The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-24 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND POLAND.

The St. Petersburgh advices of the .Hamburgh
Impartial Correspondent announce that the Russian
Cabinet recently expressed a wish to the Court of
Austria (couched in the shape of advice), that the
latter would, with reference to Italian affairs, enforce
the principle of a strict maintenance of existing trea-
ties. The Russian Government not only deems
itself pledged to afford moral as well as material sup-
port in all the conflicts that may arise from the pre-
sent complicated state of European affairs, but it is
said to have made a proposal to the Cabinet of Vienna
to adopt the most energetic measures for the pacifica-
tion of Hungary and Galicia, in the event of the en-
tire force of Austria being occupied in the south and
west.

DISTURBANCES IN CEPHALONIA.
(From the Corfu Government Gazette.)
Early on the morning of the 26th of September
about 200 armed countrymen, from the villages of
Frangata, Valsamata, and Trojanate, assembled on
the road to Cranea, some hundred yards distant front
the suburbs of Argostoli, with the intention of en-
tering the city and destroying the registers, docu-
ments, and judicial proceedings which are preserved
in the Palace of Justice ; and about the same num-
ber of countrymen assembled in the vicinity of
Lixuri.
The director of police, having information of these
movements, collected about thirty constables on the
bridge and in the suburbs, in order to protect the
city, but several shots being fired at them, they re-
tired as the countrymen advanced.
The director of local police communicated these
circumstance to the Resident, who immediately or-
dered his palace guard, consisting of a sergeant and
eleven soldiers of the 30th Regiment, to accompany
him to the entrance of the city. On his arriving there
with his guard, the countrymen fired on them, and
Sergeant Luke Dunn, seeing their numbers, retired
a short distance to the head of the bridge. When they
followed him, he ranged his soldiers with great pru-
dence, and opened a constant fire on them, during
which one •f his men was killed and three wounded,
but as the relief of his guard, consisting of eleven
more soldiers, came up, the countrymen dispersed,
leaving three dead and four wounded on the road.
At Lixuri, the armed countrymen from the vil-
lages of Anoi and Condogenada obliged the constables
to retire from the Palace of Justice, and followed
them ; they were in the act of entering violently
into the office in which the archives are situated,
when a detachment of fifty men of the 36th Regi-
ment disembarked from the steamer lonia.
This detachment made a forced march towards the
Palace of Justice, attacked the rebels, and drove
them from the city without any loss of the military.
Three of these rebels are well known, and will, no
doubt, be very shortly arrested by the police.
The following is the report of Sergeant Luke
Dunn, who commanded the little party that followed
the Resident:—
"At the above date, being the sergeant in charge
of the Resident's guard, about seven o'clock A.M. I
was ordered by the Resident to make my men load
their guns and follow him to the bridge, which I did.
On arriving there the Resident first went towards a
street to the right, then towards another street to the
left, passing a church; the guard under my orders
continued to follow him. The Resident gave me
orders to bold my men ready to fire, which I did,
when we arrived at the lank of a vineyard, whence
a great number of men came out armed with guns,
swords, and other arms. I then, on my own autho-
rity, made my guard (consisting of myself and eleven
men) return again to the bridge and faced the soldiers
round. The rebels fired and wounded two men,
Fox and Elsom. I then ordered my men to fire in
line, which they did, knocking down five or six of
the rebels.
"The rebels were di►ided, part on the mole, part on
the bridge, and another part on the road opposite the
bridge. Being now reinforced by the arrival of the re-
lief guard from the Resident's, I ordered them, with the
assistance of the police, to arrest some of the rebels.
All this time the rebels were firing, and we were re-
turning it. Whilst standing at the head of my party
a man seized my bayonet, and whilst I was stnig-
gling with him he was killed by one of my soldiers,
and at the same time I saw one of my soldiers, Daniel
M`Namara, brought to the ground by a gunshot, and
James Ledwell badly wounded. Balls passed through
the chaco of James Madden, as also through his
drawers and the sleeve of his coat, and his arm was
slightly wounded. A ball also passed through the
chaco of Corporal Roberts. A few minutes after the
arrival of the relief guard, which consisted of twelve
men, the rebels retired, carrying off their killed and
wounded. They did not fire on the police, but directed
their whole fire against the military, crying out,
Soldiers, go to your barracks,' and endeavouring to
make us go by the opposite road, instead of by the
bridge, whence we came."

