. It seemed extraordi-
nary that such a man as the plaintiff, and so well informed
generally in public affairs, should have purchased shares in
such a company as the present, and it must be taken that lie
was influenced by the prospectus. On this Bill, as it was
constructed, no relief could be given, and therefore the de
murrer must be allowed.
(Before Sir J. K. BRUCE.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP XVII.
MANCHESTER AND SOUTH.A.MpTON.
The Committee were occupied the whole of the day with
clauses of interest only to the parties.
A number of clauses were proposed on the part of the
South Western by Mr. Hope and :dr. Bircham, the solicitor
for the South Western, but as many of them proposed to
give arbitrary powers to that Company over the Manchester
and Southampton, they were materially modified by the
Committee.

ROME CIRCUIT; Hertford, July 10.
(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN).
George Pallett, aged 48, was capitally indicted for
feloniously cutting and wounding Mary Ann Pallett,
his wife, with intent to murder her.
In other counts, the intent of the prisoner waF. laid to
be to maim and disable, or to do grevious bodily harm.
Mt. Rodwell prosecuted; Mr. Marsh defended the pri-
soner.
The proseeutrix, who appeared to be very weak from
the effects of the injury she had received, deposed that
the prisoner was her husband, and they resided at Great
Munden, where they kept a baker's and general shop.
On Thursday morning, the 25th of June, they were
sitting at breakfast together, when the prisoner asked
her whether she intended to bake on the next day or
Saturday, and she replied that it would depend upon
when she could get some good yeast. The prisoner then
told her she had better bake the next day, for she would
not be alive on Saturday. She replied that she supposed
her time was God's, unless he intended to murder her.
He then said, that there were two persons he should
like to be the death of, her, and her brother. The
prisoner then went out and did not retnrn till between
ten and eleven o'clock, and she then saw him go into a
shed and get a bill-hook, and be commenced sharpening
it. Nothing took place between them after this until one
o'clock, when she was engaged in the shop serving
a customer, and the prisoner came in with
the bill-hook in his hand. He then, without
saying a word, threw some flour in her face, and
upon the customer saying that he might have
thrown the flour in her eyes, the prisoner, with an oath,
said that she ought to have her eyes pat out for wasting
his flour. A few minutes after this, she was in the act
of scraping up the flour at the bottom of a bin, and
while she was in a stooping position. with hpe head
Partly on ft.. 6in, one received a blow from the bill-hook
on her neck, which rendered her instantly insensible,
and she fell to the ground, and knew nothing of what
happened afterwards.
In cross-examination, the prosecutor said that they
had been married 22 years, and some years ago the
prisoner was attacked with erysipelas, and went out of
his mind, and continued in that state for several weeks,
during which time he was under restraint. She also
said, that a few months ago he had a similar attack, but
as it was not so bad as the former one, he was allowed to
remain in his own house. He was in the habit of
drinking to excess, and while in that state, was very
violent, and she had at times beard him talk very inco-
herently. Upon another occasion, the prisoner had
attacked her with a carving knife, and she was forced to
run out of the house to save her life. Hc, was quite
sober when he told her she would not live till Saturday,
and he said it quite quietly. They had not had any
quarrel on the day in question, and although she saw the
bill-hook in his hand, she had not the slightest idea that
he intended to strike her with it until she felt the blow.
Some other witnesses were examined, and from their
evidence it appeared, that after the occurrence the pri-
soner had walked deliberately out into the village,
with the bloody weapon in his hand, and stated to se-
veral persons what he bad done. -
Mr. Mansu on beha.f of the prisoner, addressed the
jury at considerable length, contending that the circum-
stance of itself, and the other evidence as to the former
state of the accused, left no doubt that he was an irre-
sponsible agent, and that he ought to be acquitted on
that ground.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN having summed up, the jury,
atter deliberating for more than an hour, returned a
verdict of Not Guilty, on the ground of insanity.
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

Mr. Sergeant Wrangham, Mr. Edwin James, and Mr.
Cripps, appeared on behalf of the Manchester and South-
ampton Company.
The remainder of the clauses, with various alterations,
baying been completed,
Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAM applied to the Committee to in-
sert a recommendation in their report to the House, to the
effect that as the progress of the Bill had been greatly de-
layed, from its introduction into Parliament early in the ses-
sion to its coming before the Committee, it was desirable that
it should receive the sanction of the Legislature this session,
and that it ,hould he remitted to the House of Lords with-
out unnecessary delay.
The CHAIRMAN said, the Committee in their report would
simply state the facts, which would no doubt meet the views
of the promoters.
The Committee then separated. Their decision will be
reported to the House on Tuesday.

STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEE.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
Their Lordships met at the usual hour, Lord. Shaftesbury
in the chair, and present Lords Redesdale and Hawarden.
SHREWSBURY, OSWESTRY, AND CHESTER JUNC-
TION (CRICKHEATII AND WENN LINES).
SHREWSBURY, OSWESTRY, AND CHESTER JUNC•
TION (EXTENSION AND BRANCHES).
The standing orders were complied with.
EXETER, YEOVIL, AND DORCHESTER.
Standing orders complied with.
LONDON, SALISBURY, AND YEOVIL JUNCTION.
A similar decision was made in this case.
LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN (BASINGSTOKE
AND SALtsatUray EXTEITtnOzT).
In this case also the standing orders were complied with.
LEEDS, DEWSBURY, AND MANCHESTER (DEVIA-
TION AND BRANCHES).
This Bill was also the subject of a favourable decision.
NORTH WALES MINERAL (DEVIATION AND
• - • BRANCHES).
So also was this Bill.
The Committee then adjourned till to-morrow.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
THURSDAY, JULY 9.
Messengers from the Lords brought up the following Bills,
to which their Lordships had agreed:—
London and Birmingham Railway (Aylesbury Railway
Purcha.e) Bill, without amendment—London and Birming-
ham, Grand Junction, Manchester and Birmingham Railway
Amalgamation Bill—Ayrshire, Bridge of Weir, and Port
Glasgow Junction Railway Bill—Midland Railway (Burton-
upon-Trent to Nuneaton Branch and Ashby Canal Pur-
chase) Bill—Newcastle and Berwick Railway Bill—Glasgow
Southern Terminal Railway Bill, with amendments—Eastern
Counties Railway (Epping Extension) Bill, with an amend-
ment.

RAILWAYS.
The Committee of Selection have appointed the Select
Committees on the Groups Nos. 67, 69, and 70, to meet in
the week commencing Monday, July 20.
The following is the list from which Members will be
selected to serve on Select Committees on Railway Groups,
in the week commencing Monday, July 27:
Rt. Hon. W. B. Baring Mr. Long
Admiral Bowles Viscount Mahon
Lord Eriie,t Bruce Mr. Neville
Mr. Cardwell Colonel Peel
Capt. the Hon. S. Carnegie Mr. Power
Rt. Hon. Sir G. Clerk Hon. G. S. Smythe
Mr. Crippa Hon. H. M. Sutton
Hon. H. Fitzroy Mr. Tower
Viscount Jocelyn Mr. Young.
Earl of Lincoln

IN THE MATTER OF SIR GEORGE STEPHEN ♦X) OTHERS, EX
PARIIE BASS.

