The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-21 00:00:00

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.-Lincoln, July 20.

The Right Hon. Lord Denman and the Hon. Mr. Jus-
tice Patteson arrived here about half-past two o'clock
yestuday, and opened the commissions for the county
and elunty of the city. Their Lordships attended divine
service at half-past three o'clock yesterday, at the cathe-
dral, aft,9r which Mr. Justice Patteson sat in the City-
hall and tried the only case there, one of cutting cer-
tainly, but Rot very badly, whereof the prisoner was
acquitted altogether, and in other respects not of suffi-
cient interest to justify any further mention beyond the
statement that the charge arose out of a public-house
squabble or disturbance.
The Learned ReCorder had 'holden sessions at an
earlier hour of the day, and thereat disposed of four
cases.
Their Lordships•sat this rooming at ten o'clock at. the
Castle, the Lord Chief Justice, presiding on the Civil
Side, and Mr. Justice Patteson in the Crown Court.
The list presented ten cases for trial, one of which,
the Queen v. Smith (indictment), is fur a special jury,
and will be taken to-morrow.
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The sentence was, that she be imprisoned and kept
to hard labour for twelve calendar months.
Philip Lowe, aged 30, was convicted of bigamy,,in
having, on the 23d of August, 1846, at Beverley, felo-
niously and unlawfully married one Mary Thornton,
Ann Lowe, his former wife, being still alive. He was
also sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour
for the apace of one year.
Thomas Austin was convicted of having, oln the night
of the 20th of June last, at Glamford Briggs; feloniously
and burglariously broken aud,eatered the dwelling-house
of Thomas Dawson, and stolen therefrom a watch of the
value of 205.,,a watch key of the value of, ldwand four-
teen cigars of the value of 25., of..the.goodLand chattels)
of the said Thomas Dawson.

fie was sentenced also to the like imprisonment, with
hard labour, for one year.
William Harley was convicted of uttering counterfeit
coin (sixpences) on three occasions on one day in April
last, in the parish of Kesteven, in this county, and sen-
tenced to be imprisoned, with hard labour, twelve months,
threo, months, and one day.
Thomas Johnson, also convicted of like offences, on
three occasions, at Grantham, in April last, was sentenced
to imprisonment, with hard labour for nine calendar
months, on the first count, one day on the second, and
one day on the third.
Mr. D'Eyncourt and Mr. Bowden prosecuted in both
cases. The prisoners were undefended.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Mr. Robert Booty Cousens, of 4, Bedford-place, Old
Kent-road, appeared before Alderman Gibbs, upon a
summons "for that he did in this city, unlawfully, di-
rectly offer to prevent the printing and publishing of
certain matters and things touching the complainant,
with intent then and there to extort of and from him
divers of his moneys against the statute."
Mr. Humphreys appeared for the complainant. Mr.
Joseph Woods, of 3, Barge-yard-chambers, patentee of
the " chronometric governor," used in steam engines;
and Mr. Nobler attended for the defence.
The matter excited much curiosity, and there were
present several scientific men.
Mr. Humphreys said, the charge was brought
upon the 6th and 7th Victoria, chap. 26, sec. 3, which
stated, " That if any person shall publish, or
threaten to publish, any libel upon any other per-
son, or shall directly or indirectly threaten to print
or publish, or shall directly or indirectly offer
to prevent the printing or publishing of any matter
or thing touching any other person, with intent to extort
.any; money or security, for money, or any valuable thing,
from such or, any other person, or with intent to induce
any person to confer on or procure for any person any
appointment. or office. of profit or trust, every such
offender being convicted thereof shall be liable to be im-
prisoned, with or without hard labour, for any term not
excceding three :years.".. Now, the defendant had, by
means of the following letter, which was, perhaps, such
as had never been heard of before, endeavoured to ac-
complish that for which .the statute had very wisely pro-
vided a serious punishment :--- - •
" 4, Bedford-place, Old, Kent-road, July 8, 1848.
"Sir,--I have written for publication a small treatise
on the causes of the inefficiency of steam-engine gover-
nors, and in investigating the principles Of the chrono-
metric governor, of which you are the patentee, I find
myself compelled to. speak of it in a way which may,
perhaps, lessen its value as a commercial speculation.
Now, as I write only,fOr pecuniary profit, I am willing
to withhold the paper from the public eye if, after per-
using the accompanying copy of that part of it which
concerns the chronometric governor, you feel disposed to
purchase it at a fair remuneration. ,
It is quite immaterial to me whether it be read by
many or by one, whether it be preserved in the pages of
a scientific periodical or destroyed, if I profit by it. •
" It'is unnecessary tosay more in explanation of my
object in transmitting to you the MS. copy. I shall
merely add, in conclusion, that after Wednesday, the
12th instant, I shall feel at liberty to .forward the
original to the publisher,-unless I am previously favoured
with some communication inducing me to withhold it.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" ROBT. B. COUSENS.