UNIVERSIT Y INTELLIGENCE.
Oxroan, OCT. 21.BRASENO5E —Two fellow-
ships are now vacant, which will be filled up in the
course of the present term :

1. One of the original foundation of the college,
for natives of the ancient diocese of Lichfield and
Coventry, the electors having regard in their choice
to the preference given by the statutes, in the first
degree, to natives of Prescot and PrestbUry ; and, in
the,second, to natives of the counties of Lancaster and
Chester.

2. One of the foundation of Brian Higden, for
natives of the county of York.
Graduates of the University of Oxford under eight
years' standing are eligible.
Candidates are required to exhibit to the Principal
on or before Saturday, the 11th of November,certi-
ficates of the locality of their birth, together with the
usual college testimonials, and the certificates of their
marticulation,
The Camden Professor of Ancient History will
begin on Tuesday next, at 1 o'clock, a course of lec-
tures on the Romans of the second century, and in
Britain ; consisting of dissertaions on their manners,
finance, jurisprudence, public works, &c., and on the
introduction of Christianity into Britain. The lec-
tures will be delivered in St. Albans-hall on Tues•
days, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and are free of ad-
mission to members of the University. Those gen-
tlemen who wish to attend are requested to leave their
names at the Professor's house in St. Alban's-hall on
Monday next, between the hours of 12 and 2.
The meetings of the Ashmolean Society, for the
present term, will be held on Mondays, Nov. I and
20, and on Monday, Dec. 4.

RODEN SARSCRIT SCHOLARSHIP.

The examination for the purpose of electing a
Sanscrit Scholar on the foundation of Colonel Boden,
will take place in the Clarendon, on Thursday, Nov.
23, at ten o'clock. The scholarships are open to all
matriculated members of the colleges and halls in
Oxford, who shall not, on the day of election, have
exceeded their twenty-fifth year, and who shall
produce a satisfactory proof of their age, and a
written permission to offer themselves as candidates,
signed by the Head or Vice-Gerent of their respec-
tive colleges or halls. Candidates are requested to
call on the Boden Professor of Sanscrit, on or before
Tuesday, Nov. 21.
F. C. PLUMPTRE, Vice-Chancellor.

ETON COLLEGE.
OCTOBBIt 21.—The examination of the candidates
for the prize of 50/., instituted by his Royal Highness
Prince Albert in 1841, for the promotion of the study
of modern languages, which commenced on Monday
last, terminated this morning, and the result was
announced this afternoon in the Upper School by the
Rev. Dr. Hawtrey, the Head-master. The following
were the examiners selected by the Provost and the
Head-masters :
In French—M. C. J. Delille, professor at Christ's
Hospital.
In German—Herr A. Wentzer, of King's College,
London.
In Italian—Dr. E. Conneau, physician to Prince
Louis Napoleon.
The prizes were announced to be awarded as
follows : _

French (21 competitors), M. Tarver master—
First prizeman . . Lord Grey de Wilton.
Second prizeman .. Currie.
The sits nett best -were—Arbuthnot, ma., Chap-
Mturr Posbury,, Lambton, ma., Marillier, and Pullen.
Gentian- ,(11 competitors), Mr. Schmerstedt
Amster—
First priteman
Second. prim=

Phillips.
ggort9U.

The five next best were—Lambton, ma., Mr.
Jocelyn, Mitford, mi., Lefevre, and Mitford, ma.
Italian (five competitors), Signor Sinebaldi,
master : _ _

First prizeman ... James K. S.
Second prizeman ... Mr. Vernon.
The three next best were—Snow, mi., Rowe, and
Snow, ma.
His Royal Highness's prize of 50!. was thus
divided 'amongst the successful candidates : To
each of the three first prizemen in French, German,
and Italian, 101.; and to each of the second prize-
men, 51., the respective amounts being presented
in books selected by the Provost and Head-master.
The remaining Si. were awarded (also in books) to
Lambton, ma., who had, amongst the unsuccessful
competitors for the first and second prizes, made the
greatest proficiency in two (French and German)
out of the three languages in which the examinations
had taken place.
The result of the examinations was forwarded to
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, at Windsor
Castle, this afternoon, by the Rev. Dr. Hawtrey, the
Head-master.