This petition has occupied the Court the greater part of
three days. It is presented by Mr. Michael Thomas Bass.
of Burton-upon-Trent, brewer, a shareholder in and member
of the acting committee of Remington's Company, and it
stated that in April, 1845, the London and Manchester Direct
Independent Railway Company was projected, and was and
is known as Remington's Company, which was duly and pro-
visionally registered, and a committee of management was
appointed, and that Sir George Stephen and his partner, Mr.
B. W. Hutchinson, and Messrs. Rogers, Cobbett, Wilson,
and Owens were appointed joint solicitors. That in May,
1845, the Direct London and Manchester Railway was pro-
jected, and was and is known as Rastrick's Company, and
the committee of Remington's company wished in October
following to amalgamate the two, but were opposed by the
solicitors, except Air. Owens, who was employed in such
amalgamation, which was effected on the 25th of that month.
The terms of this were, that a joint committee of the two
companies, of which the petitioner was a member, should
apply to Parliament for an Act to construct Reming
ton's line, and that Rastrick's line should be abandoned,
and notice was given to the solicitors not to insert Parlia-
mentary notices relating to any application regarding Re-
mington's Company alone. On the Bth of November the act-
ing committee of Remington's Company paid 5001. to Messrs.
Stephen and Hutchinson, 500/. to Mr. Owens, 500/. to Mr.
Rogers, and 5001. to Messrs. Wilson and Cobbett, on ac-
count of costs, but no bills of costs had been delivered. On
the 13th of November the solicitors (exept Mr. Owens) in-
serted the notices they had been directed not to insert, and
were accordingly dismissed from their office of solicitors from
that day. At this time the plans, sections, and books of re-
ference of Remington's line were in the hands of Stephen
and Hutchineon and Rogers and Cobbett, and which it was
necessary should be deposited at the office of the Board of
Trade on or before the 30th, and after some negotiation the
acting committee of Remington's line agreed to pay them
28,000/., exclusive of any cos,s due to Mr. Wilson and Mr.
Owens, and accordingly a cheque for 18,0001. was drawn in
fivour of Stephen and Hutchinson, 5,0001. in favour of Mr.
Rogers. and 5,0001. in favour ot Mr. Cobbett, which, after
some delay, caused by steps taken by Mr. Meteyard. one of
the directors who signed there, were ultimately paid, and the
plates, sections, and books of reference given up end duly de-
posited. Receipts in full of all demands were given for these
sums, and added to them was a memorandum in these words:
--" It being clearly understood that all claims and questions
are this day finally settled and for ever concluded between
us and the London and Manchester Direct and Independent
Railway Company, and we have severally given receipts in
full of all demands; upon this understanding we promise to
deliver a bill of costs with all practicable Weed, the delivery
of them hereafter being one of the conditions of the settle-
ment, and that settlement proceeding on the basis that
all differences, whether pecuniary or otherwise, are
finally and amicably adjusted by payment of the sums
which we have respectively received. Dated this 22d
day of November, 1845." The petition prayed the de-
livery of, and it was insisted by the counsel for the peti-
tioner that the solicitors were bound to deliver, a bill of all
such fees and disbursements as they claimed to be due in all
matters wherein they had been employee( as solicitors for
Remington's Company, and that the same ought to be
taxed, the petitioner being willing and offering to pay what,
.upon taxation, should be reported due, and that the solici-
tors ought to account, not only for the original 2,0001., coin .
posed ot the four sums of 500/. each, but for the 28,0004
The principal respondents insisted that the costs were not
such costs as were taxable under the Act 7 Victoria, relating
to taxation of costs, for that the services rendered were not
of a mere professional character, and that, if taxable at all,
the Court had no jurisdiction to enter into the question by
petition, but that the remedy, if any, of the petitioner was
by bill in equity.
Mr. W. T. 8. Daniel, Mr. Rolt, and Mr. Speed supported
the petition, which was opposed by Mr. Russell, Mr. J.
Parker, Sir. Rogers, and Mr. Goodeve, for the principal re-
spondents; and by Mr. Wigram, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Willcock,
Mr. Blunt, Mr. Chichester, Mr. Cairns, and Mr. Mee
Mathew, for other parties. Mr. Rohe who, at the opening
of the petition, was a junior counsel fur the petitioner,
having during the hearing been created Queen's Counsel,
waved his right to reply, and that duty was performed by
Mr. Daniel.
His HoNoen—Several points have been made and argued
in support of this petition, on which I do not find it necessary,
at present to pronounce any opinion. These points, and in-
deed every point of the case, have been. exceedingly well
argued by Mr. Daniel. It appears to me that there are very
special and particular circumstances in the case, and upon
the facts which are to be collected from the materials be-
fore me, I think it at least reasonably arguable that the
solicitors had a fair ground for claiming, as they appear to
have claimed, on the occasion of the discussions which
preceded the severance of the connexion between them
and the provisional committee, to be entitled, in honour,
if not in law, and by a moral, if not a technical, equity,
to a compensation or pecuniary advantage, independent
of their professional demands or professional remuneration,
and that the compensation or pecuniary advantage thus
claimed was agreed to be included in, and was included in,
the sum of 211,000/., not fraudulently. How this matter iu
truth stands, I give no opinion beyond saying that I am not
sathfied that the claim was made dishonestly, colourablv, or
fictitiously. It may have been welt or ill-founded. It may
be that it ought to be in some mode investigated ; it may
stand or it may not abide the test of investigation. There
may have been some degree of pressure; but still, as the
money was paid in full of all demands, without a bill, and
without any knowledge of the mere amount of costs claimed
or due, it was not, I think, proved to have been obtained by
fraud, and was, as to an undistinguished, unknown, and
uncertain portion of it, paid upon a consideration, which
I think that I am not, under this petition, authorised to
pronounce dishonest or trivolots, or myself enabled to ques-
tion. It would, therefore, in nay judgment, supposing that
I were to order the delivery of a bill of costs. and to direct
its taxation, and that such an operation should produce an
amount short of 28,000/., be impossible for the Court in this
particular case to pronounce judicially without a suit whe-
ther the difference ought to be returned. I ought not,
liberty to
instituteconceive,to
a sudi:
amnodre:itli liberty generallyn this petition than to
direct it to stand over without prejudice to any suit, with
to
apple'. Whether a suit against* these solicitors properly
framed would succeed, I have an opinion which I will not
state. It struck me at one time that the Court, under the
present proceedings, might have laid hold of the written
undertaking to deliver a bill of costs, worded as
that undertaking is; but to order upon the ground of it
thataut objecthde so solicitors,
ofi
than
trhesseueycnivreptiotsi
e. costs
sshas nowre
q d for .
these
any othertor thes,
if
h present
piap e
the delideliveryof the bill for the purposes of taxation against
beentner is taxation, and
,
iorwe e
these solicitors would be wrong, if not otherwise right. The
v
overpaid, shall be
compelled to refund. I cannot, treat the billd o nofoct
to be understood as deciding that the petitioner on all the
alleged grounds of opposition to
his petition was right. I
shall order the petition to stand over without prejudice to
any suit; with liberty to institute a suit, and with liberty
generally to apply.
Solicitors for the petitioners, Messrs. Lacy and Bridges;
for the respondents Messrs. Stephen and Hutchinson; for
other parties served with the petition, Ur. J.. Owens and
Mr. J. Ravenscroft.

