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of the plaintiff, but was paid over by his solicitors, Messrs.
Lawrence and Plewes, to the account of the managing
directors, and went to increase the general funds of the com-
pany. The present defendant was informed that if he paid
200 guinea& the action would be discontinued, and he should
be relieved from further responsibility, but he declined
doing so.

The foreman of the jury stated, after a short consultation
with his fellows, that the jury were unanimously of opinion
that the defendant was liable as a provisional committee-
man ; but, upon the plea of payment, they found for the
plaintif. with only ls. damages.
The CHIEF BARON observed, that there was no reason to
suppose that Mr. Douglas Hopkins, against whom a verdict
was taken three or four days ago, for 761/., was not a solvent
person ; if so, Mr. Wyld would receive from him every
shilling due to hum.
Mr. MAivrtx said, it was expressly stated that the judg-
ment would only be enforced against Mr. Hopkins for his
quota.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, July 11.
Mary Morris, an old woman, was opposed by Mr.
Cooke for Miss Alice Phillips. She was undefended by
counsel.

The complaint was, that the insolvent was indebted to
Miss Phillips, the owner of a board and lodging-house
in Foley-place, for damages recovered in an action for
libel. The action was tried in February, 1844, from
which period until October last, the insolvent had been
residing In France, to elude the execution at the suit of
the plaintiff in the action.

The CHIEF COMXISSIONER, in pronouncing judgment,
said the damages were considerable. The libel was a
serious one, and he was empowered by the Act to delay
the discharge for a period of two years. The insolvent
had been in prison since October last, but the vesting
order, from which the judgment would proceed, was
made in May last. The judgment of the Court was,
that the insolvent should be discharged when she had
been in prison for a period of seven calendar months
from the vesting order, for the damages awarded in an
action of libel. The Learned Commissioner intimated
that the effect of the judgment would be to keep the in-
solvent some months in prison, which, with the im-
prisonment she had already undergone, would make a
period of fifteen months, at the suit of the complaining
pa. ty.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

On Saturday Andrew Fazeleas, an Hungarian, was
brought up for the purpose of putting in bail for his
appearance at the next London Sessions, to answer
the following most outrageous assault on two unfortu-
nate females.

1 ,
On last Tuesday night he was wandering about Far-
ringdon-street in rather a merry mood, and making
friends with Mary Ann Jones, a girl of colour, living
on Saffron-hill, and Margaret Mitchell, both unfortu-
r.ates. lie invited them into a public-house to partake
of some refreshments. There they had sundry draughts
of rum, gin, ale, stout, &c., and on leaving, about one
o'clock in the morning, he invited them both home to
his lodgings, in Albion-buildings, Bartholomew-close,
to which place they retired ; and in the morning, when
they asked him for some money, he flew to his razor-
case, and threatened to cut their throats. The girls
made their way out of the window, the door being
locked, on to the parapet ; and a policeman seeing one
of the females hanging from the parapet, made his wuy
up stairs, rescued the woman, and took the prisoner
into custody.
The prisoner stated that he used the violence owing
to the girls atttempting to steal some silver spoons and
his money.
This statement the girls most positively denied.
Sir P. LAURIE said it was one of the most atrocious
cases that he had ever met with, and the prisoner might
be thankful that the poor girl had not fallen from the
parapet. . _

The prisoner was then liberated on heavy bail to ap,
pear at the ensuing 1.,,nd0n sessions._

MAR Y LEBONE.

On Saturday, an Irish labourer and his wife, named
Heffernon, were charged with having, on the 2d instant,
used the most brutal treatment towards their daughter,
Mary Heffernan, a child of about nineyears old. The male
prisoner was accused with having tied a cord round her
neck, and attempting to strangle her, and that not being
able to effect his purpose, he doubled the cord twice over
and flogged her very severely, and afterwards tied her
to the bed-post. The female prisoner was accused with
dipping the child into a large tub of water five or six
times. Owing to the absence of some important wit-
nesses, against whom warrants have been granted to
secure their attendance, the case was adjourned until
Wednesday next. The child is at present at the Mary-
lebone workhouse.

CLERKENWELL.
On Saturday, a police constable named Shore, who
charged an unfortunate female with improper conduct,
was himself proved to have been guilty of the conduct
which he made a ground of charge against the female.
It was because she refused to return him a silk Land-
kerchief which he gave her that he made the complaint
in question. The prisoner denied this, but his wife was
called, and she identified the handkerchief as her hus-
band's property.
Mr. GREENWOOD discharged the female, and the
policeman's conduct is to be reported to the Police
Commissioners.