IMPORTANT QUESTION RE
LATING TO BETTING SECURITIES.

THE BILLIARD MATCH BETWEEN THE WEY•
MOTJTH STAR AND CHARLEY HICKMAN.—In the
City Sheriffs' Court on Friday, before Mr. Commis-
sioner Bullock, the presiding 'Judge, an action was
brought by a Mr. Levy, well known in the sporting
world, against a person of the name of Barlow, to
recover the sum of El., being the amount of an I 0 U
given by the defendant to the plaintiff, for the amount
of a bet won by the plaintiff of the defendant on a
game of billiards played by third parties. Mr. Xing,
an attorney, who appeared for the defendant, said he
would save the time of the Court by admttting the
facts, as the objections he had to make went only to
the legality of the ,transaction. Plaintiff's attorney
—" Then you admit the bet was made, and that the
defendant gave the I 0 U ?" Mr. King—" Yes ; I only
go upon the question of illegality." The Learned Judge
requested that the facts admitted should be stated.
Mr. King, on the part of the defendant, admitted
the bet was lost to the plaintiff by the defendant on
the occasion of a grand match at billiards for 501.
aside at the Cross Keys Hotel, Gracechurch-street, on
the 10th of August last, between the Weymouth
Star and Charley Hickman, well known billiard
players, and for which the defendant gave the plain-
tiff his I 0 U, which, having been dishonoured,
the present action was brought. Mr. King contended
that the plaintiff must be nonsuited, as the transac-
tion was illegal, and that an I 0 U, which was in
the nature of a promissory note given as security
for the payment of a bet or wager, whether at a game
of skill or chance, was null and void
under the statute of the 9th Anne, cap. 14,
sec. 1, and in support of that view cited the
case of Sigell v. Gebb, 3 Starkie, in Harrison's
Digest. The plaintiff's attorney said that the statute
clearly referred to bets above 101., and exempted
those under that sum. Mr. King said that was not
so ; the present action was on an I 0 LI, given as
security for a bet which was clearly null and void by
the statute, and the law was rendered more clear by
the ath and 9th Victoria, cap. 109, sec. 18, which
expressly enacted that the contracts or agreements,
whether by parole or in writing, by way of gaming
or wager, should
ro be null and void,
in and that no suit
should be bught or maintained any court of
equity for recovering any sum of money, or valu-
able thing alleged to be won upon a wager, or which
should have been deposited in the hands of any per-
son to abide the event on which any wager should
have been made, that being the express law, and
clearly applicable to the present case, he (Mr. King),
on the part of the defendant, submitted that the plain-
tiff must be nonsuited. The plaintiff's attorney said
there could be no doubt the intention of the Legis-
lature was to confine the Act to cases above 101. The
Learned Judge, on looking at the Act and the case
cited, said that no sum whatever was mentioned in the
Act, and that he was clearly of opinion that it was
intended to apply to all securities given for bets at
wagers, or games of skill, or chance, of which bil-
liards came within its meaning, without regard to
the amount, he was, therefore, of opinion the plaintiff
must be nonsuited. Judgment of nonsuit was entered
accordingly.
It was stated that there was a number of other
cases arising out of bets made under similar circum-
stances upon the game, dependent upon the above
decision.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
John Burton was indicted for wilful and corrupt
perjury. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Ballantine prose-
cuted. The defendant had no counsel.
From the statement of the Learned Counsel for the
prosecution, it appeared that the prosecutor of the
indictment was Mr. Barnard Gregory, whose name
has been so frequently before the public in connexion
with the Satirist newspaper. It seemed that he
gave up his interest in that paper in 1844 to
some parties, one of whom subsequently became a
bankrupt, and in 1847 the Satirist went into tho
possession of a person named Timms, Mr. Gregory,
however, still continuing the landlord of the premises.
In the course of the present year some dispute arose
between Timms and a person named Gisling, who
had been employed upon the establishment, and who,
it appeared, had expressed some intention of estabish-
ing a rival newspaper, and Mr. Gregory put in a dis -
tress for a quarter's rent that was due about that
time. The prisoner was left in possession of the