WANDSWORTH.
Mary North, aged eighteen, servant to Mr. Barker, the
coach proprietor, was placed in the dock, before Mr. Paynter,
for final examination, upon a charge of having administered
a quantity of oil of vitriol to Mary Ann Barker, an infant
aged only four months, with intent to murder.
The case has excited an extraordinary interest in Wands-
worth, inasmuch as the accused bore a very good character,
and there was an -apparavt absence of all motive for het'
committal of the crime. A solicitor, who described himself
as a friend of the accused's family, attended to watch the
case on her behalf.
Mrs. Barker, the wife of Mr. C. Barker, having been sworn,
stated that the prisoner,was her servant of all-work, and that
it was part of her duty to take care of the infant child, which
was four months old on the sth inst. On Wednesday the
Ist inst., between eleven and twelve o'clock, she sent the
prisoner for some ingredients to make harness blacking, one
of them being oil of vitriol. Immediately after dinner wit-
ness commenced mixing the ingredients in a large pan in the
washhouse, and the last thing she put in was oil of vitriol.
The bottle contained four ounces, and she used about halt.
The prisoner handed her the bottle and remarked... What
dangerous stuff it was, and that Leech (meaning the oilman)
would not let her have it without telling him who it was
for." Witness said of course not, it was a deadly poison,
and he could not tell what she wanted it fire; he could
not know whether she was going to take it herself, or
administer it to any one else. The prisoner could read
print and writing, and the bottle was labelled " Vitriol,
poison." After witness had used the vitriol she gave
the bottle to the prisoner, and told her to put it on the high
shelf, where the children could not get to it. Witne,s after
wards turned away and left the washhouse; therefore she
oeild not say whether she did as she was told or not.
Nothing particular occurred till the evening, when she Wit,
sitting alone in the parlour a little before seven o'clock, when
the prisoner came in with the child in her arms, and a tea-
cup. She said she thought that baby had the stomach-ache,
and a little aniseed would ease it. Witness then unlocked
the secretaire and took out a bottle of aniseed; she put about
a teaspoonful into the cup, and a lump of sugar, and then
put back the bottle and locked the secretaire. Witness then
went into the kitchen with the cup, and poured some hot
water in it. She afterwards gave the infant. some of the
mixture, and left the cup containing the remainder on the
table. Witness told the prisoner to walk up and down with
the child, and returned to the parlour, leaving her eldest
daughter (between 10 and 11 years of age) and the other
children in the kitchen. There were no white marks about
it after it had taken the aniseed; it had been vaccinated a
week previously, and was very restless. Not more than five
minutes could have elapsed when witness heard her daughter
say, " Mary, don't hurt baby ;" and immediately afterwards
the prisoner called her, and, as she was approaching, said.
"Oh, dear me, ma'am, what is the matter with baby?" She
could not say whether the prisoner was coming towards het
whsu she said so. Witness took the child from her, and
observed that its eyes were strangely agitated, its mouth and
tongue foaming and swollen, and she exclaimed, " 0, my
God! what is the matter with baby? this can never be the
aniseed." Witness did not remember whether the prisoner
said anything, for she was almost mad. She told her to run
for the doctor, and:Mr. Howell came in in a few minutes.
She showed him the infant, and asked him what was the
matter with it; and Mr. Howell asked her if she had any
vitriol in the house. In consequence of what Mr. Howell
said, she afterwards went to look for the vitriol, and found
it on a lower shelf in the washhouse, where she let it re-
main until the next morning, when Mr. Tatham, the pait-
ner. of Mr. Howell, asked for it. She then locked it up, and
subsequently delivered it to Inspector Busain, as likewise
the napkin produced. The aniseed was taken away by Mr.
' Howell, and Mr. Tatham brought it back the next morning.
The child did not vomit until medicine had been given, and
what it vomited witness preserved. The cotton gown produced
she had on that day; it is marked in various places with brawn
spots, and there are also stains from vomiting. The pri-
soner would have been two years in her service next Mi.
chaelmas; she intended to part with her then, but she had
not told her so. She did not consider the prisoner was fond
of children. One day when witness went to town the pri-
soner locked the children in the garden, and left the house
for a considerable time. She had not ound fault with her
that day.
Elizabeth Barker, aged ten years, stated that after her
mother had given the baby the aniseed she drank up what
remained in the cup. Prisoner went with the baby into the
washhouse when her mother had left the kitchen, and in
two or three minutes witness heard the baby making
wheezing noise, and she called out, " Mary, don't hurt the
baby." When the prisoner came into the kitchen she was
wiping baby's tace with a napkin; her face was all over
white, and witness said, " Look at baby, Mary," and pri-
soner then called her mother. Witness did not know what
became of the cloth.
Mr. James Howell, surgeon, stated, that on Wednesday
evening, the Ist instant, he went to Mr. Barker's house. The
prisoner fetched him. She told him the child was dan-
gerously ill in consequence of something that had been given
it. He found the child in her mother's arms. The prisoner
was present. Mrs. Barker showed him the child's mouth,
which seemed covered with milk; the whole membrane
lining the mouth and tongue appeared of a white pearly
colour. Witness asked if anything had been given to the
child ? and Mrs. Barker said she had given it a small quan-
tity of aniseed water, and showed him the bottle out or
which it was taken. He gave the bottle to his partner, Mr.
Tatham, to be analyzed. Witness asked if any vitriol had
been given to the child? and Mrs. Barker and the prisoner
both said nothing had been given it except the aniseed.
Witness asked the prisoner if she had been using vitriol
for the purpose of cleaning the furniture or other utensils?
and she said, "No." He then asked if there was any vitriol
in the house ? and one or other said, "No." There was
a burn just below the child's under lip, and from that and the
appearance of the mouth, and other indications, he was sa-
tisfied that oil of vitriol had been given. Witness then de-
sired the prisoner to go home with him, which she did; and
he sent her back with a mixture of magnesia, soda, and
water, of which he desired a dessert spoonful to be given
every five or ten minutes, There was nothing deleterious in
the aniseed water. The top cf the neck of the bottle might
have been introduced into the child's mouth, and caused the
appearances spoken of.
Mr. Tatham, the last witness's partner, gave almost
similar evidence; but added, that the mother gave him a
basin containing a quantity of brown matter, which the
child had vomited, and in which he at once detected vitriol.
His opinion had since been confirmed by Mr. Taylor, the
ehymist and lecturer on medical jurisprudence at Guy's
Hospital, who had analyzed it, as also the cloth, and in both
of which he had detected sulphuric acid. The prisoner was
much agitated, but he thought it was from anxiety
respecting the child. The infant lie now considered out of
danger.
Mr. PAYNTER said, he had carefully perused the report o.
Mr. Taylor's experiments, and it was extremely well drawn
up• It could not be admitted as evidence for the Crown, nor
could the prisoner's legal adviser see it Mr. Taylor would
have to be subpoenaed to attend the trial.
Inspector Busain stated, that iu consequence of informa-
tion he received he went on Thursday last to Mr. Barker's
house, and received from Mrs. Barker the bottle of vitriol
and napkin produced. He afterwards went down into the
kitchen and saw the prisoner. Before he apprehended her,
he asked her if she knew anything of the injury which the I
baby had received in the mouth, and she said "No." He I
cautioned her how she answered any questions be put to her, I
as, from information he had received, he was convinced she
must know something about it, and she had administered
something to the child. On the way to the station-house she
said she knew nothing at all about it, and she had given the
baby nothing. The WIWI ProthiCod Wee itaiiie4 ag

