The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-19 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY.--CAUTIOW TO SERVANTS.—A
young man who, when taken into custody refused his
name, butlnow gave that of Francis Bernard, was charged
before Mr. Tyrwhitt, at the Marlborough-street Police-
court, with stealing a dressing case, containing jewellery
and other articles, an umbrella, &c., the property of Mr.
Alfred James Howe, a gentleman residing at No. 18,
Dover-street, Piccadilly. Mr. A. J. Howe stated that
on the 17th Sept. the prisoner rang his bell and sent the
servant up for a pair of boots, which he said he had
come for, making use of the name of some boot maker,
and while the servant was upstairs he went off with a
dressing bag and other articles--the articles having been
placed in the hall as he was leaving town. In reply to
Mr. Tyrwhitt the prosecutor said the property was of the
value of £l5O. The prisoner asked what time in the day
it occurred, and on being told ono o'clock, he said he
should be able to shew that he could not have been there
at the time. Jessie Chesney, a young woman, said the
prisoner called and asked for a pair of boots, and while
she was gone upstairs he went away with a dressing bag
and other articles, the property of Mr. Howe. Thomas
Pickels, a detective officer, said that shortly after one
o'clock that morning he was with Detective Beechy in
Windmill-street. He said to prisoner, "Frank, you must
come along with me for going to Dover-street and getting
a bag." The prisoner said he knew nothing about it, and
that he had made a mistake ; and at the station he said,
" You want a case very bad to take me," and refused his
name and address. He also said he could not have been
the person who committed the robbery, as at the time he was
under remand. The prisoner said he did not say under
remand, and he said he was under recognisance far bet-
ting at the Knightsbridge Exchange. Mr. Tyrwhitt re-
manded the prisoner at the request of Pickels, who said
he believed there would be other charges against him.
ROBBERY.—Jane Gardner, a smartly-dressed young
unfortunate, was brought up at the above court, charged
with stealing the sum of £8 10s., from Robert Parris,
upholsterer, Ware, Herts. From the evidence of the
prosecutor, a young man, it appeared that having been
robbed by the prisoner on a former occasion, and having
lost sight of her, he again on coming out of the Alhambra,
met her, when he accused her of robbing him of £Blos.
The prisoner was remanded for a week.
LORD CHARLES HAMILTON IN CHANCERY. —The case
of Emanuel v. Padwick was brought by adjournment be-
fore Mr. Bloxham, chief clerk in Vice-Chancellor Bacon's
chambers. The plaintiff, it will be remembered, is a
jeweller, of Burlington gardens, who sued Mr. Padwick,
as the factor of Lord Charles Hamilton, with a
view to setting aside a release executed by him with
respect to a purchase amounting to £lO,OOO, the alle-
gation being that it was obtained on a fraudulent
representation of his lordship's insolvency. Mr. Gregory
stated that the summons was originally issued in time to
enable the defendant to file an answer to the plaintiff's
allegations. There were numerous documents which had
an important bearing upon the issue, and without which
it was impossible to preface a proper answer. An order
was consequently made, giving the defendant a fortnight
after the production of these documents, but
the cause was now at a stand-still, through
the negligence of the plaintiff to file a sufficient affidavit.
Mr. Lewis contended on behalf of the plaintiff that the
original order had no reference to a sufficient affidavit,
and all the documents he had in his possession having been
produced, the present application was obviously made for
the purpose of delay, and to enable the defendants to ex-
tricate himself from a legal difficulty into which he had
fallen. The Chief Clerk decided upon adjourning the sum-
mons generally, holding that until the missing documents
were either produced or properly accounted for, the plaintiff
could not prosecute his suit.

MONT CENIS RAILWAY AND THE WAIL—An applica-
tion was made in the chambers of Vice-Chancellor Bacon,
on behalf of the provisional liquidator of the Mont Cenis
Railway, to discontinue working the undertaking, in con.

sequence of the impossibility of making it remunerative,
through the present disturbed state of France. A peti-
tion is pending for the winding-up of the com-
pany, and meanwhile powers were given to the
liquidator to work the line during the summer, but to dis-
continue operations in the winter, when the traffic was so
slight as to be unremunerative. The present application
was made in the interests of all the creditors of the com-
pany, and it was stated in an affidavit filed by the liqui-
dator that in one journey one passenger only travelled.
The Chief Clerk did not feel justified in interfering with
the original order, and adjourned the summons generally
with leave to the liquidator to renew the application at
any time he might think absolutely necessary.
A NEW MAGISTRATE FOR LONDON.—Mr. Chance, the
newly-appointed magistrate, took his seat at the Lambdth
police-court for the first time on Monday.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY.-NEW FELLOWB.-Mr. G.
E. Baker, 8.A., Demy of Magdalen College, has been
elected aFellow. Queen's College election terminated
yesterday morning as follows :—Fellowships ; 1. C.
Hodge Grove, 8.A., late Scholar of Balliol College; 2,
Geo. Wynne Jerodwine, Scholar of Corpus. Scholarship
not awarded. Hastings Exhibition, Alexander Neale of
Queen's College. ,