premise,, and upon Gisling and another person
attempting to remove some paper from the office,
he gave them both into custody, and
charged them with stealing the paper. This
charge was investigated by the magistrate at Bow-
street, and was dismissed, and upon this Gisling and
his companion brought an action for false imprison-
ment against Mr. Timms and Mr. Gregory, the
former of whom had signed the charge-sheet snaking
the accusation of felony. The prisoner was examined
as a witness upon the trial, and he then swore that
Mr. Gregory had authorised him to give any person
into custody who should remove any property from
the office, and that on his informing him the next
morning that he had given these two persons into
custody, he said that which he had done was quite
right. The result of the trial was, that the jury gave
a verdict fur the plaintiffs with 201. damages, the
liability of Mr. Gregory being established by the
evidence of the defendant. It was alleged in support
of the present prosecution, however, that the evidence
given by the defendant relative to the statement
alleged to have been made by Mr. Gregory was false,
and that the latter had never given any authority for
the apprehension of the parties, or sanctioned the
proceeding afterwards, and hence the present pro-
ceeding had been instituted against the defendant.
Several witnesses were examined in support of the
charge, and Mr. Gregory positively stated that he
never gave any such authority to the defendant as
that which he had represented ; and he likewise de-
nied that he told him that he had done right in giving
the two persons who removed the paper into cus-
tody. Upon being cross-examined by the defendant,
and in answer to questions put by the Court, he ad-
mitted, however, that the distress which had been put
in was a friendly proceeding between him and Mr.
Timms, in order to prevent Gisling from interfering
with the property, and also that he had sanctioned the
defendant being left in charge, and that he was desi-
rous he should prevent anything being taken away.
Mr. Timms was likewise examined—Although he
stated that he had signed the charge-sheet at the police
station, and that Mr. Gregory was not aware of the
occurrence, he admitted that after the parties were
given into custody he had gone to the residence of
Mr. Gregory, at Hampstead, and upon his return he
had signed the charge-sheet.
The inspector who took the charge at the police
station proved that Mr. Timms went away for the
purpose, as he understood, of consulting Mr. Gregory
upon the propriety of persisting in the charge.
The RECORDER having expressed an opinion that
the charge of wilful and corrupt perjury could not
under these circumstances be supported,
Mr. CLARKSON conferred with the prosecutor, and
then said be was instructed by Mr. Gregory to
state
that he had been misinformed by Mr. Timms of the
real nature of the transaction, and if he had been
aware of it he should not have instituted the present
prosecution; he had, therefore, instructed him to
withdraw from offering any further evidence.
The jury then, under his Lordship's direction, re-
turned a verdict of Not Guilty,
The defendant, who throughout the whole case had
loudly insisted upon hisinnocence of the charge made
against him, and asserted that he had spoken nothing
lout the truth, again repeated the assertion after the
jury had returned their verdict, and declared that
what he had stated was strictly true.
The RECORDER said, that as the prisoner had made
this statement, he felt called upon to say that, taking
into consideration that the prosecutor had, although
tardily, admitted he had acted under a misconception,
and that he should not have instituted the prosecution
if he had been aware of the actual circumstances of
the case, he was of opinion that the defendant had
not only not been guilty of wilfully stating that
which he knew to be false, but that what he stated in
his evidence was the truth, and that the statements
imputed to the prosecutor were actually made by him.
It appeared quite clear that an implied authority was
given by the prosecutor, and it was very probable
that he might have made use of the precise expres-
sions imputed to him, and have forgotten them in the
excitement of the moment.
The defendant complained of the hardship he had
suffered in consequence of the prosecution. He was
only a poor man, and he had been dragged from his
wife and family, and they were left without any
mew of subsistence, and had been obliged to pawn