RAIL WAY Sli kRE MARKETS

BRISTOL, Jrl,s 9.
STOCK Excrwrcx.—The sales are--Bristol and Gloucester, 52
Caledonian, 94--Ditto, New, I—Great Western, Quarter Shares,
53—Midland, New, 39—Newcastle and Darlington Junction, New.
10%—Newcastle and Berwick, 264 —Taff Vale, 134—York and
North Midland Extension, 3534--Ditto, East and West Riding Ex-
tension, 13.

LIVERPOOL, JULY 9.
NEW STOCK EXCHANGE.-The Share Market presents no peculiar
circumstances of remark since the 6th instant. No great amount of
business has been done, but the transactions have been of a more
healthy and legitimate character. Prices continue to improve.
The sales are -Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junakin, 3s.
9d. p.- Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, 335. dis.-Bipiningliam
and Oxford, % p.- Chester and Birkenhead, 201. Shares, par-Eastern
Counties, York Extension, 345. p.-Grand Junction, 401. Shares, L.
and M., 404 p.-Great Grimsby and Sheffield, Quarters, dis.--
Ditto, Extension, 265. 6d. dis.-Ditto, Docks, 34 dia. -Huddersfield,
Bradford, and Halifax. 365. 6d. p.-Leeds and Thirsk, 501. Shares,
3% dis.-Leicester and Bedford, 56. 6d. dis.-Liverpool, Ormskirk,
and Preston, Gs. 6d. p.-London and Manchester (Item.), 2 dis.-
Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (11). 10 p.-Manchester and
Leeds, Fifth Shares, 814 p.-Ditto, Sixteenths, 9% p.-Ditto Exton
stone, 2k p.-Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, 1 dia.-
Manchester, Mattock, and Midland, 114 p.-Midland Stock, 150% -
North British. Carlisle, 16s. p.-North staffOrdshire, p.-Nortl
Wales Miseral, New Shares, 1% p.-North Western, is. 6d. p.-
Sheffield arid Liu coin, 4 dis.-Sheffield and Manchester, 113-
Shrzwsbury Oswestry, and Chester, 2 dia.-South-Eastern, No. 1, a
18 dis., 554 p.-Ditto, New Half shares, 9s. p.-West Biding Union
211, p.-Dutch Rhenish, 134 p.-Great Luzern bOurgh, 355. dis.
111A-NCEIES7'EIt, JULY 9.
STOCA EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Birkenhead. Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction, 3-16 p.-Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool, 114
dis. -Clitheroe, Junction, % dis.-Derby and Crewe, 5-16 p.--
Eastern Counties, York Extension, 1% p.-Glasgow ~nd Dumfries,
1 dia.-Grand Union, 16s. dis.-Great Eastern and Western, 31s.
die.-Great Grimsby and Dock Extension, 3 dis.-Huddersfield and
Sheffield Junction. 6 3!l6dis.-Lancashire and North Yorkshire,l 3-16
dis. -Liverpool and Bury, New Shares, 1% p.-Liverpool, Ormskirk,
~,nd Preston, 114 p. - Liverpool, Preston, Manchester, and South-
port, I dis -London and Manchester (Item.), 41s. 9d. dia.-Manches-
ter, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 3-16 p.-Manchester and Bir-
mingham, Quarters (A), 10 p.-Ditto, ditto (C), 9% c. p.-3lan-
cheater and Southampton, % dis.-tiorthumberland and Lancashire,
dis.-North British, Carlisle Branch, 9-16 p.-North-Eastern, $
dis.-North Staffordshire, 3 13-16 p.-Oldham, Birkenhead, &c., Os.
6d. dis.-Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 54 dis.- Sheffield and 31anchas.
ter, Quarters, No. 3, 3-16 p.-Shropshire Union, 17-16 dis.-Soath-
Eastern and Dover, Halves, No. 4, % p.-Trent Valley Midland
Ste., 2% dis.-West lading Union, 2% p.--York and Carlisle, IA dis',
LEEDS, Jura- 9.
STocit EXCHANGE.-The sales are--Blackburn and Preston 434
p.-- Eastern Counties, York Extension, 345. p.-Great Grliqab; and
Sheffield, 5 dis.-Huddersfield and Manchester, 114 dis,--Leeds and
Bradford, 38% p.-Leeds and Thirsk, 5% die.-Manchester and Leeds,
Quarter Shares, 7% p.-Ditto, Extensions, 2 p.-Man
Birmingham, Quarter Shares (B), 9% p.-Midland, 15: ester and
castle and Darlington Junction, '2O p.-Ditto, Extensions, 97 p.-
-North British, 8% p.--Ditto, Carlisle Branch, 13s. p.-York and
North Midland Extension, 20 p.- Ditto, East and West Riding, 12 p.
-Clitheroe Junction, 19s. dis.-Derby and Crewe, 434 p.-East Lan-
cashire and Airedale Junction, 205. dis.-East and West Yorkshire,
20s. dis.-Grand Union, 16s 3d. dis.-Lancashire and Mirth. York-
shire, 235. dis.-Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 16s. 6d dfs.-Lofces-
ter ant' Bedford, 4s. 6d. dis.-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 275.
p.-London and Portsmouth, 17s. p.-3lanehester, Buxton, Matlock,
and 311d1and, 1 % p.-Midland sand Tkirsk Junction, 21s. 6d. dis.
-North Staffordshire, 4 p.-North Western, 2s. p.-Nottingham
and Mansfield, 4s. p.-Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham, 16e. 6d,
dis.-Shrewsbury and Birmingham, par-Welsh Midlands, I% die.-
West Riding Union, 41. Gs. 6d.-Yorkshire and Glasgow Union,
38s. dis.