" To Joseph Woods, Esq."
Upon the receipt of that communication Mr. Woods
sent to the writer a note, to which the following answer
was returned by that gentleman:—
" Messrs. J. Woods and Co., ,
" Gentlemen,—ln obedience to your request I have to
acquaint you that my paper on governors,' if published
in one of the periodicals, will most likely appear in the
Civil Engineers' and Architects' Journal; but that I am
yet tindecided as to whether it shall appear in a pi-
riodical or form part of a separate pamphlet on' that and
another part of the steam-engine. In alt probability I
should pursue the latter course, as being the more re-
munerative. " I remain your obedient servant,
" ROBT. B. COUSENS.

" Bedford-place, July 10."
After he had received the second effusion, Mr. Woods
resolved not to submit to be victimized, and having it in
his power to produce witnesses in support of the charge,
was advised to represent the case at the Mansion-house.
Alderman GIBBS—I cannot see that this letter is a
libel upon Mr. Woods, or that it contains matter of
which I can take notice, whatever tendency and intention
it may have had to extort money.. I shall therefore dis-
miss the case. •

, .
Mr. Hobler declared,. that , however imprudently his
client might have acted in the affair, there was no inten-
tion on that gentleman's part to extort money.
Alderman GII3BS repeated,-that if it had been the de=
fendant's object to, promote free discussion itpon a scien.!
title subject, the comaitifitications he had made to Mr,
Woods were not well calculated' to accomplish it; and
that if he had published his article, instead of endeavour-
ing to get money by stopping the publication, the matter
would have been more creditable to him.
GUILDHALL.

Mr. Francis Emerton, of No. 57, Bartholomew-close,
builder, was summoned for beginning to cut and rebuild
a chimney without giving the proper notice to the dis-
trict surveyor. . •• • •
Mr.,John Stevens, the, district surveyor for the wes-
tern division of the city of London, said the present
proceeding was taken tinder the 13th section of the
Building Act, 7 and 8 Vic., which required that where
any alterations and rebuilding.took place, two days' no-
tice should be given to the surveyor of the district. In
violation of that Act Mr. Emerton chose to commence
cutting into and rebuilding a chimney-breast, at 90,
Bartholoinew.close, without giving the required notice,
whereby he had incurred a penalty not exceeding 201.
Mr. Einerton said the fact of it was, the stack of
chimneys had given way, and as he was merely going
to underpin it, he did not think it necessary to send the
notice; but on being informed that such a course was
necessary he immediately sent one.
Mr. Stevens remarked that it was not sent until two
days after the alteration was commenced. It was very
important that builders should know that they could not
make any alterations without informing the district sur
veyor, for if they were allowed to do so, most serious
accidents might occur, as in the instance of a house
falling in Fleet-street, which cost the parties between
6001. and 7001.

Alderman GIBUS said he had heard enough of the
case, and should fine the defendant in the mitigated
penalty of 20s. and costs.
The fine was paid, and the surveyor gave his moiety
of the fine to the poor-boir.
IWARYLEBONE.

Yesterday, a young man; who 'gave his name James
Taylor, was placed at the bar' before Mr. Long, charged
with having committed .a robbery at the residence of
Charles Tottie, Esq., the Swedish Consul-General, 52,
Montague-square.
Spittles, a City detective policeman, No. 671, deposed
that on the previous afternoon, about five o'clock, as he
was crossing one end of Baker-street, Portman square,
the priioner passed him, holding up at the same time his
right hand coat pocket, which, to all appearance, con-
tained something weighty. Witness, suspecting that
all was not right, watched him into Seymour Mews,
when, upon looking round and perceiving that
he was followed, he ran off as fast as he could ; he (wit-
ness) pursued him, and after a sharp chase, succeeded
in collaring him, saying, ".I think I've got you right
enough now ;" to which he replied, "Yes ; 1 know you
have." And he was then taken to the station-house.
Witness then searched him, and found upon him six sil-
ver dessert spoons, and a number of plated articles, con-
sisting of table forks, a candlestick and extinguisher.
He had also in ,his possession a pair of steel snuffers.
His lodging was examined, and a skeleton key was found
therein.
William Warmington, footman to the Consul-General,
identified the whole of the property produced as belong-
ing to his master.
The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was committed
for trial.
WORSHIP-STREET.

A well-dressed young man, named Frederick South-
combe alias Corking, was placed at the . bar before Mr.
Arnold, charged with having conspired, with another
person not in custody, in obtaining goods to a large
amount from various tradesmen by means of fraudulent
representations.
Mr. ARNOLD ordered him to put in substantial bail for
his re-appearance upon that day week.
The prisoner was unable, however, to find the required
sureties, and was carried off in the van.