and sell nearly everything they possessed to support
themselves while he had been in prison. He wished
to know how he was to obtain a recompense for this
injustice.
The RECORDER, told him the Court had no power
to interfere in the matter to which he referred. He
had done all that he was able to assist him, by clear-
ing his character from the imputation that was sought
to be cast upon it by the present charge.
One of the jurymen in waiting, as the defendant
was leaving the bar after exclaiming that it was a
false charge made against him, threw some silver into
the dock, and his example was speedily followed by
several other persons in the body of the court and in
the galleries, and a considerable sum was collected
and handed to the defendant.

John Rapjohn was then placed at the bar.
Mr. CLARKSON said this defendant was also in-
dicted for perjury under the same circumstances that
bad just been laid before the jury, he having been a
witness upon the same trial, and speaking to the same
conversation; but after the decision come to in the
former case he should not occupy their time by offer-
ing any evidence in support of the charge.
The jury accordingly returned a verdict of Not
Guilty.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Bruzocs..)
Andrew Baskerville, aged 25, a cabinet maker, and
James Anderson, 18, a portmanteau maker, pleaded
Guilty to an indictment charging them with having
broken into the dwelling-house of John Ray.
Both prisoners were well-known cracksmen, Basker-
ville having been in custody a great number of times
for burglary, but had escaped conviction. Two ses-
sions ago he was tried in this court for a burglary,
but acquitted. Upon the following day he was con-
cerned in the commission of another burglary, but
the evidence not being sufficiently strong against
him he was not sent for trial. Subsequently to that
transaction he had been in custody several times.
The COURT ordered them to be transported for seven
years.
Thomas Parsons, an elderly man, was indicted for
stealing a quantity of bell metal, the property of
Messrs. Pontifex, his employers.
Mr. CLhatitsorr defended.

The prisoner, who had been fourteen years in their
employ, was on the 30th of September watched on
leaving the premises, and taken into custody near a
marine store-shop with the metal upon him hidden in
his trousers.