SHEFFIELD, Juvir 9.
STOCK Excitisor..—The sales are —Grimsby and Sheffield, 5%
dis.—Ditto, Extension, 265. 6d. dis.—Ditto, Quarter Shares, 18s. 6d.
dis.—Ditto. Railway and Dock, 2/. 18s. 6d.—Leeds, Wakefield, and
Midland, '7. dis.—Shetlield and Lincolnshire, 7s. dis.—Sheffield,
Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe, 12s. 6d.

HULL, JunT 9.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Hull and Selby, Half Shares,
39—London and Blackwall, 9—Ditto, Extension, 3 —Huddersfield
and Sheffield Junction, 19—North British, Half Shales, 11%—Ditto,
Carlisle, 39s.—Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 225. 6d.—
Chelmsford and Bury, 12s.—Leicester and Bedford, 16s.—Leicester
and Birmingham, —Halton and Driffield Junction, 49s.—Man-
chester, Buxton, and Matlock, 3/, 4s. 6d.—Nottingham and Mans-
field, 21. 158. 9d.—North Western, 255. 3d.—North Staffordshire, 6 4
—Northumberland and Lancashire Junction, I%—rreston and Wyre
Extension, 19s.—West Riding Union, 4%—Warwick and Worcester,
Bs.—Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 14s.

- YORK, JIILT 9.
&rock Excel...max.—The sales are —lpswich and Bury (Cambridge
and Ely), 154—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 11. Is.—Leicester,
Tamworth, Coventry, &c., it. 25."-London and York, 154—Manches-
ter, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 31. 2s.—Newcastle and Ber-
wick. 26—Newcastle and Darlington, New, 1034—North British,
Carlisle Extension, 11. 19s. 6d.—North Staffordshire, 6/. Gs.—North
Western, 11. ss. CA.—Welsh Midland, U. 2%.—York and North Mid-
land, East and West Riding Extension, 121. 183. 9d.
EDINBURGH, JULT 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-.The sales are—Caledonian Extension, 328.
Direct Northern, 25s.—Glasgow and Belfast Union, 41s.—Glasgow,
Dumfries, and Carlisle, 36s.—North British, Extension to Carlisle,
ns. 6d.—Scottish Central, 1911—Ditto, New, 73¢.

SECONDARIES' COURT,
10.
MARLOW V. MASON.
and stated the
This was an( n
distress, and also for an illegal sale.
The defendant did not plead or appear to speak in miti.
gation. Baction
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Mr. ADDISON appeared for the Plitintiff's for an excessive
1 July
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case. The plaintiff is a journeyman plumber in Joiner.
street, Lambeth, and the defendant was his landlord. On
the sth of May a distraint was made for sewers' rate, which
defendant was bound to pay. A man was put in possession,
but the next day, during the absence of the plaintiff; de.
fendant went with three men and forcibly took away not
only thaplolaliff's good bat Wm those 'gall the 104%4 in

now is when he first had it, and was not so stained in corns_
quince of his having wrapped it round the bottle.
Mr. PArtimit asked the prisoner it she wished to say any.
The prisoner—What I wish to say is, that part of what
has been sworn is true, and part is not true. She was
checked by her solicitor from making any further statement.
Mr. PAYNTER said it was his duty to send the prisoner for
trial on the capital cherge of administering a certain deadly
poison, called oil of vitroil. to Mary Anne Barker, with
intent to murder. She would be committed for trial, and as
the girl's character bad been spoken of very highly by her
friends, he would take two sureties in 100/.
elch for her ap-
pearance.
The bail was not forthcoming, and the prisoner, who
became much affected, was committed to florsemonger-lane
gaol.