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INDIA.—It is stated by a contemporary that on
the first day of the next sessions of Parliament, Mr.
Fawcett will give notice of his intention to move for the
appointment of a committee to inquire into the affairs of
India. The proposed inquiry is to include every part of
the internal administration of that empire. It is added
that the Government will offer no opposition to Mr. Faw-
cett's motion, and that the labours of the committee will
occupy at least two sessions.

THE ANATOMY ACT AND THE Pooh.—A widow
complained to the Southwark police magistrate that the
surgeons at Guy's Hospital had, without her knowledge,
made a post-mortem examination of the body of her hus-
band, who had died in the hospital of typhoid
fever. In reply to the magistrate, the woman
said she did not give orders at the time
of her husband's death that his body was not to
be opened, as she did not think she had any occasion to
do so. Mr. Partridge told her he could not interfere, as
the Anatomy Act gave the hospital authorities the power
to do as they had done, provided tho relatives of the de-
ceased person did not interfere.

THE EDMUNDS SCANDAL.—ThiS cause celeire
will shortly again be brought before the public. The
action for libel (Leonard Edmunds v. the Right
Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and others) will
come on for trial at the Court of Common
Pleas, Guildhall, at the commencement of the sittings
after the forthcoming term. The action is grounded
upon a treasury minute, which was published after the
award of the arbitrators in the case of Edmunds v.
Greenwood. Mr. Hawkins, Q. C., and Mr. Hardinge
Gifford, Q.C., will appear for Mr. Leonard Edmunds, in-
structed by Messrs. barnard and Co„ and the Attorney=
General, the Solicitor - General, and Mr. Archibald,
instructed by the solicitor to the Trexotry, will appear
for the defendants. The case is expected to occupy a con-
siderable time.

A PURE—Susan Brown, aged 34 years, was brought up
before Mr. Paget, at the Thames Police-court, charged
with breaking her husband's leg, and also with violently
assaulting her son Charles, a boy about 12 years of age,
while he was endeavouring to protect his father from
his mother's violence. The woman, who is a
person of ungovernable temper, and has been living
with her family on Market-hill, Shadwell, was drinking
heavily yesterday, and came home intoxicated. Her
husband endeavoured to get her to bed, and in return she
attacked him, beat him savagely with a poker and broke
his leg. He was taken to the London Hospital. The
boy was also beaten and much injured by his dissipated
and brutal mother. She was remanded for a week.
A DISHONBIST SEavAltr.—Edward Webber, aged 24
years, of No. 14, Russel-street, Bow-common-lane, was
brought up at the above court, charged before Mr. Paget,
with stealing four dozen boxes of lucifer matches,
value is. 6d., the property of Mr. Richard Martin, his
employer, of Paul's Works, Bow Common. The prose-
cutor is a tallow chandler and lucifer box maker. The
prisoner, a carman in his employ, was in the practice of
delivering goods to customers and receiving the money
for them. He was ordered to deliver three gross of lucifer
matches in boxes to an oilman in the Harrow-road,
Paddington, and he told the oilman there were 37 gross
made up for him. They were accepted, and paid for.
The prisoner only accounted to his master for three gross.
He appropriated the price of half a gross to his own use.
This case was clearly made out, and Lamb, a detective
of the K Division, said there were many others against
him. Mr. Paget remanded the prisoner for a week.
ALLEGED ROBBERY ay A LIFE-GUARDSMAN. John
Lloyd, a trooper in the 12th Life-Guards, was charged at
the Westminster Police-court with stealing 4s. 7d. and a
purse from the person of Ellen Wear, a prostitute.
Prosecutrix said she lived at the Brewery Castle, George-
street, Chelsea. This morning, at two o'clock, she left a
friend, who went into the Alexandra Hotel ; he gave her
some silver, and she put it in her purse. Directly
she had left her friend the prisoner accosted
her, and forced his company on. her ; went
some distance with her, and left her. She missed
her purse, and he denied taking it, and threatened to
knock her down. She prevented him going into barracks,
and gave him in charge. John James, 293 B, said he
met the prisoner and prosecutrix at three o'clock, and she
charged him with the theft. He strictly denied it, and
only 50. was found on him. Mr. Woolrych said the
case should be supported by further evidence, and he dis
charged the prisoner.