WESTMINSTER.
Mr. 11. Clarke, of 6, Laurence Ponntney-lane, ap-
peared to a summons, charging him with cameo-dug and
sending a certain letter, containing divers matters and
things, to Captain Beauclerc, calculated to provoke him
to commit a breach, of the peace.
Mr. BURRELL held defendant to bail to keep the peace
towards Captain Beauclerc for twelve months.
The required sureties were then put in and the parties
left the office.

MISSION TO THE AFRICAN Jsvrs.—On Wednesday
evening a densely crowded meeting of persons of various
religious denominations was held in the Wesleyan
Centenary Hall, Bishopsgate-street, for the purpose
of hearing the parting address of the Reverend
Abraham Ben Oliel, a recently converted Jew, and
also answers by him to questions relative to his
conversion. He is now about to depart as a mis-
sionary to Gibraltar and the coast of Africa, where he
is to labour among the Jews in these parts of the
world. As the Rev. Gentleman is a native of Africa,
and was converted to Christianity under very singular
circumstances, the proceedings of the evening were re-
garded with the deepest interest 1;)y the crowded
audience who were present. Among the minis-
ters of various denominations who were on the
platform, were the Rev. Dr. Bennett, the Rev. Dr.
Alder, the Rev. Mr. Freeman, the 'Rev. Mr. Miller; the
Rev. Mr. Hoole, the Rev. Mr. Perks, &c. The mis-
sionary was .addressed by the Reverend Mr. Miller in
a most impressive manner, and- the Reverend Mr.
Hoot° put a variety of interesting, questions to him
respecting his religious. views, which he answered
with great clearness, though in imperfect English. He
then addressed the large assemblage at considerable
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length, detailing the circumstances under which he had
been brought to the knowledge of the truth, and laying
before them the motives by which he was influenced
in returning to Africa as a missionary to his Jewish
isp eenenhdvith proceedings
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to have it in our
power to state that the operative relief committee have
brought their benevolent laboura to a close; and although
a few tradesmen are still idle, we have no doubt that all
will soon find employment-di 'sbutti-kiiid or' °then--
Glasgow Courier.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.
(YESTERDAY.)
HOUSE OF LORDS.

LORD SHAFTESBURY'S COMMI CTEE. —Morta-
LAND AND KIREINTILLOCH, BALLOCHNEY AND SLAMAN-
NAN RAILWAY (Amalgamation or Sale, or Lease,
.and
Amendment or Repeal of Acts).—Preamble passed, and
clauses considered.

EDINBURGH AND BATHGATE EXTENSION.—CIauses
further considered.

GROUP No. 6.—GREAT WESTERN (Birmingham
and Oxford Arrangements).—The opposition of the
London and North-Western shareholders having been
brought to a close, Mr. Burke was heard at great length
in reply, insisting that it was absolutely necessary for the
interest of the public, as well as the Great Western
Company, that the mixed gauge should be laid down upon
the Birmingham and Oxford line, otherwise the object
of the Legislature in passing the Birmingham and Ox-
ford line, which was to establish a railway competition
between the metropolis and Birmingham, would be de-
feated. At the close of the Learned Gentleman's ad
dress the room was cleared, and their Lordships, having
deliberated for nearly an hour, came to the resolution
of postponing the decision till to-morrow.
GROUP No 7.—FLEETWOOD, PRESTON, AND WEST
RIDING JUNCTION (Burnley and Collieries Branches).—
Case of promoters and opposition further considered.
GREAT Wxs7ERN (Branch from Slough to Wind-
sor).—The case and opposition of the South-Western
Company in - reference to this important Bill hav-
ing closed, the room was cleared, and the Com-
mittee, after deliberating for about half an hour, decided
that the preamble of the Bill was proved. The clauses
were then agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be reported.
GROUP No. 9.--WISRAW AND COLTNESS (Amend-
ments and Deviations).— The object of this Bill is to
effect certain amendments and improvements in this line
of railway in order to afford better accommodation for
the through traffic from the south. It was opposed
by Lord Belhaven and Mr. Dickson, two mineral
proprietors, who alleged that the increase of traffic' on
the line through its connexion with the Caledonian Rail-
way would seriously increase the risk they ran in work-
ing the minerals under the railway, the opponents being.
under an agreement with the original proprietors of the
line, responsible -for all damage done by the working
of the mines. They , therefore sought to have
the risk, transferred' to the railway company. The
Committee passed the preamble of the Bill,• subject tp a
clause requiring the company to 'adopt part of the ye-
,sponsibility which the original Bill inflicted upon the
opponents of the present,measure. With these amend-
ments, the Bill was ordered to be reported.

ELECTION COMMITTEE.
DUBLIN.
T.hv scrutiny into the.salidity of Mr. Reynolds's majo-
rity was resumed yesterday, and in the course of the day
the petitioners succeeded in striking off five additional
votes.