WORSHIP-STREET.
A respectable-looking man, named Juan Edwards, de-
scribed as a tobacco-manufacturer out of business, and re-
siding in Clarence-terrace, Haggerstone, was placed at the
bar before Mr. Bingham, charged with having assaulted and
dangerously wounded Ann Edwards, his wife, with a table
knife.
Mrs. Anne Grey, who stated herself to be the wife of a law
writer, occupying apartments in the prisoner's house, de-
posed that between two and three o'clock on the preceding
afternoon the prisoner, who had been absent all the morn-
ing, returned home, and, entering an apartment in which the
witness and her servant were in conversation with his wife,
sat down to dialler. The prisoner's wife, who had already
dined, was sitting on a sofa near the table, when some
angry words ensued between them, and in the course
of them the prisoner suddenly started up in a state
of violent excitement, and flung the knife be had
been using at his wife with such force that the point
of the blade cut through the front of her ear, and remained
fixed in her head. The injured woman instantly rsised her
hand, and made an ineffectual attempt to extract the knife,
in which she cut her fingers to the bone, and the prisoner
then hastened towards her and forcibly pulled out the wea-
pon, which was immediately followed by a frightful gush of
blood, on seeing which he raised her in his arms and has-
tened with her out of the house to procure medical assist-
ance. After remaining at the house of a neighbouring sur-
geon for several hours, in such a state of exhaustion as to
preclude her removal, she was at length conveyed in a cab
back to her own residence and placed in bed, where she then
remained in a very precarious condition.
A medical certificate was handed to the Bench describing
the woman's condition, and
The prisoner, upon being called on for his defence, ex-
pressed the deepest contrition for the unfortunate occurrence,
which he stated bad resulted solely from his having incau-
tiously flung the knife out of his hand, on being provoked by
some exasperating language his wife had used towards him,
and, declaring that he had not the slightest intention of doing
her any injury, assured the magistrate that the transaction
was purely accidental.
Mr. BINGHAM ordered him to be remanded to await the
result of his wife's injuries, andperemptorily refused to accept
bail fur his future appearance.
CLE lIKENWELL.
A woman named Keefe, of masculine figure and ferocious
look, was charged with tiolently assaulting a poor man named
Roche, who earns a scanty livelihood by selling fish.
It appeared from the evidence that about a month ago
the prisoner attacked the complainant in Gray's Inn-lane,
and beat him dreadfully ; for so doing she was sentenced to
a month's imprisonment in the House of Correction. This
term expired yesterday, and she was no sooner liberated
than she went to poor Roche's stall, knocked it down, threw
his fish in the mud, and when he attempted to pick them
up she attacked him, and struck bins so violently on the
head that be fell on his back in the street.
Mr. BROUGHTON sentenced her to a month's imprison-
ment, and the gaoler was conducting her to the cell, when
she, observing Roche's wife standing in the crowd, imme-
diately darted upon her, and befo.e the gaoler could inter-
fere, struck her so violent a blow on the head that the poor
old creature reeled back for several yards, and would have
fallen down had not a spectator caught her in his arms.
Mr. BROUGHTON ordered the prisoner to be brought back.
She was no sooner placed at the bar than she exclaimed—
" By G—, I will hang for them !"
Mr. IluouGuaroN directed the gaoler to be sworn, who de-
posed to the assault and to her haying used the above-men.
tioned threat.
The prisoner--I repeat it. I will murder them. I know
I shall be hanged for it, and a precious good jab too. No
matter what term you send me to prison for, the moment I
come out I will go to Roche's house, break the windows,
tear down their place, and knife themselves. 1 will, by
Cr— I will.
Waddington (the gaoler)—She is one of the most desperate
characters in London.
Prisoner—What is that to you? If you send me to prison
I'll pitch into the turnkeys right and left.
Mr. BROUGHTON—Is the woman drunk or mad ?
Waddington—She is neither. It is her terribly revengeful
disposition.
Prisoner (in a menacing manner)—You wretch.
Mr. BROUGHTON—You must put handcuffs on her if she
is not quiet.
Prisoner—Do your worst. I may as well live in one place
as another. Bah! Oh, if I knew this I'd play such a
part before I came here as would give you all something
to think of; I would, suppose I was to go down the string
for it.
Mr. BROUGHTON directed Mrs. Roche to come forward,
and the poor woman was coming round, when the prisoner
clinched her fir, and was evidently on the point of springing
upon her, when Cale, a policeman, seized her.
Mrs. Roche gave her evidence, and the magistrate directed
:he prisoner to be committed in default of bail. The gaoler
was concha:ding her round to the cell, when, in spite of every
precaution, she escaped from him, and sprang upon Roche
who was standing near the fireplace. She seized him by the
hair and dashed his head against the wall with great
violence. She was, however, secured and brought back
again, when slut used the most violent language and gestures
Mr. BR,;UGHTON committed her for six months in default
of bail, directing the gaoler to take care she did not lay vio-
lent hands upon herself.
She was removed in the custody of four officers.
WE STMINSIIE K.
Mr. Somers, M.P. for Sligo, solicited the magistrate's in-
terference in the following matter:—
Mr. Somers said, that about three or four months ago, in
taking his latchkey from his pocket, he dropped a 10/. note
in the street without being aware at the time of the loss,
lie was subsequently informed that an advertisement had
ippeared in a morning paper, stating that a 10/. note had
aeen found. It seemed that the note was picked up by a boy
in the service of a shoemaker named Denham, in Medway-
street, who had immediately given it to his master. Although
the circumstances connected with the losing and finding of
the note so corresponded as to leave no reasonable doubt
that the note belonged to Mr. Somers, who having received
it in exchange for Irish money was not in a condition at the
moment to give the number, although he could with some
trouble have procured it, the shoemaker appeared very reluc-
tant to part with it. but ultimately did so, when he (Mr.
Someys) gave him 1/. for the advertisement, although the
expense might probably not have amounted to more than
3s. 6d., and a further sum of 21. as a reward for the boy, who
had answered the questions put to him in a very straight-
forward and honest manner, and appeared to be a very in-
telligent lad. He, of course, did not like to give a boy such
a sum of money, front a feeling that it might be misapplied,
and, as the lad's clothes were in a very deplorable state, he
had put it into the hands of his master, in order that it might
be applied to the best advantage for the benefit of the boy.
He much regretted to bear that only 12s. or' the money Lisa
been expended in clothing for the lad, and that shortly after-
wards he had taken the apparel away from him, and sent him
about his business. He (Mr. Somers) thought it exceedingly
unjust that the boy should have been so treated, and had
done himself the pleasure of waiting upon the magistrate to
ascertain whether the master could not be compelled to give
up the clothes and the remainder of the money?
The chief usher informed the magistrate that there had
been a summons taken against the shoemaker for detaining
the boy's clothes but it had been dismissed, in consequence
of his asserting that the money had been given to him by
the gentleman for his own own use.
Mr. Buratzen observed that it was quite clear that he had
no power to interfere about the money, nor did he think he
could with re-pect to the clothes, the case having been once
heard and disposed of. He would, however, turn it over
in his mind, and see whether anything could be done in the
tnatter.