The jury found him Guilty,'_but recommended him
to mercy on account of an excellent character which
was given him by several witnesses.
Mr. BuLLocx sentenced him to four months' im-
prisonment and hard labour.
Janus Riley, aged 32, a labourer, was indicted for
committing a highway robbery upon the 19th of
September, at the parish of Tottenham, and stealing
a watch and key, ♦alued at 31.105,, from the person
of James Devye.
The prosecutor, an elderly man, stated, that on the
afternoon of the day in question, whilst passing down
a lonely place called Waggon Bush-lane, the prisoner
came behind him and thrust him down a bank into a
deep muddy ditch, and jumping down after him vio-
lently dragged his watch from his fob, and ran off.
Prosecutor knowing his person, gave information to
the police, who apprehended him some time after-
wards, but did not succeed in finding the property.
George Couch, a lock-keeper on the river Lea,
said, that shortly after the time named by the pro-
secutor the prisoner came running down to :the lock,
and, requesting witness not to say he had seen him,
got into a barge that was going by. As he got in,
witness saw a watch fall from his pocket into the
bottom of the barge.
The jury found him Guilty; and having been be-
fore convicted, he was sentenced to seven years'
transportation.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Henry Bramell, alias Henry Edward .Bramell,
alias Henry Beaumont, a surgeon, was brought be-
fore the Lord Mayor, charged with having married
several women, all of whom are alive.
In consequence of the absence of three of the
women who were deluded, the charges were but su-
perficially investigated, no more evidence having been
required on the first examination than was sufficient
to justify the remand of the prisoner.
The public are indebted to Mr. Dakin, the Chair-
man of the Committee of General Purposes of the
Corporation of London, for the apprehension of the
prisoner, the rapidity of whose movements, increased
by the vigilance of suspicion, made it a matter of
some difficulty to secure his personal appearance be-
fore the Chief Magistrate. Mr. Dakin had been
applied to by the owners of a vessel, which was going
abroad, to provide her with medical stores, and the
prisoner, whom that gentleman had seen acting in a
medical capacity elsewhere, called at his warehouse
in King William-street, and under pretence of being
engaged as surgeon to the ship, obtained from him
the sum of 31. The moment information was re-
ceived that the prisoner had been marrying in sundry
localities, care was taken to adopt the most prompt
mode of dealing with him, and Mr. Dakin acc-Ord-
ingly had him traced and taken into custody.
A gentleman who stated himself to be the friend of
the family of one of the young ladies whom the pri-
soner had prevailed upon to marry him, produced
three certificates of marriage, in each of which the
prisoner was a contracting party. The first stated
that the prisoner had married Elizabeth Timley, on
the 25th of March, 1843 ; the second, that he had
married Emily Georgiana Rose, in Calcutta, in 1847,
in the name of Henry Edward Brammel ; and the
third, that he had married Hannah Amelia Bland, in
Liverpool, on the 30th of September in the present
year.
The LORD MAYOR—Do you know the prisoner?
Witness—No ; but he has been identified to my
satisfaction. The case as regards the young lady
with whose family I have been for several years ac-
quainted is one of peculiar atrocity. She was no
more than fifteen years of age, and was going out
with her mother and sisters to India in a ship ia
which the prisoner was acting as surgeon. She is a
young lady of high accomplishments; and, upon the
passage, the prisoner contrived to gain her affections,
and to obtain her mother's sanction to their union on
the vessel's arrived at Calcutta. He represented to the
family that his father had lately died, leaving him
5,0001, and he produced letters, which were, too
late, found to be forgeries, confirming the extent of
the inheritance. By his address, by the production
of the false documents, so favourable to his views, and
by the offer to settle 3,0001. of the 5,0001. upon the
young lady, he made such an impression that there
was very little hesitation ; and upon his return to
this country with his young wife he abandoned her at
an hotel in Liverpool. She is now with her friends in
Devonshire.
The LORD MAvon--Did he make the mock settle-
ment upon her ? 'Witness—He actually settled the
money with all the necessary forms upon the poor
girl. I had been watching for his arrival, and he
came to the knowledge of that fact and got away.
However, through Mr. Dakin, the ends of justice are
likely to be answered. In the course of my inqui-
ries I learned that he had married Miss Timley in
1843. He had, it appears gone down to the coun-
try and set up business as a professional man in
the neighbourhood in which that lady resided.
She bad a small annuity, which was forfeited whoa
she married, and she not only was a loser in that way
but he got hold of her clothes, furniture, and trin-
kets, and sold them. When he went to India he left
her in London, with an authority to receive his half-
pay, and he then went deliberately to work upon his
fellow-passenger's affections. Subsequently, I found
that he had married Miss Bland, land I have every
reason to believe, from the statement of a relative of
his, that he has left a wife and two children in Lis-
keard, in Cornwall. Some delay, however, must take
place before we can get the parties together. The base
conduct of the prisoner has, I need hardly say, occa-
sioned the deepest distress.
Elizabeth Timley stated that she was married to
the prisoner on the 23th of March, 1843. She had
no reason to think that she was not his first wife.
Her friends were in Devonshire, but they would come
to town upon the occasion.
Hannah Amelia Bland, in extreme agitation, stated
that she was married to the prisoner in the parish of
St. Paul, Liverpool, on the 30th of September last.
He represented to her at the time he was a single gen-
tleman, and she lived with him up to the period of his
apprehension on the evening of Saturday last.
Mr. Dakin said the prisoner had represented to him
that he had been disappointed in his expectations of
an advance of money from the captain of the vessel,
and that he was in want of 31., which the witness
believing to be a true statement handed to him. It
was, however, afterwards ascertained that though the
prisoner had been in treaty with the captain to go out
as surgeon in the ship, the negotiation was at an end
before Mr. Dakin was applied to for the money.
The prisoner here said that his agreement to go out
in the vessel was not nullified until after he had got
the money from Mr. Dakin, so that, at all events,
that transaction was nothing more than a debt.—(A
laugh.) " I intended to pay that money," said be,
" and I do intend to pay it. Whatever may have
been my conduct in other respects, I had no idea of
committing fraud in that matter."
The prisoner, it is believed, has several other wives.
He was remanded

CLERKEIVWELL.
Edward Marten, a young man of gentlemanly ap-
pearance and address, who was represented in the
police-sheet as a solicitor, residing in White Lion-
court, Whitecross-street, St. Luke's, was placed at
the bar, before Mr. Tyrwhitt, charged by Mrs. Eliza-
beth Gregory, wife of Daniel Gregory, labourer, re-
siding near the Water Mills, Barking, Essex, with
obtaining money to the amount of 671. by fraudulent
means, under the following heartless circumstances :
It appeared Ilona the evidence of the prooecutrilc