CROYDON.
On Saturday a good-looking young woman, apparently
not more than eighteen years old, named Julia Egan,
was brought before Messrs. Lucas, Kemmis and Wilkin-
son, the presiding magistrates, on a charge of feloniously
intermarrying with. Charles Wells at the parish church
of Croydon, her husband, William Egan, being alive.
Julia Coles, the daughter of the sexton of St.
Sepulchre's Church, deposed that, on the 13th of Sep-
telpher, 1845, the prisoner, accompanied by a man, came
to her father's house and gave notice of their intention
to be married on the following day. They were ac-
cordingly married, and as they stated that they were
disapp,:inted in not having the attendance of a person
who was to be bridesmaid, they wanted her to act as
such, and she did so. She was sure the prisoner was
the same person who was married at the time in
question.
The prisoner declared the witness was mistaken.
There was no truth in what she had stated.
William Coles, the sexton, father of the last witness,
confirmed her statement with regard to the marriage.
Charles Stevens said be was an acquaintance of the
parties, and he remembered meeting the prisoner and
Egan at the London terminus, and he accompanied them
to the church, and saw them married, and spent the day
with them.

The prisoner here again declared it was all wrong.
She bad never been married but once.

Charles Wells, the second husband, deposed that be
was married to the prisoner on Sunday, the sth instant,
at Croydon Old Church.

By (he Bench—The prisoner was taken into custody
immediately after the ceremony, upon the charge of
bigamy.
William Egan, the first husband, being asked by the
Bench to give some explanation of this extraordinary
affair, said that he and the prisoner had kept company
together for some considerable time before last Septem-
ber, and in that month they agreed to be married, and
the ceremony, as had been stated, took place at St. Se-
pulchre's Church. At that time he wisi employed as a
mail cart driver, and as he was not in a position at the
moment to provide a home for his wife, they mutually
agreed that the marriage should be kept secret, and that
she should go to service, and endeavour to save a little
money, and he agreed to do the same, and when they
had got enough to provide furniture, they were to live
together.
The Magistrates inquired how long they were with
each other after the marriage ceremony?
The husband said they stayed two nights at a coffee-
shop, and they then agreed to the plan of temporary
separation. He added, that in pursuance of the agree-
ment they parted; and when he had saved some money,
he took an apartment, and bought furniture for it, and
the prisoner came to live with him, but they had not
been together many weeks before the prisoner ab-
sconded, having previously made away with all
the property, she could lay her hands on,
and he sold off the rest, imagining that he should never
hear any more of his wife, and resumed his old occupa-
tion of a mail cart driver. From the further statement
of the husband, it appeared that a few days ago his
route had been changed from Woolwich to Streatham,
and very soon afterwards he received some information
which led him to Croydon, where he actually arrived
almost at the moment of the completion of the marriage
ceremony between the prisoner and the man Wells, and
the information he thereupon gave to the police, led to
the apprehension of the prisoner.
The prisoner, at the conclusion of the evidence de-
clared posEively that the witnesses were mistaken, with
regard to the first marriage, and she was not the person.
the magistrates said they did not see how it was pos-
sible that there could be such a mistake, and they felt it
their duty to commit her for trial.

ITHE NEW PoPE.—Letters in the German journals
agree with those which reach us from
testimony to the popularity enjoyed l Rome in bearing
th
the persons who have had the honour of new pontiff All
holy father sneak with admiration of his raffabilityoaching the
.
found knowledge of men and things, He continiie:nt)4i epic);
every day audiences to all who present themselves. I,„`-',`,;e
-
of these audience's be conferred the cross of the order of St.
Gregory on Professor Betti, cicifretary of the Academy of St.
Luc, known so honourably by iiis work " Italia 'lustre.'
The Pope 1430 taken for his private seareary the AbbE•
Graziosi, his ancient preceptor. At Sinigaglia, his birth-
place, in the midst of the demonstrations of joy which
his elevation has called forth, a 4c,ciety has been formed to
raise a statue to him, and to restore an ancient aqueduct
for furnishing water to the town, and to call it 0 ,Acquapia,•
in allusion to his name of Pius. The subscription already
amounts to 80,000 scud{ (500,009—Galignani.
NoTicE.—Niestrs. Ferguson, of Holme Head Werki
(trading under the firm of Joseph Ferguson),having a second
time obtained an injunction in the Vice-Chancellor's Court
against the use of their trade marks upon Silesias, and it
having been deposed to at the trial that other houses besides
the defendant had so used them, Messrs. Ferguson give this
pubqe iligice, in the hope that it will be a sufficient warning
to the patties in yjestion, and obviate the necessity of fur
ther proceedings. ji.049 U 5 d Works, near Carlisle Juno
30, OM. -

Linder these circumstances it was contended, on behalf of
the defendant, that Mr. Wyld's debt was already paid, and
that the object of this action was not to reimburse him, but
to put money into the pockets of the managing committee by
making the defendant a victim.
The CHIEF BARON expressed a strong opinion, that bring-
ing so many actions in the name of kr. Wyld against pro-
visional directors was an abuse of the process of the Court.
If Mr. Wyld had received the money paid on the settlement
of those eight or ten actions, which had been settled for 200
guineas each, his balance was paid twice over. If Mr.
Wyld did not receive the money on the settlement of the
actions, then it was clear that his name was merely used, and
that the present action, like others, was the action of the
managing directors, and not of Mr. Wyld. If the jury thought
this, he considered they would be justified in finding a ver-
dict for the plaintiff, on the plea of payment, with nominal
damages. If the jury thought the defendant had not become
liable as a provisional committeeman, they might find for
the defendant.