Mr. Somers said he should feel very much obliged if he
would.

THE MURDER in W ARWICKSHIRE.
KINETON. WEDNESDAY.—The magistrates of this division
of the coanty held a special meeting here yesterday, which
was very numerously attended, and at which it was re-
solved that an application should be made to the Home
Secretary of State to offer a reward for the apprehension of
the person or persons engaged in this diabolical affair. Every
possible exertion has been used by the magistracy of the
neighbourhood to unravel the mystery in which the 'transac-
tion is involved, and one or two circumstances have trans-
pired since the Coroner's inquest to confirm the opinion so
decidedly given by the surgeon, Mr. Brown, upon his exami-
nation—namely, that the deceased had died of an extensive
fracture of the skull, occasioned by several severe blows
from a blunt instrument, such as might have been inflicted
by the piece of timber found under the person of Chater
when he was discovered in a senseless state, bleeding from the
mouth, near to Pittern-hill, which is about half a mile from
Kineton, a very quiet secluded market town, containing a po-
pulation of about 1,400 inhabitants. It has already been stated
that near the body of the murdered man a quantity of coffee
was found spilled about the ground, as though in the course
of a struggle it had fallen there, from the bursting of the
paper in which it was wrapped ; but it has only just tran-
spired that this piece of paper, upon which are printed the
name and address of the tradesman from whom the coffee
was purchased (Meddoms, Kineton), was very carefully
folded up in the deceased's pocket, as if put there after an
attempt had been made to rob him, and with a view of pre-
venting any clue being given by it to the guilty parties.
With the exception of a tew spots upon the piece of timber
spoken of, no blood was found near the body, or anywhere in
the vicinity, and this goes far to strengthen the supposition
that, being a man of spare frame and weak habit (11' body, the
deceased was carried to, and placed on, the spot where the
carrier's son discovered him after the outrage had been perpe-
trated. It has also been stated that only a few pence were
left in the pockets of the man, and there is no reason for sup-
posing that he was in possession of more than a very few
shillings throughout the day, notwithstanding the attempt
since made by rumour to give undue weight to the affair in
this respect, in the conjecture that he had raised money that
day by mortgaging some cottages belonging to him at the
village of Cornbrook, where he resided. It appears, how-
ever, his real olij,ct in coming to Kineton was to procure an
under- bailiff's situation, which had fallen vacant by death,
on Lord NV illoughby de Broke 's estate, at Compton Verney.
Mr. Roby, the well -known and active superintendent of
police, has arrived from Leamington, and is now engaged in
a thorough investigation of the whole circumstances, in the
chain of which there is apparently one link to be ~,upplied,
namely, where the deceased,' who was last seen in the town
by a groom, named Fennell, about a quarter past ton at
night, had spent his time between then and twelve o'clock,
soon after which his body was found at the top of Pittern-
hill ; for two individuals connected with the Warwtekddro
kennels passed the spot at half-past eleven, and described
the night to be so light that they " could see rabbits run
across the road," but saw no man lying down, which they
consider thermust have done had any one been there, as
they had to drive a horse which shied at any dark object in
the road.
Suspicion has fallen upon some inmates, on the night of
the murder, of a lodging-house, kept by a blind ma,i, who
lost his sight in Egypt 45 years ago, under the miiitary
generalship of the celebrated Sir Ralph Ahercromby, and
now enjoys a
Pension ; he also keeps a lodging- house in
King-street, Drury. lane,
from which metropolitan establish-
ment one of the suspected parties married his wife. It iE
thought that the inquiries now in course of being made
by Mr. Roby will terminate in a result that will materially
lessen the excitement which the melancholy occumnee has
occasioned for several miles around the neighbourhood of
Kineton.

Iticumoxn RAriwAy.:—;i'ne terms for an amalgamation
with the South- Western are arranged, and the stock of the
Richmond Company will be tabu cat equal term with that
Of tho OvAtia-Wootara,